Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f & lerslii anil jem Entered at the Postcffice at New? C r o c on A rlicc mott er J f V?. 5 ao ^UU V.1UJJ uiunv. , E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, October 8, 1915. EDITOR'S DELIGHTFUL DREAM. We had a strange and startling dream the other night. In imagination we saw every fellow walking up and squaring his subscription account and paying a dollar in advance, and forthwith we were arranging to take up a large slice of that billion dollar loan, "when an insect started to fox trot on cur nasal protuberance and brought ois gently back to the sweeter realities of life. Just why is a dream, anyway? ?Barnwell Sentinel. | That was a fine dream and it is a great pnv uul to uave tue leau^auvu. We are now having a similar dream. - We are dreaming that during the next; ten days or lees some five or six hun cred of those subscribers that we have j carried through the summer are coming in and give us only $1.19 each. We have really carried them through; the summer and we know they appre- i ciate it, for many of them have said so, and now we are giving them a 20 per cent reduction as an inducement to come right along and show their appreciation. Just to think of the many little obligations we could liquidate if five ihll.n/lrftd U'AllU r>nm o o 7rv-ri cr in t Vi ^ ncvt ? ~ v u " VWiiU VV4A4V UiVH ?> iU CliC "VAl week and take advantage of our very 'generous offer, and when we made it we did not know that cotton was going beyond 10 cents. It will only take ten pounds of cotton to buy The Herald and News for a whole year?103 copies oi a good paper?not the best or the next to the best, but the best we can make and we can make some newspaper. Remember that every subscriber, whether in arrears or not, can take advantage of this very liberal offer. AY'e intend to treat all alike. Better not put it off, but sit right down and take your pencil or your pen in li*n<l arfd write The Herald and News a little check for $1.19 and send it in the 1 first post. It's a very small matter ana a very simple process and takes very little labor. Do it now. If there is so much trouble about getting accommodations for young ladies at Winthrop college it might be ; very well for us to establish a miniature edition of Winthrop over here in York, so as to take care of the overflow.?York News. ( That's just what we have said a number of times in the past when there was so much talk and so many lamentations about the great number of girls who are knocking at the doors of "Winthrop every year and who can not enter because there is no room.'Though* we did not say it in exactly the same words, but it meant just the same. Why not have more schools for t&e thousands of girls who are not knocking at the doors of Winthrop, so that they might be prepared even to knock if they were not admitted. There are thousands of girls all over South Car-, olina who are knocking eve:i for admission to a high school and if thev had it they might be in position then to knock at the doors of Winthrop. Let us go to work and establish a miniature Winthrop in every community in South Carolina, if South Carolina is' going to educate. More rural graded schools and more high schools in the rural districts is the present ed ucational need of South Carolina. ! The tigers in Charleston are not near so bold and open as we have seen them. We remember that in the early day? of another administration the same condition existed. The furniture' was all; taken out and the tigers were not so bold. They soon came back, however. and went on in the same old way. ! r At this time a plain board resting on two dry goods boxes serves the purpose of a counter and little shelves are fastened to the walls to answer the purpose of a table. The sentiment now is growing all over the country against the use of alcoholic liquors, and we believe that even in Charleston the law against the sale will be more strictly observed. An evidence or, a symptom of it is the fact that the grand jury recently returned a number of true jills against those chargcd with violating the law. li is but just to say that there is less flagrant selling by the tigers than we have seen in Charleston in a good many days. .We spent a day in the city recently and we wanted to find out if it were possible to get a little hoar Tr was nnt difficult, but as We have said, the fine fixtures have all been removed and old boards are used for counters. We stepped into a restaurant, and after ordering a light lunch, we asked the porter about the possibility of securing a glass of beer. He said they did not keep it, but he could get some. We eave the order and when he served it he did so in a coffee cup with a saucer. This, we supposed, was done to keep down suspicion. MAT SOT INTEREST YOU. We spent last Sunday in Anderson with our baby boy, who holds a position in the mechanical department of the Intelligencer office. In fact, we try to find some way to spend every Sunday out of the city, not that we dislike Newberry on Sunday, but we want to get into new scenes and away from the scenes of the week. The wid is getting on well and says he is pleased with Anderson and spends his time in reading and attending the picture shows when he is not on duty. That is not bad. Anderson is a good town and the people up that way have the optimistic i spirit. Sunday as it was, we saw a j number of people, and one banker told ; us that the farmers were selling cotton I foci arinn <rVl + n no 17 t.hoir TU"vt P<C hP'ftTTP ; l<xw v^vii mv-vm ~w.w. w they were due and everybody had money to spend. The politicians are busy also. We saw one congressman moving about among his constituents, and a candidate for the job was also traveling around and shaking hands. The race in the third the next year is going to be lively, judging from the activity of the candidates this early in the game. Congressman Aiken is moving about all over the district and Mr. Horton is pushing his campaign already, and Mr. Henry Tillman is writing letters to former .Clemson students and Mr. Dominick now and then takes a run , over to Anderson to make a speech,1 and we suppose the others are also1 moving around. Well, politics is a great game and we would rather play , poker any day, if we had the money to lose. On the return trin v.*e came bv trollev ' from Anderson to Greenwood and | spent a few hours in that prosperous j little city. We always like to stop! there because there is such a nice i hotel. The Oregon is the best hotel in ?outh Carolina. And it is the big-1 gest asset that Greenwood has. And it is kept so beautifully. Everything, about it is designed for the comfort j and pleasure of the guests. We heard Mr. Brmson say once that he tried to keep his place in such a condition that when the guests came they would have a feeling that the house had just been put in order because they were coming. Inside and outside the place presents just that appearance. As you enter,1 if the weather is warm, there is a big ceiling fan running on the outside, to cool you, and all around the buildings is a veritable bower of flowers, and" the lobby is another place of beauty and comfort. Then the dining room and the service is all that you could want. There were sixty traveling men ; who made it convenient to spend Sun day in Greenwood, and all because of l the hotel. It takes two things to make . a first-class hotel. In the first place you much have an up-to-date and mod- j ern building, with all the conveniences,! and that Grenwood has, and then you ! must have some one who knows how to run it, and that Greenwood has. i All this may not interest the reader, of The Herald and News, but we have I said it principally to say that a hotel such as Greenwood has is a fine asset l for any town. And only that we had seme enterprising men in Xewberrv to i build such a building and then we are; sure some one could be found to run the hotel. And we had a dinner at a restaurant in Anderson that was the best 35 cents dinner that we have run across in a long tim?, and it was well served, too. m "Cotton having reached 12 cents j Groundhog Ed Smith may now come i out of his hole."?Anderson Intelligencer. j Since you mention it, it does seem to us that a long time ago we heard of a man by that name talking about cotton and showing samples of it on the stump. We had almost forgotter. about it. 1 * + "U? ' \ -r^ A r\-v\ .C/U 1-11)1 ITiCll \X1CU11 UJ. lilt: Lti.llUCUDV.Ll. Intelligencer Las gotten into society. He has gone to the hospital and has heen operated on for appendicitis. ~SVe are pleased to note that he stood tne operation well and is getting on nicely. Buy at home is a good slogan. Patronize home enterprises is another good slogan. The college is a home in stitution in a large measure. The home papers give unstintingly of their space to anything that will help the college. The merchants of the town make the publication of The Stylus possible by giving it their advertisements. The money for its publication could be kept at home and the boys who make their living here and spend their money here could get the little that is in it for its publication. But it is printed elsewhere. That's the way to help your town. Some of the papers have had a good deal to say about the Columbia boosters and the fact that they were out helping the city of Columbia. Of course : they were. That was the purpose of their trip. We were glad to see them and if they take anv business frnm nnr merchants that they could supply, then it is the fault of our own people and not the Columbia boosters. All of us need to mingle more with one another and get better acquainted with one another. That is the need not only of our own home people, but of the people of the 'State. Let ue all boost for our own town and for our own county and ior our own State. We are one people and what helps one will also help others, j ? i Another time when we feel like vigorously kicking ourself is when we reflect that the Durchase of a fpw charge 1 of war stock a year ago would have put us in the class with John D., Pierp. Morgan, Ed DeCamp and the other world-famousmillionaires.?The State, j State. And if you had just bought a few j thousand bales o?^ cotton not more' i than thirty days ago it would have helped some. t MA Truism.* There's too much prohibition talk and too little temperance practice. And this applies to other things than liquor drinking.?Pickens Sentinel. That's what we say and have said for some time. What we need is more; practice of temperance and less pro- ! hibition talk. In fact, more practice and less precept is a pretty good thing most of the time. We beg to tender our congratulations and best wishes to President Wood row Wilson on the step he con templates taking some time soon. We wish him mighty well. He is going to do the proper thing and then he is going to take a Southern girl. It is not well for man to be alone. Geo. I). Brown In Colombia. George D. Brown, State supervisor t.of mill schools, while in the city to.day said that the mill school at Marion *?ad been moved up town and consoli uaieu wun me graaea scnoois ana tne result wa?s very satisfactory. The children were put into the grades along with the other children of the city and they not only' had the advantage of more instruction but had the use of the playgrounds and were thoroughly content and congenial with the other children. The school and school teacher both were merged with the other school. This plan is being followed throughout the State and is producing general satisfaction to all par+ i /V? 11 m Vvi r? 13 Ll^'c . VvU:UiliUId liCtUIU. v? NOTICE OF CREDITORS' MEETING. Notice is hereby given that C. & G. S. Mower Company, a corporation under the laws of the State of South Carolina, with its principal place of business at Newberry, S. C., has this day executed a deed of assignment, for the benefit of its creditors, to the undersigned, and that a meeting of the creditors, for the purpose of electing an agent and the transaction of other Dusiness, win ue neici in me omces or Blease & Please, at Newberry, S. C., on Saturday, October 16th, 1015, at 4 o'clock P. M. H. H. BLEASE, Assignee. Xewberrv, S. C., Oct. 7th, 1013. P?ies Cured *n 6 to 14 Days 7ou~ rlrtjrrr:?t rr:H n:-r?" :f V'''OINO'HNT tails to --lire a::y c .se of Tt -hmv B!:n i.iilewdifgwrP/clru^ia^ i-.k> ^ The .:vitapplication ?: ;?- H-isr: sueIic.it. :. \ i \ 2 < ><?> <S aj i> s> THE IDLER, <*' $> <$> I was just thinking a little while ago as I was Bitting here hammering my old typewriter, that we certainly had been enjoying some ot "uctooer s Drignt oiue weather," "the loveliest month of the year," during the past few days. This is Wednesday night as I write and the sweet sound of the pattering rain on the roof makes you feel that it is truly :he saddest of the year. It takes the sunshine and the rain to make the eath yield her fruit and it takes the shadows and the light to make life worth the while. I think it was old man Byron wo wrote a good many /ears ago something like this: "Admire, exult, despise, laugn,weep? for here There is much matter for all feeling: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear." And it is true yet. Man is nothing hut a pendulum betwixt a smale and a rear. And it takes both to make life worth while. If we had all smiles we could not appreciate them and enjoy them. .'We must have the tears and the sorrows to appreciate the mi-e and the joy. With all sunshine the earth would not bring forth its fruit in due season. It takes the clouds and the rains and it takes the dark days as well as the sunshiny ones to make life worth living. You must bear the cross if you would wear the crown Sometimes we have to tread the wine press alone. Sometimes we must travel in the valley and then we can enjoy me Dngit sunngnt or me mountain side. But even when we are In the shawod we must not forget that somewhere the sun is shining. j O?? This reminds me that I saw in a family Bible not a great while ago a bock mark which contains some advice when things do not go as you like. 'The book is, or was, the property of a very devout and good Christian woman. This book mark tells you what to read when r VC1 laiu V^ViaUXLJUJliS' V-UUHJ upuii J'Uli. 1 was thinking it would be a good tinje to give this advice to others and let them try the experiment. It suns something like this. "If you have -the 'blues,' read the twenty-seventh Psalm. "If your pocket is empty, read the thirty-seventh Psalm. "If people seem unkind, read the fifteenth chapter of John. "If you are discouraged about your work, read the one hundred and twenty sixth Psalm. "If you are out of sorts, re'ad the twelfth chapter of Hebrews. "If you are losing confidence in men, read the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians. * "If you can't nave your own way in i-vr>rvthir> ? Vppti silent rco tho third chapter of James." Xow, if you want something: to do go and get your Bible and read a!! of these chapters. It will do you good whether any of the ailments are applicable to you or not. My pocket book is always empty. I have read the thirty-seventh. Psalm. In this chapter is that famous verse: "I have been young, and now am old; and yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." And it is true. It is a chapter in which is the 7 assurance of the divine hand that He will care for His own and that the ^ righteous shall not be forsaken. And then the Psalmist says in anoth-er verse: "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed ) 3Tav 1r> ho woe nrvt " The fact is, you know, if you don't \ know it it is time you were learning, the ' Bible is a great book and if we could just get the people to read it and follow what it teaches there would be no * use for so many human laws. You * can find in this book a rule of conduct ? that will keep you in the right way all ( the time if you will only heed what it, tea^he?. It is so simple and so true and describes human nature so ac- * curatelv and tells of the shortcomings '<j?r,r? fho virtiioc that fierft nso/1 >10 n/i ( - U lilV ? sA I. VI V_. JL V u WU vv AAV/ excuse for any one going astray, and * yet away back in the days when the in- c spired writers wrote poor old human ^ nature went astray just as it does to- 1 -lay. Th^re were hypocrites and phari- c sees in those old days just like there 1 are today.. And I reckon will continue 1 he until the end of the present dis- t nensation. And there were the liar? 1 and the talebearers and the bearers of J false witness iust as we ha"e them to- c day. It will all come right one of thps^ 1 days, because we are told that all c things work together for good to them 1 that love the Lord. f . ?o? . 1 T r^ad in pome paper the other day? t T think it vas flip Ausrusta rhronirle? c thp following, which is interesting at 1 this time and apropo in this connec- t tion: , c T?:j*w?er Tajv frnn. ^ A Kansas man. asserting that over- c ' "Oilnetion of law is ruining the i country, gives these illuminating ex- c ::mples cf what he calls superfluous 2 The Fashions ouks*u$ w ssw-paEiioas stoke SOLO ISO SILVER omuVEITS A CHOICE LIKE CF 6!rl THINK ELGIN WATCHES Change just as other fash ing to buy a watch, buy o date. Here is the place t< wi.i always be sure of fin very latest and best of eve Jewelry, and we are alv goods to anyone who is int intend to purchase or not. P. C. JEAF Jewelers and Don't I To ask to see o Wool Plaid Blc good old winter I and you will nee( | $6.50 value t We have all big cut price s> $1,50 kind, sale \ Cut price on all < Wool Dress G reduction this w< Cloal We have them to $4.00 at cut fail to see them. All Silk Crept colors, value $J only 95c yd. /I 1 1 II n Laldweil & JOE. T, HUTCHI Phone 40 egislation in his own tSate: ? First?Kansas, although a prohibi- c :ion State, has a law prohibiting the s rating of snakes. a Second?He once bet a Kansas City Tiend $100 that the friend couldn't j ?o six hours withou? breaking a law. i The friend took him" up, and went to a )ed. When he finished his nap and :ame around to collect the $100, he was I irrested for sleeping under a sheet f ess than inne feet long. \ c These facts seem to prove the case, 6 'or Kansas at least. As for the legis- I ative output in other States?just ask * my lawyer who tries to keep track 1 >f it. . <T \ ' ! ^ , ' r And I expect we have some sucn * 'oolish laws in this good State of South c Carolina, and some such silly and non- ' )bserved ordinances on the statute * >ooks of the town of Newberry. I " lare say that even the best and most ( aw-abiding citizens of Newberry vio- * ate some ordinance of this town every f lay that they come to town and walk * he streets. The trouble with trying 1 o regulate everything by statute is s hat you make so many foolish laws L hat you create in the mind of the peoli >le a sort of contempt for law and no " >ne cares much about whether he vio-. c ates a law or not. Take the dog or- 71 [inance of this town for instance, or a he ordinance fixing a speed limit of 11 our miles the hour at certain cross-! ngs, and just some day take the time o open your eyes and see if you can t: ount how many times you see these c wo ordinances violated. I might men- if ion many more if I just had a copy b f the Statute OOOKS to iOOK lino mem. v: Vhy I noticed in the papers just the tl ;ther day thet the governor is writ- if ng the sheriff? about the enforcement "k f some other law than the liquor law, b nd I was just wondering if he were J in Watches "*"1 % I ! i w 1 ions do If you are gone that is strictly up-to ) come for them You ding a full line of the rything in Watches and vays glad to show our ;erested, whether they 4S & CO., | Optometrists. i i : Fail ur line of fine inkets for the time is coming 1 them, for $4.98 4 4 ? 1 other kinds at ale. Comforts, price only 98c. others up to $5. oods at a great * eek. king i from 49c up : prices. Don't \ > i de Chine, all [.50, cut price % Haltiwanger. [SON, Manager. 1304 Main St. roing to undertake to call the attention >f the sheriffs to all the laws on the itatute books and ask them to look ifter their enforcement If he is, he has undertaken a big ob. And then I was just wondering f the sheriffs did not know just about is much about the laws as the govirnnr -orhv ha chmil/} want tn hft jointing out certain laws to be enorced. Why, I think there is a law n the books requiring all mercantile establishments where girls are em)loyed to keep stools or chairs for hem to sit on when they are not busy, iow many of the stores are supplied vith these and how many of the merchants see to it that the girl clerks are jermitted to sit at times during the lay. We have entirely too many laws, rhe Herald and News on Tuesday >rinted an extract from the charge of mage smim 10 iue giauu jaij m Charleston the other day. I want to >rint an excerpt from his charge to th? >etit jury. "The star that guides the >etit jury in reaching a conclusion is he truth. The word verdict means peaking the truth. If the defendant 5 not guilty why should you convict tim; if he is guilty why not convict 10m?" That expresses it simply. If ur juries would only learn this deflation of the word verdict, ^f we would 11 just speak the truth. That would aend a great many matters. 'Well, it is just like I have said afore- 1 ime. The tendency is all toward a entralized srovernment, and the time 5 not far distant when everything will a crnrnrrmorif rvarno/l 9 ri r? crfi VPTTITT1 en t KJ iiUlVU C V" iiVU , W - W ontrolled. and we will all work for tie government and be fed and nour;hed at the government trough. But hat has all this got to do with, this right blue October weather. THE IDLER.