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An Intimate Sketch of the Life of The Herald and >'ews (Continued from Page 1.) her business men. I have not been actively connected "with The Herald and News for the past several years, but I have kept my connection with it as closely as I could. Mr. James L. Aull became more closelyconnected with it in later years, and was for a while its business manager. He is now running a linotype on the Columbia State. Humbert Aull, now linotype operator on the Anderson Intelligencer, also learned the machine in the office and is an expert operator and machinist. In a rambling article such as this it couia nanny oe attempted 10 uacc with any degree of detail or accuracy the course of the paper. The field is so large that unless a history were written which would be tedious to the reader, one could hut wander around, toucning uere auu iuwc, o.5> might recall. Political Coarse of the Paper. When the Tillman movement began' as the nineties were approaching, The Herald and News was lined up with \ what was then known as the "Con-] servative" or anti-Tillman faction.j Written into its columns may be noted its sympathy with the cause of the great masses of the people, but it ] looked upon Tillman as too extreme?i as a dangerous man to lead the politi- j cal revolution which was bound to come, and wiiich wrould have come with or without Tillman. It was the people's movement, and not Tillman's movement. Tillman seized the oppor tunity. He sensed the spirit 01 unrest, and be bad tbe foresight and the ability to grasp and to cope with the situation. Later TJie Herald and News modified its views of him, in proportion as he himself "toned down/' so to speak, and cheerfully recognized nis character, .his ability, and his qualities of leadership?in fact, became his supporter until the campaign of 1912, when his political course was not such as to commend itself to The Herald and News as fair and square dealing between man and man, or between a lAfl^pr an/1 his neonlp. The Daner be lieved then, and believes now, that his conduct would have been different had he been as 6trong and vigorous as he vas before his physical affliction. Later a son of Newberry led a movement which was very much on the or der of the Tillman movement?a man who espoused the cause of the masses of the people. The Herald and News supported him, and during the campaign prior to his election as governor was the only newspaper in Established as Reserve Bank, and direct to the farme gives us advantage given to all busines B. C. MA 41 k South Carolina which did. This news paper has always supported the aspirations of the sons of Newberry when it could consistently do so, and now : looks back with pride upon its course when it stood battling alone among all , the newspapers of the State, harshly condemned by its brethren of the press, and fougnt at home, and sometimes ostracized by its home people, for taking the course which it felt to be just and right. Have you ever read Fox's beautiful story, "The Trail of ' the Lonesome Pine?" I have sometimes compared in my mind The Herald and News in those days with the "lonesome pine" of that story, witn the winds of animosity blowing about its head and the lightning bolts of anger falling about and striking its sides. Some day an impartial writer, gifted with insight and knowledge of eondi tions, may write the political history j of South Carolina during the past ! three decades, and if he does, he will draw a picture of a contest between masses on the one side who feel that they are oppressed, that the government 10 n A n-i iniotriT*?ir? in tho + nf fVi.o i-O aULUlUXO^Vl V.U 111 L-L4.V liitVi ViJt U1 VUV favored few rather than of the great body of the people who support and maintain it, and that their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is abridged; and on the other side those who somehow seem to feel that the right to govern belongs with them, who arrogate to themselves the priv-! ilege of deciding questions of policy : and of right, and who are intolerant in their egotism. (Without discussing the ; merits of the contentions of either side, ' the fact is that this condition exists. It was evident in the election and during the administration of Governor , Blease; it was evident in the recent terrible tragedy in Charleston whec , the opposing elements clashed. The | situation will work itself out in the ; untrammelled rule of the people as . the cause of education progresses. And ' The Herald and News has stood for j the cause of the people, for education, j for law and for justice, fighting for the right as God gave it the light to see the right. This, however, is a digression from the subject. Memories of Other Days. The history of the varied phases o! life of The Herald and News will be written by others better qualified than I, and of more experience iand longer TT*i A T\A T\A?? O + T lilieswitxi mc papci. tyxlcvi. a know from personal experience and observation is so recent as to be known to all but the very young readers of The Herald and News. I have attempted to give briefly only a fewrecollections, which it is hoped may NATI01 a National Bank in 187 the. ?Lcst hank in this sec b-m * w m ?. ? w ^ w w* ? w ? :r. Being the only Natio over others, and we will s entrusted to us. TTHEWS, President 5ER CENT INTJ prove of a little interest to some. Sad thoughts are conjured up by a ; review of the past, however short th?t ! past may be or however limited in { scope the review. With the exception of the editor, the only man connected with the paper now who was with it in the days when I was on the force is !VIr. Hosea M. Barger?"Hose)" Barger, as we know him. His iias been a long and faithful service, and never was there a man who was truer to the l'w + rtKrtrtfrt rtf Vii.^ Am Tv^ AV AT*P XXTVlCkn Vl j lmeicaLa UI ma cmpiuj ci o. T? t mbugle blast called the sons of the South to the colors of the Confederacy he was setting type for the paper. He surrendered the "stick" for the musket, and his. comrades, who on the battle-fields and in the trenches, and on the long and weary marches, and around the camp-fire, became the judges of real manno?<i, say mat ne j measured up to every test, and was a j loyal and fearless soldier. Since the war he has worked nearly the whole time for The Herald and News. He has pursued the even tenor of his way, making an honest living, able to look every man squarely in the eye. My, earnest hope is that he may be spared I yet many years of usefulness. Most of the other of my comrades of those days are in other fields. Some have passed to the reward: eternal. To paraphrase a thought from the brilliant Dawson's tribute to a depart: d friend. "One by one silently, they have passed from among us. Xo tumult, no shouting from the fle'd where the 'Dead Reaper' gathers in ; his sheaves! Like lea.es in a vast | autumnal fore r. they fade, fall, and are wafted away: and the great avenues of thronging life heave and toss as before, unconscious of the change! j ^ Y-i cro 11 Civxr r\f nnr noct I I>ut III llic piV/CUl C J v/i vwi Jk7u,uv. j the light falls with soft and peaceful j beauty upon their faces/' Thomas Moore expressed the thoughts of a great many of us when he penned "The Light of Other Days." The immutable law of change is stern and hard, and oftimes seems very crue\ ! Lights and shadows have played across our pathway, and sometime? A oVio/l/vn'o Vi o tro Knnn /?non on/1 OiiCVUU n O AXC*. T wvu \iW{/ Muv* heavy. The mother, who was the soul and inspiration of the home and the sunshine of whose life penetrated the recesses of the office, is numbered among the departed, and the earthly part of her now rests in Ro'einont She was all the word mother implies, and higher tribute could not be paid to any woman. And each spring, when the flowers come, they seem to me to bear a message from her, for their loveliness and purity and fragrance ;_j__ ?V ?_ lifA are a reiuiuutr ui uci uwu iuc. These memories are sad, but thes?- j MAI RA CAPIT ^v'^' v.. * v * Hp v ' gMli 'l!'^iiniaBy'innMKii ;1: ' . ' *;\ - '../ : > ' : ' ' ' ' ^ 7. Have paid out in divic tion to handle cotton wa\ rial Bank here, and the o be pleased to share this R. D. SM11 EREST ALLOW tributes are due. Of the old paper, only the editor and "Hosey" remain. The others have orAno A nH a c tho f o m 11 i a r ficnrno nacc Hit X Uiii liuu li^Ui ^O pUAJO in review before the mind's eye, when' one is reminiscent, and then we wake J from dreaming and know that they are \ gone, we feel as one who has sud- > denly "found himself in some banquet; hall deserted.'' Ave, o'd friends, comrades and loved' ones; salutamus! i And then, Farewell! For the Future. i It remains only for me again, as in an article of this tenor some years ago in another anniversary edition, to ex-; press the hope that The Herald and News may grow in usefulness to the community and to the state. Since I have known ir, and as I have read its file= prior to that time, it has sought the path of duty and has striven to follow it. It has labored for the upAf tV? a mil t-\ y + tr Onrl Vinn f </U!i"UUi gy \j i iur V.UU1.UXUU11; ? wn-u. ua^ ti i^u to pas? by unno'iced the ingratitude of any. It has rejoiced with those that rejoiced, and it has mourned with thos^ that mourned. Its columns have carried the fragrance of the orange blop oms that adorned the brow of the bride, and the fragrance of the roses j of remembrance, twined with the im-1 mctA"e of devotion, that wreathed' the- tomb. The effort lias been tomak.*; nn'i'-v rnr>tivp rafhpr than zip struefive. It has not feared to print all the legitimate news, because that was its business. A.t times, in doing its d tv ;?s it saw it it ha- made ere- j mies That this should have been j necesi was a matter of deep regret, j but. th ^cessity apparent, there was ; no flincl:;ng from the task. iThat it nrght grow in strength and j in influence for good, conserving the | Vi i o-Vv Tcrir) Tkl qc Ti'ViinVi Viovo Vio An its 1 pi TfJUlVU UUfV wvvu *w^ ^ idea1'?, is the nope I would express for; it; that it may continue ever to realize j its great responsibility, and to live up j to it, for, "The Mo ing Finger writes, and hav- j ing writ. Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit} Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, | Xor all ^our Tears wash out a Word j of it." j i a _ -r r? ? ~ i Ann iue worus oi owiiiuumc luigiu ] be applied to newspapers as well, as j to individuals?for in their simple j '- trength and beauty they breathe the I message of eternal truth: 'A Creed is.a rod, i:d a crown is of night; lit this thing is of God, 'a b - with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, And live out thy life as the li^ht." iNK OF AI Ginn riLi y i vvj - - - ~ lends over $600,000.00 rekouse receipts, and to i nly bank holding membe with our friends and a "u n?.u: iJ; WUa/C(PI rED IN SAVING THE IDLER. (Continued from Page 1.) j l as well as the old type of gentleman,' sorry to say '-ecoming far too obsolete in this commercial and material age in which we .ive. Mr. Greneker could' not write any .hing unkind or harsh. j He had no voca.ba.i for such writing 1 and I think that is the nighest compli-1 ment that could be paia him. Pity is we have no more o: those who possess that high sense of the ideal, because the possessioL is necessary in order to write it. For it is true as the he^rt thinketh so the tongue speaketh, and you can't get out what is not within. The ideal of the newspaper eiitor should be the highest, and he O Vl Y\11 1A AAT> C?f O T* f 1 if oxjl-v/uxvi vvuctauvi; oung tv aj. * v. The spoken word can not be recalled, but the written word is writ and "all voi r tears can not wa-.h out u wo-*' of as some one has truly said. and. tacretore, one snouki oe ev^n more careful in the written word than the spoken word. 'We should remember r'nr p word fitlv snoken or wri-'ten is J like apples or gold in pictures of silver. Th^ editor should alwavs tn-ar in min i j that he is not on'y the chronicler o* j contemporaneous history, but he is als~? the moulder of sentiment and of public opinion, and that the written wo d has a silent and a powerful in flu. nee. sometimes unconscious, but thee all the same, that possibly no otfc "t agency exerts. His ideals shonld be Kie1i his sentiments prre and loftv. animosity and malice and hatred and ' bit ?r partisanship should have no plf-'e in his make<uD. Tlr's *s partleutrua on/1 imr\A7<tonf /if fha /irtun_ i J CI UV auu imyvi VUUV vi wuu, try editor, because hiG personality goes a long way in the makeup of his paper, and in fact it is the personality of him as much as wha,c he writes, because he { is one of his own constituents, known i and personally known to all his readers. or practically all of them. I believe that the present editor has ' i - 5 fW TT_ 7 J A connected wixn lae nerdiu <tuu X-ews longer than any of his predecessors, and he still claims to be a young , man. It is a great honor to be the ; editor of a good country newspaper.' Sometimes I think there is more honor ; <in^ rnore responsibility and a greater i fieH for service and good to the world J in ,eii/>h a nrvsfHrvn than anv other field i that I know. I mean to tie editor who | risr*fV appreciates the position. He I may rot eet rich, or have much of this world's goods. Very few do. But the and t:ie greatest life and the most v life is not that one that accumulates money, but the one that i? Vest in 5-ervice to your fellows. What greater field of service coufd you im&g 000 / *': ' 1 in actual cash. Menu 'oan mon ey on same at 6 rship in the Federal Ret tstomers. Prompt and H. T. CANNON, As IS DEPARTMH ' ine than that of the editor of a country newspaper. I read some time ago the Elks' Cretd as penned by James Riley Fordon of the New York lodge. No. 1 and I feel that it would be a good creed for the country editor, and I am going to suggest it as the creed for the editor: "Believe in thyself as well as in others, Exalted he thine ideas of right < P-p> Ipntent. hp true! "Protect childhood with tenderness, Woman with chivalry, Old age with respect "Others se*k to benefit, Do good here and now, Cherish with reverence the Memory of those who liave passed. "Enioy the things of the earth, Voon -a'itViin tVico tho Sunshine of youth, and above all ' Remain always of good cheer." I want to give the following on fche newspaper from an address delivered at Chicago by. Joseph H. Finn, and with ^ that I close, wishing The Herald and J New may go on its usefulness like * Tennyson's Brook and grow deeper and firmer in tne love and the respect of the people it serves: "Bom of the deep daily need of * notirvn T o m IV? A VAf VATT f 4J CI 11 IT 11 JL aui inc. ? ViVA/ Vi vu? incarnate spirit of the Times?Monarch of things that Are. "My "cold type" burns with the fireblcod of human miction I am fed by d arteries of wire that gictfle the earth. M I drink from the cup of every living " joy and sorrow. I sleep not?rest not. v I I know not night, nor day, nor season. I know no depth, yet I am born agraiBt with every m^rn?with every noon ? w'th e- erv twii;ght. I lean into fresh being with every new world's event "These who created me cease to be? the brains and heart's-blood that nourish me go the way of human dissolu tion. Yet I live on?and on. "I am Majestic in my Strength? Sublime in my Power?Terrible in my Potentialities?yet as democratic as >> the ragged boy who sells me for a penny. "I am the consort of Kings?the partner of capital?the brother of toil. (The inspiration of the hopeless?th~i>1orVit orm r\$ flia tfta /*hamr\irvtY a <Ui vi vuy uvvujr V**v yi ?1DI i.i y>v**. of the oppressed?the conscience ot J the criminal. I am the epitomg of th' world's Comedy and Tragedy. M "My Responsibility is Infinite, r J s?peak and the w^jrld stop6 to listen. )[ say the word and battle flames the jiorizon. I counsel peace and the warlords obev. I am greater than any in dividual?more powerful than any gTono I am the dynamic fore? of Pnblic Ooinion. Rightly. directed, r am the Creator of Confidence. A builder of happiness in living. I am / the Backbone of Commerce. The' Trail-Blazer of Prosperity. I am the teacher of Patriotism. " "I am the hands of the clock of Time ?the clarion voice of ClrilfzafcioiL j "I am the Newspaper." THE IDLER. The m-an that is a slave to none, none slave to him, can well rejoice. ?~ ? i 1ERRY 1 I :j I BBBB B ii 1 ; . 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