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^jj^grr " \ "v pe ||eralll and Jccis. Entered at the Postcffice at New- j mTTjt c., as 2na ciass matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. " i - I Talking about that $50,000 the legis- j iature is going to appropriate and j place at the discretion of the governor 1 for the enforcement of law, it suggests to us to ask, why is a sheriff and why rural policemen and magistrates and magistrates constables? If they are not for the enforcement of law and order, why are they? So far as Xewberry county is concerned we believe the local officers in the county and towns can and will enforce the prohibition law and all others, and do it better and with less friction than to have a lot a state constables around. In fact if we are not mistaken, the grand jury of this county at the re- j cent term of the court commendedj Sheriff Blea^e and his dep-uties on their i "work in the matter of law enforcement, j If we believe in local self- government; why not practice it and put it up to 1 i the local officers to have law and law ! enforcement. The report of State Warehouse Com- j missioner Jno. L. McLaurin is a very j valuable paper and the pity is that all | the people can not read it. It contains a lot of valuable information which the people should have, and if they had, we do not believe there would be any opposition to the work be is doing in behalf of the cotton producer. In fact, we might say has already done. In his work he has the endorsement of the federal reserve board and also the endorsement of prominent New York bankers, anu there can be little doubt that it was through his efforts and the state warehouse plan that the farmer, and the small farmer, has been able to get 6 per cent money on his warehouse receipt on a fair valuai tion for his cotton. And then 'ne lias reduced the insur- ^ ance on the cotton, and especially on cotton stored in the country. < We hope to print in our next issue ^ a good synopsis of this report. ? From what the reporter lias to say of 1 the power of the eloquence of Mr. Eugene S. Blease one would about con- * elude that he has missed his calling, * though a mighty good lawyer, but he might have accomplished a whole lot fr\y t Vin t"qoq if Vin Via/1 /Ipvrttpfl 'hie tal- ^ 3LV/1 UU^. 1UVV uv/ MV . ents to the calling of sinners to re- * pentance. , "\ Mr. liicLaurin in his report as ware- J house commissioner to the legislature 1 commends the assistance given him by a number of bankers in this state in his efforts to help the farmers finance their cotton, and among the number he mentions Mr. B. C. Matthews of the National Bank of Newberry. It is a proper recognition because it will be recalled that Mr. Matthews of the National bank was the first banker in ( this section to oome out and offer * money to the farmer on his ware- 4 liouse receipt at 6 per cent interest. ' i 1 We notice that the wa/s and means committee of the house has passed a ] resolution not to let the appropriation bill exceed two million dollars at this { session. Well, if they had done that 1 at the last seeeion and lived up to it J the task would have been much easier this year. Your new departments are ] now going and you will have to keep ; them morriag, and they all require < more money the second year than the first. The bill this year will be nearer " three million than, twa Fifty thousand dollars it is proposed d give Governor Manning to use in fiia discretion in the enforcement of * the whisker law. (That's a nretty nice ' little sum, and should give him considerable power. !We have never un- ' derstood why there should be Buch terrible effort to enforce one law and let others be observed more in the breach than in the observance. The prohibition law should be much easier of enforcement now than it would have ' been, or was, some years ago. The sentiment against the nee of whiskey lias grown rery rapidly in the last few I K.*:irs, and you will not find near as . :nanv people now who care for a drink ; us voa i'id a few years ago. As public j I saHMieni grows in favor of a law and; in tynipa'tliv with it the easier it is to enforce it. But we suppose it will ( be necessary to ha>ve some extra help i i in some oi' the counties, and that extra help wiil cos! money, and it is just as we'i to make uie appropriation for.it.; ct? \ The roads have been fine and all; that is needed now is to use the split! log drag, and drag the roads, and fill the holes after this rain and they will continue gobd. I j A CORRECTION. We regret to make errors, but when we do we are always pleased to make the correction. It is a little difficult for one man to do the proof reading and all the other things about a coun-; | try printing office that fall to the lot1 j of an editor without occasionally mak- j ' ing an error. In an editorial comment I on licenses by citi-es in our last issue ( we intended to write, as to the license ! ^ l ordinance of the city, that the city at-; tornev had told a member of the coun- j cil that it was not necessary in his opinion to publish the license ordi- j nance. In some way the "not" was omitted from the copy and we failed. to catch it in reading the proof, though ! any one who read the article could see from the context that the "not" was intended to be there. We had no in- j tention to make the article read as it. was printed or to misquote the city j attorney, and we take pleasure in cor- I recting it. We think the city attorney is mis- j taken, but as lie is the legal adviser) of the city council they "will of course I take his opinion. Especially as he is j in accord with their ideas and wishes. I We did not intend to say or be under- j stood as saying that the city attorney; had been formally requested by the j council to render an opinion. And we j do not know that he has been asked \ | for an opinion, or that he has looked ( carefully into the question. Tne charter says they "shall publish, for at least thirty days in each year, a notice showing the methods of taxation adopted by them, Laying down the rate of , taxation in such notice, and also pre scribing the time when the same shall >e payable." Now, it may he that a license tax is not a "method of taxa-| ion." If not, there was 110 occasion 'or council to have published the little i lotice giving the time. There ie just < is much law to give the rate as the jT ;ime. But what council says goes, and |c ill we tax payers can do ie to pay. i There was another little error in the local column that was annoying. We made the reporter speak of the "new' j I'lerk at the Savoy as the "near" clerk. Errors are always annoying, but they will get in, however caretful you may be. That is a 'very interestingg statement which The Herald and News j prints today from ex-Sheriff J. G. Long yt Union. And yet Mr. Manning proclaimed the fact that it would his effort to do away with factionalism in Lhis state. Well, we knew long ago that that was all talk and buncombe, and that tie was out Heroding Blease in factionalism, though he did not have the auiacity or the courage to come out and proclaim it from the housetop as Bleas-e did. fWlhen lie blacklists Sheriff Long he is making a blacklist that "will make a mark. Sheriff Long says he accepts the challenge and vi$l 'try to entertain him as best I can.'* Sheriff Long is one of the strongest men in his county, and is veil known throughout the state, and it does seem that the governor after asking the Union bar to recommend a man for magistrate and then getting that recommendation and also the endorsement oi 11. Dj me union county delegation, would not have let partisan politics control him in so small a matter as the appointment of a magistrate, especially when his slogan has been "away with partisan politics." Sheriff Long has his war paint on evidently, and has taken up the challenge thrown down by the governor and he will likely meet the governor Piiilippi. In looking over the list of goveraora ji V of South Carolina it will be seen that ' two Mannings have filled the position, and then we think one of the Governcrs Richardson was an ancestor of the ] resent governor, and non^ of them held the office longer than one term. It may be that th?y were not candidates, but it seems to be a family fashion to retire after one term. i MADE I P WITH HANDSHAKES i I L.?>vrer E. S. HIease Makes Eloquent aud Earnest Plea for Peace and ! Ends Possible Feud. ! ! Monday afternon and extending into j the night, Magistrate Player's court ! was crowded to its capacity. The spec- ! j tators listened with wide eyes and J | open mouths as the witnesses were ex-1 I I ? ~ A 4-Vi 1 n iTM'Arf nl 4 V? /-\ i -y? cVJiU Liic ianjuio pia; cu intii I I highly interesting legal game. Two well-to-do and highly respected citizens of the county, whose sons had gotten into trouble with each other during the Christmas holidays, sat in the room. Damaging charges and counter charges were made as the trial progressed. On the magistrate's desk i lay a large blue steel ^revolver whose ugly looking and frowning muzzle se med to point at the reporter no matter where he stood in the room. The all-fired thing looked capable of I reducing a fort by itself apd seemed j to grow larger every time the reporter looked in its direction. i The smoke of battle was in the room ?some might have thought it was cigar smoke?and an uneasy feeling was apparent on almost every face. Finally, after all t'ne witnesses were examined the lawyer for one side made a strong plea in defense of the rights of his client. Then preacher Eugene S. Blease, counsel for the other side, took the floor. He declared in eloquent and ringing flights that tihe parties to^ this controversy ought to be asliamed of themselves for allowing their passions and prejudices to so far lead them from the sacred paths of friend ship and neighborly feeling for the other. He warned the fathers against the manner in which they were rearing their sons, and if tiiey did not get together and stop it that some day one j of those sons would be brought home wounded and bleeding unto death and the other would find his son in a prisoner's dock charged with murder. He pleaded with them to make peace with each other then and there, and as he held up his hand the warring factions grabbed each other other in friendly oand clasp and promised to forget the animosities of the past and to dwell in peace and neighborly relation with ?ach other in the future. fi To tihe profound relief of. the reporter, the big, ugly revolver which by 1 his time had taken on the proportions ] >f a big Krupp seemed to shrink to its 1 lormal size and disappeared from the _ . < center of the stage. It had been in- ' :roduced by one of the parties as evi- ] ANOTHER A I The Mutual M I ONE EACH | Beginning Mo 'THE RE IN FOUR ACTS Bessie Be "The Reward" i chorus girl who fi very lonesome w about to fall fr< and narrow path is a REWARD fo Leslie's E. H, and G. S. Leslie, DOORS OPEN 3:3 I Prices - - - v.' '. ' . ; <. wea?^Ctta??taBBsts**-:. - aw?\ ? m ? COND THE NATIOf Ne FROM REPORT 1 SHOWING CONDITIO Loans and Discc Overdrafts U, S. Bonds Stocks and Secu Banking House Redemption Fun Cash and Due Fi Capital Stock Surplus and, Un< Circulation Dividends Unpai Deposits Rediscounts witl B. C. MATTHEWS, President. UNITED STATES Sole Depository dence in the testimony. While Blease was conducting the aand shaking and calling others to repentance, Magistrate Player, "with "big ters in his eyes, offered up the atonement by committing the warrants to :'ne sacrificial flames. SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD AND KEWS. LRCADE HIT aster-Pictures MONDAY nday Jan. 17 I :wardw i FEATURING I irriscale j is the story of a nds being good ork and when om the straight discovers there r the virtuous. A nrtciuc Owners and Managers 10 and 7:30 P. M, 5 and 10 cents 5: mtmmmmrnmmmmmmmmmm 1844 ENSED STATEME1 JAI RANK HP mLi uniin ui wberry, South Caro 0 THE COMPTROLLER OF iN AT THE CLOSE OF Bl lITI'llll I ??3M?B??? PFQHI TPrFQ. A\JUUV/ V& milts ? I rities - id with U. S. Treas. R,?U i win juaimo LIABILITIES: a m a livided Profits m - " id i Federal Reserve Ba i # ~r R. D. SMITH, Cashier. i, STATE, COUNTY AND CI1 for U. S. Postal Savings Depoi Abbeville and Greenwood. ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmummmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmBmmm i . \ Bargains in Station I am selli i Papers that s 20, 25 and 5( in the lot at while they la: See my wii j Mayes' Book & The House of a' n i urj ttavi oAVfc YUU | Figarro Presen your meat. Smc all insects, prever Put it on now. 400 pounds of m< Gilder & IN ew berry5 "*s^. ?' j t NT OF NEWBERRY * Una THE CURRENCY JSINESS DEC. 31, 1915 $315,666.10 None 102,000.00 8,682.48 | 10,000.00 5,000.00 50,194,82 x - . I $491,542.90 | $100,000.00 3,111.99 100,000.00 2,328.94 218,173.06 1 AHA A1 UK D/,?ZO.?I $491,542.00 1 H. T. CANNOC, Asst, Cashier T DEPOSITORY sits for Newberry, ' ^ !; 1 i ' ' fi tery ing off Box M fl ire damaged, JM ) cents pape^^H 10c per boMM j r Variety Store I ? v av?j v?va v rhousand Things. It BACON I I rer will preserve klrp if Aiif rs&w Afc* AV*V|/ vu?> 1 it shrinkage. I $1.00 bottle for I eat. 1 * C Week J S. CL * ' I \ \ V J' ^