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TROPICAL STORM HITS CHARLE'STO> 3Tany Residents, Warned of Pisturbauee, (*? to City to Spend Niurht. Charleston, July 14.? mrousnc".; the night Charleston was facing . hurricane, having been warned by the weather bureau at o'clock of the probable approach of a tropical storm. Regular communication with .Sullivan's island having failed, the buoy tender Cypress of the United States light house department was sent over and brought back about 450 persons who preferred to spend the ziight in town. During the night great waves were dashing over the sea walls of East Battery, South Battery and the Battery boulevards, roadways in those sections being flooded. The steamer Lenape, due to leave in the afternoon for Jacksonville, is still at her dock. The tug Vigilant and two barges, which were repori' ed to have broken from her, are harbor bound. Along the water front and in sections where a stormtide is apt to cause damage active efforts were made to protect land and floating property. At 1 o'clock this morning there was a lull in the storm, but the weather " ? ? i L. bureau wa^ not prepares 10 say mai Charleston would escape the brunt of the hurricane. The highest wind so far was 62 miles an hour with gusts of much greater force. No serious damage in Charleston is reported up to this hour. Mayor Tristram T. Hyde and a party went up the coast on a fishing- trip today and have not returned. The party was in inland -waters and no fears for its safety were entertained. | ;j MSS ISA WOOD PRETESTS WATER TRAGEDY Leaps Into Saluda and Brings Younger Sister to Bank in Safety, The State. Laurens, July 13.?wjuick ana orave action by Miss Ina Wood saved her younger sister, Miss Corn^ia Wood, from almost certain death by drowning in Saluda river, not far above "Ware Shoals, Wednesday afternoon, according to information brought from that section of the county. It seems that a party of young women, including the IMisses Wood, 4 daughters of Mrs. James E. IWbod of the Harmony church, neighborhood, this county, were spending the afternoon on th.e banks of the river enjoying a quiet picnic. lArriving at the "Big Rock," a noted and interesting point on Saluda, Miss Cornelia Wood, "with some of her companions, ventured out on the rock to the water's <edge. Suddenly Miss Wood lost her footing, probably from dizziness, and fell into th.e deep current at the up- j per end of the rock. Being unable to j swim she sank at once. | All her companions were horror- j stricken, save her elder sister, who j ?quickiy threw aside her big sun hat, j plunged into the rushing water and j made her way to her sister, then ap- j parently unconscious, just as she was | being swept out into the main cur-1 rent of the river. She threw her ] arms about the limp form of the| ^drowning girl and supported her till, i i carried down stream by the current, i they came near enough to the shore to reach projecting bushes. Here botl^ assisted by other members of the party, were brought safely ashore, and after some heroic work, Miss Cornelia was soon revived and taken i "home. The cool, heroic performance ; of Miss Ina Wood no doubt averted j a tragedy and her bravery is com- , mented upon on all sides. HIGH WATER HITS LAND OF CLEIMSOX ? Several Hundred Acres of College's . Crops Destroyed by Seneca xvi Ttri rivwu Clemson College, July 13.?The! rain storm, which lasted Friday afternoon through Monday morning, with intermittent showers since, has left j roads and fields in a bad condition j and has brought a very high stage of j water in the Seneca River, near here, ' resulting in the overflowing of hun- ! 'dreds of acres of river bottom lands and probable total destruction of the crops thereon. Clemson College bot- ! torn lards to the extent of sevtral hundred acres are flooded and corn cuiu uuiei crups lost. x SJII93 o? *nie;sifs sqj dn sp[tnq toil ,aq} 'bz.ibibih ;no saAtip aniuinQ aq? nuoj "sssp;sBj 8 ni noij puB aunxi"?i s; }i SniAioqs ?izas no p3)<?ud sx sfacuoj ?qi ss 42upiB} sib no^ }Bq* mou* noA -oixox iwp ssaiaxsvx taAO"aO pJBpuB;g pio 9q; aqjL < jfl PIK*g puy Impressive Statement Here is an impressive statement ot i fact about railway wages that ougkt aot to escape attention. There were a, total of 37.ST3 employes classified : as switch tenders, crossing lenders, and watchmen. These were receiving in 1912 an average of $1.70 per day, which was actually C cents a day less than they hud been receiving ten years earlier. At that time there were 45,201 conductors with whom the statistics dealt. rne conuuctors, uiereiore, were only a slightly more numerous class than the tenders and \vatchmen; yet, while the conductors had kad their wages raised from $3.38 to $4.29 per day, the less fortunate class of tenders and watchmen had to stand a reduction from $1.76 to : $1.70 per day. I If the cost of living has been stead; ily advancing for conductors, so as to justify an increase of 27 per cent in ; their wages, it seems difficult to ex| plain why that same cost of living < should have fallen sufficiently to war ; rant a decrease of 3 J?er cent in the ; wages of switch tenders, crossing tenders, and watchmen. Take the single classification of general office clerks. There were 87,106 of these according to the official report A much larger number than of either engineers, firemen, or | conductors. | These general office clerks were paid an average of $2.21 per day in 11903, and of $2.50 in 1912; an in' crease of only 13 per cent in the ten| year period. flonarol Alorta nrifVinnt OT. VI^/U^ACM U1UVU Uigi AO) T? IvllVUv ception, are compelled to live in , cities, where cost of living is high. Engineers Better Off Engineers, on the other hand, are distributed between large towns and : small towns; on the average, their living circumstances ought to make i their expenses average considerably less than those of office clerks, yet ; the statistics show that engineers have .received in the ten-year period an increase of 24 per cent in their | wages, making them average exactly i $5 per day, while general office a! arlrc Vioro rnnqurnrt on inr?rqo ca nf I vi^ixvo uot u ail mviv.ao^/ vi ' only 13 per cent, making them averi age $2.50 per day. ! One of the worst underpaid classi| fications of railway employes is that of the station agents. There are just about 40,000 of these in the country, or nearly as many as the number of conductors. j In 1903 station agents averaged i |1.80 a day, and in 1912 they had : been mised to only $2.20 a day, while : in that same time condiectors had advanced from S3 3R to S4.20. j That is, the station agent in 1SI2 was getting just about half the wages I of the conductor, and in ten years he I had had an average increase of 17 per cent, while the conductor's iniI crease had been 27 per cent. Here are two of the most numerous classes of railway employes: ; Trainmen, other than engineers, i firemen, and conductors, numbered i 136,809, while trackmen numbered , 337,451. The statistics show that the ; tracitmen were getting in lyua an average of $1.31 per day, and in 1912 an average of $1.50 per day, an ini crease of 14 per cent. What Others Got On the other hand, the classiflcai tion of other trainmen was getting in 11903 $2.17 per day, and in 1912, $2.96 | per day, an increase of 36 per cent In percentage, this is the largest ad| vance received by any single class of 1 railway employes during this decade. | A generai survey of wage conditions in the railway service and in other industries, it is believed, would show that in the last fifteen years the highly organized and favored ! classes of railway wage earners have had their incomes increased more than almost any other class of workers in the country, while the much more numerous, but less effectively organized classes' of railway workers have probably received rather less increases than other industrial work ers in general. In view of the strong feeling that these most fortunate classes of the railway employes are now making excessive and unreasonable demands, attention is now b-nng called as never before to these general discrepancies. There is a strong disposition to inaugurate a general and sweeping inivestigation of the whole question of railway wages with a | view to establishing some sort of pubj lie regulation not unlike that already aDDlied to railroad rates in the in. terest of employes and public alike. ' Meanwhile, there is a marked indisposition to extend further favors to those cesses already most highly ' favc- i, at the expense of other cl; o of employes who appear to be gei u y low wages. + + + Four national railroad unions + + threaten to tie up every steam + + road in the country. The num- + + ber of employees involved may + ; + total 400,000. They seem to + + have it in their power to stop + | + all freight and passenger traf- + + lie on 250,600 miles of track. + + We have never had a strike + , + of such scope and magnitude. + |+ H would paralyze all American + + industry and commerce and ex- + + port trade. A nation of 100,- + fr 000,000 i-eople would stand + + still, while ita biggest industry + + fought out a question of wages + j + and hours. A deadlock would + | + be inconceivably destructive.? + 1+ Bangor (Me.) News. + * . * |+ ++ + + + + + + + + + + + JUST BE LOYAL TO NEW COO'TRY Citizens Must Pro ye Themselves Faithful Whether Tliey Like Policies or >ot. i I WasiiingtoxL, July 3.?President! I \\ I'. i :u a t Itizen.iLip convent; ;n ; | ? lav that the American govern- i i * . ; :: insist mat lorei-iters :-eI cc-n citizens remain loyal even iff J ;hey are not pleased with the way j -iHairs are conducted. Loyalty means nothing, lie declar-, 3d, unless it is coupled with self-sac-! rifice. He held that Americans can j ">r.t roaMi lrtva'fr unless thev nraCtiCG \ !* j The president discussed the prob-! lem of Americanizing foreign born citizens. His words were enthusiastically applauded by a large gathering of educators interested in the instruction of new citizens, meeting here under the auspices of the naturilization bureau of the labor department Native born Americans were warned by the president to examine themselves carefully to see whether they have burning in them the true lignt Df America which they expect to show to these foreigners. "My interest in this movement," h.e said, "is as much an interest in ourselves as in the people whom we wish to Americanize. Unless we are true Americans we can not infect them with the spirit of Americanism. Un'oc-a -0.-0 rmrcoivp<3 illustrate the ideas of justice and freedom we can teach nothing to those who ccme to us." There are just as many cruel and heartless mer, here as in other lands, 'ie continued, but-the object of America should be to put such men in harness and control them. Some Had Sicrns. I "We have been disturbed recently by symptons in the body politic," he added, 'which are not healthy. Cer- j rain men, not many in number, have j :hought more of the lands of their i birth than of America. They have even gone so far as to draw apart in spirit and organization to seek some special object of their own. Such a thing as that is absolutely incompatible with the ideas of loyalty/' Foreign travel was suggested as best cure for those inclined to boast too much of the superiority of America. We ought to be careful to maintain a government at which the immigrant can look with the closest scrutiny and to which he should be at liberty to address this question: 'You declare this to be a land of liberty and equality and of justice; have you made it so by your law?' We ought to be able in our schools, in Dur night schools and in every other ?P ??% /? A T\AArk1 A 1 UlCUiVU KJL 1JLJLOL1 U^LiJUg LUCOt: pCTVJyiC t-J show them that has been our endeavor. 'Wte can not conceal from them long the fact that we are just as human as any other nation, that we are just as selflsL, that there are just as many mean people amongst us as anywhere else, that there are just as many people here who want to take advantage of other people as you can find in other countries, just as many people heartless when it comes to maintaining and promoting their own interest; but that our object is to get these people in harness and see to it that they do not do any damage and are not allowed to indulge the passions which would bring injustice and calamity at last upon a nation whose object is spiritual and not material. A Great Nation. "America has built up a great body of wealth, Amcrica has beoome from the physical point of view one of the most powerful nations in the world; a nation which if it took the pains to do so could build that power up into one of the most formidable instruments in the world, one of the most formidable instruments of force, but which has no other idea than to use its force for ideal objects CLli'il HUt IL/1 OCll aggi auui^cuicuu "This process of Americanization j is going to be a process of self ex- j amination, a process of purification, a process of rededication to1 the things which America represents and is proud to represent. lAnd it takes a great deal more courage and j /steadfastness, mv fellow citizens, to;; j represent anything else. ,It is easy i i to strike and sometimes very diffi-, I er.lt to refrain from striking and I j think vou will a^ree with me that we i i i ore most justified in bein? proud of j | doing the things that are hard to do ; : and not the things that are easy.; ! You do not settle things quickly by i ? I ' taking what seems to be the quickest | way to settle them. You may mala- j j the complication just that, much tliej j more profound and inextricable, and:' I therefore, what I believe Americans ' should exalt above everything else is ! the soveriegnty of thoughtfulness . and sympathy and vision as against f the grosser impulses of mankind. No ' nation can live without vision, and no vision will exalt a nation except tho | vision of real liberty and real justice and purity oi conduct." Z Z Z Z * m Z ' Z Z Z Z Z 7 Z 7 V ? ' i'.juiit; C'ainpaiu'ii .vlicdule. . * . s . ? ' s i' y Wl.itmire, Saturday, .in:.- -2nd. Tuesday, July 2oth. Young's Grove, Friday, July 2Sth. Pomaria, Tuesday, August 1st. Longshore's, Thursday, August 3rd. Chappells, Tuesday, August Stli. Ypwhprrv Tnurt House. FridaV. Au- ' gust 11th. Jalapa, Tuesday, August loth. Keitt's Grove, Friday, August 18th. Little Mountain, Tuesday, August! 22nd. Newberry (West End), Saturday, August 2 th. The meeting at 'Whitmire will begin at 2 p. m. The meeting at West End wil begin at 8 p. m. All other meetings will begin at 10:30 a. m. Frank R. Hunter, B. B. Leitzsey, Chairman. Secretary. - - * * * A A A A A A i. A $ <5> 3> CAMPAIGN SCHEDULE <S> 3> ' <$> The following is the schedule of the itinerary, opening at Spartanburg and closing at Winnsboro on AuBarnwell, Tuesday, July 18. Hampton, Wednesday, July 19. Beaufort. Thursday, July 20. Ridgeland, Friday, July 21. Walterboro, Saturday, July 22. Charleston, Tuesday, July 25. St. George, Wednesday, July 26. Bamberg, Thursday, July 27. Orangeburg, Friday, July 28. St. Matthews, Saturday, July 29. Sumter, Tuesday, August 1. Manning, Wednesday, August 2. Moncks Corner, Thursday, Aug. 3. Georgetown, Friday, August 4. Kingstree, Saturday, August 5. Florence, Tuesday, August 8. Marion, Wednesday, August y. Conway, Thursday, (August 10. Dillon, Friday, August 11. Darlington, Saturday, August 12. Bishopville, Tuesday, August 15. Bennettsville, Wednesday, Aug. 16. IChesterfield, Thursday, August 17. Camden, Friday, August 18. Lancaster, Saturday, August 19. Union, Tuesday, August '22. Gaffney, Wednesday, August 23. York, Thursday, August 24. Chester, Friday, August 25. Winnsboro, Saturday, August 26. \ Grimstad Honors Ibsen. London Chronicle. It is well known that Henrik Ibsen passed several years of his early life in the small coast town of Grimstad, where he was apprenticed to an apothecary, and lived in his employer's house. That house has now been bought for the town, and the shop has been restored to the aspect it presented in Ibsen's time. In a small garden in front of the house has been placed a bronze bust of Thsem. hv the distinguished sculptor, Gustav Vigeland. In time, no doubt, the memorial house will develop into an Ibsen museum. Took >o Chances. New York Times. "Were you seasick crossing the ocean, Nellie?* asked Mrs. Tinker of her new maid, who came from the Emerald Isle. "Oi woo f-orVihlo sir>V *vYmin' ovpr. but nivver a qualm did Oi have goin' back, mum," replied the girl. "Indeed?" querried the mistress. "And how do you account for that, Nellie?" "Shure." said Nellie, "an' Oi niver wint back, mum." Bad Guess. Exchange. Physician?From this brief examination I am of the opinion that you are suffering from clergyman's sore throat. Patient?The hell you say! Physician (hastily)?But it is quite possible I'm wrong. I will look again. Liar! Le Rire, Paris. "You know those gloves I bought j here the other day?you said they'd last mc two years.'* "Well?" "I've lost them!" Regular. "That nurse wanted an extortionate, price to attend to the baby.'' "Well, isn't nursing babies natur ally a holdup business?"?Yonkers Statesman. J I BARBECUES BARBECUE?We will give a first class barbecue at the Newberry fill, Friday, July 21. The dinner will be cooked by the old cook. H. J.\I. Wicker.' A good dinner is promis'-d to ail. Every candidate is especially viit-d. L>. M. Suber and 0. A. l'\ -]].* .j l" # ?T,Ye will give a first cla.ss barbecue in front of B. B. Leitzsey's residence July 27, 1916. Everybody invited. B. B. Leitzsey, A G. Leitzsey. J. F. Lominack. The School Improvement association of the St. Phillips school will give a barbecue in Mr. T. E. Halfacre's grove near the school house on August 10 for the benefit of the school. Everybody and the candidates are invited. There will be enfftrfoinmAnf orron f Vi VA11 n or ICl ?HttU{3V/U A.N/A. ^ v/u**o folk. I will furnish a barbecue at Pomaria on campaign day August 1. Good dinner and pleasant day promised to r!l. ' . J. Walter Richardson. We the undersigned will give a first class Barbecue at 'New Hope church, Saturday, July 29, 1916 for the beneci _ ? lU A Tv-- - J .A.**. nt 01 uiie JDroaa iviver parsonage. Everybody is invited to come out and enjoy the day with us and at the same time help a good cause. Members. First .Offense. "Prisoner, you are accused of stealing a watch. Is this your first offense?'' "Yes. vour honor." "But it seems to me I remember sentencing you not more than a year ago." "Yes, your honor, but it wasn't a watch that time. It was a diamond pin."?Atlanta Journal. THE HERALD AND NEWS ONE YEAR FOR $1-50. A Bis Why not fire yoi a desire to take a busin berry Business school? Draughan's and othei much less expense. There is a big de business schools that c: opportunity is right h< roll fnHav ami in a shnt pared to accept a good j are no vacations, no els aminations. Each stud instrctions. For rates a write Newberry Bu Phone 244 To The Let me urge wheat before yoi There is no dry | not been sunned and then blame r I you good work. FARMERS J. H. WICKE Higher Economy. Everybody's. (Among the Japanese economy is i held to be a high virtue. Two old i misers of Tokyo were one day disI cussing ways and means of saving. "I manage to make a tan last about 2>> >ears," said one "and this is my .system: ! don't wastefully open the whole fan and wave it carelessly. I < :;on onlv one section at a time. That 1 is good for about a year. Then I ' ouen the next and .^o on until the fan. is eventually used up." "Twenty years for a good fan!" exclaimed the other. . "What sinful extravagance! In my family, we use a I' fan for two or three generations, and this is how we rir? it: We onen the whole fan, but we don't wear it out by waving it. Oh, no! We hold it still, like this, under our nose, and %'ave our face!" The Next Job. Mother?Have you practiced Chopin's "Ballad in A"? Gertie?Yes, Mother. "Have you translated your page of Homer?" "Yes mother." "Have you learned your five problems in Euclid " A "Yes mother.' MAmd have you worked out the binomial theorem?" 1 "Yes mother.' "Then go and dust the dining room."?Philadelphia Press. A Guarded Answer, "Darling, if you had it to do aii over again, would you still want to marry me?" "My dear, if I had it to do over again and decided to marry you would be the one I would select.7? Detroit Free Press. ^ , ; Wltenever You Need a General Tools Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives put Malum, Enriches the Blood and I Builds up me wnoie system, ou cenrs. , , _ ' ' ' * . M I Fire y : - i 11 lr son or daughter with ess course in the NewAll the advantages of r business colleges at mand for graduates of mnot be filled. Your sre in Newberry. En t time you will be pre>aying position. There isses, no entrance exent is given individual nd information call or ' i 'vn cmnco QpIiaaI i OUltOO UIUUV1 Scott Building ,JLI,TO^rr_rTBr.. _ i ! Public vou to sun vour J ? i take it to mill. wheat that has . 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