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tercu At tne Postorticc at New I *, S. C., as 2nd aa^s matter. * R. aULL. EDITOR. Tups/Iav .Tanuarv 30. 1917, The Newberry Herald and News is still advising the farmers to use the split log drag 011 the roads.?Anderson Mail. And, bless your dear soul, we are' going to ke. p it up to the end of the chapter. And we take this opportunity to say that now is a good time to use! the drag. i Worse than the boll weevil, we be tfieve, are tho&v auto-driving mutts j who always try to set how close they I t-n o n/itKor V<?hi<-> 1P without ! V<VL1 U1 i IV auvMivi f v*?*v-v hitting it.?Pickens Sentinel. Yes, and those otk-r mutts who nev er give you any of the road and make you think they are going to split riglit through you. 'We believe they are worse than the othu?r kind. And the trouble is you find' so many ofi them. Regular road hogs. We notice that the Newberry boys have introduced a bill to authorize the borrowing of $26,000 to pay past indebtedness and have made a levy of one-half mill to pay it back. So long as they fail to make a levy big enough to pay the necessary expense* of the county there will be need of some such legislation every year and the debt will pile up and we will have big interest charges to meet. We nev er could see. the good judgment in providing less money than was-nec essary to meet the expenses of the county. And requiring the people who work for trie county 10 wan iur their pay. While they are passing laws to make corporations their help weekly they should pass some law to make the county pay its bills at least monthly, and not do it Dy giving you a little evidence of indeb tedness. A subscriber from the country writes: "i ll agree wnu u?c auuch>'c Medium. You make a dawgun go<xi paper. And I am glad to see you have cut out the liquor advertise ments." That's kind of him to say it. We just can't help it, and don't deserve any special credit for it. It just comes natural like, you know, i And we are going to make a better! paper as the days go by. We like to do it, you know, and we are pleased to have the people appreciate our ef forts. It is an encouragement to, have them say so occasionally. As to! liquor advertisements we cut them1 out long ago. 'We did not say any thing about it in the paper because we do not like to talk about what we do along that line. Mr. Mayor, Wright and Mr. Street Supervisor A'erts, how about using the split log drag on our streets? It would help some and would not take I much time. j Revenue officers raided several J moonshine stills in Oconee county last j week. Why doesn't 'the legislature; pass a law against operating moon- j shine stills??Anderson Mail. That's the idea. Why doesn'^the legislature do it? Pass a law. That s the thing to do. A woman was killed in Newberry: the other day while walking on the tracks of the railroad. Jour other, persons, we are told, were killed by. the railroad about the same place at .' different times while walking on the1 road. Why doesn't the legislature pass a law to stop people from walk- / ~ J * ? I lllg UIl uie lamuctu uatAs. i as& a law-and cure all the ills flesh is heir to and make people good. The legislature has now finished three weeks of the session which j usually lasts for six weeks and no bill has yet been passed and ratified. J That is a fine record and if kept up! the boys will have the well dolie of! the folks at home. Tlie Spartanburg delegation in the legislature is going to pass a bond bill authorizing the issuing of one mil lion dollars for the building of roads in that county. That's the only way to get them. And they are going to safeguard the expenditure so that when the money is spent the people will have the roads. If that is true the people will say well done. There is certainly need for some thing to be done for the building of ^ roads in this county that will be good when we need them and tnat will re main good all the year. It* takes mon ey and the only way to Svt money is to tax the people. Wonder what our Newberry boys are going to do tc help us get some better roads. Ap propriate the money and provide no way to raise it as they have been do ing. That's poor business. P" In charging the grand jury of Spar tanburg county, Judge T. J. Mauldin of Pickens took occasion to declare that the road question comes within the afftna rif t"h#? PTAiid iurv's, duties. He made the statement that more money is wasted under the present system of road-working than in any other de partment of county affairs, but ex plain^ that he did not censure the road officials but did criticize the peo ple for permitting such a road sys-, WANTED? tern to remain in force. The judge c hopes to see the time come wh-c-n ev- 1 ery county in the State will get value i received for every dollar spont on t road improvement.?Gaffney Ledger. We are very much afraid the good i 1 Judge Tom J. will never live to 6ee! s that day. And we sincerely hope that: i he may live to a good old age. Wei f do need some better system of road I : working than we have, but all these, i systems take a whole lot more mon-1 I ey than we have. The Greenwood Journal carries!1 eight full pages of advertisements in ! . one issue from one firm. What do you j think of that? We have been think- j ing of seeing our merchants in .New- 5 berry and try to find out how many { of th. m would like such an ad in The Herald and News. It would be a pay- j ing proposition and get more results; than sending out big dodgers. How' many want such an ad? i AS TO STATE COLLEGES. j Dr. Poteat of Furraan .University lias a good article in The State on the; subject of scholarships and free tui-i tion in State colleges. We print It.! His first paragraph is sound and states the position that we have tak <>n from the time we first took any po sition on this question, and that was some little while ago, that we quote it here. ! l<rPT*a Cfof n'c r*V\HcrotiAr* in ar\ rt _ i iiv vjuait o cation is to all the people rather than to a special class. That means that college students ought to wait for ' State aid of any sort until adequate facilities have been provided for the 1 education of the whole people. This is a matter of fact, and is not an ar-' 1 gument against college education, j But, South Carolina can not longer! overlook the children who will neverj ; go to college. If the Sta*e has money j to dispense 'in aid of education, let j | it put it where the need is greatest, j ! Let this be the slogan for the next j ' ten years in South Carolina: 'Bet-1 j ter schools for all the people." * I That has been our slogan for twen-1 ty years and more. We have argued } for many years that so long as the j | common schools were in the condi- J tion that they are and have been, and j J that so long as so great a proportion j | of the children never get to college, j ; that it vas and is almost criminal j ! negligence for the State to spend j ' such large sums on higher institu- j I % 11 xl T_ r 1 _ - a. a. f j nuns, as v\? can uiem, wane at cne ; * same time neglecting tlie common j ' schools. But in spite of all that we j said the State has gone on from year ! to year piling up more and more mon- i ey for the colleges while the common j schools suffer and languish. True1 there is more money being given them i now than in former years, but the in crease to the higher institutions has been in the same proportion. All scholarhips should be abolish- i oH 10 n/i o.. n e o in tVm VVI U11U bUVi V JLO uv OL HOC 1X1 C11 ^ uiacu I trying to create a loan fund, and what j surprises us is that some of the de- j nominational colleges are encourag- J ing it, if the fund is left for the use i of the student and for him to choose j his own college. It is not the right' spirit, as we see it. They hold that j it is not the correct principle but if li i is to be then let them share in it.! As to tuition in State schools our | position is that every one should be, charged, or it should be absolutely j free to every one. We should no longer tolerate the farce which has J existed for so many years. We do not : believe that free tuition in the State J schools would injure in the leai? any j of th.e denominational colleges. But it is certainly tFTie fhat South Caro lina is spending too much money on State colleges, and every year the de mands increase, and so long as the 1 legislatures accepts invitations to vis- i it these institutions and are wined! and dined by them?at the expense of ttie State, of course?they are going j to gt-t almost what they ask. But I there will be an awakening some time in the future. I Piesident Poteat is correct in all j that he says in his article about State! institutions and higher education by i the State. He does not advocate a State loan fund for scholarships but takes the j position that if 3uch a fund is estab lished it should be left optional with the student as to what college he shall attend. That is sound doctrine, but there should be no State loan fund. WALKING OX RAILROAD TRACK STRUCK BY TRAIN Woman Instantly Killed by Southern Train.?Jury 8a>s Unadvoidable Ac cident.?Woman Was Deaf. It is stated that live persons have been killed by a train on the railroad tracks between the Cline street cross ing and the union station. We can recall four in the last few years. It has not been long since Mr. Williams and Mr. Bouknight were struck by a C. X. and L. train on a Sunday after noon as they were walking on the track about the same spot that. Ellen Brice was when she was struck on Saturday by tlie Southern train. And shortly after that Elbert Brown wa?? walking along the same place and J was killed by a C. N. and L. train. And j a little child was killed at the station] while attempting to cross in Main j street On Saturday Ellen Brioe, an aged j J To borrow a BA Photo" Pia colored woman, was coming from her lome in the country to visit her son n Newberry. She was walking along he track of the railroad from Helena, rhe evidence is that she was walking between the two tracks when first seen. That some one attrasted her attention to the coming in of the pas senger train on the Southern and in stead of stepping on the C. X. and L. track, she undertook to cross on the Southern, thinking, perhaps, that It was a C. X. and L. train, and as she attempted to cross the track she was struck by the engine and killed In stantly. The evidence is that she was hard of hearing and that she was about 70 years old. The jury of in quest reached the conclusion that the death was an unadvoidable accident, and it so appears to us. The moral of it is, you should not walk on the rail road track. 'And it is dangerous to walk in the public road. So the only tiling lor iae people wno waiK 10 iio IS to take to the woods. The following is the testimony be fore the coroner which wae taken on Sunday morning at the undertaking parlors of Baxter and son. January 28, 1917. Inquisition over dead body of Ellen Brice hold by Coroner Lindsay in Bax ter's Undertaking Parlors Sunday morning. B. F. Xicely, sworn says: I was engineer on passenger train Auctio Mnnnov U 1T1U11UUJ A VU1 At 12 Having decidi my Feed and Si Sell at public au< gies, Harness am Terms of i T T O j.jn B. B.f Hair. Auc If You Conn Christ Come ii\ and ^et a Girls and wom< can jom o Xmas Bank Come in, asl I The I . C. MATTHEWS, President BY about one i y. Apply at d No. 18 with engine 942 coming into Newberry on January 27, 1917. 1 blew the signal for road crossing for Newberry. When I turned the I curve coming from Helena I saw sev eral persons on the C. N. and L. track. My track was clear. Saw a woman between the tracks. She was i clear of both tracks wh-n I saw her. Just as we passed my fireman saTd, "Hold on. look out. we have struck some one." I put brakes on and stop ped as soon as 1 could. The bell was ringing; and I backed up about three coach lengths to where woman was struck, and they loaded lie/ in bag gage car and brought her to Newber ry. I did not see her myself. In answer to question by Juror ^ j Player Mr. Nicely said further: My, ; fireman called my attention to the wo ! man. She was clear of track the I last time I saw her. She was on i other side of track from my seat. The1 I engine was just rolling. Had cut off 'l steam. 8 j c B. F. Nicely, Engineer. Dr. J. K. Gilder sworn submitted ; the following statement: j I hereby certify that Ellen Brice v j came to her death from the effects j. . of a blow received upon her head, or by falling, the fall producing concua . sion of brain. Both arms and the * right leg also being broken. ^ James K. Gilder, M. D. t ' January 26th, 1917. i _ \l n Sale - i ruary 5,1917 O 'Clock. e(3 fo discontinue | ales Stables I Will :tion Horses, Bug | d Carriages. sale - cash. Brown. tioneer. i Want Mone le in inow mas B C* r&r- :* National Ban T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier year old. To tal Ann^nr ,tu le 11. immm?mmammmmnmmmummmmm?M?mmmmmmmmmBmmmmm?mmmm* Fields Robinson sworn says: Was fireman on No. 18, Southern lailway, January 27, 1917. Turning he curve saw several men walking iown C. X. and L. track. I noticed i woman walking between the tracks. 3ne was perfectly cl-.-ar of botn tracks. Something attracted her mind and he turned around and looked back inH drii train mm in or iiiiri cho aimp?i o run across track. I hollered to ingineer and he put on brakes nice but struck her before she got in track. In answer to question wit less went on: She was about as ar from train as from here across itreet. She seemed to get frighten id and turned wrong way. If she lad stood where she was train would lot have struck her. Fields Robinson. iPeter Neel eowrn says: I saw old lady, Ellen Bric-e, com ng down railroad between Southern ind C. N. ond L. tracks. Little before he got to crossing I heard train blow or Helena. She was on other side 'line street crossing toward Helena vhen I first saw her. I came on down ailroad and got oft' and train had [nocked her down. I saw hf*r hen rain struck her. She was on town ide of Cline street when train struck ier. When I first saw her she was >etwepn the tracks and she seemed o think it was C. N. and L. train and tepped on Southern track. Did not tear whistle or bell. When I saw Use The An Fish & Bit & Oil TL* i ms It is better plan longer in the cr< any other guano. inn kofffiv fk a n lllg UbilVi IJLJCAAl little as good. . It is sold at tfa the others. See We can supply goods. W. F. FARM! \ ;y Next Chri and Join inking V/ You can j< lc - 2c - 50c $1.0C or any amoui n n r_ M^a.1 V/OSIS null the easy way next Chr We Pay 4 Per ik of Nev H. T. CANNON. Asst. Cashier ke a part in tl IEATRE. | her first she was on C. N. and L. > track. I am a little hard of hearing i myself and whistle may have blowed j or bell sounded without my hearing i it HpIpd Rrirp fnnlH not hear good. | X (His Mark) Peter Xeel. | James Connor sworn says: I I had started up railroad and saw ! an old lady on the railroad. I holler i ed at her. ' She was on C. X. and L. ; track. She got off C. X. and L. track , to go on Southern and at that time | the train struck nsr. She was be I tween Mr. Baxter's and Mr. Wicker's. ; I was beyond Cline street crossing * going towards Helena. I was on left hand and she on right. Heard train blow and a.? train passed me the bell was ringing, ^on't know how old she was. X (His Mark) James Connor. Henry Shell sworn says: I knew Ellf-n Brice. She was about 70 years old. She was h?rd of hear ing. Henry Shell The tfury returned the following verdict: "That the said Ellen Brice ??ame vto hf-r death by being struck by. en ! gine No. 942, train No. 18, on South ern Railway company's tracks, it be j ing an unadvoidable accident." t I L. M. Player, foreman; CharHe Bishop, John T. Fulmer, J. R. Eison W. G. .Bullock, J. D. Wicker. derson Phos C AtnnoniT^c l wiitj/auj u )od Guano Year it food and lasts Dp making than There is noth this and mighty ie same price as Aiif arronte you with potash iR, Secretary stmas Our Club oin with Sr. - 10r. i I - $5.00 nt you wish / king to Join lo have money istmas Cent Interest berry W. W. CROMER. Asst. Cashier le Newberry