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train qui} P-'Lered at the Fostoffice at Ncw S. C, as 2nd class matter. K. H. AULL. EDITOR. Tuesday, June 5, .1917. A TRIP TO CAMP. This article is going to be just a| little personal, perhaps, though pleas- j an'Jy personal I hope, but I felt like, making that statement so that if there | -were those of our readers who did not j are to read it they might "skip" it at the beginning and lose no time, j There is no compulsion to read any-, thing in The Herald and, News. I I In order to keep two appointments; which were apparently conflicting lastj Wednesday was a very strenuous day for this editor. I had been promising for several weeks to make a visit to his mother's baby boy and our soldier' *on, who is stationed at present at > Che-raw as a membei of the National j Guard. I phoned him on Monday j that I would be there on Wednesday ; H I was well. In the meantime ij I ? promised my young friend I. H. Hunt! to go to Prosperity on Tuesday even-j teg and act as one of the judges in a: declamation contest in which he was! firing the medal. To get to Cheraw | Vy rail on Wednesday it was necessary j to leave Newberry on Tuesday even-! lag. I could not afford to disappoint! the soldier boy, and I would not disap- J point my friend Hunt. So I asked j Ja?. !?., another of the boy^t. if he! would let me hook up 111 and drive. me to Columbia Wednesday morning! is time to get a 5:55 train that morn- : ing, and he consented. We left New-! fcerry at 3 a. m. and drove u' to the Seaboard station at 5:35. a pretty ^ good record trip for a I reached Cheraw about 9 o'clock, ftnd fanr>ri \\nva all /l/'iinp' wall am) apparently satisfied. Not having a! Newberry company our Newberry boys who volunteered joined companies from other sections, and there are inj Co. K ten Newberry boys, and most! of them went in a year ago when volunteers were called for to go to the. border. This company is from Ander- j ?on.* The commissioned officers at , present are Capt. Henderson and; Lieuts. Vandiver and Anderson, and; ?ui ciever ana nice geuuemen as wen ; as good soldiers. Two members of, " I the company have been detached for; service at Fort Oglethorpe at the! training station. That means, as I: understand it, if they pass there theyj will then be transferred, but until. they are passed on they remain on! the pay roll and the company roll of j Oo. K The two men who are trans-1 ferred are Sergt. Guy Brown of New-1 berry and Sergt. Gilmer. The other} Newberry boys in this company are: I Humbert M. Aull, John H. Fellers,; John M. Chappell, all of these now. holding the positon of sergeant; Cook, Thomas P. Cromer and Privates Lo-' renzo D. Abrams, Benedict Z. Burns, j James B. Goodwin, Malloy A. McCul-; lough and Virgil M. Kyzer. Humbert; Aull is acting as first sergeant in the j absence of Sergt. Gilmer and no ap-1 pumcmtJiii v> ixj ue ujaue uinu aitex uie , result at Oglethorpe is known, but j there is little doubt that Brown andi I , Gilmer will get appointments as lieu-1 tenants, and that An 11 will be made first sergeant. Goodwin has been di3-! charged on account of having depend-! cnt relatives to support. I will be fair and truthful when I say that I hated to see my boy enlist, j and I shall hate to see him taken | across the seas, because I will feel that it will be a final goodbye, and I' am as true an American and as loyal j a citizen as any one. I am glad, how-j ever, that he volunteered, and will not, have to be -Dnscr^ted, and neither he nor his dad has been any flag waver and hurraher for war. And I am; proud of the record he has made. He went in as a mere boy with abso-' lutely no military training, and as a1 orivate. and soon was made a comoral, 5 and then a sergeant and company! clerk and now is acting as first ser-t geant, and the officers who are above1 him speak well of him. I am a lover; of peace and have always tried toj avoid difficulties, "but if nothing will j do but a fight, then I always try to do! the best I can, because I was never j much of a runner. And that is the way I feel about the war. I am sorry we went into it, but now that we are in, it is our duty to do the best we can and put up the best fight that is In us. Somehow I have had a sort of intui tion for a long time that this war was going to be over before we had to do much re^l fiehtinsr. and T trust thar. some honorable means of settlement may yet be bad before our boys are] taken to the trenches. I read or heard some one say that some fellow who had been making calculations said that the average life of a lieutenant in an engagement was four hours and 20 minutes, and that the average life 1 of a machine gun man was just 30 sec onds. I don't know about the correct ness of the figures, but I know that it is an awful slaughter into which we are going, and if they do find it neces sary to rush our boys over there now it will be a terrible slaughter for ihem. But the boys that I saw are looking well and in good health and fine spirit ana i wuuiu has tv ucai wc command to go across the sea. It is well that it is so, because if they could fully realize what it all meant I doubt if they could make as good soldiers. This was my first trip to Cheraw to stop. I went around to see my friend Strickland, the nc /spaper man, and had the pleasure of meeting the fam ily. They used to go with me on press trips and they seemed glad to see me again. Mr. Strickland is a genuius in the printing business and has two lin otype machines and does a great amount of job work. ? Phipf r?f PnliVp Pp?iim -whom I used to know was exceedingly nice to me. And I was glad to see him again. I also met my friend (W. P. Pollock with whom I served a term in the leg-i islature, and he very kindly took me1 and the soldier ,boy In his car and^ gave us some idea of the country round about Cheraw, and I am frank to admit that it was a revelation to me. We must have driven some 25 j or 30 miles. The rot^s are fine andi the farms look nrosoerous. and here' are some of the handsomest country homes that I have seen in the State, and not one or two, but all along the way are nice modern country homes with all the necessary buildings and modern conveniences, and everything has an air of prosperity. It was cer tainly a great pleasure to see this country and then it gave me a differ-: ent view of this section of the State There are no. finer or better kept farms anywhere in the State tlian in j Chesterfield county. Cheraw is one of the old towns of I the State and the old church is there i that was buiit before the American revolution and the boards are good ] and sound though the Episcopalians | have built a new and modern church | in another part of the town but they ; still keep the Old one. The old grave-1 yard alongside the church is the rest-j ing .place of some of the great men of the State and on the tombstones one reads flames that are familiar and of those who have made the history of the State jg;reat. mr I was pleased to hear the people of Cheraw speak so nice of the be havior of the soldiers and to hear my boy 3ay ho\r nice the people of the town had been to him and others of the company. By way of parentnesis I want to say that just as I was writing this! story my frUnd and former partner in the publication of The Herald and News, William P. Houseal, dropped in my study for a few moments, and you know he chcered me up very much. I was glad that he came. He is a stu-i dent of history as well as prophet of the weather and he says that this world war is set out in the Bible and that" if ic < /liner tv. .?nrl int>f oo" iV there writ. He has intuitions about many things and they generally come around juU that way. Now there are those who think that this war will go on for several years. I do not see liow it is possible for it to last very long with all the improved devices of human destruction that * modern science and invention have brought about, but be that 'as it mav. Mr. Houseal says the war will soon be over and that our troops will never get over there in time to do much real fighting. And that the great common er and peace advocate who has three times run for. the presidency will be the next president of the United States. But I am not going to talk about the war. It seems to me, how ever, that if our Chritsian civilization means anymmg tnat an tne great Christian nations of the world could bring about a peace without the sword, but I reckon they can't and so must bring peace by force of arms. Might makes right. E. H. A. He Thought It Was Safe. Youth's Companion. The late Bishop Dudley of Ken tucky used to relate with much relish an amusing experience that he once had in connection with waffles. At a fine old Virginia homestead, where he was a frequent guest, the waffles were always remarkably, good. One morning, as breakfast drew near an end. the tidy little linen coat ed black boy who served at table ap proached the bishop and asked in a low voice: "Bishop, won't y' have 'n'er waffle?'' "Yes." said the genial bishop, "I be lieve I will." "Dey am' 110 mo'." said the boy. "Well," exclaimed the surprised gen tleman. "if there aren't any more waf fles, what made you ask me if I Want ed annflior r?rt a 9" vv* v**4 V/ViAVi V/A&V "Bishop," exclaimed the boy, "yo'a done et ten a'ready, and I t'ought yeh wouldn't want no mo'!" Practice. "My dear girl." exclaimed an elder ly lady, "do you know that the man ' you intend to marry drinks and gam : bie.s?" I "Yes, 1 know; I am going to marry ; him to reform him." i "Listen to me. girl. Try one ex t per; mem. ueiui c vuu uu luau ; "What experiment?" "Take in a week's washing to do and i se "how you like it.*'?Metropolitan. He Had Bright Flashes. ; While a* Scotch minister was con ' ducting services in an insane asylum, j one of the inmates cried out shrilly: I "I say, have we got to listen to this?" "Shall I stop speaking?" the minis j ter, surprised and confused, asked : the keeper. J "No, no!" returned the keeper easi ly, "go on, go on! That man has I ouiy one lucid moment every seven i years."?New York Herald. Wouldn't Burden Him. i "On vour way "home," Mrs. Gillis ! commissioned her husband, "will you j stop into Franklyn & Wraye's and ask 1 the clerk at the ribbon counter " | "You mean the graceful miss with J the blond hair and dimples and " i "Oh, you needn't bother." His wife i changed her mind. "I intended to go | shopping myself today, anyway."? 1 Jacksonville Times. Great Help. Louisville Courier-Journal. "My children are very fastidious about their eating. Sometimes I envy the mother birds." "Why so? They have to work very Hard to feed their young." "Yes, but there's no kicking about this and that. The youngsters don't know what they are going to have for dinner until it is Aalf way down their throats." Unusual. London Answers. "I met with an unusual experience today." "That so? iWTiat happened?" "I upset an ink bottle on a clean tablecloth.' "Nothing unusual about that." "Yes, there was. The bottle was' empty." . j CLOSE MARGIN OF PROFIT ! Iic nnrniTinii nr nAIIUJAV in urtRHiiun ur lutiLitni Large Amount Of Capital Risked For Very Small Returns OF VITAL INTERESTTOPUBLICi Investors Will Not Provide Money for Improvements Unless They Are Assured a Reasonable Profit on Their Investment Atlanta, Ga.?(Special.)?The close margin of profit for a railroad under Tii>&cDnt is strikinelv shown by figures submitted by President Har rison in the annual report of South ern Railway Company for the fiscal year ended June^SOth, 1916. In the most prosperous year of the Compa ny's history the net operating income ($21,004,005.09) represented only 5.31 per cent on the investment ($395,722, 785.06) in the railroad and equipment which produced it. "It may perhaps be said," said Mr. Harrison, "that there is no industry ex I cept a railroad in which so large a | capital is risked for such a return in I its most successful year." i At a time when the newspapers dai ' 17 are printing articles in regard to | increasing railroad gross earnings, as : indicating a rising tide of general : prosperity, it is well to bear in mind I the very small return on money in I lasted in railroad property. ! Many persons are misled into believ j ing that the railroads are fabulously i prosperous by the mere size of the fig | ures in which the earnings of large ; railroads are expressed, but it should be remembered that an enormous sum of money was required to construct and equip their plants and that the ) return on each dollar invested is rela ! ? i 1 Ul It is manifestly in the interest ol the employees of a railroad and of the public served that the railroad | eecure new capital for additions and i improvements to its plant so that it j may give better service and offer en I larged employment. Ho .ever, this can be accomplished only by allowing i the railroad to earn an amount on the capital already invested sufficient to promise a return on the additional capital desired. Governmental agencies may depress | rates and enact restrictive legislation j which will deprive the man who has 1 already invested in railroads of a fair | return on his investment, but no plan 1 Vna e hppn rtPV'isPri for fnrr*incr tho mon , ? o j with money in the bank to put it i into railroad construction or improve I ment. Unless the investment appeara J attractive to him and offers a fair i return he will put his money in some ' enterprise that cannot be affected by governmental agencies. Every employee of the Southern 1 Railway and every shipper served by j it who recognizes his true interest will do what he can to insure such a re turn on the capital now invested in the Southern Railway as will make the oonnritioc nf thft /InTlinonv tmava o t tractive to investors, so the Company will be able to secure the additional capital needed to carry on a consist catty constructive program which will mean increased prosperity for every Interest in the territory served by it Southern News Bulletin. There He Goes Attain! Toledo Blade. Howdy-do and thank yo.i, Incipien Hill of Beans. Fait.h revives and hopi is renewed with your first peej I iirnh i !, /?rnot nf flm V/m are the advance agent of the fat of tin land, the rising tide of prosperity We bestow upon you an exclamat.Di point. Let it stand as our apotheosis | May the dews baptize and sunbeam: , "kiss you into fiili glory. j Bittersweet, I New York Times. ! "Am I good enough for you?" sigh i evl thp fr?n<1 lrvvoT* "No." said the girl, candidly, "you're not, but you are too good for any oth er girl." Reassured Him. Boston Transcript. ; ne?you aon t really care tor me j you are mere^ flirting with me tc i make Jack jealous. i She?Nonsense! I'd have picked , out a better looking man if I'd want j ed to do that. ! Doing His Bit. , Louisville Courier-Journal. ! "Everybody is going in for garden ' inor now " "I know." "Doing your bit?" "Yes. I'm improving a few achers," , the dentist replied. ! WHIin* to Risk It. j Life. J Young Surgeon?Do you carry acci ' dent insurance? Accident Victim?.No. But go ahead and operate; I'll take a chance. , v ? - ? "Picture the plight of my friend j whose coffee boiled over on her." ! STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Cftl'NTY OF NEWBERRY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Harriett J. Mayer, plaintiff, against Wortho llApr!i/>L*in in Vioi? /-irfn C11U AViWi UrVUiUj 1U UV1 U " U 1 i^Ut and a3 adminstratrix of the personal - property of Lula Wilson, deceased. William Rutherford and John Ruth erford, Defendants. By virtue of the decree of court in the above entitled action, I will sell of nn Win onnfinw <xl puuuu auv/iiuu uciui c iicn wen j court house, at Newberry, S. C., dur ing the legal hours of sale on sales days in July, namely: On Monday, July 2, 1917, the follow ing described property, to-wit: "All that lot of land situate in the | County of Newberry, State of South : Carolina, within the corporate limits of the City of Newberry, S. C., near ! tho Tau'T? nf Unlano Q P /inntoim'n o | twenty-two one-hundredths (22-100) of an acre, more or less, fronting forty-four and one-half (441-2) feet ! on the public road or Vincent street, I leading from Newberry, S. C., to Hele ! na, S. C., and otherwise bounded ' eighty-seven (87) feet on the south by lot of Sam Xance (deceased), fifty ! fViroa f not nil TL*ae+ K-i- Int r>f llil Ull ? iLfJ IV/l. VI ? F X A ! son Mathls (deceased), and on north ' eighty-nine (89) feet by a certain oth I er lot of Lub Wilson (deceased)." The lot above described and bound ; ed having a two-room tenant house . located thereon, and being the sani Farmers ; : The Feder with its thous stands back c i sists them in i ! their deposito Our mernb i special faciliti ! PLANT, GA' ! 7 CROPS. The next ti in/1 Int vie U11U IV L UO iVl enables us to The Natioi B. C. MATTHEWS, T. President Send for Booklt Make This Business ii7 ah to rvnn VVAI\ LO LArLI BUT? It will be far cheaper i this war than losj? it. Have you done your 1 Have you subscribed fc erty Loan Bonds? If not This Bank will enter y< An/1 rprriit vnnr infprAtf i or profit to itself. Libert) Loan Bonds wi tions of $50.00, $100.00, and will bear 3 1-2 per c "The Bank of conveyed to Lula Wilson by David H. Wheeler on January 15th, 1879. See Deed Book SS, Page 644, and upon the following Terms: For one-half cash, balance j on a credit of 12 months, with inter } est from day of sale at the rate of 8 ! per cent, per annum, secured by bond ' of purchaser and mortgage of premis ! es; the purchaser to be required to : deposit with the Master the sum of fifty ($50.00) dollars, immediately up ! on acceptance of his bid. The dwell i ing upon the premises to bo insured : for one hundred ($100) dollars, and , the policy made payable to and turn I ed over to the Master, as additional se Said mortgage to provide for the payment of all taxes, insurance and 10 j per cent, attorney's commissions, if, after maturity the said note and mort : gage should be placed in the1 hands i of an attorney for collection or suit. The1 premises to be resold at the risk : of the purchaser if terms of the sale | are not oomplied with within five days after day of sale. Wi*h leave to pur | chaser to pay his whole bid in cash, purchaser to pay for ??il papers and [ recording same. W. W RIKARD. Master for Newberry County, S. C. June 8, 1917. U1II8 U "king Sysl al Reserve Bai iand million doll >r its member be taking care of 1 TS. M ership in this syi ies for enabling fHER AND ST ime you come tc vnn Knw this help you. 1 Dnnlr Ml 1MUU U1 K. JOHNSTONE, H. T. CAN1> Cashier Asst^C t "HO W DOES I i Bank Your > Home. SJSIVE for us to win this war bit? >r your share of the Lib subscribe today. our subscription, collect without any commission ill be issued in denomina $500.00, and 551000.00 ent interest. ;e Bank : the People" 1 Bargain Prices for flour and corn. See me before you buy. y le New tern % iking System a?*c coenuvroe inks and as the needs of stem , gives us farmers TO ORE THEIR j town stop new system iff" J Newberry JON, [W. W. CROMER Cashier Asst. Cashier BENEFIT ME"