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jjte ^cnUD and ||ma. Catered at the Postofflce at New. ferry, S. &, as Snd class matter. / ? WW i m * 11 IWmAU E. H* AllliLf fiuixvm Friday, December 6, 1918. We do not see how President Wilson could have done otherwise than attend the peace conference. He it was. who laid down and formulated the principles upon which peace would be considered, and he should above all - ' ?- ? ~ otners sit arouna ue pt:<n;e iauic, am. lie will have more tto do wth tlie mak ing of the peace treaty than any other man, and he will have more to do with the laying of the foundations of the new world which is to be builded than any other individual. He is the man of the hour and was brougat forth for the occasion. We said as N much three years ago before this' country became engaged in the war. In passing up the road the other day we noticed that some patch work had been done on the approacn to tne i river bridge at the railroad crossing] of Saluda above Chappells, hut the brdge seemed to be yet in a rather dilapidated condition. This is a very important road and we hope that Supervisor Sample will give the matter his personal attention. It needs it. The people of this section of the county are entitled to it. # The important thing for the farmers of this section to do is to increase their food crops and cut down the I cotton acreage, and make a really j email crop of cotton and then maybe j the speculators could not so easily de. press the market to suit their own convenience. But in addition to that - It 'must be remembered that America ? is going to be called upon to feed the j world for the next year and we will j ceed the big food crop. Plant wheat and then plant some more wheat. It j . is imperative that this country make! a big food crop the next year to vkeep the world from going hungry. j DOING FAIRLY WELL, THANK YOU. " ! We are doing fairly well, thank I you. We have our troubles, but then | if you did not have some trouble you co**M not enjoy the really good things of Ufe4 If the year was all spring time you would not enjoy the balmy air of the spring. You would know nothing else. We ^ee^ded, this year to spend Thanksgiving day with the old foik3 at bome and rainy as the morning was we went. And the two American 3 iT Aoma Wo ooys ana men uvtuci .. to come borne, hut they remained and are still <up there enjoying the good things that the country people have these days, and which we city"folk do not have, but we are doing tolerably t well, thank you, owing to the kindness ard thoughtfulness of the many good lady friends we have in the country roi'd about. And making out tolerably well, though it makes things awfuHv dull aromd the house and dreadfully quiet, to remove two American boys from the home all at one time. * * ?9? The good ladies of the aid society] of Smyrna church remembered us on thanksgiving, and on Friday when ws Teturned we found a nice box o? cake and other good things to eat, and then on Saturday Mrs. M. A. Coleman sent us a nice lot of that good chitterling she knows so well how to prepare and Mat brought along some pudding, and while we did not know exactly how to makfe hasl; we managed tfl have some mighty good chitterling 1 *- * *.? loof cavarnl fiflvs and iliUaii J.UX IUC MOk uv < VA??? grits and country pudding is our long - suit, so we have been faring tolerably well for several days now, thank you. We read in The Record the other night that the soldiers over seas had adopted a new code of morals, and that they put down- as the greatest Pollr*wino" nrflpr! tiUia, aim m i-uv ii v -? First?(^owardice. Second?Selfishness. Third?Stinginess. Fourth?Boastf u Iness. And the greatest virtues they placed in this order, which is simply a reversal of the greatest sins: First-Courage. Second?'Unselfishness. Third?Generosity. Fourth?Modesty or Humility. This makes a mighty good moral oode, and it has been our doctrine for many years, and if the war will result in the human race adopting this code -of ethics it will have accomplished a great thing in addition to giving freedom to ail peoples. If there has heen one sin above another in this age it is, as we have remarked "before, a supreme selfishness, and that means stinginess, and the two together soon beget a boastful spirit and result i: moral cowardice. These four virtues it would do wel to have taught in our schools and oa homes and our colleges and when tin boys come home we hope they will in stil these virtues into tne morai ui>i< of all our citizens. Let's repeat them: One at a tira and in single column: Courage. Unselfishness. Generosity. Modesty or Humility. Remember these four and the: practice them in your own lives ajji we guarantee that you will feel bette for so doing;. Ill V I We left out one word in the subjsc of that speech about which we wrot! I in the last issue. Maybe it is imma terial and tide whole thinw may a well possibly have been unsaid, bu since it was writ we would like ti have the record correct. The subjee read like this: ?"MAN! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile an< tear." Robert Thompson Carmichael Hnnter t : .. ! Robert Thompson Carmichael Hunt I er was born in March, 1845, in lowe; j No. 9 township, Newberry county, th< J son of James Hunter and his wife I Mary Carmichael Hunter. He died a I the. hospital m Columbia, October 14 1918, after a brief illness. A linea descendant of Nathan Hunter, a na tive of County Antrim, Ireland, wht r?nmp to America about 1780. and set tied in Newberry county, in the sanv community in which Robert T. C Hunter his descendant, along wit! others, have lived and prospered dur irig all the years, and who have beei among our best and most sturdy citi zens. Nathan Hunter married Mar: Young before leaving Ireland Of th? Irish settlers who came to Newberr? about the time that Nathan Huntei came Judge O'Neall says, "As a bod: none better deserved the character o good citizens than they did." "In hart and industrious labor, as mechanic and agriculturists, they laid the foun dations of that competence which the: respectively acquired." Such was the character of the for bears of Robert T. C. Hunter, an: he inherited in large degree the sturdy mannooa ana rugs'ea nonesiy ana uug. ged tenacity of bis forbears. These traits stood forth bolcjlv ii his character in the maintenanc; of any cause espoused and thouglr I right and Just, even to th< 'point at times where he <waf accused of being extreme, but II was simply a' deepseated convictior of the justice ar?d righteousness ol the cause he may have maintained. B$ his strong character and indomitable will he became a leader among mer ?n his community, and from the organization of his club he was a mem ber of the county democratic executive committee continuously and consecutively and rarely missed a meet* ing and always took a prominent part in, the deliberations. As a 16-year-old boy he enlisted in the Confederate army in Company IT Holoombe Lesion. James M. Mattel captain and after his death Henry S. Booze^ captain. He was wounded at the battles of Saponey Church and the-Second Manassas arid afterwards a prisoner at Point Lookout from which he was discharged* when ths war ended. He was a ?00d soldier a5 he was a good citizen^ and took a leading part in caring for the veterans after the war, and was a member o! the county pension hoard for manj years^nd at the time of his death. He attended many county ant State conventions of the democratic party, and served one term in the State legislature as a representative I of Newberry (1888-89) and declined to become a candidate for re-election i He was president of the Farmer? Mutual Fire Insurance company oi j iNewDerry county and had oeen xo^ many years. He was a strong believer in the proi hibition of the liquor traffic and the compulsory education of the childrei of the St^te, and an earnest advocate of both, and'stood for everything tha? was for the uplift of the people an<2 that would promote a better citizenship. In September, I860, he was marr/ed to Rebecca J. Boozer, and to there W. C. Optometris ; 1116 Me i were born ten children, eight cf whom with the \yidow survive: Wil1 liam Thaddeus Hunter of St. Lukes*, r James B. Hunter of Newberry, Joseph e E. Hunter of Clemson college. Carrie - Hunter Zeigler of Orangeburg, Robert e C. Hunter of ;St. Lukes, Allen Calhoun j Hunter of St. Lukes and Thomas e Mitchell Hunter of Newark, N. J. Three of the eight surviving children reside at or near the old homestead of the ancestors. He was a lifelong member of the Lutheran church; and a member of the a church council of St. Lukes Lutheran 1 church for many years, and until r moved his membership to Grace church at Prosperity. Such in brief is the life record of f I a good citizen who stood always for a | the things he conceived to be true " I and for the uplift of his fellowman and for the material growth and pro?' perity of his State, who now has bean gathered to his fathers, having passf ed the allotted three-score and ten years, filled with faithful service for the things he conceived to be true and j of good repute, leaving to h,is children and his co-workers a heritage which they would do well to imitate. Resolved, That* we, as members of the county democratic executive committee, desire to express our appreciation of his faithful service as a I member of the committee, and that we ^ express'to the family our sympathv * ir. "the loss they have sustained in Ins * death, and that a copy of this feeble tribute be sent to the family and j printed in the county papers, evi-; dencing in some small way the es~_ teem in which he was held by his co - ( workers. / j ~ , I 3 . Kespectiuny submitted, j ! B. B. Leitzsey, i i O. S. Goree, i C. H. Cannon, i J. C. Sample, E. H. Aull, 7 Committee, j ' PERSONALS. r _ - ! 7 f Mi?s Edith -Henderson of Newberry j is the guest of Mrs. M. J. McWhirter, 5 who has been very ill for the past: week.?Mrs, Maria J. McWhirter.. 7 widely known and loved" throughout the city and county because of her _ many good deeds, was taken desperj ately ill at Gibbs Bros. & Sparks sto-* j last 'Friday morning and her conditon _ nas buce wen very seriuus. iuu<--.> she seems to be slightly better?Union j Prigress, 4th. i 3 Mrs. Salh'e Black of Silverstreet aDd Msg Laura Watts of Prosperity were 5 visitors at Malcolm -Riley's the 25th! * and 26th.?Saluda Standard. I t . . ' "* ) S. Carlton raysinger of Alcolu and f Miss Isabel Shorter of Saluda were j married Thursday by Rev. A. J. i Carson.?Standard, 5th. 1 iSupt. C. iM. Wilson was one of those! "active, alert and energetic county su perintendents* mentioned in Thurs- j, Qfoto oc hflTrtner TiPPn PAllim UUJ O N/VWVV MTW "*?? * -w _ - ' bia this week to report on term ex- j " tension and to facilitate the approval | : and payment of those applications; jJ that, is, the belated ones in their dis- j ' tricts. Among several other counties the application from Newberry county ; : has been paid in fujl. !Mrs. W. H. Hunt, as chairman, i* 1 ahead of 35 county chairmen in their. report of the Fourt Liberty Loan cam paign. according to the statement published in Thursday's States. The j State says in a headline, it takes tha j women to get the money. ! ^ i Mr. Jno. B. Mayes has a magnifi- i V r cent calendar which it will do yoa ; r good to see. This patriotic and public. ] spirited citizen is gong to give a cojiy [ of this calendar to every school in t^e j ? county. , In addition,, to this he will . j give two war savng stamps, one each j ? to the high schools and one to the- 1 [ grammar schools, for the "best essay j on the flag as it is seen on the cal- < 5 endar. ; i ' Mr. arrd Mrs. Brack Davis of Colum- j * bia were in Newberry Wednesday to < see their son, Brack, Jr., student of; - Newberry college. """ < i ! ! ON "WHEAIKSS MyS [ i . ! 1 . \ 7A.Tr^ OK EZEAKiAST ' j S JuKJlX- CONTAINING ?*ifRW&-v1 / 1 . j -'/FEAT. VWm? * !< ! I - v:.:-v*Cl i j^ " "7 i 1 j E"7FT I 1 jjr jl ^ i and Optician ! < un Street i & FORESAW RAPACITY OF HUMS Many Years lAgo Charles Dickens Looked Into the Future With Vision Remarkably Prophetic. There is something almost uncanny about the accuracy with which Charles Dickens foresaw tlie Hun and his aims as we know them today. Not Ion? ago there was quoted part of Dickens' reply to an invitation to become a member of a peace society that a number of persons were endeavoring: to form in 1851. The' words written then by the groat English author are worth repeating: "Look out toward Austria, look out toward Germany," he counseled. "Do you see nothing there? "I tell you that it is because there are the wild beasts of the forest . . . because I would not be soldier ridden, nor have other men so, because I dread and hate the miseries and tyranny of war, that I am not for the disarming of England, nor can I be a member of your peace society." Every reader of "Little Dorrit" will remember the landlady of the "Break of Day Inn" of Chalons. Words of this French charactef of his have a peculiarly prophetic ring. Here they are. "And I tell you this ray friend . . . That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts, and cleared out of the way." % ; CLAIMS CENTURY-OLD FUND Chilean Government Asks Return of Unexpended Portion of In demnity Paid in 1821. ! The full bench of the Massachusetts supreme court has been called upon' to determine the ownership of a fund nearly a century old, which is claimed, by the commonwealth of Massachu setts on one hand and the Chilean gov-, eminent on the other. In 1821 an American ship returning from China to Boston was seized by Chilean revolutionists and its cargo; confiscated. When normal conditions prevailed in Chile the United States Remanded indemnity and Chile paid $70,400. William H. Gardiner of Brookline. Mass., was selected to distribute the money among those entitled to it. He executed the trust except as to two Chinese?known only as Paqua ary' Moqua, merchants?and Thomas Furber of Boston. Mr. Gardiner failed to locate these persons or their representatives. When he died the trust was transmitted to his son, and upon the iauers ciearn 10 me grandson ana great-grandson, < Robert H. Gardiner and Robert H. Gardiner, Jr., who are now its custodians. 1 The present holders of the fund have searched through the records of the state department, through the American consular service at Canton, China, and through various other sources, for the heirs of Paqua, Moqua and Thomas Furber. without success. "Cleans" Crowd of Cash. Vacuum gleaning money frbm street crowds was the striking scheme employed in one of the large cities some weeks ago for the benefit of the Red Cross, says Popular Science Magazine. A suction pipe was held over the heads of persons congregated on the sidewalk, and contributions solicited by a leather-lunged seaman who shouted through a megaphone. Crisp dollar bills and worn greenbacks, it mattered not which, were drawn in by strong suction force when inserted in the nozzle of the tube. ? The novelty of the plan attracted passers-by and drew forth many donations. Bandages Now Made Quickly. A recent invention which has not bean marketed as yet, but is reported to be a, great success, is an electric roller for use in making the muchseeded five-yard rolls of bandages. Iliis new device is not only a great time and labor saver, but requires little practice to learn to operate. The rollers operated by hand, as they have been heretofore, require skill and training to operate them successfully, ind the work is strenuous. By rolling electrically the operator is able to keep both hands on the bandage, while in hand ororation one hand guides the roll or bandage and the :>ther operates the roller. y J ??????? j Swamp a u,ar Garden. Too old tolbe i into the service, Seorge Hoy, a u...,anese resident of Juneau, Alaska, has turned a mos luiro swamp mio a patriotic garuen that has become the admiration of the tfty. Radishes in this nniqne garden send their green tops npward to form the word "Liberty," and near by is formed a bell. To one side a cross blooms in red sweet peas, while tiny walks, wriggly fences and rocks with flowers wandering over them add to the attractions of the place. _________________ i Cost of Infectious Diseases. .1 Scarlet fever, measles and diphthe-i rla cost the people of Chicago $7,562,142 during the course of the year. This auge bill represents so much paid out as the price of carelessness and indifference, for much if not all of this lisease might have been prevented by precautions, moralizes the Journal of Lhe American Medical Association, arging the dollars and cents value of lisease prevention. DR. BALTASAR BRUM | i?iis?I IP*! Hp | ^ ^ ^ I The visit to the United States of Dr.! Baltasar Brum, minister of foreign affairs of Uruguay, has tremendous Importance in the affairs of the allies.; Doctor Brum is largely responsible for; the change of sentiment in Uruguay from being pro-German to being neutral, then openly pro-ally. Doctor Brum is a strong advocate of freej democracy and his influence in the Lat- j - - - - m m I in American countries is a powemu, factor in favor of the allies. BOMBING THE DUMPS i Great Display of Fireworks; When Target !s Hit i - - i Stores of Ammunition Are Hard to Locate and Are Always Well Guarded. d Behind the British Lines in France. ?The British aviation communique frequently contains a brief line to record that "direct hits were obtained upon an <eneray dump" at some point behind the German lines. This colorless announcement may seem to the reader in America nothing more than the record of a dull piece of routine, but the deed itself is different from its record. A British airman, Lieut W. A. i Barnes, has given the Associated Press the following account of a recent 58minute raid on a German dump as characteristic of this form of activity: "On this particular night there was not enough moonlight for a long raid, so the target given us was ^ German ammunition dump. "Dumps are by no means easy targets to find at night, for they are seldom situated near any definite land-, marks and are usually well camouflaged. By the study of maps and photographs, however, we had pretty well located the position of this one, and. started out on the raid with high hopes of success. "We flew almost due east from the airdrome. At the end of the 50 min-. utes we could just make out the out line of sheds. This was good, but we let out a parachute "flare to light up the ground, and make sure we were over the target. This promptly dispelled all! doubts, for the Hun searchlights, opened up at once, and a bail of machine gun bullets leaped up from the ground* Anti-aircraft guns had been firing for some time, but the shells were bursting well above us, and giving no trouble. "The parachute flare proved a real friend, because both searchlights and machine guns concentrated upon it, giving us just sufficient time to dive swiftlv. release our bombs, switch on the engine and start climbing. "When we turned to observe results, we witnessed the finest fireworks display I ever saw. Ammunition was cracking off at record speed, dense clouds of smoke were rising and highly-colored flames were leaping a hundred feet and more from the ground. "We watched this pleasing exhibition for some minutes, until the cough of an 'Archie' burst near by to remind us thutv we were still over Hunland,1 and so turned and steered for home, j "The whole job occupied 58 minutes,' but it must have cost Germany hun-j dreds of man-power hours in munitions works." 1 PASTOR DISPLAYS SIGN |{ I TO HELL WITH KAlStK' |j * ? *j ^ Columbus, O.?T. Alfred Flem- j S* ing, state fire marshal, is a min- 4 ister and regularly fills his || ?i< charge. This fact, however, .* * does not prevent him from ex- * jj pressing the sentiment of Amer- * icans generally. Pasted on the Jf * desk as you enter the reception * 4, room is a sentence in big, red 3, ~ ?- - urn. TT *11 A 2 letters, it reaas: to neu a j | With the Kaiser." I, Big Fire Fighting Fund. Seattle, Wash.?One million dollars has been placed at the disposal of the forestry service for fighting forest ~ j. it,: rm,n iires in me i\oriuwesL mis jcm. xuc 1 money bus been taken from a special defense fund at tfce disposal of Prest-1 dent Wilson. \ \ : X ' - i1 SALE OF TWO VALUABLE LOTS IX CITY OF DEWBERRY. /Under and by authority of the last will and testament of Mrs. Harriet Y. I an** /Iprpanpd nnw nn flip in P??rk age Xo. 552, a: d recorded in Will Book Xo. 6 at pages 194 and 19.", in the of ace of the Judge of Probate for ^ Xewberry county, S. C., J will the two following described lots of " land, to the highest bidder, before the co'jrt house at Newberry, s. ci Monday, salesday, January 6th, 191&, immediately after the j.idicial sales: All that piece, parcel or lot of land lyin? and bei?g situate in the town of Newberry, county of Xewberry Stateof South Carolina, fronting forty-three a-d one-half (43 1-2) feet, more or ^ less, on Main, or Pratt street, ar.d run- ^ nl'ig back therefrom, same width, ^ ninety-five (95) feet, more or le^s,. and bounded o.n- the north bv Main, or 1 Pratt street, or. the east by lot of Otto Klettner. on the south by an alley which seo?.ra<es it from the lot hereinafter descr^uu and on the west by lot of J. W. fc'mith. Also, all that other jaiece, parcel or lot of land lyins and being snuate i* . the town of Newberry, county o. Newberry, State of South Carolina, frontin^ seventy (70) feet, more or lets, on Friend street and running back therefrom, same width, ninty-five'and five twelfth (95 5-12) feet, more or less, and bounded on the north by an *. < alley which separates it from the lot hereinbefore described; on the east by lot of Otto Ktettner, on the south by Friend street and on the west by an allev which seDarates 'St from lot of George S. Mower and John Kl'iard. A'two story residence te on this lot. A plat of said lots is now on record, and may "be seen, in the offiee ofthe^ clerk of court for Newberry county, in Plat Book E>, at page 292. TerAis of sale: One-half cash and the balance in twelve months, with interest from day of sale at the rate, of eight per cent per annum to be secured by a mortgage of the premises sold. Purchaser, or purchasers to pay for papers and stamps. John1 M. Kinard, As -Execator of the last will and testament of Harriet Y. Lane, deceased. ANMJAL MEETING COUNTY BOARD OF 03DnS8l0irER& Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the County Board of' Commissioners of Newberry County will be held on Thursday, Jannary 9. 1919. All persons holding demands of any kind against the county not presented are hereby required to file thr same with the undersigned on or before January 1, 1919, No claim against the county is valid and payable xrnlesspresented to and filed with said board during the fiscal year in which it is contracted or the next thereafter, and. all claims not so presented and filed ^ shall be barred. J. C. Sample, H. C. Holloway, Supervisor. Clerk, &c. 12-6 4t. - ? j APPLICATION FOE APPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC GUARDIAN. .Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make application toHonorable Frank B. Gary, Judge ot the Eighth Judicial Circuit, at Chambers in Abbeville, iS. C., on December ISth, 1918, at 11 o'clock a, m., for the appointment of the Judge of Probafte for Newberry county, S. C., as guardian of the estate of Grace Perfcu?\ Charles Perkins and Annie Belle Perkins, minors over fourteen years rof age; who, each own a one-fifth undivided interest in the real and persona* estate of their father, I. J. Perkins, deceased; the value of same being at this time undetermined, and that no fit, competent or responsible person has been found who is willing to assume said guardianship. G. L. Perkins, As Administrator of the personal estate of I. J. Perkins, deceased; audi uncle of said minors. Dec. 3-10th. I ^ J U. S. Food Administra tion. Jist ez de buckwheat cake got flop over on his face, Br'er Baconrin' dance 'roun' en say, sezee:? 4ir>n#> frond ru'n desarves en nuth er," sezee.?Meanin' dat ef de sojer boys go en do de fightin' fer tjs, de leas' we alls kin do is ter i;en' 'em all de wheat?en eat "buckwheat instid. Co'n meal, ryeen barley flour fer us will he'p a iot too. \ b. ' v.v ? ' . 'l '