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^erolD OB0 Katered at the Pogtofflce at Sew? ! i Wrry, $. G* as 2nd class matter. I ? *1 1 M V mifTAD IS. n* dtlili) L?HUI*r Friday, February 7, 1919. j The Remedy. We print in another column an edi torial from the Atlanta Constitution' on the remedy for the present condi-. tion of the cotton situation, and it is ! iust what we have been trying to tell, the farmers of this section, and we) want you to read this article. It is! very short and contains the opinion of some cotton farmers and bankers of Georgia which is the same opinion! held by our own farmers and bankers ! who have given the subject anyj thought at ail. j Reduction in cotton acreage this j year with an increase in the acreage; of food stuffs and an increase in the ; growing of hogs and cattle is the only 1 salvation of the South at this time. It; is the only remedy. Holdirg your ; present cotton is all right, but it is! useless to do that if the cotton farmer i is not going to reduce the acreage or the crop this year. The Constitution very well con-; eludes this short editorial, and it does not take lone articles to state thej proposiion: j "As for next and future crops: j Plant less cotton and produce "om-1 % mensurately more food crops and live; stock, and the problem is solved." And we might add, don't take it for; erranted that every one else is going1 to reduce acreage and the crop will be v short and now is the time for you to! put in a little more, and take advan-j tage of the patriotism of your neigh- j bor. j i s ' Meandering. I have been wanting to write a lit-' tie story or something, but I have been < puzzled just what to call it. I have heard of men who make a speech or;' write a sermon and then select the subject or the text afterjyard. This is to be neither a speech nor a ser-!, mon. And yet I wanted to write of several things on a little outing, so to I' speak, that I took the other day. I love to get out in the country and look: at the woods and the fields and mingle! ] and talk with the people who live in I' < i the rural districts. Not that New-i berry is such a -Jity, but I love the'1 freedom of the rural districts, and,i ? - T o -f f t*dq H ore nf i ' SUliieilU W 1 UCUC?C laat IUV ivuuv.w , The Herald and News really enjoy j reading at times something besides1J war and politics and business and!! sickness and death, and a country i( ? i i newspaper, according to my notion of; newspaperlng, should deal with local j] affairs largely and they should not be j] confined to the local affairs of the!* town in which is the publication office. 1 . *"* - ] , < But as to. my subject. Meander was \ j originally tne name 01 a river m ! Phrygia, proverbial for its many j 1 windings. Webster tells us the word! j "means a winding, crooked or involv-j, ed course. The word just suggested j j itself to me because I wanted to write! ^ about several matters not exactly re- i 1 lated the one to the other, and so long j ] a story as this promises to be would j. not look well in the paper without I, some sort of title, or head in Hews- j paper parlance. So here goes with no 1 apologies. } Last Tuesday I wanted to go down < to Columbia on a. little business, and j when I learned of the death of my . friend, Prof. Ben M. Setzler, and of his burial that day at Bethlehem, I wanted also to pay my respect to his ] memory by attending the funeral. I 1 did not hook up ill because I wanted to go on to Columbia, so the Rev. Edw. j Fulenwider was kind enough to offer l me a seat with him in his Ford with ] the understanding that I would go 011 1 to Columbia, provided I could get over 1 to Little Mountain in time. So we < }eft Newberry about 12 o'clock with .< Pr. Fulenwider at the wheel and Mrs. < Fulenwider and Dr. E. B. Setzler in 1 -the car. It was decided to go down ] the Pomaria road by St. Phillips. It i was well he had a Ford. The road ] was heavy and in some places ii look- ] *>/] that we could scarcely s:et through ij the red mud, but the run was made all < right and we arrived in plenty of time, i I can't help remarking, even in this i connection, that if the good people 1 * along this road would just apply the ] split log drag occasionally and put a i i it tie top dressing along these red 1 mud places they would have a good ] road all the year round. In some ^ ' jaces it will soon be necessary to ; lake a new road, because the deep < litches are encroaching very rapidly i on the road bed. i I was in Pomaria on the Saturday I Vfore, and asked about Ben Setzler, t vhom I knew haw not been well, and t was told that be was getting along very well and was considered better, and it was a surprise when I learned of his death. He was a fine fellow, and the last time I saw him was the picture of robust health and had the promise of many years. All these Setzler brothers are eood citizens and substantial business men, but Ben seemed always to be so friendly and lively that he was a general favorite. To be cut down in the prime of hi* young manhood is very sad, and we can not understand why, but some day it will all be made plain if we be lieve the doctrine we preach and pro fess, and it is all for some good pur pose. To his widow and the little girl I extend my tenderest sympathy. The graveyard at Bethlehem is much older than I had any idea. J knew this was one of the old organ izations of the county and one of the first churches established, but I no ticed, one grave the headstone ol which bore the date of 1803, more than a hundred years ago, and I was told that some of tfiose w;-n simpie rocks at the,head of the grave were even older than that. And yet in all these years it is not much larger than many cemeteries that are of much ? T? f/i/it f V? nr*A o r? mure ItfUtvIlL Ucilt?* xu. la^/i) ai v as many graves at St. Paul's, and that cemetery has not been there near sc long. Even as young as I am, I can remember when the first grave was placed at St. Paul's, that of my uncle, Mr. William Calvin Auli. As I stated, was in Pomaria only on xon/1 TIotoIH Lilt* OctLUl Ud) uciuic, auu iuu ?iu and News, in accordance with the statement heretofore made, will ha1*- i a regular correspondent from Pomaria in the person of Mr. J. W. Alewine. We will use the letters as promptly as we can at present and we hope soon to be in position to handle them promptly all the time. Adam Aull was kind enough to take me from Bethlehem over to Little Mountain in order that I might get the train there for Columbia. And by the * A ? x 4 V? ri + way, 1 JUSl caill utrip icrnaiiyajcxxa.t Adam Aull is ther ichest man in my acquaintance, not maybe in money and lands and stocks and bonds, but in that which goes to make life worth the while. There is no more big hearted or more accommodating man anywhere in my acquaintance. He takes pleasure in it and by doing little acts of kindness his life is enlarged and he is made the richer by it He has a fine country home with all the conveniences and one of the best small farms in the county, and has plenty of good things to eat and all of it he takes pleasure in dividing with his friends. There are lots of mpn who have more acres and more stocks and bonds, but they do not get ane-half ;he real pleasure out of life that Adam Aull does, and they would aot take pleasure in being a friend to man like he does, and as a conseluence their life shrinks while his expands, and after all, when you have plenty upon which to live what greater thing can you do than to be a friend to man and take pleasure in the being. And when these men with their large holdings and selfish lives pass they will not take any of these things along and there will be no hap J py minting grounus over uine iui uic purely selfish soul. I was down in that section again on the Friday following and took dinner with Adam, and it was a real country dinner, just such a one as suits my appetite. He had good baked chicken and some of that fine noodle soup which carried me back to the days of my childhood it the Aull Hills when it was a frequent dish on the table. And sausage md backbone and cakes and custaras. A.dam has two boys overseas. I spent Tuesday night in Columbia. [ had not been there since the legislature met, and .1 thought I would spend a portion of the evening in calling on the members from Newberry, but Mr. Mower had not returned and Hub Evans was out and I did not know sphere to find Dr. Folk. I went around to tli8f Jefferson to make a brief call Dn the new governor, whom I had not seen since his election. He is the same Bob Cooper of old and was glad :o .see me, and I had a pleasant few ninutes with him. He is going to make good as governor, and I believe is going to contribute largely in removing any semblance of factionalom +v,ot mm' rpmain from the DOlitiCS lOXJLX LXIUb V* ,7 a vww..., -- ? ^ )f the State. In other words, when he says he is going to be the governor of ill. the people and is going to treat all Ihe citizens the same, he means what le says and is going to recognize the 'act that there are some good men in :he State who may not have voted for lirn. In other words, he is so put together that he says what he moans md means what he says. That is my estimate of the man and I have had some opportunity to know him through i very intimate acquaintance of several years. I have no favor to ask of lim, but if I had any matter to bring - * ' ' -1 i. T- ^ .0 HIS attention l wouiu nui iiesnu.Lt: ;o do so, and would feel that I would * get a square deal at his hands. j Columbia has changed very much in I the last few years. Then* are many j strange faces to be seen there, and I almost felt like a stranger. I can recall when I. used to go down I knew I ; almost every man I met. At the State j house there are only two men in the ioffices who were there when I was, .! Sam Carter, the State treasurer, and ; I John Frost, the assistant adjutant >; wnoral T hpliftvp hp is still hnlriinir i | that position. At any rate he is still - ! around there and was acting as read j ing clerk for the house the day I .was I there. I did not go in either house 1: and have not kept up very close with |what the legislature is doing, if it is I doing anything. And in fact, it would .ibe well if very little is done. Some i J of the useless offices and departments ' j might well be abolished but the ten11 dency for the last few years has been i to increase departments and offices , !and overload with supervision in all ^departments. But it all suits me, and |' I am not going to complain about any |- of it. [ i ?o? j j When I received information on the 'last Friday that my boy had arrived :at Camp Jackson from overseas I went down again, to see him. I found him at Camp Jackson and he, was looking well, and said he felt all right. He was gassed just a few days before the signing of the armistice and has since spent his time in the hospitals ' i of France and in this country. He j landed in New York about two weeks | ago. He had an attack of mustard : gas, which affected his sight u. ' his Droncniai cnannei, dui ne is geumg along all right; and I feel that he was : especially fortunate in that he went through the battles without any wounds. Many of the boys who went will not come home at all. They sleep in Flanders field, where the poppies bloom and in other parts of i France, but they did their duty and [died that others might live, and what greater service uuuiu cuiy ui<ui miun. j E. H. A. | CANNOTLOSETOAD i Little Amphibian Has Strong Homing Instinct. i I I Like the Proverbial Cat, He Will I Come Back to His Fixed Abode if There Is Any Possibility of His Doing It. ! When I was a boy down on Cape Cod, writes a friend of the Companion, I remember my mother scraping cwlii nf a tnn/1 with hpr hftP While tut C1UW V4. u VVUM ??*?, ?.w ..WW working" in the garden. The next day mother noticed there was a large scab in the toad's side. It made her nervous to look at it, and she asked me to put the toad in a box and carry it away. I carried the toad a distance of three miles into the woods and dropped him. He was back in our gar- , den the very next day; and although 1 repeated the performance three times, it hopped back every time. Fi nally mother said not to bother him, ! for the scab was healing. ! I never gave thpt a second thought until I happened to be studying under Professor Sharp at Boston university, when, to illustrate a point to the class, he said that toads, like carrier pigeons, possessed the homing instinct; then I thought of the toad that mother had asked me to carry away from our garden at Provincetown, 30 years before. It happened next morning after Pro- j fessor Sharp made the remark about j the homing instinct of hop-toads that i a freight conductor came into the sig- j ! nal tower where I am employed and j showed me a hop-toad he hnd picked up on the lawn at the Saugus station ; and brought to Boston in his caboose; ; he said he intended to put the toad In j his garden at Somerville to eat the ; bugs. I told the conductor about the ex-! perience 1 had with a toad down on j Cape Cod and tnat rroiessor snarp had said that toads did really possess S the homing instinct Finally, we de- . cided to tie a small tag to the toad's hind leg with the conductor's name and address written on it; and he was j to turn the toad loose in his garden at j Somerville that afternoon. When the ( conductor's train arrived at Saugus | the next noon the toad with a tag on 1 which his name was written was hop- ; ping round on the lawn at the Saugus [ station. j In order to prove still further that j : toads do really possess the homing ini stinct I took a toad from my garden : at Wakefield, ten miles from Boston. Putting the toad in a box, I walked to the Wakefield station and took a trait for Boston at half-past ten in the | evening. When I arrived in Boston I . transferred to the Elevated and rode ! to Charlestown, and at the corner of I J Perkins and Haverhill streets, Charlesj town, one mile from Boston, near the j signal tower where I work, I released i the toad. The toad was tagged with my name and address. | As I walked into my driveway in Wakefield at half-past eight the next | morning a dusty-looking toad with a j small tag tied to his hind leg hopped 1 across the lawn from the direction of j the Metropolitan park reservation and placed himself under the sill cock, i where the water dripped on him and bathed his dusty bacik.?Youth's Companion. Notlee to Jurors. . I The Februray term of court ha.* I been called off, hence the jurors who [ have been summoned to said court J need not come. j Jno. C. Goggans, j 2-6-1.9 C C. C. P. I I j ! i SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY, j j Pursuant to an Order of the Probate \ (Court of Newberry County, South j Carolina, the undersigned will sell, to i the highest bidders, for cash, at the I late residence of William Lake Dora-1 | inick, deceased, near the Town of ! Prosperity, S. C., on Friday, February j i 21st, 1919, beginning at 11 o'clock a. j jm., certain personal property of the j 1 estate of said William Lake Dominick. f j deceased, including two mules, two j i wagons, buggy and harness, farming; implements, etc. Terms of sale: Cash, j Pearl E. Dominick, Administratrix. ; February 5, 1919. j ! SPECIAL ELECTION IN HARTFORD ? cr.wnrn niATRir.T un 11 Wl I Wh. ^ I V V " I STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. | Whereas, one-third of the resident i electors and a like proportion of the 'resident freeholders of the age of ! twenty-one years in the Hartford : School District, No. 11, of the County j of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the i County Board of Education of Newi berry County, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held in said School District on the question of levying an additional special tax of two (2) mills on the taxable property within the said school district. i Now, therefore, we, the undersigned, composing the County Board of Education for Newberry County, South Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees c. the Hartford School District No. 11 to hold an election on the said question of levying an additional special tax of two (2) mills to | j be collected on the property located! I within the said School District, which j said elecLon shall be held at the Hart-1 ford School House in the said School District No. 11, on Monday, the 24th day of February, 1919, at which said election the polls shall be opened at j 7 a. ra. and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the Board gf Trustees of said School District shall act as managers of said election. Only i such electors as reside in said School i District and return real or personal property for taxation, and who ex hibit their tax receipts and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall be allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposed to si^ch levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hands and seals this, the 3rd day of February, 1919. C. M. WILSON, (L. S.) O. B. CANNON^ (L. S.) J. M. BEDENBAUGH, (L. S.) 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