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;|te ^eraifl STE0 g?, [ taiered at ttie Fostofliee at itfew?! wry, 8. as dud dags matter. E. H. A ILL, EDITOR, j Tuesday, May 13, 1919. i i We hope that the officers of the Press association may be successful in getting Col. Henry Watterson to a^-; tend the meeting in Greenville audi make an address. We heard him atj the first meeting of the association i that we attended in Charleston a few j years a<ro and would be glad to hea**! him again. If he should come it would create a great deal of interest' in the annual meeting. ; While the Germans are studying the peace terms and objecting and demur- ; ring by sections Gen. Foch plans to return to the front. It was to be expected that the German delegates l would offer objection to the terms, but it may b6 confidently expected that the peace treaty will he signed by them and they will return to the occupation of rebuilding their country. A BIT OF LOCAL HISTORY f. I don't know that I should write uwnat I am going to write. Maybe I| should not. I have been thinking j about it for several weeks now. While j it is a bit personal yet not offensive- j ly personal. On the contrary it is . meant to be appreciative and at the. same time to bring to the attention; some things I iiave been wanting to say for a good while. And these! things are not intended to be in the I slightest degree personal. They are , rather meant to be of general appli- : cation and in a direction that I feel i should be called to the attention of: public officials and the public in gen- j eral. Therefore, what I am going to! say is intended to be^in the mosti fcindly spirit, and I trust will be help'i IU*. ; . For the past several weeks a number of kin<t friends have come to me and expressed the wish that I would stand the examination for postmasterr at Newberry. I do not mean that! there has been any uprising of the' masses demanding my services in' that position. I appreciate the kindly, , interest of these friends. Some of' r\o+i>nne rtf f Vl O ftfflPO ' Ill-Ill ai C UUl fail uuo ui. vuv VI.UVV and those who are patrons have been of both rsucei. , It is very kind of ^ these friends to suggest even that 11 make the effort to get the position. I! am not indifferent to their interest in j me and i believe, that it is sincere, j I flatter myself in the belief that I; could stand' a fairly creditable exami-1 >. j nation and that if I did I would stand - - v .. . .. . a lair snowing at me appointment, it j may sound strange to some persons,) tout at this time I could not accept the1 office if it were offered me without an . examination and even without apply- j ing for it. That being true I will not. stand any examination. I flatter%my-j self also in the opinion that if I should accept the appointment, that I would; serve the public with entire satisfaction. ?a? Thic lpflik mo to remark that if T were postmaster at Newberry or a Dywhere else my first effort would be to impress those who were to x labor with me in the office that the i first duty of every one should be ser-j vice. I would tell them that serv ce was efficiency and that the most efficient public servant was the one who would render the best service to the' public. That it was all right andj proper to follow the rules laid down by the department, but if some techni-1 cal rule should interfere with the pro-! I>er service of the public I would con- j sign that rule where a noted public! man was accused of consigning the I'UliSUlUllUll li. 1L OUUU1U omuu mui way. My idea of an efficient public! servant is to render the best service, possible to the public. ?I mean this: | If some one who had a lock box for; i instance should come to the office and say that he had left his key at home and would like to have his letter, and if he should not have a box and it was 30 seconds after 6 o'clock, even if the - - it,, i i rule roroaae me opening me uu* ur, handing him his mail, I would give it! to him in spite of the rule. If a per-1 son should come and ask me to send off a letter thirty seconds after the, time for closing the mail for any* train, and the mail had not left the of-1 fice. I would send his letter, and I: would do it every time he came and make him feel that it was not only | my duty to do so fcv.t my pleasure as well. A civil service or no civil ser nee. if every one in the office did not make it his first duty to serve the; public efficiently nnd politely rnd' courteously my effort would be to get some one who would. Now thi* \z not meant to apply to any one in ^ particular. It is just an expression of my idea or serving the public. I would not care to have any one connected with the office who felt that he should use his position to punish his enemies and reward his friends in the discharge of his duties, or that he was called upon to be nice to the one and grouchy with the other. Service with no resDector of persons should be the motto. But there are several reasons why I could not accept the position. In the first place a number of friends have put some money in The Herald and News, not so much as an investment possibly, but rather as a personal matter, and yet I am sure it is going to pay them if the business is run as it should be and as I believe it will be. And I feel that if I should Jrlr-.Ui-iorl OVOT1 + r\ 1*111 11 TiflW it ICvl 1HV, V * V&I VV viv..v .. would be bad faith to these friends though they could get some one more competent to take my place. And besides, I like the newspaper game, and I have been at it so long I don't want to quit. In fact I would rather have the job at much less salary. And besides I know some enemy, and I guess I have them, would very soon be accusing me of "pernicious activity in politics"" and I don't want to give them that pleasure. I am obliged to express myself on matters of public interest and on men and- measures, and I want to be free to do so as I please, and I hope I may always be pleased to do the right. ?o? I trust some good man may receive t' 3 appointment. One who will have is his motto service and then live up to it. I don't even know who are in tending to stand tne examination. Have made no effort to find out. It is a very important and a very responsible position. But as for me I don't want any job that will cause me to sever my connection with The Herald and News. ?o? These reflections which are made in the kindliest of spirit and with' the best of goc! will for every one, lead me to "be a little reminiscent. I worked in the postoffice at Newberry a few years ago for several months. 1 have had some experience in the work. It was during the time Captain R. W. Boone was postmaster at Newberry, and the postoince tnen was m "ine one story building that stood in front of the Newberry hotel about where the Arcade picture show is now oper. ating. And Captain Boone, though a republican, was a most efficient postmaster and an accommodating man. Possibly there are a few people in Newberry now who will remember Captain Boone. He was as neat as a > pin and always tried to serve the public. And Dr. W. G. Houseal also was a clerk in the postoffice with Captain Boone for several months. John Mazyck was there for a number 5 11? J or years ana generally bervcu luc general delivery. He always sat down but he knew every one who would call for the mail and never had to ask the name, and eould tell generally without looking whether there was any mail there for the persons coming to the window, whether white or black. Of course the town was much smaller then than it is now and not so many persons asking for mail, and the business not near so large. Captain Boone went from Newberry to Georgite. where he beacme a bank president and died several years ago. There have been many changes in Newberry since those days, and not many persons in business here today who were doing business then. There were no cotton mills here and where the Newberry mill now stands was the residence of Captain John S. Carwile and Captain Mazyck lived in the house on the corner across the street southeast from the mill building. There have been many changes in the postoffice since that time. Both in the postmasters and the location of the office. I think it was Mrs. E. S. Herbert who succeeded Captain Boone when Cleveland became presi dent about 1886. Then when Benjamin Harrison was elected Mr. Robt Moorman was appointed and during his term he moved the office from the little room in front of the Newberry hotel to the room in law rang<= now occupied by Eikard and Long as a grocery store. When his term expired and Cleveland was again elected Mr. Jas. R. Davidson was appointed Mr. Davidson had been assistant during the last two years of the administration of Mr. Moorman. Aftei the expiration of his term and when McKinley was president Col. Wm. Y r uii vv <xz> aj'pvvmitu uuu cuv/cvvuv/? * ?? , Davidson and when Mr. Fair retired Col. C. J. Purcell was appointed. IK received the appointment through tin influence of Hon. John L. McLaurin who was then a senator from this 'State. It was during Mr. Jas. f? Davidson's administration that he go! Mr. T. C. Pool and Col. 0. L.. Schumpert to put up the building at the corner of Caldwell and Friend streets for the postoffice, the building now used as a fruit store, and the office was moved there and remained j there until the Scott building was ] erectod and the postoffice was in that build'ng in the rooms now used by T. M. Rogers and Taylor's barber ; show until the new government build j ing was erected. Upon the retire! merit of Col. Purcell Captain W. A. Hill wa3 appointed and upon his retirement an examination was ordered i for the appointment of his successor j and the examination will be held \at ' Clinton on May 22 or 21. Mr. Davidi son also served about two years as ' the assistant during the terms of Col. Purcell. As I have already remarked it is a very important position and ' I hone some one will be named who I i will have as his motto service. ! .And away further back when .Mr. ! Solomon Kinard was postmaster tue I i offke was in a liitb <>1U looking i building that stood m front of the i Wwhem- in ilalrtwoll street. Mr. 1 1 ?nard was the postmaster for severa years but that was before I came to Newberry to live j -0Maybe as I caul I should not have : written this but somehow I just ielt ! Uke doing it and believing that it i will be read with interest by some j people, I just d:;d it. I like some! times to get reminiscent and i feel that it is well sometimes to give.the younger people a bit of the past his! tory of their town and something of ! the men who have lived an'l labored before they came on the stage. E. H. A. j | Mimnaugh has S9me special values ! in his bio- silk dress sale that is now on at his store. Some great bargains in separate skirts may be found here as well. In fact anything the women 1 want is on sale at a bargain at this ! store. Haltiw^nger and Carpenter have on a wonderful sale in voile dresess and all they ask is for you to come and look them over and they know you will go away a satisfied purchaser. / ADA WARD TO I CPTIISJC UCDC LLVIUIie. II l-l IL. Will Discuss Close Relationship With Our Allies. J Noted English Woman Arrives in America Just in Time to Begin , Redpath Chautauqua Tour. "Getting Together" will be the title - of the lecture on the opening night of the coining Redpath Chautauqua by , Miss Ada Ward, dynamic, eloquent English woman, just recently arrived In America, who states the case^6f the common interest of America and her allies. Incidentally Miss Ward will f tell some of her experiences entertaining the "Tommies" at the front. Miss Ward first became known tu Amwiran nnriipnces durincr the war. She had a wonderful story of life at the front, and she told It so dramatic I ^ j p ? ! ADA WARD. I 1 ally that she completely captivated her hearers. 'j After the signing of the armistice Miss Ward went to France and Germany, and only came back to the Unit ed States at the beginning of the Chan11 tauqua season in April. She comes j here with a vivid story of conditions in present-day Europe and with a plea 1 for a strengthening of the ties which I ( bind America and our allies together. . | II Warmth Increases Oil Flow. . | An electrical method of carrying ; warmth to the bottoia of oil wells has . been found in many cases greatly to in, crease the How of oil. The heating process, gays Popular Mechanics Maga1 zine, decreases the viscidity of the oil, usually occasioned by the admission of air to the well and the cooling of the [ rock bed. Minute crevices and capil. Iary channels which afford easy p:iss? age to warm, thin oil become quite impassable if the oil gums. The electric heat'ng method not only thins the oil but oft/ni srenerates gas whose pressure helps the oil to the surf a eel The system fo'irul military use abandoned oil fields of Roumiania and ;' Galicia. f ASK ONLY FOR FAIR CKANCE VY I ,A. Crippf'd SoJdic.rs Are Esjer tc Prova ! '* Thwy Have Lest None cf Their i Good American Grit. | i ; A West Virginia private soldier who lost a leg: in the war and now goes on nn crutchas was visiting the national '1111 capital, and while inspecting the j sti I Washington monument requested a po- j Ot j liceman to act as a witness for a: ah j short time. The cripple then proceed- I pr I ed to climb to the top, 500 feet above of j the ground and reached by SOO steps. Ici Tf Ic /'looi' that thle Mthlptp wns not in \V: JLI, lO v. I V IIA tllMV ?.*??' j Washington to claim a pension on the so | prounrl of physical disability. In fact, a he asks no more than a fair chance to luj ' show that he is fit to hold a job. and p;j ft ready to prove it. In the main military hospital in Washington the pa- \v< tients are publishing a paper called ev j the "Come F>ack," whose main pur- h:i I pose is to promote the industrial wel- pr j fare of crippled soldiers and sailors, on It gathers information on useful work :*un for men who recover from amputa1-st< tions or serious wounds, and wants J w to ascertain how much they will he j : ?le to do. not how little, and to en- rj. coi,"ajre ambitious efforts as far as if.; poj-v^Me. Such endeavors, for one ;vi thin?, add to the happiness of those : ! whn nffpn nre merelv classed as un- ; *0 i fortunates. A crippled condition does j Jn ' not necessarily mean a crippled life, j The jirivilf.ce of being independent , w I that appealed to Burns as glorious Is 1 st dear to every healthful nature and : earnest participant in the duties of p, , life.?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A1 MAY AGAIN BECOME NATION; ^ i jor I Possibility That Arab Tribes Will Be ?* Reunited as One Result of ' to the Great War. ! tfl ! ' i v11 i One of the most interesting figures ^ at the opening of the peace conference ll] was Prince Emir Faisal, son of the i lr* 1-1 rr i V? a TTnriin'S tlin l'ltfrpr knfUVn ' J\ 11J \ji uir livwjii/i, i iiv. .. ? as "the grand old man of the East." He fe is very handsome and his picturesque'; 111 headdress was well suited to his style. ni As the prince strode up and down the room before the opening of the session . . he was a perfect type of Arab beauty in and dignity. The representation of his tl' fine race in the peace conference an-! tli their present effort to establish their ancient kingdom recall the generu of opinion which, I believe, is held amoiig & orientalists that the Arabs are d'*s- ve ; tinedxultimately to play a big part In m ; the world. I have seen them in the w districts around the Suez canal and the Tied sea and have wondered wheth- cc er they would not again jbecome a N : great people, muiviauaiiy, seemeu ; ! to me that they were finer than any j ; tfther orientals. As a wandering race j j they have lacked the co-operation and ' cohesion which enable a nation to , make -headway. It would be one of ha | the historic romances if out of the; j w^orld war the Arabs emerged as an g_( ' organized people prepared to assume heavy responsibilities in the near j East ?New York Times. i i I t ' ui ft rain f?r Alrnhof. j ^ 1150 .! Obviously nation-wide prohibition will cut sharply into the use of the ce-' reals in the manufacture of alcoholic an , liquors for beverage purposes. At the Fi j same time it is regarded as assured ; that more alcohol will be manufac- j 11 tured than ever before for use in the j ^ . liberal a<;ts and in manufactures gen-; ? J erally, this to be denatured and thus absolutely unfit for drinking purposes. ' Plans are under way, however, for greatly increased output of alcohol as above noted, some of this undoubtedly i to be made from grain, while large | quantities it now appears will be pro! duced from cheap molasses brought j from the West Indies. Official cneraj ists have been able to secure from this I not only alcohol but also the use of j residue for the production of glycerin, j something of increasingly large con | sumption. Glycerin is very largely! j used in making nitroglycerin, transpar- j ? j ent soaps, lubricants, printers' inks, i * ; etc. | j ' Death Brings Joy. ! The reports from manyv parts of the j i United States that some women of j an adventurous nature married sol1 diers in the high hopes that the hus- j i bands would be killed and that they i would collect the insurance money are ' based on fact, it is believed. j A young woman, well dressed, went ; ! to the post office at Vancouver, Wash., | 1 .xi? ?/vaaU?a/1 n 1 A+fnr Qhp i rCCOIlliy Jliiu revcircu a icut*. I opened, road, and laughed loudly. A , man driving a machine in which she ' , rode downtown asked her what wae j the good news. She astonished him by replying that her husband had been i killed and she would get the $10,000 Insurance. Origin of Famous Dyes. The famous blue and purple dyes ci the east, frequently mentioned in history, were in all probability extracted from the Roccella lichen, which has been extensively used in France in recent years when gorgeous colors were desired for silks. These dyes are se- j ?3 fha nlonf hrtdv ' | cureu u,y jjuncuwug vv^, j j termed the thallus, and extracting the i coloring matter by applying alkali.; Litmus, one of the lichen dyes, is wide- i ly applied in Hie science of chemistry, j' ?Te>:iilo World Journal. - * - i ? - i j Production or uuiCKsuver in isio. i i The domestic output of onirksilvf-r j in .1018, according to statistics com-! ' piled by F. L. Ilansome, of the United 1 States geological survey, department j * of the interior, was 33,432 flasks oi: 1 75 pcunus each, valued at about SS,-: j 94*2,301. Compared with tiie oatput o\ I j littT ilits shows * decrease ia^uantiijr,, Ol'LD NOT HEED WAHNIMS! cr'd Refused to Profit by Exhibition of German Cunning Given FortyEight Years Ago. Alsjioe fnd Lorraine. those f:in;ili:?r mes. found almost rvery day ii> al- I i>st every paper; those two ohlong I rips of country between France and ;rniany?how little some of ns know i out them, after all. The ex-crown j ince. In order to prove file ignorance j onr fighting men, reported an Amerm prisoner as saying that Alsace : is a large lake. Perhaps he dld^this | Idier of ours?and perhaps there was ! twinkle in his eye and a laugh in his | art when he said it; for our hoys ; eked a lot of humor In their kits. j When we come down in it. however, j ? American*?yes. ;ind our'^njriisn. on our Fren<*h. brothers?tni^Iit \v??H ve known more of these two "lost ovinces." We h::?I a chance. Rut in :r crowded lives many hooks are left iread: and so it is that these Alsatian furies, translated from tiie French of o authors who wrote under their j mhined names ? of Eivkmann-Chat- j n were little known except to col- j fe students. Even then, the prophecy j "sicli these hooks cnntnin went tin- i ?eded?a warning so plain, so certain, j i convincing, tnar as we read 11 now i the light of what Germany has done J ese last four years, we wonder it as not trumpeted to ijs in every reefc In their book, "The Plebiscite, ** rckmann-Cha train gave us not only e tragic story of what happenetNin Isace jind Lorraine in 1870 and 18<l. it warnings of the German designs i the rest of the world. Before most 1 us dreamed of this awful war, they Id the story of 4<S years ago. and in e telling pointed a certain finger to ie future. Only a year after the ranco-Prussian war ended, after picring freshly remembered German uralities, they said: "Those who shall come after will e"worse things .tlwn this; since men a TT/~>1 vac: fnvoc h?nvt? r?\vl<5 fi 11 this nst come round again. "Those Germans are the most per- j ct spies in the world; they ccme to the world to spy, as birds do to lieve; it is pnrt of their nature. Let ie Americans and all the people who ; e kind enough to receive them think j ' this. Their imprudence may some ty cost them dearly. I am not in;nting; I am not saying a word too uch. We are an example. Let the , orld profit by it." That was our warning almost half a j knrury ago.?Ariadne Gilbert, in St. j I />U a1 A O niiuiao. NOTICE. No jury cases will be heard at ttye ay term of court, hence jurors who ve been summoned need not come. Jno. C. Goggans, 3 2t , * C. C. C. P. 12 HOUB KODAK FINISHING All rolls developed 10c; packs 20c >; prints 21-2c, 4c, 5c; enlarging c up. Specialists?we do nothing t kodak finishing. All work guartteed to please. Eastman Kodaks, lms, Suppliea I )LU3EBIA PHOTO PUflSHIKO CO. 11 Taylor Street, 'Celvmbia, S. C. i P IA From factory to your house. $200. The Sculz Piano has The Prescott & Cote cannot Will discount any mail order J. L. BOWLES, Newber / Gardeni WW nas So has our coi Landreth's We carry Landre well as in packet ai of getting reliable i We have secured of beans this year ! you need. I Gildsr & i \ Distressing j Headaches T Medical investigation proves that 75 per cent, of headaches are directly due to eye strain. ^ Eye strain can be relieved by cor- U rectly focused and fitted glasses. If you hare the headaches We have the glasses ^ E. C. PIERCE . Optometrist ^jj CAROLINA OPTICAL CO. V 30o Exchange Bank Building ^ NEWBERRY, S. C. * | TO LOT OWNERS ROSE3IONT CEMETERY. ! Having bought an additional strip oi land adjoining Rosemont cemetery, rv />?T 1 /? M A A J A. MA? <* ? o ^ me iiiuuc,y i& uccucu uu pay tur same. / It is desired to raise the funds by the J| collection of amounts due on unpaid *40 for lots, of which there are a good many. The deeds of conveyance have been placed in the hands of Mr. R H. Greneker for collection. R. Y. Leavell, Sec. and Treas. Trustees Rosemoni Cemetery. 666 cures Bilious ^ever. SJ? tf . . . ^ ** ??# ?? ** * SCHEDULE. * * | The following is the new schedule- ' | effective Sunday, April 13, 1919: f I * Southern jxo. 15 to Greeville due at Newberry at 8:48 a m. !No. IS to Columbia due at Newberry I at 12:30 p m. jXo. 17 to Greenville d'ie at Newberry ! at 4:05 p m. / Xo. 16 to Columbia due'at Newberry ! at 9:30 p m. * ' C., X. & L. Xb. 55 to Columbia due at Newberry at 9:53 a m. Xo. 12 to Laurens (mixed) due at ! Newberry a< 9:44 a m.^ *? iXo. 52 to Laurens due at Newberry | at 1:00 p m. jXo. 53 to Columbia due at Newberry at 3:38 n m. I r 'No. 13 Columbia (mixed) due at | Newberry at 5:30 p m. No. 54 to Laurens due at Newberry at 6:15 p m. , Yours truly, T. S. Lefler, Ticket Agent. /' Opr. & B-O-I. 666 cures Malaria Fever. 8-5 tf NOS Saves you from $100 to ' no superior in ton or finish. be beaten for the price. ' house in the United States ' * Factory Agent, Ty, 5. <J. | ng Time Come ,^f . I mplete stock ot i Garden Seed ith's seeds in bulk as ad you can be sure teed either way. t I a very large stock and can furnish all Weeks Co. * I V? ??J??????????????? y 9 , . . > . "> i i* ,