Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f* ftniU uuD Jems. r > gatarad at tk? PostoSBc* at N?wmWtf9 S* C.? as 2nd class mattar. . E. H. AULLt EDITOR. stables. Ben A. Havird. 7-19-2tp Baseball is all the rage now. Every community has its team and there is 110 gathering without a game of ball and the people seem to enjoy it. We are glad there is something to which they may turn their attention and not more harmful than this national game. The road to Prosperity from Colony church on down to Prosperity will have to have some work or it will be ' bad when the wet season begins. It is now in bad shape. There is need of more top dressing or a different kind, we do not know which, but we do know that it is even now in bad shape for a new road. The road beyond Prosperity on to Little Mountain is improving as a result of constant attention and that is the only way by which it pays to Build roads. They must be maintained after being built or it is a waste of money to build them. ; Next week is to be a real gala week in Newberry and the merchants and business men of all classes and pro fessions will act as hosts for the week, and they invite all the people round about to come to see us. There will be .concerts by the bands and base ball at the park and various other and. sundry amusements to drive dull care away and make you forget th* boll weevil, and then the merchants are going to sell you goods at such prices that you will really forget about the low price of cotton. Le' every one set aside a day and come to town and enjoy that day with us. CAN NOT EXPLAIN t In a long and somewhat checkered newspaper career I never before jus1 drdpped out a part of a story and p??er detected it until the paper was off; the press, especially when I read proof myself. It happened Tues day in the brief life story that I printed of my friend Mr. Geo. S.! Mdwer. The last page of the cops was not turned in and of course made kj1 abrupt ending. I do not know that it makes an material difference, because he will be remembered by the good that he did, and yet I am going to print it just as it was written. The oitly explanation I can offer is tha*" I was so shocked and upset by th< news of his death that I hardly knev 1 what I was doing. Here is the pag< ; as I found it on my desk after the yaper was off the press: E. H. A. . But it was not these material thing that made him great, as successful a? ha services may have been. He wa i? At-- S ^ T>, gT aT^ 1U tne gX'UUiiesa ux uu Ilea: i/, am the deeds of charity and the help tha he grave to people all over the co^r ty, and he never did these things be fore men to be seen of men, but no good cause ever was turned down b? him, and the many people who havf ? " 1 ' 1 i-: ir ii,. Zfcit nis nana ana niniseii axe ur only ones that ever knew anything cf it, and that is after all the onh v* ^ truly great life, a life of service tc your fellowman and of unselfish ser vice. And that was the life of Geo S. Mower. He never spoke so far a; I can recall an unkind word of an: one. On June 13, 1876t he was happilj married to Miss Fannie Jones, s daughter of the late Major L. J Jonfcs, and to this union were bore four children, Hel^n the wife of Mr Foster N.'Martin, Dr. Frank D. Mow?r, Mc Hardy Mower and Myra the wife o? Mr. Henry T. Cannon, am all of them live in Newberry anc were present at the bedside, except Dr. Mower who was on his way hom< from New York where he had ?on< with Mr. <Jalude DomimcK oniy < few days ago. Mrs. JVlower dier several years ago. A REFLECTION As I stood at the home of Mr. Geo S. Mower on Tuesday afternoon anc looked over that large gathering o' the people of this community, and the visitors who had come from manj parts of the state to pay their lasl tribute to the memory of a man, anc looked at the many baskets of lovely flowers as they were loaded into th' trucks, I could not help the reflectior that all this outpouring of the people '' 11 +-lw must mean sometnmg" mure umu msimple tribute which we all feel like paying when one of our fellow citizens passes away. And when we drove over to Rosemont the numbei had been more than doubled of those at the home. It did mean something more than a formal tribute to the passing of a fellow citizen. Such a gathering at a funeral and such a profusion of flowers has not been seen in Newberry in many a year, if ever before. Here was a modest man who spent | his entire life from early boyhood in this community. He had gone in and out among the people and had been active in all the affairs of the community, and when he passed the people just as one man came to mingle their grief with that of the family and to evidence the high esteem in which they held him. And it was a voluntary tribute. It was not because he had been honored with office. It was not because he had been successful in business. It was not because he possessed some property. It was because of his life of service .and of unselfish service, and service that did not flaunt itself before men, it "was because of the big heart that was in him. And I could not help the reflection that this voluntary expression of esteem and regard on the part of the people with whom he had labored - * * X 11 i? should teacn a lesson to an 01 us, that the accumulation of the things of this world and the grinding down of our fellowman and crushing the life-blood out of him, as it were, did not profit a man, and that the richest man in all the world, and who can take the most with him when he departs, is the man whose life is the fullest of service and not the grasping, whether it be grasping for money or oower. And the only wealth ^vorth while and the only really true great life is the gentle, quiet life of service, and that we shall be judged by what we have done rather than by what we have accumulated of thfe world's goods. :<Only the truth that in life we have spoken, Only the seed that on earth we have sown; These shall pass onward when we are forgotten, Fruits of the harvest and what we i J ? nave uune. E. H. A. AN OUTRAGE The papers throughout the country ire carrying terrible stories about conditions in the south and about famine and disease raging throughout this section and especially pellagra. A friend up in Delaware sends us \ clipping from a daily paper in Philadelphia which carries a headline that, "nlaene menace looms in south; ramine is feared." "Alarming situaion attributed to crop conditions and narket depression," and so on. We would like to see market conditions better and prices for what we have produced a little higher but so far as hreatened famine there is no founlation for it anyw-here in South Carolina so far as we have heard and it :s an outrage to circulate such news fArips. A GOOD TIME TOGETHER The people of the city of Newberry ire making arrangements to have a ?ood time together with their friends erom the surrounding country 'during L.rade and pleasure week beginning on Wednesday of next week and going through Saturday. W$ invite the people who are going o visit Newberry next week, and we lope to see every one here who reads The Herald and News and that will nean at least all the people of New>erry county, and many from other ections, to look over what the merhants of this good town have to say n this issue of the paper. They are lot going to make any profit out of 'ou during these pleasure days but hey are offering their goods at greaty reduced prices so that you may all at their places of business and get i n nnmp tf? If D f>W metier act|ueiixii/cu auu me another better. This week is not designed as a money making week ^y any means but the mr.in purpose is to arouse a spirit of optimism among he poeple. You know we just have the best town and the best county in ail this! ountry of ours and we want you to ome together and talk about the blessings you enjoy and forget for he time being what the price of coton is and that you ever heard the lame of boll weevil and you will feel setter and then you can work better. Ve do not really appreciate how well ve are situated and it is a good thing occasionally to take an inventory of ourselves. Mrs. L. N. Rodger Dies in Union The State, 23. The funeral of Mrs. L. N. Rodger *f Union was held at Elmwood cemeery at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, he services being conducted by the 3ev. J. 0. Van Meter. Mrs. Rodger died in Union, the >ody being brought to Columbia yesterday for interment. She was 43 years old and leaves many friends both in Columbia and Union to mourn her death. Her husband and numerous other relatives survive her. When the soldiers' real need for the bonus has passed they'll probably get it. WELCOME TO HEAD HUNTERS j j Ceremony Follows Return of Victors With Their Grewsome Trophies ?Women in Welcoming Party. Prof. Carl Lumholtz. in his book. "Through Central Borneo," gives an intimate description of head hunting among the tribes there. He gives a description of a raid by ten Rukats upon a small party of Saputans who were on a hunt. The slayers hurried off with three heads. The last night out the head hunters always sleep uear their owd kapong. and early uext morning, while it is ftill dark, they come singing. The people of the kampong awake, array themselves in their best finery and go to meet them, the women wearing their newest skirts and bringing pieces of cloth to present to the conquefors. A head is carried suspended from the conqueror's neck until it is taken from him by a woman, who gives him n piece of cloth to wear instead, possibly as a badge of heroism. It makes no difference whether this service is performed by his wife, by another woman or by another man's wife. Heads are then hung from a beam in the house of the kapala. and the cloths are returned to .the womeiL The head hunters must take their food apart from their associates, and in the presence of the heads they have taken. At meals a pinch of rice is put into a hole made with a spear point in the top of the skull, and the head Is addressed in certain words: "Eat this V- 'P-.J... m rice, jl'oh i ue aukij. xun.c u. Me. Make this body of mine well." During the period of restrictions imposed upon the hunters the heads remain in the same place, sharing the meals in this manner. After twelve clays no more food is offered the heads. i SATISFIED WITH THE SARONG. Women of Ceylon Refuse to Worry Over the Decrees Put Forth by Dame Fashion. The women of Ceylon do not bow the knee to Dame Fashion, but are content with the sarong?one long strip of cotton wound round the ?n-hinh ic- all inftcf of wOUien UVUtf ~ " iiiv.il to %*?* WW V* -- of Kandy wear. The' sarong was all that .the majority of. women asked in the days when Kandy formed the backr ground for the pageantry of an oriental court. Kandy was the last stronghold of the Singalese rulers. Portuguese and Dutch tried in vain to subdue the city and the little mountain kingdom ; but the way to Kandy was through, narrow passes, surrounded by jungles. Many lives were lost in vain assaults. For 20 years after the British took Ceylon the last king of Kandy successfully resisted invasion. Finally, in 1815, he was captured and sent into exile. , The temples and palaces and royal tombs of Kandy speak of the old days of splendid show. But they are sile~' .on-. cerning the intrigue and treachery and i cruelty and extortion that blackened | the last years of Singalese rule in Ceylon. Those dark years are forgotten now. Life runs smoothly under wise government. Poets of the Sea. It seems that the sea is an AngloSaxon heritage. English literature reflects it, and its moods have ever been portrayed in English verse. To the North, the Scottish bards sang of their own wild headlands and skerries, to the South, the Devons followed Drake aDd Frobisher to the Seven Seas. Surprisingly, some of the world's greatest poems are epics of open water. The Odyssey, for Instance, and the Aeneid. In those days, Greece and Rome were the maritime nations of the earth, and their romance of conquest and of commerce found ready expression in their literature. Nowadays, the Anglo-Saxons hold the shipping of the seas, and sea songs seem as inevitable to English poets ?and to some Americans?as roman- j tic rondels and sonnets did to the' old Gallic school.?Christian Science i Monitor. j Nina Million Eaas a Year! i If only the hen could emulate the! fish in the matter of laying eggs! The! cod tops the list with nine million an-1 nuallv, then come? the sturgeon with ; seven and a half million. Another) great producer is the flounder, which | just touches the million. The mack- j erel deposits half a million eggs, the ( perch four hundred thousand, white j the humble herring is content with a paltry ten thousaud. Eggs are generally deposited in sand or gravel, though the fish which live on the bed of the ocean attach their eggs to seaweed. F'ish are almost entirely carnivorous, and have no compunction whatever in swallowing their own young. It is by smell rather than by sight that they obtain their food. Little Known Coins. The following are the names of the coinage in use in some out-of-the-way I lands: Abyssinia. 16 guerches equal one tlfaler: Bosnia. Kxmovics equal 1 florin. since 15HM? l'M> heller equal 1 krone;! Bulgaria, 1CK? stntfnki equal 1 leva; j China. 10?> candarins equal 1 tae!; Haytl. 1(H) cents equal 1 gourde (paper) or 1 piastre (gold) ; Macao (Portuguese colony, China), HMJ avos qua! 1 pataca ; Montenegro, 100 nevoics equal 1 florin; Persia. 20 aha hi or chai equal 1 kran, 10 kraus equal 1 foinan; Koumauia, 100 bani equal 1 'eu; Siam. <?4 arts or 100 sat* angs equal 1 tical or ha lit. j j- ___,I Last Year ^ One bale of cotton li 1 * would buy: I1V 100 lbs, sugar lt)0 lbs. hen feed ? - I 10 bushels corn 0WI 1 doz. cans salmon m 110 lb. bucket lard ^ ~ 3 lbs. Caraja coffee 1 barrel flour 10 sks. hog feed trs 5 gallons syrup \ i I 10 bushels meal I | Newberry, S. C. I W??H? ?IWIM?I?MWBWW 3???MB??M < ???MI ???Mi ? ??? - ? ? II mil ? II III " ? ' ! I I III II I I JLJ Ig 111 p,... . h? ? ?? mac?em ? ' " m . ii i i1 Two For the B I Beginning Saturday Morning, July 30x3 1-2 F t-f r* i /"ii 1 _ - r or r ord, ^nevroiei I ^ CASH (The opportunity of your life to this new undeard of price. While in Newberry during Tra< filling station and get one of these ti Newberry Fi IF. W. STANK Opposite Court House MJMBWBBBaBMMMiBlllllllllBllB??^BMWBI'ITII'IIII IHI11I 1 \f III! Ill I, I IHMrllB % i n This Year t fOU One bale of cotton | I vill buy; 4 in ' 100 lbs. sugar . 100 lbs. hen feed berry io bushed com 1 doz. cans salmon <1 J 10 lb. bucket lard 3 lbs. Caraja coffee j 1 barrel flour ide 10 sks. hog feed 5 gallons syrup f 10 bushels meal 1 Phone 165 : ' . ' i ?j?- I 0 Price of One 23, and Continuing for a Few Days I abric Tires and Dort Cars At ; 3 Each ONLY equip your car with new tires at Je and Pleasure Week call at our ires, a^so your gasoline and oil. Liiiiijg ijiauun ON, Proprietor Newberry, S. C. *