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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Now 1t is a School Book Trust.

The leading school-book publishing
houses of the country have formed
combination for the control of the sale
of educational works. The agreement
under which the combination is formed
went into effect Monday. All of the
important school book publishing
IN the country are parties to the agree
ment. The main object Of the combi-
nation, it is claimed by publishing
houses, is to reduce the expenses of
selling their publications by chang
ing the methods Of competition among
the different houses. Heretofore each
publishing house has employed num-
Der Of travelling statesmen. From tif-
teen to fifty of these salesmen have
been kept regularly on the road by each
of the leading school book publishing
houses. The salaries paid these men
have ranged from s., 800 to $500 year.
This new agreement made by the
different publishing houses will do
away with the employment of these
salesmen, as one of the most import
ant conditions of the agreement is
that none of the firms which are
parties to it shall send travelling sales
men put to push the sale of their
publications.
1t is claimed by the publishing
houses which are parties to the new
agreement that the combination is not
in the nature of a trust, but is sim
ply an agreement to reduce expenses
of the introduction and to control the
distribution of school books. The new
combination includes all the members
of the school book publishing syndi-
cate, which has been in existence for
several years, and at the head of
which was the Cincinnati firm of Van
Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Harper &
Brothers and other firms which have
been recently opposed to the syndicate
are also said to be parties to the new
agreement. Harper & Brothers were
originally members of the syndicate,
but withdrew because of disagree
ments with its methods, and have Since
been active opponents of it.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Woman's Inhumanity toMan.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, July 16.-The
Rev. VIM. T. Lewis, a Free Will Bap-
tist minister, died here to-day in the
City Hospital, victim of woman's in
humanity to man.
He was born in England, and was
graduated at Oxford with high honors
in 1877. Ee came to this country, stud
led at Harvard, and was admitted TO
the bar and to practice in all the courts
in Ohio.
In early manhood he was connected
with companies producing legitimate
drama. His parents were theatrical
people, and he had great love for the
stage. In 1881, at Washington, D. C.,
he married Miss Ellie Johnson, an opera
singer and daughter of George w.
Johnson, who for years. managed the
old Madison Square Theatre. She was
a picture of beauty and had superb
voice. Under the tuteiage of Sidney
Rosenfeld she graduated well equipped
for comic opera. She appeared in coli
vette," "Mascot" and several of the
lighter operas.
In 1884 Nh. Lewis became minis
ter, and his wife was apparently a
model Christian woman. Last October
she left him, and has not been heard
from since, although Mr.. Lewis used
every effort to discover her wherea-
bouts. He was small, emaciated man,
badly troubledwith asthma, and died
heartbroken.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
He Made up His Mind.
1Christian Advocate


A story is told Of a colored preacher
whose church had become somewhat
dilapidated. The minister succeeded at
lastin persuading the people to deco
rate the walls, bat funds gave out and
they left large recess behind the pull
pit unimproved. The patience of the
preacher gave way before this evidence
ofwant of proper respect for the church,
and at the close of his sermon one Sun
day morning be very solemnly an
nounced: "Bredren-Notice is hereby
given that the Gospel will not be dis
pensed wifin dis church any moa until
this abscess behind the pulpit is fricas-
seed.n
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Do Men Fear Death:

Who said that men fear death? Who
concocted that fable for old wives? He
should have stood that night with
Philip in the midst of a host of l25,O00
men, in the full flush and vigor of life,
calmly and deliberately making ready
at dawn to receive death in its most hor-
rid forms at one another's hands. It is
in vain that Religion invests the tomb
with terror, and Philosophy, shudder-
ing, averts her face; the nations turn
from these gloomy teachers to storm its
portals in exultant hosts, battering
them wide enough for thousands to
charge through abreast. The heroic
instinct of humanity, with its high
contempt of death, is wiser and truer,
Dever let us doubt, than superstitious
terrors OR philosophic doubts. It testi-
fies to conviction deeper than reason
that man is greater than his seeming
self; to an underlying consciousness
that his mortal life is but an accident of
his real existence, the fashion of day,
to be lightly worn and gaily doff.d at
duty's call.
What pity it truly is that the tonic
air Of battle-ields-the air that Philip
breathed that night before Antietam-
cannot be gathered up and preserved as
a precious elixir to reinvigorate the at
mosphere in times of peace, when men
grow faint of heart and cowardly and
quake at thought of death.-July Cen
tury.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
This Years Elections. ,

The current year is notably an "off
year" in general politics. Only eleven
States elect State officers this year.
Kentucky will hold general election
for State Treasurer on August 5. Flee
tions in ten other States will take place
on November 5. On that day:
Iowa will elect Governor and Lieu
tenant Governor.
Maryland will elect Comptroller and
Attorney General.
Massachusetts, will elect Governor
and State officers.
Mississippi will elect Governor and
State officers.
Nebraska will elect Supreme Court
Judge and two Regents.
New Jersey will elect Governor and
State officers.
New York will elect State officers,
except Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
Ohio will elect Governor and State
officers.
Pennsylvania will elect State Trea-
surer.
Virginia will elect Governor and
State officers.
Political interest this year according
ly is centercd in the elections of the
newly admitted States, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Washington and Mon
tana, which are now framing their
Constitutions and will elect full State
governments and Legislatures, which
will choose 'ei ght new United States
Senators. Each new State will also
elect L Representative in Congress, ex-
cept South Dakota, which will elect
two.
The terms of nc United States Sena-
tors expire next year, so the election
of members of the Legislature this
year is Of interest as bearing on nation
al politics only IN cases where men,
ber5 Of the Legislature chosen this
year hold office for two years. The
Senate elected in New York State will
vote for United States Senator in
1891 to succeed the Hon. VIM. n.
Evarts.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
INVENTED BY A NEGRO.
The Wonderful Cotton Chopper Used a
Camden.
Especial to the News and Courien1

Especial to the News and Courien
CAMDEN, July 1.-THE cotton chop
per patented by Taylor Belton, of
Camden, and J. 81. johnson, formerly
Of Camden, now pastor of colored
Methodist church in Columbia, has
proved to be great success. Both of
these men belong to the colored race,
and the machine, of which they are
the patentees, shows marked ingenuity
on their part. Their chopper was pat.
ented some years ago, but for want Of
money the proprietors have not been
able to manufacture it.
After it was tried near Columbia this.
spring, Mr.. Roache, of Columbia, and
Mr.. Kinwick, of Savannah, seeing the
worth of the machine, bought an in-S
terest or share in it for $40, 900. All the
papers IN the case have been examined
by a prominent Camden lawyer, and
the transaction has been pronounced
bona fde. The manufacture of the
cotton choppers will soon commence
and the machines will be put on sale
in time for next season.
Belton's latest invention is q self
pumping machine, which is almost
perpetual motion machine. The contri-
vance is put in a well and pumps water
from the time it is started until it is
stopped. The principle has been shown.
to your correspondent, but Belton de
sires it kept secret until patent has
been obtained. In about week
model will be set up and the feasibility
Of the einvention will then be demon
strated to select few.
Those who have seen Belton's rough
drawings of this pumping machine
think the plan feasible, and one gentle
man has offered to put up some money
to carry out the project.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Legally Dead, but Still Alive.

ATLANTA, Ga, July 16.-A month
has passed since John Pickett expiated
the crime of murder on the gallows.
The memory Of the event has been re-
awakened in remarkable manner. a.
report comes from Sumpter County
that Pickett is still alive and living in
that portion of the State; that after the
hanging his body was taken in charge
by friends, who worked successfully at
resuscitation. The story has created 3
good deal of interest in this city, for if
Pickett is still alive and is apprehended
the question is whether he can be fur
ther punished. He has been declared
legally dead, and the case will prove
one unparalleled in the history Of the.
state.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
DOWN ON DIR. M'DOW.
The Slayer of Editor Dawson Expelled
from the Medical Society.
Special to The Rcgister.1

- A'PSlit'A W AC 1etSSISLCl.
CHARLESTON, July 1S.-Dr. r. B.
Mellow, the slayer Of Capt. Dawson,
was expelled from the South Carolina
Medical Society to-day. At special
meeting Of the society the following
resolutions were passed
Whereas, it has been brought to the
notice OF this society that DR.. r. Bal
lard Mellow has been proven, by his
own confession, guilty of immoral,
nnprofeSsional and ungentlemanly con-
duct, and that after due notification
the said DR.. Mellow has failed to ap-
pear before the society to eXonerate
himself from said charges:
"Resotred, That he be expelled from
this body.
''2. That the secretary be directed to
publish a copy of these resolutions
over his official signature, in the three
daily papers in this city and two re-
putable medical Journalist
When Mellow graduated with hon
ors from the Medical College here,
some eight or ten years ago, he APP
piled for membership to the Medical
Society and was black-balled. A GER
ti1icate Of membership of the Medical
Society.is considered almost Us much a
requisite for practitioner as diplo-
ma. The certificate of the Medical So
cicty opens the door to the holder of
every household in the State. Nc
Dow's reputation was so shady, even
at that early stage of his career, that
he couldn't get into the society. His
standing in his class, however, secured
him a position in the city hospital,
and his marriage with the daughter of
a respectable and wealthy German mer-
chant soon secured him a practice.
Just about month before he killed
Editor Dawson lie finally succeeded in
being elected member of the Medical
Society. Two days after his triumphal
acquittal, he sent in his letter of resig-
nation to the Medical Society.
The society refused to receive it. 1t
is to the credit of the physicians of
Charleston that they demand a hear
ing of the case. Mellow knew the
rules-knew that he could not be
expelled from the society without a
hearing. The society met to-day and
adopted the resolutions given above.
The action was unanimous. 1t was
also decided that no member of the
society should, under any circumstan-
ces, enter into consultation with
McDow.
The veterans and honorary members
OF the Lafayette Artillery are to hold a
meeting shortly to discuss Surgeon
McDow's relations with the corps. 1t
is understood that all the honorary
members of the Lafayette Artillery of
this city, ofwhich Mellow is the sur
geon, have decided to resign from the
company unless Mellow is expelled.
The honorary members, some thirty in
number, have notified the company to
that effect.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
A Prize of 100000

Is a good thing to get, and the man
who wins it by superior skill, or by an
unexpected turn of Fortunes wheel, is
to he congratulated. But he who es-
capes from the clutches of that dread
monster, Consumption, and wins back
health and happiness, is far more for
tunate. The chances of winning $780, 900
are small, but everp consumptive may
be absolutely sure of recovery, ifhe
takes DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery in time. For all scrofulous dis
eases consumption is one of them, it is
an unfaiIing remedy. It is guaranteed
to cure in all cases of diseases for which
it is recommended, or money refunded.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Uncle Sans Finances.

The revenue of the United States
Government in 1888 amounted to se.32
per capita of population. The expendi-
ture Of the government, not including
payment of the national debt, amount
ed to SAT. per capita. The national
debt per capita amounted to s17.71, and
the interest thereon to IS cents. The
duties collected on imports amounted
to S3.47 per capita, and the internal
revenue amounted to S2.07 per capita.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
The Lessons Of Murder Trials.

Southern Christian Advocate.
There have been of late years enough
murder trials in South Carolina to-
afford data from which her citizens
may draw some general conclusions as
to the relations of the courts and public
opinion to this matter ofman-kiling.
The first lesson for the people in this
important matter is that, while the law
forbids under penalty the carrying of
concealed weapons, the juries through
their verdicts strongly assert the ne
cessity Of going armed, and give fair /
warning that he who fails to be pre-
pared against his enemies may expect
no protection at their hands. The law
is for the protection of fproperty perhaps,
but certainly not for the care and pro-
lection of human life.
The second lesson is that every man
is apparently considered the sole de
fender of his own person. He may be
attacked by bullies or assassins and
overmatched when unarmed, yet it is
his own lookout; and if he. asa man,
is not sufficient for his own defense, or
If with real manliness he refuses to
make himself walking armory, he
does it at his own risk; for he may
know we'll that law. will do nothing to
protect him and the same to avenge
him.
A third lesson, set particularly for
the earnest coming of murderers, is
that they may ply their vengefuI basi-
ness with in,punity. If they be fearful
of the result of killing man who is
distasteful to them, in the ordinary
way Of street broI, they have but to
pick their time when no one is looking,
shoot down their victim, not even
taking care that the wound bein front,
AID then go before the jury and swear
it was in self-defence. They may be
sure that the livid lips of the dead will
not open to contradict the most start
ling assertions, and almost equally GER
tain that the complaisant jury will
accept the pleas Of excitement, COM
FUNCTION and fear of injury as excusing
circumstances.
Another highly moral ethical lesson,
correcting the standards of civilization
and religion, is that the life of q MUIR
dered man is of little accoant; but the
life of a man-slayer is so precious that
tender and compassionate jury can
| not bring themselves to shorten it.
Money and influence and splendid
counsel, the press, as we'll as the quib-
bles of the law and the imperfections
of the jury system, all are worked to
the utmost to save every red-handed
son of Cain that wreaks his hate in
lawless deeds of death; while half
hearted prosecutions and partial stat
utes, framed to shield the slayer, make
weak pretense of vindicating the So
called majesty OF law and avenging the
blood that cries to earth and heaven
for justice.
Such lessons the people of South
Carolina have been taught for years
from the high precincts where justice
sits pledged to judge impartially and
right the wrongs of the weak and
oppressed, and they have learned the
lesson, till ordinary killings fail to stir
interest; there needs some unusual
horror to bring about q change.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Woman's Smiles and Wonan's Tears

One to enliven, the other to soften the
heart of mankind. An old bachelor
once said women were either "all smiles
or all tears" but this cannot be true, for
what would there be "twiXt tear and
a smile" Women have enough to bear
to make them "all tears" and enough
to hope for to make them "all smiles"
When afflicted with nervousness, ''fe-
male weaknesses" sick headache, and
the numerous diseases peculiar to their
sex there is necessity for contemplation,
and for "tears," but when they con-
slider that there is sure remedy in DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription for all
such female complaints" there is rea-
son for Smiles"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
More Frauds in Fertilizers.
| lIndependent.7 |

The Pennsylvania Board of Agricul-
ture reports that a certain 'complete
fertilizer," offered at $50 per ton, is
really worth, by analysis, only S1.22.
Another, selling for S2l, has a manurial
value Of just II cents. A third, whose
price is SIS, is worth but II cents. And
yet there are many valuable fertilizers,
and they are furnished by trustworthy
parties. The only safe rule is to pur-
chase of reputable manufacturers or
dealers, after careful study of the
reports of the most capable official
ANALYSTS.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25

calling from the window, "You had
better come in the house; you will
make yourself sick again working in
the SUM- like for her to hear mvs-
terious sounds away in the night when
deep sleep falleth upon Il mau but not
4 woman, and when she punches ne
III the side with her elbow ! get up and
meander all through and around the
house hunting for robbers and ghosts
just to show her what protector she
has got. She is going to st Simon
next week and I am going to stay at
home. Some of her ma--ied children
are going with her and sl,~>is going to
chaperone the chaps or matronize the
party or whatever you call it. I don't
know whether she is going to lave in
the salt sea waves or not, but l can see
her now standing upon the beach and
with extended arms repeating the
speech of her school days:
7'Eoli on, thou deep and dark blue
ocean, roll
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in
vain.
Thou glorious mirror, where the Al
mighty's form
Glasses itself in tempests."
On, she was q speaker, she was, and
she is a speaker yet. She speaks to me
sometimes.
l wish that every aspiring soul could
so to st. Simons, or somewhere and
look upon the seattle ocean. If a
man has soul how it expands How
diminutive he feels in the presence of
this mighty work Of God! But hun
dreds go there just like they go to a
circus. They have no new emotions,
no Increase of reverence and no de-
crease in their own conceit.
"a primrose by the waters brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more to him."
Some people go through this world
just like they were sticks. No love, nor
hate, nor emotion, nor ambition, nor
aim in life-no nothing but to live
and eat and sleep and hear the n1"s-
and as pass them I can't help think
ing Of q stick. They had just as we'll
never been born. They never reflect
that the sun shines for them by day
and the stars by night and for them the
moon gives her holy light. For them
there is seed time and harvest, and the
birds sing and the flowers bloom and
the earth is clothed in beauty. Why,
even the dog that lies at their door was
created for their comfort and protec-
ton. Let man commune with nature
and cultivate those affections and emo
tions and aspirations that lead him to
higher life. st. Paul says that man
was, made in the image of his Maker
and but little lower than the angels.
And Shakespeare says Of him: "How
noble in reason, how infinite in facul-
ties, in form and moving, how express
and adnlirablc-in action how like an
angel-in apprehension how like a
god.' But those kind of men are
scarce. They don't 60 about in droves.
There are just enough to prove what a
man can be if he will. Young man,
think of that, and don't be clam or
a stick. Ifyou can't be great, be good.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
journalistic.

DURHAM, \. c., July l5.-Arrange-
ments have been completed for merg-
ing the Evening Tobacco Plant into a
new morning paper, to be called The
Globe. Edward A. Oldham, a we'll
known Journalist, has resigned his posi-
ton as editor Of the Charleston World,
and will assume complete control of the
new paper. The Globe will publish
Associated Press dispatches.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25

ner of Christian education, and go on
under its guidance to that blessed des-
tiny the most sublime God ever gave
to nation-the destiny of our Amer
lean republic.
The Bishop resumed his seat amid
great applause.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-25
Virginia Prohibitions to Put up Ticket
[GreenVille NeWs.l
Columbia, S. G., July l3.

LYNCHBURG, Va, July 1.-THE pro-
hibition convention met here to-day
and nominated a full State ticket as
follows /: For Governor, Thomas E.
Kyler,' of Lofidon County Lieutenant
Governor, W. J. Shelburn, of Mont
gomery County; Attorney General,
Judge J. NJ. Quarles, of Staunton.
The convention adopted the National
Prohibition platform.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-06-01
A Silent Superintendent.

The average Sunday-school SUPER
intendent is an earnest, patient, hard.
working Christian. He generally
has many burdens to bear. and much
perplexity growing out of his anxiety
for the success of the work in which
he is the leader. His errors in man.
agement may very we'll be overlook
ed, when his devotion to the work ia
considered. "Dr. Philetus Dnbbs,"
who has way of hitting defects
wherever he sees them, has a hit at
the toO-talkative superintendent, In
this fanciful story he tells about what
he saw, or dreamed he saw, in some
far-away place. He says:
The superintendent tapped bell.
without uttering word. the chori i.
ter, arose and hymn was sung al
other tap of the bell brought another
to his feet to read chapter, a third
tap and prayer was offered. and so
it went on to the close of the school,
the superintendent never uttering q
single word. DIR. Dobbs being very
much impressed with the clock. work
procedure said to one of the teachers {:
"Things seem to move on here very
quietly. 1 noticed that you got to
WORK at the lesson in a very short
time" The teacher replied. "That
is what we came here for." II no.
ticed. too" said DR.. Dobbs. "that the
superintendent did not say word"
Cant" replied the teacher. "Why
not ?" "Dumb !" "How in the
world did you happen to elect a
dumb man?' "Did it a.purpose ;
school had been talked to death, and
so elected man that couldn't talk.
Have had time for lessons eyer since.
Never had BEFORE"
Those for whom this is intended
are not numerous. we think. Most
superintendents do not err in this
observation-disclosures Lntellige,acer.