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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
Merrltt--Berkham.

DR.. George B. Merritt, of Prosperity,
and Miss Dorothy Attilie Berkham, Of
Charleston, were married in Charleston
on Sunday night. DR.. Merritt is a
Charlestonian, but has been in Pros
perity for some time. He is pharma-
cist for the drug firm of Hunter &
Wheeler.
During his stay in Prosperity DR..
Merritt has made many friends through
out the county who wish for him and
his bride every happiness through life.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
Ice Cream Festival in West End.

There will be an ice cream festival
in the Odd Fellows hall in West End,
Saturday night, September 5th, for the
benefit of Newberry Council, No. 46,
Junior Order United American Mechan-
les. In addition to the ice cream festi-
val cake will be given to the lady re-
ceiving the largest number of votes as
being the most popular young lady in
West End. Also free concert.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
125 Bales Per Day.

The Newberry Oil Mill, l.. w. Floyd
manager, has recently overhauled it's
gnnery at cost of several thousand
dollars, and is now prepared to gin 1876
bales of cotton per day, thus enabling
it to serve the people promptly and to
give satisfaction. The mill pays the
highest market price for the seed and
furnishes bagging and ties at the mar
ket price.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
South Carolina College Scholarship.

The normal scholarship in the South
Carolina College given to Ncwbcrry
County has been awarded by the faculty
of the college to Mr.. II. l.. Boulware.
The examination was held few weeks
ago. The scholarship amounts to $40 a
year and free tuition.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
Flour HIGHER.

The late Government report makes
the wheat crop thirty-fvc million bush
els less than last year. This means very
much higher flour until another harvest
in 1904. All flour is higher now, but
the advance on BransfOrd's "Clifton"
has not yet been rs great in prol )rtion
to other flour. However, it is mighty
good time to buy supply before it goes
still higher. Fresh flour constantly re-
ceived. II. j. HAYS,
Successor to Hays & McCarty.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
Child Drank Concentrated Lyc.

Robert, the eighteen-months-o old child
of Modoc Satterwhite, one of the negro
street hands, drank concentrated lye
on Monday afternoon and died on Tues
day. The little child drank the lye
while it's mother was washing clothes.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
: PrOSperity'S First Bale.

Prosperity's first bale of cotton
brought II Sd cents, thrce-quarters
higher than Newberry's first bale. 1t
was sold on Tuesday by l.. S. Long
and bought by j. l.. Wise. The bale
weighed 428 ponnds, the total price re-
ceived for it being 5000. The cotton
was classed strict middling.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
The Citadel Scholarship.

AS a result of the recent cxamina-
tons Mr.. r. G. Hunter, son Of Mr.. r.
II. G.. Nunter, Of Prosperity, has been
awarded the scholarship given to New
berry county in the South Carolina
Military Academy.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
To Elect Pension Board.

The township representatives of the
Confederate veterans will meet at the
Auditors office on the first Monday,
the 9TH Of September, to elect county
pension board and pension commits
sioner. | hope every township will be
represented. w. G. Peterson,
Chairman Co. Pen. Bd.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
Contract to Let.

7 WILL BE AT THE DYSONS
Il bridge, over SaIuda river, on Thurs
day, September 9th, at / a. M, to let
contract for building wooden approach
ty said bridge. Specifications may be
seen on day Of letting. Right reserved
to reject any and all bids.
JNO. M. CHUMPERT,
Supervisor Newberry County.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
At the Lutheran Church.

There will he services at the Luther
an Church of the Redeemer on Sunday,
conducted by the pastor, the Rev. VIM.
l.. Seabrook.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
COTTON GINNING.

We have finished
overhauIing: our Gin
nery at an expense Of
several thousand dol
lars, which prepares us
to Gin l25 bales Of
cotton per day. Bring
your cotton where you
can be served prompt
ly and given satisfaC-
ton.
We also pay highest
market price for Seed
and furnish Baggi1e
and Ties at market
price.
NeWberry Oil Mill,
l.. w. FLOYD,
Manager.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04

H-OOD MEAlrS-Chas. W. Douglas
" is conducting hrst-class Rcstau-
rant on lower Main street in connection
win ms grocery store. For good meals
at right prices call ON him. lie is also
selling gallon of vinegar for 20 cents.
Bring your jug. 'N'''
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04

a SIX your Druggist for Glenn
IN. Springs Ginger Ale.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04

TUT OFF JUST ONE DRINK PER
" week at the soda rount and the
savings will enable you to drink the
very best Morning GLORY Coffee every
day during the month. Try this hiph
grade coffee; Sold only by Davenport
d Cavenaugh.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04

4 tOLLECTOR Trustworthy young
" man to travel; no canvnss;nT.
salary $l8 weekly and expenses; chance
Tor promotion; experience Unnecessary. .
must be sober and steady. Address l.,
a. Martin, Charleston, S. G..
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-09-04
SPECIAL NOTICES.

EARM FOR SALE. Good Sixtv
~ Acre Farm, near town, for snlS
Apply at this office.
NLENN Springs Water is the prcat
W dyspepsia cure. WV e0"'
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

contempt. Like most Of the other
themselves on the sacri1cial altar at
about the same time, Towne is no lon
ger poor. That little venture: he took
in Oil made him independent and it
Murphy really needs and wants him
in the organization of patriots and
saints over which he lords it he will
in the official scale than senator. AMI
he would probably make the tender
soon, for there is no telling what the
bition might not prompt him into de-
manding.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
The Battle Of Need and Greed
By William E. Smyth.

There will be a great battle in this
congress over the repeal of the land
laws. 1t is a question of direct per-
sonal interest to every American citi-
zen, and every American citizen should
make it his business to understand the
merits of it.
Under the desert land law, an indi-
vidual can take up 800 acres without
living upon it a day or an hour. A
man and his wife can take up GAO
acres, equal to a square mile of the
most fertile soil in the world in this
way.
The first question is, do the Ameri-
can people want to give their land to
anybody save an actual resident who
locates for the purpose of making a
home and realizing an Independent
living? Is it good public policy to en-
courage the acquisition of land by
elterprising spectators who expect to
sell it. at a large profit to the real
settler, or to rent it to a tenant far
mer, or to consolidate it with other
cheaply- acquired holdings into a large
estate?
These are the questions which are
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

DIE HeqL 'uol5u!4seM aB sIoleues
pug u~emsseISuoo 10 paYsg SuIeq
questions which affect the people OF
the east as we'll as those living where
the public lands are located.
Now, why does this question come
home to every fireside in the country?
Simply because this land now belongs
to all the people. 1t is the heritage
of every American child. 1t is such
in no merely sentimental sense, but
in the most downright practical way.
1t represents his hope of getting a
chance to work for himself on his own
land, of making a competency for old
age, and of leaving productive proper
ty for his children.
Not Home-Making Laws.
This hope is defeated by existing
laws under which the most valuable
agricultural lands are being absorbed
at an unprecedented rate for specula-
ton and monopoly. And there is no
way Of preventing it so long as these
remain upon the statute books.
They were not intended to foster real
except by a most uncer-
tain and indirect process, and in their
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

AS yet the Butte Miner has not seen
fit to stop it's press and contradict the
Standards assertion as regards the
ease with which Roosevelt would get
Montana's majority as against any
of the democrats who have been men
toned in connection with the presi-
dency. It is possible that the very
able gentleman who presides over the
editorial columns Of the Miner is so
busy counting dots that he overlooked
the remark of the equally eminent
and distinguished gentleman who
writes from near the head OF Warm
Springs creek.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
HI HALL OF FAME.

M. Loubet, president of the French
republic, is reported to have deter
mined never again to stand for office.
Miss Ida NJ. Tritt, treasurer of the
New York and Queens County Street
railway. has ten young women as as
%sistants.
Governor Nash of Ohio has appointed
]. Benson Foraker, Jr., son of the Ohio
%EenatOr, trustee of the Ohio university
at Athens.
August A. Busch of st. Louis has pur-
chased the old Grant farm, Hardscrab-
BILE, and will erect a splendid summer
home there.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. dean of
the Washington College of Law at
Washington. is one of the ablest law
yers in the United States.
President B. D. Gray of Georgetown
college has been elected secretary of
the home board of the Southern Baptist
nell.
Congressman Henry r. Gibson Of the
Second Tennessee district has come in
to a legacy of nearly 100000. which, it
is said, he viii. use as an endowment to
help worthy young men through col
lege.
Hon. Albert Ware Paine Of Bangor,
Ne, has passed his ninety-first birth
day, but is still active in the practice
of his profession, the law. He is also
president of the Maine Telegraph COM
pany.
Colonel D. r. Anthony, the veteran
editor Of Leavenworth, celebrated his
seventy-ninth anniversary ON Aug. %.
Colonel Anthony has been an active
newspaper editor most of the time for
the last fifty years.
Frau Laura Hilgermann, one of the
singers at the Imperial Opera in Wen
ma, is devoting her leisure hours to the
study of medicine. She began at the
City hospital and intends to continue
her studies at the university.
j. F. Ellison, president of the Cincin-
natl chamber of commerce, has receiv-
ed an invitation from the Paraguay
government to go to that country as it's
guest, during which visit he will in
spect the waterways of the country.
When the late Tom Ochiltree first
started out in life he went into the
practice of the law with his father.
well, Tom," the senior partner is said
to have remarked, what shall we
style the firm?" whereupon Tom i'm
mediately suggested, why not Thomas
P. Ochiltree & Father?' @
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
A Timely Suggestion.

This is the season of the year when
the prudent and careful housewife re-
plenishes her supply of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. 1t is certain to be
needed before the winter is over, and
results are much more prompt and
satisfactory when it is kept at hand
and given as soon as the cold is con-
tracted and before it has become set
tied in the system. In almost every
instance a sever cold may be warded
off by taking this remedy freely as
soon as the first Indication of the cold
appears. There is n danger in CIV
ing it to children for it contains no
harmful substance. 1t is pleasant to-
take-both adults and children like it.
Buy it and you will get the best. 1t al
ways cures. For sale by all druggists.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

For a simple little act of courtesy
that luncheon to which the distin-
guished sextette from Butte sat down
at the White house last week has
stirred up an immense amount of silly
and even nauseating talk, twaddle,
perhaps, properly speaking. Both
the fool friends and the malicious
enemies of the president are giving
undue prominence to the affair, the
same as they did to the luncheon
given to Booker T. Washington. In
neither instance, it is safe to venture,
had the president any thought OF idea
of politics when he extended the in
vitation. Washington happened to be
at the White house when the presi-
dents luncheon hour arrived and there
being many things to talk over in
connection with the object of the ne
gro's presence, he was asked to take
a bite" When at Butte Roosevelt
vas entertained so royalty that as
a parting guest he responded to the
mandates of %politeness and asked
some of his entertainers to give him
an opportunity to reciprocate. The in
vitation vas accepted and six men
who have been fortunate enough to
gain prominence in labor circles in
the state ate from the same table that
Booker Washington ate. The president
as a citizen discharged a social obi
cation. That was all. AS it has been
tersely said by a contemporary, had
a lot of ward hitters and heelers
from the metropolis been invited, that
would have been the proper thing
AS the men happened to be from the
west their presence at table was in
stantly construed into a purpose and
object wholly 1T variance with it's
true nature.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

Platt and Odell having buried the
hatchet and now pulling together for
the success of the party in New YORK
and Hanna over and over, each time
o emphatically, denying any aspi-
rations to the presidency and repeat
ing his pledge of fealty to Roosevelt,
1T will be interesting to note what
some OF the democratic editors OF the
state will now select as subjects upon
which to construct a basis for the
structure of hope that they have been
endeavoring to e a in the breasts OF
the men who still believe in the posi-
bility of democratic success in the
mex national campaign.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
Tuesday, December I, 1908.

Grover Cleveland has broken his 81
lence. The ear that has been held to
the ground so long has been raised.
In a letter to the Brooklyn Eagle he
says that he has formed the decision,
u~nalterably and conclusively, never
to again become the nominee of his
party for the presidency. The decision
was not arrived at without a great
mental struggle. According to himself
the Eagles nomination of him has
ssbeen seconded in such manner by
democratic sentiment that conflicting
thoughts of gratitude and duty" kept
his mind in a turmoil. Conviction
seems to have triumphed at last, how
ever. Recent events in New York are
not calculated to impress the gentle
man with any overwhelming feeling
of security, and he has been heard
from. But how he could seriously de-
clare that the response to the Eagles
nomination of him was productive OF
the tumult of thought and carnage
of emotions he endeavors to describe
in his letter is something that the
major portion of his party cannot we'll
understand. If anything like an up
heaval of popular endorsement follow
ed the nomination, it certainly never
manifested itself outside of the edi-
torial rooms Of the Eagle and a few
rim of the continent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

Neither heaping of honors, the aus
terity of position, nor yet the serious
ness of years have caused the eminent
gentleman who presides over the coun-
ty court of Arapahoe county, territory
OF Oklahoma, to forget the ecstacies OF
youth or dull the memory of the rap
ture felt when coy maiden permitted
his lips to touch hers in chaste saluta-
ton. Recollection of the thrill felt
when the warm, yielding flesh trem-
bled within his embrace as his arm
slyly, fondly embodied 1t, is still fresh
in his mind. Because age and the
possession of a wife and perhaps boys
and girls approaching the period when
kisses and embraces are the dearest,
sweetest things life contains may pre-
vent him from again drinking at the
fount from which he has slipped, he
does not propose to place the weight
OF a judicial ban upon ocsulatory and
constructive bliss. IN a recent opin-
ion he gave it as the courts unalter-
able belief that all women have been
kissed and Rugged, therefore such
conduct cannot be wrong and permits
sion of such attentions from one of
the opposite sex is not to be construed
as evidence of badness.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
actual application they do not usually

4cCual 6~pQllCaClOn tney DO not usually
produce this result. y
This is the truth about the desert
land law, as 1t is known to everybody
who has seer it in operation. II 1t was
necessary once, as a means of tempt
ing capital to speculate in the devel,,
opment Of new countries, it Is no lon.
ger necessary because Uncle Sam
himself has taken on his coat and gone
to digging bitches in order to assist
the masses of the people in getting
homes on his big estate.
What is proposed as a substitute for
the present law? An amendment to the
homestead law, by which q settler may
initiate his filing before the water is
on the land, and obtain title only when
he has lived upon and cultivated the
land in good faith for five years. This
plan will work no hardship whatever
upon the actual settler, but it will shut
the door on the Spectator and render
it extremely difficult for syndicates
to consolidate many small holdings
into a few large ones.
Small Farms Should Be Encouraged.
Here Is another question which some
OF the western legislators will have
to answer: Why should anybody be
permitted to acquire $40 acres OF irri-
gated land? Why should a single fam
lily be permitted to take $40 acres
through the filing Of husband and
wife? Is that amount OF irrigated
land essential for a prosperous home?
In Utah, according to the census
figures, the average farm unit is q
acres. And Utah is in the temperate
0Nnn ~ with n 1o,,NnA r nL~~A~- .~-,S-
season than many other parts of the
arid region. The utmost limit which
any single family should be permitted
to acquire is a quarter section, or 100
acres of irrigated land. There are
many places where a Limitation OF 80
acres, or eve of 40 acres, would be
far more reasonable.
Is it good public policy to give a sin.
gle family IN amount of irrigated
land which would comfortably sup.
port from eight to sixteen families?
That is what we are doing when the
law is strictly compiled with, while
there are instances where single fam
lilies have acquired the ownership of
lands which would support 10, 1000 peo-
pie. This has been done, of course,
through the shameless abuse of the
law.
Lands Going Rapidly.
The question is before the country,
awaiting the decision of the peoples
representatives in congress. 1t is a
live issue today, but it is one which
time will remove from the field of
discussion. That is to say. all the
best lands will be gone unless action
is taken without much more delay.
They are being taken now at the rate
of about 1000 acres a day.
The battle is between human need
and human greed. Every man who
wants his country to be as wise as the
most ordinary business man, and ev-
cry man who wants his share OF the
public land for himself or his children,
should stand by the president of the
United States in his demand for the
immediate reform of this crying evil.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

And now Charlie" Towne is said to
be the particular star that promises
to burst upon the political horizon OF
the east. Murphy, the new boss OF
Tammany, has taken him under his
protection and as a starter already
offered him the place in the house to
be vacated by Mcclellan. Towne,
however, declined to accept. He has
not yet forgotten the fact that for
9 very brief time he was a senator
from 9 proud and powerful state and
does not propose to go back to con-
gress as q member of the body for
which senator's have an u~ndisguised
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
Better Than a Plaster.

A piece Of flannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound
On the affected parts is better than a
plaster for a lame back and for pains
in the side or chest. Pain Balm has
no superior as a liniment for the re-
lief of deep seated( muscular and
rheumatic pains. For sale by all drug
gists.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

X-Ray examinations, osteopathic and
electric treatments are modern meth
DDS of diagnosing and treating dis
eases. See DR.. Prickett, the Osteo-
path. 55-tf
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
Wanted.

Dressmaking or plain sewing Mrs.
J. H.. Wilson, over Gazette Office. 5S-8
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01

DR.. Prickett handles successfully
95 per cent of all forms of rheuma-
tism. 55-tf
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-01
Plano Tuning.

Piano Tuning.
Arthur Wales, premier piano tuner.
Thirty years experience. Leave Or
ders at Holmes & Rixon's drug store,
Montana avenue. 57-tf
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-14
MOST UNREASONABLE JUNE
WEATHER IN LONDON ALSO.

SPECIAL. BY CABLE To THE NEW YORK
HERALD AND THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC
London. June I3-(Copsrisht, 19t5)-1t has
required healthy confidence in the al
manac makers to believe that this week is
the middle of June, so unreasonable has
been the weather. When it has not been
raining hard. it has been blowing gale,
and it has often been doing both simultane-
ousiy. while it has been cold all the time.
King Edward last "Wednesday was obliged
to break an engagement to witness the meat
of the Four-in-Hand Club and the polo play
at the Ranleigh Club, az it was raining cats
and dogs. The' coaches that turned out
We're almost empty, and the polo game was
declared of.
The next Gay though there was no i'm
provement in the weather. the King and
Queen Eaid Il visit to London Hospital. and
Were rewarded with warm welcome from
the crowds who admired their pluck.
With Ascot imminent. the outlook Is the
subject of much anxiety. for this years
meeting was expected to be more than
usually brilliant. and. if all accounts be
true. the preparations for the display Of
millinery and gowns were On an. eXtraordi-
nary scale. Il makes one shiver to read in
the ladies' papers that dresses for the royal
Enclosure this year are of the fiimsiest ma
terials and show 4 general tendency to be
cut away in the neck.