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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11
A Beautiful Creed.
George Mcdonald.

George Mcdonald.
For my part if I can put one touch
of rosy sunset into the life of any
man or woman, shall feel that I
have worked with God. He is in
no haste, and if I do what I may in
great work on earth. Let God make
His sunsets; I will mottle my little
fading cloud. To help the growth
of a thought that struggles toward
the light; to brush with gentle hand
the earth-stain from the white of one
snow-drop-such may be ambition.
So shall I scale rocks in front, not
leave my name carved upon those
behind me.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11

chamber OF commerce extends a cor
dial invitation to the conference Or
education in the south to hold its
1905 annual session in Columbia, the
capital of South Carolina, the state
of South Carolina not having yet had
the honor Of entertaining this body"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Items of More or Less Interest Con-
densed in the State.

Laurens county had considerably
larger sales day than usual this week.
A great many tracts Of land were
sold.
The new $4,000 passenger depot
of the Seaboard in Columbia has been
finished and is now in use. 1t Is
situated on Lincoln street, between
Gervais and Lady,
Election day passed quietly i'll most
of the counties. There were very
few rows reported. A light vote
was polled in large majority of the
counties.
Jim Brown, the negro who was
brought back from New York, charg-
ed with setting fire to the Dixie warc>
house at Florence, has been released.
The officers were satisfied that he
was the wrong negro.
The Lutheran synod of South Car
olina opened its session in Orange
burg on Tuesday. A cordial recep-
ton was given the boards and min
listers by the people of the town. The
actual work of the session began on
Wednesday.
A local football team at Green
wood will meet team from Charles
ton, at the former place, on Thanks
giving day. Both teams are al
ready at work and a good lively
game is expected.
The jury empaneled in Greenwood,
by order of the circuit court, and
confirmed by the supreme court to
fix the amount of damages to be paid
the Reynolds heirs for the occupa-
ton of their land by the c. & w. C..
railroad, has completed its work and
fixed the amount of damages to be
paid at $4,000.
The C. & w. C. and the Seaboard
railroads have made deal with par
ties in Greenwood county to- the
purchase of several acres of land in
and near the town of Greenwood, On
which extensive freight yards will
be erected. This deal has been ur-
der consideration for some time, and
was consummated on Tuesday last.
Ben Wardlaw, burly drunken ne
gro of Greenwood county, walked
into the county seat on the day be-
fore election, produced viclous>
looking gun, and declared there was
not an officer of the law in the town
who could take the weapon away
from him. He was disarmed imme~
diately and punished.
At meeting of the Civic Improve
ment league, held on Monday in Co.
lumbia. Mr.. E. J. Watson made an
address denouncing the recent BUTCH
ery of many of the trees in the city.
He cited a law which gives the city
ample opportunity to punish the Of
tenders.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11
Benefit to Hello" Girls.

Between 1000 and 5000 telephone
girls employed in London, England,
central office will benefit under a new
schedule demanded by them. In fu-
ture they will work an average Of
eight and half hours a day.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11
The AL Fresco Feast.

Bingham-"Come, now, this isn't
so bad. It's .eally homelike."
Brazer-"Yes, but I've seen moth
ing bigger than an ant on the table
yet; at home nothing smaller than q
water bug shows ITSELF"
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11
Unnecessary.
Boston Transcript.

Boston Transcript
Brown-Hello, Charley! Where's
your brother Tom working now?
Blac-Oh, Tom hasn't done any
work for long time He's got po-
sition under government, don't you
know.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-11-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Nor or Less Interest Con-
densed Throughout the State.

Inc llldl Oh N dll dllSloOll III @ii~
murder of Caesar Young has been
set in New York for November IS.
Cardinal Gibbons has reach Cincin-
natl, where he attended Archbishop
Elders funeral.
President Palma, in opening the
winter session of the Cuban congress,
suggested the creation of perpetual
debt bearing 3 per cent. interest.
Official reports show that the ar
nored cruiser West Virginia, in her
trial trip made recently, made a
speed of 22.14o knots.
Julia Reano and her grandson,
George Kirk, four years old, were
burned to death on Tuesday morning
in the Reano home, in Chicago.
A number of wild animals, King
Menelik's gift to the president, ar
rived on the Minneapolis at New
York this week
German students OF the University
of Vienna, engaged in demonstrs-
ton in sympathy with their compat-
riots at innsbruck, during the dis
turbances of last week.
In the Italian election all the men,
bers of the ministry have been re-
elected. The government has been
victorious over the Extremists, who
lost 20 seats.
Judge Portlock of Virginia in an
address made on Monday to the
grand jury at Norfolk, denounced
lynching as the most serious menace
to civilization and all organized gov
eminent
Secret Service officials have arrest
ed three counterfeiters in Cleveland,
o., who are Charged with making
and circulating large sums Of coun-
terfeit Hungarian money.
Boston, Detroit and New York
parties entered on Wednesday joint
suit in the Boston courts for $780,
900 damages against J. Ogden Ar
mour, of Chicago.
State Representative T. F. Curley
and Alderman James NJ. Curley were
sentenced by the United States court
in Boston on Tuesday to two months
in jail for impersonating others at
a civil service examination.
The Freemen's Aid and Education
al society, in session at Manchester,
N. H., discussed this week industrial
work in the south and voted appro-
priations to colo7ed schools Of COL
legiate grade.
The trial of the French officers at
tached to the Military Information
Bureau, charged with appropriatlng
funds which were used to secure evi-
dence against Dreyfus, came to an
abrupt end on Monday by the gov
ernment abandoning the case.
J. Samuel McCue announced in an
interview given a reporter yesterday
that he expects to get new trial.
He declares that if the supreme court
decides in his favor as to the granting
of trial he will ask for change OF
venue. There is a considerable diff
ference of opinion in Charlottesville
as to whether McCue is really guilty
or not. The country in general seems
to believe that he is.
The United States supreme cours
confirmed on Tuesday the decision OF
the supreme court of Wisconsin In
the case OF the publishers of newspa-
pers Of Milwaukee, who were convict
ed on the charge of combining
against another newspaper of the
city, for the purpose of unlawfully ef-
fecting certain advertising rates. The
decision was of great interest be-
cause of its bearing on the trust ques-
ton.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
DOOK THAT WENT BEFORE
~ TOLD THE OTHER SHE

Inc situation is rather amusing when the fact is
recalled that fifteen ago Harpers brought
out that vivid and violent attack upon Standard OIL
Company by Henry d. Lloyd, entitled Wealth vs. Com
monwealth"
This book made tremendous sensation in its time
Incorporate and onesided though might be considered
1t was documented thoroughly the Standard OH
Company was never able reute even to answer II
The of Standard Oil are said to have heen
very indignant at the Harpers for publishing such
pook and when four five years ago the publishing
company failed, they not little rejoiced
1t will be remembered that after their failure +b
Harpers fell into the hands Of Colonel George Harvey
NOW colonel Harvey has always been more or less
cteo with corporate interests 1t expected
that with his associations he would look with anv SYM
pathy on such work that by Mr.. LLOYD
NO doubt he was glad to make peace with Mr. Rookie
Ieler oy publishing Mr. Montagues for the Stand
ara OH Company 1t is reported that the book was
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22

bought outright by Mr. Harvey Then the free distribution
began
1t seems hardly likely that Mr.. Harvey would be
so generous give all libraries clergymen and
college professors United States 10000 of them,
copies of dollar All things considered, 1t
seems very that the real distributor of
the book is Mr Rockefeller, the Standard Oil Com
pany whose interests it is apparently written and
published
To any one at all familiar with the history of the
Standard Oil Company and the methods it the
book written Montague interesting, though
perhaps irritating reading The argument of
the book based upon the assumption that when Mr.
Rockefeller began wipe early reners he was by far
the strongest the United States. This is
inexcusable mistake.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
HOW Mr.. ROCKEFELLER BECAME
Al THE BIGGEST AMERICAN REFINER

At least ten other operators United States pos
reneries large economical of operation
Rockefeller when started out. Mr.. Rockefeller
obtained his whip hand in the oil business through
scheme known as the South Improvement Company.
Mr. Montague slides this scheme in beautifully
general way, representing it very similar to the rail-
pools then in progress He that when the South
Improvement Company attempted to gather control of
the oil business, 1t included among its members the
group of reners in the country the combined
capacity plants exceeded by far that of the
organized refners.
This is a fundamental mistake. The South Improve
ment Company when its great scheme was sprung con-
roed according the statistics of trade at that
time just At that time As 600 barrels
were produced the United States every day.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
DAILROADS HAD TO BEAR
N ALL THE HARSH CRITICISMS

MT. Montague overooks the fact entirely that Mr.
Rockefeller his extraordinary lead in the oil
by using the contracts of this secret
early independent trade out of Cleveland
Within three months Mr.. Rockefeller literally bluffed
twenty ref1ners city sell to him. Where before
daily capacity his refneres 1900 barrels, he
raised it to 10000 It in this that Mr.. Rookie
feer the biggest rener in the country not
Montague says, through the superior efficiency of
his methods.
According to Mr.. Montague the rebates which Mr..
Rockefeller the regular thing in the busi
They always asserts, awarded to the big
gest shippers the fact that from the be-
ginning Rockefelers the entire outside oil
industry united against the rebate system. The
operators almost unanimously fought in Congress- in the
LEGISLATURES in and in the against it.
after Mr. Rockefeller began the of
system unusty gain power did the oil in
dustry consent to it, only did the individual
combine against system, but the courts declared it
to be contrary to public policy. Nevertheless it
tinued.
One of the most outrageous features of the rebate
system as practiced by the Standard Oil Company
obtaining drawbacks other peoples shipments The
fact that the Standard Company did such thing is
established by documentary proof And Mr. Montague
from start to book, scarcely alludes this
practice!
One would suppose from the book written by Mr.
Montague that everything the Standard Oil Company
has was accordance with accepted bus- ~
ness practices and that everybody else in the MM#
oil trade did the AS a matter OF TACT
there was always an organized opposi-
tion, supported by both press and
courts, against most of the things
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
WHAT AN EXPERT SAYS
ABOUT ROCKEFELLER'S
"SUPERIOR EFFICIENCY"

Mr.. Montague over
looks the fact entirely that
Mr.. Rockefeller obtained
his extraordinary lead In
the oil business by using
the contracts of his secret
company to scare the early
independent trade out Of
Cleveland.
Within three months
Mr.. Rockefeller literally
bluffed twenty reflners In
that city to sell to him.
Where before the daily
capacity of his refineries
was 1900 barrels, he raised
it to 10000.
1t was in this way that
Mr.. Rockefeller became
the biggest refiner in the
country, not, as Mr.. Mon
tague says, through the
superiority Of his refining
methods:
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
Great Trust Masters Story Trips It's
Readers Into Mistaken Beliefs by the Great
Truths It Does Not Tell, Declares This Critic
Mr.. Rockefeller was doing.

Mr. Rockefeller was doing.
All the way through the book wherever allusion is
unjust practice by the Standard it is charged
This is old dodge of the Standard.
Somebody else is always forcing it to do wicked things
AS Illustration of the way the terrible raids
other peoples business the Standard treated it
interesting note Mr. Montagues alIuson to the union
of the Tidewater Pipe Line and the Standard Oil Com
pany in 1883 The decrease of in freight the
Standard which followed seaboard
pipe line is charged the railroads matter o
fact, the Standard Oil, in order block competition
forced the railroads into making with
the Tidewaer by series of business moves only fair
call piratica pressed into alliance Mr.. Montague
mentions it in line
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
By an Expert

[7hs 4Vritr from years of intimate Arquaintanehp qVih
The secret history Of the Standard oil and bnsneSJ methods
gayg he able ubgtaniate eOey made kloqU
For pe,yOnaf reasons hOqcsVer he requested the editor to
qvihHoid hi5 name.]
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
CECRET BESIEGING, DIRECT
~ ATTACKS AND UNDERSELLING

Finally he writes. "the Tidewater was forced to
cease its opposition!
Many curious are to be found In this
They are Of such nature gloss the specific
criticisms generally filed against the Standard Oil Com
Nobody denies that the company
business with remarkable ability. Nobody denies, either,
that Mr.. Rockefeller and many of the gentlemen
bned with him leaders in the oil business
start But that they could have built up their present
monopoly without the of special privileges
without persistent attacks everybody has at
tempted to enter the oil business during the thirty
years, nobody believe
1t is clearly established that by beseging the
roads secretly and nsstenty they obtained special
BY direct attacks they forced the pipe sys-
TENS to sell out to them BY system Of criminal under
selling practced persistently all country, they
have driven refners of business, maintained the
price of refined OIL
These actual facts which can be proved by docu-
ments. But Mr.. Montague glides them without
glance, and represents the great combination
inevitable superior oper
alton of natural law.
Especially ingenious is Mr. Montague's closing para
graph.
THE power of the Standard Oil Company" he writes
'is tremendous but it is only such naturally
accrues large aggregation Of capital per-
sisence with which competition against it has continued
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-22
NEW force in the
trust conflict is afeld.
Spurred into action

by repeated attacks in the public prints, the
Standard Oil Trust at last has come out OF
the shadows and invaded the field of litera-
ture, evidently proposing to try the effect of
little publicity all its own.
This, at least, is the conclusion which
must be drawn from the study of new phe-
nomenon in the publishing world. About
year ago a book by Gilbert Holland Mon
tague, bearing the title "The Rise and Pro-
greSs of the Standard Oil Company made
an appearance. 1t was published by Harper
& Brothers, and that house, with unique gene
roSity, has undertaken to give the little vol
ume a wide circulation.
Asst fall the libraries of the country-North,
l. South, East and West-began to receive free
copies. slip inserted in each volume an
nounced that it with the compliments of
Harper & Brothers" Free distribution of the book
has recently taken fresh spurt
College professors and clergymen all over the
country receiving copies also with the COM
pliments OfHarper & Brothers. Why Messrs Harper
q Brothers have suddenly become so liberal is the
question no one seems able to give adequate answer
FTER reading the volume remains in the
n mind Of the gentlemen favored, however that Har-
per & Brothers represent and indeed, are acting
Tor the Standard Oil Company in this literary propaganda
Inc DOOR, as one critic of note has apty said is simply
brief for the Standard Oil Company 1t might indeed
very well have been written by their eminent attorney s.
C. T. Dodd In fact the information directly from
no less authority than John D. himself that
Dodd did have something to do with the book.
A few months Mr. Rockefeller was talking with
an old friend aboutthe articles Standard Oil Com
pany now appearing in of the popular magazines.
They not true, Mr. Rockefeller said patheticaly
III you want true history of the Company
you should read Montague's. Dodd helped Montague"
Anybody who has read the many defenses Of the
Standard Oil Company written by Mr.. Dodd, and COM
pared them with the little volume now being so COM
Montague
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-05

Nannf uf 1nzraEzxnr. John Skuika.
Annse nj j. n. Ness.
ftanst III NUmtr wf mortgage, Citizens
Hntfunnla aErk Nf Si@seton, south Dakota
l5stfsuf fnerrEEgr- June 81. 1913.
ltutt an ttlnxRE~ IN Day county, Souti
1fafynsl, AgrIi M agUs-
rum ssstrtrts1 ny said mortgage, $500.
runl ril1rntsd ~ he due on aid mort
ragE, xtA.hL.
M0rtEn1ed rroperfy, one end spring tor
buggy made tF Pontiac Buggy Company
ISrinsnt has b<pcn made in the conditions
~ suit mortgage contained Said default
e1Ssfte in fiue mexSect and refusal of said
un5ortEssnsu 80 rzy tho debt secured by said
rnlurttEsuse WAGES IL became due.
snic nspragzgr will be foreclosed by a
sale 90 frhe above described property al
pitni'r antnidn on saturday, May "a. 1904,
at <Dri0ck o. ma 1T the front door of the
stouutF HNsufr house In Webster, Day
fc0anltE, n. To- and the proceeds of such
ttatt npssAtfd - thc payment or said debt
tffttf laFang the costs and expense Of
it.ftuiassre Including attorneys fees as
allowed by Law.
isHec May 4, 1904.
NAtintns National bank of Sisscton, S.
Hi.tpvMet Of mortgage.
ia Nation. attorney.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-05
Sale of Inherited Indian Lands.

Sale of Inherited ndian Lands.
ina. Il W
Sisscton Agency. South Dakota,
January III, 1904,
The public Is hereby informed that inner
tied indian lands within the limits of the
for sale under section I of the act of Con
gress approved May %, 1870 Ca. stats
si5l will be found publicly listed ut said
Agency where sealed proposals for the pur-
chase of any tract on said list will he
received by the undersigned up to "
O'Clock noon of the day upon which bids
are advertised to- be opened. Notice IL
hereby given that the sealed envelopes
containing bids should not have noted
thereon description of the lands TO which
the bids relate, but that there shall be
noted on such envelopes the dates upon
which the same are to- be opened.
Purchasers shall pay all costs of convey
lowing sums towit: II the purchase price
il 81 ,OO0o less. one dollar lift is more than
Sl,OO and less than S.U0O, one dollar and
ni.y cents; = where the purchase price
Sealed bids for Ia seven following
described tracts of inherited Indian lands
will be received blythe superintendent and
special disbursing. agent, at sisseton
Agency. South Dakota, up to II o'clock
noon of April p. 1904:
VIE W sec. "a, twp. l23, rahge 81, and nwh
sc = sec. 10, and nwi4 nwi4 sec. 2. twp. 122,
ma sell sec. 20, and sw4 hw4. and nwA
svh sec. q. twp. 124, range SO.
So sea and e'a swh sec. 70, twp. III.
Lot !, sec. 5, and lots / and 2, and mex nwi.
sec; II, twp. i2s, range So.
VIZ sw14 sec. ~, and neA nell sec. 80, and
neA sel4 sec. Is, twp. ia, range 50.
sea4 sec. Is, twp. IA, range SO.
sew n~a and de e. a s%,4 10, sec. i 10, s swp, = "a. rand rnas sT 8.
C. &. Jackson,
SUPERINTENDENT and ). ID. a.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-05
Execution sale.

tapTil HwD
State of South Dnkota,
County of Day.
In Circuit Court,
Fifth judicial Circuit.
simmons Hardware Co. as c~opartners,
Plaintiff.
William "A. Schmidt, Defendant.
Notice Is hereby given. that NV virtue
an execution issued in the above cause
ont of the circuit court, In and for the
county OF Day, StafeDf South Dakota. on
"a Judgment rendered in "a justice
court In and for aid Day county on
the slst day of December, 1855, in favor of
the above named plaintiffs for A0.7S, and
which judgment Was duly transcribed TO
the circuit court, Of said Day county, on
the 9Th day of January, 1904. and WAS dulv
nied and therein on said day, ia
the clerk Of the courts Office. L as sheriff.
p Day county, state Of south Dakota, and
py Virtue of said execution have levied
upon the following described real estate.
to-wit; The east one half OF the southeast
quarter OF section 2, In township ~, north
and that ns such sheriff Il will sell said
land or cnough thereof as may be mecca
eury to satisfy said execution and ali
costs, nt public sale to the highest bidder
Tor cash, ct the front door OF the court
houst, IN the City ~ Webster, Dav counfv
c"uukn Daketn, ON Monday the 23rd dav ~
r1ay- ~. D., 1904. at tire hour OF one ociock
In the afternoon Of that day.
Dated 40 Webster, 8. ~, April 18th, 1904.
william Rich.
Il. n wroea~c Sherin Day County, $. ID.
Attorney for plsInth.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-05
Refe reefs Sale.
april s-ewJ


By virtue of a Judgment, decree and
order of the circuit court in aud for the
county of Day and State of South Dakota
in an action VIII >rein a judgment was
rendered and docketed in the said court
on the 18th day of April, A. ID. 1904, In an
action wherein Henry III. Van Brunt was
plaintiff and Margaret Hixon. Mary
Engler. Pat Barry, Mark Barry, Ellen
barry, Ellen Ash, formerly Ellen Barry,
and James Barry were defendants, IN
favor OF said plaintiH and against said
defendants, ~adjudging mt directing the
PARTITION and sale by the undersigned as
sole referee of the real estate hereinafter
described to,wit; The northeast quarter
OF section eight @), township one hundred
twenty four (12D north. range fifty eight
(s0 west, In the County of Day aud State
OF South Dakota, consisting of one
hundred sixty acres.
Notice Is hereby given, that L, the under
signed, as sole referee appointed for that
purpose, will sell the above described
property to h highest bidder, for cash,
at public auction ON the 9Th day of June.
le0i, at 10 o'clock o. m. at the front door OF
the u house in the City of Webster,
County of Day and State of South Dakota
IN pursuance of said judgment and order.
Dated April 18th, A. ID. 1904.
William Rich,
Referee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-05-05

Notice is hereby given that the
co-partnership existing between Harry
9. Waughop and J. Roy Lee doing
business under the firm name OF
Waughop s. Leein the City Of Web
ster, South Dakota, has this day been
dissolved by mutual consent. J.. Roy
retiring from the firm. All bills
receivable r to be collected by Harry
Q. Wapghop and all bills payable are
p BE- paid BY him.
Dated at Webster, South Dakota,
this and day Of May, 1904.
Harry 9. waughop.
J. Roy Lee.