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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-03

an engineer |" 60 around AMI peep
through little instrument. and tell
somebody to move the chain, but he
was to furnish maps.
1t lad been urged that no none.
would be paid out until the roads were
completed, and yet the commission
were allowed to employ day labor or
convict labor if they desired. Who
ever heard Of keeping such labor
working until the job was completed
A government expert had come to
Newberry, he said, and built a piece
Of road where it never had been bad.
The Rev. Mr.. Whitaker had said he
had been driving over it all his life,
and the other day, after a rain, was
the first time he ever drove over it
when he couldn't trot. The govern
ment expert had left clay mud instead
Of sand bed.
The act provided that no road was
to be paid for in full until it was pass
ed upon by the engineer. What a
place for graft! Why, it would be
the simplest thing in the world for
the contractor and the engineer to
combine.
Mr.. Sigh requested Mr.. Blease to
read the whole section Of the act here.
Mr.. Blease said it went further and
also said, and approved by the COM
mission, but the engineer would be
the agent Of the commission and when
he accepted road the commission
could be sued for the work, because
the engineer would be the agent of the
commission.
Mr.. Blease said that, while he had
never heard him say so, he believed
the man who put the bill through the
senate would vote against it. Who
favored it? He had heard Of only
three farmers, Jno. NJ. Suber, Jno. c..
Neel and A. D. Hudson. 1t was fav-
ored by the automobile people and the
scout cars. If the bonds were voted
the first man who came to him and
told him there had been any work
done on the road between Jno. Neel's
and the church, he would give him a
Stetson hat. The people had been told
that the rich people in town wanted
to give the country people something.
Well. it had taken them long time.
If store rent went up in town wha
paid for it? If taxes went up in the
town of Newberry who paid for il?
If clerk hire went up in the town Of
Newberry who paid for it? If insur-
ance went up in the town Of Newber-
ry who paid for it? The people, when
they bought their clothing and provi-
sions. AS taxes went up in town
prices went up. He gave the financial
condition Of the county today: In
debtedness for ordinary county pur-
poses, $4,000; for roads and bridges,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-03
BARBECUE BAcHMAN CHAPEL.

On August 18th there will be a bar
becue at Bachman Chapel church for
the benefit Of the church. Refresh
ments-ice cream and lemonade-will
be served by the ladies Of the coag1e-
CATION. Mrs. Jimmie Epps being at the
head Of this. There will be some
speaking on subjects Of public interest
Come, all who will and help cause
worthy Of your help.
Congregation.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-03
A GRAND OPPORTUNITY
TO See The Pacific Coast And Tha
Alaska-Yukon Exposition.

The best and most inexpensive wsy
to see the Pacific coast and the great
Western country this summer, and
take in the Alaska-Yukon Exposition
opened June 1st, is to eco as you
please, pay as you go, stay as long as
October 31st, if you desire" Whv
not spend your own money! Why not
plan your own trip and go in comfort,
and when it suits you? This may be
done by planning your trip over, the
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
in connection with an Individual par.
ty leaving the Carolinas July 3rd, on
the individual expense plan, which
will cost you about half as much as
a fixed expensive excursion tour.
July 3rd, Route.
Southern Railway, Goldsboro to
Hartman Junction.
Queen and Crescent, Hartman
Junction to Danville, Ky.
Southern Railway, Danville, KY, to
St. Louis, Mo.
Wabash R. R., St. Louis to Kan
sas City, Mo.
Union Pacific, Kansas City to Den
yer.
Denver & Rio Grande, Denver to
Salt Lake City.
S. P. L. A. & S. L.; Salt Lake City
to Los Angeles.
Round Trip Railroad Rates.
Going via any ticketing route Sc
lected and returning via any ticketing
route as desired.
Via Portland, Seattle and San
turning one way via Portland and
Seattle.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-03

Rates quoted f:om other points on
application.
Tickets limited to October 31st,
1909, and permit stop-overs at all
points west of Chicago or St. Louis.
Tickets on sale daily to September
29th, 1909. Lower Round Trip Rates
to and fromCalifornia quoted on appli-
cation. Before completing arrange
ments for your trip give US an oppor-
tunity to talk with you about the de-
tails of it, quote you best rates and
tell you Of the most interesting points,
and the best and cheapest way to see
them. Write to representatives as
follows:
". E. McGee, T. P. A..
Augusta, Ga. ,
S. Fl. Mclean, P. & T. A.
Columbia, S. c.:
J. C. Lusk, D. P. A.,
Charleston, S. c.
II. NJ. Pratt, T. A.,
Spartanburg, S. C.
R. H. DeButts, T. P. A.
Raleigh, N. C.
r. L. Vernon. D. P. A.,
Charlotte, n. c.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-08-03
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
Helping worker, 10 Homes.

Mrs. Russell Sage Is preparing a
new departure in helping working
people OF small incomes to secure
homes Of their own and also Il rent
at a reasonable figure. The plan fol-
lows closely the building and loan as
ISOLATION idea, except that 1t Is to be
made available to those who do not
have the amount for original invest
ment required by these associations,
which protection Of the other mem
bers renders necessary.
The plan has behind It the correct
idea OF helping people to help them
selves, and II It fails 1t will be because
1t savors so much of charity as to un-
dermine Industrial responsibility. An
other element Of weakness is that the
houses are all to be built upon one
tract, thus segregating the benenciaries
from their fellows, which has always
proven distasteful wherever tried. So
far as Mrs. Sage's plan contemplates a
practical charity It commends itself
and certainly all will wish that It may
result in giving homes to many people
who otherwise might always be wan
derers in %habitation.
Mrs. Sage has the money with which
to conduct the experiment and 1t is
to her credit that she desires to use
the fortune in her care for uplifting
humanity. If the plan should prove
successful there is no telling to what
extent It might ultimately be carried
and work a revolution in home owner
ship in cities and Industrial centers
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
The Tariff Law.

The tariff bill has finally passed the
legislative stage and become law by
the approving signature Of the presi-
dent. In response to public demand
for a revision Of the Dingley law,
which has been in force for twelve
years, the president called a special
session to deal with the whole ques-
ton and congress has been engaged at
It almost uninterruptedly since
March Is.
What to many seemed like a com
paratively simple problem, which could
be disposed OF by the middle Of June,
has proven one of the most difacult
legislative tasks in recent years. In
fact but for the firm stand and ju-
dicious action Of President Taft there
is no probability that a bill could have
been passed which would have been
reasonably satisfactory to the coun-
try. The house had readjusted the
Dingley rates while the senat had
pursued its policy as II quite indie
pendent of and superior to the house.
The dominant features OF the law, so
far as they affect the masses, are
neither Of the house or senate bills,
but the compromise brought about In
conference through President Taft's
influence.
Aside from the demands Of each
section for protection to its special in
dustries, the general demand for re-
duced duties was complicated by a
treasury deficit and the absolute
necessity Of raising more revenue.
Such schedules as are now higher
than needed for protection govern for
the most part articles on which i'm
portation is heavy and the added rate
is a revenue one. Some concessions
have doubtless been made to secur
votes necessary to pass the bill, as al
ways has occurred and probably al
ways will occur, no matter what party
attempts tariff revision, and the last
democratic tariff bill was the most
conspicuous example of the fact.
What stands out in the law more
prominently than any other n thing
is hat the rate reductions have been
made generally on the necessities and
the increases on Injuries. In spite OF
the many and large decreases on
necessities the law is expected to pro.
duce 81, 900 more revenue from
customs than the Dingley law.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
MIDSUMMER.
John Townsend rrowhrids

John Townsend Trowbridse,
Around this lovely valley rise
The Iurple hills of paradise.
o, softly on yon banks Of haze
Her rosy face the Summer lays.
Becalmed along the azure sky
The argosies of cloudland lie.
Whose shores with many a shining rift,
Far off their pearl-white peaks uplift.
Through all the long midsummer day
The m~eadow-sides are sweet with hay.
| seek the coolest sheltered seat
lust where the field and forest meet
Where grow the pine trees tall and blanc,
The ancient oaks ~austere and grand,
And fringy roots and pebbles fret
The ripples Of the rivulet,
| watch the mowers as they go
Through the tall grass, a white-sleevet
row:
In tune their merry milestone ring.
Behind the nimble youngsters run
And toss the thick swaths in the sun.
The cattle Craze while, warm and still,
Slopes the broad pasture, basks the hill,
And bright, when summer breezes break.
The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
The butterfly and humble bee
Come to the pleasant woods with me;
Quickly before me rise the quail,
Her chickens skulk behind the rail,
High up the lone wood pigeon sits,
AND the woodpecker pecks and fits,
Sweet woodland music sinks and swells,
The brooklet rings It's tinkling bells.
The swarming insects drone and hum,
The partridge beats the %throbbing drum,
The squirrel leaps among the boughs,
And chatters In his leafy house.
The orlole flashes by; and. look!
Into the mirror OF the brook,
Where the vain bluebird trims his coat,
Two tiny feathers fall and float.
AS silently, as tenderly,
The down Of peace descends on me.
o, this IL peace! ] have no need
or friend to talk, OF book to'read;
A dear Companion mere abides;
Close to- my thrilling heart he hides,
The holy silence in his voice;
/ lie and listen, and rejoice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
WITH FACES CoUNTRYWARD.
Population Turning from the cities 10
the Land.

E. 3. Powell in Outing Magazine.
The country is gaining on the city stead
lily. but not fast enough; and the reason
is just this one OF ignorance. The schools
are doing all they can TO spoil farm boys,
giving them all sorts of Information except
about what constitutes farm life. In this
way the best OF them are tumbled into
the city chaos, and IL Is hard work TO
counteract this drift. and locate the tired
out city folk in gardens. We are gaining,
however, and the percentage OF increase
OF population that faces countryward is
double that OF 1880.
Huge cities are no longer needed. We dc
not need TO concentrate wealth or to use
IL in the bulk. We have got our huge en-,
terprises that required syndicates and
trusts, off our hands; and now the sreat
problem Is to secure a more equsble distri.
button OF the wealth We ave acquired. We
must also vastly increase our production
In order 10 feed the enormously growing
population; and at least one-half OF oui
n~onproducers, who now make up what Il
called the lRboring class, and a good many
OF the capitalists as well. must he got into
a position where they can create food fol
themselves and add to the big surplus
needed for Others
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
A Foul Thrust.

From a local newspaper account Of
the last meeting Of the Public Library
board at Lincoln we take the follow
ing paragraph:
"Oh, | wish someone would give us
something" enthusiastically exclaimed
Miss Joanna Hagsy, city librarian, in re-
counting her observations during her recent
trip through the east with the national as
ISOLATION and her visits to the Libraries OF
many cities. She was telling of many ad-
vantages which she had noted in the
libraries of other cities, most Of them es-
tablished and endowed by generous and
philosophical citizens.
We respectfully invite the attention
Of William j. Bryan, who has set up
claim to a protectorate over all public
institutions in and around Lincoln,
and suggest that here Is a case calling
for immediate and severe discipline.
To think that a lady-like city librar-
ian should so far forget herself as to
cast sleeps eyes in the direction of
Rockefeller's ~oil-soaked money bags
and Carnegie's greed-gotten gold. and
to wish that some of this tainted
money might be showered upon Lin
coins public library! What an un-
~pardonable sin.
OF course. the fact that the public
library at Lincoln is housed in a build.
ing erected with money given by Mr.
Carnegie at the personal solicitation
of Mr.. Bryan may have misled this
well-meaning young m But she
cannot have kept up with the times II
she is ignorant OF the fact that Mr.
Bryan has since repented having
helped procure this library building
for his home town and has put himself
on record as against the distribution
Of any more of Mr.. Carnegie's wealth
within the boundaries OF Nebraska
she ought to know that so long as Mr.
Bryan exercises a censorious super
vision from his resting place at Fair
view the Lincoln library will not b,
allowed t. take anything from any
body unless it has first gone through
the ordeal Of fire to test it for traces
of faint.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
Partisan Nonpartisanship.

Our amiable democratic contem-
porary has discovered another nom
partisan issue confronting the people
OF Nebraska In this impending Off
year campaign. The democratic state
platform not only appeals for votes
for democratic candidates under pre-
tense Of nonpartisaDship, but it also
embodies several planks of decidedly
democratic complexion, including an
initiative and referendum plank. Our
democratic contemporary insists that
certain special interests" are opposed
to direct legislation, and 1t, therefore,
supplements it's invitation to vote for
democratic candidates as nonpartisans
with a second invitation to vote for
them as democrats In order to rebuke
the special interests for whom the
late democratic legislature kindly
killed of this very same initiative and
referendum. According to the rules OF
the bunco game, democrats who are
nonpartisans are asked to vote against
the republicans because they are re
publicans, and democrats who are par.
tisans are asked to vote for none but
democrats because they are democrats.
This is nonpartisanship as is o
p~artisanship.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
No More Connecticut Blue Laws

The Connecticut blue laws have
passed away at a ripe old age, having
been born in 1872. When the colony
was first founded the inhabitants Re
solved, That this colony should be
governed by the laws OF God until we
shall find time to make better" They
never found time to improve them un-
til 1872, the Connecticut Yankee be-
ing too busy making wooden nutmegs
and other things.
People who never lived in Connecti-
cut are doubtless unable to appreciate
fully what a change this repeal Of the
blue laws will work. You can actu-
ally carry in an armful OF stovewood
on Sunday now without being liable
to arrest and imprisonment, Possibly,
if you we're not too boisterous about II,
you might even swear on weekdays
when the CRATE falls down In the hard
coal stove on a cold morning. Under
the old law the things which you
could not legally do IN Connecticut on
week days we're so numerous that
space forbids mentioning them and on
Sunday the only safe course was to re-
main in a state Of suspended ANNA
ton.
But. really, it is ridiculous that laws
which no one eVer tried to enforce for
generations and which. in fact. NO
court would dare to enforce to the let
ter should have remained so long on
the statute books. Possibly the Con,
necticut people know why. but It is
much to be doubted. Even when
originally adopted they we're out OF
harmony with the age and were only
possible in a colony founded by the
~trictest churchmen and for 100 years
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
LAW As AN EXACT SCIENCE.
FictiOns Resting IN the A~bsurdest Of
Legal Assumptions
Iy.-... r4t.. Ca.

Legal Assumptions.
Kansas City star.
A court trial In progress was a suit for
damaaes for personal injuries. The lawyer
for the plaintiff took from a satchel a glass
jar containing a segment OF bone that had
been removed from his clients injured arm.
The eyes Of the twelve jurymen we're at
trscted to the jar. Being OF transparent
glass 1t had the properties OF transparent
glass and could be seen through. The
Jurors saw the bone II contained. So did
the Judge. "Mr. Counsel put a paper
around that object" he said to the lawyer.
1T Is not admissible in evidence"
Tit fiction Of the law was that while the
Jurors would have been sentimentaIly at
fected, TO the injury OF the defendant, II
they had seen q section OF the plaintiffs
humerus, yet they had not seen it because
the Judge said they should not, though
they had
Lawyers rest all such fictions on the
absurdest Of all legal assumptions, that the
law and its administrator are an exact
science. They would have the vital, flex-
in accord with life, ossified into algebraic
formulas. From this arises the preponder.
ant weight given to technicalitles over liv-
Ing relatives. That is what gives power "a
a dead precedent to reach out from the
grave of past generations and discourage
or arrest the natural growth of society
The fiction Of the law as an exact science
would put every lawyer out of business Il
II were a reality, Dor the law would, in
such case, work autematlcally.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
AIRsHIPs AS TARGETS.
Considerable New Business Coming
to APtiIIeriats.
Philadelnhia RAcnrd

Considerable New Business Coming
to APtilIerIats.
Philadelphia Record.
Wrigh made over forty-two miles an
hour. zeppelin's latest voyage was much
longer. but at the leisurely gait of twenty
one miles an hour. A Subcommittee of the
imperial defense committee Of England has
reported in favor OF rigid dirigible balloons
for the navy and non-rigid for the army.
The committee thinks the aeroplane must
be able to ascend to q much greater height
than at present has been achieved before
IL will be safe for recommending purposes.
Wright's aeroplane is about thlrty-six feet
long. An object of that size moving at
forty-two miles an hour. even II no more
than 500 feet above the earth, would be
q very hard target to hit, while Count
zeppelin's airship, several hundred feet
Ions and nearly a hundred in diameter.
moving at twenty-one miles an hour. at a
great height would seem almost stationary
from the earth and would present a target
so large it could hardly be missed. 1t is
also important to remember that the nearer
the earth the aviator flies the better he
can see the things he is looking for.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06

New York World.

NV IUIh NUTIu'
Chief Stone OF the Brotherhood OF Loco.
motive Engineers calls attention, in the
World Today Magazine, to the fact that
''of every 100 men who became nremen,
only seventeen are ever made engineers.
and that out OF every 100 engineers, only
six ever get passenger runs" They are
picked men who stand at the throttle.
Yet the provision for security in travel is
only as strong as the weakest head that is
concerned with a train dispatCher's mes
sage, the most careless hand that throws
a switch or the brain made most weary
by an hours-of-wOrk schedule emitting
hours Of sleep.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06

grew stronger, and within three months
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81 want this letter made public to
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MINI.
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Women who suffer from those dis
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IfyOu want special advice write
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Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
sweden's Serious Strike.

Among the last places in the world
in which n would expect a great
strike, particularly Of a semi-political
nature, would be Sweden, yet that
country is 10 in a chaotic condition,
owing to a fairly general and con-
certed strike. The Swede as a rule
is patient, industrious, frugal and law
abiding, both at home and In this
country, to which thousands of Swed-
ish people have ome Sweden has al
ways been fairly prosperous and I'M
usually so considering the natural re-
sources. 1ndustrially II has developed
greatly during the last few decades
and with this industrial expansion has
come a greater social change than sur
face indications make apparent, other
wise no such great labor upheaval as
now exists would be possible.
The Swede is of different mould
from the Frenchman and the Spaniard,
and in spite of the alarming reports
no such e as those in Barcelona
or those which recently occurred in
the French cities during the postal
strike are to be expected. II the Swed-
ish workman really has a deep.
founded grievance, he is more likely to
secure redress, for what he lacks in
fire he more than makes up in persist
ence. 1t is not conceivable, however,
that anything will occur to o~verturn
the existing Swedish government or
even impair its hold with the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
The city authorities have a peri

The city authorities have a perfect
right to a compensation from
abutting property owners for the use
of street and alley space for private
purposes. But the city cannot make
Ash Of one and flesh Of another. What
ever plan may be adopted must be
general and uniform and play no ia
vorites. Another thing in this con
nection-the city has a good deal
more to gain from encouraging sub
stantial building Improvements that
add to the assessment roll OF taxable
property than by a penny wise and
pound foolish policy that would block
legitimate private enterprise.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06
a Mild PrOteAt.

II the Indian had to go from the cent
piece no other head could so appropriately.
be substituted as Lincoln's, Yet the most
modest OF presidents would have been the
first to protest against the removal Of the
traditional likeness % me noble red man
from the American coinsI
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06

When President Taft starts IN his
summer vacation he should send a
message of sympathy 10 King Alfonso,
who a something worse than con-
gress on his hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06

NTHIJ ~ TFWFE VUTHWI
The menu card Of the dinner given at
Omaha, Eeb., to the pioneers OF that city
had an excellent likeness Of General Charles
Frederick Henderson, who served during
the civil war in all grades up to that Of
brigadier general, and after the war re-
moved to Nebraska, which state he repre-
scented in the United States senate from
1ssS-S5, during which he was pro tenn presi-
dent of the senate. No man in Nebraska
is held in higher honor than General Man
derson, and no one is more worthy of
honor.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-06

Members Of the indianapolis city
council were mobbed because Of an al.
legged attempt to pack the primary
boards with partisans OF a nonpartlsan
combine. Indianapolis voters are
more sensitive tina they have been in
Omaha,