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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-16
SENTENCED TO. HANG.
Nero Given Death Sentence For
Murder of His Father-in-Law
in Laurens County.
Special 10 The Herald and News.

SpScld1 W Iue 41C1 oIu ouu Ato"9'
Laurens, March l5.-If the sentence
of the court is carried out, the term OF
court which ended here on Saturday
will have resulted in the first legal
execution in Laurent county in about
fifteen years. John Henry Anderson,
a negro, was convicted Of murder in
the killing of his father-in-law, Josh
Carter, at negro church, Cedar
Grove, during last fall.
1t appeared from the testimony
that Anderson had got into trouble
and was on the "scout,'' as the negro
witnesses expressed it, and his wife
and children had gone to live with ner
father Josh Carter. While she was
living with her father several of the
children were taken sick with typhoid
fever, and it was at the funeral of
one Of these children that the killing
occurred.
Anderson claimed that during tAn
sickness Of his children Josh Carter
would not let him come to Josh s
home to see his wife and children. and
would not let Anderson wife 90 back
with Anderson. This, however, was
denied by Josh's wife, who said that
Anderson had never been forbidden
to, come to see his wife and children,
and bv Anderson s wife, who said
that she herself had refused to SO
back to Anderson because he was on
the :'scout'' and she was afraid ne
could not give her home.
At the church where the killing
occurred one of Anderson's children
was being buried and while the
CORPSE was in the church Anderson
came in the church from the rear
door. He said he looked on the face
of his dead child and his heart gave
way. as he. expressed it. He walked
throush the church to the front door,
and as he was going out the front
door he saw old man Josh Carter COM
inc to the church. He said that as
soon as he saw Carter he pulled his
pistol and when Carter turned around
to get out of the way he shot him Ill
the back. He said he had told Carter
he was going to kill him, and he did
it.
Anderson was defended by Messrs.
W. R. Riehey, Jr., and H. S. Black
we'll, by appointment of the court.
They simply made a plea to the jury
to save the negro's neck, urging the
negro's low intelligence. In the mo-
ton for new trial Mr.. Richev related
a conversation with the defendant
during the trial, in which the defend
ant told him that he had been par
doned bv the governor and given the
right to sell liquor or shoot Josh Car
ter or do ANYTHING else he pleased. The
motion for new trial was refused, and
when Judge Prince asked the negro
if he had anything to say why SEN
tence should not be passed Anderson
told Judge Prince about being par
! doned. The negro's attorneys Will
urge Governor Ansel to commute the
negro's sentence to life imprisonment
on account Of his lack of intelligence
and what they contend is an lmpalre>
condition of his mind.
J April q was fixed as the day tvl
the execution. J. Il. A.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-16
New School Building.
(Rv Rev J. W Wolline. D. D. }

AS it seems to me nothing could
be Of more Importance both to par
ents and children than good school
buildings. It has now become vital
question; how can our children be
we'll educated and at the same time
healthy and strong? Whatever the
other conditions Of food and exercise
it is certain they should have good,
pure atmosphere, in the school rooms
where so many hours are spent every
day. A we'll ventilated room is abso~
lutely necessary. When some thlry to
fifty boys and girls are seated in the
same room the atmosphere quickly
becomes contaminated, and the disease
that one has is soon communicated to
all.
It is not sufficient to open the win
dows which only creates a draft and
NAV do more harm than good. The
proper modern arrangement for ,ven-
tilation, by which the fresh air car
enter and the foul air 60 out, is real
ly the only plan, and this can only be
had in new up-to-date buildings. As
for health the old log school house
with its many discomforts offered bet
ter chances to the boys and girls than
the present building in this city. Btu
even if the present building was per-
feet it is by far too small; one of the
teachers with large number Of schol-
ars has to occupy the basement and
another with a whole sectio" OF the
school is lily accommodated in an out
building. Surely such as this cannot
long be continued. 1t seems to me
that there should be two new build
ings with ample grounds.
It is important to conserve the
health of the rising generation, but it
is also true that the school buildings
should have design and beauty and
thus be an architectural ornament to
the city. The churches and the school
buildings of city give tone to every
thing and are sign Of culture and
progress. No small city in South
Carolina has so many modern and tas-.
ty church edifices as Newberry, and
now it remains to put our school
houses on the same basis. In this re-
spect it is deplorable to look at the
present building-such contrast to
the church buildings. It should be
the pride and ambition Of the en-
tire county to make their county seat,
I the city of Newberry, the equal OF any
city as to their schools.
Let the buildings be put up, let ev-
ery man vote for the bond issue. and
. thus hasten the time to meet the pres
ent need. And then let the buildings
be suitable and in good taste.
, Surely no one can object to voting
thirty or even forty thousand dollars
! to be paid in so many years for so
worthy and needy an object. The rls-
; ing generation who will soon be get
ting the benefits will in due time pay
! off their share Of the debt and tine
fathers Of today will have done a last
; ing kindness to their own families
and to those Of the future. Let all
vote in favor Of the issue.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-16
GOOD FOR STATE TO BORROW.
If This Obligation Didn It Exist Legis-
lature Would Be Reckless in
Granting Appropriations.

lAO 1tCSO1o-
DR.. W. L. Mauldin, of Greenville,
who as chairman Of the senate finance
committee, has been watching State
finances for many years, while here
today expressed himself in an opti-
mistic way about the present condi-
ton of the States finances. He
does not agree with the view that the
habit the State has gotten into of
borrowing from a hundred or so thou
sands a year to half a million, which
latter sum will have to be negotiated
this year as was done last year, is a
bad policy.
"True, said he, "this entails an
item Of from $4,000 to $4,000 in in
terest charges which would not have
to be spent were the State on a cash
basis, but it has the effect of holding
these fellows down in the legislature
on the appropriations. If they did not
have this obligation hanging over
their heads they would make every
appropriation asked for, almost. Mem
bers Of the legislature for the most
part are not the large taxpayers and
they have no natural restraint. I do
not think it altogether a wise policy
to have the State on cash basis. And
this money that is borrowed is not a
debt. It is an ALLEGATION with some
thing definite and tangible, the COM
ing taxes, in view to meet it. If we
borrowed money with nothing in sight
to pay it that would be a debt. You
newspaper fellows ought to get out Of
the habit Of calling this a debt
"And I certainly do not agree to
the proposition of making the levy
such any one year as to meet this
floating debt and place the State on
cash basis at once" he continued.
"I did favor half mill as sinking
fund to take care of this situation at
one time, but I am not fully persuad-
ed that even that would be a wise
course to pursue. It is well for the
State, as it is we'll for most individu-
ais, to have an obligation ahead to
spur the peoples representatives on
to care and economy
DR.. iMauldin does not agree with
Comptroller General Jones that the
assessments should be placed on a
market value.
tFRaising the assessment will not
reduce taxes Or cause any more care
to be exercised" said he. ''On the
contrary experience has demonstrated
in the counties and in the State as a
whole that increased assessments just
incite more appropriations. The State
levy has for the past Is or 80 years
ranged between four and a fraction
and five and fraction mills, al
though within the past Is years or so
the valuation has gone up from $l73,-
100000 to nearly s275,OOo,ooo. We
have practically the same levy now
on almost twice the valuation. And
county taxes and levies run about the
same way throughout the State.
"Oh, yes," he answered to anoth-
er question, "it would be very we'll to
have property better equalzed, but 1
think this State will compare favora-
bly, with any other in that respect. |
am yet to be introduced to the practi-
cal plan by which it can be improv-
ed."
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-16
The Reason.

"I happened to mention that two
can live as cheapel as one, and he got
furious."
"He's paying alimony. Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

OF the seven Sicilian cables broken
by the last earthquake six have been
repaired The other was too deeply
buried in the sand to be raised.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11
The AIenaee Of the FIy.

Mans victory over his larger living
foes is so complete that he is apt to
regard himself as the unassailable
lord of the arth. The mastodon fell
before him centuries ago, and the
lion and elephant are his easy prey
today. Even the great snakes and
sea monsters have disappeared from
the regions he has claimed, and in the
air he seems to have no more foes at
all. But as matter of fact there are
still some strenuous wars ahead of
him if he is to remain the master of
the world. What the mastodon could
not do the pneumococcus may accom-
plish. What the python and jackal
attempted, the rat, the mosquito and
the house fly may achieve.
It is only in recent years that the
menace of these apparently puny foes
has been understood. Twenty years
ago it was believed that malaria was
caused by foul air. Today We know
that it is transmitted by the anopheles
maculipennio, mosquito. We know,
too. that the stegomyia fasciata, an
other mosquito transmits yellow few
er that the tsetse fly carries the
germs of the sleeping sickness, and
that the rat is the bearer OF the bu-
bonic plague Knowing these things,
we war upon the mosquito, tsetse fly
and rat-and already the effect is
enormous. Malaria is dying out in the
world and yellow fever has disap-
peared from even its worst pestholes.
In Africa the sleeping sickness is
about to yield, and in the Far East
the bubonic plague grows less and
less.
But there yet remains another
bearer of sickness and death-the
common house fiy-ano the maladies
that he carries still rage. tuberculosis
is one of them, and others are typhoid
fever pneumonia and the terrible in
tesinal disorders of summer The
fly. of course, does not cause these
diseases himself but he carries the
germs that do. He walks in filth, and
the microscopic organisms stick to
his feet. A moment later he invades
the dining rom Weeks afterward
there is illness in the house, and
maybe death.
A great war upon the house fly is
now being organized. 1t has the sup
port of health officers in all the
states. and it deserves the active aid
of every citizen 1t will go slowly,
no doubt, at the start, for the public
does not adopt novel prophylactic
measures eagerly-witness the long
opposition to vaccination-but in the
end it is certain, a house or
city infested by filthy, disease-breed-
ing flies will be regarded by all as a
house or city disgraced. The fly has
no excuse for existence. He is abso-
lutely useless and utterly vile.-Bal-
timOre Sun.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11
Circus Daring Due to Heredity.

Alfred T Ringing tells me that
nine-tenths Of the leading performers
before the public can be included in
30 families As sharply defined as
any old English lineage, they cam be
traced backward in some instances
more than two centuries-each gener-
alton accepting without question the
heritage of spangles and tights The
circus daring and the circus muscles
and the circus restlessness have de-
scended from father to children and
thence to children again. The thrill
of the sawdust ring has got into the
blood. From the parent trunk branch
es have crossed and crisscrossed until
as in the case of the Clarkonians
and the Demotts and the Siegrists
Florenzes, great circus lines have
been built up and guarded with. the
jealous care of a royal genealogy-
Hugh C. Wen. in the Bohemian
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11
A Valuable Tree.

There is a tree in Cheapside, Lon
don, that may be described literally as
the most expensive of its kind on
earth. If SIS gold pieces filed the en-
tire trunk and IS bills fiuttered in
place Of every one of the leaves, it
would not buy the terra flrma it &C.
cupies. For the land on which 1t
stands, the northwest corner of Wood
street and Cheapside, is worth IL
million dollars an acre. The tree has
stood on this spot for over 200 years.
while its site has augmented in value
to almost fabulous proportions.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11
u z
) PERSONALS

Mike Wise left Sunday on bust
ness visit to Houston.
l.. B. Raymond of Raymondville
was visitor in the city today.
c. F. Singer, prominent citizen
of Chaplin, was in the city Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs ]. L. Landrum of San
Benito spent Sunday in the city.
E. S. Haggard of San Benito was
business visitor in the city Saturday.
V w. Haney and ]. W. Brown of
Mission spent Sunday in the city.
E. NJ. Card the well known civil
engineer CT Chaplin, was visitor in
the city today.
C. E. Jones, prominent contractor
of San Juan. was business visitor in
the city yesterday.
Captain F. NJ. Collins of Tarpon
Beach spent Sunday night in the city,
returning home yesterday,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Bowers and Mr.
and Mrs. A B. Croft of San Benito
spent Sunday in the city.
]. NJ. Vela, and A. J. Longoria
prominent Hidalgo county citizens,
were Sunday visitors in the city
Josiah Turner of the Rancho Gal
weston, with his little son, Francis,
has been spending several days in
town.
Will L, Dunn, the live right o'way
man of the San Antonio and Rio
Grande railway, was in town today on
a short business trip.
Evan Rees of Mission left Saturday
afternoon for his former home in st.
Paul, Mimi, where he goes to spend
a short time with relatives.
A. Ashheim, cashier of the First
National Bank left Sunday for Hous-
ton, to attend the meeting of the
State Bankers Association now in
progress there.
w Daviess Pittman of La Feria
was transacting business in town to-
day. He leaves this afternoon on
his return to La Feria. Mr.. Pittman
will go to Harlingen to meet Gov.
Francis. whom he has known person
ally for years 1t was largely at Mr..
Pittmans solicitation. in fact, that
the governor and his party decided
to visit the valley.
Rev. DR.. L.R. Burgess, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Brownsville,
accompanied by Mrs. Burress, left
Sunday afternoon for Baldwin. Miss.
From BALDWIN,, DR.. Burgess will go to
Louisville, KY. to attend the Southern
Baptist convention which will be
held there May 13 to 16. He will
return to Baldwin where he will Off
ciate on May 23d at the dedication of
the Mt Olive Baptist church. This is
a new church built to replace one in
which DR.. Burress formerly served as
pastor. Later DR.. Burgess goes to
Memphis, Tenn, to attend the Con-
federate reunion, to be held June 8,
9 and 10. AS former captain in the
Confederate army. he will find this
an occasion of unusual interest. Be
tween these interesting occasions, DR..
and Mrs. Burgess will divide their time
visiting relatives and old friends in
Mississippi They will be absent
six weeks.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

An international congress of ap-
piled chemistry will be opened by the
Prince of Wales at London, May II
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

This is a good time to dispose Of
the old stock that is not needed.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

Electricity as a motive power has
been used for 20 years.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11
Useful Implement.

A Denison doctor called at house
to see a woman who was sick. The
doctor placed a thermometer in the
woman's mouth to get her tempera-
ture. What does a thermometer
COST" the husband asked. Its ow-
ing to the case" the doctor replied,
from fifty cents to a dollar and a
half" Well" the husband said,
Il intend to get one; that's the only
thing that ever kept my wife's mouth
shut-Gazetteer
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

Actions of the bass drummer speak
louder than his words
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

Do you know that you can write
your name on the metal of your farm
tools? You can Just take little
tallow or beeswax, melt it and spread
It over the place on which you want
your name. Write your name down
through the wax with big needle
or awl and pour a few drops of nitric
ecid over the letters you have made.
Leave a few minmes, thea wipe OF
the wax and your name viii be- on
the iron.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

Canadas first plant for the manu-
facture of creosote is to be sestab
lished at Weldon, Quebec, by a COM
pany employing capital from the
United States.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

never anow anyone WIN solled
hands to gather eggs, for very lit
tie greese or oil on the shell Of an
egg will make it worthless so far as
Matching is concerned.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

With a view of resisting aerial in
vasion should war ever occur, the
British army viii experiment with
S-pound shell against captive bal
Icons.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

A new apparatus for making ozone
consists of tube containing Nernst
rod, over which, when it is heated, a
current of air is drawn by fan.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

Profitable winter eggs canuO, ps' s.
cured from old hens. Sush hens are
ant to be profitable in the spring and
summer. Rely upon pullets only for
winter eggs.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

a new rife. using the force of the
recon to eject the empty shells and
reload the chamber, may be fired five
times in a second and half.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-05-11

The truck farmers around Milan,
Tenn. have organized in order to pro.
tect their interests.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
REOPEN INVESTIGATION.

Owing to New information Coming to
Light in the Death Of John p. Hens.
New information coming to light
will reopen the investigation into the
death Of John p. Hens, late receiver
of the Globe Gold Mining company, at
Lead. Hens was found at his home
with jagged wound in his head and
died without recovering consciousness.
be found, The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of accidental death due to
q fall Since then suspicion has been
directed toward certain persons whom
the authorities are shadowing, and the
general belief is that Hens met his
death at the hands of some assailant.
A story of friend to the effect that
just before his death Hens had sold
a valuable bunch of cattle and re-
ceived the money, is being investi-
gated, as he had 10 money when
found Hens is also believed to have
owned two valuable ranches near
Cambria, Wyo EIe was a veteran of
both the Mexican and Crimean wars,
and was seventy years of age. Sever
al creditors of the estate are seeking
papers of administration, and the dis
tribution of the estate has aroused
a spirited fight.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
Bankers Meet at Huron.

The first annual convention Of
Group 8" of the South Dakota Bank
ers' association closed at Huron last
week. The counties comprising the
group are Sphinx, Beadle, Kingsbury
and Miner, in which are located six
ty-three banks, f1fty-two being mem
bers of the association. The conven-
ton opened with invocation by L. E.
Smith, rector Of Grace Episcopal
church, followed with an address Of
welcome by J. w. Campbell. president
of the group, to which W. 7. McCon-
nell of the Western National bank of
Mitchell responded, after which
George c. Fullinweider, secretary,
submitted his report. At the different
sessions a number Of addresses were
delivered, and matters pertaining to
banking interests were discussed, the
proceedings being interspersed with
numbers by the male quartet, com
posed of Messrs. l.. A. Churchill, M. E.
Walton, w. F. Long and J. C. Dexter,
The following officers were chosen
for the ensuing year: J. w. Camp
bell of Huron, president; H. I. Ilston
OF Lake Preston, vice president;
George G. Fullinweider Of Huron, sec
rotary, and R. F. Chenoweth of VOL
sey, J. A. Crane of Redfield. H. q
Bratrud of Roswell and U. w. ELS of
1roquols as the executive committee.
Huron was named as the place for
holding the next convention.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
LARGER WAISTS NOW.
Rule for Fashion Models in London
Shops Is "a Inches,

Rule for Fashion Models in London
Shops Is "a Inches.
The manikins who are employed by
many west end dressmakers to dis
play the new seasons dresses are try
ing to bring their waist measurements
up to a uniform twenty-fo inches,
which is the ideal waist Of the present
fashion.
The eighteen or nineteen inch waists
which were once the rule in many
west end show rooms and which
necessitated excessive tight lacing for
the girls employed are not only no
longer required in the better class
establishments, but their possessors
are required to develop a waist meas
urement several inches larger
Our stock waist is twenty four
inches, for it is impossible to show
present-day gowns to advantage on a
smaller waist" explained the man.
ageress of one well-known establish
ment. MANY people have developed
unnatural waists in course of time
and when a girl has acquired one of
these small waists a pad is placed
inside her corsets to fill up the waist
cavity.
Tight lacing only obtains in old
fashioned show rooms which have not
yet taken cognizance of the entire
change in the character of dress"