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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

The proposition of Senator Hardin
to establish four agricultural schools
in the State to be partly at least un-
der the direction Of Clemson college
is a good one. He ought to provide
for one in each congressional district
Or better still one in each county to
be fitting schools for. Clemson. IF
I, Clemson is to continue to receive the
aid it is now getting an appropriation
of $500 to school Of this charac-
ter in each county could be made
easily with no detriment to Glenn
son: ..: .
It would be a great deal better to
do this than to establish scholarships,
for it would reach more Of the child
rem Of the State and would give the
young men Of the State an impetus
to make an effort to go to college and
they could go without aid from the
State.
This would only take $4,000 and
clemson could spare this without in
jury to the school. Besides with
these schools it would not be neees-
sary for Clemson to do so much pre-
paratory work and this would be
great saving. Then by making these
schools largely agricultural, as they
should be, it would encourage the
boys to take the agricultural course.
It would be good idea if the mon
ey that is now spent on Winthrop
scholarships were put in county pre-
paratory schools and thus reach more
of the girls of the State and those
who desire and We're prepared could
90 to Winthrop or any college they
might select.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21
Atlantic Coast Line.

1.-THE Atlantic Coast I ne is re-
placing about FIVE and one half miles
Of wooden trestles across the Pee
Dee. Santee and Savannah Rivers in
South Carolina, with a concrete and
steel viaduct, representing the most
modern engineering construction, at
a cost Of approximately one million
dollars. Thete Improvements Will
make a permanent crossing at these
important rivers on the main line,
and it is expected that the entire
work will be completed in March OF
1910.
The completion Of a second track
during February, 1910, 5etween
Folkston, Ga., and Callahan Fia:'
creates continuous double track BE-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21
Friday, January 81, 1910.
ABOLISH SCHOLARSHIPS.

We notice that the legislature is
moving to increase the number Of
scholarships in our State colleges.
That is simply an indirect way Of
sncreasing the appropriation to State
colleges. The senate has passed a
bill providing for l24 normal schol-
.arships in the South Carolina Uni
versity. When there we're only forty
,not more than half we're taken. It
as very nice to talk about trained
teachers, but you are not going to
have them in the public schools in
this State, it matters little how many
normal scholarships you provide In
the State colleges, until you pay your
teachers in the common schools more
money. And as long as you continue
to find excuse for piling up appro-
priations for higher eduaction AMI
doing nothing toward the improve
nent Of your common schools you
viii never have trained teachers IN
them. That is teachers who are 60
ing to make it their life work.
We want to see the State colleges
supported, but we do not approve of
this indirect way Of securing addi-
tional appropriations for them.
We would abolish all scholarships.
We believe that any boy or girl in
South Carolina, who is prepared to
enter the freshman class Of any first
class college, and who has the capae-
iiy to take an education, can secure
bile means to pay the expenses. And
this thing Of requiring them to each
for term Of years is an injury to
the children of the State. We are
almost ready to say is a crime against
the children Of the State. Better
abolish all scholarships. Many times
they do not go to those most needy
or deserving. And it frequently hap
pens that those amply able to edu-
cate themselves are awarded free
scholarships. Then the boy OF girl
who pays his or'her own way through
college feels so much more indepen-
dent.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

laby song it would be for you to 60
to sleep with. You fling out your
snar1v words with little thought of
what they may do. As they fall they
blight and blister wherever they
strike. ,
Don't Fret Over These Things.
"Don't fret about the mistakes
and follies and sins Of your past
life. Believe the truth Of that little
poem of Susan Coolidge.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every morn. is the world made
new,
You who are weary of sorrow and
shining
Here is a beautiful hope for you.
t'Don't fret because others have
been more prosperous than you. The
best things in Life are more evenly
distributed than We are willing to ad-
NIT. There is no trust big enough
to get a corner on good digestion or.
eheerfulness Of disposition. No man
can have a monopoly Of friendship
or affection. No corporation can bar
you from the sple1dor Of the heaven
that arches over you, and the beauty
of the earth that engirdles you. The
best things are open and available
to all. When you st down to think
how powerf,l it is. It is powerless
to purchase a single kiss Of afec-
ton, or buy bond Of friendship.
"Don't fret because Of what peo-
pie say about You, nor over the past
Joys Of life, nor over business re-
verses
That's good stuff, now, amt itg
Then remember it and govern your
self accordingly.
The Idler.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21
Famous Bulls. :

The house of commons, as might
have been expected, has contributed
a fair share to a very amusing col
lection Of "bulls, - says the d11so1
Magazine. It was in one. Of the de-
bates of that body that the late Col
Saunderson described Eastern Bou'
Imania as "man enough to ss1h fsl
stand in defense of a certain H1eati
ened right
An Irish NJ. P. once decla1s3 that
of the outrages reported fren Ire
land three-quarters we're exaggerated,
and half had no foundation N fact
"a statistical computation that rel
minds one Of anoher Irish NJ P.,ywho1
declared excitedly to group 81 fell
low members: "I want to eenvineel
you that there isn't any truth IN
half the lies they are telling about
Ireland.' -
The biography of Dean Hook re-
calls a certain minor canon, VINO
used to preach at the. cathedral, when
Hook was a boy at Westminster
school. In one of his sermons therel
occurred the striking reflection thai
"what is impossible can nevar ba
and very seldom comes to pass. !"
Another discourse was long re
membered for its pathetic lznentas
tions on the deg'neraey Of ths age
80 tempora! o mores! What times
we live in! Little boys and girls run
about the streets eursing and swear
ing before they can either talk or
walk!'
But the Church Of England has no.
monopoly Of these violent contrasts,
for it was at city temple meeting
not many years ago speaker ex-
claimed: II find my time is already
gone. Therefore 1 will keep within
it. New Orleans Pieayune.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21
PLAN TO VOTE s2,5ooo,oeo FOR
GOOD ROADS.

Columbia, Jan. ia bill was to.
day fayorably reported by the ways
and means committee, providing that
the constitution be amended 50 that
bonds to the amount Of $2,5OO,OOo
NAV be voted for good roads.
It is expected that the bill Will be
passed, as there is such widespread
and growing sentiment in favor OF
better highways, and that the ques-
ton will be submitted to the voters
Of the State at the next general elec-
ion.
The above we find in the Union
Progress as a special from Columbia.
When the editor Of The Herald and
News was in the legislature in l9o3
he introduced a bill to permit the
counties to vote on the proposition. to
issue bonds or vote a special tax for
the permanen work on roads but
found very little support for the pro-
position. Now it is thought that a
bill to bond the State for two and a
half mil!lt d ,llars and to pre- vide a
State Good Roads Department will
BE- passed. There is no work of great
er Importance than the building OF
roads and We hope to see the move
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21


Rev. Coke d. Mann, Methodist
minister. a member Of the board Of
trustees Of Clemson college, mem
Der of the legislature, an avowed
candidate for Congress from this
district, replies to Dr.. Nell. Now,
DIR. Mann, You should not speak OF
any of your fellow men as "dlr-
ty cur That is not nice language
for an ordinary sinner, but holding
the various responsible positions
YOU do you should bride. your tongue
and be more gentle.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

In his message Tuesday to the
South Carolina Legislature, Gov.
Ansel recommends anothef election
in the six wet counties on the liquor
question. We are Of the opinion that
the people had rather pass a State
wide prohibition, bill and settle the
question at once. The cost, worry
and fatigue of another liquor elec-
ton is too much to put on the people
again. The majority Of the people OF
this State have already shown by the
ballot box that they want prohlbl-
ton, and the Legislature, as their
representative, should pass a strln-
gent prohibition law, one that will
answer. which can be done, and get
the name Of whiskey" out OF pol
itics, which has disgraced it long
enough. Give US prohibition; that's
what We want, and let the Leglsla-
ture do it, as is their duty.-Horse
Creek Valley News.
We are inclined to agree with the
News that it would be just as we'll
for this legislature to pass State
wide prohibition bill and be done
with it. There is no question that
a majority of the people of the State
favor such a measure and probably
the enactment Of such law by the
present legislature would take the
matter out Of the campaign the COM
ing summer. We believe in making
the county the unit and therefore in
local option as among the counties
but so many people want to look at
ter other peoples business and are
not satisfied with attending to their
own that We just as well let them
make a trial: Of forcing prohibition
on those counties that say by their
votes they don't want it.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21
Riehland county jury declared

A Richland county jury declared
Jim Farnum not guilty Of bribery.
Now Farnum says that he is guilty
and pays a $4,000 fine. That jury
ought to be ashamed to look an hon
est CRATER in the face.-Spartanburg
Journal.
As we have read the case, the In
dietment to which. Farnum pleaded
guilty was a very materially differ
ent one from the one upon which his
case was presented to The Rlchland
Jury. And it must be remembered
that Farnum gave 20 evidence in the
trial before the jury and all cases
are presumed to be tried on the eV-
idenee which is adduced in the court
and not on what any one believes OF
what the newspapers may say. We
think there has been a little too
much criticism of the Richland jury.
Besides that was It not announced by
the attorney general that these cases
were to be tried at Chester. The In
dictment to which Farnum pleaded
guilty does not charge that there
was bribery but says he paid rebates
to Jos. B. Wylie.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

If Clemson college is not State
institution We would like to know by
what right or authority the legisla-
ture undertakes to appoint COM
mittee to investigate. What busl-
ness Of the State how much nepotlsm
exists there and what IS the State
nsiog to Do about Il.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

Iwas just reading in the Observer
the other day where the editor holds
that it is wrong for an editor to ae-
eept a pass from the railroads even
in exchange for an Advertising con-
tract, and that it seems to me IS an
evidence of the fact that this Is an
age Of graft because it can mean
but one thing and it is that the edi-
tor who accepts one will be IN favor
of the railroads against the inter-
est Of the people. It will eventually
come to the point when one man can
moi extend to another the smallest
courtesy for fear that the other will
think he has purchased him. 1t IS
getting down on the cold commercial
basis and no honest men are left.
I was wondering what the old time
editor who was given free pass
and felt sighted if he was not ad-
mitted to all the playhouses and
circuses and fairs and hotels and
other places as he felt he ought to
be as a matter Of right, would think,
and if you had suggested that he
would be Influenced by these little
eourtesies you would have had a fight
right then and there-What would he
think of the suggestion that the
legislature should pass law prohlb-
iting him from aecept'ng such
things? Is the demand for such
legislation an indication that we
are growing better? Well, it is none
Of my business. But if it is necessary
to legislate against such things, does
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21
THE IDLER.


Don't forget 'Wonderland" Oh
Friday night. You know I would
like to see the young folks in this
play, and | have been wondering
what the thing is like. I will be un-
able to get out as it rarely happens
that I can leave my cage at night.
Why, you know, I don't even go to
church at night and it would not be
consistent to stay away from church
on account of my infrmities and
then go marching out to the opera
house. There are some good people
who think it is sin to go to the
opera house anyhow and I have been
&oniering if any of the saints would
venture out to see the home folks
appear in public on the stage. I
hope there will be lots Of tickets
sold and that the 3iy;c association
will make lots Of money FIR [ hear
they are going to begin work Ill
earnest as soon as they get a little
more money in the treasury.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

ment take a strong hold. We were
Just a little ahead Of the procession.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

Well let US hope that the Lay
mems movement. and the revival
services which are being held and
the money We are sending to Chris
tianize the heather mean that we
are growing better and the time is
near at hand when crime will be no
more. This Laymen's movement
ought to be a great factor in the
evangelization Of the world and 1t
is the way after all for the better
ment Of humanity. It is better to lead
men and teach them the right way
than to try to force or drive them.
We have too many sumptuary laws.
But I should not be writing about
these things. This is matter tor
the good people. We should teach by
example as well as. precept. We
should do good ourselves as well as
tell other people to be good and then
the world would grow better very
rapidly.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21

/ was just thinking the other day
as I was reading a newspaper and
wondering if the world IS growing
better or not. In every paper you
see where some fellow is being
charged with graft or some one has
run off with somebody else's wife or
some millionaire is having divorce
case in the court with
whole lot of SANDER connected with
it or some trusted official has looted
the treasury or some other horrible
crime has been committed. In fact
the news service Of the daily paper
is composed largely Of crime. 1t
doesn't seem to me that it was this
way in the good old days. Maybe I
am mistaken. At least hope I am and
that the world is really and truly ap-
preaching that time when every mar
will be brother to every other
man in the sense in which that term
is defined in the Good Book. You
know that some people say that this
is an age Of graft and others that
it is commercial age. IF it is as
modern life coustrues these terms
then I am afraid that the world is
not improving. And I did not men
ton murder and safe cracking and
drunkenness and larceny and bribery
and a lot of other little crimes which
are chronicled every day in the
newspapers. " =
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-01-21


"Oliver Wendell Holmes tells US
of a plain marble slab he found IN
Mount Auburn cemetery with an
epitaph of four wo1ds: He was so
pleasant That short senteme re-
vealed the music of a life that must
have been benedit tion 10 the home
and community. Stop Your croak-
ing, and moping, and do as the pho
tographer bids you-look pleasant.
Do what the house wife iries 10 have
her preserves do, keep sweet.
"To fret and fume and worry and
wall is to disobey one Of the plain
est precepts of religion. It is anx-
iety, it is worry, that makes the
world sad and wrinkled and gray.
Work is healthful. It strengthens,
invigorates, gladdens. You shorten
YOUR life, stay your happiness, de-
stroy your usefulnes, dishonor your
filth in God by fretting.
eff an invisible photograph could
follow you around all day and catch
up every sharp word, every snarly
tone, every whining sentence, every
n rose mutter, and unwind 1t Id
your ear at night, what sweet luz
The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06
The Neck Trial.

One of the most amusing entertain
ments Of the year "a a mock trial
recently given by the Ciyics class,
under the direction of Miss Field.
Besides being entertaining, the trial
was extremely helpful to those tax
ing part in it, for a thorough under
standing of a sure 'nough" trial had
to be gained before the mock trial
could be presented. To aid the class
in procuring this necessary know
ledge, Judge Gagnon kindly con
scented to address the class and give
the main features of a triad. Ills
talk was fine and the success Of the
mock trial was greatly due to it,
Nay Orange and Black.
The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06
Commencement.

The school year is about to close.
Nine months of good, hard work will
soon be over. School life for some
of us will then be a thing of the
past. 1t makes II sad to think
about it. For twelve long years we
have been working toward enc end
graduation, and now when the goal is
reached. the joy of victory is ming
led with sadness. The school has
practically been our home and it is
like breaking home ties to leave it,
yet slightly changing Burnett's fam
Gus quotation W. can comfort our
selves by thinking: 1T is better than
everything else, that the school
should be a little better because a
boy or girl has attended it-eyen ever
so little.'-May Orange and Black.
The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06
FACULTY COMMENT.
BY f. X. HURST.

Today | received a communication
from one of the largest universities
in the United States relative to grant
ing a scholarship to our best pupil.
| sometimes doubt the wisdom or
fairness of holding such incentives To
good scholarship before the school,
for the one who gets the best grades
is not always the most worthy nor
most deserving. but the further quail
~ifieation was, that the applicant must
be one who took a leading part in
some of the enterprises of the school
other than just books, going OF to
say that it was desired to grant these
scholarships to those who would max
their mark in the world as leaders,
apparently putting much emphasis on
the fact that the leader in school
is bound to be the leader in life. The
observation of most of us will lead
us to agree in this matter. Leader
ship is a great thing anywhere, but
IL 10 uol the Qudliliiy vi IhN iN"aNi
ship that counts, but the quality.
There are two classes of very con
temptible people in this world, those
who lead III what they know to be
the wrong direction and those who
havn't enough backbone to keep
from drifting with the tide. There's
n, hApD fN, tho, farYnar hut tho
latter is very doubtful.
Little above these, is the fellow
who ever and anon drifts with the
crowd, whichever way it goes. lie
is only better because il we keep
him in good company he will do
nothing worse han hamper their pro
gress.
The fellow that counts anywhere
is the one who leads-leads right and
keeps e~ternally at it.
Every school has examples of each
and when the world wants men and
women to do things il will reach out
for that latter class standing in bold
ltiltI Oi tic iioIol vi VI Jul ~
situations and they Will fill the bill.
Three years of pleasant experience
in this high school has brought into
my acquaintance student lives that
have given M inspiration, ideals and
higher aspirations. There have been
characters that have made me want
them for lifelong friends, because
they seemed to have some hidden pow
er that meant things must move, and
the point of Il is that these qualit-
les have found on outlet somewhere
so as to make them leaders in some
line of school life. That leadership
may have been in a humble way, but
the influence none the less eyerted.
And so every student, no matter
what his age, may be eXerting an in
fluence on some life or lives Cor good
or bad, and hat in the direction in
which he is leading. It's a tremen-
dous responsibility. Which way are
headed? - May Orange and
Black.
The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06
NEW AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPH
To Extend Its Lines to Nebraska
Falls City on List.

III pursuance of its plan To inter.
lace he whole country at an early
date with its web of automatic tele.
graph wires, announcement was made
in New York Wednesday, April 20.
that the Telepost Company has un.
der Amusement the expansion of its
system TO all parts of Nebraska.
Connection is to be established by
way of st. Louis and Kansas City To
which point the system now extends.
William II. McCollum, former super.
intendent of Construction of the
Postal Company, who is in charge of
the extension of the automatic sys.
tenn, has been looking over the groun
for some time and reports conditions
unusually favorable for the Inaugural,
ton of work on the line.
This system is regarded by scienti.
fic men as the most brilliant achieve
ment in the evolution of telegraphy
since Morse's time. representing the
conquest of a new basic principle in
t%elegraphy that presages for that
industry a worldwide revolution with
its 1000 words a minute service and
rates of one cent. half and quarter of
a cent a word, regardless of time or
distance.
By the Telepost system a message
is transmitted with equal facility over
either a telegraph or telephone wire.
Its rates are the lowest and its ser
vice the most rapid in the world,
Civic organizations. boards of trade
have been in touch with officials of
the teleposta for several months and
have assured the company Of their
readiness to cooperate with it in
anyway ii can suggest as most
likely to facilitate the extension of
its lines to Nebraska.
Among the cities and towns in the
state under consideration for Tele-
post connection are: Lincoln, omaha,
Nebraska City. South Omaha, Ere
mont, York, Beatrice, Tecumseh, Hast
ings. Kearney, Grand Island, Central
City, Schuyler, Columbus, F%airbury,
McCook, North Platte, Alliance, Bel
mont, Morrill,, Kimball, Fails City.
Patrick B. Delany, the inventor of
the Telepost system which is now
used between Boston and Portland,
and between Chicago, st. Louis, In
dianapolis, Terre Haute, and other
cities in Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, Maine. Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri, is an old associate OF Thorn
as A. Edison. The discovery of the
new scientific principle which made
its invention possible, Is the realiza-
ton of an ambition Delany and Edi-
son had as far back Is 1871, when he
and the wizard experimental on i'm
.proyements to the Morse methods of
hand transmission over a special
line constructed between Washington
and New York with the idea OF
evolving a system of rapid telegraphy
to displace the mails for long dis
lance communication.
In addition to being a boon of in
value to the public, the
Delany automatic system, will save
the newspapers of the country hun
dreds of thousands of dollars a year
in telegraph tolls, through its cheap
great speed and accurate SER
vice.
OF the 81, 500, 900 expended every
year for telegraph service by the
Associated Press it is figured out that
approximately 500, 600 will be saved
by the use of the automatic service,
when it completes its continent wide
expansion.
The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06
Move.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has said:
Il find the great thing in this world
is not so much where we stand, as
in what direction We are moving
How true that statement is in High
School life! 1t is the school that
moves that makes a reputation for it
self; it is the school that moves that
gets results Students, let's
moYe!'-May Orange and Black,
The Falls City tribune., 1910-05-06

We have some fresh Red Sea
flour in now. Come and get a sack
&C. A. Heck.