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terms, to-Wit: One-third to be paid IN
cash, balance to be paid in two equal
annual installments, the credit portion
to be secured by the bond Of the pur-
chaser and mortgage of the premises
sold. Said bond to bear interest at
the rate of 8 per centum per annum,
payable annually until paid in full.
The said mortgage is to provide that
in case interest is not paid annually
or any installment is not paid at ma
turity, then that the whole debt shall
become due and payable at the option
of the remaindermen or any two or
more of them, and that the Master
shall Immediately proceed to forclose
said mortgage.
Unless purchaser shall comply with
terms of sale within i've days from
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20
What is Your Family Worth!

e., If your family is worth the best you
can afford in house and food and
clothes, is it not worth the best read
ing IS we'll? And the best reading
hest for boys and girls, best for men
and women-is to be found in The
Youths Companion.
Of stories alone The Companion will
print nearly 300 in 1912. With all the
rest of the paper thrown in, and count
ing the glorious long serial stories,
they cost the subscriber less than a
cent apiece. Moreover, you will look
Bong before you will find stories so
varied and interesting stories Of cool
ness in the face of peril, strange ad-
ventures with creatures of the forest
and the sea, moving stories of life's
obscure heroisms, stories breezy with
good-natured humor, quaint and Gu
rious character sketches.
Now IS the time to subscribe, for
you will receive free from the time
your S1.75 is received all the issues
for the remaining weeks of 1911, con-
tanning the opening chapters of Ralph
D. Paine's great serial story of the
Boxer rebellion, ''The' Cross and the
DRAGON And there is the gift Of
The Companion Calendar for 1912,
son the New England Coast" litho-
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day of sale, said land shall be resoio
at risk of purchaser, On salesday IN
December or the first conVenlentt
salesday thereafter.
The purchaser will have leave to
anticipate payments in whole or IN
part. Purchaser will be required to
pay for all papers and recording OF
mortgages. The mortgages will also
provide for ten per cent attorneys =
fee in case the same are collected by
suit or placed in the hands Of an at
torney for collection.
The Kempson Ferry steele bridge .
road runs directly through this prop-1
erty.
H. H. Rikard, =
Master Newperry County.
Masters Office, October 2, 19l1. +,
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lent work in the title role last sea-
son and the mere announcement of
his bing connected again with this
popular play will undoubtedly be met
with pleasure. Mr.. Paine is supported
by splendid company and a very
charming chorus. Much praise is said
to have been bestowed upon the stage
director for the many novel and ORR
ginal drills and exceptional effective
dances. A score Of new musical num-
bers have been interpolated into the
play and one number in particular
"Under the Mexican Moon is said to
be a complete Knockout.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20
At THE THEATRE.
aThe Millionaire Hid"

AThe Millionaire Kid drama
with music by the author Of "The
Candy Kid" and "The Cowboy Grip
is the offering at the City Opera House
Friday night, October 20. This play
was one of the biggest hits of the sea-
son last year, and is universally prais-
ed by the press, both as play OF in
tense dramatic interest and music OF
the kind you whistle for days after
you have seen the performance.
{ Raymond Paine, who again has the
title role, is a young actor Of excep-
tional ability and sings and dances in
a manner that creates a great hit with
the audience Mr.. Paine has local
following here created by his excel
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20

FARM LANDS FOR SALE.

We will sell on salesday In NoVem-
Der, 1911, at public outcry in front OF
the court. house at Newberry, within
the legal hours of sale, the real estate
of which Mrs. E. L. Spearman died,
seized, in two tracts as follows:
/. The Home Place, containing 215
acres. more or less, and bounded by
lands of Mrs. F. S. Mafett Mrs. F. S.
Paysinger, A. P. Werts and Tract No.
2.
2. Tract No. 2, containing 125 acres,
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Mary F. Dominick, Corrie Merchant,
Jcseph B. Dominick, NLitla Lowe.
Nina Vandiver, Arthur F. Dominick,
Julia Metts, and Annie R. Harris,
Plaintiffs,
Against
Marie Dominick, Samuel W. Dominick,
Defendants.
By an order of the court herein, I
will sell to the highest bidder, before
the court house at Newberry, South
Carolina, within the legal hours OF
sale On Monday, the sixth day of No
vember, 1911, Same being salesday, all
that tract or plantation Of land known
as the Croft Place." situate, lying
and being in the County of Newberry,
and the State aforesaid, containing
four hundred acres, more or less, and
bounded by the lands of Thomas Blair,
A. 6. Wise, Mrs. Letitia Nichols, and
w. E. Lake. Same to be sold in sew
eral tracts, plats Of which will be on
file in the Office of H. H. Rikard, Mas
ter for Newberry County, and may be
seen by purchaser, on the following
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20
Attacks School Principal.

A severe attack On school principal,
Chas. B. Allen, of Sylvania. Ca, is thus
told by him. "For more than three
years." he writes, 81 suffered indescrl-
bable torture from rheumatism, liver
and stomach trouble and diseased kid
neys. All remedies failed till I used
Electric Bitters, but four bottles or
this wonderful remedy cured me COM
pletely." Such results are common.
Thousands bless them for curing stom-
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.

Notice is hereby given that Will
make a final settlement Of the estate
Of Irwin M. Mills, a minor, in the pro-
bate court Of Newberry county on
Friday, November 10, 1911, at II
O'Clock in the forenoon, and immed-
lately thereafter apply for letters dis
missory as guardian Of said minor.
&c. Mills, Guardian.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-10-20
aThe Girl in the Taxi"

. "The Girl in the Taxi" the greatest
laughing success of the century, comes
to the Newberry opera house for an
engagement of one night, October 26,
"The~ Girl in the Taxi" was originally
produced in Berlin and afterwards in
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graphed in ten colors and gold. Only
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ach trouble, female complaints, kid
ney disorders, billiousness, and for
new health and vigor. Try them. Only
soc. at W. E. Pelham's.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
The Arytn-Brock Controversy.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
v6 Sir'-i beg permission GIls to publish in
the Arvin Brock senatorial contest,
now before the congressional Deme-
cratic committee OF the Fourth and
mary various articles We're published
in the press in which the idea was
conveyed to the public at large that
Republican votes. Several of these arr
ticles were published accounts Of In
terviews with Mr. Arvin. Although
this impression was being created in
the State Central Committee had met
in Richmond about three weeks after
the primary. and after this committee
had delegated its authority in the final
men of the congressional district or
districts in which a contest was
Admitting that the State Central Com
mittee had right to delegate it's au-
thority was given them. and them only.
hority was given them. and them only.
committeeman from the Fourth and
Tenth Districts IN this instance GER
tainiy have no further jurisdiction
party law provides in this case that
contest for nomination of State SEN
ator must first come before a commit
men of Amelia, Nottoway, Prince Ed
ward: Lunenburg and Cumberland
counties. and then only can 1t come
before the state Central Committee
on an appeal
Was this contest brought this way?
No It was brought primarily before
the Tenth and Fourth congressional
committees. and these committees took
jurisdiction in the matter, which will
be decided next Tuesday. DID the con-
testant want this matter brought in
regular form? No: he did not want
his claim that Republicans voted for
Brock brought before the chairmen of
these five counties, who know condi-
lions as they are, because he knew
that If enough Republicans voted to
AFFECT the election before tribunal
familiar with this AFFAIR. ne would
be the man to suffer and not Brock.
Mr.. Arvin says that he could not bring
on contest sooner after the election
because he did not know that a GER
tifcate OF nominati ton had been award
ed Mr.. Brock by the proper committee
until after the meeting of the State
committee. which was about ten days
after such certificate was Issued.
Would this be probable?
Knowing conditions as they exist,
majority of the Democrats in these
five counties, I believe, stand out
against contest, which is to be de-
cided both primarily. and ultimately
by committee who know nothing of
the conditions. and who are able to
command so meaEre testimony.
G. B. NEBLETT.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21

milk can be found by using sulphuric
acid. A purple ring will show tho
presence of formalin when the acid is
poured into milk.
On DR.. Cutters shelves may be seen
bottles OF pickles in which the acid
has wholly consumed the cucumber,
leaving nothing but a greenish huid.
Also there are to he seen there bullying
cans OF fruit and tomatoes. some of
which have been punctured to let the
gases out. then resoldered: strawberry
extract, which is nothing but coal tar
dye and sweetening. with timothy seed
on the side Of the glass to create an
illustration OF genuinenoss; tomato
sauce composed of spoiled apple pulp.
pumpkin srits and floor sweepings:
and a horrible cake" of burnt earth
which is the basis of cheap chocolate
candy. Even pecans are shown as ex-
emples of fake treatment. There is a
process of polishing the shells OF
rancid stale nuts and selling them for
the price of fresh ones, and the ex
hibt; shows the pecan as it ought to
look.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
THIRTY YAnDs OF poIsoy

DR.. Cutler is the DR.. wiley of 81
Louis He is the centre OF attraction
at the pure food show now taking
place in the Missouri metropolis. His
exhibit is known as Cutters shocking
shelves" or thirty yards Of poison"
One Of the things that this 81. Louis
edition OF Doctor Wiley liz doing is
teaching the housewives to pro,.ot
themselves. In the case Of butter, for
example, he Is instruc,ing the women
how 10 tell butter from oleoma-garine.
Here are two easy methods:
put IL in dish over fire. Butter
will foam oieo Will craci;le spnttey
and give an unpleasant, greasy odor
Put little OF IL in glass OF cold
sweet milk and stir with padd!e
Butter will divide and spread itsel-
over the milk's surface, cleo viii! sticI,
In lump to the paddle"
To test lemon extract only matcf
and saucer are needed. Pour a few
drops in the saucer. set IT afre and the
real lemon extract will make Gun.
ming little blaze like chahng dish
while the fake. extract viii not hav.
anything 10 do with the fame.
.Formalin, or embalming fluids, IL
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21

eighteen, ripe and melting and rosy
Tipped as the inside OF q pearly sea-
| shell. or the petals of IL peach blossom
in April: her dress. mixture OF an
cient and modern fashions. as most
suited to set off her charms, and
withal provokingly short petticoat
to display the prettiest foot and ankle
In all the country around.
As She was leaving I begged pardon
for my holiness. and playfully asked
her why she didn't ride astride. With
the delightful confusion OF maiden
/ modesty. she replied, IL am n Virginia
girl. and you are from out West, aren't
your and galloped away.
Notwithstanding the current phase
of religious thought and the shock
that religion is to-day receiving at
the hands of science and the higher
criticism; and notwithstanding the
foundations of morality are receiving
rude shaking up these days, the In
nate reserve OF the Virginia girl is
sublime, and her delicacy Is the bloom
on the ripened fruit OF civilization
These are the gems and immaculate
adornments-the Gloritied nobility OF
our grand old Virginia motherhood.
whic.- make for the beautiful in our
uaiiy ite' whose escutcheon no
one dares to efface or suliy, and from
which the South may draw her insni.
ration her duty, her prestige and her
glory.
So lons this quality of her in
tuitive high breeding appeals to man
ne VIII render unto her a willing and
slad obedience. and he is going TO
Keep on hoping his great hopes and
dreaming his splendid dreams 1t is
that life of quality that breathes the
uplifting sentiment and makes for our
pathway border more beautiful than
mowers. SO long as this quality shall
I'VE her throne will be in every mans
heart. and her sceptre absolute, thouyh
wreathed in roses
j. w. FOWLKES
Barboursville
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
Defends Mis-. Johnston.

10 the Editor OF The Times-Disns,ch.
voI,n '~ih the Wednesday edition OF
E EeI paper l read q letter commenting
ReV; James Power Smiths protest
against the errors promulgated nv
Miss Mary Johnston's novel. sThe Lon >
/ Roll" "e LIN
ba ine Writer Writer in conclusion. says I'VE
toiieal novels, and consider them naT-
I liGuariy Injurious to the Young in
whose minds they are apt to produce
ton" and iic-
iority Of the so-called historical novels,
nut II is not true OF The Long Roll g
THESE historical novels It should nor
De ranked with them. In the accounts
o on u, rh ,o marches battles, number OF men
fact a. a grS'' me me. book is as true to
indeed II is SO realistic and full OF
aetails that IL has sometimes been
iound iault with on that account Here
Is what two leading magazines saw on
the subject:
One. The book is not a noveI-,+
Is nj history, 1t is not history--it is war
Another. "Two-thirds Of the Book
General Jackson's movements"
praise OF the book-as history
me best historical novelist that ever
lived. His books are recommended to
every boy and girl for their great his
torieal value And yet, from the stand :
point Of impartial history. Scott is
guilty OF many errors In old Nor
taIity' he r!dicules the Covenanters
showing them in their narrowest, most
olgoted light On the other hand. he
paints Claverhousc several shades
iightcr than do most historians.
In Woodstock" he represents Crom-
well as cold FLOODED, schem!ng nv
pocrite. The Long Roll" Is more true
to history than any novel that Scott
ever wrote.
Another criticism is that Miss John
rampant in the Confederate army.
This army was made up. for the
most part, of polished, cultivated gen :
inemenEbut there were some OF the
tons. she puts profanity in the mouths
OF these rough illiterate soldiers-no 1T
the higher classes. / do not remember
that Richard Cleave. the Carys, or the
better class of soldiers were in the
habit Of swearing.
THE Long. Roll" was to present the
southern side OF the question convinc-
ingly to her readers, and this novel
is by far the best that was ever
written on the subject. No other
writer has shown us SO well the brav-
cry and valor OF the Southern men
the LOYALTY and passionate devotion
OF the Southern women. She has de-
scribed the War Between the States
with all the accuracy and realism of
history, and with passion and fervor
more thrilling than any history that
was ever written.
Miss Johnston is to be praised. not
blamed. for her noble work. such
V. OF p
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
ABOLISH THEM

The Council Committee on Grounds
and Buildings should adopt the recon
nendatton Of Chief Health omcer Levy
that the common drinking cup in the
parks be done away with The up
turned spigot will be an excellent sub
siitnte for the cups. which are ver!tab,e
nests and breeding places of deadly
ana disease-conveying germs. 1t is a
"eii-known medical fact that there
are many diseases which can be trans
H'tted through the common drinking
cup. and every cup abolished means q
cause of sickness destroyed. DR.
Levy's recommendation Is in line with
the policy OF the best and most pro-
gFessive cities, and should be adopted
w'thou, delay or discussion. such q
step would be unquestionab,y for the
conservation Of the health OF the com.
nun!ty.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
the salary received was inadequate to

the salary received was inadequate to
support a family.
Both the Rev. Mr.. Haywood and the
Rev. Mr.. Bostick contemplated mar
riaye, and they said they could not
support wives on $1,000 and $1,000. re-
spectively.
The Rev. Mr.. McDowelrs salary wa
sl.4io yearly. but he has a wife and
five children. He sought manual labor
IN the summer holidays. but his flock
thought the work undigniiied and SO he
quit. From the pulpit he went into
an express car, and now is an express
man at SIS the week He is accustomed
20 physical labor, because he is an ath-
lete. having played on the football
teams of the two colleges of which ne
is an alumnus.
This same minister says that a
preacher. instead of leading flock,
must obey it's "whims and orders" He
thinks that the church at large is
an honest institution" He adds that
there are always few people who
get into the church TO cover their
meanness. To cover it well, they get
the Offices"
Conditions are very much the same
IN other places The minister who gets
reasonable compensation is an ex-
ception. Good men. men of ability and
power are wearing out their lives. un-
able TO save, unable to have the things
they should have.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
pEpIGnEEs MADE no onpnn.

The tailor to order genealogists who
are trying TO provide our millionaires
with pedigrees showing descent from
royalty are finding stumbling blocks
in their path Last week it was as
serted that the Rockefellers could be
traced back TO the Plantagenet Kings
of England. Now il doth appear that
the abstract of title is detective. be-
cause one of the links is ten-year-
old wife. Similarly, the elaborate faro-
lily tree OF which King James l. of
Scotland was the beginning and the
Astors the foliage has developed hia
tus in the seventeenth century. 4
mother is lacking somewhere, and stu
dents say that the royal descent is,
therefore, invalid.
However. there is no need to be
downcast about it. AS the Chicago
Record Herald says. st is better TO
he an ancestor than a descendant" It
is most likely that every person in
America has some royal blood in him.
Rockefellers and Astors have been
few, but many have been the royal
personages of the world since the
dawn of time. All kings have. in the
last analysis, sprung from the innum-
cradle company of the third estate.
Even the kings primeval descended
from the Adam who delved and the
Eve who span.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
THE GREAT UNKNOWN"

The Vice President of the United
states walked through the lobby of
the Waldorf the other night. Only
two people knew who he was. One
was reporter who had seen his pic
ture somewhere. the other was a
Cleveland man. who wished to intro
duce his wife. but who had forgotten
whether the Vice Presidents name was
James IS Fairbanks or Charles w.
sherman. For all he knew, it might
have been Daniel d. Tompkins or
Elbridge Gerry. A Vice President is
well-known before he is elected after
he is elected, he is unknown.
Yet Fate may In a single day, as
Fate has done. raise this negligi-
BILE official to the highest elective Of
flee in the world The Baltimore sun
says that this lis one of the strangest
things in our political system-that
we devote so much attention 20 the
choice OF President ana SO little to
the election Of a President who
STANDS next in succession" This. too.
IN the face OF the fact that no Vice
president elevated to the Presidency
mas as President ever been wholly ac
ceptabie to his party or to the people.
AS we said once before. we say again.
Why is the Vice-President?"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
WORSE THAN IN WAR r,ups

y Confederate record discovered in
The rare documents possessed by DR..
lumbar Rowland, Director of the De
partment of Archives and History. Of
mississippi, brings out the fact that
trust prices" OF articles in daily use
are higher than they Were nifty years
ago, when war had swooped down upon
me country, and the farms had been
LETT INTENDED. An order found on
the record shows the following differ
ence in prices, as compared with daily
quotations taken from the records of
tho nrcsent.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
DE BRIEF. GENTLEMEN

Long windedness is u sure sign OF
mental distress. Not every man can
make speech, but every man thinks
he can, and nearly all talk too long.
There Is speed limit in speech max
ing, as we'll as in motoring. To par
aphrase the preacher in Georgia
Scenes" when Ned Brace was singing
in doleful discord. there are some peo-
PIE who can't speak
This truth was illustrated at the
Deeper Waterways Convention this
week. Some people. not all of them
TURNER'S" mauied words all over the
lot. There was a time limit, but 1T
was a dead letter restrictions The
chairmen in some cases overtalked.
often repeating what they had said or
what some one else lad said Patrick
Henry and other Virginia worthless all
work overtime in the convention In
troductory speeches. 1t is safe for
speakers TO assume that the American
people are not totally ignorant OF the
great men and great deeds of Virginia
and the history of Richmond.
The best speech is the short one.
That man is afflicted with an abncr
mally swollen ego who thinks tnnt
an audience will hang on his words
for hours. Not alone in vaudevtue
houses. but on public platforms as
well. the get the hook" policy should
prevail.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21

The women were interested when
Admiral Peary told them here Thurs
day night that married life has its
eNcitements and Interruptions even in
the North Pole neighborhood. He told
OF one woman who, though very
young, has had four husbands and is
now widow. She left the first one.
the second one left her. the third died,
and the fourth was eaten by polar
bear.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
QUITTING THE prIpIr

Three Chicago preachers have left
'he pulpit In the last three months
the Rev. Mr.. Mcdowell. Of the Conere.
gational Church, and the Rev Mr. Hcv.
wood and the Rev. MI Bosuek both
OF the Baptist Church The reason in
the cases OF Gil thret was the same-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21
Voice Of the People
Old Virginia Never Die.

To the Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
sir.--The old Willis house, a mile
distant from Orange. now owned by
the Crenshaws. was the scene of a
Confederate military ball during tho
spring OF 1864. when General Lees
army was encamped along the Rapi-
dan
Corps. division, brigade and regi-
mental commanders were included in
the company Some Of the privates
an Nahone's Division furnished two
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-21

The Handbook of Virginia" inst &c
sued by the State Department, Of Agri-
culture, is n very creditable publica ton.
IT is full of attractive information
about the Old Dominion. and the facts
and pictures both should convince
everybody that Virginia is the r!Eh.
place to live in. as well as that the
state is marching spiendidly along the
H'SH"a! Oh prosperity and progress