The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-01-13

Now, if this trunk should have gone
bill the rounds it had gone without
yany extra charge, why was it that all
at once these "incaes got in, and it
had to be paid for eXtraR If this ism
a small way Of robbing people | must
say that l don't know Of one. The
% cents is a very small matter, but
it might not be to SOM e poor people
who must use the railroads, and
call it to your attention. b0ta because
of the injustice in such practice and
because if it is practfced on many
people it will dishonesty put good
deal of money intd somebody S
pockets, and you ought| 70 stop it. I
do not suppose it will lhappen to me
again, because will watch out for
my feet and inchey both. But it is
not right, and yo1 gentlemen ought
to prohibit it bylaw, In other words,
gentlemen, ,iR is not the pitiful sum
unjustlX taken from me that | care
forG use that only to give you a
illustrat:oH-'but the many
sums added together, which are go
ing into somebody's pockets, by TINS
mean. inquitious system.
Smoking in Dining Rooms and Cafes.
There is matter that | have not
previously mentioned to you IN my
me Ssages which ! desire to direct
YOUR attention to. Many OF you are
Young men. Some Of you, however,
are as old as l am or older Those OF
you who are will recall the time IN
South Carolina when if gentleman
smoked a pipe or cigar while walking
along on the street by the side OF a
lady he was not regarded as we'll
reared, and such thing as smoking
while riding in buggy with young
lady would not have been tolerated.
But today we have not only seen
these things, but we have gone a
great deal further, and too far. L
regret exceedingly to know that
people in South Carolina q will not
saw gentlemen, nor will | say true
mem sit in our public dining rooms,
restaurants and cafes, and smoke
cigars and foul little cigarettes, ana
vhif and puff and blow the smoke
ont through their nostrils, and this
&smoke is. carried either by the natural
breezes or the current Of an electro
fan into the eyes, mouths and nost:lIS
of refined women. 1t makes me as
hamed for my State. Ii / were IN
one of these places With a lady and
should see man light cigarette
or cigar would quietly ask MIN
please not to smoke, as there were
ladies in the room, or | would get
M and leave with her. But every
body does not feel like doing this,
and ! have actually heard ladies COM
nlain bitterly to their escorts OF the
annoyance Of this smoke.
I had seen this thing done in some
places and some countries, and mad
thought it ungentlemanly, but haQ
never believed, until l saw it, that |
would witness such a thing in South
Carolina. But l have witnessed It,
and l now appeal to you as law
makers, not for the protection OF the
men-they can protect themselves
but for the protection Of the women
of South Carolina from this kind OF
insult.
II were running one Of these
places l would not allow this Kind OF
conduct. If | had my own way, per-
sonally, when a man lit a cigar OF
cigarette in a dining room Wnere
ladies were accustomed to be, II II
were my place, would invite MN
out, and if ne did not leave, / would
nut him out. But people do not
want to be going around fighting,
and it is your duty to see that the
laws protect the womanhood OF South
Carolina. l call upon you now, as
men, to pass an Act making It mis-
demeanor for any person TO light OF
to smoke a cigarette, cigar, pipe or
any other article containing tobacco
or other commodity in any puollc
dining room, restaurant, cafe or otneT
pIace of dining or serving meals
which ladies are permitted or ac-
customed to visit l do not think tAat
such a law is necessary for any true
gentleman or weli-reared man, but
there are some people who come in
to South Carolina who have no re-
rDect for US or our ladies, and tney
should be made to respect them, ano
if there are any citizens OF our State
who are not decnt enough to respect
the women of the State, tney also
should be put in the made class.
Great noises are made over convey
Ing diseases by insects, etc. What is
more dangerous than smoke passing
through consumptiye, syphilitic or
other diseased throats, noses, ETC.,
and into the mouths of decent
women? If it does not convey disease
it certainly i nauseating.
Establishing New Counties and
Annexing Part of One County
To Another.
call your attention to the fact
that the loose custom Of changing
county lines every time somebody
gets mad because his property is
assessed a little higher than he thinks
it ought to be, or. the supervisor
doesn't work the roads just as some
few citizens think ne should in their
ueighborhood, or because an adJoln-
jig county has a dispensary, should