The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-09-01
to vote for Richards. People ought
to be allowed to vote as they see fit,
without anybody jumping on .aim.

10 De dllO"eu W fOLe dS lHes oee iAI'
without anybody jumping on aim.
Goldberg in is pictures says tAe
only sensible way to go to the theatre
this month is in a bath tub. Henry
Wells says you don't need bath tub
to look at his pictures. 1t is cool
enough at the opera house.
The Herald and News, the State,
and lots of other papers were mis-
taken in saying that Cooper would
| be in the second race We are sorry
but it cannot be helped. A mighty
good man was de eated. He was
anti4Blease, but fair and not antago-
nistic.
The governor spent the day in Co.
lumbia in his office attending to his
official duties A large number Of his
supporters called No statement @as
been issued. No one knows just what
he thinks of the result.-Columbia cor
Augusta Chronicle, 29th.
/ Robert A. Cooper, who was among
! the visitors in Columbia today mad
no comment to make He said that he
would issue statement after the re-
suit of the primary had been declared
next Tuesday by the executive COM
mittee.-Coumbia cor Augusta Chron-
/ icle, 29th.
On Saturday afternoon about sun
down, near Lewie branch, John
Speake was seriously cut by Jno
Henry Taylor, both colored, in diff
Guilty. officers Wm Dorroh and Wal
ter Melton arrested Taylor, but upon
advice of physician did not bring in
Speake, owing to his dangerous condi-
ton.
One of the strongest arguments
for woman suffrage in South Carolina
is the Lancaster News. 1t is edited
by a woman and-because of, not in
spite OF, that fact-it is one of the
best and cleanest newspapers in the
State.-Anderson Mail. "Them's our
sentiments. What you say is "per-
fectly all right.
The little difficulties last week
which threatened serious results were
amicably and wisely settled by tie
peaceful adjustment of mutual friends
The fg1ts cost the participants 81
each, Messrs. Jno. H. Wicker and
Claude H. Williams and Jno H. Wick
er and Jno.'C. Adams, the former hav-
to pay So for each affair. Mir. c. W.
Wallace was refunded So c. his s. to
make it even all around
Another man at whom Americans
will cease laughing is Captain Rich
mond P. Hobson, whose oft repeated
demand for greater navy has met
with ridicule Now we see how ielp-
less American shipping would be even
if we had much of merchant marine
carrying American commerce to all
the world at this time-Wilmingto
Star. Hobson knew what he was
talking about.
We done realize how blest We are
here. Think of the raging war across
the waters where dead, dying and
wounded soldiers are so thick on the
battle fields the living soldiers find
it difficult to move being wedged in by
the horrible mass. Troops rushing III
on barbed wire defenses so strongly
charged with electricity that those
who escape electrocution are blinded
by the glare of powerful searchlights
and cut to pieces by the artillery,
the bands playing to drown out the
groans, "the mass of bodies forming
a mound, in some places many feet
,aigh." And yet We quarrel over pol
tiles
Some time since the reporter got
box of mountain laurel from 'T4omas,
W. Va. Last week ne received very
intelligently written letter from the
same place with a view of the falls
where the laurel was gathered. 1t is
beautiful picture and the fair writer
of the letter says it is fair specimen
of West Virginia scenery. But she
says several wild bears and panthers
have oeen seen near the falls lately
where "the slopes are fern-covered
and rocky" From there zone can see