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VOL XLIV NO 69. N BERRY . 1 I AY TL Y 2k, 1907. TWICE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR MAY LOSE FEDERAL AID. Capt. Clay's Report on Military FeE ture of Clemson College is Adverse. A dispatch froin Washin;zton to tl News and Courier says: It has been remored here for se eral days that Clemson college migi lose its commandant hereafter, tha all guns and military equipment. th property of the federal governmeni might be called in, and that, lastlv the federal appropriation which th college is now receiving annuall; might be withdrawn. These rumor first came to the knowledge of thi correspondent several days ac through people coming from Sout Carolina. As they stated it. Capi Clay. the former commandant a Clemson. became dissatisfied with th way things were going there, espe cially because of the fact that th nioh.t before the last commencemen several members of the graduatin, class acted in a way that did not sui him. He thereupon demanded of the fa eulty of the college that the diploma of the members of the class be with held. This the faculty declined to dc With this in mind the News an Courier correspondent today went t the war department and saw Adjt Gen. Ainsworth concerning the mattei It was learned that Capt. Clay, afte his detachment from Clemson, mad a report to the department in whiel he recommended that action be tak en looking to the calling in of all gov ernment property, etc., and abandon ing the military feature of this col lege. Gen Ainsworth, in the absenei of both Secretary Taft and Assistan Secretary Oliver. absent on vacations will probably take no action in thi matter. While declining to go into thi case fully with this correspondent Gen. Ainsworth intimated that thi outlook so far as continuing the mii tary features at Clemson was no goo. Just what definite action wil be taken regarding Capt. Clay's re port he would not say. LEGISLATORS CLASH. The "Lie" Passed in Debate on th4 Georgia Prohibition Fight. Atlanta, Ga., July 24.-The "lie' was passed and blows were exchang ed before the fight on prohi-bitio reached a close tonight by adjourn ment until tomorrow, when the figh to place the bill 01: its tird reading for passage will be resumed. The sessi an, which had been con tinuious since 9 o 'clock this morning had been .jrawi out unt: I; wriy 10.34 tonight, when di:):fn s fr..m th<i galleries canoed Speaker Slaton to oi der tihem (.&amd. This was done am the aerimonion~s debate continued or the floor. A dispute between Repre sentative Wright of Floyd and Reprne sentative Hall of Bibb progressed t< the point where Mr. Wright told Mr Hall "you're a liar.'' Instantly th< -sac between the two was crosse and blows were exchanged. Friendi qukly; intervened. quiet was restored and in a silence almost painful Repre senative Canaler urged that ad.journ ment be taken, which was done a1 10.53. THE RAIDROAD 00QWSSION Judge Dantzler Holds that the SomL . mission Has not Power to Exer "~cise Legislative Authority. Judge Dantzler has rendered a de eision in a case heard before him a the recent term of common pleas cour of Richlanid county, which practicall: nullifies the rules and regulations o; the railroad commission, the decisiol holding that the commission has no the power to exercise legzislative an thority. The case will be taken to th supremne court and the railroad cor mission will probably request the at toney general to intervene in th commission's behalf. Mr. Paul W. Cross, who does buss ness at LykeSland,. in Richlan county, brought suit aaginst the Al lantic Coast Line. Two causes of at tion were set forth in .the complain The first was based on the rule of il alroa enmisi)" in re .ar1d to d' --ra. !z wascaimedtI that {ip' w-: w' t %~ I~~m - u ing this car and that the railroal 11 ...i...... e (s threfre due th( shipper $30. The second caue k -I tion set forth that the lumber to b) i~ed \aS( tnaed by exposlure in e eident to the delay. The case was tri ed before Magistrate Fowles. of Co . Imbia. who gave a verdict for the t plaintiff in the sum of $55. The rail t road. i brought its attorneys, Messrs e Barron. Moore & Barron, took an ap. peal to the circuit court, alleging that any rule prescribing a penalty iE illegal and unconstitutional whethei the railroad commission gets its au thority from the legislature or not, l d that any rule or regulation of thE railroad commission prescribing a pen 1 alty is within itself an exerei-e of z le-islative fuetion. which is not and t cannot be delegated to said commis sion. Judge Dantzler sustained the appeal and modified the judgment of the magistrate. reducing the amaunt t $30 and allowing the plaintiff barely the amount given as damages. AT STOMP SPRING. .Many are Drinking The Healing Wat ers at This Popular Summer ResorL I Stomp Spring, July 25.-The sea son is in full swing at this popular old resort, and the surrounding slopes present a very novel and animated ap r pearance. Among the late arrivals we note Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rasor, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simmons, of - Cross Hill; Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Henry, - of Clinton; Mrs. Wallace and Earl - Workman, of Kinards, and a number . of others. I Mrs. Rhett Fuller has moved over from Cross Hill, -and will conduct a first class boarding house in the Young cottage. This is what Stomp has long felt a need of, and will con tribute much to the success of the season. Mrs. Fuller comes well equip ped, having conducted a boarding house for a number of years in Cross I Hill, where she is universally popu lar, and we bespeak for her a large patronage at Stomp. Despite numerous handicaps, the Stomp Spring water is slowly but surely winning its way as a curative and recuperative agent of marked ef ficliency. Physicians of Clinton and elsewhere who have used the wat'er in their practice endorse it highly, and its circle of appraiative friends grows larger eaen season. In the opin ion of this correspondent, it is only a matter of time when more adequate accommodation will be provided for the comfort and convenience of the gnests. Mr. McLees. the well known blind evangelist, has just closed a meeting of much power at Shady Grove, a nearby Presbyterian church. Although falling at a time when the country peole were very busy in their crops, the meeting was well attended Ithroughout, and we trust has been productive of much good. "Stylus.'' ,MR. DIAL RESIG1NS. After Being R,eelected Presidient of Ware Shoals Mfg. 00.~ He De clines to SerVe. Laurens Advertiser. At the annual meeting of the stock holders of Ware Shoals Manufactur ing Company. held on Monday the old board of direetors were reelected. Subsequently at a meeting of the di rectors all the officers of the company are reelected. At the same meeting the salary of Mr. Reigel was in,ereased from $2.400 to $6,000 and the salary of Presiden't Dial reduced to practi cally a nominal sum: the five northern directors voting~ i1)r the reducion and the three l:.eal directors voting agmnst the reduction. Mr. Dial refused to aoL-ept the pro -Iposed reduction and tendered his res iznation. He will however continue fo. the prsn as a mem'ber of the drtorate. Mr. Dial states that the mill is mnaking money and advises the stoe:kholers to hold onf to their stock. -P1 has been understod all the time n Laurens that there was an agree fet betr;:een D)ial and thle Reige1 in. erests that Mr. Dial was to continue president of the mill if so it would .eenm that the Reigels. yankee fashion havCe epudi at ed the agreemnen t. NEWS OF PROSP;RTTY. Crop Prospects Good-The; Sunday School Convention--Personal And Other Matters. pst.July 235.-P-. J. Qtuatz!o ..n. or .Ja?k-onville. Fla.. h.s bee, a visit to his brother, Mr. J. 1) Quattlebaum. The ai tention of all our f,,lks is enlid to the fact that the Clemsoll car will be here on August 9. Take a day off and come out to see it. It .vill he time well spent. Mr. J. D. Quattlehaum gave an in T-al at home on MondaY ni.ght. in i!o" of his brother. C)ur section has fine prospects foi a he':.e corn crop. Cotton is promis . t this time. M . D. Quattlebaum has gone tc -'wnsea to consult Dr. Jno. LanL, f:)rd. and will zo from there to the C.lumbia hospital. Uncle "Jake" Rauch. of Saluda, w:i. in town on Thursda.1 Rev. J. H. Wilson, D. D., of North Carolina. was in town last week. He is ekslng up the work of the Luth eran orphanage at .Salem. Va. If numbers in attendance is a sue ce:-. the Sunday School convention at St. Lukes on July 17 and 18 was a grand success. The attendance was large. the delegation was fair and the discussions were fine. On Wednes day the attendance was said to be 400, and on Thursday 500. It was one of the largest attended conventions your correspondent has ever seen. It was thoroughly enjoyed. The program was carried out as published in The Herald and*News. The topic, "Rev erence in the Sunda v -School," devel oped the fact that there is quite a Inek of proper training in reveren,. fo:- ' ly things in the home. How to enlist the interest of the young peo ple in the Sunday School was fully discussed. The idea prevailed that if the parents were interested and were loyally supporting the school, the children would be interested. Parents, Iput a pin here, felp your officer, The Round Tables were profitable and brought out niuch information as to the management of the Sunday School. and fhe Sunday School teach er. The next convention will be held in Mt. Olivet church. As usual, the good people of St. Lukes gave every attention to the convention, and sueli a spread of good things did one good. The thanks of the convention were tedered the congregatio'ni for their hospitable entertainment. I am think ing that sonie of us will be wanting to go back to St. Lukes again soon. The officers elected for ensuing year were: Jno. C. Goggans, President. Rev. 0. B. Shearouse, Vice-presi dent. A. H. Kohn, Secretai-y. J. S. Wheeler, Treasurer. Executive Commi'ttee4 Rev. J. 3. Long. Dr. Geo. B. Cromer, Rev. S.~P. Koon. and the officers of the conven tion. Dr. J. H. Wilson, of North Carolina, was present, and added to the pleasures of the convention. Rev. S. H. Zimmerman, of Colum bia, preached a very interesting ser mon in Wighitman Chapel Sunday af ternoon. His theme was "Christ all and in all.'' First the home; second, the school: third, our work; fourth, the state; fifth. the church, and when in these he would be all and in all things to us, dominating our lives and upuilding the kingdom. Rev. Mr. Kreps preached a very foeful sermon on Sunday morning from the remarks of Solomon, "Out of my poverty have I done this.'' He showed that it was not the rich men who were doing things in the church, but those of moderate means, those who, not out of their abundance, but out of their necessity, gave to the work of enlarging God 's kingdom on earth.' If the church wvaited to go Iforward until every dollar was in Ihand, or rich men did the work, there would be little progress in the work of the church today. The command was to go forward in faith, trusting in God. and the work would be done. Mis Beacham left for her home in A tlnta on Monday after a delight ful t~~j to her aunt. Mrs. S. L. Fellers. Miss- Inez Roinest left for Elberton, Ga. on Wvednesday. Mrs. E. E. Youn2. George Wise. Tl Tnhn nde R4,hert X\i-e spent \iu(tiay an'd [Enesdayi inl >,ewverry. Xrs. CI. f. Ilarmon iias ret iriwed fr,i her viit t(i Chester. irs- K. ihiker andI the (iildren are .visit int lir si er-. lie Mises Barre. Mr. Olin D-errick. (if Columbia. enie up Tuesday oi a visit to his nmother. D'r. E. (. Hentz. of P.-maria, was up on a visit to his sister. Mrs. Anie Derrick, Tuesday. Mrs. Minnie Folk, of Columbus, Ga.. is visiting her mother. Mrs. Der rick. Mr. and Mrs. Carper Kreps have returned to Augusta. They were ac companied by Claude and Kenneth Kreps, who will spend their vacation in Au,_,usta and Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wise and George I'us Wise left Tuesday for the Jame-r;v:n exposition. They will also go to W:shin 2ton to visit Mrs. Wise's sister, Mrs. F. V. Capers. Mrs. Wise will spend a month with her sister. Miss Blanche Gallman is visiting Miss Willie Mae Wise. Little Miss Nellie Kohn gave a birthday party to a number of her schoolmates and friends on Wednes day evening. Mr. J. F. Browne is visiting his fa.ther, Mr. Wim. Browne, of Connelly Springs, N. C. Miss Eva Lester has been on a visit to Batesburg. Mr. D. E. Ridgell re turned with her and is now visiting his aunt, Mrs. A. M. Lester. Dr. J. S. Wheeler has _-one to Hen dersonville, N. C.. to cool off during the hot spell. Miss Mary Will.s is s ng rela tives in Saluda county. Misses Maittie and Ida Fellers are vsiting Mrs. John Crosson. Miss Frances Miller is visiting her sister. Mrs. Joe B. Hartman. Pr(.f. C. C. Wyche has returned from a business trip to Augusta. There was quite a gatharing of the Schumpert family at the old home on Bush river on Tuesday. All the children of Mr. E. K. Schumpert ex ,ept John E., were present. They had a picnic dinner and a generally good time was had. Mrs. E. K. Gibson, of Columbia, is visiting Mrs. W. A. Moseley. Messrs. B. S. and F. L. Schumpert have gone on a visit to their brother, John E. Schunpe-t. of Vidlalla. Ca. Miss Lilla Kibler u -:c, on a vis it to her sister, Mrs .hnson, in Newberry. V Miss Gertrude Simnpsoit is Visiting Mrs. J. W. Werts, China Gioe N. Miss Gussie Kibler has returned to Atlanta. Miss Lillian Welch is visiting -her aunt. Mrs. L. S. Bowers, in Elm street. . .... Mr. J. C. Counts wrill move into his home on Mill street early in the fall. He comes into town to *be nearer his large and growing business of manufacturing agrieuitural imple mets. Mrs. Bl. L. Dominick has gone on a visit to her son, Mr. J. A. Dominick, at Kinards. Miss Emma sell has returned to Prosperity for the sunhiner. Mr. J. M. Coo'k. haviiiz aceepted a position ith the JT. N. Wylie Tobac e company, has resigned his position with J. W. Kibler & Co.. of Newber Mr. Z. E. Amiek, who had been a Ipatient sufferer for many years. pass ed from the earth and its suffering on Wednesday morning. He was laid to rest in Prosperity cemetery on Thurs day. Mr. Amick was a good citizen ~nd had the esteem and respect of all 'ho knew him. Artists are subject to color blind ness as other men. says Edward A. Aers in t-he Cenutry. The writer has tested the color sense of a large num ber of them-colorists, engravers, il lu-strators--and found an average of one in 22 color blind. As a class they are quicker to recognize varying shades. but a green blind artist will place a 'brown skein of worsted with the green as readily as a layman. The nossesion of an "artistic tempera ment' bears no other relation to the eeness of nue's color sense than Icomes from elose obs5ervation and use ~f color. Tf an artist' eve; at birth do not possess all enlor-seeinz cones in his retina he cannot develop them by cultvaton. AS TO THE "CUT-OFF. Superintendent Simpson. of the South ern, Tells The Columbia State Why Trains Didn't Stop. Columbia State: Some time ago correspondents of The State from Newberry and Green wood in telling of the drawing off of the pond at the "cut-off'" on Saluda river near Old Town somewhat pleas antly took the Southern Railway company to task for not stopping the passenger trains at that place. There were some editorials of more spicy nature in the county papers. The State at that time endeavored to get a statement from Mr. R. E. Simpson, superintendent of the divi sion, but he was out of the city. Sat urday, while getting information as to the construction work being done on the division, a reporter of The State asked Mr. Simpson if he wish ed to make any statement. "Nothing at all," he replied, "but if you wish to you may read the entire corres pondence in the matter and every person on the entire line is welcomd to the same privilege.'' The correspondence shows that this "cut-off" has been standing for more than a quarter of a century. It was a large area of water which in the summer frequently became stagnant and is alleged to have endangered the health of people living in the com munity. There had been frequent ap peals to the Southern Railway com pany to bav.e the place drained. All of these requests were declined on the ground of impracticability, for the pond is said to be on a level with the river and at every freshet it would fill again. This was the report of en gineers sent there to make examina tion. They reported that it would cost $900 to put in the pipes to drain the pond into the- Saluda river. The railway management has consistent ly declined to do what is considered useless work. The pond was once a part of the bed of the river. The grand .jury reported the mat ter to the railroad commission early in this year. The commission referred., the letter to Mr. Simpson, who had just come into office. He made a per sonal inspection of the situation and although he believed that if the matter were brought to an issue the ommission woult deny the petition, yet he went to see the manager of the Souithern, in. fact caught the man aer iii jassing, showed him the "cut of,' sid toid him that it would do id harm to open the pond, and it might do sotae good. The expenditure therefore Was authorized and the work of draining wa proceeded with as soon as the usual pi-ocedure was complied with. -It appears that Mr. Simpson, there-I fore, has gone out of his way to comn ply with the wishes of the people of that section, although he believed at the time that he could not be com pelled by law to do so.I When the announcement was made tht the pond would be opened on a ertain day the parties interested lo cally arranged to get up a fish-fry and barbecue, for which tickets were toj be sold at $1 each. Mr., Simpson had nothing to do with this. The other parties gaive it out that the trains would stop at the "cut-off"; but Mr. Simpson says he was not consulted about that matter at all and if such advertisement was made it was not with his app)roval. He feared that the pond would not drain in one day,! if at all. This is not in the corres-: ondence. but is Mr. Simpson's state ment. The day before the opening of the pond he was advised by his agent at Chappells that there would be a num ber of people who wished to get off at the "cut-off''. Mr. Simpson states that there is no passenger station there and'therefore no passenger rate to that point and. had he established a special rate. some people mig'ht have accused the road cf trying to make money out of the occasion., Furthermore. one of the most string ent rules of the Southern R'ailway company is that there must be no stop of passenger trains at non-stopping points without permission from the: general superintendent. From the short notice given Mr. Simpson was. unable to communicate with the gen-, ra suerntendent in time to get the permission-and that is all there is in the case as shown by the corres rondence. The allegation has been made in some of the newspapers of that sec tion that the railroad company on that day ran the trains by the "cut off" and the implication is that this was done in a spirit of petty revenge fulness because the road had been forced to make the cut off. This Mr. Simpson quietly denies. He says it was not customary to stop the trains there and the only stops that he knows of having been made were on one or two occasions when he was making an inspection of the "eut-off and the foreman of the grand jury and other Newberry officials were along. Mr. Simpson admits that it was a hardship for those going to the bar becue to be put off at Old Town, two miles on one sle, and at Chap pells, three miles on the other side of the "cut-off"; but those were the nearest stations and he had no alter native. For there were three trains a day each way and hundreds of pas sengers who did not get off for the barbecue and, furthermore, to have stopped the trains on this occasion would have given him a great deal of trouble for all time. Just a few days ago he received a request to stop a train between Co lumbia and Alston for a pleasure par ty. The official positon of some of'the entlemen was such that the request was wellnigh a demand, but Mr. Simpson was forced to comply with the rules of the company. There are frequent requests to stop trains be tween stations, but the only time that he has done so was to let a siek person be put off at her home on a stretcher instead of earrying her on to the station two miles away. This was against the rules of the company, but the ease was urgent. The Southern Railway company is positive in its orders about stopping it non-stopping points, for if the ap roaches to the track were such that omebody in the hurry should get urt, then the superintendent would 7ery likely .lose his pgsition. Thereis rio station and no good place for a itop at the "eut-off'', he says, and For that reason it would have been in viting trouble to have stopped the trains at the place designated. Mr. Simpson feels that he has been placed in a false light irn so far as lie has been charged with not favor ng the opening of the pond, where as he did re'xernend it over the ad vie to, the contrary from his engia neers. Had the people of the comn Inunites along the line sent int the proper kind of petition in time for Mm t., hare taken the matter up with the '2.?n'ral su1perintendent, he might. have been able to have stopped the - trains nearer to the place of the bar beue, but no such request came to him. Furthermnore, the barbecue was iven by private parties and they and ot the railroad company worked up" the attendance. ' In recouni-Wg in Th'e State of yes' terday the work which has been done - r his division of the Southern by Superintendent Simpson, it was stat e that he ha<i recommended that de pots be built at two stations where even the railroad commission had tated the .business ofthcopn rlid not justify it. Mr. Smsnys terday asked that the saeetb nade that no reflection s nedd but the commissioners seemeld to hink that the publication reflected pon them. The commissioners re erted in accord1ance with the facts and the point is that Mr. Simpson is o eager to give the people along his 'ines what they wish that he recoin nended even what impartial judges in the 'case had reported to be a tax n the road without adequate revenue to meet that expense. The judgment f the commission he believes to have been correct. TEACHER WANTED. The patrons will meet at Smyrna School House August 9, at 4 p. mn. for the purpose of electing teacher. Term 7 or S months. Good salary for good teacher. Applications re eeived by J. S. Boozer. Geo. P. Boozer. Trustees. , F. D. No. 1.