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tro ]OL XLVIi N. r k VOL XLVI NO. ;A5 NEWBERRY, S. (3., ESIDAY. APRIL 30, 1909 TWIOE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR DOW, JR., WRITES Of Tom Felder and the Winding Up Commission and Other Mat ters. We notice in the Charleston and Greenville papers that Avery Patton was doing some talking for the press in reference of the"Winding up Cem mittee," attorney's fees, etc. Now, Avery should fight shy of the reported as they will get him sure. Such stunts As he gave the News and Courier won't stand sifting. That paper calls out like Shylock of old for "the law," "the law," only it wants "eontract," "the contraet." It seems as if one Tom Felder's name is much in -evidence. Why? That rising genius of the Atlanta bar can down all the attorney gener als and lawyers in this State, "con tract" or "no .contract," and give them cards and spades. Because be knows. . Avery gives out as a matter of fact that Tom Feld-er paid out thirty thousand dollars for d-ete,tive fees. The great horned spoon? Is not thatI a "gully wrencher?" Why Tom Felder never had that much money of his own in all his born days. But admitting it as a fact, why should' Tom have parted with so much cash for something he knew al ready. or get from the State board, just for the asking. And Avery Pat ton singing the old tune of Tom's. The United States government did not pay much more than half that amount f&'r the employment of the best and highest priced detectives in America to run over the entire coun-1 try and hunt up the Brownsville shooters. We all know that Uncle Sam pays high for what he wants, and generally gets the best. Why its a tY-te-- o- its very face, and I .can't see w7 ; Avery allowed Tom to shove -that 3oker on him. But Tom is a jack in the box, and no mistake. We all know that Attorney Gener al Lyon employed Abney in the case, for the brains he had. But why a second rate lawyer like Tom Felder? Mr. Patton says because he knew a lot about the whiskey business. No doubt in the world of that. Only lis ten to Avery. "It came to the atten tion of the committee that the firm of lawyers," old Tom, mind you, "*had some valuable information that the committee couldn't .get else . where." To be sure 'they had it, but how did they get their information? Avery "believes not a single firm of law yers in this. State would have been -willing to put out such an outlay of money on uncertainties." Of course not, not a single firm in the State is such a John Dee, or a Vanderbilt as to have so much eash by them. Nor did Tom.Felder eith er. Now Mr. Patton, in one of your comfidential confabs .with Mr. Felder, -of Roundtree and Felder, just ask 'him for Dow and the rest, did 'he ever try -to monkey with our State board~ of control, in t'he "days of good steal ing ?" Ask him " was it Tom or 'his brother, or somebody else," that en tertained so highly and at 'his expense one of our State board a.t the gneat Nashville reunion ? Did he take any one from this Stategut to the "Coun .try Club'' or some such tony gather ing? And if he did, what- was the motive? Then ask him if once on a time, he didn 't make overtures to some members .of the board of cojntrol, to organize a whiskey house (on pa per you know) then buy liquor when it was c.heapest, and sell to the Stare when it was dearest? Ask him what he knows hbouit the "Sidney Lucas SWhiskey Company of Liquor Deal ers," and what was the conference at the Hotel Jerome to do with it ? I know Tom .will say "all a lie.'' Well it may be, but you then ask Whit Boykin and John Bell Tow ill about it. Tell them if they don't tell the whole truth, the devil will 4catch them sure. I don 't know much Sabout Jo'hn Bell T. but Whit Boykin eoaldn 't tell a lie if he wanted to. for I knew his father, served with him in the army, and if he thought he w~as raising up a child to lie, he would have tranaled him in the cradle. Then when Whit quits looking blank, and s>akingz his head. just say. ''Whit do '.. yo thik just think that Tom THE NEWS Or PROSPERITY. Teachers Reelected-School Closes Tonight-Old Folk's Day on Sixteenth. Prosperity, April 29.--Rev. Ira Caldwell has returned from a visit to Kings Mountain, N. C. At a recent meeting of the trustees of the graded school the present teachers, Misses Simpson, Kohn, and Langford were unanimously relected for the next term. The private school conducted by Mrs. Caldwell closed last Friday. Quite a number of our alumni of Newberry and Erskine went up Wed nesday and witnessed their alma mater cross bats.. Miss Lillie May Russell visited in Columbia this week. Mr. Oscar Simpson is home from the Charleston Medical college and is enjoying -his vacation in our midst. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wise, of Little ountain, visited relatives this wedk. Mr. Geo. Harmon and little Rebec ea went to Ninety Six Sunday and re turned Monday accompanied by his father, Mr. W. P. B. Harmon, who spent several days in our city. . Miss Annie May Bedenbaugh visit ed friends this week. Mrs. Kreps, of Columbia, is spend ing a month with her son, Rev. M.. 0. J. Kreps. Mr. T. C. DeVore, of Ninety Six, made a visit to friends here over Sun day. Misses. Janie Russell and Mary Wheeler made a week end visit to Silver Street. Miss Hortense Long. of Columbia, same up Wednesday to see Mrs. J. S. Wheeler. Miss Mary Kinard returs this week from a fortnight's stay with her ister in Atlanta. Consul Haynes, who resigned his position at Singapore on account of the unsalubrity of the climate of In lia, has returned home and has 'join d his family at Mr. L. S. Bowers'. The Ladies' Aid society will serve ce cream after the commencement ex rcises Friday evening. Be sure to wait and enjoy the refreshments. The commencement exercises Fri lay evening will formally close this years' session of t1he Prosperity schools. As before announced the speaker for the occasion is Prof. Sid aey J. Derri.ek, of Newberry college. Ihe friends of school -are cordially in vite.d to be rpresent. The exercises will begin at 8:30 o 'clock. Mr. Hunter Caldwell returned last week from a business trip to Georgia. Mrs. C. F. Lathan, of Little Moun :ain, was in the etiyl this week. Rev. Mr. Kreps and Mr. B. B. Schumpert attended conference at Beth Eden several days of last week. Mr. T. D. Copeland, of Clinton, was the guest of Mr. W. A. Moseley ast week.. Miss Julia Matthews spent Sunday and Monday at Ninety Six. Old Folk's Day-May sixteenth aids fair to be a memorable occasion -not only to those whose hair is sil rered, but also to those whose locks 2ave yet no trace of time's fingers pon them. For a number of years 3race Sunday school has been observ Felder and somebody mighty elose to :he board of control was in 'cohoot' n a whiskey house and wasn 't it the idney Lucas?" Whit will shake is head and say "I don't know," >ut just watch him and see him ;ra.teh his ear .with his finger. No :loubt all the boys will plead ignor mne, for they are scared of Lyon as he very devil, but then Lyon knows rel' of Tom Felder by this time han he would like people to t'hink. The best answer an unwilling wit ness can give, to gag a lawyer, is "I don 't recollect.' "I''t 'has slipped my memory."' Better not deny it too positively, for its no knowing what fool may have a bee in his bonnet ad may sting somebody after awhile. Don 't make any 'of the boys kiss the book. but ask them if any of these mtters ever' came to their attention? IfThey sa. no, that ends it. T.eeditor of this paper is in no w:ay responsible for what I writte, and Do ma be all wrong, if so lie will be the first to lift 'his hat to the boys *ind sa "yu pardon sirs." and do Dow, Jr. ing this day in honor of the aged ones in the surrounding cour try. Every time they have striven to make more enjoyable than the preceeding one. For this occasion Mr. Kohn, the su perintendent, has been peculiarly for tunate in securing his Excellency Gov. Ansel to address tihe congrega tion. Gov. Ansel is a happy speaker and one who is so greatly in demand that his consent -has to be obtained several months in advance. Besides the main address there will be an ad dress of welcome and ehoice old time hymns, music by flie choir, and by sev ;eral little childreii. Invitations will be issued to all the old people within a radius of ten miles, though the pub lie is cordially invited, whether by special invitation or not. The ser vices- will begin at 10:30 o 'elock. THE NEWS OF ST. PAUL. Rain Has Come-Death of Mrs. Wick er-Schools Are Closing. St. Paul, April 28.-Mr. Editor: It has been some time since I have had anything to say through. the columns of your paper, owing to the serious illness and deat1h which we have had in our family but am thankful to say that I am able to get out again. We have been having a long period of dry weather, but it seems now as if we will have plenty of rain, which will enable the farmers to finish their planting and bring up what seed have been planted. On the third Sunday in this month the Rev. P. H. E. Derrick assisted our pastor, Rev. Mr. Sligh, with his communion services, and preached a most forceful sermon to a large con gregation. Five persons were con firmed as members of St. Paul's church. Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Sligh spent Saturday night and Sunday with the family of Mr. B. B. Richardson. Mrs. Louise Adaline Wicker, nee Werts, and wife of Mr. James W. Wicker, was born Sept. 9, 1837, and departed this life April 20, 1909, aged 71 years. Her remains were quietly laid to rest in the St. Paul burying ground in the presence of a large con course of sorrowing friends and rela tives. The funeral services were con ducted by her pastor, Rev. J. A. Sligh. Mrs. Wicker was married July 28, 867. Five children were born,.of this union, four of whom are living, and hey with a large n'umber of relatives nd friends together with the bereav ed husband mourn the death of this splendid lady. She was a true Chris tia"n and has entered into her reward. There have been 17 cases of measles with a 'half mile distance in this eighborhood, but all seem to be do ng well. Mr. Rufus Epting, who has been spending a while with 'his father, Mr. . J. E.pting, has returned to 'his work t Laurens. Mr. Sim Werts, who -came over to his sister's funeral, .after spending a~ while with his friends and relatives here, ~has returned to his home at Johnston. Mrs. Fannie, who 'has been very low 'as the result of measles is ima proving nicely at this writing. Mrs. H.. F. Counts, who has been very sick for the past week is' also ionrovmng. Mr. W. B. Boine'st had the misfor tune to lose a fine mileh cow quite' recently. The Jolly Street school, which has been most successfulle taught this sesion by Prof. W. A. Rikard, closed or April 11. and Mr. Rikard return-I edI t" hiN home in Newberry. He is :reatly missed in t'he community. The Forks school. whiich was taught by Miss Nora Bickley, of Helena. losed on April 17. Miss Bickley made many friends 'here on account of; er eb-'arming personality and lovely disposition. The-~ are some peaches in this see tion, enough perhaps for a erop, but it seer's 'as if the apples are a failure in tthis wetion. The g:ain crop is looking some bet ter non~ but it is thought that there will not 1:e a full crop raised this year espeily'1 on the high lan'i. The wireless operator who started the report that t'he battleship Mis sissi1'pi had been blown up didn 't eveni pt his name in the papers. \nri',n Mail. THE OLD COURT HOUSE An Article by One of Prof. Hollo way's Pupils. (Supposed to be written to a friend residing in a distant city.) Thinking that it would interest you to read one of my productions, I shall now attempt to describe what is call ed the old court house of Newberry county, Newberry, S. C. I ehanced to see this old struoture while on a visit to relatives, who re side at this place. It appeared to me to be worthy of investigation and consequently I have inquired intQ its history. The lot on which this old building now stands was deeded to the county of Newberry on September 8, 1789, by hn Coats and his wife Mrs. Sus annah Coats for the sum of ten pounds; it was first leased to .the county for "one pepper corn only" per year. The building was erected in 1852 by John Damion, a !1a1Tne o.f Cleve lan county, Z C., and, -i: -i -ey -nd weather beaten, it still has a most stately appearance, and is considered to be one of the most substantial structures of its fime, as regards ar chitecture, workmanship and adapta tion to the purposes of its erection. The citizens of the town and county have just recently built a new one, which is likewise a model building. The materials used in the construc tion of the old one were brick and stone, excepting theeflooring and win dow-facings which are of wood. It is only two stories high; on the first floor are five rooms which were previously occupied by certain county officers. These officers have moved into the new court houes, mentioned above, and their offices are occupied by Real Estate Agents Hunter & Sligh, Law yer Sale and Magistrate J. H. Chap pell, respectively. On the other floox is the court rocm which, no doubt, has witnessed many stormy scenes. T'he two jury rooms and private room for the judge are in rear of'the main auditorium. Direetly behind the building is the Confederate monu ment, and this, together with the old strueture, will naturally excite the admiration of a stranger. And too, the'situation of this court house is a 'very desirable one, being situated' in the middle of *a plot, in the center of the business portion of the town. T'he side of the lot facing south is spported by a rock wall .between three and four feet high; it is on this part of the lot that the Confederate monument stands. The huge columns that support the front veranda form one of its most striking features, while at the same time the long flight f steps on the side facing north, de serve mentioning. These steps are made of huge blocks of stone and are well construct ed. Besides this there are two other sets of steps, on east and west sides, which are also' made, of stone but are not :uite so long. The large eagle, that marks the gable end facing north was carved by I Mr. Os. Wells, an old soldier, some few years after the War Between the ] States. It appears to be holding a bunch of arrows in i-ts claws and was intended to represent South Carolina from 1856 to 1872. This building was erected to serve as a court of justi.e:e, in which all riminals and law breakers are tried. Altihugh time and use have produced many changes it still forms a strik ing comparison for the new one and. for any that I 'have ever seen. It .has served its purpose well and seems to be well fitted for the coming generations. In the last campaign it was .decided to vote whether the old buiding should be removed or not, as was fortunate for t:be town and coun ty it was allowed to stand in peace, andisturbed. (The above was written by a young ady pupil of Mr. J. B. 0O'N. Hollo way 's private school and was not written for publication but by request f The Herald and News the young1 tdv conlsenlted to its publication. A SHOT AT THE DECANTEE. First Tract Published by the Na tional Temperance Society in 1865, by Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D. There is a current story that a Quaker once discovered a thief in his house; and taking down his grand father's old fowling-piece he quietly said, "Friend, thee had better get out of the way, for I intend -to fire this gun right where thee stands.'' With the same considerate spirit we warn certain good people that they had better take the decanter off their table, for we intend to aim a Bible truth =where that decanter stands. It is in the wrong place. It has no more business to be there at all than the thief had to be in the honest Quaker's house. We are not surprised to find a decanter of al oholie poison on the counter of a dram-shop whose keeper is "li censed" to sell death by measure. But we are surprised to find it on the table or sideboard of one who professes to be guided by the spirit and the teachings of God's Word. That bottle stands right in the range of the following inspired- utterance of St. Paul: "It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to -drink wine, nor any thing whereby the brother stum bleth." This text must either go out of the Christian's Biblg, or the bot tle go off the Christian's table. The text will not move; the bottle must. The passage itself is so clear that it can 'hardly admit of a cavil or a doubt. It teaches the lofty and be nevolent principle-that abstinence from things that are necessarily huit ful to others, is a Christian expedi ency that -has the grip of a moral duty. This. sounds, at first, like a very radical doctrine; but so conservative an .expounder as Prof. Hodge, of Princeton, has defined the text as teaching that things which are not always wrong per se are to, be given ap for the saks of others. He says that the legal liberty of a good man is never to be exercised *here a moral evil will inevitably flow from it. We are never to put stumbling blocks in the way of others. Good men are bound to sacrifice anything nd everything that is counter to the glory of God, and destructive of the best interests of humanity. It would be easy to prove unan swerably that alcoholic beverages are injurious to those who use them. The famous athlete, Tom Sayers, was once asked by a gentleman, "Well, Thomas, I suppose that 'when you are taining, you use plenty of beefsteaks andj London porter, and pale ale?'' 'The boxer replied, "In my time I bave drunk more than 'was good for re; but when I haie businiess to do, there 's nothing like lwater and dumb ells.'' After retiring from "busi-' aess,'' he took to drink and died a' sot. Cold water made-him a Samson; alcohol laid him in hi.s grave. As a matter of personal health and long life, "it is. good not to drink wine;'' as an example to others, total absti-' mence is a .Cliriitian virtue. The inherent wrong of using in boiating drinks is two- fold. 1. It exposes to danger the man who tern pers with it; for no man was ever positively assured by 'his Creator that be could play with the "adder'' that lies coiled in a wine-cup without be 'irg stung by it. 2. It puts a stum bling block in the way of him whom we are commanded to love as our elves. We lay dowyn, then, the proposition that no man has a moral right to do mything :re iufluene"' of which ' ertainly and mev.'.'tably hurtful t is neighbor. I have a -.:-al right tof io many t'ungs whiehi as a Christivr [ean not do. I have a legal right to :ake arsenic or swallow strychnine; >ut I have no moral rigat to commit ;his destruction. I have 'a legal 'right ;o attend the theatre. No policeman stands at the door to ex.elude me, or! lares .to eject me while my conduct is >derly and becoming. But I have no noral right to go there; not merely >eause I may see and h'ear much that nay soil my memory for days and noths, but because that whole gar iished and glittering establishment, vith its sensuous attractions, is to nany a young person the yawning naelstrom of perdition. The dollar vhich I give at the box office is my minrihntion towards sustaining an establishment -whose dark founda tions rest on the murdered souls of thousands of my fellowmen. Their blood stains its walls, and from that 'pit" they have gone down to .n other pit where no sounds of mirth ever come. Now I ask, what right have I to enter a place where the tragedies that are played off before me by painted women and dissolute men are as nothing to the tragedies of lost souls that are enacted in some parts of that house every night? What right have I to give my money and my presence to sustain that moral slaughter-house, and by walking into the theatre myself to aid in decoying others to follow meI Now, on the same principle (not of self-preservation mere,ly, but of avoid ing what is dangerous to others), what right have I to sustain those fountain-heads of death from wbieh the drink-poison is sold? What right have I to advocate their ieense, to patronize the traffic, or even in any way to abet the whole system of drinking aLooholie stimulants at home or abroad If a glass of wins on my table will entrap some young man or some one who is inclined to stimulants into dissipation, then am I thoughtlessly setting a trap for his life. I am his tempter. I give the usage of my sanction to him the direct inducement tc partake of the bottled demon that sparkles so se. ductively before him.' If the contents of that -sparkling glass make my brother to stumble, he stumbles over me. If he goes away from my table and commits some. outrage under the efects of that stimulant, I am to a certain degree guiity of that outrage. I have a partnership in every blow he strikes, or in every oath he may utter, or in every bitter wound he niay inflict on the hearts, of those ei; loves while under the spell of my glass of "Cognac" or "Burgundy." I gave him the incentive to do what 7 otherwise he might have left undone. The man who puts the bottle to his neighbor's lips is accountable , for. what comes from those lips undei- the influence .of the dram, and is aC countable, too, for every outrage that the maddened victim of the cap may perpetrate during his temporary inanity. In this view of the question, is it too much to ask of every professed Christian, and ivery lover of his kind, that they will wholly abstain from everything that can intoxicate? For the sake of your children do it. For the 'sake of a brother, a husband, a fiend. .For the sake of those who will:'plead your example; ,for the 'sake of f rail tempted ones who cannot say No! ' For your fellow traveler's sake to God's bar and to the eternel r world, touch not the bottled devil, unddr whose shining scales damns tion bides its adder-sting! It is old-fashioned total abstinence that we are 'pleading for. We ask it, as Paul 'did, for the (sake of those who ''stumble." Oh, those stumblers! those stumblers! 'We dare not spepk of them. It would touch many of us too tenderly. It would reveal too many wreeks-wreeks -thiat angela have wept over. It woald ,open tombs whose charitable green turf hides out of sight what many a survivor would love to have forgotten. It would re call to me many a college friend who went down at midday into blackness of darkness. And to-day I see this social curse coming back into our houses, into our streits, into our daily usages of lifi, with redoubled power. Would that every parent were a "prohib tory law" to 'his 'f'amigy! Wod~ld that every pulpit and every platform would thunder forth the old warning ery, "Look not on the wine when it is red, when it giveth its color in the up, for at last it biteth like a ser pent and stingeth like an adder." At the last! at the 'last! But, oh! who cman tell when that "lest " shall ever nd ? When will the -victim's last roan be heard i When will the last orror seize 'upon his wretched soul? At any rate, the Wright brothers ire two American boys to whom even :he kings of the earth araecompelled : look up.-Atlanta Georgian. Relative to the tariff tax on stock .ngs, the T.roy Press wants to know "'Hose fault is it ?" We haven't arter tell you.-Columbus Enquirer