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part iriend. it much . s< . Yet we to s. farewell. d man it tottered the end' of life's i went forward to vast vault wherein .e forms of dead dynas sheeted centuries swept remorseless hand of time at great graveyard at the .nce of which rises the im nary tombstone upon which nscribed these words: 'THE AST.' There is a sublime so lemnity in the slowly moving, yet never varying tide of years. Man has marked its course into hours, days, weeks, months, years and centuries, yet it rush es on, on, on, and still on, utter ly unmindful of the puny marks raised to measure the tide that never tifes. Dynasties have rose, flourished and decayed: cities have sprung from fertile plains and. then sank beneath the desert's drifting sands; con tinents have reared their lofty brows above the ocean's track less waste, only to return to the coral caverns from whence they rose; races have risen to the noon of splendor and become lost in the depths of night, but Time, patient. plodding, tireless Time, sweeps on with the same regu is city as when it first issued forth. f'com the hollow of God's ,; to he chant of the morn ing iz ar. that proclaimed Crea inn's dawn. And yet time is h te image of eternity. the shadow of a shoreless sea, the Tez of . duration for which all iDa pages past and all the aeons . rj.wouldtl make or con e first faint flush of the Sak of the dawn of its s&com- morning. "Eternity! "7an; plsing,dreadful thought!' ~eedi'a bhe crash of matter and the wack of the worlds, suns -nd ems! Intelligence has ar.-' ~ triumphs. It has read the stars of heaven and can fore m ' to a second when the great, d stre will be hidden in par Strayed fro a pee; it can read rris. - r. of .tge creation on bOte rocks of nature and unfola .esecrets hidder~,by God in the l s of the earth: but when it mnpts to grasp the signifi cance of eternity it stands abash ed and dumbfounded at its ina bility to comprehend an infinite plan.______ __ After Tax-Dodgers. If a rake-off in a liquor deal is graftin:' the state's money, what is the man doing who is falseswearing about the amount of tax he is due the state? We often become awe-strick en over corporation or foreign graft, but have to be lambasted into paying any attention to our big army of home made grafters-tax dodgers-at our own door. If it is a flagrant violation of law for the general, whiskey drnmm&r an~d Wiispensary men to failto turn in just revenue and profit to the state, is it not also a crime of the .same for our general friends in other oc cupations to fail to turn into the state every dollor of taxes he is due the state according to law. We farmers are prone to point to corporations and the business world as the great harbingers of grafters, but the plain truth is no man or class of men can point the finger of scorn at any other class and e say thief! grafter! The farmer has the same et o this conceit, let peep at a few pages )unty Auditor's book .sh with shame at the c sheep there is within his ? flock. Shy bless you, not long since - farmer was looking over his County Auditor's books after another matter, and uncovered the tax returns of another far mer who is worth more than one hundred thousand dollars, who returned his property at less than five thousand dollars. This well-to-do farmer Days less than one hundred dollars tax, while another farmer near by, who does own one-fourth as much property, pays two hundred and twenty dollars tax. And worse still, this well-to-do tax dodging farmer's son is on the County Board of Equaliza tion, while yet another son is the county Clerk. Now this may not be a conspiracy to have one son holding down the Conn ty Board of Equalization and another holding down the lid of the books that contain records of securities of his father's, but at the same time we are forced to say that if this ugly state of affairs is pot a conspiracy, that it is at least an allfired con Senient accident or coincident to protecttax-dodgers. Apintolerable Outrage. Man'y of us know of cases whew seie unfortunate who owns no hIng taxable save his head'andheels (poll and road) hagheh chased for miles over the country and finally run down and in for from $8. to $12. cost and the employer is com pelled to put up the cash for his unfortunate laborer or ten ant or his man goes to the chaingang, while another well to-do tax dodger is just as law fully due the state anywhere from $50. to $100. is allowed to false-wear and go free. Anoth er case is.the "home builder" (the sloAn Jpgr the safe'y of the state sin* )pays one-third on his pcase for a home and borrowa nce and after years of iling under the bur en of high interest, taxes and family expenses- is closed out t last to satisfy the money len-. er's claim which is lawful, but he holder of these iron clad securities had not paid a dollar taxes on these notes and mort ages during the whole time this "homie builder" was srgging to pay both interest and taxes too. Ask this money lender why lie does not pay the taxes on his securities and he will have the gall to say a whole heapi about doubl)e-taxing, to compel the farmer to pay tax on bor rowed money and the money lender pay ta~x too), while the law says both shall pay tax. A King Tax Dodger In A High Place. I am informed by a relitble source that we have in our state a corporation that has put more than one and a half million cash into its business, that is paving tax on only ninety-five thous and, for the reason that one of the head officials of this corpo ration is on the board of asses sors, and no doubt the whole state has all sizes of this kind of graft in all its counties. Are the tax law of the state made for the plain, honest peo ple to go by and the unscrupu lous .cunning to evade? Why is it that the county auditors do not go down into this thing and place all the property on the tax books as the law requires them to do? There are few among them that has the "sand" to go into the lair of the lions, that guard the voters, that drive the nails down in the shingles that cover their heads! Do these flaunder ing officers of the law think more about their salaries than all taxable property u pon i books upon an equal bas's? Is it a fact that many of thei are tarred with the same tric along with the common ta dodgers and the rest of thei keep mum for fear of bein called a "common knocker? So far as placing all property o the tax books upon equal bas at its market value is concerne< the county auditor's office is force, and the board of equal zation is a huge joke. Who pays for the Rake-off he] Back by the Tax-Dodgers? It is a'stupenduous fact tht everyone who places his prope: ty on the tax .books at currer or customary rates helps to pa the ,graft, or rake-off held bac by 'the tax-dodgers, which fa< should enlist the aid of all lam abiding citizens with Comptro er Jones in his commenc able crusade for tax equaliza tion. The Remedy. Publishing all tax returns i the county papers every fou years at reassessment of re estate is the one fell swoop tha would attract the interest an aid of the people of each towin ship of the state. This publici ty is the gattling gun or ooni. shell that would drive every Li der out into the open where t a populace can inspect the return and see to it that no one sh!a pass muster without a clean n cord. For the same reason tha we require publishing of expe: ditures of the peovie's mon that we may see where it goe we should also know who is ne turning in all the just tax mor 'ey due the county and state. The drag-net that woul catch all the sharks that juni over or dive under the first c January as the dates for pros erty on hand, instead of namin one day, the law should take a average of several months for basis of money on deposit or i: any business. Kind of Men to Enforce th Laws. Our law makers should kee the fact in mind that these ta: dodgers are cunning masters i: this art, and unless a niaaster il the art of tax finder is sent af ter them, the effort will b futile. These tax inquisitors shou! not be floundering noliticeans weaklings of the 80 cents call bre, but a selection fr' n among the ablest men we h; v and paid. accordling to thi wk -m1enI of spine. U iscrn ' law moere than kith or kin, c frie or foe. Somuething Must be Done. this tax-djodging :raft lon; enough. it is time for our reare sentati .es to go for these "para sites on the body politic" wit] the gloves off, and provide sure plan to tighten dow-n on al taxdodgers alike. We have sen a Lyon out after the "Liquo Grafters" that fetched in th "Game" and now we want gang of "Bengall Tigers," tha can see, to go after the wily ta: dodgers. Something must b done to relieve the strain upo' the conscienee of our good pec ple whe are in the habit of si1 ting in the amen corners of th churches singing psalms on Sur day. and go before the Count Auditor on Monday and tak an oath that the value c their cow is $8 when the know they could get $30 to $4 fo- her, or their land is worth S per acre when they know the other lands by them are sellin for from 40 to $100 per acre;c they have no other property t their credit not listed in thei returns, and spend six month afterwaids trying to relieve thei concience by saying "They a do it," or trying to make then selves believe that false sweal in s diplomac or some othe c-I . . . .. . . . .. t e k, a r. . ...-. Corgt 1909 B.y - $Cf.0S8RS6 0 SE 5lLSBKOSEO., .Tive Clothes MakersK Balimor-4ad Newyork] 11 I. . (.*-.OV - . X p:iown - ----.--...rioh do the n or each and #ov erv is sure to enem t - p and he coun ejd a.s to -ler a dollar is a' dotlbe - M r. r~c ita isri 11 ,.. ....-- - 1 . rone lPices .C SD. . . eariht Picens Sout Carolina. IKeow Ofnice upstairs Freemnn Bldg. Castle Hall Pickens Lodge No. 123 K. of P., Stated convention 8:30 p. mn., Monday evening after the 1st and 3d Sunday. r Work aihead for all the Ranks. OA il vcisitrs co-dially invited. By order of r ID. G. MOO RE. C, C. SA. M. MORRIS. E. of R. and S. [1I PARKER'S HARBALSAM e- a ~ca..a a...n. bmfel. a~r Promoro.. a luuran grou. rnNever Tans5 to Restore OWe mW.~ iraus Mb S.. _ The man who aims to dr rather conservative clothes, wi our men's styles in keeping wi desires. Collegian igarments are I for the young man-while they no extremes of an unsightly they are naturally less conse than the garments produced fo older men, who keenly rec style, but whose tastes do not ru same direction of the young who admires and demands mor hose Jittle features which tend y"' make a garment somewhat more treme: Our clothes for men are produlisS?. for those who insist upon style: just as decided a character as we in the collegian fashions, but who to avoid some of the extremes in . 01 rics, in cut, and in general lie which the younger man would naf ally admire. The style is here tc equal degree, but it is subdu meet the requirements of the conservative dresser. It is unneccesary to be a jud merchandise to see -at a glance. result of our standard ot clothes king. The merit of these garmt will be evident to you, If you sin: test them for a season or two. You will quickly realize how ni this high quality standard mean the wearer of our garments ICH IL D, IRK My pafriiis'have shs1w the-ir-appreciation by the Rif u i' of business they have giv --n me diuring the, year i1910, frwhich I hope that each of v"m ind:ividually will acceptmy uuinks. My business (-ach \*dr since I came to Pickens hu bee constantly growing . U 1 wehope~ to me- it a con ;TiUacU of your conhdence, JN. H ALLUM, Manage-r, i-XALL STOR ee Supply CO0 By your liberal trade you have helped us to strow flow ers on the grave of 1910, and we are very grateful to you fr your kindness. We are going to continue to give you the very best goods for as small amount of money . as we possibly can. Hoping you have had a merry Christmas, and Wishing - you a happy New Year, We are, Yours Truly. B ~j X Ma~a~8