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r II THE TRUTH AB 4X4tt4:f4:K4:i:4X4;4;4:i^^:^4*^ T -, , > The undercurrent of criticism of Governor Manning seems to have spent its force, and there is now an evident disposition among those who oppose him to judge him according to what he has accomplished durlqg his administration so far. This paper is in no sense a partisan of any public official, but its policy is to give nrnIha urhoro nroiao la rina anH *a a#_ fer criticism where criticism should be directed. If Governor Manning had made no mistakes, he could hardly be human. The wisest statesmen and the most far-seeing man in public position cannot help occasional errors of Judgment, but as long as the good of the state is the controlling motive of acA tion no harm or injustice can be done. The present administration, supported by a general assembly that ranks will with the best of legislative bodies in many years, has made a decided step forward in material progress and reform for the good of the etate. Constructive legislation in South Carolina has been help back by reactionary forces for a long time, but a change has come and the peo pie are ready and demand of their servants that they do something worth while. The Important constructive legislation that was passed at the last session of the legislature makes quite an attractive program of reform measures for a start. Here are some of them: An act establishing a state tax commission. The purpose of this law Is to equalise the burdens of taxation so that they may fall equally and without discrimination upon our people. Tax assessments are grossly unequal, some classes of property paying ten times as much as other kinds of propterty, and the effort is being made to overcome this and put all property on exactly the same footing. An act putting compulsory education into force in the school districts that desire it . This reform begins with the idea that the people of each sehool district, knowing local conditions and understanding their own peculiar needs, should have the right to say whether or not they desire school attendance to be compulsory. s ! L s 5 A gl J to shoi 3 your I: ' ? j j | uiauuiit i lloi ooco??c?ooo OUT MANNING 1 ixt)i:i n "i:: i:Ki)ici:m>.' i It Is a good beginning, and will lea eventually to a statewide act that ca be enforced because the people wli respect the law and see that It is cai rled out. An act creating a state board c charities. The purpose of this law i to afford better treatment to the ui fortunates in our asylumB and pens institutions. The treatment of prii oners especially has been prlmltivt and in some cases barbaric, and th possibility of reclaiming the convict ed man and giving him a new stai in life when his term is up has bee given little attention heretofore i this state. This board can do gres things for the public good, and it ha certainly made a fine start. An act placing the asylum for th insane upon a sound business and hi nianitarlan basis. The asylum hn leen the football of politics in Sout Carolina for a long time, and a cond tlon of inefficiency, extending ovt many years, has brought the institi tion far down the scale of good mat agement. The new act is designed 1 Improve, if not to revolutionize cond tlons, and the work that has alread been done under the new board < regents is proor positive that wasl of money Is going to be prevent* and that the best possible resul will bo obtained. These are leading reforms. Othei will follow, in the way perhaps of workable system of rural credits, warehouse system that will reach tl small producer as well as the larf one, and other measures for the r lief and progress of the working ar producing man. Unofficially, Governor Manning a ed as arbitrator in the strike of tl Columbia street rnilway men, and tl successful manner in which he hand ed the situation shows tht he has just appreciation of the relations th exist between employer and employ* and that he understands, from tl standpoint of sympathy and mutu Intornol nrAhlnm ?A *1 | ? w? vuv, niv |/> vuicui ouu ll inn U1 CI man who tolls. If devotion to duty, If plain coi I mon eense In the administration ! the state's affairs. If an unselfflsh d sire to do all things what are be ( for the state, If practical ability ai I unspotted character count for an ROBft (ewelers, I EVER To V >uri ad hand awe v you and se mying. 117-J J* rr euumg, WE FIT try from low pi BIMCJ LHllk_T oooeoooaoooi THE LANCASTER NEWS, (thing In the governor's chairi?if these things, Indeed, a;e qualities that ought to go with the office of chief executive, then Mr. Manning is & a good governor und is entitled in all r< respects to public confidence and sup- k port.?Anderson Intelligencer. a a l> 11 lilKK WITH AX INSPIRATION. n fc Stick to your dream, boy. Let ti >f nothing swerve you from the path 18 that leads upward toward the fulfill- j, i- meat of your life's ambition. u il You will meet with difficulties and r discouragements, but when you do, b 3, just think of the man Herreshoff, t e the boat builder, who died the other ^ t- day up in Rhode Island. In his life i *t you ought to find inspiration enough ( n I to lift you over any obstacle. 1 n' A writer In one of our exchanges t it says that when John B. HerreshofT v is j was a boy his ambition was to design r ' and build the fastest boats in the J world. He became blind when yet a t i_ I boy. That would have discouraged ig. any ordinary boy. for how could a I h blind man design a model that he j I I could not see? Rut Herreshoff c ,r! stuck to his dream. The reavy han- t j_ dicap of blindness only made him t i. press on all the harder. a 0 The blind boy sat in eternal dark- I l_l ness and whittled out his boat mod- i lj els. Gradually there developed in t jf his fingers a muscle sense that was I ! worth more to him than eyesight ] )(j would have been. Slipping the model ( of a hoat through his hands he could tell how it should be shaped to slip 1 i through the water with the least re- 1 rs | sistance. Other designers figured out t a their models by complex mathemati- ! ie ; cal calculations. But the blind boy i ? 1 felt with hiB sensatlve fingers, and 1 te e i his models were the best, for when l l(j , he was twenty-four years old he built i | the fastest yacht the world has ever < ct known and, while he could not see i the boat go. ho felt the dash and < ' plunge and swiftness of !t, and he < II wept when they told him the boat . had won the race. a . The fame of the blind designer of at fast hoats spread round *he world 00 ^ and England, Russia and Italy gave i ,! him contracts for the'.r fastest tor- < al pedo boats. He died a few days ago, l!0 I I a weftlthv man fnr ho VioS ?Oi/>V .? hi8 boyhood's dream and achieved it < fully.?Fort Mill Times. e" Pile* Cured In 6 to 14 Days 18 Your drnggiat will refund money if PAZ? ad OINTMKNT full* to cure nny cane of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days, y- The first application gives Kane and P?-st. 30c. ISON-L mmmmmmmmmmmmatmmammammmnama Opticians, ? YBOD\ isit Us Many ng lits you and a j 11 you, but our Birthday GLASSES TO ivu iu lugu* DN-l I :??oo?*oo*coc* OCTOBER 19, 1915. HEADING. Show me the mars, womau, boy or Irl who likes to read and who does ead, and I will show you one who nows something. Observe in almost ny home you visit the hooks and apers you see lying around and you lay judge in Bo small degree of the utellectual tastes and general inI'lligeuce of the fam'lv. A man is known by the company e keeps. This is an old saying but very true one when it comes to ending. Children should hnvo enmi ooks placed wherj they can read hem for they go io help mould the haracter ot' to-: growing child, and i will remrm' er in the years to come he impress'.r.is gotten from reading ooks when ^ child. Give the child he right ni.il of books to read and vlien it grows up nothing but the ight sort of book will interest them, md nothing but the ' progressive lungs of life will satisfy them. Take time t<\ read good papers and tooks for that is the only way one >urt of the world gets ahead of the itlier. Abraham Lincoln studied by he light of a pine torch. He read all he books he could borrow or buy. ind that is the way he developed that >ig mind and heart while he split ail3 and did other hard work during he day. He could never have gone 'rom the log cabin to the White I Mouse if he had not read books to I levelop his mind. our Mill boys and girls have so much better chance tnan Abraham i Lilncoln ever had. Most mills have i library which contains the ver/ best looks, and they can be had for the , isklng. There Is a night school at i nearly all mills for those who want j to study and have not had an oppor- ! tunlty to go to school when children. I Srasp your opportunities and make them count by reading and studying every moment that you have the ehance.?Mill Life. f 1 The Next Host Tiling to the Pine I Forest for Folds Is? ur. Hell s Rine-Tar-Honey which goes to the very root of cold troubles. It j clears the throat and gives relief from that clogged and stuffed feeling. The pi*es have ever been the friend of man in driving away colds. Moreover, the pine-honey qualities are peculiarly effective in fighting children's colds. Remember that a cold broken at the start greatly removes the possibility of complications. 26c. 1 ? ATHAl Stationers, rs iw Times And the i r i smile ot welc< friendship do and Hoi Ut A Sch LAH i D0303090000C ?" V^THE^Lm i "If any one shall offend one ofj?Pf these little mipa " I m> He was a round-faced earnest lit- *',e tie chap, one hundred per cent, boy, l'>e and lie had gotten rid of nine of his on' Posts with 110 great effort, but the ?' last one found no purchaser, aud as ^ie the minutes- stretched into hours t,ie the business situation with this lit- K'v tie business man seemed hopeless. of^ lie opened the doors of a bank and S-VI1 with some awe wended his way back l)iti to the president's room and presented the copy for sale. The big heart- if 1 ed man already had a copy of the wo Post, but with a fine interest in 8or these little ones, ho asked the lad a ^?' few questions. It was the little wo man's first attempt to sell papers. 1 j(,y The paper was purchased with the nej assurance that the gentleman want- atr ed to help the boy on his first business venture, and the big bright yej sunshine came back into the hoy's hai heart and life. SJU The boy will remember that man ll,li as long as he lives. These little fellows, all love, all innocence, with- N,t out knodledge of that hatred, malice and uncharitableness which lodge In older hearts, never forget a kindness, and the life that confers ))(>| a kindness upon one of these little |()( ones is a life made happier to the wa end. Business and worldly care , pic should never press so deep and hard upon the mature heart that all the feeling for children, their ambitions and hopes are passed by, and association and touch with child life a r neglected. "It were better that a P? grent millstone were hanged about; si" his neck and that he were drowned j to in mi* nepui or me sea rather than | rfc>1 cause one or these little ones to; Hz stumble." | eu John Ttuskin said that many peo-'so1 pie thought the Kingdom of Heaven cr< was filled only with little children, | I rut that is a very much mistaken th: I idea. The right view is that If we wi i would achieve a higher and kinder rei and more useful life, men ar.d wo- tel men must become as little children devoid of suspicion, malice and do revenge in their hearts, and a readi- th ness to forgive and forget, which is se a part of child nature. Whatever wl may be the qualifications for that ael higher life of which death is the Cli V CO. Booksellers. VITED i Often ! " O rai ome. We ha^ >es not depend 'iday Gifts. LL AGES. D <-V 1 fn MM J C iviui C111U J -LAN >ooo#ooo??goo; ^ > 27 LE ONES J in door, we know that those who -e in their hearts the impulses of se little oueB are the men after ir own hearts and lives. The y way to assimiJ'ate the nature childhood is to be Lt verested in se little ones, to 9liaro with them ir joys and their sorrows, to shun ing the poorest and least of them snse, and by helping them with apathy in all their childhood amions and undertakings. Phe great scientist, Darwin, said le had life to live over again lie uld hear some music and read lie poetry every week, for by so ng in old age parts of his brain uld be active and bring tc him entnent and would not be dead and ir the close of his career that if ophled. Such a loss to the mind deeply regrettable, but as ' the irs go on and the heart becomes rdened for lack of childish touch. Ider must be the fate of him who 3 shut out from his life ore of its eetest pleasures. ? Greenville ws. THE IMPROVED PRICK. Last year the cotton farmer, while ing ground between the upper and ? nether stones caused by the r, bewailed the fact that he had >nty of cotton but it was worth ictically nothing. Just anything to boost the price. This year cotton has gone back to easonable, living price and still the or farmer is in trouble from the nple fact that he hasn't the cotton sell. The crop is short for various isons. Lack of money to buy l'ertiers, the diversification idea which i uwviii iuc atreaRi^ aim as me sea\ was most unpropitious for a full jp. The staple will bring a good price is year and the chances are that it 11 continue to advance, and may acli 15 cents a pound. No one can 11. Hut business in every line is unubtedly showing the benefit from e higher price and the farmer who lis and pays his debts is the man 10 is really belying not only liimf but every other interest.? lester News. Ti : r I re lots 1 upon upplies. I t <UUo I I I DOCOCCOOOO?U