Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r= 1 XX I fe 1 JI 1a. JiL TV" ii 4 m ? V V*V V W V 4F ^ ^ ^ i * * -; 4- K? >: :>( :+;+: ?i I:***:* || i4 COWARDL Probably nine in ten laws placed on the statute books in this and otli er States are written and passed by professional lawyers. In tbla and other States lawyers are a balance of power If not a majority !u the law making body. This couditlon must not be accepted as proof that men who practice law are the only ones capable of making law. Such is not the case, nor do the people, as a whole, regard lawyers as the mental and moral superiors of other men. Lawyers outnumber men of other callings in legislative bodies merely because lawyers rush in where otherp haven't time to tread. A young lawyer offers for the legislture as an advertisement?and he gets his money's worth. The older lawyer may have a less worthy motive, or he may actually be patriotic. No matter what the motive that prompts them, lawyers take to politics as nat^ urally and inevitably as a duck takes to water. And since lawyers can hold public office without great ly neglecting their private businesses, and since able men of other callings cannot, lawyers offer their services, divide the jobs among themselves and pass the laws to regulate other trades and callings. Naturally enough, few If any laws are passed that will tend to reduce! the fees or Interfere with the privileges of lawyers. Some day, however, there will come a revulsion of feeling, and men of other trades will hold the balance of law making power.. When that day comes, the first law passed will be one designed to proteot witnesses and prisoners from bullying lawyers. flnmA Iiwvam - ?? ? " / " -? vvu. ow, mi O RfJIItlemen. But In a rather varied newspaper career that has required my attendance at many sessions of court for the purpose of getting facte, I can recall but few lawyers who were decent enough to he V eonrteoue to unfortunates In a court room. In order clearly to understand how very contemptible a bullying lawyer is. It must be remembered that in our present terrible "system of $ t A^A A^A Atk A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A A^A r i^r ^ ^ ^ A. 1 Upnp FERTILIZi i V& Car 1 Craddoc Walkove Beacon A FULL; When h ^AAAa^LAAA - - - - - - - * * - - * * V^^'VVV V mim* 11! Y PRACTICE i'i justice" the prisoner?the accused v person?is in nearly all cases re- ' garded and treated as a criminal, ' though the law clearly and expressly ' declares him Innocent until proved guilty. It must bo remembered, ' also, that the judge who tries the case has?without warrant of law : or reason?assumed the right to reat witnesses as menials subject to lis dictation. t The lawyer knows, therefore, that ( the judge and tho sheriff and all the power of the machinery of "justice" ire back of him and disposed to N protect him. The prisoner and wit- s nessare clay in the potter's hands. 1 They are afraid, perplexed, cowed, < nervous. They are strangers in a a strange land, while the lawyer treads paths he has worn smooth. I I cannot, therefore, escape the con- ^ viction that the lawyer who hides r behind the authority of the court and ? from that vantage snarls at folks . whom unkind circumstances has for the moment made inferior to him in t power, is a contemptible and coward- ^ Jy cur, altogther unfit to associate ^ with men who have standards of t honor. j In moments of extreme sympathetic irritation I have often thought t mat mo insulted brow boaten wit- f necc would be justified in procuring , a shot gun after the trial and filling the lawyer's hide so full of lead It A would be necessary to haul his coffin j, on trucks. Not that I approve of private ven- H geance. I believe the law should take its course?when It has a course But justice is fundamental, and when law gives one man an uniair advantage, who shail say that the other, man has not the right to amend the law? Is a statute passed by a few r lawyers the word. of the Lord of flostii?Infallable and infinitely wUe p and just? How absurd to ma.ntain cbat a law passed by a dosen ordinary | mortals may or of a right ought to govern a dosen others, unless the I second dozen wish to be governed! I Law Is to be respected so long as < It Is respectable; no longer. Courts are to be honored so long as they are honorable; no longer. Democracy Is democracy only so long as It t THE LANCASTER NEW BRID ral 1 ERS IEATH SP ry A < =aOI k- Terry t and Shoes STOCK n Town iccords all men equitable treatment Hid opportunity. Justice is justice >11 ly when it ia no respecter of per10ns. This may sound like anarchy if our mind happens to be fashioned hut way. But to me it is the gospel >f decent liberty, and accords with he logic of the man who first said: '1 love peace, and I'm going to have jeace if I have to light for it.? fountain Inn Tribune. KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR. Around us on every iiaiul are >eautiful souls altogether unknown o us, yet worth knowing. Every day wo walk side by side vith rare spirits making immense tacrifices and building up a wonderul inner life, and seldom, if ever, lo we glimpse the angel that lies leeping within them. We brush elbows every day with >eople of rare quality, who in the itress and hurry of life, seem little nore than pieces of machinery, bent >n given tasks with little or nothing o give their fellow beings. Buried in their own affairs, or enrenched in a deep reserve, they live >eside us. We little dream of the >eauty of soul that lies just below he surface perhaps hungering for txpression. In many instances we have but o learn a little more about life to Ind wondroua human qualities that nabe that same life a delight. Sometime* such souls exist in our rery own families and we never enow them. For some reason people are over ensltive about revealing themselves o others and have acquired the habt of self-expression?of seldom leting their Inmost thoughts and ambi ons be kDLwm. We sbo?M strive to release the uni Hindi mat iiea sleeping In very one and to "help thorn to got free that they may stand revealed t their very beet to themselves and o as. Life 1* foil of eweet surprise* and 'e of the richest Is to discover a erson beside as of whose beauty and "nth of character we have never Ireamed or known. The mills are full of Just surh people. *? >? >? of them only waiting r a little encouragement to show he world what they are.?Mill Life. S, OCTOKmt li), 'a 4^4 A A A 4^4 A A A 4^4 a\ A A^/k ^ ^r y ^ ^ A A *+* A A A A A A A A y vvvvvvvvvvvv >GES Mercl RING, S. t Compl< ?ll 51 Hi Co Ot OFHAR Call To ? * * * * ?? * * * * * MV tlll'lUII. What makes a church my church' Not the mere use of the possessivt pronoun?though that is helpful Something is wrong when a parishion ^ er says "your" church instead o j "my" church. But the trouble i: usually deeper than a misuse of pro nouns. Possession implies some sor of investment. Possession cannot hi i given; it must be acquired. 1 ma give my friend a book or a pictun or love, but he is not truly richer tin til he makes use of the gift. A bool , on the shelf, a picture on the wall love vouchafed is not real possessioi until it is actually possessed by th soul of the recipient. Motherhoot means possession because the motlie has done so much for her child be fore she holds it in her arms. But : child does not "possess" a motlie it only "has" a mother until it be gins to claim her. The mother sav "My child," the child says onl "mother." The sacred pronoun o possession is deferred until the chili begins to "possess" its mother. So with a church. To write or sa; of a church, "my church," is at firs an ideal only. To make the ideal be come sober fact involves things don for the church and its Lord. Mean uring the words thus, what do voi mean when you call this "you church?" How much is it "yours?' What of you is in it? Merely to si in its congregation once a week, o to buy tickets for Its entertainments or to use its envelopes is not enoug' to lend thrill to one's use of the per sonal pronoun. Is the church 01 your ahert? Is the churchrofS: your heart? Is it in your prayers am your plans? Are you helping to givi It 1 i fft In V* tT""* ?"-1 -v ..>v as* fc>?V WHIIIIUIIIV/ ; IlliW III llll more of a church is It heeatise you ar< a member of It? What do you meai when you say "my church.Georg< Clarke Peck. Birthmark* Removed by Radium. Radium has been used successful!', during the past year at the Radium In stitution in Ltondon for the eradtcattoi of birthmark*. In u report recentl: issued. It is asserted that blemishes o this kind hare been re mo red reedil] and without leaving any noticeabh trace of the disfigurement followim the treatment Superficial growth! of other characters, such as warts which had resisted treatment by acids have also been removed. In all. 74! cases of different kinds have beet treated at the institution. * &o lants C0TT01 c. ^te Lir ladlight, irhartt leralls DWARE See Us. * ^ * ?? ^ ^ *? * * * * ?? * ^!*?^-+^i-+{-+-j-+-:-*-f-+^-+--:-?H J GIVE YOUR 1 1 Friends, have you any children? I s I so, do you make it a practice to in | elude books among your presents ti them? Above all, have you a librar; P I ( in which they can read at will* If you have not a library; I beg o you to accumulate one as rapidly a your means will permit. From th v point of view of helping you to rais children of whom in after years voi n will have reason to feel proud, it wil prove one of the best investment you have ever made. r i | Make your library varied. Put in t | to it books?good books?of history ,. biography, travel, science, philoso i.i phy, poetry, art, music and fiction. p | Hup as cheap editions as yoi v please provided they are attractive! f J printed and bound. Whenever pos . uiKla <* * <1 1.J -J... (j UIUib i, ii unit itit'ii editions. Don't, however, make the mistak y after you have gathered your librar t of telling the children that you hav gathered it for their Instruction an> ,, I that they must read the books in it Don't, in fact say anything to then ? about it. Just put the books in i r bright sunny room, leave the doo ' open and let the children do as the t please. r If they are normal, healthy chil t> dren, and if their intellectual curio* i ity has not already been chilled b . your upbringing of them, they ar n sure to And that room one of th most attractive rooms in th? entlr 1 house. e They will browse among th i books, they will look at the plcturef , ? Vl OTT ?* * 1 1 J * * _ i ?rn.i rwu wnaiever interest i them. t I know an American hiatorian wh can definitely trace his interest li history to the reading of Gulliver' Travels, a copv of which he found li I his father's library. , He wns nine years old when h t first read Gulliver. The copy h l read contained an account of Its au i thor's life. This led him to read th' 1 history of the period In which Its an thor lived. And thereafter he be came devoted to the study of history and eventually became a writer e history himself. | Natural aptitude, of course, wll P?av a part in determining your rhll dren's reactions to the books In yon' 39 fx >^ n s xX fx ft f t u il II V if Xx ft xt IT te || it fx it it ix xx it xx xx yy yy yy i > i * fy yy tt ft YY YY YY YY YY } ' * * * * _ f ? l i ? t i ? I _?- t - ' ' .%.! I. rT.ixT/.xT-!.T.I T.I T \ ? /?% CHILD BOOKS I f library. One child will be particular ly attracted by books of travel, ano other by scientific works and so forth, yj The point is that, by giving your ; little ones access to such a splendid f source of inspiration, you will have s done much to bring out their natural e aptitudes to imbue them with a real 0 fondness for study;, and to familiarize it them with the Joys affjrded by good 1 books. 8, Lilly, 1 think, it was who wrote, "Have thy study full of books rather - than thy purse full of money." The ', parent who has at heart the best in terosts of his children will do well to 1 tollow the hint In these words. ii _ - -| I know parents?and so do you? y who lavish on their children costly | toys and fiine clothes, but never a I hook. Alas, for the future of these ? children.?H. Addlngton Bruce?Baly to. Star. e d, YOt'K MK'AL N KWSPAPKR. t. a "Stand by your town newspaper, a If there is anything in your town r worth talking about, ten chances to y one your little town paper had a hand in putting it there, and if there I- exists any unsightly or unsavory i- nuisance, twenty chances to one it y j will stay there until your town editor e' sees it or smells It and wipes his pen e on the town hoard's breeches. If e anybody beyond the walls of your little burg ever learns that there is c such a place as Peachvllle, it will be i,l through the town oracle, s "Every village gets its money's worth in the village newspaper. It's o the wagon that carries all your good n things to market. It ought to be s kept in good repair. In many oases n ' It ? - " " > - nuuiu JIOJ HI Kreane H, pw"1 keep ita running gear in shape and e shelter it attke public expense, e "fltand by your local newspaper - It's the guard'an and defender of a every interest, the forerunner and - pioneer of revery advanre movoment - and the sturdy advocate of law and order. Take it away, and it will not f be six months before the town would | look as if it had beon doped. BusiI neaa would dra*. society yawn and . rmns wn~?1d grsw between ths cob- ^ r Men."!?ftz. k J_. 1