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WALHALLA, S. C.:
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1908.
HERE, THERE AND YONDER.
Countess Laszlo Jono Maria Hen
rik Simon Szeohenyl ! Gee whiz !
Didn't M if..? Oladys Vanderbilt have
nerve to attach all that Dago name
to her own dear little American self.
Wc ses a good deal these days
about the Hen law being "under fire."
Well, why not? Wo have always
heard farmers speak of being "burnt
up" by the lien law. Turn about ls
fair play.
. ? . .'. *
Our Seneca correspondent sug
gests "the John part' of a munici
pal ticket as follows:
Hopkins.
JOHN I Barron.
Harper.
Brock.
"How would you Uko to be John?"
The bill before the present Legis
lature, asking that high license for
the sale of liquor be granted In those
counties desiring it, was killed by
the committee. The day for high li
cense In South Carolina is evidently
past. It will not be long, we think,
until South Carolina will adopt
straight prohibition.
?Ve . . *
Elbert county's been dry sd long
she don't see any difference since
the prohibition law went into effect.
Her experience is that a town or city
can prosper without liquor.-Elber
ton (Qa.) Star.
And so can every other town that
has any foundation at all. The Indi
vidual, town, county, State or nation
that d?pends on liquor is leaning on
an exceedingly rotten prop.
It has been assorted that Gover
nor Glenn, of North Carolina, is a
"marked" man. A man from Ohio
has ottered to bet $1,000 to $10
that Glenn will not live to witness
next Christmas, this owing to tho
stand he has taken on the railroad
rate matter. Ohio has furnished the
evil prophet. Will the Buckeye
State also furnish the nssassln?
*****
The Hampton Guardian, Ex-Gov
ernor M. D. McSweeney's paper, was
totally destroyed, building and plant,
Sunday night by fire. The loss to the
Guardian is about $6,000, partially
covered by insurance. Other build
ings wore destroyed, the total loss
being about $10.000. We sympa
thlve deeply with Mr. Mcsweeney
and other losers. We expect to see
Guardian launched again soon.
Stomach Trouble Cured.
If you have any trouble with your
stomach you should take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. J.
P. Klote, of Edina, Mo.. Baysl "I
have used a great many diff?rent
medicines for stomach trouble, but
And Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv
er Tablets more boneflclal than any
other remedy I ever used." For sale
by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lun
ney, Seneca.
Girl Met Death in Windstorm.
Fort Mill, Jan. 27.-A severe
windstorm passing through this sec
tion last night blew down the house
of Elijah Merritt, a young farmer,
who lives three miles north of town.
One of tho heavy timbers fell across
the bed In which his eldest daughter,
12 years old, was sleeping, killing
her Instantly. The other members
of tho family were not hurt.
Dr. Thornton's Easy Teether pass
ed tho Pure Food and Drugs Act.
June 30th, 1006. This our govern
ment guarantees as being pure and
harmless. We guarantee lt to cure
teething troubles. Mux. Indigestion,
stomach and bowel diseases, colds,
worms, ia gripp?, otc. If Easy Tee
ther falls to cure wo will refund
your monoy. lt never fr Us and costs
nothing to try lt. StonecypherDrug
Co., Westminster, S. C.
Nantucket Hard Hit by Blizzard.
Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 25.- No
ptorm in the last, fifty years has
caused so much damage on this Is
land as the blizzard which raged all
day yesterday and early to-day. For
more than thirty hours the Island
was in the grasp of a gale of hurri
cane force. Tho wind velocity was
at no time less than 70 miles an
hour, and there wore squalls at In
tervals which were gauged at one
hundred mlle? an hour.
Damage roaching thousands of dol
lars was wrought about tho wharves
and along the east shore of the is
land. Bulkheads, piers, fish houses
and other water front property were
?wept away. Tho fishing fleet is
practically demoralized. Dozens of
damaged boats and launches are
piled upon shore. Deep drifts of
.mow cover the entire island. There
has been no communication with
Siasconset for two days.
MORE ABOUT THE SCHOOLS.
** Vresentatlve Vernor Gives Borne
Interesting Inside Information.
Columbia, Jan. 27.-spec!?!: Last
weok I had something to s?y about
Winthrop College. I did not Bay
enough-then there are other so
called Institutions of higher educa
tion that I th|nk the people would
like to know something about.
Last year the colleges of the State
spent the following amounts of
money and had enrolled the follow
ing numbers of students:
Students. Expenditures.
Winthrop .497 $ 81,646.66
Clemson .666 241,348.66
S. C. University. 286 72,866.66
Military Acad...l33 61,669.21
Negro College. ..600 26,072.82
Cedar Springs In
stitute.100 .20,000.00
Totali.2281 ?492,482.68
* Cedar Springs approximated.
You will Bee that these institu
tions spend annually nearly a half
million dollars.
Clemson College, though getting
the lion's share, does not spend lt all
on the students. That Institution
has to analyze much of our fertili
zers, at a cost of $21,000, and many
other matters that cost money. Last
year, for instance, the Legislature
made a trip to Clemson at a cost to
that institution of $430. Some of
the items of the cost of that trip are
amusing. For instance:
Cigars .$11 00
Oysters . 16 00
Crabs . 6 00
Chickens . .8 00
Ribbons and badges, etc., etc., at
smaller cost.
The mode of determining whether
or not students at Winthrop shall
pay tuition is interesting and would
be amusing if it were not for the
utter absurdity and inadequacy of
that mode. I will try to explain lt
here:
You are allowed to have, accord
ing to the assessed valuation of
your property,' $1,000 for each of
your children before you will be
[charged tuition; so, if there are five
I children your holdings would have
to be assessed at Just over the $6,000
mark before you would have to pay;
if ten children, then you must be as
sessed over $10,000 before paying.
Our property ls generally assessed at
about twenty per cent of Its value
Thus a man assessed at $6,000 would
have $26,000, and If he had five or
more children could send to Win
throp without paying tuition. No
wonder they have only eighty pay
students there!
I am told that Clemson is run on
somewhat the same plan. I don't
know about that, but I do know that
boys go there to school and pay no
tuition whose parents are amply able
to pay.
You will observe from the above
that the negro college has 600 stu
dents and only $25,072.82; Clemson
665 students, with $241,348.55;
though, as above stated, Clemson
has some work to do outside of the
college. Still, if you will study these
figures, you will conclude that the
white man might learn something
from the negro. Thos. Miller, presi
dent of the negro school, made a
very creditable showing before tho
Ways and Means Committee. He
brought his book of expenditures
and gave it to the committee, say
ing: "Gentlemen, you will find
where your money went. In that
book, oven to 3 cents." I wish ALL
the colleges would show where the
money, evpn to three dollars, goes.
1 do not accuse any one of anything,
but the people vtould llk^> to know,
to the very cent, where this half
million dollars goes
There ls no doubt that a great
many students attend the various
eolloges In this State, free of tui
tion, who ought lo pay. There is
only one of two way-? to manage this
business: Let all pay or work: let
those vho cannot pay work, if all
paid there would be practically no
need for State aid.
In North Carolina lhere is a wo
man's college, where girls worn for
their tuitirn. Why not let bo?h boys
and girls do the same In this State
if they cannot pay cash?
I wll say something next week
about other State and county expen
ditures.
The lier, law bill passed the house
by 75 to 2D votes, and lt is thought
will pass the Senate. It is said that
the people viii be allowed to give
mortgages OM crops after they are
growing) and that no law can pre
vent that.
Tho total State expenditures for
the year 1907 exceed the expendi
tures for 1897 by $581,232.50-over
a half million dollars Increase; yet
there ls an Increase of $96,682,5?j0
In the assessed value of the taxable
property.
Taxes aro getting higher and
higher, and every man and institu
tion, almost without exception, seem
to bo asking for more and more.
Something radical will have to he
done before this thing will stop. It
is unendurable now.
E. E. Verner.
Bad Company.
(San Francisco Call.)
A Scotchman was brought before
a London mngistrnte on the charge of
being drunk and disorderly.
"What have you to say for your
self, slr?" demanded the magistrate
Indignantly. "You look like a re
spectable man, and ought to be
ashamed to stand there."
"I am very sorry, ?lr, but I cam'
up In bad company fra' Glasgow,"
humbly replied tho prisoner.
"What sort of company?"
"A lot of teetotalers," was the
8tratllng response.
"Do you mean to say teetotalers
are bad company?" exclaimed the
magistrate in surprise. "I think
they are the best of company for
such as you."
"Boggln' yer pardon, slr," an
swered the prisoner, "ye're wrong.
For I had a bottle of whuskey an' I
had to drink lt all myself."
OABTOrtZA.
B?wi tho ye Tlw Kind You Have Always 8ought
NEWS FROM WESTMINSTER.
Th? Special Election Over--Visitors
in Town-Matters Personal.
Westminster. Jan. 28.-'Special:
TI ere will be a call meeting of, the
Greenfield Farmers' Union held next
Saturday. February 1st, at 1 p. m.
A full attendance requested.
lu the special election held yes
terday, to elect one warden to fill the
unexpired term of W. S. Haley, 81
votes were polled, of which W. J.
Stribllng received iv and T. N. Hall
14.
Postmaster Pitts, of Westminster,
desires to cali ?rtention to the prac
tice of some patrons ot rural delivery
of placing coins in th;'- boxes ??ch
time they desire to dispatch letter?,
instoad of supplying themselves with
postage in advance of their j needs.
Thia practice Imposes undue hard
ships on rural carriers in removing
loose coins from boxes and delays
them on tba service of their routes.
The postmaster, therefore, urgently
requests that patrons of rural deliv
ery provide themselves and keep on
hand a supply of stamps consistent
with and in advance of their needs.
It is also very desirable that rural
patrons place in their mall boxes
?mall detachable cups of wood or
tin in which to place coins, when
necessary, in purchasing supplies of
stamps.
T*.vo children of John T. Mercin
glll died in the mill village within
the past few days.
The sad death of Barnett Norris,
the only son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J.
Norris, occurred at their home,
about a mile from here, at 7 o'clock
on tho morning of January 22. He
was twenty years old last Christmas.
Mr. Norris had been in bad health
since March, 1906, when he suffered
from an attack of pneumonia. The
Immediate cause of his death was
dropsy. Funeral services were con
ducted at the home of the parents
at 10.30 o'clock last Thursday by
Revs. J. J. Harrell and A. P. Marett,
In the presence of many sorrowing
friends.and relatives. At the conclu
sion of the funeral the body was
Interred In the town cemetery. The
deceased leaves his parents, two sis
ters and many other grief-stricken
relatives, to whom the sympathies of
many friends is extended.
One of the most enjoyable events
of the past week was a birthday
party, at which Mrs. W. E. Mason
was the charming hostess, on Friday
evening, January 2 4. About 6
o'clock the guests began to arrive.
Between 6.30 and 8 o'clock supper
was served, and a most elaborate
and tempting menu was enjoyed. Af
ter taking their seats in the parlor
Mrs. Mason entertained the guests
In a "tree contest," in which Misses
Gussie Harper, Emma Zimmerman
and Maud Stribllng, and Waymon
Mason, won tho prizes, delicious
boxes of candy. This was uti (iuter
esting feature of the evening/ as it
took quite a while to accurately an
swer all the questions. Dainty re
freshments, consisting of cake.candy
and gelatine, were served, and merry
social conversation continued until
IQ.30. Those enjoying Mrs. M&???i's
hospitality were: Misses Mary Sam
Messer, Ploma May Tannery, Gussie
Harper, Bessie Crawford, Emma
Zimmerman, Maud Stribllng, Augus
ta Smithson, Prof. and Mrs. M. E.
Brockman, Sloan Harkoy, Waymon
Mason, and Samuel Ables. It being
leap year, some of the young men
had the pleasure ot escorting two
ladies home.
C. E. Cannon, of Clayton, Ga.,
was In town to-day. He sold to his
brother, P. W. Cannon, 300 dozen
eggs.
D. P. Moon, of Comer, Ga., is in
town to-day.
Miss Belle Jones is visiting her <
brother, J. Y. Jones, at Pelzer.
The body of Mrs. Dowls, wife of
Jeff Dowls, was burled at Cross
Roads cemetery last Thursday. She
died in the mill village Tuesday
night. Mrs. Dowls was 38 years old
Beforo her marriage she was a Misa
Wilbanks. She leaves, besides her
husband, four small children. Her
death ls doubly sad to tho family, as
Mr. Dowls burled his oldest son week
before last.
Wilburn II. Denton, of Datto, Ar
kansas, ls on a visit to his aged mo
ther, Mrs. William Deaton, and other
relatives in Oconee. Mir. Deaton'
was here last Wednesday shaking
hands with his old friends and ac
quaintances. Twenty-one years ago
he was a resident of Westminster.
Mr. Deaton Informs us that a very
large elk was captured on a rl\?r
In his section recently. It weighed
800 pounds and had horns six feet
long. The head of the beast sold for
$5. Mr. Deaton has been living in
Arkansas eleven years, and is pros
pering In his adopted home.
Mrs. Maud Witherspoon, of Cross
Hill, S. C., la on a visit to ber bro
ther, Ashtabulah Gaines.
Georgo Norris of Macon, Miss
Pearl Norris of Greenville, Georgo
Petty of Anderson, G. M. and W. D.
Barnett of Clemson, Eugene Norris
of Atlanta, were here Thursday to
attend the burl.il of Barnett Norris,
who dlod laat Wednesday.
Books of registration opened at
tho store cf J. G. Broazealo this
morning, and will remain open until j
April 20. In order to register lt re- '
quires both tax receipt and county
registration certificate.
Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mc
Neil, on the 235 instant, a son.
Preston Holcombe of Birmingham,
Will Holcombe or DanielaviUo, Ga.,
and Eugene Mitchell, of Andorson,
were here last week on account of
the sickness of Mrs. C. E. O. Mitchell.
The, many friends of Mrs. Mitchell
will be glad to learn that she ls some
better. A. L. Gossett.
KILL TH. COUGH
AND CURB TH? LUNGS
wT Dr. King's
Now Discovery
FOR Co?Si18
AND AU. THROAT AMD LUMP TROUBLES, j
GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY!
OR MONEY REFUNDED.
Special
Bargains
for the
Month of
January.
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CSX ANSEL,
For the Month of
January We will offer
Special Bargains in
Blankets, Outing, Un
derwear, both Ladies'
and Men's, Shirts,
Overcoats, Clothing,
and Comforts.
When in town call
and see us. We will
be glad to show you
through our entire
stock. _
Cement Front? Walhalla.
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Call in and see us and make arrangements for
your Supplies and @uano.
Wo are also the Leading Buggy and Wagon
Dealers in Oconee County. *
We have a complete Stock of the Celebrated
Corbett Buggies aud Birdsell Wagons. The very best
on the market.
See us and save money.
Carter & Company.
P. S.: A few good Mules and Horses to sell at prices to snit the times.
Are You Building?
If yon contemplate Braiding a HOME, BARN, or doing any Repair Work
it means "DOLLARS" saved for yon by getting in tonoh with ns.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR
WINDOWS, DOOKS, BLINDS, PAINTS, LEAD
AND OIL, LIME AND CEMENT.
Just Received One Car (400) Kegs Wire and Cut Nails.
Send or Bring us Specifications for your "BUILDING MATERIAL."
WE FURNISH OTHERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTIES.
WE CAN FURNISH YOU IF YOU WILL ONLY
GIVE US A TRIAL. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
We have a Car of Stoves, the "GOOD KIND" WE ARE OFFERING
CHEAP. Don't miss seeing them when in Town.
MATHESON HARDWARE CO,
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DON'T FORGET TO PREPARE YOUR LAND FOR THE NEXT CROP. WE
HAVE A LARGE LINE OF TURN PLOWS, DISC PLOWS, CUTAWAY AND
DISC HARROWS, CORN STALK CHOPPERS AND OTHER IMPROVED TOOLS
THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE MONEY WITH. COME AND SEE US.
CARTER HARDWARE COMPANY,
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