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m Vol. 5 NO. 22 Office of Constable Abolished I in Chesterfield County. Special to The Journal Columbia, S. C., Feb. 5?I did ! not write you last week because * the session adjourned Friday 1 afternoon, and 1 went home. J Now we have had several r < stormy debates over the various ( bills presented, notable among i which was the repealing act c _ .1 concerning me couon warehouse act, passed by the extra session last fall. The repeal act failed to pass. The hunters license act created a world of debate, both pro & con and has passed to a third reading. The land commission bill which sought to create an office and appoint an officer to go over the state and purchase land for the state, and sell the same to buyers at long time credit, virtually putting the state in the real estate business, failed to pass, but the hottest time yet has been the debate upon the compul-ory education bills, 2 in number; after two days of continous debate and voting we are yet at sea as to the ultimate fate of the measure. I believe that this legisla- ( ture will pass some compulsory law, but in just what form 1 cannot say. Personally I am opposed to bills as offered but favor a law which leaves the matter to each school district. J ust now we are in a debate upon the tobacco bill, which does not concern our county very much at present. The old soldiers pension bill will be taken up tonight. Yes, sir, the Chesterfield delegation introduced a bill to elirpi n *"^^n Chester^S^ttM^^^S^^^11 same was passed by the senate last Friday, Jan. 29th, which makes it impossible for Senator Laney to have held up the bill flftpr lVfr*nHn\? r?r 1,nue/ln>- f 1 4'AVUUUJ v/i A V1V JU ilj U1 lllld week. Now in regard to this J bill I will say that it was only 1 intended for an economical 1 measure: saving to our county ( the sum of $2000 in salaries ^ alone: we devolve the duties up ] on the rural policemen of the ' county both civil and criminal: 1 with the right reserved to the 5 magistrate to appoint a special ' constable for occasions of emer- 1 gency and when a rural police- ( man cannot he had. We are 1 trimming all the county expenses, working hard to save our ( people all the money we can in 1 the way of taxes, which, with ( the present crisis upon us, we ] think is proper and neccessary, 1 and we ask the people of our 1 county to uphold our actions for economy. I resent the insinua- ( tion or imputation that I origi- 1 nated the bill within myself or _ that it was originated for selfish 1 motives. 1 resent that because 1 all the gentlemen who were to ^ be appointed constable are and have been my close personal ' friends, some of them my close j'* kin by blood and marriage and j * any report that I favored the bill 1 for selfish motives or for any other purpose, except for good service and economy, is entirely } without foundation and is false! and only the product of a slan-! j ilornnv orwl Kiao/l !* #* S?? ..w. v?*w ??MM MKIOVVl I / I il I 11 # ) With best wishes I am yours, i J.Clifton Rivers.j< I ( "What is the difference," asked ( the teacher, "between caution < and cowardice?" I Johnny, who observed things !i carefully for so youthful a per- | son, answered: 1 "Caution is when you're afraid , and cowardice is when the other | fellow's afraid."?Exchange. I< - V * PAGE Mr. Odom Writes Concerning Bill Columbia, S. C. Feb. 5th Mr. Editor:?I notice in vour ssue of tli is week some comnents on the bill introduced in he House by the Chesterfield Delegation which proposes to tbolish the office of magistrate's nonstable and devolve their luties, both criminal and civil, >n the rural policemen. Mr. Rivers is laxed with being he author ol the bill, and he is charged with being actuated by ;pite. Mr. Rivers is no more esponsible than I am, and il here is any odium attached to t. I am willing to bear my ;hare. I was approached by numerous persons before I came to the opening of the present session, ma asKea to abolish the office if magistrate's constable and levolve their duties upon the ural policemen of the county. . had not thought of the matter intil it was thus called to my ittention. The argument was hat the rural policemen could lo their usual work and that of he constables, and thereby save lie county something over $2000.00 per year. I am fully xmvinced that the argument is sound, and by a proper distribuion, the rural policemen can do lie work formerlv required of ioth. I fail to see why any one should be opposed to the bill who has the financial interest of the county at heart, provided the work can be done properly, ind there is no doubt in my uind about the ability of the rural police to take care of this svork in a satisfactory manner, ft is up to them to do it, and it will be to their interest as well to to go The imputation tlu^^^^oul was born in spite is a reflection upon the delegation that I resent with all the nn\v??r nf mv Ki?ir?.r [ had in mind only the economical aspect of the ciiiestion, and thought nothing of spiting any i>ne. f feel sure that when this jill is fully understood, those who arc unselfishly opposed to t will become its friends. It may be that some of those persons who expected a constable's dace may he a trifle sore for a while, but time, the great healer )f wounds, will show them their irror. The bill provides that in an jmergency, lite magistrate is luthorized to deputi/.e a special :onslable. Such emergency would arise when it is impossible to get hold of rural policenan, and the case is urgent We are trying to save the :ounty some money during the panicky time now on us and we would he recreant to the trust mposed on us il we did not do ill iii power to decrease taxes .vithout impairing efficiency. Be impartial and lets give the aw a trial. If it will not work, is we believe it will, il can he changed at the next session of he legislature. Yours truly, W. P. ( )iu??n Couldn't Whip th^ Yankees Spartanburg. |<ei>. I.? Ilenlainin 1\ O'Kcllcy one of the nost pictures(iue characters in jpper South Carolina, has passill away at his home throe miles jast of Walhalla, Oconee County. When a young man altering the Confederate Annate took an oath that he would not have his hair cut until the Confederates had whipped the Yankees, lie kept his word and ihe long white hair reaching his waist which has distinguished lim for years, was the evidence >f his regard for his onih '.LAND, S. C., WEDNES^^i Officers Are Chosen By N<jw .* Railway Company 2 Hamlet, Feb. 5.?The Caro- ? lina, Atlantic & Western Railway, which has just been completed from Hamlet to Charlek* ? ton, has announced the now $? officers as follows: > W. R. Bonsai, President; J. E, tu Hancock, general manager; G. I? B. Lewis, general auditor; W. A/*; Gore, superintendent; J. \\T. Lvt- E ton trainmaster, Hamlet district; J. \V. Chapman, trainmaster, a: Charleston district. H. C. tl: Glabler is the agent at Charles- ai ton with B. H. Hartley and D. P. pi Hartley, commercial agents with sc headquarters at Charleston. With the completion of this p road from Hamlet through to h: Charleston the Seaboard Air A Line Railway has an entrance 511 into Charleston which this road has been denied for many years. From Hamlet to Charleston is 177 miles and the road has been built of Sn-pound rails with a maximum grade of one-half of one per cent and is in every way Pi a modern road. Through freight service was inaugurated on February 1 and through passenger service being caused by the u delay in the construction of the ' connecting tracks into the union station. / c In addition to the through line to Charleston the line from Mc- c Bee and also the line from Sumter by Florence joins the mainline at Poston and there is alto- V gether 312 miles of this road. s< Will Consider Chance n The following letter explains g itself: u |P^BiC7 M. Tucker o Pageland, S. C. Sir: With reference to your c letter of the 28th ultimo, stating NV that there is dissatisfaction since h the withdrawal of rural route hi No. 1, Jefferson, South Carolina, from Pageland, and suggesting jj either that tlie former method of aj service on the route be restored u or that the carrier on the Jeffer- jr son route be held until the rereipt of mail from Mcllee, 1 beg e to state that in view of the ex- SN ccssive duplication and interlac- tc ing involved restoration of the former service on the route from Jefferson is deemed inadvisable, (j 1 he matter of changing the schedule of the carrier, however, ^ so as to require him to leave p( after the receipt of mail from Sr Mcllee, will be given considera- u tion. Respectfully, James S. Blaksley rourrn Assistant Postmaster j ( General. Cheraw Gives Generously to j, Belgians jr Cheraw, l;el?. 1.?The Belgian box left hero for Charleston and o the relief ship last Friday. The c committee had in hand food- tl stuffs, collected from citizens of 11 Cheraw anil vicinity, to the g value of $50; from the Belgian in festival, $S; condensed millc Irom si the ('heraw graded school, $9.50; k clothing collected by Cheraw t< ; women, $52; clothing atul dry 111 | goods left at the Fvans store, j F SS0.50; from the Presbyterian I Sutulav school, $17.70; from the e Baptist Sunday school, $9; from j h the Fpiscopal Sunday school, o ;$h>; other cash contributions, [ h $<>5. Total for Cherew S50N.20,1 n I lie money, $102.20, was sent by ja New York draft to l>. YV. Kaven- 1< el, Columbia, yesterday, besides o ibis, other sections of Chester- v field county sent $57, making a tl grand tot.d to date of $505.20 for tl this worthy cause a MORNING, FEBRUARY 1( Negro Pardoned by Blease is c Again Convicted i \Vnshington, Feb. 4.?John 3D, a negro, who was pardonisdast November by ex Gov. lease of South Carolina, while irvmg a term of IS years' imrisonment for manslaughter, as been convicted of robberv afore Chief Justice Covington I the criminal division of the istrict supreme court. Van's liberty was short lived, > he was apprehended during ie Christmas holidays in a 5ad 10-cent store, where lie icked a woman's pocket, lie icured only an eyeglass case, hicli he mistook for a purse. Van denied the charge, and on ie witness stand declared he ad never been in prison. Mr. rctier, assistant United States ttorney, then enquired it he had ot been pardoned by the gover or of South Caorlina last No ember. The witness then adlitted his identity. P. H. McGowan. Sowing Wheat in the Sp?ing rogressivo Farmer A reader says he was unable ) sow any wheat up to Decemer 15 and wants to know about putting some wheat in uring February, just a few acres )i home requirements. Could safely count on a moderate rop?" We can find nothing in the reorded experiences of others, or i our own observations to justir us in advising any one, as far )uth as Mississippi, to sow heat in the spring. In fact, tuch of the wheat sown in the outh this winter lias been sown ^Uate to o[ive it a fair chance IroaTTing tile best yields:?Much f it was sown the latter, half of ovember or the early days of ecember, and with the cold reather coming 011 early, as it as, the yields are not likely to ea tair test of our ability to roduce wheat in the Cotton elt. 'File same remarks largely pply to the sowing ol oats, hich as a rule have been put 1 so late that they are in great anger ol winter killing, and yen if they live through the inter they are almost certain > make smaller yields than if icy had been sown earlier. We know that oats sown in te spring average a much smalir yield than those sown in the ill, and every consideration Dints to the conclusion that the lme, even to a greater degree, rould be true ot wheat. A Bible Puzzle H'nt to The Ansouiaii by ils brown Creek eorrosjiomJenl. i A young man on being asked ow many students there were 1 his Bible class, replied: 'lIf you multiply the number f times which the Israelites oni passed jericho, then add to ic product the number of nl 11 irliw wliw>l? lln'i z ave to Kutii, then divide by the timber of Daman's sons, then abstract the number of each iiul of clean beast that went in:> the ark, then multiply the umber of men that went to seel; dijah after he was taken up into leaven, subtract from this Josph's age at the time he stood efore Pharaoh, add the number f stones in David's ban when e killed Goliath, subtract the umber of furlong's that Beth-1 ny was distance from Jems.*m, then divide by the nuinbei t '.minors casi oui wnen ram \/as shipwrecked, and subtract lie number of persons saved in lie ark, and this will be the inswer." ), 1915 Use Your Head as Well as Your Hands Progressive Fourier As never before, farming is c becoming a business where t brains count, and nowhere is t this more apparent than in the p use of labor-saving, time-saving, c money-saving farm machinery, i ft is a far cry from the cradle end scythe to the modern bind- f i; from the ox wagon and stage coach to the modern auto- f mobile; from the "scooter" plow 1 to the riding cultivator; from the p limited, uncertain agricultural p knowledge of fifty years ago to \ the splendid store of scientific c 1111(1 tcrlinifdl t .muivil 111 til 1 awaits the husbandman who will avail himself of it. It is a long step, indeed, from the tools and the facts to which our fathers and grandtathers^had access, to those that we may use; but as we do use these, harnessing our heads and hands to the machinery science and invention have given us, so do we prosper. This does not mean, though, that all farm machinery will pay on all farms; for it is in the purchase, as well as in the use, of improved implements that real thinking and wise discrimination between which is really needed and which is not must be exercised. Largely what a farmer needs and what will return him real profits is an individual, local problem, and must be gone at as SUCH. \ Obviously ihe machinery needed on a 500 acre wheat farm 1 of the Northwest will be quite different from that required on 1 the ten acre Florida truck farm; 1 and likewise the implements 1 that may be used profitably on a level, stump-free cotton farm are I greatly different from what the ] a^'iTusc cotton tenant, -will, -his one mule and stumpy, sullied j patches, may employ. To know a real need from an I apparent one; to be able to decide what implements are suited j to a si ven set of conditions? these are tests of the judgement, s and the farmer who meets these successfully will have taken a j most important step toward the use of machinery in place of the t more expensive hand labor. t But this is not all: In the ? operation and intelligent care of j farm implements there lies an > :.... i: i i r ? :? iiiiunjiisL* ueiu iui ilie exercise 01 sound sense and unless lie possesses and is willing to exercise these faculties the farmer will still find his implements a liability rather than a dividendproducing asset. Summing up, there are many manv millions of dollats worth of farm machinery needed in the South, it our labor is to be most productive; but we doubt not too; because of a lack of adaptation to local conditions, because of ignorance and carelessness in operating, and because of exposure to weather and a general lack of care, that there also are right now on Southern farms several millions of dollars worth of implements that will never be anything more than a dead loss. Merely buying an improved implement doesn't put the stamp of progress on a man. Unless it be suited to his conditions and unless lie knows how to operate and care for it, it may leave upon liim and liis future financial welfare an entirely different brand. "Did von tell Minks I was a fool?" "No; I thought he knew if."? Kxchange. "I low did you know your patient had appendicitis, doctor?" "I operated on him."?Kx. $1.00 per year Chesterfield County Wants Better Roads. A delegation of Chesterfield county citizens went to Colum>ia Friday and asked the Cheserfield legislators to pass a bill )ermitfing any township in the :ounty to vote bonds for road mprovement. The Columbia State gave the 1 unowing account: Chesterfield county has come orward with a new type of lighway improvement bonds >roposition. Essentially the dan consists of legislation vhereby any township in the :ounty may bond itself at will or permanent betterment of its oads. LaCoste Evans of Chea\v, whose diligence and zeal in he cause has procured him the ;obriquent locally of "The Good <oads Pusher," is promoting the novement, with the cooperation )f an organization of his formng called the "3(>5 Day Good *oads League of Chesterfield bounty." Delegates from this associaion were much in evidence in Columbia the other day, when hey came down to interview he Chesterfield county legisla ivw lujiiKHiiuu in regai u 10 mcir project. Representatives of all pf the eight townships, were on land. One of these townships, Mligator, has already bonded tself generously for highway mprovement. The group comprised the following citizens: From Cheraw?Lacoste Evans, isaac Huntley, Thomas Amos. From Chesterfield Court House?C. L. Huntly, M. J. Hough, J. W. Griggs, \V. J. Tiler, H. F. King and R. M. Myers. From Mt. Croghan?Jule S. McGregor, F. M. Moore, W. A. Rivers. From Cote Hill?J. E. Willi- ^ uns, the Rev. B. D. Thames. From Steer Pen?Cordy WinMirn C /ui tif iv. u. i'l 441iicaun. From Alligator?W. L. McCoy ind G. T. Horton. From Jefferson?M. M. Johnion and W..G. Sutton. From Old Store?L. L. Parker ind J. P. Agerton. Senator Laney and Represenatives Odom and Rivers gave he visitors a careful hearing ind the delegates afterward expressed themselves as satisfied .villi the prospects. Old ;Tiroe Prices. Mr. J. M Clark was here the p/her day and he handed us a dipping of prices taken from the 'Cheraw Advertiser, published U Cheraw and dated Saturday, Dctober 27, 1S(>6. Comparison with present-day prices may be nteresting amusement for some :>f our readers: Bacon per lb -1u25 Bagging, per lb 4,">a47 Beef, per lb 5a 10 Butter, per lb 30a35 Candles Adamantine lb 40a(>(? Candles Tallow, per lb 30a35 Cheese per lb 33 l-2a35 Chickens 20a30 Coffee, per lb 33a35 Corn per bushel $1.4(1 r'nlton IK >V., >i V 111 I VIIVt? y Cotton in specie, per 11) 18 a "22 Eggs, per do/.. 30a.W 1 odder, per cu t. 75n$1.00 Mour, per bbl. Sl5al(> Glass, per hundred $8.50a 10.50 Lard, per lb 25a30 Mackerel, per bbl S20a$25 Mutton, per lb Sal a Molasses, per gal N0aS5 Nails, per lb 10a 12 12 Peas, per bushel $1.25a 1.35 Potatoes, sweet, per bushel 75 Potatoes, Irish, per bushel$l.25 Kope, per lb 20a3O I) ..... I.l.l CI D:.. I mi I\UMI1, |?CI DDI I Salt, per sack $1.00 Sugar, per lb 20a-5 Tallow, per lb 12 I-2a 15 Turpentine per gal 35a l5 Twine, per lb 5"