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GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed Outside the State. California' diemocratic state Comm1itv hs (cclared in favur oi Hearst for pcrsident. Two car barns were burned in Chicago on Sunday night. Thel fires were incendiary. General Leonard Vood's nomii nation has been confirmed by the senate and he is now a major gen eral. An anti-lynching crusade has been inaugurated in Mississippi by the W. R. Barksdale Camp. L'. C. V.. of Grenada. Miss. Henry Williams. colored, was hanged at Roanoke. Va.. on Friday. for making a murderous assault I upon a white lady and her three year-old daughter. %F. Henry Richardson. for many years editor of the Atlanta Journal. and one of the brightest writers and speakers in the South. died in Atlanta last week. The republicans of the 1oth Geor gia congressional district met on Saturday and nominated a negro barber of Augusta to oppose the present democratic incumbent. Two factions in the republican congressional convention of the 20th Ohio district came to blows at a meeting on Saturday and after wards selected two sets of dele gates. Severe fighting between German troops and the natives is reported from German Southwest Africa on March 13. The Germans retreat ed with 26 killed and several wounded. The case against Receiver Mc Bee. of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad. for conspiracy to defraud the state, has been aban doned and Mr. McBee has resign ed as receiver. The members of the United States senate on Thursday amused themselves in playing "Jai Allai," the game which became conspicu ous in the Leonard Wod investi gaton. It is reported from New York that Andrew Carnegie has given another $5,ooo,ooo for educational pkrposes. The purposes of the gift will not be made public until the formal announcement. which is expected in a few days. A dispatch from Manila states that there was an engagement be tween troops under Gen. Leonard Wood and the native Moros on March 7. Two thousand Mores made their retreat with a loss of 100 men. The Americans. who numbered 450. sustained no losses. Booker W.ashington has written a letter to the mayor of Columbus, Ga.. thanking the citizens of that place for the erection of a monu ment to Bragg Smith, colored, who on the 30th of September last lost his life in a heroic, though fruit less, effort to save City Engineer Johnson from a caving excavation. Capt. A. R. Piper, an expert who has been in Chicago investigating the police force, has rendered a re port, according to which the Chi cago police force are in a disgrace ful state of demoralization and in efficiency. The chief is declared to be a good man but utterly unable to do anything with the present force under him. Emperor William, of Germany. and King Alfonso, of Spain, were cruising about the harbor of Vigo. it is reported. on a gunboat, when owing to the awkward manouev ring of a fishing steamer the two vessels came in collission. A 12 year-old boy fell between the ves sels and wo~uld inevitably have been crushed. but for the intervention of the monarchs. who personally dragged him to the gunboat. One hundred and fifty members of congress, as*guests of the James town Exposition company, made a pilgrimage to Jamestown Island, VTa., on ,Saturday, and viewed with interest the historic ruins that mark the spot of the first Anglo-Saxon settlement on the western hemis phere. The object was to arouse interest among the congressmen in the exposition to be held on the shores of Hampton Roads in 1907, to celebrate the 3ooth anniversary of the first settlement SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Items of More of Less Interest Con densed in the State. Ls wich was -lstroYe b .re. The inspection of the companies o(f state mintia has be. i>cin byI Adjutant Iud Insn- G! t1 ;'rost .,ixted by regul.r arny of icers. Bamberg had three conflagra tions in her business section within six weeks. The last occurred early Saturday morning. when tour stores were destroved. In a quarel at Baton Rouge. Chester countv. between two broth ers. Eli and Charles WilkeS. the latt.r was shot h\.the ft,rmier. Tr N''(d will not prove mortal. River navigation from George town to Columbia has been opcn ed uqp by the arrival at Coinmbila in Sundar of the river steanier. ' ighlander." Two stores in Ridgewav were en tered by t eivsc- on Thu. sday ni It and an ote .t was wv - tobrea' in the Plark of Rido,. Th 1 moner drawers in both stores were bokn opn 1t:t no m1oneywa A negro woman wa, shot and killed in ! -.,caster he the careless handling of a pistol. A negro told the woman he was going to shoot her, at the same time playfully pointing the pistol at her. The woman grabbed at the pistol and it was discharged. EXTRVAGANCES AND DEHCIENCIES. Where The Newberry Observer Thinks There Have Been Extravagant Appro priations. Newberry Observer. The Observer has 'been contend ing for a more economical adminis tration of the state and has charged extravagance. It is only fair that we should be called upon to specify. and we proceed to do so and to show, in answer to our contempor ary The Herald and News, where, in our judgment. there have been extravagant appropriations. In the first place, Clemson col lege is given too much money. It may not prove popular to say this; but we are convinced of the truth of it. and therfore say it. This in stitution. founded for the training of young men for farm life. has as small proportion of farm ers' boys and of bays who will follow farming as. any purely literary institution in the state. The 'proportion was given in the house of the representatives during the recent session as barely 10 per cent-and we have heard it qtioted at even less than that. Still it is a good school: but there is no reason why it should be given such a vast sum of money. The college received from the public treasury last year. directly and indirectly. nearly $aoo.ooo. and of this sum only about $20,ooo went for permna nent improvements. We believe that from $50,doo to $60,ooo of the income of Clemson college could be turned into the state treasury for other objects without crippling that institution as an agricultural col lege. As an evidence, conclusive to our mind, of the extravagance of the legislature in this case, it ma be mentioned that the estimates for that college have varied from year to year. if we mistake not, by as large a sum as it takes to pay for a session of the legislature-and vet it consumes all that it gets, be that twenty or thirty thousand more or less tilan the 'estimates. Clemson should b)e supIportedl liberally : but there is no nleedl for extravagence, and the state cannot afford it. In the second place. we are satis fied that the state would not suffer one iota if the Citadel academy in Charleston were totally -abolished. WVe have long been of the opinon that it ought to be done. More than So,ooo could be saved there. Since the establishment of Clemson with its militarv feature there is no fur ther use of a purely military school. We believe that Winthrop college an be run for considerably less than S1 13.ooo-the amount it is now costing.. Another saving mright he madle by cutting the p)ension ap)prop)ria tion in half, restoring it to S10o,ooo f0l"CO)WIlt (I its j i):-, 1' i X .IL L I j." thes. th;:iI tl arc i\1 to undLerserviig:,, but we do say that if half a m1illion1 were appropriatel there would still lie many deserving who could not be reached. So thl( pensions should be Confined tc the realv necessitous. Ther< must he a limit somewhere. and for a poor and small stat( like this. Sioo.ooo is liberal We may say. in passig. that then will have to be a more rigid admin istrati.Il If ille pension law any way. .vrv year. notwithstandin the dr r teon: Iarge death rat, angheVeterm-.1 anld Ilte w:idw ,f s.hlier. the peLSNI' liSt is grow in* at :Im alarmin rate. N, t t. 4 ii i ln. -:Irtictllars. note the in crease in' tur 'Xw: C cutv. .\ndl wei s Lha I wi iti~t e.. a wx ere ad:lei t) the list in Ciheroke cqo e thi. vcar. and sixtV-two 11 Rich!al. These mav h,e taken a samples. It s not a question oi what we w u like to do. but wha1 we are a:le to do. We would not reduce the salarie: of state officers. nor of their clerks but we would give them fewei clerks--for most of them. if not all have more clerks than they need so many in fact that they can sta. away from their offices for weks al a time from their clerks and poor ly paid stenographers perform th( work. It is quite within reasor that $8.ooo or $ro,ooo a year migh thus be saved without at all dimin ishing the efficiency of the public service. There may be other places where savings could be made-we haven'! the appropriation bill in hand. and cannot specify more fully. But w< mav sav that there is a spirit of ex travagance now in official circle. that bodes no good for the taxpay ers. Gen. Hemphill. in one of hi, interesting letters to the Medium said the legislature did not refuse any request for money-even vot ing $2.500 to a private school ir Charleston. He might have giver it credit, though, for refusing th< asked-for appropriat,on for the St Louis exposition. It was this"lib eral" or extravagant that voted th< appropriation for libraries for pub lic schools. Libraries are good things for schools undoubtedly. Sc would be free text-books for pupil! and many other things that coulk be mentioned. The sum here though. is small. The Herald anc News -,ays S.ooo: but it must b nore than that, for twelve school! in forty counties are to get Stc from the state fund and Sto fron the county fund. This will p)rob ably be repeated for sonme years tc come, for the schools that do not get their libraries this year wil claim the right to get them next year or some year thereafter. We have 'specified something over a hundred thousand. Omi ideas will be styled "narrow." Per haps they are, Horace speaks ol angusta res domi. We must realize that as a state and as a people we are-we will not say poor, for thai sounds demagogic-but our cir cumstances are narrow, and we should not try to live on too broad a scale. Legislators should remem ber that this is a small state and that we cannot safely imitate the ways of large and wealthy com monwealths. We are only little more than a million in population. and of that number only about hall a million are whites. As a state we are spending toc much money. The same may be said of the counties and cities: but that is another matter. .Proper Treatment of Pneumonia... Pneamonia is too dangerous a dis ase for anyone to attempt to doctor imself, although h emay have the roper remedies at hand. A physician hould always be called. It should be orne in mind, however, that pneu onia always results from an attack f the grip, and that by giving Cham erlain's Cough Remedy the threat eed attack of pneumonia may be warded off. This remedy is also used y physicians in the treatment of neumonia with the best results. Dr. W. 3. Smith, of Sanders, Ala., who is aso a druggist, says of it: "I have een selling Chamberlain's Cough emedy and prescribing it in my prac ice for the past six years. I use it in ases of pneumonia and have always otten the best results." Sold by Smith Drug Co.. Newberry, S. C.. and proserit Drug Co. Prosnpery S C. Now is the time to begin to practice if you expect to have a first class ball team this summer, and Mayes' Book Store is the best place to buy your base ball supplies. We have the largest and best line in New berry. If, after using our stock you are not convinced that what we say is true, we will make you a present of a 75c. bat. MAYES' BOOK STORE Elberta Peach Trees, Barred Plymouth Rocks. Red Raspberry Plants. Eggs for hatching a specialty. All inquiries promptly answered. Write for Circulale. GEO. F. MONTGOMERY, Marietta, Ga. 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