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H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C., as second class matter. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28. The Amendments. In the general election the voters will be called on to vote upon four constitutional amendments, and un der the opinion of the attorney gen eral four separate boxes are to be provided so that each amendemnt is voted upon in a separate box. We notice the comptroller general has had something to say about the need of providing a special form for the election notice on account of the length of the notice prepared this year. The law now provides that the secretary of state shall prescribe the form oL the notice and this he has done. He has' copied the amendments to be voted upon and in this he is correct. Otherwise how would the voter be informed as to the nature of the amendment. The tickets do not give the information and we venture to say that very few of the voters know anything about the nature of the amendments except possibly the one providing for biennial sessions.. Small economists, who want to economize on the other fellow al ways, we presume think the newspa per should furnish this information without pay. It has always been strange to us that so many people want to cut off every 3ource of rev enue from the newspap.r, when as a matter of fact the newspapers do more free work than any other class. It may be because they do so much public service that it is thought they should do it all free. Let us see what the amendments are. The first one, as to biennial sessions reads as follows on the ticket: Constitutional Amendment to Section 9, of Article III., of the State Constitution. Adding after the word "place." in line ten of -said Section. the words, "until the end of the session occur ring in i9o6. after which the said ses sions shall be held at the same time and place bi-ennially." If you favor bi-ennial sessi3ns you vote the ticket marked "yes." If you \oppose bi-ennial sessions vote the * ticket with "no"~ on it. The ticket in this case explains the nature of the amendment. Another ticket reads as follows: Constitutional Amendment. Of section seven, of article eight, of the Constitution. relating to mu nicipal corporations and police reg ulations. How many voters would know what they were voting with the in formation contained on this ticket, and how many of them have a copy of the constitution to hunt it up? How are they to be informed ex cept through the published notice or dering the election? Under section seven of article eight of the constitution "no city or town in this state shall hereafter in cur any bonded debt, which, including existing bonded indebtedness shall exceed eight per centum of the as - sessed value of the taxable property therein." If you vote yes on this amendment you vote "that the limita tions imposed by this section and * by section 5, article ten of this con stitution shall not apply to bonded indebtedness incurred by the city of Greenville, but said city of Green ville may increase its bonded indebt edness in the manner provided in said rection of said article to an amount not exceedng fifteen per cent. of the taxable property therein, where the proceeds of said bonds are applied solely to the payment of past indebt edness." In other words it applies - only to the city of Greenville and permits this city to issue bonds for past indebtedness, said bonded in debtedness not to exceed fifteen per cent. of the taxahle property in said city. It affects only the city of Greenvi lie. Without the constI i: '1 h the voter, how wo'1d he. k:'n: how to vote on the fr!!nwing a:wahi," Article of Amendments to the Constitution. Section z.That Suhdiviin 2 T. and Subd vision TX.. of Sectio n 34. of Article *III.. of the Constitution Section 34, subdivision 3, is as fo1- si ows: of "To lay out, open, alter or work n( -oads or highways." is Subdivision 9 reads: ef "To provide for the age at which m :itizens shall be subject to road or re -ther public duty." til Section 34 provides that no local I >r special law shall be enacted as to h, :hese two things. In other words w my law on these subjects must ap- n )ly to every county in the state. If b ou vote yes you repeal these two sf ;ections or subdivisions. If you do n< :hen you should vote yes on the fol- a owing amendment. And if you ar ote no on this then you should vote >n the following: ti< krticle of Amendments to the th Constitution. I Section i. The General Assembly it )f this state may enact local or bt pecial laws concerning the laying sr >ut. opening, altering or working m -oads or highways. and concerning re :he providing for the age at which as :itizens shall be subject to road duty, su nd concerning drainage. it: These two amendments should be dopted. because our state is so sit- fi( iated that a road law which suits one in ;ection does not suit another. We he iad a time on the question of the th :ommutation tax, some counties gz vanting a one dollar tax and others R. :wo dollars. The last session of the H egislature gave to the county com- st nissioners power to fix the amount. or f these two amendments are adopt- sa d then the legislature will have au- ti< :hority to enact such road laws as vill suit each county. Animal Telepathy. ew York American. H. Rider Haggard. author of "She" ind other novels that treat of the S >order line between the known and C :he unknown, writes to the London & F imes a serious account of his re- L :eiving a telepathic message from his ID E iog. either at the moment of the an mal's death or several hours after. C The novelist writes: C "On the night of Saturday, July 9, E [ dreamed that a black retriever dog. i most amicable and intelligent beast w iamed Bob, which was the property p1 >f my oldest daughter, was lying on ti ts side among brushwood or a rough rowth of some sort by the water. Mfy own personality in some myster- c ous way seemed to me to be arising ~rom the body of the dog. which I knew quite surely to be Bob and noC ther, so much so that my head wasC mgainst its head. which was lifted up ai it an unnatural angle. In my vision :he dog was trying to speak to me in p woNds, and, failing, transimtted to m nfy mind in an undefined fashion the P <nowledge that it was dying. "Then everything vanished and I iwoke to hear my wife's asking: why on earth I was making those korrible. wierd noises. I told herG bout the fearful struggle and that I reamed old Bob was in a dreadful ~vay and was trying to talk to me and ell me about it."I On Thursday, the 14th. the body :he dog was found floating in Way mey, more than a mile away, and on 'riday two plate layers informed Mr. [Iaggard that the dog had been killed by a train. Bob's collar-bone which had been broken and :orn off, was produced, and on Mon-j iy afternoon one of the men saw he body of the dog floating in the ater beneath an openwork bridge. ver the river, whence it drifted down vhere it was found. Carefully voighing the evidence. Mr. Haggard oncludes that the dog must have yeen killed by an empty train from -arlesdon a little after ii o'clock on5 ;turday night, as no trains run on sunday, and that it is practically cer .ain it could not have been killed n Monday. Mr. Haggard therefore L onfesses himself forced to the fob- P owing conclusions: N "The dog Bob, between whom and 1 u vsef there exist ed a mutual at.. G achment. either a: the mo'ment of IK ViS death, if his existen1ce can enn- i -ecabl have ben p rinne-d rm. rc cen t pl ih by' plac-in;g whPa:ecver I r:a * f myn' beinig i t capale 'f re eiving such imlpi s when unchain- 01 d by sleep into its own terrile po !ep was being broken by the voice my wife calling me back to the >rmal conditions of our human ex :ence, making some last despairing Eort, while that indefinable part of e was being withdrawn from it. I cognized further. that if its dissolu )f took place at the moment when dreamed this communication must Lve been a form of that telepathy hich is now very generally ack wledged to occur between human ings from time to time. and under ecial circumstances, but which I ver heard of as occurring between human being and one of the lower imals. "If, on the other hand, that dissolus n happened, as I believe, more an three hours previously, what am to say? Then it would seem that must have been some non-bodily it surviving part of life or of the irit of the dog which as soon as y deep sleep gave it an opportunity produced these things in my mind they had already occurred, I pre me to advise me of the manner of ; end or to bid me farewell." Appended to the letter are certi :ates by a veterinary surgeon who spected the body of the dog, which says must have been in the water ree days, and by Mr. Rider Hag .rd, Angela Rider Haggard, Lilias Haggard, L. R. Hildyard and Ida ector as witnesses to the nightmare ory having been told at breakfast t Sunday morning., Mr. Haggard ys he will welcome any investiga )n by competent persons. Ve Have Just Re elved a Shipment of eeded Raisins, leaned Currants, ancy Citron, ayer Figs, :xtracts, round Spices, ream of Tartar and aking Powder'. 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