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VOL XIV. N . 'm' NO-BOR,S (l s) .FBU R 4 97 HIS THOUGHTS OFTEN TURN HONEWARI MR. E. 0. JOHNSTON WRITEF FROM INDIAN T.ERRITORY. rospering in His Adopted Home Bu Looks Lingeringly to Old Newberry. Caddo, I. T., Feb. 15, 1907. The Herald and News, Newberry, S. C. Dear'Mr. Aull: No doubt you hav orgotten me for a busy man lik ourself would hardly remember ad whom he had not seen for elevet years, but, however, you will remem her my father, D. S. Johnston, wh( formerly lived at Newberry in wha is known as the "Trinity Neighbor hood," but in 1896 moved to Deni son, Texas, where he is at presen engaged in farming, and where I sup pose he will remain while on thi earth, as we all are very much at tached to this western country. Bu I don't think the time will ever coi when I will forget my childhoo home. I think quite often of the dea friends we left back in and aroun dear old Newberry, many of whon have passed away in the few year that we have been away from there. I read The Herald and News regn larly and almot every copy of i brings the sad -news of the death o some friend. I know the old hom, now is not what it used to be, but intend to visit .it in the near futur< o if I call upon The Herald an News some day accompanied by a lit tie Indian maiden, you will know wh4 itis. Now, perhaps, the boys of New berry have fancied they would no admire the Indian type of beauty, bt I believe I am safe to say t4at if the would visit the Indian Territory, the would endeavor to win the hearts o some of its dusky maidens to tak back to the Palmetto state. In speak ing of them . I will add that there i no color line drawn here between th India.ns and the whites, but one rea son for it is that every Indian of th five civilized tribes has received fror Uncle Sam an allotment of lan which is equal in value to several thor sand dollars, and as the whites ow practically no farm land here, the marry them more or less for thi property. Now, as for this country. I hav traveled over about twenty states a the union in the past few years an jiave found no state that offers sue pportnnities as the new state o Oklahoma. Not even thie great gol fields of Alaska. We can raise.almost anything her hpt can be raised anywhere in th nted States. This is the banie and cotton state of the uniot u;se the average is not as larg e, hut the yield Per acre sam them hil. While the countr i't in its infancy, it is looked uipo. ne of the best commercial state ec union. We exp)ort annual! S'itions of dlollars worth of corn, col w ~heat, oats, live stock, lumbe aminerals. Pople are coming in here from th ldstates on every train, but there lenty of room for more good poop1 like we already bhive here. This country surrounding Cadd< which only a few years ago was bu a vast prairie, is today one of th best farming countries in the Unite ~tates. The much dreaded Indlia arrior of a few years ago is toda ne of the best and most progressiv ople we have here. At first the ,re opposed to the whites settlin re, but nowv they extend a welcom d to all new comers. The Indian now boast of some of the hes fessional of their race that th try h'as. They haye churche, ohs hnd laws that are equal to a.'i ie states. We have a countr that Is strictly prohibitior hing~ that a/great many of th anjot boast of. Near here nr ous coal mines of the Terrn hieh employ at-mies of me onthly pay roll of thousand rs, which, of course make WINDING UP DISPENSARY. Commission Sends Letter to All Ored iters-H-ow the Board is Work ing. Ncws and Courier. Columbia, February 23.-The com b mission to wind ul) the state dispeni sary, unofficially known as the state dispensary pallbearers has set in mo tion the machinery for the work of closing out the big whiskey monopoly which the state of South Carolina has conducted for the last fourteen years as an exl)eriment. 3 The commission has sent out to all creditors of the dispensary a letter . informing thei of the commission's - powers, and askng them that they ) present their account attached to the t original order from the state dispen - sary directors. There is enclosed - with this letter a form of affidavit, t which the creditor is asked to sign, . swearing that the order was placed in s accordance with law and that no re . bates are due or were made, and that t the law wa-s not violated in securing 3 the order. The ereditors are also in I vited to make bids on the large stock r of whiskey on hand at the dispensary. 1 Of course, if the law has been violat a ed or if the creditors refuse to swear s to the statements required the com mission may, if it deceins necessary - hold )up tile claim and refuse to pay t it, as the commission has ample pow f er under the act undeier which it was e appointed. I The commission has set March 12 ,ts the (late on which it will take up j the legality of these claims, but the - comm111ission may be called together earlier than that time, if the chair man4i, Dr. Muirraiy, deems it necessary ..1o advi-able. )r. Murray will de vote one hour each day to business at t tile state dispensary, as Ilhis is all that he can spare from his large wholesale drug house in Columbia. He will go to tile state.dispeusary at the ap pointed hour each day and will not transact any business relating to the s dispensary at his own establishment. Letter to Creditors. The letter referred to follows: Columbia, S. C., February 23, 1907. Dear Sir: Under an act of the leg islature of this state a. commission has been appointed to wind up the af fairs of tile state dispensary, and the undersigned is chairman of said com s mission. If you have any claim against the said dispensary please file the same with me in Columbia, S. C., f properly proven, on or before March .)12, 1907. I enelose form of aflidavit necessary, and account must be ite fmized and to the proof must be at tached the original order on which sale was made. There is a large stock of liquors and supplies on hand, and C we would be glad to have propositions e to purchase any of these in large r lots, either as creditors on account or for cash. On March 12 we will take 0 iul the matter of tihe legality of tile - accounits, their correctness and man nier of. settlemuent, and( if we fInd it niecessaryW to hea r fuurt her from you we will niotify you of the time and V inuee to appear'and be11. ) hleard ill be -half ofT)your claim. r ~Very respectfully, State D)ispensary Commission, Per WV. .J. Murray. s The form of affidavit is as follows: S Form, of proof of claim against the SouthI Ca rolinia St ate dispensary: State of -- t County of. B-- be)inlg duly sworn, de IPoses and1 says that thle foregoing ac 1 count againlst tile stalte dlispenlsary of V' South Carolina is true and correct, e that the said state dispensary is not v entitled to anly reb)ates oc d1isco)unts, Sexcept as shown in said1 statemenOlt, e and1( ::ou rebaite .r comifls nons or comn t he of t'.:e dispxiaay board of diree e t r. er di:-,pelnsary force b)y thle said1 I, creditor, either directly or inidirectly, f in conltractinlg said account, or as all V inldnleflment therefor, nor has said 'ereditor violated the~ dispensa51ry law e of South Carolina ml ally way in so 0 licitinig tile isaid sale. -Sworn to befoi'e me this- of 1 1907. .Bometimes you see a womani- who looks pretty when she is angry. BEST LEGISLATURE IN 42YEARS N So Says Ex-Governor Chamberlain, Who Has Watched With Inter est its Course. To the Editor of The News and H Courier: I liope I may be pardoned for wishing to say a word publicly oil tle impression made ulponl imle by the legislature of your state which ha.s just adjourned. If my voice is heard often inl comment oil your local af- TI fairs, let ,it always be remembered that my former familiar acquaintance ti, with the state compels me to feel a y( keen and constant interest in all that ti, concerns the peace and honor of South Carolina. ''bl The News and Courier has given im me from day to day its admirable re- im ports-I have never anywhere seen ti more admirable ones-of tlie doings S and progress of your. legislators. se .Of the great issue-thie dispensary of -it is not for me to say a word, e.x- re vept to note how wisely it seems to in me the matter was hniidled as a mere le que-stioll of parliamentary strategy. ml The bill for terminating the institi tion came from i tle hands of two law- a yers than whom your state can fur- to nish no siperiorls inl praetical skill. It sl was a tine specimeln of 4raughtsman- . ship. This was time safe thing to (o t' and it w%as donle to perfection. p lIt perhaps the feature which most tl excited my admiration was tihe spirit si of peace and (o-operation betweeni all di sections of tie state-tie coast, the. ti middle country and the PiedmhonI. hi When mie recalls the aiita-iisis 0f' s 1S78 and 1890 and latter bet ween the e< low conitry -anid the upl) voiuintry it' is ol hardly less than marvellous that not mne sylllptom, S4) 1l. as I could see, of C( sieh an tagioMisml caie to tle surface ei in the recent session. This was de1 d suffer ine to say, in my opinion, lhrge- P ly to the fair-, impartail, able admin- k istration of Governor Heyward, which ti healed almost insensibly the wounds pi of old controversies and set all hearts d toward the puiblic good and away ti from factional differences. is The result of this was a canvass a last season, which iwas a genuine dis- (1 eussion of great issues for the state L and an election of governor and state is olicers, as well as a legislature, on sI the whole the ablest inl my judgment 2. the state has had since 1865. Ih Naturally, when the new adminis- a tration took olice sections were ig nored and a Charleston man was made speaker, who inl turn proved himself worthy of his place in a long line of speakers, w1ho, in the opinion of the late Mr. Blaine, expressed to Mr. 'r-escot, were the most accom plishmed parliamentarians of the whole country. So it was on all important. qlues- b (ions. Ability in debate, inl the man wrement of matters on1 their passage into legislatIion : and1l) pt rioti pur1)11 poses to serve thle whole state, werea lie inotes of all, (or nearmly. allI, thIiat was1i sid and donme. Governor01 Anmsel, too, whom I have ye not. persoinally forgot ten duringm. the many - years since 1 fir'st knew him, o has provei'(d hiimself prliomp)t an resoiC5- , lute, as well as fair' and considlerate,m in his olli(ial actions1. OP his ability si there could niev'er hare been a doubt, I but ability, intellectuail 01' legal or i' both, dloes not always inisur'e admnini- u ist rat ive skill and -success, as they 5( hav'e so plainly (1one in his case. o I mightm parmt iculariize fur'ther, but I ~, willI not tresp5lass oni y'our space. Fi'omi n st art to liini ih, at all points, thme leg- (, islatureII just adjoui'iid sems Io minc to have heft a shininig triack wh'ich n wuill long l)e a light to its successors. For' onie I am (deilihted at such r'e sults, mond let me add, as a last word,14 that nothing of perhaps miiinor' i por'tanc(e could havec pleased imc more 1than the r'easonabile appr)iopriiationl for impro'vinig the state house 1 grounds1. Now 1 t r'ust Hloudoii 's prious01 staitue of Washington w'ill have its suitable pedestal, and my dlear old fienid, Mr'. Court enay, can chant, j if lie pleases, his Nune Dimit tis. ti D. IH. Chamberlain. h<' Some men are like somne horses; ti they kill two birds with one stone ti unless they get the stone back.t em EW SCHOOL LAWS FULLT EXPLAINED PATE SUPERINTENDENT MAR TIN REVIEWS LEGISLATION. Igh School Act is the Best-Repre senting as it Does the Fruition of the Efforts of the Teach ers and Friends of Education. ie State, 21st.. The state superintendent of educa m, 1iHon. 0. 11. Martin, was asked !sterday in regard to wlhat educa mal measures were enacted at tlic cent session of the general assen y. le said, ''There were sevoral atters of gre1-cat importance but the 0st- far-reaching one, as I see it, is e hiih school law introduced by mator Havsor of Orangeburg in the na-te anl by H-on. J. Wright Na-sh Spartanburg in the house of rep sentatives. To my mind, this is the ost important piece of educational gi-slation which has been enacted in any years. "This act. provides 'that it shall bc wful for any coutty, or for any wnship or aggregation of town ipls, or for any aggregation of hlool disliiets, or illy icorporate1 wI (1' citv withi.n the state with i pulation ot not more tlan 1,000 ai ie last precediig United States cen is, to establisli a high school.' Un r tIlis proVisiol, it is quite likel) at in some cases we may iave eount I schlools, inl otlier townships Iigl hiools, anId oilier joiit lilhih scloolh veriii- un ag-re-aliil ()I iownlti}, A targe town or city may i not re 'ive aid tiulder this act as a town o1 ty, but it seems to ine that it mnan 0so as a part of the county or al Art of' the tow.niship. This act al ws as much as two mills of addi onal taxation for high school pur >ses, and it also allows a high clioo istrict. to float bonds for the erec on of high school buildings. Ther< a provision that the state shall nol id any school more than 50 per cant the aioumt, raised annually by tax ion, subscriptionToothrwise. Theri also a provision that no sehoo tall receive aid unless it has at leasi i children and two teachers in tih i-hi school department; fthat is )ove the seventh grade, as the ac1 Aflnes it. 'No o.ne school shall receive mot tan $1,200 annually, and no colt) kall receive more than 5 per cent. of le $50,000 appropriated. Ever) ild in the county where a higl hool is located is to receive fre< h11 school tuition. The duty of putting this act iiih >eration devolves upin the stat( )mrd of education. If the said statt )ard of educatioll an('1 siceceed ir orki n.g out the high school p roblen ider thIIis act, it will ceritainly r'ende: grenlt seric~ie to thle slate anid th<n hi school aet will probialy~ be re 1ided as a ve ry Iimp)ort a n. I iece o0 inch mtaking legislation. tProf. I land 'the UJniv'ersity oh' South (Carolinie id I expect to go to (Chlicago iiexi eck to thle meet ing of the drpa rt cnt of suplerinitenlden.ts oif thie Na 'oial I'Cducat ion association. Whilt IcrIt, we exp)ect to conf1 er with thl1 hoo OIlicers from all N pat s of IhtI nuit ed States iln regard to highi htools. WeC also expect to visit soime he. public1 high schools inl thai et iOn (if thle counit ry. The statt miird oif educa1tio w01~ ill l ikely imeel crimi th le ltter par't of March 1c >rniale thte reguilations1 proivided rc under(1 the high school ac't. "A no'ther import ant - edhiualion a -t is thle one to p)rovidle for thle is ing of b)onds iin the public sch'lool striict s of South Ca rotlina, in trodue I by RIepresentativ'e L,awsoni of arclinugtoni. It is metey a general mnding act contanining all of the besi at ures of the numerons local bonid gacts whlich arc introdneed ever.1 r:. Herieafter it will be p)ossit r' any dlistriet, under eirtain restrie ntis, to float b)onds fort tIhe purp'Iost buildiing and equipping school )mses without the necessity of get ig a sp)ecial act through the legisla re. Io addition to b)eing an adivan ge to the schools, this act will short the lnorislative aendgar andel ave an enormous amount in printing each year. ''Rlepresentative Aull of Newberry introduced a bill, which was passed, to provide 41 scholarships in the tex tile department at Clemson college, at the value of $100 each. It seems to Ine that this act ought to mean a great deal to the future of the tex tile industry of the state. Cotton mills have run ill this state long enough now to develop.a lot of boys in the mills who are ambitious to be come masters of the business. I be lieve the textile department at Clem son, with the cooperation of the mill authorities, will accomplisli a great deal for the future of the mill indus try on account of this act. ''This act further provides for the mami-ner of conducting Clemson schol arship examiliationls. 1lereaFter tihe Clemson faculty, instead of the comi ty boards of education, will examine the papers. The county boards of education will conduct examlinatio:ns and send n1umbei's, but. not names, to the Clemson faculty, so the examlina tions will le condueted witi absolute impartiality. This provision covers all of the Clemson scholarshiip exami llations. ''Representative Slauglhter of York -secIre(l the passage of a bill to amend section 1208 of the Code il re'egar1d to votin speciil taxes. Under the pro visitls of this amnmdmeint, a special tax ean not be voted off after thel first or June. The object of this amiiendmnit is to eniable the trustees to know, at tle begillnning of the scholastic year, what funds to expect. I l te ge-eral law on that sub jeel, loeal taxes may be voted on at, inyime during tlie year, but if they are voted on at1er the first of' Ovto her, they emn not he collected unt11il tlie folloViIIg yearl. '.'Am . otlier maters of edica tional interest are Ii.epresen-tative - Richards' bill to est.ablish a model . training school at Winthrop college; . and the appropriation bill carried some items for the benei t of tile col leges. There were some raises ini salaries at Winthrop and the Univer sity of South Carolina. The iormial scholarships at the university were increased in value. There was an ap propriatioin for professors' houses at the university and also m.n1 appropria tion for repairing the Cita el build ing. Under the model school a('t, the Wintlirop trustees hope, not onily to provide better facilities for file Wiun throp girls, but also to work out some probleis in sclool arhelitecture, ve.n tilation, heating, ete., which will be helpful to many communitiesthrough out the state, which are expecting to erect school builings in ll lie inea fiI ture. Altogether, the school iit'rests oF tle state received very kind co-n sideration at the hands of this legis lature.'' THlE SUPPLY BILL. So Far As it Relates to Newberry County-The Levy Three Mills. The following is a crtiiled eopy of thle supply bil passed byv I le le:zi-la I ire so far as it relates to Newberary county. It will be seen I hal thle levy i. three mills, that a spiecified somu is set aside for thle ebaaiin ganig, andi pro vision is made to1 compl efte thle inadex.. ing of the records ini the ollice of theo ('Jerk of thle c'oulrt anad also fthe otllet of.liOI prbte judge. Thia It provistin i also imiade for refudini th' Ile railroad bonids ior i'atherci to imee't the expeinses oif such woik. Arirang,emen'uts shouild have bieeonmadle forp thiis worak bief'o ;''w anad thle ofllicers chiargi.ed withI it shionhll have looked'i i after if. The bondtas are past doe ince last .1 one and all of' them are drawinig sevena p i(er cet. initecrest. The pisioni ini this supjply hill is at thle wiritfeii ie <fiiI't of the supearvisoir and thle may Iors aiid intencdails of Newberry, l'ro.peri ty anid IIlelena, thle per'sons chairoe d by tfm law withI thle ref'und.. ingz of' thle bonids. As stailed previous.. hy thle acts in regard'( to t hese bonds were'( - aam endedl so as to permit. thle b ond l to Ib e rfunaded at a role of in.. tem esi less I lin six per cent. Plis wor'k should hav e beenm done wh'len the Ibonds miatured:C( Newberry-For' the county of New berry, for ordinary county piurposos three (3) milla. Six hnn.h-ed dollars A the money realized from this levy, if so much be necessary, shall be ex ponded under the direction and super vision of a commission composed of Fred. H. Dominick, Henry C. Hollo way and Lambert W. Jones, to coi plete t,he work of' reindexing the ree irds of real estate conveyances and records of real estate mortgages in t.he ofice of the clerk of court from the year 1842 to date. In such rein Liexintg all agricultural liens and satis lied mirtgages shall be omitted; said commnission shall make all coantraets in relation to such reindexing and prescribe a rule therefor, and shall serve without coipensation. The county board of coinmisioners shall pay all claiim. approved Iy said com mission withhi said alppropr1iationl. Provided t hat said commissioln shall al so reindex the papers in tle offce of the judge of probate andl purchase new books for the same. Two thous ant five hundred dollars of tle ionley realized from this levy, if so much be necessary, is to ie used fo' the pur chase of two additiionail ules and for tle maintenance of, the chain-gang. The supervisor- is hereby autihorized and empowered to horrow for cur rent expenses not. more than soven thousand dollars during the year 1907 from the sinking fund voiiis-i1nt at a rate of interest not exteeding live per- cevninum per al"n111n; or it) hOlTlow samie upon the same voimdit ion- from1 the slool huid of, said emnoiity, and in lie event thit said amount ain not lie obtaille(l h-olll eitilvi. (It these solrevs at tile timie wanted, Illt' from anly other source obtainiable at a rate of interest not execlin.g six per veliklli per animm. said amiiount to itb hv obtaini ed 11ponl the not' or i itn,tesol *tl colui tv '1upervistor and couny treasturer, a1h they are hivreby auth.rized a111( vmlpowered i pledg the cointy taxes for lie yvear .190'7 'or tle palynivit of saiid borrowedl money ani t lie interest therean, and are fiirther atuthorized and required to pay said amounlt. out of the taxes of 1907. For the pay mlent of, vounlsel feves f'or profesSionial services rendered in Ohe ca e ofI Des Portes v.s .Johii L. Epps, County treas uIrer et al. for pro I'essional services to be rendereld and Collllissionls anld costs and all expenses in tlie Imatter tf refuntlinig of tile maitired I'ail iroad bonds in -numbers 1, 8 and 9 townshlips, said entire euiompelisaion to aggregate an oiliit ot to ex eed I the sam of' said ammiount of Comi penlsation to be fixed by lie eouiity supervisoi and the nayors anI iinten dt-its of tle towns inl the r-espective townships, fiitn uiinldrell dollars; forty-five one hu1ind(edths of ai iill, ini a1dditioni to the levy foir ordiniary purposes, fili aill taxable pioperty in numher 1 township; eight-telth- of Olie mill, in additionl to levy for or 1i:nary purjlposs, ion all taxable prop er1ty inll uul)her S t1ownshil- and l*our tenthis o one iiil, in aii.itionl to tle lev tr rinairy pilposvS, oil all hii. aid aiontl ofk ifteen In dried dotllar,s shall ble paiid ont of said taxes byv thei reaspetIve townaships ini theI. . folingi propt)ttion:I wtoshipi miullblter 1 hiaill p:ay onIe thlouisauul andi thirty-tive dollars; toiwnshuip uiinmher 8 shial pa y I wo hundreid i andti( s'een dollr s; township inmber 9) shiall pa~y tVo huintdred and1( f'ifty 'i'2hit dollars; povt~idted, thiat the surpludts ofP the said speci('al levies, if' ainy, shiall be applt1ied to the sinking f'und ofC thle respteel ive townships foir the p)ayment. of thle saidi ' reunaded bon ds at ma tuiity. IProtvided, furltheri, Tha t iun thle ie undin1 g of' thle saidL bonds, whlii ch htave when theit taxes lieretinhof ore levi ed saall have bieen colleted, the amnounts herin p i rovidted shiall ble lpaid out. by thle conuty I tausureri on thle wta rraintI of' Ithe (count1y suptervisor' an thlle ma iy mrs andt i.ntendants o tf thle towns ini thle r'espect ive townships.5 'This is to ceirtify th e f'oregoinig andi hereto attached copy (if an act to rise suppl)1ies antd make appr)ioptria ions for thle fiscal year' commiifening 1907, to be a t rue andt corriect copy of said act, in soi fair as the samie relates to the county of' Newberr'y, as taken from and comiipared withI thle original now on file in this offee. Given nnder my hand and the seal of the state, at Columbia, this the 1th day of' February, 1907. -R. M. McCown,