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E. H: AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New berry, S. C.. as 2nd cl? s ratter. Friday, January 21, 1910. ABOLISH SCHOLARSHIPS. We notice that the legislature is mnoving to increase the number of seholarships in our State colleges. That is simply an indirect way of increasing the appropriation to State colleges. The senatr has passed a loill providing for 124 uormal schol arships in the South Carolina Uni -ersity. When there were only. forty mot more than half were taken. It is Very nice to talk about trained teachers, but you are not going to 4ave them in the public schools in this State, it matters little how many normal scholarships you provide in 1he State colleges, until you pay your teachers in. the common schools more money. And as long as you continue to find excuse for piling up appro priations for higher eduaction an. 1oing nothing toward the improve went of your common schools you will never have trained teachers in them. That is teaeherd who are go ing to make it their-life work. We want to see the State colleges supported, but we do not approve of tbis indirect way of securing addi tional aypropriations for them. We would abolish all seholarships. We believe that any boy or girl in South Carolina, who is prepared to enter the freshman class of any first olass college, and who has the capae iiZ7 to take an education, can secure .lhe means to pay the xp&enses. And this thing of requiring them to each for a term of years is an injury to the children of the State. We are ahmost ready to say is a crime aaiist the children of the State. Better abolish all scholarships. Many times they .do not go to those most needy er deserving. And it frequently hap tens that thiose amply able to edu t,ate themselves are- awarded free Meholarships. Then the boy or girl who pays his or her own way through eollege feels so much more indepen AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS. The propositon of Senator Hardin to establish four agricultural schools in the State to be partly at least un der the direction of Clemson college1 -is a good one.'~He ought to provide for one in eaeh congressional district er better still one in each county to be fitting schools for.- Clemson. If Clemson is to continue to receive the ~.aid it is now getting an appropriation of $1,500 to a school of this charae -ier .in each eounty could be made1 .easily Twith no detriment to Clem ~on It would be a great deal better to d ~o this.than to establish scholarships, #er it would reach more of the child reni of the State and would give the 'young men of the State an impetus to make asn effort to go to college and they could go without aid from the *iliate. This would only take $60,000 and iClemson could spare this without in jury to the school. Besides with these schools it would not be neces sary for Clemson to do so much pre paratory work and this would be a great saving. Then by making .these schools largely agricultural, as they should' ,be, it would eneourage the iboys to take the agricultural course. It would be a good idea if the mon-j ey that is now spent on Winthrop scholarships were put in county pre paratory schools and thus reach more *f the girls of the State and those who desire and were prepared could go to Winthrop or any college they might select. If Clemson college is not a State institution we would like to know by' 'what right or authority the legisla ture undertakes to appoiLt a corn mittee to investigate. What busi n~ess of the State how much nepotism exists there and -what is the State man to de boutit. Rev. Coke 1). Mann, a Methodist minister, a member of the board of trustees of Clemson college, a mem ber of the legislature, an avowed candidate for Congress from this district, replies to Dr. Mell. Now, Dr. Mann, you should not speak of any of your fellow men as a "dir ty cur." That is not nice language for an ordinary sinner, but holding the various responsible positions you do you should bridle. your tongue and be more gentle. Ii his message Tuesday to the South Carolina Legislture, Gov. Ansel recommends another eleethon in the six wet counties 6n the liquor question. We are of the opinion that the people 'had rather pass a State wide prohibition bill and settle the question at once. The cost, worry and fatigue of another liquor elec tion is too much to put on the people again. The majority of the people of this State have already shown by the ballot box that they want prohibi tion, and the Legislature, as their representative, *should pass a strin gent prohibition law, one that will answer. which can be done, and get the name of "whiskey" out of pol itics, which has disgraced it long enough. Give us prohibition; that's what we want, and. let the Legisla ture do it, as is their duty.-Horse Creek Valley News. We are inclined to agree with the News that it would be just as well for this legislature -to pass a State wide prohibition bill and be done with it. There is no question that a majority of the people of the State favor such a measure and probably the enactment of such a law by the present legislature would take the matter out of the campaign the com ing summer. We believe in making the couny the unit and therefore in local opAon as among the counties but so many people want to look af ter other people's business and are not satisfied with attending to their own .that we just as well let them make. a trial of forcing prohibition on 'thqse comiities that say by their votes they don't want it. A Richland county jury declared Jim Farnum not guilty of bribery. Now Farnum says that he is guilty and pays a $5,000 fine. That, jury Gught to be ashamed .to look an how. est grafter in the face.-Spartanburg Jornal. As we have read the case- the in ditment to which Farnum pleaded guilty was a very materially differ ent one from the one upon which his ease was presented to the Richland jury. 'And it must be remembered that Farnum gave to 'evidence in the trial before the jury and all cases. are presumed; to be tried on the ev-J idence which is adduced in the court. and not on what any one believes or what the newspapers may say. We think there hias been a little too much criticism of the Richiland jury.. Besides that was it not announced by the attorney general that these cases were 'to be tried ait Chester. The -in ictment to which Farnum -pleaded guilty .does not elierge that there was bri,bery but says he paid rebates o Joe. B. Wylie. LAK TO. VOTE $2,5000,000 FOR GOOD ROADS. Columbia, Jan. 13.-A bill was to-1 day favorably - reported by the ways nd means committee, providing that the constitution be amended so that bonds to the amount of $2,500,000 may be voted for good roa,ds. It is expeeted that the bill will be passed, as there is sneh a widespread nd growing sentiment in favor of better highways, and that the ques tion will be submitted to the voters of ths State at the next general elee The above we find in the Union Progess as a special from Columbia. When the e ditor of The Herald and News was in the legislature in 1903 he introduced a bi.. to permit the ounties to vote on the proposition to issue bonds or vote a special tax for the permanent work on roads but found very little support for the pro position. Now it is thought that a bill to bond the State for two and a half mihit d >llars and to prcvide a State Good Roads Departmenzt will be passed. There is no work of great er importance than the building of .ad. and we hope to see the move ment take a strong hold. We wer just a little ahead of the procession. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * THE IDLEi. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Don't forget 'Wonderland' o Friday night. You know I woul like to .see the young folks in thi play, and I have been wonderin what the thing is like. I will be ur able to get out as it rarely happen that I can leave my cage at nighi Why, yoiu know, I don't even go t church at night and it would not b coiisistent to stay away from chure on aceount of my infirmities an then. go marching out to the oper house. There are some good peopl who think it is a sin to go to th opera house anyhow and I have bee ornig if any of the saints woul venture out to see the home foll appear in public on the stage. hope there will be lots of ticket sold and that the iivie :ssccia0o will make lots of money f:r I hca they are going to begin work i oariiest as soon as they get a l't more money in the treasury. I was just thinking the .other da as I was reading a newspaper an. wondering if the world i- growin better or not. -In every paper yo see where some fellow is bein charged with graft or some one ha run off with somebod'y else's wife o some millionaire is having a'divore case in the court with whole lot of slander connected wit it or some trusted official has loote the treasury or some other horribl crime has been committed. In fac the news service of the daily pape is composed largely of crime. I doesn't seem to me that it was thi way in the good old days. Maybe am mistaken. At least I hope I am an that the world is really and truly ap proaching that time when every ma will be a brother to every othe man in the sense in which that tern is defined in the Good; Book. Yoi know that some people say that thi is o u age of graft and others tha it is a commercial age. If it is a; mo4erni life construes 4these ternt then I am afraid that~ the world i not improving. And I did' not men tion murder and safe cracking an: drunken ess and ia-rceny and briber; and a lot of other little crimes whiel are chronieled every day in th newspapers5. Well let us hope that th e Lay men's movement. and the reviva ~services whieh are being held an: the money we are sending to Chris tianize the heat'hen mean that w< are growiqg better and the time i: near at hand when crime will be n< more. This Laymen's movemen oght to be a great factor in th< evangelization of the world and i is the way after all for the better ment of humanity, It is bet'ter to lea4 men and teach them the right way than to try to force or drive them~ We have too many sumptuary laws Bt I should not be writing abou these things. This is a matter fo3 the good people. We should teach b.) example as well as. precept. We should do good~ ourselves as .well as tell other people to be good and ther the world would grow better very apidly. I was just reading in the Observrer the other day whrere the editor holdt that it is wrong for an editor to ae ept a pass from the railroads evez n exchange for an advetising con Lraet, and that it seems to me is at evidence of the fact that this is ai age of graft because it can mear but one thing and it is that the edi I;or who accepts one will be in favoz f the railroads against the inter est of the people. It will eventually ome to the po-int when one man can not extend to another the smalles1 ourtesy for fear.that the. other will think he has purchased him. It i. getting down on the cold commercial basis and no honest men are left [ was wondering what the old timi editor who .was given a free past and felt slighted' if he was not ad nitted to all the playhouses and ciruses and fairs and hotels ani other places as he felt he ought t< be as a matter of right, would think and if you had . suggested that h< would be in.fluenced by these little ourtesies you would have had a fight right then and there-what would h4 think of the suggestion that th< legislature should pass a .law prohib iting him from acent'ng such things ? Is t'he demand for suci legislation an indication that w4 rP growi ng better? Well, it is non< of my business. But if it is necessar: t.legisla aginst such things, doe: a it mean we are growing better? Somebody suggested the other day that the city ought to regulate that c etiy clock so that it would not be necessary for people to keep two times-I reckon that is a good ex pression-well, you know what I mean. We ought not to have city time and railroad time. They ought. d to be the same. How would it do for city council to require railroad time to be fixed to conform to city time-any way so that we will not have to give two different- times; when asked the time o' day. What e say you, city council, if railroad time e is wrong require the railroads to h change their time so that it will con d form to city time. Something ought' a to be done. It is a small matter and e therefore could be easily regulated e and then the knockers would have to 1 find a new subject. Don't you mind, d they will find it. But any, how set :s the cloek right. I read in the Columbia Record 6 other vay where the Clemson college peoIe had invited the legislature to Z It) Clemson. Of course the invi tftiot will ,be accepted. That gos i ut saying. and it is just as well he legislature to go around vis iting State institutions as to be tin v kering with -the laws we now have and making others we know not- of, g but the point I am trying to make is U that some member by name, E. M. g Rucker, moved that the legislature al s 3 visit a little town, somewhere in r the neighborhood of Clemson, I reek e on, by the name of Anderson. Now a I don't see where our senator and b representatives were, for I did not J read where an invitation was includ e ed to visit Newberry. And unless I t am misinformed our senator is not r only a menibcr of the board but the t ihead of the board and a life member s and also has a relative in the faculty. I Why not visit Newberry while ouc on I their junket. We could give the members a good time. I am sure we could get Mayor Blease to suspend r some of our sumptuary ordinances a and then we could show the members of th-e legislature a real live college, s run without a State appropriation, t and at abont half the cost of some 5 of our State colleges that have no ;more students, and I believe doing s just as efficient work. What do you - say, Mr. President Mayer and Mr. i Secretary Cunningham i Get up your ~, iinvitation.- It is just as easy to go 1 by New,ber'ry to Clemson as by any e other route. Let us show the honor able gentlemen a real live Piedmont city, or at least give them the oppor tunity to see one. Get busy. Now is - the time, for action. 3 I read the other day an extract - from a sermon said to have been de livered by one Rev. J1. B. Silcox, of s New Orlean.a. and h-e took his text from that familiar text in the Bible whieh reads: "Doii't fret.'' I sup a pose everybody knows just where to find the text, but if any one is so ig - norant and will admit it I will be i pleased to furnish additional infor I mation. When I go down to New Or -jleans to Madri Gras I am going -around to hear Mr.,Silcox preach and tif I am not there on Sunday I am Sgoing around to ta2lk with him. I like the gospel of love and good cheer, becauscd believe it is the gospel of the pure Bible . and the- gospel that makes the wai-ld better and happier. In fact I believe in the gospel of sal vation rather than in the gospel of damnation. I want everybody to read the following extracts from this sermon. So many of us; fret over lit te things and things we can't help. Ii think I told you once ,bafore that the troubles of most people were troubles that never happened. Read the following and be happy and make 1others happy: IThe Duty of Being Pleasan.t. . "Oliver Wendell Holmes tells us of a plain ma.r,ble slab he found in Mount A1iburn cemetery with an epitaph of four words: 'He was so pleasant.' That sh>rt senutent4e re vbaled the music of a liife that muast have been a benedit ion to the homnej and community. - Stop your eroak i-g, and moping, and do as the pho torapher birds you-look pleasant. Do. what the house wife *ries o have her preserves do, keep fiweet.. S"To fret and fume and worry and l wail is to disobey one of the plain >est precepts of religion. It is anx icty, it is worry, that makes the world sad and wrinkled and gray. Work is healthful. It strengthens, nvigora tes, gladdens. You shorten your life, stay your happiness, de stroy your usefulnes, dishonor your faith in God by fretting. "If an invisible phonograph could follow you around all day and catch up every sharp word, every snarly tone, every whining sentence, every r 1 rac~e mutter, and unwind it i. ; you ear at night, what a sweet lul We Make Pia It is not difficult to ch< when you have so many to Our collection is so comi find a piano that-will sati case dlesign. We have-simplified yoi by providing such a large also by adopting the one I Every piano ydu see at < its sel ing price, which is the particular grade of instrumei abled to deal fairly with a value giving none a redud Payment need not be m, purchase Any of our pia installments. Our deliver struments in the purchasel If therefore you wish to call ar d see our offerings. Everything ~ Cable Building, J. V. WAL lay song it would be for you to a tsleep with. You fling out yol rnaxy words with little thought ~ at they may do. As they fall the bght and blister wherever th4 sike. I Don't Fret Over These Things. "Don't fret about the m.istak' a follies and sins of. yoar pa: ie. Believe the truth of that litt: em of Susan Coolidge. Eery day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world mai new,.. ou who are weary of sorrow an Here is a beautiful hope for you. "Don't fret because others has mee more prosperous than you. Ti et things in life are more even] ltributed abian we are willing to si nt. There is no trust big enoug oget a corner on good digestion < ~erful ness of dispositon. No ma ia have a monopoly of friendshi affeetion. No corporationi can be io from the spleador ~of the heave hat arches over you, and the beaut fthe earth that engirdles you. Ti It things are npen 'and availab] all. When fou sit down to thin io powerf.4l it is. It is powerles opurchase a single kiss of affet nr, or buy a bond of friendship. 'Don't fret because of what pe< esay a.bout you, nor over the pa~ os of life, nor over business r< -ses.' [hat's good stuff, now, ain't it 1'en remember it and govern youi ef accordingly. TeIlr Atlantic Coast Line. The Atlantie Coast I'ne is r< ling about five and one half. mnik wooden trestles across the P( ee, Santee and Savannah Rivers i ath Carolina, with a concrete an ;tel viaduct, representing the mos odern engineering construction, 4 x> st of approximately one millio ollars. Thef3e improdemnents wi ake a permanent crossing at thes mportant rivers on the main lin' 1 it is expeted that the entii .vrk will be completed in March c 'he completion of a second trac ~hring FebruaTy, 1910, betwee Iokston, Ga., and Callahan, FTh rat continuou double track b< no Buying Easy. ose a satisfactory instrument select trom as we can show you. >lete that you can hardly fail to y you in tone and quality and problem of buying, not only assortment of instruments, but rice system. >ur salesrooms, is marked with same to ;ll purchasers of that it. Consequently we are en 1 patrons by selling at actual ion not received by others ide in full at the time of the nos may be bought on monthly r service enables us to place in s homes without delay put chase to the best advantage, nown in Music. .ACE, Pres., Oharlst, SC. . o tween Folkston and JaeksoRvdUe,l a r distance of forty-three miles. In ad f dition a second track between Uor y enee and Pee Dee, S'uth'Caela, y distanee of ten miles, .is undes\$e struction, thus giving the Ahlnt Coast Line Route%two hundred s forty-eight miles of double trau te t tween Washington, D. C., and Jacet e sonville, Fla., or abont tirtiy per cent of the distance. The m.in line betweenRielmiod Va., and Tampa, Fla., has bee.u welaid ewith heavy rail,-the great iaanezity of which being eighty five pous to the yard. Ataie Coast Line, the Stan4ard Railroaid of th'e South. e 1Famous Buils e IThe house of conimons, M s gb i' have been expected, has com a fair share to a very amusi hlection of "bulls,"~ says -the r Magazine. ~It was in one;of Ihed 'i bates -of that body that the late Oo PSaunderson described Eastern r 1mania as "man enough to tab a stand in defense of a certain Yened right." e An Irish M.P. once deelaisth e of the outrages reported fres Xr k land three-quarters were exaggerated. s 'and half had no foundation 'm fact --a statistical computation that re inds one of anoher Irish M. P.,alia -declare~d excitedly to a group ES fel t1low members: "I want' to-enYin -you that ther~ isn't any truth ,in half the lies they. are 'telling about Ireland." -The .biography of Dean Hook re-s calls a certain minor canon., who. used to preach at the cathredralIwhin Hook was a boy at Westminster school. In one of his sermons there -occurred the striking reflection .tha I "what is impossible can moe e an~d very seldom comes to paess,~ SAnother discourse was long , r i membered for its pathetic lumenta t tions on the degoneracy of Ii- age ,t "0 tempora! 0 mores! Whai ines. a we live,-in! Little boys and girsran' 1 about the streets cursing and swear: ing ,before they cam either talk or walk!' eBut the Church of England has no fmonoply of these violent eentrasts, for it was at a city temple meeting not many years ago a speaker. el Dclaimed: "I find my time is already .gone. Therefore I will keep witiin i.-.New Orl'an Pic.yune.