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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at Ne 1erry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. Tuesday, August 2, 1910. Newb-arry: The city that do things. INSPECTION TAX ON FERTILIZ ERS. As is well known, the whole pr ceeds of the tax for the inspection ar analysis of commercial fertilizers E to Clemson college, where the woz of inspection and analysis is done. is such a cinch for Clemson, the ta tax on fertilizers yielding last ye upwards of $177,000, that a conside able feelug of jealousy has sprui up, and from all quarters we haN heard complaints and protests urgE against Clemson's getting so muc while other institutions of learnin are allowed very little in compariso With some show of reason, the que tion has been asked, "Why not pl the tax in the State treasury and 1 the legislature make Clemson a def nite appropriation, using the balan< for other purposes? It might be use for the common schools or for othE higher institutions of learning. ] whatever way looked at, it does ni seem right that Clemson should mont polize the whole of - this inspectic business and receive all the profil therefrom. The fair way would I for the State government to make th analysis, dividing up the roceeds fro: the tag tax among all the college supported by the State." With reference tQ this and othe questiois relating to Clemson colleg 'Prof. Riggs, of that institution, ha put out & little booklet consisting ( questin and answers regarding t tolltge. Any one can secure a cor of this pamphlet by writing to Pro Riggs for it. We have read it wit interest, but we must confek, to feeling that is not wholly -,atis!yin with respect to the inspection tax fertilizers. In replying to the question sugges -ed above, Prof. Riggs says: "A spi cial commodity tax can not be levie except for inspection purposes. FC example, you- could not tax fertilize1 to run the State government or tU *public schools, because neither tU State government nor the publ: schools make the analysis. The a< sets forth that the tax is to be use for the purpose of .inspection, not 1 run the college. The supreme cou: has decided in another Stexe, whle the question has come up, that a exact balance between the cost of ii spection and the revenue from the ta can not be required so long as tU beneficiary of the tax performs tU inspection and analysis. Such beir the case, and with the knowledge at consent of the farmers of the Stat the college is to a large measure su) ported by what is left over and abol the cost of r.aking the inspection at analysis." "Now, if the act legalizir the fertilizer tax set forth that ti tax was to be used for running tU State government or supporting his schools, or anything other than ft inspection, don't you see it would 1 unconstitutional on its face, and tl supreme court, as in the North Car, lina case, -where part of the tax wi used for the benefit of the commc schools, would so declare." This reasoning is very specious, at yet it fails to answer the question frequently put. For instance, suppoi it be stated that the fertilizer tax Imposed for the purpose of runnir Clemson college and not for inspe tion and analysis, that would course make the tax unconstitutiona and yet we all know that, while ti tax is said to be imposed for inspe tion and analysis, it is really the pu pose and intent of the tax to create revenue for the college, a kind *whipping of the devil around ti stump, as it were. Now, no matt who performs the service .of inspe tion and analysis of fertilizers, it the State which imposes the tax, an as it is not necessary for the State designate to what use it will put ti overplus above the cost of inspectio it has the right to do whatever pleases with it. If the State can n do this without doing something u constitutional, neither can Clemst college appropriate rco its own use a above the cost of inspection witho also being guilty of an unconstitutio al act. It is a poor rule that woi w.ork both ways. P,ut to obviate t wholT dffculty, it would be an ea thing for the State to take from Cliei son the work of inspection and anal sis and have it done by a State boa of chemists and itself become t beneficiary of all above the actual cc of inspection, thus bringing the a within constitutional limits. That the State could do this if it wanted do the fair. square hing.-rFarmcirs !'Union Sun. The above is a pretty fair presenta tion of the case. It seems to us if it is not unconstitutional for Clemson college to be run from the privilege 'tax on the technical ground that the analysis is made at Clemson, it would not be unconstitutional if the analy sis was made at Columbia by a board of chemists and the money piR in the State treasury. The tax is levied by the State nomi i nally for the purpose of paying the cost of inspection and the money is appropriated by the trustees of Clem d son, who are agents of the State, to P play the expenses of Clemson college. We can not see how it would be it any more unconstitutional to have the money appropriated by the legislature, who are the- representatives of the 9g State. As a matter of fact, however, we believe that on the decision of the supreme court of the United States in! that North Carolina case that if any one were to raise the question as at - present ope, ated that this tax would t be declared unconstitutional. So long as no one objects, however, the tax can be collected. The trustees of the Newberry grad n ed schools in their annual report, )t which was printed last Friday, say: n "In the wisdom of some of the best S men in this community the time is e ow ripe to lay aside differences of opinion, and for the sake of our schools and our splendid city unite in the support of our schools, and push them, and boost them, until they are in realitv a just cause for civic pride."' .s This should be the desire of all of f our best men. We could not have ethe best system of schools, or the best _ of anything else in a community h where there is constant friction. All a of our good citizens should unite in an effort to make our school system the best in the State. CELERY AND OTHER CROPS. dWe desire to direct attention to the article by Prof. C. C. Newman, of '5 Clemson college, on growing celery. We can grow as fine celery in this ecountry as in any other section, and it does not take a very large plot of land to produce a considerable gian 0tity of celery. Yet it is a very rare tthing that you will find on any farm in this section any celery beds. We believe it would be. profitable for the farmers to dovote just a little e of their time and attention to crops .e of this character. gWe think it was in the Anderson -Daily Mail that we observed a para .graph in which it was stated that a ! farmer in that county had just pur c hased an automobile and had come iinto town and was buying a water melon to take home with him. It is iall right to buy the automobile if one rhas the money; but it does not sound ewell for a farmer to come to town to e buy that which he ought to grow, not1 only for his own use, but for sale. This illustrates what we desire to say as to celery and a number of' dother crops that should be grown in, Dthis section. 3 THE C., C. & 0 -According to a recent issue of the Spartanburg Herald it will not be long before something will be done in: ethe extension of the C., C. and 0. Tail road from Spartanburg on to Colum a bia and Charleston. It is suggested' that "probably in September there ewill be a meeting in Spartanburg of representatives of the chambers of scommerce interested in this develop d, ment, during which there will be a' bo conference with the C., C. and 0. e ficials for pushing ahead with line. t Iewberry ought to keep her eyes' open because if she can secure this road it will be the making of the city. We are firmly convinced that the _more railroads you can have in any It community the greater poss'ibilities e there will be for that community to go ahead. The railroads that Greenwood has d have done mnore to advance that comn e munity than any other one cause; the St 1same of Atlanta. No opportunity ct should be neglected which looks to se curing railroads for the community. ~ iLE ALUTIA R.LAROAD. In a recent issue of the Greenwoo Index ther were interviews with number of the prominent. bsiness ime of Greenwood on the advantages securing the railroad from Salud, We had thought once of using thes interviews and putting them in tb mouths of some of our progressiv citizens but there is a possibility thc there may be a few people in Nev berry who are satisfied with cond tions and do not believe that additior al railroads would help the commun: ty, and it might have been possib] for us to have intdrviewed one C these citizens without his knowledg, We sincerely hope, however, that suC citizens are not very numerous an that everybody has practically agree that Newberry ou*ght to hav'e this rai road. We would feel its loss if w should fail to get it more than w would feel its advantages in the ever we should secure it. Our young friend, J. R. McGhee, c the Daily Piedmont, has been doin some live hustling recently. Immed iately after the Jeffries-Johnson priz fight he had an extra on the street of Greenville so that the people c that city could know the result of th fight immediately. The Piedmont has. also been fur nishing important State news prompt ly so that the readers' of that pape get the news of today, today. g * 'p * * * * * * * * SCINTILLATIONS. By Squibs. * * * * * *- * * * * * In his grievance department las Friday Squibs had a little paragrap trying to say tfiat Katy was not on of those big Aleck and smart Ik girls. Imagine his feelings 'vhen h read that "Katy is not one of thos big black and smart Ike girls." Crue type that made Aleck black. Mean yo both failed to see the point. State your grievance. Room will b made for it. If Squibs and everybody had "cor age of conviction" there could b ighly interesting reading that wou] create a stir and make hot time: Something might be doing later. It is quite amusing how some pec ple "make believe." Some pretend nc to intend. Some can almost mak you believe they don't like a thin when they do. Funny folks. Some horses ought to be shod of tener than they are. Look at thei feet. The latest thing reported by Fred I a spring in the same street with th petrified logs as large as your les That's what Fred says he said. Says the Greenwood Jourial: " have seen noble animals rushed an driven in the heat when there was n sense in it. And we have seen brute, in the shape of a mw, beatin the helpless animal unmercifully. H deserved just what he was giving th animal and more." The Greenwoo Journal is right. The press and pu) pit, the bar, etc., should arouse publi sentiment in- this matter. Why don people act? Why doesn't somebody d something? MIr. 31ack Satterwhite says it's all d-d lie about smallpox being on hi place; says it's 'nothing but chicke pox. Squibs didn't say it. MIr. Mlacl le has troubles enough every wee without that. The man who %11 hitch his horse t a post or leave it standing for hor in the hot sun is, to say the leastC him, cruel, and he should be called t account for his cruelty, says th Greenwood Journal, and so says Tb Herald and News; and so ought to sa every newspaper and every preache and every good man in the land. From two bushels of wheat Mr. A. Havird, of Saluda, made 90 bus] els. The possibilities of this countr are great. Forty-five bushels fro: one bushel; twenty-two and a-ha bushels from a half bushel; eleve and a quarter b'ushe!s from one peci fxe and nv.misins from a half pe'cI and ono and thirtoon thirry-second from one quart ;45 72nds of a bush< from a pint; forty-five one hundre and forty-fourths of a bushel from af nint: forty-five two hundred an eghty-eights from one-fourth of pint. Figure it out and see how muc ('1hainganla Doing Sone (fmad 1yo Personal Xention--A Vist to Colony. . Excelsior, Aug. 1.-Th3 sumni elsession of our school openi w e good attendance of pupils. e We now have good Pot summer tii eand the little cotton ought to grc Lt This is the season of year to kn the worth of shade trees. Our people will all go to Lit Mountain next Friday to see the i -rowd of people. Prof. Ed. Werts, of Memphis, Ten e has been visiting relatives in this s< >f tion. Sonie few of our folks went to ( h lumbia last week on the excursion. Mrs. J. D. Stone, who has been d the Columbia hospital over a week I d treatment, is doing nicely. The chaingang is doing some go I work on the public road leading fr< our school house down past Mr. J. Singley's residence. tMisses Elsey and Gertrude Dom! ick, of Greenwood, are visiting Mrs. J. Kinard. Misses Julia and Louise Shealy, Little Mountain, are visiting Mrs. W. Hartman. Prof. 0. C. Kibler, of Newberry, e visiting Mr. J. A. C. Kibler's family, s Mr. Jas. P. Cook spent a few da up at Kinards last week. Rev. W. R. Anderson spent Thui way night with Mr. G. W. Kinaro family while on his way to Irn where he has been holding a sevei .days' meeting, being assisted by t r Rev. J. L. Hodges. I attended conference at Colo church Sunday, the first time I h been to Colony at service in a lo * time. I feel dear to Colony, as I ha a good many dear loved ones sweel I sleeping there in the cemetery. -Sigma. News From St. Paul. t St. Paul, July 28.-We are havi fine weather at last, just as we ne to kill grass. Much progress has be e made along this line for the past fh weeks. Although it came too late e save all the crops. They have be damaged to a great extent. Tie Interdenominational Sund School convention, which was h< here last Thursday and Friday, 'w e well attended. Not only the congreg tion of St. Pauls, but our neight churches seemed to take great inte est in this meeting. It seems that t growth of the convention is imprc eing rapidly, which is gratifying note and we hope that at this meeti - next July we will be able to say great deal more of this movement. Mrs. J. W. Bobb, of Columbia, spending a while with her father, 3 tGeo. B. Aull's family. Miss Amy Werts, of Newber: spent the latter part of the week gthe guest of Miss Julia Werts. Mr. Ernest Livingston and sist Miss Annie, of Newberry, spent t week-end with friends and relatis r of this section. Mrs. L. I. Epting and son, Mr. C1 tis, .spent the past week with M s Epting's daughter, Mrs. T. H Wei e man. ,Miss Rama Metts has gone to D mar, where she will visit her sist Mrs. Shealy, and also take in the D mar reunion of Newberry college. eDon't forget that Tuesday, Augt d2, is the time that all the candidat otogether with the chairman, Mr. Fr aH. Dominick, will be at Jolly Stri g to deliver their speeches to all w ewish to hear them. It will be und< estood that there is no campaign sci dule, but only through a misstatemE Iof the time of the meeting of the el ccutive committee 'that our executi tcommittee was not there from Jo 0 Street to request this meeting. As is the oldest campaign.- place in t county, the people felt that they wt :entitled to hold one this year. Throu thez kindness of Chairman Domini all of the candidates who are out this meeting have all been invited come and have accepted the same. there are any new ones to come o we will expect them to be present -so. The people of this community< svote much interest to campaign me ings and a cr'owd is always prese ogenerally numbering about 250 vott ebeside women and children. So e us all come out Tuesday, August and make this a day of enjoyment r all. A goodi barbecue dinner will served in the beautiful oak gro where it.has been served for a nu .ber of yearsA to all who care to p: ttake of it. The meal will be coola y by the same well known cook. n Mr. J. W. Wicker had the misf< If tune to get a mule killed by lightni n a few weeks ago. ; Mr. Fre F. Livingston. of Sparti ;irz. is snng a while with s usests. Mr :md Mrs. Geo. A. Lirit aston. d Rev. G. A. Hough of Atlanta. is x a iting his neice, Mrs. H. F. Counts. ri Miss Ida Epting. of Newberry, is 1 a guest of Miss Eula Ray Sligh. h; The health of the community is vt th ne FOR TEl ALL Refrigei Water I lc-; Hammo at Lawn S orl d Porch S Ice Creo f AUGUST SAL is; 20 Per Cent Off See Us, We will 1The J. L.I Alnal Moutai EXCUI as AUGUST ICharleston and West4 Spring and M North and So es For rates, etc., call on Ticke r edo maEhohsCon U eIoslk Y e, he rpid I suppos e but av Een RN iE." d o uln't seUndmamaeertangd at ' "vwfrgao has r a eeloo to since costlittlyi dauhter negrhodo If of k the zn ot saeidg . Sil 10 "Pt, w asitawiepesn.h e-i thty lood upd i th gretu n teres e- "Ys, he urepd: Ispoe h t, nstHave boer-aveyowise." "Shuc," the cidrepied,m atern -hve t hkng tt over for' m nths"' o Thu it may surpred at heu wats d e garwedewY un.hcg eod re iteralsd.he agh bti the ban and roittof. owt at~hi "Myi ne refrigo him a her t houegota i thwas.brho I- "Oh.rez pain," said ol. "tll it gel mos!-eietr tl he v{y iditorpa of arrying .e- ury cooke u wt" ra itrs t y, "Haver youel he. I o a ny co and gt a hair if-TeWdw :OST' 4DAYS! -ators ,oolers cks wngs wings tm Freezers E NOW ONI on All Furniture. save you Money 30w1es Co. FURNITURE HOUSE ai and Seashore RSION 17, 1910 fr Carolina Railway, ~untainc Resorts uth Carolina. 4 Agents, or address WILLIAMS, neral Passenger Agent, 129 Broadway, Augusta, Ga. Keeping His Independence. "I thought you were married, and yet you're sewing on your own but tons." "I am married, but I keep my inde-' pendence, let me tell you."-Person's Weekly. Bridge Disasters. "My," said the .first man, reading a newspaper at the club, "aren't those bridge disasters terrible?" "Ddses your wife play, too?" answer ed the second man absent-mnindedly..I -Buffalo Express. EETING OF CHAMBE.R OF CO]! , MERICE A business meeting of the chamber ( o commerce will be held Friday even ig, August 5. at 8.30 p. m. Commit tes will make reports and other busi ness of importance will be transacted.. All members are urged to be present; S. S. Cunningham, Secretary. Skin Sufferers' -Doubt Is Removed. Many eczema sufferers have failed so utterly with salves and other "dis coveries" that even the assurance of the best physican or druggist can not induce them to Invest another dollar in any remedy. It is to these discouraged sufferers in particular that we now offer: at only 25 cents, a trial bottle of the accepted standard eczema remedy, a siple wash of oil of wintergreenl, thymol and glycerine, as compounded in D. D. D. Prescription. Hundreds of cures have cogvinced us and we know you can prove in stantly with the first application that it takes away the itch at once. Gilde & Weeks Newberry. S. C.