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E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Entered at the Postoffice at New Berry, S. C.. as 2nd class matter. FrIday, November 4, 1910. THE NEW JUSTICESHIP. "Lawyers here for the fair are dis cussing the probable nominations for the fifth justiceship of the supreme ourt, proposed to be created by a oonstitutional amendmen: which the people will vote upon at the general election November 8. The Hon. W. B. Gruber has been endorsed for the place by the Walterboro bar. Ad dressing the jury in tha Carlisle case, at Greenville the other day, the Dem ecratic nominee for governor, Mr. oleman Livingston Blease, of New j.rry, said he hoped to have the pleasure of helping seat on the su preme bench his fellow-townsman, the Hon. George Sewall Mower. Reports from the low-country are that Judge R. Withers Memmingar of the First ercuit will be nominated. The Sum ter Item says that the Hon. Thomas Boone Fraser of the Gamecock city is eertain to be nominated, and, further, tat former Judge Robert 0. Purdy, also a Sumter citizen, is being talked of as a probable candidate. Messrs. Xower and Fraser have both seen ser vice as legislators. Mr. Purdy's only political experience before he went on Ike bench was as mayor of Sumter. Mr. Fraser is an alumnus of Davidson college, Mr. Purdy holds a diploma from the University of Virginia and Mr. Mower has the master of arts de gree from Bowdoin college, in his na Mye State of Maine." The above from the Columbia Rec ard mentions a number of gentleman lbat we did not.know were aspirants Jor the fifth position on the supreme bench. We had understood that Judge Memminger and Hon. W. B. Gruber were to be candidates for this position to the event the amendment was adopted. There will probably be no shortage of candidates for the posF 'Don, however. All of the gentlemen who are mentioned in this connection are. men of high character and able lawyers and would fil1 the position with credit. The Herald and News, some months -ago, indorsed Judge Memminger in the event the amendment was adopted. Of sourse, It is a little premature to dis enss candidates for a position that has not yet been created, but we take IS that the people of the State see the importance of an additional justice of te supreme court and that the amend inent will be adopted, and it should be. -Those who are opposing the adop Ion of the constitutional amandments to be voted on at the general election next Tuesday, amongst other reasons, give the fact that the organic law should not be so often tampered with, end that it was only a few years ago that the constitution was adopted and H constant amendments are adopted, we will soon hiave the organic law a mere piece of patch work. The great trouble with our organic law, as adopted in 1895, is that the members of the constitutional con vention undertook to legislate and put things in the constitution which uhould have been left to the legisla 4ure. We do not believe that It is might to have so many exceptions to te constitution and if the constitu Eon had contained basic principles In stead of attempting to go into details, which details should have been left 'go the legislatura, there would not be uo great a demand for amendments. For instance, we recall that the con sitution as adopted provided, that toere should be a uniform county gov ernent law. This was to prevent lo soal legislation, but, taking our State us a whole, It was an absurd proposl tion and, of course, the constitution was amended. For instance, a roa.d law that would be suitable to the Piedmont section of the State would probably not be uitable to the coast section, and, therefore, it was absurd to undertake by constitutional enactment to rciuire a uniform road law. We simply mention this one matter as evidence of our statement that there was too great an attempt at leg islation in framing the organic law, and as to the several amne-dments that are to be voted on next Tuesday, we think that it would have been bet ter to havy adopted a general amend ment permitting towns and cities to a bond themselves beyond the 8 per t cent. of the taxable property, instead 1 of making so many amendments to ap ply to so many different communities. 1 However, if these communities desire to put an additonal tax on themselves it would be denying them the right of local self government not to give them the privilege. We believe in the prin ciple of local self-government and, therefore, we think the amendments should be adopted and if the towns interested want to put on themselves an additonal debt let them do it. The taxpayers will observe that as the assessed values of the property increase, the tax levy also increases, which means that more money is be ing needed every year to maintain the government. We publish In another column an abstract of the taxable property of Newberry county and compare the figures for this year with those of last year. We think the taxpayer in the county will be intereted in these figures. We understand that the people along the road from Newberry to Kinards, which was put in excellent condition by the supervisor, have given it prac tically no attention and that it is now in holes and ruts. We can't under- I stand why the people who are given a good road like this was will not take I a little time and drag it after the rains so as to keep It in condition. We would like to know what has become of Mr. Jno. Wood and his com mittee, who were to go over 'the pro posed highway between Newberry and Spartanburg so as to adopt one as the official highway. This trip was t scheduled for October but nothing has 1 been heard from Mr. Wood recently. The open season for shooting birds Is from the 15th of November to the first of March, and applies to every county except Berkeley. We publish elsewhere a statement of the law as prepared by Mr. Jtmes Henry Rice, Jr. He is secretary of the Audubonj society. The act was passed 'at the session of 1910. We may not be in accord with the I views of our cotemporaries in this State but we would be glad to see Bob Taylor elected governor of Tennessee. We were talking with a gentleman from Tennessee recently and he was' against Patterson and the Patterson' machine, but now he is a strong Tay lor man and he said Taylor would win. It Is the duty of every Democrat to look up his registration ticket and go to the polls next Tuesday and cast his. ballot. The- pledge In the primary was to support the nominees of the -party and because there is no opposition is no good reason for failure to vote. Be sure to vote for the nominees nextI Tuesday. We would like to know how much of the $7,000 that bas been raised by the 1 mill levy for roads has been ox pended on the roads exclusively, and whether or not this money is used for the maintenance of the chaingang. As we understand it, the special act levy ing the 1 mill tax was to go exclu sively to the working and improve ment of the roads and was to be kept a separate fund for that purpose, and in additon to the amount necessary for tge maintenance of the chaingang, whose maintenance was to be taken out of the ordinary county fund. 1 We noticed In. coming from Colum bla this week that the supervisor of I Lexington county Is building an excel lent road between Irmo and Leaphart. He is relocating the road and grading 1 It and putting It in excellent condl tion. The bad part Is he did not first work the road between Broad river bridge and the Newberry line via1 Spring Hill as that seems to be the most direct way between Newberry and Columbia. His excuse, we under stand, is that there is agitation that this part of Lexington will be cut off into Richland county and he does not care to work roads for Richland coun ty. These people have been in Lex ington for many years and we under stand have had no help on their roads; .nd yet they pay their proportion he taxes for the maintenance of 1 >resent chaingang. However, if t upervisor will continue this work .o Chapin and to the Newberry Iii we might adopt it as the main hig way between Newberry and Columb Phere is certainly great necessity I L road through Lexington county i Jlumbia. We would call the attention of c subscribers to the fact that all si ;criptions expire on the 1st and 1! )f the inonth and that we do not se 1otices. We would, therefore, ins :hat you examine the label and rex ,or your renewela so as not to m iny copy of the paper. We are i leavoring to print a better paper 4 )ry issue than the one we printed 1 'ore, and we are not sacrificing c -eading matter and news columns tdvertisements, but when we have xcass of advertisements we increE he size of the paper. This Is a gc :ime to subscribe while you have I noney. We can not help making ,ood newspaper, it just comes natur THE IDLEI. A copy of The Herald and News qovember 2, 1909, has just coma ir ny hands and I find that just a ye Lgo I was writng about The Idle )ark. I find that somebody signi timself "Uncle Brigs" wrote me a 1 er, which I printed, in which he sa3 'Of course, we are anxious to E qewberry grow and grow beautit he needs a park, and, Mr. Idler, y ,hould keep on till you get it"' T1 was a whole long year ago, and I ha cept on, but I haven't got it yet. ielieve, however, that I am nearer t than I was a year ago. Don't y hink so? Don't you think I he >een faithful? Let somebody s iomething. I don't give a snap whe1 r it agrees with me or not. I we omebody to come out In the ol nd say something, even if it gainst The Idler's park. Stagnati s death. We must stir up somethil -o By thle way, that reminds me ti ione of the candidates for mayor a idermen have paid any attention ny request for Information as to th Lttitude en the repeal of the or lance removing the wagon yard fi6 *n front of the old court house. WI say you, are you guilty or not guili [t Is a vital question for the old tos D~o you want to go forward or hat gard? -o And neither has the editor advis zie of the whereabouts of the ci association. If that association lI tone ahead and put up that cop: und made one p?etty little par] iiere you are again, it's park, parn .nstead of waiting for the street pa .ng, the question of restoring the wc wagons and watermelon wagons lie square could not possibly be ssue. I notice in the same paper to who [referred I quoted something fron statement as to how they keep a c1e :ity In the old country. "Berlin >ne of the cleanest cities of Eurol w'hich means that it is one of . jset governed." There you are a t Is good gospel, too. Again: :own is like a h.otel, Its cleanliness hie test and proof of Its proper dir< ion and government" Suppose y ook around you and see If Newber ~ould meet the test. And agai 'Boys in squads of two are employ writh men in sweeping and washi :e Berlin streets free from lit1 Lnd garbage." Newberry empki ne garbage cart pushed by a o .egged negro, who no doubt does I yest he can, but 'he usually swee :e dust up from the street Into 1 ~rocery stores and clothing sto: mnd the same settles on the fruit a ~roceries and the people eat then ;at is the fruit and groceries ~ourse not the dirt and germs. It ;aid that wa,ter is plentiful in Bern don't know whether they use iti mything else besides washing stret >r not. I would like to see it tri n our streets. And it seems to: 2iat boys in squads of two might ~mployed. When I come to town, ;ometimes see boys in squads of fc tanding on the corners with nothi :o do, or If they have anything to :hey are not doing it. -0 I read an article the other day Bishop Candler-you know he is Tne writer and T bet te is a fi >reacher-- but he was writing in tl trticle on "Idlers hot1 indigent a )nuient" and he says it has been st; ad that one-tenth of whnind w :he aid of improv.ed m' i'ery, woi ng ten hours a day. e- support :omfort the other nji- tenths. Nc [was thinking that if t'i.is true, a of it, there must ba a mighty big propor he tion of the human race idle, or they he are not invoking the aid of improved machinery, for a lot of them are not on supported in comfort. And then just ie, to think how much it costs to liv, -h- even not in comfort. Dr. Candler says . all the idlers ought to be put under , ban of public opinion. "The able bod or ied vagabonds," says the bishop, "who 'to ask alms at our doors should be put in the workhouse, and they deserve neither more nor less than the mod ur ishly attired idlers who languish in ib- drawing rooms and simper in play , houses. They are all of a class, and If they were all to die at once, they nd would drop indiscriminately Into a Ist common perdition, where sinful want nit and sinful wealth meet the same Iss doom. Since by the Impartial stand ards of divine justice they must be classified together in eternity, why " should we separate them in time? )e- The public opinion of earth should iur conform to the Inexorable righteous to ness of heaven." -0 Now, Bishop, I am neither an indi Lse gent nor an opulent Idler, but a hard 1d working one and put in my full ten he hours, very day, and I would like to a know where you would class me. al. Suppose one-tenth of mankind work ed each year, we would have nine years of rest and still live in com fort But, again, Bishop, don't you * know the public opinion of earth does * not conform to the inexorable right eousness of heaven. Only that It would even partially do so, what a of great Improvement it would be. For kto me, I can't understand how any one ar can feel contented to be idle, whether r's indigent or opulent In my long life ng I have never had the opportunity to t- experience such a state. S: - I reckon if there should be a read ee justment and everybody was started ul. on the same basis it would not be ou long before one had more than an at other and I guess it Is all right or it ,ve would not be so. I _-0 to But what has all this to with The ou Idler's park, or the civic association, ,ve or street paving, or that dangerous ay precipice In Friend street near the de :h- pot, or that light that city council put .nt up there, or the building of Oakland en cotton mills, or tha city primary, or is the nine constitutional amendments, on which the people are going to vote ig. of course they are. Now, let every body get busy and get together and at put the other nine-tenths to work, nd Iand make this old town hum, and -to wake up the chamber of commerce eir and so on and so on ad infinitum. di- The Idler. at South Carolina Game Laws. 7y? Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., secre in tar of the Audubon society of South k- Carolina, has thus summarized the seasons as prescribed by law in this dState: edc Partridges, wild turkeys-November Lad Woodcock-September 1 to March ng 15 - Doves-August 15 to March 15. -- Deer-November 1 to February 1. V- Grackle (crow blackbird)-October 'd 1 to March 1. to .Willet-November 1 to March 1. an Bag limits-Twenty-five partridges or 25 doves or 12 woodcock or *wo wild turkeys in one day; five dear lch inas season. Does or female deer for t a bidden to be killed at any times. No E game to be kept in cold storage ex is cept In a private dwelling. A' Exception-Berkeley coainty. be Partridges, Wild turkey, woodeock nd -November 1 to April 1. "A Deer-August 1 to February 1. is No bag limit; no protaction to fe ac male deer or any other game not listed 'OU above. Ty7 One of the most important provis n: ions of the new law is that no game ed is allowed to be kept in cold storage, ng except in a private dwelling. This er applies to the whole State with the 's exception of Berkeley county. .he The Endless Bound. ~p Wall Street Journal. he1 Railroad employees want freight 6 f rates increased. Then they can ask nd for higher wages to meet Increased - cost of living owing to increased cost of commodities, induced, in part, by iincreased freight rates. Even a pup -chasing its tail takes an occasional or rest. ed N ?ATIONAL BANK STOCK FOR SALE. aie I will sell to the highest bidder, for be cash, before the court house door at Newberry, S. C., between the legal ur hours of sale, on Saleeday In Novem ng ber, 1910, ten shiares of the capital do stock of the National Bank of New berry, S. C., of the par value of $100 per share. by Eug.Eie S. Blease, a 11-4-1t. Attorney. 11s DR. MlELDAU nd will answer emer.gency calls in con 3t- nection with his office work. Special th ties, morphine and other drug habits. -k- Hours 9 to 1 forenoon; 4 to 8 after in nonI0-28-6mos nd Subscribe now for The Herald and L i News. Before Yo1 INSURAl You sh Contra< The Volunteer Sti of Chattan< Every good fe; is embraced in th features exclusive] Every dollar 0: In the South. 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