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i r! . i '-'ntered at the Postoffic^ v* v %rry, s. C., a? 2*vj class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. I Tuesday, February 18, 1913. l i UNFORTUNATE. The controversy between the Uuiversity president and the Winthrcp president is unfortunate. A lot of testimony taken by the committee and charges made were entirely foreign to the question at issue. The question involved was the charge made by Gov. Blease that he understood that the president of the University had signed a paper of some kind asking the Peabodv board to give the* University a certain amount of money, and asking or agreeing if that was done that a large sum be given to the education, as Gov. Blease expressed it, of "free niggers". The governor cited President Johnson of Winthrop as authority for the statement that such a pa ?? ovi'ctonpo per or agreement, was m That is all there was to it. The agreement was produced. As to whether there was anything wrong in the signing of such an agrrement is another question altogether. President Johnson made no charges along that line. He stated that the appeal of, the university possibly knocked Winthrop out of a large sum which would have been given. That may be a matter of opinion. If there was nothing wrong in signing the agreement why get so excited about it. The governor charged that| if President Mitchell signed a paper agreeing that if the University were given a ce.?.a?n sum of money by the Peao^dy board for the education of I negroes in the South, President Mitchell had no part in the educational system of the State under his administration. That was the charge and that was what was to be investigated. ~ 1 ~ ...uv. JLI^OIU^XIC lUUUUClly aiUU^ VVilU <x number of other college presidents, . signed the paper. Was there anything ! / wrong in it. That is the question. There no doubt is difference of opinion on the question. Our judgements may be biased by our interests or our viewpoint. It is unfortunate that it has been made the: occasion for charges and counter charges between President Mitchell and Dr. Johnson. It is unfortunate that all the State colleges, expecting to be beneficiaries of the Peabodv fund, did not unite in their appeal and agree beforehand what each would ask. Then we might have received more. All these charges can result in no good to our educational interests. Still we had just as well keep the record straight and not undertake to j muddy the water. j WILL THE GOVERNOR STAND PAT?! The bill for the levying of one mill j special tax for the rural schools I stands very little change of being reached at this session of the legislature, if final adjournment is to be had this week. The bill has a favorable report from the ways and means committee, but is very far down on the calendar. It is true that provision is made in the appropriation bill for some cf the things for which it was proposed t0 use this one mill tax, but \ some of the most important will suf-! for if the one mill tax is not levied i , I and the appropriations made. Provision is made for the high j schools and the term extension act, but the rural graded school act. and the best of all, is only given $20,000 when it is estimated that it will take at least $45,000, and only $20,000 is given to the building fund when it will take at least $40,000. In fact th?re are on file now, and approved, a sufficient number of claims under the building fund act to take up over $15,- j <kP.fl rvf t V? .. ,n ".VI/ ? .- T"! ' \r\J\r \Ji. C4.IV7 H1UJ1C> . I Ufll IIU pi UVIblUll | is made for the central board of examiners and nothing given to the county board fund to aid weak schools. Unless something is done to give some aid to these little struggling country schools we will be glad to Gov. Blease carry out his promise ;?> ( ti ? ii 11.? . t i > i iho <.'(?.! i: ho should do so wo believe lie would bo sustained !?' the people of the State, for oven those who ar?- l'riendI ly to the colleges are beginning to realize that w1 have been doing more for the colleges than we have for little country schools and while they want to spo the colleges liberally supported, they are in favor of doing more for the rural schools where the great majority of the children are. What is the use of a compulsory education bill unless we furnish the school with adequate facilities for the training of the children. There is beginning to be an awakening among the people for better schools in the rural districts, and the State should encourage this interest by giving aid 7/here the people are willing to help themselves, as is proposed in the several acts providing State aid to tne common schools. Col. Dickert, who is getting up the names of all the streets in Newberry, , and tor wiiom tney were namea, appeared before the council at its last meeting, to urge the necessity of changing the name of "Boundary" street. With what success, we are not informed. But this we do say, and have said it often before, that the name of "Boundary" is a misnomer, and should have been changed long ago. When the hamlet was in its swaddling clothes, and the street a cow path, it was well enough to call it what it really was, "Boundary." But now since the hamlet has grown to be a great town, with city ways, it should [ no longer hold to those misnamed ' streets. The idea of a great thoroughfare, running almost through the center of the incorporate limits, being called "Boundary" is preposterous. We have no special interest im whatsoever name the 3treet is given, should the change be made, but we hope the: council will see the propriety and nee- j essity of giving the street a name' more in harmony with its location. <$> <* <S> THE IDLER. <e>! <$ - <?> $> <$> ? <?> a <?> $> & $> <$> $> <s> <?> <$> I went down to Columbia the other j day?that is several days ago?while j the corn show was on and the legisla- j ture in session?most too much for an j unsophistocated youth to take in all j at one time?(^specially since I had; not been out hi the world much in re- i cent years and scarcely knew how to i de.nean?that is a good word I reckon! and used in the right plac:?anyhow I 1 felt just a little awkward, you know, j when th?re were so many big men j on all sides, and, of course, I thought they were all looking at me and i watching me, but I reckon I was mis-; take.]. Any way I enjoyed it all. I j didn't say much, but I looked a whole i lot and tried to think some more, but' I just couldn't. T am not going to tell i you much about the -corn show, be-! cause I don't know much about corn,; and the n it seemed to me that th.e i only way you could get any benefit) from the show was to go and see it! Tor yourself, [t certainly was a big' thing for, you know, Mr. Secretary j Wilson would scarcely leave his office in Washington and come all the way, to Columbia unl?ss it was a pretty I good size show. | ?o? But when it comes to the legislature, why I can tell ycni all about that, for. you know, everybody knows how to make laws and run a newspaper. A .. .. U ^ ,1.. ' rro A f 1 Aocf AIJN UUU\ (. all UU U1CSC UJUMgo. rvc icaci that is the way it appears to me from the way people vote, and the kind of m- n they elect to the legislature2 (nothing personal). I don't suppose the members from Xewberrv knew that 1 was down there, or maybe they didn't know me. At any rate, they did not ask me to occupy their seats so that 1 might hear what was going on. nor did they invite m-s to go to the; club with them, nor even to go out to, lunch. Well, I reckon they were busy passing laws for us to abide by or to violate. They have a rule in the house j by which no one but members and, i women can go on the floor, and T' recKon mat is trie reason I was not: invited to tak*' a seat, as I was neither a member nor a woman. But you j can go in the gallery and you get a good view of the tops of the heads of the nembers, and 1 was struck with the largv per cent of baldheaded men. i It may be causedv from much wisdom as I believe we sometimes (incorrect-1 ly) speak of a legisfa^tor as a solon. They were not doing much. Some were j walking about and some were talking : i j . ' ...) < ;* th:v v. y. try."*4 ;o sural;, i ail at the same; time, a.'d nobody ! seemed to me to bo listening, but T j reckon that is the way they make ! laws, and it' they were too particular ! the lawyers would get out of a job j because- there would be no reason for l testing the constitutionality of the | laws, so it is all right, and I enjoyed 1 lnoncloflirp 1'i'J ti 11 J ai. | ?O? Xow, over in the senate they are more quiet. The senator from Xewberry didn't sc?e me either, or if he did he did not rush out and express his great pleasure of meeting a citizen from his home county. He looked like he was in great pain, but I hope I was mistaken in thinking so, for to have the burden of the State upon your shoulders is hard enough without having to suffer bodily pain. He didn't rise and address the president while I was in the senate. Over there you can just walk right in the same as if you belonged there, and no one will stop you. And there was Fred. Schumpert to bid you welcome, when he is not to busy with the ladies. He has some sort of job there which I makes it necessary for him to give j special attention to the ladies. On ; the contrary there is a man sitting at ! each door to pull it open so that you may enter. Now, over in the house Mr. Kibler and Mr. Wyche were talki ing a good deal, but Mr. Mower, he | didn't say anything. Well, it is all right. The least th-sy do the better for the country. When I read the wail of the county superintendent of education about the stamps being out, I was reminded of a lecture 1 heard many years ago, I think by a Dr. Steele, if I am not mistaken a Methodist minister. He was lecturing about the war and was telling about the trials and hardships endured by the women of the South. Among other things he told about th-e scarcity of salt, and how they used to dig up the dirt in the meat houses ?in those days the meat houses had no floors?and how they would pour it in a hopper and run water through it like th-ey used to do to make lye out j of hickory ashes, and he asked if you had ever thought of the effect of the announcement that the salt is out. For the stamps to be out is almost as bad a? for the salt to be out?both pretty deplorable situations?especially when you can get neither. I read in a paper the other day about a Dr. being pastor of a Methodist church in Columbia. I was wondering if it is possible that this can be the same man I heard lecture some years ago. If I could find out I would be tempted to go to hear him preach. ?o? Suppose we all be good and build that troiley line from Greenville to Columbia via Newberry. Wonder if the people would agree on a proposition like that. 1 bet?no, I can not bet, because it is unconstitutional?but I am afraid there would be some one to object, because some man might start a little store somewhere on the road and take a few nickles that might come to Newberry. We might try to <rpt it Snmp of the nftonle would no doubt like to see the road built. The Idler. The Arcade has the honor of being the first motion picture hous? in the United States to show the National Corn Exposition, except the makers (Pastime). Our regular program wiM be run also. Wednesday, February 19. The same price, 5 and 10 cents.?Adv. j ^ - " p ' j jb fj j s : i I ; ' I j ; 11 i i! i I - ' % ik I | I :. 4 vA c i i ; ! | s t i ! I ?? ' \ I ! & * '* : i I #::??; , - is i i v &M>? ,$ ' . & Miss Mariam Gasparo, vwho is appearing this season with A. G. Delamater's faithful dramation of the famous novel of the same name by Gene Stratton Porter, author of "A Girl of the Limberlost" and and "The Harvester," with special incidental music and song numbers of Anatol Fri<>dland. the celebrated Viennt^se composer. "Freckles" will bo presented at the opera house on Thursday night. F-b i ruary 27, with exactly the same com- j pany that will appear in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta, Xefl Orleans, Memphis, St. I>ouis and Chicago. rv v. icr-?. an ' >nr*?*y ?r me .-r?11 ^ ?qui uw. 11 j i wi '.TjnftrftW i \ l I We are now prepa | of E. A. Griffin & C I the public in general stock of goods. NO C r? .1 i r*. r ror tne oenerit or i that we have a lot of ! which we are going I Soliciting your pati J.T.Mi I ] I 1 II THE NEWS OF PROCERITY. ^ The Literary Sorosis?Ladles' Aid Society?Operated on for Appen- | d eeitis?Perso n al. -?- jProsperity, Feb. 17.?Mrs. F. W. Schumpert and Miss Leola Joiner, of ' ~ " ~ ~ X A. 1_ 1. 3 \ I KOHOCKS, ij. u., spent uie wecK-euu with Mrs. rB. B. Schumpert. , Mr. H. J. Rawl has returned from a E short stay at Columbia. , Miss Lahlage Wheeler spent Thurs- j q dfiy in Newberry. [ n Mrs. Duncan and children, of Co-J h Himbia, are visiting at the home of Mr I J. D. Duncan. I Mi3s* Susie Langford spent Thurs- " | day in Columbia. ^mmmm I Messrs. A. H. Hawkins and A. R ?* j Wise were business visitors in Colum- HelP c I Iinxrlnrr UiiX iuuiouaj. Miss Julia Maree, of Fairview spent I As the> Saturday with Miss Effie Hawkins t>< Miss Vista Bobb, of Newberry, ib "One ol i visiting her sister, Mrs. \V. L. Mathis. One of Mr. Pierce Shealy, of Chapin, was But I'll a business visitor here Saturday. And th Mr. Raymond Dominick has tl ed a position with the Southern Bell at Camden, S. C. "Help ( Prof. J. E. Hunter has returno'l to gaj(, tQ Ctemson college, after spending sev- ?-pile gl eral days here. Long b, Mr. Caldwell Ruff, of Pomaria, _ U * * , c liUl 1 1J a business visitor to our town batAnd th urday. . ' Miss Elizabeth Hawkins will spjn! this week at St. Paul school * Mr. B. E. Bowers was operated on ' HelP c f:r appendicitis at the Columbia hos- c j pita! Friday, and is doing well. Dr. Seeing J Bedenbaugh accompanied Mr. Bow- s "The v to Columbia. n The Literary Sorosis meets Fnlay j Vi afternoon at 4 with Mrs. J. F. Browne. put ni The program for tne anernoon is as And we follows: s< "Why, what an intricate impeach is this! "Help o I think you all have drunk of Arce's said to cup. "The w ?Comedy of Errors, Act I. S( | Comedy of Errors, Act I-1II?Mrs. Then, c Moseley. But cor Act IV-Y?Miss Bobb. h ! Current Events?Mrs. Wise. We'll bi The Ladies' Aid society meets j si Thur?dav afternoon with Mrs. Enos; Counts. ' And so Mr. Bruce Dowers spent the week end in Columbia. j 'phe jea Mr. W. H. Enlow is critically ill at j ^n(j his home in Main street. i Mr. J. Q. Davis vice president of the [ RES ! | Bank of Winnsboro, is spending a few j I days at the Wise hotel. ; At a Cooperation in .Nature. health < in an interview a few days ago with resoluti Harry F. Atwood of Chicago, who was Resol here at the exposition preaching the ciliated gospel of cooperation among farmers, of chart o irorco ivao nnntpfl of the Doem I receive \J V Ui UV A | which Mr. Atwood uses to illustrate j Dr. Pel his point and drive home the lesson- Th re a he would teach. 1 chicken I "I have used the verses in my talks; town ;j.r in many parts of the country, and r j who ha j would be afraid to say how many let-1 the past iters I have received from people who . a L ono?\ think of them afterwards and write j list of me asking for them." j r-'ceiw Now comes the request that the j verses be published so they are here- j with given. ! F. I). M "Cooperation in nature is the title f / red, after purchasi ompany, tc serve oil L We have a cleai )LD STOCK friends in the count I J ] ? naraware ana iani to sell at a big sacrif ronage. ithfully yours, ayes& THAT LITTLE 1 Aary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snc ^nd everywhere that Mary we The lamb was sure to go. t followed her to school one d And caught an awful cold ^nd Mary rubbed on Gowans? * ? Gowans?good as gold. Vhat makes the lamb love Go The eager children cried? because Gowans cured the The teacher he replied. xowans, King of Externals, cures Ci h, and all mothers should always 1 ome for .jimediate use. All druggisi Gowan Medical Co., Coi poem, which runs as follows: J" ] >ne another," the snowflakes j The iid, - I meet ii r nestled down in their fieecy; day m' e(j. o'clock : us here would not be felt, as us here would quickly melt, yearhelp you and you help me ?n what a big white drift iere'11 be." me another," the maple spray its fellow leaves one day: in would wither me here alone efore the day is gone. helD you and vou help me, - . i en what a splendid snaae I aere'll be." J me another," the dewdrop ried- i i another drop close to its side: ||g arm south breeze might dry |||| le away, flj ould bo gone cve noon today help you and you help me fjM j'll make a brook run to the ne another," the grain of sand another grain ne^r at hand, ind might blow me over the | 3a' | >h, what would become of me. ne, my brother, give me your and J lild a mountain and there we'll J Land." I the snowflakes grew to drifts. lins of sand to mountains, ves became a splendid shade, j J ?... J ??? _ ^? f a n n f o i n c i uewurups It'u Hit* I (junta, mo. I <" 0LIT10N BL HOARD OF j < HEALTH. 1 V-J call meeting of the board of j )f the city today, the following! ?on was passed: Mr. 1 ved, That any one may be vac- this se< by their family physician free borate ?e if the physician is willing to song p .l. ? | faithful pay 11*0111 U1P fown Uie :>iune Ci? - ham, the public vaccinator, j novel o re no rumors of smallpox or j ten Po pox; it is genuine smallpox in Limber id in the county. All persons with sp ve not been vaccinated during numbei five years must be vaccinated celebra All physicians must keep a J "Fre( ?ho?t> vacoinat d in order to! opera 1 ! their jmy. j ruary 1 S. S. Cunningham, j pany tl Secret'ry. j Baltim< owtr. .VI. I).. ! Orient j Chairman. j cago. B ? , V - 11"HWfc??i^? fl / ing the stock SB ^ * * r mends and i, up-to-date H f * ? m y, would say i implements J ice. / , :LO. j LAMB \ i )W int, ' ? av. wans so cold, you know, \ roup, Colds, Pneumoceep a bottle in the i ts sell it. 25c, 50c, $1. nrnrr] M P UVVi %/ MH.WW.U.HWIIII inn mil WWTlTITTWlWnBnMfWI Meeting of Pension Board. County Pension Board will i the auditor's office on Saturorning, February 22, at 11 Let all applications be in will be the last meeting thi& W. G. Peterson, Chairman. \ W%mS I : i Dea'y Golden, who is appearing X ison with A. G. Delaniater's elascenic production of the new , >lav, "Freckles." which is a I dramatization of the famous 1 t" the same name by Gene Stratrter, author of "A Girl of the lost" and "The Harvester," tecial incidental music and song *s by Anatol Friedland, the ted Vi-ennese composer. kles" will be presented at the louse on Thursday night. Feb- ^ >7, with exactly the same comlat will appear in Philadelphia. :i||j )re, Washington, Atlanta, Ne\V m s Memphis, St. Louis and Chi- %|