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ftc ieni and Hem filtered at th<? Postoftev -n < -j^ <>*v1 class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. ( *^===^^====^=====^^^^======:^==== I i Friday, January 9, 1913. i. i LEVY VERSl'S APPROPRIATION. ! We notice that Senator Hardin, of ( ? - - ?_ ? il i. Un 1 Chester, is quoted as saying Luau uc has under consideration an amend. ment to the constitution of the State, 1 fixing a maximum levy for State pur i. poses. Senator Hardin has long ex- 1 perience in the legislature and for 1 several years has been in the senate ^ and a member of tihe senate commit-;( tee on finance and at present is chair- 1 i man of that committee, he, therefore, { is familiar with the fiscal affairs of * the State. He is also a good business ( man and one among the most conser- 1 I vative of the members of the general 1 assembly, and in matters of legisla- 1 tion seeks to do only that which in 1 his judgment, is best for the State. We are surprised, 'however, that Senator Hardin has not discovered, during his legislative experience that it is not the levy which needs to be [ guarded, but it is the appropriation bill. | ( ! 1 If Senator Hardin will look over the levy for the past 15 years, he will ( see that at least for 10 years the State ] levy remained practically the same, j while the appropriations weni ixcmi $800,000 to $1,600,000. That period covers from 1S9S to 1908. Since then j the levy for State purposes probably has been increased, but not very materially, and the last appropriation bill carried something over $2,000,00. Our experience and observation with ( the average legislator is that he is willing to make appropriations so . long as he may be able to do so without increasing ihe levy. The increase . j 1 in the taxable values is not gener ally considerd by a legislator. On one occasion we remembered that tiie ( iate Senator Mauldin, who was at that c time chairman of the finance commit- i i i tee, stated that .be would be willing 1 :? to agree to some appropriation, pro-; vided it would not necessitate in-; ! ? crease in the levy. . j The point we desire to make, and j < we presume it is what Senator Hardin ! :? after, is that in order to prevent 4 extravagance in appropriations, or to cut down expenses in the government, j *ne thing to watch is the appropria- j tion bill and not the tax levy. We j -t suppose Senator Hardin's idea is that j 1 if the tax levy is fixed at a maximum |( ! i beyond which it can not be increased ; . ' I without an amendment to the consti- ] i tution that it would have the tendency j < * 4 * ~ onnr^nrntir?T1Q WlthlTl t!he in- I i,SJ UV1U VJfc/J. .. ^ come from such levy, but Senator J i Hardin will recall that a few years ago the legislature provided other j sources of income, such as tax on cor- t porations, in order that the levy for A i j State purposes might not be increased. * ed. But appropriations have kept pil- 'f ing up. j fc mm c It Tha cronprni asspmblv meets next j c k AUV e Tuesday at noon. We trust the ses- 1 sion will be harmonious and that I the members will be guided in their ^ work only by what they conceive to ^ be the best interests of the people of + the entire State. ' j a a The Herald and News commends 1 a Mayor Wright and all the others who t had part in the great improvement i g made in College street irom tne post- j <. office to Mayor Wright's residence, jA The Christmas club as adopted by ^ the Commercial bank is a good thing, j f It not only assures those w'Jio join of11 something laid by for Christmas, but j r *-?- - A- ~ 1-if rl C ii me payments are n.cpu up n, I velops the saving habit and really ^ v that is the best part of it. We do not { believe ir. encouraging the miserly < habit, but the children are not taught 1 habits of economy and when they 1 grow up it is difficult to learn. !,, TCie moral is: Join the Christmas , club at the Commercial bank, and join now. ,,l J "As an instigator of mob law/' says 1 the Yorkville Enquirer, "Governor ' Blease is somewhat of a failure. ' There was only one lynching in South i Carolina last year, and even Georgia s :ad eight." Tlif difference between Georgia and South Carolina is that they preach ner in Georgia, and do not practice Aliat they preach, while in South Carolina Governor Blease has dealt honestly with the people?and honesty, is always, has paid. I CO Cherokee county, by commutation Dt' sentences, has received eight longterm negro convicts who have been tha Citato tlDTi i tori tin rv hut who L1JL UVUlV ^/vuivv??i-*v>4 j ? v.v .. ?^ now, as a result of the action of the governor, will be put to work building roads for Cherokee county. Ablebodied convicts can not be worked to aetter advantage than in the building Df roads, and we hope the other coun:ies of the State will follow the lead 3f Cherokee in requesting of the govI 2rnor that he commute the sentences )f their able-bodied convicts who are n the penitentiary to imprisonment .lpon the chain gangs, in order that :hey may be put to work building *oads. A newspaper in this State, which >eems to have adopted the policy of u>ing i't things in a round-about way, ondo,ailing people without mentioning names, and pursuing other such childish tactics, is urging in a veiled .vay restrictions by law in connection vith the Democratic primary in this | i State, and is making threats even nore veiled of a bolt from the pri nary unies? its wishes are carried )iit. It may be well to remark that i boner irom a white man's primary n South Ci'iolina, in which there is m honest bollot, and an honest count )i' white men < votes, whether those white men can read Latin or wear rloves, or whether they follow a plow )r work in' a mill has never politicaly survived th^ bolt, and, so long as South Carolinians noici taeir present ugh standards, and so long as there s a negro element in South Carolina, ;uch a bolter never will survive poitically. The white people of South rarclina, regardless of their financial > landing, are, as a rule, honest and ipright, and they know their rights md will insist upon them. ^_ l > 5> THE IDLER <s> I ! > <?> j If I am not mistaken some two or j """ - TT 1 J A v: ;nree years ago rne neariu uuu .>c?.o ?ave Newberry the name of the "City ;hat does tlhings." I don't know why t no longer appears in the columns )f the paper but I do not recall to have seen it for some time. I read the )ther day a pretty good thing along :his line. It was called "The man who 3oes things," and the definition is: 'The blamed fool didn't know that it wouldn't be done, so ihe just went! ihead and done it." In that same T roQH tho following from .,1/1111^^1 IV/JUL JL l vuu vuv - - ^ Hubbard: "Where the didder is, j :here are the didders." These are j rery true and may inspire some?one ,! :o go ahead and do things. See the j )oint? The only way to do a thing s to go ahead and do it. Don't wait or some one else?do it yourself. I :ope this year .may be one for the "didlers" in Newberry. There are many j hings that need to be done in this ' rood old town, but as I notice that ?he Herald and News has promised to )lay the glad game this year I am not joing to knock at ail 'out I am going o join in the giad game chorus. I'll >e glad for crutches if I don't have o use them. Wfoen you come to think bout it real seriously wouldn't it be ; , great, thing for Newberry this year ! f everybody would play the glad game 1 md keep their tongues still, unless j hey were used to say something, food about some one or about the .'ommunity. Laws a mercy, though,' vhen I come to think about it, I be-! ieve I could name one or two who I vould rather die and go to perdition . han to have their tongues stopped I rr\r>-> covin cr crunothincr nnVinri find ! * a - ? i nany times, untrue about some people, j rhey seem to be glad only when they ; ;an shrug their shouldtrs and hint I md speak unkindly of some one who j nay be as innocerrt and as far above suspicion as Caesar's wife. But I am ?oing to join in the chorus of the right j \ind of glad game?a glad game that! nakes otiher people happy and then [ know I will feel better because I j have tried it. Come in while the svater is good. ?o? There is one editorial eac'h week in Leslie's Weekly which I always enjoy' -eading. Whoever writes it knows iow. I was just reading his new; pear's editorial and I want to take :he privilege o? quoting a few lines Tom it in the hope that it may make ;ome one feel better. Speaking of flhe new year the writer says, "let it be a festival of renewed affection, forgiveness and peace?a good day on which to set aside ihe little animosities, envies and jealousies that mar the daily life. "Resolve in the new year to live on higher ground in a more healthful and happier atmosphere, rejoicing in the good fortune of others even if it be denied to ourselves, realizing tr.at while some must win and some must lose, and some must rise while others fall, all must suffer, in the end, who sin. ! "Make this the happiest of ail New Years by believing sincerely in the fellowship or men, me virtue 01 women, and the goodness of God." What a beautiful thougi.it. Only that we could get to the point of rejoicing in the good fortune of others. It toe often happens that we rather rejoice in the downfall of others. Why is it ' so? I have often wondered. Can't explain. Do we really believe in the * fellowship of men? .Do we believe in tihe virtue of women and the goodness of God? Then let us manifest it in riaoiinor., onH in nnr rnn versation um ut aiiii 50 uiiu aaa ? ? and the words that proceed out of our mouths. I sometimes conclude that many of us forget the statement writ by St. Matthew. "But I say unto you, That every idle word that m. 11 shall speak, they soall give account thereof in the day of judgment." And that many times they do like it was said of Job: "Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain: he multiplieth worGs wit'::out kno' "edge." ?o? I was reading in this same Leslie's Weekly on this same editorial page another little article headed "The Plain Truth." in which the writer snvs: "Tet;olaler. A correspondent asks if it is true that President Wilson is a Prohibitionest. The president is undoubtedly friendly to the temperance cause. His views on i-roiUDition were given oy o;io t;i i.:is closest friend? during 11,e presider. ?ial canvass, M Dudley vield Mai one. of New York, who now holds an important office under the administration. In .'is address before the American Wine Growers association, last February, Mr. Malone stated that Mr. Wilson occasionally enjoyed a Utile Scotch j whiskey and that the president in reply to a question as to whether iie was a prohibitionist had answered that | 'Prohibition had no place in politics, bii't that it belonged to economic and J social questions, for every man si""-1 live according to his own sense and his own judgment.' We 1 - * * " ? " ? " iKit?/\>i i f?f IT* I ueiie1*.! mere is uue nuuiuuiuuioi, m > the president's cabinet, tlhe traveling ' gentleman who advertises grape juice, j and makes money talk." Well, 1 am inclined to agree with ! Mr. President Wilson, and I some-1 times rather enjoy a good Scotch high- j ball myself. And I have always advocated the doctrne that every man should be permitted to live according j to his own common sense and his j i own judgment and so long as I did not j j interfere with tiie rights cr the proper- j ty or the happiness of my neighbor I j ; should be permitted to live according i i to my own common sense and my own j 1 judgment, but the trouble with this i I 1 modern day regulations and laws they ; are trying to make me live according ' io the judgment?1 will not say com- j mon sense?of some fanatic on the ! subject and wart to regulate my conduct and take away from me my personal liberties and right to exercise my common sense and judgment and j to regulate my actions by the judgment of some one else. But I'll be glad if tLiey do not interfere any more. The Idler. MONUMENT KEADY TO EKECT. Memorial to Confederate Dead Arrives?To be Erected in Arling ton Cemetery. I ??? i Washington, Jan. 6.?The monu- j nunt to be erected in Arlington cem- ! etery for the Confederate de?d there, j the work of Sir Moses Ezekiel, sculptor, arrived in Washington today from 1 New York and is now at the freight "depot of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. The 2z figures are packed in 11 boxes and when the monument is erected in Arlington it is said that it j will have as its only rival in kind on 1 this continent the memorial erected in Quebec for Wolfe and Montcalm by the British government. ! The dedicatory exercises for the monument will be held in Arlington j A?;i o-> Uilomr A Hovhopf fnr- ! II W I . t^Ul. illiai J U. L, AW , mer secretary of the navy, will pre- I side and in a short address formally I deliver the monument to Mrs. Stevens of Mississippi, president general of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She in turn will turn it over to Pres- ! ident Wilson as the representaive of j the nation. 'Former President Taft,' who ordered that a site in Arlington i be set aside for the monument, will j -also be a speaker at the ceremonies, | as will the commanders of the United i Confederate Veterans and the Grand 'Army of the Republic. The monument will cost $50,000. The models were made by Sir Moses Ezekiel in Rome and shipped to Ger many, where the bronze castings were liiade. They were brought to this country from >ivnien on board the steamship President Grant. -UCw? That Helled Buzzard. Avery, Tex., .Ian. 7.?Editor ConLtitution: I notice in December 30 isMie ol' George U Paulk, of the Waterloo M't-tion, seeing a belled buzzard. If rbe same one, I was the party that belled her 28 years ago last summer. We caught her on her nest in a bluff on the Caneyfork river just below the falls in Warren county, middle Tennessee. I have seen !her several times since. J. A. Upchurch. Some Dear Old Standbys. A paean of praise I would warble To some dear old standby I have read, They loom as if chiseled in marble, Arise like a voice from the dead. Admitting, perhaps, that they're hoary With age, and need haircut and shave, Their memory's possessed with a fragrance I cannot lose this side the grave. "The Angel of Death spread its wings?" Xow. there's an old-timer, i ween; And also "the bride looked so sweet i.; a gown ci uaik brown velveteen." "A pleasent reception was tendered;" "All voted they had a good time;" "The progrnm was charmingly rendered 'He committed a dastardly crime." "Where ho fell there were thick clots of blood "T t> chair rapped with a dull, sickening thud;'' "We hope he will soon call again."' "Ti. i'jv i'iond siict huge tongues ot flame;" "Jim Callahan Sundayed in town;' "The groom wore conventional black:' "Friends and neighbors surprised Marv tsrown. "Then Smith in few well-chosen words As follows substanailally spoke;" "When the inmates were ruthlessly wakened The rooms were found chock full of smoke." "From the Beaver Record we learn That a bountiful repast was served Pic / II ca your Photo a Frai wide. I Gold pay 3 you b 6< Maj "Th< 1 ? Sav Still C i Hundreds have joir take advantage ol Century plan of sav small amounts. G direct some one to i i I The Bank that Alwaj I I xnnni r ftnyu?? : I i With euibles fit for the gods;'' i "The prisoner seemed wholly unI nerved."' i scan :ill the city newspapers Wherever 1 may chance to roam; i But when I want infinite pleasure i ! I read the old weekly from home. ' | ?Hal P. Denton in. Chicago Press Club Scoop. I r Tall One. 1 i Life. | Laborer?And have they tall build- j ' j ings in America, Pat? | Pat?Tall building hav' they?faith 1 I Mike, the last one I worked on we had j to lay on our stomachs to let the moon pass. Parading Her Money. Thornton?Fannie iFlas'hley carries BnEnnnBBiranH in lure rran in save you mou Frames for en] graphs. I wills* me 16x20, four i for 69c., in Blac ? ~n r^u i ui ail vjuiu* a roil to see me 1 uy. etter Goods at Same Pric m i n. res cook 51 5 House of 1,000 Thii ?J las | ms Club \ > >pen. N 4 led. Don't fail to J E the Twentieth -- 4! ing systematically aii join by mail or join for you. ircialBank is Treats You Right. her bank roll in her stocking. -A Rosemary?I'm not surprised. She I always seemed fond of flaunting her. ^ wealth.?Judge. f Providing. "May I spend the day with you, fair \ one?*' he said. .1 As he sat the wheel of a big-touring car, T :en t ie maiden replied, with a tossof her head, 'Twill depend upon how good a: spender you are!'" ?Judfce. Catch the Idea? * She?Before we were married you used to catch me in your ams. He?Yes, and new I catch you in my pockets.?Brooklyn Citizen. I . I 1 les! " ' i iev on I larged J ill you 11 Inches l k and J t will ^ sefore I tore J . - -^H