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The Question for Soldiers o Some Interesting Correspon /ivti kJllUftC^L irm/ty ixu/ t/ic/ n Many Southerners Proposition Following is a copy of a special dispatch recently to The State from irs Washington correspondent: C a.-r\ AlViirt l^cfrrmiri o 1 rvf T.miisinnfl VJ Wi. C VA. v/ , a gallant Confederate soldier, has introduced in t .e house the "Works bill," to aid disabled Confederate eterans, their wives and widows, indentical with the bill of Senator Works, who lor the past fi.e years has been anxious to aid indigent and afflicted Con- j federate veterans. Senator Works is a Republican and a Union veteran; | Gen. Estopinai is a Democrat and | a Southern veteran. So the bill can be aptly styled the "Bill of the Blue and Gray." / The government has ten :!:omes, rvrvr,*.;., ~ AAA AAA >?Qr. o nnrAnri- , CUDciUj, flU.VVU VVV, auu lias UJJ^IUI/H aied to date between $100,000,000 and $125,000,000 to support them. Deatn , has been so busy- that there is now ] room for about 6,000 more inmates than they have, fl he inspector general of the army having charge of homes recommends their consolidation so as to save unnecessary expense. Two of them, the Johnson City, Tenn., home and the Togus, Maine, home, are not half full. Every inmate o t':e first can be placed in the Hampton, Va., heme and the inmates of the second | in the Central home, Dayton, Ohio: | so if the Jci nson City home is given over to tne Confederates it will not cost the ?c. ernment a penny for.shel-' ter of, say 2,500 men and women, to provide for whcm $400 000 is asked? a very small sum, as nearly $4,000,000 .--'Ts aprcpriated this year to support : V~ the national homes. The government has appropriated nearly $25,000,000 since the war to aid the -Northern state homes; this year $1,100,000. The Works bill provides for $[300,000 to tj':e Southern homes, or less than one-fourth of that for Northern homes, and it will be the first aid ever exj ^ j lenueu. Fifty thousand dollars only is asked to establish a home in the District of Codumbia for indigent .andafflicted veterans of the district and those liv/ ing in states having no homes, like "West Virginia, New York, and otf~<ers. These men are all debarred '.rom entering any Southern state home by reason of non-residence, and the only refuge for district veterans is the poor house, in common with destitute negroes; from which they are being saved by the ladies of the Southern Relief society?Miss Xannie Randolph | Heth, president. The bill carries also S20.0G0 for salaries of clerks and officers. against $560,000 appropriated for this purpose for Northern homes; also $50,000 to transport indigent veterans. their "wives and widows to Johnson City, etc. The .South has paid since lo65 her pro rata of $5,000,000,000 to pay the pensions of Union veterans and support homes. H e taxpayers of the South, to the extent of at least 95 or 97 per cent, are not in any way responsible for the war, as they were not born or were children when the conflict occurred. The taxpayers of the South, therefore, hayve to bear the double burden of providing their pro rata for Union pensions, etc., besides having to try tr\ ivrr>vir??> nrrkHPrlv for thpir OWTl Vet - ! erans; which they are unable to do in an adequate manner. Some of the Southern states are the present year in arrears for pensions and are unable to relieve the sufferers until their legislatures meet. Again the constitutions of a number of states prohibit the issue of bonds; so the amount must be raised by direct taxation. The Southern veterans, being now of an average of' 72 or over, are not j in a position to wait until the next | session without serious suffering, and the women are even worse off, no provision being made for them in several state, and none save Mississippi! and -Missouri admitting them to homes, j Letter of a Southern Veteran Written j in the Interest of His >eedy Comrades?Capt. M. M. Buford to V Messrs. Estoopinal and I Works. Newberry, S. C Feb. 4, 1915. Dear Sir:? I am deeply interested in the efforts that you are making for the reli * of disabled Confederate veterans, and tbeir "wives and .."idows, and I trust that you will accept this a sufficient excuse for an intrusion upon your time. I served through the WUr of Secession on the Confedarte side, and of late years I fcave given a great deai of attention to this subject. My old .comrades are nearing their sunset, and we realize very forcibly the force of f of Pensions \ f Confederacy dence and Discussion on the I ers are in Favor of it, } are not?The Latest i Presented the old maxim, "He gives twice who j gives quickly." n It is stated that since 1S65. the j South has paid $">,000,000 000 for tiie support o. Union veterans and their homes. Most of those upon whom the tax is now levied were born after the close of f at war, and were in nowise responsible for it. In addition to the heavy burden that the tax payers of the South are carrying for the support of the Union veterans and their homes, they are charged with the duty of caring as best they can for t':.e Co 1llederate veterans and their wives and widows. The pension received by the average Confederate veteran is a mere stipend, and the average home for Confederate veterans is not adequately supported. It would be far better if the survivors could have some sort of adequate support that would enable them to spend their remaining years in the midst of their friends and relatives. And it seems to me that the time fnas come for the federal government, as a simple act of justice, i to include tae Confederate veterans . . 1 and Union veterans in a common appropriation for the support of survivors and their homes. At the G-ettysburg reunion last July,! 1 presented this view to .more than aj hundred Union veterans, and taey agreed with me heartily, and without! a dissenting voice. The two sections j of a reunited country should bear the j c-omraoon burden of providing adequate i support for the needy survivors who j kept the faith in that great struggle, j Permit me to make another suggestion. The cotton tax paid by' the Southern states, as a kind of war tax, is said to have aggregated sixty mil- j lions G; dollars. It would now prob-i ably be impracticable to identify the j respective individuals wno paid me tax, and, for that reason, it seems to me that?it should be refunded to t?-e respective states. And it could be devoted to no more appiopriate use than the support of Confederate veterans and tlieir widows. This is strikingly true at a time when the South is crippled by the low price ctf cotton caused by the war in Europe. Whether you regard these suggestions as practicable and worthy of serious consideration or not, I beg you to accept assurances of my hearty appreciation of the service that you are rendering to the veterans and their families. With regards. Yours very truly, M. M. iBu! ord. Reply From Congressman Estopinal. Washington, D. C., Feb. 15, 1915. Mr. ?M. M. Buford, Newberry, S. C. Dear Sir: ? I have your interesting letter of the 4th instant and will be glad to avail j myself of the valuable suggestions contained therein if the matter comes up in the shape tfcat will permit it. With best wishes, 1 am, Yours truly, Albert Estopinal. Reply From Senator Works. Washington, D. C., Feb. 9, 1915. | YT r> 11? AT RnfrifH iVon-horrv Cn Por | A . ' 'A . JL/ V* 4. W X.IA , i J , KJ\J. V Ui . . My Dear Mr. Buford: I am very glad to have your kind i letter relating to the bill introduced ! by me to provide home for the Con- i federate veterans, their wives and! widows. I think the Union veterans i are very generally in -favor of legis-1 lation of this kind. I have intended to introduce such a bill from my first coming into the senate four years ago, but I i.ound some -difficulties in my way ti'^at delayed me. There was a very strong! feeling, I found, on the part of Soutn-1 ern senators that the Southern people i f Vt ATY?fs? 1 n <*? O rtf 1 A'l i mcuiocivuj uiu iii/L iavui ally auuuu ; of this kind. They regarded it as a matter of pride that they should take care of their own veterans. I must j confess that I do not appreciate this feeling, but I did not feel like introducing ti'r.e bill if Southern senators were disposed to oppose it for that or any other reason. But I think that feeling has been altogether overcome in the senate, and finally a number o. senators, one or two of whom had been opposed to any relief being granted by the government, joined in a request to me to introduce the bill. This obstruction having been removed, I think, by a knowledge of the actual / . i .t r*t _ t * n I sentiment or use boutnern people on the subject, I at once introduced th3 bill and iiave been doing all I can to have it acted upon. We are, however, in a hopeless deadlock in the senate over the ship purchase bill that is going to prevent this and a great many other important bills being acted upon at all this' ? session. T- at bill has been pressed ui o.i the senate ar.J kept before it to t. e exclus ion of practically everything else for weeks, and it appears now will take up the ba'ance of the session. 1 am sorry for this because if relief: is to be extended to the Confederate i veterans, it should be done at once. j Like the Union veterans, these old j men are passing away very rapidly and unless something is done for them ; soon, it will be of very little use to them. 1 am glad that you are taking an interest in the matter and hope tfat we may he! ore very long secure tho passage of the bill. Sincerely yours. i John D. Works, U. S. S. FROM AN OLD >'EWBEKKIA\. ; The Newberry Papers Revive Memories of the Past?Touches Up The Idler. I To The Herald and News: And to the readers of the dear old journal I knew and read in the sweet! long ago of fifty years gone forever in the eternal past. I read the Herald and also the Observer each, twice weekly, and 'tis of interest to .myself j aad companion to take notes of names and places in and about scenes once i familiar to us. Six years ago we were! in the old town, Newberry, but t'r.-en j there had been so much material prog-; ress during 'forty and odd years that; 'twas like a dream or Van Winkle's sleep to awake where once there was j but a small court house town ana uehold a 'city built on the memorial old dirt, ground, earth, or zeth, as some j primitive linguist applied the term. ! Mr. Editor, I notice you have a con-j tributor to your paper who signs up as Idler. I wish to compliment him, j or really and truly I enjoy reading i his lingo. He's the livest critter I know of to bear, toat, carrv, be accepted, recognized or known, especial ly in public print or places, bearing such an insignificant, worthless name ?though 'tis often repeated "there's nothing in a name," and I reckon that's I so, for I fc&ve known some or blackest, dirtiest, gourd-headed niggers named George Washington, sah. Nevertheless do I appreciate and enjoy his spicy remarks and quotations. Still, if I were a member df the legis- j lature of South Carolina at present! session I would offer a compulsory; bill to change the Idler's name to a j conformab!e consistence; and that j might make bad worse; for I remcm- j ber a clever man and good citizen j who once lived in the town of New-, berry, sirnamed Hog; by act of legis-j lature bis name was changed(to Jones, i As you well know, there were numerous other Joneses, so this Jones, who by law was granted the name Jones, to make distinction and specification, was called afterward Hog Jones. So I'll drop the name Idler and call him my friend, whether or not I ever have or will see his face. Now, my good old friend, I wish to call your attention to the late issue of The Herald and News, date l&th instant, wherein j you make comments about boys! standing on and arouna me sireei j corners. From your mild, fatherly ex- j pressions I know you are interested 1 in the promotion, progress and well; being of the boys upon whom the per- J petuation of our free institutions will depend. God bless our boys, and help them to build greater than their sires, ever progressive, onward and upward. And, my dear old friend, I notice you ci ten quote from Scripture, the holy Word, the word of the living God, who saith to Job: Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine, who holdeth the world in the hollow of His hand, who saaketh His foot stool that il trembles and quivers like an aspen leaf; wLo plants His foot upon the sea and rides upon the storm; His book so informs us; yea. the Book or dooks, and, sad to say, the most neglected under the sun; and why, because Ephraim is joined to. his idols, and God, after long pleading, forbearance and tender mercies, said, go way, let Epibraim alone, "He's joined to his idols." (The Boys and Girls?8th chapter Zechariah.) In your last, with reference to the boys and girls, read foe 8th chapter of Zechariah. Call the boys' and girls' attention to the same. Let the old and young, Jew and Gentile, read and believe it literally. Let th.e sons and daughters of Abraham, Isaac and Jacobespe cially hold up their hands and take heart and hope anew, for I am persuaded their restoration draweth nigh, and, ye Gentiles of all fcbe earth, withdraw the hand a." persecution from God's chosen race; for just so sure as God's word is truth, the time will come when we will swing to the skirt of him who is a Jew, and ^ ~1 * ?? rvA TT-lf-'n ,VA11 ueg iiiJLii ict us &u iuw v""Notice particularly the last verse of t|Ne aforementioned chapter, for where in all history can you find that the 'Gentiles have ever desired to swing to a Jew's coat tail. Xav, he, the Jew, has been the chop block, the anvil, that all the Gentile races, tribes and nations have hammered on since > Abraham was called o; i of Syria. Let j i .j ill hands o.V him; show him wnal | he has 1( -t and v.e have found; point him to his Cv.il?of the Jew is salva-j tioa acording 'o the flesh, for our j great Redeemer was born cf a Jewish ! virgin; from and through i e children ! of l.-.ibraham we learn all we know of, G:>d and His marvelous ways and won- ; ci':rfu 1 creation; notice the text in :i j certain chapter of Zechariah, thus: "I j i win smite the shepherd, and the sheep I ! shall be scattered, but I will turn m;/j hand upon the little one." Just take; a glance over ti e history of God's i chosen race. See how He has turned; His mysterious hand upon them. Fro.u 1 I the time they were in bondage in dark- j Jig.- i.l to the present day, they have j been and a:e a peculiar people. They rank high in all professions and occui i ! pations of life. They stand over above and way beyond in the literature of; all e a:?cs. They have written by1 inspiration the Book of Books. The: base, the foundation upon which all I progress and civilization sta,nds. Itj reveals to us the beginning c' creation; it tells us of the past, of the i present and cf a glorious future in the sweet bye and bye. All, all of these things have come to us through tne hands cf tf"-e Jews. Yea, all the i consolations of earth anc> hopes of | heaven. | 'Search ye the Scriptures, for in! them ye think, ye have eternal life and they are they ;hich testify cf me said the Master to His own, nearly nineteen centuries ago. Respectfully, Jas. T. Bisr;op. 216 Edgewood ave., Macon, Ga. GERMAN CIVIL COURTS. Mode of Procedure Where Commerciaj t. ases Are i rica. The "haudeis^ericht." <-?r commercial court, is presided over !?y u:n judge j and two Jaynnn known as "hande s-j richter"?commercial jmiues nominat-' ed by commercial nodics .-mil appointed by the governmen;. An., tJerman is eligible who !? registered as a merchant. thirty years oat. and otherwise qualified as specially prov.ded by iaw. j Only commercial vases arc sent to this! department upon motion o either par-1 ty. I witnessed a trial liei.veen mer-j chants and was much pleased with j the speedy method of determining the i \.aoc. j Instead of submitting technical business questions to a jury, wbo in all probability never heard of* the like before. and then offering the testimony of experts ou each side of the case, which often has a tendency to coufuse the jury rather than to enlighten them, the German commercial judges possess personal experience in business and skill in affairs of commerce of the greatest value in arriving at "orrect conclusions. Besides, the pro-j cedure, as a rule, is brief and to the | point and causes little delay to the litigants. So far as I could observe, this system worked very satisfactorily. ?Fred H. Peterson in Case and Comment. Sieep Jn the Dark. The most undisturbed sleep is always enjoyed in a thoroughly darkened room. Light acts upon the brain, j and those who keep their blinds up; will find that in the summer time,! when so few hours are really dark., their sleep is restless and disturbed, j This is often attributed to the heat,! but more often than not it is the light wiiich causes wakefulness. * Keeping His Secret. When Lord Wellington was com-i mnnder of an army in India a certain I rich man offered him $r>00.000 for some; I secret information on a very important j question. Wellington looked thought-j ful a few moments, as if he were | weighing the temptation. At length he ! said: "It appears that you can keep a secret, sir." i "Certainly." -said the man, feeling 1 sure that he had gained his point. "So can I," said Wellington. Good ' morning, sir." And the man went away with a crestfallen air. Foresight Defined. The children had read the word forei sight in the reader, and the teacher | was endeavoring to make it plain. "Foresight," she said, "is looking j ahead. Now. Freddie, you give me an example of foresight if you can." "Well, foresight would be not to eat too much breakfast when you knew you were going out into the country to your grandmother's for dinner," ex plained ttie Doy.? inaiauupuiis ?\e?o. Cheerfulness. Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness and altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Efforts to be permanently useful must be unij formly joyous?a spirit of all sunshine j ?graceful from very gladness?beautiful because bright?Carlyle. Hers. "I suppose that you and your wife are two souls with but a single luuuguu "That's about the situation, but about half the time she will not tell me what that thought is."?Philadelphia Record. Big Page. Stout Wife?How do you like my i masquerade costume? I'm a page. ' Husband?PageV You look more like a volume,-Princeton Tiger. DIGGING A POST HOLE. f-!e Worked Faithfully and Cheerily, but fc.ackea One Essential, ifo w:is :i vigorous worker. and he was dij^ini; a post hole in tiie bed of a river A post was to he placed in it as part of ttie extension of ;i wharf. He worked hard and j;<?t rapidly deeper and deeper. ? He struck stones, bnt he reached down and pried them up. lie got thoroughly soaked, hut he grinned cheerfully. lie sanir at his task and was an inspiration to all the other workmen. ? i ..A. ?... ! lve o'ciock came. uui ue inn.uwn.? finished his post hole, though it t<*>k him ten minutes longer. lie vrts no time server. Then he climbed, dripping, out on the bank and walked home. happy in thj consciousness of good work accomplished. Hut he did not put a post into the post hole, and wh?<n he came back the next morning he found the hole tilled again with mud and completely obliterated. However, he cheerfully went to S- - - I -1 Jl J wotk again. sinning as ue lauureu. uuu dug the hole once more. And the company paid the bill. Moral.-Cheerfulness is good, zeal is better, but a hit of brain is best of all. ?Christian Endeavor World. j SECRET OF SUCCESS. Be Efficient and Do Things That Other People Dw Not Do. A man has a weary rime awaiting to rise in cue world by force of sympathy, by getting -somebody else to pull him flloni? Von spe such people standing around expecting compassion and a lift from some who have succeeded. Bur this is nor the way success is attained Tliar comes by working for it. hy being worthy of if. by doing one's best, if it comes at all. The world is full of failures J>?4-ause a man hangs back and depends iiiH>Lr others. Efficiency is the greatest word in the language. There is no real progress without it. And what does efficiency consist of? Of sobriety, honesty, dilijrpneo nnrience. Iinoniness. Unselfish ness. good habits and putting in full time. Of course a man can get rich by not caring for these. 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