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Ipt gcrolii &bH jess.! Eitered at the Postctiice at Newferry, S. C., as 2nd class matter, E. H. AULL, EDITOR. _ | _ ??? Tuesday, February 1, 1916. We need three papers to complete our permanent files and all of the same date, October 12, 1915. if some friend will just, send us one copy of this date we will then abe able to have a complete file for 1915. We would ^ ^/?ArvrAc .Kanouon \ITD IIR.*? L<J lltX * C IU1CC i/twtucv " usually bind up three copies for each year. Several friends have kindly sent us the other missing copies and now our files are nearly complete. That is a good swept letter of Senator McLaurin to little Waldo Banks which we publish in this issue. And it speaks some great truths which it 4 I is worth while to know and to re-; member. Tne dog language is a great j language and the faithful dog is a great animal. There is no doubt about that and if we would study him more we could learn a great many valuable lessons in friendship, faithfulness and service. I ? I The appropriation bill has been preset! ted and it lias some reductions from the bill of last year, and 'Chairman Liles says that it will take only a t>V2 mills levy to' meet it . Even that is 2 mills more than the levy a few years ago, and then there are so many more indirect methods of taxation in this state now. and the assessed valuation is nearly one-third greater. But then the state is growing and the expenses of government must keep growing also. We notice that the bill cuts down the amount for the warehouse commissioner about one-third, which in less than it takes to run the office. Maybe they will let the office use some I of the money it is collecting, as in the case of the commissioner of agriculture. iThe boys down there in the legislature are just a little up against it. They don't know just where to turn. They should have been doing some of - -at thp. last session. me euvmviuioiu.t, New circuits, tax commissions, boards of charities, new superintendents at increased salaries, and all these progressive ideas take money, and then it will take money to enforce prohi- j bition, so the 'prohibitionists seem to think. Sometimes the appropriation bill comes out Just like it leaves the committee and then again it is changed hofrvro its filial DcLSSage. COIISIUCJ. W,lmj We hope the members will be able to keep the taxes down. We do not exactly understand, just why it should take so moich special machinery and a special fund to enforce the prohibition law if the peo pie of the state are so overwhelmingly in favor of prohibition. Where the public sentiment is so strong in favor of a law it is generally easily enforced. Judging from the new express offices that are being opened in the state, and the number of gallon packages coming in on every express train, it would if c.pnti make one almost wuuuw n. ? ^ _ ment was so overwhelming in favor of prohibition. Just watch the express at any station and you will be convinced that there are a lot of people who are ordering their gallon. And we have heard that there have been added in the state since the first of the year some forty or fifty new exT!ra? offices in order to handle the liquor that is coming in the state. iWe are convinced that the whole thing is wrong. The drinking and not the selling should be the crime. Have you read what Lownes Brownmv ahrmr thp first vear of 111^) -^CiO IV vuv the Manning administration? If not, read it. It is printed in tliis issue of The Herald and News from The State. He has made an impartial review of the year anJ he has none *o in good spirit, and as we see it very j truthfully, and states the situation! -n V. A.ii ** ^1 > C" StWUL as it 10. Tn lfK>kinc over the appropriation bill as presented to the legislature on I Saturday, synopsis of which is printed in today's Herald and News, the ap^ . propriation bill of this year and theji one for 1915 are only different about'1 $70,000 and $42,000 of that is taken1/ | ? from rhp amount hprptomre snent for ~ ' 1 buildings, or rather appropriated last!, year for building, at ihe asylum. And i j then $8,000 from the department of j i [agriculture is to. be made up from the! 1 ! j receipts of his office, which otherwise ^ would have gone into the treasury o* i the state. As a matter of fact the; | bill carries practically what it did last ! year. And then the governor does not j i suggest this year that if the aUorney ! i 'general did not get another assistant! he would have to ask for a special! j ! lpgai advice fund, and that $2,uuu was. lefi out. The papers do not say' whether the bill fixes the salary of the superintendent of the hospital for the insane at $6,000 or not. DR. FREEMAN'S AD. j Dr. Charles* M. Freeman of Metu- { j chen, X. J., is not only the husband of f ; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, the story-; 1 writer, but since the d;jath of his fa-;; ! I ther he has been the owner and man- j } ager of a large lumber and coal busi-j. j ness. I Dr. Freeman, perhaps because of his | I ; medical training, didn't believe in ad-1 | vertising. Now he does. Probably be- ' ! cause he tried it. His ad in the Week- i j ly Metuchen Recorder began like this: j $6.7,653.38. j And after an introduction devoted to j mild speculation "concerning the actu-j' , al definition of the word business as' understood by the peop-e of this bor-! ough," he finishes thus: j. "On January 1st there was due us i from the people of Metuchen and its: * 4 , * _ * sudutds me sum 01 $67,653.3S. some of it overdue from six months to six years. This does not include several thousands dollars tad debts charged off to account of profit and i loss. "We 'nave helped the widow and or-i | phan and those temporarily embar- j I raseed. No one has been refused cred- j | it that has shown the. slightest disposition to help himself. '"VYe have never doubted the good intentions of our customers.- This is ] why we fail to understand t'neir lack ,1 of appreciation. Send us a partial pay* ment on what you owe. Then tell us how you are situated and we can eas- i ( ily arrange for monthly payments to fnllrvTn- rocnlflrlv Yrtn Trill nPVPr <miss ^ them and you will be dealing squarely with your fellow men. Show us that 1 you mean to do what is right and we < will meet you half way. Cordially yours, "Manning Freeman & Son." In two days the doctor had taken in 1 over $2,000 of t'ne baack money, and ; according to accounts, it is still com ing in. !. The trouble was that everybody j thought everybody else had paid his i bills and no one dreamed the business; was in any danger of going in a hole. It is only too common for this kind of thing to happen to doctors where there isn't even the excuse of a lumber busi? ? ? ? " J ? W* nr Ttri^A +/V V? T\ liCbb ail a H liiviic:^ -Luaauig nuc <-\s out. A good many of them might fol- ' low Dr. Freeman's example to their profit. And the right thing for the easy-going debtor is to stop assuming that other people are carrying the expenses of the doctor, lawyer or business man who serves him, and start right out paying his just debts.?Augusta Chronicle. We wonder if such an advertisement wojld pay down here. We have about one thousand subscribers whose time j is out. We are offering to give them a year for one dollar, and two years for two dollars. We need the money. One year from each would be a small \ matter to each one, but when you put j one thousand dollars in one pile ifel f would mean a great deal to us. We; have tried to help every cause fnatj has come along. We need the money! that is due us to pay what we owe and to run the paper. Of course some one will say you should not have run the paper on a credit. Possibly we should j I not, but the fact is we did, and these! one thousand now owe for it, and if! they will come along under our big offer'and pay, it will be a great help. When we cut off that big list of deliquents some years ago very few of them ever paid a cent. One man paid us three dollars on that back account} | about three months ago. the first in! rive years 10 pay anyiuiug. iiie pay- i ment of small debts would help a j great many business concerns just j now. It would help to pay big debts and help business in every way. Somebody start by paying Tne Herald and i News. We will keep the dollar doing - duty somewhere. |t The Enquirer has not printed a,1 nost of the ministry. We have turned s lown many a liquor advertisement thai ... ;ffered io pay our card rates, and in! i v ;onie cases we have been offered more j * 1 ? ? - ? o ~ ^ ?. .x i C :Iia.II our regular raies. ou iur wc| a'lie 11 li(iuor was recognized as a le- : f Ultimate aiticle of commerce even by! 1 know this is tne first newspaper in',; South Carolina to draw the line i j igainst liquor advertisements. We i iave s<.en many papers follow our lead, j Bat we want to say that we don\ j take any stock in that bill that passed 1 the senate the other day to prohibit! the publication of liquor advertise-j ments in newspapers. W-e think the j J man wuo introduced that bill would j have done very well to leave the news- ! papers alone with the credit they nave aireauy aumevcu m v> w living, wuij the problem themselves. A fellow who1 ' will plan a law to accomplish that j i i which has already been accomplished j is a kind of cheap skate anyway.? forkville Enquirer. That is the way we feel about it. We : have taken liquor advertisements, but ' som;- months ago just decided to cut them out and did so without saying anything about it. , h If you will just pass a law not to permit any one to drink liquor it would ! , be better than to try .to stop selling it. any way. If no one drank the stuff I i 1 there would be no demand for it, and ; ; then of course tne sale would stop. Make it a chain gang offense to drink j it. But we are not worried about the' , ? ~ ~tinvn mono nn /vht? miriH ' LL1<XLIC1. >V c LLCL * C 111U.U.V. L* V/Ui U1W4U . net to worry about anything. We are | not taking liquor advertisement and the law will naive no effect upon us. \ 'A- Newberry banker announces that he is going tJ lend money at less than 1 l> per cent. Wonder if he couldn't send i j us a little of the serum so we could have Claude Ross, Charley Smith and P. C. Poole inoculated? ? Gaffney 1 Ledser. < Send your bankers over and the Newberry banker will take pleasure in , giving them some lessons in the mak-< ing of a sui-cessful and prosperous bank. And if they should happen to n^ed a little money, why our Newberry banker can let them have that also. I We understand that there is a propo- j i >ition before the legislature to sub- r mith a constitutional amendment to * the people repealing that section sv-hich forbids trustees of colleges and Dther institutions holding any other office. We do not see the reason for such an amendment as no particle of attention is paid to that section of the constitution. It is a dead letter already. And yet we are told some of j those holding such positions in defi-1 ance of the plain mandate of the cont-f ; * i stitution voted for the ^meTMiment, and they have been claiming all the time that that provision did not apply to them and their jobs. Just the other day the legislature elected one of its own members a trustee of Clemson and Senator Tillman a trustee of Winthrop. '.And there are several other members of the legislature who hold such positions contrary to the mandate of the constitution, but we thought it hadj been decided to count that section as a dead letter, and if so why amend the constitution. "When the fellow higher i up openly violates the law himself, and ai the same time vociferously shouts law and order, how can he expect the little fellow to obey the law. Ttr- J * S'H AM I W t? UO IIU L ii U til C llL a-L-L VJL yvv,vvv | in the appropriation bill for liquor lawenforcement at the disposal of the governor. We suppose it is included in the miscellaneous. Why not use a part of tnat for the enforcement of the law against toting pistols. They are just as harmful to peace of the state as selling liquor. They cause trouble for those who tote them as well as for the people upon whom they are used. Anybody who feels liKe toting a pisioi i sticks it in his pocket just as if there "was no law against it. We 'have no doubt that many a man who uses one wishes many a time he 'had never seen one. Don't forget to use the split log drag on the roads just as scon as the wsath-1 er will permit, and while the season is in the ground, and then we will have good roads. If liquor is such a terrible enemy to nan how can the prohibitionists reach Via nninf- rvfno'rm iff in <r thA<5fl!pr>f that /JUL^ pUlU V VX v? v - w- ~ ,hat is left over to other people. iWhy j lot destroy it and let the state reim- J mrse those counties that have the j ^ - ? tack on hand. It would be wrong to oil it to any one. It matters not rhether he bo a citizc-n of tho state or otherwise. If it should be a chain rang offense for ihe individual to sell iqaor in South Carolina how can outh Carolina afford to sell it without X'in.g liable to chain gang penalty? 5T0RY OF A WEATHER VANE. Why a Grasshopper Tops the Royal Exchange In London. If you ever go to London among the places of interest there you will visit the public buildings known as the Royal Exchange. There is a cupola at the top of that building. Rising from that cupola is an iron rod with a huge grasshopper on it for a weather vane. . And there is an interesting story con- | ected with that grasshopper. It is this: One day, more than 300 years j ago, a mother in England had an infant. a few months old. which she wanted to get rid of. So she wrapped It up in a shawl and laid it down uniler a bush in a field and left it there to die unless some one should find it and take rare of it. Shortly after a little boy was coming borne from school. As he passed by j the place he heard a grasshopper chirp- j Ing in the field. * lie stopped a moment j to listen to it. Then he climbed over j the fence to get it. But just as lie was about to catch it he caught sisht of the baby close by. He let the grasshopper go and, taking the baby in his arms, carried it home to his mother. She took charge of the babv and j brought bim up. Fie turned out to be j a good, pious boy. He was always decided in doing what he knew was inil in nnf Xvhflt- Wn? ?W?V* . w - O wrong. When a young man he went to London and entered into business there. He was successful in business and became rich. He was not only rich, but ?reat He was knighted and is well known in English history as Sir Thorn- [ as Gre.sham. The Royal Exchange j was built in honor of him. And he had j f-Vi/% rrfnc-oVi/-vr->T-<f->T* r>nf oc n TT'oothor mno I LUU [V V* v u ff v(4b*?v? ? on the top of it in memory of the wonderful way in which when an infant his life was saved by the good providence of God.?Richard Newton in Bible Models. nu. This is a prescription prepared especially or MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. L' ive or six doses will break any case, and f taken then as a tonic the Fever will not eturn. It acta on the liver better ii bp Ualorael and does not gripe or sicken. Tiir mr int drj fAROI VltliVL 1304 Main Si Will sell Thursday, Frit tire stock of Dry Goods, 1 cnn l_ c i :J ouu yarcs JLiiiurumcr/ wi The latest styles of Ladiei The Si 25 kind for each.. Handkerchiefs, as many < Children's and Misses' Sc $3.00 Men's Hats at each $2.00 Men's Hats at each 81.50 Men's Hats at eacl 1 AA OrrAin?1l?. fltA 41 1 yjyj pauo vvciauo) mv J 10 cents Ginghams at pei $6.00 Shoes at.*...., $5.00 Shoe at $4.00 Shoes at $3.50 Shoes at $3.00 Shoes for $2.50 Shoes at $2.00 Shoes at $1.35 Shoes at $14 Rain Coats at $8.00. ? ? ? * Solid cow leather Suit l^a 58 Suit Cases at Store will open al 9 o'c Saturday open at 8 o'cl The first 20 ladies ente some present. CAROI 13C4 Main Street. Now i< the time to got a real newspaper for twelve months for only i dollar. Send a dollar any time br- j tween how and the first day of March and we will s^-nd you The Herald and News for a year. Ycu can renew at t'ne same rate. Xn subscription taken for less than a year and none for more tha.i two years at that price. jMifc LESL Home of PARAJ Our pictures are al times they are better thai \ wcnxircnAV v yy Liunuju/i i & "The Girl anc (Second 1 Presenting HELEN HC rail road serial ever prod 15 episodes of 1 One Every V sraMmwaai mi P HI?n 11 i ? ? m??iwi FRIDAY FEB Dauiel Froha Mary F la -"MISTR1 A Paramount Featun m T/NTI-I n iNUlJL: tome ea a good seat. / LES v The Moving ] THREE DA INA m Ill 11A vi iiy I, Ne lay and Saturday, February 3 Motions, Shoes, Ladies' and G< H itanta nor V9P/I OfnlnCT a U 111 A V V>WI11? JU1M e ? ?' white wash Skirts, $2 00 kii is you want, while they last, a L ? <?1 T\a*AAAAn /v/>inrr ofr oarh I1UU1 i/1 C99CO ^Willg Ul. vuvx 1.25 kind, at each V ? nr. $10 Rain Coats at $5.00. 5C8 1. kj v aiuvo %a%. lock and close at 6 o'clock Th ock and close at 9 p. m. ring the store Thursday morn JNA CAS i.'r. Luther W. Derrick of Prosperity* was in trie city Monday. | . * [ Mr. Eugene S. Blease has returned from a ;rip to Florida. The Drayton Rutherford chapter, U. t-> >1 "-in TnA?fia\- afternoon at i-'. Vy.t "III 111' (.1 i 4 o'clock wi .n Mrs. W. H. Hunt. The members will please bear in mind that this is the time for payment of dues. its AKIAUfc I MOUNT Pictures & MUTUAL Program ways good, but sotrei at others. * F6RUARY 2nd. | 1 the Game" I n episode) )LMES in the greatest g uced. :wo reels each. Wednesday ' &2 RUARY 4th. I ian Presents 'ickford 3 ' iSS NELL" I i. In Five Acts rly so as to get ^ li E | Picture Man. |. I YS SALE! n rn 11 \>V., wherry, S. C. ? Vj , 4 and 5, at cost, our en5nt8> Ready-to-wear. it yard - 5c ad for each $1.25 j 90c ' it each 3c 40c J $1.60 I $1.10 . 1 90c \ , 80c $4.00 $3.75 $3.25 $2.60 ?<? OR $1.90 : $1.50 $1.00 $8 Rain Coats at $4.00 $4.89 $3.49 lursday and Friday. ing will receive a handi - H CO, Newberry, .S. C. * i