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& ||eralil anil ||ms. Eatered at the Postoffice at NewBktj, S. C., as 2nd class matter. e. h. AULL, EDITOR. Tuesday, February 8, 1916. We are mailing to each one of oui subscribers whose time is out a personal appeal to each to help us raist $500 by the first of March. It is a small matter for each one of you tc send us the dollar that you owe, and we believe if you knew -how much pleasure it would give us for you tc do so that you would not hesitate a moment. And then on the first of March we are going to revise pur mailing list and we want you to remain a member of The Herald and News- family. but if you are not willing to contribute your share?the amount you owe on subscription?then we will take it that you do not care longer to abide v "with us. We implore you to take adTantage of our offer and get the paper for one or two years for only a dollar a year. Don't hesitate. Do it novr. fWThat? Send in what you are due on subscription account. .rnhp fi-r^enwood Journal recently had a .good editorial on the subject, "Give the home man a chance," in which this sentence occurs: "We are all dependent the one upon the other, and when we help each other we help oursires." And that is true, and if for 110 other reason than a selfish one we should help each other and stick to our home men and give them a chance. When we knock our home man we indirectly at least give our noble selves a gentle stab. And the legislature is really taking notice of the violation of the fundamental law by its own members. Wt made it an issue some eight years ago; trnt then they said it was not worth while. Well, all we Bay is, w j are glad to see that the conscience is being aroused. Not only senators and repre sentatives are holding trusteesidps in violation of their solemn oath of of* fice, but the governor himself is a trustee of Clemson, But there is a special section of the constitution which refers only to members of the legislature. It doesn't need an opinion from the attorney general or a court decision to understand It. The language of the constitution Is so a can understand it. The total sake of liquor in the fifteen dispensary counties during tie month of December were over a ihalf million dollars. There can scarcely be such an overwhelming sentiment in those counties for prohibition. Maybe the citizens were stocking up against a day of shortage. SOOD ADVICE. The editor of the Abbeville Press and Banner, wno is also a lawyer, says that * a citizen of the county has been to his iaw office twice to -get ad nee on the law "as to passing a person whom you overtake" on the road. Most persons ~-r<r +Vi^ ion- ^vn v/vi TTi-pp-f a nerson. IVUV n UUV TI ^ -but a wi?le lot do not observe it. And this citizen requests that tihe advice be printed for the benefit of others as well. Editor Greene says: "We will only give him about fifteen dollars "worth to start with, because we do not desire to make him pay for more than he "wants. For that amount, we advise on three points as follows: "First. A person who wishes the editor to publish free legal advice for him in the editor's paper to which he does not subscribe wishes the editor to get "clean out of the road*' to let him pass. 'Second. A person who "borrows his neighbor's paper and reads it is passing on the wrong side of the road. I "Third. A person who wants to take ; j his neighbor's paper and read it when ! the neighbor is wanting it himself, is j guilty of obstructing the road against j ftis neighbor so that he can not pass! at all." ?E_rf. I The Columbia Record is going after the boys some on the holding of trus2 teeships and membership in the legis- j lature. Go to 'em, old boy, they need a shaking up. Some years ago when we raised the question some of these fellows said it was personal and there was nothing to it. The reason that so few of the trustees have been commissioned is that they thought by not getting the commission they would not be holding two positions. But the law says it is unlawful for them to hold j a trusteeship unless tney take tne oatn _! of office and get a commission, and tne ; moment they are commissioned they va^ i cate their other job. Roll 'em some I more, Mr. Record. How about Senator i A. Johnstone and Governor Manning? ^ Are they immune? L In Anderson county the offices of ' master and probate judge have been combined and a sufficient salary al: lowed to make it worth while for a ' man to give his time to the duties of ' the office. Then the officer is allowed a clerk at a living salary. Of course Anderson is a larger county than Newberry, but by combining these two of fices it wo-uld make it'worth while to a man to give his entire time to the duties of the office and he would have a living salary. Th? Greenwood Journal says this is a very economical legislature. It is not creating any new offices and is watching out for the people. It created all the new jobs at the first session. And the new circuit bill has passed the house. It is now up to the senate. But we agree with the Journal. This is a very economical legislature. Bless its dear heart, it refused to appropri ate $50,000 for liquor -law enforcement and $25,000 for the militia, but authorized the governor to borrow that amount in order to have the money. That's fine business ability, you bet, it is. Keep the appropriation bill down below two million and then authoarize the governor to borrow. Then we can go out on the hustings next cummer and tell the dear people that wo re^ duced the levy to six and a half mails and kept the appropriation down to the two million mark, but never a ward will we say about authorizing the governor to borrow the $75,000 that we did not have the nerve to provide for. We will take care of that next time and let the people pay the interest, but we must fool them this time, the election is coming on this coming summer and we must have something to work on before the people. That may be good business. We admit we are not much of a business proposition. But that's what's being done. The Columbia Record says that in a "startling opinion" of the attorney general that under the law prisoners on the chain gangs cant be whipped. ! There is nothing startling in the opin! ion. The Knowledge that such is the law may he startling information, but the daw is plain enough. What a glorious time to use the split log drag. The weather is fine for its use. In stating the income for the county in our last issue we omitted the one mill to v ~?f\r -rrvo/tio o.e ?> ??* sva.TI^A , W* w?u^> VUUiVU. Really, tie levy in this county for county purposes is 4% mills. It all goes into one fund. If the reader will look at the last report of the supervisor as published in both county papers he will find that there is considerable money on hand from the amount appropriated, but the county has been running on a credit for several months, and if you borrow $25,000 it will have to go to pay what is already borrowed. Besides, we think the appropriation bill carried something like $2,000 to pay interest. I Instead of passing and discussing ! the two-cent rate on the railroads, the j legislature better pass a six per cent interest rate. Interest charges are entirely too high in this state. If the banks can afford to lend money at six | per cent on cotton why not on other! good security, such, as land, for in- j stance. We have not seen any one who i wants a passenger rate of two cents, j As far as we can see and hear there is 110 demand for it at this time. Complaint of ill luck is often an j apology for laziness. V <e- < /< <$><&<?< " A> <$>'?> $><?><?><$ <3> [ I < > <S> | v- THE IDLEII. <*> [ ; <S> i y > < > <?' . > < .- < /<$ < - \J> <?<$><?><?><?><?> <i> j Somebody ought to memorialize the : legislature to let us have a litt'e more .beer, per tnirty days. Write 'em a ; letter. Bob ?Spartanburg Herald. That's what I say. That Spartan- | burg Herald man has some mighty j good things, and some rv-ery sensible; a tt? Vi-l r* V* + Viir. i f n n ^ T nloa ! . lUtTCLD, VJLIO Ui nr i-i.iv ia IO, CLUU 1 OiOV , implore Bob?if he will permit me to! be that farni'iar?to write 'em a note, and I b' lieve they will hf a w'nat yo.i say. Yoi know, this is the day and the time to write notes. Didn't y(-u say something the other day about the 1 fellow who was permitted to write ti:? ; notes of the count?y didn't care much j who made t'ne laws. I believe if you j will write them boys do^.n there n j the legislature such a note as you are j /\ ?-? C ? V* o ^ t n -\ ^ V\ i n rr mt! ! 1 I fapauie Ui WI icing uiai in- '.uni.g riij ! he easy, and then we *?von + care to | mucli aboat tiat there gal1 on I ju.- t! liappened to see this suggestion in t'ne } Spartanburg paper. I only get ;o sec j it occasionally, but I have aforetime I seen some nighty good .suggestions Jn . its editoriai coU'mns, of whioh this :>!? ? [ is among the gems. Now 1 cvould write ; " - - . i them a no:e. hut l am no: an aaem, in the writing of notes?at least of' j this character?and then most o' n:y j : writing is long and solemn. Write 'em j a note, Bob, and do it now. Pleast j don't wait until it is too late, for them ,! is awful T/ord-s. Some time ago I copied that old fa-; miliar poem, "The Old Oaken Bucket,"} and made some few little comments on j it, and among which was that in my boyhood or girlhood days I did not knew much about the bucket at the j well, because we got our water from cut the spring that flowed from -under j the everlasting hills, and carried It on ; ,our heads to the house, but there were j some things in it?that poem,*I mean? j i l that th#> eood old days that i are gone forever. And now some good friend has sent me the following copy of "The 01-d Roller Towel," and you know that I do not know much about \ it, because at our home and at the I school we never load a roller towel. I don't know just why, unless my folk ! i were really afraid of them germs, but1 this towel storv reminds me to say i - - - . . ! j some tilings that 1 nave Deen tryurg xo say. In fact, the poem says 'em for me in a better and more attractive way than I can. possibly say tiem myself. Read it: The Old Boiler Towet (Tune "The Ql-d Ooken Bucket) . How dear ?o the hearts are toe things of our childhood When fond recollections present them i to view ; The old district schoolhouse, the pail and the dipper. The same cud of gum which in turn we did caew. No fear of a microbe forever beeet us, No State Board of Health, interfered then at all; wp bathed dirtv faces in one common "" w ~~ I basdn, And turned to tie towel that hung on the wall, .'The old rol'ler towel, the etiff roller towel, The germladen towel?that hung on the wall. . t Of crash was this towel, in gen'rous proportions, And never was changed more than once in a week; " i, I We turned it around end used it all I over, And for a dry spot it was useless to , seek. T * ^ T J nrwATV o-r O T7-5 CVi YVTLO. Use <tilU iil/uw it tij in color, Acquiring an odor -exceedingly rank; By Saturday it presented a surface As hard and unyielding as any inch plank. The old roller towel, the stiff roller towel, I T-Wim -nr.liio.Vi tVici ffvVlishlV JL* 1 V/JLLL n uiV/U V.UV/ ^ shrank. But now it is gone, vanished out of existence, By virtue of power which the Board of Health holds; ] No more can we bury our streaming ; wet faces, Within its bacterial, dangerous folds. 1 No longer we meet with discolored < banner, < Which hung from a roller nailed on 5 the wall. ; ( On clean huckaback, intitialed, em- J < broidered, !3 We wipe away tears which instrusively j 1 fall | c For the old roller towels, the stiffj t rc^er towel3, e The germ laden towels, that hung on j t the wall. | ] But I remember the bucket and the i v dipper, and how we all drank out it j n and of germs we never heard, and Tne d old gourd at the spring, we all used s it, and never a word of a germ. But o then everythirg is underboing a o Mail Orders I 11 Filled Promptly New New silks are tl de Chine, Pong* m u__ ci r i^uvcuy ouripes, ^ A good assortm Special / ? ? ~ ?. ?rv tm * ? *a 36 inch Middy only, the yard Good soft quali day only, 14 yard 12 inch all line $1.25 quality, for New shipment < sizes. "The Middj m. r n [New Spring goc Dry Goods, Millineryand Ready-to wear. change, and I reckon the germs axe here, and we better use the individual drinking cup and the drinking fountain and all that sort of thing, becaus? maybe tb-e ^erin is a .product of our modern aiict improved aim aavauceu civilization. And yet it seems to me that I read some time ago where some germ .expert said there were some ninety million germs in each greenback dollar bill, and I never heard of any one retusfag to take and to handle one of these bills on account of th^ g< rms. Fact is, I believe that I would risk a few myself, as little as I care for money. And you remember the old gourd f?t the spring that was hung on a stake or on the limb of a tree, and that a'.i of us used it and never a thought of a germ. It used to be a great privilege to get permission from t'ne teacher to g> to the spring after a bucket of water, especially and only during school hours. And school hours then lasted all day, from 8 o'clock in I the morning, with an hour for dinner, j until 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Going to school then was an all-day job. Now the start -at 9 o'clock and let 'em out at 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I reckon the boys and girls are quicker to learn in tnese days than the boys and girls of th? old days. But talking about germs, I notice that the paragrapher of The State says that the latest and shortest poem on germs and microDes "(Adam Had 'em" Well, if Adam had 'em they must have been here a long time, and we are just now discovering that fact. . And I could name some boys, and girls, ; loo, for that matter, who would re- jail the "cud of gum which in turn we j j 3id chew," but it was not the kind of!] ;um they chew today. We got it from j j he sweet gum trees that grew in the . < ? - - * ^ e wamps near by. Now, don't some m { 'on boys and girls who may chance to ' ( end this recall w'nat I am saying? I j j >et you do. And ihei. them chinquapin J t r<?es and the chinquapins we would rather at the dinner hour, and then j j he eld -game of ' hull, gull, hand full, > low many." And there was no law j ( hen against our taking chances and j T .'inning or losing on the guesses we a ade. Those were simple and happy v ays, and we were a pretty healthy et of brats. I reckon if some member f ha.r! anv knowledge | b L Lilt/ iVQiwiwv? ~ ? f such a thing- g^ing on now he would 1 b j well & Haltiwi Spring Ai le latest arrivals at i ac Puccv WlllnWS UOj A UOCJ * ? ? .. /hecks, and others, lent now ready for y s For Wednesdi Quill Cloth, value m m m m ty bleaching, value s for sn Table Damask, Wednesday only, tl >f those "Bob Ev? T LmI- 1 ' A iiai ijiajr o vjvuvt & >ds arriving daily. 1 aldwell & Hafdwang< The Wooltex Store The Ladies Store introduce a tulH to make it a chain gang offense. I do not recall any of those boya or girls who turned out to be gamblers, and some of them are preachers and some teacher's and al! so far as I recall good citizens. There wasn't so much regulating by law in those days. But I must stop this train of thouight, however sadly pleasant It is to recall tnoee good old days. I reckon after awhile some one wttl be talking about thf?e present days as the good o'd dayf, of germ and microbe theories, and cf laws that regulated things for you. And it is well, for, you knowr some one lias said something about a country without memories not being a <very desirable country, or words to that effect. Lf the ground hog came out in Newberry on Wednesday he sure did not hiq sjijutow made by the appear ance of the sun, for there was no sunshine in Newberry Wednesday. I don't know the significance of the ground ihoe philosophy, so I am not going to say any more. THE IDLER. THOS. IL PEEPLESP RECORD AS liTTORNEY GEJTERAX (Continued on Page One.) general assembly in framing measures, and in giving advice pon legal matters to them, and to all who seek his opinion upon matters affecting the state government." He has stood squarely hy the laws of I South Carolina in all his dealings. ? - ' ?ixi. v.;? Mr. weepies nas associated vyxlu umi | is assistant attorney general, Mr. Fred. I H. Dominick of Newberry, recognized is a lawyer of unquestionable standing. "When he first came into the ofice, Mr. Peeples retained for some time :he late M. P. DeBruhl, whose knowledge was marked and whose legal atsinmenfs we*e great, and whose influ- j *r.ce is felt even today in many acts J or the good 'of the state, passed by j he general assembly. Mr. Peeples is a young man, deserv- i ng of much credit for bis rapid rise in j ns profession and in politics in South j ?arolna. He is the only child and j vas raised on a farm; is unmarried! md has his mother here in Columbia j nth him. I It isn't always what a man knows j ?ut what he doesn't tell that make^ us j lelteve him wise. i J ? i Phone > inger *? clivals | our store. Crepe 1 , Dress Taffetas, I r?ii w o nnynxral V/Ul oypi U V U&? I * ay Only Fm 15c, Wednesday I - 12 I-2c I 9c, for Wednes- I $1.00 I several patterns, I tie yard - 98c I ins" middies, all 1 -ooking" r Visit us often. . _ -I -? if 1256-20 Main it | Newberry, S. C I ! ' . ' ' :-,.v ;.v: asww ?n???i TMgoa????? . ^ , - - f XOir SOTO&NOB JEAJfXDfG ynLL STEBB LEGISLATES / ' 1 Wifii Appropriation Bill out ef Way, I Waaaftng Hopes to Hare Several, . .. BUh Eaaete4, || The Columbia correspondent of $te Augusta Chronicle. sends his paper |fce following ui^er date of February 2.: With the passage of the general appropriation bill the way "*111 be cleaned for the consideration of several important bills by the general assembly. J The appropriation bill v;Jll *very Ilkeiy t -*? ?t - J? v - j ?r i>e ajspouea ol xteiore wit? euu ui mv? present weefc and *iie remainder of the session "ft"?)] be devoted to several far-reaching measures which have received the indorsement of Governor IMianning. It ie very l$eiy that a steering committee will be appointed this week_.$p> " handle the situation in the house an4, J weed out the unimportant bills which 9 have been introduced. Local legister 11 tion will be ?"iven attention and th ? &J both houses will get down to work pfli tlie big aneatiureH. Tie early part of the session "?*? given up very largely to a disoussiar 9 of the several laws locking to a strict 1 enforcemen* of the prohibition law. Governor Manning has several bills under conside:ation which Sie hopes ta have.enacted at this session of th* legislature. The governor briefly oat- I ii-n^+>1^'T-np^<111 rp? that he is interested" a iWiVV4 W41V " ^ ? in as follows: ; - r Mannings Program. ' ') 1. Raising the child labor age" limit from 12 to 14 yars so as to conform'' to the local option compulsory eduoa1 ttion measure. 2. The passage of a bill to provide stfha. mt atrrfpnltrtiTP i"n the J.V/1 !UU v VVU.V1A4A*5 Vfi W0* W ? M schools of the state, the hill Wring already been favorably reported In the house. * 3. A bill providing for the inauguration of the Torreiis system of land registration. 4. Medical inspection of school children. 5. A hill providing for a state "board of conciliation to settle disputes between capital and labor. Governor Manning intends to put all of his force behind these measures ani will urse upon fne general assembly ? A? ^ +T?i A __ tne E0CPSS1LJ iur jjRHjoagc <a,c img ow ^ sion. Practically all of the measure# were recommended by the governor in Ms inau-sniral address to the legislature last year. I