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0c ^eniU) and gem. ^tcrcd at the Postoffice at New j 1 ' " nr, S. 'C., as 2nd ciass matter, i1 *. H. A ULL. EDITOR. j 1 r ? ! t Friday, February 9, 1917. ! ' i < THE LEGISLATURE. I This week will wind up five weeks j of the present legislative session. It i lias been cutomary that a session shall j last six weeks and the session doe-j i ?ast that long whether there :? any special reason for its so doing, ! and it never lasts any longer, except in very rare cases even if there Ik reason for its so doing. Before the constitutional convention of 1S95 the: session always closed just before cnnstmas so tnat ijm; aitmucis iuiqu^ , get home for the Christmas time. | Then the session sometimes did not! last more than four weeks. But the ' State has grown in population and in ! business since those days and I sup pose it takes more time to transact the business of the people. There are! more departments that need attention : ana more colleges and more atten- i tion is given the common schools ana i ail these things take time for theii | j nroDer consideration. ! I have been in Columbia twice since the legislature met this year and i thought maybe a little personal ob servation might be of interest. The Herald and News has been printing all matters of interest that have been up for consideration. For fourteen years I was connected with the leg silature in some official capacity and had fine opportunity to observe the workings of the lawmakers. To drop out for six or seven yearsv however, makes great changes, not only in the personnel of the body, but in the way ' things are done. ?0? The present legislature is very largely a new body. Most of the mem-* bers are not only new in this legisla * U t'afTT littlf* lftCiij "ture DUt cave uau iti; _ __w lative experience. There are a few of the old guard there, and a few who have been there consecutively for many years. Some who were there a good many years ago ?nd Who have come back after being out for sev eral years. ?0? I said the State had grown and pos sibly for that reason it takes more time to do the business of the legis lature. It also takes more money to! run the government. I notice from the reports that the State is now i nearly or -quite a million dollars be hind, and the State levy has been around six mills for some time and Me vA?r we are told it will have to > be about S mills. Back yojider when j I first went down there the total ex-j penditure was less than a million dol- [ lars and then it got up to a million j . and a half, but the levy remained j about five mills. Well, as long as new j departments are demanded by ourj growing civilization we must expect j to pay for them. The taxable prop erty has increased, but with the in crease there also comes the increase j in the levy, because the expenditures have increased. ?0? The ever present liquor question has j been before the legislature at every j session since away back in the early! ninetys, and it looks as if it is going j to remain with us. The house passed i a "bone dry" bill and ttien recommit ted it, but I notice from the papers on Thursday morning that it has al ready been reported back and that j now there is a filibuster on, and it is; not likely that any change will be j .1 made in the liquor laws, reisunau, ; I think the best solution of the ques- j tion would be to give the people some ^ good beer and light allies and cut out liquor altogether, but there is 'j always more or less politics mixed up I ? in all liquor legislation, and some of those who claim to be prohibitionists t f voted against the Richey bill. I heard j i it stated that some of them were j p to let Richey have the credit: ? for the bill as it might give the Blease side a prestige, as Richey is a Blease-1 ite, and then there are some who j claim to be prohibitionists who still! want a chance to order a little fori their own use while cutting the sup-j ply off from some others. Of coarse ! it is unfortunate that politics should ' enter into a matter like this, but it J 1 takes big men to rise above petty I politics and we fear that there are not so many of that caliber in public life in this State today. I notice that Mr. Dominick voted to recommit the bill, and so did ?V- Evans, but when it came back from the wwsaaiitee Mr. Evans is recorded as noting for it. he vote was taken 011 the recommit- J al of the bill, but when it came "back ' i Tom the committee he is recorded t I n favor of its passage. There is t 10 doubt in my mind that there is a j ot of politics in this whiskey queu- < I .ion, and 1 am persuade 1 to believe j JIdt lilCi C UiUl ^ ?VOO Vi **,7 1 :*risy in it also, and this is said with- < jut intending to be in tne least per- ; sonal. Gov. Manning recommended i i reduction iii tiie amount of liquor ; :o be allowed each month, and also Lo allow beer and light wines in lieu jt whiskey, and yet lie vetoed a bin similar to that which was passed at i the last session and brought over by : him without his signature to this ses- j sion. | -0 t ,t-qo in rvilnmnfo Tnpsriav niirht 1 X \>ao ii! VV*U4MW?U * w j and both houses were engaged in the discussion of the insurance measures that had been proposed by the com mission appointed by the governor to get up some sort of insurance lawt>. They went through like they were wanted and I suppose they are all; right. I do not know much about in surance and could not get much il luminating information from the dis-! cussions. As 1 understood it the in-; surance companies objected to tile' "valued" clause which is in the act passed last year, and would not come back to the State unless the law6 are : amended as they suggest. Well, su? [ say, I don't know* much about it, | but i would t'ef) like resenting these | big corporations suggesting to me1 what sort of laws should be passed1 if I were a member of the legisla ture. But that seemed tebe the ar gument in favor of the neifc laws pro posed, that they would meet the ap- j proval of the insurance companies. | If a company writes insurance on my house for $3000 and it is only worth $1000, and takes the premium at the! $3000 valuation, 11 mere is a, mc uic; should pay the amount called for in the policy. Then provide some way j to punish me for swearing to an ov ervaluation and the agent for writ ing the policy for more than tho i house is worth. If a man insures his life for $10,000 and dies the company pays the policy and the man may est have been worth 30 cents. But that was the objection to the Laney-Odom ' Will nr. T iindorctrmri it ?0? The appropriation bill has not yet been discussed and that generally takes some time and if it does there is not much chance of final adjourn ment next week but then they rush1 things toward the close. -0- j James Herbert Evans has a position as bill clerk in. the house and Isaac Reid holds his job as laborer for the house and "Prencman" is still a porter on the senate side. I -O? I want to go down and see the boys I cnce more before adjournment, outj I would like to be there when there1 was something up that would call out I some good speeches, if they have any J members who can talk so as to in-j terest me. The most distinguished! looking man in the house is Mr. T. C. j Duncan of Union. 1 reckon it argues? me unknown, but I had never seen him ; before the other night when he arose tG speak and I was told his name. -O? ' ; I have invited Mr. T. J. W. to go | down with me during the coming week ' to take a look in on tne legisiatm e , and I hope we wilKbe able to get off j about next Tuesday. And then I wih?] ask him to give his impressions of the j1 work of a lawmaker. j i E. H. A, |( ~ it It will be sad news to many South L Carolinians to hear of the death of' t Prof. W. T. Tate who died at his home 1 n Nashville, Tenn., on Wednesday. He ^ oflfarii vAflre the rural school , rV?L3 Ofc'v-u. j supervisor for South Carolina and] nade the acquaintenance of nearly j ill oi our people. In that field he did a great wort or the rural schools of this State, le was a bis man?a man of thuJ I >eople?he knew how to get their j ympathies and their confidence, be-; ause he came from the people, and j :new how to sympathize with them, j It was our pleasure to Know n.-a? veil, and he was always the same i ;enlal big hearted sympathetic man.! t was due largely to his work thai' Le school houses at Chappels and Po aaria and Silverstreet in this countj ! ?ere built. Without his aid at the' -aie we doubt if we would have beet, j ible to build 'hese school houses j i.nd the same ii. rue of many cthei f J * '.aces in South Carolina. He did a j reat work for the rural school of this j t tate. Wf * ?ma stra&ge that a niaa in feb* ? ai I vigor of manhood who wa ' - v a rreat^ork for t Mm The statement published in tht?| lewspapers as it was in regard to * j shortage in the funds of the pem n; entiary without an explanation is | nisleading. It came about on account w jf the failure of the Roof bank over ! in Lexington a few years ago. \Vt> i n io not see how the superintendent1 of the penitentiary could be held h- ; t lule for thai loss. This bank was on ; i" [he approved list of banks in the State j for the deposit of State money and a lot of private individuals lost by hav-; ins: money deposited in the bank as - well. ! tfrs. Rhoda Anna Leopard. ' L Mrs. Rhoda Anna jeopard. aged 4G a years, wife of Ephraim Leopar^^lied " Sunday night at 12:30 o'clock at hei 0 home in West End after an illness 0 of about four weeks. j Others than her husband, Mrs. Leu-; r I-ard. i.s survived by eight children, j CM Mrs. Mamie Epting, Hamlet, N\ C.; a Mrs. Eva (Milliard, Newberry; Mrs. K. 0 D. Clamp, Columbia; John, D. P., .Miss ^ Pearl. Aaron and Mary Leopard, ah of Newberry. . :0 1 G She was indeed a true wife, moth-' p er and ^ ien.i, and one who will lie i tnmiv hv her rommunitv and , church, as a consistent Christian j worker. To know her was to lovej er ? li The funeral services were conduct-, ed at her church, <vVest End, Tuesday! afternoon, by her pastor, H. W. Stontsj assisted by Rev. B. L. Knight, after ; which her body was laid to rest in \ ^ West End cemetery. I 11 Service at St. Lukes. j ^ Prosperity, S. C., Feb. 2, 1917. i w Mr. Editor: i n Please publish the following no tice: At St. Luke's Lutneran cnurcn next Sunday at 11:30 a. m., Rev. R. it 3., Patterson, D. D., of Ciwlotte, N. n< C., will preach the sermon. In the a afternoon he will address the Young s< People's Society. >11 are exsected to s< bring their dinners and remain over i for the service. ai Yours truly, 3: B. W. Cronk. ic HAD LOi'l INTEREST ? 1,1 LI1E, :HE TELLS ? i Condition Was So had She Began to j V Hear She would >ot Live Long." A YEAR OF MISERY. E But She >'Ow Says "I Want to Live k Fur 1 Find Measure m Liie. ! o: ' ir "Frcm an invalid to a healthy find 0 well and strong woman was tli? ^ change Tanlac made in my neaitn, declared Mrs. Genie McGrady, of 92 i. Ninth St., Olympia, a suburb of Co ' lumbia, in a statement she gave In j endorsement of Tanlac. "For a year or more before I took; Tanlac I had not been able to work, j I had been keeping a boarding houst, j but my health became so bad I had i to stop that, and I even got where 1 could not sweep the floor of a room ( without being completely exhausted when it was done. My system was badly run down and weakened, and 1 { had wasted away until 1 was hardly more than skin and bones. "I had no appetite at all, and did not digest what I did eat, and aftei I would eat a few bites I would feel j puffed up as tight as a drum. I suf fered a lot with stomach trouble, and i I had the backache almost all the time. Many a time I have had a headache so badly that I would not know anytning for three or four hour* I could not do my housework, nor any thing else, and I had begun to feai r 1J 4. i:.,A T Tt*AM I WOU1U Iiui iivt: luug. j. was su >c: t | miserable and sick and had so many > troubles that I really did not care ' whether I lived or died. "The endorsement a friend gave of! Tanlac, in which he told of what Tan j las did for his wife, influenced me to j take Tanlac, too, and about the time I finished taking the first bottle my husband became ill with typhoid fev er, and I nursed him night and day for over four weeks and held up weli j under the strain. I could not hav#. lone tms, tnougn, naa it not Deen j :hat Tanlac had helped me so much In j jvery way, and by being 'able to do j ;hat hard work shows just how much j ;he first bottle of Tanlac helped me.! "I took another bottle after my hU3- ' Dand got well. I am now working md I am doing all my housework, oo, and I feel well and strong, and could not even sweep a floor before took Tanlac, I was so weak. "Tanlac is a wonderful medicine' md it proved that by what it did for j T rt rnn ~ onr\f\ 1 r> rvnH f ro ieved those headaches, and made me ake the interest in life that I used o. I want to live now, for I find [ Measure in life. I am happy and i trons: and well now and am enjoy- j ng life. i "I "had been siok about three years; iefore I began taking Tanlac, and 1 j iad been very weak and sickly the! ear oeiore i iook 11, ana i nau la**.-1 n ever so many medicines, but Tafl- j ac did me by far more good than' nv other medicine I ever took.' Tanlac, the master medicine is sold y: Gilder & 'Weeks. Newberry. S. C., Dr. | ^T. 0. Holloway. Chappells, S. C., Lit-1 le Mountain Drue; Co., Little Moun- j ain. S. C., The Setzler Company, Po- ; ^am S. ., Prosperity Drug Co..' ' > - <-t /-I TTrt-u ' _ T~?1 ! -TOSpeniv. S. U., wnuni?rp ruaru: ^v. WMtmiro. 9 ** i W^pti a^e emVoved bv English Iiisor-( aid well. | d The following from Tne State news- i h .per of Tuesday will be read witn ! v iterest in Newberry; i lc "Richard AI. C aidwell of the Cain ! s ell and Haltiwanger firm, and Mis* j s ^ rena Riser of Columbia, were inai ed at o'clock yesterday afternoon 1 . the Kbenezer Lutlieran parsonage ? y the Rev. C. A. Freed. L). I). Tlie on pie left immediately for New ork. KAXLER SEEMS TO BE 01 ST EI) BY NICHOLS Washington, Feb. 6.??.V.hen Da via raxler, postmaster at Greenvilio, b. reached Washington to stay thy ction of the postefiice department 1 asking Congressman Sam J. Nich Is, of the (Greenville district to ret, mmend his successor, Mr. Traxler )und that Mr. Nichols had already ^commended Thomas Pope, an om T P A /\r Crz r> s postmaster at Greenville to sue- ^ eed him. Mr. Traxler is summoning ^ is forces to fight the action of Mi. ichols, but it is stated that Mr. XicL- k Is acted upon request of Postmaster t< eneral Burleson, which means that ? ope will be named. ; b I s I p A.\OTHEK >'E>VBERKY CASE. t< I Proves That There's a Way Out n tor SuiYering- .Newberry Folks. w * t( l Just another report of a ca~e in ewberry. Another typical case. Kin ey ailments relieved in -Newberry 1 uu r>m?. iin uuau o rviuucv G. W. S Wittenberg, grocer, 110'? oyce St., Newberry, says: "Hum ork on the farm weakened my kid eya. I had rheumatic pains ah irough my body and could hard> end to put my shoes on. I suffered ttensely from backache and the kia ey secretions pajfeed too frequently rifi were acantv and nainful , Thn acretions also contained a . heav> idiment that looked like brick dust, got a supply of Doan's Kidney Pills : i\V. G. Mayes* Drug Store and tho rst box. helped me. I continued tak- j ig them until I was cured." ^ Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't; Imply ask fipr a kidney remedy?gel oan's Kidney Pills?the same thai I [r. Swittenberg had. Foster-Milburn o., Props., Buffalo, X. Y. FEATHER PROPHET ttlSt LITTLE AMUALI I xchange. Anybody who knows anything,! nows that on the second day ( of ^ery February, the ground-hog cornea ' at of his burrow, and walks about. 1 the open, and jf he sees his shad- i w, or, in plain language, if the sun ; appens to be shining, he crawls back \ )r another little nap of six weeks, j )r he knows that winter will last thai i iuch longer. I But, if the day is dark and cloudy, j H nd his .dumpy body fails to cast a (1 aadow, he wakes up for good, and|J The mi with m< can ie! that de wor5t world. moi\e^ the The black hand is certaii DON'T get into debt. T that you can enjoy later if } money will grow just as th< couragcd to work hardei ai Put We pay 4 per cent ii The Nation: B. C MATTHEW'S, T. IC President cesn't return to his underground r ome, for he is satislied that cola | c -eather is over, and that it won't be i 3iik before the maples around tho | v%amps will redden, and the ditcu ! r ides will be blue with violets la About this time every year, tne I 1 raund hog breaks into print, ana. i 1 >r about a week his name has a M iiuiuiueui piucv in nearly every ; ev.si,aj.er in the United States, as L lie editors facetiously refer to Mi. I - 'rraunhop?or to grouudhop day, iu | f Lieir efforts to foretell, whether we , e re to have a late, or an early spring, lis real name is woodchtlck, ana ' N roundhog is just a kind of familiar j a icname that we have given him. He i not a hog at all, and in no way i 1 esembles the long nose rooter of th? 1 arn vard. I " , C When this country was first settled, j ' he English settlers dubbed him j .. .oodchuck, I'rom the fact that over ^ :i England, little pigs were known ' s "chuckles,'' so they called him ^ -ood chucks, or little piggies that ved in the woods. The groundhog is about two feer j a >ng with a small head in proportion j j his size, body very heavy ana ; \ quattv, with short, strong legs, ana 3 11 sv rail Hit: tilr i? n rnfnno hrntcr. ? -- " ? . 1 hading to lighter color on the under ; G arts?eyes small, and not over in- j t diligent. His habitual dreamy ex- j p ression, and fiattened cranium, would p ardly mark him as the wonderful i 2 reather prophet, that he is though: v ) be. The existence he leads is D nything but strenuous. for it ( lere is an animal on earth who takes e fe easy it is our friend the ground- i o g. t The only lick of work he ever does,' 1 \ the digging of his burrow; that b nished, the balance of his life Is j u Auctior Horses, Buggi My lease has exp forced to discont S AI Saturday Fel At 12 0 Terms of sale?C J. J. H. I Owi !i you >bt is tKe ihin? in t He has ? safe in B&rvk. \e IS ily hanging over the pool dev here are lots of little things yo you'll just put a ijttle money ii 3 acorn does into a GREAT O rid EARN more when you han YOUR money in OUR bank. itere&t? d Bank of [ JOHNSTONE, H. T. CANNO Cashier Asst. Cats; tiostly one prolonged debauch or losing away tlio hours in the dark less of his hole. Alien a burrow is finished, it !s lever changed. Children may com*.-, .nd children may go, but no addition* o the original house are ever made, t' left to himself he never moves, bui jasses Iris life away in the same ola iome, and, under ordinary conditions. hat life may stretch out into man* ears. Most groundhogs are suppo* *(] to die of old age. as their only ?n rnrios are men and dogs, and these? hey can usually elude. They nevei vander very far from their front doer, tnd the least suspicious sound send > hem sliding towards the opening, "nless closely pressed, they always urn around, peep out, and makci iorne vigorous remark in choice groundhog, to the pursuer. They generally dig their burrows ;nder old stumps, or under piled up .tones, as that gives dogs a lor r-r* rniihip uhpn trvinc tn srrafph thorn >ut. Their tunnels slope gently up ward, so as to prevent water running n, and messing up"things in their mcestral halls. The grond'iog is a strict vegetar an?tender grasses, fragrant clover, .nd juicy buds from their standby, f there happens to be a garden in asy walking distance, he will not. urn up his nose at a meal of green leas, beans, corn, lettuce or cabbage. ?ut. he is not going to travel any ;reat distance, even for that?he iould prefer a shorter walk and a nore frugal lunch. He is not going o do anything, that costs him much iffort. The fewer steps he has to ake, and the sooner he can get back o his bed of leaves, the better he ikes it. His hours are regular, ai iehooves a gentleman of elegant leis re. 1 Sale es. Harness. Etc. >ired and I am :inue my livery ? E jruary 10th 'clock ' ash. BROWN ler I il who is in DEBT. J u can-go without NOW 1 the bank. That little AK. You will be jen e money in the bank \ t M - -1 ixewoerry N, W. W. CROMER hier Asst. Cashier . . r,.