The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, February 09, 1917, Page FOUR, Image 4
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Friday, February 9, 1917. ! '
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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E. H. A, |(
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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
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'.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
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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
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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.
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"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
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A.\OTHEK >'E>VBERKY CASE. t<
I Proves That There's a Way Out n
tor SuiYering- .Newberry Folks. w
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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 "
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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. ?
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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
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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.
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Sale
es. Harness. Etc.
>ired and I am
:inue my livery
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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
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ixewoerry
N, W. W. CROMER
hier Asst. Cashier
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