Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r..., ;j<tw9iUH v? , VARIOUS AND ALL ABOUT. Take in "Old Dad" at the opera house Friday. picture will feature Mildred Harris. % ' The Drayton Rutherford chapter, D. A. R., will meet with Mrs. Arthur Kibler Tuesday afternoon at n'olopk. Christmas will be here before you know it. Newberry ought to have another good community Christmas tree this year. That .was a fine/possum hunt by Messrs J. S. Hutchison, Andrew ? Nichols and Lonnie. Floyd in Saluda * river bottoms on Monday night of last week. Notwithstanding the stormy -weather they caught three o'possums. Thev have taken away the white r $ way sample post from the corner of Main and Caldwell streets. , The company got tired waiting for the system to be inaugurated here. The Young People's Mission band will hold its regular monthly meeting at -3:30 o'clock Sunday at the Church of the Redeemer:- Please note that the hour has been changed. The leaves are falling fast and some Drices are falling. The ad of I ' * t the okl city market tells you that there it was the price of meat was first reduced on the downward trend and that it was also the last to raise ^he price when prices were soaring. An umbrella was found by Mr. Hal Kohn near his residence. He says he wants the owner'to come and get it. See him at* his store. * 1 The South Carolina Par association will meet in C^umbia next month. - <3oI. Gearge_jJohnstope is a member, of-the-standing committee of ex-presidents. ' ^ Next Sunday being' the first in the month both morning and evening service will be held at St* Lukes Episcopal church at the usual hours. \ Mr. B N. ("Boo") Scurty found a go^d lap robe which; he has left at this office. Owner will please come And get ;^t. * 4 The Woman's auxiliary of the First Baptist church* will meet in Fellowship room Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, with Mesdames S. B. Aull, W. G. Pearson and R. Y. Leavell as hostesses? \ People* are asked to join the order of Stags. ; Mr. E. Lamar Bailes has att ad in the paper calling attention to. this matter .and he#is m the city fer the purpose of an organization here. It^ma^'be well to see him. Mr. L. Morris has purchased from Mt. C. J^^IcWhirter the^pre building in West* Main street in which ^Ir. Morris is. now conducting his successful mercantile business. . is.' >. ? JOHN L^ lil^AURifrS^ * VfEWS ON SITUATION ^?'" ' ,* * "* S" * / ' * v* . _ - / Says Develop S^ftte Banking System and State W*rehou*e SysJ Kmt. ? . \ " ?- f Index-Journal, 24th. ; Mr. G. M, Kinard of Epworth asks The Indftc-Journal to publish the following letter from Hon. John L. Mc Laurin on the present situation. It was first, published in the Southern Cultivator of* November 15th.' The letter follows: / Mr. Ben Harris,. Commissioner of Agriculture, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: Your letter asking my opinion in this crisis is.to hand and since the brief repfy I made I have concluded to Write you an open let ' r * ter setting forth my views fore fully. Verv few Dersons realized that when Germany involved th6 world in a war it overturned the foundations upon which our political; and industrial systems rested. f was struck by a sentence in some statement that I read from the kaiser itf 1915. He said in effect, that Germany might be defeated, "but it would upset ?vcry government in the world f ^ if she W3re. Avaricious Germany, [ with its caste privileges backed by I ? armed force, once destroyed, would r be followed by every nation on earth in destroying class privileges. Every i" nation engaged in the war has been f , _ ! - ~ going through a revolution, but wa have not realized it. The United States has just passed through the period of billions, a millionaire too commcn to attract attention; the billiinaire barely exciting notice. Evevrybody was looking to the return of pre-war days. The rich expecting to return richer and the poor to ' spend more and still vmore and work less and still less. Suddenly the earth rumbles, there is an angry jar, and the earthquake of falling prices is upon us. One says it is the federal ? reserve act, another Wall street, another labor troubles and another extravagance. I say that it is all, and yet none of these. It is another phase ovnliifinn nr revolution! We Call K/JL W Viuwtvt* , make it either, but it is ibound to be one or the other. * The rumbling you hear and the Lost?Fountain pen between Boundary street sehool and Glenn street. JfceWard if returned to B. L. Dority. % [shock ytfu feel are the groans and dying convulsions of a civilization. | In the face of the impending tragedy liiow futile and small seems man; ! how insolent and trivial with his ; vague complaints in this country, and ! the misery, disorder and decay of Eu! rope. I There is probably not a book writ 1 ten since the war that has attracted more attention irom siuaents ine ; world over than "The Economic Con' sequences of the Peace," by Profesj sor Keycs, of Cambridge university, England. Professor Keyes was carI ried to the conference by Lloyci ! George, on account of his profound j knowledge of political economy. AfI ter the treaty was agreed upon, he I resigned without giving any reason . Recently he published this book as < ! justification. I do not agree with ! him in many things, most especially ! nnnlvsis of President Wilson. ? emphatically dissent, although h< | does picture Wilson as the only idealI ist and unselfish man in the confer l ence. I would picture him about like Christ would be among the bears anc bulls of Wall street. Professor Keyes i in summing up the situation in 1914 ! says in effect: ; "That the- present civilization is j organized to secure the maximum ac ! cumulation of capital, society being {so framed as to throw the greater ! Dart of the increased income intc the hands of those least likely to con sumc it. In fact it was precisely the inequality of the distribution oi wealth whith made possible those vast-accumulations of -capital, necessary to girdle this globe with bands of steel. In no other way could the present industrial system have beer developed, and in this fact lies the only justification of the present capitalistic system, which has monopo jlized coal, oil and mineral resources 'and exploited agriculture, until those : fillinor thp ?r>il nre the noorest class on earth." "If the rich had spent their neu 'found wealth on their own enjoyj ment, the world would long ago have |fotmd such a regime intolerable. Bui I like bees they saved and accumulated, not less to the advantage of the whole community,' because the} themselves held notrower ends ir prospect.." i Viewed in this light, what of the benefactions of Rockefeller, Carnegie and others? Moved by some I strange impulse they do not comprej hend they seek to return their vast i horde into the common store for the benefit of the human race. Carnegie's "to die rich is to die disgraced" takes on a new meaning. The developments of this age could never have come, if wealth had been equitably divided,.' Professor Keyes says that the^ railroads of this world, no less than the pyramids of Egypt, were built as a monument to posterity, and that the labor engaged h the railroad building was no more able to consume the full equivalent of j their labor than the labor which built . +hp nvramids. This war has ended ! that era; the very restlessness and waste of the surjjffus accumulation of '.centuries; the rape of Belgium, ant' j destruction i^France; the horrors o1 j Bolshevik Russia, have taught not only the possibilities-of producer and consumption, "but the futility and folly of abstinence merely to accumulate." The produced and work ers in this world will never pine! themselves again that there iiuiy b( ?Rockefelers, Morgans and Carnegies The capitalistic class a'r-; mere de ' : > 4-1 r fh;l1 Mll?v shall . icruiuicu iiKi.i v?v., i They have the machinery of govern I ment in their hands. They can de j press the price by contracting cred j its. They are exercising this powei j rudely and cruelly, and thereby the\ j are hastening the hour when the pro | ducers of all wealth will get togethe: jand an era of confiscation begin. Th< j income tax points the way to the con jfiscation, and used ruthlessly as i swill be, it is an engine of oppressioi jmore unjust and hardly less crue , than the methods of Leninc am i TrotsKy. j I nave been through three panic: ii\ my life. The great paic of 187.' following the Civil War, was brough about bv an amendment to a curren i ? t cy bill introduced by John Sherman , This seemingly harmless amendmen . was construed to mean that currenc; should be retired and silver coinag limited, and that all money, includ :? hn redeemed ii i:i? ci[?ci, onuuiu ~ gold. It was known as "Black Fri day." The panic that followed dii not hurt the South much because w ' had nothing left to lose. It mad I over night the monied class twice a i rich and doubled the debts of th (Country. These conditions kept u 'iniore or less until 1893, when Cleve j land undertook to repeal the entir 1 in tho Shprnm 11 j urcnaMiig nauct m unv ? ! act. It is a well known fact thn prices of products are absolutel ! regulated by the increase or decreas ; of the amount of money in circuit ' tion. Under the Sherman act' i ' 5873, they brought a panic by the r? tirement^ of currency; in 1893, it wa I j Great Artists , i ^^[y * ** * * ^1^^88580^8 Mr ' "' ?.JB 1 SfV> Vj^S 1 KaSjm aiff*? ORVlLtE HARROLD i i * 11? him fame over night and who h; 51 tenors, proves many things in th ' I of a singer to a greater degre< 1 '- ? ?~. n.ifo cimnlo frv i tO ODtaili cl ^uuu, jjui t, iu j Harrold has demonstrated his ,! operatic aria. ? " The newly recorded song ha vals (save an octave, twice rep * orchestra. The song is a promi: r! has in it something of the sea's < * of the refrain." By special arrangement with t [ we are permitted to reproduce t . published also for high and low > silver. We were to go from the bi! metallic to the single gold 'basis.' > Everybody was told that we must maintain the gold reserve, and the ' r J first thirty a man did in the morning j was to look at the paper and see : whether the go^d reserve was up or, .../miI.I <-?o+Vi?> ?* nn ' i clown. wan street wuuiu ten, I currency and send it down and get( i gold. The treasury would issue more; r 'currency and Wall street would re-j t peat the performance. It is a fool' j thing to look at now, but it put cot-, j ton to five cents a pound, wheat 25. .jcents a bushel, and Kansas farmers' i1 burned corn instead of co^l. I re-; .' rhcmber in 1893, that I traveled from j , Bennettsviile to Washington and: :. never saw the smoke coming out of | .a single factory chimney, 'j Cleveland went out of office hated j ! by Democrats and his only defenders' : :n congress, Republicans represent-! r ing the monied interests. McKinley j ; was elected and he brought about the j i, first real prosperity this country had j : had since 1873. He did it by issuing j . rnrrmu v and expanding the volume, j ' af credits. He followed the same! I ; policy that Bryan was defeated for j advocating and coined more' silver j - than Bryan t-ould-have coined, be-j I cause Will street was supporting Mc-j I Kinley and fighting Bryan. Yetj ' strange to say. McKinlev died at the j I hands fji an assassin. He was one of j ?,the kindliest, sanest, and most lova-j - ble characters I have ever knowi^,; II breathing with ^iis dying lips for- j r to 'misorahltt wretch who , V? v..~ -.fired the fatal shot. I N . J .Roosevelt came into power, stren-j > j uous arid energetic . He ujidertook to,J |curb the trusts. The people backed! jhim up and "cert ain malefactors of j I great wealth" engineered an artifi-j Jcial panic to curb Koosevelt, and theyi - j did it, by contracting credits. There' |Was the same tremendous drop in f -1 prices as in 1873, but very^cw fail| ures, because it was not a real panic, f,Banks suspended payment; even the - National City Bank of New York isr, sued scrip. Some states passed stay i laws and we all used clearing house -1 certificates instead of money. Now I t (call attention to one strange thing. , t ? 10170 1 if O fnrmprs' ill J o I O .411111 1 U i/ y 5 1 1/ U ?|J u xui ttivftv 1 panic, and no scrip was issued. ^Wc j 1-tried clearing house paper in 1.893, j janil to his everlasting shame John 0. j s Carlisle, then secretary of the ireas-j > uryt placed a 10 per cent, tax on it. I t In 1907 it was a bankers panic and ' -1 they issued all the scrip they wanted,1 . and farmers ha^l to take it. This is t a farmers' panic and I do not hear y anything about 1'ay laws or clearing e house certificates. Now coming down -, to present conditions; Senator Aldilricn of Rhode Island, a representa-: tive of Wall street, proposed the pres (1 ent federal reserve act just before it! e could be passed the Republicans e passed out* of power and Woodrow s Wiis?n became president. The Dcmocrats immediately took possession of p the Aldrich-Vreeland act and cont verted it to their own uses. They ej inserted section 13, which provides n i for the discount of agricultural paper I t based either 011 live stock or field I yj crops, not only when in actual exist/a onffl hut ?lsr> for monev to arrow the V ViiVV, V..W - ; ^ v i-! crops. It does not say that such pa- < n: per may be discounted, but that it! ?-, shall be discounted. f isj It was the intention of this act to j it * . Now Sing Pc [ Increasing popularity of th( American composers succeed; and they have now invaded 1 politan Opera Co. OrvilleHarrold,leading tenor c is the latest convert to the caus Harrold whose success last i operas, caused New York criti< , operatic tenor of the age, has : song for the Victor Co., release t | The Musical Leader of Chics f song " When Your Ship Comes ) ORVILLE HARROL] I "Among the red seal recon Victor Company is an exquis whose success in " Parsifal" at as since been regarded as one o ie singing of this song. Simple ba 3 than more elaborate compositic ne as to sing the most elaborate marvelous voice' is just as effect s a pleasing melody, neither swift eated, near the beginning), and se of better days when the long-au )wn pause and surge; the analogy he publishers, HINDS, HAYDEN <5 :he chorus for the medium voice voice and for orchestra and band. cm T. ' . 9 I provide an elastic currency which should contract and expand as the ^ business needs or the country expands and contracts. Last spring fed-1 eral reserve :banks were freely dis- ( counting paper on cotton as high as 35 cents a pound. This of course en couraged a large acreage and extrav- j a'gance.. The time to contract credits' would have been thenMf regard was 1 to be had to the true spfcit of the law, j but no, Wall street was gunning for the South. There was-? "joker" in the federal reserve acta just as there' was in 1873. Some Republican sena-1 tor stuck in a clause amending the! house .bill so as to compel a 40 per j cent. ?cld reserve to W* maintained j for th#'redemption o^^he'treasury j notes. -Nobody seem$j to nave at- j tached?Jhy importance .to it, but eith er by fcj&at or some othtM means, Wall street 'dominates tlic federal reserve, board,completely $? it ever did the national banking act. One has; only to read the s#i&rfi?rit made by j John Skelton Williams;- comptroller i (if the-currency, for confirmation. IJ believe this is the real redsori why | Mr. McAdoo resigned and also why i he did not desire to be' a candidate j for president. I wish he were in j there now, for I am sure he would | answer Wall street in the only way; it can be answered, flood this coun-1 i try with credits and put prices up, so that the debts can be repaid in the same kind of money in which they Were contracted. It is the only j square, honest thing to do. There is no hope with Houston and Harding, j The first is a common man risen to j power, a social climber currying fa-j vor. and Harding hasn't got backbone i of a guinea pig. It is easy to see J what John Skelton Williams, the real man, would do if he had the power.) We all know what would be Mc- J Adoo' policy. In fact if McAdoo were in there, that Wall street bunch would never have dared attempt this bold robbery of our entire people. Now failing in that, what is our best policy? I,can-say this: The! governor ot any Southern state who does not exercise every constitutional power to protect his people is either a coward, a weakling or a fool. If I were governor of South Carolina I would immediately call the legislature together as we did in 1014, and I would put the whole power of this state behind the cotton crop. The very notice that I intended to do it would intimidate men. who know tfiht it is an unjust and crucl attack they are making on the producers of this state. As long as they refuse to accept a warehouse receipt as a collateral, there is no advantage in having warehouse receipts. I would by proclamation call upon every farmer not to gin a bale of cotton, nor sell a bale, and J would advise the legislature to pass a moratorium which*would protect debtors while things were standing still. I would warn every man that we were proceeding strictly within ihe law and I -would see to it that the law was enforced "every j where to both rich and poor. If banks in 1907 could declare a J moratorium without law, why can we not declare one with law? It will be too late after our cotton is sold far below cost of production. For myself, I would freely sacrifice my life x | % jpular Songs. i better class popular songs by 5 in breaking down all barriers ;he sacred portals o_' the Metro- ^ if this world-famous organization, 1 se of good American Songs. Mr. in " Parsifal " and other jvuwvik a*M ? ? _ ? :s to proclaim him the greatest recorded his favorite American :d in November. ( tgo says of Mr. Harrold awl this } > In:" j D RECORDS BALLAD. is on the November list of the ite little song. Orville Harrold, me ivieirupuiiian icisl scasun **wi f the few truly great operatic , llads often exibit the real powers >ns, for at times it is just as hard coloratura passage, and Orvillc ;ive in the simple song as in the A nor slow, with no difficult interit is charmingly scored for the raited ship comes in. The refrain will be found in the first bars fc ELDREDGE, Inc., of New York; of the sctag in this issue. It is t .. * : | before *1 would see the farmers go {si i back industrially to where we were r< in 1914. If we do, it is because we arc too cow<irdly or too ignorant to ei stand up and maintain our rights, ci There is no relief for us that I see y except for the governors of the n Southern sftaes to step to the^ front tl like men and become the champions a of their people. c Wc are oppressed by official finan- g cial power directed by shrewd Eng- f lish domination. The whole plan was s< worked up when Sir George Paish o visited this country last winter. Why P 1 j A ? Iautot* onf\ I 11 snouiu -MUiUIJCtt junvj. Uiiu . ? defer payment of interest on foreign ? e d?bts due us, and simultaneously in- j crease interest and close credits down j si oil cotton? Are we to pauperize the' ^ Sputh, in order to rehabilitate Eng- j a lafcd? I know it to be a fact, .that ju Qjprmany will do anything in her! 1 power to get two million bales of cot- \ a ton. She Wants it from America, ia n'$t as a re-purchase from England. jP Germany has $e men, women antf j0 machinery to manufacture it and rc-' l5 turn payment in goods. Why not rc- j J? turn for a time to barter and escape ; a the tyranny of manipulated foreign n exchange rates 'i. > <* Are the present leaders in the ' South going to allow our cotton to be ; squeezed out of our hands by the! ^ English board of commerce, which: Was in session aLl during the war to , devise ways for their own post war j interests? This board actually pub-: ^ lished after the armistice, that crude : ^ products must be withheld from Ger- j j| many until England, France and licl- <1 giuin could rebuild tly?ir factories, ^ and virtually control the commercc > ... j p of the world at the'expense of th<-r? producers of America. i The recent arbitrary action of the federal reserve bank only empha-[ t j sizes English power, through Wall j ^ street, to pauperize our people, to (, I enable Wall street to collect its Eng- t Jish debts. v No honest man wants to escape his just share toward paving the cost of j { jv c-r.n o nrilv labor ! . ine war, uuo n. and the products of labor are to- pay. !' What arc wc going to do? Lock the j stable after 4the horse is gone? Run j } off after some impossible export com panv, founded on voluntary contribu- j tions? I say no, let us use our state i governments to* the limit. It is the j only way to get united action. Take jv all the law will give u?, bring into j play every power left and absolutely jt decline to be led off into the wilder- I a 1 r ness after an ignis factuus. j I t ,iov*e>inn nnr state banking ic UCt UJ VIV? v? - w J system and keep our resources where | c they can not be manipulated to throt- s * tie us. "V\rith a state banking system j. and state warehouse, let us tell Hard- . ins and Houston if they can get on j without the proceeds of our cotton ; | crop, we will in the future keep it at ; . j home and finance ourselves. i t Remember first, that this loss of j ] i nearly a billion dollars will be borne j t I by the cotton states. 1 t ! I Remember second, that it will be r 1 1 ? Kv Hip nrnducers of ! t j UUJIIt; cnmi.iv v.. v..*. I j cotton. * ^ : The banks, lawyers, doctors and t i merchants will insist upon their pay i in full. *1 < Remember third, that it falls t heaviest on the poorest planters with- 1 out personal credit. Tell me that 1 4 - f ' ~ ' I 4 ' - ' ' WHEN YOUR SHI $n?r imSi/r* 'j{*4nr RETRAIN Mil voar ?hlr> romec to. Sgl A1/3 ----^?-b?^ J~~ %s 4vs * f" -1 1 tar - ay PcjT of Wish-la,7 Land. Where Di St #'2& $ <3 ccat^r " j yoor^s ii. i a, an Any ' *' y f O. " ~ \ Xi " **li ? ' i Love, try lzzt. ?xd cU for V S. . *& * ta. * i& H.H.t E.M3-2 JW * r ., , Copyright, iau. tjr KiD( Istcmtiomi C 1 - ?-i. ?-J lCfl wrongs CIO not, Jieeu uiaouv smedi.es! You are the organizer of the Farrrrs' union jn .this state. You are Dmmissioner of agriculture. I hope ou will call a meeting of farmers, ot lawyers and bankers, to consider lese questions. Cotton is bringing round 15 cents here and it cost 30 ents. It is vain to expect things to et better. This is part of a careully laid plan and they will turn the irews as tight as they daxe, ?hort f hrine-ini? on a revolution. When O'-'o eople get too Besperate they ease p a little, but it is going on to the nit unless we take a radical action. This cold blooded policy of Wall treet and the insolent manner in 'hich Houston put it into effect, is n English importation, and one can nderstand the misery of Ireland, "lie United States will not be made n outlying province of Great Britin. Nor will we allow the subtle ower of money to oppress and put ur fanners on the level of isuropean easants. The safe foundation of overnment is a prosperous people; nd he who strikes a blow at their material welfare, is a breeder of arirchy. John L. McLaurin. 1ARKET IN SPAIN FOR GOOD GRADES (Continued Prom Page 1.) * ecu considered here previously, but t has not as yet been possible to. prut . into effect for the reason that, the Ipaniard Itys finally concluded that e y?oul<l he better off to continue to ay a little more and have the New rork middleman's assurance as to ;Vadt\ TIiuf. it is indispensable that ou assure the 'prospective buyer at he beginning that your cotton will e graded strictly in accordance with he custom in this' regard, in ordeinat he may place concrete orders mh you based on the commercial oiton tcjrms without having1 to exmirie samples. For your proposition o meet with success, a good manager mi me American side is essential." ?r - fOUNG GARLAND EXPLAINS STAND ( Continued From Page 1.) 'ironment were not identical. Garland indicated that his refusal o take the money was not based on my question attached to the origin if the Garland fortune, saying he lid not kTiow from what source it was leriv'ed. but he believed it came down rom his grandfather. EFFICIENCY EXPERTS MAKE THEIR REPORT (Continued from page 3.) " ? ? 1.1 he possibility that a consiuerauiu jortjon of the time and energy of the ax commission will be taken up in lefendinj? its decisions before the ;tate tax board of "'review. The par;icular form which this board of re'iew takes in South Carolina is fur ;her subject to criticism because tnc ict creating it requires no particuar qualifications for their duties or Jie cart of the members thereof, and secause the members retire from oflice with the governor who appointee / v* - s-5' -y P COMES1 FN 9 fffj C<" r.TLV STRJCffUSD tiTI your s61y co:a;s I;: Frcn *h> p. I 1 111 ? v ( . t * V ? * \ ^ n-f rtnr-po cams c?ce 'me: *V*Jt tin your ??n>. jvrrr^ ~igr.^iS5g, g?^lj3pjp? k e *"& *' hi? cornea la. With ? woc-der-fu! c?r jo <^ , . _ rrtto. _ * ^ r fi[r , ^ * * A * ^ * %L Is, Hardrn & ?!<fif!d^#',Iiic. WV*'~V* .T .^?.*M?f I I them? and are thus particularly likely to be political! appointees, -''not qualified for their position. The reports of the tax commission. show that some of the defects wbich may be expected to develop frotri general principles, Have actually developed in practice, and that in recent years the 'board of review has repeatedly lowered the assessments on corporations as made by the tax commission. The evidence available Vindicates that in most instances of the reversal. by the board of review of tax commision . decisions the action' of the board of review was not in accordance with the basis principles of taxation or with the interesU___^^| of the state, and the decisions of th* J tax commission should have been ! pnnfirmed. j ; ~ - I Activities of the assessing- officers: [Thir. efficient administration of any j.tax system is dependent upon -the j existence of a staff of closely superj vised, capable, loyal officials. In no j states has such a staff been even apj proximately developed, where ihe officials were 4iot subject to a central j tax body,- and* were not generally i appointed on the basis of capacity to j pcrform^their duties effectively. That ! the local assessment x>f property is i not being equally and efficiently peri formed in South Carolina is evident i i from all the sources of information I with regard to tax conditions in the j state, and no doubt is well known iik . i . j the stale to all who come into contact * i with tax. matters. A principal di?R-. culty in the way of efficient and ! faithful performance of., duties i>y I locally appointed officials, not com-. ( pletely subject to the author^ of * ; central body, is that there iir^riably ? , exists competition between Lk** local fjmlitical divisions, which tai9p thoi ^ form of an endeavor to contribute as ! small a share as possible to the stato ; treasury. In the conflict between I loyalty to the supposed, interests of i the local district, local officials are bound to lean toward the primary consideration of the body of citizens* jirttoom they represent' and amongst j whom they reside. Some Defects. j The failure of the legislature to : confer upon the tax commission ade^ i quate supervision and penalizing au? thority over local assessing officials J is a serious obstacle in the way of the efficient administration of thei I * ; property tax. The scanty remuneration of tfto ; assessing officials and the limited I number of days in each year for i which they may be paid under the I law must add to the difficulty of se! curing efficient officials with the (public mieresi^ as ujcu wuvw< ? ' To break a cold take 666.?Adv. ? A few doses 666 break a cold.?r* I Adv. Sale of personal property. i The heirs at law of T. L. Wheeler, | deceased, tftli sell to the highest bidj der on Wednesday, December J, I 1020, at his late residence, all the i personal property of which the said j deceased dier^j seized and possessed, consisting of wagon, two mules, farm implements, household and kitchen furniture, corn, etc. Terms of sale I cash. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock ' | a. m. 1 * T ? rn r ttTl 1 i Heirs at i^aw 01 l. u wneeier, i -v Deceased. ' - '5JZ Rub-My-Tism relieves Rheumatism; I Neuralgia, Spr?i?f.?Adv. \ .'V T V v . .