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mnay, .viaicn iu, SLIGHT INCREASE ' IN MONEY MEASURE FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORTS > OUT BILL Figures Differ From House o:li in Several Ways?Levy Would A H,"> n rr*r? The State, 7. Carrying only an actual increase of $70,501.40 over house bill, the genera! appropriation biil was reported oat by the finance commiitee last " - 1 - ?- ^ vnnvt-f i! r-'lHTTviriT wim its vr,.?.0 a majority of the sections oi' the measure. The bill of the house provided foi total appropriations of $5,070,610.SC while the senate finance committee j measure as reported last night raises the figures to S3,741.171.29. Some material changes are made b\ the senate committee, including a bi^ advance to the public scnoois over me house measure and the cutting; out ol the provisions made by the house tc repay loans from the sinking fund commission to Winthrop, the university and the state hospital. This action by the committee struck out of the house bill approximately $170.000 and the committee struck out $100,000 from the appropriation for pensions by providing; that person; eligible for pensions should draw but 31 if their annual income is $1,000 or more. More for Schools This $270,000 represented the 'big ^ decreases made in the bill by the fin\ ance committee while the main in\ crease was to the superintendent of '-education's office which was advanced from $1,186,700 as in the house b:U to $1,321,640, an increase of $125,140, the largest made by the committee. Superintendent Swearingen had asked for an increase of $521,000 over the house bill. The committee restored several poo T\r?l?cr>or? h\* tVlf> H.'Ump Slid O LiV/IiC M WAi^llV Vi Vfcf V*4 V < V wv adopted a rule of equalizing ail the clerks as far as possible. For example all the chief clerks of departments were restored to 82,400 in contrast to varying salaries fixed by the house. The bill, according to the figures submitted by the finance committee would carry a levy of seven and cnehalf mills as compared with five mills in the house measure. This increase was made necessary because of rhe apparent failure of some of the new revenue measures that the house passed. Only minor changes are made in the legislative and judicial depart- 1 ment, the committee restoring the 1 salaries of the supreme court employees to the same basis as 1921. In the governor's office the recording clerk and stenographer are combined in one position with an extra $800 for additional clerical help. An emergency clerk for one year, election year, is provided at a salary of $2,160 for the secretary of state's office over the house bill. In the comptroller general's office the pension fund is reduced by $100,000 and $15,000 is added for auditing r county offices. The adjutant general's office is incraesed from $31,202.50 to $55,99G.50. Decrease for University The University of South Carolina is decreased from $247,413.70 to $193,203.70, the big cut being $54.000 (due the sinking fund commission. A proviso is attached to the bill to allow the university to retain hospital and dormitory fees. f-Kanwc WfM'P made 1 JL I avOIVUii jr iiv V iiUi - J in the figures for Clemson, the state treasurer and a num'ber of other departments ar.d institutions. Winthrop college, while reduced from ?396,296 to $373,130, really gets more as everything asked for by the authorities was granted except money to complete a building. The reduction was in the sum owed the sinking fund commission, which the senate struck out. The John de la Howe school is increased from $3S,222 to $56,702. Among the items increased or restored in the department of education was the mill school supervisor, wnicn i was not provided for by the house. In the board of public welfare the salary of the secretary is increased from $2,500 to $3,000. The law enforcement department is raised from $12,000 to $28,000. The chairjnan of the tax commission is raised from $2,500 to $3,600 and more changes are expected to be made as the tax commission will have to carry out the provisions of the new revenue program. In the railroad commission item $5,(*>70 is added for the four new members to be chosen under the newbill. In the amount for the department of agriculture the position of marketing clerk is abolished while the i j.T? ? j _ Salaries 01 me innmsts uuu USMMUJIC chemists are increased. The department is decreased from $R0,r>0r>.70 io $67,030.70. | In the highway department the en- [ gineer's salary is advance ! from /o,G00 to $5,000 and i!i- secr? :ary "' oil) $2,400 to 3'*?000. j Provision i ; mace for S.'.OOU f he state fair if there are ii:? immoi -I ^hows, gambling devices, el:1., ill lowed. F In the amount for the committee >n approved claims is $5,000 for A. W. I\nld for a replica of the St.?te House. f The commit too provides for th." sus- ^ )cr>ior. of the two mill property levy b for roads. In considering the appropriation 11 :">iil the committee was requested to ^ increase the house figures >y $1.0i>0.- 1 339.40. The committee had the bill ? (I 'or two weeks, considering every sec- v, ion carefully. cFollowing is the recapitulation: n Legislative department S 108,207.00 v Judiciary department .... 1 ."7,(>98.GO ^ Governor's office 17,969.21 J Secretary of state 10,000.00 Comptroller general 723,908.S4 b Attorney general 14,331.25 v State treasurer 257,843.62 v \ i- ?- - oor, -n t -UljUUUIl ^CIIL-Kll Univ. of S. C 193,203.70 [ The Citadel 150,059.86 |, ?lenison (public service) 242.862.S5 t Winthrop 373,130.96 t Medical college 85,450.00 Vesjro college 72,450.00 a De La Howe school 56,702.04 13 School for deaf and blind 104,620.00 A t Supt. of Education 1,321,640.00 ^ Historical commission .. 4,25S.30 State library 4,020.00 f, Confederate museum .... 100.00 p Relic room 1.100.00 Confederate college 4.000.00 0 State hospital 601.493.S2 ^ Penitentiary 100,000.00 j Board public welfare .... 27,054.50 ; Board of pardons ' 300.00 i School for feebleminded 47,342.00 F rndustrial school for bovs 70.686.23 d Industrial school for girls 15,979.50 Reformatory for negro I boys 28,532.00 ' Catawba Indians 7,700.00 t . i' Committee, deaf and blind ;t children 200.00 j Uw enforcement dept. 28,400.00 Board of health 164,290.00 * Tax commission 41.815.00 T Tax board of review .... 550.00 Insurance commissioner 19,226.25 a Bank examiner 24.025.00 s Railroad commission :14,-147.00 u Chief game warden 11.125.00 v Budget commission G,600.00 11 Medical examiners 3,000.00 A e L,aw examiners 450.00 Beard of fisheries 10,500.00 ^ Board of conciliation .. 500.00 k I Committee on printing.. 70,861.00 p Commissioner of agriculture 67,030.70 * ? VYareouse commissioner 54,625.00 Confederate infirmary... 31,012.64 <. Electrician and engineer 33,595.00 | Highway department .... 95,715.75 b Sinking fund 8.642.50 'n Confederate infirmary.. 31,912.61 r Confederate veterans' as- j j sociation 1,500.00 State house and grounds 5,285.00 ? Contingent fund commit- ' r tee Go,000.00 h State Fair society 5,000.00 Approval of claims 12,848.42 f Miscellaneous 13,952.66 ^ Grand total $5,741,171.29 ^ PARCEL POST PACKAGES BOX TO BE REOPENED I : ; * The parcel post slot at the post-of-! ' fice is to be reopened to permit of f the mailing of parcels after 6 p. m., ] and on Sundays-and holidays. The local office in response to its . recommendation, is in receipt of let-! . ter from the department authorizing s this action, which in part reads: "It is suggested that your office J keep the parcel post slot open at all. j times, if the patrons desire you to do! . so, but make it known that if they' < abuse this privilege that you will re- < vert* to your former system." : < A will ho marie for thirty! ' days, and if it is found that the pack- ' ages received through the slot are ( properly prepared, it will be kept open j permanently. j For the benefit of mailers the fol- ? lowing placard has been placed above' the slot: j P'ackagcs must be 1. Correctly addressed. j j 2. Have the name and address of sender in upper left hand corner. 1 ( 3. Marked to show contents: Such i as "fragile," "perishable," etc. | ' 4. Have sufficient postage. j 1 5. Properly wrapped and tied. 6. Is not prohibited matter. Parcels not complying with above , will be returned to sender, or held at ; the local office. j mm Charles M. Schwab says people >hould "smile all the time." But all < of us can't be presidents of steel' fruits Those Idaho bank robbers who jrot only eleven cents found that the safe! wasn't what it was cracked up to be. ATM 3 FWrrr* bEsei * LOnG rMdi Emerald Figures Lar?;e'y in History and Legerid. 'rincess Mary's Love Stone Has Inspired Beth Saints and Peels?Re Terrea 10 in oui ipim co. Emeralds will i?e set in tlie most ashiomilde cngiijjt ??i' th* inure. for I'rineess Mary had an eiiu-rid engagement ring. The ?*meraid of average quality is ju?-1? iim<;o valuable than the diamond i equal quality, obstneb the London 'it-l'.iu^. Tin* lines; emeralds are worth .S'J. "><?() carat, wmie a gnuu-M/. svi" >> <? > ;eigh ?n\ thing from four to si* arats: s:;r.o to a carat is mininrtii price. The output of emeralds is try small. The emerald is given a place of onor in history and literature. The eauiifu! gem was most praised among lie ancients, not only for its beauty, lit aiso <?n account of its rarity. It fas a favorite stone with the Roman mperors and, later, with high digni<?r ihe f'hmvli. It is named ivice in ilie book of Exodus as <>ne of ho. Ill jewels in the high priest's reastplate of judgment. ranking in he second row with the sapphire and he diamond. The best-known scriptural references re in Revelation, where tlie rainbow round tlie throne is compared in its viid greenness to an emerald; while he same jewel forms on^ of the 12 oundations of the new Jerusalem, r.eorge Eliot, in "Middlemareh.*' refers to the singular beauty of the?<? assages. "It is strange," she says, how deeply colors seem to penetrate no. like scent. I suppose that is tin? eason why gems ar?> used as spiritual mblems in the Revelation of St. John, "hey look like fragments of heaven." In Tennyson's poem. "Columbus," he discoverer used the passage in delation to describe the San Salvaor as he first descried it. In contrast we may mention the emerald monocle" through which ?ero. whom the latest commentators ejrard as the "Beast" of the Revelaion. gazed at the agonies of liis vicims in the arena. A more pleasant legend may be noted from Montalembert, the famous 'rench author. He describes how in he early acres of monasticisrn a cerain monastery was transformed by ls founder into a hospital for lepers n<1 cripples. "Behold." said he. in howing the ladies of Alexandria the pper tloor, which was reserved for romen. "behold, ray jacinths"; then, .1 conducting them to the floor below, here the men were placed, "See my meralds." The most celebrated medieval cem ras the so-called "emerald" of Genoa, nown as the Sacro Catino. It was resented eariy in the Twelfth cenury to the cathedral fcy the crusader - . 1 ; 1 U..~,X,. h; .monaco, Having ut-trix luuusm. u.> huh roni the siege of Caesarea. The relic, f* huge single stone, was aid to be the dish from which our ,ord ate the Last Supper. Tt was elieved by some to have been givea >y Solomon to the queen of Sheba. The Sacro Oatino was removed to *aris during Napoleon's wars, and waa liscovered to be only an ancient piece if Venetian glass. Tt Is still shown, nuoh mended, in the cathedral of Jenoa, to which place it was restored ?y the French. In the Fifteenth and Sixteenth cenuries the emerald is mentioned f recently among inventories of crown ewels. Mary Queen of scors posessed r?t one time many specimens of his regal gem. Causes Deep Depression in Plateau. Wlien the railway was opened from i point near Luxor into the Libyan leserr there was rendered easy the ipproaoh of the oasis of Khargeh, vhich is regarded as a typical exnnple of these isolated centers of ife. For some years a British scien:ist and explorer made a study of this k>asls. observing the phenomena of cprin^s, moving sands, \vells. eio. The Libyan oases are deep de iressions in a lofty plateau whk'h 11 ? 1 maximum elevation of nearly 2.000 reet. hut the bottoms of the cases ire only from 100 to .?>00 fef-^ above sea level. They are underlain by beds :>f sandstone, whie.i are the sources >f the water supply. Artesian well* too feet deep form practically inexhaustible means *>f irrigation and such leep wells have been used from ujeivnt times. The depressions were mce the beds of lakes, and the watei n the sandstone probably has its sources in the Abyssinian highlands. Amusing the Natives. The marine recruit had just arrived :n Haiti and the servant was giving ^iiu some instruction in outpost duty, As thev walked over a hi^h ridge, here were two sharp reports of a rifle and 1 it tie clouds of dust spurted up that. 10 the recruit seemed uncomfortably close. "What's that, sergeant?" asked the new comer. n..'\r ir? /lAimln s\f fVmcr* cnipl;1! *'!!, CIIIY n .... frying (o hump us ofT." returned the sergeant. as h>* trudged cnhnJy ahead "TJiev take pot shots ar me every limp 1 pass til is spur." "It's a hit dangerous, isn't it, sergeant ?"' "Well, ir might he dangerous." e\-plained the non-rom, "if those J?!rd< could come within twenty feet or sc of iditlji' a guy. But as Ioti<r i?s they're surh rctte'.i shots 1 figure tln-y udghi :< =; amusse themselves rliat way. as 11</1 It h?!ps to keep them out el _ mamm am rmr i 'u?Hi<jJU3vyr</A?jc>i A Wicked Worm j Cuthati tu rn 1;. .for half an hour to *: U'durc from Ins father on 11 rv.'- !;itc :i.rh'- nfi?? : ..... . 1 V j i??t tr-Vc" .:'l t: - tun: ov:.-r ; -k > j. ; . U ? i : (he ear y i? j*?! ' i-:.r,-r tlu- v;n. ', ! "Ha, I?a! i stigxicd Cuin >i?rt. '*Eo\v about the worm? \rlia' did h** t r.?;-. i ' j (ret ahead ol* t: | bj' u .Hi J si J I r i U? v w s. I None 1 See us before you Manufactured from I ? 4-^^' IHcUtl! i The Southern ? Phones 81 and 118. Harry W. D< t & X Feed Oats: 95 per cent Nairn All grades *'Pcec: including 7-5-5 for gardens. ihss Delfaiype I Cleveland Big Bol , Dorritv Boiide of T1 ? ? i eispsones j -.ic. * .-^g* cjmaritf Cosmiafioa or I nri f me time ment of con 1 * FOSSi IciX tJApai 15 th, 1922. The same extended as c r* r O a tlmJ Jo. J nr a I reas, r? I , ettjraCTMWaiaptagcgCB?? i lL^^rnt^zzmxr.rr, wx* jnot ' ! ^a?3CWBBasas?^ />(? iMMnoXVK. -? r*fW-l>KMXl \XKIWZ fjf Make Si | of a big i |l| crop. L : I 11i fl 3?|o , | If reroiizi l|| GET IT I Summer Bros. ^ | j M. L Spearman ' ^^Y/^Warm "?i<3K3^*?gr^jyAt^Meu.v.t?nr- -.-ta?i 1 > turn: up out .si cany. "My sun,'' rcpiii-il ih father, '"that worm h:ji!n*. !> !! t?> !>e?i ri!! nL'M: he v. , > <>: , ir. \.iy home.*'?I'it!-.bur?h ! .? :k:2iis . ie:uli!y tit. - rea.-::-C I'e\v ;i. <.?j>i * t'Zic: i-'.'iiM he kut-l of :! uiT are selling; 110\Y. he Boil Weevil sing ^PTff Jnil JlJliU setter. place your order. a ?. ' i i i j- 1 ? tne nignesx-graue als by I c ^ i . i jminick, Manager. ' i i j * I 1LE Fertilizer: | ! a - -CO 1 _ te or ooua. moke" Fertilizer, "Truck Grower" ! -cng Staple and li Cotton Seed. i I prices, d Warehouse ! i i 4 and 315. I arrrn^.'faetc^aMtPwtyi^r^ii imm wf i IMIIII '> 1 ryl ? ' load I ax nonce j ^ - 1,1 ? j > ' -i j i for the pay- j (limitation or i res on March i : \ i l! ! has not been ! sther taxes. i I iiimpert Jewberry County. ure i J Jse 11 ji FROM if 1 Newberry, S. C. I I ! Newberry, S. C. 1 I I . < * i I f I Special - Saturday Sale I ' T <2E2S3?7F1M2BMB3 | Z 7 ~~ I I fsjM kzzmfai fli&ffslafps ? Caramels | T? p.. 7 ||* ; ? rruit Jellies II PI PL* i *_? >*v ? A ta 8 ?*7t**% A ? nuircy ujhiu uuj? ? Jordan Abends Mivpil ?Q vmi wish WkV J IIIVM 43 cents pound Some enthusiastic purchasers IiL-a $1 fifl nnnntfl" lidVC vaiiA U cuio unv j^vwuu See what you think, of it Member Newberry Chamber of Commerce t \ J Don't Spare the Spoon in time of sickness. Doses of medicine must be taken to get well again, but a lot will depend upon the quality of the medicine the spoon holds. Bring your doctor's prescripj tion here and you will get just what his order calls for, made up of the purest and freshest drugs, with consummate care ) - ? it I and skill, yet charged tor most reasonably. Prompt service. ! Mayes Drug Store *T 1 n i:? INCWDerrVj juuui vaiuima i i Member Newberry Chamber of Commerce. I _ '