Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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'GENERAL ASSEMBLY | IIIIS ADJOURNED i i (AFTER BEING IN SESSION FOR ! FIFTY ONE DAYS ADJOURNS l SINE DIE. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina People, Gathered Around the State Capitol. Columbia. Committees iNamea. Lieut Gov. Smitb, president of the senate, announced the following recess appointments: Committee to examine the accounts cf penal and charitable institutions, Senator Sharpe. Committee to examine the books ol certain state officers, Senator Ketchin. Committee to investigate the prog ress of the code commissioner, Senator Williams. Under the Moore resolution to investigate the De La Howe property In Abbeville county, with a view to making it an institution for destitute children, Senators Mullins and Johnstone. ? House. Summary of the action In the house ion the governor's vetoes In the gen leral appropriation bill: Provision requiring state librarian to turn over money; Sustained. Item $3,000 purchasing meters and 'general repairing: Sustained. 1 Item $1,000 repairing heating plant: ; Overridden. Item $2,500 preparing and printing state handbook: Sustained. Item $3,000 salaries and expenses j state board of medical examiners: i Overridden. Item f^OOO tax dep ?rtnrenr- ex^^y^nsesnecesairy to install uniform ^^^^^ovlsion alljmlnfcjhiversilytrua itees to permit erection of public 11ibrary on grounds of university: Over iridden. Item $5,000 hospital at State Colored college: Sustained. Item $7,500 for farms at State Park: Sustained. Provisions for paying salaries at Confederate infirmary: Sustained. Section for historical commission total of $5,270: Overridden. Item $1,800 for salary of secretary of historical cdmmission: Overridden. Item $250 for contingent fund for historical commission: Overridden. Item $1,000 /or printing for historical commission: Overridden. Provision requiring secretary of historiacl commission to turn over funds received by him to state treas urer: Overridden. Item $1,500 work on Confederate records by historical commission: Overridden. Item $2,000 interest likely to accrue on public debt: Sustained. Item $25,000 sinking fund for bonded debt under act of 1912: Sustained. Item pnospnaie cumiiuaaiuu. Sustained. Item $450 state law examiners: Overridden. Item $1,500 State Plant Breeders' association: Sustained. Item $1,000 State Live Stock association: Sustained. Item $4,000 rent for offices for state officials: Overridden. Item $5,000 South Carolina Agricultural society: Sustained. Item $1,000 for state negro fair: Sustained. Item $1,200 South Carolina Poultry association: Sustained. Item $522 expenses special committee to investigate State Hospital for Insane: Overridden. Item $400 to erect monument over grave of McKie Merriwether of Edgefield, killed in Hamburg riot, serving unde Gen. Butler: Overridden. "Section 41. That, in anticipation - - - U.U.I of tne taxes nereinueiure ie?icu, mo governor and the state treasurer and the comptroller general be, and they are hereby, empowered to borrow on credit of the state so much money from time to time as may be needed to meet promptly, at maturity, the Interest which will mature on the first day of July add on the first day of January of each year, on the valid debt of the state ar.d to pay the current expenses of the state government for the present fiscal year and for pensions: Provided the sum so borrowed shall not exceed the sum of $6(10.000:" Sustained. The Clifton hill to authorize the holding uf an election on the dispensary caeation in Sumter and Ker shaw on the second Tuesday in June was passed by the house. Mr. Dick, Mr. Epps and Mr. Belser of Sumter made statements in regard to the bill and the tangle which resulted over the last dispensary election in their county. The result of the last dispensary election in Sumter has not yet been determined by the supreme court, to which it was appealed. By a vote of 31 to 23 the house killed the Sullivan bill providing for J the establishment by the state of a ! hospital for the treatment of pellagra i and the appointment of a commission | to study the disease which is still a medical mystery. The bill proposed ! the appropriation of $25,000 for the | hospital and $10,000 for the maintenance of the commission. The governor returned to the house ! the DeLaughter joint resolution appropriating $400 for a monument over the grave of McKie Merriwether of Edgefield, who was killed in the Hamburg riot while serving under Gen. Butler. The message said there was an error in the name "Hamburg" i as it occured in the joint resolution, i Action was deferred on the message. Despite the declaration of the governor that he thought it "the rankest Republicanism that could possibly be , adopted by any body of men calling themselves Democrats." the house, by a vote of 62 to 21. overrode the veto i of his excellency cm the act giving the j citizens of Rock Hill the privilege of holding an election to vote on the question of adopting commission form : of government. Senate. The senate sustained the governor's j veto of the Lide bill to provide aid ! for farm demonstration work among the rural schools by vote on the moj tion of Senator Lide to pass the bill j Over the veto, 17 for passage and 18 : against it. It was pointed out that ! no provision had been made in the appropriation bill for the items in i the measure. Senator Lide suggested that provision could be made next session. The senate sustained Gov. Blease in his veto of the medical inspection bill and thus the act fails to become law. It provided for a mild form ol medical inspection of the school children T>f the state. This is the secthe legislature has cas^ed.a I rhouse and senate overrode ihe governor's veto on the portions cf the county supply bilL The senate killed all second and third reading bills on the calendar carrying the two-cent rate bill and other important measures, but the | general assembly was unable to adI journ sine die as expected. The appropriation bill was sent to the governor but the senate, seeing the possibility of getting way, even if the bills were returned was unlikely until lato decided to return, after remaining id session close to the midnight hour. Important bills that died on the senate calendar under the motion to kill anil second and third reading bills include the Charleston high license measure, the compulsory education bill. The Fortner bill as to whites teaching in negro schools and 90 other measures of lesser importance. There seems to be no disposition on the part of the opposing minority in the senate to allow a vote on the rate bill at this session of the legislature. Senator Laney, who made a speeoh In favor oi tne z-ceni nai raie, asaeu Senator Young if he was trying to prevent a vote on the measure. "I am trying to kill the bill any way I can," replied the senator from Union. Senator Laney asked to whom reference had been made in the charges of politics and damagogism. Senators Crouch and Buck said that they had refernce to no member of the legislature, but to influences outside. Senator Laney said that he did not believe there wa sa senator on the floor but who was for or against the bill because of good motives and honest convections. Pass Bill Over Veto. The house received a message from the governor vetoing certain items in the county supply bill relating to Beaufort and Greenville counties. ine messgae saia mat ine governor did not intend to veto the entire county supply bill. The message quoted a section of the constitution which the message said gave the chief executive the right to veto separato items ot any bill without vetoing the whole Of it. The bill as a whole was passed over the veto by a vote of 78 to 20, after some debate. Oliphant Apologizes to House. A. D. Oliphant, house reporter for | the Columbia State, apologized for his ! personal difficulty with Represent a j tive W. S. Rogers, Jr., of Spartan burg, after the houseT.ad adopted the ! majority report of the committee | that investigated the affair and re> i jected the minoiiLi' resort The minor ity report would have requfred tfi? giving of a reprimand to Mr. Oil phant. * C. C. Wyclfe, the Blease floor lead er, made a strenuous effort to jhav? the minority report adopted. i Loving Cup For Dr. Saunders. I A handsome silver loving cup, goldlined, was sent to Dr. Eleanora B. Saunders, woman physician at the state hospital, "by women of Columbia, as a token of their admiration for her ability, their confidence in her as a woman, their faith in her integrity or purpose and her unselfish devotion to duty." That was the inscription which the cup bore engraved upon one of its chaste, plain sides. The cup is about 10 inches high, with a bowl shaped vessel about 24 inches in circumference. Postal Examinations March 14. United States civil service commission announces that on March 14 an examination will be held at Columbia as a result of which it is expected plated vacancy in the position of fourth class postmaster at Irmo and other vacancies as they may occur. The fomp?nsation of the postmaster at this office was $44S for the last fiscal vear. Age limit is 21 years and over. Applicants must reside within the territory supplied 'by the postoffice for examination is announced. Dangers in Rare Beefsteak. You may like your beefsteak rare, but there is danger in eating any meat ! not well cooked. Measles in cows ! leaae boxed-up parisites in the bovine flesh. You do not notice them with the I naked eye, Jput they are there, and if ' they are' not killed by thorough cook: ing they will cause tapeworms in the | digestive organization of the human . system, and then follow*associated disl eases and discomforts. Looked the Part There is one Brookfield story that I have always liked very much. I have not seen it in print. , Brookfield was once stopped in the Strand by an angry person, who said: "Iam told that in the Green Room club the other night you spoke of me as a damned k^9uTTurcU' %o ""that l!rue?"' "Well," replied Brookfield, "I don't know who you are, but you certainly look It"? London Sketch. Might Explain It. After spending the summer In a mountain hamlet in Tennessee, the visitor hired a native to help pack up. As they were engaged in boxing a shelf of books the mountaineer remarked: "Somehow Ah nevah keered much foh books; but," he resumed after a thoughtful pause, "Ah can't read, an' mebbe that had sumpin' to do with it." Women for the Pulpit. Women will be able to enter the ministry in churches in the Canton of Neu chatel, Switzerland, as a result of a i vote of the synod of the Protestant church, admitting them to the theological faculty. The decision means that women who graduate in theology will be entitled to the status of the clergy. Neuchatel already has women doctors, dentists and lawyers, as a result of the non-militant feminist propaganda. Why Spain Lags Behind. In thousands of villages and small towns in the interior of Spain no one knows how to read or write. There are in Spain 30,000 rural villages without schools of any kind and many thousands which can be reached only by a bridle path, there being no high roads or railway communication of any kind. Attendance at board schools is voluntary, not obligatory. Seventysix per cent of the children in Spain are illiterate, and this is especially noticeable in the capitaL Fisherman's Paradise. Fish are 60 plentiful in Alaskan war ters that they almost jump at you. The fishing grounds extend for over 2,000 miles along the coast and up all the rivers (one of which is at least 2,000 miips lonel. and all over the adjacent seas. A conservative estimate of the fish taken from Alaskan waters, not counting that used for native food and for dog food, places the total valuation at $185,000,000 since we bought Alaska for $7,200,000. In one year ten fishing vessels alone pulled in 7,708,i 000 pounds of the choicest kind of I fish. If the ordinary American were asked to guess how many people are I permanently engaged in the fishing business in Alaska, the answer would probably be?about 200. A? a matter i of fact there are 18,000 men pulling up salmon, halibut and herring and I storing them away in caus and ice houses. That number of men can make a big hole in anybody's fish I pond; if the looting by the fishermen goes cn indefinitely, there will he noth| lng left except the water presently? Leslie's. I - - - t BOB'S RECKLESS DRIVE I V !? 9 6 V ?< V v J By W. F. CODY. & V y A typical man of the west was talking to a'few friends and discussing the good old times of the overland stage and pony express, Indian fights, and when the "real bad man from Bitter Creek" was much In evidence. The westerner was Col. M. B. Russell of Deadwood, and he looked just what he was?a man who had "been . there." "There was one drive over the Overland trail which I guess the six En? lishmen who took it will remember to their day of passing in their chips, if they|have not already cashed in and gone across the Great Divide," said the colonel. "It was in Bob Scott's coach and run, and be it known Bob was the best, yet the most reckless, driver on cue uveriana tnjii. "It was in the early '60s, and the coach came in to Horseshoe with the six Britishers only, and was loaded down with their baggage. "there Bob Scott was to take the reins and drive the old hearse through to Fort Laramie, and the driver that I brought them in told how the six passengers had grumbled all along the trail against the slow rate they went. "Each driver had taken his share of abuse, and each one had passed word | along to Bob about it. "Blarst me bloody eyes, but you ! don't know anything about staging in ; this blarsted heathen country," said one of the party to Bob Scott. Bob Scott smiled and said, simply: "I'll see what I can do to please you." "Then Bob went to the stables and got the stock tenders to hitch up six of the pony express riders' horses for his team that day, and animals not all broken to coaching. " 'We'll strike Laramie on time, or I'll know why not," grimly said Bob Scott, and he mounted the box as the ! Englishmen came out from dinner and eyed the new team, jvith men holding them on the earth. "'I'm blest?if I don't believe that's ' a fa{r going team of cobs.' said one._ " 'All aboard!* shouted Bob. "'Blarst you, turn 'em loose!' and other things were said to Bob, along with much abuse. "The trail led up a long hill, half a dozen miles in length, but then came a sharp and rough descent. "Then came Bob's chance, and, wild at the abuse heaped upon him, he gave a yell, threw the reins, three on one side, three on the other, to drag on the ground, and began to lay the whip upon the team. ? "If the Englishmen at first were pleased, it was only fer a moment, as Bob drew his revolver and fired six shots in the air, yelling as he fired. "His next mad act was to tear first one lamp, then the other from the j sides, and hurl them full force at the leaders, the tingling pf the broken glass startling them the more. "The Englishmen were scared half out of their wits by this time. "They dared not Jump out, though a hasty council of war decided, unanimously that they were being driven by a madman. "To add fuel to the fire, Bob leaned back and calmly asked: " 'Gentlemen, does this style ol staging please your "A groan in chorus was the answer. "The next station was ten miles from Horseshoe, and with a hop, skip and jump the coach went along, dragged by the maddened team. '"The stock tenders heard the noise, saw the horses tearing along, and knew that they were running away, and quickly threw the stable doors wide open, knowing the animals would rush in. "It was a close call for all, but Bob ordered the coach backed out, a fresh team hitched up, and quietly called out: "'All aboard, gentlemen!' "But the six Englishmen had had more than their money's worth and their fill of Bob Scott, and refused to ride further with him." (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) How Germany Deals With Drugs. The German government has for years fixed the retail price of drugs, even to the extent of designating what must be charged for bottle, cork, label, or ointment box used in dispensing the medicine. Such list is revised each year, furnishes a curiously interesting supplement to the German drug journals. Nervousness Not Always III. It is not a misfortune to be nervous if you have a strong and active will. Nervousness in sucli instances means merely that the strings of the violin are properly taut. Such nervousness is normal and makes for the greatest success and happiness. { I J # FATHER MARRIED BY SON. i Mayor of Terro Haute Performa Ceremony For Elderly Parent. Terre liaute. Ind. ? Mayor Roberta , performed the marriage ceremony for his father. Dr. W. II. Roberts, seventyfive years old. and Mrs. Zinc, a widow seventy-one years old. The mayor has been In office a month and during his election campaign was publicly denounced by blr father as an ungrateful son. w,ho caused his father to lose Ills fortune. Tbw newly married bride is possessed ?/ vast wealth. > BBBBnHMHBHHHl Professional Cards DR. J. E. FODERBUBK Dental Surgeon Phones: Office 138. Residence. 174' Office over M. & F. Bank building A DR. (J. A. BUNCH, Jl{. Dental Surgeon Office Hours: 9 to 1 and 2 to 6 i Phones: Office 222. Resident 72 ' li:- 4 POLLOCK & REGIES ( Attorncys-at-I.aw Office: Chiquola Club Building. One member of firm will be at Cheeterfleld e^ery Monday i , I vf*. > A REAL NERVE AND BODi-BIlLD- , ING MEDICINE We believe Rexali Olive Oil Emul! sio.i is the lest remedy made for toning the nerves, enriching ^ health, strength and energy?the best , medicine you can use if you are run I down, tired-out, nervous and debili-t.ttod, no matter what the cause. It | doesn't depend for its good efTect upon alcohol or habit-forming drugs, bei Icause it contains none. It may not make you feel better in a few hours, but it wilj make you feel better, we are sure, just as soon as the tonic i and food properties it contains have a chance to get into the blood and, through the blood into the rest of tll? ! system. Pure Olive Oil and the Hy? v phopsphites have long been endorsed by successful physicians, but here, for the first time, they are combined into^ one preparation which, as a nerve1 food and a builder of strength and: i health, wc believe, has no equal. If you don't feel well, begin taking 1 Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion today, and build your health and strengthen yoursystem against more serious illness. To convalescents, ol dpeople, puny children and all others who are weak,, run-down or ailing, we offer Rexall Olive Oil Emulsion with our personal promise that, if it doesn't make you well and strong again, it will cost you nothing. If we didn't have the utmost faith in it, we wouldn't ofTer It with this guarantee, nor even recommend it to you. We are sure that once you have u^ed it you will recommend it to your friends, and thank usfor having recommended it to you.. ^ Sold only at the more than 7,000 Rex-- ^ all Stores, and in this town only by us. $1.00?Ladd's Drug Store, Che- < raw, S. C. v m very uia ormciim. It has recently been alleged that tb?college doe* not adequately flt theyoung man for business life. It Is aa. old complaint. Buck In the middle of* the seventeenth century Samuel Pepys.. whose immortal diary is mighty good reading, was appointed secretary of the naval hoard, which was really secretary of the navy. Pepys was a , Cambridge man. hut he had to learn the multiplication table after he Entered the public service. And he proved a right competent naval administrator. after all.?Kansas Citv Stur. A. D. CIIAP 31 A N livery and Feed Stables ? 11 Next to Ranard Hotel ** 1 Reasonable prices. Prompt Service Sand and Gravel for sale. j j CHERAW, S. C.