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w 'W ^ MM TAX IU KDKNS. Urines Much Discontent to 8/0Q0,00ft, T?i* Pun oi k. v* Q ? r Ileal in<? lutge growls uf diacontent Kim-nt from sontp 8,000,000 individuals who have just emerged from the pain fn! oyd^H Of f'lKti ri?ur up tin it income taxes, writes Raymond Clapper from ; Washington, administration officials ! art- doing their boat to hold out hope of reductions in these levies in the tu rn and l .'r moc nils are rushing for ward to broadcast the word that if they were restored to office maybe they c ould bring them down. ? Hut the truth is, according to the exports around the capital, that taxes Will stay up where they are for some years to come. This is in face of the growing belief that any adminis tration is going to have a hard time returning itself to j3ower until taxes .'ire lowered. This danger may prod ambitious poliical leaders of both parties to promise great things for the poor victim who exhausts hi.* bank balance this week to pay his fed eral taxes. But the most casual inspection of government) expense figures discloses that the money has to be raised some where. Thus far no substitute has been found for the ultimate consumer y source' of taxes. President Harding came into offic ? pledged to reduce government ex penses. It is fair to assume that he has done his utmost. He has chopped oir 100,000 employes from the govern i!. ntj pay rolls. Maybe he cap cut off lii but hardly enough to make much difference in the linal tax bills that must be paid to run the whole government. For the federal govern ment has expanded and continues to expand. It has just set up an elabo ralv credits system for farmers. That costs money, The new Veterans' Bu reau is. costing more than any other government department. For the first time it has been necessary to ap- j propriate $00,000,000 to pay insu rance policies signed under the war risk act. This sum will increase rather than diminish for some years t.) come. The maximum cost of vet eran hospitalization will not be reach ed for four or five years, probably. This is only a sample. Administration leaders are giving t bought to the possibility of scaling down the individual income ta.^ rates. Hut for every cent cut off here, a new tax must be found. The extra taxes may be shifted into the invisible class paid indirectly. It is easier to pay a tax unknowingly than to send it in ' tit right by mail. But no matter how much sugar is sprinkled oyer the pro cess, the weekly pay envelope will go no farther in the end. That is the hard fact Jthat this administration, and any one that succeeds it in the next few years, must face. Meantime, both Democrats and Re publicans are combing over appropri ation figures of the recent congress to -ce where the government's annual expense total stands in relation to previous years, and there is so little di fTercnce that the opposing parties take the same figures and the Repub- | beans are able to show a reduction of *.'00,000,006, while the Democrats -how that the current year's expense probably will exceed last year's by be same amount. It only demonstrates that whether ' ' ; e expenses for this year are lower 1 higher than last year, the dilfer ? nee is so slight that it cannot be es tablished beyond question. Responsible party spokesmen have prepared opposing digests of the ap propriation figures. The Democratic view is given by Representative j Byrnes, ranking minority member of' 'be house appropriation committee.' I he administration defense is supplied ! !,y Chairman Madden, of the house ' appropriations committee, and Chair nan Warren, of the corresponding "?mmittee in the senate. The comments: Representative Byrnes, of South ; ' arolina, on behalf of the Democrats: 1 The figures are startling1 in view of : officially repeated declarations of the . administration that there had been J threat redactions and economics in j government expenditure No figures nave yet been produced either by ('resident Harding or by Budget I)i :ertov Lord to show that there has i* en any such reduction." Senator Warren, for the llepubli ? ans: "The reduction of total appro priations for 1914, as compared with j i '>21. in the sum of $233,802,504.60, is most welcome information for the tax payors of this country;" Byrne* says the current year's up propriations will be $22K,000,000 above last year's. He finds the same J difference as the Republican spokes- . <nan, except that it is on the other i Mde of the ledger. Forty Russians, held at Klli* Is- . arid, New York, for deportation be 1 nusc the Russian quota of immi grants has been reached, soy their deportation bark to Russia simply means their death warrants at the hands of the ,Sovw?U Heeause all of tHe forty are 0*art*t#. ***$&? J TO uf i!"ii ,* I 1 ,V(3 to Do :ho ?y 0 ^:\ . , c f ? Von.!?-* ? Is }??"? 'My . j a't tinman I: oil i. ujul *? '.imunh at ioil w 1 h j planetary pei&hhm , by \\ irt Je's* "tuny ! ?IK? po.s. tihlo, alHmu. h thtt '<'<? ?( \\<>iii?l ; be imw ease," In lb.- cjiii ion of (,*. tJ, Ihb, a>s"s ititi ? ? : reiury ?-f t!.e Smithsonian Instluitum, \.'ho dLviis-e* various >;<iuiilhc j... - 1 s . ? ? .?? "bahtt- ! ability of o(l or wo. lt; In tht> annual ( veporf of the lnsi \\ ?u .toll. Mr. Uitwt >a'ys Wit Us rcilecls llitht j its If it surrounded with clouds, ; Am) so probably "It con Kilns plenty of I moisture." "It* tomtom lure is about tin* sumo , un that of I lit' he added, ? anil ' all other conditions ure apparently i compatible wlih the existence ?>f In j tefllgent lift4." Many popular writers have claimed ^rcnl things for Mars as an abode of lift*. Mr. Abbot say*, "but I (;unnot accent this view." tHMUipentjiug ^n suggestions (hat "we [ are already reviving wireless signals from Intelligent beings outside df the earth," Mr. Abbot dcclnres the best In formation seems to l>e that the "wire less Indications referred ro are merely disturbances Introduced by solar i?r terrestrial causes as yet Imperfectly understood." i The moon, our nearest neighbor, is I a waterless, alrles#. mountainous desert, and there is no probability of Intelligent beings there; the probability is even loss on (ho sun, whose Intense heat would not aJ low any living being to exist there. This leaves as possible abodes of life in our solar system the seven ureal planets, Mai's, Venus, Jupiter, Siil is rn . Uranus, Neptune ami Mercury. Tin* outer four of these planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are, us shown by their low density, mainly in a gaseous stale. Mercury, like the moon, is an air less, waterlogs, wuste, besides being baked with terrific heat, so lids planet also Is out of the running-. The prob able average temperature of Mars is <)0 degrees below zero, and Its climate Is drier than the Sahara desert. His Idea of Wealth. The lnte 10. M. llarriimm of railroad fame personally Interested himself In an East side boys' club iu New Y'ork. George Kennan, author of the recently published biography of Mr. Ilarrimau, interviewed some of the younger boys who had come in contact . with Hie financier to get their impressions of him. One twelve-year-old youngster had this to say: "Mr. Harrlman's a great man. He's president of a rail road and lie's worth a couple of thou sand anyhow, lie's a quiet man and never tells anybody down here any thing about his business. He isn't what 1 would call a good-looking man. but 1*11 * bet he could put up a good light. lie lives 'way up town some where in a house all to himself. Be ing "worth u couple of thousand any how" and living In "a house all to him self" seemed ^o the tenement -house boy of fho East side the acme of wealth and luxury. Why Farming Should Pay. The National City bunk, of New ^fork, after analyzing the census fjg "ires for 1020, declarer that for the lirst time in the history of our coun try there are more people working in factories than on farms. Fifty years ago there were more than twice as many t*untry wiAkers as city workers. This not only means that the farmer lias a bigger market for his product, but that lie Is a greater buyer of man factured goods, because an Increasing ly largo proportion of the factory bauds are making things for tlx; coin fort and convenience of people in the country. If we l'orget the year of two of hard times, now happily passing, we can see that farming is not a crowded business, and we can be sure that It will be generally prosperous in the fu ture. The man who gets discouraged now and leaves the farm because ho thinks farming "doesn't pay" is mak ing a mistake. ? Fargi. Life. ?Safety Fir?t." She was a bright little girl about three, taking her tlrst trip west to visit her grandfather. There was not much that failed to interest the baby mind arvi questions and answers kept lifer parents pretty busy, when they ar rived In ono of file Middle West Cities It was decided to break the trip there and stay over until the next day. The usual, rivalry wus evident, between t.he taxi and hotel luis driver*, unci Betty was an interested and curious spectator until two of the men .started some friendly sparring that seemed pretty serious to Hetty. Her mother | felt a tug at her skirt and looked j down to see the raust- a loud whisper j followed from Jtetty: "Muver-- -get j daddy ? let * wuu. thai man over ? there hits ev-we one who dnthn't go to his house." ? Exchange. Their Choice. "Where will poor Mrs. (jubhins go, now that both her daughters are mar rled and living m different cities?" ?'Well, ooi* son in law would like to have In r g<> to Springfield ?nd the j other tn Brooklyn." "Wli?t dutiful sons-in-la* ! " "Not at all. \ ou s*-e. U s the one j in Brooklyn wbo wishes she'd go to* .Springfield and the one m Springfield ! ivbo wlsne? xhe'd go to Mrookirn.''? | Itowfon Kveoing Transcript How to Be Fashionable. Mix Itox Mono* of rb?- iikihi fnsb- , lonable people are *-p*rtn.r itieir ls?ij year's clnthew. Mr. I?o\- Ye*. 1 told my tad or to he ? h refill t<> put a patch In i ?> new mlnrwit where ft front i nhr?w. ? i >a? Ti British Law Lords Give Grave Consideration to Appeal of Scotsman. May Sue Traction Company, Whoa* Conductor Refused *> Accept Mat ured Coin Offered in Payment of Faie. Loudon.? ;Thu fix-*' luw lords, const!* tut inn the house of lords. in sosnIou us the supreme court of appeals^ sat around In solemn semicircle.' Lord, llnldapc sat Id the pbU*6 of lord chan cellor upon the \yoolsuek, with the throne Itself behind hlin. Lord Kin lay and Lord <*uvo sal. upon his right, Lord Ihmedin and Lord Wrenbury upon his left.. In The lungnlflcent chHtnl)et', its tvtl benches nearly empty t \eept for ? group of lawyers and officials near the entrance, tho live law lord< in grave tones befitting their high function, I'ejjU out their learned judgments bite hy mie;. Nota I ?l<* documents these, In which tho live concurred in one division* abounding In sueh portentous words as torts, malfeasances, condescendences and the like. CMear.l> a landmark this, in the his tory of -the development of the law of Kngland- What gra.ve matter was, thus the earnest considera tion ot t'm* noble and learned lords'/ {Sur I nothing less than the fate of Notno jtKf.'it township, or the destiny of soinc- estate of millions? .M> noble and learned lords., in point 01' fuel, ?vere talking about a penny ? a two-cent piece. Tt sounds belter translated into American currency. My Lord K Inlay seems to think some thing the same himself, for through out his judgment he referred to It not as -u "penny." but as u "penny piece." or "a coin," Need it be said whoso penny it was: that had been carried up all the various step* of the Jaw into the house of lords? It was a Scots \ man's penny. Conductor Refuses Penny. Almost two years ago one John Percy climbed upon a street cur in tli* city of Chtsgow; lie tendered to th? conductor of the car in payment of hit fare a penny which was sllghtlj marked and Indented. It wa,s, in fact a penny which John Percy had him self received earlier In the day froit another conductor, and he determined t<? return it in the way by which it had C(?rne to him. The conductor, how ever, did not like the looks of thi penny, and demanded another In iti place, John Percy said it was good enough and refused to give another An inspector was called to relniorci the conductor, and still John Pprcy re i fused* ' / Finally he wan' marched /ti t ? ? tin police station on tt chansi**,nf refuslnj to pay his fare. IU^wiix kept then only ten ininuteg^mt this was lonj enough to fire Jlimi with determination to see Justice done between hlmseh and the CJIasgow corporal Ion, whirl owns the street cars. John Percy then commenced an ue tlon against the corporation for $25, (XX) damages on the ground that tin actions of t he conductor and inspoctoi had been injurious to his feelings an< his reputation? He lost the lirst roun< of his light In Scotland when the cour of session dismissed his claim, on tin ground that the corporation was r?H responsible for those actions of Hi employees. One "Bonnie" Fighter. lint John Percy Is evidently whal they call in Scotland a "honnie rtgh? er," and he carried Ids ruse up to th? house of lords. He did not pay hi? railroad fare to London foe the pur pose, nor Is lie being put to any ex pense In I ho costly process of suing before the highest court of appeal. Hp has taken advantage of the legal pro vision which permits a poor person to set the. law in motion at the state's charge If ho sues In forma pauperis. And now the house <<f lords has decid ed in his fiivor. Whet her John Percy's penny really was good or no better than It should be Is still not decided. What the law birds have ruled is that the corpora tion can lie sued upon h mistake made by the ?-ondliot?r and Inspector. That Is enough for John Perej It may be a^led. as a matter of historical In tcropt. of the five law lords who upheld John Percy in his fight- for his two rent* three are Scotsmen. ? Wnrre Wells In New York Tribune. KILLED IN FIGHT WITH BEAR Aged Man Is Slam and Partly Oe voured by Grizzly After Terrific Battle Near Yellowstone Park. t IJviftgston. Mont. ? Yellow stoua park runner* :ire trailing a huge grizzly bear flint recently killed and partly devoured Joseph iMtret. ><ixt>. an old time Montana trapper I mret's body was found <>ii 8 lough rrn-k, near tT\e park, with an arm and ? teg partly chewed off Sign* indicated the l>ear had been caught So ?>ne ? ?f lVuret'* trups. but had broken loose when the trapper came by on his rounds. Horace \f Albright, snperfntendeiit <?f the park, said there ncre evidence* of h terrific battle, :ind h rille, cln?r?Hl nnd fhfwwi. found bear - the broken trap. t>ne ahrtt had f?*en fired from the rifle rr?ll bowed lhat the matt bad crept ? mile oti * half after r*cel\ln* hi* loJorlM iii Alemoriam. j Mrs*, hiii' abotjh M; rusk.n, j one i>i" the noblest \voinen in Kci'shuvy j county o;?d at her daughter's home, | Mrft'ch the Voth, Tuesday morning, ?tl ! I oYkVk, a f i e j* a long ilhiesii from j pavalv . Mrs. McCttttkil) yvas of an j V(isposilk)U, iilltl ?\'v ftjved. Sho was beloved by all wh-> knew !.>?!?, In her carl.V girlhood she became a niember of PleAsant Hill JlaptiM V h.uivh. She was a devoted motlo r and grandmother and a con. secrutr.-d < t'hnstian. Karth is poorer antl hea\en richer 4k she passed from the weeping family here, to the iv Joining family in the home Above. She was ali>Vost ?M years old and is sur vived b\ on? sister, Mt-s, (Ylia .\K Cask PI, of Kershaw, and four chil dren, Mis. Mary Md'askiM, Mr?. Lois McCtoU^nii, Mrs. M. P. Stouner, of Hothune. and .1. K. McCaskill; of | Camilla. (Georgia. One Who Loved Her. ?" ' ? ? j-- ? .. ' .*ri*."..L ft' i ' - I.' Far up in the mountains at the head of American Fork canyon, Utah, two men ami a woman were maroon ed and starving in a mine cabin. Heavy snows had cut otf the two mi ners and the woman from civilization. I An air service plane was sent to the; rescue. The pilot circled over t he | cabin and dropped a package of. sup plies sufficient to maintain the party unt\l they can get out to civilization. Three children were burned to death at Newport Point, Quebec, Monday n:ght, by si lire started by candle that had been left burning nt a fourth dead child's bier, which set lire to a curtain setting the house on tire. . A Nation's Prosperity Is Founded on Its People's Savings It is the individual s;t vlug - of each , man ' "-oman and chlUI, caitpied witlj ?'d ' ligation, invention and .enterprise, that j makes a nation groat j\ni\ iirospcroin', America? the molting P0t of the na- | lions? has been particularly blessed. It is the richest nation in all the world,* ami its people free, enlightened, loyal and de termined. Opportunity plays no favorites. What another has done, you can do. If you arc not already a member of this big, loyal, savin# family, come in to the First National Bank and start an account. As your sav ings grow, your pride will grow with them. An expedition is soon to staut from London for tho purpose of seeking the tonih of Kiiv^r Ditvid in. .)< rusa li;m. " With a bucket and stick I've got Boll the weevil Licked." Hiat's all the equipment or machinery you need to apply Hill's Mixture. Just walk alonjr the cotton row, touching the bud of each plant as you pass by; inside of a few hours, the weevils on the plant will eat the mixture, and drop off ? DEAD! A Most Effective Poison I've got a poison that I am convinced the boll wee vil SEEKS ? not one that has to seek the weeviL Then, too, Hill's Mixture can be put on IN THE DAYTIME. No night work. An inexperienced boy or girl can thoroughly cover 6 to 6 acres a day. Best Protection ? Minimum Cost! My mixture is the result of thousands Of dollars of investment, and years of hard labor and practical field and labora tory experiments on my Burke County farm. Hill's Mixture is a liquid poison, composed of calciufri arsenate, molasses, water and secret ingredients which form a combination that we are convinced, ftom results obtained, attracts the boll weevil, Scores of farmers who used it last year have written me<unqualifiec| letter* of endorsement, and have already placed their orders for 1923. I will be glad to send you a book reproducing these letters, or my agent whose name appears below, will be glad to show them to you. MIXTURE Approved by Georgia State Board of Entomology Hill's Mixture is manufactured in the South's largest boll weevil poison plant. The calcium arsenate, moslasses and other ingredients are accurately meas ured in the exact proportions, and thor oughly mixed by machines which distri bute the poison evenly in the molasses. Every mix is chemically analyzed Oefora shipping. Hill's Mixture is approved by the Geor gia State Board of Entomology as a boll weevil poison, Raise your cotton on a pre boll weevil basis Go ahead and plant your cotton and leave the weevils to Hill's Mixture. Plac* your order today. $36.00 for a 50-gal. bbl., plus $3.00 for bbl., which will be re funded upon return. Freight free to any Georgia or South Carolina point. My agent for your territory, whose name ap pears below, will give you full particu lars. L. D. HILL. / r. MOSUL Hi , Camden , South Carolina Agent for Camden arid Territory and the Southern and tastern Part* of Ker'shnw County. KOI* TUB ~ HILL'S MIXTURE CORPORATION AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1 Miltt'lH 1W. - -7 ?ft; <6>