The people. (Camden, S.C.) 1904-1911, February 21, 1907, Image 8
?ASHINGTON'5
IHILT HDAY
JfaqgorrrS Janoytvr
75 splendid to live 30 prandly, .
That lonq after you are pone,
he thirds you did arc reinernbered,
, And recoOnltd under the jun ;
To live jo bravely and purely,
That a nation yofo on its way, ..
^nd once a vear, with banner and arum,
Keepj *(S tnought of your natal day .
*7Tj splendid to have a record
3o while and free from stain _
u hat, held to the light, it shows no blot,
Though tested and tried amain ;
That aqe to aQe forever
Repeat* its Story ?f love ,
^nd your Birthday live* in a nation's heart
All other days above.
And this is 'Washington's \glory,
A jtcadfast soul and true ,
Who stood for his country $ honor
'When his country's d?ys were few.
And now , zuhen its days are many,
? And ih flag of Stan b flu%
To the breeze in defiant challenge,
Hij name is on every tor\gue.
Vcy. it's Splendid to live so bravely.
To be so great and Strong,
That your memory is ever a tocsin
To rally the foes ?f the wrong;
lb live so proudly and purely^ ,
That your people pause in their way,
And year by year, with banner and drum ,
Keep the thought of your natal day.
N what school did the boy Wash
ington develop the qualities
which made him a great leader
in peace as well as In war? He
bad courage, balance and patlenco In
the face of difficulties; he could man
tie a slave and Impose his will upon
an army; he was as minutely ac
curate In matters of business as he :
. was broadly sane in questions of na
tional affairs or international rela
tions. Inheritance can give but little
explanation of these qualities; educa
tion through book learning contrib
ute little to develop them; experi
ence, the Influence of others and op
portunity were the sources of his
Otrength.
Wo anaedotes of his early years
lire reliable, and the vagaries of good
Parson Waems gained currency only
because they appealed to general hu
man nature. It is known that Wash-,
tngton was strongly built, was fond'
?f outdoor life, was passionately de
Voted to his farm operations, and
read slowly, painfully, as a rule tak
ing extensive notes of what he read,
llo was a fine horseman and knew
a good horse, aa every Virginian of
that day was bound to know. His
pastimes were fox-hunting, playing
card* with the ministers of his
ehurch and breeding hunting dogs,
of which he had a goodly number
and know each one by name. A
horse race appealed strongly to him,
and a visit to the capital gave him
tho best society the colony could
afford.
Th? father of Washington died
Chen tho boy was too young to have
9?n Influenced by his advice or ex
ample, and the mother, though of
etron? characteristics, could contrib
ute little to his education or practi
cal training. That a midshipman's
commission was offered and con
cld er?'d Is well known, and the rest
less ambition of a boy led him to
wish for a sea career. The objec
tions of his mother bad weight, and
It was on land. In the hard service
of defending the frontier of Vir
ginia, that his young activities were
trimmed Into that sedate gravity ,
*rhlch clung to him through life. In
tho backwoods ho learned how to en
force discipline among a rough com
pany of raw soldiers, taught himself
thr hard lesson of providing against
ian Kers with Inadequate force and
pupplles.
The two years of schooling en
WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE
joyed by Washington were only
sufficient to give him a taste for
mathematics. The management of
his mother's plantation brought
homo to him the necessity of under- |
standing the ordinary forms of legal
procedure. The land questions con
tinually arising in a newly settled
country turned him to the study of
surveying. Hence it Is that among
the earliest manuscript records of
Washington now existing are to be
found his copies of legal forms, ex
ercises In surveying and carefully
prepared accounts of his Income and
outgo. To the ond of his life his
ledgors were kept scrupulously and
most minutely, and each year's econ
omy may be told from these records,
valuable not only for their personal
interest but also for the history of
a Virginia plantation which they em
body.
His first employment was the care
of his mother's plantation, and he
there laid the foundation of methods
which were later applied to the man
agement of Mount Vernon ? a man
agement that was as successful as
could bo shown In any part of Vir
ginia at that time. He knew what
each slave was worth In the domes
tic economy, and he closely watched
possible advantages to be obtained
from public franchises. When his
interest in a ferry was threatened
he called for aid from his half-broth
er Lawronce, then In the House of
Burgesses. The appeal, a bit of legit
imate lobbying, is one of the earliest
known letters of Washington.
Shortly after this incident Wash
ington went to llvo with Lawrence
at Mount Vernon, where he amused
himself by making surveys of the
fishpond, of the creeks and the var
ious fields of the plantation, proving
his process of self-education and fit
ting himself for his first public ap-,
point ment. The Influence of Law
rence upon the young man was
strong, enduring and wholesome, and
was more responsible for the Wash
ington of later years than all other
Influences combined. Lawrence was
a man In public life, of wide ac
quaintance among the lending men
of the colony, a warm friend of the
King's representative and of that
voluntary exile and decidedly roman
tic character, Lord Fairfax. He was
engaged In extenslvo land ventures
and mining enterprises. He was In ;
the Colonial Legislature, and, know
ing that the real greatness of Vir
ginia lay In the west rather than In
tho tobacco plantations of the east,
he taught George that the true pol
icy of the colony was to secure a
share, If not a monopoly, In the trade
of the Ohio ? a lesson which years
after boro fruit in Washington's In
terests In canals.
It was Lawrence who gave George
his opportunities to make Influential
friendships, leading to his rapid ad
vancement In public service. It was
a very young man who was appointed
surveyor of the Northern Neck v hen
Lord Falrfat laid claim to a prln- I
clpallty, and surveyor to the college, j
It was a very young man who was
sent by Dinwiddle to the French In
terlopers on the Ohio to demand a
full recognition of the English
claims. When war appeared Inert
table ? a war arising out of Euro
pean differences which were In the
end determined In America ? It was
this young messenger who was
placed In command. Youth alone
eould not have attracted such respon
sible employment* had It not been
associated with balance of judgment,
persistence under defeat and a power
to awaken confidence In his follow
ers.
A crushing, and from some points
of rlew a disgraceful, defeat wss the
first result. It was as a volunteer
aid he served under Brsddock and
received that baptism of fire which
extorted a sneer of praise from the
King. Political favoritism gave him
a secondary place In the new forces
raised for frontier defense, but the
very qualities that made him so great
as leader of the Continental army
were developed In this period of tem
porary eclipse,1 when his pride was
smarting under supposed neglect and
he was reduced to the ordinary rou
tine of a military outpost In a wilder
ness. He was restive under fancied
disregard of his suggestions and pic
tured neglect of rank and dignity
where he was to blame rather than
the Governor. Under the royal offi
cers who took Duquesne ho bad an
experience in regular service which
was of highest moment when later
he assumed the task of fusing into
one Continental army the many and
differing regiments from separated
and mutually jealous colonies.
He was now master of Mount Ver
non, a member of '.he House of Bur
gesses and a married man. His per
iod of eduactlon was over, and after
a few years of home life he was
called Into public service which con
tinued with but two intervals of rest
until his death. The boy of a few
years who gravely enters into his
first account book, in a writing but
little resembling that of later years,
the few pence he wins from his
brothers at "loo" is the Bame man
who enters the few pounds borrowed
of him by his mother. The youthful
surveyor who practised his calling
on fish-ponds and muddy creeks Is
Y?. father, I can fell a lie- U ma
who cur down your old chcny tree, nnd
ihc sqya shr'll go for the of>plc and Jxor.
frees noxtl"
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
In 1732, at the beginning of dawn
in Westmoreland County George Washing
ton was born.
He soon rose to glory and fame,
And in history has an honored name.
In 1775 he was appointed "Commander ia
Chief,"
?By C. W. Pcalc.
OKORGE WASHINGTON,
In Uniform of a Virginia Colonel.
Peal? painted fourteen portraits of Washington and it is upon theae, although he
painted many other famous men, that his reputation a a a portrait painter depends.
the same man who drew the lines of
the independent United States. The
Inexperienced "major" who surren
dered to the French at Fort Neces
sity, and in so doing unwittingly
admitted himself to have been guilty
of "assassination," is the same man
who saw the English evacuate New
York and abandon tho new power
of the United States to a career such
as the world has never seen. Tho
same sensitiveness to criticism which
led tho young colonel to resent a
dispute of his rank and to feel keen
ly tho supposed hostility of tho royal
Governor is the same man who
winced under the unwarranted as
persions of the Continental Con
gress, the cabal of Gates and Con
way and the cowardly flings of Dache
and Dunne and of the extremo
French party during his Presidency.
Tho influences which made Washing
ton arc few in number but potent in
force, but after all Washington was
? Washington, a riddle difficult to
explain In a satisfactory manner. ?
Hy Worthington C. Ford, author of
"George Washington," editor of "The
Writings of Washington," and a rec
ognised authority upon tho subject,
in tho New York World.
A NAIVE PIlAYEIt.
Just before the indecisive battle
of Monmouth, In the Revolutionary
War, a brigade chaplain in Wash
ington's army is sa'd to have offered
up this unique prayer:
"O Lord of Hosts, lead forth Thy
servants of the American army to
battle and give them the victory;
or, If this be not according to Thy
sovereign will, then we pray Thee
stand neutral and lot flesh and blood
decide the Issue." ? Woman's Home
Companion.
Seventeen distinct languages, be
sides English, are spoken In Indl*.
And the British soon added this to their
belief.
In 1776 he made them Boston vacate,
Otherwise they would have inet their fate.
In 1777 there was a glorious time,
When Burgoyne surrendered his Gold
Mine.
In 1781. Washington marched 400 miles*on
land, ?
To capture Comwallis and his British
band.
In 17R9, as the country was prospering fair.
George Washington took tne Presidential
chair. ,
In 1799 he died as history savs,'
Mourned by everyone for many days.
? Henry T. 'Clark.
It will be worthy of ft freo, en
lightened and. at no distant period,
ft great nation to give to mankind t?ie
example of a people always guided by
an exalted Justice and benevolence.
? Washington's Farewell Address.
1HE SUPPLY BILL PASSEO
lA?ie? Fixed For Various Couatiea
by BilL
The house has parsed to third read
ing the supply biil u fleeting the var
ious counties. One of the most im
portant recommendations was made
by the Richland delegation and called
for the disposal of the Columbia,
Neberry and Laurens railroad bonds
bought by this county in 1888 and
since then in the hands of a sinking
furc commission.
The biH does not show a number
ntf counties because the levies are
afterwards to be fixed in the senate.
I The general State levy, however, is
fixed at 4 1-2 mills, which is a reduc
1 tion of 1-2 mill.
By counties the levy for county
purposes is as follows:
Abbeville ? Ordinary 2 1-2 mills,
debt 1 mill, court house 1 mill.
Anderson ? Ordinary 3 1-4 mills.
Bamberg ? Ordinary 3 mills.
Barnwell ? Ordinary 3 1-2 mills.
Beaufort ? Ordinary 4 3-4 mills.
Berkeley ? Ordinary 2 1-2 mills.
Tax of 3 cents per head Jo be levied
on. all sheep, goats and hogs and 5
cents per head on all cows because
of exemption under general stock
law.
Claredon ? Ordinary 2 3-4 mills,
road tax 1-2 mill.
Charleston, 1-8 mill tax for militia,
balance incomplete.
Cherokee ? Ordinary 3 mills, road
tax 1 mill, permanent road tax 1
mill, sinking fund, Limestone, White
and Morgan townships, 3-4 mill ;
railroad bonds, same townships, 1-2
mill; ether townships, 1 1-2 mills, 1-2
mill ad 1 1-2 mills, respectively.
Ciie?tcr ? Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, in
terest on bonds 1 mill.
Chesterfield ? Ordinary 3 1-2 mills,
road tax 1 1-2 mills, interest on
bonds 2 mills.
Colleton ? Ordinary 4 mills, road
tax 1 mill.
Darlington 1-2 'mill interest on
eourt house, ordinary 4 mills.
Dorchester ? Ordinary 4 1-4 mills,
interest on county bonds 1-2 mills,
titiking fund 1-2 mill. Collier's town
ship 2 mills for road purposes.
Edgefield ? Ordinary 5 mills.
Fairfield ? Ordinary 4 mills, past
indebtedness 1 mill.
Florence ? Ordinary 2 mill, special
road tax 1 inili.
Georgetown -Ordinary 2 1-3 mills.
Greenville ? Ordinary 3 mills, sink
ing fund ?.-2 mill, for roads 1-2 mill.
Greenwood ? Ordinary 3 .1-2 mills,
past indebtedness 1 trill. Ninety
Six township 2 3-4 mills; Cokcsbury
township 2 mills, Cooper township
3 mills.
Hampton ? Ordinary 3 mills, past
indebtedness 1 mill.
Horry ? Ordinary 5 mills, court
bouse 1 mill, railroad bonds in town
ship of Conway. Bayboro, Green
Sea and Simpson Creek 4 mills each.
Kershaw ? Ordinary 3 3-4 mills, in
terest 1 3-4 mills, road tax 1 mill,
court house bonds 1-4 mill.
Lancaster ? Ordinary ?r> mills, inter
est on railroad bonds 1 mill, sinking
fund 1-2 mill; Pleasant Hill town
ship 2 1-3 mills, (Sill Creek 2 3-4
mills; Cane Creek 2 3-4 mills.
Laurens ? Ordinary 3 mills, road
tax 1 mill, interest on bonds and sur
vey of proposed new county 3-4 mill.
Lee ? Ordinary 3 mills, sinking
fund 1 3-4 mills.
Lexington ? Ordinary 3 1-2 mills,
interest on Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens rnilroad bonds 7 1-2 mills.
Marion ? Ordinary 4 mills, jail
debt 3-4 mills.
Marlboro ? Ordinary 0 1-2 mills.
Newberry ? Ordinary 3 mills.
Oconee ? Ordinary 2 mills, sinking
fund 1-2 mill, for other repairs 3
4-4 mills.
Orangeburg1 ? Ordinary 2 mills.
Pickens ? Ordinary 4 mills, debt
1-4 mill, sinking fund 1 mill, chain
gang 1 3-4 mills, bridges 3-8 mill.
The Richland Levy.
The Richland levy is as follows:
Richland ? For: Hielilnnd county
For ordinary county purposes, two
and one-half mills; an additional tax
of one-half of one mill in Columbia
township for the payment of princi
pal and interest on railroad bonds,
and authority is hereby given to the
county board of commissioners of
Hielilnnd county to sell the certificate
of stock of Columbia, Newberry and
Laurens railroad, being a certificate
for 1,000 shares of the par value of
$40,000, said sale to be made at pub
lic or private sale after due notice
in newspapers by the said county
board of commissioners for the best
price obtainable, and said county
board of commissioners are hereby
authorized to use the proceeds of
now or hcreaftir on band, for the
payment of the principal and inter
est. on the outstanding rnilroad bonds;
and said county board of commis
sioners are hereby authorized to use
any surplus that may remain on
ham! from the levy of the half mill
tax above referred to and from the
sale of said stock of extra work up
on the public highways included
within the limit of Columbia town
ship with authority to turn over to
the municipal authorities of any ir<
corporaed city or town in Columbia
township, the pro rata share of such
city or town to be applied to extra
work upon the public highways with
in such cities or towns; an additional
tax of two mills in the school district
of the city of Columbia in lieu of any
special tax authorized to be levied
bv nn act entitled "An set to pro
vide for the establishment of a new
school district in Richland county
and to authorize the lew and collec
tion of the local tax therein," ap- ,
proved December 24, 1880. That the
county supervisor is hereby authoriz
ed to draw his warrant upon the
treasurer of Richland county for the
sum of $100; to the credit of the cor
oner of Richland county, who shall
.be paid therefrom upon the approval
of the county board for stenograph
ic work for inquests and for actual
expenses for the removal of dead
bodies, and any surplus remaining
shall be returned to the treasurer of
Richland county on January 1, 100S.
Saluda? Ordinary 0 1-4 mills, debt
1-4 mill.
Spartanburg ? Ordinary 3 mills,
road tnx 1 mill, interest 3-4 mills.
1-4 mill, building road? 1 aflL
sinking fjind 1-2 mill.
Sumter ? Ordinary 2 3-4 mills, debt
3-4 mill.
Union? Ordinary 3 1-2 mills, road
tax 1 mill railroad bonds 1 mill,
debt 1 mill, permanent road improve
ments 1 mill, aid Confederate veter
ans 1 mill.
*T'illiamsburg ? Ordinary 3 1-2
mills.
York? Ordinary 4 mills, Catawba
township 2 mills, Kbenezer 1 mill,
xork 3 mills.
Notice of amendments was given
and many changes will be made in
the senate in the levies published.
To Wind Up Dispensary Affairs.
In view of the passage of the Car
ey-Cothran bill the following aet was
introduced in the house to close up
the affairs of the State dispensary :
"Section 1. That immediately up
on the approval of this act the gov
ernor shall appoint a commission con
sist in<? of five members, none of
whom shall be members of tho gener
aj assembly, to be known as the State
dispensary commission, who shall
each give bond for the faithful pre
formance of the duties required in
the sum of $10,000.
"See. L\ Said commission shall
immediately i rganize by the election
of a chairman and a secretary fro?
their number.
"See. 3. 11 shall be the duly of
said commission to clo>t out the ci ?
tire business and property of th
S'.ate dispensary, including stork it
the several county dispensaries, bj
disposing of all poods and property
connected therewith, by collecting all
debts due and by paying from the
proceeds thereof all just liabilities at
the earliest practicable date. Said
commission shall be at liberty to
make such disposition upon such
terms, times aud conditions as their
judgment may dictate: Provided,
That no alcoholic liquors or beers
shall he disposed of within this State
except to county dispensary boards,
and all liquors illegally bought by the
present management shall be return-,
ed to the person from whom purchas
ed.
"See. 4. The compensation of each
member of said commission shall be
$5 per day for each day actually em
ployed about the business, and act
ual expenses for the time engaged:
Provided, They shall receive no com
pensation for services rendered on
this commission after January 1. IJH)8
"See. 5. That said commission
shall pay to the State treasurer, after
deducting their compensation and
other expenses allowed by this act,
all surplus funds on hand paying all
liabilities.
"Sec. (5. The said commission is
hereby authorized to employ such
book keepers, accountants, clerks, as"
sistants and employes as they may
deem necessary and to contract with
tliem at the time of employment for
their compensation.
"Sec. 7. The said commission
shall submit to the governor at the
earliest day practicable a complete
inventory of all property received by
them with a statement of tho labil
ities of the State dispensary, and as
soon as the affairs are liquidated a
report in full of their actiuirs and
doings."
Bills Sent to Senate.
The following third reading bills
were sent to the senate by the house.
Ways and Means Committal A
bill to raise supplies and make ap
propriations for the fiscal year com
mencing 1907.
Mr. Toole? A bill to limit the hours
of labor in cotton and woolen mills.
Mr. Holliday ? A bi|{ to amend an
aet entitled "An aet to amend sec
linn 392, volume 1* oode of laws
South Carolina, 1902, so as to in
crease the bond of the county treas
urer of Horry county," so as to ftir
tlier increase tho bond of the county
treasurer of Horry county.
Mr. Cothrun- ? A bill to provide for
two weeks of court of common pleas
for (Ire *nvih* county in July, 1907.
EAT WHAT YOU L1KR.
'"If men grimly eat to live, they
will not live Ions," says Dr. Thomas
Lathrop Stedman, In a protest against
the desperate seriousness with wliteh
the present generation regards Its food.
Dr. Stedman suggests that people
should eat what they like. "Appe
tite," he says, "is as necessary to di
gestion a? is mastication, ami what
Is eaten without rHish Is with diffi
culty. If nt all, assimilated, for tho
stomach d?-spis?*s unsavoy stuff and
refuses to secrete sufficient fluid for
1 1 8 digestion."
The dietetic frank, he adds, Is
saved from tho otherwise Inevitable
results of his folly by the faot that
his enthusiastic appreciation of the
unsavory food which ho Is persuaded
will assure him strength and long It f o
Klves hlni a tasto for It, and so the
motherly stomach provides an abun
dance of gastric Juice of the proper
composition.
The liar may repent, but be cannot
? his lies recap*