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STATE BUDGET 185$3,370,62596 WHICH CALLS FOR A LEVY OF NINE AND ONE-HALF MILLS. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of South Carolina People, Gathered Around the State Capital. Columbia. The free conference report on the appropriation bill was adopted with out dissent. The bill carries a total amount of $3,370,625.96, to be raised by a levy of nine and one-half mills. The biggest fight in the free confer once committee rooms was that over the law enforcement fund. The house refused to put anything in the bill for this purpose. The senate inserted an item of $50,000. The house finally yielded to the sofiate inl providing $25. 000, plus the unusued portion of last year's appropriation for this purposq, amounting to approximately $17.000. The condition on which the house yielded was that State constables de sist from searching baggage unless the owner has been previously con victed of selling whiskey, or unless armed with a warrant for the person or the baggage, or unless the con., stable Is certain of liquor being in the baggage. The Council of Defense item was another disturbing portion of the measure. The house appropriated $25,000 This was increased by the upper house to $50.000. The compra mise effected was that $25,000 be ap propriated and the governor empow ered to borrow $15,000 more, should that amount be necessary. Another big change made in the ap opriation bill by the senate was to increase the amount for needy schools from $50,000 to $100,000. This was ac cepted by the free conference com mittee from the house, but the $35,000 appropriated by the senate for voca tional training was deleted. Recapitty. lation of the bill follows: Governor's office ........$ 15,680.00 Secretary of state's office 7,500.00 Comptroller general's off. 9,800.00 Insurance com'r office.... 10.715.00 State treasurer's office... 9,750.00 State Supt. of Education.. 17,580.00 Adjutant general's office.. 62,499.50 Attorney general's office.. 12,135.40 R. R. commission office.. 15,950.00 Public schools ........... 509,104.92 State librarian's office.... 3,139.00 Public buildings ......... 5,870.00 State electrician and en gineer ................ 26,850.00 Catawba Indians ........ 7,500.00 Department of agriculture commerce & industires 4.200.00 Judicial department ..... 124,836.26 Health department ...... 102,241.83 State board of medical ex aminers..--............. 3,000.0w Tax department...........96,713.10 University............... 136,200.00 Winthrop Normal and In dustrial College. .. .. ...196,325.86 The Citadel, the Military College of S. C. ........75,860.00 School for Deaf & Blind 79,600.00 State Colored Normal, In .dustrial, Agricultural & Mech anical College .... 63,499.79 State Hospital for the Insane................. 616,496.17 S. C. Industrial School. 89,275.38 State penitentiary .... 8,140.00 Other charitable and pe .nal purposes ............310000 Chief game warden's office 7.825.60 Ilistorical commissionl . 4,050.00 'Interest on bonded debt..- 222,849.16 fElections................54,200.00 Expenses common to both houses.................1270.00 The senate............... 18,190.00 House of representatives. 37,591.20 Engrossing department .. 6,407.20 Medical College of S. C. 47,620.00 Pensions and~ Confederate Infirmary..............299,800.00 State warehlouse commisq sioner.................. 10,000.00 State Bloard of Chlarities and Corrections........ 16,000.00 Joint committee 01n print ing....................25305.00 'Miscellaneous............. 311,315.41 Total................$3,370,625.9C Should Help Tenants. The Carolina Farmer and Stockman carries the following article on 'Land 'lord and Tenant," by Victor E. Rec tor, who fills the chair of agricultulre at the University of South Carolina. and who is also a member of the leg islaturo from Darlington county: "South Carolina should take moel interest in the people who rent. Tile 'people to do tis are the land owners. ,L.ay In Wood Now. Addressing 'the farm-i demonstration agents meeting at Clemson B. IB. Glos eett, federal fuel admiinistr-ator for South Carolina, made it plain that it is incumbent uponI thle people of the~ State to lay in large supplies of wood now. "No One knows howv much~ coal there 'will be for general fuel pur-poses next year." Mr. Gossett said. "Indeed it is entirely possible that those communli ties that have an abulndant wood sup ply availale may be denied any coal - next winte renters can not be accomplished by the legislature, but it can be dune by mutual agreement and mutual heilp. Let the owner buy wire and the renter build the pasture on which to raisa his meat, milk and butter. Let the owner of the land buy fruit trees and show the renter how to plant and care for them, then divide orchard prod ucts. Let the landlord lay off the ter races and' pay for half the labor in ditching. This would save the fertil ity of the soil and thus give more profit to both. Let the landlord help the renter in buying and mixing fer tilizers to suit the soil. Then let him tell the renter when and how to apply the fertilizer to get the best results. Let the landlord lend the renter enough cash to make the crop at a reasonable interest. This would save the renter from the criminal time prices now so common. Let the land loyd give the renter an extra $5.00 for Bvery bale of cotton he makes, above five to the plow. This would encour ige work and economy. Under such t system the renter would be ade uately fed while he was making the )rop; and when it was made. it would ')e free from debt and could be soil >r held as circumstances would sug Iest. The renter would show more nterest In the land. lie would feel cindly toward the owner who had help d him. He would soon be "on his eet' and he might wake up to the act that it is l)ossible for a renter to d(ucate his children." Vill Push Game Protection. While the force working for an en orcement of the game laws have for t time been demoralized, W. H. 1ibbes, acting in his capacity as chief :ame warden, sent out a statement o the various wardens in the State Lsking that they redouble their efforts or game protection. The statement urther states that all are required to ihow a duty well done, or else the lepartment does not need them. The statement is as follows: "Under competent legal opinion and lie ruling of the comptroller geenral, his office will continue to b)e ad ninistered as heretofore. This means hat my warrants for your pay will ontinue to be honored as you earn it inder present arrangements. There ore, I want every one of the warden orce to enter upon a new era of hard vork and effective enforcement of the ,ame laws. "Put aside all ideas of perplexity ai o the status of the office of chief ,ame warden. The power and author ty to administer it are in my hands nd I propose to exercise it in the in crest of all the people of the State. Varning is given that any game war lens who are not producers and who aih to make proper showings In their erritory will not be continued in the ervice. "Yours very truly, "W. H. Gibbes, Chief *ame Warden." lour Census Ordered. The following statement relative to he proposed census of the flour sup ily in the State was issued by Wil iam Elliott, State Food Administra or: "Washington has authorized flour :ensus on basis agreed upon at ad. ninistrators' meeting, as follows: "All persons are invited to report o county food administrator amount if flour they have on hand in excess yf30 days' supply. It should be made ntirely clear that they should keep his flour, unless sonme disposition of t is ordered by food administration, Lnd that it is a census and not a plan if confiscation. Also make clear th-dt vhen these written reports are filed he person accurately making thefth vill be relieved from charge of hoard nig or other unpatriotic act; this will nake plan popular. Certificate should >e very simple. I suggest the follow ng: "I have on hand blank powumas if flour in excess of 30 day's supply." ~uggest that this census may result ni great saving of transportation, ince shortages can be thus equalizeg. will be glad to have suggestions, in rder that I may pass them on to thors to make plan a success." ~lodifles Flour Ruling. Not satifled with the delay of the [00( administration in responding to heir protests against its order which rocluded the farmer fron p)urchasng lour unless lie purchased an equal iuantity of a substitute foodstuff like neal, rice, etc., Represenatives Levers rnd Byrnes called upon Mr. Hoover n person andl entered a most vigorous protest against the wisdom and sanity f this order. The situation of the South Carolina farmers was fully explained to Mr. Hloover and it was pointed out that this ordler, if permitted to stand, would not only work an injustice to the farmers of the state, but necessarily result botah in waste and In a decreas ed production of other floodstuffs. When the situation was fully under stood by Mr. Hoover, he took steps at once to authorize the food adminis trators of the state to permit the farm ers to purchase flour without having to pur-chase an equal amount of ether foodstuffs which he himself had on hand. Not Generally Considered Bad. Mump~s is generally considleredl a sorry little disease and a joke by everybody except tlie patient. I lealth authorities, as a rule, pay very little attention to it. because its pre-venxtion usually costs mocre in time, effort and money than t~he ravagos pf the dis ease warrant. But even at that, the dlisease ranked fifth in the United States navy in importance in 1915. andl even now many of our men in the trainiing camps are incapacitatedl as a result of a "swell" cano of mump. IGTON IN THE FIELD Y,~ with a laugh, as if the phrase were empty rhetoric instead of sublime truth. Liege means more to us than Lexington, and remembering Edith Cavell, we give no thought to Jano McCrea. We may well thank God that the war of American independence has not the glamor of battles fought In vain, that our freedom is no lost cause, that Washington's halo is not that of a martyr whose life and death were un availing. To those who look at the world's events in true historical per spective, without sentimentality and with love of justice and freedom in their breasts, the American Revolution fills the most encouraging page in the chronicle of the centuries. , But for most of us it is only in times of stress like the present that we can come to an actual sense of our exceptjonal privileges to a realization of the radi ant truth of the stories we read in our history book in school. This year the Declaration of Independence takes on a clearer significance; we know, as we did not in bygone years, what it means to be free and independent states, ab solved forever from all allegiance to foreign powers. And so this year Washington's birthday is no routine holiday, but a day of solemn yet joyful commemoration, a day on which we honor with .full hearts him who made us a nation, the warrior whose sword cut the bonds of our thr'alldom, the statesman who hade us, avoiding en tangling alliances, go our free way, an independlent republic, no nation's syco toward none," said Washington's great est successor, "with charity for all." It was a summing up of Washington's own political creed. No lost cause, however glorious with the blood of martyrs, seems today so noble as the still triumphant cause of Ameriean in dependence. No modern hero, fighting overseas, is today so dear' to us as our founder and preserver. And to his ex amples and his counsels we cannot look for guidance and look in vain. British Tribute to Washington. George Washington, first president of the United States. A true IEng lishman of the Pym and Hampden breedl, he taught tyranny-in the per son of George III--a lesson which is still remembered, andl which has had much to do with the free development of the British emnpi re.--London Graphic. Philosophy of Law. There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the com munity; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force.-George Washing ton. TS AT VALLEY FORGE GENERAL WASHII ... ... s, . .. . . . "LEST WE FORGET" Nation Does Well to Honor the Memory of the Founder of Its Glorious State of In dependence. IF we today lived in a colony, ground down by unjust laws, our passion for national life secretly and trag ically burning, if Washington had 'ailed, had died in vain for the cause which in fact he brought to lasting trl umph-then for poor sentimental hu manity he would shine with a luster greater than now is his, writes Joyce Kilmer in the New York Times. His cause triumphed; the dream became a reality, and therefore lost the charm of the dream. Washington, dying on his bed, in his honored old age, his hopes realized, is a noble figure. But he lacks the dramatic appeal of Wash. ington bidding farewell to his children at the foot of the gallows. By some strange perversity of hu man nature the cause we consider ro mantic and picturesque is always a Lost Cause. The names most deeply loved are those of the fallen leaders whose partisans met with defeat Robert Bruce and Robert Eminet, Vil laam Wallace, Sarsfleld and Sobieski, that "fair and fatal king," Charles L, snd his persecuted and uncrowned heirs. Children of Union soldiers though we may be, our hearts beat more quickly at the thought of Lee than at the thought of Grant. We rise when the band plays "The Star-Span gled Banner," b~ut we rise and shout when it plays "Dixie." And it must also be acknowledged that a tragic death endears a states man to the generations thant follow bilm. If you are a great leader and want to be sure of posterity's affection, see that your cause fails. Then the aonquerors wvill legislate against the innoring of your memory, andl that will make your fame secure. But if c'our cause succeeds, then at least see lhnt your death is sudden and violent. live the world a drama, a legend. Washington triumphed. At York own he capt uredl Cornwall is' redcoats ind put an end to tyranny on our <hores. It is niot forbidden to honor uls memory; the wvearing of the red, white, andi blue is attended by no p~er Is. And so we take things for grant 'd ; we forget the hideous dangers bhrough which we passed only some uundred and two-score years ago; we ake for granted our nationality, our 'reedom, and the fearless warrior, the malightened statesman who gave them :o us. When we' speak of Washington us the Father of Ils Country wve do so INSPECTING OUTPOS 01 A Our boys are defending this country on the high seas and on the land. Our own defense against a common enemy is to keep the system clean by ridding the body of the toxins, or poisons, which are bred in the intestines. When you feel tired, sleepy, headachy, when your breath is offensive, or piinples appear oil the face amd neck, It is time to recog nize the danger and protect your bodily health by taking soiething for the liver such as Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The machinery of the body needs to b4- olle(t kept in good condition, just as the guns or machinery of a ship. Why should a human person neglect his own imuehinery imore than that of his auto Illobile or his guns? Yet most people do neglect thelves. Their tongue ins a (lark brown color, skin sallow, b'riut i ail, yet they faill to see that their mniuehin aiery needs attention. Dr. I'ierce's Pileasant Pellets have been known for niearly half a century. They are made of May-apple, leaves of aloe and Jamlp, m1ade into a tiny pellet and coated with sugar. They are stand ard and elllencious. You can obtain them at any drug store in vials for twenty-five cents. Ask for Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets-and get no other I The Benign Variety. "We must. get rid41 of politleal pull I" "We ann'" rejolined Senitor Sor ghumii. "Moreover, politleal pull may be elinent ly desirbile. If the honest man1411 Diogei'es was lookiig for lihd been 1ilisc vered, he would I mmied late ly have had14 aill kind-, of political pull." AND NOW THEY ARE COOKING TOBACCO TO MAKE IT BETTER For a good many years The American Tobacco Company have been conducting a series of experiments 'having as their object the Improvement of smoking tobaccos. And it Is Interesting to know that one of the greatest of their discoveries was one of the simplest, and that was, that cooking or toasting tobacco improved It In every way, just as cooking most foods improves them. They took a real Burley tobacco, grown In this country; toasted It as you would toast bread; moistened it to replace the natural moisture driven off by toasting; made it into cigarettes, called them "LUCKY STRIKE, the toasted cigarette," and offered them to the public. The result has been the greatestdemand ever created for any tobacco product In a similar length of time. The change produced by toasting Is not only most wholesome, but the flavor Is greatly improved, just as cooking improves meat, for example.--Adv. Pertinent Suggestion. "Tl'l, pop, is a hotel a houise of corn ni1(IIs?" RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR. To half pint of water add 1 oz. Bay Rumn, a small box of Itarbo Compound, andi %. oz. of glycerine. Any druggist can putt ihm upj or you can mix it at home at very little cost. Full directions for mak ing and utse come ill each box of Blarbo Compound. It will gradually darken streaked, faded gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. It will not color tihe scalp, is not sticky or greasy, and dloes not rub off. Adv. f'old shioulIer is an unpal~latablle dish for afrm. HEALTH RESTORED Serious Kidney Trouble Was Re moved by Doan's and Results Have Been Permanent. "Kidney trouble put me1 in a bad way," says Thomas A. Knight, 62-1 N. Ninth St., East St. Louis, ill. "It camne on with pain across my back an~d tile attacks kept getting worse uin til I had a spell that laid me up. Morphine was the onl~ relief and 1 couldn't move without, hrlp. The kidney secretions were g scanty, painful andl tilled with sed iment. "I was unable to leave the house, couldn't rest and became utterly ex hausted. The only way I could take ease was by bolstering myself uip li.El withl pillows. )For three months I was in that awful condition andl the dloctor said I had gravel. D)oan's Kidney, P'ills~ brought me11 hack to good hlealthI and I havo gained wonderfully in strengt h and weight." 1Sworn to before me, A. M. ECGGMANN, ANtary Public. ALfMOST THREE~ YEARIS LATER, May 2-1, 1917, Mr. Knight said: "T1he curc D~oan's broughlt me1 has beenf per mianent." Cet Doan'. at Any Store, Soc a Box DQOAN'S "ILLS FOSTER-MILBURN Co., BUFFALO, N.Y. CHILDREN'S COUGHS masy be checked, and mnore serious condi tions of the threat will be often avoided by promptly gling~ the child a doe of P150'S CALL TO SOUTH CAROLINIANS On America Rests Responsibility to Crush Germans, Says Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman. Columbia.- -Replies are coming from all parts of the .state to Horace L. Tilghman, in charge of the work of rproparing an eligible list of men avail. able for work in the shipyards of the country. Mr. Tilghman's office is in the Union National Bank building, Co lumbia. He feels optimistic about getting the 4,000 mon needed from Soutth Carolina. Wiliam Banks, who is assisting Mr. Tilghman in this work, received 'the following message from Senator Tillman in Washington, chair man of the senate's committe on na val affairs: "On America rests the responsibilty of placing her almost infinite stores of men and munitions and food quick ly on the western front to crush, once for all, the strengtlh of the German Junkers. America now has the train ed nien an( rosources to ncconi)lish this (end. Only one thing Is lacking to place these resources where they will prove decisive--that thing is sI ps. "She has the materials, she has the plants to produce them, but to pro ducv. them she must have the men, preferably trained mechanics, ready to assumeil the titAk and with willingness aind enthlusiastin push it to a success ful conclusionr. Can the rospolnse for a 111olint be doubtled? "I think if we have any men in South Carolina who eann help build sI, they ought at onre to inake up their minds to go to Work for Ile gov ernmllent arnd enlist in that great Ca41use. General Pershing and his gal ait armny need reinforcements and any on1e wiho c-all cont -ribute In the least ought to get to work iminedi. ately." General Assembly Acts. Columbia.-Chief among the acts passed by the general assembly were: To create a home for the feeble minded. To introduce the Australian ballot system in all cities and incorporated towns. Rural district precincts are excepted. To create an industrial home for girls. To ratify the federal prohibition amendment. To create the State Council of De fense. To admit women to the practice of law. To further restrict the quart-a month liquor law by requiring that judges of probate issue personally all liquor permits, to be issued only in the judge of probate's office. Under the amended law it is incumbent upon the official to establish the accuracy of the affidavits made in procuring the permits. Violation Is punishable as for malfeasance of office. Tilghman Appoints Assistants. Columbia.-H. L. Tilghman has ap. pointed the following men to assist him in the work in this State of en listing men for the shipbuilding work who will give information regardling the service to the men residiang in their countieos: E. H. EvWerett, Spartanburg; Dr. J. B. Johnston, St. George; N. 0. Thom as, McCormiek; Walter E. Duncan, Aiken ; W. P. Greerie, Abbeviloe J. C. Guilds, Itamber-g; A. M. Kenniedy, Williston; Georgo Waterhouse, Beau fort.; L4. G. Funltz,. Monek's Corner; Frank J. Simons, Charleston; Lee Da vis Lodge. (Gaffney; C. L. Hunley, Chesterfild ; RI. 1. Cald well. Chesteri; WV. C. Davis, Manning; WV. WV. Smoak, Walt erboro; Rev. 0. T. Por-cher, Dar lington; W H. Muller-, Dillon; N. C. Evans, Edgefild; John WV. O'Neal, Rock Hil1l; George A. Mclhveen, Kingstree; Lowndes J. Birowning, Union; A. C. Phelps. Sumter-; Dr. L. J. Smith. Ridge Spring; W. E. iFind lay, Pickens ! W. WV. lharr.- Orange burg; Dra. G. Y. IHunter, P'rosperity: Hucghes. Laurenis; ii. W Woodwanrd. Bishopilie; WV. S. Deon~oeh.- ('amden; Sena tor H. R. Purady. R1idgelanrd ; l. RI Gunn, Var-nville ; T. Frank Wat kins. A nderson ; J. WV. Mcl( own, Florence; J. WV. Knight, Lancaster; F. A. urt ruaghns. (citnway; L,. 1,. Mc-Laur-in, * in net tsvilile ; A. A. Hleardley, St.- Char-les, JT. E. Wannamaker-, St. M'vatthewa; IR. E. Hanina. Cher-aw; R. T. Jaynes, Carl 11. Hart, York. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWh ITEMS. TPho mills of the Granitovillo Manu facturing Company at Graniteville, in the Horse Creek Va,1ley, Aiken coun ty, are closed and the machinery Idle, -whle between 500 to 60 Ooperatives, mon and wolnen, are en strike demand ing substantially a 20 per cent in crease in wages. The closIng down of thne mills was madle necessary b~y the walking out of 'thne operat iv~s. Albert S. H ucks of llranc-hville was among the res-uied of thne Tuscantia. F. A. Nunneryv, of Edgmocor, whose son, - en Nunnery, was on thIe Ja-oh Jones wechn the vessei was tuorpedo(ed by a Ger-man sumarinie somte moi~nthis ago, has received a letter fromi Sail1cr Nunnier-y, annaouneinlg hris aririv~alI in Now York. 11lo is (xpec'ted 11om1 soon1 to visit h is pr-enrts. Charles f-ost er, a well known young~ Spartiaiinurg mianr, was held by a -or-r nor's jury on tire (-har-go of having mutrdeired his hr-ide of cine year, Mrs E'dna H erren Foster. Some soldiers from Camp) Greene. Charlotte, N. C., have been moved to Camp wnadsworth. Snartannnrg.