The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-02-19
LAURENs, S. c., Feb. 10, 1902.
Our SOlOns.

The fight vas hard during last week
to make up for lost time.
The appropriations were up on We'd
nesday and went through without much
scotching.
Higher education gave some trouble,
citizen Ashley leading the obstruc-
tionists, with his motions, but he rare
ly gave a reason "for the faith that
was in him But he knocked down
Winthrop (the Woman's College) from
$780, 900 to $780, 900, and this seems to
have met the good sense of the House.
All parties were generous IN praise of
the conduct of the old South Carolina
College, The officials of which account
ed in detail for every penny that the
State gives.
There are 80 big i~tems-$200, 900 for
State Pensions; Interest on Public
Debt 1926, 600; Insane Hospital $3.50, 600.
1t would be useless to add the many
other smaller items, which make an ag-
gregate close on to a million. In many
places there could be a sayipg,--that Is
to say $500, in probably fifty places.
To instance, there is a phosphate In
spector at 81 1900. He should 60 quick
ly. AT Winthrop they have n little
vegetable farm to raise peas and ber-
ries for the girls (the sweetdarlines), a
Superintendent at a good big salary
and an Assistant. Now this Assistant
is clearly a Super and he should go
quickly. We fear there are too many
soop-ers in every department-with
too many type-writers and s~tenograph.
ers.
The militia are growing luxurious
and the health department is getting
its hand deep into the grab bag. Lo-
cal communities should learn to COM
bat diseases as they come.
We have not space to ~particularise,
but thrift is q good word for Leglsla-
tors to smoke with theic Spanish to-
bacco. The Bill as it swung through
alteration go through the Senate
Many Legislators have wheels in their
noggins and feel that the State is all
right If the State levy is not increased
and this it seems will be the case with
the present levy. But it should be
less. We have all just been hinging
up our cap and hurrahing ourselves
hoarse at the statement that the State
assessment has. gained about eleven
Millions. But to what good end, to be
sure? We are not criticising the ac-
tion generally Of the acknowledgement
rally they have done well-especially
in killing a ream of-of-foOl bills.
Some Of the work was admirably done
and promptly--notably the Jury and
the county salary laws, which were in
confusion run mad.
The Senate killed the biennial ses-
sions bill--all wrong-.the assembly
should only meet once in two years, as
Ia the case with five sixths of the
States. A session costs $4,000 and
1926 900 should be annually saved and
we would have better Legislation.
Never mind! A new set will ''git thar"
(thanks to Citizen Ashley after awhile,
who will not be so considerable of Co
Notwithstanding house keepers and
laundry mamas
Representative Theus, Of Hampton,
died last week of pneumonia.
The Chicken" bill got it in the neck
in the Senate. Also the Bill to put the
State into manufacturing fertilizers.
Pelham, the manufacturing village
just North of the Eooree stays with
Greenville and is lost TO spartanburg,
(Spartanburg is a whale all the same.)
The MCGOWAN redistricting bill is
law, and our District is Laurens, Spar
tanburg, Greenville and Union. 1t is
have the men, we have the money, we
have the mentality, we have the (beau-
tifuD maids, we have the matrons, we
have Ghe morality.
The House SHE'D for ten days Mr..
Jobnson's (alias Bellinger's) antitrust
bill. We bought a black pony fifteen
years ago from the tail end of q Bun
combe wagon and named him Souter
Johnnie, after Burns blacksmith in
Tam O'Shanter. Laurens lies in q
valley like the vale of Tempe and as
we rode this pony home to u soup,
WYNN cpy q GU
wagon a mile on Todd's Hill and would
bulge no further. When the wagon
came nea and he got a Whit OF the
apples, chestnuts, cabbage, and cab
bage seed he was satisfied, bowed his
head and meekIy bore his master
h0meward. We always suspected this
pony OF being mooneyed, johnson
finally got his anti trust wagon up in
the House on Thursday last, and the
statesmen, smelling no birthstone or
dynamite, voted it almost to a man.
A new road law for the whole State
WILDE enacted. 1t Is like n Of United
States Senator Morgan's speeches
and too long to read or quote.
Representative Nichols made q brave
fight to help out Sullivan Township
against the Railroad Tax-it Is yet un-
settled.
Laurens is asking for a 4th term of
Court to hold in the month of May.
MCGOWAN wants a section of broken
Granite column for u. ID. G. of Lau-
rens.
Senator Goodwin Is pushing his Bill