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Car Loa . / * y' / ^ ~ " -S" ' % \ ' We have just r car load of fine Mu money and experieu be able tp find just 1 V" 9 . .jjjuuwuii W>~-i?l IS? a: . g^y^lMH^^^^MI^^^MliaBaa ^t,v fmHws^" Mr - 'V - ?1 , fflp " Mm:-w?- ch H igggg ^^ H||^gal] THEM -- <*# * xi; T ' v' ' \,-'i ' \: '* : "' ''' . _ ? - :v ' " "W ? TOOURFR W' We wish to thai "l&lf ? patronage in the past JOv.;! gies, Wagons, Harne SPf We beS to Morm ^ aSfe;! line of Merchandise, have a select line of ||ij Dry Goods, Notioi Ana our prices will v-ggif share of your trade. 1 , REEVES-1 ||j| Swansea, ^n." 'w v.- %< ??? "~ trader , F. u I , REG ISTE r ??? ? d of Fine Mules c i X eceived at our stables les and Horses?the 1 ice can buy. * In this lot ;he Mule or Horse you n i rm or draught Mules, fir ntle and well broke. - \ Prices will be higher s ase now. Our terms ar i L See us before you bu v minim nnm 11 htWo'DUUI Jeesville9 S ' ik our -friends and customers for ; in the purchase of Moles, Horses, j ss, etc.,, and solicit the same in the fa em that on Feb. 1st we will openagei Standard Fertilizers, etc., and will is, Shoes, Hats, t Groceries, Hardware, be found as low as the lowest. Give ' \ t Win SUPPLY CO,, c ~ Wl V YARK, MM ' .IfWWn nty-three years idard of the South 1 time fish guano. I *# llVjaiiVI ind Horses! > another te buggy and saddle Horses, i md we advise you to pure easy?within the reach of y. KNIGHT CO, f / *. c. 4 flttf||| INSURANCE, in |:w LIFE, ' ! \N m riEE' ACCIDENT, SSS see ; 'It ?re^ier? ture. $ JDk I LEXINGTON, S. C. leral - Strongest and Best Companies also 'i4?^ South Carolinian's Lost Heavily in Florida Firs. | - j! The following takeii from the Flor 'I <| ida News, will be read with interest etc. the many Lexington friends of the Messrs. Howell: Us a "The turpentine distillery at Pax.s'jTV ton, formerly owned by Messrs. ? Hughes & Shell, but more recently S owned by fllessrs. J. T. Hughs, J. J. Howell and J. J. Howell, Jr., was < burnedjlast Saturday night. "The plant was the only one of its kind in this part of the South, and > *^Or was exPen8*ve* was one ?f the S ^ind w^ere terpentine is extracted from sawdust and slabs ; and'pine knots, by a steam heating process, machinery for same being very ' complicated and expensive. "The estimated loss on the plant is 1 ! $25,000, with about $16,000 insurance. pvjP 1 ? This does not cover near all the loss as over a hundred barrels of spirits &IT[ were also burned. It was a close call for the big mill. The fire is said to 9r have originated from sparks that Kg came from a locomotive." K. Mr. P. G. Elcazer, of Wiite' Killed in Wreck. In a head-on collision one mile W ' north of Columbia on the ColumbiaCharlotte line of the Southern on Thursday afternoon, Fireman P. G. Eleazer, of White Rock, this county, wa9 instantly killed. Engineer Minifee, of the same train, was seriously ? injured, as was Conductor Ferguson. Officials charge the accident up to the crew of the north-bdund engine in disregarding the orders to guard against No. 73. m ? ? I 1Wa??A/8 4A ^A Mtwveu WW M W ftUBBHi "dl Mr. U. W. Jefcoat, Esq., is now B nJ||' located at Swansea. Until recently he has resided on route 2. JjfjUiy Cloth all Wool and iUw Paint all Paint, tr&SSS&rA Is cheaper than shoddy paint. The 5% L. & M. is Zinc Metal mand into ! Oxide of Zinc combined with White f$.^rvfc^yfcr Lead, and then made into paint with pure Linseed Oil in thousand gallon ^ grindings^and mixings. Wears long; actual cost only $1.20 per gallon, derrick, Lexington, S. C. t X The- Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, January 29,1908. Second Week of Legislature. During the second week of the legislature many bills were acted upon, many new bills were placed on the calender for future consideration and many were killed. The elections were held onWednes day and the selection of Judge to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hon. James Aldrich, was perhaps, the most important and much interest was manifested in the outcome. Senator Bates and Hon. Jas. E. Day is of Barnwell, withdrew from the race at the last moment, leaving Hon. Robt. Aldrich of Barnwell and Hon. Claude E. Sawyer of Aiken, alone in the race. When the' votes were counted Mr. Aldrich was the successful aspirant, he having received 82 votes to Mr. Sawyer's 76. The result of the other elections will be found elsewhere. After some able arguments for and against the repeal of the Lien law, the house overwhelmingly voted for lepeal. The bill was sent over to the Senate and that body considered the same yesterday. Mr. Crouch, of Saluda, has offered a bill in the Senate I and no doubt if it passes that body it I Trill h?T7P n. nnmhpr nf ampndments. The bill, as passed by the house, is as follows: ' 'Section 1. That section 3059, volume 1, code of laws, South Carolina, 1902, rel'ating to liens for advances, be, and the same is hereby repealed. "Sec. 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. "Provided, This act shall take effect on the first day of January, A. D. 1909." During the week Mr. Wannamaker, of Lexington, introduced a bill which provides for a public cotton weigher for Swansea. fc.The Senate favors a bill which purports to increase the terms of Supervisor and county Superintendents of Education to four years, instead of two years. The bill will more than likely pass. Senator Walker, of Georgetown, has introduced a bill favoring more pay for members of the general assembly. The^bill provides that members of the legislature receive the sum of $260 per annum and five cents per mile to and from Columbia, the most direct route - . to be travelled. When it comes to increasing {heir own salaries but few will hardly object and hereafter members are more than likely to receive $250. However, the bill has not been passed yet. It is done for the purpose, so many of the members claim, of getting abler and. more qualified men to offer for the legislature in the future. . * 1 Petitions from all over the State, signed by thousands of men and women, have been presented to the legislature asking for a straight-out prohibition law. Among the petitions is one from Richland and is signed by * several -hundred voters. However, neither house has as yet taken up the matter seriously. That is, the bills have not been voted upon neither discussed. But, in all probability a strong fight will be waged for State prohibition when the subject comes up sometime this week. That many of the members would vote to kill the present law which has been in operation a little less than a year, is evident on all sides. On the other hand, there are many who favor the present system. Mr. Morrell's marriage license bill failed to pass. The matter of new counties will come up at this session, and there are., already evidences of side lights on the matter. The only new county proposition that will come up at this , niession will be that of Calhoun County. Th e issues involved in the establishment of this new county, and it is a good one, are now before the Supreme * Court. If the Court says the election ^was all right, then the county will be j established. There is not likely to be any fight whatever over the matter. On the matter of taxation a proposition that is attracting a good deal of interest is that of Senator Griffin, of Colleton. The pith of the scheme is "that hereafter timber held or owned shall be assessed and taxed seperately from the lands on which it grows." The bill is short but reaches out after an entirely new line of taxable values and reads as follows: Section 1. That from and after the approval of thi9 Act it shall be the duty of all persons and corporations who now or may hereafter come into possession of timber, standing or growing upon lands of others, to return the same to the county auditor of their respective counties at their actual value for taxation. . Section 2. That hereafter timber held or owned shall be assessed and taxed separately from the lands on which it grows. The measure is now pending before the finance committee of the Senate. * Prohibition Means Better Farsi^M Work, Says Commissioner. |J "Already I can see the beneficial^ effects of prohibition on the negroS farm labor of the state," said Commissi sioner of Agriculture Thomas G. Hud-'J| son Saturday. "I expect to see throughout Geor-?j? gia a wonderful change for the betterjj this year," continued Commissioner \ Hudson. "On my own farms in South -ft Georgia I have observed changes for Jg the better, and wherever I go planters'Jra tell me that they are having much better success in securing labor undera!] satisfactory terms. ?^9 "Prohibition is driving hundreds of|jf| negroes from the cities to the farms^|| and I expect to see good labor plenti^? ful. Some people have the theory j| that a large part of the negro labor j can not be handled without whiskey , but I do not subscribe to it at all. "I have been a farmer all of myjjS? life and I have employed and studied ^ negro labor closely. When there is st. ; town or city within reach, where li-jpl quor can be obtained, a negro farm^J hand will go and hang around untit^ he has spent all of his money on ca^ijj rousing. He will come back then in nq shape to do good work for several'? H a.vs "But if no liquor can be obtained he will go to town when he must, at-'^ tend to his business and go back to vjB his work. Another curious feature; J| enters into it. Did you ever observe how few negroes you see who are ha *'?1 bitual drunkards? A negro will drink whiskey as long as he can buy it or:{|| get it, but when it is taken from him he goes along without apparently suf-'J fering from shaken nerves that torture a white drunkard. J "No negroes are leaying the state, except the natural shifting of theirre-' 3 sponsible element that follows public a works, and upon whose movements 3 the liquor question has no effect. We J will have plenty of labor in Georgia 3 this year, and.it will be better, stead- -J| ier and more desirable in every waySB than we have known for years."?Atlanta Georgian and News. j Lame Shoulder Cured. j Lame shoulder is usually caused by rheumatism of the muscles and quicjdy a yields to a few applications of Chain- ' j berlain's Pain Balm.. Mrs. F. H. 3?cElwee, of Boistown, New Brnnsmck, M writes: "Having been troubled for M some time with a pain in my left -shoulder, I decided to give Chamberlain's M Pain Balm a trial, with the result that m I got prompt relief." For sale by Kauf- 'IJ mann Drug Co. Cotton la Society Island*. 4 In the last issue of the bulletin of M the department of labor and commerce ;j| Consul Julius D. Dreher of Tahiti calls itf attention to the growing of sea island m cotton in the Society islands, stating M that increased interest has been ere- x ated by several lopg articles in the % official journal and by the offer of the M Caisse Agricole, a bank having close J relations with the colonial govern- % ment, to guarantee a minimum price l of 7 cents in the seed for all sea island ; cotton produced in the colony. In | 1905 sea island cotton to the amount , of eight and a third metric ton9 (metric- 5 ton equals 2, 204,6 pounds) was export- \ ed from these islands, and in 1906 23 j 9-10 metric tons. ?I However, if all the ayailable land ? for growing this valuable product were : under cultivation, the quantity pro- 3 duced would have little or no effect y on the world market price. Dr. Dreher w is a native of Lexington county and a ' brother of Superintendent Dreher of ' Columbia.?The State,25th. Bank Your Money. The Newberry Observer gives this good advice. "If you have any money ! put it in the bank. Don't keep it oKnnf. f.Vio linnoo oa o filmrifafinn uuuuu uuw ovuuv uw w WVIUJ^VOIWU UU thieves and robbers. Banks are safe. i Not one in a thousand ever fails. A railroad engineer in Augusta had $1,- , 600 stolen from his residence one night last week. It has not been many years sinfee a good woman of thie county had $1,300 stolen from ber premises and a good man had $700^ from his. The bank is the place for* your money until you get ready to spend it. Of course one ought to keep a little loose change about him for convenience; but home is no place for* laying up money for saving." ? How to Avoid Pneumoniar You can avoid pneumonia and other serious results from a cold by taking Foley's Honey and Tar. It stops the cough and expels the cold from the sys12m as it is mildly laxative. Refuse any but the genuine in the yellow package. Derrick's Drug Store. Happy Home "Wedding. On Sunday morning, January 12, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Howell, Miss Eula Howell and Rev. Ralph Jeffcoat were very happily married by Rev. W. B. Kyzer. The bride is a. M?v4iUgiIU of Styx and the groom of New Brookland. They were the recipients of * many handsome presents. Styx, Jan. 25. A FRIEND. ' . I TJ?. * -