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AgricrtttfBStn gtos ^3EMI-WEEKLY.) JULY 4, I008. Snf FISHNESS AND THE PUBLIC ROADS. A tenant, a highly respected white mau, remarked a day or two ago that he was in favor of the new road law and the taxes to be levied thereunder, giving as his reason that they will reach all classes, lie then went ou tc say that there are two prominent men in his neighborhood who have not worked the roads in twenty years. If this be so, and many of the roads certainly bear testimony to the fact they have not been properly worked, then these citizens have been setting a bad example. And here is, and has been, our difficulty. Too many of our people are imbued with the spirit oi selfishness. Ihey think thai Lancaster county exists for them and hence thev have treated n / as a lemon?sucked it dry anc threw it away, such form the class of citizens who are always decrying the county and any at tempt to improve it. They saj you can't have any improvemeutf in this county. And whycan'l you? Simply because the people who ought to be the leaders ii all improvements and who shoulc attempt to mould public sentiment that way, instead of doing so, are croaking, saying, "It wili cost you a dollar." Yes, so it will, and it will cost a dollar tr bury a croaker, but it would be cheap at fifty dollars if every one in the county could be buried. Hut what does a good, a public-spirited citizen sayi He doesn't say that i4it will cost vol a dollar." No; he sayg, "We want and neod good roads anc here is a way to get them, and 1 am gla*.l of an opportunity tc put my money in it it it wil help the county/' la other words, a good eit'zen exist* and lives for the good of the county while a selfish one exists and lives for HIMSELF, and tlie county can go to the dogs so long as it does not cost him anything. The latter is certainly no good to the county, lie may make cotton and corn, hut he can not make public spirit, nor does he entertain a decent re gard for the county in which he lives, or rather exists, for a selfish man does not live?he only drag- < u' a miserable existence. Mecklenburg county is held up a? an example of good roads. How did she get them? Her citize; s are good and public spirited men?that accounts lor her good roods, (iive any county good, public spirited citizens .and she can have good roads. It is up to Lancaster to say bv deed what kind of people we are. Correspondent Thompson is evidently of the opinion that the ,lbrain leaks" of this thiuk-shop are more holy than righteous. The Kershaw Era is rallying Editor Connors,ot Thi Lancaster News, about a street sprinkler lor Lancaster. One would suppose from what jolly Mr. Connors has been saying about the mud in old Lancaster that a street enrinklpr in ahnut the last thine ! needed. Has it not been raining Di in Lancaster too??Greenwood Journal. <je Mistaken as to location. 09teemed contemporary. The a(j mud that we have been touching gy in high places is in Hock Hill? us not in Lancaster. ce "Operations for deepening Hell Gate were begun today," co says a New York dispatch.Many a sinner will now rejoice in the j ! hope that the deepening process ! ro will prpntimtp in sinkine ' 1 derstand his position, after brushi ing aside his self created **h 1 atikI et holes" atui opportune Fourth I to compli?h tht desired ie-uit. trl therefore, it is necessary to er awaken 111 the minds of the mas--, I es higher ideals and encourage j !el j them in cultivate and maintain!111' I a true regard tor law and order. 1 : sp . f M 1 he board of health has had printed in pamphlet form lor j j v distribution among the people of , Lancaster ordinances and .State "e laws relating to health and sani- , if) jtatiou. which it will uweli repay llli i every citizen to read and strictly pj( observe. The board makes an earnest appeal t?? a), citizens to ~ j cooperate with it in its efforts i , to improve the town's sanitary condition. lot In a strong, timely editorial la* the Rock liill Record urges its tnt city council to follow Lancater's hi: example in passing an ordinance nn requiring dogs to be muzzled. we gr A stand has been erected on cjr the graded school grounds for the speakinc today. But if the weath* ^ er proves i hreatenins: however, s,)l the meeting wiil .be hel l in the tin j court house. j ho pate "plumb out o' sight"?so , deep that the entrauce will never ( ( again be discovered. j , its Murat Uatstead, the well- 0f known journalist, died in Cincinnati Thursday. For many 8t' i - i i ii.. er years lie raimea among uie ^ leading editorial and magazine ^ writer in America. ' We cheerfully give space to ' Mr. Thompson's communication, I \> which appears iu today's paper, . inasmuch as these columns are ty t always open to those who wish es ^ to indulge in legitimate criticism gj o! our editorial views. As our correspondent doesn't appear to i be "hankering" alter a newspa- ^)e . per controversy, we shall only w< T say in passing that he altogether ar , misconceives the purpose and ol spirit ot the article he so earnest1 lv condemns, il we correctlv tin vidend Day in Lancaster. Qj Wednesday, July 1, was divi- " nd in Lancaster. Tbe followadmirably managed corporIons, of which Col. Leroy >rings is president, paid their ual semi-annual dividend- : The Bank of Lancaster, 8 per n f "" III The Lancaster Cotton Mill?i mmon stock, 4 per cent ; pre-; rred. 3 1-2 per cent The Lancaster A: Chester rail ' ad. 4 oer cent. The EureKa cotton mill, at i* ster. 4 per cent. The Fort Mill Savings Bank, which Capt. S 10. White, ot fincaster. is piesideni, also paid 5 usual semi-annual dividend 5 per cent Wednesday. The annual meetings of the ockholders of the Springs propties will be held here August 3. nilriiiio Lots to be Laid off North of Court House. Col. Lerov Springs has eraoyed a civil engineer to survey t' into building lots his properlying north of the court house, :tenditig to Gills Creek. About ty acres, ^'ich of which is ithin the corporate limits, will i thus cut up into lots. The jrk will be done without delay id the lots will soon he placed i the market for sale. Dry Creek Dots. Mr. J. F. Bell, Jr., had cotn blooms .Iiinp 27lh Miss Bessie Gainer spent las' an. iturday night with Misses Mme and Fronia Bell. Mr. and Mrs. BeuGainer spent mday with the latter's sis'er-law, Mrs. John Bell, of Bel. >wn, who is quite sick. Little Miss YoraSowell is visiiir her aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Gai>r. tiiis week. Mr. J. F. Bell, Jr., spent Sun13* with his brother. Mr. Lucs Bell. Mr. Frank Gainer and three 11s spent Saturday evening at e Falls. Mr. J. F. Belt had a nice oat to die recently and Mr. ank Gainer ha 1 tive to die in! ie day. Mr George Bell is visiting I -s daughter. Mrs. Lizzie (iainer. j News Reader. . Heath Springs Dots. Mr. i'hotnas Gaekins, of Ivor 1 aw, a student of the State I n : tr.-ity at Columbia, has be^n : siting relatives here this week.! Mr. Curt;- Mackey ot Lancasr - pent Sunday with hi- f ?tli . Mr. Zed Mackey. Mr. II. 11. Ilorton of Lancas- j r has been going around shale- j 2 hands 'hi - week. Mr. P B Mot-lev of Yorkville ent Sunday with Ins lather, , r. G. L Moblev. The candidates are having a ely time down here. There will be some ball gamere Saturdav. the 4 th of Jul v. The crops are looking line wn here now. not withstand- Cc : the hail storm Cotton is lomiug fast. News Reader. tartanburg's Oldest Citizen Dead- | or, Spartanburg special in Char- .In te Observer : Solomon Hal- a r d. aged 04 years, the oldest ' ( in in the county, is dead at 5 home at Catnpobello. lie was irried only once and unto him lJa >re born twelve children, 90 no andchildren, 118 great-grand- j err ildren and 12 great great!re,i indchildren, making in all 220 rn . t POI als that were given to turn tc ! tjlf 3 day ol his death in all his j u*e. jJui of July thunder. It was not our intention to ''cover as with ' a blanket"' the verdict in the 111 ' case referred to. but.among other things,to discourage criticism of pi i something which can no longer 1,1 > be helped?something, as the ^( , lawyers would say, which is now res judicata?and to point outlet tlie way. to those who regard the; Iie verdict as a "miscarriage oi jus-i tice,'" whereby repetitions may j ds > herealter be avoided, tliat way be- 1U . ing ttie building up ot a healthy public sentiment in lavor ot the j so ( enforcement o: all laws, particu 1 larly these against the shedding; ' ot human blood and the carrying *}' > of concealed deadly weapons. ' 1 We are contending for a lair and 0E impartial administration of ins tice in this country?not by j "i I abusing lurie^ lor their finding*, . j but by purifying, *o to speak, the I! source Irom which juries spring. ?ilf the juries are not doing their! duty, as claimed by many, the responsibility rest^ with the pee- s 1 pie themselves, irom whom jur- 1V.' ies are freshly drawn on the eve i of everv term ot mnrl To no I1 = ACOUI ?FHS <4 I>id you ever give thought to 111 tlie material aiil ntul eneouragcme its that this is a country of homes l>o you realize that this aid aiu been such a help in making: impro ortv values, was possible only be< in banks their surplus money, the no immediate use? Individually these accounts w stand for the world's progress. Identify yourself with the move ter town, a better trading point community of home owners by The First Nai LANCAST HERE IS 1 10 SET TO BKOWN 1 M U L E L ="7 AND ' i S < h i) a p ]>s pi TOBACCO. V Brown Mule Must Be SoldREMEMBER XP.C.Cro: Headquarters TRY A TAI )ndition of Cotton Crop, as c Reported by Government ^ Bureau. ( Washington, Julv 1.?The av- ' me condition ot tlie cotton ,p in I tie l ulled States on j tie 25th was 81.2 per cent, of } lormal, as compared with 70. r >ii May 25th last: 72 on June > ill a year airo, S3..'! on June t 111, 1900. and 81.8 and averB ot the June condition for the c st 10 years. This was the an- j uncement made today by the | ip reporting hoard of the bu- j iu of statistics ot the Depart- < lit of Agriculture based on re- t rts of the correspondents and > a/ents of the bureau. r The condition ot cotton on c ue 25th, and the 10.year ay ? m ' htryI mes. e fait that it is largely due to nt given by banks niul hankand home owners? 1 encouragement, which has vements and advancing propcause many people deposited money for which they had ere small, collectively they ment for making THIS a betand a more PROSl'KKol'S opening an account with J tional Bank '* i ER, S. C. 1 PLACE I Brown Mule Going Cheap I the PLACE | I v, 9" \'toii(ScCo I for Cigars. I VIPA FAD. I ;rage respectively by Stales folaws: Virginia '.'2 and 84 ; North "arolina 89 and S3: South Cn.ro. ina 84 and 82 ; Georgia 83 and ^1 ; Florida 84 and 85 Alabama 52 and 81; Miasissppi 84 and 81; Luisiana 80 and 82; 'lexas 80 ind 82 ; Arkansas S5 and 82; , I'onnesee 80 and 85; Missouri >7 and 84 ; Oklahoma 04 and >4 The conditiou ot the cotton ;rop monthly lor the past 10 renr9 shows an nvoracp nf ?9 51 >er cent, on May 25th? 81.8 on fuue 25, 81.4 July 25th, 73.9 on >n Auuust 25th and 07.G on Sepember 25th. >oVVit? ?* Witch H.tzal Salve i* good uts. burns bruises and scratches. Jt is specially n rod for piles. Uecouiineuded nd Hold b) all dm agists.