Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PALMETTO ? c_ Ntsws Notes From All Parts of Carolinians For Woman's Monument. j The' Columbia State of Thursday give j the following list of contribu tions'to "Woman's Monument by counties: Richland.$963.50 Mar lboro. 533.98 Anderson. . .. 487:65 Sumter.. -.. .. ... 463.59 Marion.. .. ,,. .. .. .. .. 460.25 Aiken... .. . .405.(15 Spartahburg.. 37630 Yorki.. 338.10 Darlington.. .. ... .. ..... 337.25 Lancaster:. .1 .. 306.60 Greenwood.-.. 284.74 Newberry....\. .. ..260.-15 Greenville. 236.20 Chester.:. .. .. 213J6 Lexington.. ;. .. :. 207.73 Chesterfield. ..... 200.01 Faimeld. .. ..... 198.00 Abbeville.197.75 . Laurens. . 186.00 j Kershaw. .. ... ... . .178.50 Orangeburg..-. .. .. 177.25 Lee.. .. .. ... .. .. ... 174.50 Barnwell...'.. 163.25 Edgefield... 142.50 Florence.105.00 Cherokee.. .. .. ... .?.100.00 Calhoun. 95.02 Oconee. .. . . 85.50 Dorchester.... .. .\ .. .. 85.45 Bamberg.8L25 Saluda. 63.80 Pickens. .. .1 .. 54.05 Horry. .. 50.00 Clarendon. ... .. .. 45.25 . Union.. ... .. 44.00 Hampton...28.00 Georgetown. 25.00 Colleton.'.-. 18.75 Charleston..16.00 "Williamsburg...15.50 Berkeley.. 13.50 Snake in Sole of Groat Feasts on Fine Laces. .Greenwood, , Special.-Here is a snake story to .match that tale of the ?ootur sent in from here last week. Mr. W. J. Wells of this place vouches for the snake story, the details of which are furnished by Mr. Pope BiddleHuber. Mrs. Walter Riddle tuber, who lives about four miles ?ast of town, had occasion to open a ?drawer which had not been opened "for :>ome time. To her surprise and' astonishment she found a highland moccasin of tremendous size coiled Tip in the drawer. How long the snake had been ir there is not known. He was there and had been there some time. It seem .ed that he could not get out and be ing attacked by the pangs of hungei he proceeded to devour what wat arond hun in the way of laces and ribbons and had laid away a 'con siderable amount of such things. Ir fact, Mr. W. J. Wells, who happen ed along about that , time, helped kill the 5'iaki! and saw that about foin yards of lace was removed from hh snakeship's mouth. The Bureau of So?r. Will Investigate State. Columbia, 'Special.-The' United States bureau of noils will shortly take up the rejuvenation of th( famous Pudding Swamp tobacco area in Clarendon county. Commission ? -er Watson has had the matter ur .?with the federal .experts for som( time and a letter received states tha.1 .as soon as the approproation is avail Able this will be one of the first corni ties in the United States to receiv< attention. This will mean much t< the planters of that section, said it . be one of the richest in the county ( for che development of tobacco rais mg. Commissioner Watson will de liver an address at Manning on July 14 hi which he will explain the work He will be accompanied' by Prof Harper, who will talk on tobacco. Arrested on Serious Charge. Anderson, Special.-N. H. Sexton a well-known white farmer, wan .committed to jail wihout bond Tues day on the charge of an attempt crim inal assault upon a white woman wh< had for 'several months been hi housekeeper. A little more than J ^ear ago Sexton was arrested on J similar charge, the complainant a that time being a negro girl, but th case was trown out by grand jury Case of J. F. Faller Refused bj Governor. Columbia, Special.-Gov. Anse has refused, to pardon John Frank lin Fuller of this county, convictec and sent up for three years for house breaking and larceny.. Fujler, wh< is a white boy aboui 20 years of age was caught in the bungalow of Cap: John A. Willis a few miles from tb* city by Dr. E. M. Wh?ley. He ad nutted that he had stolen the key ti enter the house and both the judg and the solicitor refused to recom .mend a pardon, although the petitioi for, pardon stated that the boy wa weak minded. Fat Dividends Make the Spa: Happy. Spartanburg, Special. - Spart?i burg mills, banks and other ente; prises paid their shareholders i semi-annual dividends "Wednesda something over $350,000. The exact figures aie not at han but a conservative estimate of th amount is $365,000. Th? banking ir stitutions and mills are all payin their usual dividends and some mill have declared extra dividends. Dividend-Paying Day at ?partanbnrj Spartanburg, Special.-The bank and cotton mills of. Spartanburj paid out Thursday more than $350, 000 In semi-annual dividends. Divi dends are paid out t wice each year July and January--with the precis ion of clock work. It is a fixed CUB tom and the stockt olders no longe regard dividend as anything out o the ordinary. The money to be sen out will be deposited in the loca banks' sud eventually will seek nei investments. HUI - ? EJBWr ?APPEN1N0S the State of Interest io South ia General ' ? Opportunities Invite. Girls. "Vacant scholarships of free tu ition are offered through the South Carbina Federation of "Women's Club3 aa follows : "South Carolina Kindergarten as sociation-One scholarship for free ituition for two years. "Leesville college-Four scholar ship's for free tuition for four years. "Greenville Female college--One scholarship for free tuition for four years. 4'Coker college-One scholarship for free tuition for four years. " These will be awarded by com petitive examinations held July 10, 1909. "Applicants must file their names with, the chairman of the department before July 1. Students must be at least 15 years of age and prepared to enter freshman or any higher class ?and must inform the chairman which college she desires to enter. "For further information apply to "Miss Theodosia Dargan, "Chairman Dept. of Education of . South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, Dalzell, S. C." Damage Suit Decided. Columbia, Special.-The Supreme Court last week affirmed the Circuit Court's decision -in the case of Mc Creery vs the Southern Railway Com pany, in which a .?judgment was rend ered for $9,500. This was a very unusual ease. The contention of the plaintiff's attorneys was that L. I. McCreery, who was a flagman on the Southern, had been over-worked and was killed while asleep on the track with a flag in his hand. The point involved was that the man was al leged to have been on duty over time and for this reason" the road was responsible for his death. The suit was for $10,000, and $9,500 was secured. Lacey to Stand Trial. Columbia, Special. - Thomas H. Lacy, alias Thomas Cline, alias New ark Toney,,the yegg whom Postoffice Inspector Gregory had sent to the Atlanta prison for five years for rob bing the postoffice at McColl, in Marboro county, , will be brought back to Marlboro for trial in the State court on three''indictments for burglary and larceny. He will be re leased from the Atlanta prison Thursday. Deputy Clerk McLaurin, of Marlboro, was here Thursday to secure requisition papers for Lacy. The papers accuse the yegg of rob bing E. M. Covington & Co.'s store at McColl and the McColl depot the . same night he broke into the McColl postoffice and of robbing the Darling ton depot the following night. Severe Electrical Storm at Lando. Chester, Special.-There was a severe electrical storm at Lando Sat urday 'afternoon that ?or awhile threatened to do great damage. The houses occupied by Messrs. A. L. Nunnery and Thomas Robertson and families were struck arid for a time it seemed would be destroyed by fire, but neighbors and occupants by pvompt and effective work managed to extinguish .the flames. Mr. Nun nery, who was seated on a bed, was struck on the leg by the lightning and his leg from the knee down semi-paralyzed from the shock. He recovered in a few hours, however, and is. now as well as ever. Pasteur Institute at Home. Columbia, Special.-:The State laboratory for the treatment of rabies and for bacterial examinations opened July 1. At the meeting of the State Medical Association, which was held at Sunifnerville recently, it was decided to open this laboratory, which will mean so much to the med ical profession and be of such benefit to the people of South Carolina. Guinea Lays Wondrous Eggs. Aiken, Special.-The. Journal and Review has on exhibition two guinea eggs, presented to it by Mr. James Widener, of the Tradway section. One of the eggs has on it a good like ness of a duck in a sitting postare, while the other has an American eagle emblazoned on it. The like nesses are almost perfect, and the eggs are quite a curiosity to all those who have seen them. The eggs were laid by the same guinea. They are normal in everp respect, except the. pictures, which are ! in white, while the rest of the egg surface is in the natural brown. Ed. Sauls Wounded by Watchman Hayes. Bennettsville, Special.-Ed Sauls, machinist at the Marlboro cotton mills, late Sunday was shot and prob ably fatally wounded by H. B. Hayes night watchman for the mill. Three or four shots were fired by each man. Hayes has been lodged in jail, pend ing the result of Saul's injuries. There is conflict of statement as to which man fired the first shot. T. 0. Duncan Held For Grand Jury. Union, Special.-T. C. Duncan, former president of the Union Buff alo Mills, was held for action by the grand jury Wednesday by order of Magistrate Walker, after a prelimi nary hearing. John H. Morris charges Duncan with fraud on ac count of a check issued in December, 1906, on the bank of Spring City, Tenn., when it is alleged there were no funds to meet it. Duncan was ar rested several weeks ago, but was re leased on bail fixed at $1,500. The Duty of the Press in this Important Movement GREAT QUESTION OF THE HOUR An Able Paper By C. H. Varner, Esq., Editor of the Lexington Dis patch, Bead Before the North Carolina Press Association at Their Recent Convention Held at Hendersonville. . Building good roads is the great question, of the hour in North Caro-; lina. In the familiar phrase, it is the paramount issue, not only in this State, but throughout the Union. It transcends in importance politic!?, the tariff, the money question or any otb-' er question. Nothing is hampering this country so much as mud;'noth ing could possibly do more for the development of the State and nation than macadamized highways. Hence, ( the duty of the press in this State, especially, to begin a State-wide cam paign for the promotion of better roads. It is our manifest duty to cry aloud to advocate strongly, to publish, information, to mold public opinion until flhe people reach that pointe where they are willing to bear the cost of building modern roads in. every county. It is idle for me to attempt enum eration of the benefits good roads con fer on a people. Every man, no mat ter how unlettered, , instinctively knows that a good road is a far better thing to have than a bad road.' We naturally have it in us to know the value of, and to construct an easy pathway, but, unfortunately, the devil of tax steps in and tempts us to bear the ills we have, rather than fly to blessings we know of and great ly desire. Our people all believe in good roads, but there are some who are unwilling to pay the cost. I have heard good men and good farmers de clare that inasmuch as the mud trails we now have were used by their fath ers, they are good enough for us and it were useless to suggest a change in them. Others declare tha. we are too poor to attempt road construction, and still others are vehenment in their opposition' to the idea of hand ing down to succeeding generations such a lothsome thing as a public debt. These are some of the objec tions one hears. Factor in Civilization. I believe in my 'soul that a bad road is the greatest curse that can be laid on a community. It stunts the .industrial, moral and intellectual life of a people. ' But a good road is equal ly as great a ' lessing, for once a community gets facilities for trans portation and communication, all oth er blessings will be added thereunto.. Mr. Roosevelt has well said that the differer: ce ? between semi-barbarism and civilization is the 'difference be tween good and poor means of com munication. Far back in history good road building was recognized as a leading factor in advancing civiliza tion. We are told that early explor ers in Peru found improved highways, one of the military roads being 2, 000 miles hi length, with tunnels through mountains, bridges or ferries, over streams, a road 20 feet wide, made of flagstones covered with bitu men. Ancient Mexico built good roads, as did India and Persia. In the latter country the monarch built a smooth, hard highway alongside of the common earth road, and none could travel it save his royal high ness. The Roman roads are still the marvel of a modern world and are still used. Nothing contributed more to Rone's prosperity and prowess than these imperial highways, straight as an eagle's flight, reach ing to all parts of the world-empire. Gool roads mean progress and' prosperity and are a benefit to the people who live in cities, and an ad vantage to people who live in the country. Like good streets, they make habitation along them desir able. You never, or rarely ever and then not for long, see a shabby home by the side of a modern road, where everybody passes and sees how you live. They make people straighten up and put their best foot forward. The, value of farms is enhanced. Statistics prove that in nearly every cas? the States having the highest percentage of improved roads are a powerful factor in encouraging tho settlement of unused lands. Roads also have a far-reaching influence in holding men to their farms, and re strainiag ?hem from drifting to the towns. While the manufacturing towns must have labor, who is here that will deny that if our counties had good roads, the hundreds of good farmers would not have moved their families from the country home to town to work in the mills? So great an exodus, occurred two or three years ?go that farm labor was almost hn posssible to secure. These people are needed in the country; there, they would have stayed had there been good roads, which make farm life BO much more attractive. As i:he price of lands depends as much on ac cessibility to market as on produc tivity, it follows that road improve ment, by holding people and attract ing others, directly tends toward in ?rease in values of all farm lands within touch of the improved high ways. It is shown that in States wnere the average pnce ' of land is less than $20 an aere the precentage of improved roads is only 1.8, where as, in States where the acreage val ue is more than $20, the average of improved roads is 9 per cent of the total mileage. There are records which show that roads have increased the value of farm lands from 50 to 500 per cent. It has been Ascertained by a dozen railroads through their land and in dustrial departments that farms through which good roads run are enhanced in value from $2 to $9 an ?acre, and whether conservative or ? enthuiriastic, all concede that , the in crease is marted, immediate and in evitable. Suppose a county of 200, 000 acres voted bonds, and placing the enhanced value at only $4.50 Wi acre, it will be seen that the land owners thus benefitted would gain not, less than $900,000. If the bond issue amounted to half a million, there would be $400,000 profit at once. The increase in the profit and price of farm products is equally certain and plain. The farmer's produce is worth nothing unless it can De placed on the market. Time was in England when food would be rotting in onefplace while people suffered for the laek of it in t, community a few miles away, because it was impossible to transport the products of the farms. Price of Farm Products. Official records in Guilford county show that the price of farm products since good roads have: ben built has incre?sed from four hundred to seven hundred per cent. And yet, there ii a farmer in my county who maintains that good roads will ruin him and the county, /because they will reduce the price of produce, since, when the roads are bad, he gets $2.50 a cord for wood, because wood is made scarce by the impassability of the highways; and he says he would rather haul wood through mud hut deep for $2.50 than to roll along a smooth road and sell it for $1, which price he claims a cord will drop to in the event of good roads. The exper ience of Charlotte and Greensboro en tirely disprove this absurd idea, fox there are not two better markets in the State, and the first named has 200 miles of good roads leading to it and the second 100 miles. Tax or Bonds? The. question comes, how to get good; roads? Shall we vote a direct tax or shah we issue bonds?. Shall we pay as we go, or shall we pay part now and let future generations pay part? . To my mind, the whole ques tion comes down to whether we want good roads now, or whether we are willing-to. build, a few miles now and let another - generation build a few miles and another and another, until in-the course .of hiiman events we se cure good roads throughout the State years-after every person now at the age of accountability is dead and gone, I stand for bonds. Mecklenburg has been building roads 30 years, and she has about 200 miles, using direct taxY Guilford has been building roads six years and she has 100 miles, using bonds. We are too far behind to depend on a . direct tax. We must go ahead and issue bonds, build the roads, increase our wealth, and reap manyfold the cost of the roads. Is North Carolina to labor another gen eration before good roads come to pass 1 God forbid. We would lose enough to macadamize every mile of road in the State. Should a county issue bonds be fore a dollar is. expended, a compe tent civil engineer should be secured and put tc work mapping out the county, He should be under either the county commissioner or a high way commission composed of the commissioners and other men se lected'by the people.] It is abso lutely necessary that an engineer be employed, even though ne cost con siderable salary, for the location, construction ' and maintenance of roads are operations that no man or set of men without the aid of an en gineer can conduct in the proper way to get the best results at the least cost. There is a disposition on the part of many people to cavil at the price paid such an engineer, and if you undertake to fight for roads you will meet it at the outset. That idea must he eradicated, as must also the idea that the men entrusted with the public funds .will not place every dol lar where it belongs. In an age of skepticism in business, it is not un natural; ?that people should suspect that huge sums voted fer roads will be preyed upon. No county can build roads without an engineer who acts as pathfinder, going over the county, rt tidying the situation, making maps, and doing all that very neces sary preliminary work without which of ttixnesi1 money is worse than wasted. Road-Building an Art. '.' When county ' officers le^rn to ap preciate the fact that road-building is an art, they will rely more and more upon expert advice and scientific de monstration, and when they have learned what class of roads is desir able, they will construct them and then guard them. Therein lies one of the most impor tant of all American highway ques tions. Americans build as good roads ay'Englishmen or Frenchmen, bpt having, done so, they rest contented with their efforts and let each passing breath of air, speeding automobile, or drenching rain blow or wash the road surface away. In the countries of Europe, where the well-nigh perfect roads are the pride of the citizens and the envy and admiration of visiting Americans, most jealous care is constantly given; a careful day-by-day inspection is made, and every depression is quickly filled and all- inequalities rolled or tamped. Two requisites, therefore, confront the county supervisors at the outset -first to ascertain what roads would be most suitable to that particular section, and secure what sums should be expended for their maintenance after completion. These are vastly important and the nation's very small percentage of im proved :roads is due largely to a fail ure to--give consideration to them. Millions of money have beon- wasted in building roads- which local condi tions made impracticable and out of all cost proportion to the county's revenues. Ther? are exceptions to all rules, however, and Pike county, Alabama, stands as a glittering exception . to the usual construction blunder. There the county officials had planned to ex pend a large sum in the building of gravel roads. Mr. W. L. Spoon, United States su perintendent of road construction, being-sent to make an inspection of the county's.road possibilities, learn cd that 700 miles of important routes needed improvement. He figured that the cost of gravel roads would be $3,000 a mile-plainly a sum greater than the county could be bonded for. Conditions, however, were ideal for sand-clay construction and he strong ly urged its adoption. By legal pro viso the county could be bonded for only 3 1-2 per centum of the assess ed value of the real and personal property. The plan was decided upon and an issue of $143,000 was voted. One hundred thousand dollars' worth of the bonds were quickly sold, being disposed of in $50,000 allotments. The first allotment brought a pre mium of $625 and the second one of $825. Forty thousand dollars was at once spent for mules and road-build ing machinery and work was started. With the sum remaining, 118 miles of the finest sand-clay roads in the South had been built within two years from the date of the bond issue; a generous sum was still on hand; eight gangs were at work, and the people were so pleased they stood ready to take up the remaining issue of $43, 000 and expend it in the same way. Inasmuch as road building and road mending have been for a century. . under county commissioners and township road supervisors with prac tically no beneficial results observable -it seems plain that the time for a radical change o? methods is at hand. I am an earnest believer in Federal and State aid and co-operation in building good roads, and I believe that the time is at hand when the government will hit upon some plan whereby it may co-operate with the State and the State with the county, in the work. It has been argued that it is unconstitutional. Why should it be more so than expenditure of money for river and harbor improve-, ments, which often take the form of a private enterprise? As a matter of fact, it has been shown conclusive ly in Congress that so far from being unconstitutional, the government in its very beginning began the construc tion of good roads and expended more than seven millions on the old Cumberland road from Maryland to St. Louis, a distance of 700 miles, and the work was only abandoned because there arose. a question of authority and responsibility as to who should maintain and repair the road, the State, or the Federal government. What does the government do for the farmer? We spend millions annually on the army, a dead loss, though i doubtless necessary; we spend some j hundred millions .on the navy; have j spent a half billion on river and har-1 bor improvements. During ten years we spent more than six billion dollars of which about forty-sev?n million went to the agricultural department'; but not a dollar for the promotion of good roads, a common blessing for all the people. During fifty years, in all the vast sum our government his dis bursed for one thing and another, not a dollar has been appropriated for roads. And yet, the farmers .-of the country compose the bulk of popula tion, and last year contributed to the national wealth some eight billions of dollars. The one-horse farmer around behind the hill miles from town forms the foundation of the ' nation, and what has the government done for him? Nothing. The burden is upon him, he foots the bills; and thc gov ernment takes his money and spends it on everything under the sun by the millions, on everything but" on what affects him mostly-roads. In 190S the farmers of this country not only fed more than eighty millions of peo ple, but sent across the sea a^billion five hundred millions o? farm prod ucts. Thi6 preserved th? balance of trade with all the world, and gave five hundred millions to thc country to set aside for the proverbial rainy day. Had this not been, a billion dol lars would have had to have been sent abroad to pay import duties. It was enough to pay the immense appro priations of Congress and still add half a billion to the national wealth. In the face of all this, the Federal government has done not, n thing for good roads. The forerunners of a national high way from New York south to Atlan to have recently passed through the State. I believe the time is at. hand when the government will spend mon ey on .that road. I believe we shall see a road from Asheville and . tho west through to the coast. It is bound to come. The duty of the press lies in hastening the day. FEMININE NEWS NOTES. The Queen of Rumania has written thirty volumes. Florence Nightingale has entered her ninetieth year. Queen Alexandra ls said to be against woman suffrage. , By a recent decree women are not allowed to engage In bullfights In Spain. Patents for inventions relating to flying machines have been applied for by British women. Miss Mary Harrlman, eldest daugh ter of E. H? Harriman, gave an Erie ferryboat for a consumptive camp to Brooklyn. The Sisterhood of Emanu-El has just opened a new branch in the form of a home for Jewish girls in East Sixty-first street. New York City. - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, Superior-General of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, has re turned to this country from Brazil. Miss Josephine R. Upham has ac cepted the post of woman missionary in the new American Seamen's Friend Society Institute In West street, .New York City. Mme. Poppova, a Russian woman, has invented a rudderless airship, which she has named the annulated dragon because of the peculiar shape of Its body. Miss Charlotte Church, who i* teaching in a new schoolhouse on the Necanicum, Oregon, is "baching" in a cabin about a mlle from her school, having no near neighbors but wild animals. A wife in New York City who got a decree of separation in 1901, with $20 a week alimony, told the court the other day that it has cost her nearly $20 every week since that time to collect the $20. THE ICE BOX. It is not advisable to pile the food in' lt promiscuously. The slice of breakfast ham is often carelessly left in juxta-posltlon with the dinner roast, which sholls the flavor of the latter. A dish of cold bolled onions ii thoughtlessly set near the butter, which at once absorbs its distinctive odor without advantage to itself Cel ery is laid near'the cream' pitcher and turnips or bolled cabbage set hy the cooling custard for supper. Through such carelessness and ignor ance, the loss ia sometimes great Milk^ cream and butter should he kept as much as possible from all food, as they very readily absorb any flav or at hand. ?Meat and poultry should not rest against each other, hut be arranged so that the air can circu late aibout them. If meat and poul try are to hang, they should be sus pended with the choicest part down, ?that they may settle there.-New Haven Register. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA, AUGUSTA. GA. L. c. HAYNE, CHAS. E. CLARK, President. Cashier CAPITAL $250,000.00. Surplus & Profits $190,000.00. . The business of oar out-ofrtown friends receives the same careful attention aa tbat of our local depositors. The accounts of careful consecrative people solicited. H"M"i 111 M"I-H?hH^i"HH 11 n 11 ii 111 minni The Planter's Loan and Savings Bank Augusta, Ca. Pays Interest on Deposits, J? Accounts Solkhed. LC. WAYNE, CHAS. C. HOWARD, PBEaLDEN r. O ASHLEtt. RESOURCES OVER$1,000,000. 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