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? Bepreaeutauue fteutspaper. Snuera feexmgtou and lite Bordera of the Surrounding Sountiea Like a Blanket. VOL, XXXIII. LEXINGTON, S. C? WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1903. 15 ,WJ.?LW, ii | n ?| rTTTMMMm-IMiMMUIIlLUlJL? T77". 23:. 2^02TC2C202Sr, 223., 2v2^2T^.O-E23. tdtjO MAIN STREET, ------- C OI.1MHIA, ts. C. Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. October I3tf i hell I IS 8AI0 TO BE PAVED I | WITH 6000IHTCN8I0N8 GOOD LOOKING ; Shoes that * re not good are often i sold by dealers who intend selling ; i good ones. 1 "When von buy Stont and Fine ; | Looking Shoes lor yourself and fam- I I ily. or any of your hired help from us, you can stake your last copper that they | ABE WHAT THEY SEEM. | LEVER, ~ ! "THESHOE MAN," 1603 Main Street, ! i. I COLUMBIA, - S. C. ? i - ! V Feb. 6-ly. .> i ' 'I : 1 i YOU WILL DO WEIL To send your orders for PAINTS. LIME, CEMENTS, ETC., TO SHAND BUILDERS' SUPPLY GO BOX 240, COLUMBIA, - - S. C. BECAUSE they will forcish G<xd Stuff for a little money. Write for Colore I Cards and other information. ? October '78?ly. Final Discharge. X^OTICE IS HEREBY GIVFN TO ALL J3I persons interested that I will apply to the Hon George S. Drafts, Judge of Probate in and for the County ot Lexington, S ate of South Carolina, on the 6th day of March, 1902, for a final discbarge as Administrator of the Estate of Ur3. Catherine Counts, deceased. MRS. MARY E. DREHER. Administratrix. February 2. 1903. 4wl6, pd, THE MUTUAL ' . '* EARLY SPRING MATTINGS, j Muslin and I SHADES?PLAI Linoleums a MANTEL SCARFS AND I New Rugs a: DON'T FAIL T< FLOOR COVERING f.ist color*. Nofhing like it ev r seen l ere and No mo;ks to attack ;t. Write lor ' &c 5)) SHADES at 33c., complete with spring regular 00 ^VELVET AND BST75SE 1517 MAIN ST., , S. f . Tfleplwas 245. Beview and Forecast. What the Legislature Has Done and is Likely to Do. Condensed from News nnd Courier. The present session has not been an eventful or a remaikable session. Tnere have been no extraordinary developements. No political fortunes have been made or unmads; no sensational or radical legislation has been enacted. It has been a smooth and ea9v-going body. There have been do general road laws, no general tax statutes, no general salary bills, no general criminal law, no change of the dispensary law enacted tbis session. It has not ; been a session of vital or record-mak- ! ing legislation. The only general j law thus far passed, or likely to be, i is the Marshall child labor bill. Tbere have been no ieil hard or vigorous fights during the present session. Strange as it may seem, the only real protracted fight was on a bill to prevent the shipment of sbad outside of the State. It was an unexpected fight, but it was a real fight, and there was a curious and noteworthy phase of the contest. Said one of the persistent Spartanburg advocates of the fish bill: " guess we do not know much about this shad business, but we know as much as do I ^se low-country members who voted for child labor legislation, without knowing anything about our conditions and we can take a flyer ourselves." There is a great deal more of tbis sort cf feeling than one would suppose. The passage of the mild child labor bill at least had the effect of stopping all other textile legislation for this session. There were three or four other child labor bills that were defeated or withdrawn. Then there was a t*n-hour labor law, and a fellow ; servant liability bill and weekly payment of salary proposition, which will go over until next session. The talk dow is decidedly, very decidedly against any further legislation one way or another regarding the industrial interests of the State. I Legislation is getting to be very much of a local affair anyway. An ! inspection cf the Calendar will show that fully threefourths of the legislai tion proposed and enacted is local and unimportant; that it relates to | the issuance or payment of bonds to j build a school house here or there; to give authority to a certain county to , CARPET GO'S > SHOWINGS OF 4RT SQUARES, iQP.P rJlirfQlTIC W N/ Vi* W N AND FANCY, nd Oil Cloths, \LL KINDS OF DRAPERY. ad Portieres. 3 SEE THE NEW FIBRE CARPETS, before. Bea'.s Carpets for wear. No Dost samnles aud nrices. L?-.-irb?r t'ni>j mth. ; roller, plain and fringed, 10 inch x 7 feet, cents good*. L> CAHPETS AT COST.,** COLUMBIA, S. C. Sept. 17?tf. borrow money or build a Court House or jail. or to change 6ome minor (officer's salary or pay some claim for money due. The other day an Ac* ( was passed providing for indexing certain records in Anderson County, "provided the cost did not exceed $75," and it cost the State more than the $75 to enact and print that law. Tne county commissioners, it seems, ought to and do have that authority, and yet the appeal, "Oh, gentlemen, that is strictly a local matter," seems to be a barrier to all opposition, be cause there will come a time when the objectors may have their owd strictly local matter that can t ffect no ODe else 4,but my county." So the story goes. Contemporaneous with the remarkable development of the industries of the State aod the utility of electric power has come the organizition of large enterprises, which have atked for legislative authority to utilize available water power aDd, if need be, construct dams to secure the . rpl - j i maximum water power. xueuevenjpment along this line has been remarkable and as the increase of distance over which electric power may be transmitted increases so will be capital invested in giant power plants grow. The most important matter the Assembly might have undertaken W88 to provide an assessment measure that would have met present conditions, or if not a new law, a method of making boards of equalization and county auditors do their duty. If the proper amount of energy could 00 put into the county boards and auditors there would be no such trouble. In Columbia recently a house-to-house survey of the property and an active board caused more than a million-dollar increase in taxable property here. It cost money, but it paid, and it will pay others. Wnat is most needed is the enforcement of the existing law. As has already been suggested, there was no hostile nor amendatory dispensary legislation. It is now an utterly hopelees task, but times change. Mr. \V. Turner Logan, oi Charleston, had a sensible measure. He made a strong, a high-toned and vigorous presentation of his bill, 1 which would have bad marked eff-ct ! in Charleston, which city it was in- j teDded to help, but tbe members listened, said notbiDg, aDd vjted against the measure. As yet it is the orthodox thing to vote against legislation affecting the dispensary. How long this will continue depends upon conditions. Perhaps the most conclusive and evident showing of the excellent between the two houses and the absence of maDy important measures or hard fights is the fact that within a week of the close of the session there has Dot yet been a single conference committee asktd lor, and there is no likelihood cf more than one or two free conferences. It is most unusual and commendable, because it testifies that members do not wish to fight to pile useless statutes on the books. ! Th^rp nnlv two c-hances on j the appropriation bill from what the I ways and means committee of the j House recommended?Wintbrcp and j the State board of remedy the glar! ing fact that the live-mill tai ]?-vy I will not raise enough money, even j when added to all the State's leve; nue from other sources, to meet the | general appropriation bill. This does not take into consideraI tlou the lapse on account of the loss j , of a year in the collection of taxes i . and the complications resulting from | ] the loss of that year. Independent j of the lapse of the year in the collcc- < tion of the taxes the appropriation | bill carries more money than a fivemill levy will raise. The only hope of getting even on this score is in the < uormal increase in taxable values, in 1 the State. * i j Cures Rheumatism and Catarrh i ? ? m i m --j&eaicme seni jrree. These two diseases are the result ^ of an awful poisoned condition of the { blood. If you have aching j jiots and 1 back, shoulder blades, boue paiaH, ' crippled hands, Jogs or feet, swollen ! muscles, shifting, sharp biting pains, 1 and that tired, discouraged feeling of rheumatism, or the hawking, spiting, < blurred eyesight, deafness, sickstom- ' acb, headache, noises in the head, mucous throat discbarges, decaying teeth, bad breath, belching gas of 1 catarrh, take BotaDic Blood Balm (B I B B ). It kills the poison in the blood which causes these awful 1 symptoms, giving a pure, healthy 1 blood supply to the joints and inu- 1 cous membranes, and makes a per- ] feet cure of the worst rheumatiem or foulest catarrh. Cures where all else 1 fails. Blood Balm (B. B. B ) is corn- ' poeed of pure Botanic ingredients, good for weak kidneys. Improves the digection, cures dyspepsia. A peiftcfc tonic for old folks by giving them new, rich, pure blood. Thoroughly tested for thirty years. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with complete directions for home cure. Sample free and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice sent iu eealed letter. Court. The February term of the Court of Sessions opened here Monday promptly at 10 o'clock, Judge J. C. Klugb of Abbeville, presiding. Solicitor Thurmond and Stenographer J. C. Tadiock, who is here in I nf Mr /WVFVat. the regular court stenographer, were preheat. All the other court officials were at their respective posts of duty and the machinery of the court moved off smoothly without hitch or friction. This was no doubt the result of the admirable office work of Mr. Samuel B. George, the very efficient Clerk of the Court. His careful preparation of the dockets and his excellent businesslike methods in the conduct of his office has made himself indispensable to Bench and Bar alike and has won golden opinions from his j constituents. Faithful to every trust j reposed in him, competent in the I -.1 - - - L~ ^ ~ ^ ?\ rt 1 /in r\ Cx n <*1 i uisccargt? ui etci uuij auu ticou auu | thorough in nil transactions be has j made an ideal public official and as j sucb reflects credit upon Lexington county. Tbe Judge was suff.-ring from an j affection of tbe throat, and postpcn-d ; his charge to the grund jury-until j such a time when ne would be in j better voice. He, however complii memed the members of that body on I their promptness in being present? ' not a single member being absent, saying in effect that it showed a dis! position on their part to faithfully perform their duties and be true to : the oath they had taken. The peace officers in and about this place seem determined to break ! up negro gambling and so far all 1 brought up, promptly plead guilty. Juke Drafts, Henry Sligb, Lewie j Lybrand, Matthew Risb, Jesse Stuckman and Albert Walker, all entered plea:? of guilty to such charges and were given $15 or 60 days. All but the two latter paid out promptly. True bills were returned against Elliott House al, Peter Parker and John Strother, but they have not been arrested. Strotber received a sentence of SJO at last June term for gambling but paid it up and was released. Hubert Corbett, a white man, formerly of Aiken county, but re sently of Alabama, upon bis return to the old home, was kienticed'' to 3Qter the dwelling of G*brial Lucas, and he stole several articles while in it, some of which were recovered. Hubert had a good face before the court, and upon his plea of guilty was given six months on the gang. Thomas Roan, who hailed from Leesville, plead guilty to the charge of burglary and larceny and was given seven years in the Penitentary. He, with two other negroes, broke and entered the Southern Railway depot here, and stole several articles, in value abount $70. He said he did not know the "other two." An employee of the railroad sleeps in the depot and hence the severity of the crime. George Boland, a Swansea negro, j come up for housebreaking and larAunv ar/t ontorori a nloa nf oniltv He wab given thirteen moeths on the gang. Several people have recently remarked that you could kill a man in Lexington county and come clear for it, but that if you killed a dog, it was guilty every time. Mr. E. H. Lowry and Mr. W. A. Hare at the September term each paid $40 for the killing of a dog, and yesterday Thos. Y. Flake of Bull Swamp paid $50 for a like offense. All the cases in which Senator Sharpe aDd Representative Wicgard were interested, had to be continued on account of their absence attending the session of the General AsocmKIc Sr* fr\r\ with {4rohftrn:? cases, as he is at the North this week. The grand jury returned true bills against E-trle Lightsey for murder; Billy Peel and seven other defendants for riot, assault and battery with intent to kill; Manning Cockerel, for obstructing a neighborhood road, and these have been continued. The grand jury returned a true bill as to W. E. Q iattlebaum for disposing of property under lein, but the case was afterwards no! prosed. The Solicitor also entered nol WHEN IN GOOD WIN' REMEMBER THAT COh SHOES AT THE I 2TEW SHOES EVERY SHOE GUARAI Cohen's SI 1636 MAIN ST.. SEE US FOR SHOES 1 J?~Buy you Shoes from Cohen and g December 19. THE OLD RELIABLE ^VKIN0 rvwvsii* Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE pros as to F. E. Brodie, for attempt at larceny and Frank J. Meetze for bastardy. Toe Solicitor did not give the case against Wesley Spirts for murder to the graDd jury. The case again9t George Sawyer for horse stealing was continued. Mr. Sharpe represents the defendant. The first trial of importance came up after recess yesterday and was against John Harman, colored, ioHiptpH for thp rrmrdpr nf .Trip Rnny^-r on February 27th of last year at the saw mill of Mr. George C. Shirey, in Hollow Creek township. Both negroes were in the employ of Mr. Shirey on the day of the killing. Mr, George Bell Timmerman represented the defense and the Solicitor the State. The verdict was "guilty of manslaughter" a short time after the jury retired. The counsel for the defense gave notice of a motion fcr a new trial. Tnis morning began the trial cf It W. McDaniel, of Swansea, for tie T XT ?U ? muiuci 01 uuuu juso j.>ecac, iiio town maisbal there, on December 24th last. Senator Sharpe came over this morning and is sseistirg tfce SoI licitor. Messrs. Efird & Drefcer represents the defense. This trial will consume the entire day and possibly longer. Tomorrow will come up the trial of Manning Cockerel for obstructing | a highway, and there are two more? j Pat Dreker, for murder, and Jake Bowers and Elliott Lybrand for burglary. The grand jury finished all bills j yesterday, but are still engaged on j other matters. Tney will conclude today. High winds prevailed inioughjut ' M icday and iueeday. WANT OF rER SHOES iEN SELLS THE BEST _OWEST PRICES. ?T71 m DAILY! o SOLD WITH A fTEE AT ioe Store, COLUMBIA, S. C. WMMEJT /.V OUR CITY. et a achool b ^ for your children free.