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BY JAYNKS. SM KLO lt, SMITH * 8TKCK. TO THINS OWN ?KI4F Uh Tit UK AND IT M??T FOLLOW A* THE NIQHT TH? DAY, THOO CAN8>T NOT THEM Bi WALU AL Li A? SOUTH OA BOLINA. JAN. 13. 1?04 WKW 8KKIB8, NO. 302-VOLOME LIV_NO. ?. CLOTH? WE HAVE A BK BOYS' CLOTH of Clothing, am a fus?i with. You v? let us show you thrc We bought some short lot? wht! wholesale cost on them-N1CB them, and we closed out the h lower than you ever saw. VI less than tho other follow paid f around to see us and we will sb got them so cheap-buying W< j. w. & J. E Dr. G. G. Pobst, DENTIST, Walhalla, S. C. Office Over C. W. Pitchford Co.'s ; : : Store, : : : HOURS : 8.80 A. M. YO l p. M. AND 2 TO ti P. M. Maroh 24. 1898. Dr. W. F. Austin, DENTIST, SENECA,.S. C. OFFICE DAYS: MONDAIS, THURS DAYS, FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS. January 15, 1001. B. T. JA?NK8. I J. W. HU KI.O H. -M J AY N ES & SH ELOR, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, WALHALLA, 8. C. PROMPT attention given to all busi ness committed to their care. WM. J. STRIBLINO. \ \ E. L. HRRNDON. STRIBUN6 & HERNDON, Attorneys-At-Law, WALHALLA, S. C. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALI. BUSI NESS ENTRUSTED TO THEM. January 6. 1808. Come Out and Make Your Tax Return. THE Auditor's Office will be open from the 1st day nf Jauuarv, 1H04, to the 2oth day of February, 1004, "for the purpose of receiving returns of personal property and real estate for taxation in '~"F*caueo oouuty, South Carolina, for the Prop? 1004. ^TfiWbS?he convenience of tax-nayors the Auditor or his deputies will also receivo returns at the following times and places : Tamassee, Kelley'sstoro, Friday, Janu ary 15th. Mountain Rest, Monday, January 18th. Conley's storo, Tuesday, January 10th. Cannon's store, Wednesday, January . 20th. D. F. Carter's, Thursday, January 21st. Tugaloo, Friday, January 2?d. Fort Madison, Saturday, January 23d. Every malo citizen between the anea of 21 and 00 years, except ex Confederate soldiers and those incapable of earning a support from being maimed or from other (Muses, shall be deemed taxable ?olls. Ex-Confedorato soldiers aro Ha le for poll tax until 50 years nf acre. Note all transfers of real estate since making your last return, from v. hom ac quired or to whom sold. All taxpayers are required to givo the number of thoir school distriot. They are also requested to state whether the property is situated in town or country. It is absolutely necessary to make ail returns before the 20th day of February. After that date fifty per cent penalty for non-returnt> will be added according to law. J. P. REESE, Auditor Oconeo County, S. C. December 10, 1003. 50-2 Money to Lend. ^MjC OANS uogotiated on mortgage of 'nir^ re&l estate at 7 per cent in sums of it mV aQd over, and 8 per cont on ICBB ^ (> $1,000. Borrowor to pay for papors, hird i? commissions charged. No loans J chan $800. Loans made only to one . .H.KI value of improved farms. JAYNES A SHELOR, Walhalla, S. C. Ootober 1,1003. 89-52 FOR CHEAP RATES TO TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO. UTAH, WYOMING, OREGON, MONTANA, WASHINGTON, and Othes Points West, Vorthweit and Southwest, Waite or e*U ea J, O. HOLLBMSSCK, Di ?tr Lot Passenger Agent, Louisville and Nashville R. R. Ne. 1 North Pryrr St., Opposite Union Depot, A -?rits, Qs^ The Ocon Marble and C Westmins ? ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL DESIGNING. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Rottend, Ea Itali Barre, Quine; Pneumatic satisfaction estly solicit prompt and . JE. < JOB PRINTING Send your tlonery an< ter to Thc The UoHt'i* Aiwa ? STOCK OF ME: [INO. We are now d we have a line wc dil hear from it all )ugh; IT PAYS TO le in New York, and we oan sell yoe 5. NEW, NOBBY SUITS-only il >ta n ? M nio o w? havo hU Biaes /o KAN I N I bonah, thia lot ol br j them, and yet n ow you that IT PAYS TO BUY I }OL GOODS IN SUMMER AND ? ? BAU KN ICH* Barry Gol (he Mosey. Columbia, January 7.-As a result of G. Raymond Berry absconding with Marion's school funds, the pres ent superintendent, Mr. Williams, is finding great difficulty in supplying books to the pupils. With the ex ception of Richland, Kershaw and Lanoaster counties, $500 is appro priated every year for the buying of school books to be sold to the pupils at cost. Berry made off with about $400 of this fond and Mr. Williams has written the State Superintend ent requesting him to oall the atten tion of the Legislature to the need of a special appropriation this year to cover the defiuienoy. The sum is said to be far too small for large counties, and it has been the habit of tho book concerns to let the count i H have the books on consign ment. A Good Liver. A bad liver means a bad breath, bad complexion, poor digestion and often constipation. A good healthy, aotive liver means a fine, olear skin, free from pimples and spots, bright eyes, bnoyant spirits, in other words good health. Mako the liver healthy and keep lt healthy by using Rydales Liver Tablets. They aot specifically on the liver aa a mild stimulant and tonio, arousing it to activity. They gentlv stimulate the muscular walls of the bowels and intes tines and thus assist nature to restore a regular healthy habit J. H. Darby, Walhalla; Seneca Pharmacy, Soncca. ---.? Miss Adgor, cf Charleston, Suet fer $4,000. Messrs. Smythe, Lee and Frost, attorneys of Charleston, have filed a suit for $4,000 against the Blue Ridge Railroad company with the clerk of the court for this county. - Mies Jane W. Adger of Charleston is the plain tiff. She sues for the value of a trunk whioh she claims waa lost by the railroad company. In the complaint it is stated that Miss Adger spent part of last summer in the mountains. On her return homo she boarded the train at Wal halla and had ber trunk checked. I The trunk disappeared or waa lost and has never been recovered. She alleges that the trunk con tained wearing apparel, and other | articles valued at about $1,335, and she sues for three times that amount under the statute whioh provides that in such oases the railroad com pany shall pay throe times the value of the artioles lost. The case will probably come up for trial at the approaching term of court and will doubtless be a very interesting one.-Anderson Mail. OABTOniJL. Baan the /J "fri *lnd Vjj jjg SM I*!* Hpetve of A Neglected Opportunity. Are South Carolina farmers too busy to raise turkeys and chickens? Columbia, as doubtless other towns in the State, depends in a large measure on St. Louis and Chicago for a regular supply of poultry. With dresssd turkey selling at 20 cents a pound the industrious farmer should be able to make pin money for his wife. We may be sMre that F renub Canadians or any a/ier im migrants who come into this State would not neglect this opportunity. The State. Little Flossie-Mamma, wero yon at home when I was born ? Mamma-No, dear ; I was at grandma's in the country. Little Flossie-Wasn't yon awfully s'prised when you heard about it ? ee Steam ran ?te Works, ter, H. C. DKALKRS IN st Dorset Manchester, Fittsford, i and Georgia Maris, -AND h W?sterley and Oalesoy Granites. Tools used in the works, and absolute Snaran teed. Correspondence earn . All orders and Inquiries given careful attention. jrRAY, Proprietor. orders for Sta 1 Advertising Mat i Courier and get ?yr? the CJHeAg>e?t T V N'S, YOUTHS' and ; making a specialty > are going to make around. Come and i BUY FOR CASH. i Good Suits for less than the tey had but a dozen or two of and styles-and the prioea are I Pants so we can sell them at aake money on them. Come X)ft CASH. That ia how we ?AYING CASH FOR THEM. rCJ ASM . MERCHANTS. Negro Gels a Pott Office. Washington, January 8 -Presi dent Roosevelt sent to the Senate to-day the nomination of Rev. Joshua j Wilson, colored, aa postmaster at I Florenco, S. C. Wilson succeeds himself. There was a protest against the appointment beoause of his color, but the President refused to oonsider it. While the oitize is of Florenoe are inoensed there is no outward ahow of bitterness, and un ies* a atrong fight is made the negro will be confirmed. ml my ff Pneumonia and La Grippe. Coughs oured quiokly by Foley's Honey and Tar. Refuse substitutes. Sold by J. W. Boll. . mt%mt Ne Swearing on this Job. The novel provision in the con tract for tho eretion of a new Metho dist church at Logahsport, to the effeot that no man employed upon any part of the construction shall either swear or drink while so em ployed, is causing no end of incon venience to John M. Barnes, the oontraotor. His first trouble resulted from disinclination on the part of the men, even though they were not ad dicted to the habit of swearing and drinking, to Hud themselves abso lutely to refrain from the exercises of these privileges should a i.eeming neoessity for thom arise. The church people wanted a provision in the contract to the effeot that no me chanic should either chew or smoke, bat no oontraotor would bid on the work ander such conditions, and ohewing and smoking are not pro hibited. The day before he began work Mr. Barnes called his men around him and told them the con ditions under whioh the contract had been secured. Some of the men who bad worked for him for years shook their head ominously and con fessed that they did not know whether they would stay on the job if they were not permitted to BWear. The stone masons who were em ployed to lay tho foundation posi tively refused to he bound by such conditions, and it wan arranged to get out'tbe stone at the yard of the company. All the cutting will he done some distance away from the "consecrated ground," as the men have come to call the site of the new ohurch. The same artifice was em ployed by some of the men who are getting out the heavier timber for the new struoture, that work being done ten squares from the site and the timbers being ready for putting in place when they are delivered at the church. The contract not only requires that the working men shall refrain from swearing and drinking, but Mr. Barnes agrees to discharge any man who is guilty of either offense, while employed on the struoture. So far he has had only one case to deal with. A young oarpentor struck his finger with the pole of his hatchet ana before he thought ho uttered the fatal "ones word " The foreman re ported the act and tried to excuse the offender, but Mr. Barnes said he had made tho oontraot in good faith, all the men had to agree to its terms and he could not make any exception to the rule.-Indianapolis Letter to New York Sun. Stop lt A neglected cough or oold may lead to .erious bronohial or lung troubles. Don't take chancea when Foley's Honey and Tar affords perfect security from a?rions effeoto of a oold. Sold by J. W. Bell. "Two of a Kind." A man who had just finished a comfortable meal at a restaurant the other day suddenly rose from his chair, grabbed his hat and umbrella that stood again st the wall and rushed out of the building. "Stop him 1" exclaimed the cashier. "That fellow went away without paying 1" "I'll stop him," said a determined looking man who rose up- hastily from a table near where the other had sat. "He took my gold handled umbrella. I'll stop him, nnd I'll bring him back with a policeman. The scoundrel 1" Without a moment's pause he dashed ont of the house in hot purnait of the conscienceless villian. And tho cashier, a cold, hard, un Sympathetic kind of man, has begnn to eispect that neither of them will Mme back.-Kx. DR. BROUGHTON SCORES TiLLMAN. tart Hit Utterances on th? Race Qseitlon are j Those ot a Cheap Politician. Atlanta, January 4.-At the tab ernacle last night to an audience of j three thousand people, Dr. L. G. Broughton took occasion to reply to the lecture of Senator Tillman, de livered in the oity last week. Till man's lecture waa on the race quos- ? tion. Dr. Broughtons theme was the ?.Sensitive Fool." He handled I the South Carolina Senator without gloves and used some very forcible words in speaking of the Senator's views on the negro in the South. Dr. Broughton said : "Much of this talk of the race pvoblem ia also the renn lt of morbid sensitiveness. I heard Senator Till nian Friday night give bis lecture on *The Negro.' I tried to be fair in my estimate of it. For reokless frankness it was a model ; for sensi ble argument it was a mess. I like frankness ; I like to see a man who believes something and then is not afraid to say it. In this respeot and in thia respeot alone, is Senator Till man entitled to a place among those who are trying to shape the destinies of the nation. His whole talk, from start to finish, was that of the cheap politician, praying upon the most subtile pr?judices of igno rant people. Never onoe in his so lution of this great question did he get out of tho realm of the rankest paganism. The Christian religion was novor hinted at as having any thing to do with overcoming bad conditions or uplifting the race. One of the most prominent Christian edu cators in the South said to me just as he finished hin harangue, (His po sition is nothing short of the vilest paganism.' Senator Tillman is a pagan arguing from the standpoint of pagan philosophy. "That there are wrongs with the negro nobody doubts. It is a great blunder to put the ballot in their hands when they were freed. The North sees this. Senator Tillman's effort to fire Southern hearts with hate for the North because they forced this iniquity on us is unjust. I have traveled North as muoh as he has. I have oirculated with a better olass of people where I have gone, and I tell you the best people of the North are perfectly willing that wo should take the negro out of politics. He ought to bo taken out and we are going to do it, not for our good only, but for his good an well. I said in Boston to an audience as large as Senator Tillman had Friday I night, 'The negro must be eliminated j from politics and white folks' so ; oiety.' The remark was cheered, : though made in church. The negro I needs moral and religious evolution. I n ced H to find his place and settle. { This he will do out of politics, but in it he is an ignorant tool for mean j politicians. Socially the negro is \ not a problem to us in this country and never will be. Senator Till , man's sarcastic comparison of the i love pf his old faithful negro ser vant and a Newfoundland dog, to be cheered by an Atlanta audience, was, to say the least of it, pitiable. "Lot cheap politicians and dema : gogueB sneer as much as they will at j the Christian philanthropy, it is nevertheless the only hope for the dividion and civilization of this world. Paganism, with its hell of oppression, is not the policy of our people. If now and then an excep tion is tolerated it is only for the lack of time for the triumph of the law of Christian equity." In Bed Four Weeks With La Grippe. Wo have received the following lottor from Roy Kemp, of Angola, Ind.: *T waa in hod four weeks with la grippo and I tried many remedies and spent con siderable for treatment with physicians, but I received no relief until I tried Foley's Honey and Tar. Two small bot tlos of this medicino oured me and now I use it exolusivoly in my family." Take no substitutes. Sold by J. W. Bell. Mr. Latimor's Public Road? Bill. VVashinglon, January 8.-Senator Latimor has introduced a bill for the improvement of tho public roads in the United States, and ho said to day that ho will address tho Senate on it within tho next ten days. The bill is modeled nfter th u introduced in tho House by Mr. Brownlow, of Tennessee, and provide? for tho im provement of roads under competent engineers from tho Department of Agriculture, tho Slates to bear one half of tho expenso and the Govern ment th? other half. C ABTOTIIA. Bean tb? J* TtM Kind You Haw Alway? Bought A very distressing accident occur red near Denver on Tuesday morn ing of last week by which Beatrice, the little d minter of A.J.Moore, seotion master on the Blue Ridge Road, was fatally burned. The little girl was playing around a fire wbioh the aeotion hands had built near her father's house. In some way her clothing oaught on fire, bnt the flames oould not bo extinguished before the child was severely burned. Death resulted the following night. Much sympathy is felt for tho parents ip their terrible t.Auction. State'? Appalling Record. The Attorney General baa completed the compilation of tko criminal etatletioa of the State, comparing the nnmber of orimea of each succeeding year with the one previous, from 1888 to and iuolud ing 1908. The oompariaon ie not encour aging, and, indeed, in aomereepeota it ie a showing that must give all law-abiding citizens oause for serious concern over tho seeming increasing tendency to law lessness. The orime of murder shows an awful record, there being 222 manslaughters re ported for 1008. This record was ex ceeded in 1807, when there were 225. In 1000 there was the same number. Mr. Gunter is preparing a comparative table as to manslaughters in other States, and the deplorable faot has de veloped that we lead. lu NIH th Caro lina last year tbsre were 01 such casos, and they thought that a feat ful record, but how insignificant it is compared with that of ?South Carolina. In few ci irnos has there been shown any deorease in the number, but the record speaks for itself better than words can tell. iff! KN a : jc wi :. ?il ?n s 0? ?l ! I ri fri 11 i i 1-1 ti %? K> o> ?8 tS tc fcfeK goo! : 8&! 881 >-> to 55 Ssi ?USE co8S??S&i SS?, Co CO 8 -J t* ?? $ SUMM M li 4- Ol 8 ?fr* S ?? ? ?0 CC - Cn ? q> O. -j S? S od o r: 1 ? W aa 3D ? rf* The many friends of G. H. Hausan, engineer on L. E. ?fe W. H. H., at present llviug in Lima, Ohio, will bo pleased to know of his recovery from threatened kidney disease. He writes: "I was cured by using Foley's Kidney Cnro, whioh I recommend to all, especially trainmen who are uaually similarly alliioted." Sold by J. W. Bell. ? Said Robin to Richard." Townville, January 4.-In The Courier of December 23 we found a little problem and a suggestion that we amuse ourselves with it during the holidays. I send a solution by algebra. I found Robin to be 36 years of age and Richard 45. Give us more like it. It is just the thing for school children to work at. SOLUTION. Let x= Robin's age in yoars and y- difference of ages thon x pluB y Richard's presont age But when Robin reaches x plus y Rich ard will be x plus 2 y Then (x plus y) plus x plus y Ult that is 2 X plus 8 y Ul? (1) But wheu Riobard was x years old Robin was only x-y By tho conditions of the proposition x plus 2 y-2 (x-y) that is 4 y-x=0 (2) Eliminating x in (I) and (2) wo find v 0. Substituting value of y in (1) and (2) we have x :id Robin's age x plus y=45 Riobard's age ruo OF. Sinco difference of ages is 0 years, when Robin ls 45 (Riobard's present age) Rich ard will be 45, and the sum of their ages rill be 00. Also, when Riohard was 30 (Robin's present age) Robin was 27, which is one half Richard's age nine years boneo. Lizzie S. Bruce. Fire Lou In 1903 Totals $166,197,700. New York, January 8.-A record of loss by fire in tho United States and Canada for the year just closed, compiled by The Journal of Com merce, shows a total of $166,197,700. This is the greatest sum since 1898, with tho exception of 1901. REAL ENJOYMENT. The woman who reads this will under stand to the full what Mrs. Tipton meant when she says : " I am enjoying good health." It takes a person who has been made wretched by sick ness to under stand the Joy of health. There are very many women who suffer as did Mrs. Tipton, who might be cured aa she was by the use of Dr. Pierce's Fa vor i t e Prescrip tion. It estab lishes regularity, dries the drains which weaken women, heals in flammation and ulceration, and cures female wea kn esa. It makes weak women strong, sick women well. ? It U wi tte pl?? iure I recommend Dr. Pierce's medicine," writes Mr?. Mora Tipton, of Cropper (Cropper Station), Shelby Co., Kentucky. ?You remember my case Was one of female weakness ?tit? and would and weak lunga. I had no appe often fcolt blood ; waa con flu rd to half of the time and contd hi my bed almost outd hardly stand QM my pains through my whole husband had to pay Urav r sae. but atnee I have taken four attlee of Dr. Pierce's Ooldea Medical rjfscov Axt at Ornea fer the boo? and system. My doctor Mill? fr- - or Mils for rn?, but since erv. four of Favorite Prescription 1 and three vials of 1 Peasant Pellets' we haven't paid any more doctor Wits. It had been seven months since 1 ?topped using Dr. Pleree's medicines and I hare been enjoying good heall' I caa never praise these medici for I have received ao much I have been enjoying good health all the time. I can never praise these medicine? too highly, fer I have received ao much benefit. I pray that many who suffer aa I did will take Dr. Pierce's medlcinea. I am ?ure they win never fait to core when adven a fair trial. Kverybody tells me I look bitter than they ever saw me. I am .ore I feel better than I ever did before " ?Favorite Prescription" has th? testi mony of thousand? of women to it? com plete cure of womanly diseases. Do not accept an unknown and unproved sub stitute in ita place. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pallet? are a ladies' laxative. No other medicine fe ?. ls them io? f*ntl?n?se and thorough SEVENTEEN ARE KILLED. Fearful Ratait ol th? Head-en Collision ea th? Rook Uland System. Topeka, Kansas, J?n?.ary 6. Twenty persons were killed and thirty-seven injured in a head-on collision between the Rook Island, California and Mezioc express and a freight train, at Willard thia morn ing. Most of the injured are in hos pitals in Topeka. It is thought that carelessness of trainmen oausod the wreck. In structed to meet a special freight train at Willard, the conductor and engineer of the ill-fated passenger, noting that a freight train stood in the side traok at Willard, rushed through, thinking the oars they bad were the ones which they had been instructed to pHBS. H. G. Parsons, a reporter of the Topeka State Journal, who waa on the wreoked Rook Island train, ar rived in Topeka this morning after driving overland from the scene of the collision. Parsons escaped with slight injuries, while two persona on the seat in front of him were killed. Parsons tells the following story of the wreck : "It was in the third car of the passenger train, the first ooaob hav ing been preceded by a smoker and baggage oar, that the greatest loss of life occurred. The smoker, whioh was occupied by only two or three men, was overturned and pushed through tho oar behind it, whioh was crowded with passengers, some standing in the aisle. The first warning given the passengers in this oar was when the sudden setting of the airbrake shut off the lights leav ing all in darkness. "A moment later a mass of splint ered wood and iron was crowded down upon them. No one was thrown ont of their seat by the blow. "Most of those in the forward end of the oar were killed instantly. Thirty in the rear end of the ooaob, however, suooeeded in escaping from that end of the oar, which was still unobstructed. No one in the from half of the oar escaped. They were crushed down between the seats by the smoker. When rescue was finally possible only three living per sons were taken out by the rescuers, who were compelled to chop holes iu tho side and through the floor and top of the ooach to reach them. RB8CU1NG THE VICTIMS. "The three rescued from this portion were a man, a small girl and a middle-aged woman, who were moaning and begging to be taken out. One man, hurt internally, was removed through the roar door within five minutes after tho collis ion, but died almost as soon as the rescuers could lay him down. A woman died two hours later while trying to toll a physician ber name. "Bonnio Martin, a girl ll years of age, wan piuned down between tho two oars, the heavy stove resting on one foot. Her cries attracted the rescuer*, and men, many of them bleeding from wounds about the face and arms, worked heroically to got her out. It took two hours of steudy work to relieve her. When she was taken out she addressed the doctor, who was bending over hor, as 'Papa.* "Tho?physician did not have the heart to tell her that she was an orphan, her father and mother hav ing been killed. Mr. Martin was instantly killed and Mrs. Martin died ten minutes after being taken from tho wreck. The ohild was suf fering from a broken ankle and severe soalp contusions. ? TUB I1BR0 OF TUB WRECK. "On the passenger train in the sleeper was a young physician who walked with a orutob as tho result of some spinal trouble. He was thrown down and slightly injured, hut was the first man who began aiding the injured. He had a portion of tho ohair oar and the berths in tho sleeper oleared, and to them the viotims wore oarried. The physician wae without instruments or medicines, and tho only thing he could do was to bind up wounds whioh he did by tearing up sleeper^sheets and pillow oases and giving tho patients whis key to deaden tho pain. "Tho young doctor found a fire man who was injured in the log-an artery was broken-and ho took it up with a pen knife and tied it with a thread, probably preventing the fireman from bleeding to death. "With one exception, the people in the sleepers devoted themselves unselfishly to the oare of the wounded, that ezooption being a roan who would not give np his berth. I told some men to jerk him out. They jerked him out, and I haven't seen him since." Fatal kidney and bladder troubles can always be prevented by the use of Foley's Kidney Cure. Sold by J. W. Hell. I It is said that the Pope, the highest potentate of the Catholic ohm ob, is deeply interested in the mission work among the Southern negroes and that more priests will be assigned to this field. Should those who are commissioned to do this special work allow disconragemente to discourage it will not he prose cuted very lons;. Negroes to Get Pall. Washington, January 7.-Until very recently the Post Office Depart ment has ruled that the negroes of Sout h Carolina were not to be con sidered aa worthy of notice in the establishment of rural free delivery routes. That they are now counted in this matter is due to the efforts of Representative Lever. In every lo cality where rural free delivery was applied for, the inspectors, acting under orders from the Post Office Department, would make an adverse report where there was not a certain number of white people, say about 75 per cent of the whole population. Now, in the lower part of South Carolina there are some black belts, and the representatives from those districts could get nothing but ad verse reports on routes applied for in those belts. So Mr. Lever con cluded to make a special trip to Washington and talk the matter over with Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow. When he got here, Mr. Bristow was disposed to laugh at him for his pains, but in unmis takable terms Mr. Lever reminded the postal offioial that he and his party had held up their hands in holy horror at the suffrage laws of South Carolina, and that if they per sisted in not allowing the negro free delivery the country would be re minded that the Republicans could foroe the negro down the South's throat, but would not aeoord him the privilege of other citizens when it oame to getting mail ; that they seemed to think the oolored man fit to vote, but not fit to receive his practical servioe from tho govern ment. Mr. Bristow was too smart not to see the logio of the position of the South Carolinian, and not to realize that his party would not look well in such a light, so now matters are be ing handled otherwise in South Caro lina. mom STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY, J H8# Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho is the senior partner of the firm of F. J Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid:, und that said Arm will pay the sum of Out, Hundred Dollars for oaoh and every case of Catarrh that cauuot be curod by tho uso of Hall's Catarrh Curo Flt?NK J. CHBNRY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pret ence, this Otb day of December, A. D. 1886. T '-WA^-S . A. W. GLEASON, .! SEAL [ ( v-^v^ ) Notary Public Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally aud acts directly on the blood and mu-1 cous surfaces of the system. Scud for | testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75o. Hall's Family Fills aro the best. Letter from an Oconee Boy. Lexington County, S. C., January ll.-I have beeu down hero three months. The people are very clever. The farmers raise cotton, wheat and vegetables and some corn. They also raise their meat. I have been in Kershaw county. It is level and sandy and swampy. The water is not good to the boy who has quenched his thirst in the cool springs of Oconee. I have been to Columbia. I wont up into the dome of the oapitol, 240 feet above the ground. From hore you can see the whole oity. I also went to the penitentiary and took a peep. Boys of Oconee, don't come here. It isn't healthy, although you get board and clothing free. I want to advise all the boys who intend to farm to stay in Oconee or go West. The sandy land down here doesn't make truok grow like Oconee land. Then this hot water is so hard to drink unless you mix it with coffee or something better. Maok. CJA.BTO?IIA. Bean th? J* The Kind You Haw Always Bought Box Dinner at Double Springs. Mountain Rest, January 4.-The box dinner, gotten up by the ladies of the Double Springs community for the bone flt of the ohuroh, oame off on Tuesday, December 20th, and was a deoidod sue cos?. To tho pleasure of tho audience, the following program was carried out: Opening song-With Joy we Greet You. Prayer by Rev. J. I. Spinks. Song-Ring the Christmas Bells. Song-The Round. Sx-Sheriff W. W. Moss oriod the box and cake sale tn bis usual attractive way. Song-Star-spangled Banner, Amerioa. Dinner, and eaoh luoky purchaser sought the fair girl who had prepared his box and togethor they enjoyed its delioious contents. After dinner, muslo by tho string band. Address by J. R. Lyles. Subject. Woman's Part in Promoting the Ad vancement of tho Churoh and the Wel fare of Society. 8ong-God be With You, after which the audienoe was dismissed The members of the ohoir and band, Misses Lassio Conley, Selina, Anna, Leona and Floronce Vissage and Messrs. H. L. Vissage, Simon and Logan Ramey dosorvo spcolal thanks for the splendid muslo which they furnished. John Brown oonduoted the exercises and has the thanks of all eonoernod for the excellent way in whioh he did it. A very reasonable sum was realized from the sales and the ladies are to bo congratulated for their success. They wish to thank all who took part and I generously contributed to so worthy A causo. RUHM. MAIL ROUTES. What the United States Government Hu Done In South Carolina. Washington, Jun. 8.-There are 284 rural freo delivery routes doing business in the State of South Caro lina. Ou an average they deliver mail to 600 people each. It will bo seen from this that about 175,000 people got tho benefit of rural free delivery in the State, lt costs just about $600 a year to operate one of these routes, and Uncle Sam is, therefore, paying into the State of Benth Carolina alone the tidy little sum of $176,000 a year for a service that is entirely for the benefit of the people. The average route is about 28 miles leug, so that the rural car riers of South Carolina travel in the neighborhood of 6,600 miles every day. Eaoh route covers about eighteen square miles of territory, so that the free delivery system of South Carolina covers over % 6,000 square miles of territory. The people of the State have asked for 718 routes in all. Of these 284 have been granted and 288 have been rejected. Tho other 146 are still pending. It will be observed from these figures that the people are getting just about half as many routes as they are arking for. At the same ratio, when all tho petitions have been acted upon, there will be 867 routes and as many carriers in the State. The figures of tho depart" ment show many interesting things in connection with rural free deliv ery in South Carolina. In \ the .first plaoo they show that free delivery seems to bo the universal desire;in some districts while, in others it seems to enjoy little popularity. The Third District, represented by Wyatt Aiken, is the banner distriot in the State in the number of rural routes. There are now in operation within its borders 82 rural routes. There are also 21 petitions still pending and awaiting investiga tion by the department. Tho depart ment has refused to grant 52 routes asked for in tho distriot. It will be seen from this that the people of that distriot have asked for 167 routes all told and have gotten 82, more in proportion than the State at largo The Fourth Distriot comes second in regard to the number of routes established. This ianthe distriot rep resented by Mr. Johnston. There aro 60 routes in operation in tho district. There aro 83 petitions still pending, and there have been 64 rejections. There have been more applications rejected in this district than from any other in the State. In all, the people of the Greenville district have asked for 157 routes, exactly the number asked for by tho people of the Third District, but they have not gotten as much in proportion by a good deal as the people of the third. Tho constituents of Mr. Legare have asked for 68 routes. They have received 10, 35 of their petitions have been turned down, and 13 are awaiting action. The most of theso rejected wore petitioned for under the predecessor of Mr. Legare. Reperesentative Croft has secured 18 routes for his consituonts, has 21 petitions pending, and has had 24 petitions rejected. He has forwarded to the department 63 petitions. The Fifth Distriot, represented by Mr. Finley, has 44 routes in opera tion. There are 81 petitions still pending and 81 have been rejeoted, making in all 106 routes that have been asked for by the people of that district. In Mr. Scarborough's district there are 80 routes in operations, 6 peti tions aro awaiting action, 33 have been rejected ; in all, 69 routes asked for. "JMr. Legare has 40 routes in opera tion in his distriot, 21 petitions pend ing investigation, and there have been 44 rejections, making 105 peti tions submitted from that district. THK CO UKI BK and tho Atlanta Consti tution and tho Home and Farm one year (or the sum of S2. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dls couiages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor and cheerfulness soon disappear when the kid neys are out of order or diseased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent that it ls not uncommon for a child to be born 1 afflicted with weak kid neys. If the child urin ates too often, If the urine soalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when lt should be able to control the passage, (Ms yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon lt. the cause of the difficulty ls kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these Important organs. This unpleasant trouble Is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well ss men are made mis erable with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the Immediate effect of Swamp-Root ls soon realized, lt ls sold by druggists, In fifty cent and one dollar ? sizes. You may have a I sample bottle by mail free, also pamphlet tell- ROOM ot SWMBP-RC??. lng all about it, Including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer f Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. Don't mako any mistake, but remem ber the name--Swamp-Root-Dr. Kil mei's Swamp-Root, and the address Binghamton, N. Y.-on every bottle,