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NEEDED VERY BADLY. A GOOD POSTOFFICE BUILDHNG OUR GREATEST NEED. Large Quantities of Mail is Distribu ted From This City and Better Handling Facilities Required. Orangeburg's greatest need at this time is an up-to-date and commodious postoffice building in which to han dle the large amount of mail that is distributed from it each day with facility and dispatch, and we are glad to know that there is a good prospect of Congress making an ap propriation ror the erection of such a building La this city. There is no place in the State where such a build ing i? worse needed than right here. We do not ask for a public building just to have it said that Orangeburg has one, but we ask ' for it because it is almost absolutely needed to properly handle the mail at this place. We feel assured that our courteous and most competent Post master will bear out this statement, although we have not consulted him about it. An Assistant Districe Attorney and a United States Commissioner reside here, and it would be more in keep ing with the dignity and importance of these two officials if each of them had a public office in a government building, in which to keep, the records and transact the business connected with their respective offices. It would not only facilitate their work, but would give them a suitable place in which to hear all cases that may come before them and file away their official paners. Such offices here are almost as badly needed as better postoffice facilities. ? We are sure that if all the needs of a public building here can be made clear to the con gressional committee ther> will be no trouble about getting the appro priation for it. Orangeburg is an important com mercial centre, and is located in one of the largest and best counties in the United States. This should en title her to some consideration at the hands of Congress, to say nothing of the facts above enumerated. Our population is now between six and seven thousand, and is increasing at the rate of fifty per cent, every de cade. It will not be long before our population will be double what it is now. Orangeburg is the largest and most important city in the State be tween Charleston and Columbia and West of the Santee River, and we know no place where the United States could erect a handsome pub lic building where it is more urgent ly needed or where it would be more appreciated by all the people than right here. Our population and postal busi ness have won for us a free delivery system, but there is hardly room in the present postoffice" building to properly handle this branch of the postal business While the work is done every day, it would be much easier for the carriers and better for the public if the carriers had more room. Then we have five rural mail routes and one star route that goes out from this office. All these things takes room, and it is a mystery to us how Postmaster Webster handles the mail as well as he does in his present inadequate quarters. While he goes along and tends to his bus iness to the satisfaction of all with out a murmur, we feel sure that it would lift a great burden from his shoulders, as well as the shoulders cf his courteous and obliging clerks, if they had more room. In addition to all that is said above it would be a good object lesson to all our people if the Government would erect a handsome public build ing at this place. Our people all love their country and government, but they know very little about eith er, but a handsome public building here would be a perpetual reminder that we have a great and grand coun try and Government. We do ? not need such an expensive building. We need one that will serve Orangeburg for the next thirty years as a postoffice and for such other purposes as the Government may need at this place during that time. We have some handsome buildings in the way of churches, school, bank buildings, stores, and residences, but we would like to see the handsomest building in the city owned and used by the National Government, and we feel sure that such will be the case as soon as the need of such a build ing here is presented to the Con gressional Committee. We are not asking for a building to ornament our little city, but we are asking for a building because it is badly needed for the proper handling of the pos tal and other business that the Gov ernment has to transact from year to year. The Government could make no better investment than to erect a public building here that would meet the needs of its large and rapid ly increasing postal business. Used Canceled Stamps. Emma Yancey, sixteen yea: of age, was up before Commissioner .Lide on Saturday on the charge of using cancelled stamps. She was arrested by Deputy Marshal A. Fisch er, and the testimony was quite strong against her, but on account of her being so young and somewhat ignorant Assistant District Attorney Lathrop, who appeared for the Gov ernment, consented to let her off on the promise to behave herself in the future. Postoffice Inspector Kings more, who worked up the case agreed with Mr. Lathrop in thus disposing of the case. Annual Sermon. Presiding Elder L. B. Smithpreasn ed the annual sermon before the Foreign Missionary Society of St. Paul's Methodist Church Sunday morning. He had a very large con gregation to whom he preached a good sermon. CUT HIM WITH AXE. Woman Has Fatal Row With Her Drunken Paramour. Wick Funches cut Arthur Sum mers, her paramour, in the head with an exe on Saturday night because he did not buy her a pair of shoes as he promised he would. They are both colored and live on the place of Mr. J. W. Whetsell in the Fork. It seems that when Summers got home from this city on Saturday night without the shoes, that the woman, who had left her husband and was living with Summers got mad and they had a quarrel. Finally Summers, who had imbibed right freely of mean whiskey, laid down on a bed and the woman went out in the yard and got the axe, with which she cut Summers in the head as he lay in the bed. The,wound is a very severe one, and the chances are that Summers is dead by this time. The woman has been arrested and lodged in jail to await trial in the General Sessions. STATE LEAGUE MEETING Will Be Held in Sumter on Tuesday Evening. A meeting: of the South Carolina State Baseball league is to be held in Sumter tonight to orract ?<> final organization. The size of the league will be determined by the towns represented at this meeting. So far as known. Rock Hill and Chester are the only places which have warmed up and shown active interest. Whether the league will be four cornered or six or eight cor nered depends upon the immediate action of other towns interested, and if there are any towns that wish to get into the league they had better see to it that they have their repre sentative on hand at the Sumter meeting tonight. Orangeburg will be represented at this meeting and it is very likely that we will be in the League. It rests with the people of the city however to say. It takes some money to run baseball, and we will have to pay for it if we want it. Inspected the Schools. Chief of the Fire Department Dib ble vsited the schools on Thursday and Friday and witnessed the fire drill, which pleased him very much. One school was emptied in two min utes and the other three minutes af ter the alarm was given. In these drills it is the duty of some of the larger boys to visit each classroom to see that no little one is left be hind. The parents of the children in our schools can rest assured that Superintendent Thackson and his efficient corps of teachers will see that the little ones are gotten safely out of the buildings in case of fire. Death of Mr. H. S. Renneker. Mr. Herman S. Renneker died at his home in this city on last Friday in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He had lived in Orangeburg about thirty years and had many friends all over the county who will regret to hear of his death. He was only sick a few days when the end came. Besides Mrs. Renneker he is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Annie Tovey, of Charleston, and his son, Mr. Clar ence Renneker, of this city. His re mains were laid to rest in the Pres byterian Cemetary in the presence of a large circle of relatives and friends on Saturday afternoon. Serial Stories. Commencing with the next issue The Times and Democrat will begin the publication of hign-class serial stories. The first one will be '"The Princess Virginia," which is a beau tiful copyrighted love story. We are sure it will be read with interest. This one will be followed by others, and during the year we will publish three or four high grade stories. Look out for "Princess Virginia" next Friday and read the opening chapter and you will be anxious to get the second installment of this really beautiful love story. Statements Sent Out. In accordance with the new rul ing of the postoffiee department we have sent out statements to all sub scribers in arrears requesting them to pay up to a certain date so as we can carry them over until Fall. Un less they do as we request we will have to drop them on the first of April. It is not a matter of credit at all, but obeying the law. On the the first day of April we will be com pelled to drop from our subscription list all subscribers who are nine months in arrears. School Entertainment. There will be an entertainment at Oak Grove School, near Mr. Jake Bo zard's on Friday evening, March 20. Ice cream and cake will be sold from five o'clock in the afternoon. The evening's entertainment, which will consist of recitations and dialogues, will begin at eight o'clock. This school is under the efficient manage ment of Miss Pearl Felder. The pro ceeds is to be applied to the improve ment of the school house and grounds. A Good Delegation. The congressional committee on public buildings has fixed March 19 as the day for hearing the Orange burg delegations as to the need of a public building in this city, and the Business Men's League has ap pointed Messrs. R. H. Jennings, W. H. Dukes and A. D. Webster, and the City Council has appointed Mayor Dukes and I. W. Bowman, Esq., to go to Washington and represent the city before the committee. Flower Seed. Mrs. W. G. Smitn left at. Sims' Book Store a quantity of flower seed for free distribution to persons liv ing in this city who will use them to beautify their front yards. They will be handed out as long as they last. AT THE THEATRE. "Wo Are King" Will Appear Here on Next Friday Evening. Unquestionably one of the drama tic events of the season is Mr. Wil liam Cliffcrd in a complete produc tion of Mr. Walker Whiteside's greatest comedy success. "We Are King", vr iAvui. Goreun Kean, autlu. o\ "The Magic Melody." Mr. Clifford and company will appear in this city on Friday night March 20th and the company selected for him by Manager A. W. Cross is said to be a most capable one. "We Are King" is replete with cleverdialogue. That the scenic arrangements, cos tuming, rehearsals and all prelimin ary details received Mr. Whiteside's personal attention in New York, is a guarantee of their perfection. Both the press and public have received the production most cordially. Mr. Clifford has been greeted with crowd ed houses wherever h has made his appearance. RIP VAN WINKLE TOWNS. Why il Will Pay Them to Wake Up and den 11 Up. The towns of southern California J will very well hear comparison with I those of any other section of our coun j try. but we have a few that might well be classed "waybacks." In the Saturday Eveniug Post (Philadelphia! Edmund Vance Cook has a fairly ac curate composite description of some half dozen that may be found in the southern section of the state, says the Los Angeles Times: Country round Is rather dull; town's a sort of match; Landscape needed mcndln", but the town's a blame poor patch. "Ugly" Is an ugly word, so I shan't call It such. But just a look '!1 show that the town ain't very much. Streets are only wagon ruts, and side walks hit or miss, Up a step for that one and down two jumps for this; Just a string of straggly Btores and houses sprawled about; First thing every drummer nsks Is, "When's the next train out?" "Cannon Ball" goes through here with a shudder at the sight; Drops a mail bag maybe, as if pitying our plight. Last place you might ever call a plcter or a po'm, \ j And yet some of us like the place?some of us call It home. Iu bidding for the home seeker and j home builder these towns have little I to offer and are falling farther and farther behind each year, even though the country surrounding develops fine rural homes, amid orchards and vine yards, until finally they become mere shipping points for the fruit crops. Places rendered more attractive by reason of well graded, clean, tree lined streets and other necessary evidences of civic pride are growing "like n prai rie fire" and keeping pace with the wonderful development of our south land in general. Occasionally one of these Rip Van Winkle towns awakens and joins the march of progress, so that each year fortunately their num ber is lessened. There is a place in the procession for every town on the map. Wake up; divest yourself of the weeds, tin cans and garbage dumps to be found on every vacant lot; fix up your gardens, clean your streets and plant them uniformly with suitable trees. Ere you are aware the home seeker will take notice and begin to come sin gly or in pairs, land values will appre ciate, you will be stimulated ? to still bettur work, and you will suddenly find you are in the midst of prosperity. Try it and be convinced. He Opposed Centralization. "Do you believe in the further cen tralization of our government?" inquir ed Merchant Jackson of Farmer John son. "I should say I don't," roared Farm er Johnson. "I'm for local home gov ernment and the closer it pets to home the better. I oppose all this sentiment toward making the central government stronger and weakening the power of the states. In fact. I want to bring the matter of authority right down to the township we live in." "Very good." replied the merchant, "but it's a poor rule that won't work the same In other lines. For instance, you have been buying a good many things from the big stores in the cities which you could have bought from the local merchants just as well. Evident ly you believe in the centralization of trade, eh?" The farmer saw the point, went around to Merchant Jackson's store and laid in his winter provisions. Keeping Paths In Order. Neatly kept paths around dwelling houses tend to give a town au attrac tive appearance. March is a good month iu which to turn over gravel wnlks or paths which are weedy or on which the moss grows. The walks should be dug over with a spade or fork, burying the weeds and moss. This will give the roots more expo sure to the late freezes, which will practically eliminate them for the year. Immediately, If the walk is to be In use, pack the earth, put the gravel iu shape and roll it down firm iy. If the walk is not in constant use during the winter defer the shapiug nnd rolling until the latter part of March. That will leave the walk in better condition for the spring and summer months, as It will have set tled considerably. In finishing up make it highest in the center to give a slight fall for the water to the sides. Two Inches will be fall enough for a walk five feet In width. Watch Vacant Lots. On vacant lots we will soon see a regetable growth of weeds that will hide tin caus, antlqunted bed springs, deceased cats and all manuer of evil. It has been observed that on vacant lots where the weeds are kept down few of such objects are thrown, so that property owners close about could well afford If only from a sanitary stand point to keop the weeds cut down or plowed under. The Fruit Crop. Don't let this nice weather fool you into the belief that all the cold weather is over for this season. The fruit crop last year was killed by a frost on April 15. NEW TROLLEY LINE PROPOSED TO CONNECT ST. MAT THEWS AND CRESTON. Citizens of Calhoun County at Work to Develop. Water Power Which Means Mach For Its Progress. The St. Matthews correspondent of The State says: "Several weeks ago Mr. D. D. Buyck, who is the owner of the plantation, commonly known as the Legare plantation, through which High Hill creek pass es (on this creek once stood a saw mill, grits mill and ginnery, but for some years past they have been de stroyed) decided to consult Mr. D. G. Zeigler of the firm of D. G. Zeig ler & Co., Columbia, S. C, and At lanta, Ga., who has charge of the construction of several power plants In south Georgia and Florida and get them to make an estimate of the power afforded by this stream. "On Tuesday last there was a meeting of the following citizens of St. Matthews to receive the report of the engineers: Messrs. J. S. Wanna maker, president St. Matthews Sav ings bank; J. A. Banks, president the Home bank, T. A. Amaker, H. C. Paulling, R. D. Zimmerman, H. A. Raysor, C. F. Zeigler, M. Jarecky, M. D. Keller, J. H. Henegan, W. F. Buyck, O. H. Wingles, D. D. Buyck, D. G. Zeigler and Drs. W. T. C. Bates and A. R. Able. "The object of the meeting was to receive the report of Mr. D. G. Zeigler as to the Power that can he generated from the flow of water, as above stated, which was quite a sur prise to several of the gentlemen present. Mr. Zeigler expected such would be the case and used the fore thought to secure the assistance of four other expert engineers on water power who went over hie figures and found them to be correct and thfc five have fully agreed that the power available is 2,068 horsepower, and that it will operate a trolley from St. Matthews to the Congaree river, to be used as a connection* wich a steamboat line on the river. It will also operate a cotton factory of 20. 000 spindles and will have a re serve of about 800 horse-power to operate other enterprises. "Mr. Zeigler stated that it would require about $400,uUO to develop the water power, erect and equip the cotton mill and railway. This seems to be a large undertaking for the bahy county of the State, but the names of the above gentlemen con nected with such a valuable enter prise as this means speedy succesi, as they are all 'firm and undivided workers and never think of the word give up, therefore it may be expect ed that active steps in the way of construction on this work wir begin in a very sh"*~l lime. "As soon as the engineers can com plete some preliminary surveys the charter will then be applied for and if there is any stock that is not tak en <oy that time it will be offered for sale then. It Is probable that a trolley line will be constructed to Cameron or Creston, thereby mak ing connections with the Atlantic Coast Line, giving rival competition in freight rates. As it is we are now in the hands of the Southern, which at times rules as a despot. There is lots of money in Calhoun counlv ready for an investment in safe enterprises. St. Matthews, the county seat of Calhoun county, alone has a large amount of invested cap ital and is proud of the fact that it is the capital of the baby county." LIGHT UNDER A BUSHEL. How Some Towns Neglected to Use Their Own Opportunities.. Many towns commit the unpardon able sin of hiding their light under a bushel. This means that they neglect to take advantage of their opportuni ties fur improvement and advancement There is no town rhar does not possesr. some attractions peculiar to itself which by judicious presentation to the outside world eould be turned to the town's distinct advantage. There may be an excellent factory site, vi ith plenty of loose labor mate rial lying around wailing for employ ment Wisdom sugg'-sls that the ad vantages of this site and the unemploy ed population be made known to manu facturers who are looking for just such a combination. Various kinds of goods can be manufactured to better advan tage In country towns than in the big cities. Manufacturers are on the look out for favorable locations in country towns. There are towns which lack local business concerns of one kind or an other which the population needs. It may be a tailoring establishment or a bakery or an up to date dairy. The big cities have plenty of men engaged in these occupations who are eager to get located in good country towns, where they may live In more healthful surroundings, educate their children under better influences than the city affords and grow old gracefully. But how are these possible settlers to know of the opportunities unless the towns possessing the opportunities make the fact known? Almost any town within a reasonable radius of a large city can attract men of means who will build summer homes where their families may spend the hot months free from the discomfort^ of life in the stifling streets. .Some towns, of course, are more desirable than others in this respect, but unless 'he townspeople themselves undertake the task of making the fact known the city people will not discover it. Town. that neglect such possibilities are hid ing their light. Editor A. W. Knight. Editor A. W. Knight, of the Bam berg Herald, was in the city Friday. Mr. Knight is a good newspaper man and is succeeding well with his FIRE AT ST. MATTHEWS. THE ORPHANAGE CHILDREN W. A. Price, Dr. A. R. Able and Bf. B. Deserves the Help of All Generous Foures Sustain Loses. A dispatch from St Matthews to The State says about five o'clock Sat urday morning the alarm of fire was given and for the first time the fire laddies had a real opportune to test the new waterworks, and be it said to their everlasting credit they cut short what might have been one of the most destructive fires which ever occurred in St. M^Vthews. j The fire originated in the store of Mr. W. A. Price in the Mack build ing and was completely destroyed so far as stock and inside work goes.: He carries some insurance, but not( half sufficient to cover the loss. Adjoining the store of Mr. Price' was the office of Dr. A. R. Abie which, while sustaining no fire dam-! age, was deluged with water, de stroying books, papers and instru ments. Dr. Able Is amply secured. Next in the building is the s.tore! occupied by Mr. N. B. Foures and while his stock is almost ruined by j water he sustained no fire damage. Mr. Foures carried no insurance. It is believed that robbers set the building on fire in order to cover their nefarious work. A Freak of Nature. Mr. J. F. Jackson, or the Bowman section, left at our office Saturday a '. freak of nature in the vegetable line. | It was a large turnip with several j smaller vegetables attached to it. The smaller vegetables had the flavor of j turnips, but the skin of Irish pota- j toes, and was evidently a crosss of j turnip and Irish potato. They were' grown on a piece of land where Irish potatoes were grown last year, and this accounts for the strange freak Some Fine Turnips. We were presented with several rutabeggas on Saturday by Mr. J. F. Jackson. They were raised by him on his place near Bowman, and were as sweet and tender as any we ever tasted. It is almost criminal for us to be buying rutabeggas from other places when we can raise at home such delicious ones as Mr. Jackson presented us with. Religious Service. Rev. John Kershaw, D. D. of St. Michael's Church, Charleston, will preach at the Church of the Redeem er at the Lenten service, on Wednes day evening at 8 P. M. Everyone cordially welcomed. People. The Thornwell Orphanaee. Clin ton, S. C, has recently completed a cottage, the funds for which were presented by Dr. J. C. Stillman, of Palestine, Texas, as a memorial to his father, Dr. James Monroe Still man formerly of York County, South Carolina. The building is a granite structure. All the granite was do nated by Dr. N. G. Long of the Long Blue Granite Quarries of Elberton, j Ga. The house is complete with all modern improvements and is filling up with a family of little orphan | girls under the age of ten. This' building increases the number of orphan children actually under the shelter of the Thornwell Orphanage to 250. The care and education of this number of children, is of course, I a heavy draft on the Presbyterians ' of South Carolina, Georgia and Flor- j ida, who unite in its support, but i the work is a noble one and is re turning both to the State and to j the Church a splendid body of young people that would have otherwise grown up in ignorance. The Thorn well Orphanage was founded in 1S75, being opened for the reception of children on the 1st day October of that year. It has been w< nderful iy enlarged since then, tii! tit there are 22 stone and brie! bul'din rs. Neverless the demands on i a*o much greater than ever before. !; does not confine its benefits Lo Pres byterian children, but considers only the fact that the child is a needy and deserving orphan. Its schools are on a high grade, both literary and manual and its pupils when they leave are thoroughly able to take care of themselves. It deserves the helping hand of all generous people in this great work that it Is doing so well. I WET OR DRY? THIS IS THE QUESTION TROUB LING CALHOUN COUNTY. Death of D. A. Straker. D. A. Straker. a colored lawyer who lived in Orangeburg several years ago, died on the 14th instant in Detroit, Mich.,' where he had liv ed since leaving South Carolina. While living here he ran for the Leg islature, but he was defeated or unseated. He was a very black man and was reputed to be well educated and a man of good ability. He was very polite in his intercourse with white people, and, aside from his pol tics, was well thought of by the citizens of this place. The New County Will Need the Rev enue That Will Be Derived Front County Dispensaries. Shall Calhoun Sounty be wet or dry? This is the question now troub ling some of the Calhoun County folks, and they want to know how the question is to be answered. A? John Henrv would say the ?sw coun ty needs all the funds it can get to start housekeeping. The local option law, known as the Carey-Cothran law, provides that the sale of whiskey in this State is pro hibited "except iu incorporated cities and towns of ths State in counties wherein the same may be permitted as hereinafter provided." Of course, this Act having been passed prior to the establishment of Calhoun, there is no provision therein in regard to the sale of whiskey in Calhoun Coun ty. In the Act establishing Calhoun Councy, passed at the 1908 session, there is nothing in regard to the matter. Mr. Banks, whose home is in the new county, had an amend ment inserted in Mr. Cothran's bills ?unending the Carey-Cothran law, which provided that the dispensar ies now in Orangeburg, but in the territory to be included in Calhoun County, should be turned over to the new county, but this bill did not get through the Senate. A delegation from Calhoun county recently waited on Governor Ansel and asked his opinion in regard to the matter, and he took it under advise ment. If it is left to the Governor to decide he will likely say that the new county is prohibition under ex isting law, but the new county peo ple, or some of them at least, desire to operate dispensaries for the rev enue which the new county will need. It is probable therefore that a test case will be brought before some Circuit Judge to determine whether the new county is dry or wet? Under the general local option law no election can be held on the subject until next November, at the same , time as the general election is held. ? The Princess Yirgiria BY C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON Authors of "The Lightning Conductor," "Rosemary in Search of a Father," etc ILLUSTRATED BY WILL JONES The story is told with vigor and snap and gai ety, and has a swing that will carry the reader along almost breathlessly. ? Phila delphia Record. Princess Virginia is charming to know, dashing, brave vivac ious.?SI Louii Globe Democrat n"*HE romance of an English princess to whom came in her waking dreams a vision of the only man she would marry. That this man hap pened to be a great sovereign adds to the piquancy and fascination of the story. The American blood in the veins of the princess not only gives her the audacity to conceive and the courage to engage in a hazardous adventure, but links her to the American reader whose interest and sympathy she at once commands. It is a charming, fasci nating story which you lay down with regret, but with a happy im pression left in your mind.?Pittsbarg Dis patc/u A dashing romance of royal imperial love that stirs the imagina tion to a high degree. Portland Oregoninn. A story which appeals to all who read for entertainment, to all who love a lover and particularly to every woman who has cherished an ideal of a husband WILL BE PRINTED IN THIS.PAPE