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IUI NOT DOWN 38BAL QUESTION CONFRONTING J MB. A. P. LEVER. 3b "Has He Been Faithful to the .? democratic Party When He Voted for a Duty on Lumber?" "The real question confronting A. F- Lever, candidate for re-election la the Seventh district, is not re presented by his opponent, Dr. W. I "ViT. Ray. sayB the State. "The real question will not be' settled by the 'T *9te on August>30. Nor is -the ques tion ?oa&he? in Its scope to Demo crats of the Seventh district ? o.v . That Mr. Lever will be re-elected >5>y a large majority is about as safe m political, forecast as one can 'make. Ha our opinion no man in the district has -or-had; one chance-in twenty ol ?defeating Mr.. Lever this. year. And there in no mystery regarding that ?trength. Mr. Lever has been in practically undisputed possession of his seat in Congress for eight years. Naturally affable, obliging and indus trious, the Congressman from the Seventh district easily converted those qualities into valuable politi cal assets. He has worked with the view of making his incumbency fi nancially valuable to his consttuents, and has gathered in all the appro priations he could. In that field, Mr. Levor has been a successful and sat isfactory Congressman.! .. And he has lost nothing in reputation because of his high opinion of publicity, and his success !la obtaining *ftT ' ' "During all these years (Mr. Levpr, while being on the business end of his job much longer than onion la ter rules would sanction, has kept far away from a political path. He has omothered any ambition.' that anight have stirred his soul to emu late the statesmanship of Carolin ians of other days, and has con'Su ?S himself to business. Doubtless, 4he success he has had in! getting favors from various departments at Washington is partly attributed to the opinion of the power? that are (hat the Representative of the South ?Carolina Seventh district Is liberal ? in his political views and hau sorne thing like contempt for that thing vaguely termed "Bryaniam.";* ' "And so we see why 'Congress man Lever is popular in the Seventh district and successful in Washing ton. He has industry, alertness and Tfinning ways. He also regards the Jobs of Cogressman as decidedly the 3>eBt thing in sightjax^wor^.work?. Ins to hold diir1mi[8?a^^^o|;^^ ing recesses. As a matter of. fact, when it comes to: fence; building'of repairing, Mr. Lever hSa'peJ^r; t^enj c recess. "Most business men of this day believe that 'business' is a Congress man's first and sole duty. So long! as be. gets immediate financial re sults they care little of nothing about his politics or his vote. And as it is about a generation since the peo ple of half the Seventh district h.ave heard a candidate for Congress in telligently present the vital mater ial questions it 1b small wonder that - they, too, take little or no interest in the political side of a Congress man's career. They do not know xnd few care what the issues are, jt -what are the lines dividing the two great parties. The people have been fed on personalities' and jokes, and it Is natural that when at Or angeburg Candidate Lever asked -whether they preferred hearing na tional issues discussed or a joke told, the cry was unanimous for the joke. Poor fellows! "Knowing of Lever's strength in the district and appreciating his re cord as a worker, it would have been as easy as it would have been poll tic for The State to let him proceed to his victory without recurrence to the fact that he has a smudge oh his apolitical 'record. It would also have been pleasanter. "The real .question of this cam paign that will remain unanswered when Mr. Lever is again nominated on August 30, is this: "Has he been faithful to the Democratic party when he voted for a duty on lum ber?" In the oath taken to his peo ple here in South Carolina, Mr. Lev er pledged his solemn word to rec ognize the binding obligation upon him of the Democratic party's de crees. That party pledged its good faith and honor to "put lumber or the free list." Mr. Lever voted for a duty on lumber. He says he did so because it put three millions in to the treasury; the Republicans were looking after the treasury, it was Mr. Lever's proper part to keep his pledged faith to the party. He says in further justification that 42 Democrats voted for that duty. If four million had done so his obliga tion to vote against it would have ?been no whit less; But all of those 42 Democrats had not sigued the oath that bound Mr. Lever when he ontered the South Carolna primary. "If 'delivering the goods' is to be the standard, then there is no oc casion to enquire whether the rep resentation of the South in Congress is to be Democratic, Republican or mongrel. When parcy obligation ja disregarded with impunity and ?when faithfulness to party is ac claimed, then party principles cease to be. When "business" stands aside "principle," the birthright of the party will have been sold for a mess of pottage. "If expediency Is to be the watch word, and the quantity of "pork" "brought home 'the sole standard, why not send to Washington a Re Republican representative when the Republicans are in power, a Demo crat when Democrats reign, and a mongrel when there is doubt." BOWMAN LETTER. Dundee Writes Interestingly of the Crops and Locals. Bowman, July 25th, 1910. Spec ial. "Hon. Samuel Dibble has in creased his acreage in sweet -pota toes this section and now has about 30 acres planted. He claims them to be an economical food for horses and mules, especially during the winter and spring months. The sugar cane crop all over this section is in -good shape and looking well, but there seems to be a de crease in acreage planted compared with former years. Why this de crease is "accountable' by the cor respondent to the advance in recent years of the price of. cotton. Good -syrup demands almost double the prices sold at two years ago and the demand exceeds the supply. ' Bow man "and* surrounding country wse noted some'years' ago for its larger crops of most excellent syrup pro : duced <& almost every farm, large and small, but these patches .have dwindledw^'own~ to "line 'production of only a few gallons for home con sumption. Mr. G. A.vjfaers,; as vweil as this correspondent remembers, made something over 500 gallons on a single acre Borne years ago. Thia amount per acre at present prices would aggregate something like $200 or more per acre. Of course there is some expense in seeding, manuring, and preparation of land for a crop combined with the cUt Jting grinding and filing of the ?yrup, yet with all that there is money in its production if properly handled. Showers still continue at inter vals over part of this section, but notwithstanding this crops contin ue to improve on all well cultivated lands. A' considerable portion of the crop , is being laid by, some In the .grass, but .a. larger proportion clean. ~ Felder' Evans,'* of"iae Cameron section was a' visitor at Bowman yesterday. iMiss Ethel Evans ac companied her cousin on his return trip in the afternoon for some days visiting it tagt section. iMr. John Dukes, of the Cattle Creek section, with .his family, spent yesterday with relatives in town..'' ' Mr. J. Lawrence Shuler and .fam ily, are spending some days at the Isl^f of Palms going down Saturday morning. ? ; ' Prbf. C. J. Rast spent one day at a meeting of the County Board of Education at Orangeburg last week. Campaign Day here on the 27th will', doubtless be attended by the usual number of citizens. There doesn't seem to .be much interest manisfested in politics these days. The county roads are In very bad condition almost everywhere near Bowman and.. notwithstanding . the ye?r'ia'hsbre^lmn half gone no work of "any consequence has been done ?#n; [inir. ? 6t, th am. The writer .can ?tes'U^yth^t "ihere are trees, bUBhes, etc!', on one of the most heaviest traveled roads, quite near Bowman that have almost covered the road in plajcea on which nothing has been done-in 19 months. The Auto road has been completed so, far as Orangeburg county is concerned, and work is now wanted on some of the R. F. D. and farmers roads. They pay their just proportion of taxes for Borne. These roads de taxes for same. These roads de hands of the township commissioner and it should be given without de lay. ' "Dundee."| -_ m m m ii FERTILIZER COMPANIES. One Has Been Organized and Anoth er Soon Will Be. An important meeting of the stockholders of the Home Fertilizer company was held Saturday morn ing at the city hall. This company is capitalized at $25,000 and M. O. Dantzler was elected president and general manager; R. E. Wannamak er, vice president. The following were elected directors: M. O. Dan tzler, R. E. Wannamaker, F. W. Farnum, A. M. Salley, B. B. Barton, Edgar L. Culler, John D. Shuler, T. R. MoCants, L. G. Way, M. O. Dan tzler, R. E. Wannamaker, and T. R. McCants constitute the executive comnittee. The erection of a modern plant will commence in a short time upon their excellent lot on Railroad ave nue. Two sidings will be placed and a shifting engine service inaug urated by the Southern railway. The Oranigeburg Fertilizer com pany will also commence the erec tion of their plant near the Orange burg Ice Manufacturing company's plant at an early date. P. M. Smoak is president of this new enterprise. Both of these plants are big addi tions to' Orangeburg's manufactur ing industries. Having the fertilizers mixed right here will not only be a great con venience to the farmers, but will save them considerable on their fer tilizer bills. We hope that both of these mills will flourish and prove a great financial success. St. Matthews Teachers. After a careful survey of the field of teachers, the faculty of the St. Matthews graded school has been completed. The following have been elected: Superintendent, T. M. Ham er, of Tatum; D. F. iMoorer, St. George; Miss Madeline Spigner, Co lumbia; Mis Mary B. Babb. Laurens; Miss Elizabeth Wannamaker of St. ?Matthews and Miss Joe Ketchin of Wlnnsboro. Touring the Mountains. IMr. Cecil Culler, accompanied by Mr. J. M. Carrol left here last week in a "Hupmobile" for the up country and the mountains. A card shows that they have reached Hen dersonville, after covering a distance of 400 miles, without mishap. They are having a big time. THE BUCK ROOT "COTTON PLANT DISEASE LITTLE KNOWN DC THIS Section of the Cotton Belt?Has Made Its Appearance In This State. Mr. H. W. Barre, of the bureau of plant industry of the agricultural experiment station of Clemson col lege, was in Newberry recently on . th.eJnYitatlon of the Observer, and while there made the alarming dis covery of the appearance of a cotton ' plant disease hitherto unknown in that section of the cotton belt, , though somewhat prevalent in sec tions farther south and west. The Observer describes the disease as follows: ''Black Root" or "Wilt" is the name of a fungus disease I Which has practically destroyed the entire crop of Mr. Ed Walton, who is farming on one of the Edw. R. Hipp places, opposite Rosemont cem eiary. On this farm. Mr. Barre states there will not ,be enough cotton grown there this year to make seed. The character of the disease, as explained to the Observer man by Mr. Barre, are that it is confined principally to sandy portions of high light land. The paracite first at tacks the large main root of the cot ton stalk and gradually builds up ward, forming a fungus "growth in the interior of the stalks and limbs, which .effectualiy close and chokes up the entire circultatory system of the plant causing It to wilt and die as the disease progresses. Once start ed in a "field it'spreads rapidly In all directions by means of drainage,; the spread commonly following the direction of the slope of the land. Land is, also infected tby. plows which! have been used in cultivating a*dlBt, eased crop, the plow being carried to some portion of the farm and us-^ ed without being thoroughly eleaned. It is not known how the infec-i tion first obtained its hold in this county; but from what is known of the history and habits of the organ ization which produces the disease as explained - by} Mr. Barre, it be^ longs to the same family of fungus infections that are common to water melons and cow peas, and it is possi ble that it finds its origin in the cot ton fields from that source. The bnfy successful method of combating the disease, says Mr. Bar re, are the planting of resistant var ieties of seed and rotation of crops. The theory of elimination by rota tion based on the fact that the para asite in seeking its winter habitation in the ground does not live over eight or tea months, and if cotton is left on the. infected area, for one sea son the germ is dead by planting time of the next season. The United States department of argriculture is working on two va rieties of cotton seed called the "Dix ie" and the "Dillon," which have proved to be immune to black root. These seed can be secured in small quantities at the department or in i quantities from the Willett Seed Company, of Augusta, Ga. So great have been the ravages of black root in the state of Georgia that a measure calling for an appro priation of $10,000 with which to continue the fight against it has been introduced in the legislature at its present session, and will undoubt edly be adopted. Of this 6um $5, 000 is asked for 1910 and $5,000 for 1911. * HOLLY HILL NEWS. Items of Local Interest to Folks of That Neighborhood. A team of small boys went over to Harleyville Saturday morning to play a game of ball. They were chaperoned by Mr. J. H. Wiggins, an old veteran of the game. Hamp says that his boys played a fine game and won by the score of seven to eight Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Padgett and children from Florida is visiting i.Mrs. Padgett's mother, Mrs. H. C. Con nor. Miss Rosa and Grady Humph, Is on a visit to their sister, Mrs. H. HorreB. ? Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Gross and Mer vin arrived home Saturday night, af ter spending several weeks in the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. W. G. Moorer, who is in the employ of the A. C. L. Railroad, npent Sunday here with his mother. , Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Heesemann made a flying trip to Orangeburg Sunday in their Overland. Mrs. G. H. Harvey, sister of Mrs. Heesemann, was in the party, also Mr. R. G. Carson. Campaign Schedule. The county campaign this year Is a hard one and has been so arranged as to give the candidates a week be tween the speaking to rest up and look after their farms. The follow ing is the campaign schedule. OraDgeburg, Tuesday night, July 26th. Bowman, July 27th. Branchville, July 28th. Canaan church, July 29th. Elloree, Tuesday, August 9th. North Providence, August 10th. Holly Hill, August 11th. Eutawville, August 12th. North, Tuesday, August 23rd. Springfield, August 24th. Norway, August 25th. Pine Hill, August 26th. Campaign Meeting. The Orangeburg county campaign will hold its first meeting at the court house in this city this evening at 8:3 0 o'clock. The candidates have been coming out lately, and a large number are in the field seeking political honors and positions. STATE HIGH SCHOOLS. Interesting Letter From State Super intendent Swearingen. Mr. Editor: ' Though I am unopposed and not expected to speak at the several cam paign meetings I aBk the use of your columns to call to the attention of the peopde of Orangeburg the high school situation in the county. During the scholastic year 1909 1910 the State Board of Education appropriated the maximum of $3,000 for use in the State high schools of Orangeburg county. Under the law, this amouDt was expended for teachers' salaries.' In ,every instance "the board insisted on the maintain ance of, an efficient standard in the seven elementary' and grammar grades, and allowed high school aid only after careful, inspection, The eight iigh schools at North, Spring field BranchvjUie!, Elloree, North Providence, RowesyUle, Pine. Hill and Bowman were accepted, by the board, even though, the amount al lowed the last school accepted had, to be scaled in order to fall, within the maximum allowable to any one county.!"* /The section of Berkeley county T-ecenWy annexed>t?-Orangeburgicon tains a State High School at Holl1 Hill. This annexation increases the numher of communities eligible for State High School aid. In my judge ment it will be a misfortune for any one of the nine high schools thus created in Orangeburg county to be crippled in their usefulness and de velopment: An' effort was made last winter to amend the High School Law bo as to allow the establish ment, of a State High School in any rural or village community enroll ing fifteen pupils in the eight, ninth, and tenth grade and in a**/ town en rolling twenty-five pupils in theBe three grades. The object of this amendment was to authorize the es tablishment of such' a school when ever the required enrollment could be secured. The State High School Board al ready requires that all accepted high schools shall be at least five miles apart and this limitation Is a 'suf ficient guarantee against the need less and hurtful multiplication of such, schools, ;At the same time an effort was made to remove the restriction of a maximum appropriation by the State of $0,000.00 to any one county. Both these efforts failed, As a re sult, the bigi schoohvof Orangeburg suffered. I believe in the maintenance of State appropriations both to the high school and to the weak ele mentary school. The Delegation of Orangeburg county cannot afford to sit idly by while their progressive schools are handicapped. To ex pect a large and populuB county to stagnate under the' restrictions so lightly bourne ? bjri small counties is idle folly- I ask the co-operation of your paper in bringing this condi tion to the attention of your people. The high schools ''of Anderson, Greenville, and Laurens counties are in the same condition and it took a division of Marion county by the creation of the new county of Dillon to relieve the situation there. In these four counties are located thir ty-four State high schools and it would be retrogressslon to weaken or disestablish a single one of them. J. E. Swearingen, State -Supt. of Education. CARTARRH GOES. So Does Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Croup and Asthma. You can easily tell by reading the symptoms below, whether you have catarrh or not: Offensive breath, frequent sneez ing, discharge from the nose, stop page of the nose, huskiness of the voice, tickling in throat, droppings in throat, a cough, pain in chest, loss of strength, variable appetite, spasms of coughing, low spirited at times, raising of mucus, difficulty in breathing, loss of vital force. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., has a sensible remedy (money back if it falls) for catarrh,, called Hyomei (pronounced Hy-o-me) which is a vaporized air, so antiseptic, that w-hen it is breathed over the in flamed and germ-infested membrane, it kills all germ life, gives relief in two minutes and cures catarrh. The price, including hard rubber inhaler, is only $1.00. The hard rubber pocket Inhaler will last a lifetime, so that should you need a second bottle, of Hyomei, you can get it for 50 cents. The Farmers Win. The upholding of the cotton tare act by the Supreme Court is a right eous victory for the farmer. It simply means that the farmer will now get what the exporter of cotton has been taking from hif unlawfully. It means that a margin of profit of something over a dollar on each bale of cotton exported that was going to the man who handled the cotton be tween the local buyers and the for eign buyers will now go to the far mer, where it should have always gone. The margins out of which the farmer have been buncoed was enough to build up large fortunes for some people and they have been built up too. The act came about at the last session of the Legislature through the reiu?al of buyerB in certain sections of the State to take cotton that had had over a certain amount of bagging was well within amount of bgging was well within the discount taken off for tare on Liverpool exchanges. The Legisla ture had corrected that evil, and now instead of the farmers being fleeced out of what really i6 their own they will keep it in their own pockets. All vagrants, white or black, loaf ing about the streets should be made to move on. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS PICKED UP ALL OVER TOWN BY OUR REPORTERS. What is Happening All Over the County.?Local Items of Personal Interest to Our Readers. The county campaign meeting to night Be on hand promptly. The town of St. Matthews has pur chased a street scraper and will now keep the streets in a fine condition. ? IThe ? only -regret we have' is-that we canot vote for al the boys that are in the race for the different offi ces. The trouble with many people is not that they have so little to give but that they are no unwilling to give that little. Mrs. A. V. Gardner, of this city, is visiting her brother, Mr. J.' H. Riley at Buffalo,. S. C. She will be away for several weeks. Mrs. J. G. Clinkscales, of Spartan burg, and two daughters, MiB3es Katherin-? and El'en, are on a visit ,to Mrs.. James. L. 81ms. It is rather by a man's every day speech and action we estimate his character than by the extraordinary acts he may occasionally do. The. ice cream festival at Four Holes for the benefit of the Woman's Missionary Society has been post poned until Wednesday, August 13. Miss Rosa Dantzler, of Autauga vlile, Ala., is visiting friends in this county. Before she returns to her home, she .will visit friends in this city. The two boys near Elloree who ran away have returned home again, well tired of the life they started to. live. Such a lesson should do them good. Mr. Forrester Smith, of Autauga ville, Ala., is visiting friends in Or angeburg county. We hope he will give Orangeburg a visit before he returns home. Judge of probate and Master R. E. Copes, Treasurer A. D. Fair, Aud itor T. M. (McMlchael and C. P. Brun son, are unopposed for their res spective positions. Jesse Owens, a colored man in the employ of the city has been arrested on the charge of selling liquor. He denies the charge and has employed a lawyer in his defence. Dr. Samuel Dibble and Col. Morti mer Glover, two retired lawyers of this city, will address a big meeting of veterans of Bamberg, Barnwell and Colleton counties on July 28, at Bethsada church, near Bamberg. A new school district has been created in this county by a division of district No. 22. The new district will- be known '.as ? ?' district No. 5. The board of trustees will be named at the next meeting of the county board of education. The hot Buppers are getting in their work. One night la?t week near North a row took place during one and a negro was badly cut with an axe. It is said that the others 'attending the supper made new run ning records, and the wounded man was not found until the following morning. Mr. H. Grady Imidin, of Clover, S. C, Is on a visit to Messrs. Henry ard Hugo Sims. Hardin ia the young gentleman who represented Wofford College at the inter-colle giate oratorical contest at Green wood a *ew months ago and won the medal. He is a brother of Rev. E. K. Hardin, Pastor of St. Paul's 'Methodist Chinch. Prof. Geo. Harris Webber, of El loree is at Washington at the hygien ic laboratories of the public health service, making inquiries into the hook worm and other parasites. Prof Webber has been elected principal of the Elloree Graded school to suc ceed Dr. S. W. Puckett, who will teach In the Lake City graded school during the coning s -?bod. Wise or Otherwise. The supply of talk always exceeds the demand. Tips you get are almost as worth1 less as those you give. (Many a budding genius had de veloped Into a blooming idiot. A nagging wife makes her hus banl forget hie other troubles. The hairpin goes to extremes when it is UBed as a button hook. !No other man appreciates a help ing hand like a man in trouble. When a man does things he hasn't much time to talk about them. Too many people look upon a friend as a person they can make use of. An occulist can do nothing for a man who is blind to his own inter ests. Some men are as anxious to se cure reputations as others are to loose theirs. A man feels as ill at ease in a dry goods store as a woman does in a tobacco shop. Business Locals. Balance feed for horses. Ground oats, corn and alfalfa. 55c per bu. Phone 50. Ayers & Williams. Ayers & William's Dairy Feed will produce milk. $1.35 per sack. Phone 50. Fresh turnips and Rutabaga seed at Ayers and Williams. Poultry Powders are guaranteed to prevent and cure all diseases of the poultry or money back. Ayers & Williams. Baptist Meeting. The Baptists have just closed a most successful series of religious services at Dean Swamp, an old church of that denomination, near Springfield. Rev. Marvin M. Ben son, pastor in charge, was assisted by Rev. 0. P. Gilbert, pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Augusta. CRAIG'S Regular Summer Sale Beginning July 20th and Continuing All the Summer. We will sell you the best and nicest line of Summer groceries ever shown in Orangeburg. We do not promise to save you 25 per cent on what you buy, but will sell you the Best Goods at the Lowest Prices Not odds orends but brand new goods, every article a bargain. WHY BOTHER WITH COOKING Why spend your time in the kitchen, while all the others are out enjoying themselves. Among our canned goods you can provide a whole ready to eat dinner from soup to desert. Stop in and see what an immense choice you have at this grocery. We Have the Goods We Have the Prices Do not buy till you see our fancy line of table delicacies. Re member the place J. A. CRAIG'S Pure Food Store PHONE 15 Plate Glass Automobile Liability Tornado ZE1GLER & DIBBLE, INSURANCE Orangeburg South Carolina Mistakes Are Easy for the player, the terror of the listener. Errors are easy, too, in piano purchasing if one depends on outward appearance solely. You know there are "'furniture" pianos. If you want a genuine musical instrument at reasonable cost be sure to see the stock on our sales floor?listen as they are played, get our prices and then be assured of real value for the money you invest. JHarchant Music Co. ORANGEBTJRO, 8. 0. Mowing' thef Lawn Is not hard work if you habe the rig.bt kind of a mower. Now this kind is just yhat M. O. DAKTZLEK is offering to his patrons. Easy running, of exceeding durability, per fectly adjusted bearings and self sharpening knives, carefully harden' ed and tempered. M. O. Dantzler B LIFE ON THE LAWN when the days are hat and sultry can be made thoroughly enjoyable by taking your ease in a nice ham mock or lawn swing. At M. O. DAN? TZLER'S we have a very extensive line of the best hammocks in many Btyles at very low prices. Our lawn swing is the finest made. Will last many seasons, as it can be folded and stored away. DANTZLER'S Furniture DVp t Mr. F. N. Rickenbaker, of Orangeburg, now represents The Southern Marble & Granite Co. of Spartanburg, S. C. The Leading Manufacturers and Dealers in Monuments, Coping and Headstones This firm has erected some of the largest and most handsome mon uments in the Orangeburg Cemetary, and we ask your careful inspection* of sme. See their designs and get their prices.