Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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44At one a: landlady's regular io)04e! a ked uon eing reqoested Sp0rerin that arVice. He said that he would reer, them.all to a certaixu V se in thl Bible and take the verse fol his !4grace' And that the verse as ," Chrst the .same yeterday, to day and always." I don't think he remained at that boarding place very long afterward, but in that respect We differ very much from thke board er. While he may have left suddenly and for a go4d cause, we can't leave suddenly or afty other way, and for a. good reason too. And that is, that we are so miserably poor after riding the mail' for several years, that it is an absurd idea to think of living ex'ept from the sweat of our brows, and in the meantime, we have become so mortally lazy that we would hate to have to miss the sweat from our brow much less to perforip the manu al labor to put it there. Isn't it a -fact boys? Well, I have a rather peculiarly constructed route. To begin with, distributing office, which is Blairs, is in Fairfield county. However, I do (not serve a single patron in Fairfield, but entirely in Newberry. You see that Broad river is the dividing line between the two counties, and the post office is just across the river on the railroad, I mean near the rail road, not exactly on. it. It would have been, (for we hate to carry the mail from the train to the post office and vice versa), but the trains would not agree to run around it, so we had to build it, that is the post office, to one side. I cross the river at Blairs four times a day in a bateau and haven't missed crossing it a day in over two years, or to be more accur ate, since the 15th of November, 1904, except holidays and Sundays, of course. Have twenty-six long rough miles to go and living two miles from the office gives me thirty miles per day, and I have so,e rough roads to contend with too. My .territory is very thinly populated. Have very few white families on- my route, but what few there are, certainly treat me very kindly and there is nothing too good for them to do for me, and you .may be sure I appreciate their good will. There's no such thing as any one kicking for any lit-le error or oversight or anything that a frozen over, numb distributor of Uncle Sam's mu*ail is liable to make some times. In regard to ever getting any im provemen.ts on our roads. I think the P-ost direct- and juRt way to accom plish anything in that line is.to have a prol)erty tax for the maintenance -ind improvement. of the public roads. There is no justice or right iln. mk lg a poor man work six days of a year on the public roads wlen lie cal barely spare the time and probably has not a buggy or mule in the world hvith which to derive any benefit 'from the public roads. s While the big farmer with twenty 0r thirty mules and wvagons, which he -does not use 0on the road until it is too wet to wvork on the farms, is proh ably too 01ld for rolad dluty -and1 dloes not pay One cent, or do one lick of work towards the improvemen-t of the roads. Not onIly tile farmer, but every property owner shou1(1ld)e sub jet to the road tax,. and1( esp)ecially the big lien mnerchlants ill town, who Sdeive more b)eneflt from tile roads than any one else, and I want to say r i-hit here that I would like to say '~.-what should he done with cveiy senl atori in South Carolina who voted against the repeal of the le lawv, * howecver~, I am h~eartily in favor of * lt aining tihe present law in lieu - f'the property tax for roads5. If we 1d not, how in the world would we ver get at the trifling, crap-shoot nig, chicken-stealing niegroes. A But, what is the use of a poor lit ~tie one-horse, I have got two horses though-mail-rider saying anyting along this line when our learned rep resentatives chlose to see it in-a light to suit themselves. Say boy, I have been. thlinking of a great scheme for some fun, on the 30th of May. Why Scan't tile rural carriers of Newberry county challenge the carriers of some other coun ty-Laurens for in stance, as it is near and with conn1ectionl for a game of baseball on that day. :Eery player to be a bona fide rural l-etter carrier, and from the county to hieh we issue the cha.llenge, the ~amo condition to apply to us. If theo dea 'strikes the fancy of any, of the' ~t, I move thlat we appoint tihe post-. ast-ter. at. Newvberry malnager, and Lhim to arrange thle game. Let's .r more about it. rell, as I have run out of some g to write and ain sleepy, .will for thlis time. - L. S.H. s,R F. D. No. 1. Blair, 1t. F. D. No. 1. lditor: Like the young doba colleagues have already said had to dy. But for fear we so. the sace oWftred ns by the editokof The Herald and News in h valUable. papI6r I will write som thib_ to help fill up the space. I have a twehty-fve mile route, c which I spend. an. average of 7 houi per day. It- takes. me 3 hours and 4 minutes to make the first 12 miles 4 my route, and 3 hours and 15 minutl to make the remaining. 13 mile, which shows'how different the cond tion of the different parts of the ros is. If the first part of my route wj in as good condition as the last par I could make the trip 45 minut quicker, and with mucl more ease. Now we know it is becoming offei sivetto some of the patrons on o route to be continually nagging i them about the bad roads in the section, but we will be forced to liov until conditions are bettered. Pi trons, you owe it to yourselves, to tl rural carriers,and to the civil servi< system in general, to keep the roat in goo4 .repair, in order that you ma get the best of service. You say it impossible for you to keep- the roa< in perfect condition with the fe hands you have. Well, possibly s< but you can at least ~keep them i comparatively good fix with very li te work at the' right time and at t1 right places. The main trornble wit parts of my route is the side ditcht are not kept open, and consequent; -the road-bed is soon torn up an mud holes form in the middle~of tt road where the water is allowed I collect. Now I have not a few pi trons on my route who take it upo themselves to look after the roa< near their houses, and just with li tle care at the right time they kee them in first class order. I have or patron especially (a widover to who is exempt from road duty), wh takes such interest in the rural se: vice that he goes over the road for mile after every hard rain and fll up the holes and ruts that are eatin out, and takes the rafts out of tt ditches; and as a result of his faitd ful efforts with one half day's wor by the road hands during the yea that is the best piece of road ov( which I travel. May more of our goc patrons and even those that are n< quite so good, follow - this good ge temnan 's example, then we will pron ise you that you will hear no moi kicks from us about bad roads, ai there will be no more threats of discontinuance of yom, route on a This B Litt1e Re It goes to the draw the best re Buck's Stove & trade-.mark. It is a perfect little s inches wide, 23 inche voir for heating water high warming shelf,an ed with a generous Added to this there i boiling pot, a nickel p1. rod. It will burn fuel, a big range. It is now our show windows. I don't fail to get a bool contest. This attracl colors, is free for the SheIIe1 count of impassable roads. A the same time you will be rendering your kelves invaluable service, for nothing ebuduces more to the interest .and n advancement of a community than rs public roads in a first class condition 0 traveled by a mail rider daiil.loaded >f with mail for everybody on the route. G. W. S., ; - Pomaria, R. F. D. No. 3. ,d OUR WASHINGTON LETTER t Mr. Byrd's Mixed Marriage Bill Roosevelt's Favorites on Pay Rol. I ir Special Cor. Herald and News. ir Washington, Feb. 25.-The bill in V troduced by Representative Byrd, of Mississippi, to prohibit intermarriage between white persons and negroes in the District of Columbia will probab , ly become a law during the present session of congress. It has developed y that the administration is, for some is unexplained reason. very much afraid v of this bill. As a routine matter of . business every bill introduced in con , gress affecting the D)istrict of Colum t- bia is referred to the District com Smnissioners for a report, and hereto fore the commissioners have always expressed some opitlion as to the ad visability of its enactment. In this d case, however, after devoting some time to the consideration of the bill 0 the commissioners returned it with the simple statement that this'was a n matter wholly within the discretion of congress. The signifleance of this lies in the fact that the commission p ers who are appointed by the presi dent take their cue from the white house. It indicates that Mr. Roose velt feared that if they should en dorse the bill it would alienate from a him the support of the negro advo Is cates of social cquality. Mr. Byrd's bill has stirred up the negroes of e Waslhington and they are demanding a hearing before the District commit *k tee. r, 'r The boast of President Roosevelt's d friend Banks thait lie had been spend >t ing thousands of dollars of good gov 1- erinment money investigafilg the In I- lerstate Commecree commiission has e aroused a great deal of criosity as d to the extend to which the president a has gone in employing personal fav oriles to perform noininal services for a eautiful1 mnge Free little girl who can production of The Rlange Company's tove, 22 inches long,*1 1 s high. It has a reser , an oven for baking, a d issplendidlyornament supply of silvery nickel. s a miniature s.killet, a ated lid lifter, and a towel bake and cook just lik e on exhibition in one of )on't fail to see it, and clet telling all about the ive booklet, printed in L,Skinlg at our store. I Summer the governmen.t on large salaries. The i appointment of his friend Bishop as press agent of the Panama Canal commission at a salary of $10,000 per year was the most flagrant case of this kind, but there have been hun dreds of others. This is the more re markable, as Mr. Roosevelt has al ways posed as one of the special champions of the merit system and of making a civil service examination the only door through which access to the government pay roll could be obtained. Senator Iayner's recent speech on the Ioosevelt policies of centraliza tion and imperialism has directed at tention to the importance of the dem oeratic party taking a square stand against every encroachment by the president upon the powers of con gress ot the courts and against every invasion by the federal government of the rights of the states. The pres- I ident has raised the issue squarely as to whether the form of government I instituted by the constitution is to survive or whether while the form of a republic is preserved it is to be con verted into an empire in which one i For Ti Rc Fe TRADE MARK REGISTERED P. S. ROYS~ FLUE CURING ROASTING lII Flue Curing Deveic Found In Schna There are three ways us mers for curing and prep; tobacco for the market; nm cured, air cured and flue cu old and cheap way is callec the later discovery and imp is called flue cured. In the tobacco is taken fron and suspended over inte flues in houses especially 1 tain the heat, and there l< proper temperature until 1 process developes in the t< stimulating taste and fragi found in Schnapps tobact green coffee is made fra stimulating by the roastin Only choice selections of juicy flue cured leaf, gro famous Piedmont country, best tobacco grows, ar< Schnapps and other Reyno of high grade, flue cured R. J. REYNOLDS To nan shall be supreme and in which itate boundaries are to be more lines n the map which will impose no re trictions whatever on the power of he federal government. James S. McCarthy. CALHOUN MONUMENT. Ehose Who WiE Have Charge of the o ark Named by +he Governor. Gov. Ansel in accordance with the )m.i.-:,.ns of the act creating a con - n 1r the ee.tion of a1 illonlu nlint. to John C. Calhoun in the statL tary hall in Washington, appointed 4eiiator Mauldin, chairman of the fi 14an(Y (onuittee of the senate; Rep cesentative Banks, chairmnii of the va.ys and means committee of the iouse; Mrs. R. Moultrie Bratten of orkville, State regent of the Daugh ers of the American Revolution, and Uiss Maggie Gist, historian of the Kings Mountain chapter of the same )rder. The places were created by he act which gives an appropriation )f $10,000 for the work of reproduc ng a likeness of the great statesman. venty-ons iyster rtilize have been the because they from honest i See that the ti is on every ba genuine withou IER GUANO CO., ri I IMPROVES TI IPROVES GRI ips the. Stimulating pps that Satisfies T sed by far-. Hundred: aring their on sale that twely, sun outside of 1 red. The ' bacco is flu< I air cured; filled with roved way sweetened Rlue-curing chew of Scl 1 the field hunger lonj :ney ht such tobacci .nel htExpert t< >uilt to re- cured tobaci :ept in the Piedmont r, his curing 'less sweeter >bacco the and has a 'ant aroma satisfying e :o, just as kind of toba< grant and satisfy; mor g process. expectoratir, this ripe, and chew wn in the Schnapps where the ers formerly : used in to $i.ooper lds' brands at 5oc. per I tobaccos. 1o and 15 c B~AC00 COMPANY, W11 Our idea of a strong-minded man is one who never talks about the weather. The mother who raises children to respect 'her don't get her theories from books. Try to be content with your lot even if it isn,'t a corner lot. W. M. AUGUSTINE, BEEF MARK ET. Best steak ...........12 1-2 ets. Other cuts from 6, 8,and 10c- per lb. Pork 12 1-2 cents per lb. Steak Pork 15 cents per lb. Oysters, oest 40 cents per quart. Fish, etc. Near Senn's store. RESIDENOE FOR SALE. A five room cottage on Summer street and Mayer avenue for sale $2500.00. Popular location. House 2 years old, all heart timber, double floors and storm sheet. Fine well, electric lights, stables, barn, and gar den. Apply at once to Roland G. Spearman, Talladega, Ala. Years S TS vs standard are made naterials. -ade mark g. None t it. orfolk, Va. JBACCO LIKE EEN COFFEE Aroma and Taste obacco Hunger 3 of imitation brands pre look like Schnapps; the he imitation plugs of to cured, but the inside is cheap, flimsy, heavily air cured tobacco; one napps will satisfy tobacco er than two chews of ~sts prove that this flue co, grown in the famous egion, requires and takes Ling than any other kind, wholesome, stimulating, ifect on chewers. If the :co youe are chewing don't c than the mere habit of ig, stop fooling yourself chnapps tobacco. is like the tobacco chew bought costing from 75c. pound; Schnapps is sold. >ound in 5c. cuts, strictly ent plugs. (STON-SALt, 'N. C.