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HONOR NEGRO'S MEMORY. The Monument at Sumter to The Village Barber.-The Story of Joe Levan. A dispatch from Sumter to the News and Courier says: Few men make such an impress upon their day and generation that at their death there is a spontaneous movement to erect in their honor an enduring mem orial as a mark of the esteem in which they have been held by their fellow citizens. When such a monu ment is erected it is considered a note worthy event in the history of a com munity. For a negro to be so honor ed is an event of such rare occur rence that it is worthy of more than passing mention, and this is offered as an excuse for a brief statement of the facts concerning the erection of a monument to Joseph Levan by the people of Sumter. Joe's War Record. Joseph Levan was born a slave in 1830, and was the property of Mr. Anthony White, Sr., of this county. He was trained to be a house servant and by the time he was grown, was a first-class cook, barber,' and handy man generally. When the war broke out and the first company was organ ized in Sumter to go to Virginia, Joe was hired from his master by Lieut J. Diggs Wilder, who carried him to Virginia and to serve him in the dual capacity of body servant and cook. This company took part in the bat tle -)f Bull Run, and aCpt. J. S. Rich ardson was wounded. Joe was then commissioned to wait on him while he was in the hospital. When Capt. Richardson was able to return home, Joe rejoined the cbmpany at the front and continued in the service of Lieut. Wilder for two years, serving him and -ther members of the company with a devotion and zeal that won him their life-long friendship. After the war Joe opened a barber shop in this town. which he conducted continuous ly until his death, in 1895. He had a patronage that rival shops could not win away from him, and as long as "Joe, the Barber" wa, -ble to work his was the most popu'. . place of the kind in town, notwithstanding the fact that numerous better equipped "tonsorial parlors" were establish ed from time to time. An Outspoken Democrat. It was not, however, Joe's service Sin war times alone that gained for him the lasting esteem and confidence of the people of this community. -Throughout the reconstruction era and 2especially in 1876, he was a loyal De moerat, and neither persuasion nor threats could induce him to ally him * self with the carpet-bag and negro party that had full sway in Sumter county, although by so doing he could easily have atained leadership and profitable offices for he was a man of unusual force of character and intel ligence. He was loyal and faithful to -the white people and was always out spoken in the expression of his be lief that his "own white -people'' were the best friends he and all the negroes blad, and, that they shou.ld control the Government. He main-* tained this attitude when it was dan gerous to do so and with it all eon dueted himself modestly, not appear ing to realize that he wag doing more than his duty as a citizen. Faithful and Honest. He never performed any single spectacular service, but was simply faithful, courteous, honest and indus trious throughout his life. He aske,l no favors from any man, and was content to earn an honest living at his trade. In mnanner he was polite and respected, without a trace of sev erity; reserved and dignified in- de ~ortment and his word was better than many a white man's bond. Hundreds of Whites at Funeral. 'When he, died there was general re gret in this csommunity and his funer-. al was attended by hundreds of his white friends. The suggestion, made in a local paper, that a popular sub * seription be started for the purpose of erecting a simple monmen't to mark his grave, met with 'immedi ate responsee and in a short time a suf ficient sum was in the hands of Mr. J. Diggs Wilden, adjutant of Camp Dick Anderson, 'U. C. V., of which Joe was an honorary member, to, pay for the monument. No collection was taken up and no effort was made to raise a large sum by soliciting con 'tribuxtions, every dollar being sent or carried in person to Mr. Wilden, who was named in the original suggestion at the proper custodian of the fund. At the first meeting of Camp Dick Anderson, subseqent to Joe's death a committee was appointed to superin tend the erection of the monument. The committee discharged this duty promptly, and shortly before the an niversary of his death the stone was erected on Joe Levan 's grave in the * negro cemetery. The Monument. The monument, which is simple and unprtentious, is made of light blue warble. resting on a square base. ai is in al about nine feet in heizi The inscriptioin reads as follows: Joseph Levan, The Village Barber, Born, 1830, Died, December 18, 1905. He was Faithful as a Slave, and R spected as a Freeman. This Stone is Erected by his Whi Friends as a Tribute to his V.orth THE COUNTRY'S SAW MILTS. Some Interesting Statistics Collecti by the United States Department of Agriculture. By-James S. McCarthy. Washington, D. C., July 11. compilation by the Forest .Service the United States Department of A rieulture of the reports received fro over 10,000 sawmills in the Unit States upon their operations in 19( shows the proportion of lumber kili dried and the proportion surfaced, tl amount of slab wood sold, and til proportion of logs cut on lands belon, ing to the sawmill operators. No f gures along these lines are availab for New York, and none are give for several of the states in which tl cut was very small. The states in which the largest pr portion of irmber is kilntjried I manufacturers are South Carolin with 51.3 per cent; North Carolin with 36.5 per cent; Florida, with 35 per'cent; Alabama, with 34.8 per een and Georgia, with 30.6 per cat; i other states ths amount is less tha 30 per cent. Altogether, 1,642 mil reported .he use of dry '$lns. A rge r :unt of th . pine cut i the south is kiln-dried in order to r duce its shipping weight, a:-R this e.;recially r,uE of lobiii or Nor Carolina pine. Kiln-drying is practi ed to a less extent in the Rocky Mom tains and Pacific coast states, ar very little lumber is kiln-dried by tl sawmill operators in the hardwood r gion or where the cut is principal] by portable mills. For the country , a whole, about 15 per cent of the lun ber cut s kiln-dried at the mill. A much larger proportion of tl cut is surfaced at the mills reportin kiln-dried. Of the mills reportin more than 3,900 surfaced a porti< of their cut. For the country as whole, at least 35 per cent is surfa ed before it is shipped. In this re poect Iowa leads, with 77.2 per e surfaced; but this is because most < the Limber cut in that state is in few big mills along the Mississipj which operate exclusivel'y on norther pine. Aside from Iowa, the statesi which the larger proportion of ti cut is surfaced at the sawmill a Texas, with 71.7 per cent; Louiisiam with 60.3 per cent; Idaho, 59.4 pe ent; Montana, 55.2 per cent; -an Arkansas, with 50.6 per cent. In a the other states less than half .the et is surfaced by the sawmill operartor and, as in kiln-drying, a relativel small proportion of the total cut i surfaced in the hardwood regions. Some 4,000 mills reported sales o slab wood totaling 3,503,287 cordi Washington leads in this respee' vith 559,231 cords, followed by Mich gan, with 523,518 cords; Wiscor isn, with 368,478 cords; and VirgiE ~a, with 213,522 cords. It is probabl; afe to assume that this slab an aste wood broughrt on an averag $a cord; hence its sale was a con siderable source of revenue to man; nills. Considering only the important lun er-producing states, it is interesi NATIONAL DANK IT'S A FAI when a business man pla< rare of a National Bank r nient little book that recc this, he pays ALL bills b on paper, and thus firn standing. Backed by th< responsibility and probitV success. The National f DIRE M. A. Carlisle. H. C. J. A. Blackwelder. Robt. B. C. Matthews. S. BR 1t ilr t' nq,te ilat tie pi'oportion of out it. put reported as sawed fr;m logs cut on t X ian('-7 ownled by the sawmiil opera:or r11:e from 97.4 per cent in California to 34.5 per cent in Wash ington. The lumber companies in California do their own logging large e- lv en their own holdings, and get but a relatively small quantity of logs te from ther sources. In Washington .most of the ..gingo is done by firms wh!eh buy sumpage and deliver logs to the sawmills for a fixed contract price. so that in this case the opera d tor of a mill may own litle or no tim berland. NOTICE. Vacancies in the State Scholar A- ships in South Carolina Military )f Academy to be filled by competitive eaminations'eist in Newberry Coun m ty, to-wit; Newberry (1). d Application blanks may be obtain 15 ed by applying to County Superin - tendent of Education or to Col... S. te Gadsden, Chairman of Board of Vis ie itors, Charleston, S. C. - These applications carefully filled . out must be received by the Chairman te of Board of Visitors by 21st, July, n 1907. Barbecue. We will give a first class barbecue y at the residence of D. E. Halfacre, near St. Philips church, July- 18th. Music will be furnished by the Jolly Street String Band. The public is t, cordially invited to attend and enjoy a good 'cue. D. E. Halfacre. J. D. H. Kibler. Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va. For the above occasion the Char leston and Western Carolina railway will sell cheap round trip tickets. For h rates, etc., see ticket agent or write Ernest Williams, G. P. A., Augusta, Ga. d e Arrival and Departure of Trains. Schedules of passenger trains in Y and out of the Union Station, New s berry, S. C. Southern Trains. e No. 15 going west ......8.50 a. m. No. 12, going east .. .. 10.32 a. m. No. 19, going west .. ..1.25 p. m. No. 18, going east .. .. 2.05 p. m. nNo. 11, going west .. .. 4.36 p. m. aNo. 16, going east .. .. 9.50 p. m. ~ C., N. & L. Trains. ~No. 85, going west ... . .5.19 a. m. No. 22, going east .. .. 8.46 a. m. a No. 52, going west ... .. 12.46 p. m. No. 53, going east .. .....3.10 p. m. n No. 21, going west .... ..7.25 p. m. n No. 84, going east.. .. 7.25 p. m. eThe foregoing schedule is only for e information andsis not guaranteed, is r Those Odd Sized Pictures of tlYours Can Be Framed at SALTER'S Art 'ed Variety Storee They carry a full stock of Pictures, Frames, SPicture Mouldings, Sanything in Mat Board, and have latest machinery for cut - ting same. OF NEWBERRY8,. C It- 0 R XHAG :eIi ed m nyi h bank'is reay moeputaion the r, he takes a short road to ank is an A-i repository. CTORS: Moseley. T. B. Carlisle. Norris. Geo. Johnstone. Aun1. Jon H. Hnter. sabject to change without notice. G. L. Robinson, Station Master. CHEAP RATES Via Southern Railway. Jamestow Ter-Cpntennial Exposition, Norfoll Va. On account of the above occasio the following instructions will go ern the sale of round trip tickets t Norfolk, Va. from Ntwberry, S. C. It Pays the I ar $50,OOO,000.0C The Pac More than ih It wrote (paid for business) ov being nearly as much as any 1 "Old Line Basis." It is now over $13,000,000.00 Assets, The stodkholders who are v 000,000.00 are personallh for all the debts of the Co offered only by the Pacific Under these same laws the Funds must be invested in funds are under bonds. E Gentlemen: Answering your letter of~ Pacific Mutual of California, a have the opportunlty. The GUARANTEE[ much superior to the Annual ferred Stock." The Pacific Mutual Life of any American Life Compar Call at my office and I wi tell you more about it. Office over Old Postoffice, / wonderful gs fouilth million gain of one-thi increased co chewing an< tobacco in th States. .K.,JL REYNOLDS TOBAI WINSTON-SALEM. K season ticket--19.55. This ticket will be sold daily April 19th to and including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norflok returning De cember 15th, 1907. 60 day ticket-$16.30. This ticket a will be sold daily April 19th to-ani I including November 30th, 1907, final date to leave Norfolk returning six ty (60) days from aete of sale and not lated than december 15th, 1907. Fifteen day ticket-$14.30. This ticket iwll be sold daily April 19th .argest Divide y Life Compar ) is part of the e offered by :ific MUti ; offered by any other Lifi er $6,000,000.00 of new business hree other companies wrote. It 'v oing business in more than 40 St over $100,000,000.00 of busines: rell known and conservatively estii liable in an unlimited degree, acc rnpany; extra security require Mutual Life Insurance Compai directors are liable for the wr non-speculative securities. NVIABLE OPINIO PRIVATE OFFICE JOHN WANNAMAKER PHILADELPHIA. :he 8th, I am well satisfied with th< nd sha 1 not hesitate to recomimen< Very respectfully you ) Annual Dividend Policy- pect Dividend contract as the latter isi as the best Legal organization, at ORAL-HAVE THE BES " ROBERT NJewberry, S. C. Ge Ch4 - the 9 given i in next will ther SCHNAPPS the Reynolds'b Sby Internal Rea fora fiscal yea ti of six 'and one pounds, or a net rd of the entire, nsumption of c smoking e United 200oc.o. to and ielding .November 30th, 1907. final date to leave Norfolk re orniDZ fifteer (15) days from date of sale. Coach Excusion ticket-$8.55. This ticket is not god in sleeping, Pull man, or Parlor cars, and will be sold on Tuesday of each week during per iod of the exposition, final date to leave Norfolk returning ten (10) days from date of sale. For routes, stop-overs, etc., write or call on us. nds Paid Wy IYOI xtra prot?ction Company. in California (its home State), as organized 40 years ago on stes and Territories. It has -in force. mated to be worth over $50, :ording to their stock holdings, d only by California Laws, and.. iy of Los Angeles, California. ongful acts of the officers. Officers handling Company N . January 9th, 1903. results of my policy in The i your company whensvpr F OHN WANNAMAKER-" iliar with the Pacific-is as :o the "Tontine." It is "Pre~ id gives the greatest guarantee "NORRIS, n. Agt. for South Carolina. swers who read' information in this space. week's paper 1 know why and other of rands, as shown enue statistics r, made thef 1