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HONOR NEGRO'S MEMORY. Tho Monument at Sumter to The Village Barber.?The Story of Joo Lovan. A dispatch from Sumter to the News nnJ 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 memorial as a mark of tlie esteem in which t hoy have been held by their fellow citizens. \\ hen such a monument is erected it is considered a noteworthy event in the history of a community. I' or a negro to be so honored is an event of such rare occur- i renec that it is worthy of more than passing mention, and (his is offered ns 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. s Joseph Levan was born a slave in ( 1S;!0. and was the property of Mr. n Anthony White, St'., of this county, j He was trained to be a house servant i and by the time he was grown, was a <j first-class cook, barber, and handy f man generally. When the war broke t out. and the first company was organ- t i^ed in Sumter to go to Virginia, Joo was hired from his master by Lieut J*. l}jg"s Wilder, who carried him to , Virginia and to serve him in the dual A capacity of body servant and cook. A This company took part in the battle Hull Kun, and aCpl. J. S. Kieli- ' ardson was wounded. Joe was I hen commissioned to wait on him while he was in the hospital. When Capl. Kichardson was able to return home, Joe rejoined (he company at the front and continued in (lie service of Lieut. ' Wilder for two years, serving him and ' other members of the company with ' a devotion and zeal that won him ' their life-long friendship. After the 1 war Joe opened a barber shop in this ' town, which lie conducted continuous- x ly until his death, in lSOfi. lie had s a patronage that rival shops could not i win away from him, and as long as ' "Joe, (he Barber" was able to work f his was the most popular place of the ' t.< kind in town, notwithstanding the fact that numerous better equipped ( "tonsorial parlors" were established from time to time. 1 An Outspoken Democrat. It was not. however, Joe's service * 0 in war times alone thai gained for 0 him the lasting esteem and confidence ^ of the people of this community. s Throughout the reconstruction era and 1 especially in .1870, he was a loyal De- 1 mocrat, and neither persuasion nor v threats could induce him to ally him- ' self with the carpet-bag and negro A party that had full sway in Sumter )' county, although by so doing he could ' easily have atained leadership and v profitable offices for he was a man of (' unusual force of character and intel- 1 ligencc. lie was loyal and faithful to \ the white people and was always out- 1 spoken in the expression of his be- J1 lief that his "own white people" s were the best friends he and all the s Negroes had. and, that they should control the fJovernnicnt. He main- s t(lined this attitude when it was dan- ^ gorouf to do so and with it all con- v ducted himself modestly, not appear- 1 ing to realize that he was? doing more * than his duty as a citizen. 1 Faithful and Honest. TTe never performed any single v spectacular service, but was simply faithful, courteous, honest and indus- ' trious throughout his life. TTe aske.l ;1 no favors from any man, and was content to earn an honest living at ' his trade. Tn manner he was polite and respected, without a trace of severity; reserved and dignified in deportment 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 Community and his funeral was attended by hundreds of his while friends. The suggestion, made in <i local paper, that a popular sub- | scription be started for the purpose of erecting a simple monument to} mark his grave, met with immediate response and in a short time a suf- j ficient sum was in the hands of Mr. | J. Diggs Wilden, adjutant of Camp Dick Anderson, I*. 0. V'.. of which Joe ; was an honorary member, to pay for j the monument. No collection was j taken up and no effort was made to j raise a large sum by soliciting contributions. 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, i 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 anniversary of his death the stone was erected on Joe Lovan's gravo in the negro cemetery. The Monnmont. Tho monument, which is simple and unpretentious, is made of light blue marble, resting oil a square base, a is in all about nine feet in hcigl The inscription reads as follows: Joseph Lcvan, The Village Barber, Born, 1830, Died, December 18, 1905. lie was Faithful ns a Slave, and H spected as a Freeman. 'Ibis Stone is Erected by his Whi Friends as a Tribute to his Wortl THE COUNTRY'S SAW MILLS Some Interesting Statistics Collect by the United States Department of Agriculture. HyJatnes S. McCarthy. Washington, D. C., July 11.? ompilation by tho Forest Service i he United States Department of A; 'icultnre of the reports received fro >ver 10,000 sawmills in the Unit< ^t lies upon their operations in 19( hows the proportion of lumber kill Iricd and the proportion surfaced, tl unount of slab wood sold, and tl H-oportion of loirs cut on lands belon n?' to the sawmill operators. No I rurcs alonu* these lines arc availah or New ^ ork, and none arc jcivc 'or several of the slates in which II nl was very small. The states in which the largest pr< >orlion of 'ember is kiln^ried 1: nannfaeturers arc South Carolin villi 51.3 per cent; North Carolin villi 30.5 per rent; Florida, with 35 x'i- ecu! . Alabama, with 34.8 per eon Hid (U-oigia. with 30.0 per ?;u??l: i flier stales 'h'_ amount is less tha 10 per cent. Altogether, 1.0J2 mil ep-irled .be use of dry ':11ns. A ! ii vrc ::i. r r.nt of I!. pine cut i he south is kiln-dried in order Iti r luce ils skipping weitrhl. ?:nl thi.> 1 < j-eoia I! v ?> uc of lobim* or Norl Carolina pine. Kiln-drying is pracli 'd to a less extent in the Rocky Mou ains and Pacific coast slates, a? cry little lumber is kiln-dried by tl iawmill operators in the hardwood r lion or where flic cut is principal '.V portable mills. For I he country j i whole, about 15 per cent of the lur (iii s kiln-dried al the mill. A much larger proportion of tl ul is surfaced at. (lie mills report in ciln-dricd. Of the mills reportin nore than 3,000 surfaced a port if I I heir cul. For I he country as vhole, at least 35 per cent is surfa d before it is shipped. Tn Ibis re lect Iowa leads, with 77.2 per eei uirfaced; but this is because most i he l.nnber cut in t?hat state is in ew biy mills along the Mississip vhich operate exclusively on nortbei line. Aside from Iowa, the stales vhich the larger proportion of tl irt is surfaced at the sawmill ai Pexas, with 71.7 per cent; Louisian rith 00.3 per cent; Idaho, 50.4 p< out; Montana, 55.2 per cent; an Arkansas, with 50.0 per cent. Tn a ho other states loss than half the oi s surfaced by the sawmill operator ind. as in kiln-drying, a relative! mall proportion of the total cut urfaced in I he hardwood regions. Some 4,000 mills reported sales < lab wood totaling 3,503,287 cord iVashington leads in this respec irif.li 550,231 cords, followed by Micl San. with 523,518 cords; Wiscoi isn. with 368,478 cords; and Virgil a, With 213,522 cords. It is probabl afe lo assume that this slab an vaste wood hrough! on an avera.e ;1 a cord; hence its sale was a coi iderable source of revenue to man nills. Considering only the important Inn ur-producing states, it is inferos NATIONAL BANK - -fJ I ^ ^ ^ IT'S A FA] when a business man pi a care of a National Bank r nient little book that rec< this, he pays ALL bills 1 on paper, and thus firi standing. Backed by th responsibility and probit success, The'JNational ] DIR] M. A. Carlisle. H. C J. A. Blackwelder. Robt B. C. Matthews, o. S. B. i aj f .* w ; #.4 jl/ iul ing to note that the proportion of < it. put reported as sawed from logs 011 the lands owned by the sawn opera:or* l-inge from 07.4 per cent California to .'34.5 per cent in Wa ington. The lumber companies California do their own logging lar Ic- lv cn their own holdings, and get I a relatively small quantity of h Ue from other sources. In Washingl i. most of the .'egging is done by fit which buy sinmpage and deliver h to the sawmills for a fixed contr )trice, so that in this case the ope Q(j tor of a mill may own litle or no ti berla nd. NOTICE. Vacancies in the State Schol A ships in South Carolina Milits of Academy to be filled by competit yr_ caminalions cist in Newberry Coi m ty, to-wit; Newberry (1). >d Application blanks may be obta )5 ed bv applying to County Super ii- tendent of Education or to Col. ,C. )e Gadsden, Chairman of Board of V ie itors, Charleston, S. C. These applications carefully fill 'i- out must l?o received by ihp Chairm le of Hoard of Visitors bv 21st, Ju mi 1007. ie Barbecue. 0. We will give a first class barbe< )V at the residence of D. E. Halfae a> near St. Philips church, July 18 n Music will he furnished by the Jo ,, Street String Band. The public I cordially invited to attend and en; in a good 'cue. in D. E. Half acre. U J. D. II. Kibler. n Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, 1 For the above occasion the Cli ;lesion and Western Carolina railv will sell cheap round trip tickets. I rates, etc., see ticket agent or \vi n_ Ernest Williams, 1(l G. P. A., Augusta, Ga Arrival and Departure of Trains I Schedules of passenger trains and out of the Union Station, N< n* berry, S. C. Southern Trains. 10 No. If) going west 8.50 a. o. No. 12, going east .. .. 10.32 a. No. 10, going west .. ..1.25 p. ^ No. IS, going east, .. .. 2.05 p. a No. .11. going west .. .. 4.36 p. ' Xo. 10, going east .. .. 0.50 p. s_ 0., N. & L. Trains. No. 85, going west ... ..5.10 a. No. 22, going east .. .. 8.4G a. a No. 52, going west 12.40 p. N<?. 53, going east 3.10 p. rn No. 2.1, going west .7.25 p. jn No. 84, going east.. .. 7.25 p. ie The foregoing schedule is only . |>e information and is not guaranteed, n, f ?r Those Odd Sized Pictures id II Yours Can Be Framed at I SALTER'S I Art and Variety Stor iThey carry a full stock of iy Pictures, Frames, 1 7 :e Picture Mouldings, iv anything in Mat Board, ai ^ have latest machinery for ci t- ting same. OF NEWBERRY S. ( ' *.! [R EXCHANGE ces his ready money in t nd carries away the com ords the fact. Armed wi iy check, transacts busim uly establishes his financ e bank's great reputation i y, he takes a short road Bank is an A-l repository. ECTORS: . Moseley. T. B. Carlisle. Norris. Geo. Johnstoi Aull. Jos. H. Huntei ,?Vi* vy 11 KJ *7 *?. nt-1 subject to change without notice. Season ticket?$19.55. cut G. L. Robinson, will be sold daily April it'll Station Master. including November 3011 i" ? ? date to leave Xorflok i CHEAP RATES comber 15th, 1907. 00 clay ticket?$10.30 Via Southern Railway. Jamestown will be sold daily April Tercentennial Exposition, Norfolk, including November 30t ya. date to leave Norfolk i ins On account of the above occasion ,^n?S ^10m )gs the following instructions will gov- 110 *ian (?cem ei act ern the sale of round trip tickets to Fifteen day ticket ni- Norfolk, Ya. from Ntwberry, S. C. ticket iwll be sold dail It Pays the Largest E i any Life Co mi?. $50,000,000.00 is part of It offered The Pacific 1\ | i :uoj More than is offered by any to, 'j^jlt wrote (paid for business) over $6,000,000.00 of r [gj being nearly as much as any three other companies joy; "Old Line Basis." It is now doing business in mor over $13,000,000.00 Assets, over $100,000,000.0 The stockholders who are well known and consei 000,000.00 are personally liable in an unlimite< jjJ'jforall the debts of the Company; extra secu ray j offered only by the Pacific Mutual Life Insura *,r | Under these same laws the directors are liable ilo Funds must be invested in non-speculative . (funds are under bonds. ENVIABLE C 2W- I PRIVATE OI-] JOHN WANNA m. I PHILADELPI ill. ni. i in. I Gentlemen: m-\ Answering your letter of the 8th, I am well sati m. Pacific Mutual of California, and sha 1 not hesitate t m- have the opportunity. Very res m. m. m[ The GUARANTEED Annual Dividend for much superior to the Annual Dividend contract as 1 1 ls ferred Stock." ~ The Pacific Mutual Life has the best Legal orj of any American Life Company. MORAL-HAVE 1 Call at my office and I will tell you more about it. Office over Old Postoffice, Newberry. S. C. c? he J? wonderful gain of six and 'teh" J fourth million pounds, or a jss I gain of one-third of the entii iai 1 increased consumption of or I chewing and smoking to I tobacco in the United | R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. >i \e. | WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. 1 , V v . : This ticket t<> and including November 30th,M 10.h In and 1SH>7. final date to leave Norfolk re-fl ,,, I HOT, final '"ruing Cinc0" (,5) di>5'S etunung D^j#lc^h ,i<.kct-$8.55. This , T1,U tioltot is nut god in sleeping, Pull-' || 19th to-and',uun' or cnrs> ru"' w' . e 8 \"/: h i 11(17 fi.nl 0,1 Tuesday of caeh week during perh, 1007, final .o(] of (he exposition> final date to , |? ? leave Norfolk returning ten (10) M [ 15th, 1907. days from date of sale. $14.30. This For rentes, stop-overs, etc., write ML ly April 19th or call on us. Jn^ )ividends Paid XjSy 9 mpany. Jr fl the extra protection 1 other Life Company. tew business in California (its home State), i wrote. It was organized 40 years ago on e than 40 States and Territories. It has 0 of business in force. vatively estimated to be worth over $50,1 degree, according to their stock holdings, rity required only by California Laws, and nee Company of Los Angeles, California. 3 for the wrongful acts of the officers. securities. Officers handling Company )P1 N ION 'ICE .MAKER rr January 9th, 1903. sfied with the results of my policy in The M o recommend your Company whenever I I >pectfully yours, M JOHN WANNAMAKER. ^ Policy? peculiar with the Pacific?is as the latter is to the "Tontine." It is "Pre- I ^anization, and gives the greatest guarantee I PHE BEST. )BERT NORRIS, j Gen. Agt. for South Carolina. /Chewers who read the information given in this space n next week's paper 11 then know why NAPPS and other of ynolds'brands, as shown nal Revenue statistics