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#1* ptall as* fta# | Entered at the Postoffice nf V^wi*rry, S. C., as 2*xl class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOR. Friday, January 17, 1913. (iUOD KUAU3. This is the season when our people, j especially those who live in the rural districts, will be in position to appreciate our continued appeals for good roads. From the first of January till away into the spring is probably the worst time of the year for roads. The frozen ground with its daily thaws,the rains and snows, the heavy wagons 'all conspire, to cut up and make almost impassable roads in many sections. But we need good roads all the year round. There can be no oiner muucj spent that will equally advantage all the people as that which is spent upon scientific permanent road improve- I inent. We are willing to rest upon the conviction that there will come a day, j and that in the not distant future, ! when this county will applaud our efforts to secure good roads. Yes, that's i'?Good Roads.?Abbeville Medium. This reminds us of the man who couldn't cover his house when it rain- i ed and when it didn't rain the house didn't need covering. That is the way too many people view the road problem. In the winter j when the roads are bad you can't do much in improving them, and in the summfer when they are better the people conclude they do not need improving. There is rarely a tinks, or a season, in this neck of the woods when the roads do not need attention. The trouble, ?s we see it, is that the ' ^jpeople are waiting for some one else to bu;"'d rhe road", or i-o-c* ns a small chaingang force to build bridges, work a crop, and maintain some 1,200 miles of public road. It can't be done.! Until we get a different system and! ^ ~ * Tiro mnv not then carry me vu?., ^ ? reasonably expect much. And we must always remember that it takes money. The State superintendent of eduoa-| tion has recommended that January $1, which is Educational Day at the Na- j tional Corn Show, in Columbia, be male a l oliday in the public scnc-ds of the State, and that the teachers be eiven that day with pay, if they attend the exposition in Columbia. j The county superintendent of education for Newberry county joins in the recommendation, and urges as many of the teachers as can conveniently do so, to attend the corn show on Educational Day, and recommends that the trustee* grant holiday with pay, and urge that their teacher attend the Corn Exposition. . j \ I ? Home, Sweet Home. It is one of the ironies of fate, says an exchange, that the poet from whose pen has come the immortal lyric of the birthstone was himself a roving outcast?a homeless wanderer. The world remembers the pathetic story of John Howard Payne. Broken in health and reduced in fortune, the % ' poor American exile found himself in L1? *v??KWrior <~\f tho great city CUt? 110Ci/^ v v/* v<*v Q- ? ? ? -v of London. Between his publishers? who allowed him little?and his creditors?who came to see him often? the penniless poet was in sore straits. The Atlantic ocean seperated him from kith and kin. He felt the acutest j sense of isolation?the bitterest no ; solitude is more oppressive than the j solitude of great cities?the solitude j which broods in the repellant looks of the unsympathetic multitudes. It; is, as Lucian Knight has said, the the heart's Saharra. Bereft of all other consolation, Payne seized the | ? harp; and lightly he touched the strings. But not in vain. For the fire of inspiration was in the poet's soul; and on the banks of the River Thame?, from the aching heart of an humble exhile, leaped the hearthstone melody x)f "Home, Sweet Home."?Exchange. Sizing Up the Jndgre. A judge once had a case in which the accused man understood only Trish. An internreter was accordingly sworn. The prisoner said something to the interpreter. "What does he say?" demanded his lordship. "Nothing my lord?" was the reply. "How dnre you say that when we r" ?* Mm? Come on, sir, what MAllli) MI KI>I:US WIFE IN IMUililKLF MA.NNKIi I j Levi kinard Springs From Hiding ou j greenwood Street Almost Severing Head From Body. 1 I ? Greenwood, .Ian. 12.?One ot tlie'( ' 1 v rtA'iiniittpd I , most norrioie inuiucio L anywhere in this section as that last I ( night by a negro man, Levi Kinard,! ( who almost severed iiis wife's head j , trom her body after lying in wait for ' t her for several hour? in the h<>2rt cl' t the residence section.of the to-.vn t Kinard and his wife had separated som-e months ago, but he had boon j 1 making threats against her life for J ( isome time. She had heard of them!-. _ I J and was so terrified that she asked j: her -employers to let her sleep in the kitchen. Last night, however, the won-aa went out upon the street in company with another negro woman, and ! ^ as they were entering Cambridge; street, through an alley near the resi-j dence of Mayor Baker, Kinard, who had been crouching there probably nigh* 1 after night, sprang out upon them,' grabbing his wife by the waist and in , ^ nj) incredibly short time accomplished ' the murder. : ^ i. It seems from testimony that a big ' knife was used, for apparently a razor j ^ ! i could not have done the horrible work., j Kinard made good his escape. He'1 came here from Leesville some months 1 ago and has been working as a section j ; hand on the C. <?: W. C. He is 30 years j 1 old, black, height 5 feet 6, and weighs j ^ 145 pounds. He has two upper front! teeth false. He has relatives at Lees- j 1 ville and also at Prosperity. The town i '< and county, through Sheriff McMillan, j 1 offers $50 reward for his capture. j 1 was it?" 1331M "My lord," said the interpreter, be- ] ginning to tremble, "It had nothing to .j do with the case." } "If you don't answer I'll commit you ( sir!" roared the Judge. "Now, what ( did he say?" t "Well, my lord, you'll excuse me' r but he said, Who's that old woman t with the red bed curtains round her, [ ^ sitting up there?" j , At wmcn IJUti CUUl L luaicu. . ^ "And what did you say?" asked the1 judge, looking a little uncomfortable. | "I said, 'Whist, ye spalpeen! That's i ^ the ould boy that's going to hang;^ you."?Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele- j ^ .graph. j A Wild Chase. "Did you read Admiral Dewey's re-1 ceipt for good health?horseback rid- j | ing and no banquets." i "t o-n admiral one better! A VWHi fcjw 1 j Give me banquets and nightmares.? I Cleveland Plain Dealer. ( Heard at a Reception. l She?What, you, Mr. Jones! I'1 rfv i never expected to see you here. I j1 heard that you had met with an ac- j ] cident. He?Oh, no, that was my brother, 1 She?I'm so sorry.?Boston Tran- < script. ' < - h Jnst Why. < "Harold, do you love me for my- ] self alone?" , "For yourself alone. And that's j j why I object to loaning your father | , money and standing for your little! j brother's pestiferousness."?Kansas ; . City Journal. i. In a Funny Fix. Mrs. Muggins?dt'm so worried about my husband, I'm afraid he isn't well. Mrs. Buggins?What are the symptoms? Mrs. Muggins?Ho? hasn't com plained about a sin^-e thing for nearly a week.?Phlladefoiia, Record. Did you ask your girl's father for her hand in marriage?" "I did." "And he refused you. I can tell by the way 'you look." Xo he didn't. He gave his consent." "Then why the peculiar look you are wearing?" "He wa6 60 darned willing."?Houston Post. Exciting: Time. Mrs. Jones ran out the back door i 4.-U _ ana spea across tne iot iu iue uiviuiuis line. "'Mrs. Beckett, oh, Mrs. Beckett, come out! Come on out quick! There's something happening at Mrs. Newwed's across the street!" "For the land sakes; what is it?" bubbled Mrs. Beckett, hurrying toward her neighbor. "Well, I just can't make out," shrilled Mrs. Jones, "whether it's a baby or her first cake."?Judge. a lithnprrflnhinp- concern uses an electric dough mixer for mixing ink. And a banking house uses an electric flatiron to press out water soaked money. It is much easier for a woman to get a man where she wants him than it is for her to get a point on a lead pencil. TUiiOi (.11 AKKMA O.N FOOT . Experience of a Settler Who Completed a Walk of .">,000 Miles. Emil Lund, a Rhodesian settler of ti, has just completed a walk from Capetown to Cairo, not in fulfilment if a vvager, or to test a system of diet >?. tvoim'iiir Km* cimnlv fvnm lli?? Invo /i Li <11111115, UUl i * ViH w*iv ivy f >f adventure. He has been a soldier md scout since he was 1", serving in he second Matebele campaign in 1893, he Uganda rebellion of 1897-99 and he South African war. He started from Capetown and. valked, all alone, right through the Dape Province and the Transvaal to Rhodesia. Thence he continued on hrough the Congo State, th& Sudan uid Nubian desert to Egypt, a distance Df 5,000 miles as the crow flies. "My tvisli," he said, in t iling the story of tiis great walk, "was simply to be the first man to accomplish the feat. 1 im proudest of having walked across :he Nubian desert. That was the hardest work of all." Until he left [ :lizab thville, in the Belgian Conga, le had a comparatively easy time, for ne could obtain supplies, good food ind good water, but beyond that point le had a very trying time. He had no porters, carrying all his own impediments, weighing 70 pounds. This ilone is no mean task in a tropical ind wild country. But he could get 10 natives to accompany him owing r? trihcil VinotilitiAc hoino in lirnoroce W ill U55* ^wo. During most of the time Mr. Lund ivas obliged to be a vegetarian, but he ilways had meat when he could get it. "Sometimes," he said, "I shot a buck, but I could only eat the liver, v\hich I broiled in the ashes of my fire. Having no salt, 1 cannot say that [ enjoyed my food. In passing thrviugh the great forests I camped on the ground, lighting a large fire to keep the wild animals. T had to be verv careful to keep this going throughout the night. At early dawn I renewed ny march, tramping continuously unil about 11 o'clock. After that I used :o hunt around, collect wood and cook my one daily meal. Then I slept till sundown. Lions and other carnivora io not usually attack in the heat of ;he day?they are asleep, and it is only cvhen night falls that they set out in search of prey." He met with a good nany lions, but was never attacked by me. The idea that water will protect me from a lion is, he says, erroneous; for lions are excellent swimmers. In the Katanga district he was bitten by a black mamba snake, and svould probably have died, but he reached a native kraal and was treated by a woman, who applied a decoc:ion of herbs to the wound and cured aim. She steadfastly refused to say ivhat herbs she used or how she prepared them. From Albertville the traveler made for Lake Albert, and here he had one )f his most unpleasant experiences. He :ame across a powerful tribe under :he command of. a very suspicious :hief, who, before he would listen to iim, put him through the "ordeal by 3irt." This consists of eating a mouthful of dirt picked up from the ground, fn the native mind this constitutes a form of oath, and it is believed that any one who,undergoes the ordeal and ioes not speak the truth will be con* Jt S) Absolut Jaw TheonixBakin fromlWQrap Ml * 17N f c vi io ;:i: *';'.-rnal ilit i of dirt. The oitlrai is calh-d "nkola donga." One: of the worst troubles with which Mr. j Lui.d had to contt. nd was the venom-j i oils tlies ii'nd insects which swarm to tropical Africa. He was bitten near | the eye by a certain kind of malicious ; tick, and for a time was nearly blind-! ! If he not shortly afterward reached | I Ft. Portal and obtained medical treatment he would probably have lost the sight of at least one eye. j A little further in the course of his i ll- U a frtl 1 i.t n-itU IliA D n 111 Ko nn/1 WcUiY lie lc^il ill wiLii die uaiuua auu Valessi cannibals. When they have a ! cannibal feast the victim is usually a j ! man accused of some crime. In such i case the man is offered a draught of a; 'poisonous decoction. If he takes a: ! long drink the poison is inoperative. i ! producing merely nausea. But if from timidity or guilt, he drinks but a small 'portion, the effect is aimr~t inr.nedi-i ately fatal. Women are excluded from these feasts. ! Making a wide detour of Lake Al' J bert, Mr.. Lund eventually arrived on the Nile, which he followed to Abu Hamcd and then struck across the Nubian desert and cam? to the Nile again at Wady Haifa. There are but two wells on the route across with him three day's food and water supply. But he safely crossed the dr ert and reached Khartum, where he went into hospital, to patch himself up for the last stage of his journey, .which he competed without further mishap.? j t Cape Town Cor. London Telegraph, j _____ Vengeance Glutted. j Bilson, who is a stout man, was run-1 ning to catch a train the? other day,' when his friend Jones called out: "Halloa, Bilson! In a hurry? Going somewhere?" Keeping his1 breath for other purposes, Bilson made no reply, but he determined to take a terrible revenge j adoiu l o ciock next morning ne canea Jones up 011 the telephone. After a ! great deal of ringing, a sleepy voice at the other end of the wire told him .Tones was there. "That you Jones?" queried Bilson. j "What do you want?" asked Jones,' "I've been in bed these two hours." "I'm Bilson." went on the other. "Remember seeing me running^this morning, eh? Yes? Well, I was going some-; where, and I was in a hurry. Good night" Then Bilson hung up the receiver and, got back into bed a happy man.?Tidi Bits. -assss. Thy hosts are mustered to the field; ! i ."The cross! the cross!" the battle: call; The old grim towers of darkness j Yield, And soon shall totter to their fall, j ?;Roy Palmer. "Colonel Gore," a young lady cried, "they tell men that in one of your i Daxties an enemy meu to javc juui t life. Is that true?" "Quite true," said the colonel stroking his great military moustache. "Oh, how beautiful! How noble! Tell me how it happened won't you?" said I the young lady. "Well," said the colonel, "it hap-' pened like this: The enemy had his revolver pressed against my temple, and I ran my sword through his stom-! ach."?Exchange. rlir^ "lp/ si/Pure fL igFowdermsde ifW prafMar lips sillies Eorqe l^/ Pressing & Dry Wp Ho Frern ing for Ladies men.. Cleaning oi All we ask is a your order to Upstairs over Arcade Pictur< I Attractive (We have a j ive line of bos i pers, which we at 10, 25 and 1 I Visit our sf our display wir Mayes' ffl The House of a T I Apr, MONDAY, JAN 'Hie Star of (In 3 I The picturizatior Christ, the story B< Bible?Delicate tl presented in an art j the famous Thanh< ONE DA" 5 & 1 Oc - T His Share. Jack?So your wealthy aunt is dead. She left a last will and testament, I 1 suppose? j Tom?Yes. 1 Jack?No doubt she remembered j 1 ,you? j J Tom?She did. I got the Testa- i ment.?Boston Transcript. 3 ^ 1 Knew Whereof He Spoke. Young man?You don't remember me, I see, I am the young man who * J ^nno-htor a fpw vears eiopeu w iin >uui uaufeuiv. ^ ? ago. Old Man?Well, what can I do for you? 1 Young Man?I came back to offer you my congratulations, sir?Boston Transcript ^ % Cleaning Co. :h dry cleanand Gentle% f _ 11 !_ _j ^ r ail Kinus , l trial. Phone 1 243-2 rings. e Show, E. Main Street. __ ?I_ ? Prices on apers] . a 1 j most attract- 1 : writing pa$ are offering 50c a box. :ore and see l< idows. (AND IETY OIUICI housand Things. I * \DE I j riTADV onTH IU/ll\i av in Bethlehem" leels.) I i of the Birth of < jautiful from the leme reverently ^ istic mannei by _ I >user Co. ' -J i ONLY he Arcade t . ; i , NOTICE. The position of janitor for the court irmcA fnr the remainder of thft year fl L913 will be let on February 1, next, M :o the lowest competent and responsiDle bidder. The right is reserved to I reject any and all bids. Hand sealed bid to either member of the County Board of Commissioners or its clerk tjefore said date. H. C. Holloway, L-17-3-ltaaw. Clerk. NOTICE. j All former road overseers are hereby required to send the superviso^a'^ J list of all tools belonging to the cotiniy and, if convenient, to bring thein to the county stables at Newberry. w. a. m\u i L-17-tf. County Supervisor.