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We ca Our price 74-e .ieiie S. C. MY19 15. ~ ~~o~mena the ew * ia~ rod- od ~~wy'i-Phe dSove od - ..episoned ma hat t emaw hat Stae as thi - ~ t~i suafios a to innpbo'rthroi * ~gken n nao obue h re hon tbo ~ ~n4-layroad is a .reve of construction -asssof thioe oth Uaie.2and- mainlaine 29ysrit savea the com a over that territor; ~vadcst from ten ~es much. A mile a - roa in Alleghena - ennsylvania, that cost aetares the commai iwetcreatess 60mile - oad in Moore count: a~rolina. For 'the cos mies of road in Penus b provideda fine sys kns 200 mifes and ~' ounty -accessible foi ~ every township. It is w~aI oa~s annot be buil - cost in all sections a butcheap roads are a i: lof the sandysee tingfor sandy country means apt nider drainage, which- if I~ilunametalof a good road h1wich is why a sand-cla3 re4sadurable road,.,- A roat ~W~tisinaeI thoroughly does ~~n~fresin winter, and frees - ~gm~wnter~ is the chief agen! at destruction of roads. Thi nradon a sandy soil stays dry, -and it'never freezes and heaves to destroy the. surface. Tha one feature is worth thousands of dollars to every mile of roai anthe sand'ieft of North Caro 1ina. Until six or eight years agt North Carolina seemed recon oiled to its intolerable roads Then a spontanleous movemen seemed to break out in severa Splaces. Around Charlotte th macdam road found favor, an -the macdam roads of Mecklen burg have become famous, a they deserve, although they ar found to have some weak spots 'In Moore county the sand-cia; ~..road developed most rapidly na>Lora Tufts of Pinehurst sai nec rry a a Comi s are lower -t dann Court House, the absolute necessity of bett roads, and with the aid of son of the nighbors he commenced short stretch of sand-clay. TI result was so surpnsing that road was completed betwee Pinehurst and Southern Pine That settled it. More sand-cl road was demanded.. The a tiquated system of building ros by having the eitizens of t1 township out at odd intervals, shoveland dig a little was see to-be useless, and a bond syste was. adpled and township mo ey provided to build roads on ecsW basis. . The experimer was tried with certain misgi ings. but it was a success. The theinfection 'started; and in y.ar or two it was the best, th 10&miles of sandclay road cou be reached from Pinehurst; th 200 miles; then .500; then 100 and now the mileage depenl exactly on the distanceyou'wa1 to travel, for Pmehurst is co nected with all of the continet *A map of the good .roads thea Sandhills, country at i present~ooks like the bottom' a~ flour selve. Just to appr ciate the rapidity with whic roads are being built now it suggestive to take a look at Ha nett county. Last October Li ~ ngton began the construction the first roads in the interior'i t~e county. More followi quickly. and in April sevi .townships had voted bonds ai begun the construction -of got roads. The Harnett roads. a: as new as:a pin, but they al models, and. today Harnett connected at Sanford with tl Lee county systemn, Lee coun1 has just connected at Oanert with the Moore county syster and Moore connect with alltil roadsof the West and Sout Six ntonths ago Harnett and L counties were shut in from il -orld. Today acar may set O from Harnett countby and trary to Florida, to Massachusetts, Iowa or the Rocky Mountain or anywhere. 3Rapidly 'this road moveme i has been pushing forward, tr 3 ing to crystalhze, in intellige: systems as well as in local tow ship and county units, until i result is- broadening into a Sta and National unit. From NE -York to Atlanta was project< I the National highway. That - practically completed in Nor r Carolina, and-in most of the ot er States ithas become a rig goodroad. The Capitol hig way is nearly finished thru North Carolino, and also frc Washington to Savannah ai Atlanta. But the moveme that made these roads has gol rfar beyond the original idea. I present the Capital highway, c reaching Raleigh, moves eas ward from the straight line ai passes Fayetteville,anld Raefoi on its route to Pinehurst. B1 the roads through Lee coun will bring a straighter ini bthrough Lee and Catham, i road diverging eventually that there will be two lines,;oi by way of Raleigh ond Sanfo: to Pinehurst, and one by way Durham and Chapel Hill,. tt seat of the university, and fro there to Pinehurst. But befo: Sthe roads are completed throus Chatham county it is likely th Harnett co'unty will present i shorter route than exists at pri lent for the through line fro Raleigh to Pinehurst and, in a probability that will be a Cal .tal highway. r Engineer W. L. Spoon, of ti .Government service, says I v nts to hare all of these Sn >lete Line of a han others. Ing r west road links in the Capital Le highway, so that it can go from a one capital to another by var ke ious routes. He also wants tc a have diverging lines run fron n important points to points 01 s. the other through roads asfton y Pinehurst he proposes a live i- west to Charlotte to conneel d with the National highway. B: e the time Lee county and Chat o bam blild their direct line fron a Sanford to Raleigh Mr. Spoor n will have three routes from Ral a- eigl to Pinehurst, and he pro a poses to maintain each separat Lt one as a Capital highway, 1o r- he wants to make all the mail n roads of the -State substania a Government roads. The impor Ai tance of this plan is beyoni Id power to estimate. It is stimn a lating North Carolhna to road D, development that nobody caI Ls realize yet. it The attitude of the the pec a. ple is remarkable. Lee count; . is typical of the situatio f Something over a year ago Le e commencedito build good road s under' a decided opposition - Bonds were issued after a sever h struggle and the work was car is ried on in'the face of continua e triticism. But a good road i I.. the best argument in favor o f road improvement, and afte f building 40 or 50 miles of road d Lee county'-voted on anothe a bond issue .of $100,000. Tb dbonds carried. Men who hat d emphatically, opposed g o o ' e roads tried out the mileage tha e was constructed, and they vMant is ed more. The enthusiasm .i e pronounced. yr All over the State the senti a ment is aroused. Money is being a, raised in a'll conceivable forms e Davidson county has been allo' Ei. ed by the Legislature .to issn e $3000,000 in bonds for roads e Otner counties have voted thi t bonds in big or little sums them el selves. Other counties work i1 e towships are voting as'high al s, $50,000. In other instances in dividuals are uniting to bul' t roads through private effort, an' y all they ask of the township o t county is to locate the road sa that when built it may be me permanent highway, J. W. Johl e son, a leading farmer of Hok *w county, was county commission 4 er last year. Seeing that ther is were more demands for road bb than the road fund would pa; b for, he voted for good roads a t far as the money would go, thei Ii- he turned in and built a gooi hi road himself from one of th completed roads out to his farm id a mile or so, and turned it ove at to the township to be a link ii e system when the road is extend t ed to anotheir road -which wil n make it a main road through hi t- section. To supplement thi id township and county fund farm d ers along many of the roa&~ it have subscribed cash or work t< y help encourage roads that wer' ie projected, but not yet built, be e cause of shortage of funds. Th a Capital highway between South fern Pines and Raeford was larga d y built by private enterprise )f as was the road from Aberdeel e to Raeford, and as one ot thi rn farmers along the road said th< 'e other day, "these roads cost ut :h about $300 a mile, but if yo1 t wuld offer us $10,000 a mile t4 a give them up we would tell yo1 s we would not let them go fo: an five times that money. Ws knov .11 what a good road is now. ThE 'i. reason we did not have then long ago is because we did no ie know." me Millions of dollars will be 1L snt in North Carolna thil U T 11 FORD PAF We hae just uto So year in road work, and this work will help materially- as it has helped all winter, in keep - ing business moving in the iState. The activity is general from one end of the State fd the other. The work is done in a variety of ways. Some places contractors have their own road forces. Some counties. use con vict labor. Some places hire I the residents on the line to come L out with their teams and- imple . ments. Nearly all of the money , spent goes directly to the com munity where the roba is built. r Very little goes ontfor material. I The iesults are surprising. I Possibly one of the most ap parent results is the automobile I travel. All over the good-roads section of the State the automo I bile has become perhaps the I most common vehicle. The farm ers have found the benefits that come from a buggy that will run into town and back in hardly more.time than it would take to Shitch up a horse, and the num ber of cars seen standing by the farmhouses along the road is as Stonisbing. At first the farmer -was hostile toward the automo I bile., Now he runs one of his Sown. A cotton planter can be !seen coming out to the farm with his big -seven-passenger loaded Sto the running boards with cot 'ton-pickers. He will come to Stown.with half a dozen bags of jseed rye that he is sending out jto a neighbor. The milk man Sruns in in the inorning with the baclk part of his car loade'd with Smilk b-ottles. At the tobacco warehouse in the fall cars came evely day with loads of tobaoco heaped up in the tonineau. An uqjdertaker caries -coffins out from town several miles in his Sbig car. Occasionalyyou see a -car back up in frontvf a lbaded ,wagon and help the horses pull -a big lo~up the bill so they can 1go ahead by themselves after ,the heavy struggle is over. The -farmer has found that a good jroad and an automobile is a comn t bination of unlimited value, al - though he had never. suspected Sit. SThe cost of good roads. is now 1understood to be of small signific Sance as compared with the ben efits. The farmer who can haul five tons of fertilizer in a day Swhere he hauled two on the old roads sees that in a day or two Sor three his hauling saves him Smore than his increased road tax, and he has quit objecting. SHe has become an advocate of ,good roads. The man who is looking for a farm objects to one 1not on a good road, but stops to figure on one that is on a good road. Farms on good roads have gone up in price at a sur prising rate. Improvement on good roads is the order of the day. Whether the good road is the cause or merely. a sign of thechanging conditions. it is a -fact that in the good-roads coun ty everything takes on a new air. -Better stock is visible on the farms. Improved machinery is everywhere. More pain on the houses, new houses. new barns, Smore school houses and better ones. Along the good roads is a continual indication of pro gressive thrift. SWhatever it is, whether the good road is responsible for the improvement or the improve ment is the cause of the good roads. or both are merely the same outcropping of a new spir it of progress, they are arriving. In every section of the State it is the same. all are struggling for good roads and the harmon ITS, GULF ( opened up izing conditions. and the road are bringing strangers fromi a over tie North. The auatomc biles- that come through th State carry the name tags c nearly all the Eastern Stat from Illinois to Maine. The signs all seem to indical that tee building'of good ioad in North Carolina has only reac ed a good beginning. Almo: every day comes the news froi some township or county tha the work has been started, at this year will see more road ii provement undertaken than evi before in the -State's histor3 Every year sees more substa1 tipl work. Better grades, be ter alignment and wider surbci are growing in popularity. B( ter bridges, more cement at stone culverts, more skill in ge ting more mileage for the san money are all visible. In tb mountains grades are cut dow boldly, and in .the low grounuc ditches are cut - with but 'o idea in mind, and that is to mal the best possible roads. Ti roads of New Hanover ,count; in which Wilmington is situate< vie with the roads of Buncomib where the mountains shelt4 Ashville. North Carolina is building f< tomorrow, and when the worn realizes what a system 'of roat is now pretty well connected u from the sounds to the morn tains and from Virginia to Sout Carolhna the State is certain t be the Mecca for an army c travelers, for it has the attra< tions to interest them and ti climate to mnake automobile tra el a delight at almost any ses son. But the main thing is that t good roads haye made 1oe: transportation a cheap and sin pe matter all over the Stati and it is only since that has ba pened that-the people realiz what a wonderous help chea and convenient taansportatic is.-Manufacturers Record. MAJOR L.OUIS APPEL.T. In the death of Senator Lou Appelt, Clarendon county an South Carolina have lost a patr otic representavive, journalist one of its faithful'exponents an the common plamn people one< their staounchest friends. Whi] many dIffered, from Mr. Appe politically I doubt seriously there is a man in the county c the State, who did not persoi ally like him. If per chance th idea was ever promulgated the Major Appelt had by 'word c act, did his fellow man an it justice, there never was any ge teman quicker to 'right an' al parent Wroug, and forever relh gate to the realms of forgetfu. ness any apparent inequities Being of that stock of the whit race whose blood and kindred co ititute some of the best people C all nations of the earth. and fc whom I have the highest regar and esteem, this adopted son C Clarendon, was by nature full c energy and perservance and th accoplishmets of hisl1ife wor for Clarendon county and th State of his choice will be evei lasting practical, useful and cot venient monuments to perpe trate his memory, for n'o on' will deny that to his initiative and never ceasing practical er deavors Clarendoni county has modern Court House, and tha its beautigul capitol, Manning a graded school building credi table to a metropolis, and seconi to no other and all the produc of the genius, energy and pa t.isnm of our ilamented dead "ASOLINE, C ur big stock, Con s Senator, ~Major Louis Appel |1 The writer first met Mr. Appe to know him well at the homei Shis father, the late Arthur Ha of vin many years ago when Ma e Appelt was then a candidate f Probate Judge for Clarendon. e Twenty four years ago it wi S my pleasure to render Maj. A h pelt a favor for which the writ t has ever since been assured n the lasting gratitude and appr ,t ciation by the subject-of this a d ticle, and it is ever a remind . of the truesness of that sayin I "I expect to thru this world b , once, any good thing therefo - that I can do, or any kindne . that I may show any fellow b s man being, let me do it now,] t me not defer nor neglect it, f d there is an all wise Providen< . whoorules' over all who has d te creed.tfat I shall not pass th e -way again." From .former p : litical -opponents, from evei s source the writer. hears t] [a highest praises of the mai :e virtues of our dead Senator. e kind hearted generous father, , devoted husband, a statesma , journalist and a devoted friei , of struggling humanity has gol er to his eternity among loved on of other years to await the a r rival of those of coming yeai d (I quote from poem dedicated Is -my father 'by Prof. Franc: SNickolas Crouch,anther of Kat . leen Mauvorneen. 1 To the fara beyond he has gone Where smen of his record are known; With the angels of light, Gently, guiding his flight awn To the Heavenly rest he hswn His nature was; man of true worth, SAppointed by God at his birth, ~To be friend and beloved. Wheresoever he moved, The model for man while on eath. tThe beyond, his ambition, his goal, ~By serapha transported his soul, Through the assure above, Where the Holy is love, PPoints! enters his name on the roll. eRemoved from the world robed in gra P His spirit wondering thru space, 1 That bourne, promised haven The good and forgiven, Tranquility-Happiness-Peace. May we meet after life flickers out, 'And hear the fond welcoming sheut 15 My bror.her I am meeting! jWith blessings and greeting! . W~iile rejoicing, all Heaven rings 01 aJust two wecks before Sen dtor Appelt was last ill he w: ithe guest of the writer at di ener in Sumter at the Claremio .Hotel, and knowing that I de iundergone several surgical o rerations, and forced by necessi' - to another this summer, he to eme then that it was inevitab tthat he would have togo throng rthe' terrible ordeal, and the: Larose immediately a feeling nmutual sympathy w h i c -. strengthened the ties of geni: Sfriendship, and we often on pri -vious occasions commisserate - with each other over our kii edred fates and misfortunes, at; i added that he then knew how 1 'f sympathize with me in n r trouble and affliction, and r.o L. that fate has decreed that I fshould proceed me to the Ibouvne from whence no travelle ereturns, it if indeed pleasing an kagreeble to record in the co' eumns of The Timnes,my sinrer sentiments of commendation an praise of his life works, and th aid he unostentaciously render ed to the real needy among hi fellows. If the public will pai -dou, and I can claim the priv ilege of personal mention, tb tHon. Abe Levi told me on th day that Senator Appelt's eart ly remains were placed to thei final resting in the land of hi adoption, that he knew f thousands of instances wher IMajo Appeit ha rendered de RtTI )ILS, GREASE Come to see ipany. Mann t. serving aid the real needy by w It endcrsing for them at his bank w )f and he never knew of a loss he C r- ever susained. A magnificient o j. exemplory life. Over a third of a p :r century ago the following poem 1< - was composed by the late Arth- S( s ur Harvin-and sent to G. Allen - p- Huggins, Esq., Manning, S. C. a er and it is appropriate now. of Who'll sing of you and me dear friend, a e- when we are dead? 0 M Whose forms in tenderness will bend b above our bed Whose lips will quiver when they see g6 Tie sod which covers you and me? ut Whose hearts will swell? t t re "Far from our home and kindred" we Ss may go t' sleep. s u- On mount or plain or stormy. sea our a et last watch keep - .i 'Tis sure to come, but where - and how We know not, care not-this we know e That "all is well." The time and place it matter not, Is Far off or near, O* Remembered long or soon forget, why s - a shoula we care? d 2e The birds will sing, sweet Zephyrs t sigh, yAnd sunbeams linger where you lie, A "Tis wel-tis well."t a - BEN H. HARVIN. a Harvin, S. C. May 10. . 3e MANY VISIT MANNING., es Last Sunday quite a number e r- of Kingstree citizens went over0 Sto Manning to see the destruc-' bo tion wrought by the storm that is visited our neighboring city the b-. previous Friday afternoon. There were. also a number of vis-| itors from Sumter. Florence, Scranton, Lake City and ota.er points and perhaps the largest number of automobiles ever seen , in that town was there Sunday. A Among those Nbo went over from Kingstree was a represen- a tative of The Record. He took i in the town pretty thoroughly a b and noted the extent of the dam- 4, age by wind and rain. The re- e port published in the daily paper i Saturday were not in the least a ce exaggerated In fact, these re- os ports were sent out so soon af-' ter the storm that a full concep tion of the actual destruc tion was hardly obtainable then. There were between fifty and sixty buildings 6ither complete- T ly demolished or badly damaged J ~t. and it struck 'ns as a miracle as 1 a- we viewed the wreckage of fal len walls.and roofs that only four persons wore killed and so few injured. hSeveral stores were unroofed and the down-pour of rain caus ed considerable damage t6 mer dchandise. Large trees in the lpath of the storm were torn off hand several buildings lifted from their foundation; among these Follow th<t KATZ( Tornado Goods at You: S ETC. us. e noted the large flour mill hich was scarcely 'completed. ne of-the most peculiar freaks the wind was the driving.of a iece-of plank, about 24 inches ng, into an electric' light pole > sec'urely that it held up the eight of a-two hundred pouna Lau. While we deeply sympathize itb our Manning neighbors, e Lust congratulate them for theIr ravery and courage throughi uch trying circumstances. With 2e main business section of leir town reduced to a mass of ingle debris. they seemed brong-hearted and cheerful and iany were at work. Sunday try-. ig to get'together and in -maik table shape such goods and ierchandise as the fury of the boriy had left them. During many years to come! 3d memories of this tornado's estructive work will remain in is hearti and minds of her peo le, but they will not be de arred in their effortsto rebuild bigger and better Manning. -Kingstree Record. Fine 7:it Can be produced from trees purchas I from me. I am representing an Ld reliable Georgia nursery and ask aat you hold your-orders till-I see you. [.R. Boger, Manning, S. C. 14t TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Clarendon. y James M. Windhami, Esq.,:Judge of Probate. Wheress, JosephR. Ricbbunrg made uit to me, to grant him Letters of Ozministration of the Estate and effects William P.- Rich bourg. These Are Therefore, to cite and Imonish all and singular the kindred id Creditors of the said., William P. ichbourg, deceased, and they beimnd pear before .me, in the Court-of Pro Lte, to be held at Manning on tbe h day of June next, after publi Ltion hereof, at 110o'clock in the fore >on, to show cause, if any they have, by. the .said Administration shou d at be granted. Given under my hand this 18th da~y May Anno Domini 1915. J. M. WINDHAM, Judge of Probate. Delinquent Tax Sale. Under and by virtue of sundry execu ans issued by L. L. Wells, County reasurer, and to me directed, I will fer for sale on Monday, the 7th day or tne, 1915, af, the court house in Man ng, the following real estate for taxes 1913:* A. P. Lide, 4 lots and 1 building. W. F. Stack, 1 lot and I building. . - Calvery. A. P. Lide.-72 and 1-2 acres.. W. R. McLeod, 37 acres and 1 build. Concord. D. P. Parson, 89 acres and 2 build gs. Santee. Cisroe Simmons, 25 acres and 1 buid g. Manning. A nnie Jenkins, 1 lot and 1 building. E. B. GAMBLE, Sheriff Clarendon County. SCrowds )FF'S Sale ! e Own-Price