University of South Carolina Libraries
f THREE MEN HELD! J For the Murder of R. T. Westcott * f In Columbia. I TWO ARE NOW IN JAIL j 1 Jim Gardner, Jr., and J. It. Hoy Charged With the Crime and T. C. Jones Wanted as a Witness. The Authorities Determined to Hun Down the Guilty Purties If Possible. The State says Jim Gardner, Jr., and J. B. Hoy are in the Richland jail as the result of the inquest into the cause of the death of R. T. Wescott, and the coroner's jury has recommended the arrest of T. C. Jones, who is said to know something of the matter. Gardner was arrested the } il 3 1 i oiinuwii ui tut* muiuei anu nas been in jail ever since. \ Hoy was arrested last Friday night ] week after an adjourned session of the coroner's inquest, and was released Wednesday of this week, but , was rearrested Thursday night. He was with Gardner the night preceeding the killing of Mr. Wescott. Tom Jones' connection with the matter is that he has declared that 1 he has information which would im-_ ' plicate some one. He made this j statement to Mr. Jesse Thomas, the ] father-in-law of Mr. Wescott, and the jury had the information the J night of the homicide, it having been < conveyed to them privately. But Tom 1 Jones has been seen only once since ' that time. 1 irM mi ? -1.-1 A A ^ At mr. xiiuiiios siaiemt'iii 10 mi' jury ( was that Tom C. Jones had come to , him the afternoon of the homicide , and had stated that if inducements in the form of rewards should be of- l fered he would give information which would incriminate some peoSle. That is all that is known of Tom ones' connection with it, but the of ficers are very anxious to get him and find out what he knows. Coroner Walker stated Thursday night that he has an idea where Jones is and i that he may get hold of him Friday. < The inquest convened Thursday I night at 6:30. This was the third sit- 1 ting. After having heard the testi- ' mony of several witnesses the jury deliberated about an nour and ( brought in the following verdict; "That R. T. Wescott came to his death by gunshot wound at the hand of party or parties unknown to the jury at this time. We, the jury, recommend that Jim Gardner, Jr., J. B. Hoy and T. C. Jones be held for further investigation. "George A. Burns, H. E. Watts, C. L. Sliirh, H. L. Creighton, R. L. Murreii, G. M. Miller, F. C. Grigsby, P. M. Malone, W. S. Brown, W. F. Stieglitz, T. I. Harris, J. D. Popwell." The coroner's jury also recommended that the grand jury be apprized of the conditions in this county with the view of getting mounted rural police. This very interesting action was expressed in the following language: We, the jury empanelled by the coroner to investigate the death of R. T. Wescott, after rendering our verdict do resolve: "That the coroner be and is hereby requested to appear before the next grand jury to Richland county and give an account of the murders recently committed in our suburbs. "That he express to the grand jury and desire that they carefully consider the pressing needs of a mounted pountv nnlipp s?>ruipp onrl mol-n recommendations as will promote the inauguration of such police protection. "George A. Brurfs, foreman; H. E. Watts. C. L. Sligh, R. L. Murrell, P. M. Malone, F. S. Grigsby, H. L. Creighton. G. M. Miller, W. S. Brown, T. S. Harris, J. D. Popwell." At the inquest several interesting things were brought out. Coroner Walker so handled the case that Hoy was confused and contradicted himself. He was very much worked up over this and was quite unruly at one time. It will be remembered that Mr. R. T. Wescott., a butcher who had a shop on Taylor street and lived in Waverley, was found dead by the school house in Waverley on the morning of May 2. By his side was found a 32-callibre revolver with two empty phnmhprs a n rl tVw? cninwln w Mlivt MIW OU1V.IUU UK'UI jr W a* at first indulged by some. But later developments indicated foul play. While the bullet which produced death was a 32 calibre, yet the wound was such that it was wellnigh impossible for Mr. Westcott, a man with one hand, to have inflicted it. The homicide occurred about 5 a. m. That afternoon Jim Gardner, a rather notorious young man of Waverlev, was arrested on suspicion. He had be en seen hanging around the Shandon dancing pavilion until about i 2 a. m. or later, and he was again there about 7 a. m. and knew all of the particulars of the homicide which had been discovered an hour or two before. His own contradictory statements about his acquaintance with the de- ' ceased and his knowledge that Wescott was dead caused his detention on suspicion. J. B. Hoy was arrested on suspic- 1 ion also, lie and Gardner were very i thick. They had tried to "hold up" i ex-Magistrate E. A. Larick once, and 1 when they saw that their identity 1 was known they passed it off as a joke. Likewise they held up a boy I named Shull in Waverley one night. < and when he called their names they again passed this off as "just for i fun." Hoy and Gardner were re- i Bjrted to have been seen together on ? eidt street the night before the c - homicide. So far no direct evidence has been c produced, but the conduct of the two s men has excited suspicion. t Thursday night Coroner Waiker j jj .. . ik # "V , ? ?swaSsssassewass?M????i " 1 IMPRIBONFJ) IN AUTO. Phree Women Have Narrow Escape From Possible Death. Practically imprisoned in a runaway automobile, three women had a larrow escape from possible death it Bryn Mawr, Pa., recently. The machine, a big touring car. >ccupied by Samuel W. Colton, Jr., Sirs. Colton, Harold Colton, Mrs. Harrison Allen and her daughter, irove up to the railroad station at 3:30 o'clock. Mr. Colton and his son, who had occupied the front seat, eft the machine and entered the sta Lion. They had hardly dissapeared when the machine started off. It headed straight down the road that leads to the tunnel under the tracks of the railroad, gathering momentum as it sped on. The woman, seated in the rear of the car, were unable to reach the mechanism to shut off the power, and to jump means serious Injury or death. After going a distance of about 100 yards the machine swerved from the roadway and crashed into the stone wall that abuts the sides of the road at this point. The iron rail itlong the wall was broken down and Lhe fore part of the car pluuged over the gap. Luckily the rear wheels jamed into the network of the iron railing and held fast. Tho women, frightened to the verge of hysterics, were thrown to the floor of the car, but sustained no gainful injuries. SAVEI) THEIR CXIMRADES. riirilling Experience in the Hold of a Burning Oil Barge. At New York half a score of fire men risked their lives in saving six :>f their comrades who had been overcome by smoke in the hold of a burning oil barge lying at a pier In the Hudson river. Six had gone into the hold when Lhey thought the Are had been overcome and were cutting away a partition when a terrific burst of flames smd smoke swept through the opening and enveloped them. The men dropped unconscious and the flames were pouring over them svhn their comrades braving the Are. und choking smoke, rescued them. The rescued men were seriously burned but will recover. 11A11V IN PAWN. The Mother Must Pay Debt To Get Her Cliilu. A little baby boy, Johnny Knicks, Is held at Ilerkkley, Cal., for a debt of $X7.50, which the mother must pay before she can get her little one out of pawn. This is the ultimatum of Mrs. Jesus Alcantara, who, while curing for the boy while his mother was away learned to love him as ner own child. Mrs. Knioks came to the conclusion that she wanted her boy with her again and tried to get posession of the child. But Mrs. Alcantara was firm. "No money, no child," she said, and now the courts have been called upon to decide as to the proper disposal of the boy. introduced a witness, W, F. Cartar, who conducts a store at the corner of Gervais and Heidt streets. He swore that between 8 and 9 o'clock the morning of the homicide a young man came to him to borrow a nickle with which to get up town to collect some money. The man was Hoy, for Carter, after remonstrating with the yuuiiK man iur nut wuriung, loaned him the 5 cents and wrote Hoy's name on the wall. He contends that about an hour later Hoy came back, repaid the loan, went to the back of the store and took a drink. Carter mentioned the matter of the killing of Mr. Wescott. Witness' testimony on tbis point is: "He went in and took his drink and came back out, and I mentioned something of the tragedy and I noticed he seemed somewhat affected, a change in his complexion at the mention of it, and there was no conversation after that between us, and he soon left and went on." Hoy had been kept in ignorance of Carter's presence and testimony. When brought into the room where the inquest was held, Hoy denied that he knew W. F. Carter, denied having borrowed the 5 cents and denied that he came into Columbia before 11:30 in the morning, and swore positively that he did not take tho car that morning. Carter was brought in and confronted Hoy, identifying him at once. Hoy then admitted that he had borrowed the nickle but declared that it had been in the afternoon. Hoy gave a rather indistinct account; of his movements in Columbia, but it was brought out that he pawned a pair of shoes to Goldstein for $1, got a quart of X iiauor for fiO cents and then went home. He could prove by Steve Gardner that it was 5:30 in the afternoon. He claimed to have the pawn ticket at home. He said that he and Jim Gardner had bought a quart of whiskty in the morning and he had bought this other in the afternoon. The coroner asked: "Did you buy whiskey twice that day?" A. It was three times, I think, two or three times. Q. I)o you usually buy it that way every day? A. No, sir. Q. Seemed to be worried that day? A. Had nothing to worry me. Q. You and Gardner didn't usually come up that many times a day and drink, did you? A. No. The other witnesses examined Thursday night threw no light on the subject except that a negro woman named Scylla Moore testified that very early the morning of the homicide she saw a man at the Shanion pavilion and when he saw her and another woman approaching he turned his back. She could dot identify him. A young man named Montz testiied that Jim Gardner had had a 32lalibre pistol. Coroner Walker stated Thursday tight that he will urge Gov. Ansel to ncrease the amount of reward offer ?d from $ 100 to $250. The city has )flfered $250, When Hoy was rearrested Thurslay night by Constable A. P. Richardson of Waverley, he was disposed o be quite resentful at first, but was laced in jail without difficulty. MANY FLAGS Followed by RQajor-General Henry Ronald Douglas Mclver. A ROMANTIC CAREER. A Soldier of Fortune Who Fought For Klghtcen Countries Died Last Week In NewYork. H? Had Many Adventures, On? of Which Was the Killing of Major Toniiin, of Yicksburg. Maj. Gen. Henry Ronald Douglas Macher, of the Servian army, major in the Confederate States army, and with rank varying from the highest to the lowest under eighteen flags, who died in a lodging house in New York last week; was facing grim poverty when he went to his rest. His battle-scarred body was found by his landlady, Mrs. Mabel Campbell, who forced the door open after raping on it in vain, The general had been heard moving about his room in the early morning. The night before he had com plained of feeling cold and Mrs. Campbell had sent him a drink of whiskey, and later a cup of tea. A fellow-lodger went to his room at midnight, and asked him if he needed anything. "I thank you, sir," the general replied. "I need nothing." The police of the Twentieth street station, taking an inventory of his belongings, wrote it down that the soldier of fortune, the warrior who had fought under eighteen flags for the mere love of fighting, had 46 cents in cash and his clothing. If the general hastened his end, it was done so carefully that no one suspected it. "Apparently natural death" was recorded on the blotter at the station. Mrs. Campbell said that her lodger was ready to start for Washington several days before his death, but received a letter which kept him in New York. Gen. Maclver was sixtyone years old, but showed few signs of his age. He was waiting for Richard Harding Davis, who has written so much about his fighting career," said Mrs. Campbell. He was expecting Mr. Davis in a few days, and told me about it. We all know that the old gentleman was a great soldier. He looked it." Gen. Maclver's scant belongings consisted of uniforms, his welT-cared-for street clothes and a trunk full of papers telling of his life of adventure. The general was born on Christ mas aay. iao4, in nampton Koads. Va., aboard a ship seeking a harbor. His father was Ronald Maclver, a Scotchman. The son went to Italy ! and fought under Garibaldi. He served in the Ten Years' war in Cuba, in ' Crete, in Greece; twice in the Carlist revolutions in Spain, in Bosnia. He returned to Virginia, when war on a ' gigantic scale was framing. His 1 sword was offered to Gen. Robert E. Lee and was accepted. He fought 1 with Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, and was four times wounded during the great conflict. At the close of the war there was much dueling between the officers of the two armies. Maclver was in one of there affairs outside of Vicksburg. His combatant was Maj. Tomlin, of the Vermont United States artillery volunteers. They fought with swords, Maclver running his opponent through the bodj and cleaning his blade with his handkerchief. "He is dead; we must go." called one of Maclver's seconds. A negro brought up the horses of Maclver and his seconds. "My friends are in haste." said Maclver, turning to the seconds of the man he had slain. "Is there anything I can do? I hope that you consider this matter settled honorably." Then he mounted and rode away. After the civil war Maclver, with other Southern officers, went to Mexco. He fought under Maximilian there. When the fighting was over he went to Egypt and then to France; everywhere that cannon were hot and the caravans of war were plowing up the roads Maclver was to be found. Maclver was appointed United States consul at Dania, Spain. The man he was to succeed declined to get out, and the soldier of fortune immediately suggested that they go to the outskirts of the city and settle the matter with pistols or swords. Stephen Bonsai, the present correspondent of the New York Times in St. Petersburg, who was then the charge d'aftairs at Madrid, was sent to adjust matters. He adjusted the matter and Mclver was installed without bloodshed. The daring of Maclver was best exemplified, perhaps, when he took part in the Cretan struggle against the Turks. He was received more than gladly by the Cretans, who gave him "full power ty make war on land and sea against the enemies of Crete, and particulary against the Sultan of Turkey and the Turkish forces, and to burn, destroy or capture any vessel bearing the Turkish flag." After getting through this proposition alive he went to Athens, and later put in a few months trying to exterminate the Grecian brigands, fighting in the mountains and doing so well at it that he was given the highest decoration that the king of (ireece could confer upon him. It was in Servia that Maclver attained his highest rank as an officer. He received a commission from the prince of Servia to organize an independent cavalry brigade. He left Fleet street, London, for Belgrade, and got busy gathering men who loved fighting, lie got the right men and trained them well, commanding a legion of a thousand cavalrymen of 4tusso-Servians against the Turks. He received the cross of the Takovo order for gallant service, and was CURES AF RHEUMACIDE has c had failed. Rheumacide Johns Hopkins Hospital, ti of Salem, Va., and D. H. i remedies and the doctors Almost a Miracle In This Case. _ ... ? Dillon. S. C.. Aug Bobbitt Chemical Company: Gcnilemen:?in September, 1W9. I took matism in a very bad form (inflammatory), month after the diseasestartcd I had to gi mv work and no to bed. It continued to worse until my arms and hands were I drawn so much so that I could not use t My legs were drawn back till my feet ton m> hips. I was as helpless as a baby for u IS months. The muscles of my arms and were hard and shriveled up. I suffered t many times over. Was treated by six difT physicians in McColl. Dillon and Marion none of them could do nie any good. until 1 P. Ewing. of Dillon, came to see mc. H? nie to trv your RHEUMACIDE. He pot mi bot'.le of the medicine and I began to tal and before the first bottle was used up I t to get better. I used 6H bottles and was p.ctely cuti'd. That was vears am am health has been excellent ever since. I had no symptoms of rheumatism. Will further that I began to walk in about six ifter I began to take RHEUMACIDE will aid of crutches: in about three months a pegau to take it I could walk as good as oody. and went back to work again. Yours truly. JAMES WILK Tlieir Pay liaised. An increase of 10 per cent in the pay of conductors over the entire < system of the Atlantic Coast Line has been granted by the officials, effective May 1, in response to a request made by the general adjustment committee. ? The raise will apply to freight as ' i well as passenger conductors, and will practically meet the request 1 made by the conductors, who had prepared a schedule of salaries for the conductors, computed on the number of miles traveled by them. The argument used by the commit- j tee in sustaining their claims for an i increase of pay was that the price of i living has greatly increased and they are requested to do a great deal more work than formerly over the same amount of mileage, the railroads getting the benefit of n.ore work for the same amount of pay a mile. An order has been issued granting the increase, computing the salaries that will be paid to conductors according to mileage and time. This schedule bears a uniform increase of 10 per cent, and totals really more than was asked for by the conductors. The management of the road seemed perfectly willing to conm to an agreement with the conductors, and after being shown schedules of prices paid in other sections of the county readily agreed to the advance. inu x\ot Mean It. The Sumter Watchman and Southron says Attorney General Lyon has been in office nearly six months and his pledge to put stripes on the State dispensary grafters is still unredeemed. If he has made any effort to make good his promise, it has been kept secret, and who would believe that he would hide so good a bit of political advertising as that. The lack of developments from the inquisition conducted by Mr. Lyon and the committee of which he was a member and by means of which he attained the notoriety that landed him in the office he now holds, induces us to believe that the entire investigation was a waste of time and money. We have never doubted that there was graft of the worst sort in the management of the State dispensary, but if any one harbors a hoDe that anv of tho grafters will be punished we fear they are domed to disappointment, judging from Attorney General Lyon's masterly inactivity. Our cotemporary takes Mr. Lyons altogether too serious. He did not mean onehalf he said when he was a candidate. All candidates, more or less does the same thing, and Mr. Lyon should not be blamed for following in a well beaten path. The St. Matthews county advocates have published a letter from a gentleman, who hold about the best paying office in Bamberg County, to Erove that the organization of Bamerg Connty was a great blessing. No doubt it was to the gentleman with the fat office, and he could hardly be expected to say anything else, 1 but how about the fellows whonon't hold office? made major general in command of all of the cavalry of the Servians. ( The decoration was given him on the eve of battle. If Maclver was nothing else, he was picturesque?always. He lent a color to his surroundings, whether 1 they were the coridors and vestibule of the Hoffman house, where he had been a character for years, or whether they were the table d'hote holes- , in-the-wall on the lower West Side, . where all the patrons affect to be I persons with mvsterious missions or ' with pasts. ( Maclver had fought as an officer "under eighteen flags." In 1884 he ' got a newspaper man to write a book ! i of his tales, entitled "Under Four- , teen Flags." It didn't get into the ranks of the ten best soldier of that t day, but Mrs. Campbell's lodging i house folk said that Richard Harding < Davis had had the general in tow and 1 the two of them had planned to pub- 1 lish another book some time next fall. They said also that Davis got ; most of his material for his "Capt. Macklin," from the experiences of | the general. 1 i>wm rER THE DO ured thousands of cases of Rl cured John F. Eline and ot fie greatest hospital in the wc Dlmstead, the Norfolk, Va., co had given up hope. Rheuma of rheumatism she ha< ia Hughes, of Atkins, Va.,~i There is a reason why it ina* cal science, and while p ^row ?*the blood, it operate badiy most delicate stomach. 1 met, e one f S'i L i m> P;;; ."WEEPS ALL PC days A purely vegetable rcme Iter I eur?? by removing the cause, any- Sample bottle and booklet free es BOBBITT CHEMICi BEST FOOD FOB HORSES. Save Money and Have Better Stock.by a I sinn Cotton Seed Meal. At a meeting of the South Caro-ja Una Live Stock Association, held at' s| Columbia, S. C., on Feb. 8th and llth 'i an address full of practical advice, 1 backed by scientific knowledge, was F delivered by the eminent, l)r. Tait ^ Sutler, of Kaliegh, N. C., on "Practi- 8 cal Stock Feeding in the South." Dr. r Sutler is a recognized authority on r feeds and what he says should have e special weight and infiuence through- t out the entire south, and that part |j of his discussion touching the feeding c of horses, mules and colts is of spec- ' ial importance to the southern breeder. j* In the official report of the general '' discussion which followed Dr. But- t ler's address, this occurs. Dr. But- t ler was asked: r "You speak of feeding horses cot ton seed meal. What, about the ^ muscular forming properties of cottouseed meal compared to corn and , oats?" j ' Dr. Butler: "There is enough ? known al>out feeding horses cotton | seed meal for me to state that if you C had a horse that you were feeding a 14 pounds of corn daily, that you t could take out four pounds of that . corn and put in two pounds of cotton seed meal and get better results j Not because corn is not the best food we have for supplying heat and ener- , ; gy, but there Is another thing needed. 11 When a horse that supplies you inus- , n cular energy he is burning up his muscles just as you burn coal in a'e furnace to supply energy to run the n machinery in your factories, and he ^ has got to have something to build' up those wasted muscles, and corn does not contain it in suflicient quan-1!' tity. A little cotton seed meal i; better than an additional amount of a corn. When you are already feeding 11 your horse stover and ten pounds of h corn, I would rather have two pounds:;) of cotton seed meal added than four | a pounds of corn. I would rather have ^ two pounds of cotton seed meal add- i ?d than four pounds of oats. Corn 1 is a splendid horse feed, but we are , wasting over two million dollars a ** year in South Carolina feeding an j t all-corn ration. , t "In what proportion would yon , n feed corn and cotton seed meal?" | 1 Dr. Butler: "That would depend . upon your hay." | (1 i-itruty ui any : Dr. Butler: "An average ration for | L a thousand pound horse doing real i hard work, is about 1 f> pounds o! ' I grain and 12 to 15 pounds of hay. | In stead of 15 pounds of fodder and i 15 pounds of corn I would take f. 1 pounds of grapevine hay and 7 to 8 | pounds of stover and then add lOili pounds of corn and 2 pounds of cot-1 0 ton seed meal and get better results ,j If I had oats and cotton seed meal at !n all, because it is bud to feed unless j < you can mix it with something **ise ' If I did not have any peavrne hay, I c would certainly put some cotton seed s meal in the ration of a hard working g horse, unless 1 had plenty of oats, o and they were cheap." y This is important testimony from |( the highest authority, and should in- j, terest every farmer and horse owner j" In the South. We send thousands of . dollars into the northwest every year 1 for corn. We send into the north- c west every year thousands of dollars e worth of our cotton seed meal. No- 0 body is benefited by this but the rai - 1 roads, if we keep our cotton seed o meal at home to feed it will help us, v and I)r. Butler says it will help our t) horses?and Dr. Butler knows. r VOUR GRAND MOTHKK I'NKD IT. t llut She Never Had Sulphur In Such ^ Convenient Form As This. I< b Your grandmother used Sulphur c is her favorite household remedy, a and so did her grandmother. Sul- n phur has been curing skin and blood t< licenses for a hundred years. But in the old days they had to j take powered sulphur. Now flaa- t( rock's Liquid Sulphur gives it to you .. In the best possible form and you get the full benefit. a Hnndcock's Liquid Sulphur and t' Ointment, quickly cure Fezema, Tet- a ter, Salt Rheum and all Skin IJla- m sases. It cured an ugly ulcer for Mrs. Ann W. VVillett, of Washington, D. C., in three days. Taken Internally, It purifies the ; blood and clears the complexion, j Your druggists sells it. Sulphur Booklet free, if yon write Hancock Liquid Sulphur Com puny, ^ Baltimore. | CTORS^U heumatism after all the do< hers, of Baltimore, after t >rld, had failed. Rheumaci< infractor, after they had sp< icide cured Mrs. Mary Welb i endured for 20 years. I ifter the most famous Nev cures: Rheumacide is the owerful enough to sweep a ;s by purely natural meth and builds up the entire sy (mood E W/,s 49J/(/{ )!SONS OUT OF THE tdy that Roes rinht to the seat of Your druggist soils and recommen t if you send five cents for postage 4L COMPANY. Proprietors. Baltir Unequally Distributed. There is considerable complaint bout the distribution of the pension und. It is claimed that some counies get a great deal more than they re entitled to, while others are hared out. Recently the Florence Imes called attention to the correspondence from Spartanburg to The Jews and Courier about the pensions iven out in that county. The corespondent thought that the pension oil in Spartanburg County was largr than it ought to be. He seems to hink that there are names on the ist which ought not to be there, partanburg County was given $20,(K) of the pension money. Just bout four times as much as Orangeurg County was given. We think here must be something wrong about his distribution, but just how to emedy it is the question. Of course Spartanburg has grown i population a great deal since the lose of the war, and many cotton ni 11 s have been built, and no doubt orfoderate soldiers have moved in r^ir. other counties and from North 'aro'.ir.a, but it hardly seems creditble that they should have increased he jK'nsion roll as much as it now ,pt;cars to be. Spartanburg County ar about eight hundred names on ii r pension rolls. The roll should ?e surged, as we are satisfied that hero are names on it that should lot bo there. The Abbeville Medium, which is dited by a gallant old veteran, nakes a suggestion that each county ake charge of its own pensioners, ,nd provide a fund for them. We do lot know how this would work. Un_'s.s the different counties would 4roe to pay their pensioners about he same, such a charge would cause great deal of dissatisfaction. Then gain in some of the counties that re heavily burdened with taxation, he needy old veteran might be negated and given nothing hardly. On he whole we think it best for the State to manage the matter. Then he strong, rich counties can help he weaker counties and pay the tv.dy oKl veterans a uniform sum. >:.t the roll should be thoroughly urged in. every county, and the monv given only to those who are entiled to it. We are satisfied that -.any get it now who are not entitled 0 it. .\ Wise taw. One of the wisest things ever done iy the Legislature was the passage f the law giving the County Comnissi oners the right to levy a tax of ne mill to build good roads. The aw wisely provides that the tax so oliected shall be spent in the townhip in which it is collected. We are ;lad that the County Commissioners f this county has levied this tax and re hope that they will continue to ivy it until every road in the county 1 put in good condition. This is a uxury that new counties like Lee, )orchester, Greenwood, and others, annot afford as they are heavily taxd for ordinary county purpose and thcr necessary expenses, such as uilding courthouses, jails, and so n (wuwl r/tQ/lu Qrn nnnooo.i?*i? If ?"? . V/MV4U w? V. m vc rtoai J II W C /ant to keep up with the times. The ostoffice I)ei)artment requires the ural mail carriers to travel only hose roads that we keep in good ondition. So it will Ik? seen how mportant it is for our roads to be ept up. Then, too, under our road iw, there is no danger of the money eing collected in one part of the ounty being s|>cnt on the roads of nother part, as it requires that the loney collected shall l>e spent in the awnship in which it is collected. Bryan was elected President in 898. After using millions of dollars ? defeat him and failing, the Repubcans then stuffed the ballot boxes, nd in this way cheated him out of he election. They can't do that gain, however. A Ciitalo to any of our customers for the as plumbng or hardware business, a page eat ilngue which will be found prices on anything in tire supply lim :OLU.M BIA Supply J - !E FAILED. ;tors and all other means he famous specialists of de cured Austin Percelle, snt large sums on other orn, of High Point, N. C , theumacide cured W. R. / York specialists failed, latest discovery of mediII germs end poisons out ods, does not injure thf stem. CURES ^haumatlsm. clatlca. * Lumbaio, * Vhaumatlo Ooili Indication. - BLOOD. the disease and Kldn.y froJjL ds Rheumacide. L. 0Hpp. to All Blood Bore. Diaeaaes 1 5l Ik! The economy cf special treament BY Whi-n a man or woman, who ia WiM. enters a lo.al controversy involving a arg? inn mnt of money, do they Men to eooi-- tui/.e in the matter cf coineetren . co n 1? Wou'ij it he economy to engage au attr.rn nt$7."> who 1 st 'ho ouie, when the o e who wanted flOOcou'd Lave won il? Wit-, the man or woman soft ring from n lironi- or (leap seated ailnunt there i much 1110 e at stake 'ban with tho pait? wtio seeka the luwter. Tli ? ry day there aret on-ahdaof 4. men ami women ? ho are taking treet- _ ment f.-r tho wrong trouble! Th?-< have gone to the homje phvvician?a worthy nan, y t wlhose ox-JBf perienco in deep - eated tr>Luhi a i??T! enmp-tr lively lim.ted, eren aniorytfre* of pract ce. < )h, h -w aad it ia to t ee pat ieuta wait until four or Ave A ft. r? K .v.. ni. ?? tvem up nd then com* to us w Lien It ia too Into! Thigh ppens lom tlires. But mort often we have boon able to effect. a coniple'e cure, even undersn.h Adverse circum t n In nearly nil of such cases i'? Lus been Cir exper'encn that I lie root (f the troub e has rever been discovcrrd, and that b -t very little treatment would I ave been necessary had we hod the use a the b giuni ig If you, reader, are not <njovin* tho health tli.it Natuio Ltendei you f)h' uld, write to ts. In the n niority of cases it will be cheaper i-> the end for you to evea make n special trip to call ipon i s for a FHKE EXAMINATION nrd cons Itntion. After have een and had a god long talk ith you, we often can handle your case at your own home. Send f r our jouri si. "Health." Mailed free in nnprinled wrapper. Dr llai away A Co, -'-J S. liroad St, Atlanta, Gt. PIwisp s?nd mn in unprinted envelope, your book for iren, for which there is no charge and which does nut place me under any obligations to you. Name Address Name of paper i |! w.wtki) old |; j; PIANOS & ORGANS ii ]| for which we will allow the j | 0 highest prices toward new In-< > j| strumenls. Xo Club Kates to j [ ' ; offer, hut we pledge lietter in- ] [ ii struiiieiits for the same or less i i ! money than those at elub rate' ! , offers. Write Mnlones Music , , I House, Columbia, S. C., for spe- ( ^ | rial prices and terms. j | | KKKt'KI.KS, As well as Sunburn, 1 Tan. Moth. IMmnles and Chaos, am j rurod with W ilson's Freckle (kre. | Sold and guaranteed by drugg{Bta. J 5 Or. WII Ron'a Fair Skin Soap'2S | eta. I. H. Wilson * Co., Mfgrs- and I'litpN. 6:J and 65 Alexander street, i Charleston, S. C.When ordering di| root mention your druggist. - r ' CT&S/j OFFERED WORTHY Y0UN6 PEOPLE. I No metter how limited yoar meenteredo* eetion.lt yoo desires thorough bo sinus Bli? tng end good po-l tton.WTitefor OOF j GREAT HALF RATB OFFER. Snccesa, 1 ndejxindenc- en.1 proheble PO|> TUNK guaranteed. Don't dHjir >iif tixliv | The OA.-ALA. BUS. COLLEGE M?ver Qm gne Free. king, and to any in the macnlnery. nd any machinery owners. A 400 valuable In every way. Write on for CO , Co umbia S. O* I