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i^V?fl(LE Successor to the Cheraw Reporter which was established July 9, 1885, and entered as Second Class matter at Cheraw, S. C. J. N. STRICKLIN, Subscription Puce *i.uu i?er year. Editor, Publisher and Business Mgr. -V A CHANGE SHOULD BE MADE. There certainly should be some improvement in the arrangements around the depots?especially those at the Seaboard. The rails put down to keep the busses from backing up too close tcT'the platform are dangerous to pedestrians, especially is this true at the Coast Line depot. There are no lights there and several times the past week parties getting off the train at midnight have run over this rail with the result that they have been nnrRinr a skinned lex?but, as one victim remarked, "it might have been worse." At the Seaboard it is not quite so bad as this?the trouble there is that pedestrians are forced to push their way across soft roads and between and around all kinds of cehicles to get into the depot or else go around the depot and push through the accumulated baggage and get in the way of the employees of the railroad. At least a light could be maintained by the Coast Line for the benefit of its patrons, and the Seaboard might throw up a good high walk on the right hand side of the road leading to the depot so that white people could reach their depot without having to contend with the above described conditions. Word* fail to describe the conditions at the C. & L. depot during wet weather. At such a time there is nothing to it, except to go in some kind of vehicle or slosh through the mud and water surrounding the depot. The Chronicle last year cautioned its farmer readers and others interested against the much tooted "Rock Hill Plan" 8d little good could we nee in it. We were taken to task about our position by the originator of the "Plan" whose letters we published at the time. In one of his letters he stat ed that The Chronicle was the only paper published in the cotton states that was against the "Plan" and asked ug to withold our critisms until the "Plan" was put in operation. Our contention at the time was that the money being begged for would no doubt furnish some nice "tours" through the Cotton States to some peo1 ie, but we could not see where it would help the gotton growers. Now ihat the cotton season is over and piac-tically all the cotton has been marketed, will some orri inform us what good was accomplished by "Th< Feck Hill Plan." Under the parcel post law, a farmer residing on a rural route desiring a steak for dinner can order it by telephone from a dealer in the town in which his post office is located and have it delivered for five cents, or he can get it from any point within fifty miles for eight cents. As soon as the possibilities of the new arrangement become generally known the facilities of the post office are suce 10 oe tax-i ed to the limit in the interest of the' retail trade. There has been much said pro and con, relative to the result of the last gubernatorial election. While some are highly elated others are disappointed .and despondent. It is simply impossible to please everybody in a political way. When you want to please everybody, introduce a subject that all will agree upon, viz: the remarkable fertility of the sail of and the wonderful crops made in Chesterfield county. He Couldn't Work Her. While a Jewel City girl was Belling tickets for the picture show, a man called for tickets and pushed in a fivedollar gold piece to pay for them, but the girl shoved it back. The man insisted It was money all right, but the girl iBtospaed him that he couldn't work her, and he didn't. He had tc go out and borrow a dime. There are plenty of Kansas youngsters who norer saw a gold piece.?Kansas City Star. Local Merchants AwakeTT** Greenwood merchants need now awake to the possibilities of the new parcel post system. The man who gets busy and takes advantage, of the new system is the man for whom its benefits are stored up. The mail order houses will advertise to get trade. The local merchant has the advantage. He is near the customer and the rates for sending raauer are ?u much lower for his legitimate territory than they are for the long-distance concerns. But he will not get this trade unless he goes out for it it will not come to him. He must let parcels post. Advertise the fact and his customers know what he has and how well he can serve them through doubly impress it in every way possible. In this way you beneflt^your business.?Greenwood Index. The zone system gives the local merchant an advantage over the mail order houses which he did not have before the establishment of the parcels post. The large mail order houses may in time establish branch houses in every zone, but the local merchant is already here and by judicious advertising can have the trade coming his way before the foreign concerns come into his home. "The Lord helps those who help themselves."?Pickens Sentinel. Steadier Werk and Better Land Under Two-horse Farming. The two-horse farmer can adopt a system of diversified agriculture in which the time of men and teams is better distributed throueut the year than is possible in raising cotton and corn alone. The number of days of crop work?not miscellaneous work n n/1 ttmA #a?i ihn auu iwui iiu^c iui iuu cwivu-vvi u farmer for a whole year does not exceed 130 to 140 days as a rule, and the number of days that the horse or mule works at actual crop work, does not usually exceed 100 days in a year, hence there is a great amount of lost time for men and teams on a cotton-corn farm, unless there Is much miscellaneous work todo; which there is not for the average tenant or for the average one - horse farmer. Under a properly diversified i system, however, the two-horse farmer can work 200 days in a year at j aotuftl crop - xvosKf bublUtff 2??iOl OTI time devoted to miscellaneous work, ji and in working a greater number of: days in a year, he tends a much larg-1 er total area and gets a larger income.?A. D. McNair, in The Progressive Farmer. Now is the time of the year when the split-log drag is ^specially useful. The clay roads get full of holes and ruts in which the water stands, j Each passing vehicle cuts deeper in-, to the soft mud. A little cleaning of the ditches and; rounding and smothing of the road-j hoH wnrira wnnrtprs on roads where I the water stands in the road. There! is nothing that smooths and fills the) holes and ruts better than a good split ] log drag used in the right way and of-! ten. The time to begin is before the ( road gets in bad condition, but it is! never too late. Begin now to make' the road by your farm the best stretch of road in the whole community. Put plenty of weight upon it, and" drag often, especially after each rain.?The i Pageland Journal. We can never, in a commercial way secure the prices we ought for our products until undesirable kinds are weeded out. No wonder we are not able to sell cotton directly to the mills. Each farm has several varieties. and each public gin handles dozens and hundreds of vareties, mixing the seed so that it is almost impossible to have any pure seed ofter the first year. The writer was badly taken in by an honest famer who sold cotton seed of what was a splendid big-boll cotton five years before. but mixing at (public gins had so degenerated it that half of the stalks should have been pulled up.? E. D. Dabbs, in Progressive Farmer. ????-_ * Old French Furniture. The old French cabinet makers like the old masters In violin making had the fashion of stamping theii names on their manufactures. Todaj a cabinet or secretaire with the nam< of an old French master cabinet mak er, maltre ebeniste, may bring a great price. Such was the case a short tlm? ago when a commode signed C. C Saunter, M. E., brought in Paris |26, 100. (CM UTTLE TOT'S READY ANSWER Fit Very Nicely, Considering Step nether Got Her "Ready Made," Replied Mies Polllkins. She was a pretty little tot, and everybody who knew her took pleasure In pausing to ask her some kind of a question, merely to show an In terest and for tho pleasure of hear mg the musloal cadence of her voice. Some of the questions were what might be termed leading, but for all she Invariably had some kind of an answer. Among these latter inquiries was one from an Intrusive busybody who was old enough to know bettor, but who belongs to a class of person who never learn. Knowing that the little girl had only recently beoome the possessor of a young and attractive stepmother, with a curiosity Inborn she asked her very frankly: "Well, Polllkins, how do you like your stepmother?" * The child raised her blue eyes gravely, and with her face Rowing with hannineas renlied: "Oh, very much, indeed, Mrs. Bkilllngton! We lit very nicely, considering that she got us ready made."? Judge's T.ihrmrr Kept Her Word. Senator Root was talking about a certain resourceful corporation. "They ran get around anything," he said, a touch of admiration In his Toloe. "They remind me of a Narragansett girL "A Narraganset girl, driving a 60 h...u>i>iiiii giaj i??ju?i<^aminttea: "'Yes, I've accepted David.' "'Why,' said the girl beside her, 'you told me positively that If Dave proposed to you your answer would be a word of two letters." "The other girl, blushing a little, said softly: 'But I answered Dave in German.'" A Philanthropist. A north side lumber dealer contracted to supply a lot of lumber to a stranger. On looking it over he found It full of knotholes and told his customer about It frankly. "You may not want this" lumber," be Bald. * "Why not?" "I'll have to be honest with you. It 1b full of knotholes." The Btrarger only laughed. "I'll take It." he declared. "The lumber Is o go around some baseball grounds. Knotholes won't hurt matters an:. I was a kid myself once." HE KNEW. Mr. Askltt?Why L It, doctor, that so many men are avlng nervoua prostration. They dld't used to have in the old days. The Old Doctor?N<; the old days, you see, we use< to call It delirium tremens. That Equalize! it She (pouting)?You dn't love me as much aa you did. You^sed to hold me on your knees a who& hour, and now you tire In 45 minute. He?I love you Just as nuch, darling, but you know while you were away this summer you galt*i 25 per J cent In weight. * I I r FORCED TO LIVEN THINGS UP ! II Just an Example of What the Re* ourceful Hostess Will Do When a Party Drags. Miss Charlotte Van Cortlandt Nicoll \ recently gave in the surf off Long i I'ranch a bathing tea party, a man : servant wading out with a boat shap i fd floating tea table perfectly apI pointed, wherefrom Miss Nicoll and j Iter friends, in five feet of water, partook of buttered toast, caravan tea. muffins, scones and cakes. Congratulated upon this novel'parly. Miss Nicoll, who Is a sister of De Lancey Nicoll, smiled and said: "I believe In the hostess who is resourceful?the hostess of Mrs. Blanc's type. "Mrs. Blanc was giving a tea party on her yacht. The affair, for some reason, was dragging dreadfully. The guests talked of nothing but the weather, and even in this talk there would come long, deathly silences. "Suddenly Mrs. Blanc, losing her balance,-fell heavily agakist her mother* in law, who sat beside the low rail, ' and with a moaning cry the dear old lady went headforemost overboard. "Of course, she was rescyed; but afterwards Mr. Blanc took Mrs. Blane 1 privately to task. "'How clumsy you were.' he said, 'to knock mother into the water Ilka that. 1 m afraid she won't care to visit us again in a hurry. Tou really ahould be more careful.' " 'Now. George.' said Mrs. Blane. 'be reasonable. I had to do some* thing. 1 simply had to. Didn't you see bow our party was dragging?"*? St. Louis Globe Democrat. MAN OF SAVING DISPOSITION \ Wives Will Know How to Sympathise ] With the Unfortunate Better c Half of Mr. Graball. j OM flmhill la m?in?rantlv bum. 1 ? ? r* He once built * bottie. and nearly gava himself brain fever deciding which a was better?a lot of windows?which t were cheaper, but needed soap and wa> ter for cleaning?or more bricks for wall space. One day be came home and found 4 that his wife bad saved money out of bis housekeeping allowance, and was repapering the dining-room. And then be started to rave. "1 don't object to the money being spent, although new paj>er is Just extravaganre when the n](1 seven years, he gasped, rtd and hoarse with rage, "but I do object to the way you have put it on. Oh, how dare you paste it on!" he finished, with a wail. ^1 "How else could I put it on?" asked Mrs. Graball, in surprise. "How pIbp?" hp retnrtoil n-han ha could speak. "Why. tack It on, of course! You don't suppose we shall live in this house for ever, do you?" i , } Habits of the Democracy. Arthur I. Vorys, a regular and optimistic Republican, was voicing his opinion that in the next election the Democrats would repeat their many former experiences and bury their hopes at the polls. It reminded him of the experience of Ihe middle-aged woman u ho went into a shop, and, without hesitation, made straight for the ciape counter. The girl who handled this funeral material was extremely * affable. II "We have a large stock of crapes." she explained. "Let me show you some new French goods, very popular at this time for every kind of mourning, and designed to express every degree ^ of grief. If you will Sell me for whom c you ure In mourning, I can flx you out In exactly the right thing." "Husband," replied the customer ^ briefly. "In that case." said the girl, gr> ciously, "I can tell you Just what " ' "Young lady." interrupted the older 3 woman angrily. "You needn't bother yourself. This is the fourth husband I'va hnrlpil anil I know oil nhnnl if"? i ? ? ? * } The Popular Magazine. When the Small Boy Talk*. One day recently a coterie of young women In West Philadelphia completed plans for a moonlight excursion on j the river, and when the evening of the trip arrived it was noticed that one of the most charming members of the party wore a shawl about her shoulders. One of her companions wondered at this and to her query as ^ to whether the wearer was afraid of taking cold received a negative reply. Another suggested that posBibly she had malaria. This was also emphatically denied. At this juncture the Irrepressible small brother of the shawl wearing young woman volunteered to * explain matters, and despite bis sister's vehement command to keep silent. said: "The reason sis wears that snawi 11 so mai wnen bob ii on me boat Bob can put his arm under it j and hug her, and she thinks nobodj can sea through the game." ' Subscribe to The Chronicle. 1 a T. 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