The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, December 10, 1908, Image 4
I
To Bo Fought at the Next Meet
ing of the
STATE LEGISLATURE
State I/cBdrrs ln» FWit ^AjjiiiiiNt
Whiskey liusiuess Xt't't at Oilum
bla.aqid CoimnltUr of Three Jn
Appointed to Draft Bill t<» Be
Presented to l^eRlsIntiire.
nolnmhlft. Doe 3. - The Conf. r
ence of Prohibitionists, held in th<
Senate chamber this afternoon, de
cided to ask the General Assembly
coming session
to pass, at the coming session, an
Iron-clad State Prohibition law, anil
a committee consisting of Senator J.
C. Otts, of Cherokee, and Represeie
tatlve John C,. Jtlehards^-of Kershaw,
Chafles A. Smit^h, of Florence, and
Mende>l L. Smith, .,bf Kershaw, yas
^ .appointed to, draft the bill thiih will
be submitted to the‘l/egl?liiture.
The Rev, C. K Burts. of Kdge-
fleld.r president of ttH* An-t(--Saloon
Ijetfgne, of South Carolina,-presided.
Thte conference was held behind
closed doom, and the announcement
of its action was made tonight by
the Rev. J. E. Harley, secretary of
tbo League. —
v «.
It was'htiended orlgloallfc-to hold
also a masa meeting tonight In the
hall of the House to be addressed by
Dr. P. F. Baker, secretary- of the
National Anti-Saloon League, but
Dr. Baker could not be here, and the
meeting tonight was, called, off. Th<
open convention, s«d. for tomorrow
was also abandoned, ns several of
Jhose present this .evening desir d
to return home. There were about,
thirty-five present this afternoon
S-certary Harley sta*ed tonight
that every county would be orga
nlzed for Prohibition.
“Is It intended, Mr Harley," said
the reporter, “that the proponed bill
shall be an Iron-clad Prohibition law
without any options whatever?"
"It will lie a straight Prohibition
bill,"replied Mr.Harley, ■»'“with no
eounty optlona or anything of Iiia
kind at all. The gentlemen named
as the committee will draw up th
bill along the lines laid down by
the confer nee, and submit It to nth
ers, so that all objeetionahl featun
may be eliminated. Yes, the con
ference declared tor Slate Prohibit
Ion, and w-’ w>n try to keep out tli
drug store l)ar rooma"
The gentlemen named as" the com
mlttee to frame the Prohibition bill
y.ece all.n'rcftnL ai .the aonf rwa
and all four of them arc member
k of the incoming Legislature Tnt-r
^re aeveraj .cite* inembers of the
- S^'akue Here also.
1 hff conference brought to Coium
bla a number of prominent men from
different sections of the State. Th
president of the League in thi
State, the Rev. C. E. Hurts, is on
of the strongest young Baptist min
istem In the State strong in char
acter, ability and personality, as well
as physique. Mr Burts is the son
of a Baptist minister and a gradu
ate of Furman I’nlv rsity.
Prominent among the Prohibition
advocates is the Hon £. C. Feather
stone, of Laurens, w ho was here. Xo
day. air. I’eatherstone roc ntly am
nouncod that he would be a candl
date for Governor in 1910 on th
platform of Ste’e Prohibition, fo
w hich he 1 .a Hi en contending for
yearn. He made the race bn that
platform in lS'.t6 and came ver>
near success.
The two Smiths who were appoint-,
ed on the special committee arc big
men in more ways than one, and this
■eems to be -a good State and a good
time for Smiths.
Mr. C. A Smith, of Florence, is
new to politics, but' a veteran in
good works. He is a merchant of
Tlmmonsvllle and was c Cently elect
ed to the House front Florence coun
ty. He has s< rve.d several terms
as prp«M<»n! nt State Baptist
Conr-ntlon, and is chairman of the
board of trustees of Furman Uhi-
versity.
Mr. Mendel I, Smith,'of Camden,
was here In attendence on the Su
preme Court, and was also invite 1
to the Prohibition conference. Mr
Smith, while in the House, of which
he was speaker for two'terms, stood
.for the State dispeniary- but now is
a Prohibition advocate, and support
ed Prohibition In the county con-
test. He has b’Vn sent back to th“
BLOW AT THE SOUTH
NOW NIMBKHS NEARLY FORTY
Thousand hoites
And Mail Delivery <1* Now Establish
ed Over One Million Miles of
Public, Highways. L ■ fV
States now thoroughly appreciate
the advantages of the, rural free mail
systenf is shown in the annual .ro-
port of the Poatmaatef General of
the United 'States' for the present
On November in, ItiUN, there
year.
were in operation^ 39,516 routes,
wllh a pilftoiliige id iuon- than
it ma
000,000 people. . In many States
practically tire-entire area available
for rural delivery is now covered
with if network of rural rontcu.
ROOSEVELT CLASSIFIES
*
15,000
POSTOFEICKS.
It Is Be|M»rte<l That it Is His Inteu-
tlon to Fill Many of TIkuii With
; Negroes, '
That t,Ke people of * (he' Unite!'^Waslxington. Dec. 1.—The order
of President Roosevelt, issued today
whereby more than 15,000 fourth
class poatofflees in all parts of *tne
Unltod-StatBB are to Hg plftfcbd In Orj
classified service, has caused t
biggest kind’of a sflr among SPna-
tors and—Cowgrt'ssmeii w4to- ha/e
come to Washington to attend thea
approaidting session.-imd-none ha\”
Itural delivery is now establishe!
on nearly 1,000,000 miles,of roads
thmughoni the country. During the
current fiscal year the .rural car
riers will Is- required to travel more
TTian ^oh.POO.liOO niiles.
1'hus the
ht'cesslty of good roads iwcomes
most apparent. „ . ^
The policy of- the department in
sisting that all roads covered by
rural delivery shall .lie maintained
in trinTrsahie eonfitiqn- throughout
the seasofis *1 as resiilted Tn greater
advances toward" universal good
rpads than r before In the iris
tory of rural delivery. The Legis
latures-of th«“several States have
enacted progressive road laws and
made liberal appropriations for -road
building and IuiprovefnefiTS. ^"’'
An «videnee of tin* growing use
fulness ror_rural deliver is the In
creased quantity of mail delivered
and eoiletued. -While-no exact flg-
ijrea are imw available giving the
amount f»f mail handled by rural
carriers, it is .■•‘stimated trr lie nearly
2'.noo.o0n,ooo pieces for the -Iasi
fiscal year.
The expenditure fer the fiscal
year ended June 3ft, 1907,-was
$14.sift, while for 1 90S it was $34.-
361,463. What the ,expenditure will
be ten years from now it is startling
to consider..
Rural delivery is now in operatlo
on 943,087 miles of road
carriers are required to
Of tlies*- roads ‘ 35,07)0 miles an
macadam, the remainder being earth
sand, or gravel. Since the servlet
was first established $70,432,1 6.
has been expended .on roads (ravers
ed by rural carriers. Road officials
and ,patrons are notified whenever
repairs are necessary on rural routes
•More work lias been done .on such
public highways and more expend!
hires made In their I in pro v ment
during the -pasU’year than in any
previous year -hi (he history of rura
Y„
in operatio'y
1, over whii/
travel dam
rtollveiv, ^mi rbe ollicial report r
Crived clearjj - Indicates that inter.-c
in road Imphivenieiit is being gen
e*al4y manifested throughout .th
country. *
The estimate of appropriations
necessary for tills service for tin
next fiscal year, as submitted b>
Assistant Post master General D<
Graw is $36,216.Oort, an increase of
$673,ooo over the current appropri
ation. Of this estimate $34,953,1 5)
Is for couynuing (lie servle <m 89.
277 riiiites\n operation on June 30
lasf. T''''i’ ~■ fur dontinuing th
routes, which. It i
be established during
year fit an estlmaU
vry for carriers of
ii, $I7^*0^io to inati','
vice .during the fiscal
servua* on
esliiuated wil
iti(“ curreqt ti
d average s
$S67 per anr
u rat (• new
House from Kershaw and is pledged
to introduce a Prohibition bill. He
says the House, has a majority for
Prohihition. Mr. Smith was asked
today if he had any annoiinremen'
to- make with regard to th> Guber
natorial race in 19TO, since two
interesting statements had recenti;
been made with regard to candidates
in that year, but he only smiled hh
engaging smile.
Another Geubernatorial possibili
ty arrived this afternoon to attend
the Prohibition Conference—the
Hon. John G- Richards, of Kershaw.'
Captain Richards, for he is also an
officer in the National Guard, has
been Bent to the House from Ker
shaw., for five or six terms, and is a
Rader, in that body. He is commit
ted to the passage of a Prohibition
bill,“having always supported th’
State dispensary as- a step to Pro-
hlbltlpn, and being himself always
a total abstainer.—Newit and Cour-
-*•*: •—— i’f *-
•'V
Burn Tobacco Barn.
Evansville, Ind., Dec. 1.—“Night
J-lders” early today destroyed the
barn of W. H. Gossar. The barn
was filled with tobacco and the lost
is $3 ,000. Gossar recently came
from Kentucky. While a resident
> of that State be Jiad refused to £^ol
his tobacco.
r j .
been found yho are willing tonigh 1
to express an 1 opinion on 4ts resubs
or as to what they believe’the r a
purpose of the move is.
Hi TRIED IT ONCE
UNCLE HENBY GIVES HUSBANDS
, SOME ADVICE
As to How to Manage Wives That
« .1 ‘ , y '
"Talk Back" and Ask Too Many
Questions, ' *
, "Man that
is borii of woman
.-lyall potatoes and few in the Jill 1 ,'
said Uncle Henry,wearily when*th(
■iww*-nnH ■ hi* »tfE_Lief1WiHE
- J r+f»htrr.'*
room,.
^oVerr trut he’s only a pbor old one-
horse. >
"Adam had everything liis own
way and nature was handing him
oiif straights and three 'of ' a” kTnil
WILL BE IN JIACE
FEATHERSTONE WILL RUN FOR
tiOVERNOR
Two Y)‘nrs Hence on a State-Wide
Prohibition Platform Against All
Comers.
Laurens, JJec'. ! .—-The ; Hon. C. C
Mr. Featheratone declared ills candi-
definttely this morning that he would
a candidate for. Governor qi
In
Sonth Carolhia Fn th<’ next campaTgnf" Foiirth Assistant Postmaster
1910.- It will be remembered that.
Mr. Featherstone jdtcUrd his candi
dacy at the opening of this years
campaign, but withdrew because of
liie. promised stand of Governor An
. PARCEL POST
FOUR ECLIP8B8 NEXT YEAR.
The Calendar Present* Some Inter-
RECOMMENDED BY
POSTMASTER GENERAL
ASSISTANT
He Urges That Carriers be Allowed
' to Carry I/x al Packages Weigh
ing Not Over Eleven Pounds.
Touching the heart of the agri
cultural 'communities in every State
of the Union, the knnual report of
estting Facte and Figures.
With the issue of the calendars
for 1909, many of. our people ara
studying the facts and figures of
the tables, nothing among • other
things that there will be fout ellips
es, next year. They will be equally
dlvldent, between the sun and the
moon. Three of the number, total
eclipse of the sun, a total eclipse of
Gen-
If is understood by some t hat t '.i •
purpose of the new plan is to' bleak
the solid South and to give the ne
gro an opportunity to g t office Bteng
with the white man, it being under
stood—t-hs4—with—t-b+*- administration
strongly Republican, t^ere—would l»t
an excellent opportunity "Tor the "For
mer to secure many-well-payitw
offices all through the South, which
would nojt^be the case in the Nort i
and Eapt. where Ihe prti port ion of
negroes to -the white population „i..<
jeia+lvely small. This ihay or may
not be the real purpose, as - futur ■
events will doubtless show, but^fb
is much niysUery surrounding tin
new orders.
GEN ERA L -ST.V l l.SUCS
the M. E. Church, South, m
Soutli Curo|iiia.
♦
The following is a summing'up of
the final figures of the Methodists
for the Stale this year:,
. Number of local preach’rs, 8' T
members, 85,539. (lain, 4,55.
Infants baptised, 1,8'51; ddulb
baptised, 2.01S.
Nid'nber of Epworth Leagues, 96
members, 3,oo^.
• Number of Sunday schools, 691
officers .and teachers, 4,880; sehol
ars, 4 7,214.
Paid superanuate pn.'aclu'rs, w.i
ows and orphans, $10,039.11.
For missions, for-ign, $ 1 9,18.,'3
domestic $1 7,321.44. ^
P.iid for church extension, $i;,-
863.02; American • Mible soci
$722.70.
Paid presiding elders. $22,971.28;
preachers In charge, $ I 8 1,41-3.2.'.
bishops, $2,94 1.1 f »*
Number of societies, 1 (organiza-
t iojis) Tbi'i; house of worship, 762
Value of houses of worship, $1
579,85 36 5 ^ ind' 1) ted ness on same.
$47.31 8.27.
Numlief of pastmal charg s. 23,7
all the livelong day till. the.lady ar
rived on the scene and began to {p t
ready for the first cake and apron
sate. Then what happened to poor
old Adam? Well, by gracious, In-
bad to get out.and dig! Son, tak”
it-from me, we've b en digging ew r
iTficeT ’
"Not that I miml) digging. ^
dofi't.:-. But I’d like to do a little
talk in*; Too, by gum ' 1 Tn going n"
do it. You hear me! I'm woTking
on a system ancr if I stick around
a while we'll, see.
"Now my wife, she's about the
av rage verbose. That is. she's go:.
godd^wind, “a pretty elaborate vo
cabulary and a willing heart. When
he.^mikoiT'h real business of it she
can comb things over" so»ie.
“She's one of the kind Uyit ke pc
still T<»r a while until ^Ou've told
vour little tale and then, begins to
tak<‘ a systematic interest in it. She
asks questions. Hoft.-t. son, th(*y''-e
th<’ Idamedest ones, they are—th'
erne*-thaL-ask .questions,
<11-
parsonages, 197.
Valin* of parsonages, $591,
indehteflTleSS, $ I 2,060.
Number of presiding elders
triets, 12; parsonages, 9.
Value of parsonages, $50,000; iti-
debtedness, $2,5)10.
Cliurch s damaged by fiia* or
storm. 4; amount of damage.
Insurance carried, $4 85,233; loss
es, $7,355; premiums paid, $3,650-
tT.T cotli’cted on Fosses. $5,505.
Kdiicalloiml statistics, nuniber of
schools irnd colleges, ti: value, $66!),-
299.56; rndownH-nt , $115.7.56 5 4
professors and teachers, 59; pupils
928:
SHOT THE SIIEHIEF
year ending June 3 0, 1910; $1,360,
ooo to pay substitutes for ft9,6JV
carriers of $S67-per annum b-ss sit
|ier cent deducted on account of ca
’ -SB
riers not In service twcha* months
$12,000 to jiay. clerks In charge of
stations of rural delivery servlet
and $15,000 to pay tolls and fer
rlage charged for carriers who
traverse toll roads or turnpikes ar
cross streams over toll bridges or
f( rrles.
During ttie past year there wee-
4 .672 m*w routes estaldlshed, 17
routes discontinued prior thereto
weh* n'-establislied and 4 40 mutes
discontinued, leaving net increase In
nit nib r 1,549. During the yeaj;
1,958 postoffices were discontinub 1
and t)ie patron* ?V'n(FT-ed rigervle •
by rural carriers. On only a little
more than 10 per rent (If thj>-e(+caI■
routes the quantity of mail handled
was less than 9,000 pieces wer-quar
ter. which heretofore has b en con
sidered a fair average for a standarl
rout('. Included, in this nunil'er-ar*
659 tri-weekly routes serving re
stricted ten’itori s.
Wlio Was Trying to .\rres( Him foi
st ea ling.
TAKEN* FROM THE “MINE.
(>ne
llunili’retl and 1 Twenty-Jour
Bodies Recover'd.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 1?—One hun-
ired and twenty-four bodies of vic
tims of the mine disas^r at Marian
na Tiad been recovered at 1:30
o'clock this morning and the search
ers expert to find but few other.;.
John H. Jones, president of th"
company, was at the hour mentioned
down in the mine and sent word to
the surface' that he bdlieved thor'
were but two more bodies in th’
debris and that work would not
cease tmtil these
!
MADDOX ELECTED MAYOR.
Carried Every Ward With the Ex-
reptlon of Two.
Atlanta Oa., Dec. 3,—-While not a
landslide Maddox's victory over
-Woodward was overwhelming He
carried all the wards “hut Two. .and
lost these by but small minorities
The election passed off wonderfully
well; considering the excitement tha -
had kept the city at,freer heat for
weeks. The figures are; Maddox's
total vote in the eight w'ards was
7.719;* Woodward's total. 4.4670;
Maddox's majority, 3,149.
Raleigh. N. C. lice. 1. Sher.IT
Jackson Rtanland, of Brunswick
county, was shot dowh and” probably
fatally wounded by a man named
Walker, at the latter's home in a
remote part of the county Stimjny
posse.
night while a
nclu di !>«■"( he
sheriff, was attempting to arrest
Walker on n'charge of storchreak-
ing. . * - *
Walker is said to tie a'-des'-rte
from an army post in Geoigia. Inn
work 'd in Brunswick .several yea>
ago.' For several weeks tip* sheriff
bad been trying to locate Walker
and Sunday night with his posse he
J’ame upon tne fugitive', who opened
fire upotj^fhem. Sheriff St an I an I
falling with a bui-let wound throuph
his kidneys. Walker was arrested
.and taken to jail at Southport under
a heavy guard. Tlj*- sheriff died
Monday.
Our Greatest Need.
A good country road is always to
be desired and is a source of com
fort and convenience to every tra\
cler. Good roads attract population,
as well as good schools and churcbl-s.
Good roads improve the value of th”
property, so that it is said a farm
lying five milys from market, con
nected by a baa road is of less value
than an eq'ually good farm lying ten
miles away-from market connected
by a good Toad. A larg r load ca i
bo drawn by one horse over a good
road ’than by tyvo over a bad on \
Good roads encourage the greater
exchange of products and commodi
ties between one section and aijjith
The annual value of poultry am
eggs sold is more fhan that of th->
silver, gold amL-pig iron produced
There is millions of money in poul
try and eggs, and hut small capital
required ' The-rflwmiH-
import "~nr
eggs in England approximates 100,-
Vftft.ono dozen, and into the Unite 1
States 17,000,00.0 dozen a year.
Here is an industry in which the de
mand is greater Hian our home sup
ply- Look webF' , £t the poultry, and
they'wil l asjret you to find the
"golden egg.7 „ Thousands of eggs
could be sold at good prices right
here tf our farmers wouJd
them In.
bring
\ r yti(>n when you've got yotirse'f
all tied iii' and you don't kno'w for
sure whether you spend tin' evening
with a ;-lck Elk or a live tiger she
gets h<w cold, fishy eye on you and
she*says: ‘Henry,’ she says, -it needs
a man with fnore originality (ban
you've got to' get away with Ittiat
Hans Anderson.' she says. 'Now you
Ii t n to me -'That's what gets me.
I don't Want to listen. It's tire
some. , ,
"Now, of course, there are several
ways to beat that game. In the tir-
place yon can get-mad as a hatte-
and grali your hat’and go out an i
sbinT The door afn you. Th it
works with some of 'em. ■ Not wi h
sol on .the liquor question; that is,
the Governor's advocacy of a plat
form that was a step toward State-
wid - prohibition.
Mr. Ansel lias been'Governor for
only one term, and there, were
thousands who deemed him worthy
cessful fight against the old Stat'’
dispensary. Consequently Mr.
Featherstone .deemed it inadvisable
to appose Mr. Ansel at tjiat time and
withdrew fron^ the race, at the sanft
time announcing’ his continued .ad
vocacy of State-wide .prohibition and
hi s' willingness to ’keep up the figh’.
, -fn- view of tin* growing sentiment
for State-wide, prohibition, and the
fact that one-half of tho counties
in the State have already, voted for
prohibition, and believing that the
time has come in the political litf
of the .State for silcTT a campaign
Mr. KenUtt-fstone- announces-that he
will mak tin- race on a platform
for State-wide prohibition. .
The announcement of Mr.
Feafli-
erstone candidacy so early is in re
^sponse to numberless -inquiries as to
tiis intentions. Ilcj has received
many inquiri s and^has been persis
teiitly urged to nmke •> the race
While his withdrawal statement in
July was practically an announce
ment that he would make the rae-
two years hence, the statements this
morning were made to apprise the
many friends of prohibition as
Mr. Featherstone's intentions.
mine, though.
"I tried it once,, and when I came
back an hour -afterward the first
thing I heard when 1 came in th ■
door, was, 'And, Henry, as 1 was
.sayii^g—’ 1 had interrupt d her, bu'
she came back stronger.,
"There's another pretty good.idei
a fellbw was telling me about, but
work 1 —wtrq—mtrpr
fiouuht I v.
faitR^tr 'T jus
if ditn'r
sitting still w4ule she is speaking
h- r little piece and spying. ‘Ye-,
dear.’ and 'No, dear,’ as nice as pi--
The fellow says they' just natufffB-
can't get used to having .any one
agree with them and it takes th
wind all out of their sails. AV II.
son, it might. . 1 gdon't know. it
don't wxjxk wBh mine.
•"There is one thou
got a good deal of fait ir“Ttt r ju
tried, it *>ut a little to see how it
wais. guitig (ol work and I will say
that I got better results t-oui j; tbaa
from anything I (xver did.
"It's sei titific. It's got a regular
kind of a name like. It is called
‘The Gambler's Last
what I mean
poker prihcTpTtyOf doubling"" your
bets to recoup -your losses.-
"Listen here, .-on. Tiiis^ls jt:
"You come home some time and
you see there's something in the air
You know from past perfornianc-*
that the colUxiuia! monsoon is about
to take ‘jiJace. Get .Jdyit ? , Yoj.i jb •’
the dark clouds lot niiwg on the do
mestic horizon and you hear the
(iistlVnt crfickling of the fork* (flight
Resort.' Se(
It's based on th->-<T'!
nitig that Is going to blast you to
your roots pretty soon. The air fu
hmhe;| as fh’-v say fn the c!ussier,
[her ■ v, something going to occur.
Well, sir, vou don't get ready 'i
beat it._„ .You decide - to stay an I
fight.’ That is, maybe yo*n decide to
stay and fight. It depends on.how
long you've l$een carried or how
much natural foolhardiness you’ve
got.
"Well, sir, she. starts; she move
She begins handing it to yqn fror’
l)Oth sides of her mouth. It's noth
ing short of wonderful where sh
ever gets herTdeas from, but they're
hits, so* -—
"She daUie.s ywltjb. t he inanities of
your rioyhoolL'describes th7> teetotal
a.-ininity of your pres'ent and casts a
fe-w -sbsew-d- giK’sses riu-f in- the di
COTTON IMCKEBS
>v-.
Quarrel Alwuit Trival. Matter and
Two Aiu* Sliot.
SpartanlMirg, Dec, ).—As the re
sult of ill-feeling among negroes as
to the amount, of cotton th y cou'.
1'jck, oiie nian lies at the point of
(bath and another seriously wound
ed. Saturday night, while Chari’
and Will Hines were f eding the
-took of Airs.* McMillan. In the ex
treipe northern pod ion of the coun
u k y\ mtesules 'fired' on them
with a doubie-barrel shotgun. Th
younger Him's fell to the groufti
with a iiumiri'd shot in his hbdo
men, ahd Charles Hines was seriou •
!y wounded by sliot from the othi
barn I. Sheriff M hulls has sen)
'deputies to the scene 6f the tcoubl
TA( KLED \Ut(>\(; WOMAN.
\ Negro Man Sind and Kill(Hl for
Insoicnce. ,
Ton
s...
moon, another’ eclipse of the moon,
will ho visible la this'"gectiqn, whitaf
oral P. V. De Graw announces in
creased usefulness of the rural f reo
delivery service and the unprece
dented bringing of the work of the
bureau up to date and recommends
rural delivery of packages of 11
jiounds maximum at a special pos
tage and the uniforming of ru
ral carriers. The package provision
suggested require Congressional leg
islation, and is designed to be ef
fective between the distribution,
postofflee and the patrons of aay
j-ural route emanating "-from such
lostoffice. '' c A*
Such a service.- according to the
report, would benefit alike , the
rural delivery patron-g and local mer-
hant-s Vrthout injurying or compet
ing with any other service.’
"It can be given." adds Mr. Dc
Graw, "wdTh the facilities .now em
ployed, *nd would. jnat£HiUy._in;
crease the revenues cyT the dejiart-
ment. A, special reduced rate of
postage for merchandise carried onlv
by rural carriers would unquestion
ably be of marterial value to the
retail merchants on rural routes and
at rural delivery distributing cen
ters as well as enhance the influence
.of. the rural service In making lif-'
In the country more attractive."
Rural carriers at present are not
permitted to carry for hire any-tnat*
ter or package that is mailable,
Congress Increased the salaries of
the carriers. The demand for a
package service by them, fostered in
the first years of rural free delivery
stilj exists. It sbouio be met...ac
cording to Mr. De Graw, not in the
old way, which permittee! the use of
the Government’s agency for private
gain, but by the eftabllshm^n.t of a
system for the carriage of merchan
dise by rural carriers at such rate*
as will be a fair compensation for
the s rvice performed, the revenues
in
9
this
Ih-e foupth, a partial eclipse
sun, will not be visible
country.
A total eclipse of the sun, which
will occur on June 17, will be vis
ible to the United States, with the
exorption of a small part of the Pa
cific States. ^
A total ecllpae of the moon ts
scheduled for Noveml>er 26 and 27,
which will be in the nature of a
Thanksgiving offering.
A partial eclipse of the sun, De
cember 12C13, will not be vlsiblo’
tb,e people of the United States,
a chance to see Old .Sol partially hide
his face will lie denied us.
The new almanac reveals a nub-
ber of other interesting things.
Among the numl>er, New Year’s Day
falls - op _ Frfaay. Washington's
Birthday on Monday And July 4 on
SundayAOf course Monday will bo
utilized, But wfiat is the Fourth of
July~~without the 4th? Lee’s birth
day on Tuesday, Thanksgiving day
will be Thursday (surevjjNovember
Uhmtmas day will ,be on Sun
day and th-?- little folks will have to
keep quiet when they see what San
ta Claus has brought.
Labor Day of course wdll be on a
Monday, and the di^te will be Sep-
tember 6! Memorial DAy will be on
Monday.
- The superstitious ones will have
an easy time next year, as only one
Friday‘"•will be on the 13th. ThH
unfortunate month is poor August.
There will be several narrow escapes,
however, as «niany thirteenths are
Thursday and Saturday. •
to be credited tO'THe-postal ret-Bits.
Patrons and merchants, he adds, d”-
sire to hava..smal] packages (Jelivei-.
ed hy rural carriers, hut will not
pay the pres, nt fourth-class , rat*,
which is prohibited as applied to
this class of service
Should’Congress grant the depart
ment authority to utilize rural routes
still further by the establishment
A man's notion of a genuinely
good Time is if his wife would let
him go without shaving on a day h »
stays home from business/
You ran tell when a girl didn't
expect to be kissed in the dark by
*how’ much more surprised she 's
when you do it In the light.
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Birmingham. Ala . Dec. ■ ^
Brown, colored, was shot and" fat
ally injii rd* early yesterday mornin
by >!rs. .Minnie Arnherter at lit 1
home on Smi-th Eighteenth str e
l iie.n- grO knocked at tin* front ilooi
and told Mrs. Arnherter. who wa
ilon* . to go to the back door wfaera
h wanted to see her. She secur-d
i pi.Mol and opened the door and
:he m gro started to run. Mrs. Arn
herter shot him between the shoul
d(-r blades and -notified the police
-I'tse— po4i<c telmd the n(>gro in a
lying condition .-eseral blocks from
tin- lidiise. i
GETS HIS PAY.
For Supporting Taft in the
I‘reside ui ini Election.
latte
of the cotton family.
reption of your probable future. It's
pretty, son like an electrical stoFm
But it's dangerous.
“Well, here comes in ‘Th(‘ Gamb
ler's Last R(’sort.’ When she gets
going good give her a chance to get
her pace and sort of get oiled up.
Then sass her hack.
"Eh? That's an idea .for vou.
But you never would have though)/
of that, by gracious! Y>*s, sir; t.’Ik-
right uji-to-her. Get her madder.
Got her hopping! t ~
."See what I mean? Every tim 1
she comes to the end of a line where
you ought to thivor just spruce up
and act sort of debonair. Say, My
but your nose is red' You must be
laced terribly, m'dear.' Something
Nothing definite
vjtinjler like you weren't pay
at fen tlon.
"«Yell. sir. you'll bo' surprised.
She’ll get -so -mad you can see the
w-inrKs coming out of Her
eyes.
She'll talk, faster and faster, and
what she’ll say will be ndre fo th’*'
point than before. Of course, if
you'vd got sentitivp feelings l‘Ma_win. You got
wouldn't advise you to try this ou*.
Me, personally. I'm a hard: old party.
"So you keep on getting her-mad
der and madder and hy and by she
fs so plumb stuffed up that she can’t
say a living word and you cash i.a.
It’s a real goo^ syuem if It's work-
WnshSngton, Dec. 1.—Daniel J.
Keefe, of Detroit, presitlent of the
Longshoremens’ union, and an activ*
«
worker for th** Republican cause
liitiug the recent campaign, was Mo-
day appointed commissioner general
of imigration, to succeed the late
Frank P. Sargent. It will be re-
iio inhered that Keefe at first joinel
other laiior leaders in urging Bryan s
election, put after being -promised
tIn* above job by Roosevelt he
flopped over to Taft. Keefe denied
selling out. but his appointment
^bnw> that he (till
Heil Cotton Bug.
Our fanners are not the only
ones that have p, sts of all kind,
iri the shape of- insects that destroy
crops ti| intend with. One, Of the
tirely to rural delivery*' routes, it
would then be possible to earn ad
ditional rcveftlie amounting to mill
ions of dollars, and at the same time
benefit the farmer by enaltfing hfhi
'o have merchandise delivered when
ordered hy telephone, or postal card,
'which would otherwise nob be pur
chased. Frequently consumption is
reduced owing to inability to secure
articles at the time4hey ar** wanteo.
I he reason for increased consump
tion in the-cities is that goods arc
aeoeesahle and are invariably d-^
livened to the purchaser. This "ru
ral parcel express" is to lie confined
entirely to rural routes, and there
would !>■ no cost to the Govern
ment ’for railroad transportation.
No merchant or dealer not a -bona
fide resident. of the town in whicN
'he distributing postoffices is located
>r on the rural route would tie per
mitted to have goods deliver d at
the proposed special rate, and
packages- woU d not in* accepte 1
from any person acting as agent for
i concern lorntt-d ■ oundije of the dt-
livery limits of-the rural routes.
The* rural delivery routes will
cost thlis year. $.’.->.520,000. and the-
service' . hould be thoroughly utiliz
ed. especially where it would b-*
th* benefit of 18.0')0,I'00 patrons.
Th** special local parcel' service w'T
>*nable ^in* farm, rs o have small
pafic/s delivered at their gates,
to M-ve .better and to obtain easily,
the necessaries of life. The in
creased consumption will In turn in
crease the business of th** local mer-
rnants and benefit the jobber by th *
additional order transmitted through
the" drummer.
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Many a fellow has discovered that
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uiake good - , -
Wanted to Buy—One to five thous^
and bushels mixed clay peas;
will give highest market price;
must be fre-e from Whippoorwills.
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For Kale—New Bulck 20 h. p. four-
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gets It. Hurry! Other bargain*
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most destructive, as well as one of
the most offensive 'pests that aflict
the planters of India is the red cot
ton bug. Consul General William
Ii Michael, of Calcutta, in report
ing bn the matter to the bureau of
nranufaeturrs, says, that the hug has
licit reported as a cotton pest from
every, part of India and that it does
not confine itself to the cotton plant
but, spTeads out on leyo^il species
ed. right.
I trierF^.
ga-n to t ry y-r
blit I ‘didn’t ha ve toTuTTf!! lllfk" MS’
I-proTWhly will have next time; thai
is if 1 decide to tr.v it again. —
"W.hat was the matter? Oh.
nothing much. Only the system has
got one wraH feature. I fpund it.
My capital didn't last long enough
good? when
bets."
you
to have lots of
start doubling
Reducing the waits between the
acts will not improwe a heavy play.
A woman who has a nose for news
usually has a chin for telling it.
Plumbing Supplier
PHONE 104.
COLUMBIA. S C
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