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[ MARLBORO DEMOCRAT IJBNNBTTSVILIJB, S. C. : iOCRAT PUBLISHING CO., Nnbscrlption nico: . ear.* 1.00 o nth s.50 months.25 IONAL Mrs. A. J. Jones are ng some time in Wilming K. Cox, formerly of this ', but now of Darlington, town Thursday. ?\ad Weatherly and Mrs. ?gjjp Weatherly have been X in Maycsville. 3. Sanders is building a cot l thc lot which he got from lamer in Murchison Park. J. L. Freeman of McColl ed an excellent sermon at ptist church Sunday morn lloah, of Florence, is the ?ourt stenographer and he i very favorable impression glas Jennings spent Sunday umbia with Mrs. Jennings under treatment in the hos tie re. J. B?ldwin, accompanied by rosland, went to Columbia day to be operated on a 1 time for appendicitis. ar Grosch sailed last Wed y* for his old home in Ka lle expects to return to .ttsville in a few months. i Dr. Webster and two iters, Misses Irma and liva, ston, are visiting Mrs. Web brothers, K. D. and J. 15. )\,? c. . T. C. Hamer went to Col i Tuesday night to attend the convention today. He is one 3 temporary secretaries and issist in organizing the con on. lid sister, lt is reported that doing well. c following are in Columbia Ijton?JiVico al the slate conven ?; K. M. Pegues, P. A. Mod J. N. Drake, T. S. Kvans, .1. ICdens, T. 1. Hogers, J. B. rn, and J. P. Punch, the lat taking the place of Capt. k Manning who was unable to id. ie proposition to levy and ad nal tax of one mill for school .oses was voled on yesterday he returns were not available j the time ol' going lo press. icre will be no preaching at Methodist and Presbyterian ches on Sunday all taking in the commencement sor ; at the, Baptist church. ic freight depot at the A ? I, set on lire yesterday morning live wire. A few files of pa were burned but the lire was iguished before any consider damage was done. ?*. A. G. Sinclair and Di-. Bun McLcod left yesterday morn or Greensboro to attend the .bytorian brotherhood conven which convened yesterday, general assembly convenes at ! ? ensboro tomorrow, Kev. ?I. (?. lards, of Blenheim, being a jfatc. i ie i^' -st peaches received ?it Ai?T^ afc ollice wen4 presented be editor Monday by Miss v Louise ('rosland, the young bier of C B Crosland. They linn, ripe and luscious, and 1 from Mr Crosland's orchard, which they have getting ?es for several days. ore will be no p road ling al 'lesleyterian church Sunday r. McLeod will be away. ; will be preaching on the 5th iy but none on thc 1st, Sun i June as I >r. McLeod will Latta that day to preach the laureate sermon before tho I there. Sunday ?it I 1 A. M. at tl.e st church the baccalaureate ti will bo preached before ['admiting class by Kev A ,1 mas, editor of the Baptist ir. t hi Monday morning admiting exercises will take and on Monday night tl.e '" ' delivered tr, former 'ol loge. E. D. Sumner is visiting his tnothor in Hartsvillo. Miss Earline. Coxo of lied Springs is visiting her unclo Ii II Coving ton. Miss Womak, of Greenup, Ken tucky, is visiting Miss Annie Mc Call. D. D. McColl Jr., spent several days lu Columbia last week on business. Miss Susie Hell has sent in her resignation as teacher at tho Mur chison school. Miss Daisy Freeman went to Hamlet Saturday to visit friends and relatives. Tom Pate of Lumbcrton has been spending a few days here with relatives. Leslie McLaurin of Florence spent Sunday here, with his fath er, Judge Milton McLaurin. Kev. R. E. Turnipscod and ll Crosby Newton have returned from thc district conference at Hartsvillo. The board of trustees of the Murchison school will meet to night at fi,.'iO o'clock in th? super intendent's ollicc. P C Henry of Howland came over Sunday to join Mrs Henry and thc children who aro visiting at .1 B Moore's. The Coast Linc will sell round trip tickets to Columbia today for $4.30. on account of the state Democratic convention. Death of J. R. McDaniel. John R McDaniel, an aged and highly respected citizen of the Ta tum section, died Monday night. Ile had been in declining hca'th for several years and seriously ill for a week or more. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J L Freeman at Beavordam ceme tery Wednesday at IO a. m. Mr. McDaniel was a faithful and useful member of the Baptist church and always took great in terest in its work. His familiar face und voice will be missed not only at his own church, but at the unions ami associations to which THE TONGUE OF A * BIKU. An Organ Which Vari?e. Much In th? Different Spocies. Few people lui ve given thought to the subject of birds' tongues. Many, even of the amateur hird students, know little of tho literature oil tho subject und still less from personal ob servation. Birds must uso their bills as hands, and to some extent the tongues supple ment sueli use. Thus nut ; nd seed eating birds extract the kernel from tlie shell, which is cracked between the mandibles. The full complement of bones of tb? tongue consists of eight. Tho shape varies considerably In different species, and tho comparativo sl/.o very much more, although there ls a prevailing general rcaemhhmci The size and de velopment of tho various bones con trol the shape and utility of the organ. Well developed front bones moan a thick, Cosby tongue, such as we lind in members of Uio ?luck family, while small forward hom's usually accom pany a small tongue of loss Importance to tho owner, sometimes little more than rudimentary, like that of the pel ican. Among such birds as have occasion to protrude tho tongue' well beyond tho tip of the bill the hind bones are mar velously developed and greatly elon gated, for these are the bones on which the tongUO ls hung. The edges of the tongues of uiost birds are inoro or loss fringed, this fea ture being most noticeable In thin tongues. Mout birds have a greater or less number of pupillae-small fleshy projections, splnelikc In appearance and usually Inclined backward--on the upper surface of 'ho tongue. Theso are of service In working the food backward toward the throat. Some of the sett birds have very sim ple tongues, which serve but little pur pose. The tongues of the honey creep ers have very line and long feathering, while those of the woodpecker are long, slender and pointed, and tho roots of some species curve clear around tho back of tho skull, up over the crown, and their tips rest nt tho base ci the upper mandible. With the exception nt the sapsuckers the longues of wood peckers are capable of great protru dion, und tho tip ls barbed. Tho sap suckers, however, Instead of having nharp. barbed tongue? like those o? Other woodpeckers, have brushlike tongues ISM a r"SMi! of Ule degenera!lon of the bristles on their surface bdo hairs standing ont from the tongi;*? rather Ihiill pointing Var-:.ward. M\n\* with lon? bills do not alway* have correspondingly I cue tongued, The kingfishers, Willi (heir dispropor tionately large hills, ha vi-short tongues. The outer edges of the very long tongues ol' humming birds are closely rolled up Into two tubes lying side by Side, hy means ol' which the birds ar* enabled to suck tho nectar from itow era-Now York Post A MILE OF MODEL ROAD GOVERNMENT EXPERTS SU PERINTENDING WORK Congressman Ellerbe Gives Cher aw the Credit for Improv ing The Ferry Lane Washington, May 6.-Repre sentative Ellerbe recently went to tho department of agriculture to seo tho chief of tho good roads bu reau for tho purpose of securing tho services of an expert road builder to aid the people of Cheraw, and ttday stated that he had been successful. "I havosucceeded in securing thc services of one of tho depart ment men who is an expert on road building, to go down to Cheraw and help tho people of that town build a road. The citizens of Cheraw and vicinity have raised $5,000 for the purpose and with thc aid and supervision of thc de partment expert will construct a modern piece of work. Thc road will run out of Cheraw toward Bennottsville. Just how much road will bc constructed is not at this time known. It is only possible that after thc $*>,(>00 is exhausted there may be some more raised.*' The department of agriculture, through its good roads bureau does a great deal of good all over the country, giving aid in road build ing. Thc departments sends out their experts and pays their ex penses, the parties building the road paying only for the material ami labor. Hie expert advice and personal supervision is given free of charge. "When asked if Bcnncttsvillc would not cooperate with Cheraw and contributo a fund to continue thc road ?ill the way to Ben nc tts swell the fund a little bang up I modern road could bc constructed between thc two towns and would without doubt provo a good in vestment.- Florence Times. TO UK MOOKI, POAD. Washington, D. C., May 8.- ?J Il Kid ridge and L I) Harrows, skilled highway engineers connect ed with thc ellice of public roads ol the United States department of agriculture, lune just been order ed to Cheraw, Marlboro county, to take, up the problem and super intend tho work of construct ing j ti hard surface highway across the Pee Deo river bottoms in Marlbo ro county, lt is understood that these federal experts will reach Cheraw on Monday, and after in specting thc boggy stretch which the county authorities of both Chesterfield and Marlboro conn-j tics wish improved, will immedi ately institute thc work. South Carolina has, during tho past few years, had ti considerable awakening to the economic impor tance of improved highways and there will undoubtedly bo great in to rest manifested during thc const ruction of this milo of model road, for thc conditions under which Messrs. [eldridge and'bar rows will work are. exceptional oven ?lin slate where boggy h i gh ways are no novelty, Mach year this st retell <>f thor oughinrc has boon attacked by tho rising waters ol' thc Tee Dee. Not infrequently in tho spring, sec tions ol' t he roadway are tinder (> feet of water. When lllC Hoods subsids, thc loamy streich of soil ; road is loft in such condition thai teaming is next to impossible. It lins boon recorded that a Georgia statesman, w hile, on a visit to a South Carolina coilenguconco wit nessed thc frantic efforts of ft loam of horses hauling a single bale of coll?n, lo wallow their way through Ibis hub deep mass of mud which by courtesy was culled a road. Four mon on foot ncconi panied tho wagon, each carrying a fence rail, with which tiny now ?and tuen aided tho struggling team by prying tho wagon from some espocially deep quagmire. "Colonel," said the Georgian fi nally, "for years I have thought that tho simile of the camel pass ing til rough the oyo of thc needle was about the most perfect exem plification of the impossible I had ever heard. It now seems to mc that a stronger one could be made by saying that it would be easier for a rich man to enter the king dom of heaven than for a horse to haul a load of cotton over a Pee Deo river bottom road. It certain ly would impress upon South Car olinians the utter fruitlessness of all efforts by Mr. Kockfcllcr to gain salvation." Despite thc knowledge that those conditions are awaiting their engineers, thc principal oflicial of theoflicc of public roads say that thc problem is a simple one and that within a very short time Marlboro county will have a stretch of gravel surfaced highway reaching from thc Pee Dee river bridge towards Bomiettsville, which wiil serve as a model for road builders throughout the state. To do that, the engineers will cause the highway to be raised a bove the surrounding ground, a bove flood water altitude, and will build culverts to carry off thc spring freshets. It is understood that as the work progresses the county officials will notify road builders and highway supervisors of adjacent counties and invite them to visit thc work and study the methods of the gov ernment's highway experts. The Clinton correspondent of the state says: "The Kev. P. A. Hodges, field secretary of the Columbia Female college, made an address and an appeal to the large audience for the financial support of this grand institution. His address was strong, graceful and scholarly,hav ing the close attention of the con gregation. A collection was taken Kdgclield. Mr. McColl who is one of the most prominent members of | the house of representatives states 1 that he is undecided as to whether i ho will oiler for re-election this year.-The State. RED BLUFF DOINGS Willis School Closing Other Mat fcrs of Interest Ked Bin IV, May 15. Miss Bes sie Lane tho charming daughter of thc Hon. .1 .1 Lane is expected home in a few days from Haleigh, N. C., where she has been attend ing school for tliC past ten months. Miss Margaret Buckner is also ex pected in about two weeks from Charlotte where she has been at tending the Presbyterian col loge ol' North Carolina. The many friends of Mr. Frank McKae aro glad to know thal be is able to be ont again after being Confined to his room - for the past two months with rheumatism. Kev. A G Buckner was called to Carolina church on Saturday af ternoon, May Otb, to bury a baby for Mr. and Mrs. Arch McCollum, ol' 1 lasty station. .leif D Kdcns, candidate for clerk ol' court, was shaking hands among his friends here one day this week. Mr. Krank Manning, ol' Ben ncttsville was here last Tuesday making arrangements to do some repairing on tia' waste way b?idgo over I lie river. The pond will be drawn oil tb*' Hrst ol' tho week. Owing to the very late spring, crops ol' Ibis section seem to lie very backward, though the farm ers SCClll to be cheerful and in good spirits. They think this will bc a very good crop year, not withstanding nil tho ups and downs they ImVC bad to . face . U is the writer's opinion that. Cotton will be cheap in lin* fall, though he hopes to bc mistaken. If has not boen so lon;.1, since sonn* ol' the farmers finished picking tllCj last ye that Ith table lesson from tins experience and cut down tho crop some tis labor is so scarce. Since the cotton factory at this place has ceased operation for an indefinite time, and we no longer hear tho sound of machinery, or seo the hands going too and from their work, tho Bluff has been very dull and lonesome. But it will not be long before picnic sea son opens up, and as this is an at tractive place for sport of all kinds Ked Bluff will liven up some, and then every thing will not seem so dcod. With the pond and river for fishing, boat riding and swim ming for old and young, a nice cool shady fgrovc to spread the ?lunch, and best of all a good cold (spring of clear water, makes it I one of the most attractive places in tho county for picnics. The writer has not been hore but a few months and don't know whether the editor has ever had the pleas ure of spending a day hero or not, hilt I will say that you would never regret taking a day off dur ing the summer and come down and bo convinced. This community through herc is very badly in need of an icc factory, and I think lied Bluff could well alford a plant of a ca pacity of one or two thousand (or more) pounds daily. From the fact that all Mic icc that is used at Clio and surrounding country has to be shipped from other towns is proof enough that one ought to bc right at us and Red Bluff is the place for it. She has a [plenty of pure clear water which would make linc icc as any water in Marlboro county. I would think that if thc Octorara Mills Co., would add on this little enterprise to thc cotton factory it would pay for itself in a short time, not in thc sale of ice, but thc cold stor age would bo a great advantage. Will say again that it would be quite an addition to Red Bluff and thc surrounding community. tant, and Miss Dell Hoper in charge of tho music department, thc Wil lis high school closed Wednesday afternoon anil night of May 13th with bright colors and high honors for both teachers an 1 scholars. With trustees and patrons to work to tuc interest of a school and se lecting such young ladies as Miss lissie Bethen to manage it they have made it one of the most nour ishing country schools In the county, and Miss Bcthoa deserves praise and credit for holding it to gether as she has for tho past two years for tho fact that thc Clio graded school is so near and so many of our country people arc people, arc patronizing town schools, lt will bc remembered by the Advocate readers that a few years ago this school llatly refus ed to accept any of tho dispensary money to help run it, thc trustees and patrons knowing that they were strong enough to run it with out, this money, and by pulling together and being linn in their undertaking they have g?t a school that, is a credit to any neighborhood, Tho closing exor cises were grand, every pupil car ried out Inert1 part without a blun der, showing that they had re ceived thc proper training for the occasion. They seem to appreci ate thc care and attention given them by their teachers. The house was lilied to over Mow by folks from ( lio. Met Joli and 'fatum as well as "home folks." lt would bc well for the trustees to re-cUct these young ladies for tho next session, everybody heartily en dorses their past work. Thc World's Best Climate. ls no1 entirely free from disease mi Ute high elevations fevers provail, Willie on thc lower levels malaria is encountered to a greater or loss ex t?nt, according to titltudc. To over e?me climate affections lassitude, ma lat ia, jaundice, billlousness, fever and itgUe, and general debility, the most effective remedy is Metric Hitlers, tho great alterativo and Mood purl?: (1er; the antidote for every form of bodily weakness, nervousness, and in somnia? Bold under guarantee, at Douglas SC IfrCCdcn'S drug store I'rice 500. Stevens Bundy Miss Sabra Slovens and Alfred Bundy drove over from Clio Sun day to got Rev. C A Jones te marry them, but as ho was ab sent, Rev. J L freeman was press ed into service ami mado them man and wife. They returned im mediately to Mr. Bundy's home at Clio. Grippe is sweeping the country* Stop it with Prcventics, before it gets deeply scated. To check carly colds with these little Candy Cold1 Cure Tablets is surely sensible and safe. Prevcntics contain no qui nine, no laxative, nothing harsh or sickening. Pneumonia would never appear if carly colds were promptly broken. Also good for feverish children. Large box, 4$ tablets, '25 cents. Vest pocket boxes 5 cents. Sold by J. T, Douglas. Weak women should read my "Hook No. '1 Por women." It was written ex pressly for women who are not well. The Hook No.. 4 tells of Dr Shoop's "Night Cure" and just how these sooth ing, healing, antiseptic suppositorier can he successfully applied. Tile hook, and strictly confidential medical advice is entirely free, Write Dr Shoop, Rac ine, Wis. The Night Cure is cold by J no. T Douglas. Tired nerves willi that "no ambition*1 feeling that is commonly felt in spring: or early summer, can bc easily and quickly altered by taking what is knows to druggists everywhere as Dr, Shoop'r Restorative. One will absolutely note z. changed feeling within 4S hours aft? beginning to take the Restorative. The bowels get sluggish in thc winter-time, circulation often slows up, the kidneys are inactive, and even the Heart itt Ul?tlj cases grows decidedly weaker. Dr. Shoop's Restorative is recognized every where as a genuine tonic to these vital organs, lt builds up and strengthens Hie worn-out weakened nerves; it sharp ens the failings appetite, and Universal ly aids digestion. It always quickl) brings renewed strength, life, vigor., and ambition. Try it and'be convinced. Sold by Jno. T. Douglas. New Life Pills they get tho wortli of that much gold in weight, if afflicted with constipation, malaria or bilious ness." Gold under guarantee at Douglas and Rrcedcn's drug st?r?. 25c. Announcements of CANDIDATES Candidate* cards arc published from date of insertion till the election for five dollars, cash in advance. AUDITOR 1 hereby announce myself a candi date for reappointment, to thc OlliCC id Co iiitA auditor, subject to the ac tion of t?ie Democratic primary. A-ii J I'Campbell. sn KUI IT l hereby announce myself us a can didate for Sheriff of Marlboro County subject to tim results of the Demo cratic primary. A-D w K Rogers. i tim a candidate for thc otllcc of Sheri IV of Marlborocounty, subject tu tile rules and result of thc approach ing Democratic primary. A-D R I Woodley. SUPERVISOR I hereby announce myself a candi date foi' the olllco ol' County supervi sor, subject to the fiction of the Dem ocratic prima rv. A-D R D Graham. TRRASURRR i hereby announce myself a candi date for County Treasurer, subject tc tho action ol' tlie Democratic primary A-D C\V( ?rosland. CLERK ? >T C< UJRT I hereby announce myself a candi date tor Clerk ol' i oiirt, subject to thc action of the Democratic primary. A-D John ll Thomas I hereby announce myself as a can didate for clerk of Court, subject- 1.0 the act 'mn ot thc I ?cmocrat ic primary, A-D Jell D i dens I hereby annonce myself a can didate for clerk of cou rt .subject to the ail nm ol' the Democratic primary. A-D Tom < ' llainer. i hereby announce myself a candi dato,for re-election io the ortlco of ( Jerk of Court. subject to tho Demo eratic primary. A-D J A Drake