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VALUE QFGQQD ROADS How They increase Home Trade In the Bad Weather Season. ADVICE FROM A NEW DRUMMER Ho Tolls th? Lscal Morohant Why Buainaaa Is Dull During tha Wintor and 8pring?Farrnsrs' Wivaa Buy Through tha Mail. The new drummer entered the office of the Grand Central hotel with a scowl on hto face and several smothered Imprecations Just inside his lips. lie had the appearance of a umn who wanted to use extremely hot language, but the sight of the Methodist church Just across the way and the Baptist church down the street restrained him. In other words, he was swearing mad. IIo was really an old drummer, though new to this particular towu. This was the tlrst time he bad "made" the place. The drummer had <>nmo in overland from the couuty Boat, twenty miles away, in a spring wagon hired from the livery stable. Ills two sample trunks were In the back pnrt of the wagon. They were splashed with mud. There was mud even on the seat cushion, and the drummer's clothes were yellow with mud. The driver's apparel was simply caked with It, but he did not appear to mind a little thing like that. Ho was used to It. Tlio horses also were caked with mud, and the wheels of the vehiclo carrlod several pounds each of the yellow stickiness. "Well, I never!" ejaculated the drummer as he wiped the mud from his fingers before taking up the pen to register his name. "This is the worst I ever struck. Why don't you folks around here build soino decout roads? You've goi plenty of mnterlal right at hand. There's rock enough along the I roadside to make the finest roads in the land if you would only put it where It will do the most crood." "Oh, wo don't worry," said tho hotel clerk, marking room No. 2?H opposite the new guo*e\s name. "We've put ui> with muddy roads from the beginning and got alon-r fairly well, and I reckon we cun continue to navigate." - "Navigation ? that's tho row, all right," said the drummer. "You ought to hire boats instead of wagons in tills section. Why, some of the places we came through today would float a skiff." The lo<til newspaper editor was standing by the desk. He smiled grimly. "I've been preaching good roads to the people of this neighborhood for years," he said, "but they don't seem to tnke to the idea. They are pretty good people, too, but they've formed the habit of putting up with mud in the muddy season and don't kick much. They say their fathers were content to drlvo through the mud when necessury or stay at home till the roads dried out, and they think they ought to be content to do the same." "Hub 1" the drummer grunted. "How's business here In tho winter and spring?" "Mighty poor," replied the dry goods merchant?"mighty poor, for a fact. People out In the country don't seem to do any trading except In summer." "When the roads are good," continued the drummer. "I thought as much thot to 4 I w . .. .1 ?* * ?? 1 vuuV 10, |,uv; IIUII I I1U IUIII II I ! Utllllg with you here in town. But country I people are always buying something Honiowbere when limes are as good as they are now. That you may put down as a fact. Where do they buy from?" "Well, certainly not from me," said the merchant. "Of course not, because the women can't get into town. It's (W> women who do most of the buying. tTou know that. The farmers' wives come to town only once a month or so during tlio winter, owing to your miserable roads. They do buy things, though, and I can give you a little tip. They buy them by mail. They read these large and luscious catalogues sent to them by the big city mail order firms, and they order through tho catalogues. Did it ever occur to you that if you hod decent roads you would get a much larger winter trade from the country? No? Well, think It over. I have Just been reading some figures. The state of Iowa, for Instance, has 2,280,000 population. It has 100,430 miles of pnbllc roads?what they call roads?but only 150 miles are of macadam and passable every month In the year. What do you think of that? Then take Missouri. That state, according to these figures, hns more than S,000,000 people, with 90,000 miles of public roads. It has only about a thousand miles of well built highways. Illinois Is still worse off for good roads. Most of tho states line up just about the same. What can you expect?" "It's a new idea," said the merchant | meekly, "and I'm going to think It over ana talk it over with some of the other town people. We've been thinking our editor here Is a good roads crank, but I'm Inclined to the opinion now that he has more common sense than the rest of us." niJRR JOYCE. Attractive Store Front#. Since the invention of plate glass the outside appearance of shops and stores (has been greatly Improved. The llrst 'Impression Is Important. Many persons are attracted to a store by the tasteful arrangement "of the show windows. Plate glass Is now so cheap that It Is In general use, and the merchant who tries to draw trade with the old fashioned small pano windows, as some atlll do, Is losing an opportunity. Next to good newspaper advertising, a tasty ( how window brings business. Thero'a nothing like putting on a good front. I VALUE OF GOOD ROADS. Improving a County's Highway* Sont ' Prieo of Land Up. Bradley county, Tenn., covering 320 square miles of territory, had an assignment valuation equal to $0 per acre i and :?ii average tax rale of $1.(' ."? p ?r i 1 $100 when agitation in favor of good roads began there. After a long and I earnest struggle the advocates of lui- < provement were able to carry by a ] small majority a measure which pro- j vlded for the Issuiug of bonds for $00.- < 000, to be used for Improving their pub- < lie thoroughfares. Opponents of the 1 Scheme fought It in the courts and thus ] held back the work of advancement, ] but the courts decided that these bonds would be valid and ordered that they l should be issued. Warned by the hostility which had so delayed their work, the advocates of , good roads began cautiously to carry out their undertaking in such a way as should make converts if not warm friends of their opponents. Competent engineers were engaged to plan and to i direct the work, and the most efllelent < machinery was bought, every part of < the work was done in the best way i practicable and every enro taken to get i the best results for the money. i Before half of this $1)0,(KM) was spent nil parts of the county clamored for additional money for road improvement of all their roads, and there was little if any opposition to providing for an issue of $186,000 worth of bonds for i this purpose. i A result of this was that lands which i could not find buyers at $8 to $10 an aero so Ion# as the roads were either dry, (lusty and rough, steep and badly aligned or wet, muddy and stony were easily salable at $15 to $80 per acre even before the work of making the roads good was completed. Another rosult is that the county seat has gained importance as a manufacturing town and Is consequently growing In population, in prosperity and in ability to i pay a larger share each new year of i the cost of Improvement.?K. W. Perry In Good Roads Magazine. TOURING ABROAD. - i Much Money Spent by Travelers Where the Roads Are Good. Thousands of dollars are spent by American tourists abroad every year that would remain in this country were our highways in better condition. Few people probably realize the great amount of money that travelers leave annually In foreign countries, where the beautiful scenery is made accessible by good roads, thus making touting a pleasure rather than a hardship. Over 2,000,000 people visit Switzerland annually, who, It is estimated. rP||| HAD noAI> FOI( TOUlilSTS. pond u sum aggregating $25,000,000. It is said Fpnin, Bavaria and Italy revolve over $50,000,000 from their visitors each year. Good roads are to he found everywhere iu those countries and are kept in the best of condition, making touring delightful. Every point is easily reached, and much money is spent by the tourists in towns and villages visited. Good Roads Magazine says that while some of the finest scenery in the world is to be found in America, the fact that we have not yet built roads to make it accessible to tourists results in a great loss each year to this country. So much value is attached to securing the patronage of tourists that foreign governments spend vast sums in improving their roads as an attraction. Road Maintenance. Some have an idea that the permanent roads, so called, will or ought to last forever without any repairs because they cost so much to build. With that same kind of reasoning we would have a right to expect that a modern thrashing machine that costs several thousand times as much as the old fashioned fluil ought to last forever without a cent expended for repairs. And that, while a violin that costs $3 has to be tuned and have new strings, one costing a thousand dollars should never need new strings and should be ways stay In tune. A good road Is worth, for business or pleasure, several times as much as a bad road, and some portion of this wo can afford to expend in keeping it in good condition. The permanency of tlio road depend^ upon its being kept Jn perfect repair. Keep Out of the Ruts. Down in tho eastern states the farmers have learned that it means money in their pockets to drive in different places in the road, and you will see them, when they notice a road beginning to rut ever so little, turn out so as not to drive in the same old wheel track. Michigan farmers haven't learned this yet. They like to get in a rut ami stay there, but they'll soon see the folly of It, and then a whole lot of tho expense of maintenance will be done away with. Another destroyer of roads Is the narrow tired wagon. A law should be passed prohibiting tbe sale or use of wagons with narrow tires.?Iloratio S. Karle, Stato Highway Commissioner of Michigan. SCHOOL MONKY. rhc Comptroller General laMuea War- i rantN to Varioiu (Vuntifd. The comptroller general Friday issued the warrants for the last dis- ? tribution of dispensary school mon- \ cy, the sum representing the rein- , nant of the fund left over after the , old State situation went out of business. The total amount distributed amounted to $63,409.94, and a part 1 of it was on the basis of the deficiency in the amount given each scholar i by the respective counties and the i result by the enrollment. The amount , by counties follows: On En- : Counties. Deficiency, rollment. Abbeville $ 299.20 $1,547.91 1 Aiken 166.35 1,530.38 i Anderson 2,600.96 i Bamberg 1.25 717.75 Barnwell 222.80 1,245.75 I Beaufort 072.85 1 Berkeley 971.17 J Charleston 2,451.85 Cherokee 851.61 ! Chester - 1,154.00 Chesterfield 1,565.74 788.00 Clarendon 364.25 1,155.02 ; Colleton 981.38 i Darlington 1,216.81 1 Dorchester. .. 578.96 1 Edgefield 58.50 1,018.66 ' Fairfield 1,256.31 ! Florence 38.57 1,199.80 1 Georgetown. 688.10 Greenville 43.72 2,453.90 Greenwood 1,291,05 ? Hampton 714.00 906.15 Horry 2,100.00 1,112.46 Kershaw 44.00 954.85 T.nm?flKtf?r ftQK Kft 1 1 A? Laurens...!!!!!! \36.92 1^418.88 ' Lee 100.58 907.85 1 Lexington 817,40 1,220.90 ' Marion 1,492.08 1 Marlboro 141.34 1,089.48 ] Newberry 1,143.82 . Oconee 895.21 1,101.22 , Orangeburg.... 98.44 2,738.00 Pickens 128.30 944.95 < Richland 1,694.82 i Saluda 1,028.00 960.27 < Spartanburg.... 46.86 2,979.67 ' Sumter 1,320.66 1 Union 1,180.05 Williamsburg 240.30 1,335.29 ; York 27,00 1.922.25 j Total $9,263.51 $54,146.43 i SO.MK <;<)OI> ADV1CK. 1 (jivcii the Xckhj Preachers by n NeI gro Preacher. i In an address to the Virginia Negro Baptist association, Rev. R. H. Rowling, in speaking of the progress of the race, said: ' "It is, indeed, wonderful to see the amount of our people have given out of their means for their education, ami i uuy coniiuue UUliy to UO this, j Let us through the ministry lift up ( tho moral standard of our race. Let , each man be the hushand of one ( wife, and a man with two living | wives is unfit to preach the gospel. I do not hesitate to make this asser- , tion, let it cut where it may. And ( we must get rid of any man who would go around destroying homes instead of building them up, and destroying the young girls of our race. The negro must pay attention to his moral standing in this country, as immoral people will never be recognized. Lot us protect our women, for the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." KILLHI) THEM. , Six Persons Fatally Poisoned by Drinking Fresh Milk. Six people are dead in Macon county, Tennessee, as tho result of drinking milk from a cow which is supposed to have been poisoned by eating milk weed. .John Love, aged 70, and Harry Moss, aged 1 died Thursday. John Moss, father of Harry, and Noel, Annie and Addie Love, children of John Love died last week. No others are ill as all who drank the milk are now dead. Did you ever stop to reflect that it was one thing1 to talk about people and another thing1 to have people talk about you? ]f those of us who use our tongues a little too freely, about our neighbors, would stop and reflect about this matter and know the great evil that comes from too much gossip and tattling, we are sure we would call a halt and gossip no more forever. Bryan was elected President in 1898. After using millions of dollars to defeat him and failing, the Republicans then stuffed the ballot boxes, and in this way cheated him out of the election. They can't do that ucrnin hnwovor (iEOS. HACKER & SON. The Largest and Most Complete. . Establishment South. Doors, Snsli, Winds, Moldings, Building Material. Sasli, Weights, Hardware and Glass. HARDWARE AND READY MIXED PAINT. Charleston, S. C. ERRING PANTOR Who Met His Affinity Succeeded by Bin Wife. Mrs. D. M. Carpenter h';8 been sleeted temporary pastor of ter husband's Holiness church, in Harrington, twenty miles south of Dover, Del., while the Itev. Mr. Carpenter's whereabouts Is unknown, supposedly, to the official board. He dissapeared from Harrington after the existence of his "soul affinity" had become known through the publishing of a letter which the pastor is said to have admitted sending to the recorder of deeds by mistake. It was intended, it was said, for Miss Delia Goodrich, a young woman of his church. The "soul affinity" whom the minister addressed in the missent letter us "Oh, precious, precious, precious, darling, little Delia wife," is not blamed by Mrs. Carpenter, who is a mature woman of exceptional mental attainments, mother of the minister's seventeen-year-old son. The girl is young and pretty, and Mrs. Carpenter said she believed her lo be innocent of wrong intent and a victim of hypnotic influence exerted l?y Carpenter, who, his wife said, had talked so much of late of "soul afHnity" that she believed his mind had liecome unbalanced. KIIjLHD HER SON-IN-LAW. rhe Trn^Mly Occurred Wliile Man I.ny in Drunken Stupor. At Huntsville, Ala., angered because her son-in-law, Frank Albright, liad come home drunk and run the family away from home, by his violent actions, Mrs. Mattie Connally killed the man by shooting him with i shotgun, as he lay in a drunken stupor on his bed. The tragedy occurred in Maysville Saturday night, and on the evidence secured by the coroner's jury, Mrs. Connally has been lodged in jail, and Charlie Chad wick, a 16-year-old boy, lias been put in jail as an accessory. Albright was a merchant, about 3 0 fears old. He was drunk in Huntsfille Saturday and when he went tiome that night he was violent. His wife and children fled, hut the mother-in-law remained and sent Chad wick to a neighbor's house for ammunition, with which she killed the drunken man. Mrs. Connally is 45 years of age, Is divorced from her husband and is the mother of eleven children. BABY IN PAWN. The Mother Must Pay Debt To Get Her Child. A little baby boy, Johnny Knicks, is held at Berkkley, Cal., for a debt of $87.50, which the mother must pay peiore sne can get ner nuio one out of pawn. This is tho ultimatum Df Mrs. Jesus Alcantara, who, while caring for the boy while his mother was away learned to love him as her own child. Mrs. Knicks 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 tho proper disposal of the boy. T1U11H OF CANNIBALS. Have Been Discovered Who Sell and Kat Human Flesh. A correspondent of the Cologne Gazette writing from the South Camoroons says that the Mali a, the negro tribe inhabitatlng the territory between the second and sixth degrees north latitude are cannibals and not only eat captives but criminals w ..o have been condemned to death. The correspondent observed human flesh exposed for sale in the markets. The smallest offenses, he says, are punished with death in order to secure a constant supply for consumption. The St. Matthews county advocates have published a letter from a gentleman, who hold about the best paying office in Bamberg County, to prove that the organization of Bamberg Connty was a great blessing. w t\ if urno f/\ /i m\ir\ nm n v> iiw WV/lil/U 11 W (VtJ X/VJ lliv; MtlUlliail with the fat office, and he could hardly be expected to say anything else, but how about the fellows whonon't hold office? Did Not 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 hope that any of the grafters will be punished weiear 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. * raOFlWIOWU OABPS. W. E. MeOORD, BURGEON DENTIST. OONWAT, I. C. Orer Baak off Horry H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Couneolor At Lav. OONWAT, 8. O. ? B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at law. OONWAT, 8. C. Office In Spirey Building. OONWAT MARKET. Fresh Meats and Sansage always on hand. Orders are taken and promptly dellrered erery day. GEO. L. MARSH. Proprietor. H. H. BURROUGHS j Physician and Surgeon. | CONWAY, 8. C. R. B. SCARBROUGH CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at law. The Chicago Record-Herald says that Abraham Lincoln would not feel flattered by the claims of many peonle that thev look liko him Rnf if Lincoln were sensitive he would have been heart-broken long ago ()ver the claims of republican newspapers that they thought like him. BANK OF CONW / capital btoci, $10,000.00 total asset offh b. (ci 1)>p. piivibht. g.p. gvatu ITAt b, v-Piir Oir Bask, baaag a local iuatitu baildiag of Horry Coaaty aad for tk saiag ikia policy wa take pleasure i) aeeeaamadatiea wkea oonaiatest witl Witk gratitude for tkc liberal oorAially solicit yoar future buaiaaai Keeper!'* D .SF V' ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, II President. BANK OI Conwa CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIRE< Robert, B. Scarborough, II. L Buck, Oeorge J. Holiday, We continue to pay 5 per cent iutere it youraecount iiwimii mi iTrnwrnr'I J^lk 6 C Wf /\\% Carolina ? y VV ^jL t Carolina Whiskajr wiTl ( |i i< U I Ihti articla and in our eetin ! Bj I 'D tares sold by irre.sponsi [ | 1 I I ilfi perjcalloi!. We make a r p) R iJtfi that v/eare not afraid ol teen acres, making us th 3;sABlPLt:.BQTT wH! ship you by cxpi will Include in fame I "ZuHeka," "C.-.IJ Bt IffiAtSfflhftJM SPECIAL NOTICE! W Ht8wik^5K3i\\2i3 ln North Carolir.ii, Vir JrarSgaftk) .frrJW in olhor fltut s rcachot Jrxvl -mint remit 60c. extra. Bo'ne other CNpre-a lint lr?t? '^fc'?!x?Svr1 'x,'kt'c,, huJ wo will prep iprwTfflB e caspr l Hj I i t !'';{ "ny <AI? wi?t<.n.xM?m, s. c.) 11 pl'l r All whUklM n * m nudcr mi I ALL OtT OF RCAOV TO Please send me lliastrated Catalog No. FAIRBANKS, MORSE The Horry ler aid CONWAY. S. C. Thursday, May 23, 1907. Rent Is the great restorer. We tire our muscles by exercise and then rest to restore them; yet a great many of us do not stop to think how little rest we giro to our stomachs. As a usual thing no part of our bodies Is so generally overworked as our digestive organs. A tired and overworked stomach will give signs of distress to which we pAy no heed until at last dyspepsia takes hold. Indigestion is just a warning, and if we heed the warning we can easily avoid further consequences. Kodol is a most through stohach relief. It digests what you eat pnd gives the stomach the needed rest and greatly assists in restoring it to Its normal activity and usefullness. Kodoi Is sold on a guarantee relief plan. It Is sold here by Conway Drug Co. A Boston woman filed a petition in bankruptcy in the forenoon and was married in the evening. Her husband may file a petition in bankruptcy a little later. What is it that tastes as pleasant as maple sugar and quickly relieves coughs and colds? Mothers who have used it will quickly answer: "Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup." The pleasant cold remedy that expels the cold through its laxative action on the bowels. Conforms strictly to the pure Foci and Drugs Law. Contains no opiates. Sold by Conway Drug Company. When a man is in u>o great a hur e is am to make a fool of himself. Either you hate your relatives for having money or you despise them for not having it. Use Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. The children like its pleasant taste, and mothers give it their hearty endosemont. Contains no opiates, but drives out the cold through the bowels. Made in strict conflrmity to the Pure Food and Drugs Law. Recommended and sold by Conway Drug Co. ,, CONWAY. ^Y,S. O 8UVBPLU8 FUNlV $M,000. '8. f 180,000.00. ?IB8: D. A. 8P1TIT, 14. fi. ( OlUfcfi, Jm. CjfvivB tioi, kaa always strive* for Ike ip> a bat t arm eat of bar catisans. 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