The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 23, 1907, Image 4
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.
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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.
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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.
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Witk gratitude for tkc liberal
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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. ,,
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fodder, running cie in 'cparntui. }
churn or washing machine. Bl/.ea Pa
952 from 2 II. I*. up to II. i'.. vor- N
tict?l, horixoutkl or yoilahlo. |'|
& CO., Chicagcy in. fl