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THE HERO IN FRANCE. Men of Science Take Precedent Over Soldiers Now. To old notion that military heroes held first place In the esteem of the French people m\mt be dismissed from the mind. If the French ever wor- ] shipped the soldier they have been cured, and the proof seems to rest In the result of the plebiscite taken by the Petit Parisien on the pre-eminence of the great Frenchmen of the nineteenth century. As there were 15,000,000 answers to the paper's questions a very fair expression of the opinion of the nation was secured. If the great soldier was still the idol of France, Napoleon should have received by far the most votes, yet he was only fourth iu the cont<*st. Pasteur. Victor Hugo and Gambetta each led the great genius of war?Pasteur with 1.338,425 votes, Hugo with 1,227,103, and Gaml>etta with 1,155,672. Napoleon was closely pressed by Thiers, and in sixth place came 1 >azara Carnot the war Minister of revolutionary. France. Curie appears seventh in the list. Trees Turned to Newspapers. The products of the paper mills of the country, mostly in Now England and the North Central States, have increased 18-fold since 1850. Over 3,500,000 cords of wood are being used every year in making pulp in our paper mills. Trees are l>eing turned into newspapers at. a rate which is causing much alarm to those sch ntists interested in preserving the forests. leading publishers have taken time by the forelock and bought thousands of square miles of virgin forest in Newfoundland. Rubber From Wheat. An English inventor declares ho i has made rubber from wheat and that his process is commerc.ially practicable. 1T his claims prove true he will revolutionize the rubber business. He insists his new product is genuine rubber and not an imitation or substitute, and in proof shows samples winch have been successfully vulcanized. Cei vtl rubber is made by a process in Mw. I I I I III' VTIK UI ID i;i IMIIHI <111(1 ?UI?jected to a series of chemical treatments. Our Arrival to the South. The Argentine Republic threatens to be a greater rival of the United States than is a| predated by most persons. Because o. the location 01 the country, the climate is a little less subject to great variations than that of the United States, and all the crops that can be raised in this country can he grown in the Argentine Republic with much less lisk than here. The cereal crops and cattle-raising are very flourishing and a very pro. ising market is being opened up in liiuropo. New English Gas Mantle. An improved British gas mantle, ?aid to he as remarkable as the newly invented German mantle, uses a form of copper cellulose impregnated with certain salts. The new English mantle is dipped in a solution of thorium and cerium, in which is added an ingredient called "laddite." which ' ko adds lo itk strength and life that it has been uninjured alter burning 2500 hours.. Prevalence of Phthisis. Twenty years observation of phthisis over a district in Dartmoor and North Devon, England, lias convinced investigators that populations exposed to strong prevalent rainy winds have a higher death rate from consumption than populations sheltered from them. The contrasts in the phthisis death rate in the sheltered and exposed parishes are very marked. Temperature of the Moon. Astronomers long ago came to the conclusion that tiie moon's surfaco is very hot during the height of the lunar day. which lasts two weeks, and very cold during the lunar night, which is equally long. These extremes of temperature reach their height at the lunar noon and midnight and are greater than any natural temperatures on tiie earth. varieties or sponges. About ten specie? of "vegetable sponges" are now cultivated in the warmer parts of Africa and Asia, especially in Algeria. The fruit is edible before maturity, but on ripening the. pulp sej>arates from the fibrous material, which then becomes an excellent substitute for real sponge for the toilet, bathroom and many other purposes. The Algerian sponges ore in large demand in Paris. A Rulers Pastime. Harlbullah Kahn is Ameer of Afghanistan. His piincipal amusement is cooking, and this is general with all other meat of the country. It |is said that he can cook better than those appointed for the work. Fridays are usually devoted to this amusement, all his retinue helping in the preparation of the viands, which, when cooked, they sit down and eat together. Missionaries in Korea. Korea is probably more responsive to missionary effort than any Oriental country. A Methodist missionary writes: "it is my honest conviction that had wo the proper missionary force Korea would be a Christian na* ?v<>k r?r ten years." GRINDSTONES SHOHT-LI VLl). | I tain and Sun Hud For Them. and Some liiist Hut Nix Months. "Most persons," said the hardware drummer, "have the Idea that If there Is one thing In life a man doesn't have to buy twice It Is a grindstone. The fact Is that they are ais< n' the best sillers we have. "The life of a grindstone is not very long. From two to three years on a farm and from a year to a year and a half In a blacksmith shop put moHt of them to the bad. It sometimes happens if a man draws a poor stone that it will ho out of service inside of six months. "There are a good many things about a grindstone that most persons don't know. For Instance, a mistake most farmers make Is in leaving the stone-uncovered. When I wns a hoy the usual place for the grindstone was out by the orchard, where It would he handy for the men in the fields. The wise man nowai*. /? houses his grindstone. "Let a good drenching rnin come along, and the stone will absorb a lot of moisture. Often it never becomes wholly dry again. "Some persons have the idea that letting the sun shine on a moistureladen stone will bring it out all right. I'snally the sun lias a damaging effect. The defect will not be no uccanie mr n nine, inn me si one Decomes soft nnd crumbles. "Most of the grindstones used In this country come from Ohio ami Indiana. Cleveland Is the great center of the Industry. Grindstones are made of a quart/, like sandstone. Every grinding leaves new points of the stone protruding, and they never us a rule, wear perfectly smooth. "Another reason why a stone Is cast aside after a couple of years' service Is that. It wears down considerably and too many revolutions become necessary to sharpen the tools. The wear is usually most on the softest part of the stone, and it acquires u jiggly motion that is not pleasant. "There is practically no difference in the quality of the stones turned out, and the difference in price, ranging for the ordinary ones from $f> to $7, is due to the character of the frame and the quality of the wood used. Many of the stones sold to 'he the big ranchers and farmers <re equipped with power attachments to he run hv windmill force or gasoline engine. "The farmer is the best customer for grindstones. In later years the blacksmiths and machinists have pretty generally taken to the use of emery wheels. These cost more, but they last a great deal longer." 1/ook After the Hoys, We often wonder why it is so many young men can be seen loafing upon our streets until a late hour of night. Many of them are from our best homes. The fathers of these young men, many of them at least, are numbered among our best citizens. If their cow or their horse or even their favorite dog was away from home after dark they would be out on a search, but their own children can roam the town all night with apparent no effort being made to find them. The boy seems to be turned loose at a tender age to wonder at will into the paths of sin and vice and then we wonder where all our tramps and worthless specimens of humanity come from. It is a regrettable fact that too many of them come from seed germinated in good homes and then sown in a careless manner upon our streets and hack alleys. Reader, is your boy wasting his time upon our streets? If so had you not, at least, look after him as carefully at nightfall as you would your horse and cow. We do not intimate that this evil exists to a greater extent in this community than in our sister towns, but the evil seems universal and increases in attitude as the years roll by. Commissioner Watson of the state department of commerce and agrifiiltnvo hns vnviOnn 4 e\ fl-w* oo/ifotoiMr v v? a v v% a v | a a itu ?T a A V W A A V>* ' C A A V- ! JV-. V A V. I Ct I of the National Drainage Association asking that a meeting be held in Charleston. A young man named Youngblood, who is said to he from Newberry, is wanted by the Carolina National Rank of Columbia on the charge of forgery. He worked the bank in question for $1500 and then skipped out. We heard on the street the other day of a man who claimed he was too poor to take his home paper, but all the same he read a notice in one of our county papers, telling how to prevent a horse from slobering, and sent $1.50 for receipt. When the $1.50 worth of information came it said: "Teach your horse how to spit. The colored ex-congressman, Geo. nr */f l ' w. Murray, now living-in Chicago, has a sentence of one year's imprisonment awaiting him in Sumter. It will be remembered tbat he left the state when the supreme court decided against him. Why does not the sheriff of Sumter county arrest Murray and bring him back to serve his sentence? The advertising merchant is the one who does the business in these days of push and enterprise. There are more newspaper readers today than ever before in the history of the world. The newspaper places your i business under the eyes of the buyer, . He sees what he wants, and, knowing where to find it looks up the wide , awake merchant who asked him tc . come and see him. Success in these , days of sharp competition calls foi eternal vigilance. You can't keep i hustler down. GOOD MOWS TO DOSTMASTKHS. ! liiirgt* Number to Have Their Salaries I Increased. There ought to be many happy postmasters throughout South Carolina on account of an announcement made by the postothee department tin' other day. That is that after the first of July postmasters in the places that are named below will receive the amounts apportioned to their respective offices as follows, this increase being due to the annual adjustments of salaries now going on: Oillce From to Aiken $2,100 $2,200 Allendale 1,100 1,200 Anderson 2,500 2,600 Itarnwell 1,4 00 1,500 BaU'sburg 1,300 1,400 Del ton 1.200 1,400 Bcnncttsvil le .. .. 1,800 1,000 Bishopville 1,300 1.400 Black burg 1,000 1,100 Black ville 1.400 1,300 Chester 2,100 2,200 Clemson Collegia... 1,400 1,500 Columbia 3,200 3,300 Conway 1,300 1,500 Denmark 1,200 1,300 Dillon 1,600 1,700 tad go field 1,400 1.5C0 Florence 2,100 2,300 Gaffney 1,800 2,000 (ireetivilllc 2.800 3,000 Greenwood .. .. .. 2,300 2,400 Kingstree 1,200 1,3 00 1 i 1 i*iw? 1 "nil liillll I ,'MMf I , | \j Lees v Hie 1,000 1,100 1 Lexington 1,000 1,100 i Manning 1,100 1,500 Marion 1,700 1,800 I Mullins. . . .r . . .. 1,300 1,400 1 New berry 2,100 2,200 1 Spartanburg 2,800 2,900 i Sumter 2,500 2,000 Timmonsvillc 1,400 1,500 Union 2,000 2,100 Westminster 1,200 1,300 ( JlTcI lilt I l>IOGIt< >().?!. Married u Woman One-Lift li Mis < Weight. ( Cupid has been hunting for big , game in Georgia. The god's unerr- ] ing shaft lias transfixed the heart of the champion mastodonic 101 k of the 1 world. W. T. Hrihson, of Waycross, who ] weighs 570 pounds, is six feet four I inches tail, and as strong as an ox, was married last week to a young ' lady from Seperton, who weighs 105 pounds, is four feet six Inches tall 1 and 11 years of age, one half the age ( of her husband. She measures half as much around her waist as he does \ about the Knee. Mr. Brinson, who is a wealthy tur- ' pontine dealer, had to do ids courting by num. I'lio trains mat migni nave carried him to the home of his 11nance were too small for him. At any rate lie could not have enjoyed ids visit, as lie would have had to sit 011 the floor or stand all the time. A team of mules cannot move Itrinson 011 a steady pull if he hauls 011 the reins. The only power found so far that can handle him is his 105 pound wife. ATTACKS YOI \'C OllUi. 1 The Fiend Captured and Locked Up IX the .(ail. I A dispatch from Chesterfield to ( The State says Wednesday at 12 o'- 5 clock, within two and a half miles of that town, 011 tlie plantation owned by Dr. A. M. Redfern, one of the most dastardly crimes known to man was attempted upon the 15-year-old ' daughter of Mr. J. VV. Threatt, Dr. Redfern's overseer, by Ned Cash, a 1 big, burly, black negro. The girl was hunting eggs when accosted by the ngro. lie grabbed her and had he not been in a ditch while she was on the bank he might ' have accomplished his design. As he ran off the father of the j girl, Mr. Threatt, shot at him, part of the load taking effect in his head. Officers started in pursuit with bloodhounds, but on their way met another negro who told them that Cash would be along in a few minutes, and I even while they were talking they looked down the railroad and saw him coming, and he was promptly cut off and arrested, lie is now in , jail. __ , Post of lice Srlt Supporting. The Spartanburg Journal says i there was a record broken in the postoffice department last week. The , postmaster general turned into the 1 treasury $22,359,120, the largest amount for one quarter in the history of the oflice. This was not so < remarkable for the department is 1 growing all the time and the receipts naturally increase. But the amount exceeded the expenditures by $1,800,815. This is a record sure enough. It indicates a good business administration and a financial index to the prosperity of the country it is decidedly encouraging. Now that the postofTice is making an effort to get on even a better business footing, more carefully weighing the mails and adjusting railway payments to correspond, there seems a prospect of its becoming actually a self supporting department. This will be cheerful news to the general public, but it has a rather ominious ring for the express companies, telegraph and telephone companies and others of the great public utilities now run at immense profit by private corporation and whose constant claim has been in nast that the government i could do such work as they are doing cheaply and at a profit. ! Postal service is about the cheap' est great service the public enjoys , and no one can say that it is not about the best also. It is neverthe less inferior to the postal services of > En viand, Germany and France, for s it permits a lot of rapacious express r companies to skim the cream of the x service and skin the people of the United States. .HANDLING A HI'SHAM). Here Is a Woman Who Certainly llosscs the Hnmit. Joseph BJelik, 48 years old, small ind meek, was before Magistrate Finn in Yorkville court on a warrant obtained by his wife, Katherlne, who I ;liarged him with abandoning her md their two children, says the New 1'ork Herald. The homo of the famly is N'o. 340 Bast Korty~eighth st., Sew York. When the magistrate asked Bjelik vhat lie had to say for himself Joseph tield up a crooked little finger and minted to an eye that was out of orler. "She did that," he exclaimed hrough an interpreter, "and she makes me sleep under the bed and feds me on cold vituals. Besides she s jealous, and when she sees me as much as speak to another woman she beats me." "How is this?" demanded Magistrate Finn of Katherine. "Do you >eat your husband?" "Yes, sometimes," replied the woman. "How often?" persisted the magistrate. , "Whenever he needs it; sometimes >nly two or three a month, somel mes every day. When he is good 1 lon't beat inn." "Why do you make him sleep unier the bed?" The woman was unable to answer his question for the fit of laughter nto which it threw her. TliPll t ti ill !i ert ct rti t r> niiUnd Inonnli f he was willing to go homo with Katherine. ,Iosei)li didn't tliink ho was, hat a truce was finally arranged, ind Joseph will try home lit'o again. HOMAUK TO 8XAKKS. Indians Who Feed llahics to and Worship Serpents. In spite of the fact that a similar charge was investigated and dismissal by a grand pury some time ago. mother com plaint has been tiled with United States District Attorney Llewellyn, of New Mexico, t..at a tribe of Indians in that territory are given to the worship of an enormous iterper.t, to which is fed the new-born babes of a puebla in which it is boused and carefully tended and guarded. The complaint was filed by a Cath:>lfc priest, who alleges that a dozen families were segregated from several puehlas two years ago, and formed into a puebla by themselves. Although it is known that many children have been born to these families, not .a child is to found in the puebla. This led the priest to press his investigation, with the result, as alI/><*-/i/l U n t It r\ /Hen/ttfni'n/1 1 tt ?? \| , I IUU llV/ VI IOvVI f \?l V'\t I 11(11 111 (III Adobe house, isolated and closely guarded, there is an enormous serpent, which is worshiped by the Inilians of all the pueblas around, and that every babe born in the small pu3bla, and, it is suspected, in many others, is fed to the serpent. S I'MMKIt ST ILL FAR AWA Y. Went her Rtircuu OI Vers No Prospects of Warmer Weatiier, Weather bureau officials at Washington, I). 0., say there is no immeliate prospect of summer weather mywhere. Remarkably unreasonab>1 e weather characterizes all reports throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains. Frost warnings are being issued laily to points east, west and north. Heavy frosts are reported from Michigan and states along the Great Lakes. The cold wave continues in the Southwest. Not since 1862 has the aonormal weather been approached in this part >f the globe. K s five degrees \>elow the normal for the month and this Includes the temperature for the early part of the month, when a warm wave swept the country. M1 MORS MAY STRIKF. Hit ominous Workmen Object to the lTse of Steam Dump. Objecting to the use of the steam lumping apparatus, the miners of lie bituminous mines in the Pittsimrg district threaten to go on strike, unless the dump is done away with l>y several mining companies. The operators say they will not cease using the dump under any conditions, ilthough the-miners declare it is a violation of the agreement. The strike is expected to open shortly, and it is said that 5,000 men will cease working and eventually pvery miner in the district will take up the cause. ROOSKVKIjT'S XIOUElt AUDITOR. liOtter So Addressed Delivered to Colored Treasury Official. A Kent uck ian wno had some business with the auditor for the Navy Department recently addressed a letter concerning that busnesss to "Roosevelt's Nigger Auditor," and it was delivered to Tyler, the negro was recently appointed as auditor for the navy. The letter bore no other address than that given. While the postoffice department considered the address an insult to the new auditor, it had no other recourse than to send it to his office in the usual way. There is much ill feeling among white clerks serving under Tyler. MURDERER HANGEL. John Mattliis Swung For Killing His Step Father. John Matthls, colored, was hanged at Clinton, N. C., for the murder of h s step-father, Tom Merritt. Matthls severed his victim's head from the body with a single blow from an axe and then burned merritt's homo tc conceal the crime. The crime was committed over two years ago ant] the murderer was only captured lasi month. Jr Wise and Otherwise. The good either die young or poor. A misfit bargain isn't fit for anything. Ignorance that pays looks like wisdom to some peole. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. K. McCOKD, BURGEON DEMIST. CONWAY, 8. C. Orw Bank of Horry H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Uw. OONWAT, 8. C. B. WOFFORI) WAIT. Attorney at law. CONWAY, S. C. Office in Spivcy Building. CONWAY MARKET. Fresh Meats and Sansage always on hand. Orders are taken nnd promptly delivered every day. GEO. L. MARSH. Proprietor. H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Surgeon. OON WAY, 8. C. R. II. SCARimOUOH CONWAY, S. C. Attorney at Imir. BANK OF OON W> CAPITAL STOCK TOTAL ASSETS DIKEC R. (i. Collins, I>. A. S I). T. McNeill, This Rank cordially solicits th< corporal ions. D. A SPIVEY, robert ii. scarborough, , ii President. BANK OI Conwa CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIREi Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to pay o per cent inter* it you racoon nt WBM?HBWWI M WI > IHWHUWlr ft 3 Whis I rnlfffl ANtt I J \K 6 Full C fir / lilwl Carolina V t VV /jL ) J Carolina Whi?li?? *^*1' ( jjll4 1 article anil in our esti I ill I 11 taroa so^ ky irroaponi I 1 ill per gallon. We make a I that wo ar? not afraid c teen acres, making ua t 3 SAMPLE BOT1 will ship you by ext will Include In same "Zulleka," "Gold I ESPECIAL NOTICE! I in North Casolina, Vi in othor states reach* must remit 60c, extra, some other express lit I>ottles and wo will pre i mil r i miii the caspi l J] I ' I II. IJ (.tl?o Wintton-Snlem, X. C.) | | I JjK All wbWkiea iu?<io under ' " ipimimw iwiwr erimmmmmmm HrH I Please send me lllnstrated Catalog t j 1^ FAIRBANKS, MORS1 1 Tke Horry Herald i CONWAY, S. C. Thursday, June 6, 1907. Bert Barber, of Klton, Wis., says I have only taken four doses of your Kidney and Bladder Bills and they have done for ine more than any other medicine has ever done. I am still taking the pills as I want a perfect cure." Mr. Burlier refers to DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Bills, which are unequaled for Backache, weak kidneys, inhumation of bladder and all urinary troubles. A week's treatment for 2 5c. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Most people waste a lot of valuable time telling their troubles to other people who are not even interested. There is no case of indigestion, no matter how irritable or how obstinate that will not lie speedily relieved by the use of Kodol. The main factor in curing the stomach of any disorder is rest, and the only way to get rest is to actually digest the food for the stomach itself. Kodol will do it. It. is a scientific preparation of vegetable acids containing the very same juices found in a health stomach. It conforms to the Pure Food and Drugs I.jiw Scild hv Conwav Drue Co. It is seldom difficult for a man to got rich after he has acquired the art of hypnotizing his conscience. For scratches, burns, cuts, Insect bites and the many little hurts cone^ mon to every family, DeWitt's Car- j bolized Witch Hazel Salve is the best remedy. It is soothing, clean and healing. He sure you get DeWitt's. Sold by Conway Drug Co. A broad-minded man never looses any sleep because another man's opin ions fail to agree with his own. When you feel the need of a pill take a DeWitt's Little Early Riser. Small pill, safe pill, sure pill. Easy to take, pleasant and effective. Drives away headaches. Sold by Conway Drug Co. Unkind words are always the wrong kind. CONWAY* \Y, S. O $ 50,000.00 $200,000.00 TORS C. P. Quuttlchuum, pivey, M. W. Collins. v accounts of individuals, firms ami Respectfully, V. P & Cashier > I l. RUCK, will a. freeman, Vice President. Cashier. ? HORRY, S ,y. S, C. I $ 50 000 ... 10 000 ' 50 000 110 ooo C10RS I W. R. Lewie, W. A. .1 oh neon, Will A Freeman. ;st on yearly deposits, and we solic , Quarts For 6 a QE Whiskey I excellent satisfaction. It Is a well aged mation, far superior to the decoctions and mixsible mail order whiskey houses at $<.<X) to $8.50 speciul prico on CAROLINA WHISKEY to show >f any kind of competition Our plants cover fourhe largest mail order whiskey house in the world. rLES FREE. Cut out thl$ advertisement and I ?. return it v.dth $2.05 and >ve 1 >ress 6 full quarts of Carolina Whiskey and we box, complimentary, a sample bottle of each, B iar.d " and Casper's 12 Year Old White Corn. I Vo deliver the aoovo express prepaid nnywhero I rginia and West VirKinia, but customers livinj* I xl by Adams or Southern Express Companies, I ltuycra east of V. issipr.iopl River residing on B lea must send for the 0 quarts and 3 sample B pay cxpreaa. Remit cosh with order and address : I k,R CO., arte., RoanoKe, Va. I 0?'n?riot U. s. Rfilnlcrfil Pl.llllory No. 305, Ath Put., V*. 1 mporvPlon of If H. it. ?nd (nirtnteoi j>,,r" under Iho a t.tiontl Pure Food av.d im nr Uow. i g^jjvJack of All Trades I GASOLINE ENGINE 8 WSSh, HEW HOLLAND FEED KILL I r]U T\\ This In tho only onf.'it that will H ifJL n VA grind Rar Corn Hntlstaetorl'y 'ij I.. w'l MA with small powi r. Tho onifino can H rl ~.\vV alt.o l?o used for pnmplne. ?nw- H J jntr wood, shelling corn, cnttlng H lililer, running cream separator, M ftiirn or washing machine. Sires 92 10 L052 ?<>m 2 II. I*. np to 2?i M. 1'., vor- H iV'ui, horizontal or poilablo. S I & CO., Ch-cago, H!. 1