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Self-imposed Taxes.
S~y- KNE It A I. ROY STONE said
I / recently in a speech at Par\
is I hers burg. W. Ya.: "Among the
taxes which the farmers pay
are some that arc unavoidable, and
those it is useless to talk about. There
arc others which farmers impose uppn
themselves, which they hesitate to
share with others, which they submit
to without a protest, and even cling
to when they are being removed.
Tiicso taxes we cannot talk about too
. much. These are taxes, too. which
bring no useful revenue, nor even support
a tax gatherer; they are burdens
as needless as the traditional stone
which balanced the grist on the way
to mil!.
"Through the failure of the Government
ir. the original surveys of the
public lands to lay out a scientific system
?,f roads, and divide the lands accordingly.
farmers have been left to
lay out the roads for themselves, and
generally they have put them on farm
lines, going ever all the hills that come
in their way. The result of this is
the hill tax in hilly regions and what
may l;e called the square corner tax
on the prairies.
"The amount of hill tax I have esti
mated in one county in New Jersey,
aim found that needless hills double
all the cost of hauling in the county,
making practically a money tax of
$10,000 annually to the township. The
p.eople have paid this tax for 100
years, and yet they wonder why they
are poor. In the prairie regions, for
want of the diagonal roads which the
Government should have laid out. the
farmer, to reach a point teu miles to
the northwest, for instance, travels
seven miles north and seven miles
west, adding forty per cent, to his distance.
or. for the average of all travel,
twenty per cent. This is the square
corner tax.
"The mud tax is probably about
equal in total to the hill tax. and this,
again, doubles the cost of all wagon
transportation; yet many farmers are
opposed to stone roads.
"However, the farmers themselves
nrc itnin~ .iw.iv in manv nlaees with
the enormous burden of the fence tax.
and with it wtil go the snowdrift tax
and the waste land on the roadside.
They are slowly abandoning narrow
tires and tracking wheels. Moreover,
many of them begin to realize the
enormity and absurdity of the hill,
mud and square corner taxes, and we
may hope in time to see in this country,
as we do in France, beautiful
hard roads everywhere, winding
through farms, with crops growing
close to the wagon tracks and the
roads rving perfectly every purpose
of public use and private convenience.
"You ask how all this can be accomplished
without a burden of taxation
which will neutralize its benefits. I
answer that it is all being done to-day
J- a hundred places in the United
States, and there are farmers who acknowledge
that they are getting rich
In these hard times solely by reason
" of the improved roads which have been
lor red upon tnem. ami are raying
Trirli perfect ease any additional tax
they impose. These improved roads
nre being built in many ways and in
various forms of construction, and
every year's experience reduces the
cost and brings about an easier providing
of the necessary means.
"It would lie a very long story to go
Into the details in this direction, and I
would not be prepared to say which Is
the best of the many methods of construction
and of payment. Both need
to be greatly varied to meet the conditions
1:1 tiic various States, and a
careful study of local legislation is
necessary; but the vital question is for
the farmers themselves to settle gen
erally whether they want gooil roads,
and whether they will accept the help
of those who are willing and anxious
to join in paying the cost of road improvement.
If they will take up the
subject in all their organizations and
appoint active working committee to
visit the nearest accessible localities
where good roads prevail, and to urge
such legislation as will make them attainable
everywhere, the work will
soon reach a point where its own momentum
will carry it forward.
"The estimate of your able secretary
that $000,000,000 is wasted annu"
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any 111 mis couuzry iiirouun i?:iu roaus
is supported by tb.it or other statisticians,
and from this it appears that
the tax they impose takes one-quarter
of the whole value of all farm produets
in the United States. To abolish
this tax is a reform grAt enough
to engage the best attention of this
Congress. It is a practical and practicable
held for its energies. What the
>. Congress says on this subject will be
listened to everywhere, while what it
* says on other subjects may fall on
deaf cars."
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\ Ttie Crusado in Kentucky.
The women of Kentucky are evincing
much interest iu tha good roads
movement. Fully one-half of the 2000
persons present at a convention at
Hopkinsville ta ail\ ocate road iui
provement the oilier ?1 ti3- were women.
And the fact thai a git-?t many farmers.
too. were there in spite of this
being their most busy season was very
encouraging to the projectors of the .
assemblage. Fifteen counties were I
represented by storekeepers, inanul'ac- "
turers. professional and public men,
as well as the agriculturists. Coventor
Beckham spoke, and said lie
thought much more of good roads
than he did of building political 1|
fences, and that he is more interested a
in building up Kentucky industrially I
than he is in the making of any politi- I
cal slate. I
Abandoned Trip.
The proposed transcontinental automobile
trip inaugurated by the Clove- 2
land Plalndealer has been abandoned,
owing to the impossible feat of driv-. j
ing the machine through the saud e
drifts of the Sahara of America.
Everything went well until the desert g
was reached, and although 130 miles
were made through it. the last thirty i
miles were impassable, aud the veu*
ture was reluctantly given up. t
LIVc-WIRE FISHINC.
Every FUh Thivt GeU Within Ten Teet of
tho Net 1* Caught. j
It is "positively shocking" the way v
tliey are catching fish at the plant of
the St. Anthony Falls Water Fower 1:
Company. This. too. in face of a large s
sign on which is inscribed in plain letters:
"No Fishing Allowed; Keep Off." c
But. then, only the immedate attaches u
of the power house are privileged.
The electricians have become :? h
used to working wonders by electric- I
it.v?such a miracle, for instance, as
running the street railways of two fc
cities without scarcely having to turn I
a hand themselves?that they are ia
tne nanit 01 caning hip mysterious j]
fluid to their assistance whenever it is t
convenient to do so.
They started out early in the season, c
which did not open until Wednesday,
to tish in the legitimate way. but fail- j
ing to get any fish to speak of by hook,
they determined to catch them, if pos- g
sible. by crook?to electrocute them.
Since then fish have responded with ^
such wonderful alacrity to the novel
bait that a few minutes' sport will t
give the new fisherman "a nice mess."
The sight would bring tears to the
eyes of Ike Walton, who believed "art v
for art's sake." who accounted it a c
more creditable performance to catch
one tish an hour by patient, painstak- f
ing. philosophic endeavor, than to 1
slaughter the finny tribe on the wholesale
plan in short order. E
At the power house they take a good ^
live wire, properly insulated, where
the angler holds it. and stick the same e
into the water. Water is a gooil eon- 0
duetor. as everybody knows, and
every time a fish comes within ten or , P
twelve feet of the centre of disturb- 11
ance he is conducted to the surface.
He is not dead?he is simply shocked 0
into insensibility by his sensational re- a
caption, and if left to his own resources
would soon be himself again.
But the cruel man on the ledge of masonry
which juts odt into the river ?
around the power house, through ?
which the tail race comes pouring. C(
reaches deftly into the water and
scoops up the unfortunate fish with a
net. * ^
Perch, shiners, bullheads, crapplcs ^
and an occasional sturgeon are caught ^
in this way. One of the electricians "
who was directing the mighty machinery
which generates 10,000 horse ^
power, said that he lead caught a
storirpftn pnrlv in tlin snr!n? wiilfh
weighed twenty pounds. He said that ^
an ordinary current of electricity was
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strong enough to brine; the most obstreperous
lish to the surface in most
cases. He had to hand the sturgeon
considerably more than the average
before he could make him "lie still and
be quiet."
Sometimes a simple iron plate with ^
electrical connections is used. It is "
hung over the side of the wall into the
river, and does the work as effectually
as the wire apparatus. The law
does not specifically forbid electric
fishing, but Game Warden Pullerton r
is going to see if the power bouse r
sporr can't be stopped. ? Minneapolis r
Journal.
Killing; Hats by Can. ?
. Fome interesting experiments hn\e
taken place at tbe 7 ondou docks to
sbow tbe effect of a new system for H
tbe extermination of rats on board
ships. The vessel is charged with
sulphur-dioxide gas, which apparently (
has the effect of attracting tbe rats *
from their hiding-places, and as soon J
as they breathe the fumes they be- i
come suffocated. In the experiments on
the steamer Gourkha several bun
dred rats were destroyed in a few ^
minutes by means of the gas. which {
has no injurious effect upon tbe defr j
orations of the saloon.?Tit-Bits.
?
now Now York nun Grown. d
The ancient game of bowls upon
the green has been revived in England
with some fashionable approval. <
Our Dutch forefathers in the time of
Peter Stuyvesant flocked to the Bowling
Green to divert themselves with
that tine old Holland pastime. But
if our honored Dutchmen of to-day
I sought a green for bowling they would
he compelled to crons Spuyten Duyvil 8
(.'reck or to pass by Hell Gate In or- *1
der to find a suitable Held for that an- \
cleut pastime.?New York Tribune.
RAMS' HORN BLASTS
^TT*. HE crucible of ofI
' fixation mtv ho
made of clay but
f'\yrX bold gold.
YlvWTr^ You cannot alr
r5t-K^ ways keep out tn*
wreJs?eds but yon
don't need to
\\ \yS^?:y watch them.
|v| ' V" A One of the dmgers
of modern "iUCation
is the sic
it r* riflce of symetry
o uniformity.
Airing your doubts in the pulpit i3
ittempting to feed God's flock on fog.
The man who takes Christ for his al habet
will not be heterodox in Li3
nessage.
Ttest is net religion but religion
rives rest.
The mcther-vein of truth is found
n the Bible.
The new heart helps us to put o 1
he old man.
The apologist for gcod is ready to
ondene evil.
It is the mind of Christ within that
irrays us in the panopoly of Gud
without.
He who forgets the ladder by whi h
te ascended may yet need it for a decent.
The men who could invent Christ
ould just as well have invented the
miverse.
Some who are soul-blind refuse to. he
lealed because they cannot see the
lealer.
Som<? churches read "If any man will
ie ray disciple let him take up his colection."
If eternal salvation is an individual
latter surely dai'y providence will be
he same.
Men easily choke on mere crumb3 r>f
omfort.
,Rooting out malice may be repressing
murder.
Nothing is harder to forget than for;etfulness.
It requires gospel grace to make gosiel
methods succeed.
The cultivation of the heart spares,
he cudgeling of the brains.
If we are not humble toward G>J,
i'e are not forgiving toward our brothr.
Some men are never overtaken by
emptation because they go out to meet
t.
The man who is in the public eye {3
tot as great as he who is in the peoile's
heart.
The sea of earth's separation may
ver bound but can never be in the ]
ity of eternal re-union.
The larger a man is the greater the
irobability that he will step on little
aen's toes.
The only way to eonc:al truth that
ught to be spoken is to imprison it io
n atmosphere of falsehood.
VTh-n the Birth Mill Be Toll.
Although it need cause the present
eneration no worry, it is interesting
a know that, according to a careful!
imputation by a statistician, when
10 years shall have passed the densy
of the earth's population will be;
nch that each person will have only
Evo-thirds of an acre. That space,
fty-flve and one-half yards square, ill
have to suffice for all purposes?'
griculture, roads, houses, parks, railays
and so on. It is estimated that
hen the globe's population reaches
pnsity, which is about 1,000 persons
- *u~ v>? eirtvi Tuill ho full Thfci
) lilt; iiuic, lao v.k.4 V.U ? *..
anclusion is reached by a careful
nalysis of the growth of population in
je nineteenth century, and upon that
3si3 the population of the earth in
le year 2250 Is computed.
Present populations to the square
:ile are: Russia. 15; United States.
L; China. 05; Spain. 96; France. 186;
ermany, 263; Italy, 289; United Kingom.
339; Holland, 411; Belgium. 572.
It costs $25,000 to scrape the baraclcs
off one of the men-of-war and
epaint her. The operation has to be
epeated twice a year in tW case 01
early every vessel.
J he ? and .Most ? umpiete
I StrtbllslllllfMIt SOIltll,
lEO. S. HACKER & SON,
? MANCFACTCKKB8 OK ?
Sash. Doors. Blinds.
Moulding nod Building Material,
&anh Weight it and Cord
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Purchase our make, which we gnarutee
superior to any sold Sooth, and
hereby sare money.
Vlndow and Fancy Glass a Specialty.
?
EUELL & ROBERTS'
CASH
DRY IDS Sit.
?Ye continue offering inducements to eloae
out our Bummer Goods. We cau meullon
on>y a few of the many goods reduceUt
Ladies' 8c Uuderveets for 5o.
10c Ties and Bows for 8c,
i<6o J lea and Bows t r 15c.
initial llandkercbieN, li. 8., embroidered,.
3 iu a t?ox, tor 19c; 25c goods.
15o Meu's Black initial Si.k Handkerchief
for 10c.
Meu's Jarce White Figured, Drawu-Stitch,
Japonet Handkerchief for 16c: w>rth 25o.
tiix Large White Fine H. 8. Handkerchief!
for GOe. In fancy b- x; cheap at 75c.
Three large White Fine H. 8. HandkercniefH,
in fancy box, for 40c worth 5<o.
Black-bordered Liuen Handkerchief! for
f.Sc; cheap at 16c.
Good Mourning Handkerchief! for 4a.
Handkerchiefs for lo.
Handkerchiefs for 2 l-2c.
? tidkerchiefs for 8c.
88-inoh Madras for 7 1-20; worth lOo.
36-lu h Madras for 6 l-2cf worth 8c.
LAWNS AND ORGANDIES FOR
LESS THAN COST.
Shirt Waists for muoh less than It eoet to
make them.
BiO REDUCTION ON SKIRTS.
40c Pique Skirts for 25a.
98c Crash Skirts for 81o.
All Summer Qoods are being sold at reduced
prices.
! NEW GOODS.
One case Lonccloth 5c; no starch.
Fine Black Henrietta at 60c.
TINSEL DRAPERY SILK A LINE,
BALL FRINGE.
Black Duck at 8 and lOo.
KUIIMTURK DKPART.MKNT.
10 piece Walnut Suits #76 to 1100.
10 piece Solid Oak Suiu f 18, <22, #25, #30,
35. <40. <60. #65.
Oak Hall Backs, French Plate Glaaa, #7,
<8.60, #9.60.
Wardrobes #8 to #25.
Bed Lounge* #9 to #15.
Be<lstnad? #2.25 to #10.
iron Beds. Iron Cril>a.
Parlor 8ult* 134 to 150.
Baby Carriage* *0.60, ?7, $7.50.
hloor Oilcloth 30c.
Matting 10; 12, 14. 15, 18. 20, 23, 26, 27 and
#0e.
18-piece Chamber Seta til9 to fft.
Window Shade* 11, 15.3<>, 35, 40o to 81.2&
Stoves 86.60. 87 60. $10 to 815.
Trunks 82.40 to 86.60.
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JACOB A. RMS
The author of" How the Other Half Lives" wi
give in Tmb Outlook an intensely human and vivi
account of his experiences as a child in Denmarl
an immigrant in America, a workman, a travelle
a reporter, and finally a student of tenement bout
problems, nodan efficient atd to Theodore Rooseve
in reorganizing the New York police. Mr. Rc
writes with simplicity, humor and vigor.
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will contibute a series of important papers on fundi
mental political principles as applied to tweotier
century problems. It wKI be called "Thi Rrean
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CoNt.f.ssKD Schedule.
Dated May 26th, 1D01.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
No.35 .No.23 No.53 No.51
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AM PM AM
Lv. Florence 3 00 7 55 3 40
Lv: KimMtree 8 54 10 56
Ar. Lnuei 4 11 9 11 P. M 11 IS
Lv. Lanes 4 11 911 713 11 IS
Ar. Charleston 5 40 10 55 8 50 1 00
A.51 I\M. P.5L P.M.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
No.78 No.32 No.52 No.50 4
# + AM
P 51 A 51 PM
Lv Charleston 6 45 4 45 7 00 4 15
Ar Lanes 8 17 6 10 8 35 6 00
Lv Lanes 8 17 6 10 .... 6 00
'Kingstree tf 33 ....
Ar Florence- 9 30 7 20 7 30
AM PM AM PM
Daily. JDaily except Sunday.
No. 52 runs through to Columt.'a via
Central It. It. of 8. C.
Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson uid
Jayettovllle?Short Line?and make close
connection for all points North.
Trains on C. A D. R. R. leave Florence
daily except Sunday 9 50 a. m., arrive Darlington
10 15 a. m.r Hartsville 915 a. m.f
Cberaw 11 30 a. m., Wadesboro 12 35 p. m.
Leave F oreuee daily except Sunday 8 00 p.
m.. arri> e Darlington 8 25 p.m., Bennettsvllle
9 22 p. m., Gibson 10 20 p. m. Leave
Florence Sunday only 9 60 a. m., arrive Darlington
10 15 a. m.
Leave Gibson dailv except Sunday 6 15
a. m., Bennetts-vllle 7 15 a. m.. arrive Darlington
8 15 a. m., leave Darlington 8 50 a.
m., arrive Florence 9 15 a. m. Leave Wadesboro
daily except Sundav 4 10 p. m . Cberaw
" " - ~ u.rtivillu 1 9j\ a m _ Dariinffton
6 29 p. m.', arrive Florence 7 00 p. m. Leave
Darlington 8 50 a. m., arrive Florence 9 15
a. m.
H. M. EMMERSON. Gen Pa?e. Agent.
J. II KENLY. Gen'l Manager.
T. M. E2JMEBSON. Traffic Manager.
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For the speeuy and permanent cure oi
tetter, salt rheum and eczema, Chamberlain's
Eye and Skin Ointment is
without an equal. It relieves the itchrig
and smarting almost instantly and
.ts continued use effects a permanent
:ure. It also cures itch, barber's itch,
scald head, sore nipples, itching piles,
chapped hands, chronic sore eyes and
granulated lids.
Dr. fndy's Condition Powders tor
horses are the best tonic, blood purifier
and vermifuge Price. V* cents. Sold by
Registration Notice.
The office of the Supervisor of negotiation
Will be opened on the ti at
Monday in every mouth for the purpose
of the registering of any poreou
whn'is qualified as lolluws:
Who Hhall have becm a resident of
the Mate for tvo years, and of the f
county one year and of the polling
pre<'i(it.iu which the elector offers to
vote lour mouths before theday oteleot
on aud shall have paid,six months be
ore any poll tax tbeu due and payable,
and who can both read and write any
section of the Constitution of 1895
submitted to him by the. supervisors,
of registration, or can show that he
owns, and has paid all t iXes collectable
duriutr the present year on property in
this State assessed at three hnudred
dollars or more. J. J. EADDY,
Clerk of Board.
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