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THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. PLENTY OF TALK BIT LITTLE ELSE Ol IMPORTANCE. Lour Matters Were Taken I'p Last Week ami Discussed at (ircnt length ? (iood Roads, Paving. Drainage and Fireman's Tourna? ment all Received Xttentlon. From The Dally Item March 18. The Chamber of Commerce met In the armory hall last night in the reg? ular quarterly smoker. There was a fairly good crowd present. The armory was well decorated, and a course composed of cheese and ham sandwiches and coffee was served. The repast was served by Mrs. Bogln. The first topic taken up was that of Good Roads. Dr. J. A. Mood open? ed the discussion. He stated that last year the commissioners were able to save $10.000 out of the reg? ular tax levy, and this with the $10. 000 bond issue should give the com? missioners something to work with. He advocated improving the roads leading from the county seat, as these would give the most good to the greatest number. He advocated the opening of a road from here to Columbia. Su? pervisor Owens of Rlchland was here and he was called upon to address the meeting. He came over In the Interest of Columbia. He spoke In favor of the route over the old Garner's Ferry, and stated that It was his opinion that a fairly good road could be made on the Sumter side of the river for about $1.000. Rlchland will do the work on the other side and build a ferry, and may be able to help raise the money needed for this side. Mr. T. H. Auld. of Eastover, was called upon. He came on the same mission as Mr. Owens. It was not the cost of the good roads that bothered him. but the cost of the bad ones. He thinks he can raise several hundred dollars on his side the river to help the work on this side. There Is not a crossing on Wateree river below Camden. and that is the sand? iest road In the State. Mr. P. M. Pitts told of what he and his board had done for good roads. Although a great deal had been done hi the last 12 years. Sumter county Is dropping behind her sister counties la the matter of road improvements. He hopes to get some convicts from the State when contract with hosiery mill expires. He is an advocate of the sand-clay road, hut thinks they should he at least twenty feet wide. He called attention to the fact that It Is a custom for the farmers living along the road to plow them up after they have been built. He thinks an example should he made of some of them and thus put a stop to the prac? tice, whbh is punishable by tine or Imprisonment. He also referred to the practice of shrinking road duty. In 1908 only $125 were realized from the omni tatlon g*j Li - i |ttl Wars rea? lised. There are fully 3,500 people* if not 5.000 people liable for road duty. Mr. F I, Thomas, of We.Ig?tie!d. a member of the board < f OOVBty commissioners, said that It had btea his experience that the men who talk? ed in fa\or of good roads were not always willing to build good r They did not want to pay lot It. and did not want their hands taken to work the roadm He knows men who almost fight when the proposition Is made to take their hands to put on the roads. One-half of the roads that have been improved have al? ready been plowed up. Mr. Thomas advocated the road to Columbia, and suggested the old Singlet-?a crossing, and said If that route were adopted that at least $1, 000 could be raised at Wedgefleld for the project. Senator J. II. Clifton stated that In addition |S the km.f $50,OVO bonds that th?^ < ommknSOSMOB WOTO allow? ed to borrow $3.000. Ho explained the compulsory commutation law. The Auditor Is required to put the name of every man liable to road duty on the tax book. The commutation tax I? payable by January 1st and failure to pay Is punishable by a fine of $25 or 30 days on the gang. The only excuse for not paying Is to work six days on the roads. P.y this It Is hoped that from $3.500 to $5,000 can be raise l Dr. F S. Booth advocated an oflkstr whose duty It should be to collect the road tuK and t<> prosecute for plow? ing up the road. Mr. Pitts asked for the co-operation of the best citizens In putting a stop to the practiee of plowing up tho roads. Mr. P. Ft. Felser spoke at some length on the rest of building the r< --i >hv Mr. E E. Kembert. of RoSBhOft, fav? ored good roads, but wanted the only road In the count leading to the capital put In BSOd condition. Pht Mutier tjfl Drainage The matter of draining Turkey Creek was disc ussed at length. Dr. Booth's address will he found In ? her place. Tbl i me i sure u i - advocated by Messrs. I. A. Rytten burg. Nelll O Donnell, P. O. Bowman. H. C. Haynsworth, H. L. Scarborough ami Mayor Boyle. Mr. Haynsworth said that the council had not overlooked the matter, l>ut it was out of the question to put the .onvicts In the creek in cold w.ather. Dr. Booth called attention to the ordinance against turning up the earth In the summer time. If it is not done before summer It can? not he done. Mr, Kyttenhurg will contribute to the cause personally. It was resoluved that a committee from the city meet the county com? missioners in April and endeavor to get them to do their part In the deep? ening of the canal. Endorse School Inspection. The measure to provide for the quarterly inspection of the schools and the employing a physician for the poor was endorsed. Paving Main Street. The proposition to pave Main street was greeted with applause. The discussion was opened by Mr. J. H. Chandler, who urged that the cham? ber of commerce Impress upon coun? cil the Importance of paving our main thoroughfare. Mr. H. L. Scarborough spoke favor? ing bltulithlc as the best material for paving. He though bltulithlc made an Ideal street. $10,00 a block to an Ideal street. Mr. S. H. Owens of Columbia stated that Columbia's main street cost $10,000 a block to pave with bltulithlc. MaJ. W. L. Lee, city engineer stated that there are about 11,000 square yards between Bartlett and Canal streets. By using the found? ation we already have that bltulithlc could be put down for $2.00 a yard. This was an estimate made by a rep? resentative of the bltulithlc people. He was of the opinion, however, that this was under estlmateed, that it would cost at least $2.40 a yard. In Charleston the cost of putting down vitrified brick had been but $1, 40 per square yard, but this was with? out the concrete foundation. With the concrete foundation the cost of brick would abount to $2.00 a yard. He favors bltulithlc because It Is less noisy, has less dust, can be washed, can be repaired without leaving no bad places. Bltulithlc has been in use about fifteen years and has given entire satisfaction. The vitrified brick of today are not as good as they were years ago, that some of the deposits are being ex? hausted, and there are more oppor? tunities of getting an inferior article now than formerly. He estimated that It would cost about $25,000 for paving from Canal street to telephone factory. Mr. A. A. Manning spoke In favor of bltulithlc also. Mr. George D. Shore was not In favor of committing the chamber of commerce t? material, but want? ed the chamber to go on record as favoring the paving of Main street at once and with the best material to be had. The best Is none too good for Sumter. Dr. Booth wanted to amend Mr. Shore's remarks by saying that WS wanted it done, and done now. The motion to ask council to pave from the passenger depot to Canal street at as early a date as possible was unanimously carried. Fireman's Association. The last topic taken up was the Fireman's Association. T'pon request of Mr R, S. Hood the Chamber of Commerce has undertaken to pay the expenses of the meeting here In June and to entertain the firemen. The committee to have this In charge Will be appointed by the chairman later. The meeting adjourned at midnight. How TO CURE RHEUMATISM. It Is an Internal Disease and Be quires an Internal Remedy* The cause of Rheumatism and kin? dred diseases Is an excess of uric acid III the blOOd. To cure this terrible dis saes this acid must ?>e expelled and the system so regulated that no more acbl will he formed in excessive quan? tities. Rheumatism Is an Internal and requires an Internal rem? edy. Rubbing with oils and Lini? ments will ret cure, affords only tem? porary relief at best, causes you t<? 'h, proper treatment, and al I >ws the malady to pet a firmer hold on you. Liniments m.iy e;ise the pain, but they will no more cure Rheuma tlsm than paint will change the fibre of rotten WOCd, Science has nt last discovered | perfect and complete cure, which Is called "Hheumaelde." Tested in nun? dre.ls of cases. It has effected the moat marvelous emes; we believe it will cure you. Hheumaelde "gets at the joints from the Inside." sweeps the pols us out of the system, tones up the stomach regulates the liver and kidneys and makes you well all over. Rheuraacldc "strikes the root* I of the disease ami removes Its cause." This splendid remedy is sold by drug? gists and dealers generally at 50c and $1 a bottle. in tablet form at |6c and lee a package, Trial bottle of Tablets sent by mail on receipt of pries lie. Booklet free, write to Rohbltt Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md. Sohl itt Sumter by Slbert'a Drugstore 11-19-W. & S. wed. Tho only thing most people can be patient waiting for Is wh:it they don't want. ?Are you frequently hoarse? Do I >v have that annoying tickling in your thront? Does your COUgh annoy VOV it night, nnd do you raise mucus In the morning? Do you want relief? If so, take Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy nnd you will be pleased. Sold by W. W. Slbert. GIOVAN M BOCCACCIO. something of The Life of The Greot Italian Story Toller. From The London Times. The question which most people will ask as thoy close "The Deca? meron" Is: What manner of man was he whe wrote It? Of outward events there is enough, though not too much to tell. Boccaccio was horn in 1313, probably In Paris, or a French mother. He was taken in his infancy to Florence, but his father, a well-to-do banker, had mar? ried, and his childhood was unhappy. At 10, or not long after, he went to Naples to work in a merchant's office. As he neared the city, the tired hoy, stopping to rest, fell asleep and dreamed that he was passing through a street he had never seen before, and that a lady In green came and kissed him. It was not till eight years later, when sick of the office, he was learning canon law, that he first saw the real lady, in her green robe, "all shining with gold"?his Fiammetta, his love for whom re? mained with him all his life. From passion it cooled to a sentiment, al? most?one may say?into a literary sentiment. Had it been otherwise, it would surely have colored his con? ception of love and of women, which was remarkably low. Fiammetta's real name was Maria Aquino, and she was the illegitimate daughter of King Robert of Naples, a princess married to a noble. Bocca? ccio got to know her at once and he came her devoted slave, serving her from 1331 till 1338, when he found out her Infidelity. Not long after, his father's ruin called him hack to Flor? ence. But meanwhile he had been in worthier service than hers. In the cultured town of Naples he had found men of learning and of letters; he had been plunged in the study of the classics; he had read Virgil "In the shadow of the poet's tomb." and he had begun to write himself. The "Filostrato." the "Fiammetta," and other works belong to his last years In Naples and his first in Florence. From that time onward he devoted himself to literature and to scholar? ship; the more so, perhaps, that Fiammetta, died of the plague In 1348. It was not until 1350 that the greatest even In his life?his meeting with Petrarch?occurred; greatest, because most enduring, for it incited him to study Homer and to superin? tend the first translation in Italy of that poet Into Latin. This he would have called the serious work of his life. He went on several embassies from Florence?one to take a purse to Dante's daughter Beatrice, then in a convent at Ravenna; another to Pope Urban at Avignon; he held office In his native city; he lectured on Dante there; he wrote Dante's life. In 1353 he gave "The Decameron" to the public. But honors civic and lit? erary counted little with Petrarch be .dde honor, and Boccaccio, as in most things, followed his judgment. Pe? trarch's death came in 1374, and that of Boccaccio one year later. He died poor, neglected, and alone in his house at Certaldo. The best part of Boc caccio was not bis love, but his friendship. Bis in? timacy with IVtrarch was one of the treat friendships in the annals of art -friendships such as have produced new movements; like that between Ronsard and Du Beilay, which gave us the poetry of the Peiade, or the feeding between Coleridge and Wards worth, or the bond that knit together the Pre-Raphaleties. The meeting between Petrarch and Boccaccio meant the dawn of the classical Ren? aissance, for though scholarship had revived before them, it was they who gave the impetus to the study of Greek Which had such far-reaching results. And it was a noble compan? ionship. The passionate-, vital, gener? ous Boccaccio nee led the harmonious suavity, the shorarly refinement, even the co<dness of Petrarch. He had loved him from alar before he know him. They did not see one anothel for eight years after their first comimv together, but when they did, it was with the same ardor. "in days gone by," wrote Petrarch to Boccaccio, "1 was hurrying across Central Italy in midw inter; you hasf - ened to greet me, not only wltn af? fection, the me sage of soul to soul, but in person. Impelled by a wonder? ful desire to see one you had ncVet yet beheld, but whom, nevertheless, you were minded to love.*' "During many days." wrote Bocc? accio, nearly 85 years later, after Pe? trarch's (hath. "I Wepl almost Without ceasing. No one in the World loved him more than I. it is not Petrnrch for whom ? weep, for when I recall his Integrity, his waj of lite, his youth, his old age, his innate piety, his love of God und of his neighbors, I feel sure that, de? livered from the anguish of this life, he has flown to the heavenly Father. It Is for myself I weep, and for his friends h it in this tempestuous world, like ships without rudders, driven by the winds and waves into the midst of rocka. I see now by his deeds that his friendship has followed me even in his death, and, unless in a bitter life after its passage that we call death one loses one's friends, I think he will love me still." Petrarch's bequest to Boccaccio was an epitome of his delicate friendship: Fifty florins "to buy a warm cloak to cover himself in the nights of study" ?a symbol, as it were, of his love of the man and his love of learning. Boccaccio was inconsolable. His sor? rowful letter, indeed, strikes a deep? er note than any of his writings Some years before the end he had un? dergone a kind of conversion, and was possessed by a conviction of sin and the certainty that he was about to die. A lofty and consoling letter from Petrarch renewed his courage, but in inexperience deepened his na? ture, and so still more did the loss of his favorite little daughter Violante, who had died, as her father said, "at an age when one goes straight to Heaven." One of his most touching letters to Petrarch recalls her. He is visiting Petrarch's daughter-in-law: "Suddenly little footsteps?and there came toward us tiny Eletta, my delight, who, without knowing who I was looked at ice rmiling. I was not only delighted, I greedily took her in my arms, imagining that I held my little one that is lost to me. Your little one has the same aspect that she had who was my Eletta, the same expression, the same light in the eyes, the same laughter there, the same gestures, the same way of walk? ing, the same way of carrying all her little person. Ah me! how many times when I have held thine In my arms listening to her prattle the memory of my baby stolen away from me has brought tears to my eyes ?which I let no one see." Tears which move us as well as Mm. For this the letter of a man 9f human sympathies and no mere luxurious literary emotion. There is more heart in It, and so more poetry, than In the whole of "The* Decam? eron." That Mr. Rockefeller is a remark? able man?he actually needs an act of Congress to enable him to get rid of his money.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. 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