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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. VIW1T LETTKRB FROM OVH BPK CIAL C4JKHl>lPt>!TOKNT&. bm of UilMi? Frees at] f art* oi ???irr mmd Aitjvtalog Oouatles. tJOTICE TO COHR18POND BN TS. Man > ?t Utters to that tfcpy will reach this oHce net later tha i Mod* Sat srhso Intended for Wednesday's paper SAd sst mist than Thursday tor Saturday's tsooo. This, of coarse, applies only %* regular oorreepend 00)00. IS SSSM Of MSSSS St* OSUSSSi news vntuo, sen* ss taaaaodlatsly by stwt stories ssw asisooabls ap ts ths Dour of getns) ts si ss, Wednesday's paper Is srtoted Tossens afternoon sad ssAurdsj'i psjfssf Ptooay sfter MAY1MVILLK. Msyesvllle. Aug. 4?This town and community has been blessed with food r*.ns within the past two days and crops and vegetation In gener? al ere greatly Improved thereby. The rains are not over yet from the ap? pearance of the clouds and the feel lac of the atmosphere. This rainfall came In the nick of time for the cot ton was Buffering greatly and the corn crop seemed passed relieving but the breaking of the long drought has made a wonderful change and farm? ers and everybody feel better and more hopeful In every respect. The fruit crop has been damaged to such an extent that the present wet weath? er cannot help It to any appreciable oxtent for in many Instances, the late fruit has dried up on the trees. The m'n has helped garden truck to a large extent, also. There seems to be some dissatis? faction among the subscribers to the MsyesviUe Telephone company as to the Inferior service rendered on ac? count of the poor equipment which eras placed In service here. It seems to he the general opinion that the company Installed some old worn-out system whk h has already served its usefulness and now the subscribers are suffering on this sccount. The equipment needs constant repairing and It appears that a complete and moilem system at the beginning would have obviated much trouble and expense to the company. The system hss grown rapidly since be? tas; Instslled and It Is said that the In? crease In business cannot be hardled successfully as the system n<\\v stands. The Mayesvllle bsse ball team has played two games here this week. On Tuesday afternoon. Elliott waa de footed by a score of 19 to s. On Thursday afternoon. In a game cal ed at the end of the seventh Inning by osrreement. St Charles waa the vic? tor by a score of t to 1. Spring 1 ill as expected to meet the home tet.m on next Tuesday sfter noon on the Iocs l diamond. Work has I een resumed on the new note! building and will be rushed for? worn pr??vld?-d no more delays sre experienced In obtaining materials. All otb??r building operations are pro srreaslng satisfactorily. The new bank building will be ready for occupancy as soon ss the fixtures a-e Installed. Menem lt. J. May es, Jr., M. ?ayes, and W. W. Gardner returned on Monday night from an automobile trip In the Piedmont section, maklrg "the trip from Spartsnburg to Mayei< ?111* tn one day, a distance of about 110 mttea. They visited Ashevllle and Henderson vllle, N. C.. and a numbci of points In upper Houth Carolina while away. They report fait ly good roads but poor crops on occount of the droufcnt. and declsre that there I* n > better country then Bumter county and SSSSseeaMy Mayesvllle snd flSSV My Mm Mar?ar>?t Oregg of Humter. k? visiting Mrs. C. D. Cooper. airs. Lily Smith and daughter* of Florida are visiting her mother, Mrs, Mush I>^an. Mr. T. I*. Kahn will buiv,. ..n S?n? na y for Baltimore and other northern marki tM to purchsse h's fall sstSssl Of gooOfl TCfDAIh. TKdal. A ig. 4.?Crops have been suffering fr.-m want of rain for a long Um?, hut now we have had fine reins and h?>p#? to see an Improve? ment sonn. Mr w |{ cuttlno and fsmi'r hue returned -?fr. r spsjgsitnsj H>"uit two weeks at Beaufort The p-otrocted meeting will com snenre at Providence church on Mon Jay night. August 7th. Mr M. f>. Tlndal and family are spending some tlm*? in < 'Ii.t lesi-.n and on the Island. Ofjf section Is blessed with good health. tb-r?? Is no nl'kn?w tbnl 1 know of. Ph-iilo \t tain* Mill Thor, will be a tmaket pleats st Coin's mill Frldsy. August 11th. it whl.h CM. ft* N K. Bailey of MsjO? flfiii. H. r., will deliver an addre** on education. The public Is Invited to attend LKCONTK PKF.SIDKNT OF HAITI. hirst Division of Revolutionary Forc? ers 1 Inters Capital and Hectares* Louder Nations Kuler. Port au Prince, Auk. ?The first division of the revolutionary forces entered the capital today and Im? mediately proclaimed Gen. Oinclna tua I/econte chief executive. Le t??uite's election to the presidency ap? pears assured. The city remains calm. H. W. Furnish, the American min? ister, went outside the city this morn Ing and warned the victorious army that if public order was disturbed he would cause American marines to be landed to keep the peace. The troops advanced in good order and occupied all the Btatlons in the city, dislodging therefrom the supporters of Gen. An tenor Firmln, who marched out with? out any show of resistance. Leconte la expected at any moment, and Firmln will come In tomorrow from Peurto Rico on board the French steamer Caravello. .1FFFUIKS DAVIS "COMS BACK." In line Style, Circumvent* Lodge's Attack on Arkansas Hlce. Washington, Aug. I,?Where la the man who said Jeffries Davis, of Ar? kansas, can't "come back?" Jeffries may be afraid of auto? mobiles; riding: on street cars may hurt his feet, as Senator Bradley charges; Jeffries haa been accused of setting his watch by the register of the street car, but he has never blown out the gas, and he has shown that he can come back. It was in the Senate the other day ?the day they adopted the free list bill by a coalition of Democrats and Insurgents. The measure had been defeated as originally offered, then reconsidered, and In the process amendments fell like autumn leaves. A hush supervened as the cold, precise and dignified Senator Lodge, of the Bay State, rose from his seat and sent an amendment to the desk of the clerk. It was immediately re? ported to the Senate, and, to the amazement of Jeffries Davis, It read thus: "To add to the free list bill the fol? lowing: 'itlce, cleaned; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull, and still having the lnnor cuticle on; rice flour; rice meal and broken rice; paddy, or rice having the outer hull on." Jeffries, of Arkansas, had eased hin, generous bulk Into the neat of Sen? ator Taylor, of Tennessee. As the clerk reported the Lodge amendment Jeffries nearly went over the top of the desk. It wua nothing short of a personal affront to Arkansas, The thoughts of Jeffries carried him west? ward, out to the grand prairie, where thousands of acres of Arkansas land are devoted to the culture of rice, and where rice may bo found In every form mentioned In the Lodge amend? ment, and then some. It wem too much for Jeffries. Th.> honor of Arkansas was at stake. Swift and sure he seized the trusty pen of "Fiddling Hob" Taylor and wrote an amendment himself. And the clerk read: "To add to the free list bill: 'Bos? ton baked beans, black beans, string beans, and all other beans, raw. dried, split, or parched: also codfish, skinned or unskinned, fresh, salted, or served In balls." The stately Senate fell off the wagon of Its dignity and rolled Into the ditch of unseemly mirth. Jeffries Da Is grinned In triumph. He had "come back." ?AtVFSFD OF BKINO SPY. Private In Vnttcd State* Army Alleged to ho In I niploy of Austria. Indianapolis. Aug. ?.?On an affi? davit furnished by Miss Clara Anita Dffjp, formerly of Phllpot, Ky.. Capt. James Watson, in charge of tho local United States army recruiting office, has asked the war department to ar pssj Private (Jeorge Peters, said to be of tho One Hundred and Thlrty-flfth ? otnpany, OSSSt artillery, stationed at fort Totten. X. Y.. charging him with being a spy In the employ of the Au*? tri,in government. The alleged exposure of Peters, who. according to the Information, is Count Windlseh-Oreats of Prague*. Boh?ill, was made by Miss Dyer while trying to obtain his roleaso frosn the artillery eorpn, through tho I recruiting station. Miss Dyer Bays SAC and Peter* are engaged. In support of lor a lb-gat Ions, Miv Dyer, has turned over to the author!* Ittel IOttSffl from Peters, which Capt. Watson saya, ?m in accordance with h*r affidavit. Miss Dy. r by her manner attract? ed tuspletou to herself, Last Friday i io- wax gammoned lo polios hsaflqusj ers and under rapid lire of questions Re down and finally told the story thai Peters was an Australn spy. sent t< A merles lo obtain, ir posslbls the mi mn. r of manufacturing "sunny ? I i powerful explosive known Ofjlf Is the i nlf.-I States artny arid also plans at InterScan fortifications ?he made is afBdatll to her story. FIREMAN SHOOTS TWO MEN. Billy Lumpford Colored, Dangorous ly Wounds win Allen umi Hanip Patterson, .\i>o Negroes. Anderson, Aug. 6.? Billy Lumpford, i i colored tin-man on the Charleston, and Wcetera Carolina railroad be- i tereen here and Augusta, this afier poon shot and dangerously wounded Will Allen and Hamp Patterson, two tlOgTPSS, Whom he found in his house when lie returned home from his trip. Both the WOUnded men are in the J hospital, ami it is announced that l.oth are expected to die. Immediate? ly jfter the shooting, Lumptord ran, but appeared at the county Jail be? fore any search had been made, and surrendered. He 1b now in jail. KINDERGARTEN FOR COLORED CHILDREN. Will Be Established By Colored Min? ister For the Care of Children of Negro Servants. i Within the next few weeks J. A. Pinson, pastor of the Shiloh First (colored) Baptist church, the new building; Of which is nearing comple? tion on South Washington street, will establish in connection with his church a kindergarten where the children of negro servants will be cared for during the ehaenes Of their parents. The kindergarten will be located In the roomy basement of the new church building, and Rev. Pinson has made every plan for the proper care and training of the children whom he proposes to care for. The base- j ment has been divided up into sev- | eral apartments which will be used | as assembly hall, reading room, din- j ing room, kitchen, toilet and bath rooms respectively. Teachers will be procured who will train the chil? dren in culinary arts, sewing and other manual labors. The kinder? garten will depend on charity for Its support. The church in which the kinder? garten will l>e established, and which, as stated above, is Just nearing com? pletion, is really a very handsome building. It is iltted throughout with a system of hot air heating, elec? tric lights, and will be equipped with handsome furnishings to be purchased j by the congregation. The value of the building is about $40,000 and Rev. Pinson states that it is only en- j cumbered to the extent of $1,300. IMHvT ROYAL RECOMMENDED For Detention Camp for Trivial Of? fenders In Navy. Washington, August (5.?A recom mendatlon Of Interest to South Caro? lina has boon made by a board of na? il oOlcern, appointed some time ago <? oonetdcr improvements In tho methods of dealing with offenders i a!net discipline In the naval ser? vice. , The hoard, w hich conelsts of Capt, !l. H. Wilson, assistant chief of tho bureau of navigation; Judge Advocate, Gen. General Robert Di Russell and Cnpt Charles B. Hatch. of the ma-] rIne cori?*, now In charge of the naval 1 prison st Boston, has reported In fa- J or of segregating the classes of of- J fenders Into those whose offences are not Serious or habitual, those who are repeated offenders and those who IPS criminal offenders. The crim? inals the board would send to State prison, the repeated offenders It would send to naval prisons and the first or trlval offenders It would send to a detention camp, where they would he pttt at useful labor and drilled In discipline. The camp for this class of I!p:ht of? fenders. If the board's recommend? ation Is adopted, will be located at Port Royal, 8. C, with accommoda? tions for at least 600 men and it Is probable that Capb Hatch himself will bo placed in command, with six marine officers, two medical officers snd s paymaster to assist him. Fire at Bishopvllle. Blshopvtlle, Aug. 2.?Lest night about || o'clock the dwelling house oeonpled by W. N. McLeod and owned t>y Mrs. C. M. Joye, on Lee street, was burned. Mrs. McLeod and her chil? dren were in Columbia visiting, and Mr. McLeod was spending the night |p the country. The fire is supposed to have caught from tho light wires, as the top of the house waa on fire when discovered. Very little of the furnltUfi was saved, yet the Mre de? partment did eplendld work In COn querlng UlS AameS and saving nearby houses, Tiie damags will amount to 1 out 11,100, in The Police Court, Ths following ceees were tried Saturday In the Police Court by Re? corder Lee. C, U straus.?. vioiath-n of auto? mobile ordinance, <'has. Geddings, riding bicycle et night without a llvchi, $2.00, w. C, wise, riding bicycle after dark wlthoul i light, $2.00. .John Moore. disturbance of the peace $io or 20 days. RAISING THE MONEY BOND ISSUE IS BEST WAY TO *?AY FOR GOOD ROADS. EFFORTS OFTEN WISIMRECTEO Good RosKhi Pcvw Cnrr IM GcefHiwrrfty Off Its Feet Freqoefitry mr*? Work U Started Akmg ImpractkaJ Lines ?Tax Levy Plan Wrooo, By HOWARD H. GROSS, la forwarding any great moreroent. m the bunding of good roads, enthus? iasm Is essential, bot unices this ts coupled with a knowledge of the sub? ject. It ts a Question whether ft some? times does not do more barm than good. The writer beUerrea that a movement for better highways Is oft? en retarded by oreroealous friends who are attempting to do something tbey do not understand. The propo? sition to build good roads throughout the land Ls a very big one, and ex? ceedingly Important It ts a Question that must be handled tn a big way. If anyone had suggested fifty years ago the building of a railway to the Pacific slope, he would have been de? clared at least visionary. This has been accomplished and today there . are a halt dozen such railways, and the four months' Jcurney across the desert Is now compassed tn lees than three days. While the building of ; good wagon roads throughout the country Is an Immeasurably big job, j yet there are back of It boundless re* sources; there le far more to encour age us than the builders of these first great fxmtrnental roads had to en- j courage them. Ixst us go forward | I Is er the township to levy an annual tax or hard roods that will produce peihi?* tl.000 or $2,000 aixl expend It up< n a gravel or macadam stretch of road, which Is to be extended front yeer to year at a rate that will give the ? ownship a fair amount of hard roa h, say, In twenty or thirty ve*r.k By C a time the last mile la built un? der ihie plan, the first one Is von out ihe rule being that the road oooe bult reoetvea no attention, and that the n oney raised Is spent upon build? ing o ore roads. The roads are usu? ally milt without much. If any, at tenticQ being paid to drainage, and the r?euita are not always eatlsfao- , ton. tn fact, they are seldom what they should be. Thons charged with the duty of 8pendlng the money nine? teen lmes In twenty know little. If anyth. ng, of how the road should be i buil t, and when it te finished It la | uRut.ll t about half as good as it ought to be and has cos* nearly twice as ! much as It should, for let It be said ! again and again that the greater part Of the taxes raised for highways is fritter >d away by miedlrected effort. An s-rr tnent engineer, who has bad ex? tended experience, says at least sixty per <:e it of the funds raised for high Wajfl li wasted- Certainly the waste ts ai. least one-halt. This being the case, Ii follows that one of the first I thln?e to do la to stop this awful j waete i nd aee that a dollars worth of I road rssults from every dollar en- j pend'od Instead of forty to fifty cents worth. It ought to be clear that it is very lEiportant that roads should be ooiirf.ru -ted under expert supervision, and thi x a capable road engineer ie needed. Of course It Is not practical to have this and build the roads piece meal, a abort stretch at a time, hence the township win find it wise, Instead of an amual tax levy, to ieeue bonds to the full oonetltutlonaj limit and build, lay, fifteen to twenty xnflec of road at once and pay for them by the Road Ho*f CtiaHo tte* K. O* i Here la a view of a JSortn OaroOca roed tmlH b- 'convict fcibrm. J*j*e jrnyrWoq , txss been med? for an earth road along side of tt* rnacaAAro rc*urwuy. Thus the traveler baa the choice, When the earth road lie in good condition It win b? need, at other times taewel win be upon the head peed. fl Js Is en exo*?ent plan U ee*t? bond tssc a? paytng of! the bonds In ?> Btallrneut l This k? vastly better and cheaper t han to build short stretches by au an mal tax levy. Of course in? terest wL 1 have to be paid upon the bonds, bu! on the other hand the peo? ple will lave good roads to use, and tf the us* of the roads Is not worth more thai i the interest on the bonds ;eo/olrod to build them, then road building li not worth while The v-oricl'8 ea perlenes Is that good roads ere a t way i worth several times what they cost to any community. i There ae many advantages to this plan. By >uildtng many miles st once < ft Is {tract kal to have good engineer*. Ing super dslon and proper apeeifles? twos, and the result will bo a well drained, a better and a more dorebU road and < no that win not cost nearly es mv. *h o maintain as one poorly constr aetcL Again, on so Urge a lob contractor! wiD figure lower than up? on a small Job and the best machinery and metho la can be employed to ad-; vantage, at It Is fair to say that twen? ty miles o road built under a single contract win cost from 15 to 20 per wtth a stout heart and tztgh purpose and with a clear head, and all will come out right In a good roads ceimmtgn one of the moat Important things Is to un? learn some things that are not so, to get a view of the proposition from the right angle, and not to work along f.npractical lines. The good roads fever usually breaks out tn some com mtmlty with a hurrah, to build a mile or two of hard roads, and there la a squabble to determine which particu? lar road shall hare the lmprorement Selfishness crops out and must be reckoned wtth. When the particular toad has bean determined upon, then comes the question of raising funds. Those who are disappointed will giro j nothing; others will ecu tribute va? rious amounts; the banker, merchant 1 and grain dealer are called upon and subscribe different sums; others will 1 contribute labor; sa entertainment win be held In the town heJL the pre* 1 ceeds to be devoted to the bufldmg of the road. The Vocal paper will be fined with letters. Interviews and edi? torials: everybody Is patting himself Ftoed Before Dragging at MaHlans, fc*o> L?*?a OS wrxwt possible ooodKSoria 11 fc? t aba man Sjsjpsl ende* each eendJtSooa to SgSSBSgd on the bwdt and tnlktnc of the won? derful pi oatves that Is befog made. This Is ail very weQ so far as ft goes, and perhaps the moral effect Is (rood?tt stirs up the community, but It does not do very much tn the way of road building. Usually a half mile or so la the tlmH and may reach from the town to the -cemetery. Well that does some good, and will give a de? parting oitlaen a SUU'Olbat road In death than he had in life. The racena employed in Puch a enm pelgn are wholly Inadequate to ths end sought It reminds one of the old woman who proi>osed to keep the tide back wtth her broom. There are al?o other tineatlsraetory. expensive and wrong ways to take Dp this question The most eoiuinon one cent less tht n tf but* a mTVe or so at a time Aga n. the roads are all new at the saune 1 Jme. and will v> far more lltlsfaototy to the people, and the benefits will be stnvnl&ineous to the whole com on nity. Puppet? th I state tn wfnVh a gtven Uisashlp Is ittuated akls '.n building permanent ro ida, under the plan that Is followed It more than ons-baU the states. This 'rlU make tlw? rovuls built a much tighter burden* let o* re* iow ti*? mattsjr of taxa? tion will afTt- fix? owner of a typical farm bj the two plans of rood build . f..- ea/h year by an ? ? ? Other by a - * 1 ? ? '? to aid. iitR. that Is anaesJ .?? boas' ? * or Id r,x old a s * ? ? lug the >r?ler to Ring up No. 30?-That's the Daily Item's Telephone numoer ;hen you want to place an advertisement that vr?l bring results. give exact figures and have a concrete example, it wili be necessary to take a typical faVm In senve portion of the central wes^ and eppiy the two plana to that farm. Ax the figures are at land., the writer, selects an average farm In the corn belt of Illinois. There la no reason why this farm should be taken in preference to a farm in any other state, except that more complete data ia at hand, hence It will be used. The same plan will apply with alight variations to other farms In other state*, the owners of which, by getting the assessed valua? tion of their township and state, can figure out and ascertain each for him? self just what tho effect will be upon his farm. The assessed valuation of an aver? age 160 acre farm rn the corn belt of Illinois la about $3,000. Suppose tho township, of which this Is a part, baa an assessed valuation of, say, $600. 000 and is out of debt. By the old plan, suppose there is an annual tax levy for ten years of 60 cents on one hundred dollars. This will produce $3,600 per year, and in ten years will total $36,000. This money spent un? der average Vocal conditions means that about half of it will be wasted, and the farm in question will have to pay each year sixty oenta on thirty hundred dollars or $1* 00 per year. The not result of this expenditure will he the paying out of $36.000 du? ring ten years, and probably will pro? duce not much over $18,000 worth of roads at what they ought to cost. Suppose the new plan Is adopted, by Issuing bonds to the full constitutional limit of 5 per cent., paying the same off in installments spread over twen? ty years, and letting the next genera? tion, who will use the roads, help to pay for them. The bond limit on the township m Question Is $30,000. of which exactly $150.00 rests upon the form in Question, to be paid off one twentieth each year, or $7.50 on ac oount of principal each year for twenty years. Interest of course win be paid annually, but will decrease as the bonds are paid off. The first year's Interest will be 5 per cent on $150.00, or $7.50. Add $7.50 cm account of principal, and the firet^year*s payment on this farm for good roads is $15.00. The tenth year one-half of the bonds will be paid off. and the Interest will drop to I&-T5, 60 that that year the tax w?l be $11-25. The last year's payment wHl be $7.50 on account of principal and 38 cents on account of Interest, making a total of $7.88. Thirty thousand dollars of bond Is? sue will build far more and far bet? ter roads on a general contract, than $36,000 spent In ten years on a patch work plan, end the coat to the tax payer will be considerably leas as essJL Now, let us suppose that IITlnots had, as It surely needs, an up-to-date state aid law. whereby one-half the amount required for building perma? nent roods should be paid from a state tax levy If this condition ob? tained, then the township in question couid after raising $30,000, draw $30, 000 more from the state, and expend $60,000 upon highways in their town ship. In DDnois less than one-third the ptT/potty of the state Is represent? ed by farina, so the state tax will be spread over an immeasurably greater aiuouai of pre/pet ty. A tax of ten cent* on one hundred dollars for the state, wlS produce nearly $2.500.000 s year, end tho state aid tax upon the farm tn question will be $5.00 per year tn order to raise the second $30,000. This stehe tax would add $2.00 to the tax btH of the farm In question, so the maTtrrmrn amount per year, If $60,000 were expended npon the roads of the township would be $18.00 per year? tees Chan 12 cents per acre per year, and tax* tt for a series of years, any? one who can figure at all, will see that the ooat to that community, spread oven* e serioi of years, will be even less under tie bond contract plan, and that they <%tn get, by the new plan, about throe times as much road as they would npon the old. In handling road building in this big wsy. It will giro en early and practical solution of the good roads problem, vastly better and more effective than to pass the hat, cat up an entertainment and wear oneself out to raise the moony to te?d e little bit of road. OSes of Paper Metal. MX Che great coronation pageant which wtQ be n rt June, when Georgs la crowned King George IV. of Eng? land, there Is to be something entire? ly different from anything that has ever happened before*. Instead of real armor the armor that Is to be worn will be made of "paper metal.'* There will b?e exact copies of all the old sets of armor used and ths paper metal will be so fixed Chat the armor made from It will give the appears nee of ths original. And tt Is said that tn the future the ?metal* will be used for almost all outdoor toooratlone. because It it much cheaper than plaster parle and eJno is waterproof. It can be made to represent all the different metals and is so strong that one can Jump on tt srtthout making any lnsPreooion on iL P**?Wr*g the House. -Wflfl." said Oi fiord Berrlngton, cheerfully. Tve got the cd ans for my new boose on the lake ahore all fin ished." "Finished so sutt yon?" "N-no. But the architect la satisfied Sad that's the best I can expect." -Ha, ha.' How about Mrs Herring tonV 'It's all right with h?*r, too. In fact ?he got that fixed before w ? started ' b ahe laid out the cupboards : wardrobes, and all the architect i do was to build a house around ."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Send us your Job work.