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THE. PICKENS SE NTINE 0 N 3Eatered April 23, 1903 at P9ke0s, Nb 1as second elass satter4under attafengresu ot marc 39th Yea,,r PICKCENS. S-. C., SEPIT EMBE R 9, 1909.Nnbr1 . State News ] All tho Litd Now f*,:m In~ A 20,000 school building will be erected at Union. Bids have been called for. The Greeville graded schools will open fort lhe fall session Mon day, S.pte-mb-r 1:8. Robert Brown shot and killed Ernest Hevwari in Charle-ton. Both 1arties Ir.. co lorevd. Collins Jude,. colured, was, shot and kilt l at Rock Hill bN Cal Barber,% who made his Six pn rati ns m heat have i) ;Id i . a I riestol ill the last th'n- <:%, . None re sulted fatalld. A Chzi-ter ii::, 4 --n Ked to the ManLin .1li of Man 1lhn;.-. Thee .ia of the cn ecrn is 8., : It isr, l:rt r! hiati ie S- ' r d1 r( Air Line r Nav wilhild toChar leston if the C. ( . & 0. dot s not. Yancey M. Mayv, who shot and killed C. B. Tid we!l at Edgefield, has b-:en r onasPd on bond in the sum of $1. Dr. W. II. 1 :wil, treasarer 4 the Edis1-(a ! Orangeu has been - osted on the chiarge of s \'X -W gal by state conwtihbls at Ten Mile Hill, near Charleston. The school trestees of Aiken county hav omranlizel an asso ciation f the prp . of better ing the schools in that county. J. H. Litt!,john, a 1,ad!inz cit izen of Jonesvill, is dea(ld. He was 78 years oli ai,d left an es tate worth about 60,000. Bernt, Riise'. a Norwegian. serving on the United States -rev enue cutter Y:mavicraw. was drowned in the Charleston har bor by fal!lin ove- rboard. The Southern Power company has surveyed a route from Great Falls to Newberry, and the work of erecting the towers for the tranmission wireS will begin at ani early (date. Glen Robinson, the cook on the advertising car of H{a ag's shows. which was on a siding in the yards of the Southern at Spar tanhure, was arre-sted by Police mnan Cudd Friday night on the charge of stealing coal from the *Southerp. He' w'A convicted1 and sentenced to pay a fine of * 15 or serve thirty dlays on the I chain gan'c. The barn- na stables, all comn -bined, corn crib and some other Lout houses, inlding five mules. *one horse, 8,000 b)undles5 of fodl decr, farming tools. ploughis and1 other implements of Mr. B. WV. Whitiock, three miles south of Jonesville, were all burned Fri (lay night. The fire was before midnight. The lo:ss falls hear ily on Mr. Whitlock, as he is a man in ordinary circumstances and a hard worker. The C.. C. & 0. bridge over the Pacolet river near Spartan burg was com~npleted Saturday and track-laying has progress ed( somue t:iaance bey-ond to war(is BrIoadt river, where the b)ridtge over that st reami will be the link ta~ i ill cnnect the track from Be 4ti to Spartan b)urg gy se ob: Sh the six weeks it \\i r conl;:K attempted mield hi S:naar afternoon a~ lmh s han , Gm ber street. >Y- r.nnell, who is quite an nm-d manu, has been in ill heahh for a Nm1nhLa of vear's andl was depndrnent. He is said to have heen affected by kidney trouble'. which depree5ed him mentallv', and he secured a razer a2.! e.!he.d his throat twice. W\hil the cuts wvere deep they are not necessarily fatal. Paragraphed. The Grendel Mills, of Green wood, has been given the right to increase its capital stock from "400,000 to $500,000. Roland Steele, a prisoner ser ving sentance on the chain gang at Rock Hill, was shot by Mart Williams, another convict. A double funeral was held Mon day afternoon in Greenville. Rosetta Maxwell, colored, age, 50 years, and her daughter, aged 17, died Sunday evening at nine o'clock. The forty-first annual neting of the York B-.ptist Association will convene with Flint Hill circh, in Fort Mill township, on Tuesday, September 7. and remain in session three (lays. On Sunday, shortly after noon 0. B. Bryon, about 25 years old, who resides in the Olympia mill village, while swimming in the Congaree river, near the boat line landing, in Columbia, met death by drowning. The body has not been recovered. J. J. Keller & Co., architects of Rock Hill, were awarded the contract for remodeling the York county jail at Yorkville. New steel cells will be installed and die building put in proper shape ,o keep the prisoners safe. Reports from all sections of Union county in the last few (lays show that there has been a very marked falling off in the prospect for a good cotton crop. This is believed to be largely due to the cool, dry eather during the first of the week, and the hot spell later in the week. The oinion seems general that only about a two third crop will be gathered. The following changes have been announced in the postal service in South Carolina: At Ninty-Six, WilliamH. She hard is appointed a rural mail carrier, with James B. Pratt as substitute: at Charleston, Irvine J. Hart is appointed post master, vice J. C. King, resig ned, and at Montville, Lauren~s county, Thomas WV. Boyd is ap pointed postmaster, vice R. C. Watts. resigned. At Messers, Richland county Lizzie E. Davis is appointed postmaster, vice D. B. Cobb, resigned. John Whiee, a negro living on C street, in Charleston, while on a visit to his relatives at Seven-Mile Sunday morning, met a fiend from whom he had borrowed 30 cents, The "'friend' gave him a gentle hint that the time had come for settle ment, but John being "broke' was unable to meet the demands so he endeavored to appease his creditor with soft words1. Tlhis, however did not soothe the irate friend and a wrangle follow ed, which resulted in a leg full of (duck shot for the unhappy debtor. John is nowv at the Roper Hospital, having the in jured member cared for. He is in a serious condition. The name and whereabouts of John's friend"' are unknown. The progress and growth of Ridgeway is evidented by the establishment of three ne w local enterprises within the last fort night. These are the Fairfield Publishing company, which will o)ublish the Fairfield News and Sa general job printing busi ness: F. P. Hinnant, who is a daler in general merchandise and handled a cotton seed busi ness, and A. T. Jones, civil engineer and contractor. An interesting feature of the latter firm is that Mr. Jones has en gagedl one of the most dilapid ated buildings in town in which to locate his offices and purposes to advertise his business by ren ovating it with concrete work, thereby showing just what can be done at little expense in im roving property by this means. A Lutheran church will be established in Greenville. The Lutherans are about fifty or seventy-five strong there, and they have determined to build a house of worship. The church building will not cost less than $10.000, and will prob ably cast much more that this figure. A comimission had been issued by -the secretary of state to the Citizens Bank of Allendale. The capital of the company is $30,000. The petitioners of the company are W. A. Aull, R. Wol, W. J. Pohns. J. P. Gray, LeRoy Wilson., Jr., and T. Charorez. The company will do a general banking business. Policeman Burke, of the Co iumbia police, shot and fatally wounded Julian Knight, a neg .ro hackiman, in front of the state capitol, on Main street, Saturday night, after the ofilcer had been cuIt in the face several times. Several shots were fired. One of the bullets entered the fore head of the negro. The negro had been arrested for fact driv in and was resisting arrest vio lently. Two women have been sent to the Roper hospital by the Char leston police department., suffer ing from insanity, believed to have e n)Ti induced( by the use of cocaine. At the police station an otlicer hadf to enter the cell I of a female. arrested as a disor derlv character, and make be lieve that he was killing the m11onikev which tho woman thought she was seeing, too much cocame again )eing attri buted as the cause of the wo man's hallucinations. On Friday night, Charlie Poole, a well known character about Greenville, assaulted his common-law wife, Stella, and left her for dead. He was subsequently caught and jailed by Deputy Sheriff Hunsinger. The woman was immediately attended by Dr. W. L. Mauldin. She had been beaten over the head in a. f right ful m anner with a heavy brass pitcher, the side comipletelv crushed in, the left eye gouged out, necessitating its removal and her condition is serious. She may not recover. Mrs. J. K. Fant, aged 60 years, widow of the late Rev. J. K. Fant, a Baptist minister of Spartanburg county, committ ed suicide at her home at Cam pob)ello Monday morning by drinking carbo( lic acid. She died within a few seconIds after swallowing the poisoni. The onlyX motive that can be assig ned for enhing hei- life is that she had become (despondent be ca.use( of continuedl ill health. IFor some time she had been ex cee(dingly melancholy and seem ed to be constantly b)rooding andl worrying about the state of her health. Heir condition was such that a close watch was kept over her by Miss Bessie Fant, a daughter of the dleceased. She leaves three (laugh ters. Her husband died about five years ago. Mr Clemi F. Gordon, supervi sor of Yorkcounty, was at Ches ter last week for the purpose of makig arangeentswith county's jail prisoners while the York jail is being repaired. The arrangements were sat isf actor ily mlade, and1( the(~squad of priso ners numbering eight or ten will be brought down one day this take care of the numbier already in prison1 and1 such others as may be inlcarCerated from time to time, provided his accomimoda tions are not over-ta xed and he does not find it inconvenient thereby t.o handle Chester's priso ners. T he entire upper floor of the York county jail will be torn away, andl con verted into a mlodernl prison with steel cells and other devices for keeping prisoners safely and securely in Mr. W. R. Anderson, deputy sheriff of Hamilton county, was brought home from Berry Stat ion, Ga., where he was striken with paralysis last week. . He had been on a business trip and while at Berry he was suddenly s'riken speechless. Mr. Ander son is not doing well, and it is feared that it will be some time before he will be restored to health. The survey of the Florence city streets by Engineer J. M. Johnson, representing Contract ing Engineer H. S. Juodon of Savannah, was finished some days ago and Messrs. Johnson and Joudon are busy in finishing up the laying out of the work for the complete system of sew erage which the city will install. As soon as the platting is com pleted and specifications prepar ed bids will be advertised for and as soon as the contract work is assigned it will get under way and be pushed to immediate completion. Mr. Joseph A. McCullough, a prominent lawyer of Green ville, has purchased a tract of land of five acres lying just out side the city limits, on the car line to the Country Club. He has donated this lot to the Brun er Home, for the erection of a building with equipment to cost not less than $8,000 or $10,000 for the use of the Bruner Home which at present has its head larters on leased rroperty. The Bruner Home is a charity I organization for the care of de serving children who cannot be gotton into other orphanages. It is expected that the new build I ing will be begun as soon as the subscriptions, which will be taken among the, town people, shall have amounted to enough to warrant such p move. NEW TYPE OF ROAD. Telford Blocks With Liquid Asphalt as a Binder to Be Tried In Jersey. New Jersey is to experiment with a new type of road, and the experiment will be tried in Essex county. where the county engineer, James Owen, pro poses to lay roads in West Orange. Nutley, Belleville, Verona, Short Kills. Millburn, West Caldwell and other places. The state is to pay one-third of the cost of the-se new roads, each municipality one-tenth of the cost of the roads within its limit, and the county pays the balance. Mount Pleas aune avenue, West Orange, is to be the first scene of the new road trial. Tel ford pavement is to be used under a new formula prepared by Mr. Owen, and he thinks that such a road will stand nutopobile traffic splendIdly. and, while it will not be c' -soutely dustless, it will be less dusty . .an any other road of a similar kind. After the telford blocks are laid in .stead1 of using clay as a binder liquid asphalt will be used. This hais been successfully tried as a binder in con nectioin with patent road formula, and. whilie it will add about 15 cents a siuare yard to the cost. it will be cheaper in the end. The foundation of the road will be constructed in the or dinary way aind chinked in the usual manner. Then a coating of stone sceninr:s will be applied and roiled. Next will come a four inch layer of broken stone and another thorough rolling. On top of this will be put a thin layer of screenings to fill the in LATING A TELFOR.D FOUNDATION. trstices: then the liriuid asphmalt will be put on hot in the pr1oportion of onel nnd (one-t hird gaillons to e;o-h stiuare var-d of surfac-e. It will then be giveni fromn five to ten ho urs to peniet ratte a nd then anlot her c~a t ing of screeninas and the r-ead rolled iaaini. and then it will be r-eady for use. Many will not agree with Mr. Owen that teiford bl>ek is good for auitomio biing, as it is w~ell known it is ve~ry hard on tires, but it makes a very solid, even roatd, and until the horse drawn vehicic-s make it bad it is al! right. What county en:rineers and other road builders should try to do is to build a road that will stand the horses and the iron shod wagons, and after doing that they will have solved the g.Gna rnads nroblem. A FATAL rR1ENSHIP, Devotion of Princess Lamballe to Marie Antoinette. SLAIN BY A PARISIAN MOB. The Assassination of the Princess. Who Escaped and Returned to Com fort Her Friend, Was One of the Worst Acts of the Reign of Terror. It was in the historic Carignanc palace at Turin that the Princess Lam balle was born. Her father was: Lou,. Victor of Carignan, of the royal house of Sardinia and Savoy. Her child'iood was spent In Turin during the period that follinwed the defeat of the French through the bril llant military tactics of Prince Eigene of Vienna. At eighteen she was mar ried to Stanislaus, son of the 1)uke of Penthievre of France. The chief place of this duchy was the town of Lamballe. about fifty miles from Rennes. The Prin-e (d Lamballe died in one year. and a, sooi as etiquette allowed a marriage witl Louis XV. was contemplated. This did not go Into effect, however, and the princess withdrew from the vourt. She met Marie Antoinette when that princess first came to Paris, and they were mutually attracted and became friends. The Princess de Lamballe saw the dangers to which this young foreigner was exposed, and when 31a rie Antoinette became queen of France In 1774 and appointed the princess su perintendent of the royal household she entered upon her duties with the sym pathetic understanding of a loyal friend. The closest ties of affectionate regard drew these two young royal personages together. Through the care less gayety of court life the Princess de Lamballe was the judicious friend. When Illness came to the queen she was faithful and devoted. When the storm of adversity broke over the royal family and it was ar ranged that an escape should be ef fected mine. de Lainballe got safely to England, going across from Dieppe. but the royal family were arrested at Varennes and declared traitors to France. Mine. do Lamballe's devotion was so true slre at once hastened back to Paris to be with the queen. Her friends urged and implored her to think of the danger to herself and pointed out that she eould b of n real service at such a critical time. But she knew better than they did what a comfort her presence would he. and her heart was entirely occupied with the sorrows of her -soverei:n. She was allowed to become a pri-cner with the royal family In the temple. and for one week she w:1s a chev:fil and helpful companion. full of affee tionate atts to make the hours less bitter and giving to 'Marie Antoinette the loving, devoted care that only a friend so loyal could give. When those about the prison saw what an influence of joy 3mie. de Lamballe brought to the royal prison ers an order was Issued for her re moval to the prison of La Force. From here she was taken for a mock tiai and offered her life If she would take oath against the monarchy. With scorn she refused to do this. Then came one of the most terrible acts of the period of the reign of terror- She was delivered to the peo pe, wild with the desire for blood. and was killed in the courtyard of La Force prison. They stabbed her with sabers, cut off her head, tore her hear-t from her body while it was yet pal pitating and then dragged her body through the streets to the temple. On. the way there they stopped at a hairdresser's and made him rouge the beautiful face and friz and powder the hair. This man nearly diedl with fear while at this awful wvork. When it was cdone and the head set on a pike, the long, fair curls of her pretlty hair fell about the neck. Thosc of t he mob who suggested this hideous work upon the head said. ".intoinettec will now rec(ognize her frie:d." The hmeat- was ailso ;'ut on v of a pike and the route to the 1e:@!e resumfedl. Theii ro)ya!t:f:nnily were to gether, and Louis was ie::i:': t: I I e. when they heard the slimni uf the mob and 10oud. high vel' e,: S: .:':K the door was opened vi. lent !y. and as they all started to their feet some men pushed thetmselves ipast tie gua:rd and shcuted to the kin::: "The peop:.e have something to show you. if you' don't wishi them to b;rin:: it up h ere you had1 better- go to :!e winldiw." With the deadly fear in thieir- hear5 they did as5 dlir-ected :iial lo'ks 0 . the dead ando painted f:wo * f ':1 r voted friend a:ad also ,.aw"a hr tnd heart and lier- poor bodyf. haI cu yI the sabers of thuese wreot'lhs. With a cry of hrr-or ;2nd despa;ir 3arie Antoinette f:l!l into a st'i- of stupor. M me. Elizabet h for'ed !:r into a chair. :and lher chuildreu e:., to her andl cieid wit h fe'ar. L.ouis truied to control his voice as he sahd with pat hetic d ignity. "-You mi:gbt lav e spaed the qlueen the knowledge of this fright ful calamity." - Boston Globe. "Yu To Make a Hit. "Yusend me violets every morn." said tebautiful girl. the do," rsoddthe ardent lover. "n o attewhonde cost." "Quite so. Now. why not send up a Ibuch of asparagus tomorrow instead. It would be just as expensive and wou!d make a big hit with l)a."-Pltts burg Post. In adversity it Is easy to despise life. The true, brave man is he who an endum.e to be minserhle.-Mnrtial. WOES Of THE PURSER He Has Troubles of His Own on the Trip Across the Atlantic. MUST HAVE A GOOD TEMPER. His Time Wasted by Foolish Ques tions and Trivial Appeals, Mainly by Women Passengers, Yet He Has to Be Always Polite and Agreeable. "Yes," said the purser on one of the big liners recently to the writer, who happened to be taking a trip from Liv erpool to New York. *we have our own troubles, I can assure you. and I sometimes envy the captain his solIl t:iry enjoyment of the bridge, even during a sixty mile gale. Passengers sc;-i to think that the purser is'put (ot a ship simply to answer foolish q!:est ions. ")f course there is a good deal witci we have to par up with as be part of our legitimate duties. t-iigh when a passenger brings us a !:.!ndIred dollar yellow back and asks to 1-,% It changed Into EnglisP, French. rman and Spanish money and stipu a:s that there must be twice as much F-rench as German and half the re mainder in English silver coins, pre suinably for tips, is it any wonder that we occasionally lose our tempers? "Ard then, again, the purser Is al ways appealed, to for the most trivial ihings. A woman passenger comes to the window, and if it is closed she will hairg on it till it is opened, no matter if the sign is there as large as life that he of,ice hours are from 11 to 2 and 4 to G o'clock and she is honori.ng me with a call at 3 p. m!. Then, when the window is raised for fear she will smash it to smithereens, she says, with a sweet smile: 'Oh, Mr. Purser, I am so sorry to disturb you. I know it is not your hour of business, but could you tell me if we will really land next Thursday, as I told my brother we would, and I know he will be waiting for me on the dock.' "Of course I am polite, but I have some difficulty in persuading her that I am not running the ship, and neither can I control the elements. She goes away with an expression that clearly shows she thinks I am keeping some thing back and It will be my fault if we do not arrive at the time appointed. -I remember on one trip when the wenather was particularly stormy a woman passenger knocked at my door _nrter othce hours. - of course-and begged that she might speak to me for a few minutes. I politely asked her to enter. and then, her eyes starting out of her head with the excitement of suppressed emotion, she implored me to draw up her will. I protested that I was not a lawyer, but do you think she would be satistied with that ex cuse? Not much! There and then I had to draw up a document in the best legal phraseology I could muster. "When it was tinished and I and my assistant had signed It she gave the young fellow a sovereign for his trou ble, and as for me-well, she took on' a very handsome ring and insisted on my accepting it. I have that ring yet, but what became of the donor I never kuew, for when the storm abated and we were safe in port she never so much as bade me goodby, though I had repeatedly asked her to take back her ring. She was a v'ery rich woman evidently, and the 'bequests' In that will I dIrew up) made my eyes bulge. "Most passengers when we have been a day or so out bring the purser all their valuables, for which they receive a receipt. Some nervous women seem to think that a 'strong room' at sea is not a very secure place for their jew els, and they insist on seeing their treasures at least every day. One wom an passenger made my lIfe a burden during a recent voyage by taking her valuables out and putting them in again three times a day untIl I told her that the next time she called for them I would not take them back again, whereat she told me, with a sour look, thamt 1 was imp)ertinent and she would inform the capltain. I believe she did so, but the captain gave her a word or two of advice regarding the implicit trust which should be placed in a purser, and this quieted her. In fact, she afterward came to me and apolo gized for her seeming rudeness. "As a rule, I conduct church service on board, as the captain does not en joy the work, hut prefers to remain on the bridge. Many a funeral service also has fallen to my lot, and I have even officiated at a christening. I am usually the one to wvhom a passenger iies when he is dissatisfied with his ca bin, thbough the duty of changing a stateroom really rests with the head t'ward. Then, again, It is thm purser who is appealed to when the passenl grs elect to hold a concert, and the young folks usually rush to him also when they want to have a dance on deck. A purser can be very popular or the reverse, and unless you have an excellent temper you stand a good chance of bin:g the reverse. "The funniest experience 1 had was on a r cenI t tr'ip, when there was on board a little ;;irl about twelve years old. She struck upl a warm friendship with me and would walk the deck for miles if I would only accompany her. She fell very ill during a storm and refused to be comforted. Her mother asked her if there was anything she could do which would ease her suffer ing, and the young imp said there was. If she wvould only 'skidoo' and let the urser read a book to her she would feel better. And the indulgent mother came to mie, stated the case, and--well, I complied with her request and read 'to thie chl fsor a litte wuhile ech eday decok an.e n".-TLonidn Tit-Bin GRAVEL MADE ROADS Highway Engineer Shows Why. They Are Easily Built. ROADBED MUST BE KEPT DRY. Surface Should B. So Shaped That Water Will Run Off and Not Pens trate-Value of Underdrains, Side Ditches and Rolling. At a meeting of the Missouri High way Engineers' association, held at Jefferson City, F. P. Spalding of Co lumbia, Mo., read a paper or gravel roads and said In part: Gravel or broken stone when used for a road is Intended to form a hard iurface, which will resist the wear :>f the traffic and which will shed the water without softening In rainy weather or when snow is melting. rhe gravel, or macadam. is not In Itself a rigid structure, but depends upon the firmness of the earth below to carry the loads which come upon it. The object of the gravel i- to make the surface harder and moe resistant to wear and the action of water than the earth surface that it replaces, and it can only be effective when the road below it Is properly shaped and drain ed and when the surface has such form as to cause the water whili falls upon it to quickly run off with out penetrating the road. Filling mudholes with gravel is not making a gravel road. This is only wasting good material. I can recall a mudhole into which gravel was regu larly dumped every spring for years. and each time when the ground thaw ed out In the following spring the niud was again on top and ready to swal low another dose of gravel. Probably there is enough gravel in that hole. 200 or 300 feet long. to make a mile of good gravel road. Finally a road BAD ROAD THAT GRAVEL WoULD IMPROVE supervisor came along. who put In a few hundred feet of tile and crowned the road surface, and there has been no mudhole there since. The form which should be given to an earth roadbed and the methods of drainage to be used depend in each in stance upon the local conditions sur rounding the road. The ability of earth to sustain a load depends in a large measure upon the amount of water contained by it. Most earth forms a good 'foundation so long as It is kept dry. but when wet it loses its sustain ing power, becoming wet and Incoher ent. When softened by water soil is easily displaced by the settling of the road or forced upward into any space that may exist In it. In order, there fore, that the loads may be uniformly sustained and the surface of the road kept firm and even It is of first impor tance that the roadbed be kept dry. The improvement and maintenance of a road are therefore largely questions of drainage. the~ objects beIng to pre vent water from reaching the road and to provide means for immiediately re moving such as does reach it before the soil becomes saturated and sof tened. Surface drainage is always necessary If the body of the road is to be kept In a dry condition and is accomplished by having the surface of such form that water falling upon it will quickly run into the gutters. Underdrains will not drain water from the surface of a road, and unless the crown is at all times maintained and the surface kept smoothi water is likely to stand upon the surface and penetrate into the road. And this is just as true of a gravel or stone road as of the earth surface. At the side of the road longitudinal ditches must be provided for the pur pose of carrying the water drained from the surface of the road to some point where it may be turned Into a natural drainage channel. In many in stances these side ditches also carry drainage from land adjacent to the road. The size and form of. the gut ters will naturally depend upon the quantity of water to be carried and the slope of the gutters. Where the quantity of water to be carried Is small the extension of the slope of the road surface may be sufficient wIthout any special gutter being provided. In forming a roadbed upon which to place a gravel or macadam surface the earth roadbed should be made as firm and smooth as possible before the placing of the surfacIng material. Wherever possible the earth after be ing brought to grade and given the proper form for receiving the surface should be rolled with a heavy roller until it is firmly pac!:ed and able to yield efficient support to the surface. In any case the surface should not be placed until the roadi ed is thoroughly settled and Packed in place. Highway Maint:mning Scheme. Many German hi zhways are lIned with cherry treqs. When the fruit jis ripe it Is gathered and sold, and the proceeds go to the fund fo ait Inoth highwnvit