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THE PICKENS SNI THE PICKENS SENTINEL, Established, 1871. Y 28, 1 THEPEOPLAES'JOUR L, Es03 . tablished,1891 7 CONSOLIDATED), 1903. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. The Improvement and Maintenane of Dirt Htghways. It is a comparatively simple matter to take care of the surface water on a farm or neighborhood road, and with a road machine several hundred feet of good roadbed suitable for neighborhood traffic can be shaped in a day of ten hours. If the road is suitably crowned so as to shed water into the ditches and the surface is compacted with a heavy roller, a useful neighborhood road can be produced at wonderfully small cost. On a dirt road of this character a wide tire will consolidate the surface and steadily Improve the road, reduc ing the cost of maintenance to a mini mum, said E. L. Tessler, Jr., in an ad dress before a South Carolina good roads convention. If, however, narrow tired vehicles are driven over a dirt road the roadbed will be cut up in a i3t7ThED BY NARROW TIRES. s rt time, the water will lie in the r*made by the wheels, and the labor expefted on the road will be practi cal'y thrown away. If the road under consideration is in a sandy section, a top dressing of clay from two to three inches in depth should be evenly spread and harrowed. Then the whole surface of the road bed shbuld be plowed up to a depth of four inches so as to bring about two inches of the sandy soil to the top. This plowing should be followed by a thorough harrowing so as to intimate ly mix the sand and the clay, after which the road should be carefully scraped, so as to preserve a proper cross section, and then the roller should be put on, gradually increasing the weight until the whole surface is com pacted into a solid mass. After the cost of building any road comes the cost of its maintenance; b.", ,.,,the roadbed has been properly pre pared and the surfacing well done, the road can be kept in good order at com paratively small cost. The cost of maintenance will be in inverse propor tion to the width of tires used on the e method of making dirt roads be summed up as follows: Clear road of all roots and vegetable er, drain all damp places, provide he rapid removal of surface water, rt e thesu utting on e may be, mix the sand an ay th( roughly, roll the surface to a hard, evnbearing, and last, but not least, k p on improving the roadbed by us in~ broad tired vehicles. Good and Bad Roads. Ioallties where good roads have e built are becoming richer, more proslgerous and more thickly settled, ,whil~ th'ose which do not possess these a~ges in transportation are either at a ,tandstill or are becoming poorer and "- ore sparsely settled, says the as sistai t director of road inquiries. If these &conditions continue, fruitful far~ may be abandoned and rich lands 'go to waste. Life on a farm of ten omes as a result of "bottomless road "isolated and barren of social en joy ents and pleasures, and country * ~ peop, in some communities suffer such great disadvantage that ambition is c , energy weakened and indus tr7 P ralyzed. e mprovement of Bithways. t the national good roads conven ti held in Chicago recently it was de red that the improvement of roads I'is'the greatest industrial problem in e country. Besides effecting a saving of more than $900,000,000 annually It s said that good roads would solve e problem of congestion in the cities i enabling more persons to live In the untry. __ _ _ *- Good Roads In India. e streets of Bombay are excellent, ' tre generally the main roads ghout India. They are thorough acadamized or metaled and made th by heavy rollers. Good RKoad Notes Missouri two-thirds of the reve fromdramshops is set aside for a V ~ Streets are to be paved with straw Poland, the substance having been e 'emically treated and pressed as hard Et costs the farmers of the United Stites nearly three times more than those of Europe to market an equal tonnage of farm products over primary roads. Judging from the published reports, the application of petroleum on roads seems to be growing more general. Many hundreds of miles of roadway are reported to have been successfully treated in California alone. A new method of doing away with street dust being tried in France con sists in applying to the streets and roads a very thin layer of fluid tar. The tarred surface thus made is sc hard that horses' hoofs leave no visi ble trace upon It, rainstorms do nc damage to It and It lasts for many weeks without renewal. Mr. Joseph Pominville. of Stillwater Minr., after having spent over $2,001 with the best doctors for stomach trouble without reliet, was advised by bis drug gist, Mr. Alex. Richard, to try a box o Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets, Hie did so, and is a well moan tc * day. If troubled with indigestion, ba4 taste in the mouth, lack of appetite o; constipation, give these Tablets a trial and you are certain to be more thai pleased with the result. For sale at 2 cents per box by Dr. G. W. Earle, Picb ens and Dr. R. F. Smith, Easley, ;IARYEILT MOIT Ofthe Commissioners of Pick ens County for January, February and March, 1903. Approved and Most All Pai d. Name and Nature of Clai it. Armour & Co. conv't sup. $ 57 51 Alexander J P " " 3 12 Anthony J R J, Bridge 10 00 Armour & Co, conv't sup. 61 88 Anthony James, conv't sup. 2 50 Brown James A. Bridge 5 16 Brazeale J M, wood for C H 3 00 Boggs J Frank, Road 42 00 Baker B C, mule, poor farm 106 00 Bolt J L, ex. lunatic 5 00 Baker R'H, Road 6001 Boggs A J C C P, stationery 5 50 Boggs W M, road 9 Boggs W M, bridge 7 28 Bolt & Webb med. service 25 00 Bruce J McD, in't on claim 81 85 Bowen A G, bridge 178 Burdine Annie, Conv't sup 157 50 Chappell E C conv't sup 29 36 Crerishaw W E, road 35 00 Clayton L G, ex. lunatic 5 50 Chapman S D salary 1875 Chapman S D, pay certifies 18 20 Chapman S D, stationery 5 76 Crenshaw J A, bridge 6 00 Chapman S D, salary 18 75 Childress R S lumber 4 85 Clayton J H bridge 2 30 Craig T E bridge 2 30 Chastain W H salary 10 00 Davis W W constable 3 10 Day Elias, road 5 50 Dickson W P conv't sup. 7 65 Davis W W bridge 3 55 Davis W.W, constable 3 65 Durham J A wood for C H 300 Durham L R bridge 1 00 Earle G W, med. for paupers 1-15 Ellenburg B P blasting rock 23 62 Easley Groc'y Co conv sup 4 19 Folger & Thornley conv sup 240 00 c "S I 8 70 Farmer B F bridge 2 00 Fennell J T bldg jail barn 168 00 Griffin Peter, digging grave 1 00 Griffith D J, convict hire 61 08 Griffith D J conv supplies 32 40 Good Roads Ma. Co ma m'l 11180 Greenville Tel. Co rant 1 67 Grantt W M wood for C H 575 Gravley W I road 1 00 Gassaway T H bridge 10 00 Grandy B E, building jail 500 00 Grumbles G B bridge 3 00 Grumbles G B road 3 50 Garrett C W conv supplies 14 35 Griffin Pete cleaning out C H 1 00 Griffith D J convict hire 60 00 Galloway J B road 125 Griffit J convict hire 60 00 Garrett 0 W convict sup 6 89 Gillespie J E road 50 00 Grumbles G B road 75 Gilstrap John, road 5 00 Good Roads Machine Co Liberty for machine 31 32 Good Roads Machine Co Easley for machine 31 32 Good Roads Machine Co Dacusville for machine 31 31 Gravley A M N convt sup. 6 10 Gantt W Nwoodfor CH 6 87 Greenville Tel ('o rent. 3 34 Grant Thos L salary 10 00 Gillespie J E bridge 69 751 Holder J D, conv't sup 2 651 Hopkins J W constable 2 00 Hendricks David, road 2 00 Holder B L road 20 00 Heath Bruce Morrow Co convict supphies 152 10 Harris Oscar, conv'e lun'tic 20 07 HolderMM wood for CH 5 00 Hendricks S D bridge 10 12 Holder M M road 6 08 Holder J D hauling wood 1100 Holiday T H convicts sup 24 75 Hunt WE salary 2 35 Harris T D convict supplies 12 45 Hammond W W conv't sup 6 50 Howard W E bridge 1 95 Hendricks W A conv't sup 6 85 Hallum R -T salary 73 47 Holder D S road 6 00 Hendricks D E road 15 00 Jones )7 W lumber, nails 1 10 Jekins WL salar'y 12.10 Jenning RH Ins on CH 119 16 Jones W D bridge 19 06 Jones W D road 53 77 Jennings B H returned to sinking fund 3100 00 Jones Q T convict supplies 6 50 Johnson B C, equalizing.Bd 7 60 Keith E F salary 18 75 Keith E F salary 20 10 Keith E F salary 18 75 Knight J M lumber 3 30 Looper Joseph, road 3 50 Looper E F convict supplies 6 00 Lewis WV J road 1 00 Le wis John, bridge 50 Looper J Li, bridge 1 20 Looper JT poorfarm sup 1 00 Looper E F road 29 90 Lewis John, bridge 1 00 Looper J T conv'L supplies 7 35 Lathem J K Equalizing BdI. 8 40 Martin T W conv't supplies 2 00 McDaniel J H G con lunatic 86 15 Murphree F B poor farm sup 1 40 McDonald J C conv't sup 1 65 Mosee Robt, hogs poor f'rm 16 00 McDantiel, J H G salary 50 00 McDaniel, 3 H G dieting 21 00 Miller J S constable 11 85 Miller J S constable 7 90 Miller J S constable - 10 50 Miller J S constable 11 80 Massingill James road 4 05 Mahon & Arnold cony sup 57 90 Mauldin J S conv supplies 4 50 -McDonald 0 H bridge 2 75 McDanielJ HG salary 50 00 -McDaniel 3 H G Dieting 17 10 McDaniel P P constable 10 40 McKee WP road 2 00 Mauldin J B road 16 25 Miller J S constable 7 70 Miller J S constable 13 25 Miller J S coustable 10 15 u jMnldhn DM road 4 50 Mauldin Kirk, constable 12 10 Manly J D bridga 1 44 Manly J D road 75 Moon L F road 3 00 McDaniel J H G dieting 12 50 McKee J A convict sup. 70 Murphree F B poor frm. sup. 1 00 McDaniel J H G dieting 4 90 M cDaniel J H G salary 50 00 Newbery J B, J P ex lunatic 12 00 Newbery, J B, J P ex lunatic 12 00 Nalley P B, road 7-00 Newbery J B, stationery 3 11 Porter P H, convict supplies 10 00 Pickens R R Co frgight 8 65 Parrot A P conv't supplies 4 60 Pickle JA conv't supplies 1 50 Prince & Neeley con. sup. 18 40 People's Jotn.nal adv'g 14 00 Pace A A, bridge 1 50 Pickens Drug store med pan 12 45 Pace D F, bridge 1 60 Porter P H, p'r f'm sup 1 00 Pickens F E, conv't sup 2 00 Perry E E, equaliz'g board 8 .10 Porter E R, conv't supplies 6 75 Price Floyd, road 35 Rice J D, convict supplies 15 60 Rowland C G, salary 25 00 Rigdon L M, lumber 9 04 Roark C F, constable 5 65 Roper S A, road 2 50 Rampey J M, road 9 00 Roe J T, salary 50 00 Russell Dr H E,.med conv't 3 00 Robinson C E, attorney 30 00 Steele Jno E, conv't sup 15 00 Steele C M, conv't supplies 2 70 Stephens L D, 4 20 00 Stewart Robt, spe com &a 30 31 Stephens W E, conv't sup 22 35 Shirley Dr L T, ex lunatic 5 00 Stephens L D, spe com &c 51 35 Stephens L D, haul'g com 7 11 Smith Nathan, bridge 2 75 Stewart J M, stamps &c 4 30 Stephens L D, exp road con. 37 55 Stephens W E, conv't sup 6 35 Stewart J M, conv't sup 4 47 Stephens W E, guard'g con 40 00 Seaborn W C, road 9 25 gimmons Robt, lumber 2 70 Seaborn W C, con supplies 3 75 Stephens L D, salary 62 50 Seaborn W C, road 117 '10 tewart J C & Bro, road 1 00 tephens W E, guard'g con 2000 ingleton J E, road 4 00 rompkin D C, road 300 rhompson J L 0 printing 2 00 Tompkins W F, bridge 60 00 rhompson J L 0, printing 30 00 raylor T F, damages 11 00 rrainum W M, bridge 2 26 Thomas J L, work poor farm 1 90 alley A B, salary 6250 ralley A B, spe com &c 28 95 Williams 0 P, hogs pr I'm 19 00 Welborn A J, spc com &c 24 00 Winchester A T, con sup 12 00 Welborn A J, ex good road construction 1130 obeeterA~T,pr I'm sup 2 00 Wyatt A G & Son, con sap 3 00 Whitlock S H, dig cow pit 5 50 Williams Elliott, bridge 21 00 Webb E B, ex lunatic 5 50 Welborn A J, spe corn 26 00 Winchester A T, bridge 50 Williams M F, road 3 25 Welborn A J, salary ' 62 50 Waldrop E R, bridge 4 50 Whitlock S H, bridge 4 50 Winchester A T, lumber 10 25 L. D. STEPHENS, Su];ervisor. T. M. STEWART, Clerk. How's Thi"? We otter One Hundred Dollars Reward ror any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh cure. F. J. CH ElEY & Co.,Toledo,0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be ieve him perfectly honorable in all bisi sess transactions and financially able to .arry out any obligations made by their irm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken 'nternally cting directly upon the blood and mu ::ous surfaces of the system. Testimo rials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Hall's Family Pis are the best. A Sad Accident. A very sad accident occurred at the hornwell Orphanage Tuesday morning, May 19th. The centr', ugal wringer in the steem laundry burst, a portion of it strikinig Miss Anna-Anderson, one of the orphan girls, who had just come into the laundry to speak to some one. The piece of steel broke both her arms and dreadfully mangled her body. The child died in a few minutes after the accident. She was a Swedish girl of prom,. ise. She was especially talented in music and served as organist in the chapel service. The accident has cast the entire community into gloom. Dr. Jacobs, president of the Orphanage left Monday for California and it will be impossi ble for him to return before the burial. The accident will be a se vere blow to him, as the children of the orphanage are very dear to At the time of the accident other children were busy in the laundry, but no one else was injured.-Clin ton ('hronicle. A Sure Thing. 1 is said that nothing is sure except death and taxes, hut that is not alto. gether true- Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption is a sure cure for all lung and throat troubles. Mrs. C. B. VanMetre of Shepherdtownl, W. Va. says "I had a severe case of Bronchitis and for a year tried everything I heard of but got no relief. One bottle of Dr. Kings New Discovery then cured i absoutely." It is infallible for Croup Whooping Co mon' an Consumpton. Tr.: it. ' the Pickens, Drug, Co., Druggis Tria1 bottle fre. D~. szs5c Lo t Bill Arp. T HE bantam hen has hatched and three little grand chil dren are happy. They can'1 talk fast enough to tell me aboul them. There are little things it our domestic life and there are bin things, but I believe the little thing4 are the biggest. For a month or more these chil dren have been watching and wait. in-g for the bantam hen to lay he litter and hatch her little brooi anid this morning the telephonE bell rang furiously and it said: "Our bantam hen has hatched,' and soon they came running to tel: us about them, but they didn'1 stay five minutes. They had to gc back and look after thie bantams. Well, there is nothing prettier ic all nature than a little brood oj bantam chickens and my faith is they were created specially tc make little children happy. II seems that they originated in a lit tle town of that name on the island of Java and have been transplant ed to other countries. They are a game-birdiand . Abantani rooster will attack and whip an ordin*1 game cock of five times its weight. These little children come to see me every day and t comfort me while I am sick and their presence is the best medicine I have found. The happiness of our children is the biggest thing in life and my desire to live is mainly for their sake. The papers are full of big things, but they won't compare with the little ones. Clark Howell went a thousand miles to make a big speech about Grant. That was all right. I have more respect for General Grant's memory than for any big man who was on that side, but I still fail to understand how Lin coln came to appoint a slave hold er as general of the army. But time keeps rolling on and Grant's attitude on the race problem seems to be the popular one now amon~g our northern brethren. The census and the result of negro edu..ation has at last convin ced the negro lovers of their mistake, I couldn't imagine what Booker Washington was to do with that $000,000 of Oarnegie's last gif t, but I see by Booker's late card he is going to expend it in manufactur ing tooth brushes and he says he can reform the whole race by sup plying them with tooth brushes. That is all right-anything to get rid of the money that keeps on piling up. He might add a side factory for toothpicks. But, speaking about General Grant, reminds me of his magnifi cent tomb at Grant park, and that reminds me of a good thing on one of my boys who, when in New York, not long ago, was invited by some congenial friends to take a ride with them and see the tomb. They stopped in front and my boy heaved a sigh and said, "Yes, that's old Bob Lee-the greatest soldier who ever lived, and there's what he said at Appomator when he gave Grant back his sword, 'Let us have peace.'" When informed of his mistake he said: "WVell, I wasn't there, of course, but my father was, and that~s what hap pened-so he told me General Grant surrendered his sword to General Lee and old Bob gave it back to him and said; "Let us have peace" But w6 want no mistake made about the~ negroes down hero in Dixie . We want no more slaves. We wouldn't have one aq a free gift- We are ready to give them awry to anybody who wants them. Tlhe last census report says the negro is much the most criminal ol our population and is increasmng in crime with fearful rapidity. The negroes who can read and write are far more criminal than those who cannot. '1 he negro iu four and one-half times as criminal in New England, where he is edu cated. What is to be done aboul this. "Tooth brushes," says Bookel Washington. Surely the man wai joking, but that's the way it reai over his signature. Reform th( race with tooth brushes! If there is anything in the world that a negro does not want it is a toott3 brush. There is Sam Hendersor working in my garden now and] envy him his mouth full of big sound teeth. Never had one pullei or plugged or to ache" I love t< see him mouthing a watermelon. No, it seems to be now admittei denoethern philanthropists tha the southern negro has been pretty well ruined by their blunder of forty years ago, when there wa not a criminal negro in Georgia, and now there are near 5,000 ir our chaingangs. Bring on the tooth brushes! Dr. Seale Harris, of Alabama, published not long ag in The Constitution the unanimou i opinion of the medical professioi that the negro was rapidly degen. eratng as a race, both morally and physically, and was destined t extinction as sure as the North American Indians. Old Dr. Cal houn, of our town, a man of larg( and long experience, told me thai before the war he had an extensivE practice on the negro plantatiow and never had a case of tuberclo sis or consumption, but now they were common and as for other dis eases, not to be mentianed, they were found in most families and it both sexes. I am constrained to mention this as a warning to those who have tc hire nurses and chambermaids. The time is near at hand when every one will have to go before aa examining board and get a certifi. cate. But I see my little childrer coming up tht winding way and the race problem must take a bacl seat. BILL ARP, In almost every nel ood some. one has died from anhttack or cholera morbusoften before medicin could be procured or a physician sum. moned. A reliable remedy for thes diseases should be kept at hand. The risk is too great for anyone to takp. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy has undoubtedly saved the lives of more people and relieved more pain and suffering than any other medicine in use. It can always be de pended upon. For sale by Dr. G. W. Earle, Pickens, and Dr R. F. Smith, Easley. FOREIGN FACTS. Glasgow corporation has refused to allow blind men to travel free on the municipal tramway cars. Certain suspected cereals that were examined in Paris some time ago were fonnd to contain 40 per cent of fine sawdust. Greece is going to count Its popula tion next October. At the last census, In 1896, there were 1,26G,816 males and 1,166,00 females. Preparations are being made for tak ing a census of the Transvaal at the end of the year in connection with a pensus scheme for the whole of South Africa. In commemoration of the Thirty Years' war the battle field of Lutzsa, where King Gustav Adolf of Sweden met his death, is to be turned into a public park. The sterilization of meat is much practiced in Belgium. It returns to the trade, under the form of a whole some produet, meat which otherwise would be unfit for consumption. The mIxing of aqua fortis, which costs but a few cents a quart, with es sence of lemon has reduced the price of the essence in Italy to 23 cents per pound, while the pure essence is worth four or five times that much. Sweden's success in dealing with the problem of temperance is attested by the fact that the consumption of liquors is now only four quarts per head per annum, or one-sixth of what it was in 1830, whereas in Gerniany it is 11.2 quarts per head. Startling Test. To save a life, Dr.'l. G. Merritt, of No. Mehoopany, Pa., made a startling test resulting in a wonderful cure. e writes, "a patient was attacked with violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcerra. tion of the stomach. I had cf ten found Electric Bitters excellent for acute stom ach and liver troubles so I prescribed them. The patient gained from the first, and has not had an attack in 14 months. Electric Bitters are positively guaranteed for Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Constipation and Kidney troubles. Try them. Only 50c at the Pickens Drug Co. Thot18auds Have Kidney Trottble and Don't Know it. How To Flind Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let It stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set ~'tling indicates an unhealthy condi -tion of 'the kid neys; il t stains - - your linen it Is *evidence of kid . ney trouble; too - frequent desire to -pass It or paIn in """"the back Is also convincing proof that the kidneys and blad der are out of order. What to Do. There is comfort In the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney remidy fulfills every wish In curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. it corrects Inability to hold water and scalding pain In passing It, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soor realized, it stands the highest for Its won derful cures of the most distressing cases, I you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists In 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a sample bottle of thi: wonderful discovery and a book that tells more about It, both sent absolutely free by mail., Address Dr. Kilmer & 3 ome of swamp.Roo. Co., Binghamton, N.Y. When writing men tion reading this generous offer In this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remembe the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer' Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamtori N.Y., on every bottle. j Plunkett, : On May Meetings. , THE second Sunday in May is the "big meeting" Sabbath of the "Hardshells" at old Hardeman church, and I wish that all of Georgia could be there. Haideman ehurch is among the oldest churc*es in our county and being located in a typical "Hard shell" settlement, it has never be come tainted with any of the new fangled ideas sur departed from the primitive customs that were so c mmon with our fathers and under which sociability flourished, a rev erence for age was the rule and a dependenca on God was the prop to sustain. Me and my folks and Brown and his folks are prepaiing for the day. The second Sunday in May and the second Sunday in August are the two Fundays of every year, from time immemorial, that these people have held their big meeting days, and the occasion never grows less with those who are raised in that faith and who have been so successful in preventing the en croachments of progress within their fold. Just as it has been for years, on this second Sunday peo le will flock there from eua i rection, '"E i wagons, some on horses and some afoot. They will begin to arrive at the church full two hours before meeting time and as they arrive they will gather in groups, tha men on one side under-the trees and the ladies on the other, and there is where the great sociability of the occasion is r'ade manifest. Saunt er around from group to group and you will soon know of everything that is passing in each settlement. If any have died you will soon learn it, and you may learn of all the characteristics of the departed one. If any are siuk you will miss them and soon know what doctor is attending them, what kiud of medicine is *being used, how the doctor compares with other doctors and, certain, you will hear of many remedies that cured others affected with the same disease. All the marriages will be made known, and. if there are any new babies you will learn whether they are girls or boys and which side of the house the baby favors. Such as this will furnish a pleasant pastime until the preacher arrives and a song is started by some of the old brothers and sisters which calls the congre gation inside the church. Thus it has been for years and so it will be on this second Sabbath, and we are all anxious for the coming who have felt the delights and hope that the same old castoms may always attend the meetings at Harde man. There is nothing strange in all these customs to old people, for all old people, whether of town or country, have seen just such, but that a church should retaim themi in such purity within 10 miles of the greatest city of the south is rather a wonder and may strike some young and "progressive'' folks as not being the best condi tions to be desired, but the people of Hardeman are satisfied with it1 all, and if they are pleased who should object? The very squat ting around in groups and every flow whittling as they do whittle, has a charm for us, and the song, perhaps "All hail the power of Jesus' name, Let angels prostrate fall, Bring forth the royal diadem And crown Him Lord of All" hich calls the crov~d inside is sweeter to me than all the music of the opera and takes us back through all the years to feast on memories that Seem so dear down to the grave. As already stated, the second Sunday is an extra occasion. It is' foot-washing day with the .Hard shelle, and this only occurs twice in the year. Whoever may attend one of these meetings on the idea of seeing them wash feet will be disappointed if they expect to find anything in the ordinance of a li ght or frivolous nature. It is tbe Hardshell's sacramental 'occasion and is serious all the iiay th rough, and is n ore calculated to bring tears than to create fun for the idle and thoughtless who may attend through curiosity to see the "wash ing of feet." rThere is certain to be a good old fashioned sermon, with several good sangs hy the whole congrega tio i before the sacrament begins and i.hese are liable to touch an] einsible person with the impress ion that it is no place for fun be fore the rite of washing feet begins but if it does not, then when' feet washing does begin the veriest foo will discover that it is not -at al funny. The ladies gather on one sid4 and the men on the other wher sacrament begins. A, cloth is taker from the table and the bread and wine partaken of just about as in other churches, and with which I hope there are none so heathenisb as to not be familiar. Then feet. washing begins, and it is just a impressive as the taking of bread and wine. The men wash eact others' feet, the ladies wash the ladies'. A man pulls off his coat, rolls up his sleeve, puts a towel round his waist, and them humbly kneeling he washes the brother's foot that sits next to him. In turn this passes till all are washed, and the whole is so serious as to put the scofier to shame and to draw nearer to God the most thoughtless youth of the land. No stranger is allowed to depart from the Hardeman settlemeti without their dinner. Brown an ticipates this with the greatest pleasure, and at dinner is another sociable- hour. The truth is that all the day is a feast of'sociability. The people grow up in socialibili 47Babes are carried to the Mer meeting, they grow up together an -. +0 love each other, and they love e .hurc and the trees around and the s where they saunter to quench their thirst or to court and be with each other. All these things pertain at the old church of Hardeman and we rejoice that the day is at hand that calls us there once more. There we will meet old friends, hear of those who have passed away, learn of the sick and the new-born. Not the least of the pleasures we antic ipate is to see the babes in their mothers' arms. They are a pro lific people thereabout, and the only person I expect to see happier than the young mother with a babe is the one .with two bsbes. A pret by babe in its mother's arms at an Ad-fashioned church is the sweet ast thing this side of heaven, a re Luke to "fashion" anid a promise for the future that can never be axpected from children raised up ilmost strangers to mothers, away from the church and partaking of such things as the servant upon which it leans may choose to inli still. The socialability of such occa sions is a help to religion, an in spiration to neighborly affection, and charms the hearthstone of the humblest cabin to surpass all the elegancies of the modern mansion. If such settlements as Hardeman are behind on culture, they are ahead on reverency, ahead on a de pendence in God, ahead on that fireside sociakbility that lent charms to home and love between kindred. They mnay not have the charming books to read that thrills with stories so pleasing to the taste of the cultures, but this gives them time at night around the hearth stone to entertain each other, to kr~ow each other better, and 'to store up in their hearts a love so sweet that it remains a happy mem ory wherever they may go or what ever they may do. They may never be fascinated by travel nor feel the~ thrills of fashionable dissipation, but this only makes them like the niore the meetings at the old church and soothes the spirit of discontent to a better relish of their country picnics and winter parties. At last, when "fashion" has went all the gates purchasable by wealth or demanded by the "bloods," there is nothing in it sweeter nor better than the cus toms of the good people around old Hardeman. When I contemplate the great churches soon to be erected in the city and think of these customs I have written, I can but conclude that ''it would be wise for these great churches to study why ii is so easy to "draw" these people in the country together. One thing I will venture to suggest ii that a mother is in a state of minc to en joy the services if her babe it with her. She is anxious if it ii away, and, further, a heap morl social commingling and less starch with einging by the congregation, that gives folks something to dc instead of sitting lhke statutes, would do much toward filling th( benches that are now about empty in city, churches and the tendency gomwing to keep away. The "ad Shylock was the -man-b wanted a pound 1 if n flesh. There a re ma Shylocks now, the con cent, the consumptive, the sickly child, the pale youig woman, all want human flesg and they can get itf&lim Scott's Emulsion. Scott's Emulsion is fles and blood, bone and m It feeds the nerve.s the digestive organs and they feed the whole body.. For nearly thirty years Scott's Emulsion has been the great giver of human flesh. We will send you a couple of ounces free. SCOTT & BOWNE. Chemists. 409-415 Pearl Street. New Y I." . andSLoo; an drgita junets," where people are elasd and a strain thatimpressessaf feetation is made toward sociala bility does not fhE the ..bill-peopleq feel more like resenting this "ad. junct" socialability than partaking of it. SARGE PLUNKETT. "A man living on a farm nesr here came in a short time ago completely doubled up with rheumatism. I handed him a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm and told him to use it freely and if not satisfied after using it he need not'pay a t for it," says C. P. Rayder, of Pat Is, N Y. "A few days later he - re as straight as a string and give me another bot Pain Balm. I want it in the house an the time for it cured me." For sale by Dr. G.W. Earle, Pickens and Dr. R. F. Smith, Easley. HORSES AND HORS45A Two hundred additional stalls are to be built at Windsor, Ont, before the season opens. Will Bray, Sheldon, la., has sold the bay stallion Little King (Baby King), 2:16%, by- King of the West, to Frank Wirick, Sioux City;- Ia. The little mare Tanzandt, 2:12, who showed up so well last fall, after sev eral years' retirement, will be prepared at Poughkeepsle, N. Y. W. L. Snow Is trying to mend the] manners of the swift but uncertain pacing mare Donna McGregor. 2:11%~ and is entering her on the cnr cult. George Saunders, who wintered in Georgia, Is homne at Glenville, 0., get ting ready for the campaign.. He will race Greenlne, 2:07%, on the grand dr. cult again. There Is a two-year-old colt in Ken tucky by the dead yearling champion Adbell, 2:23, out of Bonna Allerton, 2:19%,4 that is said to have trotted a quarter as a yearling in thirty-nine _ seconds. Mlade Young Again. "One of Dr. King's New Life Pills each night for two weeks has put me in my 'teens' again" writes D. HL. Turner of Dempseytown,Pa. They're the best in the world for Liver, stomach and Bow-: els. Purely vegetable. Never gripe. nly 25c st the Pickens Drug Co's., Drug Store. MODES OF THE MOMENT. Entire. hats of chiffon or malines in - white, cream and colors will be worn again. The white castor- glove will be worn with duck, pique and yther utility day gowns. The corselet skirt Is still used exten sively for traveing, outing and beach costumes. The hats from Paris are bright and gay in effect. They are of silk straw, as light as It Is possible to make them, lustrous and gracefully braided or plaited. Beautiful rose tints, shading from cameo, seashell and tea rose .to- damn ask, orchid and geranium, appear among the importations forann evening dress. The new grenadines are more like nets than anything else, they ar s silky and transparent. They are striped and barred to give them body, and the' most expensive weaves are in broche effects. The stiff dead white piques, of other days are replaced each season by Im proved grades and colorings. This year many of their surfaces are glossed, so that they look like bengaline silks. New York Post GREATLY ALARMED By a Persist~ent Cough, but Pernbae nently cared by Chambertain's Cough Kemeldy. Mr. H.P. Burbage, astudenltat law, in Greenville. S. C., had been troubled for four or five years with a continuous5 cough which he says, "greatly alarmed me, causing me to fear that I was in ther first stage of consumption." Mr. Bar bage, having seen Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertised, concluded to try it. Now read what he says of it: "I ,son felt a remarkable change and afterUSmet two bottles of the twenty-five cent was permanently cured." Sold by Dr. W. Earle, Pickens, and Dr. P.. FA" Easley, When you want a plaant physic try Chamberlai' stomach and Liver Tab. lets. They are easy to take and pleasant ip effect. For sale by Dr. G. W. Earle, Pickens, and Dr. B. F, Smith, Emlsk