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. V'> ?3VT.A i.> rhe Press and Banner arf ii h!juried every Wednesday at * * ?ar m advance. Wednesday, Jail. 22,1902. , Warning Agnlnnt W?r. Confederate Veterans are filling a big place In the public eye J ust now. First?Tbose wbo may have earned a dollar, or who may have laid away a dollar for a rainy day. are called upon to expend that dollar for a monument to tbe memory of bis comrades and to his own glory. Xbls being perhaps the first instance where a man bus been called upon to build his own monument. Second?The clamor ror pensions in uosurpasned In tbls country, and It 1r fair to assume tbat some of the old soldiers have striven faithfully to prove that they are poor , enough to be entitled to a pension, or to enter a county poor bouRe. Third?The young politicians are engaged In the noble effort to appropriate money for the erection of a House, or a Hotel for the accommodation of auother class of old soldierR. Soldiers everywhere. Craving evermore. Calls dally. Empty pocket*. No rest. Pilgrims weary. People tired. Patience fruz zled. Life worthless. Good Lord, let Gatrlel blow bis born. Srbool Election. Notice of an election as to levying an additional tax of four mills for tbe support of the Reboots lo tbls district is published. Our schools have given roach *atl*fnctlon Id the past, and It 1r probable that the best instltu* tloo in town will Dot be crippled for lack ol foods. Abbeville baB most excellent schools and oar people will maintain them. 0 * Will Brine Peace. The military authorities in the insurrec tionary districts have taken proper steps to bring peace to the disturbed Island. It has beeu determined to punish the rich leaders ol trouble. When the bends of the tall popplee are oot off, the small fry will run to cover. A. R. P. Church. Jan. 26. "Seeing the Father" will be the subject ol the sermon next Subhatb morning at thej\s soclate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The sacrament or the Lord's Supper will be observed Immediately after the sermon. All are cordially Invited, Lost. Oold frame spectlcies between my residence and Mr Hammond's tan yard. The flndei will be rewarded It leturned to J. M. Gambrell. Miss Mary Sign has been ill in bed for several days lrcm the effect of extracting a tooth. Lost?A small black memorandum book. Will pay liberal reward If returned to me. L. T. Miller. If you want to see the most complete line 0' up to-dale stationery you ever shw. Call at Mllford's Drug Store. Fine perfume and toilets ooap a specialty with us. C. A. Mllford The Druggist. For lamdenta seed go to Mllford Drug Store Phone 107. W. 8. Divvkb, General Superintendent for Jno.T. Burrlsof Anderson,8. C., is In town covering tbe round house and enops for the 8.A.L. Mr. Dlvver 1h an expert roofer and ineltai worker, and any one having work oi this kind to do will find It to their interest to nee him while here. People never tire of looking at a locomo tlveand and train of cars. Just so with nice picture* ; there is always a faRclnatlou about loib. be snre to call at Williams Studio at s drat opportunity and gee bis collection or fret band Crayons. Nice Jewelby.?If you want nice Jewelry of the newest and best patterns, or IT you Deed spectacles or watches, call on J. W. JEtjkard. Hit goods are both pretty and cheap. , He baa beauilfnl presents lor loved oehb tt Mill 8tock for Sale.-I will ofler for sale on iiale L?ay In February live shares ol tbe common stock of tbe Abbeville Cotton Mill. Mrs. W. A. Lee. Remember wben op street to go to Williams Studio and examine bis work, you may warn to have a nice Portrait made uefore be leaves and be guarantees (satisfaction ellber In lessons or portraits. Manager J. A. Hill should be congratulated upon securing so good an attraction for Jan 28tb, as "A Bret zy Time." If be always book> as good an attraction as this, tbe amusement loving people of Abbeville will have no cause to complain. - Wherever this Company ba? n^^caicu i u in rcaruu, tuc picon auu puuin have been unanimous In pronouncing tbeli periormame ibe beei ever seen. "A Bretzj Tlmt" Is in three acts, ibe plot of which Ik m> light Ibat it is hardly woitb mentioning,.although every act bas been bapplly Impregnnlea with everything that Is new and up to date. Including mubic. songs. dames and clev er kpeclalllea. nil of wbicb are Introduced In an may and perfectly legitimate manner. Tbe ca?aol "A Brtezy Time" Company cnr Isih of tbe picfc of Home ni tbe foremost artl?is now appearing oh ibe Farce Comedy stage, who bave ibe ability to dtplct In a doe and artistic manner tb?- finely drawn character In this, tbe funnie6t of all Comedies. GOOD MEN. Tbe Nriiim of G. A. VIsrohUb and W. tf. louk JjPhu nil toe item. Mr. G. A. Vlsantka and Mr. W Q. Lod? arttwo of tbe best men Id town. They bave done much to build up the town, aDd bave a liberal baDd for sucb oburcb work as excites their co-operailoD. Tbe Associate Reformed PrenbyterlaDR bave lately been put under renewed obligations to tbexe good meo. who are Dot memberu ol ihat cburcb, but who are not alow lo Fbow Ibelr good will for It. Tbe liberality wblcb bus been extended to tbat church, by neighbors aDd communlCHntB of other denominations In very grateful aod tbeir friendship is an inspiration. Tbey rec , ogDlzegood In otberp, and tbey are encourHg ed to believe tbattbetr efforu are appreciated . WHEN YOU TAKE MEDICINE > 1 i You do so because you want to f*et well Quick - - O A ly. Bring your . . . PRESCRIPTIONS to our Drug Store and we will help all we can. Your medicine will contain exactly what the Doctor directs, and it will be compounded from purest and best fresh drugs. Our prices are much below the average. All goods delivered at your home immediately, with no extra charge lor t n e delivery. Let Us Fill Your Prescriptions. THE SPEED DRUG 00. Five Drop# for sale by The 8peed Drug Co. Gla?fi and putty can be bought cheapest at The Speed Drug Co. The Speed Drug Company Is bead quarters Xor paints and oils. ' ' v 'V- " v v.. A BUSINESS GIRL, Betty Holmes was an unsuccessful: journalist, aud when both her parents died within a few weeks* of each other, her cousin, Daniel Oilbertahaw, took 1 her to Jive in Little Gorston. Even 1 then Daniel was a big, slow, man, 1 with a placid manner aud silver-streak- I ed hair, and years older than his only j . \f?rtim who was liis house PlOt^I | AUU? vtiu| keeper. He Kej?! the otily general shop in the village, and lived in the ' cottagt* attached to it?so small a cottage lhat when he announced that ! Betty was to find a home under its roof, Miss Miutie really had some rea- 1 son for asking him how he proposed to make room lor the new comer. "Woi, lass," Daniel answered, in ' his slow way, 4,t' place ain't big, surely, but Betty'herself be only a bit o' a ; wench." "She'll grow," Miss Mattie objected. "Belike, belike, Daniel admitted, ' unruffled; "but 'twill not be so fast 1 we'll uot ha' time l' get used t' it an' 1 plau according No chap's house were ' ever robbed o' comfort 'cause t' orphan i were given shelter in it." 1 So lie went off to London?far away, 1 T.nnrioiK whence ' wonuenui, cnjiu^uf, ? , ... he was glad to escape with the little 1 girl; and Betty came to live at "t' s shop" in Little Gorston. She got ' aloug with Daniel famously from the ( begiuuiug; and on the Sunday after 1 her arrival, wheu she went to church 1 with him, the villagers stared at the ! slim, hlack-frocked, pale-laced little ' creature, whose frail fingers rested ' confidingly iu the huge brown hand 1 of the clumsy gentleman, as they came 1 up the church-yard path together. xMiss Mattie came stalking grimly be- 1 hind?so grimly, that wheu the child ' glanced back, with a little smile, she f was too frightened by what she saw to ' dare to repeat the experiment. Miss Mattie did not approve of Bet- 1 ty's coming, nor take to her. Her life J was centered in her brother, and from j the first she resented and feared the j thought of the child coming between J Mrv, ami hwrnplf. 8he was willing to * Pike many, if not all sacrificed for " him in her own severely practical way, 1 aud she could not understand why he should desire anything else. But Dan- ' iel?easy-going, slow-thinking, slower- r speaking Ban iel?wan firm, because he * saw his duty clearly before him. "It's right, lass," he t-aid to his sis- 1 ter. "T' little lass ha no kith nor kin J 'cept you' an' I. We rnun stan' by 4 her." , r Aud he did stand by Betty during j tbe years which saw her shoot up from ' a short-frocked child to a tall girl bor- 1 deriug on womanhood. She came to 1 be bis constant companion, his righi * band, his oracle in all his commercial ( perplexities. She bad inherited from 1 tier mother a quick brain and an in- t sliuct for figured aud affairs to ma&e * her a veritable business girl. Matters 1 which made her big, gray-haired cousin c groan in anguish or plod with futile ( helplessness over columns of blotted 1 or involved accounts, were nothing to her quick wits aud keen eyes. Daniel ! accepted her help at the outset with 6 marveling trepidation, which resolved c into conteuted aud absolute faith. s Without Betty he was nothing; and ' the girl always remembered who had 1 *tood between herself and the wond, 8 and treated him with all the respect ( his ovtfu daughter might have paid. 1 Daniel never meant to drift apart ' from his sister; but Miss Mattie, al- j though devoted to him in her heart, ' aud ready to Berve him as his hand "j maid, lacked the gift of sympathy, ' aud refused to take any part or iuteresi [ in the affairs of the shop. She lost no ' onnortuuitv of saying, in her old- 1 fashioned, "prim way, that she disap- ' proved of advanced women, and considered that girls were wholly out of place in business, even if that business only extended to looking after a village shop. And, perhaps, Miss Mattie felt more bitterly than she cared to own, or even than she kuew, her brother's unconscious transference of so much of his allegiance to the girl whom she regarded as an intruder. She did not quarrel with Betty, but never pretended to be her friend or glad to have her in the house. The latent hostility and thinly veiled dislike made the girl uncomfortable and unhappy, and once she suggested to Daniel that it would be better if she went away?but only once. She was startled by his distress and terror. ''Nay, nay, lass," he said, Martha doesn't know thee yet. But her'II learn?her'll learn. An' I couldn't bide wi'out thee now. What would the shop be wi'out tbee ?" Ah, yes, Daniel well kuew what the " * ' *- iU.. shop would De wnnout .Deny?we . shop wheuce came the living of them 1 all, and which was to keep Miss Mattie 8 from want if she were left alone. Times c were changing, new rivalries and com- * petitors were springiug up like lions 1 in the path. The stately, leisurely v methods wt;ich bad been well enough 8 ouce and had worked like machinery, would no longer do. To win success {; and make a way now was needed youth * aud pushful tact?yes, the talents of 8 the business girl, whom iu his simple ? pious heart he thanked God every day 8 for tending to him. Without Betty ? the shop would be nothing at all. He r was growing old and tired, and Miss r Mattie knew nothing, aud would scorn 1 to learn, even it it were not too late. a Not that Miss Mattie ever thought so herself. She did not suppo-e, of 1 course, that matters would go on iu- jj definitely without a change, butcher--^ ished a vague uotion that Daniel and 1 herself would eventually retire on a 1 modest competence. And even Betty, although she aux- r iously watched /the lines of thought. I deepening on Baniel's face, did not fully realize all lis secret care for the ? sister who bad lived with him so long 1 without really knowing or understand . him. I 1 So Betty renlained to help Daniel 1 and to cling to jthe hope of winning * Miss Matiie in the end?a forlorn hope, 1 apparently., a ujJ witnout much chance c of realizaatt^fanit, to compensate for r this disaH^H&nt, iuto the girl's h lile camqfiSgKre interest?to make 1 Daniel sn8KHB8 slow way, and Bet- 1 ty w onde^^^HKnes, and to inspire . her with lender thoughtfulness, ti^H^^HjcaiK'e of which she ( scarcely at first. George 1 Marsh wu^^^Bof one of the farm- ( ers whosefl^BSml lay beyond the * village, a^^B^Bl iuto a custom of ^ calling fr^^Hl^bt the shop. Daniel * liked hifl^V9b straiglit forward ! chara cterHSa^ljfliness; Miss Ma tie . tavored hj^BH^gnothing but a most stately at^HHj^BLeu courtesy; and J Betty?w^BWBHP nobody's business but her oi^^HSHietty thought. Then D^^BHkI. He broue down quite sud(^^R^Bl passed out of life . Must as si^^V^Hie had walked his . t daily Kinu way. a . little whil^H^^Hhe end he pressed Betty's whispered to her, "Mattie 'l^HJBSher'll know some- c tirues, lassj^fjSHby her i't' hour o' tribulatloq|8|^PPhop's nowt wi'out 1 Hi9 whisper was inaudible except to ' ; the closely bending girl, but his dim 1 ; eyes were uot observant of the gray, 1 sharp face at his bedside, and be gently 1 |drew his fingers from the strong^ 1 f / i i f. , . V v H young clasp that had helped him through so many years, and groped about until he touched his sisters hand. Until alter tne lunerai miss mauie was like one dazed, but not softened. More grim than ever, going about with net lips and red, swooleu eyes, a pathetic and yet an awe-inspiring figure in her deep black. She repulsed all proffers of sympathy almost fiercely, And did not exchange half a dozen ivord& with poor lietty. After Daniel had been laid to rest, however, and all was over, when they were alone in the little kitchen aud :he s-liop wa- once more open, Miss Mattie said something that almost made Betty's heart standstill. "You?you don't wan't rue here?" :he girl gasped when she could trust lier voice. "You wish me to go away?" "I-thiuk it will be best," Daniel's sister answered, in a hard drv tone. 'You and I have never agreed," Elizabeth Holmes. I never liked you, and [ always thought my brother was mis:aken in having you here. But I will jot be unjust. You shall have time to ind something to do, and if you need iny help you need not fear to ask for t," Betty groped her way to her own iny room, fcshe was taken by surprise tnd bewildered, although she had not mpposed, any more than Miss Mattie jer&elf, that things would have goue m unchanged forever. Only she had lot looked *orsuch an abrupt disrupion as this, and had hoped that in ime she might win Miss Mattie's likug and pay part of her debt to Daniel >y being a help aud comfort to his siser; and now all was apparently so niserably over. When Daniel died George Marsh wbs tway on business for hi> father, and 10 message came from him to Betty, ilthough she expected it. There had >een no formal engagement between bem, dui di8 previous couuuui uau um prepared her for his silence in ber time >f trouble. But days passed and >rought no message. Only, as ber ieart?rew heavier, Miss Mattie had )ecome more sour, and had looked at ler with an uneasiness in which defiince and struggling shame had been ningled. Daniel had left no will. Apart from he shop tnere bad been little to bejueatb, and he had taken it for grantid that bi9 sister and cousin would renain together. Thus it happened that here was no provision for Betty, I e,'ond a few pounds which had been ler mother's, and which Daniel had efused to touch, aDd had allowed her o keep as a nest egg in case of need, dad it been different and herself independent, she might have fouud it ea-ier o plead and reason with Mies Mattie; nit, things being as they were, she sould not persist after one answer she eceived. "My brother, Daniel, wa9 always alking about your cleverness and tal>nt for business. I don't .think you )ugbt to need to atk for a homo and iharity when you know there is no ? l M UULLi *UI JUU UC1C. Beity turned away, with her face jvhite and her lips pressed close to retrain a sharp answer. She felt she :ould not stop after that insult. But he did not judge her cousin. Her juiuk girl's instinct told her that beleath aii Miss Mattie's grimness and harp and bitter speeches there was a juivering pain and a crying out for lie dead brother, wbo had been everyhingin her circumscribed life, and vhoin another, although innocently, lad seeoied to draw away from her. so it had come about that when Betty jad seen her, box lilted into the career's cart, and turued and takeu her arewell at the shop,swift impulse caused her to go back and kiss the vithered, cold cheek. Miss Mattie flushed ever so little, >ut the girl was gone on her way to he station aud to London; and, after i pause, Daniel's sister gave up startng down the road, and drew herself lp with more than usual firmness. Some friends of her father, who had lot forgotten her, had obtained Betty i situation in an office in the city. At irst she was given only the most simjle duties: but. as time went on, her ,'ttlue was understood, aud sbe was eurusted with.more importaut work, to vhich she proved herself quite equal. t came to be acknowledged iu the 01ice that, if sbe chose to remain, Miss iolmes was much surer of her position ind promotion than many who had >een there long before her. Yet, although she did her duty and tept a brave front to the world, her leart was heavy. She could not forget Daniel or the shop in Little Gorston, ior help thinking sadly of Mi^s Matie, whom she knew must be growing >ld and lonely. She wrote two letters; >ut the first was not answered, and the econd was returned unopened, adIressed in Miss Mattie's stiff haudvriting. Tbeu Betty sighed, hut even hen could not forget Daniel's dying vords; and, except her own returned, he had no letters from her old home. From Little Gorston, therefore, came 10 news, ana sne couia not prevail on lerself to go there during the holidays, ilthough a longing to see Daniel'" ;rave was strong on her. She felt that he was not wanted by any one there, ind that she would only make her pain larder to bear by the visit. To this esolution she kept firm, until the nonths lengthened into two years, ind then something happened. A great deal of the work in rbe office lad to do with outside law matters, md it was part of Betty's work to copy ionfidential legal papers. It happened herefore, that one afternoon a bundle >f red tape bound documents was >laced on her desk, and that within ive minutes afterwards she was in the >rivate office of the bead of the firm. , "I must go, sir," she said, "as soon as >ot>sible. I am very sorry, but if this s true I cannot stop, indeed." The solicitor glauced at the paper she teld out. Its formal tenor was sutfi :ieui 10 nave maue uaniei turn iu nis jrave. In set phrases aud teclinicaliies it set forth that Miss Gilbertshaw, >f Little Gorston, was on the verge of uin, and that, unless she immediately satisfied the claims of the pressing ireditors, she would be sold out aud educed to beggary. Betty obtained leave, and went down o Little Gorston next day. She reacb;d her old home in the eveuing, aud a lismal welcome awaited her. Such a Ireary, miserable, almost empty little ihop; sueb a bare, comfortless cottage; iUch a laded, weary, sick-at-heart Miss Mattie! Ah, no! Betty did not ieed to be told how it had all happened. Daniel's sister had known nothing of business?not eveu how to manage a ilinn otirl novir rivMilu It ml riuuii tr\ ight pitilessly against her futile efforts itiii her ignorance, until ali was come o the verge of ruin. When Miss Mattie saw Betty comng through the untidy shop into the iheerless kitchen she put out her thin lands to ward her off. "Not you!" she said. "Not you?I sannot bear you here!" And then she would have fainted, jad she not been caught in the strong ,'oung arms whcse help she had thrust to in her once. Gently Betty restored aer and helped her to lie down. The ;wo year* had made her an old woman, narked with struggling, and care, and onely weariness. That night saw her r,,.*v'iri >K'- ^ '", \ iV T * ' i^1'. C>V/ "* '.! '.* , ? "' .- >'. ,i.l ?? hovering between life and death,- and moaning incoherently to herself as she bel<i fast to Betty's hand. To Betty's hand, which was no less I *. i _ ...t A l ?1 l.i ? I genue wneu iue giri caugui lue muauout words of delirium aud understood what had been done. Betty did not return to the office in the city. She was wanted at home, she wrote, and the firm excused her and wondered how a bu-iuess girl could throw away her prospects so lightly. It was a long and wearisome struggle to win Miss Mattie back to life; aud in another sense, an equally long and wearsome matter to avert the threatened ruin. All the girl's indomitable courage, all her brains and talent, and also all her savings, were needed to extort patience from the creditors, to unravel tbe fearful tangle, and to save the shop. But it was done, without help or faltering, and a day came when matters were almost as they had been in Dauiel's days; and Betty repeated nothing of what she bad heard to Miss Mattie. Thprw was at last, a nleasant evenincr. when the ghost of Dauiel'a sister came downstairs, sharper featured than ever, but robbed of all her grimuess and asperity, and when she saw what had been done, aud knew that her home was safe and that she was free from all the struggling, she burst into wild crying, aud would have knelt at Betty's feet had not the girl prevented it. "You'vet-ave me!" sbet-aid ''You've been the me-senger of the Lord?the messenger to the unworthy servant. But you don't know what I've done." "Yes, I know," answered Betty, gently. "You know?" repeated Mis* Mattie, incredulously. "You know that when George Marsh wrote to you I kept bis letters back, and that when he was seeking you I told him I didn't know where you were? Oh! Betty, Betty, mj wicked heart! I thought that you" bad come between Daniel and me, and I hated you, and I could uot bear that anything should keep you near me. A iti) m T nroo QAP^ir off artiTorH T ALIU w lieu x nao ovi i j unci " ui u^ jl was afraid, and dared not tell the truth. But I will." And she did, bravely and simply, wheu George Marsh came hastening to see her in answer to her message; and it was Daniel's sister, after all, who put Betty's hand iu her lover's a^d begged forgiveness from them both.?End. BOYS AND THE FARM. The Pouth has missed many of Its boys during the past fifteen or twenty years. They have drifted to other parts of the country, principally to cities, aud in tbeir successes have contributed to the upbuilding of communities far away from their homes. It is time for this program to be changed. The ?iouth is offering greater and greater opportunities to its youug men. But the change will not take place unless the leaders of puplic opinion in the South induce the boys to take the riuht view of thesituation. The news-J papers of tbe South are beginning to agitale tbe matter, and an interesting contribution to tbe discussion is tbe following from tbe San Antonio Gazette : "A contemporory advises young men not to quit the farm, but to stay there aad reap the reward of fruitful industry. Advice of that sort comes Willi better grace from one who has demonstrated bis preference for the farm by devoting himself to agriculture than from one who sits in a stuffy office in the city and writes of the delights of country life more from imagination than from actual experience. "Tbe young mau wbo has aspirations for something higher and better than mere plodding may. be ever so much attached to 'cbilhood's happy home down on tbe farm' aud all the scenes and associations by which it is endeared to him, but he has no sooner quit school than the allurements of the city create a longing for the wider field of effort and the quicker returns for labor which he ie persuaded the city offers. "Tbe hunprum life of the farm is too dull aud piosaic for the young mau of mettle aud spirit to plod through wbeu he contemplates (be bustle and activity, the ceaseless round of gaiety and the dazzling opportunities for accumulating wealth and for rising in the Hcale of business and social distinction which the city is supposed to afford. "After the farmers boy has been educated' he begins to loot upon farm labor as beneath his dignity and far less renumerative that the gentei emplo-y ment of whatever sort to be found in tbe city. And so when he strikes ont for himself, tbe farmer's boy who has ambition seeks the busy haunts of industry to become a lawyer, a doctor, a clerk or anything else that will enable him to live in the city and enjoy life. Of course it is all a mistake, as many a Urtn 1 ai\f t>/-\rv*? on H ov_ inruici tt uuy uu jcoiucti Hum o?!? experience iu the city, where labor is congested and where the struggle for existence imposes hard conditions, unknown in the country. The temptation to vice and immorality may be escaped, but the temptatiou to extravagance is not so apt to be. The larger wa^es may|come to the city boy, but the greater Having in with the farmer, and at the end of the year the latter has <he most to show for his iudustry. /Nearly all the great men of the country iu literature and in statecraft have come from the farm, and the country air seems to have a special fit ness for developing the stronger intellect, as well as the higher virtues. But proper efforts have not been made to render farm life ideal. Bad roads make the distances too long between neighbors, and there is not sufficient effort to lorrn attractive social circles. The farmer boy might have his bicycle and his pleasure vehicle, but the roads are so nearly impassable during a great part of the year that it is no pleasure to travel over them. So the chances are that he keeps neither a bicycle nor a buugy, and though he lives only a few miles from town, he would hardly think of driving in and out for an evening's enjoyment in town, Which he might easily do under more fuvorable circumslauct-s. ' It is easy to see how farm life might be made far more attractive than it now is; how neighbors might be brought closed together and social circles formed by improving the facilities for travel which virtually climate distance. JKapid transit has built up the surburbs of the cities, and may do as much for the most remote country districts, especially when carson electric railroads run at the rate of 110 miles an hour, us is proposed by the new road which has been chartered between Liverpool and Manche-ter. Then, perhaps, everybody will desire to live in the country and only have business location in the city. But even then will the educated farmer boy still be content to live on the farm, to follow agricultural pursuits and to apply his education to the higher development of the farming interests and the conduct of the business on business principles? i ! ? i4 1. a.. ~1 14... " w ill agriculture reacu uie uiguiitf of a science, requiring as much intelligent thought and purpose as any other line of industry, and agriculturist take the rank to which he should be entitled in the social scale ? Not until the * farmer is educated for the farm and takes pride and glory in being a farmer." Very wisely, the Roanoke Times says: "There are comparatively few city l ?- i- ? 'j ?? /? /iaii r\ 1 y*\T mhiiu ooyw WIJII uil?i> iuiu iuu wuuuj, tt uiiv the number which find their way to the city is large. A minister addressing a large audience as Buffalo the other day said that a very great per cent, of the'successful men in the cities were those whose early lives had been spent in the country, and who had drifted to the city in scaroh of fortune. If this is true, and it is true, as most anyone will admit, all the more credit is due these country boys who find bo much of temptation and glitter awaiting them when they come to town. There is no doubt about the hardships the country boy has to put up with when he reaches the city. He is us ually a very lonely individual. He lives in a dingy boarding-house, follows a regular routine of work and has little comfort. When he gets through with his day's labor there, is nothing for him to do but to go back to his lonesome room and go to bed. He arises the next morning and goes over the experience of the day before. Every day is the same. It is small wonder that many of them yield to the allurements that the city presents at. night and find companionship among those who are not gopd for them. Yet those who do stick to the determination that brings them to the city always succeed. They have to struggle harder than they would in the country, but their opportunities are larger and the fruit of their labor more valuable. Bringing with him the freshness and vigor of the country atmosphere, the country boy is able to impart more energy to his work and to uive more careful attention to bis duties. "The city-bred boy going to the country to live usually finds it a bore. He is used to excitement and something to occupy bis mind when he is not at work. His evenings are more ot a burden to him than those of the country in the city. He rarely stays long, and if he does remain he is often beard to complain of the bard fate that has condemned him to such a life. The surroundings may be comfortable to him, but they are different from those he has had in the city, and they do not appeal to him. Getting up early in the morning and retiring early at night are new to him, and furnish a revolution in his habits that he is unable to adapt himself to without much inconvenience. Of the two classes the country boy comidg to the city is the more contented. It is to be deplored that so many should leave the farms and seek a living elsewhere. The country needs, not the boy who comes from the city, but the boy raised in the country. It would be better if his vigor and fresh energy were directed in building up the resources of his native neighborhood. This is his natural herbage, and one that he is better fitted to develop than the boy from the city. Yet the cities would soon miss the country boy and his impress upon their affairs were be stop joining forces with them. The changed conditions for the boy in the South are sketched by the Charlotte Observer, with the addition of some good ad vipe, as follows: "In the time before the civil war it was not necessary for parents to worry about what their sons would do when they grew up. Outside the professions the great occupation was raising cotton, and the average youth got a most excellent training on the plantation or farm. This training together with a common-school or college education, turned out a young man at twenty-one years of age w bo was capable of going Immediately to work planting and producing cotton or tobacco, occupations that were amply respectable, and when attentively followed, reasonably profitable. For those who had no taste for the professions of law, medicine and th? ministry there was always this unlimited opening, and in growiug up the boys were always sufficiently in contact with it to qualify them to successfully conduct its operations. "In the new conditions that have developed since the civil war the situation of the youth as to future occupation is very materially changed. It fnp no ronta tn UOO UCWLUC liuput i(?U( *v? |/Hivu?o vvr concern themselves while the son id yet young as to what he is going to prepare himself to do in after life. Eoucition alone does not qualify a, young man to make a living. With or without education, experience and practical training are also necessary. Much of this experienee and practical training could be acquired at an early age iCsome care was taken to help a boy decide what he proposed to prepare himself to do and be was brought into some sort of contact with his work while he was yet a boy. "Even if the boy should afterwards conclude to change his first purpose, the practice and experience had in his first selection would not be lost. The contact of the country boy with farm life and bis experience and training on the farm is well known to give him preference in the city over the city boy with no training at all in almost any competition for a job. ''It is pitable the number of well-instructed youth the college* are turning out who have selected no particular occupation, and who at twenty one years are, in many cases, more helpless in a matter or actually doing something than farm boys twelve years old. "In saying this there is no purpose to disparage educatian. On tne contrary, the room for further development of education is practically unlimited. But the number of college graduates who each year start out hunting 'positions,' who are willing to undertake 'almost anything,' but who are actually qualified to get uo full or traln'uhlo rauiilt in on 17 tvotr rami 1/1 Kick very materially reduced if the boys could be induced to make some effort to get some idea of the practical side of his future occupation while yet young. Such apprenticeship or other work of training would put to profitable use much time that the city boy uow spends in idleness or puts to worse use. The boys of the South are usually of the most excellent material, and with a little judicial aid in boyhood to help them prepare for, a life'occupation it might be made nfoch easier for them to prosperously embark at about twenty-one years of age on their life's voyage." liMrkMlale'ti Local*. Get your garden seed from W. D. Burksdale. New supply Just in. You will need Rome fertilizer for your eardpn ibis year. Buy Royster's bone goods from W. D. Barksdale. They are the best. Heed oats, rust proof and red oats. When you nepd corn, oats, meal, flour, bacon or other supplies call on us. Fresh lot of garden seed. Get prices from W. D. Barksdale before you : UU.V JUUI uiumnncn. | Canned goods of all kinds can be found at tbe store of W. D. BarKsuale. Car load of New Orleans molatseB Just received. Keep your eyes on DuPre's show windows', and get bis prices on vases, dolls, and otber Christmas goods. We exchange school books. Speed Drug Co ( ft . GOVERNMENT ROADMAKING. Work of Construction Supplemented by , Lectures by an Kxptrt. Several weeks ago tbe department ot agriculture began its first experiment in roadbnilding at New Brunswick, N. J., under tbe direction of E. B. Harrison, special agent of the office of toad inquiry. Tbe model road being considered is the first of several which the govern^ ment is to b'aild at the various experiment stations throughout the' country. The government fur; isbes a rockorusher, screen, engine to drive steam roller, spreading wagon and road grading Machine and two skilled operators. The city furnishes the material, carta and laborers. The road will be of macadam pattern. An inferior grade of traprock is found in abundance near New Brunswick and this is being used in the substructure of the road. The superstructure is ob tamed from tne traprocK deposits in the neighborhood of Plainfield and the Oranges. * The model pavement will have a depth of about nine inches and the foundation be made of small, wedge shaped, broken stones of as nearly the same dimensions as possible. Th6 roadbed will be prepared by thoroughly rolling with a steam roller weighing about ten tons. Every hole will be carefully filled with the same material that composes the rest of the roadbed, and the finished cross section will be formed by two grades of one foot in 30 feet from the sides, uniting at the oenter, with tbe apex slightly ronnded. Four inches of ornshed stone will be spread on the carefully prepared roadbed to form tbe foundation of the substructure. The largest of these stones will be crushed so fine as to be able to easily pnsa through a two inoh ring, and the smallest will be about half an inoh in diameter. *:T This foundation will then be sprinkled, making ihe stone as wet as possible without softening the roadbed, and , the roller passed over it a few times until the stone is only slightly disturbed by tbe teams returning - with the empty , carta. The first foundation u not made deeper than four inches, because it 'has been found that a greater thickness causes the stones to "elbow" together, wearing off their sharp corners, making the "bonding," which is the great desideratum, a very slow process, if not an impossibility. When the first foundation has been thoroughly Eprinkled, a second coat of similar stone three inches in thickness will DtJ appneu. filter vue biuuo uaa been well" bonded" to this extent it will again be sprinkled, and while very wet a thin coating of traprock screenings will be most carefully spread over the surface, just thick enough to fill the small spaces between the stones. The size of the stones of this list application, which is called in the parlance of roadbuilding the "binder," will be from half' dn inch in diameter to the finest dust. When the work has reached this stage, it will be left untouched in en8 ary statu as juiig txa piouwuiuic iv bazden and bind. The application of water and the passage of vebioles will be prevented as long as practicable. As the work progresses Mr. E. B. Harrison, who is directing the work for the department of agriculture, will deliver lectures explaining the process of laying the road. Rutgers college students in the agricultural department and farmers will be invited to attend the lectures and witness the work. General Grant Favored Good Road*. Nearly 20 years ago General Grant in enumerating necessary lines of public improvements, named the publio schools. and highways. Once, when he and General Sheridun were in a reminiscent mood, the old oommander said to ' 'Little Phil,'' speaking of the letter's famous ride to the battle of Oedar Creek: "Sheridan, if that battle had taken place after a prolonged rain and there bad not been a good pike from Winchester, you would never have been promoted to the head of the United States army. You would not have reached the battlefield to cheer your men, and there would have been a great defeat for the Union forces instead of a great victory. That would have .left Meade and Thomas a long distance ahead of yon in the line of promotion." ?New York Tribune. Keep the Boad Dry. F. A. Dunham, who has been prominently identified with the farfamed system of modem highways of New Jersey, at a meeting of the Connecticut Valley Highway association, Btated that poor material well put together can be made to produce better results than first class material carelessly put together. Nothing is more fatal to durability than the drainage of the roadbed, and more particularly the subilroinqoo tthi'ph in nftpn flpfflefited. A macadam road cannot be left to itself after a completion, bat needs constant supervision. ' . Both Hard and Easy* Good roads are aboat the easiest tbing J in the world to make, once undertaken, j butabout l.be hardest tbing there is to . get officials to take hold of.?Parkers- , bnrg (W. Va.) Sentinel ( Wheel Track*. According to the statement of the president of the Missouri Good Roads j association, the people of that state , spent $490,000 during 1896 for road ( improvement, while it cost them just $600,000 for roads supervisors. In other words, it cost the state $1,090,000 during the year for $490,000 worth of road improvement. In France there are ,44,000 miles of first class roads built by the government, and abont an equal number of miles have been built by the different departments, as well as thousands of miles built by smaller divisions. From the beginning of the work to the end there is a system, and responsibility ia assured. I Examination for Teachers' a Certificates. o I n APPLICANTS KOK TBAUUBBS' UftMl- : "I flcates will be examined at Abbpvtl)^ * Friday, February 2 . 1902. The examlnatloh ? will begin at 9 o'clock a. m. J. 8. GIBERT. Jan. 21,1902. Co.Supt.or Education. K ; ?? a Cure that cold with Mllford's Cold and Griprablets. No cure, no pay, Phone 107. Milord's drug store. Water Power In Stoek.?In order to aid S n the establishment ol an electric power j plant at or near Abbeville Mr. Stells will'# nbncrlbe the-water Power at Martin's Mill,! md take the same In the capital stock. tf. j taihed in road building when .the lert frpA lahnr nnlv has been employed. .Road construction is a science re-, t'1j quiring amoreoarefal stndyof thereby Vfv prevalent idea- that any one can bnilA a ^ good road will not hold g<*>d. This matter reqaixes stndy, cSre ond a tbor- . , ( ough knowledgei bf the soil and country - 5 tfarouch which the road is to be bnill The department of agrioaltore Iy been doing good work by laying, be- . Vj fore tbe people exactly what is neces-. sary in road construction. . , $ Theemployment of convictein *oad'< construction is very popular just ^ow,/ as offering simultaneously a solution of the two troublesome problems of what ? to do with our prison population and :; how to improve our highways, in r UJL UW 1IKI' Ml a I) IUQ wuuuio iu xiun > ' ' 7YoTb, Indiana and other states ajfe kepi" idle, as the law makes no provision for I their support, it is well that Louisiana v ;r" should take some steps to utilize hert when it. has them on its handst and '^f|j road construction seems an ideal empayment for them. * s| those states which have been most sue-, r . ^ cessful with their roads4 is that only ^ the best labor (and convict labor is not the begtl should be employed in their construction and maintenance. No atftfe' which has made any material improve- ' 4 ment with its highways has employed convict labor, and no state which has > j ; employed that kind of labor mnoh improvement In Its roads. The ';4i v best results have been accomplished by . ^ road taxes and the giving oat of cop- j GOOD COUNTRY ROADS. m The Burden of Their Corf Should B? ' It has been estimated that .fiOOjGGO,000 tons of farm produce are hauleS to ' 4 and that t?e cost of niarketag lt l* ^ * This is not money paid out, "but ia ;.v. EH value of the time spent by faimerstfitii . their teams in marketing crops or what V ." t'* theee men and teams/would'have efimjted'' ' . ^ if they had been hired .for cash to do. i i'<M thia amount of hauling. The secretary of the farmers' national < congress and culture agree in estimating that atoni J , g| 00 per cent, of this vast amount, or ' { 1600,000,000, wonld be .garriW'TB^ |g over good roads. ^ag , |Jf This, then, is the amount of the an- ^ the states and subsidized by the", govern- 11 mont hnt nn(;Wno hna hflfln' f(W I.'1 i the common country road. Thefarmert , alone have had to buiM ocsmtrjr roads,'^j without assistance from th^xritiea* ftoin - ,fl wealthy corporations or fjranfche state.' ' con3tpootion of good roads, directly and' ; g fl contribute his share to their cost. No ' wonder the fanner opjpopea the, gopd roads movement, if he^one is to stand 'M 'r * WiO PAJ^irro* 44D IMO'U^tny that he should be^gausted through the ' Jjj New Jersey, ConneotjOut and Massaohu- \||| Good UotM Object titmn*. J Hempstead, Queens county, N. Ym ^qW to spend $400,000 in road improvements. Farms at the time were worth frciri |80 to foO an acre. They are now wdrth several hundred dollars an acre and re- . '$? turn good interest for those who ; chased them at that tirice. Thishaa \-j:M been such an object lesson to their neighbors lhat I understand something /)'} like $1,000,000 will be spent this year . V in other pans of Queens county and" , JM neighborhood in building good roada - ;f,| This may seem a large amount of meney to be spent for the purpose, but owIng to the character of the soil and tha fact that good road material most be ' - ' ! brought the cost of eonstruction is high- ' ^ er than it would be in most parts of tha ; Fifty Mllea to Market. It is not an -uncommon thing In France to see a farmer 40 or 50 miles / , from home in wet weather with a heavy luau. JLl lie DOWJ a ^aw^vw ul # m uuaw ,'^.tj days' rain, he puts his tarpaulin over ^ his load, a cover over hiB horses and a ^ waterproof coat on and starts off to market He may go 60 miles before he finda a market that salts him, or he may know in advanoe just where he is going. ??% Yon do not often see anybody driving 60 '' r'4 miles through a rainstorm In the United States to find a market for a load of . bay, but it is not at all uncommon to see farmers' wagons 40 or 50 miles from home in France. They choose the wet weather for that purpose. Their roads , are just as good then as at any time.? General Boy Stone. Convict Tj>bor on Boidl. i'J Convict labor in road bnilding is be- -Si Ing employed in Duval oounty, Fla., me and in North Carolina. In the latter jase 21% cents per day per head is said bo cover the cost of food, clothes, medisal -attendance and guards, as compared 'M with 28 cents per day for maintaining "p the same prisoners in jail. The Duval . '/i|? Sood Roads association of Florida ad- ': >l locates the use* of short term oonvictB ' Dn snch work and makes the claim that -sj they would in this manner pay baok some of tbe money expended upon them, - \ and they would also stand a better J5 jhance of being called back to an honest & life than if they were made to asaoci- \ ite with more hardened oriminals in a prison. "A Breezy Time," wbich will be seen J arm- . ' ,ry 28, Is one or tbe most effective farce come* - [leu Id town this season. It Is diverting with- ''H at being Inane, and bas a Blight story which nakes a very stroog vehicle for Introducing S > " he various specialties of different member* .-jJ f tbe cast, each one of whom is an artist In -r-jBk ils or ber line. Send us your prescription, where yon can el Iresh drugs. put up by a fresh class gradu- -Wj ,te In Pbarmaoy at all hours, day or night, 35 . C. A. Milford, Tbe Druggist, Phone 107. One night Is afl you want to break up a cold >r grippe wltb Mllford's Cold and Grippe ' *9 'ahleis. Ask your neighbor about them. ttiaseand putty at living prloes, at Milord's Dmg Store. Pratts Food at MlIford's Drug Store. Phone , .. i 07. : ,/>..-. ..% .: >v'.v? i> : '