Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. '? Kav 1 K juufw??wwg ii ii iiiiwgi^at f>B CAMPAIGN MEETINGS. < 1 ' ( Km Mate Bnmnuie Eat?aiif? Cm IUm ArrwcM the MMaln. 'Am nk ooaamlttee of lb* Stmt* Democratic ?mqUt* eoaaaaltt** met in Columbia on the , Ml lost. uDd adopted tbe tebedulea tor ihe two aouof oampaifo meeting* ?? provided tn th? amendment lo the cooMllutlon which ?M apopied at tbe recent convention of tbe arty. ? " ? ~# "? -ni- MrHwiwnor. tba Eupoa Uoiiua W UU?a?. w. (hitfaia and iwrtury are to notify tbe osaty obalrmen of the einjMifc meetings . lad nqoMt tbem to laku Into consideration MM oaodldatea who will *Ult lb* ooantles by < appointing committee* and designating y kaoMi tor Dm entertainment of the oandl- . *U?.Which was adopted. Upon moll on of ' Mr. Biaaee tba mmisments (or candidate* vara fixed tba same a* last year, atid are a* I follows: < Untied States Senators and Congressmen, P*: Governor ISO; Lieoienant Governor 1 S3J0; AdJataat General 12ft. All othar state i ofltasrs $S7 M. Tba oonniy assessments are a> < n hamofcw It proportion to tbelr represanta- ' Uoo In tba Lwlatature. 1 Candidates tor tba United Statea Senate I and Moose of Represent*lives. Democratic ' party of Sooth Carolina, 1901, will attend tbe , fv fallowing campaign meetings: Cl- Inn. IT | ^m^o.V^^TuVeJL,, CbMt?rfl?ld. Friday. June SO. U?aMUv1l*. Uo?5mj.J*o*n. B1?hop?l??TTa*???y. J"10? i4- ?. D-rllngtoo. WadoMday. Joo* 28. Florence. Tbaredyy. * M?rk>n, Friday. J o ne 97. SSSSii^rSin^iy. Joly 2. tssrmst g3Zi?'&aij%?\>. lt S^S%^5S?t,r Irtl?pmn, m asaassftMi Kdflitiald, Tbandajr, July 'Ji. Hawbarry, Toaaday, Joly ?. Ltonu, Tbareday. J aly SI. . Groan villa, Friday. Aogcui L sissa?*?s?.i{sai -Apdawoa, Tiwdiy, Aagostfi. Abbavllla, Friday. AacoaiflL Or?n wood. Aatarday, Aanui 9. Pad?w T?ariay, Angoat 12. SRCMfc2!*?*<,,w*d*'' A0*"* 1Sftimi, Tbataday. Aogoat 14. Yorfc villa, 8aiarttey, Anion 16. LueaMar.TMatejr. Aagoet 19. Cbaaiwr, WtdowdtY. August 30. WuuMbaro, Tboraaay, Angost 2U OfpaltB aafcxlula lor aaodldaiaa tor State aflftaaboiMLM DaaaoaraUaparty of Sooth daro> Banter, To?ad?y.Ja>a 17. Oramkwt Wedoaeday, Jooa 18. Baas barf. Tburwiny, Jooa 19. Coanwoo, oaiaraaj, ?iuov iES&2?Sgi3x&. r gsKSt?S3S:'/.v.'Sr ss&sisaissw HmiwU, Friday. J oly ?. l< Lsdactoa, Htiardoy, July 5. gis^va^%?L ?' IKuS^. nSyTJa >/ 10. ZidHMB.FfWaf.ioiy if. . 8S&zs&&fe Or??o?Ul*.Tbar?<3*y, Jo?y 17. & Imnm FrKUy. Joly 18. i - Wla aion.Ta? day. Jo ly ?. LUMMlar Wed ami*?. July 30. , Ouxkc. Ttouradey. July SI. CbWtajQald, Saturday, A oitoat 2. SMMilorllla Tnaartay X III ml 1 I hnpiliHi Tr i m i ii?j >ia?t< < DarUnKtOBiTboraday. Amuit T. j Marloo, Saiorday, Auguatfc < Ooami, TuwkUjr. AofBit 11 i Owtitlom, Tboraday. Aduual 14. 4 Klnfitm, HtianUjr, Aocotl 16 Ifiooeka Coroar. Tuaadav, Aacuat 17. I HSelog, Wedowday, Au*u*tl0. I flHwrtfc Tboraday. Aaioit SL Immmt MmI mi Ik* > ?, Ims> vllki Tmb.. Jmmm M-Jily at. , MM. As adoaatloual party to tba "Banner , fl^ool of lbo Soatb" at Kooxrllla, T?on. Jaoa 1??July Slat, coodoetrd by Praa. P. D PoUoofe and W. H. Kltpatrtek of Maroar UDlvtiiiy, wlU Man Maaoo oo apaolai train ] ooar IfeaSooibaro Railway oo Jaoi Mtb. > Omtm of atody?<7 dilhml aonraaa of 1 Md7 loogbt by apaetallau Nortb aod Booth. S eotmw la coot moo acbool utyaote aod j OOd BMUioda; t ooorsM to payoboMgy aod pedagogt, 17 eooreee la blgb aeoool aod ool hfo work, aod many lactnraa by me a of no- 1 ttoaal faoo tattoo oo caoaral tropica. I Cm?Board and lodging tUQ to 94.00 par wnt, ragtauraUoe (mnr nay or nil U>? work . *r ML railroad tern, on* tare. or tbe round ' trip from Jdaaoo nnd return >3.94, itclUrij | r ; iMMdalM from all otber point* oa the EX tfoatbara Railway. BacfWtloaa?IUf later toar nam* for tbe J wBparty with Praa. P. 0. Poiloak, Mercer i PaHwlli. la ordar that ebolc* rooma aad , Iwatton mar bo reaareed la advaaee. Additional Information?Write 8a perl oloadaat P. P. Ctaxtoo, KooxTliie. Twin., for I eeaa plate alma tar* or inlormatioa aa to 1 aoama aad ooai. aad to tba UDdaialcned aa waaj UnaBaof tan trip. Jaaaes Praataaa, T. P. A. Maaoo, Oa^ 11. P. 1 Guar. P. P. A. JadcMoo vliia, Fla.; W. H. | OAr. C. P. AT. A. Col am boa, On. State of South Carolina, , OOUHTT OP ABBEVILLE. ] Owmty Botrd of Ednotioii j ffeo lnliMim of Um Law la Regard to \ - Lorylaf an A?llIml Tax for Softool Pvpoooo Bavtac Booa OoopUod wtt& fcp Um Proper Partus la School District J lo. 11, aad lo. to, IT m HEREBY ORDERED THAT AN i olootlos bo Md m Um ontl toUo| plte* In I i; ?M Dtatrtet oa Saturday the 141b day of 4 Ju?, Mtt, tor tbe pnrpoM of determining | Itttll M additional levy of on* mill will p" toNda tor Mbool parpoeea; tbat tbe traateee Oi Um aM District act as managers of tba tobV' etoellon. I Ml?H?n of election moat report result of \ ' aleaUon witbin three days after tbe eleetiou. J. 8. OIBKKT, ' Chair man. J. FRAME It LYON, , R. F. GILLIAM. ? Board of Examiners. [ sir P s j (^S3 W OSS S 3 * ? DUBED OF GAMBLING. 50DLY, TOO, THE REMEDY ENTAILED j CONSTANT GAMBLING. > Sckrac by Which a Pair of Cob* iraird Tohk Uaraeatera Onard, Yet DM Xot Cease, aad Kventually Ae?aired Wealth. This is the story of tiro confirmed roung ramblers who seemed bejoud relemptiou. but who struck a system irhereby they continued and yet ceas<"J jambling^uid eventually acquired wealth. They wel* a pair of young southerners from the same town and friend* almost !rom babyhood. Therefore what one did j :he other was almost Rure to do. They oade up their mind* that they needed to I to out and see the world and be happy md that it was not the proper thine to ire on their fathers. They eamc to New ifork to make their owu way und to see thing* and in order to see them better jecamc newspaper reporters. Then they i taw thing* good and bad und indifferent ind among them were introduced to a thing named "wheel." U fir** ntfpninf on* toiunuuaiig iu ? r. , jf them won $300 and the other $200, iml thereafter they devoted their young lire# and hundred* of dollars try in* to repeat the run. When the "wheel" proved faithless, they went to horse raring, which is more langeroua because it includes not mere lack, but an element of personal vanity ibout one'a knowledge of Sunshine and Spindrift and weights up and hard and oft tracks. Poker and the other diver* -JJ-J !!? ???n HODh wrrr iuuvu iv iur ??ov uuu. m.v spirit of gambling entered tbeir dniljr lire*, and they gambled with each other ind threw dice to see who would pay the reek's board and matched each other to we who paid for break farts. Things went on splendidly until on pay lays it was simply a matter of an hour to run from the office to a "joint" or a poolroom and to return dead broke readj and cheerful for another day's work, rhey owed money, restaurant bills and money borrowed outright, which they hoped to pay some day when they mado i big strike. Meanwhile they made little rtrikes, enough to lead them on. In time they got to the point when their faces no longer showed whether they had lost or iron. Therefore they were "full tledged rports." Therefore, also, bard line* were Mgging into their faces about their months and eyes, and if their families town in the land of sunshine could bare Ken them parading arm in arm up Park row there would bare been tears or rebuffs, according to sex. As both of the young men had the same Krst Christian names it is necessary to call one of them Bill and the other Billy. Bill and BUiy were in for a crista, rbe summer and the greater part of autumn had gone when it dawned on then that In the name of decency, if not in the name of comfort, it was about time to j buy overcoats. They bad spent nights I (hireling on assignments for the want of i proper covering, but on pay days it teemed folly to invest monry in clothing irhen there was a fortune to be made by Che turn of a wheel. As both men were pretty good in their line or business mej made enough each week to buy three or four new overcoats if they had been able :o let the wheel alone. They realized this >ne morning and left the office together irith their salaries in their pockets, bound for a tailor's shop, and they returned two lours later without a cent or an overcoat ind with watches gone. As they were game to the core they sat lown in their seats in the office at desks feeing each other and like true nporta be* pin to write the stories of their assignnents as if nothing bad happened. Presently. without stopping his writing. Bill remarked: "Billy, you're a fooL" "Just what I was thinking of yon," Billy returned, likewise disdaining to halt j in his work. ''Guess we're both it," Bill said as beB&re. "Maybe, but I know you are," said Ruiw and ihm for th? first time both jot down their pencils. Til tell you. I'll match yon to see who the biggest fool: that's about all I've lot left." said Bill. "That's all right: I'll bet yon a fiver if [ wanted to I could save more money in i month than you could at that." the rtber said. "I'll go yon on that. It's five np that it the end of the month I show a fattei Dank account than yon do." And that is all that was said until at the end of the month Bill produced s bankbook with $80 in it and Billy one irith $120 credited to him. Therefore BUI paid Billy the $5 and said: "I'll go yoa again on that" "AO right; make it every month If yoa like." "Suits me. my son." said Biily, "but, look here, sport Is sport. I don't think I ought to have taken that fiver. I borrowed $00 from tbe governor to add to the account and iwamp you- i uai iriTn 170 which I teallj wired against your ISO. so here is your $5 back and $5 more which I owe." But BUI hesitated; then he said. "Well, la this thing meant only for legitimate laring?" "So? I supposed." "Then here is the $10 back. You see 1 was behind and only bad $40 In bank. I had everything to gain aad nothing to lose, I figured. so I drew the $40 and played Eameralda, even money, aud banked the $80." "Then wc will call the thing off (or this month, but hereafter it will be fir* a month that I show a fatter account thaa you do. and no more funny business about it."* Neither Bin nor Billy knew what he was doing that day, or be would not have done It. bat the excitement or tne chase vu on. and that was four yean ago. The last time Bill won with $4,200 to Billy's $4,170, and Billy swore he would get the next firer If he had to do the Isabella act and pawn his jewels. 8ome day a pair of fine girls will get hold of Bill and Billy and will put on the finishing touches of civilization, and thereafter they will confine themselves to living odds on their wires, which Is legitimate.?New York Times. Two Celebrated Ilea's Mottoes. When Russell Ssge was asked for the secret of bis success, he said. "The secret of success is to keep your credit good." Wbeo old jUommouore *anaeruiu nm asked for bis secret of success, his answer was, "Keep your mouth ahuLH? Success. Ikeitieal About the Datea. She (at the end of a doctrinal anjnmeat)?Look here! Do jou believe in the Bible? He?Wed. not in the family record part?Somerrille (klasa.) Journal. inmnfr Rrtort folder Nonihrrn tailwajr. Atlanta. Mav 7.1902. Much valuablA Information mnllrd fre* lo klljr MddrMN upon wnpllmllnn to Ag*ntM. tout hern Uy. W. H. TavW. Ant. f;?>n. f'a^. ' "I Atl.nl. II a - It V- 11 .i n I Illv |>alll Vsrol. Cbarloa'lon. H. C.. J. C. Hwm, Hint '??. Agent. Atlanta, Gs. Do not carry a refrigerator at mow >here into a world that needs sunshine Looking too long at little defects >]indn the eyes to big virtues. 'M, - ... - 7wr ' ' HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION. Tbm Employment of Pr?? Labor OItm tb< Be*t KeaolU. Commenting on tbe employment of oonvicta on tbe public highway*, thr New Orleans Times-Democrat point.' out that tbe best results have been oh tained in road building when the best free labor only haa been employed, il ays: Road construction is a science re | quiring a more careful study of the suh ject than is generally imagined. The prevalent idea that any one can build a good road will not hold good. The matter requires study, care and a thorough knowledge of the soil and country through which the road is to be built. The department of agriculture has lately been doing good work by laying before the people exactly what is necessary in road construction. The employment of convicts in road construction is very popular jusi sow. as offering simultaneously a solution of tbe two trouble?omo problems of what to do with our prison population and bow to improve our highways. In view of the fact that tbe convicts in New York, Indiana and other states are kept idle, as tbe law makes no provision for their support, it is well that Louisiana should take some steps to utilise hen when it bas thorn on its bands, and road construction seems an ideal employment for them. On tbe other band, tbe experience of those states which have been most successful with their rosds is tbat only tbe best labor (and convict labor is not the best) should be employed in tbeir construction and maintenance. No state which has made any material implement with its highways has ei ' ved oonrict labor, and no state wh. jss employed that kind of labor has se>. -ed much improvement in its roads. <e best results hare been accomplished by road taxes and the giving ont of oontraots. GOOD COUNTRY ROADS. TW BirdN of Their Cost Should Be Alike ea All the People. It has been estimated that 600,000,000 tons of farm produce are hanled to market annually in the United States and that the cost of marketing it is $2 per ton, or just about $1,000,000,000. This is not money paid oat. Dot is un ralue of the time spent by fanners with their teams in marketing crops or what these men and teams won Id have earned if they had been hired for cash to do this amount of hauling. The secretary of tbe farmers' national congress and the United States department of agriculture agree in estimating that about 00 per oent of this vast amount, or $600,000,000, would be Bared each year if farmers were able to do this hauling orer good roads This, then, is the amount of the annual mud tax to wbicb we bato been submitting, says tbe Cedar Rapids (la.) Gazette. Railroads, telegraphs and steamboat lines hare been assisted by the states and subsidised by tbo government, but nothing has been done for the common country road. The farmers alone have had to build country roads. without assistance from the cities, from wealthy corporations or from the state. Every citizen will be benefited by tbe oonstrnotion of good roods, directly and indirectly, and every taxpayer should contribute his share to their cost. No wonder the farmrr opposes the good roads movement, if he alone is to stand the expense. He has rightly suggested that he should be assisted through the medium of a state road tax, under a system of state aid, as now employed in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Good Boadi Object on. Four or five years ago the town of Hempstead, Queens county, N. Y., voted to spend $400,000 in road improvements. Farms at the time were worth from $30 to 950 an aero, mey are now worm several hundred dollars an acre and return good interest for those "who purchased them at that price. This has been such an object lesson to their neighbors that I understand inmething like $1,000,000 will be spent; this year in other parts of Queens county and neighborhood in building good roads. This may seem a large amount of money to be spent for the purpose, but owing to the character of the soil and the faot that good road material must be brought the cost of construction is higher than it woald be in most parts of the state. Fifty Mile* to Market. It if not an uncommon thing in France to see a farmer 40 or 60 miles from home in wet weather with a heavy load. If he sees a prospect of a threo days' rain, he puts his tarpaulin over bis load, a cover over his horses and a waterproof coat on and starts off to market He may go 50 miles before be finds a market that suits him, or he may know in advance just where he is going. Ton do not often see anybody driving 50 miles through a rainstorm in the United | States to find a market for a load of hay, bat it is not at all uncommon to see farmers' wagons 40 or 60 miles from home in France. Tbey choose the wet weather for that purpose. Their roads are just as good then as at any time.? General Roy Stone. Convict Labor on Bond*. Convict labor in road building is being employed in Duval county, Fla., and in North Carolina. In the latter I cam) 21% cents per day per head is said to cover the cost of food, clothes, medical attendance and guards, as compared with 28 cents per dsy for maintainiug the same prisoners in jaiL The Duval! Good Roads association of Florida advocates the nso of short term convicts on such work and makes the claim that Ifi fhia mitntinv nav Knp(r ! I MICJ nvun4 **? ?M*o U4UMMV * J/U^ wwwa | ! some of the money expended upon tborn, j and tbey would also stand a better chanco of being called back to an honcpt1 I life than if tbey were mado to associate with more hardened criminals in * prison. i Home |tenpk> misw today's* manua in ! looking for tomorrow's. I A prucl Htorv runs on wheels*, and 'every hand oils the wheel* um they run. i Examination for Teachers' Certificates. Applicants kok tkachkkh* ckktiIlcHtew Will Ito eXHlulliml Ml Abtwvlll*. Fridny, Juue JO. 1W2. The examination will beiclu at U o'clock m. m. J.K. UIHKltT. Jnn<? 4, 1WW. Co. Hupt. or Krtumtton r GOOD ROADS FACTOR J *1 INFLUENCE OF TROLLEY LINES ON HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT. 8t I Tkelr Extension Need r?n?e Good 1 w R?td AiToeatea 5o Alarm?Will la- | f( erraic tkc Yolame of Travel?Prob* | leas ta Be Coaaidered. 1 ^ A new factor that must coon l>e tak-1 en into consideration in connection with tbe good roads problem is the l rapid extension of tbe electric traction p systems Into tbe rural districts. Net ft content with the Immense volume of w earnings of the intramural systems, the V street railway interests have Invaded P the country with long lnterurban Iinus * that are already projected all the way across large states, says II. W. Terry .4, in Good Itoads Magazine. j D These street railways, or electric trne- f tlon roads, are not to be ignored by the a good roads workers. They must lm ' t studied for the purpose of determining , b the effect they will eventually have up- ii ^ -^.^l c man ON THE H0B8K. ' on hiffhwnr trnvpl. whether toward in- ' creasing or decreasing Its volume or as 1 reducing the length of haul by horses ' and wagons and changing Its direction, * Practically all of these railways par allel Important highways between the ? principal cities and towns. Many of ' them have franchises from the state ' granting the right of construction and t operation directly on the public high- * ways, while others own port of tbem in the shape of purchased rights of way. ? The cars on these lines transport pas- 1 engers from town to town or between " the points on the road as comfortably, more cheaply and almost as quickly as B the steam cars between stations and far more quickly and agreeably than the trip, long or short can be made by i horse and buggy or wagon. Lt seems obvious, therefore, that the electric roads will tend to reduce uie ugai pu?- c enger travel along the wagon rouds a which they parallel. c But the traction companies are not by t any means content with passenger busl- I ness alone. They hare already embark- t ed In the express and light freighting ( traffic, despite the legal obstacles which c are being thrown In their way by the i team railroad companies, whose con- c tentlons hare been defeated in the su- t preme court of Ohio. This freighting c or express business promises in the i near future to become more profitable c to the roads than the transporting of 1 passengers and to grow more rapidly In t rolume. It cannot be doubted that this t draws wagon traffic from the parallel o highways. 1 As yet few If any of the electric roads t have attempted to embark In the heavy t freighting business In this country, < thouch It has been done in Europe. t We may safely predict, however, that In time the traction companies will attempt to secure much of this business also, unless legal restrictions debar them, for they can operate as cheaply as the steam roads, and In many cases they have advantages over the latter in facilities for handling such freight However, if the Interurban roads reduce the travel between towns on the highways which they parallel, they will surely Increase the travel on the crossroads leading from the farms to the railways and which act as feeders to the steel ways. They will also undoubtedly Increase the volume of travel on the roads reaching from villages olT the tines of the electric and steam roads to those through which these lines extend. Good road advocates uuve uu reawu for becoming apprehensive that tbe extension of tbe interurban electric railways will cause any of the wagon roads to be abandoned and to fall Into decay. While they seem likely to redace traffic on some of the main thoroughfares connecting towns, their effect ill be to Increase the number of short hauls In the aggregate on others. It 1s at any rate a factor in highway \ Improvement I Tbe progress" being made here and t abroad In the manufacture of practical i and economical steam and gasoline t trucks and "lorries," as well as passen- * ger coaches, for the transportation of j i freight and passengers on the public j highways offers tbe good roads enthusl- i ast sufficient guarantee for a counter- i acting Influence tending to give the In- I f terurban wagon way a new Importance. , y It will probably then come to a strug- | ' ?k !!? nnnrntnr nf flip motor I I |ita uri w ixu uiv v|?v?.?v. ?. stage and the electric traction companies to decide which of them can reduce tbe cost of operation to tbe low- \ est point i When Traveling Wu u Effort. < Tbe roads In Poland at tbe beginning ( of the nineteenth century were so bad . that twelve horses were required to draw a traveling carriage, and some- , times sixteen horses were needed to drag It at a foot pace through the mud. Good Roads Growlasr la Paver. , The value and Importance of good , roads are appreciated more and more t each succeeding year, not only by peo pie In the rural districts, but by In- t | habitants of town* and cities a* welL j I addon* l<?rnl?. silk UretmdlneN-Hlk and Oilored, pretty j new Ntvle*. 11x16 In wide ill liitddon* [ | Hlk lint Mr? Wool and Cotton. No m*lo. k "' "?<-u Uuiuiu fur lint weather. I I n >i lli!lit mid nlry and hold* It* oolor, at lladdnnii. (i Millinery-You ahould ?? ? the dkw Mum-if nier NtylHM In hat* opened at Hnddon'a. I h Mfiiaillon L icex -The lute?t production* In |i lare ban*. All over lama. ApplU|ue etc., Ju?t h rec'il at Haililuu'i. | * oxford Tlea and Hlrap Handle*, the new, I thine* Id fool wear at Haddon*. 1 y a Yob are ready to pack your blanket* away, c You will Deed Moihallnv an tbU cau be placed on the moat delicate gooda and not ataln them. The Hpeed Drug Co. I (> IOLTING OVER BAD ROADS.^ t>? Majority of r?ra?r? Show 3fo later* Mt In Road Improvement. With the Haine paticace that tlw early ittler waited for the railroad to be ailt must the advocates of good roarfu sit for aiiv decided action to be taken jr the betterment of oar public highays, isjh tbo Whitewater (VViK.) Joural. For the last five years onr roads bare eon tbo topic of the preen, but we fail > see the good effect that this should ave bad on the minds of an intelligent eople, and, strange as it may seem, the timers are the very last ones with rhicb this matter finds any favor, v'hile our city cousins have long since rotestcd against the slow, unromfortble horse car and compelled the comanies to build expensive electrio lines fith palace cars, we are contented to alt along in cumbersome vehicles over early as bad roads as thosu our grandatbers traveled in early pioneer days, nd farmers who read from time to ime of the large sums of money spent y the government in making public improvements would vote against an nnnl gmnnnt PXDPIlded On OUf Jgbway*. For a proof of this fact just see with rbat reluctance most farmers work on be road, even when well paid for their abor; bettor paid than they often are or the work which they do on the arm, and yet a greater proof is the act that in many of tbo towns in tbia onnly tbry still cling to tho old way t working out road taxes by allowing i man so much for his team, plow or bovel and giving him ten houra* story ailing. At a rough estimate there ia between 110,000 and $] 6,000 expended annually n the roads in this county. If part of bis large Hum of money was invested n machinery used in making road*, and hen have the work done by body of aen working under a county overseer rno naa proua a? auuu; m? a >uuu milder and civil engineer by passing i satisfactory civil aervice examination, re conld get more and better woTk lone. Such a man conld be obtained or a moderate salary, and the work lone would be moro uniform and satisactory than that done by pet overseen rbo are appointed regardless of ability, mt bccanau of tome political poll at own meeting* Of courae there are exceptions to the ;eneral class of fanners who are workog and talking to the beat of their bility for good roads. It is to be hoped bat success will in the end crown their fforta. WIDE TIRE BENEFITS. 1m| Met Oaly Improve the Boad, bat the Load la More Eaailjr Draw*. The beneficial effect of the wide tire id dirt roada is strikingly shown in one recent tests at the Missouri agriultural experiment station at Colum* )ia. A clay road badly cut into rut* >y the narrow tires was selected for he test aa presenting conditions least avorable to the broad tire. A number if tests of the draft of the narrow tire rere made in these open ruts and imaediateJy followed by the broad tire* unning in the same ruts. The first run 4 the broad tire over the narrow tin nts was accompanied by an increased Iraft, the second by a draft materially eas than the original narrow tin, the hird by a still greater decline, and in he fourth trip the rut was practically ibliterated and filled. The narrow tires vere then run over the some road, with he results that the draft was lighter han before the broad tires had been ised. Alternating the broad and narrow ires on this road for a number of times resulted in a grudually decreased draft h other words, the broad tires wen mproving the road surface to such an xtent when run but half the time as to / nntriHnrnhlv Ipsa fnr nil rehiclcs. This clearly demonstrates that I even half the WMgoas used on dirt oads bad broad tiros the results would >e bencficial in draft nad enormously wneficiol in bettering the condition at he roads. ' la auother trial, when a clay road if as so badly cat iato rats as to be alia est impassable for light vehicles and jleasure carriages, after running the 6 nch tires over this road 12 times the nta were completley filled and a first :lass bicycle path made. A careful reoird of the drufts shows that the draft vas materially less tbau with tbe nar ow tires immediately before. Thus tbe cad would have been gradually improved by the use of tbe broad tiree at be sume time tbat tbe farmer would lave beeu abie to transport bin products iver tbe road with greatly reduced Iraft Steel Roadway. Secretary Wilson bus given directions ? General Boy Stone, chief of the jurean 01 gcoa rouas at me ucpariujcuK )f agr i culture, to construct a sample steel oadway at the most convenient locaion be can find at tbe Nashville expoiition, w here it may be seen and stodied jy tbe visitors who will attend tbe exDosition during tbe summer. Secretary , ft'ilson thinks the steel trackway for j vagous is tbe easiest solution of tbe | ;ood roads problem, particularly in tbe i vest, where stone and gravel are scarce, tnd tbe soil is deep and sticky. Improved Road* For MiaaJaalppL Mississippi now has a road law, j Fhicb, if properly carried into effect, j ind if kept in effect for a material ' length of time, will probubly give tbe itate a system of public roads superior o any that it bus ever bad aud perhaps mnnrinr tn that of u majority of the ioutheru Btuteo.?Mobile Resister. Farmer* Took the Lrad. It was the farmers who originated he state aid law of New Jersey aud vho carried it into execution, with its rafctly beueficiul result, uot only iu the itatn. hut as an example to mauy other mil: the excellent Canandaigua road* a New York at their own cost flow II l? Hone. Th? llrut object In life with the Amerlrnn Kiiplr In in "jset rleliIhe weond, how lo re. alii good tlMllfh. The flrnt run be obtained j iV energy, hnnwi.v and mmvIiiic; ihewwnd, |<iod health) b) living (ireen'n .\iitftl?l Klowr. .should yon be a despondent Hntt'er?'r from itiy of the elTeeta ol l>y?pep*ln. I.lver ComilHlnl. Appendirlti*. IncilueMlnn. efr.,NUCh a* lick 11 eudMche. Palpitation of the lli-nrl. Sour lomarh. Habitual Ciwtlvene**. IHxz'ne?ii of lenil, N?r?oa? t'rontralloii. J^iw spirit*. etc, ou need not ?ufT?*r another day. Two doara f the well-known A usual Flower will rele?e you at once. (Jo to Speed'" I?ruit stnr?? nd (i'l ? wimple hot He free. Kescular ?lze. 7"? in. Oel (ireeu'H .Special A liiituni '. t-A-l.'t. Oat a move on you or you will ba too lata! j necnre ?iruu of the bargain* al ltark?dale?. , HUB DEEP WITH MUDr ROAOSOF ILLINOIS WERE IMPASSABLE THIS SPRING. ' 1 Ftrmrrf Cubli to Got to Towa For' Wrtkt?Creameries Unable to Gat Milk. School* Wert Cloeed?Kvtfn the Dead ) Coal?l Not Be Decently Ilarled. No better argument for good roads j Was ever spoken or written than the record of busines* stagnation which the | farmers of Illinois bare experienced! during this spring becanso of lack of decent roads. For more than a month I they were unable to get to town to pur-! chase tbe necessaries of life; pupils and teachers could not get to the schools; creameries wero closed because milk could not bo delivered, most of which must have been a total lorn, and even the dead bad to be temporarily buried on the homesteads, tbe mud beins so deep as to be absolutely impassable. Bat Illinois is not aloao in this embargo of mad. There are few if any IX THE SmiNGTIME. (From Good Roads.] states in tbis country that cannot duplicate tbia condition tbia spring or any other for that matter. It ia a constantly Mnwino Mil that will mntinoA an long as present methods of highway construction and repair prevail. Here are a few items taken from the Chicago Evening Post of March 29. Tbey relate a familiar tale: Aurora.?It is next to impossible to get about in the country with a load. Light milk wagons are drawn fiito the city each morning by four horses in* stead of two. The stage which runs between Genera and Batavia has hod difficulty getting through with four horses. This, too, is on the famous E]gin-Aurora bicycle course, which guidebooks call the best strip of road around Chicago. Elgin.?Roads in this vicinity are .1 11_ 1 1-1- 1inl.fr pracuctuly hujimmuic, owcjjd u? ughi loads. The bottom ia hob deep. Galena.?The roads in Jo Daviess county an* impassable. Fanner* cannot get in to market with produce. Undertaken and liverymen are unable to attend funerala in the country, aa hearses and carriages cannot be drawn over the roads. Harvey.?The impassable condition of the roads throughout Thornton township has practically suspended traffic between Chicago and Harvey during the last two weeks. Yesterday the first delivery wagon for over a week got through from Chicago Heights, but with only a half load. Joliet?-Joliet is completely embargoed from the outside, so far as the country is concerned. It is absolutely impossible for farmers to reach the city. f unerals in ioe country nave uccu uw posed of by temporary interment on the homestead land. Farmers come in with four and six- hones for coal and groceries. Lemont?The roads In the country near Lemont are so bad that farmers cannot get to town withont using four horses, and tbo wheels sink down in clay to the hub. They cannot tnvel more than one-eighth of a milo without stopping to rest the horses. Naperville.?The roads wen never as bad in 20 yean as now. Mud is azlo deep. Farmers do not venture oat to market unless necessity drives them to it Princeton.?The roads in many sections of Bureau county are impassable. Mach inconvenience and financial loss is being occasioned to farmers who for four weeks have been unable to dnw any loads. m - - ?1. Til. tt,{auAfi'nn nOHlStUCJb*-1UD iuaua <u Liim di.v?iuu are the worst in many yours. With warm winds thoy migbt be in fab condition in two or three weeks. Whiting, Ind.?Tbo roads in this section for miles around are in a terrible state. In many places they are utterly impassable to vehicles of any kind. Kankakee.?Most of the highways ir Kankakee township arc stoned and are in fairly good condition. In somo parts of the county a wagon wheel will sink to its hnb. Wankegan.?Tbe highways in the outskirts of Wankegan and the surrounding country are simply frightful. Tbe country people are mudbound. A number of ?* 1 " *IAOA<1 Kaaaikm if ia country scnuuts uiv i^iuku Mwun .. ? too hard for teacher* and pupils to got to them. Yorkville.?The pablio highways are an impassable gulf in most places, and the hitherto sound, reliable gravel roads are cut through to the bottom. Milk wagons have abandoned their routes and creameries have been compelled to 3loso for want of tbe milk and cream lupply. Four horse teams come to town for half ton loads of coal and find great difficulty in returning. Pat tl>* Convicts at Work. To set the inmates of tho state pris- ' ons at work building such roads would be a particularly appropriate proceed-1 ing. The criminal is an enemy of the 1 - 1 M.AtfaM community aim ox me pt-uurui ncna>c, ; and ho would thus ho uade to minister to one of the chief needs of the cotnmn-1 nity aud to promote the general welfare , iu tho most effectual manuer. He would be getting tbe occupation be needa for : bin own health, he would be much more I than paying the cost of hi* trial and confinement, aud he would be confer- j n fiiiriminant and incalculably i nufc ? i" ?~ ? great benefit upon all classes of bonesl : peopie in tbe itate.?Exchange. K?rnrkl?iu Ann?tee,. b, ,hc NomkrrH Knllwmjt. Aiuinnl Mooting Muuthrrn Educational A*>> (uxti'ihii. ('iiHit?n?M>Ka, Toun.. July I -1. 1902. Din rt'?l cImw Inn* fur the round trip, pirn fS.iiit f>uh?'rMhi|i ! . In ('hiittniM* g ? mul r<* luru, Irom u'I ointunn Hi* Nouttifrn. liatr? of Mill- .lutif Stih in July t?t. Inrlimlvfty, with tlnni Until .luiy ?|h. I9IU, r>Cf|il Ihitl tiy drimikII iiickf'N with Joint NKfDl on or before July Kill > ?! |>?ylticul of fee of filly cent* md ?'*'i ii?|oii i>( ii<il limn S"plrml?r loth,' Iniut bmibtiilliMl. IVrMiim living nl tillImportant point > oliould notify agent dnti> In advance on which they wl?h to i(*h?c, ko that la- an provide proper ticket* for tliein. II you want good groceries at;ioweat prlcea Mini prompt deliver, call at (Jleniu. ; i "* \ BAD ROADS TO BLAME. Why tfe* Tumk la the Km* Vla4 M DiuinoM L'o profitable. A bigblr important featux* of thf highways question is the effect good or bad roads have upon tbe local markets and their sources of supply, says tbe Kew York Tribune. Ia all tbe cities and large towns of tbe state there is a demand for farm products and for the builder and heavier products, such as hay and straw and grain. In many cases the surrounding coostry Is quite capable of supplying that demand; in all cases it should do so as far as pocslble; in most cases it does not. Instead, supplies are brought in by rail or canal from far away, perhaps from Other s|atcs; while at the same tima. within a few miles of tbe market thus supplied, are farms that have beea abandoned as not worth working and others whose owners are in chronic discontent and despair at the apparent impossibility of getting profitable prices for their crops. The big farms of the west, they say, monopolize the markets* and so fanning here no longer pays. Now, one prime secret of tbe troobto lies in tbe bad roads, which keep the producer and tbe consumer apart by making it difficult, if not impossible, for tbe farm era to get their produoe to market The farmer 1,000 miles away can get bia crops to market bj rail or oanal more easily and more cheaply than tbe farmer only ten miles away can haul bia in over roada that are so billy and rough and miry that half a ton ia a heavy load for a horse to draw at a alow footpace. It ia not that farms in the east are no longer productive, nor that tbe eastern market no longer offers fair price*. It is that tbe roads between tbe farms and tbe markets are so bad as to make shipment unpiotf table. Good roada throughout tbe farming regions adjacent to tbe cities and towns would do more than anything else to restore prosperity to tbe farmers, enabling them to get their goods to the beat pontile market easily, promptly and cheaply. Good roads would mean good farms, good markets, good prices and good timet lor til ooooerced. MONTANA HIGHWAYS. Iiiirt Law* Provide For Their ljitw tie Ipprowwl, The highways of Montana, by a bill piwd by the state legislature, ars plaoed in the charge of the county surveyor, and the old office of road super* visor, usually held by an inexperienced man, is abolished. The act defines the powers and duties of county surveyors and provides for their compensation. By this act each of these officers is re? ?-? A- i *! - ? * i- u; qnirca to wep in mnawaji w uw county clear of obstruction and la good repair and maintain bridges, to mate all plana and specifications for new road" and bridges, to report to the county commissioners on all work completed, and if the work la done according to the plana, specifications and contract be is to draw hia vouchers for tbe same before payment is made. Tbe county surveyor is chairman of all boards of viewei* of roads, keeps the records of road surveys and is the general superintendent of all roads. Ha may employ labor, teams, etc., and has power to contract for all work not exceeding $200 in cost For larger amounts the approval of a majority of tbe board of county commissioners is required. Tbe salary icoeived varies with tbe class of county, from $750 to $3,000 per year. Viewers and all assistants of the county surveyor may not reoeive kam ft-inn M TJT HnV. U.iVtv ?M?w Y1' f*"- 4 ROADS THAT ARE NEEDED. Bmtj Vattmea1! Ida* It That The? Be Local, Wot National. Henry Watterson takes issue with a good roads advocate who insists that the geueral government should have charge of road making?that there aha old be national highways hoili and maintained at pnblio expense. The good roads that are needed, says the Chicago Times-Herald, those that are most needed, in the language of Colonel Watterson, are those that "lead from the farm to the railroad, the mill* the factory, the school, the church, the ferry and the murket." This apt remark of Colonel Wattezaoo is a condensation, a simplification, an absolutely plain presentation of what Is most wanted in the matter of good roads. Carry oat that idea, and what will be wanting? It will meet the requirements of the fanner; it will sare the farming element hundreds of millions of dollars every year; it will meet the expectations of the pleasure seeker; it will add to the value of every foot of land in the country; it will be of vain* to every merchant and every professional man; it will be a source of pleasure and profit to all classes, in all communities. A Moddy Road. One day this week, as a team iter WM slowly working his way throngh tho quagmire commonly known as a county road between the (Jammings hill and Fossil, be e.?pied a hat in one of the ruts in front of him. As the headgear appeared to be in fairly good condition ho dismounted to pick it up. As he raised tho bat be was astonished to hear a voice coming from under it exclaim: "Hold on! That's my hat!" As soon as he bad gathered bis breath snd wits the teamster asked. "What are you doing down there?" Which brought forth the reply: "I'm in big luck to be where I am. There's a horse underneath me."?Fossil (Or.) Journal. Worth Kr me inhering. The community with the best roads is veiy likely to be the best community. A narrow tire will dig a rut, but a good broad tiro will roll it shut The depth of a road is more to be dreaded than its length. The state of the road tells the sire jt the load. I,. W. Whllr'n l.oritla. The ?up|?ly mill hold* out hi l? W. While'*. Thouumli of ynrdM have t>een eold, hut there *>ti>i rrnimliim h k<xmI iwurlrnfill. VoU had beMer come before lhey are hII gone, NiiIIiIik III* It wn'ovmwen before In th* city of Abbeville. We mean lhai niock ?>f nibrolilerlm ami Inccm flow oil kllle at L. \V. While'*. <io to W'hll#-? IT yon want lo *? * protljr wmmIi good*. print*. t>?*rr*le?, tnndra*. KI nullum*, i?vii?, inu?lItlx. bHtlHten, Olmlltcn in every vHrWy, iMin't mi*? eHnt: Itawo embrnldrrl#-* and tare* at Whit*'*. They are the lovelle?l I lilnit* you e??r *aw. Y<>u wtliflnd tr??- Intodt ?tyle? nf Kprlnx and Summer h*t? at White'*, hoth ?tmw and fur. You will find Home varletlea In IlKhl rolrtrrd hati. 4 -