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' tie inn 11 i V jp 11 in I ii i 11 iii i VOL. XIV.?New Series. ' UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 17, 1883. NUMBER 33. OUR PUBLIC HIGHWAYS. The cost of the present system of ro nh in South Carolina. Edoefiei.D, July 23.?The population of South Carolina is, in round numbers, about one million, 01 was by the Ceusus of 1880. Tn the ratio of five to one this would givo us 200,000 voters. Now tho question is, are there as many persons liable to road duty as there are voters ? The road age is from 16 to 50. The voting age is from 21 . upwards. Will the class from 16 to 21 equal the class from fifty upwards ? I should answer in the affirmative or very nearly so> and if so, the number of voters and road workers must be very nearly equal. But we must deduct all persons oxouipt from rtfitd duty un'ddf^he law. They will, per" hap?, number one hundred in each county or 3,300. We will put the number of "ex cmpts" at 4.000. We must next deduct all persons of the road age in cities and towns. These we can get with reasonable accuracy from the Census of 1880, and amounted then to about 130,000, and I shall ba6c my estimates on the status of that year. In the same ratio of five to one, this would give us 20,000 voters in the cities and towns, and if my comparison is correct the same num bcr of road workers with ti e 4,000 "exempts" we shall have 30,000 to deduct from the 200,000, leaving 170,000 liable to road duty. Let us put it to 150,000. These " 150,000 men arc required by law to work on the public roads "not less than three nor more than twelvj days" in each year. If ? they work the maximum number of dnys, and tbeir services should be valued at one dollar per day?and that is the price fixed by the law makers?we shall havo 150,000 multiplied by twelve, amounting tc 81,800,000 for ono year. Suppose they averago J .. II? .L. i 1 1 t OAAA OIA uuja uuiJUUIIjr, [III' cost WOUIU uc ?yuu,000. If a dollar a day is too much, then the law is wrong. Estimato it at fifty cents a day and for the twelve days the value of tin labor would be 8900,000, aud for six days 8450,000. But it may be said, doubtless will be said, this is not a sound argument or fair calculation as to the annual cost of public roads ; that the people do this work when they can, perhaps, do nothing else, and is a contribution in kind to the public servico and, therefore, docs not cost the amounts specified. I only ado^t the measure of value y" through their representatives. is worth that uitich, and in contemplation of law is expended upou the highways, and, if so expended, is taken out of the produce tivo power of the people of the State, and is, therefore, lost to other chauncls. I have seen tho time when road hands suuimo icd out of tho field were worth a dollar a day to tbo crops, and I insist it is a legitimate estimate iu calculating the cost of maintaining tho highways. If uot bestowed upon the roads this labor would or should be utilized elsewhere, so as to be _ J..II -1 wuivn a uuitar a uny iu iiiu lUUUBincs ui the State. One million cijhl hundred thousand dollars is a large sum of money, anil if collected annually and judiciously expended on the public highways would work a wonderful change for the better. But the collection of no such sum or tho half or the quarter of it will be necessary, as I think I can demonstrate further on. This, however, is not tho only item of cost# Section 1,087 of the General Statutes pro. ^ vidos that "Any persou who shall receive bodily iojury or damage in bis persou or property through a defect in the repair of a highway, causeway or bridgo, may recover in an action against tho county the amount of damages fixed by tho finding of a jury. If such dofect in any road bridge or cause way existed bofore such injury occurred, such damuges shall not bo recovered by the person injured, if his load oxceoded the ordinary weight." Tho next section (1,088) provides, that ''If before the commencement of uu aoliou provided for iu i ho foregoing section tho county commissioners tender to tho plaiuti ff tho amount which he might bo outiiled tc recover, together with all costs, and tho plaintiff refuse to accept the same and does not recover upon subsequent trial a sum larger thau tho amount teudcrcd, tho defendants shad recover oosts aad tho plaintiff bo entitled to the results of uo verdict." That is to say, if tho oouuty will pay for tho repairs of ovory ve-. hiclo broken or injured by reason of a "djfoct in a highway, causeway or bridgo," or for every porsonal injury or dauiago suffered from the samo oauso, tho party injured shall not bo entitled to recover, ^ otherwise ho will havo that right. Suppose that provision should bo put in?o execution, (and what if to prevent it except the forbearnnoe of the publio) what would bo the annual oost to tho people of this Stato ? f ho faotthat tho publio havo rarely availed thcmselvos of it is jo proof that it will not jo the futuro. It is said corporations havo no souls, and juries appear to act upon that principle whenever they got an opportunity. A county is a corporation. It collects taxes for its support from the citizen and in return guarantees protection to person and property. The citizen is entitled to this protection, and if he fails to get it the State gives him his rcmed)\ man com' mits an assault and battery up n another; the party assaulted has his reuie?y in a civil action for damages, and besides this the State redresses the wroug by a criminal prosecution. One man commits a devastavit upon the property of another by doing, or omitting to do, something required by law, and the party injured recovers damages for the wrong. Why should not a county be liable for an act of omission or commission whereby one of its cilizons suffers ? The Legislature evidently thought it should be, cr it would never have eu.icted such a law as the foregoing. There is still another matter of cost, in the form of an indirect tax, it is true, but nevertheless a tax and harden resulting from our wretchedly bad roads, which mig' t be mitigated and greatly reduced by good roads, viz: the wear and tear of vehicles in com~ uion use and the enormous expenditure of horse power. It is next to impossible to ascertain the number of vehicles of all kinds and iescrip tions used on the public highways in South Carolina, but I have adopted the best method T can think of to approximate the number, and havjsubmitted this question to a number of practical uion. What is tbo proportion of vehicles to population in South Carolina ? Some have answered otic to every hundred, somo one to fifty and others one to seventy five. I shoul have answered one to every hundred, hut a majority thiuk this too large and decide that one to fifty would be ucar?.r the mark. However, I will adopt one to a hundred. This would give us ten thousand vehicles. The average life of a vehicle, carriage, buggy > cart, wagon, &c., is about five years iu the present state of the roads. Tu localities where the roads are very had they will not last longer than three years. Let us suppose the average cost of the repairs ou these vehicles is $5 each. Is that too much or too little? If correct, they costaunually $50,000. Now, it is safe to assume that if the foads were made good the average life of a vehicle would be increased to ten yeais nud the auuual r jpairs not more than $2 50 iiVTlliTtfllll?1 i 't inruR'r picunBU iv^smvip^^mv lIDfldl 1 would be a saving of 25,000 in cash annually iu the matter of repairs, besides an euoruious amount by reason of the increased longevity of the vehicles. This is a tux that comes out of the pockets of the people every year that might just as well be saved by the exerciso of more practical wisdom and foresight in working our public roads. I am satisfied, on further reflection and inquiry, I have placed the number of vehicles far too low. There must be one hundred thousand vehicles in tho Stato. It seems to me these questions are well worthy of consideration. They arc not vagaries indulged in for entcrtaiumcnt, but propositions Coming within the scope of every man's experience. It is not claimed that they arc accurate, but they serve to illustrate the point I make and to show that we pay heavily tor bad roads which could bo unmeasurably improved by the judicious outlay of much les- money. In an enterprising go*nhcud country time is money. Time is money whe.o tho peo pie aro active, industrious, vigilant, progressive. If tiino is money, what vast sums aro expended upon our public roads? Here is another tux?heavy tax : Time spent pulling and hauling, "gecin and hawing," swearing an 1 complaining is very un profitably spent There aro many sections of twelve miles of road iu Edgefield County, and no doubt in other counties, that cannot be traveled in winter in less than three, sometimes four hours, whereas not more than an hour and a half ought to be required uud they can be tnado so th .tnot more than I an hour and a half would bo required. I *ir_~u . l-- i? ... u uuiu it inn uu ueucr 10 repair me roads I and save this tiuio to be used moro profitably and avoid tlio torture of mind an l body and loss of vital ouorgy and force ? It would seem so. I might cito other facts showing the ex travngaot cost of our road system, but they would only bo cumulative. If our roads cost the one-half, or the one fourth, or tho one-tenth ot the amounts above stated, they would be the most expensive nuisances that any people ever supported. Hut 1 have not overstated it. 1 have uot included the annual tax we pay for the building and repair of bridges, which is a tax upou property, and iu tho aggregate for the whole State must reach a iargc sum, and which I cannot give because my inquiries ou that . .point have not yet been answered. I have not referred to tho increased expense to which ovcry man is subjected in tho additional horse-power ho must uso to traus port ins family and products over tho hills and gullies and through tho mud and slush he encounters in tho public roads. Two mules will haul four bales cf cotton over a properly located, well-graded and well-worked road, as readily as lour uiules now get along with tho same load. Apply this proportion to tho internal cotnmorce and transportation of this State, carried on by horse-power, and some idea may bo formed of its cxtont This is a part ol tho oost the pcoplo pay toward* maintriniug their publio highways, and no insigni6cant part. It might bo saved by good roads- M C Ut/TLKU. BURYING THE TIYOLI VICTIMS Baltimore, July 25.?Thirty or moro of the victims of the Tivoli wharf disaster were buried to day and the streets in Northeast and Northwest Baltimore, where most of them lived, have been filled with funeral processions. All but one was buried according to the rites of the Catholic Church. Nearly all belonged to two parishes? Corpus Christi and St John's The Church of Corpus Christi, of which the llcv. Wil liam E. Starr is pastor, har-^ been open all day, aud oue funeral service has rapidly succeeded another all the afternoon. A young lady, Miss O'Connor, was the first to be buried from this church, and as soon as the coffin containing her body had departed another procession arrived. Many of the people remained for both services. The march up the aisle wasled by father Starr. Following him came four pall-bearers bear* ing the coffin in which lay the body of | John McAnany Four more followed and bore the body of Mrs Annie McAnany, his wife. Next came a man bearing across his arms a small coffin containing the body of Mamie their infant, ^tftcr this were two men who carried the coffin which held the body of Alice McAnany, their littic daughter. Walking closely behind these coffins was Johny McAnany the only survivor of the family. He seemed heart-broken. The tears Glled his large eyes and streamed down hs checks. 11 is face was the most pitiful spectacle of the whole funeral. The little follow sat up all night Tuesday night watching and keeping the flies away from the dead bodies of his sisters. The strain on his system was clearly and sorrowfully pictured in his features. It was almost impossible to look at him without crying. Two of the coflitis were placed in the aisle, one upon the catafalque, the other on stools, and tho coffins of Ilia children woro put upou the backs of the benches. After read| ing the service Father Starr mads a short address. * 11 is not necessary," he said, "to tell you how sad this scene is. It is but the beginning of a scries of sorrowful sights; it is only one of the first of the funeral trains which for the uext two days will proceed through the streets of the city. To many of us this disaster was a uust bewildering and completely unnerving disJ pensatiou. Wc could not, and many of us do not, recognize the providence of tho act, nor understand why our picnic should bo uiado the occasiou of such a fatal and such an appalling calamity. We must all pray for the gr jwo persons who lie there in their cjfiins. Fur the children you need not pray. In their innocence the little ones went from the bosom of that-dark river to the bosom of God." After speaking of tho necessity of prayer for the dead adults, be said : "When I saw my people StrugI gliog in the water and could uot save them, 11 granted each and all of them absohttioU-l. kuow dear friends, I would h*ye'ghr?n nty [ very life to savo those people. I wouiTd have--" At this point tho priest's feci ings were too deep. The members of tho | congregation were sobbing aloud, and for the mouicut ho bowed his head and wept. As soon as he recovered he said lie woald not draw on the already overcharged hearts of the mourners. Tho service was finished and the cortege moved away to the cemetery. Quite a number of persons remained at tho Holy Cross Cemetery during tho day to wituess the six or seven interments utade there. Aloug the Hartford road leading to this cemetery groups of people gathered at the cross roads and street corners to sec the funerals pass by, and many j shed tears at the melancholy sights. I From St. John's Catholic Church, corner of Eager and Valley streets, there were live of the victims buried with Christian rites, and the clergy of that parish also officiated at several other funerals during the day. The saddest and most impressive funeral in the Northeastern section of the city waB that of Mrs McLaughlin and her three children, of No. 110 Sterling street, who went to their dc?th together, and together wore borne to the tomb. Tho little parlor of the modest dwelling where they had lived was scarcely large enough to hold tho cofs tins, and two wcro placed in a back room While the grief stricken husband and father with his eldest son, who is weak-minded and almost an imbecile, moved from coffin to coffin and took a look at the pale faces of nis iovea ones, n neighbor held in her aruis the youngest child, which, together with his helpless boy, aro nil the poor father now has left of tho large nnd happy family ho had a few days ago. Tho narrow street in front of tho house was thronged with people, not only from the immediate neighborhood, but other parts of tho city. There were four sets of pall bearers. Such scenes as tljese wero frequent nt tho funerals of the vfctitps. On Sterling street, in Northcast Baltimore, there wero six funerals in ono squaro ; four in one house, all members of the McLaughlin family. There is no evidence that thcro will bo any criminal prosecution of tho owners or lessee of the property, but William II. WkviA ,.e \t Wi-... - ?:n - .. /??! nu ui i'lujrui ti njnu, win uruig a number of civil suits f >? damages against the owners? the estate of William J. Albert. Tivrli is in Hall-more Couuty, and tho city authorities aro powerless in the matter. Tho County authorities aro not likely to do much. No more bodies have been found. A Sad story conies from New" Orleans that a poor mother who wont out in search of a coffin for hor dead baby, was strioken by heat and died in a hospital to which she was removed. Her liviug children watched beside tho corpse of their sistor aud anxiously waited thoir mother's return. Thoir distress was dreadful when sho was brought back doad?dead with tho money in her pocket that was to have bought hor little darling's coffin. Condition ok Mrs Starr and IIer Daughter ?We are truly glad to be informed that Mrs. John L. Starr and her daughter Irene, the latter about 17 years old, are in a fair way to'recover from the injuries inflicted by lightning last week, though the mother is by no means out of danger yet. Her wounds are in a.hcalthy condition, and the chief danger that the physicians Icar is erysipelas. Unless some unfavorable change takes place, the physicians will probably remove the ladies to their own home tomorrow (Friday.) They are now at the residence of Mr. J. Leonidas Moore. We had not heard the full particulars of tho disaster up to the hour of going press last Mrs Btarr and her daughter escaped beiug instantly killed as a miracle. The lightning seems to have first struck the mother on the back of the head, cutting a terrible gash, having the skullbouc exposed and burning the hair off. It then passed down her back and circling around her waist cut several other deep, ragged gashes ou her person. Her clothing caught fire and her neck, back and hip were badly burucd. The flauics were communicated to the daughter, who had hecn fearfully shocked by the ?-trokc, and her clothing being also set on fire, the two unfortunate ladies were in a fair way to burn up, aud perhaps would have done so, had not Mr. Hubert Hanna (who had also been knocked senseless) returned to consciousness. When he recovered his senses, he discovered that the ladies' clothing was afire and ran to their rescue. "After a desperate struggle with the flames ho succeeded in subduing them, but not until Miss Irenes clothing had been hurut off down to her waist and the mother burned as above noted. During all this time the mother was perfectly unconscious and the daughter had not recovered consciousness sufficiently to know that sho.was afire until Mr. II inna went to work to save her life. She knew her mother's condition, however, and her efforts were directed towar 1 extinguishing the Gre on her. The unfortuuato ladies were attended by Drs. Crawford, Dratton and Campbell, and they agree that in all their reading and experience they have never known a case like Mrs. Starr's before. The flesh is cut aud torn in au extraordinary manner, lcavs ing wounds which it would be hard for any ' one to bcliovo had been done by lightning. widWfliPieti&r been found. It was either knocked into atoms or burnt up. The physicians arc now of the opinion that Mrs. Starr's mule aud Mr. Ilanuu's horse were killed by the shock and were not struck at all. They are borne out in this opinion by the fact that neither the mule nor tho horse was burned or scratched in any way. A piece was knocked off the buggy, and after leaving that tho lightning went into the ground, a small, round hole being left, into which a walking stick could bo placed for a foot or further.?Jtock Hill Ilcmhl. The Morals of the Trade.?A man should cxamino his business by the standard of iusticc aud morulitv. It is ma sufficient that my business increases my Coins, or that the purchaser is willing to take \ hat I offer. Every man, we are told, is morally bound to pursuo such a business as to render a valuable consideration for that which be receives from another. A rnau who receives tu trade the avails of the industry of another is under obligations to return that which will be of real value, If ho receives tho fruit of toil aud that which will be of value to himself, common equity requires that he return a valuable consideration. The farmer brings to the mcr chant the product of his toil, and receives in return the product of tho manufacturer, needful for olothing, subsistance and comfort for himself and family. The mechanic, the physioiau, tho teacher, all return valuable consideration' for what they receive. There j t i? ? . ? are many imr auu nonoraoio 8U jects ot exchange by which tho interests of both parties ure advanced. But how is it with tho dealer in intoxicating drinks '{ He obtains the property oi' his fellow men, and what docs he give in return? Does he give him that which will promote his real welfare ? That which will make hiui a butter, happier or more useful man ? That which wiil enhauce the welfare and comfort of his family ? That which will enrich, or benefit the community? None of theso things; lie gives him rather that which will produco provcrty and want, ccars and suffering?perhaps death itself. He gives him that which is known to be tho source of no good ; but that which tends to beggary and wretchodncss. If this were praticed in any other business, would it not bo opon fraud? If you could palui upon another that which is not only useless but mischievous?that which would certainly tend to ruin himself and family, could there k. i. .L- ?. -- I uu uujf uuuui us iu iiiu iiaiure or nonesiy of tbo employment ? Tho fact that he supposes it to bojgood, or takca it voluntarily, cannot be your justification. You know it is not good ; you kuow that it will tend to hie ruin. What good has tho traffio in inta*|0alif?.. Wyors over conferred upon society f Instead of good it has been evil; the frultfal source of ruin to tho individual, tho family, tho community. ? Liviuj Issue and Gazelle. Fcm Sixteen-Year Old Men.?lto-1 member, my ton, that the world is older j e than jot are by several years, that four ( thousands of years it has been so full of smarter and better young men than your- f self that their feet stuck out of the dormer s windows ; that when they died, tho old globe went whirling ou and not one man in ^ : ten million went to the funeral, or even heard of the death. c Ho as smart as you, can, of course. Know as much as you can without blowing j the packing out of your cylinder-head ; shed . tho light of your wisdom abroad in the world, but don't dazzle people with it, and c don't imagine a thing so simple because ti you say it is. Don't be too sorry for your father because he knows so much less than , you do. llcmeuibcr the reply of Dr. Way- 1 I land to the Btudcnt or Brown University, c | who said it was an easy enough thing to make proverbs such as Solomon wrote. "Make a few." tersely replied the old man. And we neverhcard that the young man made any; not more than two or three, anyhow. " The world has great need of young uicu,but u no greater need than young men have of it. r Your clothes fit you better than your falh- j er's fit him ; they cost more money, thev aro more stylish, your mustache is neater, the cut of y iur hair is better, and you arc M prettier, oh. far nrettior than "n.a." Tint I V" young man, the old gentleman gets the big- j gest salary, and his homely scrambling signature on the husiucs end of the check P will drain more money out of the bank w in live minutes than you could get out with a ream of paper and a copperplate signature in six months. " Young ui ui arc useful and they arc oruamental, and we all love them, and we couldn't engineer a picnic successfully ? without theui. Hut they are no novel? s. lies, my son. Oh, no, nothing of the kind. They have bceu hero before. gi I)o not be so modest as to shut yourself clear ; cut but dou't bo so fresh that you will have to be put away to keep v from spoiling. Don't be afraid that your ^ merit will not bo discovered. People all over the world are hunting for you. A 11 diamond 5su't so easily fouud as a quartz pebble, but somo people search for it all the more intently.?Burlinyton Ilaickcye. a "Damned Scoundrels."?Wasbiutou, o July 25.?Colonel Jack Brown of Georgia, is one of the most prominent of the Southera republicans in this city. Yesterday ho b. had occasion, in looking after the interest t; of a elicit, to call upon the Postmaster f General. lie was horrified upou being told by Mr. Greshatn that he regarded Southern j Republicans as "dauiyed scouudrels." To* TTay Colonel Brown sontTMr. Gresham the 1 i following letter : "Sir : Since your remark of yesterday that 'Southern Republicans were the dauiued- t est set of scoundrels who had comcjin ruy t (your) w ty, binee your advent into your present position,' self-respect will prevent my calling in person. You are certainly a type of the human species from whence the soubriquet of 'lloosier' has been given to Indiauians, for iu all my travels on this continent and that of Europe I have seen no man who could boast of fewer accomplishments in civility and politeness than I yourself. Grant made a great mistake in ( | having you appoiutcd J'ostmaster General, ( for all men of sense with whom you have j come in contact agree that you arc sans c common seuses, sans law and sans decency. ^ What a pity for this natiou that Arthur (as was his intention) did not appoint ^ Longstreet or McLaws of Georgia, either one of whom has intcrgri'y and force of character that you nor none of your Indi 1 4 _ f? * rl? -t? * 1iuu vuuiiuii'ii uuu uuust oi. 'r all 8 iuuatc respect for lun idiots anddudcsi prevented me from slapping your jaws yesterday when you expressed the Iloosicr and contemptible idea that all Southern y Republicans were scoundrels. Had Grant ? or any other man for whom I entertain res- g pect manifested the same spirit, I should | have downed him on the spot." j. Why 11k Missed His Check Rook. 8 ? It was on the elevated road the other 1 morning. A man was seen to suddenly rise ( unward. look around on tlm aonl cr><>l in <>1. ' his pockets and grow excited over the loss of something or other. "Lost your wallet ?" queried the man next to him. "No." "Had your watch taken ?" "No." "Lost a roll of bills, perhaps ?" "It is my check book ; I believe L loft it at hoinc. Dear, bow careless I am !" "It might bo worse," said the other in a consoling tone. "I don't see how it could be," growled the other. "My wife will sit down and j figure up the stubs, and when I go homo | to dinoer it'll take a full hour to mako lu>r believe that "incidentals" have any* thing to do with household expenses." A New York physician says tho best ' thing for a cold is an old fashioned sweat, I which may bo produced by takiug < "ton grains o? quinine, a hot mustard foot- ( bath and a stiff glass of toddy," Tho trouble with this recipe is, that too many men, ' having treacherous memories, can't rcmcm- 1 bjr but one portion of the cure. TIow Site Got Evev.?"Is this seal ngaged ?" ho asked of the prettiest girl in he car, and finding it wasn't, put his sam-ile box in the rack and braced himself for olid enjoyment. "Pleasant day," said the girl, coming for lim before he could get his tongue unkinkd ; "most bewildering day, isn't it ?" "Ye-yos, miss," stammered the drummer. Tc was in the habit of playing pitcher in his kind of a match, and the position of atelier didn't fit him as tight as his panaloons. "Nice weather for traveling," continued he girl; "much nicer than when it was old Are you perfectly comfortable?" "Oh, yes, thanks," muruiurod the drum*, jer. "Glad of it," resumed the girl, cheerfully. You don't look so. Let uie put my shawl udcr your head, won't you? Hadn't you ?#i :* a i. ? - * * ? jiiiui -mi uuxt i?? me winuow ana nave mc escribe the landscape to you ?" ' No, plenso," he uiuttorcd, "I?I'm doing ell enough." "Can't I buy you some peanuts or a book? <ct mc do something to make tho trip hapy. Suppose I slip my arm arouud your mist. Just lean forward a trifle so I can." "You'll?you'll havo to excuse me," asped tho wretched drummer. "I don't [link you really mean it." "You look so tired," bIic pleaded ; wouldn't .you like ?o > ??* 1-^oJ on my iiouiucrT rto one will nonet. Just lay our head right down, and I'll tell you lories." "No?no, thanks. I wou't to day. I'm cry comfortable, thank you," and tho rummer looked around hopelessly. "Your scarf-piu is coming out; let me fix ;. There!" and she arrauged it deltlj. A ? .1 ?? ? T'ii ?* ' Alb UIU UU A W SlilblUU L II guv JOU a cup OI 3a, and when we arrive at our destination ou'll let me call on vou ?" and she smiled n anxious prayer right up into his pallid ouutcnanco. "I thiuk I'll go away and suiokc," said be drummer, and hauling down his gripack, he made for the door, kncc-decp in lie grins showered around him by his allow-passengers. 'Strange," murmured the girl to the lady u front of her. "I ouly did with him usl what..he was making ready tg do with nc, and, big and strong as he is, he couldn't land it. I really thiuk women haro tronger stomachs than men, and, besides hat, there isn't any smoking-car for them o fly to for refuge. I dou't understand his thing." But she settled back contentedly all tho umc, and ut a convention of drummers held u the smoker thai morning at was unauiaously resolved that her seat was engaged, o far as they were concerned, for the balncc of the season. ? The British Larorer as he is.?Tho nan has a good suit of blaek in which to go o church on Sunday, and his wife sits by lis side attired with equal neatness and :omiori, ana tncy Doth, with their children dso, present a tidy and well-cared-for look is you see tlicui on the streets during the veck. Their dwellings, viewed from tlio mtside, are suggestive of anything but >ovcrty or distress. They an of humble limensions, to be sure, but the windows, haded with imitation lace curtains, as many if them are, and lit up by flowering plants, irescnt a really beautiful appearance, and /hot the appetito for an inside viow, iVithiu you find almost invariable cleauliicss and good cheer, aud what is still better m all-pervading borne feeling. The Ucuso ooks all over as though i: were occupied >y those who felt it a privilege to live there iml were bent on making the place somching beyond a mere shelter. That this :lass make their small earnings serve them io well is owing to several reasons. llcnts ire very low, these tasteful dwellings cosfng them, with a small g .rdcn attached, from 615 to 620 a year. Clothing, too, ;osts less than one half what it does in America aud is more durable. The schoolug of the children amounts to scarcely 1IIV tillIICT. For tlio. first r?li 11 ?t f.vnr .innlo ? ? c ? >voek must be paid, Cor the second two cent?, ibr the third two cents, and all tho other ittlo ones, even if there should be a score n the family, go to school free. In return for this sum the children get a fair education and have all the necessary books found for them.?London Letter. Ramrod Bread.?As a car ions souvenir of the war, Maj. Albert Ross has pre* torved in a glass case a pieco of what was known in the Con fedcrato army as ramrod bread It was made by stringing out a piece >f dough and twisting it around a ramrod ?nd then baked by suspending on two forked iticks. The piece preserved by Major Ross ivas baked in 1864 in East Tennessee. ?Macon Telegraph -