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't I # l. m. grist s sons, pnku?her?. j & ifamilg jettrajager: 4[?r the promotion of the political. social. agricultural and (commereiat interests of the people. { ,i!S^K!A,otsiskra!m!* established 1855. yorkville, s. c., tuesday, .tax l'ary 5, 1909. no. 2. ?- ?^^ ?? By OPII | Copyrighted 1896, by Wm. I JHn# By Permission of La T - ~aj"" " CHAPTER XVIII?Continued, w Wneu me tailor had completed his * "survey" 1 went to tne jail, taiaed tor a lew moments with Alf and then straightway rode to tne generals house. Une oid man was sitting on tne porcn, witn one foot resting on a pili6w, placed upon a chair. "Get down and come rignt in!" he shouted; ana as I came up tne steps he motioned me away from nim and said: "Don't touch that hoof, if you please. ButtermilK pout, sir. Look out, you'll tip something over on me. It s a fact?every time I drink buttermilk it goes to my foot. Too much acid. How are you, ^ anyway?" He cautiously reached out his hand and JerKed it away when I had merely touched it. "Didn't sleep a wink last nignt; and every dog in the county came over here to bark. I am very glad you have called; glad that you are too liberal to hold a foolish resentment. And the old folks are gone. 'Od MEN, 'zounds, the way things do turn out. The hrst thing I know I'll swear myself out of the church. It was my |H pride, sir?but by all the virtues that ^ man has grouped, must we apologize for our pride? Hah, sir! Must I grovel and beg pardon because I honor my own name? I'll see myself blistered first. It wasn't old Lim's fault. Confound it all, it wasn't anybody's fault. Then, sir, must I go crawling around on my belly like a?like a?like an infernal lizard, sir? I hope not. rBut it will come out all right, I think. After Alf is cleared the old people will come back and all will be well again. What do you want?" A negro boy had poked his head out of the hall door and was looking on with a broad grin. "Dinner!" cried the old man. "But is that the way to announce it?grinning like a cat? Come ^ back here. Now what do you want?" ? ? --t. ?t?a K/Mf "Dinner is reaay, sun, ?<mu mc w,. "Well, that's all right. But don't come round here grinning at me. Hand me that stick. Oh. I'm not going to hit you with it. Come, Mr. Hawes. No, I don't want you to help me. I can H hobble ;il<>ntr best by myself." Millie was in the dining room, and she turned to run when she saw me, but the old man hobbled into her way, H" . so she came toward me with reddening face, and held out her hand. "I am glad to see you," she said. "Sit over here, please. That's Chyd's seat and he's so particular." The son came in, said that he was pleased to see me, sat down, opened a k pamphlet that looked like a medical ^ journal and began to read. "Mr. Hawes," said the general, "1 understand that you have made arB* rangements to study law with Judge PB Conkwright. And a most fortunate arrangement, I should think. Smart old q fellow, sir; smart, and a good man to ^ have on your side, but a mighty bad man to have against you?half Yankee by parentage and whole Yankee by instinct. Millie, is that cat under the table?" "I think not, father," the girl answered, after looking to see if the cat were there; but this did not satisfy the old man. "vou must Know, nui think," he said. "There should be no doubt about the matter, for I must tell you that if he touches my foot I'll kill him. A cat would travel ten miles and swim a river?and a cat hates water? to claw a gouty foot. Chyd, just put rthat book aside if you please." The young man folded the pamphlet and shoved it into his pocket. "I've struck a new germ theory," he said. "Yes," replied the general, "and you'll strike a good many more of them as ? you go on. I should think that you want facts, not theories." "But theories lead to facts," the r young man rejoined. "The theory of today may become the scientific truth of tomorrow." "And it may also be the scientific error of the day after tomorrow," I remarked. He looked at me, spoke a word which I did not catch and then was silent, seeming to have forgotten what he had intended to say. I think that the word he uttered was "hah." or something to indicate that he had paid but slight heed to my remark. I did not repeat it, and the talk fell away from the germ theory. "Now. Mr. Hawes," said the general, "I want you to help yourself just as if you were alone at your own board. It is a pleasure to have you with us, and an additional pleasure to know, fsir, that you are to become a permanent citizen of this county. Men may think themselves wise when they apprentice their sons to a trade, averring that the professions are overcrowded, but that has always been the case, and yet. professional men have ever been the happiest, for they achieve the most, not in the gathering of money, but in the uplifting of mankind. My .looirhtci' vnn rlrm'f ri nnen r to be eat ing anything. I hope that you have not permitted the timely, though unexpected. visit of Mr. Hawes to affect your appetite. Chydlster, another piece of this mutton? Most nutritious, I assure you: a fact, however, which is, no doubt, well known to you. Mr. Hawes. 1 should think that voh would ^ prefer to sleep here at night, rather M than to stay alone in that old house. You are more than welcome to a room v here. sir. And I should like to hear anecdotes of your grandfather, the captain." "I shall be in the country hut a part of the time during the week, and my coming and going will be irregular. Hut for this I should gladly accept your generous offer. As to my grandfather. I must admit that I know hut little regarding his life." r"A sad error in your bringing up, sir. In that one particular we Americans are shamefully at fault. A buncombe democracy has insisted that it is not esential to look back, hut simply to place stress upon our present force and consequence. That is a self-depreciation, a half-slander of one's self. Of course, it is not just to despise a 2 READ. i I L Lee?All Rights Reserved, ird & Lee, Publishers. | man who has no ancestry, but it is a crime not to honor him if he has a [ worthy lineage." And thus he talked until the rest of us sat back from the table, and then, gripping his cane and getting up, he said that he would like to talk to me privately in the library. Upon entering the room he filled a clay pipe, handed it to me, gave me a lighted- match, filled a pipe for himself, and then lay down upon an old horse-hair sofa. I placed a cushion for his foot and he raised up and bowed to me. "I thank you. sir." he said. "I don't believe thnt Chyd would have thought of that. I believe that he- will make of himself - - - ^ v..... _ one of the finest 01 pnysicians, uui u. man may be a successful doctor and yet a thoughtless and an Indifferent companion. You will please put the right construction upon what may appear as an over-frankness on my part, for the fact is I have never regarded you as a stranger; and I feel that what I say to you will go no further." He was silent and I nodded to him, waiting for him to continue. He moved his shoulders as if to work himself nto an easier position, and then he resumed his talk. "Of my own volition 1 would not have gone over to Jucklin's house to break that engagement? I would have waited?but my son told me to go, and after I had gone, why, of course, I had to act my part. But it was simply acting, for my heart was not in it. And I tell you, sir, that if old Lim had wiped his bloody hands in my face I would not have struck him. Chydister is proud, but his pride and mine are not of the same sort. With him everything must bear upon his future standing as a physician, and to me that has too much the color of business. I admit that I was grieved to discover that my daughter was n love with Alf. I don't say that he is not morally worthy of her or of any young woman, but he is poor and is indifferently educated, with no prospects save a life of hard work. And I don't believe that I need to apologize for desiring to see my daughter well situated. Now, my son regrets the step which he took and which he urged me to take, and at the earliest moment he will renew the engagement. I think , almost as much of Guinea as I do of my own daughter Although she is a country girl, who has led a most simile life. I hold her a remarkable woman?an original and a thinking woman, sir And now what I request you to do is this?soften her resentment, if you can. There are matches at the corner of the mantelpiece." My pipe was out. I lighted it. and - * * U..4 olci not resume my su< i, uui siuuu ing at nim. "General," said I, "Guinea will never marry your son." "The devil you say! Pardon me. I didn't mean to be so abrupt. But why do you think she will not marry him?" "General, it is now your turn to pardon me. sir. She is to be married by a man who worships her, not a scientist, but a man with a heart?she is going to be my wife." The old man sprang up and in a moment he stood facing me. There was a footstep at the door and Chydister entered the room. "Go ahead with your emotional oratory, but pardon me while I look for my stethoscope," he said. "I want to see what effect an hour's run will have on the hearts of a hound and an ordinary cur." "Sir!" cried his father, turning upon him, "this is no time to talk of the hearts of hounds and curs. The hearts of men are at stake." "That so What's up?" "What's up, indeed, sir? This man says that Guinea Jucklin will not marry you." "Yes, so he told me. Now I almost know that I put that thing right up ; here." " 'Zounds, man. will you listen to I me!" "Yes, sir, go ahead. He says she | won't marry me. That's his opinion, undemonstrated?a mere assertion; he lias given me no proof." "Ah, have you any proof, Mr. Hawes?" the old man asked. "I have, but it cannot very well be set forth in words; and with much respect for you, general, I must say that I prefer not to illustrate it." "You see it's rather vague, futher. Let me ask if she has said positively that she will be your wife?" "Her lips may have made no promise beyond a figure of speech, and yet her heart " "Ah. more vague than ever," the young man broke in, looking at his father as if he were impatient to get away. "I must have left it somewhere else," he added, and the old general frowned upon him. "Chydister, if you lose that woman it is your own fault." "Well, no, I can hardly agree wtlh you there, father. If I lose her it will ue the fault of circumstances. Are you done with me?" "Yes. you can go," said the general. He stooped, reached back for the lounge and laboriously stretched himself upon it. Chvd went out and I remarked that it wax time for me to go. The old man made no reply, seeming not to have heard in<\ but as I turned toward the door he raised up and said: "I would be a fool, sir, to blame you; and I trust that you will not blame me for hoping that you tire mistaken." He lay down again, and 1 left him. Millie was standing at the gate when 1 went out, and she pretended not to see me until I bad passed into the road, and then, with the manner of a surprise, she said: "Oh, didn'a think you were going so soon?thought you and father were having an argument. Do you set?see him very often?" There was a tremulous tenderness in her voice, and I knew that there were tears in her eyes and I looked far away down the road, as I stood there with the gate between us, "I have seen him every day." I answered. "And does he look wretched and heart broken?" "Xo. he is happy, for he knows that you love him." She caught her breath with a sob and I looked far away down the road. "You told hitn?told him that I did. And I am so thankful to you; I would do anything for you. I dream of him all the time, and I see you with him. How terrible it is, shut up there and the sun is so bright for everyone else. Sometimes I go into the closet and stay there in the dark, for then I am nearer him. When will you see him again?" "I am going back to town tomorrow." "Will you please give him this?" I reached forth my hand and upon my palm she placed a locket. "I know that if you study law, Mr. Hawes, you will pet him out. You are so strong" that you can do most anything. Good-bye, and when you write to Guinea, send her my love." CHAPTER XIX. Four weeks passed and heavy were the days with anxiety, for I had received no word from Guinea. I thought of a hundred causes that must have kept ner from writing, but. worst of all, 1 feared that she had written and that the letter had gone astray. One afternoon, having thrown my book aside, weary of causes, reasonings and developments of law, I sat on a rock near the spring, musing, wonder ng, when suddenly I sprang to my leet, with Guinea in my mind, with Guinea before me, I thought. But this was only for an instant. A young deer came down the path, gracefully leaping, and my mind flew back to the tinu when I had first seen her running down that shining strip of hard-beat earth, ifes, it was a deer, and it ran down the brook, and presently I heard the hounds yelping in the woods. I returned to my room and again I strove to study, but the logical phrasing was harsh to me, and I threw down the oook. I would fish in the pools that iay along the stream toward the mill. The ground in the yard and about the barn was so dry that I could find no angle worms, and I decided to dig in the damp moss land near the spring. The hoe struck a hard substance and out came something bright. I stooped to examine it, and at first I thought that it was silver, but it was not?it was mica. I scraped off the moss and the thin strata of earth, and there I found a great bed of the ore. I dug deeper and it came up in chunks, and it was fine and flawless. My reading taught me that it was valuable, and I was rejoiced to find that it was on my own land. I got out as much as I could carry?indeed, I filled a trunk witn it, ana men careiuny repiucea me moss, smoothed It down and made it looked as if it had not been displaced. My blood ting-led with excitement and I was afraid that some one might have seen me. I took the trunk to my room and split off thin sheets of the mica, and the more I looked at it the more I was thrilled at the prospect that now lay, not in the future, but under my touch. And I was not long in resolving upon a course to pursue. I remembered that into our neighborhood had come from Nashville, Tenn., a large stove with mica in the doors, and I thought it would be wise to take my trunk to that city and by exhibiting its contents induce some one to buy the mine. I hastened to town, after hiding the trunk, and told Conkwright and Alf that unexpected business called me away for a few days, and then I returned home and hired a man to drive me to the railway station. I was afraid to trust the trunk out of my sight, but I had to let the baggage man take it, but I charged him to be particular with it, telling him that it was full of iron ore. He gave it a jerk and declared that it must be full of lead. When I had come into that community I fancied that the train was on wings, but now ii appeared to be crawling. Night came and I was afraid that robbers might assail the train and expose my secret; but at last I reached Nashville, and then came a worry. How was I to find the man who had made the stove? I took my trunk to a hotel, wrapped a chunk of the mica in a handkerchief and set out to look for a stove dealer. I soon found a hardware establishment, and in I walked with the hardened air of business. and asked for the proprietor. A pleasant looking man came forward, and I asked him what mica was worth. He looked at me sharply and answered that he was not thoroughly Informed as to the state of the market, but that he thought it was worth all the way from five to twenty-five dollars a pound. "But mica of the first quality is scarce." said he, and then he asked if I wanted to buy mica. "No, sir, I want to sell it. Is this of good quality?" I unwrapped the handkerchief and his eyes stuck out in astonishment. "Where did you get it?" he asked. "Off my land in North Carolina." "Have you very much of it?" he asked, scaling off thin sheets with his knife. "Tons of it." "You don't say so! Then you've got a fortune. We are not very large manufacturers and don't use a great deal. How much did you bring with you?" wiily a trunk full." "Well, I guess we can take that much. Bring it around." I did so, and I could scarcely believe that I had correctly caught his words when he offered me five hundred dollars, though now I know that he paid me much less than it was worth. He talked a long time with his partner, and then came back to me with the money, asked my name and a number of other questions. "Young man," said he, "if we had the ready means we would buy that mine, but we haven't. Now, I tell you what you do: Take a sample?this piece?and go at once to Chicago. I know of some capitalists there who are making large investments in the south, and I have no doubt null llivy win ?c iu iiiunv }uu an ofter lor your property. Here, I'll write their names on a card. To tell you tile truth, we are to some extent Interested with them. Now. don't show this sample to anyone else, but go straight to Clarm & Glng, Rookery building. Chicago. Anybody can tell you where it is. Here's the card. We'll telegraph them that you are coming, so you are somewhat in honor bound, you understand, not to go elsewhere? we have in some degree sealed the transaction with a part purchase, you see." I walked out of that house, dazed, bewildered with my own luck. And I took passage on the first train for Chicago. If money could clear Alf, he! would now be cleared, and proudly I mused over the great difference that I would make between his first and. his last trial. But during all this time 1 was conscious of a heaviness?the siience of Guinea. The train reached Chicago at morning. And now I was in the midst of a whirl and a roar?a confused babDiing at the base of Babel's tower. And as l walked up a sireet I thought that a tornado had broken loose and that 1 was in the center of it. I called a fiackman, for my reading taught me what to do, and I toid him to drive me to the Rookery. He rattled away and came within one of being upset by other vehicles, and I yelled at him to be more nartleular. but on he went, pay ing no attention to me. After a while he drew up in front of a building as big as a lopped-off spur of a mountain range; and when I got out I found that the vitals of the hurricane had shifted with me, for the roar and the confusion was worse, was gathering new forces.. But no one laughed at me, no one pointed me out, and I really felt quite pleased with myself?a school teacher, a lawyer's assistant, expected by a capitalist! I went under a marble urcnway, and asked a man if he knew Clarm & Ging. and he pointed to an elevator?I knew what It was?and shouted a number. I got in and was shot to the eighth floor. I knocked at a door, but no one opened it. There was no bell to ring, so I knocked louder and still no one opened the door. This was hardly the courtesy that 1 expected. But while I was standing tnere a man came along and went in without knocking. I thought that he must be one of the men I was looking for, and I followed him, but he simply looked around after going in and then went out again without saying anything. I saw a man sitting at a desk, and I handed him the card which the hardware dealer had given me. He looked at it and said: "Yes, you are Hawes, eh? Where's your mica." I gave it to him, and he looked at it closely through a microscope. "How deep have you gone?" "Not more than six inches." "That so? Much of this size?" "Train loads, I should think." "Ah, hah. How much land does it cover?" "Don't know exactly. Haven't investigated." * And this question set me to thinking. The mine was well on my land, but it might spread out beyond my lines. It was important that I should buy several acres surrounding the stretch, of moss, and I decided to do this immediately upon my return home. "Let's see," said the capitalist. "This io ?fiaa\7 \ti- einrm is nut nf town and will not be back until Mondayhas a summer home in St. Jo, Mich., and is over there. It's just across-the lake. Suppose we go over thi morrow morning, boat leaves at nine. Be a pleasant trip. All right." He resumed his work as If my acceptance of his proposition was a foreshadowed necessity. "How did you nappen to find it?" he asked, without uioking up from his work. "I was digging for angle worms." He grunted. "Didn't find any worms, did you?" "Xo, I don't think I did." "I know you didn't. Worms and mica don't exist in the same soil. Very rugged ?" "Rocks on each side." I was determined to be business-like, not to give him Information unless he asked for it; and I sat there, studying him. He was direct and this pleased me, for it bespoke a quick decision. But after a time I grew tired of looking upon his absorption, for his mood was unvarying and he held one position almost without change, so I began to walk about, looking at the pictures of factories and of mines, hung nn flirt u*o 11 c? Thn rl o \r xvao hnf nn/1 fho windows were up, and I looked down on the arit-working industry in the street. How different from the view that lay out of my window in the old lop: house; but I was resolved to draw no lonp bow of astonishment, for in a man's surprise is a reflex of his ignorance* "What business?" the capitalist asked, still without looking up. "None, you might say. Have taught school, but of late I have employed my time with studying law." He looked round at me and then resumed his work. A long time passed. I heard his watch snap and then he got up. "We'll go out and get a bite to eat," he said. "Any particular place?" "No," I answered, pleased that he should plesume that I was acquainted wit the eating houses of the town. To be Continued. Postage Stamp Cheats. "You would be surprised." said a postoffice clerk, "at the efforts people make to avoid the payment of postage. And quite often it is not the work of children either. The most common trick is to take the stamp that has been canceled by hand and the impression just touches the edge of the stamp. After pricking the marked edge with a pin or cutting it with a pair of shears to resemble the punctured edge of the stamp or tearing away that part the stamp is put on an envelope for another voyage All these are placed in the hands of postal inspectors for investigation. "Others try to give the impression that a stamp had been put on an envelope and became loose and lost in transit by sticking a stamp on the envelope and then pulling it with part of the envelope sticking to it off again. These as well as underpaid letters, unless they have a foreign destination, where postage is then collected are marked 'Returned for postag', and seni ba k to >he sender. Second-class matter, as a roll of newspapers, is otten sealed against inspection by having the stamps overlap the cover. Whether foreign or not It Is returned for postage. When It again shows up, the mistake rectified, nttnn inenoftlnn it Iq llQllollxr f nilnH tfl llir?|7VVV.VII ?v .W fcV contain written letters, photographs (unmounted), jewelry, merchandise of all kinds, making the package underpaid; hence it is again returned. "But the limit of foolishness comes when a person tries to efface the indelible ink from the stamp and with half the features of the stamp missing or rubbed away and some of the ink still remaining affixes it to an envelope, with the address of the sender upon the back to facilitate investigation. "This, though, is stretching it a little too much: A postcard that had been put through a canceling machine and delivered to the addressee had the canceling impression and the address scratched off with the aid of a sharp knife and a new address substituted and a written message pasted on the reverse side."?New York Sun. r ittistdlancous grading. FAMILY WORSHIP. With God In the Home There Is Little Danger From Without Written for The Yorkville Enquirer: "Lord, how delightful 'tis to see, A whole family worship Thee; At once they sing, at once they pray; They hear of heaven, and learn the way." The duty to maintain family worship, on the part of the Christian husband and lather, is almost universally acknowledged: while the observance of family worship is almost universally neglected. This neglect constitutes one of the most discouraging and alarming features of the church's life today. It is stated on good authority that not one Christian family in twenty maintain any form of family worship. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the Christion families of York county would measure up to even this low standard. 1 nere are wiree iraauiin iui me election of the family altar in every Christion ..ome, either one of which, it would seem, would be sufficient to induce every Christian parent to observe family worship; and when combined, we cannot understand why the strong fortress of indifference and neglect is not at once swept away, and the family altar erected 1. Family worship is a duty, recognized as a duty, deeply written on the Christian conscience. In a long ministry of over twenty-five years, I recall but one man who did not acknowledge this duty. This is such an important, such a vital duty, that the Christian conscience cannot but recognize it. It is a duty the head of the family owes to himself; a duty he owes to his family; a duty he owes to his church; a duty he owes to his country; a duty he owes to his God. Good and only goods flows from this fountain of blessing in the family. Evil and only evil can result from its neglect. Was it Gen. Lee who said: "Duty is the greatest word in the English language." Duty known, calls for action promptand joyous; and the Christian who does not respond stabs his own conscience, impedes his own growth in grace, and grieves his Savior. Duty is the path God marks out for His children to walk in. Conscience sees that path, approves the man that walks therein, and condemns the man that does not. Family worship is such a duty. Let not the Christian husband and father for one moment hesitate to perform that duty, and thus enjoy the rich fruits thereof. "If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them." "He that knoweth his duty and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." 2. The word of God requires the head of each family to maintain family worship. The assertion has been made that the Bibie does not anywhere command family worship. He must be a very superficial student of the Bible, vhc doec not find this duty laid down in the word of God. It is there both by good and necessary Inference, ana oy positive command. (1) in Aial. ii, xv, it is declared God instituted the family, "That He mignt seeK a godly seed." If the design ot the famny is realized, the children must receive in tne family a godiy training. How can this training be complete without family worship? A little cniid, after saying his prayers taught him oy his motner astonished her oy saying, "Vvnen 1 get to lie a man I will not have to pray." "Why not, my son," the motner asKed. "Because," he replied, "fatner never prays." There the example of the father seemed to be making a deeper impression on the child than the teaching of the mother. To rear a godly seed, you must set a godly example. You cannot expect godly children to come from godless families. And is not that a godless family where God is not worshiped in the family? The Individuals may possibly be Christians; but I think you must agree that if God is not worshiped in the family that cannot be called a godly family. (2) In.Jer. xxxi, 1, Jehovah declares, T will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people." Here it must be seen family worship is necessarily implied. If Jehovah is the God of aji individual, that individual must worship God. Even so, if Jehovah is the God of a family, He must be. worshiped in that family. If there is no family worship, it is hard to see how God could be the God of that family. How could He be the God of a family where His authority is not recognized, and where He is not worshiped? Of a family where there is no altar, no priest, no sacrifice of prayer and praise? (3) "The church in the house" is the Bible idea of the family, Col. iv, 15. Since the members of a pious family constitute a scriptural church, we must infer that the worship of God is maintained in that family. Worship is an essential element in a church. There can truly be no church where there is no worship. If the church is in the family, then family worship must be there. (4) Family worship is positively enjoined in Deut. vi, 6, 7, "And these words which 1 conmand thee this day shall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou slttest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up." Mark the "Thou shalt" in this passage. There is no discretion or choice in the matter. The command to read the scriptures and teach them to the children morning and evening, is as clear as noon-day. Christian parents are you obeying this command of God in your family?? 5) Again, the duty of family worship is enjoined on the father In Eph. vi. 4, " 4 ?1 ? rM-rv\T?b-o not vniir rhll ./Villi y C KIIIICI n, {/i vtvtftv ..w dren to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." To bring up the children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, the father must teach his children the Bible, and pray with and for them. He cannot delegate that work to the mother, to the Sunday school, or to any one else. God has laid this important duty upon the father, and if lie does not perform it, he proves recreant to a most solemn trust. 3. The rich blessings of God rests Upon the family where God is worshiped. I suppose none will deny that this is true. The man that will erect the family altar, and will maintain family worship in his home, will himself develop and grow in grace; his children will be most powerfully influenced for pood, and his church will feel the blessed influence emanating from that godly home. Hear what God says to Abraham: "I know him that he will command his children and his household after him. and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him." Is it any wonder God said, "All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?" The richest heritage a father can give his children Is the heritage of a godly home. "Is God In this home?" asks the Greenland traveler. If the answer is. "yes," he enters; if, "no," he pass2s on. Is God In your home? If so, blessed are your children. But if yours is a godless home, your children are to be pitied: for you are denying them that which is above rubles. You are robbing them of their birthright, their God given right to be reared In a godly home. This denied them nothing else you can give them can make up for their loss. I pray you seriously to consider these things, "and say with noble John Howard: 'Wherever I have a. tent, there God shall have an altar.'" W B. Arrowood. MR. STEWART'S ROAD IDEAS. Senator-Elect Outlines Certain Changes He Has In Mind. Rock Hill Herald: As the good roads question is being much discussed now, and as it was discussed in the primary last summer in the county, especially by the two aspirants for the senatorship, we interviewed Mr. W. H. Stewart of Rock Hill as to his views the other day by asking him If he had any bill prepared on tne subject, and he repued aoout as follows: ' "Well, I have a bill, but am not ready just now to publish it. I prefer to further consider the road quesiion and when the delegation meets in Columbia this month will submit my views to them before introducing it in the senate and see If we can agree. I will then send you a copy for your paper." Have you any objection to giving us an outline of your bill? we asked him. He replied, "I have not," and spoke about as follows: "My idea Is to work the roads by the township supervisor plan; to have him appointed upon the recommendation of a majority of the delegation by the governor and to serve for two years. Ray him for about 75 days at the rate of not less than three dollars per day for the time actually employed, and require bond in the sum of five hundred dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties. Give him jurisdiction over all the roads in his township, except the main thoroughfare to the county seat, and let him co-operate with the county supervisor in the working and maintaining of that road. He is to expend all moneys raised by tax or otherwise 1" u /on/I nn mnro^ onnil in ma luuiioin^ \uuu itu iiivi v/ V.....V. ally in the Improvement of the roads and repair of certain bridges and render an itemized account of the same to the county supervisor for publication and file in the county supervisor's office. Have him for the year 1909 collect the commutation tux from every citizen in his township between the ages of lil and 55 years, except those citizens in the incorporated cities and towns, and those persons who are deaf, dumb, blind or permanently crippled. This tax to be two dollars or four days' work. The township supervisor can work the roads himself or let them out in sections by contract or employ an overseer (not more than four for his township) t:> work the roads paying him not over two dollars per day; make it a misdemeanor for the person who does not pay or work with a penalty of 30 days on the chain gang, this commutation tax to be expended on the road upon which the citizens live or is liable for road duty on." How is the township supervisor to have any tax as under the law now in force (the Saye law) all the money raised from the two mill tax now being collected goes into the county fund for roads and bridges? "Why, easy enough. We will change the Saye law, radically, and require the county treasurer by April 1, 1909, when all the taxes are in, to open an account with each township and place to the credit of that township all the tax raised in that township from the two mill levy except so much as may be necessary to pay the engineer and his assistants now employed by the county Knoivi nf enmmissioners under con tract." Will jou continue the employment of the engineer another year? "I think it necessary to have an engineer at times, but my idea is not to make it compulsory on the board of county commissioners to keep an engineer all the time, but leave it discretionary with them, as to the term of his service, let them fix his salary and define his duties and powers. His services will be neede.1 in the matter of bridges. My idea is to stop wasting the county's money in building these cheap wooden bridges, and require the county supervisor and commissioners over streams of a certain width, say 10 or 40 feet, to erect stone or concrete block piles above high water mark and spin the same with an iron or steel bridge and be done with it for many years. It will cost a little more, out will be much cheaper in the end." What about the chain gang? Will it. be abolished? "Why no, not with my vote unless it proves to be too expensive. I propose to try and find out what the chain gang costs the county annually under my bill and to that end, as I said in speeches during the campaign, that my idea was to use the chain gang under tne county supervision m ouusn uumi, or repairing two main thoroughfares through the county, first running east to west and then north to south, as near as practicable. Then roads to be graded by the plans, etc., of the engineer now employed, and to be macadamized or sanded with gravel, provided the township through which they may pass are ready at that time to furnish the rock or sand gravel, to be so used by the county supervisor. If not ready at that time the roads will be graded so that the township supervisor for roads can have the rock or sand put down at some other time. This will, I think, encourage tie township through which their highways will pass to get 'a move en themselves,' as it were, to get good roads. Of courage-these two thoroughfares will mTl~~go through all the townships, but when they are com pleted the chain gang will be sent to the three remaining townhips and their roads to the main thoroughfares be similarly prepared, then let the chaingang when all the townships have had an equal share of the use of the gang, send It to the township in alphabetical order, provided the township bears all the expense in constructing or repairing a thoroughfare at right angles as near as is practical to the main thoroughfare, "When these main roads, and in fact all the main roads, are once graded or fixed, my idea is to require the county or township supervisor to have them kept up, annually by contract, say in sections from three to ten miles. If we can get the right kind of a man for the township supervisor, one who is interested in the subject of good roads and has energy and brains and nerve we can have good roads and at a small cost. My idea is if this plan can be adopted, two years from now we can abolish the office of county commissioner, for he will not be necessary. "I think it would be much better If the county supervisor should be required to reside at the court house and keep his office open at least one day in every week. He should have an office and the records of the office should be kept in a systematic way; all claims, reports, contracts, etc., should be filed, and at times open to the inspection of the public. It is the most important office In our county in my Judgment and it is about the least cared for. I am not wedded to my Idea of a 'good roads law' and if any one will get up a better idea than that of working the roads by the township supervision and with the township money, and working the main thoroughfares with the chain gang; a just and fair distribution of the benefit of the chain gang to all the townships, why I am willing to give it my earnest consideration. I am for working the roads under that system which will be for the greatest good to the greatest number of people. "I know it was said during the campaign that I was opposed to good roads and that my election meant the putting back of the work (as If we had ever had any), ten years, etc., but if we do not have a law, if executed, that will not give us better roads than we have ever had, it will not be my fault for It will surely pass the senate. What I deem vital with my bill is getting the right man for the township supervisor and what I would appreciate most in this matter is getting the names of at least two or three good men in each township to put before the delegation in the event my bill becomes law, to have the governor appoint and commission such one as the township supervisor." What about the issuing of bonds for good roads? "That question will come later. As I said in the campaign I am willing to submit the question of bonds for good roads to the people in the next election and then the matter can be fully discussed and either plan decided upon, 'let the people rule.' "Well I have answered your questions. Are you In favor of good roads Mr. Editor? Who do you recommend for township supervisor for Catawba, Ebenezer or any township?" The Herald is in favor of good roads, Mr. Stewart, and will think over the matter and try to make a suggestion of some one to you and maybe now as you have outlined your bill, some of our good citizens will also make the suggestion you ask for. ELECTRIC DANGERS. The Treatment For Injury Received From Live Wires. Most of the injuries resulting from electric shocks are suffered by linemen, by workers in power houses or by brakemen on electric railways wl\o happen to touch the third rail, but with the multiplication of trolley lines in city and country and with the extension of the system of transmission of currents of enormous voltage over long lines by bare wires strung on poles the danger to the general public is constantly increasing. Most of the accidents are produced by alternating currents. This is not because such currents are more dangerous than the direct current, but because they are usually of higher voltage. It is not known how high the voltage trust be to cause death. Much depends upon the mode of contact, whether the current passes through only a small part of the body, as when the two points of contact arc in the same arm or leg. or whether it passes from one arm to the other or from the hand to the foot. A partial degree of insulation may also prevent serious consequences, as when one is standing on perfectly dry ground or when the contact is made through the clothes. An English writer on medical electricity says that it has been proved that a man with dry clothing can sit on a third rail which carries a direct current of 550 volts and grasp the outer rail without receiving any shock whatever; but the experiment is not recommended to the curious. When one has received a severe electric shock which has not been immediately fatal he presents signs of greatly lowered vitality. He is unconscious or semi-conscious with almost imperceptible pulse, irregular and feeble inspiration, cold, clammy skin, relaxed muscles and dilated pupils. If he is still in contact with the live wire the muscles may be strongly contracted, and it may be difficult to release him. Any one who attempts to drag' him away should have his hands protected by rubber gloves or by a dry coat folded several times, and he must see that the place where he stands is dry and that his foot Is not in contact with a rail. The treatment consists mainly in stimulation of the heart and respiration. Aromatic spirits of ammonia or some other stimulant should be given if the man can swallow, and artificial respiration should be practised. This may be done by placing the person Hat on the ground and compressing the chest firmly but gently for a few seconds and repeating sixteen or eighteen times a minute. The legs should be raised and the arms and legs rubbed in the direction toward the body. At the same time hot bottles may be applied to the body.?Youth's Companion. 'IV Millions of men in India live, marry and rear healthy children on an income of 50 cents a week. A COMMON ECONOMIC ERROR. Farmers Should Not Buy Supplies They Can Produce. The following article comes to us from S. A. Knapp, special agent In charge of Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work of the United States department of Agriculture: For many years it has been the custom of southern farmers to make their crop upon the "advance system" and while this has been regarded as an economic error on the side of the far- \ mer, by many merchants it has been thought that it was a very profitable way of buying cotton. The farmer realized that as a matter of safety It was better to make the food consumed by his family and his stock upon the farm rather than to purchase It and especially when he had to promise payment out of a crop which had not as yet been made. I have been watching this phase of country life in the south for many years and have come to the conclusion that the 'advance system" is Just as great a mistake on the part of the merchant as it is on the part of the farmer, for the following reasons: First, the merchant takes great risks, which, of course, he tries to cover by increased charges. But even though these charges are increased, the staples of life are not such articles as a high percentage of profit will adhere to, and the merchant is practically trading gold for a promise to pay. If the crop fails, he is obliged to carry and carry and carry and possibly may ultimately, as in thousands of cases, be obliged to take the farm, for which he has no use, and under boll weevil conditions is difficult to handle profitably upon a tenant system. Under a cash system there will be a great reduction in the sales of some stapie loods such as bacon, potatoes, beans, lard, vegetables, canned goods, hay, corn, etc., all articles that carry low profits. The farmer is rarely a hoarder of money and If he saves two hundred dollars or more by producing all his food supplies at home he has that much more to spend when his crop is made, and It is cash. Under a cash system the farmer will buy with his surplus more dry goods, clothing, shoes, furniture, etc., for his family, better teams, farm implements, wagons, buggies, etc., on which there iu a much greater profit for the merchant than on staple articles of food. The merchant can turn his money In thirty days, instead of a year. Ten per cent clear profit turned monthly is better than 120 per cent gain received annually. Some of the farmers' increased income goes into permanent improvement to enable the farmer to produce more and spend more annually. Again, there is something about rais ing cotton, tobacco, etc., to pay a debt, that saps the vitality of the farmer and affects the quality of his tillage. It really lowers the grade of fanning. If upon the other hand the merchants will join with us in urging farmers to raise "all their food supplies and try to produce by better tillage double the crop per acre they now produce, the result as it affects the merchant will be this: All business will soon be on a cash basis and the volume will be three or four times as large from the farmers alone. The advent of more money will bring diversified industries among the farmers and eventually will attract manufactures to the market towns. If there are idle farms In the county, Instead of calling meetings for the purpose of raising funds to secure immigration, call meetings to encourage the farmers who know the country and are loyal to it, to universally adopt the following plan. First, provide their own food supplies from the farm. Second, double the average product on every acre under cultivation and let each worker on the farm by the use of better team3 and tools, till three times as many acres as at present, not in the one crop, but in a variety of diversified and profitable crops. This would cause an immediate demand for more land and would provide the money to pay for it This makes every man on the farm more than six times the industrial power he now is and gives him a love of the farm. This is better than to leave him in discouragement and secure immigrants to come and buy him out. I should not speak so positively, only I have observed for a quarter of a cen tury that where the southern merchants have changed from an "advance I system" to a cash system, they have prospered very much more than In former years and the number of failures Is immensely less. Of course, it is not meant that there should be no credits, but practically there should be little necessity for them until the crop is actually ready for the harvest, then trade becomes a cash transaction. Or better still, the farmer can get his money from the bank and pay cash in all cases, if there is a lack of ready money. The advance system bears down upon the cotton farmer with special hardships. His crop is either sold at once or is forced to the gin and the warehouse so as to secure loans. If the cotton farmer is not forced to sell to raise money or pay debts he will store his crop on his farm and market at his leisure, which is in the interests of all parties. It appears to me, therefore, that the farmer n 111 immeasurably gain when he produces what he has hitherto bought in the way of living. He is not compelled to sell his crop immediately upon the harvest. When he does sell he trades for cash. The greater amount of money he has is very helpful to the family but the stimulus to his self respect is perhaps tne most important Item to be considered. The merchant prospers by the greater volume of business and by the quick return of his money. It seems to me that these points should be urged upon all the people. Making a Seaport.?At a business men's meeting in Atlanta there was under discussion an arrangement with the railroads that allowed merchandise to be shipped to and from that inland city on a through bill of lading. There was much joyous declamation and one orator explained In enthusiastic periods that Atlanta was now the equivalent of a seaport town and able to cope with all rivals. Upon this a Savannahlan, J whose native city is the real seaport of Georgia, arose and said with some acerbity: "If you Atlantans were to lay a pipe line to the sea and then suck as hard as you blow, you'd be a real uenport in no time at all."?Bellman.