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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEKSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOKNING, MAY 22, 1895. VOLUME XXIX. -NO. 47 HOT WEATHER GOODS! STBAW HATS, In great variety?prices from 10c. up. An excellent line at 50c tnmffifER COATS and VESTS. A good Alpaco Coat at $1.00. Nice line of Serges, Cheviots, Cecelians and Drabdetetes. GAUZE UNDERWEAR. A good Shirt for 25c.?something better 50c. Nainsook Undershirts 50c. ggf Come in and let ns help you to keep cool. B. O. EVANS & CO., Clothiers and Furnishers Grass Killing Implements Are what you fleed for t?ie next Sixty Days. -We are prepared to fully meet your wants with the Best, aud at the very Lowest Prices. Umbach Top Harrows, Terrell Cultivators! If you bavent one your neighbor can tell you how it saves labor. SEI OUR ROMAN ADJUSTABLE SIDE HAEB?W. Something new, but nothing better. Heel Scrapes, Victor Sweeps and Wings, In great abundance. Hoes, Hoes, Hoes! A TREMENDOUS STOCK?BEST MAKE. Securely fastened on the handle! , We can supply you with ANYTHING in the HARDWARE LINE at bottom figures; SULLIVAN HARDWARE/CO.. ? WHY ORDER ? PIANOS and ORGANS ? From any other Market when ? THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE Can and will Save you Money by Buying at Home. OUR Goods aze bought in large lots from the Manufacturers for CASH Our expenses ai? much lighter than dealers in larger cities, who sell almost-exclusively through Sub-Agents, thus adding largely to the prices charged you. And, besides, we have the LARGEST STOCK IN THE STATE to select from, and every Instrument is sold under? A. 3P?I3ITIVE GUARANTEE. t&- Wo respectfully solicit your patronage, which will be highly ap? preciated. Respectfully, 0. A. BEES MUSIC HOUSE, Anderson, & C. FURNITURE 1 FURNITURE!! LARGEST STOCK, LOWEST PRICES, BEST GOODS ! COFFINS and! CASKETS furnished Day or Night. ; WE have on hand the LARGEST and BEST-SE? LECTED Stock of FURNITURE in South Carolina! bought this Summer when everything struck bottom, and while there was a big cut in freights. We have determined to giv* the People the advantage of our BARGAINS I Wo will Bell yon Furniture at Prices below anything: ever heard of in this Country before ! And prices it is impossible for any one else to buy the same quality of Goods for. When you need anything in the Furniture line give us a call, and? WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Prices Lower than Cotton at 5c Tours for business, G. F. TOLLY & SON, The Leaders of Low Prices. J. P. SULLIVAN * CO., -Will sell you the Best Coffee, The Cheapest Flour, Crockery, Decorated and Plain, Dinner and Tea Sets. Ail ifor less Money than you have been paying. J. P. SULLIVAN & CO, Jf THE CRIISS IN THE STATE. Governor Evans Issues an Address to the People. Columbia, May 14.?One might almost suppose f-A*n the gathering of the clans here that there was a Con? vention pending. The "Reform" big guns are here in full force. This afternoon there was quite a gathering in the Governor's office. Some of thoBe present came to attend the meet? ing of the Winthrop College board, while others are here preliminary to the meeting of the executive commit? tee. Senator Tillman was a central figure in the party, and, of course, the present political conditions came up for discussion, and there was a sort of general and impromptu talk about matters. Senator Irby was in the city, as happy as he could be. Dur? ing the day Governor Evans prepared an address, which he issued to the people of the State. The paper reads as follows : Fellow Citizens : In 1865, after the most bloody struggle for principle in the history of the world, South Carolina laid down her arms and accepted in good faith the results of the war: The State was put under martial law, and under the Recon? struction Aot the ignorant slaves, whose fetters had just been broken, manipulated by carpet-baggers from the* four quarters of the earth, were placed in entire control of our State Government. After a farce of an election for dele? gates to a Constitutional Convention the Constitution, which has been our organic law since 1868, was adopted at the diotates of Gen. Canby. The conditions which followed and the results of placing ignorance and vice in the control of the Government are known of all men. This condition lasted until 1876, when the oppression and misgovern men t had rendered our people so desperate that with one im? pulse they asserted their manhood and overthrew the despotism of the carpet-baggers and resumed control of the State s affairs. While the constitutionality of the Reconstruction Act was never ques? tioned by us, because we were power leas to resist, the question of State sovereignty within the limits prescrib? ed in the Constitution, in accordance with Southern interpretation, has since been affirmed by repeated decis? ions of the Supreme Court of the Uni? ted States. The Court even asserted that the States had never been out of the Union, thereby indirectly declar? ing invalid the Acts of Congress read? mitting them after reconstruction. The right of a State to manage and direct its internal'affairs without na? tional interference is recognized throughout the Union, and it is no peculiar or special claim on the part of South Carolina to exercise that right so long as her State officers and her General Assembly obey the Con? stitution of the United States and the laws of. Congress. This is so well re cognized that I do not propose to dis? cuss it further, but feel that we can safely rely upon the integrity and patriotism of the Supreme J udges to reaffirm and maintain it. The people of South Carolina have always been law-abiding and respect the Constitution and Courts of the United States, but when the Judges of those Courts wantonly invade and trample under foot the recognized rights of our people guaranteed by the Federal Constitution they have a right to assert themselves and maintain their sovereignty and independence. This they have ever done and will continue to do, and will resist with all the means within their power usurpa? tion and tyranny of partisan politi? cians in high places who disgrace the judicial ermine.' We cannot nor have we the desire to resort to arms to resist this unjust decree, but we can and will exert the united efforts of liberty-loving people to thwart the conspirators who are plotting to over? throw our civilization. In this struggle we confidently rely on the sympathy and moral support of all lovers of good government and State's rights throughout the Union. The sovereignty of the States, within their proper spheres, is as dear to Massachusetts and Ohio as it is to South Carolina, and the principle can? not be struck down here without re? ceiving a mortal blow elsewhere. It is unfortunate that the passions and prejudices excited by the war in regard to the negro should influence the opinions and feelings of Judges in dealing with this vital principle, but it will follow inevitably that if this principle is once destroyed this coun? try will be convulsed with a revolu? tion for the restoration of the liberties of the white men that will far eclipse that other fatal struggle for the eman? cipation of the blacks. The restoration of white supremacy in 1876 placed in office and in leader? ship of the affairs of the State Wade Hampton as Governor and afterwards as United States Senator, and M. C. Butler, United States Senator, Charles H. Simonton, chairman of the judi? ciary committee and leader of the House of Representatives, later Dis? trict and Circuit Judge of the United States Court, and John C. Sheppard, Speaker of the House of Representa? tives, Lieutenant Governor and after? wards Governor. In 1882, under the leadership of these men, the Legisla? ture passed the laws known as "the Election and Registration Act," de? signed to preserve white supremacy and a white man's government. These laws worked admirably, and up to this proceeding do complaint has ever been heard of their injustice, oppression or criminality. The citizen who dared raise his voice against them was de? nounced as an enemy of his State. Those who were too young to hold offices and take part in such affairs were taught to respect these men as patriots and their handiwork as the palladium of liberties. This regime, becoming arrogant and distasteful to a majority of our people and repugnant in their policy to our institutions, was overthrown and the people in 1890, by the election of B. R. Tillman as Governor, declared that it was not their intention to create an oligarchy when in 1876 they threw off the yoke of the negro and the carpet? bagger. Two appeals have been made to reverse this verdict of che sovereign people, but it has been sustained each time with vehement determination. The Reform Government had nothing to do with the election and registra? tion laws. We regarded them as a legacy from the Administration of 1882. We have upheld them as the acts of the people and as constitu? tional means of self-preservation. Some of these men who are responsi? ble for and who have enjoyed the bene? fits and honors of offices under these laws have turned upon their Stato since their retirement. By an appeal to one of tho bitterest' enemies of Southern civilization, a I politician who disgraces the judicial ermine of the United States Court and masquerading as a Judge, they have succeeded in having declared the reg? istration law unconstitutional, null and void. The chief argument made before him was the defamation of our State, and insult, if insult could come from such a source, to your State 'officers. Under this decree the doors have been thrown open and the ballot again placed in the hands of every man, white or black, of the age of 21 years. The abuse and slander heaped upon the State by the counsel for the plaintiffs was only surpassed by that of the Judge in his document styled a decree in equity. But the pity of it, the humilitation and the shame of it is yet to be told. Beside this Jefferies on the Bench sat an old man, whose head was gray, who had fought on the field of battle for State's rights, who had been Speaker of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, and in whose hand? writing part of your registration laws exist in our archives ; there he Bat, wearing alike the judical ermine, hearing his State defamed, his com? rades in arms denounced as rebels, and his own handiwork adjudged a crime. If the law was a crime, was he not the criminal ? Should his head have not been bent and his eyes moist with tears of humiliation ? Alas 1 they were not. With a Meph? istophelean grin on his wrinkled face he nodded assent to the most infamous document ever emanating from a Court in equity, while the black audience exolaimed: "A Daniel has come to judgment; yea, a Daniel." The Ex Senator, who has been holding cau? cuses in Columbia at private houses, having the ear of the Court and "hold? ing the foot of the chancellor," re? turned to his home, feeling that his movements had not been detected, but the responsibility shall rest where it belongs. Let the people not blame the poor, lean and hungry counsel, who are barking merely for a bone, but visit the sin upon the heads of the arch conspirators. A crisis confronts us, an issue has been thrust upon us without our will or consent at a time when peace was hovering over the State. South Caro? lina is enjoying an era of industrial improvement, factories are being built in greater number than elsewhere in the South. The credit of the State ranks higher than ever in the history, our bonds not being purchasable at a premium of less than 10 per cent. The march of progress is about to be stopped; the black pall of negro domi nation hovers over us; we must meet the issue like South Carolinians. There are only two flags, the white I and the black. Under which will you I enlist ? The one, the white peaceful flag of Anglo-Saxon civilization and progress, or the other, the black flag of the debased and ignorant African, with the white traitors, who are seek? ing to marshal the negroes, in order to regain political power. It is fortunate that the issue comes at this time, when a Constitution is to be made guaranteeing white supremacy once and forever. The Constitutional Convention must be controlled by white men, not with white men with black hearts nor negroes. The world must be shown that we are capable of governing ourselves and that Constitu-1 tion or no Constitution, law or no law, Court or no Court, the intelligent white men of South Carolina intend to I govern her. Let the man who under? takes to lead the ignorant blacks against you suffer as he did in 1876, and remember that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. j I will not call the Legislature to? gether. They could do nothing. An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, but under the red tape and technicalities sur? rounding it a decision cannot be had in time to affect the election of dele gates. It must be a free open fight. I I appeal to the sovereign people of I South Carolina, the wisest and safest and purest tribunal, to protect their homes and liberties. They have never I failed to respond to duty. Th? Gov? ernment of the people must and shall be perpetuated and we are ready to lead the fight under the white man's flag. Your obedient servant, j - John Gaby Evans, Governor. - m ? m - IIow Billy Poshed Things. The amount realized in a collection not infrequently depends on the in? dividual who "takes it up." This fact is well realized by a good pastor who serves in a Colorado mission. "We keep him," writes Dean Hart, of Denver, giving the pastor's name, "on the frontier. He is a rough dia? mond and has a knack with the miners. Not long ago this excellent preaoher went to a comp called Rico, borrowed the dance hall over the saloon for his service, "rounding up the boys," as he expresses it, and filled the hall. After the sermon came the collec? tion. This was a very important fea? ture. The preacher cast, his eyes over his audience and saw a certain "hard case," known as Billy the Kid. "Billy," he said, "take up the col? lection." Very much honored, Billy took his big sombrero hat and with an air of importance and dignity, made his way around to the front and held out the hat toward a spruce young miner on the foremost chair. The young man dropped in a quar? ter of a dollar. Billy looked at the coin with one eye closed. Then he looked at the young man and put his own hand around under his coat tails to the place where, in that part of the country, revolvers are known to be carried. i "Look here, young man," said Billy, gravely, "take that back ! This here's a dollar show !" Then, with his hat in one hand and the other still on the revolver, he j moved around the hall and got as many dollars as there were people. ? Persons who sympathize with the afflicted will rejoice with D. E. Carr of 1335 Harrison street, Kansas City. He is an old sufferer from inflamma? tory rheumatism, but has not hereto? fore been troubled in this climate. Last winter he went up into Wiscon? sin, and in consequence has had another attack. "It came upon me again very acute and severe," he said. "My joints swelled and became in? flamed ; sore to touch or almost to look at. Upon the urgent request of my mother-in-law I tried Chamber? lain's Pain Balm to reduce the swell? ing and ease the pain, and to my agree? able surprise, it did both. . I have used three fifty-cent bottles and be? lieve it to be the finest thing for rheu? matism, pains and swellings extant." For sale by Hill Bros. ? Children would do as they are told a great deal better if grown folks did as they tell, I HAMPTON AND THE SABRE. Illustrated by Two Minor but Picturesque Incidents. News and Courier. If I were asked what was most char? acteristic of Hampton as a cavalry leader I would answer, unhesitatingly, his faith in the sabre. Not so much, perhaps, in its efficiency as a death dealing weapon as in its moral effect in inspiring the enemy with awe, striking consternation into his ranks, demoralizing his men and thus render? ing them incapable of effective resist? ance. It was seldom, indeed, that the two sides actually crossed sabres, but it was not beeruse sabre charges were rare. Hampton's invariable in? structions to a charging party were to draw sabres, not to sheathe them, and not to touch the pistols until the enemy was put to flight. The fact was that the rapid rush of the horses, the yell of the charging party and the flash of the uplifted sabres was too much for the enemy's cavalry. They gave way before actual contact oc? curred. My observation of Hampton, it is true, was only that of a private, but it was frequent and extended through several campaigns, for the regiment to which I belonged was the 2d South Carolina cavalry, commanded first by M. C. Butler and afterwards by T. J. Lipscomb, the former so well known to fame as a brave and dashing sol? dier, and the latter as hard as a fighter as any colonel in the army. The regi? ment under such leaders was sure in any dangerous expedition to be next the enemy, whether the enem " vere in front or rear, and my compa: , the Boykin Rangers, being Com^oy A. was always the first in advance and the last in retreat. It was thus that I had frequent opportunities, some? times on very trying occasions, of ob? serving our great cavalry leader, as beloved as he was admired. All cavalrymen who served under Hampton will doubtless recognize his characteristic faith in the sabre, which has been mentioned, and will recall for themselves numerous instances illustrative of it, hut there were two occasions on which it was strikingly manifested, which it may not be with? out interest to recall on this occasion, when his fellow-citizens of Charleston and the State, including the survivors of those rushing squadrons at whose head he once rode, are uniting to do him honor. The recollection of the first of these incidents is accompanied, for a reason which will hereafter appear, by a cer? tain sense of mortification which at the time was felt deeply by the writer and no doubt by many of his comrades. It was toward the end of Maryland campaign, the first in which Lee's army had invaded the enemy's terri? tory. Hampton's brigade was guard? ing the rear of a division, I forget whose division, which was retreating towards Harper's Ferry. We had just crossed the Monocacy, a small river near Frederick, Md., and were station? ed on the side next to Frederick. Two of the companies of our regiment, A and C, or details from the two com? panies, were supporting a section of Hart's battery, while scattering pick? ets were stationed along the banks of the river. The enemy brought up their artillery on the opposite side of the river, some 500 yards distant, a position which from a high bluff com? manded the low country and open fields between the river and the town. We stood our ground quietly until ordered to withdraw, and then the aituation became trying. Our pickets could be seen coming in rapidly from all sides, but owing to the morticed fences, too strong to be pulled down and two high to leap, they could not join the main body in the road. The main body, i. e., the two retreating companies and the arlillery, was itself in no enviable plight, for as it march? ed down the broad, white road it pre? sented a fair mark for the enemy's gunB. The enemy's rifle shells, part? ridges as they were sometimes oalled from their peculiar flutter when nearly spent, were flying wildly, and the re? tiring pickets were siding fast. I re? member seeing one of the shells strike a picket's horse on the crupper, the horse being instantly killed and drop? ping to the ground, but the picket lighting on his feet, without being thrown, and escaping unhurt. I re? member thinking it was funny, but I do not recollect whether the picket stopped to save his saddle and bridle or whether he escaped as rapidly as possible, being satisfied to save him? self. Perhaps I might have recalled that important detail twenty years ago, perhaps I never knew, for it was almost the next instant that a shell fell in our own ranks, and two horses and their riders went down, one with part of his head shot away and the other with his thigh broken, as I was afterwards told. We did not stop to pick the men up. In fact our horses jumped over or darted round the ghastly obstacles in their path, and our speed was considerably quickened. We kept our fours fairly well, but our speed suggested demoralization, and was not slackened until Hampton and his staff appeared in front of us, and by commands and their own coolness checked us. The brigade was now passing through the main street of Frederick, our party being the last to come in and bring up the rear. We had hardly closed up with the column when a squadron of Yankee cavalry entered the street at considerable distance behind us. The windows of most of the houses were closed in sadness as the last of our column passed, but other windows re? mained open or' were thrown open by the Unionists of the town, who were bent on seeing what they thought the glorious sight of the Federals driving the Confederates through the city. But they were doomed to disappoint? ment. Hampton and Butler, with perhaps other officers, had a consulta? tion, and it was resolved that a charge should be made against the impudent blue coats who had dared to push us so close. And just here is where the mortification came in It was the place of our regiment to make the charge and of our company to lead it, but General Hampton selected sixteen Mississippians, of the'Jeff Davis Le? gion, to go in front of us, as it was said, because of their greater expe? rience. I confess for myself, and I think I may say for my comrades of Companies A and C, that we regarded it as a sort of reflection on us for our recent fast riding in retreat. What if the bursting of a shell in our ranks had quickened our speed, and made us feel a little shaky? We would have ridden against any cavalry that ever came from the North as quickly and as fearlessly as the Jeff Davis Legion or anybody else. However, the charge was made, the 16 Missis sippiane firot and Company A nest, and a splendid charge it was. *We had hardly faced about when there was a noticeable slackening of the speed of the Federal cavalry. Gen. Hampton rode along the column, gave his usual instructions about depending on the sabre and not using pistols except against a fleeing enemy, and then rapidly came the commands. Draw Sabre ! Trot! Gallop ! Charge ! and off we went. We were hardly at the gallop before the enemy had halted and were firing their pistols wildly, the balls striking along the second and third story windows, and causing the Unionists, a moment ago so en? thusiastic, to close their shutters with bitter disappointment. By the time we were fairly at charge the Federal cavalry (from Indiana as we afterwards learned) had turned tail despite the commands and entreaties of a brave Ohio infantry officer, (Col. Moors), who was in charge of them. Before we could overtake them a section of a battery which was coming up behind them, without waiting for them to pass, had unlimhered a gun and fired a shot which brought down some of the retreating Federal cavalrymen. The charging party was down on the gun in a moment and quickly spiked it, but by that time the recall had been several times sounded and the party returned up street and joined the main column. On the way back Tom Ancrum, of Company A, was seen just off the main street appar? ently in hot discussion with a dis? mounted Federal officer. This after? wards proved to be Col. Moore, who, despite the flight of his squad of cav? alry, stood his ground, and, as the front of the charging party rushed by, dismounted and led his horse to the side of the street. Tom Ancrum had demanded his surrender, but he re? fused to give up his sword, saying he could only hand it to an offieer. A comrade whom Ancrum called in con? sultation soon settled that matter. This comrade had been in the rapid retreat into Frederick and had lost his hat. In place of it he had a red hand? kerchief tied round his head, and he was armed with a double-barrel shot? gun. Col. Moore protested that it was not consistent with the rules of civilized warfare for an officer to sur? render his sword to a private, but the wild looking Confederate told him in language more emphatic than polite that it did not become a Yankee to talk about civilized warfare after their doings in Virginia, and that if he did not hand over she sword in short order he would blow his brains out. Col. Moore handed over his sword under protest. Tom Ancrum carried him and his horse to Gen. Hampton, and the horse, a beautiful black mare, be? came, I believe, one of Hampton's favorite steeds. The second instance that I recall when Hampton gave his favorite in? structions as to trusting to the sabre occurred on the afternoon of the battle of Coffeevillc. The cavalry was tak? ing care of the rear of Lee's army as it marched into Pennsylvania. It had been an all day fight from early in the morning, slowly but steadily retreat? ing before an overwhelming force. Having been detailed from the com? mand for several days on special ser? vice, Lieut. Tom Lee, Tom Nowell and myself, after a good night's rest and a first-rate breakfast at the house of a hospitable Virginian near Upper ville, rejoined our command in a field several miles east of the town on the road to Alexandria. Desultory firing was then going on,andCapt. Chesnut, of our company, who was resting on the grass, advised us to dismount, which we did. I have an impression that Hampton and Butler were there also, but whether either of them was in that particular part of the field at that time I am not certain. At any rate the battle continued from that time on. It was soon after our arrival when our squadron was stationed in support of a battery of artillery which was on an elevation behind us, and the firing quickly became bo fast and furious that we could barely distin? guish the battle flag of the battery amid the clouds of smoke. Several of our m_n stationed as sharpshooters a few hundred yards in advance were wounded by the enemy's infantry, and one of the mounted men in ranks had one cheek carried away by a piece oi: shell. The poor fellow yelled so loud? ly that one of the officers remarked he was certain the wound was not fatal, j And so it proved, for in a few months he was back in service, with a great scar on his face it is true, but only the fleshy part of the cheek had beer taken off. Later on, when we had been driven back as well as I can re? collect about half way between Upper ville and Paris Gap, while Adjt. Moore, of our regiment, now so well known as Gen. James Moore, was re connoitering an approaching body of the enemy's cavalry some distance in front of his own command, his horse was shot under him, and he coolly re? tained his position till another horse was sent to him. From that position we had retreated through a thick body of woods, and were becoming 1 heartily disgusted with the continual retreating, when it was learned that Gen. Hampton had decided that he should return and charge the enemy. We were not sorry and soon every? thing was in readiness, and Hampton rode along the column and gave the same instructions as to charging which I have previously described, and back we went through the woods, but when we reached the other side the enemy had disappeared. Having been asked to write some? thing for the Ham) in edition of the News and Courier, I offer these feeble reproductions of some of the minor scenes in the mighty drama of which our favorite hero was so great a part. Boswell T. Logan, Private Co. A, Zi S. C. Cav. ? Mrs. S., a widow of two years' standing, drew a check for $150. Presenting it for payment, she ob? served an amused expression on the face of the paying teller but she re? ceived her money and departed. A month later her book was written up and her vouchers returned, and the amused expression on the face of the paying teller was explained. Her oheck of a month previous read: "The Blank National Bank will pay to Bearer One Husband and Fifty Dollars." The lady is thinking of suing the bank for the balance due, for, as she says, she certainly has not collected all that the check called for. ?Boston Herald. How's This! Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Howard for any caso of Catarrh that can Lot be cured by Ha.l's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo. 0. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the laat 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transaction and financi? ally able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. Whst & Tbuax, Wholepalo Drugelst*. Toledo, 0. Waldiso, Kinnak 4 Maryih, Wholesale Drug? gists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system. Price 7Sc. por bottle. 8nld by all Druggie, Tcitiiac-Biftlt ire*. MR. POPE'S GREAT WORK. Fruits of His Long Fight for Better Roads. Editors Intelligencer : For the past three years the press of the United States has so thoroughly discussed the different advantages of good roads, and so universally endorsed this re? form, that all classes of our citizens appreciate the necessity of, and are anxious for, the immediate adoption of such laws as will hasten the con? struction of State highways. Massachusetts has from the outset taken a lead in this matter, and the spirit of her Legislature has been shown by making the Highway Com? mission a permanent one, and by ap? propriating $300,000 to be expended, under the immediate supervision of the Commission, in constructing new and rebuilding old roads. As a natural result of the popular agitation and the monster petition which. I had the honor to present to Congress in 1893, the United States recognized the necessity of a move in this direction, and under the ".\gri cultural Bill" made a special appro? priation of $10,000 to meet ex? pense of a careful investigation ?uto the condition of roads throughout the country, and for the publication of such information as would assist the people in bettering their highways. The Department of Agriculture has issued a number of bulletins, and it is gratifying to learn that more than a score of States have already passed new road laws, while nearly all the others are planning for the adoption of measures for the promotion of this reform. Experience has shown that the course pursued by Massachusetts is the one which commends itself most strongly, both to the people at large and to their legal representatives, the various State Legislatures, and it is natural to suppose that if all were familiar with the work here the knowl? edge would be utilized to bring about similar legislation wherever the meth? od of procedure is still unsettled. For this reason I would call to your atten? tion and urge upon you ?ihe advisabil? ity of enlightening your readers on the good work we have already accom? plished. Starting in June, 1892, a Temporary Commission was appointed to examine into the condition of the roads, and to draft a hill providing for the im? provement of the highways of the Commonwealth. The law suggested by the Commission was, with some changes, passed in June, 1893, but, before any petitions for construction of State highways were submitted to the General Court, an Act was intro? duced and passed June 20., 1894, in? creasing the powers of the Commis? sion, and permitting the Selectmen of any town, or the Mayor and Aldermen of any city, as well as County Com? missioners, to petition the Highway Commission for taking roads as State highways. In place of submitting to the Legislature a separate bill for the construction of each road, it was voted that the appropriation be used by the Highway Commission, without further legislation, in building State highways. The $300,000 has been pretty even? ly divided among fourteen counties. Before deciding which of the many petitions should be granted, an official visit was paid to each locality, and full information as to the value of the proposed improvement collected. While this method has distributed the work in small sections of roads, thus increasing the expense per mile, the advantage to the people at large will be greater, for the reason that each portion of the State highway con? structed is intended to be an object lesson to those living nearby. County Commissioners and other officials will watch the work as it progresses, and follow out the same lines in building county and other roads which are not intended for State highways. The plan is to build, section by sec? tion, such roads as will connect with the great centers of trade, and join with through roads in other States, so that both local and inter-State com? munication will be benefited. Under date of January, 1895, the Massachu? setts Highway Commission has ren? dered a report which covers the work of the past year, and this publication should be consulted by those who are considering legislation. The provisions of our law will per? mit contracts for the construction to be let to municipalities or to private corporations, but the former arrange? ment is preferred, as it is more effec? tual in teaching the people the art of road building, and protects the State against cheapening the work by the importation of foreign laborers, an element which is apt to be objection? able. A resident engineer is appointed by the Commission, and it is his duty to be in attendance, and keep a correct account of all items to be paid for by the State. | Wherever the traffic was of suffi? cient proportions to warrant it the roads have been broadened. The ad? vantage to owners derived from the construction of the way is, as a rule, so much greater than the injury to them by widening the road that, in a large majority of cases, the town offi? cials have been able to procure re? leases without any cost. Thirty-eight sections have been con? tracted for, and only eight of them arc to have a width of eighteen feet of hardened surface, all others being fif? teen feet wide. As the primary object is to get length of way, the Commis? sioners are considering the advisabili? ty of building single-track roads in the thinly-settled districts. These would not be over nine feetwide, with here and there portions of double width as convenient passing points for carriages. A mile and a half of such roads can be built for less than the cost of a mile of fifteen feet width, and the advantage in getting produce to market is not lessened, provided such construction is confined to local? ities where the average traffic is from six to eight vehicles an hour. There is need of legislation to reg? ulate the care of, and responsibility for, sidewalks on State highways. These being of purely local advantage should be under the supervision of the town, the whcelways alone being constructed and kept in order by the State. Progress has been made in the la? boratory work on the road building stones of the State. Experiments of this kind are carried on at Harvard University in the Lawrence Scientific School, whose dean, Prof. N. S. Sha ler, is a member of the Highway Com? mission. The chief aim of these in? quiries has been to determine the qual? ities which constitute fitness for road making. This will be of value to the Commission in enabling them to utii ize the road material near at hand, and thus lessen the cost of construction. As this phase of the work progresses maps are made showing the location of all deposits suitable for road building. A number of towns have already appropriated money to build their streets in the same careful manner as those constructed by the State, and others have purchased road machinery with the intention of extending the work on roads other than State high? ways. Careful consideration has been giv? en to the plan of planting shade trees along the highways. With this end in view, experts have been consulted concerning the best varieties for the purpose, and the wayside trees have been examined, so as to determine the species well adapted to the climate and soil of Massachusetts. As the estimated expense of pro? curing and planting these trees is not less than one-half a million dollars, the Commission has rightly made this question secondary to road building, but in the meantime they are collect? ing such data as will enable them to work with profit on the adornment of the roads after the construction is well in hand. The American and Eng? lish elms have the advantage of fairly rapid growth, with shade high above ground, and the leaves falling from them give but little obstruction to the gutters. They have the disadvantage of being subject to the attacks of in? sects, so that the cost of protecting them from these pests would be con? siderable. Maples grow well and are beautiful, though they often shade the road too much. It is the custom in parts of Europe to plant the roadsides with trees which yield profitable crops. In France and Germany, for example, cherry trees abound. In these coun-1 tries the yield of the wayside trees I belongs |o the neighboring land own-1 ers, but in some cases to the commu? nity, and their product is well guard? ed by law. There will be more or Igss experimenting on the part of theCoaj? mission before they decide upon the I species to be planted. The law pro? vides for the beginning of this work in the Spring of 1895, and from that time it will be carried on slowly, so as to give us the benefit of experience. I Every State should make a begin? ning on road improvement. In thinly settled regions of the country, where I the people do not feel able to under-1 take much, they can do no better than ] to start the reform by constructing I sections of single-track roads. No community can afford to neglect the common roadways. Our prosperity is too intimately connected with the fa-1 cilities for communication. ? ! I have spent many thousands of dol? lars in inaugurating and advancing this reform, and continue to take an active part in it, though for a long time I have not addressed you on the subject. The interest is now general, and the leaders numerous, consequent? ly there is a demand for road news, more especially for the recent advance? ments in the line of actual experience. Here is what we have done in the Old Bay State. Will you not publish it, or a portion of it, for the benefit of your readers, many of whom, with? out doubt, are directly or indirectly connected with, or interested in, the development of the cause ? | Very truly yours, j Albert A. Pope. Boston, Mass., May 15,1895. All Sorts of Paragraphs. j ? If you are a Christian you should have a sunny face. ? You can bury the evil past only in the noble present. ? No night was ever so dark that morning did not come. J ? Obedience to God's law is the only true road to success. ? A simple remedy for hiccough is j a lump of sugar saturated with vine gar. j ? The finger nails grow between one and a half and two inches in length yearly. j ? A man is all the better for trying to be good, no matter what the motive may be. i ? The bodies of. the women contain a smaller proportion of bone than those of men. ? Have you sorrows ? Tell them to Jesus. He is your friend and sym? pathizer. ? Silk is so cheap in Madagascar that the poorest people wear clothing made from it. | ? In England and Scotland Satur? day, Sunday and Monday are consid- J ered lucky days on which to get mar? ried. I ? When two friends agree to smoke the pipe of peace, one is usually ready to quarrel over the quality of the to? bacco. ? Over $50,000,000 are spent in maintaining the churches of the Uni? ted States, and $400,000,000 in run? ning the jails. ? Venezuela has 56 holidays every year. On these occasions the people close their stores and enjoy themselves in chicken-fights. i ? A mother of six boye declares that those who say that boys know nothing about economy, r.ever saw them when using soap. ? To whiten the hands use oatmeal instead of soap to wash the hands. This will have the effect both of soft? ening and whitening them. ! ? The Bible is now accessible, as to language, to nine-tenths of the world ; in the early part of this cen? tury it could be studied by only one fifth. ? A little girl, noticing the glitter? ing gold filling in her aunt's front teeth, exclaimed: "Aunt Mary I wish I had copper-toed teeth lik? yours." j ? When a Chinaman has a limb amputated he always begs for the sev? ered member, which he usually cooks and eats. If he docs not eat it he has it locked up in a box, to be kept until the day when the rest of his body shall be buried. ? A lady at Tooleys, La., was very sick with bilious colic when M. C. Tisler, a prominent merchant of the town gave, her a bottle of Chamber? lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He says she was well in forty minutes, after taking the first dose. For sale by Hill Bros. ? Obstinate nose-bleeding, says Science, is frequently one of the most difficult things to check. Several ag? gravated cases have lately occurred at the hospital of the University of Penn? sylvania. As a last resort, Dr. D. Hayes Agnew tried ham fat with great success. Two large cylinders of bacon were forced well into the nostrils, andj the hemorrhage ceased at once. ThisH is a very simple remedy, and one which should be remembered for cases of emergency in the country. I BILL ARP'S LETTER. The Old People Are Lonely Now That There Are no Children. Atlanta Constitution, '''The evils that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." Mark Anthony said that over the dead body of Caisar, but I do not: think he meant it. Perhaps it was partly sarcasm, like the rest ofj" speech. The good deeds of good* outlive the bad deeds of bad The poet Longfellow said it better i more truthfully: it was dt9 er anil "Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime." The evil that men do does not live long after they are dead. The influ? ences of bad men stop with their breath. Who mourns; who attends the funeral; who pronounces the eulo? gy? But mark the sweet breath of grief when a good man or a good wo? man dies. When a stone falls into the bosom of a glassy lake it is said j that the shock is not confined to a little space around where it fell, but. the circle widen and recede until they reach the distant shore, and even the earth has felt it. Just so the lives of good people are all the time giving out wavelets that never stop. They reach from man to man, from father to son, and go on down through the. corridors of time, and like the flow of a peaceful river they nourish as they go. Good examples and :good influ? ences outlive bad ones. I was ruminating about this beoause of the recent death of two good people whom I loved and who w'ero my per? sonal friends. A man and a woman? Campbell Wallace, of Atlanta, and Mother Sparks, of Rome. Their time was out and it was a fitting thing for them to go and nobody grieves, except in a sad, sweet way. In fact it was a triumph for them to die?i, victory. Major Wallace, in his ninetieth year, had outlived all the companions of His youth. He had seen many panics and \ many perils; had lived in sunshine and in storm; had spent his youth and part of his manhood when there were no railroads, nor telegraphs, &or steam? ships, nor cotton gins, but he marched . with the procession and was among ? the first to build railroads and to oper? ate them. In active, progresuive,-busy life for more than 60 years, he never wavered from the path of duty and justice, but his whole life was adorned by good will and good temper. What' a cheerful old age he carried. I have a letter before me now that he wrote me on his eightieth birthday. A kind, cheerful, hopeful letter, full of love to God and love to man, and it was written with a gray goose quill in a round, strong hand and without blot or blemish. I know that children should not bank too much on a father's reputation, but still children, grand? children and great-grandchildren have a right to be proud that Campbell-' Wallace's blood flows in their veins. And that good old mother in Israel, Mrs. Ann Sparks. One of the hero? ines we do not find in the books, but a heroine all the same. How bravely she went through the perils and trials of the war: how nobly did she take the place of husband and father; how lovingly and tenderly did sho Tear the children left in her charge; how serenely she trusted in the God. of the widow and the fatherless; whflta com? fort she was to her church, and how . ardently she loved everything and everybody whom God loved. I never met her but what I felt better for her presence, and now I ?rnever chink of her without realizing the sweet incense that emanates from the" memory of the loved and blessed dead. No. The good is not interred with their bones. It will continue to live and bless generations to come. Sup? pose every person should live and die like these two?well, that would be the dawn of the millenium. Old people are getting scarce and lonely. None but the aged kaow any? thing of that peculiar feeling that comes over a man or a woman when they hear of another death among the flock that grows smaller and smaller as the years roll on. Another_oain' gone?and after while another; When a man nears his three-score years and ten he is almost afraid to count up the number who are left. It makes him feel lonesome and unconsciously he whispers: "One shall be taken and another left." For more than two months, my wifo.? and I have been living alonef-all alone in a great big house with eight room?.?not even a cat to mew-hor a canary bird to sing. But we some- j times borrow a grandchild for a day or j a night and our kindred visit us quite often. Nevertheless, the fact remains that our children have all left us and now I sit at one side of a little round table and my wife at the other as I ask a blessing at our daily meals. Its funny, isn't it? Forty years ago I bought an extension table, for the children were coming along and every three or four years a new leaf had to be put in and by and by the table grew long?very long?and there were4 five children on each side. Soon a boy left us and then a girl and a leaf was taken out. Then two more boys and another girl and another leaf was put away in the closet?and so it hasj been going on and on until now all the leaves are gone and the table is round.] But we will have two of the girls b?cl from Florida soon and a little grand? child and home will look bright again. My wife keeps busy looking after her flowers and making little mysterious garments like she used to make "when you and I were young, Maggie," and I hoe the beans and potatoes and trans? plant the beets and pick the straws berries and dig up the bluegrass turf on the back lane and roll it up to the front yard and bed it where she tells - me. The tuber roses are coming up, and so is the gladiolus, sweet peas , and nasturtium are growing apace and morning glories are reaching for the canes. I never saw" flowers and grass grow so fast or so pretty. They toil not, neither do they spin, but silver^ and gold will not compare with All the silver and gold in the world would not buy all the flowers if they | were put up for sale and no more were to come. How little do we prize the_ bounties of nature until we lose them! Verity, the Creator has been good to His creatures, for He has made the best things the cheapest and the most beautiful cost us nothing. Bill Arp. For whooping cough Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is excellent. By us? ing it freely the disease is deprived of all dangerous consequences. There is"J no danger in giving the remedy to : babies, as it contains nothing injuri? ous. 25 and 50 cent bottlog for wilo I by Hill Bros. ?~*