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RURAL ROUT! Congressman A iken to tne JPublic to Si Washington, D. C., Jan. 26,1U06. Editor of The Intelligencer: You have doubtless t noted in tbe papers a statement from the Po ?st, Office '. department, indicating its par- j pose tel disoontinne a large number of the rural routes throughout the coun try, d the ground that "they are not appreciated." Knowing your deep interest in the welfare of oar county, ?ua in the gen eral upbuilding cf ?he nus! aeotions, that make for material prosperity, I desire through your paper, to direct publio attention to the necessity for building "!? thc businsss of ihe rarsi service. Cities anO iowna only reflect pros perity, the country ia ita real birth place. Anything that detracts from or retards the advancement of tho producer roba the Usti?n in -dollars and cants. There ia a natural teadenoy in all mea to gravitate to populous centr?e} it ia the social and .inquisitivo aids of man's nature that assorts itself. Telephones and trolley lines, have done muon toward blotting out time and apace, toward making neighbors of those geographically far apart, but greater then either of theBe is the free rural delivery system. Not every community can have a trolley line, not every man can have a telephone, but the humblest citizen may have his im?l delivered daily at his door. By theBO modern agencies, the most remote rural resident is, in essen tials, made a suburban resident of the towna and cities, and a long step to ward desirable life in the country is attained. Ia it not passipg strange then, that the- Government, which must realise the imp?rtanos of main taining tbs highest and most intelli gent citizenship in the rural sections, would o notch from these good people the chly little mite of gratuity th vj hays ?yes reunited, of tho millions they haye contributed to the National Treasury. Andi yet, this order of tho Poet Office Department "to discon tinue rural rout?e which do not han*/ dis 2000 pisc?s of sail Haonthly," will do thia very thing. Arguments os to the unwisdom of the'gojir^ when confrontad with ita declared polioy. Ona cannot help hoting, however, the inconsistency in appro* Pating M*^?*0 ^ft?^^nf% i an dito patftfe, million* io tsteBa ot their tav?hft?\^alui - ttfc single - p? pose of educating them to tha sts?d- . ard1 ofgood citizenship, while' with holding from its best eiticoos nt home ; the little amount necessary tb supple ment rural zontea - not entirely self sustaining. :- i'c *, Tho Government thclaires eny in tention of disorimi/: .ft. against the' K South in thia order, e'jd we do not , charge it with discrimination or seo-. .. tionaiisui, but 'the effect will be none j the lesa diaaetrous to Southern rural routes because of the disclaimer, j There ia acar?ely^-isrrier in the pop- , ulo?a North that does not handle four | or five thousand piceos of mail month- , ly while : many of ; our.; own carrara , seldom reach /3000 pieces and some . under/2(K)0 pieces. Truly tbs Ooyr j ernment should take the large viewi \ and extend ita bonn ty to thoa? thinly j settled sections/whioh need building , up, bufe we .n??&a.bft; expect it. ; j 8$<greikt\rh^ QoveTtiBMtiafe . ?Wfr j pen'ditnre^ ^wh^' 'tn^t;-;tha present \ excessive iariflE rates aro inadequate j for the appropriations, and for once, i ' ' the Bepubiican party jr forced to oaU :< a hsJ$ to i^ j Many appropriations heretofore made, j ?will bo either left ca* entirely or vary j much reduced? and "the poor maa a ( Htn>,^ the Bov&a Mtsje^iie will oe , . t?enf^^ order of tte Post.OS?oa Department is \ no Jd!e ftrt& i Being, as y et, uninformed as io the amount of mtil handled by the various ? oarrters ^ i?posi?ib!leio^j^i?i^^i^i^^il w?rbe sffacied by tho order. ^Soms ? in the^to^ I ? t)&$il?^ % -'eir?||^ i reatit?e^;;b?fc \ S^^i'tf^ li enould rdo th?e at once. Thors is sc i grelterVageu^ X; netter editor tna?* the nawa^^ I t -in^thl^ J ? eot?e;i^?d, nawsniatr??..;-Br?itvatft? i :^? ?M#^ -wiH. tell for ; ?Mldran,^ 7 \ TP BS IN DANGER. Makes Strong ?A.ppeal apport the Service. content scarcely settled sections, the mero matter of money let looso in the South thereby is a consideration. In this district alone, there aro some thing like 130 carriers, receiving an aggregate of something like ninety or one hundred thousand dollars annual ly, which is distributed through our avenues of trade. It is paid to as faithful aud deserving men as our country affords; most of them earn in dollars and cents for tho Government j and all of them earn in labor, every ; dollar and ?more thu* tho Government ! pays them. Will wo, for laok of ? proper support, surrender this appro* piation, with the greater advantage of a daily mail, stimulating trade be tween country-and town, or will wo oe ot tho exigency? It io up to tko good people who are served and the courteous carriers, for the Govern ment bas spoken. Wyatt Aiken. The Famous Lorenzo Dow. When a boy we used to hear a great deal about this eooentrio old man, who by the way, was a minister of the Methodist persuasion. Indeed, if we remember correctly, our maternal grandmother, who was a devout Meth odist, had a book of Bow's life, and we read it with a great deal of inter est. Dow was eccentric, but he was a wise man and a fine student of human nature. It is said that he would make appointments months, and even years ahead, and that he would al way a meet them promptly. We might re late several incidents jin connection with his wife Peggy and himself, but two will suffice for the present. On one occasion when ho reached the neighborhood where he had an ap pointment* waiting him for a year or more, he was told by a gentleman that) he had lost his axe-axes were very costly we ?presume in those , days. " Well," said Dow, Mif the thief ia in this country I will find him." The whole neighborhood and the ragions ?reund about were , on head 'jest day. to hear his sermon. When -ho had finished hil ?i?conrso ho announced about the lost ase; and bis. intention p^tflt^ He. said ?'The %o|^e ^ this hones, and I have a atone in tey hand with whioh I am going to bit* the fellow right square in the hea&'' to throw, keopibg his ko en eyes %i those ?bo sat before bim, and ODO man dodged. "There," said Dow, *!ie the fellow who ?tole the azo," and it wea true. The man was guilty, and he could not keep from showing ir. Guess he thought Dow, had a smooth stone in his sling like unto the one with which David slew Gollan. Just one more incident. On a similar oaf s aston,, when arriving in .a neighbor hood, Dow was told about a woman who badi lost her rooster. It may have been a rooster the good woman was, saving for the preacher. No loubt preachers loved chicken aa well then as they do now, andi 'Dow may not have been an exception. He p&poeed to get the rooster. He got a large wash pot, turned it upside down With a ohioken under it, bliadfoldei &e orowd . and- had. .them te weik wound tho pot, and each oae was told to teueb it with his hand, Do w s tating mit. ^???- the fellow * in . i?e' er?^ifd ?tho stol? tue rooster tcuebed the pot, ?be rooster . under it ] would crow. When the performance waa ' over . he ieraaoded a show of bauds-took a dod of haed primary-eot oae mau's land had no sm?tW it. "Tfeere," >aid Dow, "ia the feliew who eto/e the rooster.* He was- afraid to touch; $e ^t, knowing 'that he, was the rogue md believing with all bis heart that hat ohioken would o?O*T if he touched Aro not these illustrations apropos o eondition's in these latter days? fust lift your lodgers; It is ludicrous to behold. Vnaieee the fellows who : are ;??i^Jo ouoh tho pot lest the roos tor she old f?fc They hav? clean hands, ; bte? tfth?n ib?y ato foll : of eorrapti|i. lee'tho fellowed ?ver the conntr?, ?emWhe big insurance' 'toen down k he Ultle swindlers ; jirbo . could %01 tend the test. ? ri S$IBOV^ fit ?te? ia these days, and edited a news ?per,'and heard' . the wails and ??? ^ntatSona #yfo)tt. :$BO^*?ief;$ ^ ^ailf is " they mu hither ari? bit?iet, ' faying^, "bo '. nae***'., mg low w?nli i* 4fl for yon '?> take & peaker,sf ?Und lu the Honan in .Oe nmbio^aid-wafO'yW.bMfi' ow?I lea-Seof ^^^W;'^^^ ? wbf piliSaf?flai :ink:?s^i^^ft tiirt&f?saying re^tfcfcgi fy j? dodging, jt they might, bo bit by ono of your smooth stones end mayhap you might hear a few roosters crow ing who were not exactly under a pot.-Greenwood Journal. Sending Home Chinese Bead-Tho Reasons for it. I visited Rosehill cemetery in Chi oago some time ago to watoh the re moval of the bodies of 200 Chinamen who had died in years past. I did not oare so muoh for the ceremonies which took place, as I did to learn from the lips of Chinamen themselves why they take up their dead buried anywhere but in China, and have them sent to China, where they are perma nently buried. Watohing como of tho work that was going on, ? fell into conversation with Wo Tay Fiag, formerly., of Canton, China, and now an American tea mer chant. He told me why tho Chinese do these things, end in what he said there ie a vast amount of great inter est to Amerioau boys Vhs study the habits of other races. There appear to bo, too, some , Japanese ovstc?ie worthy of imitation. 1 * When a boy is born in My native land," said Wo Tay Fing, "ss soon as he eau understand anythU-g he is taught to always respect bin ancestors, his grandparents, his father and his mother, his school teacher and the priest of the temple. He uncovers his head to ia o s, he never sits down in their pr?sence until he has proved himself their equal. As soon ss pos sible he endeavors to help them earn that which wm buy food and clothing, and he is careful to always tell them the truth. "When he docs not do these things, he beoomes as muoh detOBted, as muoh an . outcast, as dosa a criminal in your country. He loses standing with bis parents and the authorities, and if ho does not repent and take to true ways, he soon is without home or friends. But he oan always come baok if he will do righi. "If ho is a boy that does right, is gentle with his mother and good to all bis people and his tesoher, he is taught that no greater blessings can como to him when he dies than being j buried in the soil of his native coun try alongside the remains of his ances tors. He may dio in a foreign land, ane\because of Isok of money on the part of his people, be unable.to have his body immediately transported back to China, butin time that money ia r?i??d, aud then he is taken 'homo,' ?nd 'home* with us: means just SQ muoh, if not more, than ie does ^v?ii .' - W?v?* g VU. 13? was Uught more than 8,000 years ago in China, for I believe wo . aro'tho oldest people of the world (Yhis i? probably not imo, for the Egyptians end the Atlastoans prob ably antedated tho ? hin coo; but Wo T?t> Fing, believer - it.-The jsV'Mr), that when we ?io tho gre v i grandfether, the great-grandtather, the grandfather, the father and moth er and all the brothers and sisters and cousins and other relatives should lie side by side on tba native land, so thai when that revival of lifo comes which you call the 'resurrection,* all families might be together. I believe that this is so. ] "I tnt i muoh better man for think ing;'that? although I live in America, I shall some day be called back to my land where I was born, and sleep by my father and mother until the spir its call me to new life again. No Chinamen cxoopt the foolieh and bad ones believes that death ia tho end ol overythio?. I am not a soholar: much of what I know I have learned from listening and not saying muob, but I would fiel very bad if I did not believe that while death may oome to my body, I yet will have lifo again, and I wish to have it with my own people. "You of course believe differently than I do in regard to thia, but we were not brought up alike, and while you and your people are very young, mine are very old. We in China re speot old age, we care a great deal for the memory of the dead. That is why you seo hero tho workmen tak ing up theeo bodies to send them home for burial alongside of their an cestors. "I think that it is a good thing for tho young to have that feeling of love and respect for the old, for parents, for the dead, that we o ult iva to." I havo given thin just about as Wo Tay Fing gave it to me, for he speaks excellent English. It is a clear ex planation of why the Chinese who die abroad are sooner or later sont baok to their nativo land.-Boys' World. The Gunning of Foxes. Among the many resources at bia command to outwit his natural enemy, the hound, Reynard prises most dear ly a rail fenoe, a road and the frozen aurfaoo of a river, and in tbcBe days of deep snows will rarely fail to avail himself of one of these meana of safe ty. Tho rail raises tho line of scent too high for tho hound's nose, the fro zen river and the well beaten road, be sides the good footing they afford him, retain not a particle of thc tell tale scout so dear to the pursuer. On one occasion F. andi., as well h\Q my keen scented old hound Jeff, had found our fox vanish into thin air at ono particular point, and though the snow lay deep on the ground, and by it we oould see that the fox had come into the road, no amount of per severance on our part revealed to ua what had become of him after that. In vain we walked up and down the road in search of tho tell tale track, not a break in the even aurface of the snow . oould be found, and we were obliged to return home and own our selves outwitted, while Be>nard, no doubt eat watohing ua- from some aafe diatanoe, and saying, with Puck, "What fools these mortale bel" But,every fox, no doubt, aa well aa every dog, muat have hie day, and the mystery waa aol ved on the next hunt. Ensconced on a high pieoe of ground, and while the billa eohoed with the mellov? voice of the old dog, I DOW the fox clip into the road, follow it for a I hundred rode, then by one high leap ? land on top of a rail fence whioh ran ot right angles v/ith the highway, and boondies along the1 uppermost rail nimbly, reaoh a piece of ploughed gronnd whioh the wind; had blown beru of snow, run ocrosa the ploughed field to within about 90 yarda of me, when, jumping on a rook, he ourled himself np and deliberately lay down to watch the effect of hia little game and .enjoy the disoomfortnre of the hound.. I dare not move, so opening my breechloader I slipped in a long range thread wound cartridge, took Careful aim, and sent charge of dou ble B shot through Reynard's hand some fur. v . But foxes know more mi eche i vous trices than thia, and dear to the heart of every old fox ia a scamper down the ^smooth surface dz a frozen river, i i, "iii H i rv'' i m nil i i ' ' . ??VUHV/l^lt/i which besides offering an opportunity of escapo, often permits bim to take dire revenge on his troublesome enemy tho hound. For Reynard is versed in physics and knows full well tho differ ence of weight between himself and his pursuer; instinct teaches him to a nioety tho exact thickness of icc re quired to bear hie light fur covered body, and that on such ico his more ponderous enemy may not venturo safoly. If you doubt all this, stand, as I often do, sons to look down some swift stream almost frozen over and covered with light snow, and note how tho trail of tho living fox grace fully ourves toward every hole and in variably skirts tho very edge of ovory piece of swift opon water. Many a good hound has ended his days by venturing to follow where his trioky enemy lead, and I imagine if foxes ever laugh, and they certainly look as though they did, Reynard must laugh as hd hears the coho of the hound's deep bark suddenly die away sod knows his game has boon snoeoBsful. But we did not laugh, F. and I, when all at onoe silenoo settled over the bills, but a minute before musioal with the cherry notes of old Jeff's voice, for wo knew hs was in the treaoherouB river, and without losing a seaond F. hurried toward* a piece of open wrier not far distant. On reaohing it our fears wero at once realized. Caught in the swift carrent, benumbed with tho oold and exhausted by the attempts he had made to save himself, old Jeff lay with his head on the ioe, bis limbs almoBt motionless and whining pit eously. There was so time to bs lost, and Unable to resist tho dog's mute appeal for help, F. stretched himself on tho treaoherous ice, seized the animal by the neok, pulled him out, and in a minuto the dog was roll ing joyfully ot our feot. Though be numbed with oold and oovered with ioe he at once took up the soent with an angry bark, and two hours ofter we had the satisfaction of killing tho fox after one of the best runs I ever saw.-Forest and Stream. On a Cash Basis. An eminent physioian in P had oared a little child of a danger ons illness. The grateful mother turned her steps towards the house of her son's saviour. Doctor," she said, "there are some things whioh cannot be repaid. I really don't know how to expresa my gratitude. I thought you would, per haps, be so kind as to aooept thia parse, embroidered by roy own band." "Madam," replied the doetor, cold ly, "Medicine ia no trivial affair, and oar visito are io bs rewarded only io money. Small preienta aerve to jaetaia friendship, hat they do not CUB tain oar families/' "Bat, doetor," aaid the lady alarm ed and wounded, "apeak-tell me the "Two hundred dollars, madam." The lady opened the embroidered puree, took ont five bask not?e of $100 eaoh, gave two to the doctor, put the remaining three back in the parse, bowed coldly, and took her departure. -Lippinoott's Magazine. wH&MMraisW'i - The only will a man can exert with hie own family is the one he writes for them with his lawyer. BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1906. VOLUME XU-NO. 34. JOW PEAS draw nitrogen from tte air in large amounts, if sufficient POTASH and phosphoric acid are supplied to the plant. The multitude of purposes served by thc. remarkable cow pea, are told in the 65-pa^ illustrated book, "The Cow Pea," which also tells of the splendid results obtained from fertilizing cow peas with POTASH. The book is free to farmers for the asking."* *> Address, GERMAN KALI WORKS, New York-93 Nassau Street, or Adan'*. Qu.-?lX So. Broad Stree*. FRED. G. BROWN, Prca, aud TreaB. | B. F. MAULDIN, Vic? ProaldeiZ A. 3. FARMER, Secretary. and Investment Co., - BUYERS AND SELLERS OF REAL ESTATE, STOCKS & BONDS. J. C. CUMMINGS, Sales Dep't. Our facilities for handling your property are perfect, m we are large advertisers all over the country. Bight now we are having considerable inquiry for farms in this and ad oining Counties, and owners of farm lands in the Piedmont section who wish to dispose of their property will find that we are in a position to make quick and satisfactory Bales. Now is the time to list your property with us, and we will proceed at once to giye attention to all properties en trusted to us. Address all communications to J. C. Cummings, Salee Department. MDEBSOH BUL ESTftTE & IIIVESTMEHT COMPUL Now comes the "Good Old Summer Time" when you want one of our ...... Up-to-Date VEHICLES for Pieasum. Carriages, Surreys, Phtetons, Buggies,, ; Bun-aOfauts, Buckboard, Traps, And in fact any thing yea netVd In the Vehicle line you will fiod et oar tta potteries. A fine Uno of HARNESS, SADDLES, UMBRELLAS, Giff OPY SHADES* DUSTERS, &o. Gftll and eu Amine for yourself, and if we cannot 'tait yon lt wm bo ?se fault-. Very truly, FEET WELL-HANKS 00., Anderson, ft'tt \. tssB?SBSs^fssseesssss?S?s i i I i i i i jumma HIM a?HiWAT? THE SOUTH'S GREATEST SYSTEM! ITxiflxcelled Bining Sar Service. Through Pullman SleepingLC?fs on all Trains, Convenient Schedules on all Local Traill WINTER TOURIST' BATES are now Sn ?fleet* to all Florida' For full information as to ratee, routes, etc, coniult nearest Eou&CBt Railway Ticket Agcut, or R. W. BUKT. Division Passenger Agent, Chark eton, a ^ BROOKS MORGAN, ?set Gen. Pas. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. S 00 -e=rc3 2 I a l i S I 1 1 Ta S < ? ?< ft o O3 ?J ?HB1 Be * r- ? ffl w SQ ONE CAB OF HOG FEED, Have just received one Gar Load of HOG FEED (Shorts) at ve?y close prices. Come beforelthey ase all gone. Now is the time for throwing Around your premises to prevent a case of fever or some other disease, that will coat you very much more than the price ol a barrel of Lime (91.00.) We have a fresh shipment in stock, and will be glad to send yon some* If voa contemplate buUding a barn or amy other building, tee us before buying your- ? CEMEHT ask HHE, As we sell the very?[best*qoalitIe^"only.*