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’ . tm tandari VOL. XXX. VVALTERBORO, S. C., JANUARY 15, 1908. NO. 1* HOAD DRAGGING COST Why King System Is Cheapest as Well as Best. 17 BECOMES MERELY A CHORE If I should try to strike a balance for the twelve months. It would be some thing like this: ’ uPEmr. Litbor >4.00 CREDIT. Comfort* and pleasure of-my own family » — Time saved .T. 10.00 Savina in wear and tear 5.00 Satisfaction 10.00 Benefit to neliir'ibors and *e«- t JO. era! public IjoOQ 180.00 putiMise of considering methods to pre vent rosuls from Iteiug duuiaKed by ex- cesslve automobile trntHe. The t»se of the automobile, it Is claimed, tins pro duced many new proldemH In connec- tUm with the splendid roads for which.. Fran e has tieeome famous, autl « plan for tl;eir const met ion and maintenance Is dec.cel nescssary. The delegates will th- efore in particular disenss methods of aduptlng present roads to the ue <v conditionH of trafBe. Iffy Quitting a Littla Earlier a Farmer Can Eaaily Renew Hie Boulevard- Proof of Winter Dragging'* Value. Camparieen of Coot. (Copyright. 1907, by D. Ward King.] The cost of putting the King system In operation la a matter which must have consideration. Cost always Is Important. When one first bears about road dragging be feels certain a mistake or an exaggeration la somewhere snugly concealed, and an active brain spends a certain period searching for its hid ing place. Cenvlnced at last of the drag’s achievements as a wonder .worker, the same brain asks. "What Is the expense?” and again is skeptical when the answer comes, "The cost of 4he nev system is many times less than the cost of the old system.” For_the farmer who drags the half ’mile'or mile, ss may he. from "his own front t0 neighbor's front gate toward town," there Is no ex pense account. With the drag In the road at the front gate ; be quits a little , early at noon or In the evening, as the condition of the road soil decides, hitches to the drag afid renews hit boulevard. It becomes merely a chore. A neighbor of mine says, “After a fel low once gets into the fashion of drag ging it sticks to him like a bad habit.” For myself, I have l>een riding a drag since the spring of 18BH. In the fall I can take a team from a corn wagon at the crib 'and drag my half mile stretch before the corn is un- j loaded, and’Jn the winter months* most | farmers ean find an abundance of lei- Balance in favor of the drag 1176 06 Tbe last Item will perhaps need ex planation. The figure is based on an estimate that our family will average I departu out of the American t’ivl* one trip per day to town and that there Is an average of tec other teams per day •passing. For good measure I cut In half the l»enefit to neighbors. Hon.'jftatt Hail, now warden of the Missouri penitentiary, was a wood dnrgger Itefore he left the farm. In a published statement be tells of begin ning his work In deep mud. In two months he had a half mile of road of which he said: "I can hardly believe my own eyes when I look at It A loaded wagon won't make any more Impression on it than It would on a floor. I don't believe 1 have spent a half a day on It altogelber, and, hon estly, I wouldn’t near take ¥50 for tba comfort it has been to me and my friends and nelghbors. M You will note that*Mr. Hall’s estimatevof benefit Is about double n>iue. A comparison was recently made which \howcd by figuree taken from many connties and from Maine to Minnesota that a- dollar spent under the new system would produce as tnuoh Itenelit ns several hundred dol lars spent the old way. It Is hard to accept such conclusions, yet the fig ures bear Investigation and analysis. LIKE A ROMAN ROAD. How a Chicago MHIionairs Uses Rooks on His New Hampshire Farm. J. Glessner. the Chicago millionaire, who has made bis summer home lu Bethlehem. N. II.. for the 1 net. twenty- rapidly attaining fame Canada's Interest In Good Road Plan I*. Ward King of Maitland. Mo., who Is tbe head of the rural improvement as sociation. has n drug log method lor obtaining good roads, at the least ex pense whieh is Iteiug adopted iu the Canadian provinces. The Farmers Ad vocate of Loudon. Ont., is offering f 1UO In prizes for the best roads made with s King drug. In a personal letter the editor wrote: "A widespread Intereat has ls*en aroused and many drags con structed iu addnlon to those used by our contestants. Bo far we are more than delighted with what we have seen and heard of the results.” REPEAL OF THE LIEN l-AW., Two member* of the present 1 an intensely practical cast of mind* He listened with gathering wrath. At last, when he could contain him- J seif no longer,he squeaked out in his peculiar, high-pitched voice, ‘Harry, you are a foo!!’ M Strange verdict completely reversed by posterity -“Harry, you are a fool”! Hayne came of an ar.cient family, many of whose scions had been ora- houK » have been lighting for re trogress of the Agitation and Its p€ai for ten or twelve years— Present Statu*. Capt. John G Richards of Ker- s’ldw, aud Hon, E E Vernea-of Th« pwamout i«uc tefore the: (ic011ee Both arB r . irmer , and S^utl, enrol,n» general i-wblj, j bo(h „ e , )r>ctic ,, meDj which convene, in Columbia on jan- j sp( . akerB a „j | lari! tt< | lterf . uarjMth,« going to be the repeal Cjpt Uichard . ia t | le muet of the ag^ultural lien law. This - , . . . , i * — matter has been agitated for years, g ™ leader in tbe general | tors, and most of them public men. u..a .i_au_ i i assembly and for years was the Senator hayne, the brilliant speak- st te dispensary forces in the | er and debater, was his uncle. It ia but recently the agitation has been very effecively reinforced by the for mal demand of the Farmers’ Union and the Southern A ottrn association, and has been persistently pushed by several of the most influential news papers in the state. The law referred to is section 3059 of the code of 1902, and relates to the merchant’s hen on nngrown crops. There is, of course, no desire house. Senator Cruch of Saluda, had a similar bill in the senate, which was killed by a vote of 2 to 17, four senators being abseut. When the Richards bill came up in the senate, it was by a vote of 19 to Itf, so amended as to go into effect on January 1, •nrs In which to drag, and the operation , ,, , . „ . .. as a road builder, says a Bethlebem possibly is of as much benefit in tbe J .winter as it is in the summer, lu this- correspondent of tbe F’M<’ a ff 0 Ueeord- ffr latitude (near the Missouri-Iowa line) Wt find two conditions of the road in Winter whgn dragging Is remarkably effective. One of these special condl- tkrna Is when a rough and frozen road Is thawed an inch or more in depth at about 4 o’clock in tbe afternoon. Another fovorable opportunity Is at the close of a warm spell when the Wind changes to the north and the ■Md begins to stiffen with the cbm. If the mud is dragged just before a Creese tbe road of course remains smooth until another thaw, and the difference between such a road and one which was permitted to “freeze up rough” is as marked as tbe difference between deep mud and a dry road >Qii the one you can akim, along at any spSed; on the other you must move at • snail’s pace, with the horses gingerly picking their steps and the vehicle bouncing around as if you were rkling over s fresh blast in a,rock quarry. Let me v offer. two paragraphs from tbe Record, Hampton, * la., tbe first •bowing the skepticism often met, tbe. other confessing a radical change of opinion and furnishing proof of the value of dragging iu the winter months. The writer addreaaad a good roads meeting at Hampton Nov. 28. IMS. Under date Nov. 28 In tbe course of an extended report of the meeting tbe Record said: *Tt «■ to be regretted that there was mo split log drag at hand that he could •sake a satisfactory demonstration with, tba one available net being In neeordanco with the reqatrsaMnta, and tha attaaapt ta of tttha or no at?* the tana for tae. t lha ard adnata the maceesacffSf ta lfiha»fcifl of which Is fatnd In Iirt p—HIIM of the teatata: King drag that we have has* »_ »*■ b*g •• •wtaahL and If we bad tarns enough tak drags enough Hampton would have good roada within the eta Unata him sri n ii. whereas far a wdak they tare bast practically ImMaMtili for the reason that tba ground freue up a weak ago last night, leaving the ro%da tiD 1 cut ip. And suppose that every man In tba county bad had a King dreg, Dating about $2, and bad drag* god the road In frodt of Mb prehlaaa ones over and bade a week ago Tuea-' day, the afternoon tbet-Mr. King spoke outhouse, we would have had ids ever since. This la dexnon- by the fact that wherever on eta the drag was used that aft- has beau a smooth track ever T» " • 0a much for the value In the ef the winter dragging. Bat winter dragging prepares the way for louse lag the coat ef grogging, because if the this winter It will generally dry aff and ta drag before the adjatalug are $t to be plowed or c«W- ertaof bV Herald. He is now able to show three miles of probably the finest road In tbe White mountains, all within or adjoin ing his own estate and all public read, although It was ali built or built ever by Mr. Ulesener at his own expense. During the late autumn he had con structed a half mile of road on the main highway from Bethlehem to Lit tleton and during most of that time had a crew of seventy men, thirty horses and twenty oxen engaged on the work. Fart of this road looks like pictures of the modern Frencl^or the old Roman roads, and it is built fully as solidly as tbe-Roman roads used to be—In fact, after tbe same plan. The most important work done on tbe IJttleton-Bethlehem road by Mr. Glessner this year has been an ex tensive fill- ot quite a stretch of* road over some lowland where bad travel ing had .generally been tbe rule. At tbe lowest place the road was filled In six feet with stone! and the Uoue wall .on each side was carried three feet liigber, tbe wall in places being ten feet higher en the back aide, er aide toward tbe flelda. The wall la three feet wide on top and la atraag- ly built Tbe road la twenty-five feet wide be tween the walls, and four teams by A J. B- D. Discusses Laws Etc. Editor Frees and Standard,^-Before this reehee your readers the Legis lalure will be in session and I with 'Mack 0 ’and John C, willbeatcnr post of d4ity to do and undo and, perhaps, leave nndoue, lust as we did a year ago, and just as all other law makers have done who have ever assembled before us, and as these will do who oome after us. If I know my own heart, I have not consulted my own interest in any stand I havee taken. *~For instance, I advocated the repeal of the lien law, and I have never given nor taken a lien and am not likely now to do so. Again I am against the dispen sary and thie sale of whiskey in any way. I do not drink it, buy it or sell it, and 1 am quite sure that I shall never do so. As to tho road law, I am as an*iong for good roads as any man, but I am satisfied with any plan by which the end can be reabhed, whether by a commutation tax, a property tax or common [abor. Hence, 1 am not prompted by personal interest on any of these points, but seek only to promote the interest of my (Jonnty and State As to the raid law, I know it is deficient and needs several atnand ments which I shall try for at this session. 1 invite correspondence on She subject and shall apreciate any and all suggestions from my friends at home* It would he childish to repeal the act without first giving it a fair trial. Let us amend it as far as our abort experience with it ■hows that it needs, and after a fair trial, if me find it to be unsatisfac tory, toen ( repeal it by all meant. As to prohibition, if ws do not bring you something substantial this time, it will not be chargeable to ms. Round; Jan. IS. J. B. D. to iotorfete with the landlord', lion lm < i,, ' te » d of L IMS. or the laborer’, lien, and all that it r,le bill thu. wenken- ed, was rejected bo a vote of 22 to 18. Thus it is eveideut that unly a slight growth of sentiment is proposed to repeal is the following section: “Sec. 3059: Any perron who shall, make an, advance or advance., either j *8* 1D8t tb® l»w will itibure it. in money or supplies, to any person o« persons employed or .boat to | There wi » be » Urge nomW engage in the cultivation of the toil of “ ,ea9ure * m ' roduced >» «"> •hall be entitle^ to a lien on the crop which may be made during the year upon tbe land in the cultivation of general assembly at the coming ession relating to farm labor. The subject is at present one of which the advances so made have va *^ an< ^ P re8<J iRi5 importance to been expended, in prelVrencrt to all the farming interest of South other liens, existing or otherwise, exoept as herein provided, to the Carolina. With Judge Brawley’s decision upsetting the labor con- extent of such advance or advancer ; tract law and the repeal of the Provided, an agreement in writing lien law, there is an opportunity for constructive statesmanship of the first order in framing laws to meet present conditions and to provide for future develop- n ent in the great industry of agriculture.—Jas A Aoyt in Progressive Fanner. ■hall be entered into, before°83ch advance is made, to this efllct; in which shall be specified the amount to be advanced, or in which a limit shall be fixed, beyond which the ad vanoet, if made from time to time during the year, shall not go.” The exceptions made in this sec tion relate to the hen of the landlord and laborer, whieh are now prior to the merchant’, lien. The effect ofthe were brother these repol of the motion quoted «bo« u<iro their amociation dating babk would be to leere to force the .tatue i to Khao f day8 ^ ^ o( relating to the landlord s lein It has | egg tban a dozen years, they ex said that our poet during his col lege days displayed considerable oratorical ability; but if so it must have been a gift which he did not care to cultivate; for we never hear of him later as a speaker, though he several times read or recited his own odes on important public occasions. Afer the war he lived in complete retirement at hia cottage, “C.opse Hill,,’ near Augua* ta, and became the literary man, “pure and simple." He was of a singularly winning character; in friendship noble and sincere; and it is said that after Timrod’s death he truly preferred his friend’s fame to his own. • If we compare the two men as to genius, Hmrod will perhaps bear away the palm. He is plainly, the more striking and original.. He also excels in lyric passion and range; and there is a vigor and fire (some times even a note of fierce BAserker rage) in his war pieces with which Hayne could not pretend to compete Witness the lines from “A Cry to Anns:’’ “The Arm that drives its uiw bought blows. With all a patriot’s scorn, HAYNE ANDT1MROD accordingly been asserted by oppo nents of the repeal that the purpose changed verses; and each in turn was audience and critic to the other. of this agitation is to permit the Timrod, born in December, 1829, londlordg to secure undivided control of the renter that this is a move- was older than Hayne by not quite a month. Latter, we find them ment in behalf of the landlord farm- seat-mates at the College of Char- ers, who argely conatitute the Farm- leston; and"the friendship thus be ers* Union and the Pouthern Cotton'^un grew stronger with the years, tag half a A fairly can taa It Is desired to earadoa ef several •Ad Mr. Glaasner’s i basin ta dump In sa oat of the level course is made of another layer of atone Is dumped on. Theu comes a atfll then, tat. the atonewerh is end all openings are filled ta jHth ■mall etooe, so carefully !y placed that animals cam ha drives over without horttog their feat Than the rock ia eattaly covered and the read finally shaped ap *wtth a gaafi layer of "hordpan.” which pasta settfi sad Is practically tapsrvtaas to wata. Drainage at each alda is always pro vided tor, tbe road and these features. •slid founds ttoa ef ■ aR 5* 4- ' . Nods to Hi Fublkk. I haw too Estray Sowes that have Bin with my hoga for about three jars which I sant find enny ower fur the said Stoek is eulhard white an Both Mark the tarn aepor Bit in one Ear ork an upper Bit in the other Ear Both Markth Sam Otar it th Sam By Prusvin the Sam yin Cost of wat th Said Stoek will Sell oo th 13 of noveMbur at house at 10 odock to the hiss der. (The above notice was hamUd us with a request to publish. We wer$ informed that it was written by an officer of the county, whom withheld.) \ Hoc* m Attention ia ealled to &ct that hogs have broken .into th# ceme tery and have disfigured aeveral graves. The trustees of this property will doubtless see to it at once that the fence around this heaoti. fnl and earned epot ia repaired to prevent a reeurrenoe of such dapradaUont. association; that the landlord farmers wat to keep the negroes as laborer* and prevent them from becoming renters* It is contended that in this effort to control the negroes, the ffmall white farmer will be injurioulj affected. On the ether hand; the advocates of repeal admit that they desire to put control of the nsgrbss in the hands of the landlords and to make it impossible lor the negroes to ■scars supplies fromjtke lien mer chant, but at tha same tims. It is ■ssertsil. that tbs sms with which credit is ssound nndar the prsssnt law is s hurt and not a help bath to tbs whits and the negro fanner and tbs repeal os the law will smannipsls the small white fanner from his bondage of debt to tbe lien merchant Tha demand for repeal has been strengthened by Judge BrawWy’g decision declaring unconstitutional the contract labor lisa, under whibh nsgioes violating farm labor contracts could be sent to tbe ohaingaug. Tbs decision has earned a state of great uncertainly in regard to farm labor and tho white farmers arc mors than aver anxious t to secure definite and valid legislation that wilKmake their boainm secure. The lien tow was enacted just after the war, when the farmer had ao other basis of credit except hia prospects of a crop. It has outlived its day and wilt likely be sepealed at thjs session of the general assembly. , At the cession of 1000 the home of- roprmentatives voted for repeal 81 to SO, and the senate feted, against repeal by the agiall major’jy of >0 to 17. ending only (if such friendship ever end) with Timrod,s early death in the autumn of 1867. The fairy godmother had dower ed each with the gift of song; and their names will probably always be linked in the literature of their native State, and of the South. And yet the points of'contrast, both as to chararcter and work, are many; and either poet brings us a different message, and has toid it in different manner. Though both posaeaed the kind, noble and ingenu ous poetic temperment, the flavor af a unique personality was, in each added. Timrod was “modest and diffident, low of speech, yet, like Burns, quick to learn; in society the shyest and most undemonstra tive of men; timid, reserved, un ready, if taken by surprisa, but highly cultivated, and still more highly endowed.'* In Ohsrleton, for a short time, he studied tow in the office of the Hon. James Louis Pctigru; but he soon abandoned it for a more purely literary career, Hayne’s life of Timrod gives us an amusing incident in this connection. While a student with Mr. Petigru, the totter despatched Timrod to tarry an important memage. But Timrod’s mind was preoccupied with his own meditations; perhaps the. “Spring with that nameless pathos Jn the air. Which dq^U, with ullthints fur," of his beautiful versed may have been spiwnd out around Urn at the time, and have stolen Us thoughts. At all events, when hi arrived at his destination, he found that ho had entirely forgotten tha very loth, th to bidens bat to and report tha mm te Mr ABB JJtnm Might brain a tyrant with a rose, Or stab him with a thorn.” Or these from “Carolina:” “Hold up the glories of thy dead; Say how thy elder children bled, «And point to Eutaw’s battle bed i Carolina! Tell how the patriot’s soul was tried. And what his dauntless breast defied; How Rutledge ruled, and Laurena died, Carolina;’’ -n ■ But Timrod had not only the lyric fire, but the lyric grace as well; we can not quote, but many exquisite poems may be remembered as cases in point; “Katie” (widely admired, not only hire, but in Europe) “Spring,” “ V year’s Courtship,” and the grand sonnet on the death of Harris Simons, with its remark able blending of sorrow and triumph. Hayne’s work far surpassed Timrod’s in amount aad preten tiousness. He worte several long poems, of wnich “The Mountain of the lovers” and “The Wife of Brit tany, ” are good examples of tha polish and sweetness of his style. He loved to deal with the clasrical legends, such; as “Gylaocus tha Thessalian;” and hia interpretsttoa of local nature is extremely happy and lifelike, and show him to have bad the true poet’s tysand ear, as well m heart. This is shown to many of hia shorter ‘Mid night Thander,” “Windlass Rain,* “The Muscadines of tba Southern Forests,” and others. Perhaps tbs leading characteristic of Us poetry and wherever the subject requires this quality be ia at hM What, for instance, cam be AMtitar than these lines from “Tbs ‘resentment”? Over her face, ao tender and mack, Tba light of a propheor lies, That has ail vwrea the red of the rose ’ And chastened the thought in her eyes! And so, when a blander summer On some night of soft July, We will lend to the dost her beauty awhile. . In the hush of a moontas sky. And lattar still shall the churchyard flowers, (Bern nigh with a whits increase: a bird outpour by the old And outpour church tower. A plaintive poem of peace. -H. E. 09 TMfff Mays. Ml mm tor (MaC ’tr, • f : r -'‘ ■■ '‘■w* c* . mm i y&i