The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 29, 1897, Image 1
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VOL. XL
THE VALUE OF GOOD COUNTRY ROADS.
TUN NNKDON A I'KHMANKNV 8YS-'
? TNM IN ROAD BUILiDlNG.
History ofIlio Movement lor Improved
IIiKlnvti)8--A Matter lor CarrlYil
.Study l>y AM Men.
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Never before in the history of the
United States were the necessities and
advantages of good wagon roads more
fully appreciated or more generally
discussed than at the present time.
ivoouir nan a century ago the question
of good roads became a leading one in
Tennessee State polities, but unfortunately
party spirit ran very high in
those days and political prejudice influenced
tho minds of a vast numbe?* of
voters and they were blinded to the
State's future prospects thereby. Hut
a dominant political party of that
day, taking into consideration the im
mouse advantages that accrued from
tho early crude, costly efforts of tho
early pioneers to establish highways
for immigrants from Virginia and
North Carolina to tho fertile lands of
Middle and West Tennesson, succeeded
in engrafting upon tho Stato policy a
system of internal improvements by
wh'oh tho Stato was to pay one-half
tho expeuso in long time <? per eont.
bonds and the promoters and contractors
of all roads wore to receive tho
other half of tho cost of construction in
stocks of tho road. These stocks wore
made valuable by reason of a generous
enactment authorizing the stockholders
to establish toll gates not less than
ono mile from tho limits of any incorporated
town and not loss than five
milos apart in tho rural sections. Tho
toll charges at all those gates wore
fixed by law for every kind of vohiclc,
loaded or empty, and for every kind of
live stock, and printed eopies wore required
to bo displayed in plain typo
on tho outside of the toll gate houses
at all times, day and night. With
very few exceptions, the locations of
tho toll gates and the lixed toil,through
tho internal improvement policy by
tho State dates hack to 1840 and was
perfected in 1858.
This policy was inaugurated and perfected
by what was then known us tho
"Whig party. Tho party went down
in hopeless defeat in 1850 00 and one of
tho grandest monuments to its memory
is tho magnilicent macadamized roads
in many parts of tho State that are
still operated under the laws and penalties
adopted by that grand old party.
One of tho requirements was that
tho charter of any toll real could ho
annulled by the county court in any
county whenever, in tho opinion of tho
road commissioners appointed under
enactments, the condition of tho roud
was not kept up to charter requirements.
Tho powers of tho county road
commissioners were, however, limited
to tho opening of the toll gates only
during the time that the road was out of
condition required. This feature permitted
the stockholders to put tbolr
roads in repair and again close gatos
and exact legal toll. The policy has
worked well in this Stato up to tho
present date.
The. State of Kentucky adopted a
tq system of public road improvement
somewhat similar to that of Tennessee,
but it contained some defects that during
tho past eignt months have given
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many lawless acts. During the war
betweon the States and for some years
subsequent the toll roads of Tennessee
and Kentuoky paid no dividends
and fell into a condition far below legal
requirements. In view of the great
cost of putting the roads into a dividend
paying condition, the stocks and
bonds of the toll roads went down to
merely nominal prices and woro scooped
in by shrewd speculators and tolls
exacted often when the roads were not
up to legal conditions. No serious
trouble, outsido of the courts, have
occurred In Tennessee on this account,
but in Kentucky the toll gates in live
or six counties have been destroyed by
armed mobs and in somo cases the innocent
toll gato keepers have been
threatened and assaulted. The Kentucky
people argue that tho present
owners of tho toll roads bought tho
v stock and tho bords for a song ; that
they aro now paying full 0 per cent,
interest on the State bonds that paid
for tho building and rbpairs of the
road, and that the payment of tolls, to
corporations that novor expended a
dollar in their construction or repairs,
is an unjust taxation. Failing of relief
in tho State courts, they resorted to
the only means left them for redress?
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In Tennessee no such violent measures
are popular, but there is a growing
sentiment in favor of the purchase by
the counties of all toll roads, making
them free to public travel and keeping
them In repair by luxation under the
more or less excellent road laws of thp
State now, and for several years past,
in effect. Bedford County and ono or
two others in middle Tennessee, whore
tho best system of macadam roads in
this country exists, have made moves
in this direction, but so far nothing
deilnite has boon accomplished.
This much of what tho present genoration
of readers may consider as ancient
history, with a modern supplement,
is doomed necessary to a full
understanding of the motives inducing
tho people of ibis State and Kentucky
to ask for an improvement upon tho
system of toll roads inaugurated half a
century ago. Increase of population
and production of commercial commodities
with increased facilities of
transportation by other means than
wagons and teams have made tho question
of good roads a very lively and
pressing issue in nearly overy Stato iu
the Union. Tho value of farm lands
and timber lands depends largely upon
their accessibility, and so also do tho
values of the various products of farms,
forosts and gardens. I n some sections
of Tennessee tho transportation of
lumber and logs by wagons ovor bad
roads costs more for a ten-mile haul
than for 300 miles by rail or river.
Similar cond ition exist in all the States
and the domand for better roads is
general because it is in tho lino of
economy. Over some roads in this
Stat j tho extra cost, woar and tear of
wagons, teams and farmors during tho
past fifty years would more than sufPco
to have built a standard gauge, double
track railroad over their entire length.
Tho growing agitation in favor of
good roads has a deeper sign finance
and will result in a more widespread
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effect thun is supposed by thoso who
have given the subject little or no
thought, it begins to i)o realized that
our national prosperity depends to a
great degroe upon good roads, and in
most of the older States we may confidently
look for a thorough reform in
the present methods of road building.
This applies to railroads as well as to
n.viintHnaSa All I O.AM> 1..
vuuumji i wrtvio. x\u \Ji bliuiu nuru UI 1^*
inally b lilt with a view to economy
and wit.i the expectation that both
would bo Improved upon in location
and construction when increased traffic
would justify. That time bus arrived
in many States and sections. Owiug
to the vast extent of the United States
and tlie comparatively sparse population
we can not expect for many years
to come such magnificent roads as they
have in older countries, England, Germany
and France, for instance, but we
can and should begin now to lay the
foundation for a system of road building
that will ultimately lead to that
result.
One of the most powerful stimulants
to the movement for good roads is the
wide riso and growing popularity of
tho bicycle, and it has made zealous
converts to tho cause of better roads of
thousands who would give it no thought
as a mere economic question. Hut the
putrons of tho wheel, unless they uro
assisted by tho general public, will be
apt to oxpend all tholr energies in tho
construction of bicycle paths instead
of wagon roads. The profits of the
farmers and the lumbermen and the
plcasuro of tho wheelmen and wheelwomen
can all bo equally subserved by
building first-class macadam or telford
roads. Five thousand dollars will build
a mile of macadam road in the most unfavorable
location and it would be far
more profitable to expend this amount
to build one mile of durable road than
to scatter tho same amount in temporary
repairs over fifty miles of roadway,
us is tho general rule.
Til is matter of goon roads should receive
tho careful attention of every
person bccauso tho interest of twothirds
of tho people of tho United
States are directly involved. Some
radical action on tho matter will ho
taken within a few years. It should
bo-thoroughly studied to the end that
whor. action becomes necessary it shall
lie intoiiigently directed. Our country
is too old, too prosperous and too
rich to make any more pioneer experiments
in road building. Our existing
highways are a reproach to our
othorwiso highly developed civilization.
They must ho brought up to tho
sianuaru 01 oilier nnesoi progress and
the work must bogin soon.?Daniel W.
Haird in tho Tradesman.
UlDlj Altl* ON i'OSTAIi AFFAIRS.
Ho Tells of tho Times When Cotter
1'oHtaKO Was Twenty-Five Cents
and Under.
There is perhaps no invention or contrivance
that has brought more comfort
to mankind titan that of letters and
their easy transmission by modern
postal sorviee. IIow wonderfully cheap
they are and how swiftly they come
and go ! Only 2 cents to the utmost
limit of the United States, say, 4,000
miles, and only 5 cents to ho carried
across the ocean. It takes only 2 cents
to carry a letter to tho City of Mexico,
hut it takes 5 cents to bring one hack.
My wife says that is hard on Carl,
for besides his weekly lottor to us, he
has many friends, and the girl he left
behind hi.n, and his postage is quite a
tax. Sho thinks 1 ought to write to
President Diaz and Mr. McKinley
and demand reciprocity, just for
Carl's sake, hut 1 compromised with
her by promising to inclose a dime in
every letter I wrote to tho hoy. In
almost every mail that comes sho is on
the lookout for a lottor from some of
the absent ones, and when sho gets ono
sho reads it two or times and
liles it away on her side of tho room.
Tho morning and tho evening mail
has bceomo as important an ovont in
the routine of our daily life as our dai ly
meals. It is an event that has grown
on usand become indispensable. Time
was when neither sho nor 1 received a
letter a month, for sho had no lovor
hut me, and I had cone hut her, and
our postal system was a darkey hoy.
It was like that of Zeb Vance, who
received a note from some fashionable
woman in Washington with tho mysterious
letters, "It. S. V. 1'." endorsed
on it, and when ho answered it ho put
on ono corner "S. II. A. N.," just to
keen no with societv. ho said. Who.n
she afterwards asked for an explanation,
he smiled and said: ,lOh, they
stood for 'Sent by a nigger.'"
I remember when the postage had to
bo paid at the last end of the lino hy
the person who received it, and it was
2"? cents if it came 500 miles. If less
than that, but from out of tho State, it
was IBS cents, and, and if within the
State it was 12i cents. Wo had no
decimal currency then, but wo had tho
seven pence (12* cents) and tho thrip
(<>) cents) and they were worn to tho
quick from constant uso. Nothing told
their value except their size. Wo received
tho great United States mail
twico a week and the tooting of the stage
driver's horn as he rose to the brow of
tho distant hill aroused all tho people
of tho little village, and most of them
gathered at the post otlico to hear the
news. Perhaps thero were as many as
twenty weokly papers taken in tiro
town, but none of them rnado mention
of murders or suicides, or lynchings or
elopements, or baseball or football, or
bicycle races or tho fashions, or rewards
for guessing or* advertisements of
celery compound, or photographs
of men or womeu or babies, or tho
arrival of anybody loss than a I'resident
or a Governor. Hut in our Stato
'papers thero woro some little pictures
or cuts of hasty departures runaways
and all woro uniformly advertised:
"Kan away from tho subscriber, my
hoy Dick, etc., and I will give $10 reward
for his apprehension."
But now tho letters?ah, tho lottors
that corno ovory day! Besides tho
family letters from kith and kin, thoro
are scores of lotters from good people
who are working for church or charitv,
or want information about Florida, or
Mexico. Very often am I comforted
with compliments i lovo to receive,
and very often I got a goo I, long letter
Irora somo oldtimo Georgian who for
half a century has boon living In Texas
or Arkansas, or somewhere in the
great West. It pleas s me to reply to
all und make the best answer that I can.
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OONWAV J
i'orhaps I had hotter say just hero that
I havo long since cc-ased to writo compositions
for the school iriils or to as
rfist the boys in thoir debuting societies.
1 wish sincerely thut I hud time to
holp them, but I have not. I know
how it is, for I used to get holp myself.
Hut some of those letters are amusing.
One recoived a few days ago is
very urgent to have my opinion upon
the propriety or impropriety of aohristlan
man digging a storm p't and getting
in it when the cyclone gives its
warning. Is it sinful or not to show
such lack of faith in God ? ilo says
they are making a church question of
it in his community. I have had several
letters asking for ussistunco in
guessing the missing word that the
Constitution otTers a thousand dollars
for. Thcso lettors, of course, are confidential,
and some beg me not to mention
it even to Mrs. Arp. Hut the
delicious humor in one of thorn is the
offer to give mo half the reward if I
will disclose to her the word, That Is
very like the generous fellow who told
the boy thut if he would furnish his
own hooks und lines and bait he would
give hiiii half the fish he caught.
Since my last letter about how to
raise children was published 1 have
had several very comforting epistles
from friends and some from
strangers. Kev. William II. Strickland
makes mentlou of several families
from old Gwinnett whoso children are
ull grown and are estcomod by all who
know Jthcm as good people?houcst,
law abiding and temperate. lie names
the throe sons and live daughters of
my old friend, Jim Dunlap. Also the
eight children of Kov. I). 11. Moncrief, ,
one of whom now lives in Atlanta and
has five sons and five daughters, all
grown upand all good men and women.
John and Mary 11. Summons, his wife,
had thirteen to grow to maturity, and
they were all good. How rich those
parents were!?richer than Vandorbilt
or Aster. Anu so were the children of
11. W. Spenoo and Wush A lieu. Cine
had eight und the other ten.
Well, now, one of the reasons is that
all of those families came from old
Gwinnett, and most of the children
were from thut old Summons stock
that lived on Alcovy creek when 1 was
a hoy. The lirst couple I o/er saw
married outside of my father's house
was Jim Ounlapand UebeuoaSatnmotis,
ami J iin outmarrled himself when lie
got her. That was an old-fashioned,
country wedding, and it was a hig ono.
They had turkeys and roast pigs end
pound cake uma/.ing, and they hau
thousand-dollar candlesticks all about,
for every .likely negro boy had a torch.
Hut tny wife and I left there fortysix
years ago, and did not know that
these good people had had so many
children.. May all such bo perpetuated.
And 1 have a good letter from Huena
Vista, telling of old Dr. Uooso, who
has raised seven boys and two girls,
and they are all good, sober, industrious,
Christian children, and hud a gentle,
kind, loving, Christian mother, who is
now among the angels. That is it,
after all?the mother?the mother?
the gentle, kind, loving, Christian
mother.
So I am encouraged to recall my apprehension
concerning the black sheep
being in all large docks of children.
Bill. arp.
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Stick toti^k Farm.?A friend of
ours owned a good farm a few years
ago, about two miles from a thriving
city, lie and bis sons lived ou it, and
had a tine homo, and were prospering
slowly. Hut they got it in thoir heads
that they could live easier and do
bettor to move to town and go into
some business. And they went, routing
the farm. They borrowed money
on it and put with what they had.and
started a grocery store. He is a man
of more than average ability. They
all worked early and lato for sucess.
Last year, however, was too much for
them. They had to trust out too much
and the laboring people had so little
money, and there was so much cornpetition
amo. g dealers to gut that,
that tho weakest had to go down. The
sheriff has sold the farm, and everything
olso is gone. Thoy have nothing.
As they are particular friends of
mira uirt fn/il .1 nKli>
, ,f v/ # v/v? * v? uimj dv/i i y mi
Now, my good friends, don't you often
think that farming in a poor business
I ijnd wioli you wore out of it and at
something else ? And don't you know
that the usual result would bo about
as described above? You cannot sell
your farm and put your money into
any business to day that is honorublo
and legitimate und safe that will pay
you as well. Let us look this matter
squarely in tho face, then, and take
courage and go ahead and mako tho
best of our business. There is no
chance to do any better, as a rule, nor
as well, all things considered, with tho
capita^ invested. I was talking tho
other day with a shrewd old gentleman,
who has considerable property,
lie remarked " I keep enough money
in farm land all the time to support
myself and family well if everything
else went to the dogs. I risk tho rest
in business." There is nothing safer
than good farm land. We have got
enough, too, to support us well, no
matter what comes. I'eoplo must oat,
and farmers otiu always llvo,;On tho
average. Tho groatcst business prospect
on earth would not tempt wife
and I to sell our land or put a mortgage
on it. Wo have soon too many
friends with great prospects go unuor.
Wo will stick to a sure, safe thing. A
family out of dobt, owning a good
farm, reasonably improved, are well
fixed In this world's goods. If you
haven't got that far along, good
friends, work for it as fast and hard as
you can. Wo will do all wo can to
help you. Go right to work, now.?
Practical Farmor. *
?A young eocioty woman, of Marion,
Intl., ha* been adjudged insane by a
commission and will bo sent to an
asylum. While suffering from mental
aberration recently, she armed herself
with u revolver and created a sensation
by holding up a crowded street
car. Sho was placed under arrest.
Tho Supremo Court of Missouri
has decided that women are eligible to
hold any elect!vo olllco in that State
from which they are not specifically
dobarrcd hy statute.
A supposed insane woman throw
her two little children from a ferry
boat into tho river at St. Ixmis, and
then followed them. The children
wore rescued, but the woman drowned.
3. C. THURSDAY, AF
MYKltH Wllili NOT 1IANU.
Ooveruor Kllorbe DellevcH i!??? Man
W?h Unduly Convlctc-d?The No^ro
Con loaned to 111m Captors With a
ltopo Around IIiH Nock.
Governor Ellorbe bus commuted to
iiuprisoniiiuot for Hie the sentence of
Frank Myers, colored, who was convicted
of arson at Georgetown, and was
sentouced to bo hung on Friday, l(>th
inst. The Governor respited him ton
days ago, bocauso tho day sot for the '
hanging was Good Friday.
Tho Columbia correspondent of tho
News and Courier gives the following '
statement of tho case :
Myer's ease ha- attracted considerable
attention, and there lias boon a '
very great deal said in favor of tho
granting of the commutation of the (
sontonoo. There will bo no protest
against tho action of Governor Kllerho
in this ease, as there lias been a general |
request for tho commctaiion since tho 1
facts of the case have boon known.
Frank Myers is very much of a law- I
breaker, but he has boon sentenced to 1
death for tho burning of an outhouse I
in which no one slept, a crime for '
which no one has ever been hanged.
Governor lOllerbo last week granted *
a respite for a week on account of tbe 1
execution being fiv <' f i Geo*; Fiiii.?j, '
and to-day. alter i.caring argument, he 1
decided that under all tho circumstances
lie .vould commute tho sontencO 1
to life imprisonment in tho poniton- 1
tiary. lie says that he has not taken 1
this action bocauso of his desiro to an- 1
tagoni/.e tho existing law, or through 1
any admission that Myers would never 1
have been convicted if Ills color had (
been dilToront, but because of tho fact
that there is in his mind a considerable *
and overpowering doubt whether Myers I
would over have made tho confession 1
ho is alleged to havo made if lie had I
not been threatened with lynching.
There appeared before Governor Kllerho
to-day, In connection with tho
ease, Mr. Wilson, solicitor for tho circuit
; tho solicitor's brother, whoso
property was burned; Mr. Huron Grior,
who prosecuted tho cases, and Mr.
Khom, who lost property by tho lire.
It was brought out in tho testimony
ottered to Governor Kllerho by Mr. I.
Wilson, that a rope was put around
Frank Mvnr's nnnlf anil I.tint, it
until uftur the rope had been put 1
around bin neck and threats had been '
made that Myers confessed to what he
did in the hope of saving his life.
Governor Kllorbo is strongly of the '
opinion that if this fact had been '
brought out at tho trial, while Myers '
would huvo been convicted lie would '
have been recommended to tho mercy (
of tho court. Tho fact that such pros- 1
sure was brought to get the confession 1
was not brought out at tho trial, and 1
Governor Kllorbe and others aro docid- 1
edly of the opinion that if it had not 1
boon for tho confession, or what is I
alleged to have been a confession, there 1
would never have boon a conviction (
without a recommendation to mercy. '
in addition to these facts Mr. VValtor
Hazard, who bus worked hard for '
Myers, sent up to-day a hatch of alii- 1
davits and papers that hear directly on 1
tho case. S. VV. Kills and Charles W.
House, members of the jury, say, under
oath, that they did not know that
Myers would ho sentenced to he hanged
upon tho verdict that was rendered,
and that they would never have eon- 1
sontcd to the verdict had they known
that it would have involved a death
sentence. An atlldavit is also offered,
in which it is stated that one of tho
jurors gave the impression that lie was
in for hanging some one because he 1
had lost a barn by an incendiary lire,
and it was his idea that it would ho a
good plan to keep up tho hanging until
his negro wus roachod?tho ono who '
burned hia harn.
Theao aflidavits, together with
othera, wore sent in hy Mr. Hazard, 1
with a long letter and atlldavit from ;
him, in whieh ho shows that Frank
Myora' eonfeaaion waa forced out of
him, and that it waa not worthy of ho- 1
lief, and that Myora told the straight
atory at the time of hia trial.
Indeed, an affidavit ia offered that
Pedro and Lawrence Myers were at a
tar kiln ut the timo of the burning, and 1
that there ia no ground for the con- I
viction of theao two men. 1
Mr. Hazard in hia correspondence
makea out a forcible argument to show
why Prank Myers should not ho made
to suffer tho death penalty, and the i
new phase ia presented that the father
and brother were brought in hy tho <
confession of Prank Myers, and that
"the only evidence on which Lawrence
and Pedro wore convlctod waa a similarity
of footprints and tho confession 1
of Prank Myers. <
It ia seldom that a eaao excites such
general interest, and it was hecauso of
the unusual severity of tho punish- i
merit that there waa such a general 1
protest against tho hanging.
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?Congressman W. S. Holman, of Indiana,
died on tho 22nd inst., at hia
residence in Washington, after a
month's illness. Mr. Holman wua in
the 7f?th year of hia ago, and waa just
entering on tho .'flat year of his connection
with the House, where ho waa
known as "tho groat objector." Ho
hae generally boen a member of tho
committuoa on war claims, commerce
and appropriations. At tho last session
of tho forty-fourth Congress he
was chairman of tho committee on
public buildings and grounds. He was
chairman of tho cominlteeappointed by
tho forty-eighth Congress to inquire
into Indian affairs. In tho fifty-second
Congress ho was chairman of tho committee
on appropriations, and in the
fifty-third Congress was chairman of
tho r.ommittdfton [mli?n ulTnii-a
?The President has appointed Harold
M. Sewall, of'Maioe, to bo envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary
to Hawaii. Harold M. Sewall gained
prominonco during the last campaign
by reason of his advocacy of the Republican
ticket and platform, although
his father, Arthur Sewall, was the
nomineo of the Democrats for Vice
President. Mr. Sewall had the endorsement
of the Maine Senators for
the Hawaiian mission. He was a Democrat
until two years ago, whon he
became a Republican. Ho is about IIS
years old and is a graduate of Harvard.
? Do not toll what you are going to
do ; if you do not do it, the pooplo will
1 laugh at you.
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Til K Tt'ltKS AND TI1H OltKKKS.
What the War Meant* Itotwci'n Hiohc
Nations?The C'iuih<>h ami Develop
meets of the StruKKlm
Perhaps no declaration of war in rocent
yours has created such wide*
spread interest and excitement
throughout the world as that made hv
tho Sultan of Turkoy against tho nation
of Uroeco.
Tho attempted tnaroh of tho Turk
dp to Athens, every foot of which ho
would crimson with Christian blood, if
the Creek army does not whip him at
the start, will ho watched with intense
Interest tho world over, lie will move,
It is true, should he defeat Prince
Constantino's army.^only so far as their
Most Christian Majesties Wilholm of
Cernianv, Fran/. Joseph, of Austria,
Humbert, of Italy, Victoria, of Falkland,
and Nicholas, of Kussia, and the
president of Franco will permit; hut
lie will go that far notwithstanding
the protests of civilization. What is
patriotism and right in the cause of
Creeoo will he made subservient to the
polities of Furopo. Tho hungry Musiulmun
may he fed by nations calling
themselves Christian with the possesdons
of a nation of inferior numbers
>n the pretext that those things are
eossary for the preservation of the
Dulanco of power of Furopo.
The Powers, as these nations are
called, are actively, though not more
ipenly than necessary, allied in the in.orost
of Turkoy. Tho preservation of
,ho OttDinun empire, they contend,
vliilo an evil, is a necessary one if a
jhock is to he kept upon the ambitions
if the Kussians.
Turkoy insolently declined to abandon
,o Greece the possession of certain
jortions of Macedonia, whicli were
jedod to it by treaty. For many years
last Greece recognized, as did all
ither nations, that it could count upon
10 active aid in reclaiming this torrlory
from Turkey. A portion of it,
dount Olympus included, appealed to
.he patriotism of tho Greek with pe;ullar
force. National pride was stir ed,
anil there was formed the Nation11
League of Greece, which was largoy
composed of ollicors of the regular
irmy. There was no attempt to dlsrilisi*
1.11 >i i* imriuwiiu Tlwiu ?<>.l.>
.otiso that their objoot wiih other t\ian
.ho insistence, so far as thoy could,
.hat their country should have justice.
In Armenia they luid some allies,
rhcro is a community of interest so
ar as Turkey is concerned, between
irecce and Armenia. King George
looked approvingly upon thu conditions
which lie could not fail to see
lovelop. lie was not recruiting his
iriny, but his people were fast becoming
prolicient as soldiers. The National
League saw to it that tkie peasantry
wore drilled. Kuropo looked on
with some amusement at first. It regarded
tho movement with little seriousness,
hut gradually thu tone of
Greece became so strong and resentful
that the Turk took notice of it.
lie did this in hit} usual way. He
mused an awful massacre of Crooks
und Armenians in Constantinople, with
no other design than to strike terror
into the hearts of the Creek nationalists.
Numerous massacres in villages
followed. Benevolent old gentlemen
in Kngland and elsewhere expressed
horror and resolutions were passed declaring
that the Turks must stop ; hut
he stopped only when his lust for
blood was satisfied. Thu powers lifted
their voices, but not their guns.
Greece was not ready for war at this
Lime. The Nutional League had
scarce well begun upon its elaborate
plans, it wus a yeur or more away
from the conditions which it desired
to create. But the individual Greek
could stand the atrocities no longer,
in Crete some Creek priests incited
tho people to rebel, and what at first
only was a riot lias now developed into
a war. Turkey sought to ciiastiso the
rebels, and then Crcoco, as a nation,
interfered. King George sent his fleet
down there. Tho sympathy of Christendom
was with tho Creeks, and the
powers hesitated about permitting
Turkey to declare war.
They requested tho Creeks to get
out of Crete. Tho Creeks declined to
l'o. The Creeks also proceeded to take
every place except tho towns protected
by the guns of tlio powers, who sent
their warships and threatened to
blockade tho ports, so that no provisions
could reach tho Greeks. Then
tho Greeks sent an army to tho Macedonian
frontier. Turkey, whieh had
been supplied witii arms and ammunition
by Emperor William, responded
with another. * Two or three clashes
ensued on tlio frontier. Each side
denied responsibility for attack. Then
followed the raids of Greek irregulars,
backed by tho National League. Some
small Turkish towns and some good
stragetio positions were captured. < >n
Friday night lighting began between
regular troops on the frontier. Within
twenty-four hours openly declared war
followed.
Tlio Grcok army on tho frontier consists
of about 80,000 men. Tho Turks
aro said to havo 1 .">0,000 mon with
which to attack 1 'rince Constantino's
forces. Tho Turks aro equipped much
tho boucr with artillery, but tho
Greeks roly on uprisings in Macedonia
Hud olsowhoro to strengthen their
forces and give tho Turks more to
think about than a direct campaign
toward tho South.
HOME-MADE IIOHIGKV
I'rogrUHH of tho Knitted Goods Industry
in South Carolina.
News and Courier.
We have had tho pleasure of seeing
and handling some of the products of
tho Manning, S. (J., Hosiery Mill,
which afford most gratifying evidenco
of tho [.regress of tho knitted goods
industry in tho'Stato.
A very fow years ago thoro was not
so much as a single pair of coarse
stoekingsor socks knitted by machinery
within the boundaries of South
Carolina. Then a concorn which employed
convict labor in tho I 'enltontiary
introduced the business in the State ;
its exampl i was followed successively
by some enterprising citlxens of Che
raw una ^nuneaton, wno omrmi'Kcu
in tho manufacture of'comparatively
coarsa half hono, for men's wear, and
made a conftptcuous success of their
venture, and now the now Manning
I mill presonts both womon'u houo and
?gr
py
&AKI
POWDER
Absolutely fifuro.
ColoVatod ft?r its great leavening
strength and lioultlifulness. Assures
I the food against iilum tind nil forins of
adulteration common to the cheap
brands.
UOYAL MAKING l'OVVDKK CO.,
Now York
men's half hose of " line " quality, and
of such character in ail rospcots as to
challenge competition with similar
goods made any whore. It is a notable
advance to be made in so short a time,
and wo cannot say too much in recognition
and commendation of the enterprise
of the new company.
The goods speak for themselves host.
They are suoll as any merchant in the
State can olTer lor sale with eontidenoo
and pride in their quality and llnish,
and any lady or gentleman can buy
with full content. They compare favorably
with any "line'' goods of their
kind and grade manufactured without
the State. Their colors are fast black
and brown, of Kruno It dye, they are
guaranteed to he " stainless,'' and they
have double heels and toes. They
ought speedily to displace all similar
goods made outside the State, and we
hope they will. Wo advertise them
froelv and irladlv here, for iln? omMwwn
of eaH'ng t ho attention of our merchants
unci people generally to them.
It is both u duty uml plpasuro to " patroni/.o
homo manufactures" of such
quality.
It is to 1)0 notod that tho goods in
question aro really of " lino " texture,
and aro line enough for any lady's or
gentleman's wear, as they present tho
general appearance of the well known
" Halbriggati " and other like goods.
They would have made a groat " sensation
" If they had been exhibited a
few years ago as the product of a South
Carolina mill. They should command
tho trade of every community in the
State whore they are exhibited now.
They are made, as wo are informed,
from line yarn spun by the Clover,? S.
C. Cotton Mills, and are known as
1(10 " needle goods," and one of tho important
lesson.^ they toacli is that
Southern cotton mills should put in
mule spinning " frames " and make
line and soft yarn. The quality of tho
yarn which they can obtain, it appears,
is the only limitation on the fineness
of tho hosiory and underwear to bo
made by our local knitting mills!
As wo have suggested before, tho
population of tho South utTords a certain
homo market for the products of
hundreds of knitting mills, located in
our territory, which outside mills cannot
dispute with them, it only remains
for us to make use of our opportunities
to insure the retention within our
territory of the millions of dollars
which we have boon sending abroad
every year heretofore to supply our
wants for this class of goods. There
are nearly a million and a half of people
in South Carolina alone to he supolied
with stockings and socks and
underwear, of dilTerent grades. South
Carolina mills should meet this demand
in full. Tho Manning Hosiery
Mill is well prepared to meet a large
and important part of it. We commend
its claims and its goods textile consideration
of all our morc.td.nts and
citizens who desiro to support our
home industries without sacrifice of
their own interests and tastes.
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WF-KKIjY CHOI* IH hLKI IN.
Tlie Weather and Crops for the Week
Kliding April 17, IH07.
Tiio following is tho report of tiie
weather bureau for South Carolina
during tho week ending April 17th :
Tho temperature averaged two decrees
per day below normal during
tho past week. The day temperatures
wore warm and tho nights rather cool,
with light frosts on tho mornings of
tho lllh and Kith, which, however, did
no noticeable damage. Tho highest
temperature reported was Ho on the
loth at White llall ; tho lowest wa.-> .'1.7
on the liith at Liberty and Saluda, and
tho State mean for tho week was <10.
Tho normal for tho suiuo period is approximately
The rainfall during tho week was
light over the entire State, and fell in
scattered showers during Wednesday
and Thursday. At quite a number of
places no rain fell during the week.
Tho heaviest weekly rainfall reported
was 0.01) at Greenville. Twenty-two
places reported some rain, the average
amount being 0.10, and the normal for
ther week is approximately 0.82 of an
inch, ltain is needed to bring up lately
planted cotton and for gardens, also
to soften the crust on heavy lands that
were, until recently, too wet to cultivate
and which baked in drying. Tho
light rains did not interfere with farm
Iwui-k, wiuuii was uninterrupted during
tho entire week.
Thore vviw more sunshine than during
any previous week of tho season.
Partly cloudy weather prevailed on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
and generally elear weather tho rest
of the week. The percentage of possible
sunshine for tho week was 80, and
the normal percentage is about 70.
Tho nights were generally clear,
with tho exception of Wednesday
night. Tho estimated percentage ol
sunshine ranged from 48 at Orangeburg
to 05 at St. 1 'aul.
Tho winds varied from brisk to light
in force and in direction from norther
1 ly to westerly.
The week was very favorable for thi
: preparation of lands and for planting
I and farm work progressed rapidly ovoi
NO. B
I tho entire State. Under the influence
'of bright Miln?hitie and drying winds
oven low lands became tit to cultivate .
Tho nights were loo cool for the
best growth of crops, especially cotton
and corn, which in consequence aro
reported sickly in places but generally
are growing nicely.
Corn planting made rapid progress
during the week and is nearing completion
in the more easterly counties,
and central portions of the State,
where tho early pluntcd is corning up
to good stands; but stands are damaged
In the southeastern counties by cut
and bud worms and by birds, which
are reported very troublesome, necessitating
considerable replanting. In
tho western counties corn plunting is
well under way, and early planted is
corning up.
Cotton planting Is now general over
tho entire State, and about two thirds
finished in tiro eastern portions. Karly
planted coming up to fairly good
stands, hut is not favored by tho prevailing
cool nights. In the western
counties where the season is late, cotton
planting is given tho preference
over corn in many place s.
In tho tobacco districts plants aro
line and plentiful. Considerable
transplanting has already been done,
and this work will become general
when ruins come to supply the needed
moisture. Ho .ting out tobacco is in
advanco of last year.
iviuu planting 11uh neon pushed during
tho wook. In tho lower districts, ^ #
Including the Combaheo.Sitlkohatohie, ?
the lower Kdiito and around Charles
ton two*thirds "f tie' crop planted : &
but on tho Santeo and near Winyah .
Hay planting la much delayed by high
water. March rice coming up well.
Wheat, oatn and rye are growing
rapidly and look very promising, but
need rain In placer. Ityo is heading
over tho custom and central counties. i
Sweet potatoes coining up in beds.
Irish potatoes doing well, hut need
rain. I'otato bugs have appeared in
Charleston County, but aro not numerous
as at this time last year.
lie ports concerning peaches aro more
favorable generally than last wook,
and unless injured horeaftor promise a
fair crop. Apples and pears still in
bloom and apparently unharmed.
Gardens growing slowly, but are
yielding early vegetables over tho
greater portion of the State. Trifcking
intorosta need rain and warm weather
for host growth.
Favorable reports were received
concerning all the minor crops usually
cultivated at this season of the year.
Tho fooling of discouragement has disappeared
and farmers are pushing
their work with energy.
Tho National Hullctin of April 12 '
gives tho progress of corn and cotton
planting as follows :
" Corn planting - has continued,
where not linishcd, in the Southern
States. But little cord lias yet been
planted in Tennessee arid none in Kentucky.
Throughtout tho Ohio valley
preparations for planting have been
greatly retarded by excessive moisture."
,t
"Cotton planting Is becoming inoru
general and in active progress over
the central portions of the cotton belt.
Some has boon planted in North Caro
urn uuu preparations lor planting are
in progress in Arkansas. Cold weathor
bun proved injurious in Texas."
j. W. Uaijkii, Director.
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the scenery. Ho was evidently a citybred
boy, for lie presently exclaimed,
" Mamma, I didn't know that sausages
grow in that way."
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