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PEOPLE'S OURNAL. VOL. 7.---NO. i. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1897. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR THE VALUE OF GOOD COUNTRY ROADS. THE NEED OF A PERMAN ENT SYS TEM IN ROAD BUILDING. History or the Movement for Improv ed Higliways--A Matter for Careul Study by All Mon. 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 p'esent time. About hati a century ago the question of good roads became a leading one in Tennessee State politics, but unfortu nately party spirit ran very high in those days aad political prejudice in fluenced the minds of a vast number of voters and they were blinded to the Stato's future prospects thereby. But a dominant political party of that day, taking into consideration the im mense advantages that accrued from the early crude, costly efforts of the early pioneers to establish highways for immigrants from Virginia and North Carolina to the fertile lands of Middle and West Tennessee, succeeded in engrafting upon the State policy a system of internal improvements by which the State was to pay one-half the expense in long time 6 per cent. bonds and the promoters and contrac tors of all roads were to receive the other half of the cost of construction in stocks of the road. These stocks were made valuable by reason of a generous enactment authorizing the stockhold ers to est-ablish toll gates not less than one mileirom the limits of any incor porated town and not less than live miles apart in the rural sections. The tol charges at all these gates were fixed by law for every kind of vehici, loaded or empty. and for every kind of live stock, and printed copies were re quired to be displayed in plain type on the outside of the toll gate houses at all times, day and night. With very few exceptious, the locations of I tho toll gates and the fixed toll,tbrough the internal improvement policy by the State dates back to 184.6 and was perfected in 1853. This policy was inaugurated and per fected by what was then known as the Whig party. The party went down In hopeless defeat in 18,56 60 and one of the grandest montiumients to its memory is the magnificent macadamized roaus In many parts of the State that are still operated under the laws and pen alties adopted by that grand old party. One of the requirementi was ilat the charter of any toll ra-l could be annulled by thc county court in any county whenever, in the opinion of the road commissioners appointed under enactmentz, the condition of the road was not kept up to charter require mante. The powers of the county road commissioners were, however, limited to the opening of the toll gates only during the time that the road was out of condition required. This feature per mitted the stockholders to put their roads in repair and again close gates and exact legal toll. The policy has worked well in this State up to the present date. The State of Kentucky adopted a system of public road improvement somewhat similar to that of Tennessee, but it contained some defects that dur ing the past eight months have given rise to a great deal of trouble and many lawless acts. During the war between the States and for some years subsegont the toll roads of Ten nessee and Kentucky paid no dividends and fell into a condition far below legal requiremcnts. In view of the great cost of putting the roads into a aivi- i dend paying condition, the stocks and ( bonds of the toll roads went down to merely nominal prices and were scoop ed In by shrewd speculators and tolls exacted often when tile roa~ds were not up to legal conditions. No serious trouble, outside of the courts, have occurred in Tennessee on this account, b~ut in Kentucky the toll gates In five or six counties have been destroyed by armed mobs and in some cases the in nocent toll gate keepers have been thlreatoned and assaulted. The Ken tucky people argue that the present owners of the toll roads bought tile stock and the bords for a song ; that they are now paying full 6 per cent. interest on thle State bonds that paid for thq building and repairs of the road, arhl that the paymnent of tolls, to corporations that never exp~ended a dollar in their construction or repairs, is an unjust taxation. F'ailing of relief in the State courts, they resorted to tile only means left them for redress midnight mob law. In Tennessee nlo such violont mecas ures are pop~ular, but thlere is a growing sentiment in favor of the plurchase by tile counties of all toll roads, making them free to p~utlic travel and keeping thlem in repair by taxation under the more or less excellent road laws of the State now, and for several years past, in elfet. Bedford County and( one or two others in mlddle Tennessee, where tile host system of macadam r'oads in this country exists, have made moves in this direction, but so far nothing definite has been accomplishled. Whis much of what the present geu eration of res" es may consider as an cient history, with a modern supp)1 Ic mont, is deemed necessary to a funll understanding of the motives inducing the peole of tis State and Kentucky to ask for an Improvement upon the system of toll roads inaugurated half a century ago. Increase of p)opulation and production of commercial com modities with increased facilities of transportation by other means than wagons and teams have made theoques tion of good roads a very lively and pressing issue in nearly every State in tile Union. Trho value of farm lands and timber lands depends largely upon0i their accessibility, andl so also do tile values of tile various products of far ms, forests and gardlens. In some sections of Tennessee tile trainspo'rtationi (of lumber and logs by wagons over had rea:1s costs more for a ten-milo haul than for 300 mIles by rail or river. Similar cond ition exist in all tihe States and( tihe demand for botter roadis is geg'fral because it is in the line of economy. Over some roads in tis Stat' the extra cost, wear and tear of wagons, teams and farmers during the past fifty years would more than suIl'ce to have built a st-andard gauge, double track railroad over their entire length. The growing agitation In favor of good reads has a deeper sgiiac and will result in a more widespread effect than is supposed by those who have given the subject little or ne thought. It begins to be realized that our national prosperity depends to a great degree upon good roads, and in most of the older States we may confi dently look for a thorough reform in the present methods of road building. This applies to railroads as wall as to country roads. All of them were orig inally built with a view to economy and with the expectation that both would be improved upon in location and construction when increased traffic would justify. That time has arrived in many States and sections. Owing to the vast extent of the United States and the comparatively sparse popula tion we can not expect for many years to come such magnificent roads as they have in older countries, England, Ger many and France, for instance, but we can and should begin now to lay the foundation for a system of road build ing that will ultimately load to that result. One of the most powerful stimulants to the movement for good roads is the wide rise and growing popularity of Lho bicycle, and it has made zoalous Jonverts to the cause of better roads of bousands who would give it no thought is a more economic question. But the aatrons of the wheel, unless they are tssisted by the general pu'lic, will be tpt to expend all their energles in tho :onstruction of bicycle paths instead >f wagon roads. The profits of the armors and the lumbermen and the )leasure of the wheelmon and wheel Yemen can all be equally subserved by muilding first-class macadam or telford oads. Five thousand dollars will build 6 mile of macadam road in the most un avorablo location and it would be far noro profitable to expend this amount o build one mile of durable road than ,o scatter the same amount in tempo ary repairs over fifty miles of road vay, as is the general rule. This matter of goo(I roads should re-. -cive the careful attention of every ecrson becauso the interest of two hirds of the people of the United itates are directly involved. Some 'adical action on the matter will be aken within a few years. It should )o thoroughly studied to the end that vhcn action becomes necessary it shall to intelligently directed. Our coun ry is too old, too prosperous and too ich to make any more pioneer exper inents in road building. Our exist ng highways are a reproach to our >therwise highly developcd clviliza ,ion. They must be brought-up to the tandard of other lines of progress and ,11(3 work must begin soon.-Daniel W. 3aird in the Tradesman. BILL AlRP ON POSTAI AFFAIRS. [to Tells of' the Times Wien, Letter P1os tage, Wats Tweniy-Five Cents and Unider. There is perhaps no invention or con rivance that has brought more com ort to m nkind than that of letters and heir easy transmission by modern iostal service. Iow wonderfully cheap hay are and how swiftly they come nd go! Only 2 cents to the utmost imit of the United States, say, 4,000 niles, and only 5 cents to be carried teross the ocean. It takes only 2 cents ,o carry a rotter to the City of Mexico, )ut it takes 5 cents to bring one back. My wife says that is hard on Carl, or besides his weekly letter to us, he las many friends, and the girl he left iehind hin, and his postage is quite a ax. She thinks I ought to write to ?resident Diaz and Mr. MeKin ey and demand reciprocity, just for Jar's sake, but I compromised with tcr by promising to inclose a dime in very letter I wrote to the boy. In dmost every mail that comes she is on ho lookout for a letter from some of he absent ones, and when she gets one he reads it two or times and lies it away on her side of the room. ['he morning and the evening mail ias become as important an event in ,he routine of our daily life as our daily neals. It is an event that has grown m us and become indispensable. Time was when neither she nor I received a .otter a month, for she had no lover out me, andl T had cone but her, -mnd ur postal system was a darkey boy. It was like that of Zeb Vance, who eceived a note from some fashionable woman in Washington with the mys torious letters, "R,. S. V. 1P." endorsed >n it, and when he answered it he put >n one corner "S. B3. A. N.," just to keep up with society, he said. When the afterwvards asked for an explana bion, lhe smiled and said: "Oh, they stood for 'Sent by a nigger.' " I remember when the postage had to be paid at the last end of the line by Ghe iperson who received it, and It was 25 cents if it camne 500 miles. If less bhan that, but from out of the State, it wvas 181 cents, andi, and if within the stato it was 121 cents. We had no :lecimal currency then, but we had the revcn pen1ce (1:2l cents) and the thrip (.l cents) andl they were wvorn to the :1uick fro cons1tanft use. Nothing told their value Oxcept their size.. We re teoivedi the great United States mail Lwwice a week andI the tooting of theostage diriver's horn as he rose to the brovw of the dirtant hill aroused all the pC00p10 >f the little village, and most of them gathered at the ptost oclico to hmear' the nnes. Perhaps there were as many as twenty weekly papers taken in the town, but, none of them made mention of murdeors or suicides, or lynch ings or elopoements, or' baseball or football, or bicycle races or the fashions, or reward, for guessing or advertisements of celery compound, or photographs of men or womon or babies, or the arrival of anybody less titan a Presi dent or a Governror. But, in our State papers there were some little pictures or cuts of hasty departures- runaways - aind all were uniformly advertised: "Ran away frcmi the subscriber, my boy Dick, etc., and I will ~ivo $10 re ward for his apprehension.' But, now the lotter8-ah the letters that come every day! besides the family letters fronm kith and kin, there are scores of letters from good people whn arc, working for church or charityv, or want information about Florida or MexIco. Very often am I comforted with compliments I love to receive, and very often I got a good, long letter from some old-time Georgian who for half aocentur'y has been living in TIexas or Arkansas, or somewhere in the great West. It pleases me to reply to all and make the best anser, that I can. Perhaps I had better say just here that I have long since ceased to write com positions for the school gi Is or to as sist the boys in their debating societics. I wish sincerely that I had time to help them, but I have not. I know how it is, for I used to get help myself. But some of these letters are amus ing. One received a few days ago is very urgent to have my opinion upon thd propriety or impropriety of a chris tian man digging a storm pt and get ting in it when the cyclone gives its warning. Is it sinful or not to show such lack of faith in God? He says they are making a church question of it in his community. I have had sev eral letters asking for assistance in guessing the missing word that the Constitution offers a thousand dollars for. These letters, of course, are con fidential, and some beg me not to men tion it even to Mrs. Arp. But the delicious humor in one of them is the offer to give me half the reward if I will disclose to her the word. That is very like the generous fellow who told the boy that if hu would furnish his own hooks and lines and bait he would give himn half the fish he caught. Since my last letter about how to raise children was published I have had several very comforting epis ties from friends and some from strangers. Rev. William H. Strick land makes mention of several families from old Gwinnett whose children are all grown and are esteemed by all who know ithem as good people-honest, law abiding and temperate. He names the three sons and live daughters of my old friend, Jim Dunlap. Also the eight children of Rev. D. 11. Moncrief, one of whom now lives in Atlanta and has five sons and live daughters, all grown up and all good men and women. John and Mary B. Sammons, his wife, had thirteen to grow to maturity, and they were all good. How rich thoso parents were!-richer than Vanderbilt or Astor. And so were the children of 1). W. Spence and Wash Allen. One had eight and the other ton. Well, now, one of the reasons is that all of those families came from old Gwinnett, and most of the children were from that old Sammons stock that lived on Alcovy creek when I was a boy. The first couple 1 ecier saw married outside of my father's house was Jim Dunlap and Rebecca Sammons, and Jim outnarried himself when he got her. That was an old-fashioned, country wedding, and it was a big one. They had turkeys and roast pigs aind pound cake amazing, and they hau thoiand-dollar candIlesticks all about, for every likely neg'ro boy had a torch. But my wife and 1 left there forty tix years ago, and did not know that these good peuple had had so many childrer.. May all such be perpetuated. And I have a good letter from Buena Vista, telling of old Dr. Reese, who has raised seven boys and two girls, and they are all good, sober, industrious, Christian children, and had 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 ap prehension concerning the black sheep being in all large flocks of children. BILL AP. STICK TO THE FAR.-A friend of ours owned a good farm a few years ago, about two miles from a thriving city. He and his sons lived on it, and had a fine home, and were prospering slowly. But they got it in their heads that they could live easier and do better to move to town and go into some business. And they went, rent ing 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 late for sucess. Last year, however, wvas too much for them. They had to trust out too much and the laboring people had so little money, and there was so much coin petition amot. g dealers to get that, that the weakest had to go down. TCho sherilf has sold the farm, aind ever-y thing else is gone. They have noth ing. As they are particular friends of ours, we feel d ubly soary for- them. Now, my goodl friends, don't you often think that farming is a poor business and wibh you were out of it and at something else ? And don't you know that the usual result would be about as described above ? You cannot sel your- farm and put your money into any business to-dlay that is honorable and legitimate and safe that wvill pay you as weoll. Let us look this matter squarely in thle face, then, and take courage and go ahlead and mabke thle best of our business. There is no chance to do any better, abs lb rule, nor as well, all things considered, with tile capjital@ invested. I was talking the other dlay with a shrewd old gentle man, who habs considerable property. IIe remarked :" I keel) cr'ngh money in farm land all the time te. support myself and family well if ever.,'U1ng elso went to tile clogs. I risk the rcse in buasinecss." There is nothing safer than good farm land. We have got encough, too, to supp1or't us well, no matteur whalt comes. People must cat, and farmlers can always live, on the averago. The greatest business p~ros poet on earth would not tempt, wife and 1 to sell ou r lanld or put a mnort gadge onl it. We hlave seen too ma~ny frienlds withl great prospcts go under. We will s~ick to lb sure, sabfe thing. A faamily out of debht, owning a good fa r ~ re a haby imp lrovecd, arc well la 'ix a in tis worldi's goods. If you hav e n't, goat that fa'~ along, good fiendus, wor'ak for it, as~ fast amnd habrd as youa can. We will cda alil we can to hl p you. Go righat to wu..i. nlow. P'racticaml lbarmer. ---A young society woman, of Marion, Ind., has been adljudlged inslane by a commission and will be sent to an asyluml. Wilie sulfhering fromai mauill aberration recent 13y, shlo iiamed lierself with a revolvor and created a sensa tion by holding up a crovdecd street car. She was placed under- arirest. --The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided that womenf lare (ligibl to hold any elective ollice in thabt Stabte from which they are not specdifically debarred by statute. ---- suposed insane womnan thlrew he w ittle children froan ab ferry boat into the river at St. Louis and then followed them. The chidren wore rescued-hnbt thewman drownd.., MYERS WILL NOT IANG. Governor Ellerbe Believes the Mai Was Unduly Convicted-Tho Negro Confessed to His Captors With a Rop Around Ills Neck. Governor Ellerbe has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of Frank Myers, colored, who was con victed of arson at Georgetown, and was sentenced to be hung on Friday, 16th inst. The Governor respited him ten days ago, because the day set for the hanging was Good Friday. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier gives the following statement of the case: Myer's case bas attracted consider able attention, and there has been a very great deal said in favor of the granting of the commutation of the sentence. There will be no protest against the action of Governor Ellerbe in this case, as there has been a general request for the commutation since the facts of the case have been known. Frank Myers is very much of a law breaker, but he has been sentenced to death for the burning of an outhouse in which no one slept, a crime for which no one has ever been hanged. Governor E'llerbe last week granted a respite for a week on Pmor-o1- of 1 execution ben- 1i < la U1.u la Iu3, and to-day. aier uearing argument, ho decided that under all the circuim stances he would commute the sentence to life imprisonment in the peniton tiary. lie says that he has not taken this action because of his desire to an tagonize the existing law, or through any admission that Myers would never have been convicted if his color had been different, but because of the fact that there is in his mind a considerable and overpowering doubt whether Myers would ever have made the confession he is alleged to have made if he had not been threatened with lynching. There appeared blefore Governor El lerbe to-day, in connection with the case, Mr. Wilson, solicitor for the cir cult; the solicitor's brother, whose property was burned; Mr. Baron Grier, who prosecuted the cases, and Mr. Rhem, who lost property by the tire. It was brought out in the testimony offered to Governor Ellerbe by Mr. 1. Wilson, that a rop, was put around F'rank Myer's neck, and that it was not until after the rope had been put around his neck and threats had been made that Myers confessed to what he did in the hope of saving his life. Governor Ellerbe is strongly of the opinion that if this fact had been brought out at the trial, while Myers would have been convicted he would have been recommended to the mercy of the court. The fact that such pres sure was brought to get the confession was not brought out at the trial, and Governor L'llerbe and others are decid edly of the opinion that if it had not been for the confession, or what is alleged to have been a con fession, there would never have been a conviction without a recommendation to mercy. In addition to these facts Mr. Walter Hazard, who has worked hard for Myers, sent up to-day a batch of alli davits and papers that bear directly on the case. S. W. Ellis and Charles W. Rouse, members of the jury, say, under oath, that they did not know that Myers would be sentenced to be banged upon the verdict that was rendered, and that they would never have con sented to the verdict had they known that it would have involved a death sentence. An aflidavit is also offered, in which it is stated that one of the jurors gave the impression that he was in for hanging some one because he had lost a barn by an incendiary lire, and it was his idea that it would be a good plan to keep up the hanging until his negro was reached-the one who burned his barn. These allidavits, together with others, were sent in by Mr. Hazard, with a lonv letter and allidavit from him, in which he shows that Frank Myers' confession was forced out of him, and that it '. is not worthy of be lief, and that Myers told the straight story at the time of his trial. Indeed, an allidavit Is offered that Pedro and Lawrence Myers were at a tar kiln at the time of the burning, and that there is no ground1 for the con viction of these two men. Mr. Hazard In his correspondence makes out a forcible argument to show why Frank Myers should not be made to suffer the death penalty, and the now phase Is presented that the father and brother were brought in by the confession of IFrank Myers, and that the only evidence on which Lawrence and Pedro were convicted was a sim ilarity of footprints and the confession of F"rank Myere. It is seldom that a case excites such general interest, and it was because of the unusual severity of the punish ment that there was such a general p~rotest against the hanging. -Co' gressman W. S. Holman, of In a'..2a, diled on the 22nd Inst., at Ihis residence in \Vashinrgton, after a month's illness. Mr. Hlolmran was in the 75th year of hiis age, and was just, entering on the :31st year of hris :ona nection with the House, where he was known as " the great objector." lie has generally been a memuber of the committees on war claims, cornmmece and appropriations. At the last ses sion of the forty-fourth Congress he was chairman of the commIttee on p~ublic building',s and groundls. He was chairman of the commitee applointed by the forty-eighth Congress to inquire into Indian affairs. In the flifty-second Congress he was chairman of the com mittee on app~ropriations, and in the fifty-third Congress was chairman of the committee on Indian affairs. --The President has appointed Ifar'old M. Sewall, of'Maino, to be envoy extra ordilnary andl minister plenipotentiary to Hiawali. H-arold M. Sewall gained prominence during the last campaign by reason of his advocacy of the Re publican ticket and platform, although his father, Arthur Sowall, was the nominee of the l)emocrats for Vice President. Mr. Sewall had the en dorsement, of the MaIne Senators for the H awaiian mission. lHe was a Doem ocrat until two years ago, when he became a Rep~ubiican. lie Is about 38 years old and is a graduate of [Harvard. -Do not all what you are going to (10; if you do not do It, the people will laugh at ou, THIC TURKS AND THE GREEKS. What the War Means Between these Nations-The Causes aud Develop ients of the Struggle. Perhaps no declaration of war in re cent years has created such wide spread interest and excitement throughout the world as that made by the Sultan of Turkey against the na tion of Greece. The attempted march of the Turk on to Athens, every foot of which he would crimson with Christian blood, If the Greek army does not whip him at the start, will be watched with intense interest the world over. He will move, it is true, should ho defeat Prince Constantine's army,"only so far as their Most Christian Majesties Wilhelm of Germany, Franz Joseph, of Austria, liumber, of Italy, Victoria, of 1Fng land, and Nicholas, of Russia, and the president of France will permit; but lie will go that far notwithstanding the protests of civilization. What is pat:iotismI and right in the cause of Greece will be made subservient to the politics of Iluropc. The hungry Mts sulman may be fed by nations calling themiselves Christian with the posses sions of a nation of inferior numbers on the pretext that these things are m ccssary for the preservation of the balance of power of Europe. The Powers, as these nations are called, are actively, though not more openly than necessary, allied in the in terest of Turkey. The preservation of the Ottaman empire, they contend, while an evil, is a necessary one if a check is to be kept upon the ambitions of the Russians. Turkey insolently declined to abandon to Greece the possession of cortain portions of Macedonia, which were ceded to it by treaty. For imany years past Greece recognized, as did all other nations, that it could count upon no active aid in reclaiming this terri tory from Turkey. A portion of it, Nount Olympus included, appealed to the patriotism of the Greek with pe culiar force. National pride was stir red, and there was formed the Nation al League of Grecce, which was large ly composed of oflicers of the regular army. There was no attempt to dis guiso their purposes. They made pre tense that their object was other than the insistence, so far as they could, that their country should have justice. In Armenia they had some allies. There is a community of interest so far as Turkey is concerned, between Greece and Armenia. King George looked approvingly upon the condi tions which he could not fail to see develop. He was not recruiting his army, but his people were fast becom ing proficient as soldiers. The Na tional League saw to it that the peas antry were drilled. Europe looked on with some amusement at first. It re garded the movement with little so riousness, but gradually the tone of Greece became so strong and resentful that the Turk took notico of it.. lie did this In his usual way. Ho caused an awful massacre of Greeks and Armenians in Constantinople, with no other design than to strike torror into the hearts of the Greek national ists. Numerous massacres In villages followed. Benevolent old gentlemen in England and elsewhere expressed horror and resolutions were passed de claring that the Turks must stop ; but he stol)ped only when his lust for blood was satisfied. The powers lifted th'eir voices, but not their guns. Greece was not ready for war at this time. The National League had scarce well begun upon its elaborate plans. It was a year or more away from the conditions which it desired to create. But the individual Greek could stand the atrocities no longer. in Crete seome Greek priests incited the p~eole to rebel, and what at first only was a iomt has now developed into a war. Turkey sought to chastise the rebels, aund then Grecece, as a nation, interfered. King George sent his hLt down there. The sympathy of Chr-is tondom was with the Greeks, and the powers hesitated about pecrmitting Turkey to declare war. 'They requestedl the Greeks to get out of Cr-ete. The Greeks dleclinedl t~o go. 'rhe Greeks also procecdodl to take ceyery place e xcep t, th e tow ns protec ted by thbe guns of the powers, who sent their warshlps and threatenett to lockadoe the ports, so that no provi sions could reach the Grecks. Then the Greeks sent an army to the Mace donian frontier. Turkey, which had been supplied with arms and amnmuni tion by Emperor William, resp~onded with another. 'Two or three clashes ensuetd on the frontier. Each side denied responsibility for attack. Then followed the raids of Greek irregulars, backed by the National Laeague. Some small Turkish towns and somo good stragetic positions were cap~tured. On Friday night lighting began between regular troops5 on the frontier. Within twenty-four hours openly declared war followed. 'rho Greek army on the frontier con sists of about 80,000 men. 'Tho Turks are said to have f50,000) men with whiiich to attack P'rince Constantine's forces. TIhe T1urks are equlipped~ much theo better with artillery, but the Greeks r-ely on uplrisings in MacedloniaL nodu elsewhere to strengthenz their forces and give the Turks more to think about than a direct, campaign towardl the South. Pro'fgress of' then Knihtted Goods Iiduas try in Sauth IC(arolinua. News and Courier. We have had the pleasure of seeing and handling seine of the products of the Manning, S. C., Hosiery Mill, which affor-d most gratIfying evidence of the progress of the knitted goods industry in the State. A very few years ago there was not so much as a single pair of coarse stock ings or socks knitted by machin ery within the boundaries of South Carolina. Trhen a concern which em playedl conv ict labor in the Penitentar-y introdluced the business in the State; its eixamla was followed successively b~y seome enterprising citizens of Che raw and Charleston, who embarked in the manufacture of 'comparatively coarse half hose, for men's wear, and mnade a conspicuous success of their venture, and now the new Manning mill presents hnth wme~mn's hoand , -- ATTEI "Too Good ' H M- IT IS. We propose (or as soon thereafter as vio to the successful cue are having live thousand tick are all given out we will givc greatest number of tickets, trade to the amount of one d are entitled to a ticket. It s as the cheapest. Underbuy and undersell sh our Dry Goods and Notions L Visit us and get our prices, true. Yours to saV New York F 10asy, S. C., NIlarch I, lI 0. nien's half hose of " filo " quality, and >f such character in a0I respects as to ,hallengo competition with similar roods maide anywhere. It, is a notable dvance to be amade in so short a time, mnd we cannot say too much in recogni Lion and Commendation of the enter prise of the new company. The goods speak for themselves best. TIhey are such as any mnerchant in the State can oler lo- sale with confidence mad prido in thoir quality and linish, Lund any lady or gentleman can buy with full content. They comparo fav )rably with any " fine " goods of their kind and grade manu factumIred without the State. Their colors are fast black ,nd brown, of l1rench dy', they are guaranteed to be " stainless," and they have double hols and toes. They ought spedily to displace all similar goods made outside the State, and we hope they will. We advertise them freely and gladly here, for the purpose of calling the attention of our ner chants and people generally to them. It is both a duty and pleasure to " pat ronize home manufactures " of such quality. It is to be noted that the goods in question are really of " tine " texture, and are fine enough for any lady's or gentleman's wear, as they prosent the general appearanoe of the well known " Balbriggan " and other like goods. They would havn made a great "son sation" if they had been exhibited a few years ago as the product of a South Carolina mill. They bhould command the trade of overy community In 1h State where they are exhibited now. They are maude, as we aro informed, from fino yarn spun by the Clover, S. U. Cotton lills, and are known as 1(10 " needle goods," and one of the in portant lesson. they teach is that Southern cotton milIs should put in mule spinning " frames " and make line and soft yarn. The quality of the yarn which they can obtain, it appears, Is the only limitation on the fineness of the hosiery and underwear to be made by our local knitting mills! As we have suggested before, the p)opulation of the South aifords a ccor tain home mar'ket for the products of hundr-eds of knitting mills, located in our territory, which outside mills can not dispute with thenm. It only remains for uis to make use of our- opportunities to insure thbo retention within our teirritor'y of the millions of dollars which we have been sending abroad every year heretofore to supplly ourl wants for' this class of goods. T1here are near'ly a mill ion and a hal f of p~eo ple in South Carolina alone to b)e supt 11lied with stockings and socks and underwear-, of ditf'rent, gr'ades. South Carolina mills should meet this do muand in full. The Mlanning Hosiery Mill is well pr-epared to meet a lar'ge and Imnportant part of it. Wc cornmend its claims and its goods to the con sideoratlon of all our merchants ',nd citizons who desire to support our' home i ndustries w ithout, saucrilice of thoir own interecsts and tastes. The Weathter an11( Crops lor- tieo WVeek I'nin~ig A pail 17, 1897. Th'le following is the rep~ort, of the weather bureau for' South Carolina dur ig the week ending Apil 17th: The templeraturie averaged two d e grees per day below normal (luring the pat,~ weck. The day temperatures were warm and the ni ghits rathorcm cool, with light fr'osts on the mornings of the 11th and I1(th, which, hiowover-, d id ro noticeable damage. The highest, temperatur'e rflnortedl was 85 on thme 15th at White Ilall ;the lowest was 1. on thme 13th at Liberty and Saluada, and the State mean for the week was ;0. The normal for the same period is amp proxImately (65. The rainfall during the week was light over the entire State, and tell in scattered showers duia-ng Wednesday and Thursday. At quaito a number of places no rain fell during the week. The heaviest weekly ranfall r'eported was 0.69 at Greenville. Twenty-two places reported some rain, the average amount being 0.19, amnd the normal for the week Is approxImately 0.82 of an inch. lIain is nceded to bring up late ly plianted cotton and for gardens, also to soften the crust on heavy lands that were, untIl reccently, too wet to culti vate and which baked in dr-ying. The light rains didi not interfere with farm work, which was uaninterrupted during the entire week. There was more sunshine than dur ing any previous week of the season. l'artly cloudy weather prevailed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and generally clear weather the rest of the week. The percentage of possi bl1e sunshine for the week was 80, and the normal lnorcentagre is about 70. TTION. ['o Be True." on the first day of September, the tickets are taken up) to Lomer a $75.00 SURRY. We ots struck ofT and when they to the customer holding the the Surry. Every time you 1lar in any department, you all be our aim to sell as cheap all bo our Motto, especially in lepartmont. and know that what we say is 0 you money, acket Store. CYD & NAlY, P'rops. The nights were generally clear, with the exception of W ednesday night. The estimated percentage of sunshine ranged from .18 at Orango hourg to 95 at St. Paul. The windls varied from brisk to light in force and in direction from norther ly to westerly. 'T'he week was v'ery favorable for thu preparation of lands and for planting, and farm work progressed rapidly over tim entire Stato. Under the influence of bright sunshine and drying winds even low lands became lit to cultivate The nights wore too cool for the best growth of crops, especially cotton and corn, which in consequence are reported sickly in places but generally are growing nicely. Corn planting made rapid progress during the week and is nearing con plotion in the more easterly counties, and central portions of the State, whero the carly planted is coining up to good stands; but stands are damaged in the southeastern counties by cut and bud worups and by birds, which are reported very troublesome, neces sitating considerable replanting. In the western counties corn planting is well, under way, and early planted is coming up. Cotton planting is now general over the entire State, and about two-thirds finished in the eastern portions. Early planted comiing up to fairly good, stands, but is not favored by the prip vailing cool nights. In the western counties where the season is late, cot ton planting is given the preference over corn in many places. In the tobacco districts plants are fino and plentiful. Considerable transplanting has already been done, and this work will become general when rains come to supply the needed moisture. Se Aing out tobacco is in advance of last year. Rice planting has been pushed dur ing the week. In the lower districts, including the Combahce,Salkehatchie, the lower Edisto and around Charles ton two-thirds of the crop is planted ; but on the Santec and near Winyah Bay planting is much delayed by high water. March rice coming up well. Wheat, oats and rye are growing rapildly and look very promising, but need rain in places. Rtyo is heading over the eastern and central counties. Sweet Potatoes coming up in beds. Irish potatoes doing wvellI, but needl rain. i'ota~to bugs have aippeared in Charleston Couty, but are not numer ous as ait this time last year. lICoports concerning p~eachies are more favorable genernlly than last week, and unless injured hereafter promise a~ fair crop. Apples and pears still In bloom11 andl apparently umnharmed. Gardens growing slowly, but are yielding early vegetables over the greater portion of the State. Trucking intorosta noodl rain and warm weather for becst growth. Favorable repor1'ts were recolvedl concerning all the mimnor crops usually cultivated at this season of the your. Tholm feel ~ng of Liiscouragemnent hats d is alppeared mind farmer's are~ pushl1ing their work with energy. Th'le Nationail IhulIletinm of April 12 gives the progress of corn anid cotton planting as follows: "Corn pilantinog haso continued, where not finished, in the Southern States. But little corn has yet been planted in Tennessxeo and none In Ken tucky. T1h roughlmtout the Ohio valley prearationsi for planting have been greatly retarded by excessive mois Iture."' "' Cotton planting is becoming moore genmerai and in active progress over the conltral pot ions of the cotton belt. Some has been) planted in North Caro ii na and prep~arations for plantinog are in progress in A rkansas. Cold weather has proved injurious in Trexa." J. W. BiAUin, Dircztor. -A train was rushing through some swamps in northern Indiana. The track was fringed on either side with " cat-tails," literally thousand of their brown heads bobbing around in the breeze. A small boy eagerly drank in the scenery. He was evidently a city bred boy, for he presently exclaimed, " Mamma, I didn't know that sausages grew in that way." -Will the Panama Canal be built after all'? Dredges are at work, ma chinery has been ordered and paid for, and about 3,000 meon on the pay-roll have to earn the money by good, honest toil. There are no sinecures for any body, and no taint of scandal is attach ed to the now regime. -The Archbishop of Canterbury will deliver into the hands of Mr. Bayard the log of the Mayflower, which 1tho Consistorial Court recently decided to' present to the United States of America.