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t . The Easly. Mssengr 1ra lihe a Iorck, the more it's shook,4- -ithine. VOL. 1.] EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMINER 2, 10 rite gaslg 5esentlger. Entered at the Postojice at Easley, S. C., as Second Clasa Matter. IiUDEliNS, R AGOOD&CO., Prop'rs. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year, strictly in advance......$1.00 Six months " " ...... 65 RATES OF ADVERTISING. One square (1 Inch) 1 insertion......75e Each subsequent insertion............40c Liberal discount on contracts or by the column, half or quarter column. Marriage notices free and solicited. Obituaries over 12 lines charged for. Correspondents. to insure attention, must give their full address. We are not responsible for the opin !ons of our correspondents. All communications for the paper must be addressed to the Editors ; business letters to the Publisher of the MESSENGER, Easley, S. C. THE PLOWMAN. Clear the brown path to meet his coul ter's gleam Lo ! on he comes, behind his smoking team, With toll's bright dew-drops on his sun-burnt brow. The lord of the earth, the hero of the L'., First in the field, before the reddening suln, Last in the 8hadows when the day is done ; Line after line along the breaking sod Marks the broad acres where his feet have trod. Still where he treads the stubborn elods divide, The smooth, fresh furrow opens deep and wide; Matted and dense the tangled turf up heaves, Mellow and dark the ridgy cornfield cleaves. 4 At every turn the loosened chains re sound, I The swinging plowshare circles glis tening round, 'Till the wide field one billowy waste appears, And the wearied hands unbind the panting steers. There are the hands whose sturdy la bor brings The peasa at's food, the golden pomp of kirags; SThis is the page whose letters shall be seen, ~Clhanged by the sun to words of living green ; This is the scholar whose immortal pen S pells the first lesson hunger taught to mn l; T ihese are the lives that heaven-com-. mnanded tol SShows on his deced-the charter of the soil. --Oliver Wendell Holmies ---Accordhwg to the "Catholic Di rectory,'' the number of Catholics ini the United States was 5,760,000 in S1874 and 6,880,000 in 1882. This is :equivalent to an* increase of about 20 per cent. in ten years. L-An Insane workinan leaped ietic the furnace of the glass works at Kent, Ohio, on Friday, and was almost in stantly consummd. [For the Messenger. Public Roads. [CONT'INUED FROM LAST WEEK.] I1 avor-thk break or turn.out systein on roads'; I have some experience, as I have had something to do with the public roads for nearly twenty-flve years, and have kept tip one or two miles of -private ones for the same length of time, and I contend It i the next thing to- an impossibility'to do without them. No sirs ! If you are going to compel me to help keep the public roads in a passable coudition without them, or Macadanising, I think I an ready to eminmigrate at once, And why? My recollection is that we have an annual rain fall of about 50 inches. Half of this frequently falls in two or three of the winter or early spring inorths. Now our wagon wheels are about 5 feet apart. Hun dreds of people, for the sake of econo my, go to market immediately after an all-day's rahli, with a three-horse load ou a two-horse wagon. This heavy load on, narrow tire drivethem to the axle, so that it matters not how much the road is raised in the middle, no more water ever gets across those ruts. but stands between or in them. Let some of you who are fond of figtures tell us how much water will fall on a piece of road half a mile long an1d 5 feet wide with a column of water 25 inches high, on each square inch. Sup pose this is a hill half a mile long and elevated, at an angle of almost 45 de grees, we will have ruts washed and worn out that are almost bottomless. Sometimes we searcely see the Sun for: twenty (lays, the mud still remains, and you had just as well till these ruts with water or snow as to till them with mud. You never can get me to acknowl edge the man who advocates the work ing of roads without turn-outs, as my Solomon on this question. We have- a g reat many of these turnouts that are dreadfil; they are too high, sharp. and are not across the roads at the. proper angle ; they ought, where it is possible, run the water each way from the middle of the road, and be built of timber. You had just about as well expect snow to stand against the wag on wheel as to expect dit to in wet weather. I know these turn-outs or breaks are awfully cursed by such fe. lows as are fond of driving at a break neck speed, and who can not brook the idea of being stopped in their wild ca reer for a moment. They are wise enough to require no more time for pausing to reflect; they sometimes cause the girls to get an awful jolt too. Well, I ant sorry for them, until they learn better what sorti of a poy to choose to drive for them. . To stop jesting, thuis is a question of vital importance, and we ought to have IL handled by the cleareht heads among us. Some of our people spendi almost half of their time on the roads- for instance, preachers, doctors, mail car riers, etc. If the roads were better they wouldl be used still mnore. It would increase almost.every branch of business, from Church-going to goliug a courting. I bleve the public has determined (and if it has not It ought) to have better roads8 at all hazards, even if it has to take the hats off' our heads, with all the tobacco and boxes, whisky barrels and jugs, to fill up the mud-holes and gulles. We must have better roads else the law will be changed; and I don't know what might happen. Keep this subject before the peonle "On all oainsand e sonm times $et ween times." Let everybody remehber that this subject Is of great importance to all; from those In the Alms-house to the greatest of. us, and good roads are so easily obtained. *Jost will it and it's half accoinplished.' I will say in concolusion that these are the roads for us to spend onr itue and money oni. Let the men WitjI millions build just as many Railroads as they wish. Keep your fingers out of the tire. . Our purses will riot pass muster when those enferprises costing from *25.000 to *10.000 per mile are up. We have never built and kept in a respectable condition otur own roads. which do not cost more thani 03 or $10 a mile. SUBSCRIBER. Extracts From Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. There Is no instruction so cheap as reading, and no pleasurn so lasting. but tihe reading must be of the righr kind. How the childreu (1o love a good story, and how fortunate is the family that has a good story teller in the household. What a favorite with the lit tle folks and how happy it makes then to gather-rotnd aunity or an old er siter, and listen to some wonderful things thatt happened long ago or away off somewhere I reckon there never was a boy that didn't want to do some big thing and be a hero. That is all right aid very natnral. Tihe nien do too ulItil they get married and settle down to the hard struggle of life, raising children and paying debts, and that takes the starch out of 'en and the romance too. Its all fact, fact every day and night. Thirty years ago I begun waiting on a little cia) and washing his face and tiein g up his toes and his tingers and teaching him his lessons. attd pretty soon they doubled on ine and then they trebled and quadrupled and kept on away up yonder and here I an still working and teaching and every night I have to hear 'em spell and speak their speeches and show 'em how todo sums, and I can't keep up with the new fash ioned books and tht new way of cipher ing by anatysis, and so sometimes when I get stalled I have to look wise and say the answer in the book Is wrong. Parents and teachers ought to be mnighty patient with children. Some have more capaity and some more memory. Somc are slow and some are quick. It is not the snartestchilid that minakes the sminartest man or woman. It is a powelful straiin on some of 'em to keel) up, and the dull ones oughtent to be crowded until they hate books andl dreadi tine time of going Jo scho. Sonme folks send their children to school to get rid of 'em, hut my opinion is the parents ought to hellp the teachner every inight. lIt shows the children how much interest they feel In their education. It is a signi of a good teach er when the children get ambitious to keep up and get head mnarks,and bring their books homie at night and want to go to school if It Is rainling a little. Wrap 'em up and let 'em go. T1here is nothing that dlemoralizes a school boy like staying at hpmne every few day aund gettig behin d' the class. We uised to walk three miles to school, and we never minded it at all. It was a frolic all tine way there and all the way back and we did have thne best dinners in thne world. Delmonico never had as good things as our mother used to fix up for us. It seejns to me so now. A child's life ia full of romance and fun theiest sort of fun. A htild's direams are splesdid but we don't drean now., hard ver. I used to read Robinson Crus an dream it all over in. How I dkI Lg to be ship-wree on an Island and raise noikeysandgnattA and p*Motft SiMw hildrern are gen Orally stre childr*t), but they don't show off much. nie Webster was most always foot his cts, btu when he learned anythi he never forgot It. Some boys are id and restless and have no use for books, bitt they ought ent to be given up or hacked or abused continally. If they have good pa rents they wil ime to themselves af ter while. Th y will sow their wild oats and gather the crop and get tired of that sort of farming. I was read ing the other day about Oliver Gold smith, who I reckon was the worot vagabond in all England, and was kicked about and abused by everybody, and got in jail. and sometimes slept in the corner of the fence and liked to have perished to death, but he came to himself at inst and made one of-Eng land's best and greatest men. The three worst boys that ever lied in Rome are now good 'men, splendid men, and are hdnered and respected. They had good parents. Olve a dog a bad natne and everybody wants to kick him. Good men ought to notice the bad boys specially and speak kindly. to 'em and offer to help 'ei and make 'ei teel that they are not 6sh,&Maelites. Some boys get so much abuse at home and abroad that they are astonished when a decent man spelaks to 'em. Some folks give 'et no considoration, but want to see 'em go to jail or to the calaboose, which Is the worst thing that can be done for a boy, for he never gets over it and grows desperate. It is astonishing how long a little sin or a little humilli ation will follow a boy. One time a boy stole a quarter of a dollar from a nother boy at school, and that follow ed him to his grave. He got to be a great man and was thirty years in con gress and was a senator, and one day when he made a bitter speech against the corruption of the opposite party. and lenounced their stealing and pltn dering by wholesale. one of his oppo nents replied by saying he would re mind the gentleman that preachers of morality should nome in to the pulpit with clean hands--that Ben Franklin said, 'He that would steal a pin woul d steal a bigger thing,' and he asked no quarters from the gentleman on that score. So, boys, remember and keep your hands clean. Folks will forgive mis chief and a heap of other things, but they won't forgive meanness. BILJL Ani. -A young m an has turned up at Portland, Me., claiming to be the long lost Charley Ross and telling a most astonishing story of early abduction by Frank and Jesse James, long confine-. ment, a voyage on a pirate boat to Bra zil and an escape. The chances are uninety-nia to one that the young man is an awkward and badly trained liar. -Trhere were two soldiers in Gene:al Grant's army, lying below blankets, looking up at the stars in a Virginia sky. Says Jack, ."What made you go into army; Tomn?" "Well," ieplied Tom, ''I had no wife, and I love wvar. What made you go Into the war, Jack?" "Well, I had a wife, and I love peace." -Augusta factory men are declining Chinese orders for goods, as they ex n~ect anl adlvanne in nerone Qnna .