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W^M RECORD. ; g ' Published Every Thursday ?at? J BTNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, j ?b Y? LOUIS J. BR1STOW, F.dItor and Proprietor. ^.#epan. according to a recent census, has 4?, ? 3,261 inhabitants. That is v eoneiuerflic'.y more than she will liavo : if she gets into a military fuss with | ?V" ' w -Russia. 1 iluch is being said over the bill *U~i Unan tntvrwtn/?ad nt Alhj>nv_ tUOb U?o uwcu N. Y., prohibiting tho corporeal punishment of pnpils in tho public schools, and making tho penalty for * ' inflicting such punishment imprisonment for any time under a year. Mexico now has lady bull fighters, Brooklyn has lady foot-ball players 8?v: and Middietown, N. Y., has a lady atreet-car motorman. If this thing keeps up we shall ultimately have lady everything except lady women, predicts the Louisville Courier-Journal. In many piaces agricultural fairs ' have been diverted from their legiti* mate purposes and turned into mero '?Mn? <vrnbinations. snvs Farm and Fireside. In s^me places the evils t-.- connected with the latter have grown to be intolerable. Fakirs work all ^ * sorts of fradnlent schemes, disrepnta& v. . ble showmen give exhibitions that are r ' grossly immoral, and gamblers run swindling games openly. Such things eventually kill the fair and drive the agricultural society oat of existence. Kjjtf "I never S3w so mnoh,goateel povIerty before as exists in Washington, vD. C.," writes a Cabinet member's wife in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Yon have no idea how many of these department clerks tremble in their boots for fear of losing their positions with a change of administration and enforcement of the Civil Service rales. The departments unfit both men and | women foi^any other occupation. Yon would be surprised to know bow many of the fashionable "society men re department clerks. Some of the moat attractive among them get a majfttfty of their meals out of society. . They rent a room for small amount, and dine out every night, frequently ' getting o lcnch or a breakfast from a iriead. In return, they make it their i,, ' Shsiness to be entertaining 'end a'.R? Va '[ H|rays ia c good humor, ready to bo of Service and to initiate new peoplo into the etiquette of the place." ^ \ The diplomacy of Russia has always v: a . presented a remarkable combination of suppleness aud extromo tenacity. She has learned by long experience *;to understand the orientals, and while \ she is ready at tines to make snbstantjal concessions, she never makes ' formal ones. Bat Russian diplomacy fljc: has another advantage over that of the "Western powers. It never meddles wifca those endless discussions which ' * , are every day provoked by the presence of Christian missionaries in the %. Celestial empire. There are deeper e*u?e$, however, for the intimate connection between China and Russia, j The Chinese are keenly alive to their j V V tern interests; and between those ininierests and those of Russia there is no contradiction, but rather a great similitude. The sole aim of England, " ~~oi ?bc United-States, of Germany and j jr* ? c -of franco i3 to find in China a vast outlet for the products of their indus- j & - fry; in other words, to impose their " flUnufactures upon her, it need be, by SV foroe. On the other hand, both Enssiaand Japan d9?ire to facilitate the exportation to Eni^pe of Chinese , products Russia has not the slightest apprehension of that approaching peril ; # of which we hear so much. Thanks to b?r great railway, she is going to r|. be t&e .intermediary between produc**, ' ing China aud consuming Europe. Her nascent industries will not suffer I by comparison with the skilled labor ?*- ' of the yellow raoes, but she will be able, inoase of need, to employ that . labor for the purpose of inundating **-. Europe \rith cheap wares. The agricujtjtral or mountainous provinces ol Russia yield nothing at all resembling ? the mom products of China. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain by being brought in contact with the innumerable/subjects of the Celestial empire; and the immense current of exchange which will be set np between China and Russia will bear lifo and prosperity to the steppes of Siberia, causing them to become in a short time one of the world's great centres of agricultural production. Nothing but profit can accrue to Bussia from the economical development of China. Hospital statistics prove that amputation is four times as dangerous after the hffe of ISO as before. < im&/' * > % ' " " ' ' ' ' '' "* poo?m\Ds Nom| Proddincr Turnpike Companies. A law has beeu passed by the Michigan Legislature requiring the turnpike companies in the State "to construct, reconstruct, repair and maintain their roads in good repair, and of the same material and in the same manner as required by their charter, within six months after the passage of the Act." If they fail to comply with the law, the roads are to be considered as abandoned, and no further toll can bo charged on them. How It Helped tlie Farmers. "The beauty of good roads was exemplified Saturday," says the Quincy (111.) Herald, "when the farmers of Riverside aud Ellington townships came to town with loads of hay and straw and produce, and the farmers of other townships had to stay at home. The Riverside aud Ellington township farmers came to town via the Locust street tel/orded boulevard. The farmers of the other townships had to re-, maiu at home, because the roads were too muddy. To start meant to be mired, and so no start was made. And all because of lack of enterprise in providing good roads." Powdr Required on Grades. American highways have often olosely followed the old Roman model, and run straight ahead regardless of obstacles. It seems not to have occurred to our road-builders that less power is expended in going three miles aronnd a hill than one mile np it, or that it is easier to cut down a hill oqce than for all travelers to climb it thousands of times, or that no heavier load can be hauled than can be drawn up the steepest part. To attain higher levels the preripitous sides of hills have been scaled, requiring extreme grades, when such could have been avoided, anci more circuiums courses, not materially longer, would have arrived at the same spot with less expenditure of energy. Mountain roads can be kept in order only with extreme difficulty. The work on them, the time and unnecessary energy wasted in surmounting them, and the half loads that only can be hauled on them are sources of great and constant loss. In foreign countries every effort is made to keep grades down to four per cent., that is, a rise of four feet in every hundred, as this has been shown by experience to be the maximum on which loads can be advantageously hauled, and even it necessitates the expenditure of as much energy in one milo as in traveling three on a level, so that but one-third as heavy a load can bo drawn. As the grade increases above this percentage the labor involved becomes so excessive that a maximum of ten feet rise in a hundred is used abroad for mountain roads, and on this less than one-half oan be i t.j -# ?v.t :ki~ A ,I 03U1ISU Ui nuu> ia |ju33iuiu i?i> tuui iu u hundred, and but one-sixth as much as on the level. So little attention has been paid to this subject here that a rise of ten in one hundred is often found on main roads which are constantly used by heavy traffic, and even twelve and fifteen in a hundred are by no means uncommon. This is* wrong. The courses of old roads could be slightly altered in many cases to their great advantage, and in other cases new 1 roads conld be laid out. These points ought 4o be thoroughly looked into before making hilly roads permanent by macadamizing them.?L. A. W. Bulletin. Why State Aid ii Ncce??ary. In addressing the Maryland State Grange recently, General Stone spoke of conditions which may exist in other States as well. Ho said in part: "I find that the question of State aid is eliminated in Maryland by a constitutional provision which prohibits the use of State funds for such a purpose. Get up a sentiment strong enough, and amend your Constitution, like other States are doing. It is a vicious system that requires localities to keep up the roads. It is a work that concerns the people of the whole State, and is not a local question. Roads[are of vital interest to the cities. Blockade your country roads to-day, and to-morrow your city will begin to scatter. The benefits of good roads are equally shared by the cities, but they must assist in the work of construction before they can reap tho advantages. "About three-fourths of the property interests of the country are to be found in the cities,fand held by the corporations. Now, the farmers, representing about one-fourth of the property interests, have been endeavoring to keep up the roads for the whole country. The result is obvious. The burden was too much, and bad roads are to be found everywhere. "There exist in some places strong objections to employing convicts upon -prrblio roads. A happy solution of this difficulty, however, presents itcelf. Employ your convicts in preparing material for building goodToads. This has been tried in a number of States, and has proved to be an economical as -vVell as a healthful way of working convicts. I am satisfied that Maryland could employ its short-term prisoners and House of Correction inmates in this way, and deliver road material at fifty cents a ton in any part of the State. "You must convince your legislators that the State of Maryland is entitled to just as good legislation as any other State of t_e Union. You must ?tir them at home, and follow them to Annapolis. * * * You can tell them what you want in a general way, that is: "First?A complete reform in the local road administration, so that you will get your money's worth for the money you now pay. "Second?You want more money fcr roads, withouTm^e taxes on farm property. "Third?You want au efficient State supervision to make sure that the new money spent on roads shall be spent to the best possible advantage. "Fourth?Yon want to make sure for the future that all property, and all the people interested in or benefited by good highways shall contribute their proner share toward building anil maintaining those roads." Kntlnranro of Horses. The Vedette, the regimental journal of the Twenty-first Lancers, gives an interesting account of a march carried out between Cairo and the Bitter Lakes and back?203 miles in five days. This was done to test the relative merits of the three classes of horses in use in the regiment, namely, Arabs, Walers (brought from India by the Seventh Dragoon Guards), and Hungarian remounts lately supplied to the regiment. The Arabs were six to ten years old, the Walers fourteen years and upwards aud the Hungarians four to five years old, "rather young for such a trial." The verdict was that, even allowing for age, the Hungarian horses were decidedly, inferior iu breeding and stamina; and the Walers, though in a more temperate climate they might be superior to the Arabs, under the prevailing conditions of service in Egypt, "with short rations and plenty of sand, long periods without water, and the temperature at 1BU degrees in ine shade," were decidedly inferior to the Arab, which, in a desert march, showed itself well able to carry the British soldier, with his impediments. As the weight carried was an average of nearly sixteen stone, the marches were decidedly good, namely, thirty-five, fifty, thirty, fifty-eight and thirty-two miles per day. One Arab, three Walers and eleven Hungarians were "laid up in the sick lines" after the trial.London Sketch. The locality of DUene. In an interesting article on the area3 of disease the London Saturday Review remarks upon the consensus of medical opinion that diseases in general have their local habitations? some, like tropical animals and plants, living only in the tropics; some, like consumption, gradually / spreading over the whole earth, while others, HVa lonrnsv and smallnox. are bv de grees becoming limited in tbeir distribution, possibly tending, it may be, toward extinction. On the other hand, however, there are regions to which diseases have never reached, for instance, on the summits of high mountain ranges and in the circumpolar snowfields of the earth and air and water are as barren of the microbe? of disease as they are of animal life. The writer in the Review admits that in a country like Britain, thickly populated for many centuries, and with the freest circulation of population, it cannot be doubted that every yard of surface contains the germs of the more. common diseases, and the nativo of some newer laud, brought over to Britain's shores, falls a victim to its plague-stricken soil; but by generations of a destructive elimination Britons have become highly restraint to their native diseases?yet not fully so, for cancer and consumption, two of the most common scourges, still hold powerful away. ( Australian Fever Cnre. "What's that fired grave for?" asked the recruit. "Fella all sick; weather bad and budgery no good down 'bout Womba. Plenty rain one time, fella catch cold; plenty {pver this time; by'm-by f etch'im longa that place," explained Warrigul, as a litter emerged from a wurley of the camp, and the sick man was borne to the curious grave. The doctor walked in the rear. Thrusting his hand into the long ditch, to test its warmth, the doctor signaled to loweV the patient into it. He was then covered from neck to foot, feet and all. His head alone rested above the dirt. Sergeant Dalton explained: "The blacks pnt fever patients in the ground like that, and steam the fever out. They say the earth will draw off the evil spirit, and then fill him with life." "Electric currents, by Jove!" The next day the late patient was bobbing around like a three-year-old. ?Outing. New Bicycle Tiros. The ingenuity of inventors has been exercised to the utmost on bicycle tires that cannot be punctured in the ordinary way. Various combinations of springs, plates aftd rubber have been made, and the number of, devices registered in the Patent Office in this line runs far np into the thousand. One of the latest models shows a series of springs placed underneath small metal plates and covered with a heavy rubber casing. It is claimed that a greater amount of elasticity is secured with much less danger of injury to the rubber. In passing over very rough surfaces, the springs yield to sadden pressure, and thus insure more safety to the more fragile outer portion.?New York Ledger. Feeling the Earth'* Pulse. The fanciful notion which men used sometimes to entertain that the earth is, in some sense, a living thing, would probably have derived support from the recent observations of Professor John Milne and others on the shivers and quivers that frequently run through its rocky frame, but escape notice except when watched for with speoially constructed and exceedingly delicate apparatus. Professor Milne reports that apparatus of this kind has now been mounted in Canada, British Columbia, the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Java, India and Argentina, as well as in England and at various places on the continent of Europe. / y , - ... . V > \ ? y ^ iyi- qy Hui < \ > < ; 4 \ Protracted hunger ^ the scalp is starved t your hair? It gets * wash it and brush it, 4 brushing would stop \ would be a sponge ? L That is why A 4 *4 Pre\ 4 4 It supplies the rc< k , It restores the lone o 4 It liclcs that tne colorii 4 ; natural color, dandru Men and women' wl friends, admit that th 4 u Last winter Iodise 4 plications of Ayer's Ii disappearance of the [ 4 myself." jr. " I have used your as a hair dressing and highly in its praise." I ^ "I am sixty-nine y? ^ , my hair from turning j ^ always use it." 4 111 find Ayer's Hair ^ applications of the Vij 4 also found that it did i t T y V V > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ PITHY ITEMS. ?i- 1?- J_ .i r>;_l .1 j^iiorus are uciuk uiuue m x\juuuiuuu, I Yft., to transport the old Libbv prison | back to that city from Chicago,'111. Marshall Boss Smith, of Morley, | Mo., while locked np in jail, set fire I to the building and was burned to doath. * Daring the cattlemen's convention at Fort Worth, Texas, stock to the ! value of $2,000,000 ohanged hands. Gray wolves in enormous numbers are praying upon the stock along the Laramie river, Colorado. The Republican State central committee of Kansas met at Topeka and authorized the holding of the State 1 convention at Hutchison on June 8. A full State ticket will be nominated. About two miles from Henrietta Mills, N. C., Mr. John Green, township constable, attempted to arrest a negro named Blake, wbo had run away from South Carolina for wife beating, and for which crime Constable Green held a warrant As soon as the negro heard of the officer's business he opened fire i with a pistol. The constable fell to his j knees, mortally wounded, but drew his I pistol, firing three shots at the negro, all of which took effect, one ball piercing his heart killing him instantly. heavy sales of fertilizers. They Are Shown by the Big Receipts From the Privilege Tax. Judged by the receipts from the privlege tax, the amount of fertilizers sold r\( *V| A nveOAnt. RAASnn IS up kU buio uuiV V4 wuw r. v-w-. far ia excess of that of any recent year. For the months of January and February, 1897, the tax netted $40,900, while for the same period this year ^he receipts amonnt to $40,379, an increase of 35,479. The opening days of March show no i evidence of decreufe in the sales of fertilizers, so that the privilege tax will probably give an excess of $18,000 over the revenues derived from the same source last year. The receipts of 1897 amounted to $59,352, an increase of nearly $5,000 over those of the previous vear, so it looks as if the fertilizer industry is getting on its feet again. ?The State. Seeing that there are 13,000 Justices of the peace In Massachusetts, there ought to be justice in abundance and plenty of peace. * X r \ ;.v 'V V'V V N* V V *v ^ J^i^d is the beginning ol m 1 &1U11C2 means starvation, and siarvatior he hair dies at the roots. W1 dry, harsh, brittle, dull of color, but it still comes out It's hun > starvation, then all the cxper tnd a currycomb. Ilungcr nee VFP JKw ? J&< J0L ir VI; rents Bald juisitc nourishment for the hail f the scalp and so induces the : ng matter is renewed and lad If disappears, and the hair ijccoi hose abundant hair is the env ey owe it to AyeFs Hair Vigor. ovcrcd a bald spot on my head as large as a sil air Vigor started a healthy growth of hair, ant bald spot was a subject of wonderment to my i A. M. ALLEN, No. 5116 Locus Ilair Vigor for a great many years and know < restorer. It lias given satisfaction among my A. E. FIELDS, llarber, No. 45 l'rince ars old and have u?cd Aycr's Hair Vigor for ft gray. It is an oxcelleut preparation for thai john hecht; Vigor to be indispensable. My hair fell out f( ;or stopped it. It gave the hair a beautiful gl< not affect curling or crimping." M. E. SN YIX r V T V Y r \ AAAAAAlAAA ~ DAVID'S SLINQ.~ Investigation Is Said to 8bow that It Was No Shoestring Affair. Now comes some iconoclast and declares that It was no miracle by which David slew Goliath. Investigatiaqf shows that the famous sling that shot the stone was no mere shoestring affair. And the stone was no mere pebble. The Asiatic sling is two yards long, and as thick as a man's finger. David could have hanged Goliath with it had be happened to catch him, and it would have borne a giant's weight. The sling throws Its missile so that It /lis, NOT A SHOF.STBING AFFAIB. j travels at the rate of about fifty mllee 1 an hour. A stone as large as a hen's I egg crushing Into a gentleman's head j at that rate would naturally prove , more or lees fatal. Meat three times fi day Is harmful to ! any person of sedentary habits, and j even a laborer Is better off with meat ' but twice a day, as It contains so much j nitrogen that the liver and kidneys are given too much work to do. Meat in moderation with plenty of vegetables and fruits should be the rule. Show us a man who has malaria, and we will show you a man who eats too much. -j _ I * - >' * U ? , ; *. m n' A Ail 4 i 4 lair \ ' ij CV<V? ^ .-$ i means death. When . bat's the matter with * t the ends split You < gry! If washing and \ isc of a horse's keep ds bread, not a bath. ^ ^ * : -'Jim o w\ > 'I ness. : I * ? . . -3 r, and th,e hair grows. * secn^ons of the fol- , \ ling hair regains its mcs thick and glossy. ^ y and admiration of * fig 4 j Iver dollar. "A few ap? ^ 1 in a short time the , n fiends and Measure to 4 JM t St., St. Louis, Mo. ] jf nothing equal tb it *, customers who speak J ss St., Kingston, O. fteen years to prevent 4 . ^ purpose and I shall t ? MAN, Osseo, Minn. ^ | >r five years, but a few issy appearance, and I 4 LK, brantiord, OoC ^ : 'ZZZZZZZZ ; Mrs. Conner*, of New York, whose goat swallowed her pocket book contains a $10 bill, waiting too long for expert opinions as to whether If she should resort to murder she wtould lose both the money and the goat. Her situation offers something of a familiar object lesson in human affairs. PORT ROYAL DRY DOCK. It Will Soon be Available for Oar Big > Warships. Reports received at the navy department from the contractor in charge of v dredging a new anchorage ground for vessels at the entrance to the dry dock at Port Royal, S. C., encourage a hope that the work of getting a sufficient anchorage to accommodate vessels of war may be snocessful before long. Heretofore ships have been compelled to come into the dock proper from below at high water and then get oat again under the same circumstances. ' The adaptability of the dock to United States war vessels at all times is greatly to be desired, since sonth of Newport News it is the only doek on the Atlantic coast available for ofce of the vessels of the North Atlantio squadron. HEAVY SALES OF FERTILIZERS. They Are Shown by the BI* Receipts From the Privilege Tax. Judged by the receipts from the privlege tax, the amount of fertilizers sold op to this time of the present season is far in excess of that of any recent year. For the months of January and February, 1897, the tax netted $40,900, while for the same period this year the receipts amount to $46,379, an increase of $5,479. The opening days of March show no evidence of decrease in tbe sales of fertilizers, so that tbe privilege tax will probably give an excess of $18,000 over the revenues derived from the same source last year. The receipts of 1897 amounted to $59^- , 352, an increase of nearly $5,000 over those of the previous year, so it looks "<%*-" as if the fertilizer industry is getting on its feet again. ?The State. A man who Is well up In dog lore advises Intending purchasers of a puppy to let fts mother choose for them. In carrying them back to their bed the first that the mother picks up will al- 1 ways be her best # J y