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THE COUNTY RECORD." Published Every Thursday ?AT? KINGSTEEE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?B Y? LOUIS J. BIUSTOW, K.dltor and Proprietor. The Atlanta Constitution remarks: According to the lutest bulletins sent out from \\ asllillSPton OU1" Solltll At ? . I 1 an tic ami Gulf ports seem to be increasing steadily i:i popularity with j bread-stuff exporters. The total in- I crease of bread-staff shipments for the ) nine mouths ending March 31, 1898, | over the record for the corresponding j Aonths of the preceding year, aggregate $76,087,449, aud of this total increase $37.177,757, or forty-nine per cent., is credited to four Southern ports, viz., Galveston, New Orleans, Newport News aud Baltimore. To go somewhat more into detail, Galveston is credited with a net gain of $7,041,402. New Orleaus with ( a net gain of $10,102,050, Newport News with a net gain of $4,741,080, i and Baltimore with a net gain of $15, 292,610. These figures are gratifying in the extreme, and while they apply only to bread-stuff exports, they serve to show that our South Atlantic anil Gulf ports are steadily growing in favor with American shippers. The modest but notable achievements of a Connecticut widow on a farm put to shame the complaining farmers who assert that farming in New England is profitless, and who, failing to sell the farms which they have Worn ont, abandon them and enter into the fiercer competition for a livelihood in the cities This woman, whose story is told in the Hartford Courant, was left a widow twelve years ago, at the age of fifty. She re ceived from her husband a farm ol 1 (>.rt j acres, having upon it one cow, a heifer, two horses and a mortgage for $1750. She now has a herd of cows and three horses, and has paid SI 000 on the mortgage. In other words, upou a 165-acre farm the woman seems to have made a living and saved about $150 a year, besides current interest on the mortgage. In addition, it must be inferred that the industry and business sense which accomplished this much also improved the farm and thus iacreased its cash value. Few women of fifty years could do more in any occupation. Indeed, the majority of men do less. WAS A HUMAN TIMEPIECE. Age 1 Negro Who Could Tell the Tiine of Day Almost to a Minute. Andrew Jackson Henderson, an aged negro, wbo lived in Zanesville, Ohio. Avas a human timepiece. He could tell the time of day to a minute?almost to a second -by placing his right hand "to his right ear and pausing an i < Instant to reflect. "Flow do you do it. Uncle Andy?" asked his friends repeatedly, mystitied at the old man's |>owcr. Uncle Andy WAS A HUMAN* TIMEPIECE. would look at them jvhimsicalfy, with a quaint smile playing over his black .lips, ami say: "Oh. I jtsx tells." Ami that was the ouly explanation old Andrew Jackson Henderson ever gave of the strange gift he possessed. He was born in Tennessee fifty-four years ago. and his l>oyhood was spent in slavery. When the Union army marched through his native State he was picked up by a Union officer named Cox. .who made him his personal servant. After the close of the war Cox returned to Zanesrille and was accompanied by Andy. The negro niatried and prosjK-red. Everybody in Zanesville knew him. Several years ago he accidentally discovered that he was , able to tell the time at any hour of the day or night by simply placing his hand to his ear. Thousands of times he demons!rated his ability to do this, much to the delight of the children and the wonderment of their elders. Just as the sun was going down on last Christmas Day old Uncle Andy died as the result of a paralytic stroke, and with him died the knowledge of the secret of the human timepiece. A woman thinks it must be great fun to lie back In a barber's chair and get shaved?but she hasn't the face to Tyft. Bis Tor a Xegr. A man who had one of his legs cut off by being run over by a railroad train at a crossing in Pennsylvania four years ago; has just been awarded ?5687.50 damages, against the railroad by a jury in TowanOa, fenn. 3ir!eiei9eeiesaieieiefei8(QiDieieieieieieieieieieM !| GOt'l) ROADS NOTES. 1 __ The Iteauty of Working Komi Taxes. I At the Farmers' Institute which re cently met in Marslialltown, Iowa, i papei was reail by .r. H. Jayne, 01 Good Roads. Touching 011 the re suits of working out road taxes, h I -j saiu: 1 "I believe the most important fund I in the county are thV school and roa< funds, because the schools and road are the most extensive and cost th most money. Rut what a vast differ enee iu the management of these tw< I a'lairs. ''Your schools are second to none ii the country, while your roads are he low the average. Suppose you leviei a three-mill school fund iu every town ship, one mill to be paid in cash am j two mills to he worked out, and yoi I eouijielled every taxpayer in the dis trict to teach the school in his tun until his school tax was worked out and supply no other teachers. Afte a lapse of fifteen years you find you schoolhouses dilapidated, plasterin j off, stoves down, seats and window ! broken, etc. Do yon think you | schools would be up to the staudar ! and your children properly educated Your roads are in a like condition tc day, being worked by men who do no follow it as a business, and furtliei more have no tune outside of otlie duties to attend to it. "Now, the principal poiu* I wish t bring before you is money for roai purposes. I do not mean by this tha we need more money, that tli conntv should be bonded, or a lieav county road-fund levy made, but tha the money now raised every year fo road purposes should be raised an handled differently. The bulk of tha mouev can be derived from that mil ror, as it were?that, shadow wliic! I skips here and there over the count | roads every summer and cuts off th grass ana maKes me roans iook leve and smooth (in places)?the distric road supervisor and his grader. "Now, do you think it pays fo John Smith to he a road supervise this year suid grade up the road?til up the hollows and round them u] nicely in the centre?and next yea put in William Jones, and allow hiu to plow the roads clear across fo miles and harrow them down Hat, an< the next year put in another mai who will round them up again; on undoing the other's work year afte year? "Do you think it pays for the roa< supervisor in No. 1 to go over in No 4 and spend a day dragging a grade over to his district? Do you thin! it pays to have him put ou Join Smith's team to-day. Bill Brown'i team to-morrow, Tom Clark's tean the next day, aucl have them g< gehawing here ami there, anil rnaki your roail look like a worm fenc< when finished? Who is to blame? Tin horses? No; they were never on i grader before, and are not accus tonied to climbing up banks and go ing down into ditches. The driven to blame? No; they did the best the^ could with a green horse. The su pervisor to blame? No; he held tin blade when the machine was driven Where, then, is the blame? It is ii your system. "Do you think it pays to compe the poor road supervisor to try to til up a hole, or round up a road, or cu down a hill with a slij) scraper whei he could carry it almost in a dish pan? Do you think it pays him t< work without tools? Does it pa^ mm to tmy six or eignt pieces o tile, and pay four prices for. them when Marshall County could buy ! : car load at the lowest rates and giv< him the benefit? Does it pay for bin I to buy lumber for culverts nnder th< same circumstances? Who is t< j blame? The road supervisor? No it is your 9ystem. I regard tbisroai system a huge cancer, continuall; eating, and the money you have ap plied, as prescribed by some physi cian. and according to directions, ha apparently been of very little beneti to the patient." Belter Iload* Kasy to Seeure. In a recent paper Professor W. C Lutta sets forth the results of investi gations which he has made in Indiana He sent out a large number of letter to farmers in different counties, an< f it 1 * - 1 1. il irom tue replies received ue gmuer the following facts: First. The average estimated in crease in the selling price of land dm to existing improved highways is $(5.4! per acre. The estimates from whicl the average is made refer in most case to lands near the improved roads; bu in a few instances they apply to al lands of the county. The average in crease, therefore, of SO.48 per acre i lower than was intended for lands ii the vicinity of the improved roads. Second. The estimated average in crease per acre that would result fron improving all the public roads is $!> Third. The estimated average cos 1 of converting the common public road into improved highways is $114<5 pe ! mile. Fourth. The estimated average an nual loss, per 100 acres, from poo roads is $7(5.28. He says that if these .statements an even approximately correct that the; furnish a key to the satisfactory solu tion of the question of highway im provement from the money standpoint On the basis of the last mentioned es timate the average annual loss peracr< from poor roads is over seventy-si: cents. In five years the losses wouli aggregate 32432 for every section o land, and this sum would construe two miles at a cost of S121t> per mile which is seventy dollars per mile abov< the estimated cost given by the farm ers themselves. The present road ta: j which, under existing laws, is Iargel; thrown away, would, under a prope bj stem of road maintenance, doubt ; less keep improved highways in per i feet repair. i The advantages to he gained he conl cisely says are that good roads (2) ! Economize time and force in transportation between farm and market: (2) " Enable the farmer to take advantage 11 of market fluctuations in buying and 1 selling: (fl) Permit transportation of " farm products and purchased coiumoe, dities during times of comparative ! leisure; (4) Reduce the wear and tear s on horses, harness aud vehicles; (5) 1 I Enhance the market value of real s ! estate. lloiv Some Koads Are linilt. u j The notion that "anybody can bilihl ! a road" is responsible for many fa.ila | ures. Commissioner MncDouald, of . | Connecticut, tells a story of sucli .1 j people. He says that a Quaker wen', .; into a hardware stove to buy an axe. [1 "How much does thee ask for r, 11 Bradley axe'?" he asked. "One dollar and thirty-five ceuts," Q was the answer of the shopman. "Thee asks too much; I will make r an axe myself." r He bought a chunk of steel, took it g home, put it in the tire, hammered it s and belabored it until it had assumed r the general outlines of an axe head, il But it was dull. 7 "Huh," said he, "thee cannot make an axe. But thee can make a wedge." it He put the steel back into the forge . and knocked it into the shape of a r wedge. But it had lost its temper. "Huh,"' again quoth the Quaker, 0 "thee eannct make an axe, and thee d cannot make a wedge, but thee can d make a sizzle," and he thrust the hot e iron into the rain barrel. That's what j a big majority of road-makers used to ,t do in this State?make a sizzle.?Good r Roads Bulletin. Is ? Good Koadrt Woman. ^ .Miss Bella C. Harber, of Trenton, " X. J., State organizer for the Good 1 Roads and Public Improvement As^ s'oeiatiou, has had such great success e ivitti Iiav u-nrt tlint tho nssfipiotioll is more than pleased with her. Miss Harber is a remarkable woman. President Cleveland appointed r Miss Harber's father, the late Judge I T. B. Harber, Postmaster of Trenton. | Miss Harber was commissioned deputy P and succeeded to the postmnstership r when the Judge died in 18%. Miss II Harber resigned in 18!) 7 and went to ! St. Louis, where she was employed in the Good Roads office. Since then 11 she has been promoted to her present e position, and has organized fifteen 1 societies, all of which are steadily iuj creasing in membership. A Long Crusade. r The New York State League for i Good Roads, which has been workiug 1 for seven years to develop a healthy 3 sentiment regarding road improvei msnt lint; r-lianced its name to the ! 3 New York State lioad Improvement B Association, in order to better disB tingnisb it from the State division of B the League of American Wheelmen. \ Item*. Roads dependent on the weather, s Worthless are for months together; Heads made hard by science's art 7 Always llrmly do their part. If water stauds on a road it soon ? ruins it; ruts collect and retain water; the narrow tire is the father of ruts. Hard roads make access to the farms j easy at all seasons; produce can be j shipped in any weather if the high- \ t ways are passable. ! In a south Jersey town all the freight ! . wagons were changed to wide tires ) over a year ago, and since that time 7 their roads have kept in much better f condition. , Lack of social life and restricted ; i means of communication drive the i young men from the farms into tlie i cities. Good roads will gradually 3 change all that. 3 Colonel Pope, in speaking of the : wide tire agitation in Massachusetts, ' said: "Carts and other heavy vehicles ; y should act as road-rollers rather than ; road-destroyers." Wet weather roads are what are j . needed. It is easy to make roads that are good in dry weather, but to make them good in the wet season requires knowledge and skill. The applications from the counties - in New Jersey for money to be used ; - under the provisions of the State-aid j law are so numerous that a bill has 8 been introduced in the legislature for i 1 innraiiiiail onnrnnri'atinn ?*u -rr* 8 Farmers Lave been used to staying cooped up on their farms in bad j "> weather for so long a time that it is s, hard for them to realize the advau51 tages that would accrue to them from i 1 having hard and clean highways at all , * seasons of the year. t ? Silver Combs Darken the Hair. A mystery of the toilet, male and s female, has been disclosed by the dis- j 1 tinguished scientist, Dr. Vanderweide. He says that the use of silver combs is 1 very ancient and has always been j 1 popular among people of au uucenaiu age. A silver comb tends to darken I * the hair and beard when used with s regularity. The reason is very simple. r Hair contains sulphur, and this cooij bines with the invisible pieces of the " I metal, which are worn oft' every time l" j the comb is employed. The combixjaI tion of sulphur and silver is pure e 1 black, as every housekeeper knows Y j who has used silver tableware. Young " men with slight and light-colored ' mustaches, old beaux whose mustaches . ir? liPfinninc to turn trrav. women w* w O* "O " O %} ' ' whose hair shows the mark of age are - , the three classes who use silver combs 1 , with earnest zeal." f Much Too Much. t A Georgia girl rejoices in the name of , Murv Rementa Ollu Ludentia Laura 3 Suaetta Missouria Georgians Jennie - Pressley Rhoda Diaretta Jane Corneti ta Bailey Purdue. That's all at presp ; ent though some youug man may r wish to add his name to her fcoiieetion - sooner or later. Lewiston Journal. V^r* iy> >y S^p S^r "^" "<y' ^r*1 '^"^y^1 J A rirfrhi *4$fc i^ftfci A lAi i4> lib i<&) rf^? A A^jL^L^L< ^ < ?< % * / o k thf Pill Ymi W'int t: U JU? kllV A 111 A UU T T Ullia ? 4 4 ^ Pills are necessary but not nice. Cathartics are not confections. The ^ fewer pills that you take the better. Its aggravating to take pills that don't ^ ^ and pills that won't. It's soothing to know that when you take a pill it's * ^ the pill that will do the work for which it's taken. ^ ? 4 "J a a L4 < < ^ have gained a reputation for their sure results. The pill that will is * ^ Ayer's. For all liver troubles, diseases of the stomach and bowels, sick ^ headache, biliousness and heartburn, Dr. Ayer's Pills have proven a k specific, and they * H tlf.? 1,H Will cure you j; v ^ * as they have cured thousands of others whose testimony is a matter of ^ ^ record. Ayer's Cure Book is sent free by Dr. J. C. Ayer, Lowell, Mass. ^ * Send for it if you want to know more of the power of these pills than is ^ * proven in the following testimonials. ^ / 4 "I suffered nearly all my life with bowel complaints, enduring much pain, and I tried ^ ^ almost all the cathartic remedies advertised in the newspapers, without obtaining permanent 4 . relief until I used Ayer's Cathartic Pills. The result obtained from the use of these pills . was wonderful. Thev not onlv cave immediate relief but effected a permanent cure." A R. C. STODDARD, Delhi, Ont. " 4 ^ *' I was ill for some time with liver trouble. My back ached and my skin turned as ^ ^ yellow as saffron ; I became unable to do any work, and at last was contined to my bed too ft weak to moye without assistance. I commenced the use of Ayer's Pills and less than half ^ 4 a box cured me. 1 owe my present good health to their use, and I am never without them." WM. OAKLEY, Lobelville, Tenn. 4 4 Ik. -1 have used Ayer's Tills with excellent results for constipation. I find that they do 4 4 not gripe nor purge, but do give relief." CHARLES R. WHITE, Pittsgrove, N. J. ^ < 4 "I have used Ayer's Pills since 1S45, an<^ consider them superior to all other pills on ^ ^ the market. I always keep them in the house in case of emergency, and at one time tjiey 4 ". cured my wife of dyspepsia. I have found them good for all diseases caused by the ^ Southern climate'." ' A. L. JONES, Elizabeth City, N. C. ^ > * % - --- War Note*. Honor Sagasta is reported to have assorted that Spain does not expect the support ofeny foreign Power. A society has been organized in Denver. Col., to provide for the comfort of soldiers passing through the city. The Spanish Colonial Minister proposes to offer premiums for vessels carrying provisions to Cuna and Porto Hico. Major Smith, who has been in Havana for General Miles, says lllaneo has under arms 140,000 men, well supplied with food. Secretary Alger says that colored companies will have colored officers whenever such <|uaii(l?d for officer* are found in their A general order ha* been issued prohibiting the unauthorized introduction or sale within '-amp^imits of intoxicating liquors or drugs. Major General Snowden. Commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard, has accepted the colonelcy of John Wauamaker's regiment. The equipping of the regiment has t ost Mr. Wauamaker ?125 000. The War Department has formally ordered that the army in Cuba shall wear 1 light brown canvas uniforms, the officers j to wear similar uniforms made of khaki, a material used by British officers in India. I Agents of the State Department abroad | say European Powers will intervene in | some way if after the war the United States should decide to hold the Philippines or dispose of them to England ov Japau. I The St. Paul captured the English collier Restormel as she was approaching the ; harbor of Santiago de Cuba to deliver coal to Cervera's fleet. taptain Gridlev. of the Olympia, is ill and lius been ordered home from Dewey's Unot- it ml PAtnmnnilur F.umhprtnn hunn appointed in his place. Admiral Dewey has captured another Spanish man-of-war. He has notified the Manila authorities that he shall hold them responsible for the life of the Captain of the Spanish warship Callao. captured earlier. Senor Guerra, a naturalized Spaniard, has given the Government the use of land for the camp at Palmetto Reach, Flu., unci at a cost of several thousand dollars put in an artesian -rell and laid pipes tc supply water in every company street. j Labor World. France has 500,000 unionist.7. Japan has fourteen labor unions, Dublin has a hairdressers' union. Japan has 4,861,922 agriculturists. Cleveland has a servant girls' union. Russia has 1.200,000 factory operatives, j Canada has 8000 shirt and collar makers. Greater New York has 270 paper box mills. Colored porters at Dulutb, Minn., have ! organized a union. Indianapolis reports every union carpen, ter at work, and not enough men to supply j the demand. Revised Statement of Spanish Losses. A dispatch from Hong Kong says: "Tincorrected statement of the number of Spanish killed and wounded in the battle in Manila Bay gives the following llgures: Killed in the ships, 78; killed in the Cavite arsenal, 23; wounded In the ships, 235; in the arsenal, 45. .Supreme Court Adjourned. The Supreme Court at Washington ha* j adjourned until the second Monday of next | October. Justice Harlan left for Cincin i nati to attend circuit, and the other justices, except Mr. Gray, who is ill, will fol, low to their respective circuits. Philippine Friars in Peril. The Superiors of?the various missionary j orders in the Philippines have sent a message to the Government at Madrid comj plaining that the friars are subject to porj secution and assassination through the machinations of secret societies there and in Spnin. The message further declares I that the friars are willing to give their ; lives and property in defense of Spain, but ; that, if the Government is unable to proi teet them, they will be forced to abandon ! the Philippines. Spain Strengthening Cadi/. All the guns in the batteries at Cadiz are being removed and replaced by heavier rifles. New Senator From Mississippi. Governor McLaurin, of Mississippi. hns appointed Congressman William Van Am. berg Sullivan to the United States Senate, to succeed the late Senator Edward Cary ! >1.111111111. One ('aptme Worth SS'JOO.OiXt. [ The Pedro, which was captured by the | New York off Havana on April 21, was npi praised at *200,000 by the Naval Board at Key West. Letter's Wheat I?enl Closed, Letter's great May wheat deal was closed in Chicago. I.eiter was master of the situ, ation and put the price down from *1.73 to | *1.25 a bufhel. I Cycling Note*. A Bordeaux cyclist intends attempting to ride backward from Soulac to Bordeaux, a distance of ninety-two miles. An English cyclist some years ago rode backward from London to Brighten. In Germany 60,000 workmen were em' ployed in bicycle factories in 1896. This does not include those making only separate parts, such as rubber tires, etc., who would probably bring the number up to 100,000. Pneumatic tires are displaced in a Brooklyn man's invention in which the wheels are mounted on vertical rods attached to the frame and held by springs to allow a small amount of play when the wheels strike a rough spot. One hundred printers are at work oq "Bi>? Six's" farm, near New York. Eaeh Omaha printer-soldier's family will be paid $5 a week darinn tho war. i All iewelrv stores at Tacoma. Wash, am! all shoe shops save one, are closed at 6 p, m. every day. The State of Nevada requires all Statq printing to be done in union offices and to bear the trade-mark of the union. The Toledo (Ohio) Filers' Union is con, sidering new bylaws, including an increas? 1 of dues while working and no dues whei; j idle. Judge Richardson, of the Superior Court of Boston, has handed down a decision re-J I straining the Mayor from carrying out th(| law preventing contractors from employi ing non-union labor on city works. A writer in the Arena declares that 500,000 men now do the work, with the aid of! machinery, which needed 16,000,009 persons to do a few years ago. j The present season is one of the most} prosperous for painters and decorators that Toledo has ever seen. Every shop in the; city has all the work it can do. A contractor on public work in Heattle i has been lined for violating the ordinance ! forbidding the employment of men on such, work longer than eight hours per day. Tire valves are replaced, in anew British patent, by providing the inflating pump iwith a needle-like nozzle, whioh is forced through the wall of the air tube, the hole being closed after the needle is withdrawn by a self-sealing medium inside the tire. Bicycles can be securely fastened by a now combination lock, which is made in two sections, one passing through a link in the chain and slipping into the other section, when a turn of the knob locks it and prevents the sprocket tooth from entering, A Over caution in cycling is & source of danger. Constant dodgers are pretty sure w to get hurt. Their frantic, half-blind ef- ?1 forts to escape fancied perils frequently V lead them into real dangers, from whieh I there is no escape without a smash or at ] least a fall. * Anew use for the bicycle in warfare was developed during the recent bombardment of San Juan. An account of the bombardment, from within the city, says that a vol-i unteer corps of bicyclists greatly aided the Spanish commander by acting as messengers between the forts. In riding with a woman the escort should always take his position on her left. In ^ viuw wuius, me ffuuinu suuum luvurmuiy ride nearer the curb than the man. Thus phe is protected from being brushed or liven unnerved by passing riders and vehicles going in either direction. A German bicycle paper contains a letter from a correspondent in India describing liow he safely rode over a cobra. The snake was lying across the road and the rider did not see it in time to stop. The fnake made a savage strike at the wheel, but the man was too quick for it. Burning kisses always result from' sparks. _ _ ,