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THE COUNTY RECORD. | 1 i Published Every Thursday at UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, B Y LOUIS J. BKISTOW, Fdltor and Proprietor. I ' One of the ideas offered by inventors ! to tne Washington authorities is to build tanks to contain crude petroleum a nnortlip i Ill CQllVtulUUl i'MHO , of exposed harbors, so that the surface of the water may lie flooded with oil iu a few minutes when warning is given ot the approach of the fleet of ; the enemy. Then with rockets this oil may be set on fire in various places, and ofl'cr a barrier of flame, which the invader cannot cross without inviting his owu destruction. A feature of the ^postoflice department display at the Omaha exposition that is expected to attract much attention iu these war days will be an exhibit of photographs of soldiers taken during the civil war, which mis- j carried aud lauded in the dead-letter ! division of the postoftiee department. There are about in,00J of these old pictures, and they form a most interesting collection for a variety of reasons. Duriue the civil war it was a common thing for soldiers in the Northern armies who happened to he near a town to have their pictures taken to send to wives, sweethearts, I parents, or friends at home. In thousands of cases the addresses were defective in some particular or became entirely separated from the picture in the course of the rough handling io which some of the mails were necessarily subjected at times, and the " 'A---- 1.1_ postomce autuonues were uiiuuik w deliver them. They were preserved, however, and have now become a valuable collection from a historical * standpoint. There were many thousands of them originally, but large numbers of them were claimed from time to time, and the number lias now been reduced to abont 13,000. A DIPLOMATIC BOUNCER. Unique Position Held by Eddie Savoy in the State Department at Washington. "One of the most interesting characters in the Government service," said an official cf the State Department, at Washington, "is Eddie Savoy, the coltbn ocolcfont fiprrp. 1 ureu lucisrugcx ui tarv of state. He has been employed in that department for the past 21 fears and is thoroughly imbued with all its customs and traditions. A perfect diplomat in his way, he never sees anything he should not see nor knows .anything it is not intended he shouid know. At least that is how hb impresses the people who do business with him his superiors as well as those dpsiring to communicate with them. His position is a strictly confidential s one, and frequently puts him in posseslion of highly important state secrets, the premature disclosure of which, in several recent instances would have seriously embarrassed the Government. But never since he first entered the in tltrv Q TY1 inifttfJi lUrci&U uav ?v tu iuv tion of Secretary Fish, when the State Department was located in the building at the corner of 14th and S streets, now used by the orphan assylum, has he been known to betray a trust or to tell anything whatever about the af- j fairs of the State Department that he Was not personally authorized to tell. I am reminded of this by the important part he played in the events attending the recall of Sackville West, the British minister, during Cleveland's first administration, as well as those In the mere recent case of Senor Polo, the Spanish minister. He acted as the trusted messenger between the Secretary of State and the toreign minister In both cases. Secretary Bayard selected him to personally hand Mr. Sackville West his passports and Secretary Day confided to him the important duty of handi? to Senor Polo, first, President MeKinrev's ultimatum !0 the Spanish Government for the evacuation of Cuba, and next the official papers insuring him safe conduct out of the territory of the United States. 'Eddie.' as he is familiarly called, was fulJy impressed with the importance of these missions and adopted a simple hut shrewd method to satisfy the head of the department of their successful execution. When he nanded Minister West the package containing his passports, he asked him as a favor to show that they had been properly delivered that he write his autograph on the official envelope and give it to him. Mr. West did as requested, and Eddie took the envelope with its autographic indorsement and broken seal back to the department and showed it to Mr. Bayard. He followed exactly the same course with equal?success in delivering the ultimatum to Minister Polo. The two envelopes are now 'Eddie's' private property, having been presented to him by Secretaries Bayard and Day, and are treasured by him as relics of important events in the diplomatic history of the United States." Medical science has made little progress in Turkey. Missionaries have frequently found people, ill from smallpox, neglected, in order that the divine wiifc should have its own way. 'That young man is making a name for himself." "What's his name'.*" "Lyznwinskie." "Well, I don't blame Mm."?New York Sun. t | GOOD ROADS NOTES, f Sxs^4^AaeK*ias^!eias^?S0i? A Typical Case. What is to be done under conditions i that obtain in many parts of the country? is the question raised by a mem- . ber of the League of American Wheel-' men. He says: "We have in this township assessed roughly at $350,000 some sixty miles of road. We cannot spend $10,000, $1000 or even $500 per mile on these roads. There is not enough money in the township, all told, to do it. and the law limits the bonded indebtedness. To select a few miles of the principal highway is not just to the poor fellow who helps pay for it and j must drive live or ten miles to reach it. "Much better work might be done than we are doing, hut it remains i that many miles must be attended to with few dollars. What most is needed is careful consideration of existing conditions?how best to spend $1200 or $150?? on sixty miles of road, reserving $200 or $300 of that for the winter's snows. Teach us serviceable j lessons for communities of this sort, and do not expect asphalt, macadam or steel until the fellows from town j help to build them (and they haven't , built their own yet). "Xo wonder the rusric kicks if the ! road is to cost more than the entire value of all the farms through which it passes. He appreciates good roads, I but must remember his slim pocketbook. He laughs a little, too, at the big saving heavier loads would make for him. Nine out of ten of him at that time of year have little to do for self or team and are not crowded with what they have to market. He would rather make two trips than one, as he and the horses both need the exercise." The tendency in such cases as this ! is to underestimate the beneficial ef- j fects of hard roads and to assume that J.\ e ?Al.? ILluj ale ui >muo viuij uuuii^ IUC >uu* ; ter. They are of enormous value tlien, 1 ami of equally great value in summer ami the busy seasons, when the possibility of hauling big loads is money in the pocket. In the past, the farmer has been left too much to his own resources in the care of the highways. Now, however, State aid is rapidly being acknowledged as the proper means of promoting the good work, and the States are slowly but surely falling into liueiu adopting it. Until it is generrdly in force, there may be time for much good work to be done, and the tirst steps toward real improvement can be taken by securing careful grading, thorough drainage and the adoption of wide tires. In this connection the experiences of two southern counties is right to the Tn nna f)iu lnaila o\-Ararra pounds and the tax is ten cents a hundred. In the other the loads are but 800 pounds and tho tax twenty cents a i hundred. Improved methods reduced the road tax one-half, and greatly improved the roads. . This county owns grader, plows, j carts, implements and six mules, and : a superintendent and live men are j kepi at work on the roads. The work i costs ?35.17 a mile and though the! roads are only plain "dirt," they a-e kept in such good condition thai three times as much eau be hauled as on roads cared for in the old way. Here, surely, is a cheap and easy way to begin. L. A. W. Bulletin. Inexpensive Koari Itpjmir. A correspondent suggests that tbe system of continual supervision and repair of road-beds used by the railways would not be practicable on the j highways, because the railway section : foremen depend for their positions on the thoroughness of their work, have j only short distances to care for, and 1 cau make themselves thoroughly fami- ! liar with them, while highway commissioners frequently know aud care nothing ubout roads, and have long stretches with which they have little time or opportunity to become acquainted. As long as pre-eut conditions ob- ] taiu, and highway commissioners are chosen for political reasons, and de- I vote little time and attention to the ' roads, not much ia the way of im- j provement is to be expected. It is the \ system which must be changed, and it will be when the people realize the ' importance to the community of hav- j ing hard aud smooth roads on which j to travel. It is not necessary to al ways build expensive roads costing, | perhaps, from one to ten thousand I dollars a mile, but present roads can be vastly bettered by giving them con- i stant care, together with proper grad- j iug and drainage. This work has ; been successfully undertaKen in some quarters and good results obtained, as in the case referred to last week, in which the expense was so small that the road tax had been reduced, while the roads had been improved. ? As long as present methods prevail, | "D" thinks that the farmers, and those j living oft' the main roads should be interested in some way in looking after ; the roads that pass their^own 1 doors, so that they would remove I 6tones, till up holes and see that all j water ran oft' quickly, and suggested that they could pay a small part of their road tax in labor iu this way, under the control of the road commissioner. The old plan of "working" , out road taxes has beeu a complete failure, but it does not necessarily follow that something of this kind would i v :_ 11 not worK in some uisincis, especially if the people first become in some measure convinced of the importance of the step. A Problem in Komi Improvement. The entrance to the beautiful valley of the liamapo is at Suffern, N. Y. The county in which the town lies has many natural advantages, but is unable to obtain benefit from them because of the roads through which the people "still flounder iu the mire." How easy it would be for them, and many other counties similiary situated, to improve their highways is plainly shown by the Sufi'ern Independent. There are sixty miles of road, and an expenditure of $2500 per mile on them would create an indebtedness of $150,000. Suppose this amount was borrowed on bonds payable in from one to fifteen years at four per cent. I?y paying the annual interest and six per cent. 011 the principal, the whole amount could be paid in twelve years and the roads kept in order, without a greater annual expenditure than the $10,000 now required for repairing worthless roads. The assessment of the county "is. in round numbers, $20,#00,000 of which $150,000 is r*f Ann iinv nnnt VAW ?"??W V v 1'^- - , taking the average assessment of the taxpayer to be S100O, his proportion of the entire debt would be $7.."?0, and his assessment for each year for this pnrpose would be seventy-live cents. Figured down this way, there seems nothing wanting to securing better highways but the will to make the start. An Incomplete Kstiinnto. In the following estimate of the cost of laying stone roads some important items have been omitted. The Indiana Farmer says that "the cost of broken stone for building roads is not so great as many suppose. It cau be bought at the crushers for forty cents per solid yard, and the railroad will freight it forty miles or less, at about lifty cents per cubic i yard, making a total of ninety cents; but suppose we call it $1. Then if the road-bed is nine feet wide and the stone is piled on a foot deep, a cubic yard will cover three feet linear at a cost of $1, making one mile (17G0 vardsl cost as manv dollars. But as [ only about nine inches are necessary, I one-fourth of this amount, or [ should be deducted, making the exact amount only $1320, which is cheap | enough for a tirst-class road, the material for which must be brought forty | miles by rail." Substantial roads can be built at a thickness of nine inches, but the stone used is by 110 means the only item of expense. The labor of handling, placing and rolling it must be considered and, more important still, careful grading and thorough drainage must be secured. Hard roads can be built much more cheaply than formerly, but a "first-class" one canuot y?t bo laid at such low figures. Narrow Versus Wide Wajjrtii Tires. Scientific experiments extending n-r? TMra linva 1^000 m fid p 1111 d pr the auspices of the Studebaker Brothers, the widely-known wagon builders, to determine the relative qualities of wide and narrow-wheel tires. The The results are too extensive to give in full. Every kind of road was used to test the question. It was found that on macadam roads the narrow tires were far inferior to the wide, and they required much greater effort to draw a given load. In a deeply-rutted clay road, the narrow tres running in the ruts aud the wide tires on top, the narrow tires wero far more efficient. This was also the case with wet mud. But as soon as the mud began to dry the wide tires showed a vast superiority. In general, the only justification for narrow tires proved to be thoroughly bad roads. Youth's Companion. The Crusade Against Ruts. Never allow pools of water to stand on a road. If a road is not properly drained it cannot long remain good. It requires longer time and more power to haul light loads over bad surfaces than to move twice as much on good roads. Anything that facilitates intercourse between people tends to civilize them. Nothing helps so much toward this end as perfect highways. Two buildings were lately destroyed by fire in an outlying ward of Cleveland, Ohio, on account of the depth of the mud, which prevented the engines from reaching them in time. Common roads may be vastly improved by being properly crowned and thoroughly drained, and the work of making and keeping them good will be simplified if the traffic on them is on wide tires. The Governor of Massachusetts has mr* 11 /Irwl o wi/1o.firo lntv an rl tin* 1 U U 4V*U Vli V *MU v<uv? vuw subject is being tuken up seriously. Such a simple ami effective means of improving poor roads anil maintaining gooil ones ought not to be neglected. Nature is not a roail-builder she never prepares artificial means of living. But she furnishes ample material for every need, and science long since learned to utilize what she offers to meet the necessities of our complex civilization. The farmers along a road in Central New York have donated twelve hundred tons of stone, picked from around their farms, for road improvement purposes, and a neighboring stone crusher has been rented to properly prepare the material for use. The ever-increasing tendency to concentrate in big cities can be counteracted by making country life attractive. But country life cannot be permanently attractive to city residents unless good highways afford intercommunication and easy transit. Novel IMea For a Bill. In the course ol a speech in support of his "foxscalp" bill in the Kentucky Legislature Representative Hatfisld, of Pike County, said: "I ask for the | passage of this bill in the interests of religion and morals. 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' jjj Surcjeon General sternherr saM nnti Tl withstnndinc: the sndJ*?r? ehan<*e of climate ftI and the terrible rain wW<?h the troops In 'P Tennessee, Virginia and Florida bad suf- St fered. the sick reports showed that less tb than two nor cent, of the volunteers were to allintj and that onlv a do7?u or more men w Jn all the entire army of 200.000 men were seriously ill. m From nearly all the Southern and from ti several of the Western States earnest pro- di test* are comlner acrninat the increase of the I RI numerical .strength of the reeiments, be, cause it deprives them of so many officers. |Jj In honor of the name of their old uni- w verslty orlven to the transformed cml?eu Harvard the alumni of the university living in and around Poston have boucht q " six-pound Xordenfeldt cun. which the Nav^i Department will order mounted on the w man-of-war the first time she enters port. w Of the additional nrmv of 73.OOP men called for hv President McKinlev 42.000 will jjj be required to brine: the recipients alrendv (j, in the field up to the standard the law demands. g Detective William" W. Williams, who was fe in the Secret Service of the War Depart- % ment dur'ntr the Civil War. and who was 1 conspicuous in the work- of ferretin? out the consniracv which resulted in the death w of President Lincoln, is dead. ^ The War Department has found material 0I suitable for uniforms to be worn in the w tronics. and a few contracts have been made. LI The operation of the law preventing the til payment of money for extra dutv does not hi affect the allowance of one-fifth additional m to officers and enlisted men in time of war. Privates will receive ^>15.fi0, and not *13, p( the nmonnt paid in time of peace. p, General Merritt has been directed to ex- th amine the vessels of th? Pacilfc Steamship G Company, and if they are suitable for ia transports, to impress them. The War er Department says there will be no more tielav through extortionate demands by owners or ffgents of vessels, and ships y0 needed by the Government will be taken. -j-j The Government has decided to raise the pi Spanish warships sunk bv Admiral Dewev ro at Manila and has asked Pacifle coast firms ' ve to bid for the contract. or fu Domestic. wl The torpedo boat Mackenzie lias had her se trial trip. Her test was made over the 0f Government measured knot at Deepwater cc Point, Delaware Bay. Fenn., and was en- ve tirelv satisfactory. With the tide she made considerably over the twenty-knot requirement, and averaged the twentv knots _ against the tide. The fastest mile was r*' covered in 2.55. George A. Banes, Lieutenant Colonel of jn the Canadian-American regiment, tendered tho regiment to Governor Tanner, of Illi- pj nois, and said the regiment asked the Gov i ernor to appoint J, macst ranner to me i >lonelcy. J. Mack Tanner is a son of overnor Tanner. T J. W. Ettinc killed his wife at Hot fftti inn^s. Ark.,and then committed suicide, ^or ie crime was committed with a razor, mo, id the body of Mrs. Etting was slashed gta, KafAoa oKo ra/ioivprl t h A 1 A. LWUJLilJ (Jiauos i7UV , uat roke which almost severed the head from | 8on e trunk. No motive has been'discovered wjjj r the crime, but it is believed that Etting | not as suddenly seized with homicidal mania. | Nearly a hundred men are under indict- j Qjr ent at Fort Scott, Kan., for particlna- j ?er ng in the burning of two innocent In- [ not ans. near Newark, I. T.. last January, j W0l id Kinder H. Hargo, a full-blooded Sem- i nle, is a prisoner at Miami, charged with 1 ie murder of Mrs. Laird, for whose deatrf nav le two Indians, Sumpson and McGeisey, ere lynched. , ?tal ' moi Frank Heinkle, of Tampa, Fla., sixtyiree years old, left home apparently in _ iod health and seemingly on pood termd , Ith the world at large. On bis return bi.^ Plai ife was slow in handing him some keys, Pan id he shot her in the head just above the re, with fatal results. Then he killed ?~!r Imself. They had a familv of nine chil:en. out Robert Dyas, a clerk in Evarts, Choate k eaman's law office, New York City, conssed that he had stolen jewelry worth H F500 from his employers. . fens Charles Zanoli, the insurance swindler, as sentenced in New York City to nine Tl id a half years' imprisonment. He was Aug 10 man who was arrested in February last Mar i suspicion of having poisoned his four pj ives. The crime for which he was sen- jjav need was swindling the Metropolitan ^em Ife Insurance Company by palming off le dead body of one of his workmen as cm s own and then collecting the insurance (jurj oney on his own life. wap The Twenty-second Congress District U3 i spublican Convention met at Pittsburg, one, inn.. and nominated John Dalzell. In pj ie Twenty-third District, William H. Que rnhaai wus nominated to succeed Willm A.Stone, recently nominated for Gov- gtat nor of Pennsylvania. jn(jc A party of scientists, headed by David linn arr Jordan, of Stanford University. Cali- p| rnia, have started for Flagstaff, Arizona. h00, lis place will be made their base of sup- a(id ies, and trips will be taken into the sur- fart unding country for arelueologlcal in- ancj stigation. The Grand Canoti of the Col- _ ado and the "Enchanted Mesa" will be ? Uy explored. J J An unusual suicide occurred in Brooklyn g0n lien a Chinaman tired of life killed him- to r If. His nationality makes the peculiarity him the affair. T. Louis was his name. He p, inducted a laundry. Business bad been T ry bad with him for several months past, itely It went from bad to worse. Japhet Connelly, tenycarsold.onlysonot ta?| phraim Connelly, disappeared a few days to. He was last seen in company with **av illlatn O'Mara, an illiterate musician, gog into the woods west of Somers Point, , J. O'Mara was arrested. A searching irty found the body of the boy, who had ;en strangled, covered with leaves in th*> A 1 mar 9 Mis. O'Jdara admitted having killed boy. he home of Judge James 31. Hobson, ler of Lieutenant Hobson, at Greenso, Ala., is advertised for sale under a rtgage for $3000. Alabama citizens rted a fund to buy it for the Hobsons, their aid has been refused, Judge Hobdeclaring that the claim is unjust and I be fought in the courts. He says he Is financially embarrassed, nder a rule prepared by Chief Surgeon ard. of the Second Corps, at Camp Al, ambulance corps men and nurses must go on the battlefield to succor tne inded until the battle is over, hirty of the big Dahlgren guns, which e been in the Charlestown Navy Yard for ay years, have been refitted for the te of Massachusetts, and will be ret pod to different points along the coast. 186 guns are all of the 9-inch type, he entire plant, rolling mill and steel at of the Burgess Steel and Iron Comyat Portsmouth, Ohio, was entirely deiyed by Are. The loss will aggregate 3,000, and the insurance is about 3200,Elght hundred employes are thrown of work. Foreign. avana toils night and day upon her de>es, the civil governor and other ofils lending their hands to the work, he German first-class cruiser Kaiserin 1 Tnnnn |U91Q LIU3 let i> iiugasu iv?, w?j;au, IUI dla. resident Dole and other members of the vaiian Government met the transports ting troops to the Philippines and tenid them the freedom of the island, zens raised 610,000 to entertain them ing their stay in Honolulu. The Ha[ans say they will raise a fund to build a battleship if the war proves a long ie Congregational Union of Ontario and bcc, in Toronto Wednesday, passed lutions of sympathy with the United es in their war with Spain. They also >rsed the project of an Anglo-Saxon alee. ie Spanish garrison In the neighbor4 of Gibraltar has been reinforced by itional troops at San Roque, with her reinforcements at Tarifa, Barrios Aigeciras. rnest Terah Hooley, the biggest comy promoter in England, and who was posed to be a multi-millionaire, has e into the hands of a receiver. Actions ecover $2,000,000 are pending against t * X igland makes $20,000,000 a year proflt of its postofflce. le recent census showed 62,000 Trotess among the 31,000,000 of Italy, le British warship Talbot sailed from ana for Jamaica with a number of lish refugees. > J Successful Submarine Boat. I successful trip was made by the aub^ ine boat Argonaut in Chesapeake Bay.^