The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, June 16, 1898, Image 2
THE COUNTY RECORD. |
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Published Every Thursday
at
UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA,
B Y
LOUIS J. BKISTOW,
Fdltor and Proprietor.
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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
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postomce autuonues were uiiuuik w
deliver them. They were preserved,
however, and have now become a valuable
collection from a historical
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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.
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| GOOD ROADS NOTES, f
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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
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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
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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
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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*
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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. If you pay no
bounty for fox scalps no one will kill
the foxes; if no one will kill them
they will kill the chickens, and whar
you have no chickens you have no
; preachers, and whav you have no
preachers you have no religion and no
. morals."
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. | ?
Waslilneton Tte?ris. ' 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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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 *
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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.
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Successful Submarine Boat. I
successful trip was made by the aub^
ine boat Argonaut in Chesapeake Bay.^