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I irX . * I? _ National Aid. V-VOI.ONFL BROWXLOW. * of ; I / Tennessee, is just now one of the busiest men in Congress. ! In addition to looking after affairs Immediately affecting his dis; trlct he lias to attend to au immense correspondence resulting from the f widespread interest in bis road bill. In response to a tequest for an interview lie said: V.Veli, I ain pretty busy, but I never x get too busy to say something on the />iiAatinn still it dnpsn't nnnear tViUi IJUVpOViVU. .V ~,- r - | to be necessary for *ne to say much re garulng my bill, as the people and i press of tbe country all seem to be talking for it. Before introducing the , measure I never dreamed that it would 1 meej with such universal favor. It is , supported net :urre!y by the rural ar.d agricultural press, but by the great dally papers, whose circulation and support Is found almost entirely in the . cities. Loo;: at this, for instance, from an editorial in the Atlanta Constitution, the leading Democratic daily of the South and one whose conservatism is well known: ** 'While national improvement of public highways may seem something of a departure, it is. nevertheless, but a return to one of tbe early policies of the Federal Government. Before the h railroad was thought of the infant republic laid out and improved roads between important commercial centres. Congress voting appropriations and regulating the plan of work. After the railroad came there was no further aid of the kind for wagon roads, but Uncle Sam did not hesitate to help build a transcontinental railroad. It Will not be forgotten. In this connection. that the Government expended a million or more in building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. 44 4It Is a lamentable fact that road building as conducted by the average local'supervisor is about as effective t and lasting as water poured in a sieve. The first prolonged rain puts the way- ; farer hack into the same old slough of | despond, hub deep, and in the spring | C the taxpayer proceeds as before. Ma- j t cadanr. and other permanent roads are j enormously expensive, though it is true | that the average country township, where road workiug is respectably prosecuted in the course of years pays more for its treacherous dirt roads than it would have paid for a servieet -able pike. However, the same argument will apply to the luckless individual who has to pay for a necessity on the installment plan. The rub Is in getting together the funds to have done ~yrith the whole business at once. ' 44 'The Federal Department of Agriculture has already done good work along the lir? of road improvement, Jhough mainly In an instructive way. It has constructed sample pieces of good roads for the edification of backward communities, and the "good roads train" sent into the South last j year was a valuable start of the educational propaganda. Representative Brownlow now proposes to extend the idea and clothe the department with ome real authority in the premises. The Government is not only to instruct, but to foot half of the bills, the State,county or individuals to pay the other half. For purposes of construction the bill carries with it an appropriation of $?/)."V).OoO. of which no State shall receive in and of construction a greater proportion than its population bears to the total papulation of the United States. The public interests seem to tic nroperiy s.'ire^uanii'd ;mu cin.i provision of the measure carefully thought out. "'The Erownlow 1)111 has much to commend It. aud it stands for a sound, worthy prircip'e of Government. de*Sg::od to heneSt not a class, hut the whole people. The good roads agitation >s beginning to show results.' "Of course," resumed Colonel .Brownlow. "the South is especially interested iu my bill' because of Its retarded development along the line of highway , improvement. Nevertheless, the idea of national aid seems to he equally popular In other sections, ller" is an editorial from a tending Republican organ cf the Buckeye State, the Cleveland Leader, la Ohio, it should be remembered, great progress has been ? made in the building of improved roads. The Leader says: ** 'it is nothing new to have efforts made in Congress to interest the Federal Government in the improvement and construction of roads in various parts of the country. That is uatur jiUy an old story, in a iauu deficient as tbc United Slates is in well made highways. Rut it is worthy of note that tt? pressure in the direction of national aid in road building is becoming stronger from year to year. "'This change will grow more important: the filling up of the conntry. especially with the increase in the number of city people who maintain rural or suburban homes. The necessity of calling upon greater resources . than those of the strictly agricultural / population for the development of an adequate system of good highways is certain to be more clearly perceived as the statistical side of road building re, <.elves more careful attention. " To make good roads such as can ; fnir'y be counted on to resist the ac-' tlon of frost, intense beat and all the chances of the American climate, requires gr c.er expenditures than rural taxpayers can properly be asked to make. The cities send an increasing army of pleasure seekers into the country ever.) year, and such roads as are needed for their automobiles, horse vehicles and bicycles cannot be constructed without some use of the wealth ac-, cumulated In great centres of trade In? dustry. " 'It Is difficult, of course, to arrange < a satisfactory division of authority and | financial responsibility between the j nation, the States, and local govern- j mental bodies in thebuildingand niaintaiaence of roads, but it is easier to solve that problem than it is to discov er anv way of making tlio United , States what the leading countries of ( Europe are in the matter of public ] highways without help from the ua- ( tional treasury.'" i I A FOOL PROOF CONTROLLER. J To Prevent Damns* to the Trolley Car , ?qnl))mpni. The tendency in modern design is to i make all apparatus and methods of 1 operation as nearly "fool proof" as J' possible. So much his either Dceu j' damaged or destroyed, owing to the in- j competency of operators, that it has been found expedient to surround ap- j pnratus. especially electrical appli- . auces, with all possible safeguards. ( Almost everything about an electric 1 car is now fool proof, excepting, per- I haps, the controller movement; but 1 there has been recently introduced a j device wnicu reuueis uj^ immune wUU. injury by preventing motor men from J abusing and reducing the efficiency j of the equipment of an electric rail- { way. This device, which is known as j the automotoneer. is mechanical in its i action, and is placed in each controller for limitnig to a predetermined ' time-limit the rate at which the con- ' troller can be advanced from one point to another. In principle, the autoinoto- ' neer, says tue American EIectric;au, ( Is very simple. The movement of the < control handle to consecutive points 1 on the controller raises a piston which : drives air out of an air dash-pot. The i raised jiosition of the dash-pot locks 1 the controller handle against fprtcer ! advance, until sufficient time lias ) plapsed for the piston to resume i:s , normal position by the flow of air into , the dash-pot. The rate at which this j air flows can, of course, by the adjust- ] mcut of the size of the inlet, and this i adjustment determines the time that ' must be taken between points on the 1 controller. 1 ( WORDS OF WISDOM. He iliat can have patience, can have < what he will.?Franklin. Contentment gives a crown where j fortune hatii denied it.?Ford. I *11 /.ninltr enrinc* from h.ird-hcart- < tHiiioss and weakness.?Seneca. j; The great man is he who does not , lose his child's heart.?Mencius. , Good manners and good morais are i sworn friends and fast allies.?Bariol. ' Sin has many tools, but a lie is the ] handle that fits them all.?Oliver W. J Holmes. \ We carry happiness into our eondi- ' tion, but cannot hope to find it there.? 1 | Holmes. J j Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.? ( Plutarch. I The more one speaks of himself the 1 less he likes to hear another talked of. ! ?LaVater. ' He who will not take advice gets j knowledge when trouble overtakes 1 them.-Kaffir. 1 There is no tyrant like custom, and J no freedom where its edicts are not re- ( sisted.?Bovee. Ennui is one of our greatest enemies; * remunerative labor our most lasting;; friend.?Moscr. The chief constituents of what wej, call manhood are moral rather iutel- ( lectoal.?J. S. Kieffer. |i The more we do. the more we can,1 I do; the more busy we are, the more j' I leisure we have.?Hazlitt. , A Chocolate I)rcp Famine. | "Several weeks ago 1 hail a letter: j from a lively young girl who is , j abroad." said a business mau of great i I social talents, "and she bemoaned the I fact she could not tinil chocolate droits ion the other side. You can imagine : j how such an unhappy state of affairs, j ou the part of that American young | woman, would appeal to the heart of any chivalrous man: so I made immediate preparations to relieve the choc* olate famine across the water. "Of course I could send her boxes of all hinds of chcoola<e creams, hut I I wanted tp make the arrival of j these longed-for confections a some-, j what insidious surprise; so 1 took a | brand new. great big trashy novel, well ; j bound, whk-h a designing clerk had i foisted on me at the bookstore?'FrazI zled Edges' was the name of It, I beI lieve?and I had all the reading matter cut neatly out. leaving a broad, firm margin, which formed a nice box. j This I packed full of fine chocolate j drops, closed the covers of the book j over them, and tied it with silver nib- j bous. I wish I could see that girl's ! face when she opens the express pack- j age. In a few days I am going to ! send her a larger consignment?to fol- j low up the pleasant impression made by those packed in the book. When an American girl abroad wants American chocolate drops she ought to have them."?Detroit Free Press. Oil-Time JourtialUin. Ilerbcrt Asquith paid a pretty compliment to the press at the London Newspaper Society's dinner in regard to its rapid collection of news. Nowadays the editorial task is winnowing rather than gathering. It was otherwise in the eighteenth century, when T fnv instance. I11C uciwaio uvuiuu., , had to send all its copy by coach to Loudon for printing, so that its news was at least a week late when it appeared. It was sometimes later.' For in one dry season the editor was re-, duced to printing the Bible-as h serial and had reached the tenth ehajfter of Exodus before any news more recent than the Pentateuch had reached the .office. ?- - -? - . i L I BILL ARP. I 9 B KiXXXXl^iniXli SiSiSIiniSiSiiKSk Kind friends, please forbear. I know that the time for compositions and debates and essays is near at hand, but I am sick and cannot help you thiB spring. I am weak and don't want to strain my mind. I haven't been oat of the house but twice in three months. My wife and the doctor watch me and won't let me go. A few weeks ago I slipped off to my daughter's one pleasant evening and had to be hauled back n a buggy, for it is up hill to my bouse, and I was weaker than I thought. You see I had a sunstroke last June and have never recovered 'rom it. Every night, if the weather is aad, I have to get up about midnight md sit by the fire and cough tor an liour or two. But I can answer letters \nd have from a dozen to a score every lay. It pleases me to answer the kt.ers of the young folks, for many ot them need help. I know that I did when I was away oti" at school. My ather was an old school teacher and <new how to help me. He wrote nearly ill of my junior orator's speech and 1 ;ot credit for it, though I only crossed the t's and dotted the i s and put my lame to the end of it. But there are lundreds of boys and girls who have 10 help and I am sorry for them ana so for many years past I hare tried to lelp them. Some of them just want aelp a little, a few ideas, but others want the whole thing. In fact, one boy isked me to write him two so that he ould take choice. Many of them forget :o enclose a stamp and my postage ac rount got to De sucn a uuratji iuai, flip Van Winkle said, "I swort off" snd quit answering such letters. It is ;ad manners to write to a man on business that does not concern hira and rxpeet him to pay the return postage. I receive many long manuscripts with requests to read and criticise and reurn and tell where to have publish?d and what the writer will probably jet paid for them. 1 have two on haud, lust received?no stamps enclosed?one s a grammatical curiosity. Hardly a ine that does not contain bad grammar cr a misspelled work. It takes nearly half a line tor the word "specta les" and It has fourteen letters in it. Hie word angel is spelled angle, and ret the writes* expects to get paid for Lhe story. The other manuscript is an inquiry into the race problem?no si.amps?and it contains seventeen questions for me ;o answer. Another long letter on fool's ap writes of the good old times and ;ays in conclusion that if I will answer It he will write me again and put his name to the next letter. There is no name to this. He is an Irishman, I reckon. One other request I wish to make about letters. Please place your postoffice address plaily at the top and your name plainly at the bottom. Many i time I have passed a letter all round the family trying to decipher the signature. Sometimes I have cut the signature off and pasted it on the back nf the reply, thinking that probably the postmater at the writer's home would recognize it. If the poStofflce address Is omitted and the postmark on the envelope is blurred, as it frequently is, it is impossible to know where a reply should be sent, and if I guess at it and guess wrong it goes to the dead letter office. Now, you young people must not forget these little things, for they are important, especially the stamps. Sometimes we literary men are greatly perplexed to know what to do with some letters. One more request. Do not write to me at Atlanta. I do not live there. My home is in Cartercville, and 1 thought that everybody knew it by ihis time. I have beeD living here over twenty years. And now let me ask the good charitable ladies who seek to do something for some good cause to send no more endless chain letters to me. They are a nuisance and . have annoyed me greatly. I thought that when that common cheat and swindler, Joel Smith, of Montlcel'o; Fla., was broken up and arrested the endless chain business had stopped, but of late it has revived and I received three last week. One of them started in Canada for a so-called missionary work and got all the way down to Louisiana and from there to me. waiting me to copy two letters and send ten cents in Christ's name, and under no circumstances to break the chain. Well, I broke it and shall break every one that comes to me. and shall burn the letters for they never contain any return postage. Some years ago the good ladies of Fredericksburg. Va., wrote to me. saying they wanted about $30(kor $-100 to place head stones to the graves of 2C0 Georgia soldiers who were buried there. I made an earnest appeal to our people and asked for a dollar from each good man or woman, and I raised 5300 In three wceks.Adjutant General Phil Byrd sent me $2 all the way from New Brunswick. I bought the marble all lettered nicely, from the northern men who own the works at Marietta? bought them at one dollar each, which was less than the cost, for the company said they helped to put our boys there and they ought to help mark their graves. The railroads shipped them free. There was no endless chain in that business. Three thousand neglected confederate graves, at Mari etta! Our boys, our dead buried on our soil, died in defense of their homes, their state, their people. On the other side of the railroad are about as many who were trespassers on our soilvandals who cauie as invaders with arms and torches, and their graves are marked with costly marble and adorned with gravel walks and flowers and evergreens, and there is a grand entrance to their city of the dead, all done by the national government, and a keeper employed. And yet it is now settled we were right and they were wrong. Oh, liberty and union! what crimes have been committed in thy name. But Secretary Root seems to be a good man and is going to help us make up the roster, the muster roll o! our living and our dead. Maybe he will get a little closer to U3 and help the Marietta women to make their conlcderate graveyard just as elegant and ornamental as the one on the other side. Why not try him? Dead soldiers are not enemies to each other and if theirs could speak maybe they would Bay, "Give us your hand, brother." Is ] It not about time for our women to | make an appeal to the government for | aid in this patriotic work? Not only for j Marietta, but wherever our soldiers are | buried. Marietta has many northern visitors who spend their winters there and it seems to me if they brought along a heart and a soul with them, they would go to these ladies and say. "Here are ten dollars. Please mark I ten of those graves for me;" But I J reckon most of them just bring their bodies and leave their hearts at home. Why not do us our Mr. Granger did? Just as soon as our ladies started a move to build a monument to General Young ami our Bartow heroes, he was : the first to ask the privilege of sut>| scribing $25 to the cause. He has got| ten it all back already in our good will and gratitude. *ie brought his heart ! with him when he moved down here ' and his wife brought her whole soul, j She is always doing something for | somebody.?Bill Arp in Atlanta Con- I i atitution. Prank of Three Fools. | Washington, Special.?Three men. ; in an automobile, attempted to riib> up the steps at the esrt front of the r?.nitol Wednesday. They reached the sn-ond landing, sixteen steps from the street, when the chain of the vehicle broke and it ran back but without accident. The man who acted as chauffeur gave the name of J. D. Hurlburn and said he wa3 from Detroit. Mich. His companions did not give their names, but one of them said he was a police commissioner of Hartford. vajuii. i ue uuuueur waa arresieu nut later released on $10 ooUateral. Had Nine Wives. Erin, Tenn., Special.?Archbishop Jones v.as convicted of bigamy in the Circuit Court and sentenced to three years in the prison. The evidence against the accused charged him with marrying nine women in as many different States. One of the wives from Kentucky and one from Tennessee were witnesses against Jones in the trial. Two sanitary officers who were searching for plague cases in Mexico were murdered LABOR WORLD. There are 112 union barber shops Ju Indianapolis, Ind. j Difficulty is experienced iu procuring i laborers at Iloilo, I*. 1. There are 7130 members of organized labor in New Haven. Conn. Retail grocery clerks at Cincinnati, 0.. have decided to organize Iowa icoords ?how 7:20 local unions in (he State, with a membership of 4f>,000. City carters at Toronto, Canada, will demand a substantial advance in wages. Brockton (Mass.) electrical workers have procured a twenty per cent, inrrease in wages. Efforts are being made at Toledo, O.. to form a union of the trunk and traveling bag makers. Shortsville (X. Y.) drill makers have received voluntary increases from ten to twenty per cent. Eignt hundred shipbuilders in tlie Humber (England) district have submitted to a reduction in wages. The National Railway Clerks* Association. which was recently formed, 'lfiv! nlre.niv :i inemhcrahin nf Union members in the Loot ami shoe trades were recently unemployed to the extent of ?>.2 per rent, in England. At the London tEnalnndi docks and i wharves the average of employes for the past five years iias been Ut i'ol. Efforts are lifinsr made to settle hy arbitration the strike of the journeymen fiorseshoers in New York Citv \ * The street ear men's union at San I.'eo n mC/.a rV.I !* > iioti* wage pciieduie, to become effective May 3. I During 1902 33.095 men wore employed in tlio mines of New* South Wales, Australia, as coninaivd. with J0.C13 ill 1901. Many of the unions that l'.avo heen organized during ih<> year at Provi ueuee. It. I., will uiake a demand for an eight-hour day. I NEWSY GLrAN!NCS. Cuba will appropriate $100,000 for ! the St. Louis Exposition. French imports for January and February increased *13,235,800; exports, ?8,55:i,200. Officers of the Austrian Army bare been ordered not to join the anti-dueling league. The plan to purchase the friar lands In the Philippines may fail because of excessive prices. The Old Home-Week Association, of Massachusetts, lias chosen Governor Bates as its President. The Famine Relief Committee for Finland had received .5258,000. of which fSo.000 was from America. The Legislature of Illinois has been asked to appropriate $100,000 for new uniforms for the National Guard. Signal Corps men are arranging a j wireless telegraphy system between t lm fnrfa nlnrif rho Pfttnnmf lliver A college diploma is now* prerequisite : to entrance in the school of law, of divinity or of medicine at Harvard. Mail steamers between Germany and Denmark are in touch with the land throughout the trip by wireless telegraphy. X The other day a woman in Geneva lost a pocketbook containing $10,000. It was found and returned by a lamplighter. The chemical analysis of food products in North Carolina is said to have proved that thirty-tive per cent, is adulterated. Governor McBrldo, of Washington, has vetoed the bill providing a bounty of one cent per pound on all beet sugar produced in the State. By tbc rectification of the India and Thibet frontier, which has now been completed, ?Jf>0 square miles have been added to British territory. Art Association, tells y< do to avoid pain and female troubles. " Dear Mrs. Phtkham:?I can con Pinkhara's Vegetable Compound to female weakness and the troubles whi fered'for months with general wealou hard work to keep up. 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