The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 02, 1903, Image 6
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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
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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
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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.
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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. ?- - -? - .
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I BILL ARP. I
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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
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The street ear men's union at San
I.'eo n mC/.a rV.I !* > iioti*
wage pciieduie, to become effective
May 3.
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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.
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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.
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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. I had shooting
In my distress I was advised to use I
Compound, and it was a red letter da,
for at that time my restoration began,
woman, perfectly well in every respect
I want all women who sulfcr to get well
3o9 Jones St., Detroit, Mich., Secretary
It is clearly shown in this youi
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound wi
of women; and when one considers
only one of the countless hundrec
publishing
noi gUy that i* claii
E. Piukh
> L~~r> ?r no ?^ber na
A ' IT many actus
struation, and was not able to work,
my trouble. I felt relieved after takin,
icine as good as yours for female tro^
Water Street, Haverhill, Moss
Remember, Mrs. Pinkham's adv
are foolish if they do not aisk for i
vast experience, and has helped so r
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Keep it in the house for emergencies?for aupp
you want something good and want it quick. Sim
appetizing lunch is ready in an instant.
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The man who is everybody's friend is bis I
ivvn worst enemy. 80. 14,
Wbite to Dr. Tiber Mro. Co., Peoria.
11., for free sample Taker's Pepsin Com- i
ouud, the K'laranteod cure for Dyspepsia,
ndii- estion and all stomach ills. :
WEATHERWISE I
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xing women what to
suffering caused by
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seientiously recommend Lydia E.
those of my sisters suffering with
ch so often befall women. I suf;ss,
and felt so weary that I had
pains, and was utterly miserable.
-.ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
y to me when I took the first dose.
In sis weeks I was a changed
. I felt so elated and happy that
as I did."?Miss Gcila Gannon,
Amateur Art Association.
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ng lady's letter that Lydia E.
11 certainly cure the sufferings
i that Miss Gannon's letter is
Is which we are continually
in the newspaper of this country,
ef Mrc Pinl.'hom'i rr
inittcd by all; and for the absolute
kinds of female ills no substitute
y take its place. Women should bear
;ant fact in mind when they go into
a, and be sure not to accept anything
med to be " just as pood as L<y<li&
am's Vegetable Compound, for \
edicine for female ills has made so
il cures.
Another Young Sufferer
Was Cured.
)ear Mas. Pinkiiam:? I must
tnd tell you what your Yegetable
>und has done for me. I suffered
y every month at time of menYour
medicine has cured me of
S one bottle. I know of no medubles."
? Miss Edith Cboss, 169
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ice is free, and all sick women
t. No other person has such
nany women. Write to-day.
cxlue# the original letters and signatures of
their absolute genuineness,
fiakkva Medicine Co., Ljna, 711W.
oar choice corned beef, cook it and season
ne by experts?better than is possible at
Vben just right we put it in cans to keep
intil you want it.
era, for sandwiches?for any time when
iply turn a key and the can is open. An
>if n Write tot onr free booklet, "How
'i"' to Make Good Things to Eat"
cartridges and shot shells |
are made in the largest and n ?
best equipped ammunition *
factory in the world. |
AMMUNITION |
of U. M. G. make is now I
accepted by shooters as g
"the worlds standard'* for I
it shoots well in any gun. |
Your dealer sells it. |
The Union Metallic
Cartridge Co. 1
Bridgeport, - - Conn. |
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