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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-16

Tne First Natlonsi Bank or Mlddlcs
boro, KY, closed its doors Monday. Bad
collections were the cause.
Idaho has unprecedented crops this
wear, which the press Of that State at
tributes t. increasing rainfall.
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Thc net earnings of tho sugar trus,
duing the past year are stated to have
been fl7,000,O00.
Nancy Hanks has broken the world.
trotting record on a regulation track, go.
ing q mile in 2.07.
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THREE STATES BRIEFS.
Telegraphic Dispatches From Many
Points of Interest.
The Fields of Virginia, North and
South Carolina Carefully
Cleaned For News,
VIRGINIA.

Gen. James r. Anderson, OF Rich
mond, died Wednesday.
A great religious revival is in progress
at Appoma,tox.
Joe Searles, aged 10, was riding colt
at Christiansbury which threw him, frac-
turing his skull aud causing instant death.
The Free Masons have laid corner
stone at Staunton for the Methodist
church, for the third time on the same
spot, 1854, 1859, and 1892.
SssI. j. :. .Bigles- dropped dead Gl-zSon,--4As
: 9stfeet at Sa'em, aud the coroner's Jury
found that the cause was "dropsy of the
heart aggravated by too much tobacco"
Two Russian Jews, of Norfolk, were
arrested Friday night at the instance of
DIR. Thorn, quarantine officer, for at.
tempting to smugglc immigrants from
New York into Norfolk. The immi.
grants arrived on then Y. p. and N. rail
road, and arc now Quarantined at the N.
Y, p. and N. wharf.
j. w. Grant, farmer near Clarcmont,
beat his wife and daughter, and they
fed to n ncighbor's Grant few days
after rec ivcd notice signed "Whitc
Caps" which gave him warning that if
he was still in the county at the expira-
ton of ten days he would be visited and
roughly dealt with He needed the
warning, has sold out his crops and gone.
NoBTH CAROLINA.
The fox hunters of Goldsboro have al
ready brought in twenty five brushes
this season.
The project of establishing line of
freight steamers between Wilmington
and baltimore is assuming share.
The Swannanoa river is nearly dry and
Asheville is threatened with water
famine
Isaac Osborne was killed in Mitchell
county by moonshincrs, upon whom he
had reported.
Massachusetts capitals who own TO-
600 acres in Madison county are develop
ing the tract and building railroad
through the property from Hot Springs.
Rev. II. d. Lcqucux, formerly pastor
OF the Baptist church of Hickor,, has re-
nounced his allegiance to that faith and
has been ordained minister ia the
Presbyterian Church.
The directors of the Atlantic & North
Carolina railroad have declared q 3 Der
cent dividend on the capital stock of
the road, to be paid October 1st. This
is the first dividcad the road has ever
SSS SSSn nR!e !9 dsSaFS aHaa i
George Harper, John Aaron and Fl.
Mills, three desperate colorcd criminals,
escaped from the Jail in Halifax county.
Harper and Aaron were recently con-
victcd of brutally mutilating Richard
Burt, and sentenced to fifty years each
in the penitentiary.
Scnor Jose Falius Sautos, of Havana
Cuba, is in Raleigh. He cime to learn
the English language and to find out
something about American business meth
eds. When he arrived he knew not q
word of English, but he is learning zap
idly. He expressed himself pleased with
our country and people.
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r NJ Swopc, prominent and wealthy
business man, of Seymour, Ind, dropped
dead Monday while acting as pall-bearcr
Statistics say that in the war of 20.
VI The Germans fired 400 shots to every
man killed, and that in our civil war We
fired 40 shots to each dead man.
The Agricultural Department hao q
Icttc, from Minister Lincoln announcing
that the prohibition against American
sheep has been withdrawn by England.
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The farmers have always had to pay
for building and repairing roads in this
country, ,even when these roads happened
to lead from one prosperous town to an
other. Very naturally these people,
already overburdened by direct and in
direct taxation, have felt very indisposed
to take any action which should add to
that already heavy burden. Any effort
to secure their cooperation in road i'm
provement must provide that the cost Of
such improvement shall not fall entirely
upon them. Unless this be made en-.
tirely clear, from the farmers there will
always be an active and stubborn oppo-
sition.
Strange though it may seem, the farm.
ers, as rule, take less interest in this
matter of road improvement than any
other people. Very few of them are
travellers, and very few realize how bad
the country roads are. When they are
told of the roads which we're built in pre-
historic times by the Incas of Peru, when
the Carthaginian roads are described to
them, and those noble highways which
radiated from ancient Rome are men,
toned, they listen as though fairy tale
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sity of the liberal use of horse power in
the maintenance of agricultural traffic, it
Is easily certain that the farmers of this
country are keeping at least 1000 900
horses more than would be necessary to
do all the hauling between farm and
market if only the principal roads we're
brought to a good condition. If you
estimate that all these horses are fed an
ordinary army ration of hay and oats, it
requires $4,000 tons of hay or fodder
and $50, 1000 bushels of oats per day to
feed these unnecessary animals, which
themselves have money value of $140,-
100000. The value of hay and oats fed
to these horses per day is about $780,
900, or something like $114, 900, 600
per year.
"These are large figures. Now let us
see what it would cost to do the neces-.
sary work 80 that such savings could be
made. It has been estimated by the au-
thorities of the State of New York that
with $40, ,0c0, 900 the roads in the entire
State could be put in very good condi.
ton. The roads in New York are not
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has long been an axiom that the common
highways of country are at once the
means and the measure of its civilization,
it Is somewhat strange that in this coun.
try, where we boast of enjoying a higher
type of civilization than is to be found
elsewhere, our roads should always have
been so wretchedly bad. Even in the
colonial times the,necessityto make bet
ter the condition, of the common roads
was seriously felt, and in those parts of
country settled by particularly long
headed people, as for instance, in the
neighborhood of Boston, there have al
ways been pretty good public highways.
But, as a rule, all over the country, from
then till now we have been content with
dirt roads, which III the winter are muddy
quagmires, and in summer streaks OF
dust. Both Washington and Hamilton,
after the establishment of the republic,
appreciated fully the Importance OF q
general system of common highways.
Washington recommended to Patrick
Henry, then Governor of Virginia, that
the location, the building, and the re-
pairs of roads be taken out of the hands
of the local authorities; for he saw, what
we see yet more clearly to-day, that
where our highways are left to the ten.
der mercies of the local authorities, they
are mismanaged, badly built, and even
in their worst condition harmed by any
attempts to make them better. This is
hot because these local authorities would
not like to have good roads, but it is be-
cause they have no means with which to
do much better than is done, and if they
did have the means, they lack the re-
quisite knowledge, without which no
decent roads can be built or managed.
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were being told; and when they hear of
the great highways in France, in Eng
land and Switzerland, and Germany, they
listen with the same incredulity with
which they receive the yarns which
sailors and other travellers are privileged
to bring from beyond the seas. They
have never had better roads than those
which exist to-day, nor did their fathers
or grandfathers. Conservative men that
they are, they feel that what was good
enough in the olden time is good enough
to-day; therefore, with kind Of con-
tempt which is miserably pltiful, they
"wallow in the mire of their ways, paying
excessive tolls, enduring, in a word, a
grinding taxation generation after gen.
Grafton, without appreciating the burden
which rests upon them"
1t has been suggested that the Ameri-
can roads be placed under system of
Government supervision, and be divided
somewhat as the French roads are:
First. national roads. These to be
built and maintained by the General
Government, and be located with refer
ence to military and postal requirements.
Second, State roads. These to be
built and maintained by the several
States and connect the various localities
of the States. and be planned with refer
ence to the national roads.
Third, county or Deighborhood roads.
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LITTLE KATE-A s0NR :.
By J. B. SALISBURY.

1t was down by tho hedge-row that little Kate
Little Kate, Little Kate,
Full many strange things in her wise heed sne
pondered,
Little Kate, Little Kate.
Theex Hns ioy in her voice, there was mirtn ID
her eye,
And she cast sundry glances around her 80 sny
Thet the birds caught her secret, and tWlttefeo
and warbled,
he i5 coming, dear hate-why ore Soot SneeA1
Little Kate, Pretty Kate?"
Her heart was as light as bird whea tie
Little Kate, Pretty Kate,
And she sang q sweet lay-twas restful the
Little Kate, Pretty Kate.
NV Harry is coming, my sailor, to-day,
Yor his ship lies at anchor over there on the pay
Soon bis strong honest heart will beat firmly
gainst mine
Re's my king, I'm his kingdom, and love is the
lam Kate, Little Kate"
But her Harry returned not-'neath the greer
Little Kate. Little Kate,
While the elves and the fairies above MIN arc
Little Kate, Pretty Kate.
Alone she still wanders by the hedge-ro" sho
And signs: .Heis coming, it may be at morn;
Be win ask tho kind queen Of the fairies to
To bring him to Lathmoor to hear Kitty sing.
Little Kate, Lonely Kate
BARRE CENTRE, N. Y.
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STRONG DRINK AND THE CHILDREN.

Strong drink which is responsible for 50
much cruelty and suffering, affects, with
perhaps its worst results, the children. 1t
is sometimes said that il you let drink e!one.
e will not hurt you, but the experience or
the children who do not themselves take 1t,
but who are in many cases victims to a fear.
fill extent of its demoralzng influence upon
parents and guardians, suffices to show tnas
even those who do not themselves indulge IN
II. may be- and many times are, among us
most unhappy victims. The Seventeenth
Annual Report Of the New York Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
for the year ending December 81, 1881, fur
nishes many striking and painful illustra-
tions of the way IN which children are thus
made to suffer through strong drink. IL ap-
nears that for the year 1891 the society re-5
ceiyed and examined 1895 complaints OF
cruelty to children; that 1t instituted 2sU
prosecutions. and secured 276l convictions;
that it rescued 1888 children from pernlcious
surroundings, and that it sheltured, fed
and clothed 1877 children in Its re-
ception rooms, and thds 1t lnves.
tigated in addition, 1851 c..ses OF alleged
and the courts. These figures represent a
great deal Of timely and valuable labor IN
Behalf of exposed and victimizsd childhood,
and show that the society discharges mos5
useful function in this metropolis. But it is
safe to say that three-fourths OF its work IS
rendered necessary, either directly or md lndl-
rectly, Through the agency OF strong drink
In very many OF the cases recorded 1t mas
been obviously chief factor OF the cruelty
from which children have suffered. In one
case mentioned in tho report, an ofticar OF
the society was detailed to care for little
Rose Hoffman. He found the little creatur9
a., nf
fore her drunken mother. who was staggeY-
ing toward (her in drunken fury, shouting:
s.Pn kill you, you little brat; III murder You
for this, alld just then the oficar put .inl au
appearance }and rescued the little one WHOSE
life was really in danger. The report says ot.
house. ss % :shet behaved like a mad.x9man;
drink had ii Nsrally crased her" Hsr two
little ones wlere taken from her ana com
mitted to th$ American Female Guardian
Society. MAJ Sional Advocate.
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A EUROPEAN ROAD.

ton is based upon very low estimate.
In all probability, if it were possible to
make an exact calculation, it would be
found that the earning capacity and the
total length of serviceable life of
draught animals would be more nearly
doubled than increased only one.third.
The census enumerators of 1890 found
that there were in this country IA, 213,-
s37 horse valued at $68 each; 1884,
OF mules, valued at $7s each; and &c.
S49, ,O24 oxen, and other draught an
imals, valued at SIS each-making a
total of So, ,393, 1888 animals used on the
roads, at a total value of 81, 721, $685.
79S. All these horses and mules work
at some time on the roads, and indeed
much the greater part of the total work
done by them is upon country roads and
city streets. If all the work done by
them was upon the roads, the increased
valuation, based upon the above by
potbesis OF earning capacity, would be
$573, ,s45, ,266, but as all the work is
not done on the roads, it is only fair to
reduce this by one-half, and then we
would have, by a general improvement
of the roads of the country, our property
in horses and mules and other draught
animals increased in value 50, S66, ,922,-
633. I have no figures showing the
value of carriages, buggies, and other
road vehicles in this country. To put
their value at $500, 100000 would be
placing it very low, and there would be
no chance to say that the estimate or
guess was exaggerated. Taking into con.
sideration the cost of repairs necessitated
by reason of bad roads and the shortened
serviceable life to such vehicles, I feel
safe in assuming that with good roads
these vehicles would last one-half longer,
and their value, therefore, be increased
at least $3.50, 600, COO. Taking these
two sources of increased valuation to-
gether, we should have an enhanced
property valuation of 1886, 922, ,633, all
brought about by the improvement of
the common roads. Mr.. Isaac B. Pot.
ter, the Chairman of the National Com
mittee on Improvement of the Highways
of the League of American Wheelmen,
has assumed in round numbers that the
draught animals in use in the United
States are worth 1000, 900. He
says:
BUSY or idle, these animals must be
fed and cared for every day. They are
boarders that you can't get rid of when
the busy season is over, and it stands
you in need to keep them at work. Two
billion dollars make large sum invested
at per cent. interest. 1t would pro.
duce nearly 81, 600, 900 per week. Then
you throw away more than 16, 900, 900
of horses and mules alone, aud to feed
and care for these it cost the modest gum
of 81, ,000,0 per day. A little while
ago very clever and intelligent citizen
of Indiana estimated that bad roads cost
the farmer SIS per year for each horse
and mule in his service. This means
loss in the aggregate of nearly $780,
900, 900 per year; add wear and tear Of
wagons and harness, 500, 900, 900; de-
preciated value of farm hands, So, ,00Q,-
600, 900; total, So, $50, 100000.
Making the utmost allowance in favor
of the farmer, and granting the reces-
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ovHRBuRpEsxp HEARrs.

The heart at seventy beets minute viii
beat 400 times an hour, apa 100 500 tunes IN
one day Of twenty -four beurs. With five
ounces Of blood propelled 81 each beat 5I,
900 ounces are propelled each day, or31. 500
pounds. Imagine 81, 500 pound balls on the
edge of q platform. and letk strong man be
required simply to lift the balls one FOOT
and drop them from the platform. He
would work we'll II he landed twenty in q
minute, or 1900 In an hour. By continuous
work for twentY-four hours, without mo-
ment's rest, he would lift and drop 28, 800, or
Zoo less pound weights than the action OF
the heart represents. Plainly we see he
could not.per4crm the supposed tGsk for one
day. nor indeed for twelve hours conttnq-s
ously. No living man Is the equal in bis
muscular ability to his own heart In the line
Of action. And yet It must be remembered
that this heart Is simply In size Like ones
closed hand, and weighs only about ten
ounces Truly there Is no such powerful
piece of machinery known to man. It's mo.
ton also is perpetual-it knows no rest until
life ceases. Now. the moderate drinker will
consume two ounces Of alcohol each day.
This alcohol accelerates the action OF his
heart by 5000 beats in twenty-four hours, re-
curing it to propel 70,00G onnces more Of
blood, or shoot forth 1875 pounds in addition
to its ordinary enormous work. Poor, dear
heartl The drunkard has no pity on it, and
it is no wonder that 1t seeks relief In an early
death.-Herald Of Gospel Liberty. ~
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aAnd what time did Lady Balscombe

"And what time did ,Lady Balscombe
leave7"
Il don't know. did not see her again
that night. She went to bed because Of
her headache, and, suppose, departed
early in the morning to catch the train to
Shoreham.
Where was Sir Rupert all this timer"
He had been down in Berkshire, but
arrived some time Eefore l2-he and
Lady Balscombe had quarreled lately,
and occupied different rooms. Besides,
he went off to his club on arriving in
town, so he could not know Of her flight
till the morning."
did she leave letter for him?"
Il suppose so; but why do you ask all
these questions?" -.
Because I want to save my neck, If
possible. The woman who was murdered
is said to be Lena arschine, whom saw
during the day. saw woman in Calls
tons rooms on the same night, whom the
detective thinks was the same person.
Now, between the time left the cham
bers and the time met Spencer EllersbyI
was wandering about the streets and, as
spoke to no one, cannot prove an ailbi.
Ellersby met me coming up st. James
street, and the scene of the crime was
not far of, 30, if am arrested, circum-.
stances will tell very hard against me.
Nobody will believe my assertion that
did not see the dead woman that tight,
and cannot prove it without breaking
my promise" -.
Il see what you mean, but what has
Lady Balscombe to do with it?"
Simply this: ! am anxious to ind out
afk %npu
night, because I want to know.if he had
anything to do with the death OF his mis-
tress. He left his chamber"to catch the
en-minutes-past.s train from London
bridge; but Gid he catch 1t? think
not, because he would not have left
town without Lady Balscombe, and,
from your own showing, she did not
leave her house till early on Tuesday
morning. So I think Call;ston must
have remained in town at some hotel,
where she joined him, and they went down
TO Shoreham by the first train in the
morning."
But You don't think calliston killed
this woman?"
No. I don't think 30, he answered,
thoughtfully: 4 really don't think so'
but would like to have all his move
ments on that night accounted tor:
As for myself, am in a very awkward
position, for, if arrested, I cannot e1-
tricate myself from 1t till Calliston re-
turns"
"Why?"
Because, till his yacht comes back, I
cannot prove my innocence
But you are innocent?"
How can you doubt me?"
Il was certain of it."
Il hope the jury of twelve good and
lawful men will be rs certain" he re-
piled, grimly, as he walked away.
Flip followed them at distance, but
only caught scraps Of conversation which
seemed to him to be about trivial mat
ters. So, with ell the conversation he
had heard in the Park indelibly inscribed
on his brain, Flip darted awayto give his
patron an accurate report, and thus add
another link to the chain which was
gradually encircling the murderer Of
Lena Sarschine.
TTo BE CONTINUED
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TEMPERANCE.
HONE AT LAST.

HONE AT LAST.
A little child, fair-haired, with wondering
Past, through an open door, into the
street. @
She wandered on, lost in a land of sighs,
And wept, rs there no rest for weary
feets'
Deep in the dark-s door stood open wide.
Alieht streamed from it brighter than the
A mothers voice kept calling: ''Herel
Abidel
Come Home. my little oneI you've lost
-. ..- Come Homer
A wretched man, forlorn, with matted hair,
Stood In a crowd Of sots, more beasts than
men; - ~
Deep curses rent the air, and dull despair
SupermeIy reigned in that accursed. den.
But high above its revels rang one sound,
Clearer than sea-bird's over roaring sea-
The voice of wife and woman! Lost bus
Come Home, my Husbandl comel Obi
follow me!
Come HomeP
A poor lost soul, east down with wrstched,
Pale death was ringing out his fatal
knel;
No one to pity, no one there to bless
Then suddenly q voice-"Ohl which Is best.
To live or diep Ever to dng or dghT
This voice eternal whispered Come and
Come Home, sad soul, and rest eternallyi
-. Come Homer
,.,... Clement Scott
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better than they are in other States.
They are great deal worse than in some
of the New England States, for instance,
and therefore assume that this estimate
can be followed as & guide in determin-
ing what would be needed to complete in
the whole country excellent roads, which,
once constructed, could be chesply and
easily maintained. Considering the area
of New York and the density of popula-
ton and using these figures in the prob
lem, estimate that S4O0, 600, 900 would
give us good system of common roads
all over the country. This is great deal
of money, but it doesn't seem great com.
pared with the values which would
be enhanced by its wise expenditure.
And right here it may be noted that the
cost of maintaining and repairing a bigh-
way, properly constructed in the first
instance, ought never to be greater for
year than one per cent. of its first cost.
In. the two items of horses and vehicles,
as have shown, the increased value OF
these properties would more than pay for
the improvement; but it is not the great
est value by any means. The effect upon
the horses and vehicles used on roads
would be more immediate and more
direct, and therefore I have called psrti-
cular attention to this phase of the sub.
ject. The enhancement of the value OF
real estate would be so great that the
items have mentioned would seem so
insignificant as not to be worth disc uss'
ing. In one neighborhood alone-thst
of Union County, New Jersey-the i'm
provements of the roads has changed
values so greatly that men who a few
years ago were struggling farmers, with
earnings so scant that it was difficult to
make two ends meet, are now not only
well.to.do but absolutely rich. They
can sell their crops at good profits; they
can grow more profitable crops; they
can get these crops quickly and cheaply
to market; and their lands, for which at
low prices it was formerly almost impos-
sible to find purchasers, are low in de-
mand at prices which, compared with
the old order of things, seem fabulous,
and the mere mention Of which suggests
a most unaccustomed condition of opul-
ence."
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with low crown and brim widening to-
ward the front, is trimmed with large
bows of ribbon in'two shades. Beneath
the brim in the back small flowers are
thickly punched, from which the ribbon
strings extend.
For the most part, however, the spring
hats at present shown do not differ
greatly in style from those worn during
the winter. The came close-fittlng
capotes, in braided straws, or woven OF
beads prevail. The same low crowns,
with brlms. projecting slightly IN front,
are seen that were made of velvet during
the winter. York World.