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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-04-07

*Part!y cloudy.
March Weatber-Max. SO on the 2lst;
Min 33 on 25th; Mean 81 Z. Total rainfall
All inches Number of days clear 4; parti5
cloudy 5; cloudy q. Prevailing wind, East.
Dates of frests-light, 25th and 26tb; kill
ing 2Sth.
Halos-solar, 4tb, 2lst, 2sth; Lunar, 10th,
l4tb, 18th.
Thunderstorms-6ts 18th, 18th, l4th.
Greatest daily range of temperature 30, on
the 81. Least s, on the 18th and 18th
Monthly mean, III.
Charleston, s. c.. Feb 4. 1871 had q
severe case of sciatica and began
taking Hoods Sarsaparila. I soon found
was improving every day, asd continued
until | had taken four bottles, when | was
we'll. Andrew Stoesen, l58 Ashley Ave.
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. 25c.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-04-07

Excellent commercial note paper 10 cents
a pound at H. G. Osteeo l. Co's-two pounds
for Is cents.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-04-07

Gen. Hampton is quite sick again
in Washington.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1897-04-07

for Is cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
Fifty Miles to Market.

1t is not an uncommon thing in
France to see d farmer 40 or 30 miles
from homo in wet weather with a heavy
load. If he sees a prospect of a three
days rain, he puts his tarpaulil over
his load, cover over his horses and a
waterproof coat on and starts off to mar
ket. He may 60 so miles before he finds
a market that suits him, or he may
know in advance just where he is going.
You do not often sec anybody driving 90
miles through rainstorm in the United
States to find market for load of
hay, but it is not at all uncommon to
sec farmers wagons 10 or 90 miles from
home in France. They choose the wet
weather for that purpose. Their roads
arc just as good then as at any time
General Roy Stone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
The Origin of MIR. and Mrs.

In earlier times the ordinary man was
simply William or John-that Is to say, he
had only Christian name without any
kind of "handle" before it or surname
after it, says the Philadelphia Record.
Some means of distinguishing one John
or William from another John or William
became necessary. Nicknames derived
from O mans trade or his dwelling place
or from some personal popularity were
tackled on to his Christian name, and plain
John became John Smith. As yet there
were no "misters" in the land.
Some John Smith accumulated more
wealth than the bulk of his fellows-be-
oamo perhaps q landed proprietor or an
employer of hired labor, Then he began
to be called in the Norman-Frenoh OF the
day the "maistre" of this place or that,
of these workmen or of those.
In time the "maistre," or "maister, "
as it soon became, got tackled on before
his name, and he became Master smith
and his wife was Maistress Smith.
Gradually the sense of possession was
lost sight of, and the title was conferred
upon any kindly mere possession OF
wealth or holding some position of more
or less consideration and Importance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
Good Roads Object Lesson.

Four or five years ago the town of
Hempstead, Queens county, N. Y, voted
to spend s4O0, 900 in road improvements.
Farms at the time were worth from $50
to $50 an acre. They are now worth
several hundred dollars an acre and re-
turn good interest for those who pur-
chased them at that price. This has
been such an object lesson to their
neighbors that understand something
like 200, 900 will be spent this year
in other parts of Queens county and
neighborhood in building good roads.
This may seem large amount of mon
ey to be spent for the purpose, but ow-
ing to the character of the soil and the
fact that good road material must be
brought the cost of construction is high
er than it would be in most parts Of the
state
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
Convict Labor on Roads.

Convict labor in road building is be.
ing employed" in Duval county, Fla,
and in North Carolina. In the latter
case 211a cents per day per head is said
to cover the cost of food, clothes, medi-
cal attendance and guards, as compared
with 2s cents per day for maintaining
the same prisoners in Jail. The Duval
Good Roads association Of Florida ad-
vocates the use of short term convicts
OH such work and makes the claim that
they would in this manner pay back
some of the money expended upon them,
and they would also stand better
chance of being called back to an honest
life than if they were made to associ-
ate with more hardened criminals in
prison.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

History makes haste to record g"eat
deeds, but often neglects good ones.
1 have lived to thank God that not
all my prayers have been answered.
You needn't pack up any worries
You can get them anywhere as you go
along.
He that repeatedly yields to the
tempter will sooner or later become q
tempter himself.
Goldsmith thought people should
write their own flattering epitaphs,
and then live up to them.
Good character is above all things
else. Your character cannot be essen
TALLY injured except by your own acts.
"Many are the Affections of the
righteous" but man is not justified
in concluding that he is righteous,
simply because he has many af1lic-
tions.
Education begins at the mothers
knee, and every word spoken within
the hearing Of little children tends to
ward the formation of their character.
Unkindness to the friends about us
will bring bitter memories 10y and by
when death lays his icy fingers upon
them and bears from our presence.
delight in believing myself immnr-
tai as God himself. independently of
revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas
give me vigorous hope of eternal we'll
being, which / would never renouncp.
-Montesquieu.
The thought that Jesus, the "Man
of Sorrows" knows the heart of the
sorrowing, and is able and willing "to
cc mfort all that mourn," is very pre-
cious thought to every grieved and
smitten believer
ga man goes to charity ball and
gives two dollars for the privilege of
dancing all night, in oder to give a
shilling of profit to the widow and
fatherless without feeling the burden
Of the charity"
Ifyou prepare dish of food care
lessly, you do not expect Providence to
make it palatable; neither if, through
years Of folly, you misguided your own
life, need you expect divine interlcr-
ence to bring round everything at last
rs if yon had done right.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
STUDENTS OUELS.
How the German University Men Are
Padded For the Fight.

Padded For the Fight.
My friond had vanished into the dress
ing room, and 1T first glance l entirely
failed to recognize him in the padded
monster that now staggered clumslly into
the room, supported OH each side by his
second and sword bearer The thick armor
of leather and wadding with which he was
bolstcred entirely protected his body and
limbs. His neck was rigidly incased in
high, thick collar of silk and whipcord,
and his eyes were protected by Iron gog-
giles as large as small teacups, from which
strap passed round the ears to be bucklcd
at the back of the head. His second was
somewhat similarly equipped, and in ad-
dition wore leather cap with n strong
iron peak. The other principal presently
entered the room and took Tip his position
at one swords length from Zimmerman.
He was closely followed by the umpire or
unparteiischer. This parsonage was a
chronic medical student Of ten years
stanGing-a mass Of genial rotundity,
with fat, amorphous face in which fea'
lures seemed q superhuity. He was duly
qualified for his responsible position by
on unlimited capacity for beer and the
glorious fact that he had never passed on
examination. Enthroned on an armchair
little in front of the other spectators, ht
divided his time pretty equally between 9
hugo mug of Munchener and long pipe
of.which the painted china bowl rested or
the ground. Flo now proclaimed "Silen
tium!" and proceeded to announce the
duel. It was to last for 90 minutes, ex
oluding all pauses, and as usual to consist
of short bouts or ;;gangs," with brief in
teryals Of rest between each. The sword!
long, nasty looking blades, sharp as ra
zors and flexible rs riding switohes-wer'
carefully wiped with disinfecting lotior
and banded to the combatants. The sec
onds took up their position behind and tt
the left Of thoir respective men, and gav'
the word of command in the following ira
ditional form:
"Auf die Mensur bindet die klingenP =
(Cross blades for the duelD
"Gebunden sindW Crossed they areD
"Losr' (GoD
The swords clash together in the pre-
liminary stroke. Then ensues brief hail
storm of blows so rapid that the eye refuses
to follow them and retains only a confused
impression Of flashing steel and flying
sparks. The head of each combatant SEEM
to be enveloped in halo Of cleaning
points. 1t is impossible to realizo tina
each of these lightning strokes Is deliber
ately and scientifically aimed and as de
liberately and scientifically parried.
Mall Magazine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
Nice For Nervous People.

A party of Cambridge professors on ono
occasion undertook, for a scientific object,
to penetrate into the depths Of Cornish
mine.
One of the number relates the following
startling incident of his visit: On his
ascent in the ordinary manner, by means
of O bucket and with miner for fellow
passenger, he perceived, us he thought, un-
mistakable symptoms Of the frailty of the
ropo.
"How often do you change your ropes,
my good man9" he inquired whom about
half way from the bottom of the awful
abyss.
ave change them every three months,
SIR" replied tho man in the bucket, land
wc shall change this one tomorrow If we
get up safe today, sir. "-Pearson's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
GOOD COUNTRY ROADS.
The Burden of Their Cost Should BE
Alike on All the People.

~
Alike on All the People.
Ii has been estimated that 800, 000,
900 tons of farm produce are hauled to
market annually in the United States
and that the cost of marketing it is 81
per ton, or just about 81, 900, 900, OOO.
This is not money paid out, but is the
value of the time spent by farmers with
their teams in marketing crops or what
these men and teams would have earned
if they had been hired for cash to dc
this amount of hauling. The secretary
of the farmers national congress and
the United States department of agri-
culture agree in estimating that about
60 per cent Of this vast amount, or
5000, 900, 900, would be saved each year
if farmers were able to do this hauling
over good reads.
This, then, is the amount of the an
nual mud tax to which we have been
submitting, says the Cedar Rapids (la.
Gazette. Railroads. telegraphs and
steamboat lines have been assisted by
the states and subsidized by the govern.
ment, but nothing has been done fol
the common country road. The farmers
alone have had to build country roads,
without assistance from the cities, from
wealthy corporations or from the state.
Every citizen will be benefited by the
construction of good roads, directly and
indirectly, and every taxpayer should
contribute his share to their cost. Nc
wonder the farmer opposes the good
roads movement, if he alone is to stand
the expense. ETe has rightly suggested
that he should be assisted through the
medium of a state road tax, under sys'
tenn of state aid, as now employed IL
New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachu'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION.
The Employment OF Free Labor Gives the
Best Results.

The Employment OF Free Labor Gives the
Best Results.
Commenting on the employment of
convicts on the public highways, the
New Orleans Times Democrat points
ont that the best results have been OBJ
tanned in road building when the best
free labor only has been employed. 1t
says:
Road construction is science re-
curing a more careful study of the sub
ject than is generally imagined. The
prevalent idea that any one can build a
good road will not hold good. The
matter requires study, care and thor
ouph knowledge of the soil and country
through which the road is to be built.
The department of agriculture has Late
ly been doing good work by laying be-
fore the people exactly what is neces'
sary in road construction.
The employment of convicts IN road
construction is very popular just now.
as offering simultaneously solution Of
the two troublesome problems of what
to do with our prison population and
how to improve our highways. In view
of the fact that the convicts in New
York, Indiana and other states are kept
idle, as the law makes no provision fol
their support, it is we'll that Louisiana
should take some steps to utilize hers
when it has them on its hands, and
road construction seems an ideal en-
ployment for them.
On the other hand, the experience Of
those states which have been most sue
cessful with their roads is that only
the best labor (and convict labor is moi
the best) should be employed in theil
construction and maintenance. No state
which has made any material improve
ment with its highways has employed
convict labor, and. no state which has
employed that kind Of labor has secured
much improvement in its roads. The
best results have been accomplished by
road taxes and the giving out OF con
| tracts
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
PREACHER s. SALARIES.
How They Are Starved by Their Con-
GregatiOns.
UoulIpufop pOst
Washington Post.


\ Methodist newspaper has ascer
aimed that the average salary ofpreach-
.rs OF that denomination in the sOutf
is only S473.35 year. In this case the
cent column, usually omitted in stat
ng salaries of professional men, il
really important. for 35 cents have d
ieal of work to perform in family
compelled to snbsist, or die on so mea'
rer conversation as that. Tire S4I3.31
i year gives about $l.30 a day. The
average preachers family consists OF
tive persons. Allowing the muniticen
sum of 81 day for rent, clothing, fuel,
doctors bill and the numberlcss incl
dentals, we find 80 cents remaining
Tor the table. This allows 10 cents .
meal for breakfast, dinner and supper:
or in other words two cents head fol
father, mother and children. 1t will
be seen that no part of the preachers
income goes for servants hire. The
wife of the clergyman, who is expected
20 take leading part in religious and
social work and to entertain many
callers, must do the housework, in
.luding washing and ironing. The
MelnOulSt I)upel liIal llS SuiSu out lue
average salary of $+73.35 has some pa
thetic comments on the thread-bare
coat of clergyman thus situated and
the "actual misery" 1t represents.
The wonder is that so many men can
keep up even Il semi-rrsrectable APP
pearance on such an allowance. If it
be urged that thousands of working
men support their families on less than
that, we submit that the fact "has
nothing to do with the case" Preach
ers cannot adopt the habits of the
workingman. They must incur many
expenses that are not in the account of
wageearners engaged in manual labor.
Those for whom preachers work are
presumed TO believe that such work is
of vital Importance. They expect
good sermons and faithful perfor-
nance of pastoral duties. And yet
they do not pay for half Of what they
expect If the era Of prosperity does
not bring an increase i'm the compensa-
ton of those ministers it will miss one
of the fields in which 1t will be great
Iy needed,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
MAMMALS DEAR CHERUB.
He Deserved Spanking and Got stran-
ger In Trouble.

ger In lrOuDles
People never get encouragement for do
ing the good Samaritan act in the inter
ests of the public, as tho man decided who
offered to assist a distracted woman and
ameliorate the sufferings of lot Of people
on suburban car.
The boy who howls was In evidence, the
ourled darling of his only own mother and
the terror of everybody else, and he had
kept the car in a state Of wild excitement
and exhausted the patience OF everybody,
including his doting parent.
"Oh, if your father were only here" she
had said for the f1ftieth time as she tried
vainly to restrain the bowling terror.
At that he stopped bowling long enough
to beat the air with his small shins, and
the woman on the other side of him re-
marked audibly that cage was the proper
place for savages like him.
Johnny, DEAR" asked his mother,
"won you be good boy?"
Roars and kicks from Master Johnny.
"Oh, wish your father were here tc
give you good trouncing this very min
ute!' she walled as she struggled with
him.
Then 1t was that the philanthropist oi
the company asserted himself. He had
been trying in vain to read his morning
paper ever since he started from home.
"Allow Inc, madam" he said blandly'
~ am a father myself, and I will be happy
to chastise your cherub in behalf of his alb
sent parent.
ooh, no, you won't; not if know itP
-. -, ~ how,
like tigress. "There amt that man liv
ing dare lay finger on that boy-his owr
father or any other ugly old catamoun'
who thinks he knows 1t ALL" And SHE
shut off debate by going into the next cal
and taking the sweet infant with her
Chicago Times Herald.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13
HOW LEAD PENCILS ARE MADE.
No Lead Used, Though the Name Stil
Clings 10 Them.

Once pieces Of lead were used for
marking, and we continue to use the
word, though lead in no longer part
of our pencils. History has failed to
record the name of The great genius
who gave to the world that most use
full little instrument. We have heard
all about the discovery of burnt snuff
and the sewing-machine and the type
writer and all that, but the inventor of
the lead pencil has, evidently, gone
down into the shadow ofoblivion "un-
wept, undonored and unsung."
"I have to laugh at the queer ideas
some people have about pencils" said
a manufacturer. "You will scarcely
believe it, but the opinions of people
who know nothing about it seem to be
divided between the melting of the
lead and pouring it into the hole in the
wood and cutting out the lead to mt
the whole. The part that goes into our
pencils other than the lead is cedar
and comes from theswamps ofFlorida.
1t is obtained from the fallen trees that
lie there. There are men there who
make business of supplying to pencil
manufacturers this cedar in blocks
which are saved to the length OF the
pencil, some thick, to receive the lead,
and others thin, for the piece that is
glued over the other containing the
lead. The blocks are sawed for four
pencils each. The groove is made by
a saw, and in this the lead lies.
Il know" continued the manufac-
turer, "that,not one out of ten thou
sand persons has the least idea of what
this lead is. See, here is fine black
powder that is graphite and costs
somewhere about 25 cents q pound.
This white substancs is German clay.
1t comes across the ocean as ballast IN
vessels and all it costs us is for freight.
We mix clay and powder together and
grind them in mill, moistening the
mass carefully during the process, un-
til the two are thoroughly assimilated
and reduced to a paste that is about the
consistence of putty. Here all the
dies for the leads are kept in hot glue
and are placed in the grooves as the
blocks are made ready. When the
lead is put in there snugly and forever
the thin block is glued to the thick one
and left to dry thoroughly"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

The Maldlvian islanders cat alone.
Before meal they retire to the most
secluded spot they can find, and eat
with drawn blinds, or surrounded by a
screen. The explanation of this pre-
caution is mole likely to be fear than
modesty. In days gone by, the savage
no doubt concealed himself lest some
man stronger than he should snatch
the hard-earned food away.
John Wesley used the expression
"Cleanliness is indeed next to Godli-
ness" in a sermon Oh "Dress."
A well-known minister is humor-
Gus lecturer, and he prints his tickets,
"I.ecture on Fools. Admit One."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

A child, a curiosity in his way, has
been taken TO the home of the United
Charities organization, Wilkesbarre,
Pa. He is years old and weighs only
TO- pounds. His head is the size of a
baseball, and q 25-cent piece would
cover one hand. The little fellow
stands % inches high.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

A Lyons (France) cyclst, plumber
by trade, who had undertaken to ride
round the coping-stone of house in
course of construction, successfully ac-
complished his feat in the presence ofa
large gathering. This coping-stone is
about fifty feet from the ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

In the Louvre, at Paris, there is all
interesting old vase Of Elruscan man
ufacture, whose age is computed at a
bout $500 years. 1t is interesting as
bearing d group of children in relief
who are engaged in blowing soap bub-
bles from pipes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

Yardsley donated Il castor, worth sc
cents, TO his minister, and put tag on
it marked SIG. The rarson took the
article to Yardsley's store, and traded
it for dry goods. The storekcepel
didn't smile for week.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

The greatest potato caters are the people
of Germany and Belgium. The consump-
tion of this vegetable averages 100 pounds
per annum for each person.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

According to the official reports of the
Japanese government the island empire
contains G2, $40 teachers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-10-13

Every man is our neighbor who
needs our compassion and help.