The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-22

255 are adultorated. The frying pan
claims more victims every year than
wore killed in the battle of Gettysburg.
Adulteration, misbranding, substitution
and imitation exist to an alarming ex-
tent to the detriment of health, busi-
ness and morals.
Suppose that the housewife could
demonstrate the falsehood and deceit
represented in her pantry. She would
find wheat flour containing peas,
ground rice and soapstonc. Maccaroni
is pure flour whitencd with pipe clay.
Powdered sugar is glucose, flour, clay
and sand. Black pepper may be mus
tard husks, sand, bran and rcd clay.
Cream of tartar is strongly tincturcd
with phosphoric acid. Maple syrup is
made Of brown sugar and maple bark.
Now man has legal right to eat
dirt and all sorts of old t1ash If he
wants to, but he has an equal right to
know what he is eating, and pay for
what be gets.
What public question surpasscs this
in importance Why teach chemistry
in colleges if q student in practical life
does not make use of the knowledge
for the benefit of his fellow country
man?
Education should mako man hu-
name, gentle. What is the meaning
of the term gentleman p If it means
as some have said, one who does not
work, the difference between n gentle
man and loafcr is so eNqulsitcly
graduated that you can scarcely tell
where the one begins and the other
A ,,n,tln,,o,, in H.
sense is one who is gentle. A gentle
man scholar in practical life will exert
every effort and bend every nerve to-
ward building up sentiment that
will make tho world treat animals
gently.
We cannot disregard the question of
improving our roads and highways,
For years public attention has been
focused upon the building of railroads
to the neglect Of our country roads.
AS result We have in America splcn-
did railway systems, over which the
iron horse speeds with the wings Of the
morning but our country highways
have Ichabod written upon every mile
stone. A trip through the country in
the summcris a journey Of obstruction
country drive is solemn trial of
horse versus hill, and buggy versus
mud, and the issue often hangs in fear.
full suspense. The modern Jchu must
shrug his shoulders, resign himself and
:, trust to Providence to get bale OF
cotton to market. We sometimes
, !, ridicule the custom observed in certain
countries Of placing Il chapel on a higl
, mountain top, SO that the faithful shall
. . be compelled to do pcnance by climb
ing to the steep prcciplce, leaving
:, bloody footsteps upon the path. W.
do worse. We compel the faithful Il
: creep and crawl, and worm their wa
. through dark and dubious collection
OF slush and logs and stumps to reac
!, the house of God, and then consol
~ them with the statement that the I4or
!" is giving us too much ram, but that ga
~ things work together for good to thcl
IT, that love the Lord" Good roads wi
IL do moro towards bringing the countr
~ and town together than all the polite;
- haranguos Of " campaign year.
81 The officers of road inquiry al Wusl
l. ington have collected a mastery ARA
Il of statistics. We are told that tn
CoSl VI llhullhS olC lOll pc
I mile in the United States IS 25 cents. IL
, Europe where good macadamizcd road
: are found the average cost is s G-1(
cents. In othcr words, for every dol
lars spent in Europe we spend three
I dollars in America to accomplish the
= same work. Good roads would save
$ the United States 100000, 900 pei
annum. Macadamizcd roads will add
[ .25 to the value of every acre OF
land along which the road passes.
II is not our purpose at this time or
place to go into the technical details of
modern road making. This IS prob
lem for the practical engineer.
Reform must go through the three
stages Of ridiculc, agitation and accep-
tancc. The scholar in practical !;fc
must grapplc this question. Dormant
enthusiasm will revive when we have
good wolds from good men. This cx-
travagant, wasteful Indifference on the
road question will continue so long as
the scholar in practical life fails to give
the subject the cold recognition of a
passing glance.
The first duty Of the scholar, therc-
fore, is to inform himself thoroughly
aloug this line. Read the latest litcra-
ture, which can be had from the gov
crnmcnt for the asking. The scholar
should become a repeater, a responder,
a reporter. Proclaim the glad tidings
Of the "Gospcl Of Good Roads" One
by one the converts will fall into line
and this army of progress will march
OH 10 the greatest victory of civiiiza-
ton.
| l do not know what method will be
adopted. 1t may be the New Jersey
plan of dividing the burden so that the
cost falls upon tho STATE, tho county
and the adjoining property owners.
The adjoining property owner pays 10
pcr cent. of the cost;. the State pays
one-third and the county the remain
der. Or wo may adopt the system 80
, popular in North Carolina---utilze our