Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Now Is The Time to Get Printing We please particular folks with our work because we're "on to the job." Our printing bespeaks individuality. It's superior because of the excel lent type faces which we've installed. We make a specialty of high class work. It's Been Handed to Us that we are expert printers. That we've had handed to us for 78 years. Holding Down our Record and we are going to hold it as long as '.ve do printing, lt's a record worth while. Won't you try us on your next order? Come in and let us show you samples of work that we've done recently. If you are going to need job work any time soon, now is the time to have it done, in order to avoid the rush later | on. You will get better work by doing this. B We've Been Jobbers For 78 Years And we're Still Jobbing. 8 mum The Edgefield Advertiser, KEEPING ROADS IN CONDITION Use of Oil, Following the Vogue of the Automobile, Ha& Been Found to Be Most Effective. The use of oil upon the roads is one of the many interesting innovations that have followed the introduction of the automobile. The wheel of the car not only raises the loose dust of the road, but, as the flattened part of the tire becomes once more rounded on leaving the ground, actually tears and disintegrates the surface Itself. As the foundation of the best road oil, asphaltum- which is present in large amounts in the California and Texas oils-ie unrivaled. In fact, an authority on the subject declares in the New York Sun that a road oil ii effective precisely in proportion to the amount of asphaltum it carries. There are three methods of using the oil. In the most thorough process the road surface ls first broken by the plow. It is then sprinkled with the heaviest oil-half a gallon to a gallon of oil to the square yard-and then harrowed and rolled. A lasting road bed results. This process, with vari ous modifications, has been much used in California. Another method that is coming into very general UBe in the east is to pre pare the roadbed by resurfacing the crown of the road and brushing off the dust Over this the road oil is sprin kled from a cart, about half a gallon to the square yard. It is usual to oil only half of the road at a time, for traffic should be kept from the oiled surface for a couple of days. The preparation will last a whole season; but if the oiling is done oftener, it will result in an enduring asphalted surf ace. The third method, less permanently effective, is sprinkling the road with emulsified oil, a mixture of oil, water and saponifying chemicals-which lays the dust and binds the road surf ace, but which calls for reapplication every few weeks. If the emulsified oil has a true asphaltum base, this method will ultimately result in a dur able asphaltum roadbed. It may be added that many of the California crude oils were so weighted with asphaltum that for a long time they were used as fuel only. The chemists, however, have found a way to extract the naphtha >,and kerosene, and leave the asphaltum almost pure for this new use. SCHOOL GROUNDS COME FIRST Too Many Cities in the United States Overlook This Fact, Which ls of Great Importance. It is laughable to see a community making strenuous efforts to raise a fund to purchase and ornament a pub lic square when their district school yard, of equal dimensions, was entire ly bare of trees or plants, ls it not strange '.hat the only plat in a district in which all have common ownership should be the bares: and most unsight ly yard in the community? No plausi ble excuse can be given for such a condition-it costs but little to get started right-the state university is always ready and willing to extend a helping hand in the way of trees, shrubs, plants and seeds. Almost every one in the district can spare a plant or easily-grown cuttings of the hardier plants. Get started on the right plan and do not leave too much to the teacher, who is apt to be changed every year The work must be car ried out under the supervision of im manent residents. Have plenty of room in the school yards and put it to a beneficial use. We deplore the fact that the United States is absolutely behind every other civilized country in the embellishment of school grounds.-Exchange. Evolution in Park-Building. A change is coming to park affairs, the ideals are taking a more compre hensive form, and better suited to the needs of the people. As the park mis sion is being better understood, parks are no longer a rarity, but are com mon. While est" etical requirements are greater, yet they are being better adapted to every-day use. It is necessary that what we do shall be symbolic of some thought or feeling, that it shall be a physical ex pression of some desire or purpose. We are not only learning these things, but also that the parks are more for the people, and that the people who rove over them are the most beautiful feature a park can contain, and that no park, no matter how barren and un sightly it may be when empty, cai jot be devoid of utility and beauty when filled with people enjoying themselves. Value of Playgrounds. "So long as there is a child in our land who toils in shop or tenement when he should be out at play, whose school is without a playground and whose out-of-door is bounded by the gutters of the public street, with j never a tree or shrub or flower, so long the masses will hate the classes, the policeman will be to the boy an enemy instead of a friend, and the re public has not had a square deal. To give a boy back his childhood is more than justice and common sense-it is sane government." SONG IN THE NIGHT By JAS. WILLIAM JACKSON. The young lieutenant crouched in the mud o? the gully. Every man of the squad wa? wearied to the limit of 'endurance, and the leader was bur dened with a terrible responsibility. The enemy was close at hand and ab solute silence imperative. The colonel, a few hours before, had detailed this little force to cut out a detachment of i the enemy. . . For houra they had plowed through the mud, eager for the encounter. Be fore darkness fell the discovery was made that the enemy numbered four : times as many men as supposed. It would be madness to hope for more than a drawn battle, the lieutenant re flected;, and yet-the colonel had giv en his orders. At daylight the com mander would march on the assump tion that the work was done. "I can't go back and say I was afraid/' the boy told himself; "but it would be murder to charge with this little band. If I had to think only of myself-" There was another hour before he need act "And I wonder," he thought, In a listless way, "I wonder where she is tonight?" A few hundred yardB behind the gul ly loomed up an old mansion. As the men now lay in silence, Bave for the dreary, pattering preudle of the rain and the slushing o? mud as one changed his position slightly, a light 6hone out across the wet field from a window of the house. A moment later the distant, sweet tones of a piano were audible. The lieutenant heard the opening chords with a sense of their familiarity. Some one began a song. The words were not distant; not even the music was sharply defined ?1 that distance. But as the song proceeded, coming out ? into the night with a mystic, sweet j ness and power, the lieutenant remem ! bered its mesmeric harmony, j Granton called to mind a certain day I before his uniform grew ragged. The j settings of the song then had been a ! fine old room, a glorious woman, a ! fascinating voice. It was not a song I that lulls; it thrilled and lifted-high ! and higher it exalted, until the impos ' sible seemed easy to grasp. ; As the song proceeded the lieuten ; ant felt the full strength of its quick . ening impulse; and gradually he put ! away from himtelf the weak and un nerving despondency. Almost before I the last note died away on the night i he had the squad afoot, confident that j his own spiritual intoxication was I shared in some measure by his follow. I ers. j Just beyond the woods a faint indi i cation of a sentry was discerned in a I half defined shadow. ! The little band, deploying, came out ; of the deeper shadows in a long line. ranged against the whole face of the . opposing force. At that instant just one thrilling I "Charge!" was ordered. It came from . the lieutenant, and it was keyed in the sharp, enthralling harmony of the song. It was over soon. The charge itself ? became a wild pursuit. The lieutenant ! still led the way until-the sword slipped from his fingers and he sack headlong into the soft mud and lay I still, while his men hurried on. It was hours after, and another day, j when the lieutenant's eyes opened j with intelligence. For a few minutes i his glance ranged about a sunny room j in a questioning way. From the couch I where he lay he could see but part of the room; and as he strove to turn I himself a quiet figure came quickly to his side. Then his eyes looked straight up into those of a woman. There came another wondering ques tion into his glance and a great, glad astonishment to find her there. But his lips formed a different query. "The fight?" he asked, weakly, and with the brevity of spent strength. "Your colonel is here." she said, with a smile, as she drew a little near er, "and he bids me say that this day surely makes you a captain and a hero." "And the men-my men?" he begged. "Two wounded-and yourself; noth ing worse." she replied, softly. "It was the song we heard in the rain and the night," he told her, in a whisper. "Last night, it thrilled mts .0 con quer an army, if need be; and now it makes me bold for myself. Last night I cursed the fates that took me from you before I could tell you how I cared for you. I would have lost that fight -heaven forgive me! I would have murdered my men in my weakness and homesick longing. It was your song, that wonderful song, which gave me strength; and It gives me courage now to brave your verdict-to tell you that I love you better than anything in all this world. Are you glad? Say you are." "I am glad," she murmured, with a world of earnestness. "The song was all for you. I was thinking of you through it all." She looked at him with great-eyed pride for an instant. Then she laid her cheek on his pillow. One cool, soft hand stole to his face and the white fingers rested on his lip?. "I was trying to bring you back." she whispered, "to tell me-that-you oared." (Copyright by Dally Story Pub. Co.) Not Yet Famous. Foote Lighte-This paper says a certain playwright ia the proud pos sesBf- 127 pairs of trousers. Mi- e Brette-He probably pants for fame. ' HOME A A H. ""W M. TO HELPS FENCES MADE TO LOOK WELL Climbing Flowers and Plants Will Hide Ugliness of Necessary Backyard Partitions. "Shall we have backyard fencesT" Many enthusiasts for the city beauti ful would do away with them entirely. The newer slogan for city life is "the city useful." Combining both, we have "the city useful and beautiful" It must be useful first and then must have all the beauty compatible with usefulness. Board fences are ugly, but under present conditions of city life they are very useful. In fact many people would have no privacy at all if fences were removed. In ideal con ditions, where the backyards open upon parks and playgrounds, the fence is not needed. Well arranged hedge? and shrub plantings give the neces sary seclusion to each place. It is to be boped that many cities will be planned in this way. In the meantime we have to cling to our back yard fences, but there is no reason why they should be ugly. English and Bos ton ivy, Virginia creeper, clematis, cobea, scandars and the scarlet runner bean will soon transform the most un. sightly fence. The northern border of the fence is often dreary, but may be planted to our native woodwardia and aspidium ferns. The common brake is very lovely and gives out a delightful woodsy odor. A shrub or two of tho wild pink currant, plenty of the com mon white iris, pink foxgloves and hollyhocks will make this border a de light through the whole season. MAKES FIGHT ON 'HOARDINGS' English Newspaper Proud of Action Which Does Away With These Biete on the Landscape. Under the head "Hideous Hoard ings" we lind au interesting note in a daily paper of London wherein is shown the subordination of the bill board to the claims of the landscape. England is as badly afllcted with bill boards, largely advertising American' goods, as we are, and it must be quite a relief to find even a single county that has relegated them to their rrop er place, l'or it would now seem as though the latter is indefinitely indi cated by the following list ol' restric tions taken from the London Daily Graphic: "In the campaign against hideous hoardings the latest by-law to rome into force is the following, which was promulgated by the Surrey county council on Saturday: 'No advertise ment shall be exhibited on any hoard ing, stand, or other erection so as to be visible fror any public highway ? whether carriageway, bridgeway or footway), or from any public water way (whether river, tributary or canal), or from any railway, so as to disfigure the natural beauty of the landscape." " Nature-Study Clubs. Among the older children in com mon schools there have been organ ized a number of nature-study clubs, the members making a business of going afield Saturday and holidays to study and collect. Sometimes the teacher goes along, but more often by far one or more of the mothers are present. The object of these trips is to get into closer touch with nature than is possible at school-to really see and come in contact with many of the things only known at school through hearsay. Some of the mem bers of these clubs will be certain, later in life, to distinguish themselves in some branch of natural science, for not all can escape the lure of nature or forever remain free from a close sympathetic appreciation of its num berless charms. I Pioneers for Civic Problems. All civic problems stand sorely in' need of pioneers to point the way and create public sentiment in the educa tion of the Biasses. The great and im portant task oi bringing the country into the city, the unmasking of wi' nature we have and preserving i the fullest and highest must nece.s :. ily be done by the municipal offlci. Hut the machinery of government .. all such matters moves slowly and a strong and sound public opinion must be formed and expressed in order ta push the work forward and influence officials to tackle these problems cour ageously and with a determination to accomplish their proper solution. This they will do when assured great numbers demand it. Do not forget that your help is needed. Care of Hanging Baskets. All hanging baskets, no matter how large, should be taken down at least once each week and soaked in a tub of water ten or twenty minutes. Once each week they should also be watered with a pot when in position. Once each month every basket should be given some plant food; liquid manure is excellent for the purpose though soluble fertilizers may either be mixed into the soil in the dry state or dis solved in the water in which the plants get their weekly persion. Most baskets suffer from lack of thorough watering, but if above directions are followed, satisfactory results will car* talnly follow.