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GOOD ROADS ARE NEGLECTED Lecture lu Read to States by American Highway Association-New Jer sey Tcok Initiative. The American Highway association reads the states a lecture on their neg lect of good roads. There are 2,250,000 miles of public road in the United States. The annual expenditure for construction and maintenance amounts to $260,000,000. Yet inadequate results are found everywhere. This is due to the lack of continuity of purpose, the lack of co-ordination in management, and the general lack of control. Of the 2,250,000 miles of roadway, less than 10 per cent is really improved. Improvement in most instances means a plowed furrow for a drain and a -wagon load of gravel in a chuck hole. In fact there are only about 120,000 Concrete Road in Indiana. "N miles of realty good road in all the 48 states. The trouble with highway construction is that often waste and graft get togeUier. The association has been doing some market figuring, and it finds that 450, 000 miles of real highway, around the centers of population, would reduce the cost of living as well as add to the enjoyment of living. A system is proposed whereby each of the states could undertake the construction of 600 or 600 miles of highway each year. Thus in twelve years or so, with the 120,000 miles of road already improved, the nation would possess the nucleus ?of a fine market system. These reads, radiating from the centers of consump tion, could easily be connected with the trunk highways that are now being .?constructed in all parts of the coun try, largely as a result of the activity cf motor clubs. Concentration in Washington might mean unity and co-ordination, but it would also mean increased appropria tions. The work belongs to the states. It was not, says the highway associa tion, until 1891, that the state of New Jersey took the initiative, *and three years later established a department o? public roads. Since then other states have followed in form, but hard ly in spirit. The association places In diana in the list of lazy common wealths. For all the fine gravel roads it possessed a few years ago, Indiana -can, apparently, no longer be regarded cs a leader in highway improvement. If this is true, it is time that some thing were done.-Indianapolis News. SURFACED ROADS IN COUNTRY Ohio Leads With 28,312 Miles-In diana Next With 26,831-Mis souri Brings Up the Rear. There are 2.273,000 miles of reads in -tte United States, of which 217.490 miles, or 10.9 per cent, are surfaced. Qt surfaced roads Ohio has 28,312 miles; Indiana, 26.S31; New York, 22, 398; Georgia, 12,500; Wisconsin, ll, 500; Kentucky. lO.QO; Texas, 9,700: California, 9.3S8; Illinois. 9,000; Massa chusetts, 8.92S; Michigan, 8.S59, and .Missouri, 8,000 miles. In 1914 6,505 state and state-aid .roads were built, and 3SJ.9S8 miles -were maintained with state aid. The total mileage of state and state-aid roads built in the whole country up to January 1, 1915, was only 35,477 a?iles. To Spend $3,000,CC0. Minnesota will spend $3,1)00,000 for lvetter highways. To date this year the state has given counties for state rad $750,000 for highways, which will be increased to $1.500,000 before next January. George W. Cooley, engineer tnt the state highway commission, rec ommends a one-miii tax, and making the state's share of the expense for c?ate roads one-half. Booster Never Quits. The good roads booster never quits. .He talks good roads until he gets them, and then he keeps reminding 'everybody what a blessing they are. Roads Should Shed Water. Country roads should be kept in ?ach condition that they will shed ?very drop of water that falls on them. Unprofitable Roads. Had fads are ur.proiiiabie. They pott farmer out of business and mue flouting for any iua?. Life of a Baoy Gorilla. There is a baby gorilla in a certain zoological garden which has become the pet of all the keepers there. His favorite pastime is playing with chil dren, of whom he is very fond, and whom he never hurts, however rough ly they handle him. The gorilla is very methodical. He wakes up about eight o'clock in the morning and asks, in gorilla language, for a glass of milk. Then he capers about for a while, and at nine has a bath, in which he de lights. For his breakfast he eats bread and butter, sausages and fruit. He carefully picks the stones out of cherries and is very particular about selecting good fruit. Dinner is eaten at one o'clock, and this meal always excites the keenest interest in Mr. Gorilla. A cup of beef tea is the first course; then stew of rice, vegetables and meat. The gorilla has been taught to feed himself with a spoon, but when he thinks nobody is watching him, he uses his fingers. After dinner he takes a nap for an hour and a half. When he wakes he romps for a time, and eats a light supper of bread and butter and tea. At 8:30 he goes to bed, roll ing himself up in a blanket and sleep ing on a mattress like a child. His keepers are very fond of him. Good Dispositions. In the Woman's Home Companion we learn that to give a baby a good disposition the first step is to keep him free from "nerves." "One mother accounted for her baby's peaceful frame of mind," we read, "by saying that until he was three months old he was ignored! That seems absurd, yet there is an element of truth in it. A ?aby is an excitable little being. It wants to play and be played with, and :t means real self-denial on the part of a household to refrain from kissing and cuddling and romping with the baby. But the more a baby is left to itself, provided it is comfortable and weil, the better for its nerves. It must sleep many long hours in fresh air, and, Df course, if it is excited and stimulated, it will not want tc settle down to its daily nap, nor at bedtime. ;:ftcr a romp, will it want to gc t: sleep alone and in the dark. Rest proper food, quietness and fresh air are the things needed to establish good nerves." Something In Your Eye? When you get something in your eye do the best you can to suppress the instinct to rub the eye. Then pull the lower lid up and the upper lid om and the particle in the eye will be dis lodged by the tears which flow across the eyeball in a torrent; they will be washed out and will appear in the cor ner' of the eye. If any chemical is thrown into the eye, do not wait to look in a book for an antidote; the best thing is plain water; or if you have time and it is handy, use a plain salt solution, a teaspoonful in a pint of water, either hot or cold. This will wash it out quicker than you can wait to neutralize it in some other way. T3enton N. Clover, M. D., in Good Health. Not Guilty. Mr. Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge leaned languidly over the top rail of his fence and gazed pensively at a hog lying in the road. A motor car came skallyhooting down the hill and ran over the recumbent porker. Some thing went wrong with thc mechan ism, the car swerved from the high way, plunged down into a considerable hollow and landed wrong side up with the occupants unconscious beneath it. Mr. Johnson presently strolled over and looked calmly down into the pit. "Say." he finally called. "You folks don't have to hide under there. That hog was dead when you hit it. The !ast automobile that came along killed it, and the feller paid for it."-Kansas City Star. Where "Dun" Came From. "Dun" is a word now whose mean ing is known to everyone who under stands the English language. Early in thc nineteenth century, a constable named John Dun became celebrated as a first-class collector of bad ac counts. When others would fail to collect a bad debt. Dun would* be sure to get it out of the debtor. It soon passed into current phrase that when a person owed money and did not pay when asked, he would have to be "dunned." Hence it soon became common in such cases to say: "You will have to dun So-and-So if you wish to collect your money." Not the Teapot's Fault. Pat was very fond of strong tea. He always praised a housekeeper accord ing to the strength of the tea she made. Last Saturday the woman of thc house where Pat worked was pour ing out the tea for his breakfast, lt was coming out very slowly, and the goo i woman asked Pat to excuse the teapot as it had a bad spout. Pat (not liking the look of the tea) said sadly: "Oh, begor, ma'am, don t blame the taypot, because anything weak must go aisy." Night Pencil Has Electric Light. An electrically lighted ler?d pencil that will permit its user to write legi bly in the heart of the darkest Egyp tian nigiit has been invented by an eastern man. It is made on the prin ciple of the vest pocket electric light and resembles thc case of a fountain pen. Clamped to the end is a frame work which support* a piece of lead. The Ifgv* is thrown directly upon tue paper and centers i.t the tip of the pencil. ?% CHICAGO-MIAMI MOTOR ROAD Details of Work In Various Localities -Progress Made in Construction Is Remarkable. That the Dixie highway is a road that has appealed to the people both North and South of the Mason and Dixon line is evidenced by a report from the offices of the Dixie highway association, located at Chattarooga, to the effect that fifty counties alone have spent more than $1,705,200 on the Chicago-Miami motor thoroughfare in the last six months and are preparing to spend $0,931,000 during the coming year, writes J. C. Burton in Chicago Daily News. As the fifty counties reporting to the association represent less than a third of the total counties that are crossed by the road that links North and. South, it would not be unreason able to estimate that approximately $5,300,000 has been expended on the Dixie highway to date and that $20, 793.000 will be used to put the thor oughfare in shape in 1916. When it is considered that the Dixie highway was routed only eight months ago, the progrees made in its construction is remarkable. The large mileage of permanent roads built or under contract is an indication of the wonderful advancement made in such a short time. The fifty counties re ferred to report that nearly one-tenth of the distance either is paved or will be paved before another year rolls around. Using only a multiple of two to represent the other 112 counties, it can be seen that a good part of the road is or will be of a permanent tyne of construction. The preparations being made for even greater progress along this line are highly gratifying to the officials of the Dixie highway association. Sev eral divisions of the thoroughfare are planning paved roads for their entire stretch, the most notable of these be ing the links from Chicago to Danville, 111., from Toledo to Cincinnati, O.; from Jacksonville to Miami, Fla., and from Tallahassee to Bartow, Fla. The reports by states show that in seven cut of the eighteen counties of Kentucky there has been expended $1"5.000. In Ohio, eight counties out of twelve and exclusive of Hamilton county, of which Cincinnati is the county seat, have spent $33S,000. Five counties out of twenty-two in Florida spent $('01,000 on the Dixie highway Typical Concrete Bridge on Highway In Tennessee. Dixie in the past six months. Four counties out of five in Illinois, not including Cook county, report a total of $:-52,000 for road improvement. Ten counties out of twenty-four in Georgia spent $95,000. In the fifty counties reporting to the association provisions have been made for spending $0,931,000 on the Dixie highway in 1916. This amount is di vided by states as follows: Florida .$2,505,000 Illinois ... 1,250,000 Ohio . 1,204,000 Tennessee . 921,000 Kentucky. 765,000 Georgia. 151,000 Indiana. 126,000 CARE FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN Compelling Helpless Child to Force Its Way Along Mud-Fouled High way ls a Crime. All good roads lead to a schoolhouse. In good roads there is a consideration of the school child. Compel a helpless child to force its way along a mud fouled thoroughfare and a crime is committed. Its health is endangered and its mind is dwarfed. He who would not strive to overcome a ca lamity it not civilized though garbed in the broadcloth of an honored citi zen. A community should, above all, consider the school children's welfare. The destiny of a nation rests in this, careful study and the thoroughfare along which their little feet must travel cannot be constructed with top much precision to gain the happy rd sult. Texas can never become great until she becomes civilized.-Delti (Tex.) Courier. Raise More Turkeys. If turkeys are let roam over the fields they will get three-fourths of their growth on weeds and insects that would otherwise damage the growing crops. They will need very little at tent ion until after cold weather de stroys the insects. Then feed some corn to fatten them for market. Arouses Farmer's Interest. One result of nearly every fame)-] own:r* an automobile is thar, ht pricks up tis ears when good rono< kre mentioned. Dangers of Draft. Drafts feel best when we are hot and perspiring, just when they aro most dangerous and the result is Neuralgia, Stiff Neck, Sore Muscles or sometimes an attack of Rheuma tism. In such oases apply Sloan's Liniment. It stimulates circulation to the sore and painful part. The blood flows freely and in a short time the stiffness and pain leaves. Those suffering from Neuralgia or Neuralgic Headache will find one or two applications of Sloan's Lini ment will give grateful relief. The agonizing pain gives way to a ting ling sensation of comfort and warmth and quiet rest and sleep is post-ible. Good for Neuritis too. Price 25c. at your Druggist. 1 Candidates' Column FOR SUPERVISOR. To the Citizens of Edgefield County: I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for Supervisor of your coun ty, and if elected will try to serve the people as near right as I conceive, pledging myself to abide by the results of the election, and support the nominees of the democratic party. W. G. WELLS. I hereby announce that I am a can ?idate for the office of Supervisor of Edgefield county and solicit the sup port of the people, pledging myself, if elected, to serve the people to the best of my ability and to abide the results of the Democratic primary election. J. W. HUDSON. Morgana, S. C. I respectfully announce to the voters of Edgefield county that I am a candi date for the office of supervisor and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary election. R. J. MOULTRIE. I hereby announce that I am a can lidate for the supervisor of Edgefield county and solicit the support of the jeople, pledging myself to abide by the result of the primary election. J. 0.. SCOTT. Citation. The State of Sooth Carolina, County of Edgefield. ty W. T. Kinnaird, Probate Judge. Whereas, Frank L. Middleton, of ibove County and State, made suit 0 me. to irrant him Letters of Ad ninistration of the Estate and ef fects of P. C. Middleton, late of bove Countv and State. These Are Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin ired and Creditors of the said P. j, Middleton, deceased, that they .e and appear before me, in the Vmrt of Probate, to be held al ridgefield C. H., S. C., in my of lice on the 30th day of March 19 Ul iext, after publication thereof, al . 1 o'clock in tlnj forenoon, to show ause, if any they have, why tm 'aid Administration should not be ;. ran ted. Given under m}' Hand, this 1st lay of March, A. D., 1916. YV. T. KINNAIRD, P. J., E. C. .darch 7-3t. Buildings For Sale. I am authorized to offer for sale ,he two wooden buildings on the .chool grounds that were formerly ised for the graded school. Persons -.ontemplating building should see ne. J. C. Sheppard, Chairman of Board of Trustees. New Through Sleeping Car. Between Aiken and New York, Washington, Baltimore, Phil adelphia, effective November 23, 1915 on the Augusta Spe cial Via Southern Railway. Lv Aiken 1:45 p m Ltr Trenton 2:25 p m Ar Washing 7:00 a m Ar Baltimore 8:32 a m Ar Philadelphia 10:50 a m Ar New York 12:57 p. m Drawing Room, State Room an! Open Section Steel Electric Lighted Sleeping Cars? Dining Car Service For All Meals. For reservations ind information, apply to J. A. TOWNSEND, Ticket Agent, Edgefield, S. C. Notice to Stock Raisers My stallion, "Denmark," and ilso two of the best bred Jacks, will Hand at ray farm for short season. ?Jest possible care taken of mares, hut not. responsible for accidents should any occur. J. H. 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