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PRAISE FOR AMERICAN ROADS Compare Very Favorably With High ways of Many European Countries -Much Work in Progress. "We Americans are prone to over estimate and sometimes to boast cf that which we have," says J. M. Linscott, New England agent for a large motor car company. "At least that is the accusation made by our Eu ropean cousins. I sometimes wonder If it is just. I wonder if we do not more often underestimate our posses sions and our achievements. We really are a wonderful country, you know, and with full allowance for our short comings, a wonderful people, too. So I rather think we are justified in some of our boastfulness. It is an attri bute of youth, and evidence of a good healthy youthful enthusiasm. "Apropos of what?" you ask. "Well, of roads, for example. "We are accustomed to saying that we have the worst roads in the world, and to hold up as an example of model roads the centuries-old highways of Europe. "I have found in talking with Ameri cans who have toured abroad that most of them will give as 3xamples of mo?cl highways a few main trav eled roads. But ask them about the general roads of any country and they will either tell you they do not know, or if perchance one has happened to lose his way and got on to one of the byways, he will admit that they are about as bad as has ever been seen in Michigan or Nebraska. "Your traveled American will ex patiate at great length on the wonder ful roads of France. And they are wonderful. That is to say, some of them arc. At that the total mileage of really good roads in that country is much less than most people imag ine. We journeyed over cobblestone roads that would shake your teeth loose-and that in romantic Nor mandy, too. "The reads in the British isles are excellent, but after all New England has more, and they are just as good, despite the climatic conditions that favor the former. The Rhine route in i Germany is all that has been claimed j for it, but we have our roads up the Hudson to match it-and who shall say whether the scenery on the Rhine or the Hudson is more beautiful, since both are magnificent beyond descrip tion? "Thc Texas road is made of crushed sea shells, which make a perfect sur face, while the Italian road is com- j posed cf powdered marble from tho) MS&39 li . . ' ' '"' Good Road in England. great quarries of Carrara. Anyone who hns traveled over this well knows he will not return that way because its beauty is deceptive. The gritty par ticles of marble will cut the tread off a set of tires in one trip. "I wonder how many people realize the influence of climate on roads? I wonder how many of those who rave over the fact that the Appian Way is still in tolerable condition after more than two thousand years, have stopped to consider how long that same high way would last In Michigan, for ex ample? The alternate freezing and thawing and heaving would disinte grate and cause it to wear away just as fast as they do our own macadam and cement construction. "How many of those appreciate how much road-building is going on not only in their own immediate neighbor hood but throughout this country. "How many know that Michigan will build 800 miles of wonderfully good roads; that Indiana will build fully 600 miles of roads, and she already has 1,000 miles of excellent highways, which she is keeping in the pink of condition. Ohio will build fully 140 miles of roads. Some of the eastern Atlantic states-Massachusetts, Maine, New York, Pennsylvania-have thou sands of miles of roads that are as fine as anything that lies under the sun. And these states are building more all the time." Concrete Road Costly. It costs about $12,000 to build a mile of good concrete road. This makes a road everlasting, without dust, very few repairs, and good in all kinds ol weather. Stone Houses Are Cheap. Stone houses last much longer than wood, require no paint, therefore are much cheaper in the end. Who ls Responsib'e? Who is responsible tor the bad con dition of the roaus? ?i l l tll41i. ? l i l 1111 i 1 l i l l )" I SHELTER PORT I - ^ By IZOLA FORRESTER. i ^.*{*^p^^>^*^*^ . J" *?* *?* .!*? ?* *?*1 I*.*f* *?* *f* *?* *?* *? I Ben laughed, lounging in the door way with the Gordon setter nosing at his hand. j "You'd tuck any one under your wing, wouldn't you, Aunt Polly, if he needed it? Old Brookside Farm is a regular Port of Shelter in time of trou ble." The next day he drove down to meet Aunt Polly's latest waif of chance. Loving and motherly by nature, with no child of her own to pet and tend, she always seemed to be giving out help to some one. Her sister Esther had written to her about Myrtis Lampton." She had been brought up in one of tho church homes at Wakefield, the orphaned daughter of a schoolmate of Esther's. When she was eighteen, Esther found her a position at the town li brary and kept an eye on her, until the girl had come down in the winter with typhoid fever. She needs loving and chirking up, that's all." Ben agreed heartily when he saw the lone figure get off the Providence train and come toward him. White faced she was, with big blue eyes, and he knew by the way she got into the carriage she was still weak and shaky. Through the long summer days she lay out under the maples in the ham mock getting stronger slowly. Miss Calder would sit near in one cf the rustic rockers, reading or sewing, sing ing softly to herself, and ready with a smile when Myrtis wakened. "I'm so useless, Aunt Polly," she said one day. "I'm no more good to you than a weed." "Some weeds have turned out heal ing herbs, dearie." answered Aunt Pol ly happily. "I just dread to think of soing away," she sa^d to Miss Calder [ ore day in early August. The latter looked at her over the tops of her glasses. "Wed, ? shouldn't if I was you, Myr tis," she responded, pleasantly. "Why don't you tske the school examination over here at the crossroads and teach there. It's twelve a week, and you could hcr.rd here if you liked." "Do you think I'd pass?" she asked eagerly. "Of course you would, child. I taught there myself years ago when oui here to teach. I'll write tb the school board tomorrow, and you bet ter let me drive you over there and face it. I'll coach you up on it." Ben said nothing when he heard of the plan, but he smiled across the table at Myrtis, and she colored deli cately. "When the weather's rough this win ter Ben can drive over with you," said' Aunt Polly happily, so busy serving dinner she never noticed what was happening right under her nose. "Like enough you won't be a bit lonesome out here. Would you rather go back to Esther and do library work?" "Oh, I'd much rather be here with you," Myrtis exclaimed. "It's home now." "Well, Just stay, then, child. We love to have you. Don't we, Ben?" "Certainly do," said Ben. "Seems as if you belonged here now. Aunt Polly took me when I was a little shaver after my folks died and brought me up, and I know how I love the place." The letter came the following week notifying the new teacher of her ap pointment, and Aunt Polly was, If anything, more enthusiastic than Myrtis herself. She went about the house singing, and Myrtis stole down to the walk by the brook in the pine glen Just to think how wonderful life had turned out for her. It was so good. just to be wanted and loved after one had been a waif on the waves of chance and circumstance. The hemlock branches cracked on the slope above where she. sat. Ben called hello to her. "Have you seen the black calf any-, where?" "Not down here." "I've been hunting lt for an hour," he declared without a qualm. He swung down the slope and landed on the rocks Just below her. "Don't you love this place? I used to come here when I was a little fellow and listen to the water as it broke over the rocks. ' I'm glad you're going to stay." "It's dear of Aunt Polly to let me. It s all her doing. She Just shows you the right way to go somehow and makes it seem easy. I was afraid to face the winter alone." "You wouldn't have had to," Ben blurted out. "I wasn't going to let you go away." He stopped and look?d up at her as she sat on the bank, ferns and pine needles around her. "I'd have told you right straight off. Now, I sup pose I ought to wait till spring." Myrtis was silent. Her chin leaning on her hand, she looked down at the brook, afraid to meet the big boy's eyes. "It's natural for you to stay here," he went on. "The place will be mine some day, and Aunt Polly loves you. You can teach this winter If you want to, but the minute you get tired, Myr tis, I want you to quit, and I've got mother's wedding ring she gave me when she died, and told me some day it would be for the girl I loved best. Myrtis, can't you say anything at all to me?" She met his eyes with tear-fllled ones, and held out her hands to him, whispering: "I'm so glad, Ben." It has been estimated by the United States geological survey that North Dakota contains 607,000,000,000 short tens ?? lignite in beds more than three feet thick. r ? Uses and Abuses of Fertilizers By Prof. R. J. H. De Loach, Director of Georgia Experiment Station. 4. FERTILIZERS AND FIELD CROP* I The Fourth of a Series of Six Articles David Dickson, after a life of useful service to his fellow-man and life of success as a farmer, bad the following to say about the use < guano: "I say that farmers can make every acre of their land rich if the will. Providence intended the earth should increase in fertility as rapid] as it does in population. Every man that assists in removing this do mant guano, lying idle and useless on the Chincha Islands, and puts it i circulation, creating therewith food and clothing, is a benefactor tc hi kind. The country suffers for want of a snare of the surplus fertilizin material. Remove the deposit and apply to crops, and it will enrich th land." "I commenced to use guano in 184G, and gradually increased the use t it until the present time, never having omitted to use it on my crop excepting the last year of the war, when I could not obtain it. With th proper system of rotation of crops, and returning all the crops to the lane I except the lint of the cotton, land may be improved with Peruvian guan alone, but not so fast as when you combine with the soil all the eh monts of the plants to be grown. Ammonia being necessary for all plant: I know of no crop that it would not benefit. It will pay the best upo: j these crops that bring the most money-cotton being that crop in this sec ! tion and tobacco in other sections.'' j It will be seen from the above that Mr, Dickson profited greatly by th' I use cf guano. He knew well the value of ammonia to growing crops, bu I you will observe that -he knew quite as well the value of other plant food j to the crop. He got better yields when he applied all the elements of plan I food than when he append ammonia alene. Also observe that he consid?re* 1 it good business to apply fertilizer. He was a business man as well as ? I farmer, and knew all the keen points in the business world. Views of Another Millionaire Farmer. The Hen. James M. Smith, another millionaire farmer of Georgia, wh< ! died only a few weeks ago. had the following to say with reference ti the uce of fertilizers on farm crops: '.The use of fertilizers has become one of the most important factors ir Southern agriculture. It is a powerful agency in producing an increaser yield-a thing we should desire and work for. We certainly believe in thc use of commercial fertilizers, but we also believe in the turning under o! vegetable matter, the sowing of legumes and the saving of all barnyard ma nure. The up-to-date farmer will not consider one of these, but all tour ol them, in trying to increase his farm'crops." * Each of these two iarmers, who have done much to stimulate farm im pTovement, learned the vallie of fertilizers, but learned equally well the value 1 of diversified farming. They would not decrease the use of fertilizer, but diversify more. They would have us use more fertilizers, so that we could grow more plants and vegetable mater, in turn plow this under, and in this way increase the fertility of our lands. The most effective farming of tocay ii?volves these two great, principles. Ese fertilizers and diversify the crop? Rotate and feed the plants, and you will increase your yields, be more secure from plant diseases, and bring your farm into a high state of cultiva tion Put Back Plant Food in the Soil. If growing crops take plant food out of the soil and we do not plow un der an amount equal lo this, or get it from some other source and apply it, our laud is sure to decrease in fertility and in value. This is a fact beyond dispute. With mest of our crops we take from the.fields a large amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash, which never'goes back t.o the place on thc farm from whence it came. We should see to it, then, that, some kind of j plant food takes its place. In the eas* of cotton, we sell the seed, and with them large amounts cf nitrogen and other elements of plant food. Very of ten we burn the stalks, and in this way take from the field much more valuable plant food. It is sucidal po'ky for us to remove from the soil mora Plant "f .-od than we reitere to the soil. I On a sandy farm in one of the Southern States, which had abamfo?' j ed by ?its original owner and sold for fifty cents per acre, a litttle barnyarc? I manure and heavy applications of fertilizer made another farm ri^h. The last J farmer used $15 worth of fertilizer per acre and raised 1,400 pounds of seed j cotton per acre. This was about a bale per acre on the entire farm. The $15 investment in fertilizers and good breaking and cultivation netted the thrif ty farmer more than $50 per acre when cotton was bringing a high price. All the experiment stations and other institutions have found that ferti lizers applied to farm crops under good conditions pay a handsome dividend on the investment. It generally means the converting of a nonpaying farm into A profitable farm. This, after all, is what wa farm for, for profit as well as ?orne pleasure. The average farmer gets iaige returns for fertilizers wisely raed. If fertilizers do not always pay, it is because farmers waste instead of use them. EDGEFIELD COUNTY'S ANNUAL FIEL th To be Held at Edgefield, S. C Friday, April 7,1916. All the people of Edenfield count are given a cordial invitation to A< tend Field Day. The trustees, patrons and friend in each district are ureed to accom pany their school, and thus give en courageraent and inspiration to th pupils. THE PROGRAMME: Parade-T. J. Lvoh. The parade will bu formed prompt ly at 10:30 o'clock on Main street leading from the public square t< the depot. Schools will he pl:ice< in line in alphabetical order. Ead school should carry a banner wit! the name of the school on it. / $10.00 prize will he triven to th? school having the greatest per cent of its enrollment present. Edtre field school is not eligible for thii prize. In case of a tie the prizi will go to th?i school making t\u best appearance on parade. In nr der to raise money for this prizi each school will be assessed. I twenty schools are in the parad< each school will pay fifty cents. I forty schools unter each would pa^ twenty-five cents. Welcome Address-Ex-Gov. J. C Sheppard ATHLETIC; CONTESTS Each school is limited to twi contestants except in the huinorou? contests. CONTESTS FOR BOYS. ( Harris Copen ha ven. ) 50 Yard Dash-Boys under and over fourteen. 100-Yard Dash- Boys under and over fourteen. 220-Yard Dasi)-Boys over four teen. 440-Yard Dash-Boys over four teen. Running Hiph Jump-Boys un der and over fourteen. Running Broad Jump-Boys un der and over fourteen. Standing Broad Jump-Boys un der and over fourteen. Standing High Jump-Boys un der and over fourteen. Rope climbing contest open to all boys. . HUMOROUS CONTESTS. Sack Race-Open to all boys. Shoe Race-Open to all boys. Three-Legged Race-Open to all boys. CONTESTS POR GIRLS. (Misses Elia V. Hiott, Hortense Padgett.) 50-Yard Dash-Open to all twirls. Running Hifjh Jump-Open to all srirls. Running Broad Jump-Open to all girls. Standing Broad Jump-Open to all girls. Standing High Jump-Open to all irirls. Rope Climbing Contest-Open to all girl?.. Flag Race-Cirls under fourteen. MLNTAL CONTESTS-SPELLING. (Miss Sara Nicholson.) In thin contest each school is al lowed one hoy and one girl to be se lected from the seventh urade or above. The contest will be in writiug. Paper will be furnished the contestants, btu each one should bring his own pencil well trimmed. Each pupil will be numbered and they will write their uutnber plainly at the top of the page. DECLAMATION AND RECITATION. This contest will take place in the evening. Each school is al lowed one boy and one girl to be selected from the sixth grade or above. No selection can be over ten minutes. Eighty per cent, will be allowed for delivery and twenty per cent, for selection. Each con testant will be numbered and no named will be called. Gold medals will be presented to the boy and girl who makes the highest pev cent. Appropriate prizes will be award ed to the winner in each contest. Competent and impartial judges' will be selected for each contest. BASKET BALL. (Miss Elizabeth Rainsford.) In the afternoon a game of basket ball will take place. The teams will be selected from Edgetield, Johnston or Trenton. A aeries of games will ba played between the teams of these schools prior to Field Day. The two teams making the highest score will play for the county championship. For further information address the CENTRAL COMMITTEE, Edg<'tiVld, S. C. clo T. J. LYON. I THE ACHES OF HOUSE CLEANING. The pain and soreness caused by bruten, over-exertion and straining during h'.ii.?e cleaning time are mnthed away l-y Shem's Linitiieiil. No need tu suffer this agony. Just apply Sloan's Liniment t>> the sore spots, rub only a 1 iitie. In a short time the pain leaves, you rest com fortably and enjoy refreshing ?sleep. One grateful user writes: Sloan's Liniment is worth its weiirhi in gold."' Kenp a bottle on hand, use it against all Soreness, N? ural??ia and Krnfee*. Kills pain. 2?C. at von i" Drii?r?risT. 2 Ul X??K'S $m Bfnwerv Seed Irish Potatoes, We can supply you with the cele brated Buist Irish potatces for plan: in<r, none better on the market. We nave the Bliss, Early Kose, Cobbler and other popular varie ties. Penn & Holstein. Buildings For Sale. I am authorized to offer for sale ?hu two wooden buildings on the school grounds that ?en- formerly IIMMI lor i he graded school. Perons contemplating buitdu.g should see Ul?. , J. 0. Sheppard, Chairman of Hoard ut Trustees OffiSOfl?PPY To flavc A BANK CoD?rigUt 1909. by C. E. Zimmerman Co- -Xo. ??4 F all the unhappy homes, not one in a hundred has a bank account and not one home in a hundred who has a bank account is unhappy, it seems almost foolish to put it oft' any longer, when it is such a simple, easy matter to start a bank account. BANK OF EDGEFIELD ^^^iS^CERS : J. C. Sheppard, President: B. E. Nicholson, vice-President E. J. Minis, bSS&jfer; J. H. Allen, Assistant Oashier. DIRECTORS: ?!"C. Sheppard, Thos. H. Rainsford, John Rainsford, B. E. Nicholson, A. S. Tompkins. Q. C. Fuller. E. J. Mims. J. h. Allen. J. C. LEE, President FT^agibson. Sec. and Treas. . ?^?^PaWBSss?! ?isl? 111 ..i FARMERS. MERCHANTS, BUILDERS, If you are going to build, remodel or repair, we invite your inquiries. COMPLETE HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY. We manufacture and deal in doors, sash, blinds stairs, interior trim, store fronts and fixtures, pews, pulpits, etc., rough and dressed lumber, iath, pine and cypress shingles, flooring, ceiling and siding. Distributing agents* for Vlintkote roofing Estimates cheerfully and carefully mane. Woodard Lumber Co. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Corner Roberts and Dugas Streets. Our Motto: SSS THE FARMERS BANK OF EDGEFIELD, S. C. Capital and Surplus Profits.$120,000.00 Total Assets Over- - -.$400,000.00 STATE, COUNTY AND TOWN DEPOSITORY Does a General Banking Business. Offers its Services to You as a Safe Guardian and Depository for Your Money. Invest in One of Our Certificates of Deposits Bearing Interest. It is a better investment for you than a mortgage of real estate. You do not have to consult an attorney about titles. It does not shrink in value like lands and houses. You do not have to insure against fire. Finally you do not have to employ an attorney to foreclose to get your money. You can get your interest and principal the day it falls due. Safety is the First Consideration in Placing Your Earnings. FARM LOANS! Long-Term Loans to Farmers a Specialty. Your farm land accepted a? security WITHOUT ENDORSER or other COLLATERAL. Unlimited funds immediately available in de tiominatioiib of Three Hundred and un. Established 1892. JAS. FRANK & SON, Augusta, Ga,