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FAULT IN CiTY PLANNING Standardization of Streets Can Be Car ried to Excess, as California Jour nalist Points Out. One of the greatest follies practiced in modern city-building, particularly i where the topography is broken in character, lies in standardization o? j streets, more especially regarding the I width, says the Los Angeles Times. The writer lives on a "cross street," j that is, one crossing at right angles a j main thoroughfare - Avenue Sixty four-that carries at least several hundred times as much traffic as the one first noted, yet tho widths of the two are the same. The one is three blocks long, "blind" at each end, hav ing no possibility of a direct outlet at either extremity. The other is the main highway from Los Angeles to Pasadena by way of Colorado street, and to Eagle Rock by the same "feed er." There is no question but a greater width is needed on Avenue Sixty-four, as is the case with scores of streets similiarly situated. It is equally cer tain that the crossing streets are twice as wide as need be. The miser able parkways are hut 42 inches wide, an area^-so restricted that good street tree growth is impossible. Every property owner with whom the writer has talked on the subject would be pleased to have several feet on each side added to the parkway, yet major ity does not rule, even in Los Angeles. No traffic is seen on such streets ex cept the daily routine of tho milk man, baker and vegetable peddler. Yet the width is the same as that of the one great highway running through the district The case cited is used merely be cause the writer ht is intimate personal acquaintance with it, having resided on this specific street for ten years. No personal grievance inspired this article, for the residents on the street have never Bought to have it changed. All concede a widening of parkings, with a correspondingly narrower driveway, would make a more beauti ful street, give it a more pleasant as pect, allow of fine parkway gardening, etc But did they know that when the street is to be paved the cost of the useless strips of width in paving would pay for the change and new curbs, they might petition the prop er officials to make such change. As all streets are of the same width, and all at right angles as well, the plan ning and platting of such districts may safely he turned over to our children. And some of the latter would be bet ter than their parents. Economy in Fireproof Qualities. While fireproof qualities and perma nence of materials are items appar ently increasing the cost of the new house, the home-builder will find in the end that economy lies in these qualities: and applying the ole" adage of the chain, his house will be as last ing as its weakest part. Hence the ratio between the life of different materials should be consid ered and permanence in the walls of a building should be duplicated in its foundations and roof. As for instance: a house of brick to be consistently permanent, requires concrete or stono foundation, and a slate roof. The depreciation of a house of this type is said to be about 1 per cent a year, reckoning its life to be 100 years. But the permanency of materials is not restricted to brick alone, and that frame houses can be constructed to last 100 years, though not immune of course from the accident of fire, is typ ified in the numerous frame houses of historical Interest standing in a state of good preservation throughout the country. Among these are the old Cushlng house at Higham, Mass., built in the early part of the eighteenth century; the Wadsworth house in Cambridge, built in 1728, and the Fairbanks house in Dedham, probably the oldest house in America, built about 1636. White pine was used extensively in these houses, which fact is testimony to the lasting qualities of that wood. How to Keep a City Clean. To make a city cleaner and neater and to substitute beauty for ugliness ls to enhance the value of both pub lic and private property. As to pub lic property, this work can be easily controlled. But the city authorities can be expected to act only on the in sistence of the general public. Un fortunately, however, no matter how careful a city may be about structures erected on public property, the gen eral effect of street and open places may be spoiled by ugliness in sur rounding structures and private prop erty. Billboards, signs, ugly, garish or unkempt buildings, buildings out of repair, untidy yards and vacant lots all may counteract whatever the city may do to make public property at tractive. The only way to keep the city neat and to make it look as tlrou?h lt -were really self-respecting ?8 for all citizens to co-operate In in sisting on private as well as public neatness ard attention to good design. -From the Report of the City Plan Commission, Newark, N. J. FROZENSTAR'S SCHEME L By JANE OSBORN. I Copyright, 1?UG, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) The society columns and the Frozen star department store ads. in the daily papers had been full of it. Girls from the stores going home at night had discussed it. According to some it was "grand and perfectly elegant for those swell girls to do it." To oth ers* more critical, it was either a case of wanting to get into print by doing something out of the way or a delib erate scheme to rob the poor girl who needed work for her daily bread. To Filbert Frozenstar, junior part ner of the dry goods firm of Frozen star Brothers & Co., it had a still dif ferent significance. It was part o? his carefully laid plan to make an entrance into the hitherto closed por tais of the city's most exclusive cir cles. The proposition was this: The so ciety women in question were to en joy all the realism of the task. They vere to punch the time clock with the other thousand employees of the store. They were to be a'lowed to sell goods in whatever department they chose, and for their sales they were to receive a 25 per cent commission for their favorite charity. The scheme worked better than he had expected, and cn a certain Mon day morning in late winter the ranks of ten of the largest departments In the store were increased by the pres ence of ten new employees. In the neckwear department was the debutante, Wilhelmina Sedgwick. In the millinery department young Mrs. ' Sturtevant Shawger float pt! around in a new bouffant morning cos tume especially imported for the un dertaking from war-ridden Paris. In the blouse department, was the be earringed Mrs. Tom Bradgley. who was a great drawing card because of the rather piquant details of her re cent divorce proceedings. Most attractive of all, was Corinne Delacroix, at least from Filbert's per sonal viewpoint. She had chosen the more arduous task of selling furniture because, as she argued, furniture was more expensive even than French mil linery, and 25 per cent of her sales there might really be worth while. Although Corinne herself was not especially wei! known-indeed sbe had made her debut only a few weeks before-as far as family and fortune went she was the most valuable ac quisition of them all. This debutante saleswoman, .simply clad in a neat little frock of black, guiltless of a single ornament save for the brilliant sash she wore across her slender body was "on the floor" ahead of time that first morning and Hall Bingley, head of the department, was giving her instructions about her work when Frozenstar appeared. He had intended to get there in time to explain to Miss Delacroix in person just what her duties were to be. Of course, thought he, It was ab surd for him to be Jealous of a man like Bingley, who, In the eyes of Corinne, was probably no more than a butler or footman. That she had been talking with apparent ease to him and that she spoke to him again frequently during the day, was noth ing to irritate Frozenstar. Still the irritating thing about it was that he was decidedly ruffled and that as the' hours passed he became more and more so. Delightful .little woman that she was, Frozenstar noticed that Corinne treated him with something more than frigid formality. She told him more than once that she admired the spirit of philanthropy that had prompted him and she actually asked him to act as patron for a post-Lenten charity bazaar. This would mean a check for several hundred dollars, but Frozen star accepted eagerly. She really was delightful, charming, bewitching. And her sales were phenomenal. Corinne's commissions amounted to an amazingly large figure, larger by far than those of any other one of the "society saleswomen." What a pleasure it would be, thought Frozen star, to hand that check to Miss Dela croix. He would take it in person to her. Just as he was meditating this in his private office, the advertising manager slouched into the room. "Have you heard the news?" he asked. "One of the men from the Morning Post just told me. But of course it isn't going to get into print That would never do. That Corinne Delacroix you thought you had up in j the furniture department is really loafing in seclusion at her father's place at Palm Beach. You see, she thought it wasn't fair to rob some girl of a job; yet she didn't want to miss getting the commissions for charity. So she got hold of a pretty little salesgirl who needed work and got her to take the place. She happened to know a guy in your store, too, en gaged to him, I think-and so she came around in Corinne's place and arranged to be in the department of this man she is going to marry. Of course, no one is any the wiser ex cept a few of us that heard the story. And it can't make a bit of difference to you so long as the people have been fooled. I think it was quite a shrewd idea, don't you?" Frozenstar had a momentary vision o? the check he had made out in or der to be a patron of the charity bazaar. "Yes, it was rather clever,'' was all he would say. All ASE INVITED God's Love and Tenderness Shown in His Reiteration of the Word "Come." This little word "come" is one of the sweetest in the Bible. The Bible begins with "come," and it ends with "come." The Lord said unto Noah, "Como thou and all thy house into the ark." The word occurs in nearly every section of the Bible, and in the last chapter we have this precious invitation, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that will, let him take the water of life freely." The invitation of the text gives us a beautiful conception of the heart of God iu its tenderness and love for hu manity. While it is in an Old Testa ment setting, it has a New Testament ring, Messianic in its nature, evan gelistic in its intensity. It speaks forth with wonderful power. Here God ad dresses the world. "Ko, every one that thirsteth." This refers to the class of people who are dissatisfied with worldly things. Soul thirst is the soul's anxiety and long ing for that which is holy and spir itual. A professor in psychology once asked his class for a definition of the soul. One pupil gave the following: "The soul is that which feels and thinks and acts." After this, a little girl spoke up and said, "Professor, is the soul that thing within our breasts that aches so hard sometimes?" "Yes, that's it," said the professor, who him self was a child of God. What multitudes of thirsting souls throng this land today! They are seeking in vain for the satisfaction and peace which are to be found only in reconciliation with the heavenly father. They have wasted their sub stance in riotous living; they have spent all; they are in want; they burn with an unquenchable thirst. To them is opened up that well of water, spring ing up into everlasting life, which is able to quench the thirst of the soul and give them eternal satisfaction. Invitation ls to All. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters." Here the invita tion includes everybody. The pro vision of grace is as free as the air we breathe. The river of salvation flows past us and the proclamation of the Lord is, "He that will, let him take the water of life freely." "Hearken diligently unto me. . . . Incline your ear, and come unto me.' An active, responsive hearing is one of the conditions of salvation. The written word has been the maans of the conversion of some, notably of Augustine and Luther. But very of ten it Is by the spoken word that the truth ls brought home to the soul. "Hear, and your soul shall live," is the Old Testament Gospel. The New Testament is like UMo lt: "Take heed therefore how ye hear." "He that hath ears, let him hear." "Buy wine and milk without money and without price." We might think, from what has already been said, that is a strange way of buying when no money is in use; yet it is not so strange when we understand the lan guage of Christ. To the church cf Laodicea he said, "I counseled thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thy self." There are some few things that money cannot buy, for the simple rea son that they are too valuable to be purchased with money. No price can be set upon them. Wisdom cannot be purchased with gold. "She is more precious than rubies." Salvation, the supreme blessing to the human soul, is beyond a money valuation. Blood and not gold is the price of our re demption. Perfect Blessings. The provisions named in the text are likewise threefold. "Let your BOUI delight itself in fatness." The bless ings which Jesus gives are not only good, but they bring to the soul com plete satisfaction. The longing soul receives an abundant and free supply of grace. I read some time ago of a man in Wales who, along the road on a hot and sultry day, met a little girl, carrying an earthen pitcher full of spring water on her head. He said to her, "My little girl, will you give me a drink of water?" She lifted the jug from her head and he drank from it, and it was so cold and pure that it quenched his thirst, and he asked, "Where do you get that re freshing water?" She said to him, "Do you see up yonder a spring flow ing through the hedge?" "Yes, and does that spring ever dry up?" The little girl said, "Yes, in the summer time it dries up." "And what do you do then?" he asked her. "Do you see a path up the hill to another spring?" she said. "Well, does it ever dry up?" he inquired. "Yes," she said, "in the very hottest summers it dries up." "And what do you do then?" the gentleman asked. She said, "We go up to the spring at the top. Up, up there, it never goes dry." Yr-s, as Christ said, "whosoever drink eth of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into eter nal life." Here is a soul satisfaction that is perfect and abiding. That hour will come when we must face the reality of another world, both with our loved ones and with our selves. May God grant that the ten der appeals of this invitation and the persuasion of the Holy Spirit may bring you into fellowship with him. Come.-Rev. William A. Waldo. Offer of Eterna! Life Was the Message the Savior Bore to a Sinful World. - "Skin for skin, all that a man hatti will he give for his life." The miser lives only in his gold; yet surely, if it should come to such a pass, he would let his gold go. If we could know all the secret history of the peoplo among whom we dwell, or even in our own narrow circle, we should find some burdened to tlie last extremity of endurance; and yet what a small percentage of these it is that are driven to suicide, and even of these, how many lose their reason first! Is not our own life, and that of those we love, the most precious thing we have? If it is ever in danger we do not think of cost. Would we not sell all that we have to buy life? ' One would think, then, that the offer of eternal life would be one with which the world would close with the utmost earnestness, and be only too glad to obtain it at any cost; that such things as persuasion, appeal, en treaty, argument, need have no place here! Surely the herald of such tidings will be everywhere welcome. Is it so? Is not the fact in most melancholy contrast to this pleasing picture? To the young and gay, is not the preacher's voice for thc most part an unpleasant one? To the mar. , of business, is it not too often an un meaning voice, heard but not per ceived, as one hears the ticking of the clock while one reads an absorbing tale? Do not men embrace every ex cuse for not going to hear it that their conscience will tolerate? This i?, strange if you think about it Eternal Life Is for All. "Lay hold on eternal life." Eternal life must be to be had, then. I won der how many of us have ever seri ously thought, of it! "Of course it is." Ah, that ''of course!" "There's a mine of diamonds to be had if you will sell what you have and buy the next field!" The world does not meekly say, "Of course," and plod on its accustomed way, in such a case. No! It opens eyes, and ears, and brain, and heart, and says, in an eager tone, "What! Do you mean it? Is it true?" and on receiving the necessary proof instantly begins to cast about for the means of so enriching itself. But when one says, in the midst of dying, sorrowing men, "Eternal life is to be had," all the reply their spirit gives UB is "Of course." Think of it now. "I may live forever and ever! I may conquer death, may pass through it as a victor; bow down at Its thrust, only to rise up again and laugh at its impotence; may bare my breast to its dart, only to hound up cd life again, and shout Joyously, 'O death, whore is thy sting? O grave, where ls thy victory?'" I may not only possess life a second time, but such a life as shall make this seventy years of song and sun shine, sighs and shade, a mere epi sode, which by comparison with the surroundings of the new life shall be but aa darkness. I ffi&T spurn this hindering, cramping, fettering body of sin and death away from me, and in Borne finer, more ethereal shape rise beyond, upward, to a realm of purer, stronger life, to find all things re vealed in new and brightened splen dor; to find life, and love, and work, and worship grander and diviner things; to look back upon pain as we now look back on some troublous dream of the night that is passed away; upon all life's tears, as we think in our manhood of the sorrows of our childhood and youth; upon all the struggles and strifes and woes of these fleeting year? as we look, from the ripe competency of our manhood, upon the apprenticeship through which we passed to what we are now. If this life of B?venty years be the process by which we develop into and up to the divine, then it is undeniably beautiful; otherwise, human life is the darkest of problems. Divine Message. This, then, is the message of that Savior who came to earth "to bring life and immortality to light"-to teach men how they might begin now to live the life everlasting, and who set up his kingdom in the hearts of men. But you are not to walt for the pos session of eternal life to happen to you: you are to begin to possess; the action must be yours, your thought, your choice, your resolve! Ah, my brother, he who would lay hold on eternal life must have empty hands; must empty them himself; ay, for the time being, of anything he may hold. You must be willing to give up every kind of pleasure that you shall find incompatible with eternal life; eternal life must be the chief thing with you if you are to possess it; and you must prove It by putting that cup away-earnestly away. When we thus meet the conditions and thus accept the efficacy of Christ's blood, we may claim the glad "prom ise that he hath promised us, even eternal life."-Rev. H. P. Lyman Wheaton, D. D. Glorified by God's Sunlight. How many things are there in life that, looked at from our point of view, are clouds only-things to be shrunk from, with nothing in them of brightness, of radiance and beauty. They are out of the line of the sun. KM when God's sunlight lights them up how different they appear. They are clouds still, but they are radiant clouds, things of beauty and of love* liness.-Exchange. AVERAGE COST OF HEN FEED Results of Poultry Experiments at Washington Station-Leghorn Ccsts $1.35 Yearly. Prom records kept by the Washing ton experiment station, it is estimated that the average cost of feed for a laying hen is $1.50 per hen per year for the general-purpose hrecds. such as Orpingtons. Plymouth Rocks and Langshar.s. The cost for Leghorns and Anconas has been $1.35 each. The average cost of producing eggs has been 16 cents per dozen. In incubating and brooding trials, out of 3,000 eggs incubated. 2.300 chicks wera hatched. The loss of chicks during the brooding period was 8 per cent, lt was found that chicks hatched from eggs weighing from 24 to 27 ounces per dozen were more vig orous and grew more rapidly than those from abnormally larje or very small eggs. The small eggs were about equal to the larger ones in fer tility, but the chicles hatched from these were lacking in vitality. The abnormally large eggs, weighing more than 27 ounces per dozen, were low in f?rtil'ty, and did not hatch well. Three lots of 40 White Leghorn pullets each were fed during a six months period similar rations, except that cracked corn, rolled barley and Lady Eglantine, Champion White Leg horn Hen. whole oats were compared as supple* ments to whole wheat in the grain mixture. The amount of grain con sumed by the respective lots was 1.040, l.Oo? and 1,000 pounds; the amount of mash consumed, 4/)0, 360 and 430; the total cost of feed, $26.40, $23 and $23.60; the number of eggs laid, 2,975, 2,974 and 2,574; the gain in weight, 27, 32 and 17 pounds, re spectively. Out of 200 eggs incubated in lot 1, 185 were fertile, from which 153 chicks were raised; lot 2, 180 fer tile and 150 chicks raised, and lot 3 168 fertile and 133 chicks raised. Will ?nro'v ?*frr? TM *>.."??. Cash Coun1 We are showing an attia< every department. Everyt merchandise in the stock manufacturer. See our beautiful wash goods : new weaves in the popular colors Our notion sto?k is up to the n ted. Come iu and let us show ye We call especial attention to o All of the late styles in the po pul sonable. Do not fail to come in to money. c NOT BUE: Although the fire wa corner of our warehou have storage for 8,000 1 not touched, and our usual. DAVISC Augusta, Ga. CLEAR SKIN COMES FROM WITHIN. It is foolish to think you can gain a good clear complexion by the UBe of face powder. Get at the root of the trouble and thoroughly cleanse ihe system with a treatment of Dr. King's New Life Pills. Gentle and mild in action, do not gripe, yet they relieve the liver by their ac tion on the bowels. Good for young, adults and aged. Go after a clear complexion to-day. -J5c. at your druggist. 1 WINTHROP COLLEGE. SCHOLARSHIP and KN PRANCE EXAMINATION. The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the. admission of new students will be held at the* County Court House on Friday, duly 7, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than sixteen years of age. When Scholarships are va cant after July 7 they will be award ed to those making the highest average at this examination, provi ded they meet the conditions gov erning the award. Applicants for Scholarships should write to Presi dent Johnson before the examina tion for Scholarship examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1916. For further info? mation and catalogue, Address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. 13 Prudential Rates: Age Whole 15 Life Payment Life 18-20 S3 827.08 22 15.49 2 ?.97 25 16.61 29.43 30 18.91 32.26 35 21.90 35.70 40 25.85 39.91 50 38.83 51.91 60 63.08 72.60 65 82.86 89.33 Disability clause free. Reduced by annual dividends. E. J. NORRIS, A?t. A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton* On Wednesdays. DR J.S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. FOR RENT-A five-room resi dence near the high school. Pos session given at once. Apply to J. L. Minis. i How To Give Quinine To Children. FEBRILINE is the trade-mark name given to an improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas ant to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervousness nor ring-inz in the head. Try it the best time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The name FEBRIIJN E is blown in bottle. 25 cents. ts With Us ?tive line of spring goods in hing is new-not a piece of that is not fresh from the for waists and dresses. All the linnie. Nothing has been omit u. ur Shoes, Slippers and Oxfords, ar leathers, with .prices very rea see us. We can save you ?. W. PEAK NED OUT s all around us only a se was burned. \Ve bales. Our office was business goes on as IN & FARGO, COTTON FACTORS,