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GOOD ROADS WORK WONDERS improved Highways Give Farmer Chance to Reach Markets-Bad Roads Decrease Efficiency. I The railways and interurbans have and are having much to do with the ^development of this state. The evi dence of their splendid work ls seen on every hand. They have contributed to the building of towns, the develop ment of rural communities and have made It possible for great industrial ventures to succeed. But they, while working wonders for the common wealth, cannot reach every household as the highways do. The highway Teaches the isolated man, which the railway but incidentally touches, and it means to this man or the community lu which he lives whether the highway is of such a nature as to enable him to carry on his relations at the least expense and comfort. If the roads are bad he is hampered and loses much, (not only from tue value of his prod j nets which must be hauled to market, but he pays tribute in the weer and tear of his harness, vehicles and in jury to animal^ Hjy?? jnaMity to reach '^hurcRes: 'abd schcols~~easily reduces his ability to make the most useful citizen^ ?ajso?????-' If he has good roads he reverses ^thls and stands out with greater pos sibilities along all lines of endeavor in which he engages. - Greenville (Tex.) Ba'nner. X?^^~7#"V^~ GOOD-ROADS FEVER IN SOUTH K - Taking Hold Everywhere and Differ ent Counties Busily Engaged in Making Improvements. ! It Is a gratifying thing to note how the good-roads fever is taking hold nearly everywhere in the South. Hard ily a county there that is not busily engaged in improving its highways. Many sections are finding, too, that f 1 Cut Through Mine Hole Gap in Ashe ville-Charlotte Highway. road-building is by no means the big and expensive job it was once thought. In a great deal of the sandy Coastal Plain country, from Virginia to Texas, nature has often mixed sand and clay In about the rigid proportions to make a good hard road, and nil that is nec essary is to keep the road well graded by means of scrapes and drags.-Tho Progressive Farmer. DUST IS A DECIDED NUISANCE In Many Cases Windows Have to Be Kept Closed Tight-Use Split Log Drag After Rains. CBy W. C. PALMER, /pricultura! Editor. North Dakota Agricultural College.) When dry weather comes the dust ?from the road becomes u great nui sance to tlie housewife who lives near the road. In many cases windows have to be kept closed tight to lessen the amount of dust that seeps in. The most effective way of reducing tho dust nuisance ls the use of a split-log drag on the road after every rain. The road dust comes largely from the grinding up of the turned-up edges of ruts made by wheels und horses' hoofs. These cannot form unless water can stand on the roadbed and water can ,not stand on the roadbed If it is kept well crowned and well packed as it .will be if the road drag is used regu larly. Dragging the roads will mean !a good deal to the housewife, as well .as to travelers and those who have to iGOOD CURE FOR SCALY LEGS -Good Plan to Anoint Legs of Young Chicks Even if They Do Not Show Signs of Disease. Lard and kerosene is an excellent .'cure for scaly leg and it is a good ?plan to anoint the legs of the early youngsters at this time even if they !do not show any signs of the disease. {"An ounce of prevention ls worth a jgound of cure."_ Personality. What a widespread and far-reaching effect personality has in the affairs of men. We hear it given as wide a range of definition as there are kinds of people. An agreeable personality and vice versa : a personality that is stupid or intelligent ; gracious or churl ish ; overbearing or yielding ; self-willed and oblivious of the rights of others or tolerant and reasonable; selfish or unselfish; conceited m modest; thoughtful or unthinking; these and many others are samples of a vast va riety of habits of mind and manner from which every person may choose as they desire. But every person should remember that their personal bearing toward their fellows has a vast deal to do with their success in life. We rise or fall very often ac cording to tlie estimate given to our personality by those about us. What is called "tact," which is but an abbre viation of the word contact, is the out come of our personality. We mold and shape our personality very much by the amount of contact we have with our fellow beings.-Jefferson County Union. Force of Rain in the Desert The following description of rain on the desert ls given by a writer in Farm and Fireside: "In desert lands when lt does rain," he says, **lt may come with much more force than anywhere else. In less than no time the whole mountain side was a sheet of water run ning swiftly down. Soon a great tor rent began to pour under the rock where we were tating shelter, under mining it and threatening to throw lt down. We emerged from there and made a hurried run to another hiding place, more secure. Then came hail, and hailstones fell in such fury and of such incredible size that I thought they would kill old Barney, who _stood ?x poS?o to their fearful peltingst In a little while the storm had passed away and the water soon ceased to come down~the steep mountainside, and we went on our way, leading our horse." Fort Guards America's Cradle. In no territory of like extent In the United States is more historical In terest gathered than in that which borders Hampton Roads. Here was planted the first English colony in America; here was held the first gathering of the people's representa tives to make their own laws; here were erected the first fortifications in the English-speaking New World; here were fought the land battle that terminated America's war of independ ence and the naval battle that revolu tionized the warfare of the sea. The first fortifications where Fort Monroe now stands were built 305 years ago, in 1611. Since that time, with short* lapses, there has been some sort of a fortification always guarding the en trance to Chesapeake bay. Only Two Left Lord Chief Justice Holt when young, was very extravagant and belonged to a club of wild fellows, most of whom took to an infamous course of life. When his lordship was engaged on a certain occasion at the Ofd Bailey, a man was tried and convicted of a rob ber}' on the highway, whom the judge remembered to have been one of his old companions. Moved by that enri oslty which is natural on a retrospec tion of past life, and thinking the fel low did not know him. Justice Holt asked what hud become of such and such of his old associates. The cul prit, making a low bow, and fetching a deep sigh, said, "Ah, my lord, they are all hanged but your lordship and L"-Case and Comment Do Poultry Feel the Cosmic Urge? All animals, hens included, bave pe culiarities, arni to obtain thc best re sults in working with them we must take this fact into consideration. Not only is it true that each class of ani mals has its peculiarities, but indi' viduals in the same class have their distinctive traits. To illustrate this, take for example two horses. One is a heavy work horse, and when you speak to him it is quite u while before he obeys. Yet he may be us willing and obedient as the other horse which is of driving stock and quick In its thoughts and actions. In fact, it is wrong to both to drive such horses to jgether.-Farm and Fireside. Those Chinese Junks. The Chinese junk is to most western eyes a curious, not to say outlandish, type of vessel. Yet a nautical author ity, in picturing and describing a fa mous craft of this kind which visited Europe and America as long ago as 1S4S, says that she proved.herself an excellent sea l>ont with powers of weathering a storm equal, if not su perior, to vessels of western build. This junk, the Keying, is also declared to have made a run "equal to the time of the best packet ships of the period." Information of this kind about foreign methods ls often truly educative to Americans inclined to be boastfuL-. The Outlook. - -.? .;;Tw^ r,. j ggtfj~?j?j --t-- . - '. . : ;.aq-M&ft ??u**^ ------ -i ?r, ?i Last Word In Realism. One Sunday evening the pastor Of a rural church selected Hades as the text of his discourse. As he expound ed and applied the subject an absent minded man In the congregation, toy ing with a well-filled match safe in his pocket ignited the contents. The sul phur fumes reached a pious woman in the seat just ahead. "It is wonderful, Mary," she whispered to her compon ion "simply wonderful ! I have heard Brother White preach many a sermon, bat none so realistic as this." TO EXTEND USE OF PARKS Minneapolis Has Been Considering Suggestions for Improving Recrea tion System. Minneapolis has boen studying sug gestions for extending the use of parks. The subject was embodied in a report by F. S. Staley of the bureau of municipal research of the Civic and Commerce association. "The conspicuous flaw," says the re port, "in the present recreation sys tem ls the inadequate provision for active play of men and women more than 20 years old. Children will come to the playgrounds almost without In vitation. It is more difficult to reach adults, yet they need the outdoor life quite as much as the children. The park is a more logical center than the school and park buildings can be readily adapted to such purposes. "The park board should increase its efforts to make the parks real competi tors for the saloon, the commercial dance hall and the movies. This will Involve obtaining park areas adjacent to the thickly populated districts, a policy to which the board is al ready committed." . The survey also urges a park to care for the floating population. "Thousands of men temporarily out of work," it reads, "spend their time in the saloons and cheap lodging houses, where they are perm i t ted to sit down. This privilege is denied them in Gateway park. Both from the health and police standpoint they are better off outdoors than in cheap houses open to them." Everyone who has visited Minne apolis will remember beautiful Lake Harriet and its park. It is surprising then to see that this report advocates publicity to advertise parks to the peo ple of the city.-Kansas City Star. PLANT TREES ON HIGHWAYS They Make Travel a Delight and In crease the Value of the Ad joining Property. Perhaps the idea of trees of one va riety is a good ona But why not a variety of varieties? Also, why shade trees alone, if these be understood to eliminate all consideration of peach, apple, pear and the remainder of the 57 or moro of precious memory? No man who has been a boy in rural life can see other than wisdom in the sug gestion. As for willful rapine, what boy ever stole from the tree that hung its fruit invitingly over the ancient worm fence? Here is un opportunity for the pres ent generation of farmers everywhere to do a bit of missionary work that Will cause the coming race to rise up and call them blessed. They them selves will live to enjoy the sweet shadows of the trees. Every motor ist will find fresh delight in the drives along the bosky roads. The value of the farm lands adjoining will be en hanced fur beyond the cost of the ex perimtyit. If the shadow of a rock in a weary land moved the ancient des ert prophet to a metaphor adequate to explaining the solaces of his life's lean journey, how much more high ways, glistening white between an in closing vignette of green would serve to illustrate the delights of a far better country ! Profit in Paint. If paint didn't do anything, but make the family feel more cheerful and give them more ?trido and self respect, it would really be worth ail It costs; but in this day of high-priced lumber and building material, paint really pays two profits-pays one profit in beauty and a second profit in lumber and dollars saved. Back in the day when the South was full of magnificent timider and we didn't think of trees at ull except as some thing mightily in the way when we wanted to clear a "new ground," back In those days a man might have lived In an unpainted house and consoled himself that he wasn't losing much except cheer and beauty. But that day has passed. It's true that paint ing now pays its way besides adding beauty. In other words, yon can get the fun and satisfaction and good cheer that come from living in a house that's painted-you get ?ll this "free gratis" tis a sort of surplus by-product of the good common sense business deal that you make when you have your house protected by paint.-Pro gressive Fanner. ________________ .jr1' ' y Value of a Clean City. When a stranger visits a city the lasting impression which he carries away with him is usually his first im pression. If the city is neat and at tractive his first thought about it is apt to be enthusiastically favorable; if the city is unkempt and ugly he is .glad to leave It, never to return. He is far more likely to come and settle down in an attractive city than he is in an unattractive one, and the-citi zens take an interest In and are proud of their dry Just in proportion to its attractiveness. It is the duty of our dty to be attractive.-From the recent report ot the dty plan commission ot Newark, N. J. __ FIRST ATTENTION TO CHICKS Keep Them Quiet and Warm Until Thirty-Six Hours Old-Then Give Sand and Water. Many young chicks are breaking their way into the wo~ld and will need our attention if they are to grow and bring a profit. Do not be in a hurry to feed them, but keep them quiet and wann until thirty-six to forty-eight hours old. Then give some fine sand or grit, and water. After this, feed some hard-boiled eggs, dry bread or cracker crumbs, oat meal or prepared chick food. Feed a little at a time, and often until a month old, when four times a day will be sufficient. After three months, feed three times a day until grown. Finely ground feed should be given until they are about a month old, when a gradual change can be made to fine cracked grains, which may be fed until they are about two months of age. Then another gradual change can be made to cracked corn and whole small grains. GOOD FIRST FEED FOR CHICK Roiled Oats Are Very Nutritious and Relished by Young Fowls Just Out of Shell. A good first feed for little chickens is to throw a limited amount of rolled oats on the floor, only the amount that the chicks will clean up in about one hour. Rolled oats are very nutritious and relished by the chicks and are ex cellent as a first feed. However, their continued use is not advisable. Hard boiled eggs, ground in a food chopper and mixed with dry bread crumbs may also be successfully used as a first feed. .,. M . FIRE-LIFE INSURANCE See me before insuring else where. I represent the Epuita ble Fire Insurance Company of Charleston and the Southern Stock Fire Insurance Company of Greensboro, N. C. I also rep resent the Life Insurance Com pany of Virginia. J. T. Harling At the Farmers Bank, Edgefield I Colds should be "nipped loathe bud", for if allowed to run unchecked, serious results may follow. Numerous cases of consumption, pneu monia, and other fatal dis eases, can be traced back to a cold. At the first sign of a cold, protect yourself by thoroughly cleansing your system with a few doses of THEDFORB'S BLACK DR GHT the old reliable, vegetable liver powder. Mr. Chas. A. Ragland, o< Madison Heights, Va., says: "I have been using Thed ford's Black-Draught for stomach troubles, indiges tion, and colds, and find it to be the very best medicine 1 ever used. It makes an old man feel like a young one." Insist on Thediord's, the original and genuine. E Light Saw, Lathe and Shin gle Mills, Engines. 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Phone 101 Ready for 1916 Season I have had my entire ginnery thoroughly overhauled and am ready to serve the people, giving entire satis tion in quantity and quality of lint. I pay the highest market price for seed, and give my personal attention to my ginnery and seed business. R. T. HILL Prudential Rates: A<re 18-20 22 25 30 35 40 50 00 65 Whole Life 814.83 15.4-1) 10.01 18.91 21.00 25.85 38.83 03.08 83.86 15 Payment Life $27.08 2 7.1? 7 29.43 32.26 35.70 39.91 51.91 72.00 89.33 Reduced Disability clause free, oj annual dividends. E. J. NORRIS, Agt. To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR. PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL. a sur gical dressing: that relieves pain^and heals at the sam? time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. $1.00. KING'S NEW LIFE PILLS The Pills That Do Cure. FOR SALEi My shop, lot, shop tools, mate rial and machinery (except Gri t mill and engine). Also, my home on Columbia street. Reason for sell ing change of business. Apply to W. H. POWELL. 8-9-tf. A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. How To Give Quinine To Children.' FEBRILINE is the trade-mark name given to an Improved Quinine. Il 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 nnuseate nor cause nervousness nor ringing in the bead. Try lt the next time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The name FEBRILINE is blown in bottle. 25 cents.