Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ROAD BUILDING HINTS GIVEN Military Attaches With Former Pre mier Balfour of England, Im part Information. Some interesting information re garding: military road building was giv en to the United States'when the Eng lish mission headed by* Former Pre mier Balfour arrived in New York. Military attaches told how the armies of France and Great Britain rebuilt roads in France and Belgium. English military engineers recently have made experiments demonstrating that it is possible and desirable to build the highest types of road sur faces for the temporary or emergency movement of artillery and supplies. Roads built with asphalt sent from England have been constructed in the rear of the Franco-Belgian front. Roads so improved gave better serv ice than any type attempted under the swift and heavy movement necessi tated by the artillery action which precedes Infantry attacks. It was observed that motortrucks and gun carriages suffered no injury in move-1 ment over these hastily constructed pavements, while frequent breakdowns were experienced when road building was not attempted. Following those experiments a mis sion, including officers of the British and French engineer corps, looked over the pavements in the environs of Paris built in the last three or four years. Among other roads inspected vas the asphalt pavement laid on the road to Versailles, which has been j carrying heavy military traffic ever since the war started. As a result j of these experiments and investiga- i t?ons it has been decided, wherever i possible, to construct similar surfaces j for the movement of military traffic in regions where* roads have been de stroyed or where they may be made necessary by battle plans. PLAN OF MAIN TRUNK LINES California ls Spending $18,000,000 on Two Chief Highways From Oregon to Mexico. John A. Wilson, president of the American Automobile association, says of the federal good roads law recently passed. "Thirty-four states have now out lined in some form a system of main trunk lines, which Is now an augury for the success of the federal-aid plan just inaugurated. In this connection it is worthy to note that California was the first state to apply for its ap portionment of the money, and Cali fornia is expending SlS.000,000 on two .Good Road in California. mam highways extending from the Oregon to the Mexican line. It should be kept in mind that an application for federal aid in the improvement of any road must be made by the high way department of the state. Con sequently if anybody in the state de cires to have a road improved at the ?Id of federal funds it is necessary that the matter be taken up with the state highway department and not with the federal government." BUILDING GOOD EARTH ROADS - Can Be Constructed at Low Cost, but They Require Constant and Costly Attention. <5ood earth roads can be constructed at a very low cost; however, they re quire constant maintenance, which may be expensive where the travel is heavy. A Well-built and properly maintained earth road will serve some sections as well as the most expensive types of hard-surfaced roads will serve other sections. Where this fact ls realized more attention will be paid to earth roads, and the money spent on them will not be regarded as lost. Hellebore. To kill insects on fruits or flowers that are to be picked within a few * days, such as roses, currants, etc.: Use as a dust, 1 ounce of white hel lebore mixed with 5 ounces of flour. If desired in liquid form, use 1 ounce white hellebore to 1 gallon of water. Engine Sometimes Balks. A gasoline engine sometimes balks but so does a horse. You can find out what's the matter with the engine, but no one has ever yet discovered the workings of the mind of a balkj horse* Sil Sgl \ Irene's Little I Adventure By Katharine Howe ty f. (Copy rig Chapman.) "Mother! you never want to go any where !" The other woman regarded her re bellious, but undeniably pretty off spring on the other side of the table with a look of mild forbearance. She was not yet very old, and had not forgotten her own youth. But there were finn lines about her mouth which indicated that her advice was meant to be followed. "Dearie," she said gently, "if you will think that over a minute, you will see you are wrong." "Well," persisted the girl, "it comes so near to being 'never' I don't see much difference." "I wish," sighed Mrs. Folsom, "I could give you more good times, but you know our small income won't al low me to go much in society, where I would like to go for your sake." "Yes, I know," said Irene with some contrition, "but If you weren't so fini cal about whom I went with-there isn't a girl's mother in town as par ticular as you." "Perhaps I um a bit old fashioned. But it seems to me a custom more hon ored in the observance than the breach." "Yes, but if you didn't want a care fully compiled history of everybody I speak to." "Now Irene, let us get down to facts. I simply don't want you to go to places with young girls or men that I don't know anything ahout. I want to save you from possibly unhap py experiences. Perhaps I am all wrong in trying to save you. Perhaps I ought to let you have the bitter ex periences, so that you may learn from them. I know you will have them af ter awhile, but you will be older, and better able to face them. So many "Now Irene, Let Us Get Down to Facts." terrible things are happening these days. Sometimes when young girls go off with strange men, they never come back." "Yes murasy, I know," coaxed the girl. "But Mr. Garston isn't 'a strange man,' you've seen him." "Yes, just twice, and I didn't like him." "That's because you're so wrapped up in Jerry Carver." "Well aren't you?" smilingly asked the mother. "Of course I-I like Jerry, but he can't take me out as much as he'd like to. He can't afford it. I haven't been in an automobile In six months, and now when Mr. Garston wants to take me for a little spin, you don't want me to go." "No," answered her mother, "decid edly, I don't Who knows anything about him. He's been in this town just about two weeks." "Well, everybody likes him, and I met him at Bessie's house." "Does she know anything about him?" "I didn't ask about his past history. If he was her friend I thought that was enough." "It ought to be enough," responded her mother. "But in this place lt doesn't seem to be." "Well," said Irene looking at her wrist watch, "I suppose lt's time for me to go downtown for these things." Irene now never consulted the clock, since her birthday present had come from her uncle. It was a beautiful lit tle gold wrist watch, set around with diamonds, and the mother had ex claimed just a trifle regretfully when it came: "Oh, if Uncle Albert had just sent a check for that amount, it would have bought your clothes for two years. It must have cost two or three hundred dollars." But when she saw the girl's delight in wearing it. she remembered her own pleasure in her first watch, and said no more. That evening Jerry Carver called. He was a wholesome, hard-working young fellow with the refinement and good breeding which uppeuled especial ly to the mother, and It was plain he was deeply In love with Irene. Mrs. Folsom asked him if he knew anything about Gerald Garston. "No," he answered, "li don't think anyone does, except that he stops at the hotel, and is pretty much of a high flyer. I don't suppose they'll let him stay much beyond two weeks, if he doesn't pay his bill." "How do you know he doesn't pay his bill?" flashed Irene with evident resentment. * "I don't know," he answered quietly, but her look and manner stabbed bim to the heart. "Because Mr. Garston is popular with everyone, that's no reason why anybody should say such things." "No," he answered, "if-but I don't think I'd better say any more." "I think not," she responded icily. The constraint of the silence that fol lowed was broken by the young man rising, and taking his leave. "I think," said Mrs. Folsom, "Jerry knew more than he would say." "I think," said Irene, "it was just mean contemptible jealousy. I didn't think he'd be so mean !" Irene walking toward the post office late the next afternoon saw Gerald Garston passing in an automobile. He saw her at the same moment, and be ing at the wheel, immediately stopped the machine. He was alone, and begged her to come with him for a lit tle spin. She objected that she must be home in about an hour, but he said she need not stay an hour if she did not wish. The temptation was too much for the girl, and she got in. About half a mile further, in the out skirts of the town, he halted the car before a small house, and excusing himself, went in. He was not gone more than two minutes when he re turned, and they went on. They bowled along a pretty country road, Garston's manner was respectfully po lite, and Irene was enjoying lt to the full. After a while she began to re mind him he must get her home in time. Ue promised, and put on more speed. After a minute or two, he looked behind, uttered an explanation, and said: "A cop's coming! Speed ing I suppose!" Here the man behind yelled a warn ing, and Garston halted the machine. The policeman came up on^ his j wheel, put Garston under arrest, and | told him to drive on to headquarters, which was only half a mlle away, and he would keep with him. Garston, followed by the policeman, went in. After a few minutes Garston came out, worried and embarrassed. He was fined tifty dollars, he hadn't more than five in his pocket, and the prospects were they would both have to-spend the night in the station. "Oh, but my mother!" cried Irene. "Oh no ! no ! something must be done !" "I haven't even my watch with me. It's at the jeweler's," he said. Nearly crazed, Irene took the jew eled watch from her wrist, and begged him to leave it till he could pay the fine. Promising to get it back to her the next day, he took it In, and soon they were on their homeward way. Irene anxiously waited for the return of the watch. The second day she telephoned the hotel, but Mr. Garston had left. Then she called up police headquarters at Easton, but they had never heard of a watch or a man named Garston. It was a very neatly contrived robbery. The policeman was simply a disguised confederate, and the building not "headquarters." The watch was never recovered, and poor Irene had to confess to her mother, and acknowledge that In nine cases out of ten, a girl would better take her mother's advice. Whether or not she followed it in regard to Jerry, the wedding cards were out in about three months. Legends of Polar North. The polar North is filled with weird Imaginative legends, but perhaps the most Imaginative ls the theory of the north Greenlanders recently studied by European ethnologists, concerning the controlling power of the universe. This, they believe, is a woman, known as the Old Woman of the Sea. Accord ing to Hartley Burr Alexander, "once she was a mortal woman ; a r^trc! wooed her with entrancing song and carried her to his home beyond the sea. When her relatives tried to res cue her the bird raised such a storm that they cast her into the sea to save themselves. She attempted to cling to the boat, but they cut off her hand and she sank to the bottom, her several fin gers being transformed into whales and seals of the several kinds. In her house in the depths of the sea Ner rlvlk dwells, trimming her lamp, guard ed by a terrible dog, and ruling over the animal life of the deep." Corn Saved Pilgrim Fathers. Had It not bean for the Indian's corn our Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth and our Cavalier forebears of Jamestown would have perished from famine. They were saved from "The Starving Times" by the Indian corn which the redskins had stored for the winter. Indeed, the settlers wanted that corn so much that they introduced the hith erto unknown vice of theft among the Indians. They stole from the caches and cribs, a practice of which, to quote Capt. John Smith, "the Indians griev ously complained." Civilization came to Its own on this continent through corn not only in the East but in the West, for the journal of the Lewis and Clarke expedition shows that those In trepid ?xplorers would have died for lack of food had lt not been for the parched maize they obtained from the first Americans. His Case. "Th? Itinerant musician yonder is In ? grinding need." V "Poor fallow ! Not of food?" f "No; of new aire on his hand or- ? ????" . .._. r COAL and SCRAP IRON. For the next three weeks I will pay forty cents per 100 lbs. for ill kinds of Scrap Iron except old boilers. Rush it in as my price ?'ill decline after three weeks. I'oal shipments now en route and I pill be ylad to name summer prices o be delivered in July and August. M. A. TAYLOR. June 18. 1017. NO ALCOHOL PREVENTS Colds, LaGrippe, Rheumatism A pleasant but effective emulsion, which rebuilds the tissues, - revives the system, adds strength and stimulates the nervous system. It has no alco hol, and is in every sense a tonic. $1.00 PER BOTTLE Ask Your Druggist. Monufactured Solely By THE FERROL CO., Columbia, S. C. HARRIS' PRESSING CLUB I take this means of letting the people know that I have re-opened my pressing club, and will appre ciate their patronage. I am better prepared than ever to clean and press all kinds of garments, both for ladies and gentlemen. All work guaranteed. Let me know when you have work and I will send for it and make prompt delivery. Wallace Harris Sheppard Building Down Stairs -? i NOTICE! To My Friends anl the Public Generally: Although I have accepted the position as City Carrier, I have no intention of discontinuing the Insurance business. Your busi ness will receive the same core fnl attention, and will be appre ciated. Office'Hours:-0:00 P. M. to 8:00 P. M. J. T. HARLING At The Farmers Bank. Edgefield, S. C. GEO. F. MIMS OPTOMETRIST Eyes examined and g.asses fitted only when necessary. Optical work of all kinds. 1 EDGEFIELD, S. C. i -i I 1785 1917 College of Charleston South Carolina's Oldest College 133rd Year Begins Sept. 28 Entrance examinations at all the county seats Friday, July 13, at9:00 A. M. Four-year courses lead to the B. A. and B. S. degrees. A two-year pre-medical course is priven. A free tuition scholarship is as signed to each county, of the State. Spacious buildings and athletic grounds, well equipped laboratories, unexcelled library facilities. Expenses moderate. For terms and catalogue address HARRISON RANDOLPH, Pres. A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. "o Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System 'ake the Old Standard GROVE'S 'ASTELESS chill TONIC. You know /hat you are taking, as the formula is irinted on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form, 'he Quinine drives out malaria, the ron builds up the system. 20 cent? is the appropriate designation of the wonderful Mountains of Western North Carolina Located in the magnificent section of lofty mountains, abounding in towering peaks, beautiful rivers, smiling valleys and charming wooded slopes, are hun dreds of excellent places at which to spend the su m mer. ranging from pre tentious hotels with gay social life to home-like boarding places, quiet re treats and camps for roughing it. Get Out in the Open Gojf. tennis, horse-back riding, mountain climb ing, boating, bathing, motoring, driving, and all other out-door recreations. Send the Boys to a Summer Camp Excellent camps to take care of the "Towing boys during vacation time. Academic instructions if de sired. Out-door life and athletic instructions under wholesome influences. Many Wonderful Sights In the "Land ot the Sky'" within a one-day trip from any central resort. Excellent Accommodation To be found at Asheville, Hendersonville, Hot Springs, Lake Junaluska, Waynesville, Brevard, Saluda, Lake Toxaway, Flat Rock, Tryon, Black Mountain. Ridgecrest and many other. Southern Railway System Write for illustrated literature, fares and schedules. FRED R. McMILLIN, Division Passenger Agt. J. A. TOWNSEND, 228 Eighth St., Ticket Agt., Edgefield, S. C. Augusta, Ga. Collett & Mitchell PHARMACISTS Large stock of Drugs and Drug Sundries always on hand-fresh from the leading manufacturers. Prescriptions accurately compounded from drugs any hour of the day or night. A Share of Your Patronage Solicited F. E. GIBSON, President LANSING B. LEE, Sec. and Treas. 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, lath, pine and cypress shingles, flooring, ceiling and siding. Distributing agents for Flintkote roofing Estimates cheerfully and carefully mane. Woodard Lumber Co. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Corner Roberts and Dugas Streets. Our Motto: SS