Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Average Farmer Must Haul His Prod ucts Six and One-Half Miles Other Points. How far must the average farmer ia thc United States haul his crop to market? Exactly six and a half miles, it can be answered, for the bu reau of crop estimates of the depart ment of agriculture has completed an inquiry into the whole matter of farm hauling throughout the country. In cidentally, the results of the inquiry show that if only one wagon were available to haul crops it would re quire about 15.747.0u0 days for it to complete the job for only the mar keted portion of three most prominent farm products-wheat, corn and cot ton. The investigation shows that it re quires about half a day for the aver age farmer to make a round trip to market, and about two-thirds of a day on the average for the farmers farth est from market to make a similar trip. That market distances are grow ing shorter ls shown by the fact that in 190G it required almost 50 per cent more time for the average round trip. One reason for the improved condi tions, it is pointed out, is that since 1906 the steam railroad mileage in the United Slates has increased 15 per cent and that many new freight-car rying electric lines have been built. "Another point brought out by the inquiry is that there has been marked improvement in public roads since the Concrete Road in Mississippi. bureau's investigations in 1906. for the size of the overage load hauled has nearly doubled since then. A day's haul of wheat in 1900 was 56 bushels; now it is 112 bushels. In 1900 1.700 pounds of cotton was hauled in a day; now the average daily haul is 3,000 pounds. The inquiry developed the fact that the loads hauled in the cotton country are the smallest but the most valu able. Thus the average value of a load of cotton was found to be $1S3, wheat $43 and corn $2S. The.longest hauls were found to be in the Rocky mountain States, where Nevada holds the record with nn average haul for all farmers of IS miles. The shortest hauls were shown to be in the middle "West, Ohio at the bottom of the list with four miles. BIG GOOD ROADS DIVIDENDS Motorists of Massachusetts Spent $25, 000,000 Last Season, as Result of Good Roads. Motorists spent $25.000.000 in Massa chusetts last season, largely as a re sult of the good roads of that state. Rather a fine dividend! Great progress has been made in im proving the roads in Minnesota, but there are communities which as yet, apparently, see but one side to the good roads question, and that is, cap ital going out and no dividends com ing back. While the returns from motor travel are Indirect, neverthe less they are certain. It is obvious that any town is at least Indirectly benefited by having such, good roads that motorists delight In making it an objective on their week-end tours. Any district that has bad roads be comes just ns well known, but of course adversely. Unfortunately, too many specific cases might be given. Minneapolis Journal. Greatly Improve Road. By keeping a road drag and drag ging the road along one's land after heavy rains the road may be greatly improved. It is an easy matter to have- an agreement so each farmer will drag the road in front of his farm. This would maintain the road till the regular hands could be called out at stated Intervals or till the com missioner could make the repairs. eixtcen-Foot Roadway. Maintain at least a q 16-foot road .way. DEAL m IDEAL By RUDOLPH TRESSINGHAM.. (Copyright, I J17. Western S< wspapcr Union, t Clancy Wyeth had ?1 deal in mind and process. Joseph Trull an ideal. Thc Cor nier was popularly designated as a keen, practical business man, the lat tor as visionary and dreamer. Na ttire bad formed both with strong in dividual intellectuality. * Clancy Wyeth was lloor broker for a big Ann on the grain exchange, [ts 'offices were a rare glitter of gilt and plate gbtss. Joseph Trull had a desk anti narrow office in an obsolete busi ness block, where he ??id translation work for the foreign departments of local banks. '.I have a pretty idea In mind," ho told a friend one day. "You know our old family homestead, lift ecu miles from the city of Fendale, is mine. It has not been occupied for two years. They have built up sonic palatial homes near to it, and 1 have been wait ing, expecting to get a good offer for lt. Well, the house is old, but it can be maile habitable. There are fifteen bearing cherry trees In the orchard, rm going to have a crowd of these lit tle ones out for a week, soon as the cherries are ripe." "Excellent! graud!" commented his friend. "I shall pick out fifteen of the most deserving children," continued Trull, "and apportion to each a tree. It will be their tree to dream over, to long for, weeks before the visit. I will keep tlie fifteen for a week, hire a cook and a nurse. One week end the mother of each little one will come out and pick one tree, and I will see that the cher ries are delivered by wagon at the city home." . Just this plan Jasper Trull put into operation. The mothers who came out with the little ones, were provided with bidders and baskets, and went home happy and content. There was one little tot, the youngest of the group, a girl not yet three years of age. She and the others were allowed to roam freely about the place. "I cannot find little Dora," the nurse informed Trull one afternoon near dusk, and he started off in search of her. Nearing a high hedge that separated the grounds from those of a fine mansion occupied by a family named Crosby, he caught tho echo of voices, and paused. Ile noticed a bolo in the hedge, and peering over its top his eye took In a lovely picture. Upon the grass was seated a beauti ful young woman, whom he doubted not was Miss Eunice Colby. She had little Dora in her lap. and had woven a garland of flowers for her. The prattling tot was beaming with de light. "Please excuse me." spoke Joseph, I "hut the nurse is anxious about this wandering little charge of hers, and I promised to find her.' I "Oh, you are Mr. Trull," spoke the1 I young lady, arising and kissing little | Dora and then handing her through the hedge. "I have heard so much of ycur noble work. Will you not allow this sweet little mite to come over again tomorrow? The rest of the family are away, and she is rare com-j pany.' Joseph promised. The nurse herself | the next morning took I ?ora to the hedge and consented that she should! remain all day in Miss Colby's charge, as the latter wished. Now, by a strange freak of fate, Clancy Wyeth visited the Colby home that day. Ile had only a casual ac quaintance with Miss Colby, but he] had her in view as a prospective heir ess, and hoped to make an impression. For his "deal" looked fine. "The little brat!" he fairly hissed, after devoting an hour to Miss Colby, he found her devotedly engrossed in entertaining her little visitor and act ing rather bored at his presence. He went away disgruntled. "She won't be so indifferent, when I make my pile on the deal," he mut tered. "Please keep a little back from the hedge, Miss Colby." Trull said one eve ning. "Little Dorn is down with fe ver. The doctor says it is infectious, and that we must Quarantine the house. Do not run any risk. I will have the nurse keep you informed as, to how Dora gets along." But there was no nurse the next day. J They luid tak^n the alarm, as well as the cook. Doth had departed. Trull had cooked the breakfast himself, and was attending as best he might to the three who had come down with the fever, when n knock at the door sent him thither. He opened it to confront Miss Colby. She had a suitcase in her hand and started to come in. "You must not," he told her. "It would be only to expose yourself to the contagion." "But I have come to stay," persist ed the determined little lady. "Please don't scold or deter me, Mr. Trull," she pleaded. "I have sent for two nurses In the village, and, if you will iso late and care for the well ones, we will attend to the sick little charges." One month after that, Clancy Wyeth, the man of the deal, found that the Information he had paid for as to the potato crop was a fraud. The market broke, his firm failed, and his dream of opulence ended. About that same time there was a grand jubilation nt the Trull home stead, for Eunice Colby and her aids had brought the invalids safely through their ordeal. "You have wrought a blessing." Jas per told Eunice, and love as well as gratitude impelled the sentiment, and In the depths of those beautiful eyes he read a mystic response that thrilled his soul to hope and happiness. Life Summed Up in the Words j "to Have," "to Do," "to Be" and "to See." "Bui seek ?re iii the kingdom of j God-Matt. 0:33. Each human life may be sninmed up in tile woifls "to have,!' "to do," "lo bc" anil "to soe." These interrelate themselves mid show human life as regressive. When these ure duly fos tered human ??iv is reaching out ^toward its best. Tin- earliest to show itself is tho desire "to have." Tin- Infant's active Angers arc the visible expression of the latent instincts of the soul, ("?'id's pro vision for rapid development is the nctive. Impelling instinct ro have, to own. Experience shows how the con ditions may best he mei. Xii titre pre sents herself in her possible abundance of fruits mu? wealth, love and Friend ships, comfort and health, home and happiness, nnd says, "obey ?UKI you may have. Fail to obey nnd you lose." God presents himself in Jesus and by the very possibilities of human excel lence then awakened says. "Obey me and this excellence you may have." To . seek to know and fully realize this con sciousness of God ls the most pressing . need of the human heart and thc great est need of our present time. The peoples of the earth need ngnin to be come God-conscious. Then they will become sane, human, brotherly. But they must become God-conscious on a : new level-the level of altruism rather than selfishness. Then "to have" will i be inclusive rather than exclusive of ? others. The Desire to Do. I But "to have" Is not the highest in , stinct and therefore does not develop our highest nature. Merely "to pos , sess" is a quality we have In common ' with every other creature. "To do" ! is higher than "to have." "To have" 1 gives entrance Into the kingdom of i property, "to do" gives entrance Into the kingdom of service. And for a hu man being service is more enriching than possession. A man does not know God until he knows himself and some thing about his fellow men. No man will use God until he knows man. No man can rebuild his own or another human life until he weeps over the ruin or failure he has seen or experi enced. Right is the first condition of service and love is the second. "To do" is thus a method of growth in the kingdom of God-it ls also one of the essential points. But even service must have its source of Inspiration. "To be" is therefore higher than "to do." This gives entrance into the kingdom, of character. In the last analysis a man does what he is. True character Is not a building, it is a presence, the presence of God In the soul. Charac ter may not be salvation, but it cer tainly is the assuring proof that God is coming to his own in us. A man is not a Christian whose religion is something added onto the other things he rays are his. If his religion ls not pervading and so breathing through each one of these as to make them dis tinctive, then his life is not Christian. The Desire to See. The highest of all ls "to see." With out vision nations perish, for without ' vision souls perish. Many men have committed soul suicide who ure still active in the pursuits of lifo. But their j activities lack supreme purpose. Many a man makes IUL'II claims for himself j who knows not that God bas depart od J from him. On the spirit there must j be light. In the heart there must be expectancy. To the eye of the soul there must he more seen than the hand can ever realize or words express. To every climbing soul lhere must be a temple vision like Isaiah's or an open air vision like Paul's. Beatrice was not merely a woman to Dante-she was tile vision of n beautiful character. Hawthorne had lu his own soul much of the mystic when he wrote about "Tile Stone Face" and made Kniest be come like the face he had so devoutly studied and loved. This ls the king dom of vision in which is found the light which gives all thc other king doms their possibility of enjoyment and realization. Blessed is the man who is thus daily living this fourfold life!-Rev. John R. Mackay. D. D" North Presbyterian Church, New York,, Everlasting Love. Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for himself ls love, and It ls the greatest thing we can give God, for lt will give ourselves, and car ry with it all that is ours. He that can say, "Nothing shall sep arate me from the love of God in Christ," will be able to triumph in tho midst of the greatest tribulations. A soul that lives under the ussurance of divine favor cannot but bear up pati ently and quietly under the greatest sufferings that possibly can befall In the world. Love should bo the su preme thing because it is going to last, because in the nature of things lt ls eternal life.-Selected. Simplicity. I value more and more every day the signs of simplicity, the people who say what they mean and as they mean lt; who don't think what they think is expected of them, but what they really feel; who don't pretend to enjoy what they don't enjoy, or to un derstand what they don't understand. -A. C. Benson. Prayer. A prayer In Its simplest definition ls merely a wish turned God ward.-Se lected. The Praeter Life ?nsura?i? writes more Life Insur any company in Amel one. Tliey have lowest dividends and free disabi of all companies in tl States. E. J. NORRIS, Sunday School Patriotic Service. The National Bannpr shonld have a place in the auditorium of every church and Sunday school, and especially is this true during the period of the war. The Has will be a constant re ? minder of patriotic duty and re sponsibility. Encourage every mem ber of the Sunday school to wear ?the colors-red, white and blue. Tiny flags, tri-colored ribbon or flag buttons may be furnished by the school or by the teachers of classes. This badge will have peculiar signifi cance and exert a silent influence for patriotism. Salute the flag as a part of the opening exercises of the Sunday school. Let it be done in each de partment simultaneously. A bugle call may precede the salutation to designate when the salutation shall be given. The following form of salutation may be used: I Give My Mead, (fingers touching the forehead) My Heart, (hand resting over the hean) And This Right Hand, (hand ex tended, palm upward) For God, (looking upward, point ing upward) And Home, (hands clasped in front) And Native Land, (arma evtcnded) One Country! One Language! (che hands resting at sides) One Flag! (suddenly point to the flag) One God! To Whom Le Praise Forever More! (looking up ward-hand pointing upward) A Standard Leaver may step to the front and hold the flag aloft while the salutation is given. Appoint a committee on patriotic service. This committee should have a representative for each de partment. The temperance superin tendent should be a member and, if a 'live wire," could be made the chairman. The committee on Pa triotic Service should plan and super vise all patriotic activities of the ?school and be the channel of com Imunicatioo and co-operation with other organizations. The Red Cross Society, The Council of Defense, The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union, The Y- M. C. A., and Y. W. C. A. are sources of helpful suggestions. 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 MEN'S GENUINE (36 Co. unce than ica except rates with li ty clause ie United Insurance Co. is one hundred and seven (107) years old. Writes more Fire In surance than any tire insurance company in America. You will be perfectly safe with a Hartford Fire Policy. Agt. E. J. NORRIS, Agt. Telephone Courtesy The people who get the greatest amount of good out of their telephone are those who talk over it as though face to face. Courtesy smooths out difficulties and promotes the promptest possible connec tions. The operators of the BELL System are trained to be patient and polite under all circumstances, but they will do better work if they meet with patience and politeness on the part of the telephone users. The fact that you cannot see the operator or the other party should not cause you to overlook this. The best results come through the practice of mutual courtesy. The voice with (be smile nins SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY J. J. Beach, Manager, Aiken. H. C. F. E. GIBSON, President] LANSING B. LEE, Sec. and Treas. The Best Time io Build is Now Free booklets on Silos, Barns, Implement Houses, Residences, etc., with suggestions of great value. Also "Ye Planary" service through the Lumber Exchange of Augusta. Ask for further information if interested. The service is with out cost. Woodard Lumber Co. Thone - - 158 AUGUSTA - - - - GEORGIA Quality-MOTTO-Service