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How the Material Should Be Ap plied and Selected. -UNDERDRAWING IMPORTANT. jWith Proper Grading, Gravel Rightly Used Will Mako ?'Most Excellent ] Highways?The- Advantage of a Flat -v i r 5 "S?*I 1" j Roadway. Eren where gravel employed has been applied in road construction in Maryland owing to Its method of appli cation the roads do not always main tain their form as they should in wet weather. This fault is not usually due to the material emph /ed so much as to an entire lack of proper grrfding and underdraining. Merely to throw some (gravel over . a wet or spongy place ?without raising the level of the road bed or making any .provision for the drawing off of the water can never make a road which will not cut through and become muddy whenever the frost comes out of the ground. The water sinks through the gravel covering into the clayey foundation and renders the Jatter yielding to ihe overlying road, ?which pushes the wheels through the gravel into the clay or If the covering .Is thin causes the clay to be pushed up between the pebbles. With proper attention toward grad ing, underdraining and the shaping of SHOWING HOW GBAVEIi IS SOON DEPOSITED AT FOOT OP A HTMj WHEN. PLACED ON STEEP GRADES. the road before the gravel is. placed upon it considerable improvement may ibe made on almost any of the roads where gravel is obtainable, as it makes an even, hard and ifrm roadbed when supported by proper foundations. An example of the better 'constructed gravel roads is that extending from Marlboro to Washington, which was built originally as a toll load. - An economical f'.rm of construction' is to use the gravei as a support for a macadam surface where the travel over any particular thoroughfare would warrant 'such , an improvement The' crown or transverse .slope vof abroad, should only be sufficient to carry the surface water'to the gutters. On dirt loads where ruts are easily former ihe slope needs to be more than on a macadamized surface, but. never suffi cient to cause Inconvenience to travel. One inch to the fopt or seven and a half inches on a fifteen foot road will be found about right'A good macadam road does not ordinarily need so much crown, depending on the grades. On grades up to and including four feet per hundred one-half inch to'the fooc is sufficient; from four to and includ ing six feet per hundred three-quarters of an inch should be allowed. A trans Terse slope of more than one inch per foot gives too much list to a wagon "when at one side. The advantage of as flat a road as possible is the lessening of the tendency for the travel to keep to the center of the road and the con sequent avoidance of the formation of ruts and a horse path. ' There are many counties in Mary land where gravel of excellent quality Is abundant and where at the same time there is very little stone that is fit for road construction. The gravel, however, properly applied will make most excellent roads, far superior to any earth road, and, while not possess ing the wearing qualities of hard, bro ken stone, will answer sufficiently well for those country roads that have com paratively light traffic. ():> roads hav ing very heavy traffic it will be found , in the long run to be cheaper even at a very much greater first cost to use a macadam construction owing to the rapid wearing of the gravel road under such circumstances and the conse quently large expense for maintenance. A good- gravel can always be told when Inspected, as it stands in place in the pit. Whenever it is hard and compact in the bank and requires the rise of the pick to loosen it, it will form a hard and compact road. Gravel which contains a small amount of fer ruginous clay and has angular, rough fragmeuts of stone is,the best that can be obtained. Gravel mixed with sand or composed of smooth, -rounded frag ments of stone does not compact and form a hard, smooth road surface and is of little use except fur general fill ing. To get the best results from gravel which is formed of various, sized frag ments it should be screened, all pieces two Inches In size being rhrown to one side. There are found in many places gravel deposits which coutain few fragments over two Inches. Such grav el does not need to be screened, but could be spread upon the road directly | from the pit unless too sandy. The two Inch gravel is spread upon the roadbed to si] -b a depth that when rolled ir will have a thickness of three to four Inches. Over this first course is spread the second course, composed of the smaller gravel, with fragments one inch or less in size. The second ' G^ uiy "''.ook No. A Fa- Women."I It wii! give weak women .many valu able suggestions ->?' relief?and with' strictly confide- '1 im-dical advice is entirely free. Simply write Dr.' Shoo;:. Racine, Wis. Th< book No. I l 4 te' all ai oui Dr. Shoop's Night Cure and bow these soothing, heal- . ing, antiseptic suppositories can be successful!** applied to,correct these weaknesses. Write For the bcok. j The Night Cure is sola by Dr. J. G. Wann;1.make: Mfg. Co. j course Is. treated similarly to the first The rolling Is continued until any de pressions cease to be formed- When ever depressions are noticed during the rolling materials should immediately be spread upon such places and the rolling continued until the surface is brr.:;:::t up to true grade. Tile gravel should not be dry when rolled. I." fur nished dry, it may be sprinkled or the rolling put off until after a rain. The top course should be about.three inches thick after rolling. Usually a gravel road does not be come Arm and hard until after a con siderable time, during which it needs constant attention. Each year, how ever, the roadbed becomes firmer and ultimately nearly as solid as macadam..' -;-: I rllNTS FROM MISSOURI. How \6, U^se the King Drag and Have an Ideal Road. In Missouri the rouds are really bad, and improvement by the King road drag has been taken up systematically. The following suggestions are from a bulletin by the Missouri board of agri culture: Don't drive too fast> Don't walk. Get on the drag and ride. Don't wait for your neighbors to take hold. They may be waiting on you. Don't wait for the big, grader to come and shape up your road. All you can do first will help to'make the work of the grader permanent Don't try to drag with one piece; use two. One will scoop out the hollows in the road and deepen them. When two are - used the one keeps the other up, aud soon the hollows will have filled and become level like the balance of the road. Don't wait for good roads uutil the city folks begin to talk about mac adam at public expense.. This wi'i cost from $3,000 to $?.0U0 a mile, and for country purposes, where there is uo heavy hauling, it is no better than, not as easily maintained as, a road proper- , ly made with the drag. Five dollars a mile .with a proper" use of the road drag,will ke,ep the ordinary country road that is properly drained, graded and bridged or culverted in first class .condition nine months in the year and make it a fairly decent road the other ?three months. But this cannot be done In one year-> or two. . The longer the drag Is %used intelligently the better the road , will--become until finally it is oval and smooth and hard and elas tic. This Is the ideal road, and noth ing but a road properly made with the drag or an asphalt road meets all these requirements. AN ASPHALT ROAD. ^ __ New Jersey to Experiment With Mix ture of That Product With. Dirt. The New Jersey state department of highways Is to construct in Mercer county an experlmental'mile of a new automobile road, the plans for which ?State. Road Supervisor Robert A. Mee ker recently obtained in Kansas City. Mr.-Meeker says the new..-metuod of constructiojn is simple and cheap, that it is self beslDg when broken and therefore practically indestructible, that It Improves with age, that it is mud less, noiseless and almost ductless and that it is not slippery even when coated with ice. In the building of the road the origi nal soil is finely pulverized, and then into this there is worked a mixture of hot asphalt, the whole mass being firm ly rolled in the finishing. Breaks are quickly repaired by traffic, the weight of wheels cementing them together. The base yields slightly to heavy traf fic and then regains its original shape. It is equally good for horses and auto mobiles. If the experiment proves a success, it is likely that the result will be a radi cal change in the road building meth ods of the state of New Jersey, with the substitution of asphalt foe the mac adam process now used. Million a Year For Roads. Connecticut still leads in the good roads movement as a state. She was the third to get Into it. New Jersey being the first, four years before her. and Massachusetts -the second, in 1893. Now Connecticut spends $1,000,000 a year, while the first spends but $600. 000 and the second "but ?100,000 less than that Connecticut spends the lar gest amount per capita for good roads by far, the only other states whose iri!\\ annual appropriations are larger being New York/with ?.".nrr).?!(?l. and Pennsylvania, with $l.S0y!00O. but both states are vastly larger than little Connecticut' Bad Roads, Indeed. It is no wonder that the grangers are speaking pieces In favor of better roads, as the mud is something formi dable on the country roads. At East Longmeadow, Mass., one of the churches was closed on a recent Sun day on account of the muddy condition of the roads, says the Hartford Times. A* Hartford funeral party, driving to Cromwell, found the roads impassable in some places, rendering It necessary to take to the fields. The milkmen and teamsters declare that they "never saw the beat of it," and the chauffeur who gots off the macadam Is entitled to a premium. The Cheapest Roadmaker. The "good roads without money" movement tb:?t has by means of Ring's split log road drag converted the slough holes of the "corn belt" roads Into m<>u,.| turnpikes is extending to the eastern states, where most roads are either very g^ d or very bad, says Garden Magazin Mr. King is arrang ing wirb the various state boards of agriculture to give a series of practical demonslnitious >>f the-use of his de vice on eastern roads where the suc cess of road dir ;ging is more doubtful because of sand and rock*'. '?Health Coffee" is really the closest "Coffee Imitation ever yet pro duced. This clever Coffee Sllbstitu t ! wasrecentl" pro lucedby Dr. Skopo of Racine, Wis. No! a grain uf real Coffee in it either. Dr. Snoop's Health CofCee is made from pure toasted graii;. v.iih malt, nuts, etc. Really it would fool nu expert?who might drink it for Coffee. No 2u or 30 minutes tedious boiling. "Made in a minute" says the doctor. Sold by A. L. Dukes. Sumtaer Scheine to Take Place of Winter Fixings. D?fNTY CHINTZ DRAPERY. The Desirable Thing Is a Combination o{_ Coolness and Smartness With Usable Qualities?Crystal Candle sticks an Artistic Touch. With' summer comes the question as to what shall take the place of the win ter fixings of the girl's room when it becomes a question of something that [ is coorboth as to feel and as to looks. Here Is where the girl with .the clever fingers, can do wonders with an ab surdly small outlay. The trick is done ; by following the hint to be got from "the dainty chintz draped rooms of our grandmothers' time. In .the shops can be found an endless array of dainty and artistic patterns in chintz, or, as it Is now called,-cretonne, for the very mod erate price of 20 and 30 cents a yard, and It Is a yard wide at that. Two widths of the goods can be taken and cut the length of the windows and then laid in- narrow box plaits, say one and one-half Inches wide. These are caught with the curtain pins that come for the purpose and have hooks to catch in the little rings of the curtain rod. These plaited lengths should be so hung that they form a sort of frame for the window?that is, not close to A COLONIAL DRESSDT3 TABLE. gether?and across the top of the win dow a piece of the goods about twelve inches long an ! as wide as may be necessary, plaited like the side pieces, is hung to finish the top. ? If desired, an ordinarily cut and hung curtain of dotted swlss or uet hung Tinder the cretonne drapery can be used and gives a very delightful effect The furniture uf the room is then to be considered, and the desirable thing is a combination iif coolness and dain tiness, yet with g?od usable quali ties. The same pattern cretonne should of course be used, and the vari ations to be got with it are countless. For instance, if you are not fortunate enough to possess u conventional dress ing tnMe there Is no good reason not to have an unconventional one. Any old table that can boast of a drawer and four firm legs will do famously. Cut the cretoune the exact size of the top of your table and from this drop your draperies.' The festoons of the goods are not necessary, but if they are not used the stuff should be plaited like the curtains and pressed to hold into place. Two of the crystal candlesticks that can be had for a song in almost any. little shop give a most artistic touch to the table. If in addition to these a few bits of china with flowers or designs to match the color of the chintz can be had, the effect is the daintiest imaginable. The mantelpiece or hanging book shelf then can be hung to match the curtains. This gives a stiffer, quainter effect to the draperies, almost an "art nouveau" look. Then if the bed is cov ered with the same stuff, bolster throw and all, the fortunate girl who lives In such a room will not be sure whether she has gone back to colonial days or has been transplanted to a fancy flow er garden. About Service Plates. "Service plates" are those used on luncheon and dinner tables between courses. The old fashioned way was when a person had finished eating from.ajplate it .was removed and the place left empty until another containing the next coir.-^e was put on. Service plates fill this gap, and it is not considered good form ever to leave a place without a plate. The butler or maid as he or she takes away the plate with which one is finished puts down an empty one, usually of a very fancy kind. This remains until the next course is served to each person. The service plate is then taken up and returned at the next Interval. Service plates are on the table at.the beginning of luncheon or dinner, ahd at that time the napkin is folded on them. ? - They may be medium size or large, preferably the latter. Leap Year. Love, I've been taught independence In every possible way. I do what pleases my fancy; I say what 1 wish to say. Whatever I greatly wish for I usually go ahd seek. And thus I'm getting weary of waiting for you to speak. My education Is over; I'm learned in many things. Then why should I have to linger and wait the rush of your wings? It seems undignified, very, to tarn' in meek suspense. I feel the pose is a crude one and want ing in common sense. My patier.ee Is swiftly oozing the tips of my fingers throii-'i. Indeed, 1 am far too modern to slacken my pace fe-r you. - And so you are given warning, my pret ty. lr>!'.pr'ng elf. That if you delay much longer I'll sim ply speak for m>.- If! Dort Barber, of Elton. \\':-\. says: ?-I have only taken four doses ol your- kidney and Bladder Pills and they have done for me more than any other medicine has ever done. I am still taking the pills as I want a perfect cure." Mr. Barber refers to DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. Sold by A. C. D?kes, M. D.. A. C Doyle AI: Co. When you bury a lie you may be ,sure it will have an early resurrec tion. A COMFORTABLE SEAT. Made From a Grocery Box and Lengths of Denim. For a bedroom a comfortable seat and shoe bos is shown in the cut and for its construction a box and some boards may bp employed.-. A: a <!?< .; a:.:'v i.ml a has tili'?" !:..;:. t ,'^hif... i."W':.!?H. i..g:? eighteen iucbes wide, or near:..- s.?. and to the top of it fasten a cover with binges. From two tongucd and grooved boards make the two sides and attach them to the ends of the box. The shape of these sides may be cut with a compass saw or a drawknife before the boards are fastened to the box. Across the back fasten a few boards with matched edges to form the back to the seat. These are to be screwed fast to the rear edge of the uprights. SUOE BOX AND SEAT. and as a result the frame will he ready for tbe upholstering and drap ing. : Line the box with heavy unbleached muslin, denim or other heavy, service able goods, ana all around the. front and ends form pockets of denim to ac commodate shoes and slippers. This can be done by taking a long strip of the material and tacking an end at one corner, using a pair of shoes or a single one as a model around which to wrap the material to deter mine the size of the pocket / Between the pockets secure the mate rial with a vertical line of large tacks driven well into the wood. Frotn a mattress maker obtain some curled hair and spread it on the seat over which the upholstery material is to be drawp and tacked Treat the back lu a similar manner and cover the uprights with upholstery material, under which a thin layer of sheet wadding has been placed. Across the front of the box arrange a flounce of the material, so It will hang evenly and tack it to the upper edge of the front boards just under the lid, and to cover the tacks use a piece of gimp and large headed nails, which may be employed on the front of the side uprights also. NEW, STAGE GOWN. Costume Worn by Mrs. Langtry In "A Fearful Joy." As all women know who know any thing at all about the origin of fash Ions, tbe French couturieres "try" t!:efr new creations on actresses first, nota bly in their stage gowns In plays of the present period. Mrs. Langtry's gowns designed for her by Parisian modistes for her part of Mrs. Arundel In "A Fearful Joy" are some of them quite wonderful, and all will be copied and in due time ap pear in different materials In this coun try. These robes are rich in gold and bold embroideries on thin silks and filmy chiffons, and they also embody both the empire effects and the serpentine swathing of folds about the figure. They also show wide sleeves that sweep pelerine fashion to the center of the shoulders and are caught at that point with golden tassels and depend ing cords. In the first act of "A Fearful Joy" Mrs. Langtry wore the evening frock illustrated of rose pink silk moided to her figure, and over this was a robe of suzette net showing heavy scrolls em GOWN WOHN BT MBS. LANG TB Y. broidered in gold. The sides of the net robe were left open and then laced to gether with small gold cords ending in tassels. The empire touch is given by the ar rangement of the gold embroidery, and the lace corsage is finished with a gold cord and tassels. The chiffon sleeves are of the pelerine type mentioned above and are held in the center back with more gold cord and tassels. The high waist is out lined by a fold of blue velvet, and in her hair is a similar velvet fold. A single black feather starts from the right of her coiffure and trails over her shoulder. The costume is interesting! in showing to what curious extremes ! the present fashions may be carried. ! A CaHfornian's Luck. "The luckiest day of my life was when I bought a box of Imcklen's Arnica Salve;" writes Charles F. Bndahn, of Tracy, California. "Two L'"c. boxes cured mc of . i annoying case of itching piles, which" had tm i bled me for years and thai fielded to no other treatment." Sold uuder guarantee a t Di. J. -j. V annama. er Mfg. Co., drug store. You do not help a lame man to walk straight by striking at his Wi al: points. LimD Peeled and Foot Was Like Raw Flesh?Had to Use Crutches, and Doctors Thought Amputation Necessary ? Montreal Woman Writes of Cure Seven Years Ago. BELIEVES LIFE SAVED BY CUTICURA REMEDIES "I have been treated by doctors for twenty-five years for a bad case of eczema on my leg. They did their best, but failed to cure it. My doctor had ad vised me to have my leg cut off, but I said I would try the Cuticura Remedies first. He said, "Try them if you like, but I do not think they will do any good. At this time my leg was peeled from the knee, my foot was like a piece of raw flesh, and I had to walk on crutches. I bought a cake of Cuticura Soap, a bos of Cuticura Ointment, and a bottle of Cuticura Pills. After the first two treatments the swelling went down, and in two months my leg was cured and the new skin came qn. The doctor could not believe his own eyes when he saw that Cuticura had cured me and said that he would use it for his own patients. I used two cakes of Cuticura Soap, three boxes of Ointment, and five bot tles of Resolvent, and I have now bren cured over seven years, and but for the Cuticura Remedies I might have lost my life. I have lots of grand children, and ihey are frequent users of Cuticura, and I always recommend it to the many people whom my busi ness brings to my house every day. Mrs. Jean-Rantiste Renaud, clairvoy- , ant, 277, Mentana St., Montreal,. Que., Feb. 20, 1907." SLEEP FOR BABIES Rest for Mothers. Instant relief and refreshing sleep for skin-tortured babies, and rest for tired, fretted mothers, in warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle anointings with Cuticura Ointment, the great skin cure, and purest of emollients. . Cuticura Soap (25c). Cuticura Ointment (50c). and Cuticura *tcsolvoiit (30c). (In the form ot Chocolate Coated Pills 25c. per vial of GO). Sold throughout the world. Potter Drug & Cbem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. .Mass. OS"Mailed Free, Cuticura Book on Skia Diseases. It Reached the Spot. Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large general store at Omega, O., and is president of the Adams Coun ty Telephone Co., as well as of the Home Telephone Co., of Pike Coun ty, O., says of Dr. King's New Dis covery: It saved my life once. At least I think it did. It seemed to reach the spot?the very seat of my cough,?when everything else failed." Dr. King's New Discovery not only reaches the cough spot; it heals the sore spots and the weak spots in throat, lungs and chest. Sold under guarantee at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., drug store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Programmes and policies are vain without power. , The World's Best Climate is not entirely free from disease, 'on the high elevations fevers prevail, while on the lower levels malaria is encountered to a greater or less ex tent, according to altitude. To overcome climate affections lassitude, malaria, jaundice, biliousness, fever and ague, and general debility, the most elective rcnK ly is Elec: ic Bitters, the great iterative and Wood jurifier; tl.c antidote to every form of bodily weakness, nervous ness, and insomnia. Sold under guarantee at Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Mfg. Co., drug store. Price 50c. Opportunity ? comes in strange guises; Bunyan's was a prison door. How Her Life Was Saved When Hit ten By a 'Large Snake. How few people there are who are not afraid of snakes. Not long ago a harmless little garter snake fell on the wheel of an automobile which was being driven by a woman. The woman promptly fainted and the car. left to its own resources, ran into a stone wall and caused a serious accident. The bite of a poisonous snake needs prompt attention. .Mrs. K. M. Fishel, Route No. 1, Rox 40, Dills burg, Pa.. t"lss how she saved her life when bitten by a large snake. "On August 29, 1906, I was bitten on the hand twice by a large* cop perhead snake. Being a distance from any medical aid, as a last re sort T used Sloan's Liniment, and tc my astonismeut found it killed all pain and was the moans of saving my life. I am I lie mother of four children and am never without your Liniment." life by running fro mtbe clouds. You never find the sunny side of The Judge Uses Forcible Language. Judge W. R. Simmons of Fincas tle, Va., told the reporter that L. & M. Paint was usuea on his residence in 1882, and held its color well for 21 years; he furthermore said that c years ago he was induced to use another paint and is sorry he did, because the other paint, didn't make good. The Judge will now always use L. & M. because he knows if any de-' feet exlsrs in L. & M. Paint, the house will he repainted for nothing. The L. &. M. Zinc hardens the L. j & M. White Lead and makes L. & M. Paint wear like iron for 10 to 15 years. Actual cost or L. & M. about $1.20 per gallon. Donations of L. &. M.! made to eh irches. Sol'' by L C. Wannamaker Mfg. Co, Craug< iiurtr. t and Lur.g Troubles. Pr X?. W Cotton Yields Per Acre W' The value of commercial fertilizers has been demonstrated over and over again by both government and private comparative tests. We stand ready to demonstrate to you at any time that the surest way to "in crease your yields per acre" is to use Fertilizers /Jk mi Hon. R. J. Redding, former Director of the Geor gia Exp. Station, is authority for the statement that "experiments made at this station show that well balanced commercial fertilizer applied to one acre of land, and well cultivated, may be reasonably ex pected to produce an increase of yield of seed cotton. At the present price of cotton this would mean a large extra profit (for both iint and seed), after deducting the price for fertilizer." You'll find reports of many other comparative tests, together with much valuable information con cerning land culture in the new Virginia-Carolina Year Book or Almanac. Ask you local fertilizer dealer for a copy?or we'll send you one free, if you write our nearest sales oSice. Ggf i ^%J%^^ Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. Richmond, Va. Norioik, Va. Columbia, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. ' Savannah, Ga. Durham, N.C. Charleston, S. C. Baltimore, Md. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. PIKE'S lisuner irarauw Sale. Beautiful figured muslines.5c. Best 10c chambrey.0*2 Apron Gingham.5c. 10c and 12 Jjjc Musline. . .8 1-3 best. Dotted Swiss J2^c. All calicos. .5c. 25c Turkish Towels. . 15c. Black and Tan Hose 5c per pair. Ladies Vest. . .5c. Childrens Handkerchiefs 2*2cp>'ice .One Cent. Taper. Childrens Belts. 10c. black white and red. Good Towels :J(t inch.5c. Corset Coers 12i;>e each. Pants 15c and 25 cready made. Waist.25c. Boys 25c Duck Caps.15c. PIKE'S Next Door to Ceo. Ze*gler.21 RUSSELL ST. HARD *?y'Ui"iijay at fiis! !n puzzled to de ride what vehicle to buy when seeing so many different makes represented by as many diifrent prices and con ,si(!cr (his ,t hard proposition. You will hoivever !x- surprised how easy it is t<> make ? selection when examining all (he qualities together, as v. ? have I hem 011 display, and decide that the real "Hard Proposition" lay in selecting makes ivilh moit behind them to he proud of than these viz.: ??COi n 1 LAND," "ROCK HILL," "HENDERSON," .columbia," -WHITE HICKORY" und " LI ON " BUGGIES AND HARNESS iu all styles an 1 prices, sold on t<Tins to suit everybody. j S-, us before buving a?d save time and money. SIFLY AMD FRITH. THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE ?JT?S^ HONEY and TAR Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, Throat ?n the svents Pneumonia and Consumption yellow package Dr. \ C PUKES. LOW MAN DRUG CO.