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?^K?. JM& ?s "- - v- " \ m' ^ r v '<!$[ ' . '. . -.v'0& ?a'J+sJ*r-aL 'sC?>. JIC-JCWJ!>wU-' ' . -jui./i'i' (?5 SAVES LABOrj * W& SAVES TIME J/JS SAVES SOflPjW :* Putting War Gas to Good Use. Experts from the federal departmem of agriculture and from the war de partment will begin a series of experi raents in the South in the effort t< utilize a powerful gas that was usee v by the American army in the war it Europe. The gas will be used in attempts to destroy the cotton boll wee vil. the pink boll worm, caterpillars f potato bugs and other insect pests thai ravage cYops. It is said to be a by ,->f ?t)iirhorn rtina. |*& VU U?h 1# <r v BETTER THAN ASPIRIN A FOR EEABACHKS I,. o?M ? V tone, Free From Heart Depressing f Effect s??Do Not Upset Stomach. i Physicians and druggists are vers enthused over the new and improved aspirin tablets, called Aspitone, which do not depiess the heart. Tihey sa\ ^^that Aspitone is slightly stimulating ^ instead of depressing to the heart and fiipn/J flffnaniallir fnr Vioorl. uocu gopvviaiij ivi uvuu |Vache, neuralgia, rheumatism and Vother heart weakening diseases, sue*] W as influenza, severe coltls and threitr eued pneumonia. , Many physicians are substituting Aspitone for aspirin in all of their . practice on the theory that even il the patient's heart is strong, there is no reason to give a heart depressing remedy when the same effects may be had from the new Aspitone without the heart depressing effect. , , Druggists report a large demand , for Aspitone tablets on account of the prevalence of colds and influenza. They say that the ideal treatment for oolds is a laxative at bed time with one or two Aspitone tablets to control the pain, fever, inflammation and tendency toward congestion and pneumonia. Aspitone may be had at all of the leading drug stores everywhere in sealed packages, price 35 cents. It is sold locally by Gilder <& Weeks an-] ^ P. E. Way's Drug Store. (adv ) HAD GL. - UTURE Man in Seventeenth Century Saw Wondrous Possibilities In the r | Development of the World. One hundred and four years ago, at this season, the war of 1S12 was practically over. Peace was signed, at Ghent, on the evening of December 24, 1814; and then things moved fast, according .to existing standards. On December 26, one of the American secretaries left Ghent for London, and on January 2, 1815, he left England for New York, where"he arrived some time In February, and his news was im< mediately delivered to the citizens by printed handbills. Other cities, however, had to remain in ignorance dur: Ing the time it would take a fast rider to urge his galloping horse over the roads between them and New York. The teleeraDh was not yet invented-, although Joseph Glanvil, a seventeenth I century preacher with an interest in . the possibilities of invention, had told . the Royal society that "to confer, at , the distance of the Indies, by sympaI thetic conveyances, may be as usual to i future times as to us in literary cor. respondence." Glanvil, by the way. . also told the Royal society that "to those who come after us, it may be as _ ordinary to buy a pair of wings to fly . Into the remotest regions,. as now a -air of boots to ride a journey." Patti's Beauty Vanishes. | According to a writer in Everybody's , Magazine, "Patti lives, not only in our i hearts, but reallv, in Ihe flesh, at the age of seventy-six, in her magnificent p castle of Craig-y-Xos, ton miles north ", of Swansea, in South Wales, on which ' she has spent quite half a million ' She lives there with her third husband, r Baron Cederstrom, and sometimes, [ when they feel inclined, they throw L open their theater, a replica of the , Baireuth theater, to the countryside p' and give one of the operas in which ,Patti once thrilled the world. Until ^ recently Patti was even somen me* prevailed upon to appear at Albert hall 1 In London for the benefit of some char. ity, but her beauty is quite gone?it . j vanished far earlier than her voice? i and so for the most part she is happiest in her Welsh fastnesses among the neighbors, who will always call her the 'Queen of Wales.'" ' i ? ! Dutch Select Wireless Site. 1 ( The site for the wireless station In ,; tended for communication between tlie .{Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies ha.4 finally boon decided on. The Koelberg hill, which is S6 nirrer.-; high and located in Hoog-Buurlo, near Apel1 doom, was selected, according to the . Scientific American. A new railway line will he conL structed from Kaatwyk. ThevStation is to have four towers, each 210 meters high, a large power house and building for housirig the operatives. The " communicating station in India is to i be built near Bandoeng in the Prean! ger, so that the distance between the two stations will be some 11,000 kilo meters. I ^ - x.''. i <?x vi-" GATHERING". OF CROP DATA f Information Shewing How Thorough Is the Work of ths Department of Agriculture. An outline of the organization developed in the department of agriculture through more than half a century of experience in crop estimating, Locating the care and thoroughness with which government crop reports are prepared, is given in the annual report of the secretary of agriculture. For collecting original data the bureau of crop estimates has two main [ sources of information?voluntary re porters and salaried field agents. The voluntary force comprises 33.743 township reporters, one for each agricultural township; 2,752 county reporters, who report monthly, ox oftener on county-wide conditions, basing their estimates on personal observation, inquiry and written reports of aids, of whom there are about 5,500; 19 special lists of co-operators, aggregating 137.000 names, who report on particular products, such as live stock, cotton, wool, rice, tobacco, potatoes, apples, pen nuts. beans and the like; and 20.100 field aids, including the hest informed men in each state, wlio report directly to the salaried field agents of rhe bureau. The total voluntary statf, therefore, numbers approximately 200. (XX). Jin average of about G6 for ear-h county and 4 for each township. The reporters, as a rule, are farmers. Th*?y serve without compensation, and are selected and retained on the lists because of their knowledge of local conditions, thefr public spirit, and their interest in the work. All except county and field aids report directly to the bureau, and each class of reports is tabulated and averaged separately for each group and state. Girl Farmers. South Bethlehem, Pa., probably had one of the most active organizations ' of the woman's land army in the entire j United States during the summer just i ended. Farmers in that locality in ! many Instances reaped the largest : crops in history, and they praise the j conscientious and efficient work of the ! girls and young women who assisted , them as among the best help they ever had. Pitching hay is really a man's job, | but the girls on the farms near Bethlehem were ready to try any kind of i farm work, and made a fine record in i harvesting the hay crop. The work for which they showed themselves best adapted, however, was horticultural. They were invaluable in the truck gardens, weeding onion patches, picking berries, bunching asparagus and doing the various other odd jobs that must be done to keep gardens productive and neat. Saturday night meant a time of rest for the girls, and they celebrated with "sings" ordinarily. They also gave occasional vaudeville and minstrel shows and dinner parties. Many of them are college girls and have gone back to school, but others are engaging in other forms of work during the fall and winter season. I.Yv'ENTlOW GOT GOOD TRYOUT ?. Exp'o t of an Elderly French Aviator, With Particular Hobhy, Ha:? Become Legendary. I Ano'hor F.vnrh ollicer. recently pro moled r<> a very high position in avla ; tion. i:< a genuine character, a nuinero. S as they say here. He recently spent I many hours in perfecting a trick opti| cal sight. guaranteed to clown a Boche ! at any range. angle or speed. He j adored his invention, which, he adinit| ted. would probably end the war when fully perfected, and grew quite testy when his friends told him the thins was far too complicated for anything j but laboratory use. i A last. 1 hough he had reached a noni flying rani; and had not flown for . month*, he installed the optica! wonder j en a single-seater and went oat over I the lines to try it out. As luck would j have it he Tel! -in v*?th a patrol of eight | Albatrosses and the fight that followed 1 has become legendary. Boche after l Boche dove en him. riddKng his plane ! with ballets, while the inventor, in a ! ! scientific ec<tasv. peered ihis wf:v and j tnat tfiroiTtrn n:s sijrnt. aujnsnng set | screws and making hasty mental notes. > P.y a miracle he was not brought down. J and in the end a French patrol came i to his rescue. He had not fired a shot! At lunch ihe other day someone ask| ed what sort of a chap this inventor , was. and the answer was so exceedI ?? 1.1 L i. * 111 U im^iv r reneu inai l win rt*|?ruuu*:r ?i word for word: "He detests women . ?nd doss; he has a wife he adores and ' a dog he can't let out of his sight." A ! priceless characterization. I th'nk. of a testy yet amiable old martinet.? Charles Bernard Nordhoff in the At, lantic* Monthly. ! FEWER HEROES' NAMESAKES ' ' j One Popular Custom Seems to Have j Virtually Ended With Cleveland's Administration. ? - I- 1 s 1.1 .111 Americans are anauuonuix uit; <?u : custom of naming their children after ; the hero of the hour, according to the . ! New York Sun. Ar the time of the ; . Civil war and immediately thereafter i | thousands of children were named J ; Abraham Lincoln. i This custom continued about thirty^ years after the war. The last Araeri- ! ' * can president to be honored in this ; way by any large number of persons = was Grover Cleveland. The American | army today is jammed with - Grover j Clevelands, as boys born during the : great democratic administration are i '"ft- hnir r, f tli?j fWlCi * f)!TP ThP JUCl.UV" VI HIV, uuvi slump began during McKinley's term and has continued ever since. There are comparatively few Wil- j i Iiam McKinleys, and even Theodore j Roosevelt, with all his immense popu^ | larity, gained hut few namesakes. Pres- i ?. o ident Taft had only a small number of , , babies named after him. In time of ? war, such as has existed for the last r two years, it. woulu be imagined that , the custom would revive, but there has been only a slight increase. , Out of 43,000 births recorded in | Philadelphia in 1018 there were only 27 j Woodrow Wilsons and only 7 John ! Pershings, according to the records of I the bureau of vital statistics. i s Any Duty, Mr. Hun?> The Boche customs officer?or rath- I , er the former Boche customs officer? ! nt Mptr nrnhshlv will remember on& ! of the final "declarations" he accepted. . It was from the correspondent of a , Paris paper, who reached Metz ahead - of the French troops. The Germans still -were in the town they had held since 1S70, but in view of the armistice made no attempt to stop the correspondent from entering the city. Writing to Wis paper of his experience the correspondent told how no onf but the customs officer stopped | him, and continued: I I "The officer asked if I had anything j | to declare, to which I responded that j what I had to declare was: "' Vive la France!'" Cutting Down Work Hours. { Charles W. Runyon, clerk of the Martin circuit court, wno auencieu uie j meeting of county clerks and who is ; said to be the youngest clerk in the i state, has a daughter, Alice, just startI ing to school. I Alice was at a little desk Santa Claus i had brought her. She had apparently ; been in a deep study for some time I when she suddenly looked up and said: % "Mother, I have made a new resolution." "What resolution have you mv rpnlipd Mrs. Runvon. ' "Well, mother," said Alice, "I'm not j ! going to work $o hard next year as I did this."?Indianapolis News. Birds Steal Rides. Birds are fast taking the place of hoboes r>n the brakeheams r>f trains, according to John E. Sexton, president fif the Eureka-Nevada Railroad j company of Talisade, New Sexton says birds, especially spar- l j rfiws and linnets, are extremely lazy { I this vpnr. and instead of flying from ! the East to the West are riding the j brakebeams. j Citing an instance, Sexton said that j about 300 birds riding on a Southern j Pacific train passing through Nevada from the east recently flew from their , perches between the coaches when the train passed over a rough crossing. J Causes of Commercial Growth. The chief causes of the growth Ot interna dona*! commerce from less than $2,000,000,000 in 1818 to approximately $50,000,000,000 in 2918 are growth i ' in population, cheapening in transpor- | tation and a division of labor ajnoag J groups of men the worI-3 over ? i ^ ' ^ MV&AM Willi, VA Within Be there's solid cor you can't expect spruce fibre of 1 Beaver Board rn]j p_ j results unless this ?cdl, LOia ana S trade-mark is on or Other Wall bl the back of the , , . board you buy. YOU don t hfl ing Beaver Board quickly nailed to th or <^rect^y over 0*c Beaver Boarc >9BET< ^ust t^ie to ^ \WVw/ for the building of v| I ?/ space in the house In a new boo ' Farm Home," you1 gether with an acti Newberry Luit AGE After-The-W Affect Telep ? ?? - : ttt r . i While, tne nauon cident to winnin< subscribers and with the telephone servi< much as practicable in on the urgent business of th Now thp armistii t hostilities have ceased, problems or the reconstr equally as serious and wh patience for solution. The policy or frankne ticed prompts us to make ties under which we are that it will be many mor our service back to the si vailing prior to the Euro; The abnormal increas phone calls due to war < tor a greater number oi been diligently building i force. When this situati< last fall the influenza epi< our forces arid our losse are still alarming. As a i of circumstances, the per perienced operators is k serious shortage although graduating large classes Although our service causes the public has b have been able to hand seemed humanly possil promptly and operated plants required by the go and other similar institul The situation confront serious now than it wa progress. The public h; <*iAr> it? inrlinAr] fn * oiuu aiiu 10 iiivixn^u iv v once assume its pre-war our duty to make this fr you to continue the con whirli nrnvf?rl sn helnful nation's greatest need. We are operating th agents for the federal go pervision of the Postmast< organization is making a \ the service. Your cont encouragement will be a] Southern Bell Tele and Telegraph Cor Values Chagrin at $5,000. Dayton, O.?Dolly Zimmerman h suing the local street railway company for $5,000. She alleges that the con ductor gave her the wrong change an< that when she asked for the correc amount of money he called her i "vile" name. Her chagrin is wort! the amount sued for, according t? r^ny. Bk. - BEAVEfl _/"l FOR BETTER W <) > B OARD t, Hot or CoM l: r?i raver Board walls ?and ceilings nfort. The closely-meshed pure this good lumber product resists ound better than lath and plaster ailding materials, ve to depend on outside labor for buildwalls and ceilings. Beaver Board is e studding of new buildings or partitions i cracked plaster and dingy wall paper. 1 has endless uses about the farm. It's, ne your work shop and it's even better a beautiful new room in some waste klet, "Building More Comfort into the11 find many suggestions. It's free, toial piece cf Beaver Board, if you ask us. , iber Company NTS rar Problems hone Service i was under the stress incr the war. we asked our D the public to be patient :e and to limit its use as * der that we might handle e nation efficiently. ze has been signed and w we are confronted with uction period, which are lich will require time and ss which we have prac! it clear that the difficulnow operating are such . iths before we can bring tandard of efficiency prewar. ; , t?;? e in the volume of teleactivities created a need operators and we have lp an enlarged operating 3n was very well in hand Jemic played havoc with s from illness and death I r .1 i . result of this combination v centage of new and inex- * irge and there is now a v . i our training schools are i every month. has suffered from these een considerate and we le a heavier traffic than ; vl^ on/J incfall^rl JIU auu 11U 7 \y IXimuM^va efficiently the telephone vernment at army camps %\ tions. * ting our service is more s when fighting was in as relaxed from its ten~ expect our service to at efficiency. We deem it i . . . i ank statement and urge servation of the service during the time of our e telephone system as vernment under the sutr General, and our loyal patriotic effort to perfect inued co-operation and ppreciated. "Pa"y Medical Science. r think it is not an exaggeration to say that medicine, surgery, obstetrics and the many medical specialties have made more progress in the 72 years from 1846 to 192S than in as many centuries before. I am also quite willing to believe that the next 70 years \rill be .23 fruitful as the last 70 have been.?Haj. W. W. Keen, in the Yal? Ue*iew. i