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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.
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v BETTER THAN ASPIRIN
A FOR EEABACHKS
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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.'"
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! 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.
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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
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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
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j One Popular Custom Seems to Have j
Virtually Ended With Cleveland's
Administration.
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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.
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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
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^ ' ^ 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.
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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