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TO BUILD GOOD ROADS AIKEIN TO AUGUSTA Association Formed to See That This rdnk of National Highway Ih Coo * true ted Shortly. Aiken, April 7.?This morning the Alkcn-Augusta Public Highway asso ciation was organized in this city for Ibe purpose of building a turnpike irom here to Augusta this summer. Tb.o meeting was largely attended by prominent business men of Alken, Dorsecreek Valley and North Augusta und was very enthusiastic. The need for a good highway be tween these resorts has long been recognized, and it is now proposed to build the highway of sand-clap, the cost to be about $."?,000, a part of which has already been raised. The county commissioners are expected to donate a good sum toward the high way, anil private subscriptions will he solicited ll. M. Dibble was elected president; Herbert fcj. Gyles, vice president; J. W. Ashburst, treasurer, and Dr. T. C. Mtone, secretary. The following soliciting committee was named: I*. F. Hoi ley, II. M. Dibble. J. W. Ashburst. H. C. Whll don, I. W. Fowler. A. T. Smith. R. II. Gurter, Dr. T. V. Jones, A. H. McCar ? ?.II. W. A. Giles. The following executive? committee was named: A. H. Mct'arrell. superin tendent of the Bath mill: \V. A. Giles, superintendent of tiie Granitevillc mill; A. T. Smith, superintendent of I he Langley mill; Geddings Cushmau, member city council. The Organization enrolled 2", mem bers at the meeting. Evorybody In terested in good roads is requested to heroine a member. The first work of the organization, as its name im plies, is to build the AugUSta-Alkoil road. This wlil be followed with a general good roads campaign through out the county. The necessity of a connecting link *r this county in the proposed na tional highway inspired the move ment today. Life's Seesaw. "X-n ye find a heart that's weary. And that needs a brither's hand. Dinna thou turn from it. dearie. Thou maun help thy fellow man. 'Ft.on. too. hast a hidden heart-ache. Sacred from all mortal ken. And because of thine own grief's sake Thou maun feel for ither men. "Jn this world o' seesaw, dearie. 'Jrief goes up and joy comes down. B>OWS that catch the sunshine cheerio Hay tomorrow wear a frown, i.'eak December, dull and dreary, Follow^ on the heels o' May. .'?.'ve thy trust unstinted, dearie, Thou mayst need a friend some day." TALE OF WONDROUS LOVE. By Theodoro H. Bolce. Down through the cycles hoar with sge, Through all tho years of. storied time, lias come the talo of wondrous lovo Shown forth in sacrlllco sublime? The story of the Christ who came And for a time grief's burdens bore, Who felt the bitterness of death And rose to live forevermore. He came to lift a fallen race Borne down by sin and grief and care. He opened wide the door of hope For those who groped in dark des pair. He wiped away the mourners' tears And gave them eyes of faith to see The pearly mansions for them reared And (heirs for all enlernity. For sinful man he gave up life, And on the shameful cross he died, The crowning sacrifice of love Through ages to bo glorified. He broke the seal and bonds of death And rose in triumph from the grave. He reigns again as King of kings And welcomes those lie cnmo to save And so with eyes of faith WO look Beyond the shadows of the tomb And see the nearly mansions gleam Beyond the intervening nloom. We see the dear ones who have cross ed The vale and reached tho heavenly goal. And thought of fond reunion there Is giving comfort to the soul, Rejoice and let all hearts he glad! Let sorrow's tears he wiped away, ?loin in ho/annas to the Lord, Who rose from night to endless day. For he has triumphed over death, And lie has opened wide the door To that blight realm of endless life. Where loved ones meet to part no more. To kill Flies. London Lancet. Tin' London "Lancet," the leading medical journal of the world, says that the best and simplest fly-killer is a weak solution of formaldehyde in water (two teaspoonl'uls to the pint i. Place In plates or saucers throughout the house. Ten cents worth of formaldehyde will last an or dinary family all summer It has no offensive smell. Is fatal to disease organisms, and is practically non poisonous except to insects. Pyrethrum powder, which may be bought at any drug store, burned In the bouse will also kill the tiles. % a s t e v ?T L. N. lANDOLTH When TEaster. dawning first to light our earth, Reve&la In life a.new and wondrous worth, ._ When wondering voices criedi Our Lord is rtson. Immortavl love now free from Death's drear prison. Ail nature on that radiant Easter morn Sang as of old when morning stars were born, And angsl visions through the brightening year Proclatmodi The Lord is rtseni He is not here. Sacrod, bocause the place where Christ had slept, The tomb where Faith had watched and longed and wept Blest then aii earthly paths His feet had trod. Glorious for aye the highways of our God. And every Easter morn since that glad hour Nature repeats how broKen was Death's power. And tells how glorious dawn o'ercame the night. And shows the only Way to heavenly lighti Throughout the world, ell in the 'waKei^^g year. Recalling scenes we Know Christ loved when here, MaK.es such familiar scenes with meaning fraught They breathe again the truths the Saviour taught. For when the world's anew with verdure fair. And wafted fragrance lingers in the air. Who has not thought Christ Knew the freshening field To him its Hikes fair their incense yield. And since hemarhed them in their splendor clad. Their royal beauty has made centuries glad. When wayside trees spread shelters fair end green. We say He passed through many a woodland scene. Oft were His sacred words.impressive made Resting?far-wanderere? 'neath some grateful shade. When fields Of waving wheat. In whispers low. Foretell the harvest?later golden glow. Seed-time and harvest both, the voices say. Yielded their wisdom in the Master's day. From rugged mountain end the blaoK htlt-stde. Where straying lambs neve wandered far end wide. The Shepherd's sheltering arms have borne them fsurvet. Those barren hetgHts -ere they net holy ground? Life-giving sunshine end all-qutcKenlng rein. Forever maKmg heaven's bounty -plain. In blessed truths Christ gently spahe of you. We learned our Father's love, unvarying, true. And when the winds oome sweeping from the see. Their rushing filled with Life's greet mystery. Hearing the sound thereof? ohl passing strange. It tells from Death to Life the wondrous change. Through wave and tempest ohl how dear the voice. Storm-swept despairing? Still have faith, rejoice. Once more He bids the angry warring cease. In accents .mild now whispering calm and peace. Bright standard? of the spring again unfurled. And Easter girds with glorious .light the world. The radiance falls on paths that Christ once trod. And lifts our hearts "from Mature up to God." Some Faster Customs. * * * ********** * * * * Some of the old Easter customs are curiously barbaric, and even at the present time the observance of thy* particular festival is surrounded with more or less superstition, just enough to lend to it tho charm of mystery. Twentieth century maidens don bright yellow garters, secure In their belief that they will bo engaged before the year ends, others give their tresses "a hundred strokes three times" with the brush while thinking Intently of their hearts' desire, and who does uui take good eare to Wear her new things on Easter day? Among the earliest of Easter cus toms are the following: At Queen's college. Oxford, a her ring placed by the cook to simulate a man.on horseback is set in a corn salad and brought to the table. This is supposed to represent a red herring riding away on horseback and is the last vestige of the once popular pag eants of rejoicing. It was ertswhile a habit In English towns for the boys, after the Easter service, to run into the street ami snatch the buckles from the shoes of the girls whom they were able to catch. Kastor Monday, however. It was turn about, and the women chased the men. If the men refused to pay a sixpence or hapened to wear boots the women tried to snatch their hats, and to re cover a hat cost a sixpence. In some old towns great cakes were brought to church and there divided among the young people. A singular Kastor custom was that of "lifting and weaving." A man sit ting contendedly hi his home was sur prised by the servants and women of his household, who entered bearing a great armchair, lined with white and decorated with ribbons, and favors. The man was forced to sit in the chair and be lifted by the women, to each of whom lv> must give a sixpence. On a day in Easter week, either Monday or Tuesday, the man lifted the women with similar attendant ceremonies. Edward I. was lifted In his bed l? his ladies and maids of honor, and a record shows the payment made by him to have been some $2,000 in six pences. In older days In England monks at Easter acted plays In churches, the fa vorite subject being the resurrection. Not only were tho plays enacted In the churches on these festival days, but there was dancing, particularly In the French cathedrals. Even the sun. it Is said, dunes on Easter day. In Ireland great preparations were made for the last day of Lent. Holy Saturday, about o'clock, a ben and a piece of bacon were put in the pot. and at 12 o'clock there was eating ami much merrymaking. At I all arose to see the sun dance in honor of the ros Ul ieCl ion. Card of Thanks. \\e take this method of extending our hearty thanks to our neighbors and friends who offered their service and sympathy during the recent ill ness and subsequent death of our de voted wife and lovin gmother. Lewis s. Madden and Chlldre , Laurons. s. c. U. F. D., April S. I'M I. Don't forget that we are headquar ters for Refrigerators, our spring stock has arined and is the most complete we have ever shown, S. M. & E. II. Wllkes & Co. * ? \ Horse's Request. When 1 get lame, diseased or Hick, Telephone for the Doctor qutok: Don't experiment on me yourself With drugs from off the cure-all shelf; What's good for till is good for nothing, Their day Is past for even bluffing. It pays from a moneyed point of view I To keep me well to work for you, How would you like, when you get sick To be dosed by Harry. Tom and Dick? Don't force ddVu me what you can't take. .lust think of my stomach for goodness sake. I am not human so can not pray. Yet I dm told the Hood Hooks say To prosper and grow rich You must lift your dumb brute from the ditch; So phone for Doctor, master, please. That he may come ami give me ease, lie saved old Nell, and eased her pain, And she went back to work again. He treated old Heck and she came across; 11?' cured the Doctor's saddle horse Kverylhlng in his olllce is complete. So if any dumb brute should gel sick Hing for doctor and ring him quick, Our doctor is noble, kind and true, .lust like your doctor is to you, "The Fabric of Fashion" The most remarkable Silk Fabric ever woven in this country or abroad. A soft, lustrous, clinging Silk, most at tractive in appearance. Will give two or three times the wear of Taffeta, and is especially adopted for petticoats of the present vogue. Made of purest, unadulterated Silk, fast color dyes, and will wash and iron per fectly. As goods are manufactured in our o.wn mills, we know that quality will run uniform and can guarantee every garment to give an amount of wear that has hitherto been unknown in Silk petticoats. This Silk is manufactured by THE NEW YORK SKIRT CO. The cloth must be seen to be appre ciated, and we will be glad to show you this wonderful Silk in attractive designs of petticoats. Switzer Company Exclusive Agents for Laurens