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PLEA FOR WIDER ROADWAYS
Fourteen-Foot Road Will Outlast Three
Nine-Foot Roads and Is Much
Better in Every Way.
Have not our counties and townships
been wasting a good bit of our money
by building 9-foot roadbeds on 24 by
80 foot wide road grades? A 24-foot
wide grade is plenty wide enough for
ft 14-foot roadbed. Then why spoil
a good grade by putting on a 9-foot
road when it costs less than one-third
more to make a good job of it? Foui
teen feet is sufficient width for two
tracks; that would mean just one
half of the wear on the road. Then
we can drive so as to have a wheel on
each side of the center and that makes
one more track and will be equal to
a 9-foot road. So you see we have
three times the wearing surface on a
14-foot roadbed that we do on a 9-foot.
Then we have a chance to pass other
rigs without one or both going into
the ditch. Now this is claiming quite
a lot for one-third more expense, but I
think a 14-foot road will outlast three
9-foot roads, has a handier surface and
1b better in ever?' way, writes John D.
De Cou in Michigan Farmer. If you
come up behind a rig you have a
chance to get by. If you are driving
an auto you do not have to go outside
of the hard roadbed and take chances
on skidding into the ditch.
A 9-foot roadbed has but one track.
Where the wheels run it gets packed
perfectly solid and a heavy load will
crush all small stones into dust, and
the first auto that comes along sucks
it up on the front side of the wheels
and then blows it clear off the track
when they let go. This doesn’t seem
much, but when from one to fifty or
more go over the same track it soon
counts. Meanwhile, the horses travel
ing in the center with iron-shod hoofs
have kept that dug loose and it gradu
ally works out, leaving the road low
in the center where it should be high.
Then when heavy rains come the
ridges where the wheel tracks come
hold it in and it washes down the cen
ter to the lowest level, where it runs
off at the sides, cutting ditches and
causing a bad chuck hole.
This road is hard to keep in repair.
If you use a road grader or drag to
scrape the sides to the center the
wheel tracks are so solid that they
will hold up the blades and you will
do but little if any good. If you haul
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A Good Road in Michigan.
on more gravel it will not pack in the
center, but keep working into the
wheel tracks, making them still higher,
when they are too high already. If
our roads were 14 feet or more in
width, then the driving would be all
over the whole road, making a hard,
smooth surface, and by going over
once in a while with a road drag it
would keep the center high, the rains
would drain off at the sides and not
wash down the center, and there
would not be wear enough in any one
place to work or crush the surface into
dust to be blown off by winds or autos.
You can repair a 14-foot road at any
time, and it will pack and make a
smooth, hard surface, for people will
drive so as to hit the whole surface.
But not so with a 9-foot road. They
will all follow the same track, no mat
ter how crooked the first pattern is.
It will be better to build 14 feet or
wider in the first place, than to build
nine - ' feet and then wider afterward,
for it is hard to get a smooth, even
surface, because the new gravel will
work off the old, hard surface, causing
a sag on each side which will have to
be filled several times before It will
get solid enough to match the old
roadbed.
Means Better Highways.
Where the dirt roads are in ques
tion the farmers need not fear any
damage to the roads from the motor
car. Their coming means better high
ways and possibly state aid in the
construction of real roads of a per
manent character.
To Prevent Beetle Injury.
A good way to prevent young cucum
ber and melon vines from the attacks
of beetles is to set a box frame around
the plants and cover with mosquito
or w j re scr een.
EAT SLOWLY AND BE WELL
“Bolting” of Food Is One of the Chief
Causes of Disturbance of Digest
ive Organs.
Hurried and rapid eating, which
today is too common among all
classes of society, prevents anything
like efficient mastication, and as a
result the food has a very poor start
in the digestive process before reach
ing the stomach. It is always wiser
to take less food if need be and then
masticate that thoroughly rather
than hurry rapidly through a big
meal. There is no doubt that “bolt
ing" the food is one of the most
prolific causes of indigestion, dyspep
sia. headache and many other symp
toms and disturbances that might be
mentioned.
While prevention is the best cure,
there is every reason to believe that
the majority of people who suffer
from digestive disorders would de
rive great benefit by taking plenty
of time to “fletcherize” their food,
that is, chew it thoroughly before
swallowing. Thorough mastication
is also essential for the preservation
of the teeth, for neglect to use these
organs encourages decay and brings
about their early loss.—Dr. A. B.
Olsen, in Good Health.
LEADING ACTOR NOT THERE
Stories of Absent-Minded Folk Are
Many, and This Is One of
the Best of Them.
There have been a great many sto
ries about absent-minded men and
they are always enjoyable. This con
cerns a man named Rogers, who
lived in a small town and owned a
Jersey cow, which he used to drive
morning and evening to and from
the pasture, not far from his home.
One morning, as a neighbor was
passing along the road, he met Mr.
Rogers walking in the middle of the
lane, his mind apparently engrossed
in some weighty questions. The
neighbor called out: “Good morning,
Mr. Rogers. Where are you going?”
“Why,” answered Mr. Rogers, in a
surprised way, “I am driving the
cow to pasture.”
“Where is the cow ?” asked his
friend.
.dr. Rogers looked around vaguely
and then said humbly, “I suppose I
forgot to let her out of the barn.”
And so he had.
ROSY IN ENGLISH SPORT NOW.
It is rather amusing to note how
an English success at sport elates a
certain class of critics, just as they
are correspondingly depressed when
a foreigner beats a home athlete at
some pastime which we choose to
think is particularly English. Re
cently, for example, our English
golfers did well in three different
competitions—Miss Leitch beating a
Scotswoman in the ladies’ champion
ship, Batley and Holland winning
the Professional Golfers’ association
foursome tournament, and the Amer
icans falling down badly in the St.
George’s cup. Accordingly, all is
rosy with English sport for the mo
ment. —London Globe.
THE ONE PLACE.
“Where are you going for the sum
mer ?”
“I don’t know,” said the weary
citizen.
“Well, I can tell you of a place
where you’ll find no mosquitoes, no
noise, no inferior food; no fatiguing
requirements as to dress; where the
fishing is always good and the tem
perature ideal—”
“I know,” replied the weary citi
zen. “There is such a place. But I
don’t feel like starting for heaven
yet”
NOT AT ALL.
“Are your friend’s habits abstemi
ous?”
“Oh, no, sir, not a bit of it! •He
never takes a drop.”
GOOD WORD.
“How do you like my girl’s exe
cution on the piano?”
“Execution did you say ? It’s kill
ing J” ‘
A WEIGH OF VERACITY.
“How did Maud’s teacher find out
she had not been practising her mu
sic ?”
“'Her scales gave her away.”
AT THE THEATER.
He—The story Bangs told me
fairly took away my breath.
She (coldly)—I wish he were
here to tel! vou a story now.
MO LESS th,;n three kisses
.
Belgian E’-mert Decrees That Number
as Wife's Right After Three
Years of Marriage.
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' The court at Antwerp recently
had a divorce case in which the wife
of a rich manufacturer pleaded with
tears the neglect of her husband.
“My husband,” she said, “em
braces me no more with the effusive
tenderness he once exhibited. It is
evident to me that he is taking his
kisses elsewhere.”
“My wife,” said the husband, re
sponding to the charge, “is wrong
to complain, gentlemen. She has
such a hunger for affectionate dem
onstration that she makes it a pun
ishment to me.”
The perplexed tribunal took the
case into consultation and called in
an expert, whose report was decisive.
“The code,” said this authority,
“does not prescribe the number of
kisses a man should bestow upon his
wife weekly. In practice, during
the honeymoon, this obligation is
without limit. But after the first
weeks of marriage it diminishes pro
gressively. At the end of three
years, as in this case, the kisses could
reasonably be reduced to three a day,
one in the morning, one at noon and
one in the evening.”
The court, now being sufficiently
enlightened, rendered judgment in
favor of the husband.
DIRE THREAT
/a—
Harry—Accept me, and I shall
smother you with kisses.
Kitty—And if I refuse ?
Harry—Beware! If you refuse
I shall go to the end of the earth.
Kitty—And then?
Harry—Why, I will smother you
with souvenir postal cards.
GRATITUDE.
A Derby lady has just received a
legacy of SSOO “in remembrance of a
bunch of flowers.” Such romantic
rewards of little acts of kindness are
not uncommon, and some curious in
stances of the kind are given by the
author of “From Piccadilly to Pall
Mall.” Years ago a tradesman, whose
name is now a household word, .was
employed in a modest capacity in a
West end shop. While exhibiting
some delicate ware to the very first
customer he served he let it fall and
break. The customer, a doctor,
good-naturedly took the blame and
paid for the broken article. Years
later the salesman, now a wealthy
man, called on the doctor, reminded
him of the incident, and settled on
him $5,000 a year for life.
OLD FRIEND GONE.
I “I suppose you’re glad 1913 is
' past?”
I “I don’t know,” replied the man
( who is frankly superstitious. “Now
I’ll have to shoulder my own re
| sponsibilities, instead of blaming all
' the hard luck on the ‘l3.’”
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SUBTLE FLATTERY.
“Bliggins has a wonderfully smart
wife.”
“Why, he says she believes every
; thing he tells her.”
I “Yes. She is smart enough to
l make him believe she believes him.”
END OF IT.
Wife—l had a heated discussion
today with the landlord about the
furnace.
Husband —Yes, and that is all
there is going to be heated about it
SAME OBJECT.
Did you ever notice that a man
goes to a lawyer and to a physician
for precisely the same purpose—to
recover.
PROVISO.
Doing business in a small way is
commendable if the man doing busi
ness is not too small in his way of
doing it.
CANDIDATE FOR HERO MEDAL
Long-Suffering Pittsburgh '• Braved
Woman’s Rage and Scot. Putting
a Stop to Nuisance.
Maddened by the tickling of his
nose, the jabbing of his cheeks and
the menace to his eyesight from a
paint brush ornament which reached
from the hat of a woman occupying
the seat in front of him, a desperate
man on an Avalon car took the mat
ter of censoring the styles of wom
en’s hats into his own hands—or
rather into his mouth, for he grabbed
with his teeth the brush on the end
of the long, bare stick which was
supposed to ornament the hat and
held it fast till the end of his jour
ney.
The wearer of the hat was power
less to turn around and see the mean
man who thus had interfered with
the time-honored privilege of wom
an. She squirmed and twisted, but
the relentless man still held her
feather in bis clenched teeth, -while
everyone else on the car enjoyed her
discomfiture. When at last the man
left the car the glance she gave him
was one of mingled grief, scorn and
mortification. —Pittsburgh Dispatch.
MAKES FOR PERFECT DISPLAY
New Idea in Show Windows Seems to
Be the Thing Merchants Have "
Long Been Seeking.
A show window which renders ob
jects on display as clearly visible as
though there were no glass at all has
recently been installed in one of the
big New York department stores,
says Popular Mechanics Magazine in
an illustrated article. The new
“shadow-box” window eliminates all
reflection and thus avoids the com
mon and annoying fault in the or
dinary display window which reflects
sky, buildings, street traffic, etc.,
more brilliantly than it displays the
merchandise the store offers for sale.
The new type of window, which is
patented is divided into an upper
and lower light, the latter extending
to a height well above the head of a
very tall person, and each glass is
curved inward. The curve, which
has been determined after careful
study of optical laws, diverts the rays
of light from the street, downward
or upward at an angle at which the
diverted light rays strike a black
plate which absorbs them.
GERMAN WOMAN WINS HONOR.
Unusual honors have been won by
Fraulein Rachel Hirsch, who is the
first woman physician in Germany to
acquire the coveted title of professor.
Fraulein Hirsch, for the past five
years, has been the chief assistant of
Professor Kraus, and has conducted
a polyclinic for both men and women
patients of the university medical
clinic of the Berlin Charity hospital.
Fraulein Prof. Dr. Hirsch. which
will henceforth be her full title, has
not only been active in hospital serv
ice, but has also done superior re
search work in the fever and bacteri
ological fields, also in connection
with diabetes and kindred diseases.
SHOT PROWLING BEAR.
Mary Smith, a brave girl, of Glen
spey, N. Y., will have a fine bearskin
coat made from a bear of her own
killing. Bruin had been stealing
corn from her father’s corn field for
some time and she vowed that she
would get him. So, armed with a
rifle and an electric flash light, she
lay in wait for him at night. When
he appeared on the scene she flashed
the light on him, and taking careful
aim she fired and the robber dropped
dead. And yet if you read in books
of fiction about girls doing such
things you would say they couldn’t
be so.
SARCASTIC.
“I can give you any number of
five-room apartments with all the
modern improvements.”
“How suite of you!”
EQUIVOCAL.
“Did it cost you much to have the
kitchen range fixed ?”
“Well, I may say we w’ere under
grate expense.”
A TRUE CASE.
“The convict failed to effect his
escape because he forgot to hide his
file from the keeper.”
“What criminal carelessness!”
A FASHION HINT.
“How are automobile caps to be
worn this season?”
“I believe on the side at all head
on meetings.”
WITH HEAD TO THE NORTH!
Reasons Why That Position in Sleep
ing May Be Beneficial, Especially
to Those in Poor Health-
In answering a subscriber’s ques
tion as to why one should sleep with j
; one’s head to the north, Dr. Robert,
T. Morris in St. Nicholas says:
“Electric currents run north and
south, through the earth. An object
is said to be in a state of better elec
tric rest is its long axis is in line
with the earth’s electric currents. It
is my impression that the custom of
sleeping with the head to the north
was adopted before anything was
known about these currents. If that
is the case, I take it to mean that
certain persons are so readily af
fected by these influences that they
find themselves disturbed if they try
to sleep with the short axis of the
body in line with them.
“I have purposely made the exper
iment and have asked friends to
make it w’hen w r e were in camp.
None of us noted any connection be
tween our sleep and our position in
regard to points of the compass. We
were strong and well, however. It
might be quite different with inva
lids.
“The volume of these terrestrial
currents is not commonly appreci
ated. Drive any iron rod into the
ground at right angles to the plane
of the earth’s surface and it at once
becomes a magnet.”
GETTING OUT INTO NATURE
Pathetically Brief Time in Which Man
Should Prepare for Life
Hereafter.
It is not all loss to be driven back
to the soil, remarks the Universalist
Leader. It is not all gain to be even
an Adams in New England. The
burden of respectability is great.
Family traits and traditions are
sometimes stifling to originality.
Some people are little more than
copy plates of their forbears. There
is some comfort in venturing forth
upon the friendly road for a joust
with nature in a colored shirt with
out fearing the rebuke or frown of
some eminently straitlaced critic of
our vulgar ways. There is something
humorous in the remembrance of the
friend who is always genial in the
club, but never sees us when in blue
jeans we are sweeping the gutter or
digging in the garden. There is a
pathetic side to the existence of those
who do not think they are really
alive unless collar and cuffs are prop
erly adjusted. Naked we came into
the world. Naked we will go out
of it. During the little time that
we linger between these two door
ways to the infinite perhaps we shall
be wise to cultivate a little more of
the robustness which will enable us
to live in that great out of doors
which is certain to be our eternal
abiding place.
LATEST KITCHEN,
The sanitary and most satisfactory
kitchen lias glazed tile walls and the
ceiling is sheathed with pressed sheet
iron painted w’hite. The range has
hoods over it to carry off the odors
and heat and to make the room cool
and comfortable. The floor is of
cork tile or of cement, with strips of
matting laid upon it—these can be
easily taken up. A drain in the cen
ter carries off the water from the
floor after washing.
PIG IN A “POKE.”
Poke is an older form of the word
pouch or bag. The Celtic word was
“poc” or “poca,” whence also is our
word pocket. We have just been in
formed that “the word has come once
more to the'surface in the speech of
Alaskan prospectors, where poke is
•commonly used in designation of the
buckskin pouch in which their tak
ings of gold are carried.”
FULLY EXPLAINED.
Mrs. Bacon—What’s the matter
with Tommie’s face and hands?
They are badly swollen.
I Mrs. Egbert —You see, they of
fered a prize at his school for the
boy who would bring in the greatest
number of dead wasps and Tommie
i won.
ENERGETIC PROCESS.
“I shrink from studying this
question. How can I ever come to
a conclusion?”
j “Go to it!”
ITS MERIT.
“There is one thing which is really
magical about a cellarette.”
“'So many men use it when they
ire out of spirits.”
Summer Coughs Are Danger
ous.
Summer colds are dangerous.
They indicate low vitality ami olten
lead to serious Throat and Lung
i Troubles, including Consumption.
I Dr. King’s New Discovery will re
' lieve the cough or cold promptly
land prevent complications. It is
' soothing and antiseptic and makes
I you feel better at once. To delay is
; dangerous—get a bottleof Dr. King's
I New at once. Money
I back if not satisfied. 50c. and .s].<’(>
' bottle* at your Druggist's.
Exception to the Rule.
Briggs—“ They say that ‘two heads
are better than one.’ ” Griggs— “That’s
all a mistake. Both my wife and I
want to be the bead of the house and
it doesn’t work at all.”
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Ycur dfuggist will refund money if PAZO
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching.
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days.
The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c.
Constipation Causes Sickness.
Don't permit yourself to become
! constipated, as your system iir.me
i diately begin to absorb poison from
I the backedup waste matter. Use
I Dr. King’s New Life Pills and keep
• well. There is no better safeguard
against illness. Just take one dose
to-night. 25c. at your Druggist’s.
Draining a Metropolis.
London sewage has its main drain
age outfalls at Barking and Cross
ness the average daily quantity
dealt with is about 260,000.000 gal
lons, while the total quantity of
sludge collected at Parking and
Crossness is over 2,500,000 tons.
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Summer Constipation Danger
ous.
Constipation in Summer-time is
more dangerous than in the fall,
winter or spring. The food you eat
lis often contaminated and is more
likely to ferment in your stomach.
Then you are apt to drink mu<h
cold water during the hot weather,
thus injuring your stomach. Colic.
Fever. Ptomaine Poisoning r; and
other ills are natural results. J’Po-
Do-Lax will keep you well, as it in-
I creases the Bile, the natural laxa
jtive.whi.ii rids the bowels of the
congested poisonous waste.?’Po-Do-
Lax will make you feel better. Take
a dose to-night. 50c. at your Drug
gist's.
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How To Give Quinine To Children.
! FEBRILINE is the trade-mark name given to an
I improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas-
I ant to take and does not disturb the stomach.
• Children take it and never know it is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who cannot
I take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor
. cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try
t the next time you need Quinine for any pur
■ ?cse. _Ask for 2-ouncv ■'riginal package. The
I name rEBRILINE is blown in bottle. 25 cents.
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Infection and Insect Bites
Dangerous.
Mosquitoes, flies and other insects,
which breed quickly?'in garbage
pails, ponds of stagnant water,
barns, musty places.’ l etc.. are car
rier* of disease. Every time they
bite you. they inject poison into
your system from which -<»me dread
disease may r< suit. Get a bottle of
Sloan's Liniment. It is antiseptic
and a few drops will nemralize the
infection caused by the insect bites
or rusty nails. Sloan's Liniment
disinfects ( uts. Bruises and S • s
You cannot afford to be without it
in your home. Money back if not
satisfied. Only 25c. at your Druggist.
Week-End Rates.
Round trip week-end rates from
Gainesville, to all Gain< sville V id
land Railway Station*. Two train
daily. tickets *<nd every Saturday
and Sunday, limited to following
Monday. Two connections daily via
Monroe for Augusta. (Li., and va
rious point*. Coi n- al Athens
with. Seaboard. Central and Georgia
R. R.
I'. L. Mobley, T. P. A., W. B.
Veazey. Traffic Manager. Gaines
ville, Ga.
Land for Sale.
If you are looking for a home.
< to Bisl op Ga. S< < Fam
iii'ougii-Porter. Co., they can fit vou
up witii just what you want in
town lots or Farms, etc.
Fambrough-Porter (‘o.
7 Room Home For Sale.
The .Ino. Stringer place on Oak
Good 7 room 1 . enlarge lot, g
barn, well fixed up. For sale at a
bargain, on easy term-. For partic
' addressjf W<K)DR I?FFMA
( H ; NERY MFG. CO.
Windur. Ga.
Land for Sale “
A tract of S 5 acres, in Tadmore
Mrict, 7Jb niles fron <laini sville;
good 4-rocfm dw< g,|good tenant
house: good out-buildings; about 60
acres in cultivation, balance in
woodland and old field*, plenty run
ning water; good pasture: on road
leading to Commerce. For particu
lars, w ’ see" T. F. Colli s,
GiL-vil.’c. Ta..|Ro;ite One.
For Sale Cheap
130 acre farm. 3 miles Ea*; <f
Gainesville.dr*** H. L. G-.’ne-.
42 E. Summit St Gaine*ville. Ga.