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Official Organ «f
Franklin County.
Three Rook Par ies.
Miss Mattie Rampley enter
tdined at Rcok Friday evening
ir honor of her visitor, Miss
Ethel McConnt
Miss Iieene Little entertained
in honor of vistor, vliss Cl in
ent, at Rook Saturday after
noon.
Miss Effie Sullivan was hos-
tess at a Rook party Saturday
evening in h )nor of her guv ' S.
Misses Mary White and Erma
Lee v^rawtord.
Whatsoever A Man
Soweih That Shall
He Also Reap.
If you had just, an ordinary m x
fd scrub bushel of cotton s'-h i
thats worth 5<> conts to eed vour
cow. or sell to un oil mill mil y.p\
were to j nlant th -i an I in k? 8*1 *
worth of cotton then by; ami Veu
CO'’ld set a bushel of pure anti im
Droved sow’ I r So (hut * would
make #50 worth . Cotton and
VOU m
seed on the -wne hind, sain? work
ur.d foriiliver- ’ nnrwi or J >r " •.
pood trade to se'l or leed till _ .
merandbuv the latter wouldn’t
you?
Like Bezels Like,
You can’t anv in ore afford to
plant poor seed than you cm <if
ford to raise scrub ino-s or scrub
cattle or scrub horses and mules.
The man that grows the scrub pa VS
more than too price of a thorough
bred and still lias the scrub. -Ju t
s> with uny k ml «>f seed. vYnn
yo i plant h po r variety you a'ei
a poor crou h t,;? still h;ve vour
jiot r viiiu tv tv plant again.
Apply to U. 1). .\l<'Entire & Bro.
lot pure Cleveland Bisi' Bow! C’cl
tor Seed grown bv the Riedmont
Bore Seed Farm of Commerce. Ii,
F. I). 14, near li.i. i'av #1.50 per
"jus he I and get them earl;' before
the :U’plv is exhausted and po
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There must be a great many more
pleasant sounds than the whir of a
hostile airship immediately above your
happy home.
Although soldiers complain of be-
lng ccld in the trenches, the other
side would be glad to make it hot for
them
A Harvard professor has taught a
w’orm to turn to the right. Safety
first
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Through the center of the Zone, the amusement sec ion at the Panama-Pacific International exposition at San
Francisco, runs a broad avenue three thousand feet in length. It is not unusual for this entire avenue to be jammed
with entertainment seekers who are busy patronizing the one hundred concessions on the Zone. An exact repro¬
duction of the Panama canal is one of the popular and instructive features, there being a constant line both day
night of people eager to see the workings of the miniature canal. The premier showmen of America have
and of amusement, edification and instruction.
Assembled here their finest offerings
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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF FRANKLIN COUNTY AND ITS READERS.
CA R1S1 SV 1 1 ,Ul GA. FRIDAY ivn j h rr, »«. b.h.i.
city helped by newspaper
Prominent Man of Mobile, Ala., Gives
; Testimony to Good Work
by Press.
“The Mobile chamber of commerce
for the last couple of years has not
taken any page space in newspapers;
but we have had occasion recently to
have a great deal of newspaper pub¬
licity on several matters and the re¬
sults from it have been far beyond
our expectations.
“Within the last two weeks we had
a campaign for the raising of better
livo stock, which was commented on
by tho newspapers throughout the
&
States. Without this newspaper pub¬
licity our campaign would have been
for naught, as it was through the
newspapers that the interest was
aroused, and today everyone in this
section is talking cattle raising.
“Another instance:
“Some weeks ago we inrugurated a
movement to celebrate a day in honor
of the Satsuma orange, grown in this
section, which is a recent industry.
Our purpose was to advertise It
through the stores, hotels, etc. W*»
did not think our first attempt would
be a fig success, but the newspapers
!? 0k VP the matter wIth a V ! m> and
the attendance from surroundmg see-
tions was far in excess of what we
anticipated.
“This was all accomplished entirely
by the newspapers, and without their
co-oneration we do not believe we
cou - d have had such success.”—
George G - Card - secretary of Mobile
Chamber of Commerce.
IM PROVING THE BACK YARD
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Women’s Municipal League of New
York Is Making Elaborate Plans
For the Season.
Wasted back yards are to be im-
proved by members cf the Women's
Municipal league of New York. Sev-
eral cf the members have taken
courses in landscape "ardening to pre-
,
parq themselves for the work of plan-
ning other people’s back yards. Even
the tiniest space of earth may be cul-
tivated in some way, and where soil is
lacking, flowers and shrubs In pots
can be used with good effect.
A specimen garden is described by
Mrs. Robertson Jones, chairman of
the gardening committee of the
league. First of all, the back fence
Is to be painted green, and a garden
seat of lighter green put at the cen-
ter. Trellises for honeysuckle are at
either side. Stone jars containing
small box trees will mount guard
over each side of the path, with rows
of barberry bushes leading up to them,
This is an all-year garden, for the
honeysuckle leaves stay on until De-
cember, box is an evergreen and the
barberry bushes have leaves In sum¬
mer and red berries in winter. The
cost of this garden complete is about
$40, including labor, plants, painting,
bench and jars.
Members of the league are trying
to induce the owners of whole groups
of houses to install these miniature
gardens, so that each family may have
its own small rest-spot and play-space
for the children.
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Buy your subscription to Tie
Advance, at least, one null of it
rich recluse! died lonely
No One Really Knew Her Although
She Had Lived In Same Place
Many Years.
Kokomo, Ind.—Henrietta Dowell,
aged sixty-two, a recluse, died at her
home in the eastern part of this city
rocently. Although a resident here 25
years no one really knew her. Her
husband, George W. Dowell, died sud-
denly a year ago. He, loo, was ec-
centric. They had a large, handsome-
ly furnished home, but never enter-
tained company. No one except serv-
ants entered the home for many years.
After the death of her husband Mrs.
Dowell had no companions except two
dogs. One of these died early last
winter. She bought an expensive
coffin and buried it in the yard at
her door. She became ill several
weeks ago and w'as forced to engage
a nurse and housekeeper.
Mrs. Dowel! _ „ Jeaves , real , estate . . val- ,
ued at $30,000 and much personal
property. She possessed a number ot
diamonds and other valuable jewelry.
ihere is a box in the satet> deposit
vault of a Kokomo bank that is be-
lieved to contain gold com and jew-
elry. The heirs are nephews and
nieces, ten in number. One of them,
Mrs. Bertha Sendra, lives in Indian-
? olis \ Another Mrs Eva Craft,
1 lives at Monon. ne olher eight aie
brothers and sisters and named Craft,
bving in Saskatchewan and British
Columbia.
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COLLIE AIDS IN MILKING
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Cuts Cut M j| ch Cows From Herd
and Holds Off Calves While
Goes On.
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Gaffney, S. C.—J. F. Jamison, who
lives near Gaffney, has a collie dog
which is a most remarkable animal,
His master sends him to the
with instructions to bring up only the
cows which are giving milk, and Nip
will confine himself strictly to those
instructions. Then Mr. Jamison will
tell him to bring all the cows, and he
will come driving them all to the
barn,
In addition to this, when milking is
in progress Nip will seize the calf
around the neck with his paws and
hold it off while the cow is being
milked. The above information was
obtained not directly from Mr. Jami-
son, but from Sheriff Thomas, who is
a truthful man, and anyone who
doubts the statement will be liable to
arrest as soon as he may put foot in
Cherokee county,
A careful computation of the losses
of the opposing forces, as reported by
the enemy, would show that each
army is a minus quantity.
Now that the police dogs have ar-
rived, it is to be hoped their career
against crime and criminals will be
a howling success.
Probably the best way to find a new
na me for a baseball club is to sit in
the bleachers and listen.
The man who knocks his town has a
family that is in need of the sympathy
of neighbors.
What is an average man? The cen¬
sus bureau offers no information on
the subject.
long wooing ends in court
Woman Complains Man Will Not
Marry Her Because She Hasn’t
at Least >20,000.
Portland, Ore.—For 16 years Rlch-
ard Evans, fifty-three, courted Mrs.
Nancy Hills, wrote her endearing let-
ters and promised to marry her, ac-
cording to her complaint in a breach
of promise suit. Then only a few
months ago he broke her heart, she
alleges, by telling her he wouldn’t
marry because she didn't have at
least $20,000. Mrs. Hills sued for $50,-
000 heart balm.
Evans Is said to be worth $100,000.
In his defense Evans states that Mrs.
Hills signed a release from their en-
gagement three years ago in consid-
eration of a cheek for $1,500 and a
note for $500. The letters to Mrs.
Hills from Evans were generally ad-
dressed “Dear Kid,” and ended with
kisses. >.
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COUNTY LINE HALTS WEDDING
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Bride’s Home Located Twenty Feet
Next County Makcs lssui
0f License There Necessary,
Muncie, Ind.—Because Cora Edith
Sizelnve lived 20 feet from the Dela-
ware county Hne in Madison county,
wag necessary for her to postpone
her weddlng to Charles Ray Howell
of Cammack, Delaware county. Tho
couple applied at the office of the
county clerk in Muncie for a license
to marry, when it was found that the
bride’s home was not in Delaware
comity by a distance of 20 feet, and
that it would be necessary for the
j couple to go to Anderson to obtain a
license, the Indiana law making it
compulsory that a marriage license
be issued in the county in which the
bride is a resident.
JAKES FATHER’S GIVEN NAME
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He Has No Son and Wants Heir With
, Name of a Man, at Any
; Rate.
Terre Haute, Ind.—Having arrive
at the legal age of eighteen, Mi
Edith Isabel Teel filed a petition ii
fi ,'or 1P circuit court that <die Ro^d-o'] ma\ elnr><* i
nome to William
She Is the only child of William , -
Teel, a man of wealth, son of a foun
j 0 c Terre Haute and the laM ot
j ^jg >
daughter has talked about
changing her name for several y ars,
and has said that if her father cannot
have a son for an heir at least he can
have a child with a man's name. The
petition must be advertised once a
week for four weeks before the court
can pass on it.
Beans Wreck Kitchen.
Auburn, N. Y.—The kitchen of Wil¬
liam E. Bill’s home was wrecked
w'hen a can of beans exploded m the
oven, hurling pieces of the stov'>
through the walls. Mrs. Bills had for¬
gotten the beans.
REVIVING A IOST ART.
The appointment o a committee of
the Harvard faculty deviEe means
for improving the polling and Eng¬
lish composition of students will be
hailed in some quarters as the most
important educational movement of
recent time Spelling has well nigh
become a lost art in American schools,
and the efforts to revive it at this lead¬
ing university will necessarily have a
beneficial influence everywhere. The
action of the Harvard authorities is
taken as the result of the "careless
spelling and indifferent use of the Eng-
lish language” exhibited in examina-
tion papers, says New York World,
There is reason to believe that the
conditions are no worse at Harvard
than at other colleges. The irony of
the thing is that in the scheme of
American education, at which theor¬
ists and faddists have labored and
tinkered for generations, it should still
be necessary for a university to give
time to the correction of the omis¬
sions of primary school instruction.
In the pursuit of the "higher ideals” of
education, spelling was long ago rele¬
gated to the limbo of the unessential.
What today is a “spelling bee” to the
modern educator but a curious and
childish survival of primitive “little
red schoolhouse” methods? Yet if the
testimony of employers of clerical la¬
bor, whether of the high school or col¬
lege graduate order, counts for any¬
thing, there is no more urgent need in
education than the reform of the bad
habits of incorrect spelling and slov¬
enly English.
The coonskin cap is the badge of
pioneer extraction The time was
when the coonskin cap was to a rifle
match and turkey rafile what a col¬
lapsible silk tile is to the foyer of
Dclmonico’s restaurant, Fitness of
dross to occasion is a prime considera¬
tion, and the day was when early
piv-aecf OCC&BlM iB WHS tTAje
WOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION
Annual Clean-Up Exercises Have Been
Taken Up With Enthusiasm That
Is Commendable.
Tho good Influence of the painters
as a factor for health and cleanli-
ness is manifested in the statement
that largely through the persuasion
of the national organization 2,200
cities and towns have begun annual
clean-up enterprises, and this sea¬
son it is expected that about 800 more
will adopt the slogan. With 3,000 cit-
ies and towns scouring and scrubbing
pnd P n,ntin 8 simultanegusly it may
be said that the United States has
W* the habit of_ cleanliness .This habit
once formed w ill endure. It will make
fop a ,' ea 01 c °'”’ ry ‘
w 1 a standard , of . appearanco and
? am a ,on * IPt mus neccssari y resu t
the years to come in better citizen-
ship, through sounder health and a
more definite consideration for the
general welfare Washington has
been cleaned up each spring during re-
cent y Parg an( j j s proud ( 0 pave been
one of the first to go after the disease-
carrying fly and to rout out its breed¬
ing places. Tt has yet to acquire the
painting habit, but that will surely
follow.
Had No Chance to Grow.
Trees planted along (he main streets
of a Massachusetts city failed to show
any growth for two successive years.
Then some of them were dug up to be
transplanted, and it was found that
the trees had boon planted just as they
came from the nursery, with the roots
all bunched together and wrapped in
burlap.
Planning for Good Housing.
Architects and draftsmen have been
Invited to take part in an nrchitee-
lural competition instituted by the
commission of the city of Los
7Vn « ole3 to 8ccuro P lans for tenement
houses.
How Different!
"Just being mother’s daughter was
a great help,” says Jose Collins, “but
heaven bless tho critics!” There you
iye, boys—read It again.
Smiles.
If we cannot, strew life's path with
flowers, wrote Charles Dickens, ve
can at least strew it with smiles.
' as distinctive with coonskln caps as
Fifth avenue is distinctive today with
nigh and shiny “plug hats.” True, a
j I coonskin cap with the earlaps
turned up, yet lying off from the head
at about 45 degrees and with the tie
strings pendent therefrom, more re¬
sembles a war bonnet than a head-
piece of civilized man, but, for all
that, one can hardly do less than feel
a scri, of veneration for the coonskin
cap as symbolical of the traditions of
midwest pioneers, and so well remind¬
ing one of their sterling qualities. No
pioneer historical collection should be
complete without a coonskin cop.
A farm for the benefit of unskilled
workmen thrown out of employment
by the completion of the Panama ca¬
nal ha3 been established by the gov¬
ernment on the Canal zone. There are
now about one hundred men on tins
farm, all ot whom are earning a con
fortable livin; r ')r themselves. Nearly
all these farmers me crippled, sor.u
having lost an arm or leg or having
been incapacitated in some other way
for hard work. The farm grows ba-
nanas, oranges, cocoanuts and other
tropical products and is stocked with
cows, chickens, ducks and pigs. It is
managed by the medical corps of the
United States army. Each workman
is to have a life job on the farm,
In order to bo a leader in the arts
and sciences is it necessary for a na¬
tion to be a world power? The fol¬
lowing historic reminders are grouped
by the Los Angeles Graphic: j n
Caesar's time, the Romans went to
Athens to “finish their education." Al¬
ter Egypt had been for five hundred
years a Roman province, Alexandria
was the literary and artistic center of
the world. In the middle ages, the
little Italian city of Padua was the
seat of a great university. It was af¬
ter Austria had been defeated by Prus
sia that Vienna became the mecca of
medical students from all over the
world.
The secret of Methuselah's long life
is out He didn’t eat salt A Wash-
ington woman says people who ab
stain from salt can live from 150 to
300 years. Why didn’t they tell us
that long ago?
Keep a sharp lookout for tho man
who wants to sell stock in a gold
mine so rich that he has to shovel u
path through the yellow dust to reach
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ART OF CONVERSATION.
Somewhat superficial’y passing over
the evidence that the art o converr; .-
tlon Is lost, it is assumed to'consist in
examples of what pauses for coaver-
satlon as men meet casually, They
talk of the weather; they tala of ho
condition o£ business,, women talk
about the latest thing in fashions.
There are many words, put they me in
little. There is little matter Tom the
heart, and the soul of the old-uah-
ioned conversationalist, of whom - few
survive, is sickened by what he hears.
Well, but why? The answer must
concern itself with the prevalent Hab¬
its of Americnn life today. C nversa-
tlon taLys time, and American>, are
always In a hurry. Conversetk n is
based on broad culture, and the ru. 1 *-
ican tendency is to the praAic.'! in
education and “cut out the culture."
Conversation requires deep thin in ;
as a precedent condition, and the 'mb¬
it of the times is not toward d< ->
thinking, for the reason, again, tb
the pace is so swift that it takes 1
over the surface, and we do not a
beneath it What wonder that in such
a form of life there is no pause for
conversation in the older sense. Mon
and women content themselves with
saying, In the main, what has to bo
said. When they really do pause ami
take leisure for saying something
worth while, they do not find it to say.
Nature operates on a compensation
basis. As the old-fashioned fanner of
simple faith used to say, "If the Lord
gives us a late spring, lie will se; 1
us a late fail to make up for it.’’ Per¬
haps reverence should make one care¬
ful as to fixing the blame for the
visitation of „ dandelions, , , but we ,'
noticed that the yellow post,; are nop
nearly as vigorous as for the la;-t
two years previous. Maybe you rc-.all
the prediction of certain soil experts
that they would disappear as strangely
as they came; that they must simply
run their course. Much as a case of
mumps, we suppose, and then van sh.
Prudence forbids overassurance in
any sensible prophet, but anyone can
see this, that the dandelions : err. for
the present to be on the war. To be
sure, the crab grass threatens to take
its place, yet crab grass, like the poor,
.we have with us always more or .ss,
and it is not so hard to handle. Who'
knows but next year it may largely dis¬
appear, leaving the blue grass and
clover with the right of way.
, Consul Hunt, stationed at St. Etienne,
France, reported not tong ago that
casein, the principal albuminoid mat¬
ter of milk, is now obtained by elec¬
trolysis. The milk is heated to 800 de¬
grees Centigrade In a largo vat, in
which is placed a porous veso-el con¬
taining a 5 per cent solution of caustic
soda; an iron cathode is placed i tho
soda and a carbon rod serves or un
anode in the milk. Upon eo . ling
through an electric current the phos¬
phoric acid in the milk Is set free and
casein i3 precipitated. This is .much
cheaper than the old method of pre¬
cipitating casein by the use of acids
or rennet. Vegetable casein is now
being produced from the soya bean,
and it is said that this material can
bo put to the same purpose a3 annual
j j casein. Casein is now largely used as
a. substitute for ivory, tin to;.- ■ ; hell,
1 < elluloid, etc.
Recent reports indicate that ; ic' of
the Argentine wheat surplus will go to
Italy, Brazil, some to Japan and Aus¬
tralia This would reduc- :b < L n-
tlty available for the t .: 1 kingdom,
and for Europe. An English ror-
ity, in making a forecast of r :e-
ments of Europe for this r usoa, puts
down 320,000.000 bushels it the
amount expected from the United
States. If we were to send that u h,
by the end of the season it would have
extensively cut into home reserves.
“When does an amateur become a
professional?" a sport fun inquires.
Answer: Some of them when they
take money and some when they get
caught taking money for their athletic
achievements.
A scientist asserts that butter can
be made directly from grass, but epi¬
cures will probably continue to prefer
I the kind that is due to the co-operation
| °f the cow.
H--su¬
A quackless duck was ej^hibitod at
a poultry show. Taking the quae' out
of a duck must be as hard to da as
removing the stickers from a c Aus.
The c' ""3 .At ? icing is repor d to
be abat „. 3 old-time auction*
«er use to nay, -.'he nest y will
i bo eomuthiiig else,” t