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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 VOIU’ .....J wav reioi 31110 - n '. * J. U, M. Smith 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 THE “ZONE,” THE PLAYGROUND OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION 12 ! ---- C G--I CF" c -- 0 I; > I f 11!! l >-..... i JaJ ■jM. ?rrg m 1 1 ’M: i $ Ik A * % i I'l l ■, i 'li m ; "H f; - 1 I 5 m m A’* SSSSST ' i • c wm c v.J* if m fly MH 4 i l wmm !^: J Ill i : I iMM ii#* m Villii I > M X Ml ' 1 1 M I f %J m $ 4 A' £ a -.At'. S , j Si; m SSI MM® ; j > * A m m ;; j 3b -V-.- 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 Slje CamtsmUc 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 - 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. —»• 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. ’■ COLLIE AIDS IN MILKING - Cuts Cut M j| ch Cows From Herd and Holds Off Calves While Goes On. - 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. >. ----- COUNTY LINE HALTS WEDDING - 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 1 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 tfafc tfS-pWflG - T - -- ------ Official Organ «f Franklin County. 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