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The kind that LOOK WELL, WEAR LONG, RUN
LIGHT and PLEASE
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We have made the buggy business a careful study for years and believe that
in position to give you the very best values to be had. Possibly you can buy cheap
er buggies than we sell—that is your firft outlay would be less—but, in the end you will find
a buggy that has only cheapness to recommend it a very expensive proposition.
Let us figure with you on your next buggy or surrey. When you have carefully looked
we have to offer and have heard the price we hardly think it will be difficult for us to trade with you.
We are sole agents for the FAMOUS LIGHT RUNNING ELLIS
“A Baby in Weight but a Giant in Strength.”
and The SUMMERS Orignal “Barnesville”
Buggy— None better at any price. We also have other makes and
various styles to please all tastes.
over
what
buggy.
Ask about it
Pin this m your hat: We have the best line of harness in South West Georgia and at prices that'
defy competition. We bought heavilv before the advance in leather and can save you money.
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JJD. HOLMAN,
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WAYS TO SOLVE
L DOST PR0BLE1
Hoads Gan Be Made "
Without Water.
ARTIFICIAL METHODS USED,
Solvay, Granulated Calcium Chloride
and Dustoline Have Been Found to
Absorb Moisture From Air and Keep
Highways Dustless—Can Be Sprin
kled on Roads by “Dry” Method.
At present the science of road build
ing, at least of building what may be
called general utility roads, is In au
important phase of its development,
says Good Roads of New York. The
methods that were satisfactory so lorig
as the vehicles passing over the roads
were drawn by horses have been found
inadequate for the construction of
roads capable of withstanding the
destructive effects of motor driven ve
hicles, and new methods are being
evolved. Meanwhile the old roads
must be adapted as well as possible to
the present conditions.
Excepting smoothness of surface,
perhaps nothing is more essential to
the comfort and well being of those
using a road or spending a portion of
their time in its immediate vicinity
than that it be free from dust.
Various means have been tried in the
endeavor to solve the dust problem.
In general they may be classed as pre
vention and suppression, the dividing
line being by no means easily drawn,
since suppression necessarily Implies
a measure of prevention. The pre
vention of the formation of dust is
more or less a matter of construction,
while suppression is the laying of the
dust constantly forming on the surface
of roads, i
Since the majority of the roads of
the country are earth, gravel or water
bound macadam one of the chief
phases of the dust problem Is the lay
ing of dust on those roads. It is gen
erally conceded that water sprinkling,
at least by the methods commonly em
ployed, Is not practicable for the ma-
TOP— ROAD TREATED WITH CHLORIDE;
BOTTOM—ROAD TREATED WITH DU8TO-
LINE.
[Courtesy Good Roads.]
rial in its granular form is Spread di
rectly upon the road and allowed to
dissolve by the absorption of moisture
from the air.
Dustoline is a transparent liquid of
a brown or plum color, practically
without odor. It is shipped in barrels
or iu tank cars and is applied directly
to the road without heating or mixing
with water or other material. Ordi
nary water sprinkling carts may be
used to apply it, or it may be sprinkled
by hand with a garden watering pot.
It acts as a dust layer by holding to
gether the flue particles oti the road
surface in a moist condition, thereby
keeping the road free from dust.
GOLD LEAF.
jority of such roads on account of the
frequent difficulty of obtaining water
near at hand and the consequent ex
cessive cost; therefore various arti
ficial dust layers have been produced,
many of them acting with water to
produce the desired effect.
As compared with water sprinkling
for dust laying, the use of the various
artificial palliatives is generally con
sidered the cheaper.
Chlclum chloride is a highly hygro
scopic and deliquescent salt. The com
mercial form, known under the trade
name of Solvay granulated calcium
chloride, is a byproduct of the manu
facture of soda by the Solvay process.
It contains about 75 per cent of cal
cium chloride and about 25 per cent of
moisture. • Its effectiveness as a dust
layer depends very much upon its
property of retaining moisture applied
to the road surface and absorbing
moisture from the atmosphere, thus
greatly increasing the effect of water
applied directly to the road, and also
making available that existing in the
air above It. It Is applied by either of
two methods, the “wet" or the “dry.”
By the first It is dissolved In water and
applied from an ordinary sprinkling
cart, a solution of from one pound to
one and one-half pounds of the mate
rial to each gallon of water being used.
The second method is especially ap
plicable where water Is not easily ob
tained, though It Is often used else
where. By this method the dry mate-
Made Now Practically as It Was Made
Nine Centuries Ago.
In an nrtlcle on gold leaf in the Mag
azine of Commerce John Mastin says
that just as the date of the discovery
of gold Is too remote even to be guess
ed at so is the origin of gold leaf lost
in antiquity.
On some of the most ancient mum
mies discovered gold leaf has been used
on the skin, tongue, teeth, etc., and
in some Instances on the coffins also.
It also appears on tombs, monuments
and the like, and, strange to say,
though gilding with-“thin sheets o{
hammered gold” and "skins of gold”—
otherwise gold leaf—was known to be
practiced at least in the eighth cen
tury B. C., the process of bringing the
gold into these fine sheets or “skins"
was, at any rate in the eleventh cen
tury A. D., substantially the same as
That used today, no advance whatever
having been made in the intervening
SPINDLES TO BE OLE.
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Fully 50,000 Operatives Are to
Thrown Out of Work.
Millions of spindles in the cotton
mills of the country will be idle for
periods varying from one week to 16
days during the latter part of this
month and the first half of September.
Mills in New England employing 50,-
000 operatives have already posted
notices announcing a further curtail
ment and it is understood that similar
action will be taken by many other
concerns.
In the southern states more than
3,000,000 spindles will he idle one
week in September.
A short time policy among numer
ous cotton plants in New England wfll
be continued during September, ac
cording to the present outlook.
SNAPSHOTS AT
CELEBRITIES
John Pierpont Morgan, Finan
cier and Art Patron.
further, that be planned the coup by
which Tennessee Coal .and Iron became
the property of the steel company. -
Now Mr. Morgan is going before the
committee, It .Is said, to tell his ver
sion.
Mr. Morgan Is now seventy-four
years old, but still vigorous and keen
of mind. He was born at Hartford,
Conn., and educated at Boston and ,
Gottingen, Germany. He entered bank- ,
ing business in 1857 and In 1871 be- ;
came a member of Drexel, Morgan &
Co., now J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., the !
leading private banking concern iu ,
America
© 1911, by American Press Association.
John Pierpont Morgan of New York
and London, art patroD, financier and
promoter of industrial combinations,
may appear as a witness before the
bouse committee investigating the steel
trust. At present Mr. Morgan Is In
Europe, whither he went on an art
collecting expedition and Incidentally
to see King George of England crown
ed. He was specially Invited by the
king to be present at Westminster, an
honor not shared by any other, private
American citizen or unofficial visitor
from any nation whatsoever,
John W. Gates, In his testimony be
fore the Stanley committee, said that
Mr. Morgan engineered the steel trust;
The French Scholars.
According to a recent college profes
sor, three French boys were studying
“Hamlet," and their task was to ren
der the soliloquy “To be or not to be"
from French Into English.
This is what the professor read on
the three respective papers:
“To was or not to am.”
“To were or Is to not” :rF ’
“To should or not to will."
Now you, my friends who study
French, can say to them “It serves you
right"
About the Sloth.
A sloth will feed on the leaves, buds
and young shoots of a single tree
without once descending from the
branches so long as food lasts, though
sometimes It will pass from one tree
to another If It can do so without go
ing to the ground, instead of walk-.
Ing on the branches It swings beneath
them with Its back downward. Its
coarse, shaggy hair looks like grass
withered In the sun and gives it such
an appearance that It cannot be readi
ly seen except when In motion.
Popular Quotations.
A writer in discussing popular
quotations exclaims: “How few, for
example, who quote the well known
sentiment, ‘Salus populi suprema
lex'—‘The health of the people is
the highest law*—know that they
are quoting the Roman law of the
twelve tables, or when they talk of
•leaving no stone unturned’ that
they are quoting the reply of the
Delphic oracle to Polycrates, or
when they talk of ‘calling a spade j
a spade’ they ki& quoting an anony
mous Greek c6mic poet. Thus, too,
‘There’s maiiy a slip ’twixt the cup
and the lip’ is a literal translation
of a hexameter in an anonymous
Greek poet. So is ‘The mills of God
grind slow, but they grind smalL’ °
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