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' and n fj The kind that LOOK WELL, WEAR LONG, RUN LIGHT and PLEASE we are 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. “Cash or Cred !l ” 11 JJD. HOLMAN, ia. 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. Bs . t. a i : gbbqk:;. 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’ ° 1 n m m I ,,iH