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pniuji to Jimpleftifc.
J. C. HEARTSELL Ed. and Pub.
VOL XII.
FOR GOOD ROADS.
Formation of Leagues in the In¬
terest of Better Highways.
A. Movement That Is Spread¬
ing All Over the Country.
A league in the interest of gcol
roads has beeu formed in Monroe
County, and it is to be hoped that the
example thus set will speedily be fol¬
lowed by all the other counties iu the
state. In October a number of iutel
ligeut public-spirited citizens met at
Chicago and organized a [National
League for Good Roads. In order
that this body may accomplish the best
results it is vitally necessary (hat it
should bo supported by local leagues
iu every scliooTdistrict The National
League has issued a circular of in¬
struction for the formation of these
local leagues. Any four citizens of
the same school district, or other local
division, upon application to tlie-Na
lional League—whose headquarters
are iu this city—will receive a charter
aud authority to Organize a local
league: It is the Intention of the Na¬
tional League to issue a weekly news¬
paper as riou as its financial condition
will warrant the outlay; Mcauwliile
the members of all the leagues which
may be formed will receive at a mere¬
ly nominal cost a good supply of read¬
ing matter relating to the subject of
good roads iu many phases.
We take it that these local leagues
will soon spring up in all sections of
New York and of her sister states.
For it is evident, as we have before
pointed out that the great general
public has bocomo thoroughly aroused
to the necessity of road reform. The
United States may “beat all creation”
in many things, in most things; but
wlicu it comes to roads we are no¬
where. As a rule our roads through¬
out the rural districts are poor, while
the means employed to repair (hem
arc distinctly unscientific and unsatis¬
factory. The country has made amaz¬
ing advances in a thousand directions
during the last half-century, but the
average road of today is not materially
better titan the road of the forefathers.
Realizing all this, the road reformers
have come to the front of late years,
aud they have already aocomplijj|pd
much by their well directed efforts.
But if tho reform is to be thorough, if
it is to benefit the entire country, if it
is to be pursued along the most ap¬
proved lines, if no serious mistakes
are to be made, there must be the
fullest aud freest discussion based upon
ample knowledge of the subject.
Hence the desirability of speedy
formation of local leagues. In a mul.
titude of counsellors there is wisdom.
Today a large number of persons iu
ail parts of the country have reached
this stage of road reform- they arc
dissatisfied with the existing roads—
they realize that the existing methods
of road improvement are mere make¬
shifts, but ihcy are ijot clear just
wiiat ought to be doue. The local
leagues would give these people an
opportunity to compare notes, it
would furnish them the information
upon which they could proceed to do
something in the right way, and it
would bring them in contact with the
leaders of the reform who have given
the problem much study. It is per¬
haps proper to add that it is stated in
the circular referred to that “mem¬
bers of theJocal leagues will not be
required to sign- any articles of asso¬
ciation or other document; they will
incur no liability of any kind, and
may terminate their membership at
any time.”—[New York Tribune.
The Paw-Paw.
“What’s the matter with the paw¬
paw for a fruil?” said a drummer of a
pickle house from Indiana who crossed
his legs and swung No. 12 shoes in
behind his heels at the Laclede Ilotel.
*
“The season’s over, to he sure, but it’s
the funniest thing in the world that
people don’t take more to paw-paws.
Another curious thing about paw¬
paws is that there is but one known
animal that eats them. Hogs, which
take in most everything in the fruit
fine, give the paw-paw the go by. I’ve
seen a woods pasture full of hogs and
paw-paws rotting oil'the ground. The.
possum is the only wild beast that
likes them.
“Do you know, I like a paw-paw so
SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COUNTY, GA. FEBRUARY 23, 1893.
much I’ve taken lh-j trouble to cub!*
rate a dozen big bushes in my garden.
They’re doin’ fine. They won’t stand
much hot sun, and I found out they
had bettor be planted just a little in
tko shade. When you’re on a hunt
for ’em in the woods get into a sort of
deadwiu’, where there’s high grass
and leaves and rotten logs on the
ground. [Don’t eat them when the
skin is green.
“They have a sweety, sickv taste,
then, which it takes cool nights and
sometimes a light frost to kill. If
you find a lot of green ones, make a
hoard under a rotten stump, cover up
lightly with leaves, and go back after
a few days to pick out the yellow
ones, -or better still, the half black
ones.
“They beat a banana all hollow.
When you’re out in the wood? hungry
they’re just meat aud food to a fellow'
Healthy, too—can’t oat too many. I
fo ‘‘ tl,c wlicu W 11 be culti '
vated as one of ihe most delicious of
all fruits.—[St. Louis Globe-Dem¬
ocrat,
Why Mountain Tops Are Cold.
The decrease of temperature expe¬
rienced on asaending to the tops of
the highest peaks of mountain results
from various causes; to say that it is
“because of the lofty altitude” is not
sufficient. To begin with, the greater
ratification of the air, which is always
encountered iy upward travel, neces¬
sarily diitiiuishes the absorbing power
of the air. The temperature of the
atmosphere is greater near natural sea
level because such air transmit! the
rays of the suu without decomposing
them, aud cannot, therefore, he heated
by them before reaching the surface
of the earth, where decomposition sets
in and frees the heat contained iu tho
sunbeam.
It is a well-known philosophic fact
that the air receives tho principal por¬
tion of its heat by what is known as
“radiation’’ from the earth, and the
greater the distance from average sea
level the less must be tho power of
such heat as a warmth-giviug quality.
Another, and perhaps the chief, rea¬
son is that tho vapor screens, which so
effectually tempers tho climate of this
country and...prevents the rapid dis¬
persion of the heat from the warm
earth, diminishes as we ascend a
mountain aud allows the heat to be
freely radiated, leaving only its oppo¬
site behind.— [St. Louis Republic.
The Myth of the Cliff-Dwellers Ex¬
ploded.
The fable of tho so-called Cliff
builders and Cave-dwellers as a dis¬
tinct race or races, lias been absolute¬
ly exploded in science. Tho fact is,
that the cliff-dwellers and tho cave
dwellers of the Southwest were
Pueblo Indians, pure and simple.
Even a careless eye can find tho proof
in every coiner of the Southwest. It
was a question not of race, but of
physical geography. The Pueblo cut
his garment according to his cloth,
and whether he burrowed his house,
or built it of mud-bricks or stone
bricks or cleft stone, atop a cliff or in
eaves or shelves of its face, depended
simply upon his town-site.
The one inflexible rule was secur¬
ity, and to gain that he took the
i * shortest” cut offered by his sur
rcuudings. When he found himself
—as he sometimes did in his vol¬
canic range—in a region of tufa
cliffs, he simply whittled out his resi¬
dence. In the commoner hard-rock
canons, lie built stone houses in what¬
ever safest place. In the valleys, lie
made and laid adobes. He sometimes
even dovetailed all these varieties of
architecture iu ono and the same set¬
tlement.— [From “Tho Wanderings
of Coehiti,” by C. F. Lutnmis, in the
January Scribner.
A. Dog That Fares Sumptuously.
The late Duke of Marlborough, so
the story goes, did not like dogs, and
when he married Mrs. Hammersley,
who had a pet pug, it was decided
that the animal, who was getting old,
should be left behind in the States
and “hoarded out.” Some fifteen
hundred dollars were spent annually
on the dog, whose home is iu Phila¬
delphia. It is, according to a loca;
paper, bathed every other day in hot
milk and fed with chopped steak. It
wears a blanket out-of-doors. Its
kennel has divisions for sleeping, eat¬
ing and bathing, the sides being glass.
—f Avnonaut.
‘TELL THE TRUTH.”
*• &AS5 J. a. KINO.
—Southern Stone & Monumental Co,,
MANUFACTURiER* OF
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Marble and Granite
Statuary, Monuments, Headstones, Crosses and
Building Stone.
Coping, Iron Fencing, lajwn Furniture, Etc.
IMG MARKET ST. : : : CHATTANOOGA TEN!*.
F. B. Bates General Agent, Dunn, Georgia.
•. «. WOODHUFft ESTABLISHED W. E. QI8BINA
1866.
W. W. WOODRUFF & CO. Y~ n
176 & 178 Cay Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
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HARDWARE.
Cutlery, Mule Shoes, Axes, &c., Nalls, &e. Locks, Hinges, Tools, Horse and
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
Genuine Oliver Chilled Shovel Plows, Syracuse Hillside Plows,
Brown’s Double Plows, Cider Mills, Straw emit¬
ters, Lawn Mowers, Corn Shelters, Hay Forks, Scythes,
Cradle and Snaths, Barbed Wire, &o,, &c.
CONTRACTORS’ SUPPLIES.
Mattocks, Dynamite, Scrapers, Blasting Powder, Sledge Steel, Drill Iron, Hammers, Shovels, Picks,
Tools, Wheelbarrows, and Black¬
smith &c.
AMMUNITION, SPORTING GOODS.
Parker’s Shot Guns, Remington, Baker and English
Shot Guns, Winchester and Colt’s Rifles, Loaded
Shells, Fishing RTfle Rods, Powder, &c. Shot, Lead, Fish Hooks and Lines,
SPECIALTIES. Mi
Sash, Doors and Blinds, Rubber and Leather Belting,
Circular Saws, Window Glas«», Fire-proof Safes, Wire
Screen Doors and Window iSe^rwfJS, Paper Bags, &c.
EVERYTHING ON WHEELS.
tain Buggies, Hacks, Phaetons, Mitchell Carriages, Farm Wagons, Spring Two Wagon9, Moun¬
Send prices. wheel Carts.
for Catalogue and
Special attention given to orders by mall. We respect¬
fully soiioltyour patronage.
W. W. WOODRUFF & CO.
(76 & (78 Gay Street, KNOXVILLE, TENN.
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BUILERS
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' All Styles and Sizes.
Hi’ghest Capacity.
‘ Long Tools Experience
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WRITE FOR CA TALOGUE.
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Manly Machine C0.,
mfl‘é‘c‘fifib‘ém, DALTON, GA
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Comical Ostrich Chicks,
Ostrich chicks are comical little fel¬
lows stripped with bodies. downy heads and necks and
The feathers are allowed
to grow without being disturbed until
maturity. The moulting time is in the
fall, when all the best feathers would bo
dropped plucked. were This is they not previously
not a very easy task
in the case of such a powerful and pug¬
nacious bird. One method is by driv¬
ing the victims, one at a time, into ft
plucking violent resistance. box that restrains them from
Another way is for
an attendant to grasp the bird’s head
and forcibly draw it to the ground, in
which position it cannot see" to strike
while being robbed of its plumage. The
wing plucked. and tail feathers alone HIV
Each bird yields - from one
to two according pounds, worth from $50 to
$300, to quality. They are
sorted at the farm and then sent to the
manufacturer, who dresses them for the
market. About oue-fourth of the an¬
nual harvest finds sale in California, and
the rest are disposed of in New York.
The natural colors of the feathers of the
male ostrich are pure black and spotless
white: while those of the female are drab
and white. The pure white is most
highly tailed in prized. California The very dollars finest are re¬
at ten a plume.
The more common kinds shade down as
low as on: dollar each. Boas are also
made of the black, white, and gray
mixed, and sold at from $35 to $75 each.
There is also a market for the eggs,which
bring about two dollars apiece as curi¬
osities.—[Scientific American.
The insur«uc9 companies have settled the
claims of the widow of F. J. Thrun, of
Marshfield, life. Wis., She said who had $59,000 insurance $11,000
on his she got the
which buried paid in the the premiums having from beeu a box attracted of gold
toAtetsps>tfeyaj»»U garden, biuejame.
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$1.00 a Year in Advance.
NO. 51.
DALTON, GEORGIA.
SELLING OUT AT COST.
Will sell all kinds of Furniture, consisting of Bed Room Suits,
Parlor Snits, Rocking Chairs, Bedsteads, Spring and Sofas, in fact
everything kept in a first-class Furniture House at cost. We are
offering Goods at cost in order to reduce our stock by the first of
the year,expecting to make some changes in our business.
CARPETS
Cheaper than ever, although they are advancing every day.
Cherokee Furniture Co.
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