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Often The Kidneys Are
Weakened by Over-Work.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
Weak and unhealthy kidneys are re
sponsible for much sicknes and suffering,
n therefore, if kidney
ty-Cigi- Xjff'tjS trouble i:> permitted to
fl r< .til i nu<- < crious re
cults ar> met likely
sUtj I IXTzyf to follow. Your other
• .-)*/ JYw L organs ray need at
rP )r ' V tention, but your kid
-1 I ncys most, because
they do most and
,>>l yl* 7 * should have attention
——— C first. Therefore, when
your kidneys are weak or out of order,
you can understand how quickly your en
tire body is affected and how every organ
seems to fail to do its duty.
If yon are sick or " feel badly,” begin
taking the great kidney remedy, Dr.
Kilmer’s Sv oup-Root. A trial will con
vince you of its great merit.
Tile mild and immediate effect of
Swamp-Root, the great kidney and
bladder remedy, is soon realized. It
stands the highest because its remarkable
health restoring j>rot>ertics have been
proven i;i thousands of the most distress
ing cases. If you need a medicine you
should have the best. j
Sold I v druggist-, in
fifty c< nt and one dol
lar sizes. You may
have a sample bottle
by mail free, also a
pamphlet telling yon n.L "
how to Imd out if you have, kidney or
bladder trouble. Mention this pajier
wlnm writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. Don’t make any mis
take, but rememb r the name, Swamp-
Root, and don't let a dealer sell you
something in place of Swamp-Root—if
you do you will be disappointed.
EXCURSION RATES
Via Central of Georgia Railway.
TO ALBANY. GA., ami rtdiirn
account District Grand Lodge
Nu. is G. I . O. (). ]•'. to be held
Aiignist 10-13. 1909. Tickets on
sale from points in Georgia.
TO BLACK MOUNTAIN. N.
; nd return, account, Young Peo
ples' M is.sioliarv Movement to be
held July 2-11,'1909
'l’o BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.U.
ami return, account Montreat
( hautauqua and Religious as
semblies Io be held July l.i-Au
g. st 31. 1909.
'lO DENVER, COL Pueblo-
Colorado Springs and return ac
count National association, to be
held at Denver, < 01., July 9 to 31
TO LOS ANGELES, CAI.., Port
land, Oreg.U., Seattle, Wash..
San (•'i.’ineiseo, < al., San Diego,
< al., account Alaska-Yiikon-Paeif
ic Exposition and various other
special occasions.
TO ST. PAI L, MINX., ami re
turn account Interm tional Con
vention United Sic.lty of Chris
ti.ms Endeavor to la held July
7-12, 19(19.
Eor full information in regard
to rates, dates of sale, limits,
scheduh s. <■(<., apply Io nearest
ticket agent
Central of Georgia Railway will
sell ten-day tickets Summerville
to Tyhee and return, every Sat
urday, May 27th to August 21st,
1909, inclusive, at rate of $12.00.
.Summer Excursion tickets will
also be on sale to principal re
sorts in the United States and
Canada.
Eor further information call on
L. P. Wood, Ticket Agent, or ad
dress J. ('. Haile, General Pas
senger Agent, Savannah, Georgia
Sleep
Sleep is nature’s re
building period, when the
energy used by the brain,
muscles and organs is re
newed. I f you lose sleep,
your system is rollbed of
the strength sleep should
give. Continued loss of
sleep multiplies this loss
until you become a phys
ical wreck. Dr. Miles’
Nervine quiets the irri
tated nerves and brings
re f reshit tg. in vigora ting
sleep. Nervine contains
no opiates, and therefor
leaves no bad after-effects.
•’For over two yeap I suffered un
told rt ’iit-s, ruy fiund.- thought I
wmj crnxj ! could hot bleep
noi r* M ut all 1 tri< d ditT« :vt»t d*.»e
tor*. but f.t;'«d to Hid relit f. My
head would t he all thv tiu l was
like one drunk could not < u titrate
my mini! <•* ! was so rv’ >?» mid
Wi • i«‘d ft w - .; * the
•’action Att-» t.dciiiK ‘H* ’• 'ttle of
Pr M>l< a N x • ! Mt !< t fully
Cb»nr«'d I o’o now on my third bot
tle .1 I am : •»!’ ‘ fu !
can In . ul.Ud.
•nd am ■' • t • ‘ » mi ” k ”
MRS MAY * i ill.
Your dru j t so x ' XUie*’ N-ry.
Inc. and we ;vl*.. t z on to re rn
price
to btn/it v
Miles Mkdivjl Cu alk ui. Ind
THE BOND SYSTEM FOR
ROAD IMPROVEMENT
Logan Waller Page, Director of
ihe Office of Public Roads of the
C. 8. Department of Agriculture,
appeared before state legislatures and
county boards in various sections
of the county during the past few
i >onths in response to invitations
to tell what methods are best for
obtaining funds for road construe
tion and how the roads should be
maintained after they have once
t een secured.
At the present time there are
two principal methods of raising
funds for these purposes, but. Direc
tor Page believes that before plans
arc s< t on foot for raising funds,
much should be said regarding the
manner in which such funds should
be expended. If the voters of a
county show a readiness to spend
a generous sum in improving their
roads, it is of paramount importance
to them to first ascertain what class
of roads should be constructed.
It should not be assumed that
simply because a county owns quar
ries from which trap or limestone
rock can be secured that the ex
pensive macadam road must neces
sarily lie built. The qualifications of
any ro< k cannot be definitely decid
d upon until laboratory tests havo
been held. Mucli money has been
almost thrown away in ibis country,
however, on the construction of rock
stti’faced roads, those having the con
struction in charge neglecting to call
the services of expert chemists, and
using rock totally unsuited to their
traffic or climate conditions. In
many, many eases, the result were
disastrous, the roads quickly ravel
ng and going to pieces because the
cementing value was lacking.
A county which shows sufficient
progress to bond itself in a liberal
amount for the purpose of securing
improved roads should keep its
money Intact until its officers havo
learned exactly what class of road
will best meet Its requirements;
what type of road it is best quali
fied to construct and what it can
best afford. Those facts can lie se
cured through the aid of the na
tional government, the office of
public roads standing ready to give
gralitious advice and to supply
skilled highway engineers who are
qualified to tell what, type of high
way would best meet, that county's
requirements and to demonstrate
those decisions hy supervising the
building of stretches of model high
ways. after which local officials may
take pattern.
Wideawake stale and county of.
ficials are now showing the liveliest
appreciation of the results which
follow a visit by these skilled men.
and the demand for their services
are so heavy that it is impossible
for Director Page to meet more than
20 per eent. of the requests being
filed in his office.
When county officers learn to ap
preciate the fact that road building
is an art, they will rely more and
more upon export advice and scien
tific demonstration, and when they
have learned what class of roads is
desirable they will construct them
and then guard them.
Therein Iles one of the most im
portant of all American highway ques
lions. Americans build as good
roads ns Englishmen or Frenchmen,
but having done so. they rest con
tented with their efforts and let
each passing breath of air. speeding
automobile, or drenching rain blow
or wash the road surface away.
hi the countries of Europe whore
the well-nigh perfect roads are
the pride of the citizens and the
envy and admiration of visiting Amer
leans, most jealous care is constant
ly given: a careful day-by-day in
spection is made and every depres
sion is quickly filled and all ine
qualities rolled or tamped.
Two requisites, therefore., con
front the county supervisors at the
outset —first to ascertain what roads
would be most suitable to that par
tienlar section, and to provide for
funds to expend in their mainten
ance after completion.
Those are vastly important and
the nation's very small percentage
of improve,! roads is due largely to
a failure to give consideration to
[them. Millions of money have
been wasted in building roads which
I local conditions made impracticable
I and out of all cost proportion to the
county’s revenue.
There are exceptions to all rules
I however, and Pike County. Alabama.
! stands as a glittering exception to
| the usual construction blunder. There
| the county officials had planned to
j exiK*ml a large sum in the building
of gravel roads.
W. L. Spoon United States Super
intendent of Road Construction be
ing sent to make an ins]H*ction of
; the county's road possibilities, learn
' <xi that 700 miles of important
I routes needed improvement. He fig-
J tfliil l Dr 1 (MMtt Oi kltHVt'j FOHiiS
would be 12.000 a mile —plainly a
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1909.
sum greater than the county could
be bonded for. Conditions, however,
were ideal for sand-i-lay construction
and he strongly urged its adoption, i
Dy a legal provision the county
could be bonded for only 3 1-2 per
centum of the assessed value of the i
real and personal property. The plan
was decided upon and an issue of
$143,000 was voted. One hundred
thousand dollars worth of the bonds
were quickly sold, being disposed of
in $50,000 allottments.
The first allotment brought a
premium of $625 and the second one
of $825. Forty thousand dollars was
at once spent for mules and road
building machinery and work was
started.
With the sum remaining, 118 miles
of the finest sand-clay roads in the
south had bion built within two
years from the date of the bond is
sue; a generous sum was still on
hand; eight gangs were at work, and
the people were so pleased that they
stood ready to take up the remain
ing issue of $43,000 and expend it in
the same way.
It. is the belief of the director of
the office of Public roads that such
facts should be impressed upon the
people of all counties desirious of ex
tending and improving their high
ways before actual work is under
way. When that has been done, he
is warmly in favor of raising of
funds by issuing county bonds with
the restrictions which the Virginia
Highway Law imposes, viz: that
all moneys so raised shall be spent
under the watchful supervision of a
State Highway Commissioner, be
cause otherwise the money may be
wasted.
Many farmers fear a bond issue as
they do the visit of the chinch bug
or the Kansas grasshopper, but the
benefits they derive from that, meth
od of raising money for road im
provement are far-reaching and im
mediate, while the individual tax on
each is so small that it is scarcely
noticeable. In reality, borrowing mon
ey through the sale of . road bonds is
like buying a house, a farm, or a
business on the installment plan. The
purchaser receives the object at once
and derives the benefits from it
while paying for it. As the bene
fits derived from perfected highways
cover long periods of time, fairness
and equity demand that the rising
generation should bear a portion ot
the cost and that the increased cit
izenship, always attracted to the lo
cality by a system of good roads,
should also aid in paying for the add
ed benefits.
Besides that, there is a financial
wisdom in floating county bonds for
road improvement. In many cases
those bonds sell at a premium, and
everybody Interested gains a benefit.
In some southern states good road
bonds have brought a price so high
that the premium has wiped out two
or three years interest on the prin
cipal. In Bradley county, Tennessee,
but a tew years ago, the supervis
ors voted a bond issue of $90,000.
Those bonds bore interest at the
rate of five per cent. So enthusias
tic were the citizens for road im
provement, and so much confidence
did they have in the locality in
which they lived, that the premium
was $20,000; the cash sales placing
in the county treasury SIIO,OOO.
It has been ascertained by the
Office of Public Roads the Bureau
of the Federal Census, and the land
and industrial dicisions of twelve
great railroads, that the building
of modern highways immediately en
hances the value of the property
through which they run to a mark
ed extent. This increase is estimat
ed l.v the most conservative at $2
an acre, and by the more enthusi
astic at $9. All concede, however,
that the increase is Immediate and
inevitable. Place the acreage of the
rural portion of a county, therefore,
at 200.000 acres and the increased
valuation due to the construction ot
uation due to the construction of
better highways at but $4.50 an acre,
and it will be seen that the property
holders whose land is to be thus
Lenefitted would gain not less than
$900,000. So great an increase in
the assessed valuation of a county
would certainly seem to constitute
a powerful argument in favor of a
liberal first expenditure.
Georgia has 7.000 common schools
with an attendance of 736,000 chil
dren between the ages of 7 and 16.
To make a mistake is not a crime
—it is the tangible evidence of an
effort to do something.
U hen a boy sees a stem light in
his mother’s eye he’ can face it
bravely unless he fears it means
the bathtub.
holey s Honey and Tar not only
stops ihrouie toughs that weaken the
! coustitution and develop consumption
but heals .and strengthens the lungs,
ilt affords comfort and relief in the
| erst cases of chronic brom hitis.
I asthma, hay fever and lung trouble.
I Sold by U1 druggists
WANTS PEOPLE TO
VOTE ON THE LAWS
The initiative and the referendum
are provided for in a constitutional
amendment that has been proposed
iin the general assembly by Repre-
Isenative Wright, of Floyd county.
Although this doctrine has been agi
tated in Georgia for many years, at
intervals, Mr. Wright’s measure is ;
the first of its kind to make its ap- |
pearance in the state legislature re- I
cently.
It is proposed to amend the state
constitution by reserving to the peo
ple themselves the power to propose
laws and amendments to the con
stitution, and to enact or reject them I
at. the polls, independent of the legis- ;
lative assembly. It also preserves |
to them the right to approve or re- i
ject at the polls certain acts of the
legislative assembly.
Relative to the power of initative
the amendment proposes that 8
per cent of the voters iu two-thirds
of the congressional districts of the
state shall have the right to propose,
by petition, laws to be voted on by
the people. Petitions of this kind
must be filed with the secretary of
state at least four months in advance
of the general election.
The power of referendum shall '
apply to all, except supply and emer
gency measures. It may be exer
cised when 5 per. cent of the voters
in two-thirds of the congressional
districts so petition, provided the
petition is filed within ninety days as
. ter the legislature adjourns.
MILLS IN THE SOUTH
Figures Which Show Great Growth of
Cotton Manufacturing
The Southern railway directory
lias issued a review of the textile in
dustries of the south, showing that
the growth lias been satisfactory not
withstanding handicaps which need
not be mentioned. We find from this
1 review that at the first of the year
the south had cotton, knitting and
woolen mills in the territory of the
Southern railway to the number of
851, of which 584 were cotton mills,
124 knitting mills, and 43 woolen mill
’ in all, these plants operated 225,210
’ looms and 7,738,000 spindles. In the
' territory ot the time of the gathering
of these statistics nine mills were un
ler construction.
In 1880 all the textile plants of the
south had but 667,000 spindles, bare
ly 6 per cent of the total in the Uni
ted States; now they are credited, in
1 round numbers, with 10,500,000 spin
dles —practically 50 per cent of the
number in the entire country. The
capital employed has grown from
$21,000,000 to nearly $300,000,000, and
the number of bales of cotton annual
ly used from 210.000. No other man
-1 ufacturing section ever increased its
spindles in as a large percentages.
1 South Carolina has 3,400,000 spindles
as against 1.400,000 in .4900, and
North Carolina in the same period
increased its numbers from 1,100,000
to 3,100,000. Notable increases have
also been made in Georgia and Ala
bama. During the last half of 1908
1 North Carolina constructed thirty
1 mills, a greater number than any
: other state. Os the cotton manufact
uung states South Carolina is sec
‘ end, North Carolina third, and Geor
-1 gia fifth, according to the latest avail
I aide statistics.
: Delay in commencing treatment for
’ a slight irregularity that could have
been cured quickly by Foley’s Kid
ney Remedy may result in a serious
kidney disease. Foley’s Kidney Rem
• edy builds up the worn out tissues
and strengthens these organs. Sold
’ by all druggists.
I
’ A claim against the government
for SIBI,OOO was settled in Wash
1 ington the other day. When the
1 lawyers and the costs had been
paid, the claimant got $19,000. And
■ that is about the way such things
run.
1 Some men would rather be wrong
1 It’s the supreme test of good nature
‘if a man can be happy w hile paying i
’ his taxes.
i
A hero is a man who happened to
be on hand at the right time and i
1 made good.
It is not necessary to borrow troub- i
le. It will camp with you if you will J
’ let it.
I To be trusted is a greater compli-
i ment than to be loved.
i Many people with chronic throat
' and lung trouble have found comfort j
and relief in Foley's Honey and Tar |
as it cures stubborn coughs after'
other treatment has failed. L. M. '
Ruggles. Reasnor. lowa, writes: i
"The doctors said I had consump- I
tiop. and 1 got no better until I
took Foley's Honey and Tar. It
. stopped the hemorrhages and pain ,
in my lungs and they are now as
sound as a bullet. Sold |y al! drug
CLOSING OUT SALE
I have sold out my place of business and have to give
posession Aug. Ist. I have a good line of Ladies
shoes and oxfords That I am going to
Sell at Strictly
Wholesale Prices
for cash. No goods charged to anybody after June
sth. Also I have some nice Dress goods,
Embroidery and Laces
A good line of Notions, all new goods that go at cost
I Have three 8 ft. Show Cases
Will Sell at a Bargain.
J. N. ALEXANDER
|The Berry School;
I ROME, GEORGIA.
4* ‘
j.n Tri A BERRY, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR J
* A Christian industrial school for country :
I Boys of limited means and opportunities !
I but unlimited determination and persever- I
t ance. Board and tuition $30.00 a term. i
| Bth Fall session begins August 31. Can- j
* didates for addmission should apply now. ■
I Catalog and application blanks sent on re- •
| quest. Address, ;
| Robt. H. Adams, A. m., Principal. ;
SUMMER EXCURSION RATES
To New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and
the East, Via Savannah and Steamships
The CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILWAY is now selling sum
mer excursion tickets to New Yo.k, Boston, Baltimore and Phil
adelphia, and resorts in the East, at very low rates for the round
trip, Summerville to New York $40.50, Boston $45.00, Baltimore
$32.00, Philadelphia $36.00, including meals and berth aboard
ships. Corresponding rates from other places.
Tickets are good to return until October 31, 1909.
For schedules of trains, throgh sleeping car service, sailing
dates of ships from Savannah, berths on ships, etc., apply to
nearest ticket agent, or address
C. W. CH EARS, D. P. A.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Chattanooga Marble Works
A. W. HASSELL, Prop,
“ Granite Monuments 1 ' ‘SJ
1149-51 MARKET STREET
V* e have Monuments in stock from SB. to $3,000
CALL ON OR WRITE US.