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r |- ~ r IIE question of good roads is
* I I * one that at present is receiv
^ ’ ing much attention, and un
*£“■ der the Public direction Road of Inquiries experts
of the office of
of the United States Department of
Agriculture sections of roads, as object
lessons, are being built in different
parts of the country. It is hoped that
before many years all roads in the
United States used for heavy traffic
will be macadamized, graveled or
otherwise improved. But the absence
In many places of rock, gravel or other
■hard and durable substances with
■which to build good roads, and the ex¬
cessive cost of such roads where suit¬
able material is scarce, will necessi¬
tate the use of earth roads for many
years to come, Under favorable con¬
ditions of traffic, moisture and main¬
tenance, the earth road is the most
elastic and most satisfactory for pleas
ure and light traffic.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has in press and will soon
issue Farmers’ Bulletin No. 130, en¬
titled, “Earth Roads.” It was pre¬
pared by Maurice O. Eldridge, As¬
sistant Director, Public Road In
quiries.
The bulletin states that the aim in
making a road is to establish the eas¬
iest, shortest and most economical line
of travel, and that it is therefore de¬
sirable that roads should be firm,
smooth, comparatively level and fit
for use at nil seasons of the year.
They should be properly located so
that their grades shall be such that
loaded vehicles may be drawn over
them without great loss of energy;
properly constructed, the roadbed
graded, shaped and rolled, and sur¬
faced with the best available material
suited to their needs.
Attention is called to various errors
in laying out roads, especially the com¬
mon error of endeavoring to secure
routes covering the shortest distance
between fixed points. For this pur¬
pose the«’oad is often made to go over
a hill instead of around it. A road
halfway around a hill or through a
valley is sometimes i-.o longer than a
road over a hill or through a valley.
The difference in the length even be¬
tween a straight road and one that is
lightly curved is less than many sup*
pose. ...
^^TnedrfrpOrTf proper - drainage
is pointed out and suggestions are
l^iven for the construction, mainten¬
ance and repair of earth roads.
The bulletin contains twenty illus¬
trations. It is for free distribution,
and copies will be sent to any address
on application to Senators, Represen¬
tatives and delegates in Congress, or
to the Secretary of Agriculture, Wash¬
ington, D. C.
Making a Good Hlgbway.
A good road can be made by putting
in a layer of large or medium-sized
stone, then on that a layer of crushed
stone, and on that a covering of gravel,
and rolling the surface down hard
and smooth. But that is not all that is
needed. A par t of the skill is like
the old gentleman’s rule for making
good coffee; When you make It put
in some.” AYo have been watching the
work on a bit of road this season.
There are about three inches in depth
of the round cobble stones, one inch
of crushed stone and one inch of gra¬
vel and loam mixed, which, by wetting
and rolling has been so pressed down
into the stones that it is now less than
a half inch. If it were whitewashed
after it was rolled it could not look
much better, but it might be more
durable. We think before one winter
passes the larger stones will be at the
surface and the covering will have
washed away or settled down below
them. In close proximity to a strip
built by the State as an example of
how to build a good road, it is likely
to furnish an equally good example of
how not to make a good road. It is
one of these cases, too common where
the town thought to give employment
to its own citizens, instead of hiring
the work done by contract, when it
would have been better to have em¬
ployed a competent man, with able
bodied help, and supported its cripples
from the town’s poor fund, than to
have paid them $1.75 for eight hours
loafing, or trying to do that which some
of them where unable to do by reason
of old age, and others were utterly in¬
competent to do well, while few of
them eared for or took any interest in
any part of the work, excepting uraw
ing their pay.—American Cultivator,
Au^omobiIi8ts , Good Koacls Club.
• Those who are compelled to cling to
cable cars instead of luxuriating i:i
automobiles will nevertheless hail
with enthusiasm the coming of the
horseless carriage as an evangel of
good roads. No matter how remote
may he its universal utilization as a
common conveyance, its hold upon
popular tl favor is assured, of improved because it
is precursor high
ways-
Of greater popular interest, there¬
fore, than the motor mechanisms and
varied types of construction represent¬
ed at the Coliseum, was the organiza¬
tion of a national club to work in con¬
nection with the Motor League of
America for the improvement of coun¬
try roads and urban highways.
The last two or three years have
witnessed the formation of a large
number of automobile clubs In the
principal cities, with large and influen¬
tial membership. The amalgamation
of these clubs iuto a good roads move¬
ment as contemplated by the organiza¬
tion launched by the exhibitors at the
Coliseum presages a vigorous and ef¬
fective campaign for improved high¬
ways in every section of the Union.
The automobile is certain to be a
most persistent and potent influence
in the good roads movement. Its de¬
velopment and universal use are de¬
pendent largely upon smooth highways
and as it grows in popular favor the
demand for good roads will become
more insistent. — Chicago Record
Herald.
Tlie Passing of “Central.”
A very significant innovation is a
telephone system that does away with
“Central.” In practicable and suc¬
cessful operation in Fall River, Mass.,
is a telephone exchange providing an
automatic arrangement whereby the
subscriber, by revolving a disk—some¬
what like the disk of a combination
safe—until it cheeks off the number he
wishes to call for, “rings up” the num¬
ber. Bringing the “combination” to
the first number in the series he wishes
causes a switch in the “Central” ex¬
change to swing to a certain group
of contracts; the next number narrows
the selection to a certain number of
contacts in the group; the last brings
it to the identical spot required. The
caller then pushes a button and the
connection is established. If the line
is busy, a buzzing noise gives him
warning.
The cost of maintaining the mechani¬
cal art of the system has not increased.
And though it works hardship to dis¬
charged employes, the system econo¬
mizes in wages, for, with the exception
of necessary bookkeepers and a few
attendants to see that things run on
without hitches, a force of work-people
is not required. Indeed, on Sundays
and during the night while the ex¬
change is locked, the instruments con¬
tinue making their connections without
supervision. Privacy is secured.
Cheapness is secured. The automatic
telephone means another step in the
elimination of middlemen and the au¬
tomatizing of life.—The World’s Work.
-S.—EaBg^irtfc^Ses'of Empire.
A compilation of considerable in¬
terest has just bceu brought out by
Dr. It. N. Gust, DL.D., the well-known
Oriental scholar,says the London News.
It takes the form of a complete list
of the languages and dialects spoken
and written in the British Empire at
the close of tlie nineteenth century.
The total number of these is 204, of
which eighty-five are furnished by
Asia, fifty-eight by Africa and thirty
by Oceania. Among the tongues in¬
cluded in this list are many which are
decidedly^ unfamiliar to the “man in
the street.” India, for example, fur¬
nishes Khowar (Chitral), Kortha
(Assam) and Lepeha (Thibet frontier);
then from the Celebes Islands comes
Alfnor, from tbe Island of Zanzibar
Pokomo, from Sierra Leone Bullom
and from tbe Niger territory Igbira.
The language spoken in the Hudson
Bay district is nailed Ivri, in New
Brunswick Malisit and in British
Guiana Acawolo. In the Friendly Is¬
lands the inhabitants wish one another
a Merry Christmas in Tonga, while
at Port Moresby they do so in ltoro.
Forced to Enjoy II,
There is no doubt that most of us ob¬
ject, by instinct, to what is “for our
good.” H. Rider Haggard says, in his
“Winter Pilgrimage,” that he had,
early in life, an opportunity for imbib¬
ing a knowledge for which he did not
care. He continues;
When I was "a soaring human boy,”
my father took me up the Rhine by
boat, with the expectation that my
mind would be improved by contem¬
plating its lovely and historic banks.
Very soon, however, I wearied of the
feast, and slipped down to the cabin
to enjoy “Robinson Crusoe.”
But some family traitor betrayed me,
aud protesting even with tears that I
“hated views,” I was dragged on deck
again.
“I have paid six thalers,” shouted
my justly indignant parent, as he
hauled me up the steamer stairs, "for
you to study the Rhine scenery! And
whether you like it or not, young man,
study it you shall!”
A Montli of Sundays*
As each day of the week is observed
as Sunday by some nation, a month of
Sundays is just an ordinary month.
The first day of. the week is our Chris¬
tian Sunday; Monday is tlie sacred day
of the Persians; Wednesday of tiio As¬
syrians; Thursday of the Egyptians;
Friday of the Turks, and Saturday is
the Sabbath of the Hebrews.—Detroit
Free Press.
The eweetest music to the egotist is
when he blows his own horn.
RAM’S HORN BLASTS.
' HE modern
Tower of Babel
is built out of
dollars.
God never
gives His power
t o teed our
m pride.
The dove of
m promise comes in
or X response to pray
er.
God’s responsi¬
bility begins
where man’s ability ends.
Men reach God by realities and not
by formalities.
God’s essentials may be hidden~in
our incidentals.
God never forgets the man who can
forget himself.
The man who is willing to work is
not kept waiting.
Nothing paralyzes the love of right
like lust for riches.
The bigoted hold no belief; they
are held in bonds by them.
Idleness and riches furnish time
and tide for the devil’s ships.
Uncharitable thoughts will deface
the most charitable actions.
When Christians go out in obedi¬
ence to Chi ist sinners will come in.
Get on the other side of a hind¬
rance and you will see it labelled
“Help.”
The full salvation of the saint de¬
pends on what he is doing for the
salvation of the sinner.
PARIS UNDERTAKERS LAMENT.
Fewer Costly Funerals Now than In tli«
Good Old Times.
The last Paris exposition has been
blamed for many things, but few peo¬
ple suspected that it has earned a
grudge on the part of the undertakers.
Such, however, proves to be the case,
A few days ago 1 was informed by a
member of this somber fraternity that
1901 had been one of the worst years
| in his line that he could remember,
and official statistics support his state¬
ment.
During last year the number oi
deaths in Paris wag 2,500 fewer than
the average, and one large firm of un¬
dertakers did £8,000 less business than
in 1900, while another showed a de¬
crease in receipts of £1,600. The
prospect grows less promising every
year.
Every Sunday there is an average o)
200 funerals in Paris, hut last Sunday
the number was only 160. The reduc¬
tion derte-fcm In profits-; ii^yMrOMted by the un
and the increased cost of living, all
of which have tended to keep Parisi¬
ans away from the capital and mak<
them practice economy even in fu¬
nerals.
The cheapest funeral in Paris costs
11 shillings, but, if one feels inclined
one may spend as much as £12,000 or.
being buried. , Among the costliest
obsequies that France has known was
that of the Due d’Aiimale, which cost
£2,400; the Emperor of Brazil, £3,200
and that of the late Mr. Mackay, sor
of the silver king, the bill for which
amounted to £S,000.
Ihartoa and Westara Carolina K’v Co
IUGDSTA AND ASHEVILLE SIIOKT LINE.
Schedule iu Effect Dec. 29, 1901.
Lv Augusta... 10 05 a 2 55 p
kr Greenwood 12 39 p .....
kr Anderson.. 7 15 p
kr Laurens... r-t 40 5 35 a
kr Greenville,. CO 25 10 30 a
kr Glenn Springs
kr Spartanburg.., 3 30 p 9 00 a
kr Saluda....... 5 33 p ......
kr Hendersonville ... 6 11 p
kr Asheville 7 15 p
Lv Asheville. 7 U5 it
Lv Hendersonville. . 8 05 a
Lv Fiat Rock... 8 15 a
Lv Saluda..... 8 39 a ......
Lv Tryon..... 9 13 a ......
Lv Spartanburg 12 15 a 4 00 p
Lv Glenn Spriugs..... 1 45
Lv Greenville.... 12 22 p p
Lv Laurens...... 2 07 p 0 30 p
Lv Anderson..... . • 7 25 a
Ar Greenwood. ... 3 © ■*3 p 8 35 p
Ar Augusta...... 5 40 p 11 35 a
Lv Greenwood 5 01 p
Ar Raleigh T—t 34 a
Ar Norfolk.... 00 a
Ar Petersburg. O 48 a
Ar Richmond.. tO 40 a
Lv Augusta....... 15 p
Ar Allendale...... CO 20 p
Ar Fairfax ......... . SC 32 p
Ar Yetxiassee...... ,10 25 a It- 35 p
Ar Beaufort....... 11 40 cu GO 35 p
Ar Port Roya l..... 11 55 * CD 45 p
Lv Port Royal..... H 00 O 40 a
Lv Beaufort....... W 15 *t> C 50 a
Lv Yemaseoe...... tO 30 *3 t> 40 a
Lv Fairfax....... GO 48 a
Lv Allendale...... CO 58 a
Ar Augusta........ II 00 a
Close connections at Greenwood for
all points on 8. A. L. and C. & G.
Railway and at Spartenburg with Sou¬
thern Railway, relative to
JFor any information
tickets, rates, dales, etc., addres?
E. M, W. Nortjh J. Cmj ^n. B>t., Pass. Augusta, Agent, Ga.
T. MJr HBCraliic Manager
LINDSAY a ARRINGTON. LtJTHEIl L. ARRJNGTO*
Arrington Bros. & Co »
CROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS
OUR SPECIAL! IES
Flour, Tobacco, Kerosene Oil and Lime
Consignments of Country Produce Solicited.
903 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia,
AGENTS FOU
Mitchell’s Farm Wagons,
“THF. BEST.”
The Lincolnton High School.
THOS. O. STEPHENSON. A. 15., Principal.
MISS BESSIE WARE, Assistant.
1‘.>01-1902.
Fall term of four months begins begins September 2, 1901,
Spring term of five months January 6, 1002.
RATES OF TUITION PER MONTH OF FOUR WEEKS:
Primary —1st and 2nd Grades $ rH
Intermediate— 3rd, 4th and 5 Grades r—4
Grammar School —Oth and 7th “
Academic —8th and 9th
Collegiate —10th, 11th, 12th a CC
Music ....
Incidental fee for term (payable in advance) .25
Board in good familieR at $8 per month. From Monday till Fridny from $4 to $0 per
month. One dollar per month will be deducted for all pupils of Public school age for the
public term of five months.
Tuition payable at the end of each month, unices arrangements are made otherwise. No
deduction for'lost time except in canoe of prostrating sickness.
Boys and girls prepared for Sophomore ami Junior classes respectively in our best colleges
Satisfaction guaranteed every assiduous pupil.
Discipline Teachers prepared firm but for mild the and examination. pupBe enforced to study and behave.
are
Lincolnton is one of the best locations for a school in the cotintry— qui-ct and h>'a !f hfnl
and its citizens are noble, generous and polite. There are no incentives t<> idleness or
extravagance. 'The school building Is commodious and welt seated. The latest and i e-J
approved methods of teaching are. need and the best school apparatus that money can buy
employed. With the sympathy, co-operation of people expect to have of the
Schools support Slate. and portteniars address our we one
b est High in the For
J HOS. O. STEPHENSON, Prin.,
Lincolnton, On. ■
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ESTABLISHED IN 1887.
THE OLD RELIABLE LIQUOR HOUSE.
Send your orders to
L. FINK.
Importer and Healer in
Wines, Liquors, Ciaars and Tobacco
Special attention given to I lie Jug Trade. Liquors of all kinds,
from $1.50 to $2.00 $8.00 a gallon. Six year old North Carolina
Corn at per gallon. Prompt aiteiPion given
Mail Orders. Cush with the order.
847 Broad Street, Augusta, Georg a.
Youngblood Lumber Company,
LUMBER, DOORS, SASH, BLINDS.
Builder CO ) Hardware.'—* 5 "
Augusta, s a m a Georgia.
STROGER BELL TELEPHONE TELEPHONE 2^2. 802 V V
J. F. SHIELDS,
THOMSON, GA.
Carries at all times a large and well selected stock of GROCER¬
IES. DRY GOODS, SHOES, CLOTHING, NOTIONS, etc......
Also first-class MILLINERY STORE, with Baltimore trim¬
mer in oharge. The latest styles and lowest prices for first-class
Headgear. A. trial will convince any one of this fact. Ihomson
is the highest cotton market on the Georgia Railroad, and.......
J. F. SHIELDS
Is Always On the Market.