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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-02
THE GOOD ROADS PROBLEM.
Suggestions ON the subject that VIII
Apply to Almost Every Local
ity In the south.

All who travel our country roads; all
who transport goods over county
roads; all who transact business with
those who travel or transport over
country roads, and all who depend Tor
employment or support upon any of
the above, are directly interested-pe-
cuniarily interested-in the improve
ment of public roads. Good macadam
roads would be profitable invest
ment, even at the average price of
$4,000 per mile. But the size of these
figures frightens the timd, and for
that reason may be impracticable as a
general system. And perhaps it is bet
ter so until the macadam system IL
better understood or at least better
practiced than III the Texas cities
where streets have been ''macadam-
led Up to this time we have not seen
square yard of macadamized road or
street anywhere in Texas. There may
be such, for our observation is not
extensive; but we have seen several
presumed attempts at matchmaking,
but the inventor of the process himself
would not have recognized it. Laying
down lot of stone of every possible
size and shape and covering the same
with gravel is not macadam, and roads
thus constructed at much less than
$4,000 per mile would hardly pay the
cost. In many parts of Texas, and
where good roads are most needed,
there is no suitable stone, and mate
rial would have to be transported %
far that the cost of delivery would ex-
coed the average cost of completed
roads. This is the case in the black
| lands. The soft limestones are totally
unsuited for surfacing, and are net
durable even as foundation for Tel
ford work. This rock grinds up like
| chalk under the iron-shod wheels and
hoofs of travel and transportation, and
is soon blown away as dust Expert
ments on the streets of Dallas prove
this. Probably the best that can now
be done is to improve our dirt roads;
| but this can not be done by men who
don't know how; therefore, scientific
roadmakers must be employed to di.
rect the work, or it would best not be
undertaken. The great enemy of roads
in clayey soil is water-not the water
that falls on them, but the water that
remains OH them after falling. There
fore, arrangements must be made for
carrying away the water as fast as it
stands in bitches made for drainage,
but must be carried 'out of sight," so
to speak, otherwise the roadbed will
take it up by capillary attraction,
soften and succumb. But, properly
graded and thoroughly drained, we be.
lieve the black soils of North Texas
will make excellent dirt roads, When
dry, our black land roads are the hard
eet of all dirt reads, just as they arc
the softest when wet. But this re.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-02
HERE AND THERE.

Run sheaf oats through a cutter
and add about one-fourth the bulk of
wheat bran; slightly moisten it, and
you have as good horse feed as ever
was invented.
Rice is now successfully grown in
southern Illinois, in the Mississippi
river bottoms, and some crops are re-
ported as yielding the phenomenal
amount of 200 bushels per acre.
"A number of Kentucky and Ten
nessee capitalists are organizing a
Germany colony in Iron Gap, Tenn.
About 100000 capital is invested.
1t is estimated that in feeding
either cattle or hogs, it takes three
days of good feeding and watering to
undo the injurious effects of ono days
neglect. Hence there should be no let
up in feeding.
The chief advantages Of artificial
incubators is that they are always
ready for business, which is not the
case with hens; and they can hatch as
many chicks as ten or twenty hens in
the same number of days. Good mother
hens, however, will hatch larger per
cent Of eggs than the incubator.
1t is no more unreasonable to ex-
pect blood from turnip than abund-
ant crops of good fruit from poor soil.
Fruit trees and plants of all kinds ara
like animals they must be fed if thes
are expected to be profitable.
-Three-year old Texas-bred and
Texas-fed high-grade shorthorns e
Gently sold at 1915 at Chicago, 10 head
averaging 1916 pounds. This is tho
high point for II years past. These cat.
tie were fattened principally upon cot
ION seed meal, with some corn meal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-02
FARMER AND PL.ANTER.
EXPERIMENTS WITH CORN.
Results of Tests With Tbirty-Five
Varieties of Corn at the Texas
Experiment station.

Thirty-fve varieties of corn were
tested at this station during the past
season. OF these, "a varieties yielded
above 25 bushels per acre, which is
above the average yield for this imme-
date section. The average of all check
plots golden beauty averaged 25.S
bushels per acre, and 20 varieties
yielded as much and more. The sea
son was peculiarly untitled for best
growth of corn. The short drought
the latter part of May and June caught
most of the varieties in silk. The flood
and storm on June 80 and the first few
days of July injured large per cent
OF the corn by loosening the soil and
blowing down and breaking stalks.
This latter condition was followed by
protracted drought which was light
ly broken on July %, but continuing
prevented in most instances the ears
from filing out to their normal condi-
ton.
The following are the varieties
planted, with yield per acre:
Five varieties yielding above 80 bush
els per acre.
Pride of the North. ...... .34,5 bushels
Mosby's Prolific $50 bush lis
Cary's klondike ......... 1929 bushels
Forsyth's Fayorite ........3l,2 bushels
Southern White GourdSeed,30, bushels
Nineteen varieties yielding above 20
bushels per acre and less than 80 BUSH
els:
Early Mastodon ......... .29.5 bushels
100 Day Bristol. ..20,4 bushels
Cuban Giant Ensilage. 90 bushels
Giant Broad Grain. ...... 300 bushels
Iowa Silver Mine. ........ $50 bushels
Cookies Prolific ESQ bushels
Hickory King ............27.5 bushels
Farmers Pride .......... .26,5 bushels
Johnson's Giant Beauty ..26,s bushels
Legal Tender Yellow Dent .26.7 bushels
Dungan's Prolific ......... 26.7 bushels
Hollis Strawberry ....... .26.6 bushels
Blounts Prolific ......... .26,6 bushels
Yellow Creole ............ 1868 bushels
White Cup Dent ..........2 1868 bushels
Johnson's Large White Broad
Corn ....,..............2 POP bushels
NO. l corn. ........... ....2o.2 pushels
Golden Beauty .25.S bushels
Ciark's Early Mastodon
Dent ...................2 5.2 bushels
Twelve varieties yielding below 25
bushels per acre:
Early Red Cob Ensilage. PAP bushels
Pennsylvania Yellow Dent. $40 bushels
| White Rockdale ...........23.9 bushels
MuTuOch ..''.....''.' .%o'J bushels
st. Charles White 1890. 1919 bushels
Riley's Favorite ......... .23.9 bushels
| Leaning .................23 .3 bushels
White Cap Dent. PIP bushels
Johnson's Large White
Ilclu .''s'''' .'''..& O.U DuSHelS
Shaw's Improved .........15,5 bushels
Champion Early Pearl. ....14,7 bushels
Golden Gable .............13.7 bushels
b. c. PITTUCK, Agriculturist.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-02

We must get closer TO nature IL we
would keep our soil fertile. For thou
sands of years nature has been grow
ing great crops and enriching the soil
all the time, instead of impoverishing
ii. We took the land, rich and mellow
and in less than fifty wears converted
IL into lifeless clods. Verify, there is
something wrong in our methods of
t'llage. The wrong has been in con-
stantly taking from and returning
nothing TO, in stripping The surface
of every atom of covering, and leaving
it exposed TO beating rains and bak-
ing sun. Our methods of supplying
the soil with humus have been clumsy,
crude and laborious. We imagined
that all vegetable matter that was re-
turned to the soil must first go into
the stables or stocli-yards and be con-
verted into manure possibly heaped
up and turned over two or three times
and well weighted with water before
being drawn out and applied to the
land. That we could grow the soil
full of humus and fertility never en-
tered our heads. Nature has been do
ihg this for thousands of years, but
VIC were too busy TO discover that fact.
The matter is but imperfectIy under
stood even onw, and thousands know
nothing 1T all about it. But under
our present system how could we ex-
pect them to? While we have been
and are destroying the fertility of the
land, we have been educating the peo-
pie away from Educating the farm
er in everything but what he most
needed to know.-Farm and Preside.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-02

III on /hnou'N" '
- Egain. 0ye an what?,
eye and ear, repeated the reader.
"Johnt av ever | caught fish wit ears
on um I'd teck the Father Matthew
pledge that day. Sure, Herrick has got
barnvcles on his brain. Az he'd said
thot the nose was very highly divil-
oped. now. I'd know what kind av fish
I he.-vas talkin' about
"what ,iind is that, Dinny?" asked
Joe, the seward, unsuspeetingly'
1.-THE shmelt; he-he-he snlckered
I.grs "shlip the rist of thot about
fhe fishes ears. He'll be discribin' tn
coorns on the toes ava clam niNt. Gwan
wt'th' porgies.'
! "Menidia is a favorite type for such
study, continued the reader, mot only
on account Of its central position and
size, but the tissues seem TO react
lily bet than those OF some
!; = ' Co. O. Iii Il +:
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Some Flies Are Balloonists.

According to 1. M. Aldrich and l..
A. Turley, two well-known European
biologists, man is not the only living
being who delights to go skyward in
balloon. There are certain flies, they
say, which invariably go through the
air in balloons whenever they get tired
of flying in the ordinary way. These
airships are composed of small bub-
bles, which are exuded from the bodies
of flies and the air in which sufices to
support the insects whenever their
wings become weary and the fancy
takes them to ride through the air on
their tiny gossamer bladders. They
can go, it is said, in any desired direc-
tion by simply swaying their bodies
toward the goal which they expect to
reach. In one of these curious air
ships the biologists found the body of
very small insect, and they are now
wondering whether it got in there by
chance or whether the proprietor of the
balloon thoughtfully placed it there
with the object of feeding on it during
it's aerial journey. AS an argument in
favor of the latter hypothesis they
point out that flies while travelling in
balloons cannot satisfy their hunger
unless they return to the earth.-New
York Herald.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Detroit's eooth Anniversary.

Detroit, Mich, besides being one of
the prettiest of American cities, has
the distinction of being among the old
est with the exception of those on the
immediate seaboard. AS trading and
military station it was held by the
French as far back as 1910; in 1868 it
was transferred to the British; after
the Revolution it passed to the United
States. The 200th anniversary of it's
foundation as city is about to be
celebrated, and arrangements are in
progress for the commemoration of the
event by the erection of a handsome
monument. 1t will be situated on an
island in the Detroit River, and will
be 220 feet high. Groups of statuary
will adorn it's base, which will be sur
rounded by a court, attached to which
will be marble colorado 900 feet
long. with wings at each end of 300
feet in length.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
INVENTION AND APPETITE.
Great Thinkers Are Sometimes Grea

Great Thinkers Are Sometimes Great
Eaters.
Sometimes the ability to meet
prolonged and highly productive men
tai strain is curiously linked with the
ability to digest hearty meal; which
is another way of saying that great
thinkers are sometimes great eaters
This may be especially the case where
great thinkers have really had very
little to eat. This story is told by a
Chicago paper, evidently on the au-
thority of Mr. Tesla himself, of
somewhat amusing experience which
NikOla Tesla once had when in Mr.
Edison's employ. Mr.. Edison had
laboratory in Paris, and to this estab
lishment. when student, Nikola Tes-
Ia went to ask for work The labora
tory was in charge of foreman nam
ed Fulton. who told Tesla that he
would employ him, but only on this
condition that he would work" Tesll
said he would, and he did, to such pur-
pose that for two days and nights he
did not close his eyes. At the end o!
the first fortnight he had not had
forty-eight hours of sleep. The fore
man here interviewed and ordered tho
young man to rest. I'VE have both
been under strain he said. Let lis
go and get a good meal" He took
Tesla to restaurant, and ordered one
of the biggest and thickest steaks that
could be bought anywhere. 1t was
enormous With it there were various
furnishings, which made for the two
men hearty meal. But when they
had finished it, something in the
young students look led MI. Fulton to
say: us there anything else YOU
would like? You are out with me, you
know, and l wish you would order
anything you want Tesla looked
around vaguely for a moment, as if
making up his mind, and then said:
"Mr Fulton, if you don't mind, !
would like another steak! ''-Youths'
Companion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
knew that Moore had been going west
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knew that Moore had been going west
ward; she would turn southwark
She took off her long cloak, for il.
was now growing very warm, hung
it over her shoulder by the straps, and
began that terrible journey. She could
make no toilet, and her fast she could
not break Already she was beginning
to feel desperately hungry.
Bluebell had begun to realize the
full horror and physical pains of her
position.
The hot MONDAY sun beat down on
her unprotected head, giving her a
racking headache and almost binding
her. The dry red dust, covering her
face and, as it seemed to her, every
inch of her body, and causing her hor-
rible discomfort. left her mouth ard
throat parched and dry, and her thirst
was well-nigh intolerable.
ooh, God, how long can endure it?
Have mercy and pity me! Guide me
to water!" She moaned aloud. At
that moment all she wanted was wa
ter. The anguish of thirst had swal-
lowed up all minor pains.
At last she sank down on the dry
sand, stretching appealing hands to
the pitiless sky that was as brass
above her.
eff there is no help for me, then let
me die outright, o God, before this in
tolerable anguish maddens me-"
But there came no answer from
those oppressive skies, and for the mo-
ment it seemed that God was as pitt
less as men.
Two days later small body of
English soldiers came briskly riding
across the red, sandy veldt. They be-
longed to a Welsh regiment, and had
been pursuing flying body OF Beers
from Estcourt. They had gone fur
Their than they had intended, and were
hurrying back before night overlook
them.
"Hallo! what have we here?' cried
young Lieutenant Preston to his COM
panion, pointing to something lying
on the red sand. He paused, and,
slipping from his horse, picked it up
Look, Greene! woman's slipper, and
a very small one at that
Lieutenant Greene examined it care
fully, then pointed to light, almost
indistinct mark on the sand.
That's what those Boer fellows
would call spoor, Preston. There's
a woman cononwhnrn haraahout ooly
there's a kopje to the left covered with
shrubs. Let's ride round that way
OrNer the men to ride slowly"
Preston, who was in command, gave
The necessary order. The two young
officers rode quickly round by the
kopje. Both had an instructive feeling
that they were on the verge of some
discovery.
(To be continued.}
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

done up in body, mind and purse
So it was of Shenstone. of whose gar
den told you at the beginning of my
sermon. He sat down amid thosa
bowers and said: II have lost my road
to happiness. / am angry and envious
and frantic and despise everything
around me Just as it becomes a mad
man to do.''
O We weary souls, come into Christ's
garden today and pluck little hearts
ease. Christ is the only rest and the
only pardon for perturbed spirit Do
you not think your chance has almost
come? You men and women who have
been waiting year after year for some
good opportunity in which to accept
Christ, but have postponed 1t S, 10,
20, 80 years, do you not feel as if now
your hour of deliverance and pardon
and salvation had come? man, what
grudge hast thou against thy poor soul
that thou wilt not let it be saved?
Some years ago a vessel struck on
the rocks. They had only one lifeboat.
In that lifeboat the passengers and
crew were getting ashore. The vessel
had foundered and was sinking deeper
and deeper, and that one boat could
not take the passengers very swiftly.
A little girl stood on the deck waiting
for her turn to get into the boat The
boat came and went. came and went,
but her turn did not seem to come.
After awhile she could wait no longer,
and she leaped on the taffrail and then
sprang into the sea, crying to the boat
man: Save me next! Save me next"
Oh, how many have gone ashore into
Gods mercy and yet you are clinging
to the wreck of sin! Others have ac-
copied the pardon of Christ, but you
are in peril. Why not this moment
make rush fortyour immortal rescue,
crying until Jesus shall hear you and
heaven and earth ring with the cry
Save me next! Save me next!" Now
is the day of salvation! Now! Now'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
As to the Teeth,

Sound teeth not only add to ones
comfort, but they prevent disease.
Many diseases of the eye, ear, and cav
tiles of the head are traceable to I'M
sound teeth, and there is not disease
to which the body is liable that is not
aggravated by an unhealthy condition
of the teeth. Eye diseases are espe-
cially common as the results of poor
teeth. These affections may vary from
a simple dimness of sight to total
blindness, the symptoms, however,
usually disappearing when the teeth
are attended to. Poor teeth are, more
over, a common cause of Indigestion
for good digestion can take place only
when the food is thoroughly masti-
Gated, and this demands sound and
healthy teeth. Proper care of teeth
during childhood Otter means proven
ton of much trouble later in life.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Origin of the Word "peadhead.,

Speaking of the origin of the WORD
"deadhead,' Frederick Stanley says:
In the museum at Naples was much
interested in a case of theatrical tick
cts found in tragic theater in POM
peii. They were made variously in
bone, ivory and metal. You are
aware, perhaps, that to this day the
gallery of an Italian theater is called
the pigeon loft. Well, the little tick
cts for this part of the auditorium
were in the shape of pigeons, while
varying devices were used for other
parts of the house. What attracted my
attention most curiously, however,
was set Of diminutive skulls modelled
in ivory. These were used solely by
those having the right of free admis-
sion. Now, does this not suggest the
very possible derivation of the term?'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
tooth Anniversary of John Brown.

This is an age of centenaries, ant
there is some hope that the Tooth ami
versary of the birth of John Brown
will be marked by the rescue of his
birthplace at Torrington, Conn. The
house has, not appropriately been
occupied by family of negroes for
the last few years. The dwelling,
which is supposed to have been built
in 1776, has undergone but little
change, and is, like many another old
homestead of New England, 63eiled
with pine lumber, and with #@ide-
throated stone chimney. When John
Brown was five years old his father
moved to Ohio, then according to
Brown "a wilderness filled with wild
beasts and Indians"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
The Eye of the Serpent.

One of the most curious facts with
reference to snakes is that their eyes
are never closed Sleeping or walk
ing, alive or dead, they are always
wide open. This is because there are
no eyelids. The eye is protected only
by a strong scale, which forms a part
of the epidermic envelope, and is cast
off in a piece with that every time the
reptile mouths. This eyeplate is as
clear and transparent as glass, and al
lows the most perfect vision, while,
at the same time, it is so hard and
tough as to perfectly protect the deli
cate organ within from thorns and
twigs, among which, in flight from
enemies or in pursuit of prey, the rep
lie SO often hurriedly glides, as any
Jose observer of the habits of snakes
I1sec n n =
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

Don't waste time in signing ovvr
what might have been; make the best
of what is.
Practice may not make the lawyer
perfect, but enough of it will make
him rich.
The bitterest enmity exists between
those who were formerly the best of
friends.
An aristocracy of wealth is of more
danger than benefit to society.
The whole art of government con-
sists in the art of being honest.
The average woman's maiden aim is
to change her maiden name.
Honesty never contributes any hing
to the white mans burden.
The manager of theater is OBJ
liged to depend upon his income
Some men have wheels and some
are simply cranks.
CALIFORNIA; trade with the Philip
pines amounts to $2,0O0O,0OO month.
a Minneapolis woman accuses her
husband of keeping the Graded baby
ale ngside his bed as mosquito feed
cry.
The most magnificent tomb in the
world is deemed to be the Palace
Temple of Karnal1, occupying an area
OF nine acres.
M. Metschnil1off of the Paris Pas
teur institute has communicated to
the Academic de Medicine his discov-
e,.,7 of lymph which regenerates the
red globules in the blood of lepers.
He thinks that when he has improved
his serum he may be able to rejuven-
ate the organs of the human body.
1t is related of the late C. p. Hun
tington that a young man once called
on him to sell some much-needed rails
at SIS a ton. Mr.. Huntington said
he had rails to sell himself, amused
the caller by a half-hour's chat and
got him to sell at $66 ton, with
six months note for pay. Then be-
fore the man left Mr.. Huntington dis.
counted the note for 6 per cent Of
and paid the cash.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
CHAPTER VIII

For Bluebell's chance had come and
had been taken.
When night was beginning to fall
they came to the river again. Blue
bell thought it was still the Tugela
river, but she was not sure. They
had to seek carefully for drift" by
which to pass over. Bluebell was by
this time so utterly exhausted as to
be hardly able to keep her seat. but
her mind was as fixed on some oppor-
tunity to escape presenting itself as
ever She was quite prepared to seize
1t instantly whenever it should come
They rode down towards the river,
Moore little in advance, Bluebell
with her native guide behind her.
Moore did not utter a word. but she
guessed that he was rather doubtful
as to the safety Of crossing the drift"
Her heart beat SO hard that it almost
choked her What if her chance were
coming now?
Moore rode down the grassy slope of
the river very cautiously, but evident
u before he was aware his horses
forefeet had plunged into the stream.
He turned and called:
Come on, Chipanga; it is all right"
Bluebell's guide urged forward her
horse, which, however, seemed 10th to
take the plunge. Her eyes were fixed
on Moore, whose horse was now wad-
ing In comparatively shallow water be-
fore them. A wild thought rushed
through her mind. Should she spring
off her horse in midstream, trusting TO
the swift current to carry her away be-
fore her pursuers could reach her? She
might be drowned. Although she could
swim, her clothes would be an almost
insuperable obstacle But death by
such gentle means would be preferable
to. the fate before her.
~ hey were just about to plunge into
water when CHI panga gave a sud-
- Bluebell'sStartled eyes, fol-
~ M horse suddenly
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Princes in War.

No fewer than five princes are ac-
lively engaged in the South African
war. They are Prince Christian Vic
tor, Princes Adolphus, Alexander and
Francis, Of Teck, and Count Gleichen.
Most of them had previously been en-
gagged in military operations in other
parts of the, world. Prince Christian
served in Ashanti, the soudan and
other campaigns, Prince Alexander of
Teck did good work in Matabeleland,
and brother, PRINCE Francis, serv-
ed al aptainsln th&Egxa tian war of
While Count hen took
several 4 f1 hea av. I1os