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The Lexington intelligencer., 1909-03-13
viii Rural Delivery be Maintained.

The post Office department a
Washington is very much il
earnest about their good roads or
der relative to rural delivery. L
one will but observe the news
paper columns he will see where
entire routes have been discon
tinued on account of the bad con
dition of the roads. AS an illus
tration of the earnestness of the
post office department we quote
the following order applying to
certain routes in the state of
Missouri:
In accordance with the recon-
mendation of Postoffice Inspector
Reed you are instructed to with
draw service from the one mile
and retrace back, starting about
one-half mile southwest of the
Turpin corner on rural route No.
2, during the months of February
and March.
You will also instruct the
carrier on route No. B, during
the same period, to travel the
road running west about one
third of a mile north of the Fink
corner. going thence to the Scott
corner and on to the Elgin
corner, retracing back to Scots 5
corner and following the re-
mainder of the route as officially
described.
You will advise the patrons af-
fected that if the roads are not
placed in a condition of perma-
nent repair by April first the ad-
visibility of withdrawing the
service altogether will be
seriously considered.
You will also make a special re-
port on April first stating what
Improvements, if any, have been
made to the roads in question.
Very respectfully,
p. V. DEGRAw,
Fourth Ass st. p. NJ. General -
This is as it should be for a
community without enough local
pride and interest to keep the
roads in condition to meet the
poatal requirements should be
deprived of its rural delivery.
Yours truly,
The Lexington intelligencer., 1909-03-13
County Experiment Stations.

The county court of Jasper
County, Missouri, has just az
ranged to take advantage of the
law making it possible for eacI
Missouri county to have an agri
cultural experiment station OF
its own. The county will put up
$500annually for period of five
years, and additional expenses
will be paid by the state. The
location for the new station will
be agreed upon at once, Prof.
H. f. Miller, of the Agricultural
college at Columbia, represent
ing the state, and the ground
will be made ready for the 1909
season. This is the first station
of the kind to be established in
Missouri, and it is said to be the
first in the United States. But
several other Missouri counties
will probably arrange for SINH
lar stations just as soon as pos.
sible. The cost of such a station
in any county need not exceed a
few hundred dollars, at most,
while the great value is hard to
estimate.
The law providing for the es-
tablishment of county agricul-
tural experiment stations (known
as the Nelson law from the name
of the author) was enacted in
1907. Section reads, in nart.
In order to determine and dem
onstrate the Importance of i'm
proved seed, of better cultural
methods, and to favor the gem
eral adoption of better agricul.
tural practice, and to bring the
results of the scientific research
of the state experiment station
and of the federal department.
of agriculture within reach of all
the farmers of Missouri, the
county court of any county in
the state may establish and
maintain a county experiment
station.
Such county experiment sta
tion may be located on the county
farm or elsewhere. The state
experiment station at Columbia |
furnishes, without expense to the
the county, all necessary advice |
and assistance in the planning of |
the experiments, the selection of
suitable land, and in the laying
out of the plots. 1t also furnish
es seed and fertilizers, and, wher-
ever possible, a proper officer to
superintend the planting and
harvesting and to make such
photographs and records as NAV |
be needed, the reports to be
printed for public distribution. |
At a county experiment sta
tlon experiments are to be con
Quoted for tie purpose Of testing
different crops and varieties of |
seeds in which the far
mers or the county may be es.
pecially interested. New and
untried crops may also be tried, !
crop rotation studied, and fertil- |
Ners tested. Improved seed |
may also be grown for dissem
ination within the county.
In brief, a county experiment.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1909-03-13
Store Building tor Rent

The store room now occupied by
Xix Bros. will be for rent about
March lst. For particulars apply at
A Gillen's Hardware store. 2.9tf
The Lexington intelligencer., 1909-03-13
Best Stomach
Remedy Free

II is an old saying that if the stom-
ach is sound the whole body is safe,
because so much depends upon the
proper working of the stomach. Many
persons find themselves with a dis
order OF the stomach which pro-
duces dyspepsia or peculiar state of
biliousness.
If you suffer from both stomach trouble
and constipation you are on the way to
very serious disease. From Just such con-
ditions come appendicitis, rheumatism,
skin diseases and similar disorders, be-
cause the waste matter that should have
been dispelled from the system through
the bowels has found its way into the
blood and vitiated II. What is needed at
this point is not simply a violent cathartic
tablet or salt, which usually does more
harm than good, but a gentle laxative
tonic like DIR. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin,
which people have been using for these
ailments for nearly a quarter Of a CEN
rensburg, Mo-, of stomach trouble Of long
standing, also William Vol, of 903 Ellis
son ST., Louisville, KY, who had the
trouble for fifteen years.
However, II you have stomach trouble
you want to know from personal experl-
ence what DIR. Caidwells Syrup Pepsin
will do for you. II so, send your name
to the doctor and a free trial bottle will
be sent you. You are urged to send for
the free bottle, as the results from il will
be the best recommendation OF DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin. Then you will do as
over two million people did last year-go
to your druggist and buy a regular bottle
at 80 cents or 81, according TO the size
you prefer. We could mention hundreds
and hundreds Of families who are never
without II. You can never tell when some
member Of the family will need a laxa-
tive, and then no time should be lost
taking DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsln.
II there is anything about
DA your ailment that you don't
understand, or If you want
~ ~ any medical advice, write
~ ~ 20 the doctor, and he will
sff answer you fully. There is
no charge for this service.
IS.IIls The address is DR.. W. B.
IN Caldwell. 500 Caldwell bldg,
az21kiaassi 81 Monticello. Ill.
The Lexington intelligencer., 1909-03-13

orders etc. They are anripepsic 49,
act promptly We sell and re com
mend them. soia By crensha" 3
Young.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
WHEN HER BACK ACHES
a WOMAN FINDS ALL HER ENERGY
AND AMBITION SLIPPING AWAY.

StauntOn women know how the aches
and pains that come when the kidneys
failmake life burden. Backache,
hip pains, headaches, dizzy spells, dis
tressing urinary troubles, all tell of
sick kidneys and warn you of the
stealthy approach of diabetes, dropsy
and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney
Pills permanently cure all these dis
orders. Here's proof of it in Staun-
toms woman's words:
Mrs. Charles f. Danner, 113 E. Sa-
lem ST., Staunton, Va, says: 81 suff-
cred severely from backache and KID
ney trouble. My back was very weak
and if made quick movement, sharp
pains darted through my loins. My
head ached intensely and l was also
subject to dizzy spells. I saw Doan's
Kidney Pills highly recommended for
troubles such as mine and l procured
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store. They helped me from the first
and [ continued using them until my
back was strong and the other symp-
toms of kidney complaint were re-
moved. Doan's Kidney Pills have my
highest endorsement"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cts
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-DOan's sand
take no other.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
SIS, 200, 900 FOR NEW SHIPS.
SOUTHERN SHIPYARDS TO BUILD SEW
EN- BIG STEAMSHIPS.

SOUTHERN SHIPYARDS TO BUILD SEW
EN- BIG STEAMSHIPS.
A contract, reported at $4,000, 900,
has been secured by the Newport News
Shlpbuilding & Drydock Co. for the
building of four large steamships for
the Southern Pacific Company. Mr..
G. w. Jungen, manager of the South
ern Pacific Co., writes the Manufacture
ers' Record that the specifications for
these four ships call for general dimen-
sions: length over all, about 430 feet;
breadth, nodded, 53 feet; depth, 36 feet;
maximum loaded draft, 24 feet; speed,
154-knots to carry 1000 long tons Of
cargo, sufficient coal and fresh water
for feed and domestic purposes to steam
$500 miles, with reserve coal for 90
hours; general type of boats similar to
freight ships of the Southern Pacific
Company.
This company has also just received
a contract from the government for a
torpedo boat destroyer at cost OF
S629,00G
The American & Hawaiian Steam
ship Co has arranged with the Mary
land Steel Co. of Sparrows Point, Md,
for the building of three steamships OF
5000 tons each, for service in the Pacific
trade, to cost about 81, 10000. In ad-
dition to this contract the company has
received an order for a large bay
steamer.
These contracts, aggregating over
S., 100000, for shipbuiIding work
awarded in one week to yards on the
Chesapeake Bay, furnish very stril-
ing illustration of the reviving tenden-
cy in the business world. Their con-
struction Will mean great activity at
Newport News and Sparrows Point,
and it will doubtless stimulate other
large undertakings and thus help to
hasten the coming of business activity,
which now seems almost in sight.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
A Thrilling Rescue.

How Bert r. Lean, of Cheny, WASH,
was saved from frightful death, Is a
story to sthrill the world. ga hard
cold," he writes, drought on des-
perate lung trouble that baffied an eX-
pert doctor here. Then | paid $40 to
SIS visit to a lung specialist in Spo-
kane, who did not help me. Then
went to California, but without bene-
fit. At last l used DR.. Kings New
Discovery, which completely cured me
and now [ am as well as ever" Fol
lung trouble, bronchitis, coughs and
colds, asthma, Group and whooping
cough its supreme. soc and 81. Tria
bottle free. Guaranteed by B. f,
Hughes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
The Mother.

There is no one in the average fami-
ly, the value of whose services begins
to compare with those of the mother,
and yet there is no one who is more
generally neglected or taken advantage
of. She must always remain at home
evenings, and look after the children,
when the others are out having good
time. Her cares never cease. She is
responsible for the housework, for the
preparation of meals, she has the chill
dren's clothes to make or mend, there
is company to be entertained, darning
to be done, and score of little duties
which must often be attended to at odd
moments, snatched from her busy
days, and she is often up working long
after every one else in the house is
asleep.
No matter how loving or thoughtful
the father may be, the heavier bur-
dens, the greater anxieties, the weigh
tier responsibilities of the home, of the
children, always fall on the mother.
Indeed, the very virtues of the good
mother are constant temptation to
the other members of the family, es-
pecially the selfish ones, to take ad-
vantage of her. If she were not sc
kind, so affectionate and tender, SC
considerate, SO generous and ever ready
to make all sorts of sacrifices for others
if she were more self-assertive; if she
stood up for and demanded her rights,
she would have much easier time.
But the members of the average fam
lily seem to take it for granted that
they can put all their burdens on theil
patient, accomplishing mother; that
she will always do anything to helI
out, and to enable the children to have
good time; and in many homes, sac
to say, the mother, just because of hel
goodness, is shamefully imposed upon
and neglected. "Oh, mother won't
mind, mother will stay at home. )
How often we her remarks like thi'
from thoughless children.-Success.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
A GREAT WASTE OF TIME.
LEGE EDUCATION FOR SCIENTI-
FIC MEN.

"My answer to the question. rs a
college education an essential or even a
valuable advantage as preparation for
young man about to enter upon sci
entific career?' is that it is decidedly
not essential, said Thomas A. Edison,
in recent interview. Gas to its being
valuable advantage / should say that
of course the mental development
which college course brings quickens
the perceptions and enables man to
more easily grasp the minute points of
science, but it seems to me that pure
ly academic training is a great waste
of time, since in four years no one can
learn all the essential points of science,
and four years of active and practical
experience is of greater value than an
equal amount of time spent in obtain
ing college education.
81 do not mean, however, to depre-
ciate the value of a college education
too much, for it is undoubtedly de-
slrable foundation for any of the pro-
fessions, such as law, the ministry,
medicine Or literature. For scientist
four years of academic work seems to
me to be waste of time in spite OF the
fact that college mems minds are better
trained and therefore attain further
learning more easily.
SIN scientific work, as in all other
work, the chief factor of success is the
power of sticking to thing. l attrib-
ute all that have accomplished to the
fact that l hold on where most persons
get discouraged. Another fundamental
characteristic for a successful scientist
is the power of being close observer.
For instance, while | am experiment.
ing to find some special thing by my
close observation I often see dozens of
other things not connected with what
L am after, and thus the scientific field
is one that is constantly expanding and
broadening out into new fields.
"My greatest objection to college
education for scientist is that acad-
emic or classic learning is old and does
not keep progress with the times. 1t
does not teach a man to think practical
ly. 1t is easy fora lawyer to get along
with small ability, but poor engineer
is found out in less than six weeks and
unless he has learned to think for him.
self and understands his work he can
not Succeed
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
Make Old Things New.

A door, a mantel, kitchen chairs,
benches, any small old things to be
made new is quickly done by painting
with pound or two of our l.. q NJ.
Home Finish Domestic Paint in all
colors Have you an old carriage?
Make it new with a small can of l.. u
M. Home Finish Carriage Varnish
Paint. Won't cost more than about a
dollar and saves hundred. We sup
ply everything in paint and save you
money. Sold by J. B. Roden, Waynes-
boro, Va. It
Argentina ranks third In the num-
Der of cattle, 29,116,625 head. Russia
leads with 91,O00,OO0 head, and the
United States follows with $4,000, 900
head. The value of Argentina's cattle
is 1928, 6S5, ,S34. Argentina is also third
in horses, with 1881, 1916 head, worth
S2O5, 1926, S34. Russia has 22,0OO,00O and
the United States 21,O00,000. Sheep
numbered numbered 67,211, 754,. worth
s2s7, 359,O76, exceeded only by Austria
lia,s $4,000, 900.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25

The Consolidation Coal Co. of Balti-
more, has organized the Miller's Creek
Railroad Co., and standard-gauge
railroad will be built from Paintville,
KY, to open up $4,000 acres of coal
land near there, which are owned by
the Consolidation Co. This will neces-
state the building of bridge over the
Big Sandy River. This extension into
Kentucky of the Consolidation Co.,
which is already operating in Mary
land, Pennsylvania and West Virgin
ia, promises to be the beginning of i'm
portant coal shipping connections of a
very extensive character with the Big
Sandy division of the c. d 0. Ry.,
which runs through Paintville, and
which will soon be connected with the
Carolina, Cllnchfeld q Ohio Ry. at
Elkhorn City, KY.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
PUSHING WORK ON NEW LINE.

PUSHING WINK UN NEW LINE.
A Roanoke dispatch says: Levi b.
Davis, president OF the Roanoke Retail
Merchants Association, has received
letter from J. w. Goode, of New
York, president of the Cairo to Norfolk
Railroad Co., in which he says the
company expects to have 500 miles OF
the road under construction this sum-
mer. This will bring the work on the
line from the Mississippi River at
Cairo, ILL.,, to the Virginia border. "We
will push the work to completion, and
our engineers will shortly be at Roam
oke,u saws Mr.. GoOde
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
THE AGREEMENT SIGNED.
WHAT GEORGE HAD TO DO TO GET !.
WIFE.

There was no impulsive haste about
this marriage, but. if the bridegroom
loves dogs and "the boys" more than
he thinks he does now he may repent
at leisure. The marriage was perform
ed last week by Justice Of the Peace
| William B. Williams, of Montclair, n.
| Y. He wouldn't tell who the man and
woman are, but they can be easily
identified if anybody in Montclair
wants to take the trouble for the next
week or two and be on the lookout for
man running madly through the
streets of that village to get home before
8 o'clock in the evening.
The justice of the peace was called on
the telephone yesterday morning and
asked to be at his office promptly at
o'clock to attend to an important mat
| ter. 1t was wOman's voice. The
squire promised.
At the appointed hour the young wo-
man Of the voice, accompanied by a
young man who seemed to have no
voice at all, appeared at the office and
announced that she was about to let
her companion become her husband if
he would sign certain agreement in
the presence of the justice of the peace.
George" she continued, ''says now
that he will be just the kind Of a hus-
band that l want him to be. But l in
sist upon getting him down in black
and white as subscribing to few SIM
pie rules of married life. He means
well, but he is of a flighty disposition
and might take his marriage vows too
lightly after while"
Thereupon the girl took from her
shopping bag the following document;
81 solemnly promise before the justice
of the peace and the woman whom /
have asked to be my wife to give her
my pay envelope, unopened, every Sat
urday night; to be at home every night
by o'clock, unless my wife is out;
never to 60 to balls or parties without
her, and then never to dance with any
body else without her permission; to be
kind always to her mother and her lit
tie brother; never to join any lodge that
does not admit women, and not then
unless she wishes to join too; never to
smoke more than three cigars on a
week day and not more than five on
Sunday; never to smoke cigarettes at
all and never to use profane language;
to beat the carpets every spring with
out grumbling to do up my own laun-
dry package each week; never to drink
intoxicating liquors or beers except at
the beginning of the annual spring
house-cleaning, and then only three
glasses, in the presence of my wife;
never to keep dog and never to bring
dog home and say that l am to keep
it just for little while for friend who
has gone out of town.
81 also agree to do half of the night
comforting of and caring for any chill
dren we may have when they cry at
night and to fix the furnace fire every
morning and night in such way that
my wife will never have to do anything
but adjust the dampers.
"That is about ALL" said the pros
pective bride, as she finished reading
the document and passed it to George
after which she dinDpd a Dan in the
squirrels ink we'll and handed him that.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1909-06-25
SUN GETTING COOL SOME
SCIENTISTS DECLARE
EARTH GETS SMALL PART OF HEAT IT
is FIGURED OUT, WHILE GASES
IT is CLAIMED WILL DESTROY
IT ALTOGETHER SOMEDAY

Lam 6EIS SMa ALL fAhl Ot HEAL
is FIGURED OUT, WHILE GASES
IT is CLAIMED WILL DESTROY
IT ALTOGETHER SoMEDAY.
Many theories regarding the source
of the suns heat have been formulated
by scientists at different times. One
was that, as the sun was the largest
heavenly body in the solar system, il
attracted smaller bodies to it in great
numbers, and that the force of these on
impact caused enough heat to make
the sun glow. When it was figured
out how much would have to drop on
it every day, the amount was so enor-
nous that the theory was laughed out
of existence. There is no doubt,
though, that thousands of smaller
bodies are constantly falling into the
sun and producing heat.
Another was that the sun consisted
Of huge mass of buring gas. Now,
the character of a great many of the
substances found in the sun is known,
and it is also known that all of them
are in gaseous state, on account OF
the intense heat but when it came to
figuring out all the greatest possible
quantities of substances necessary to
combine and produce heat, it was found
that the sun would be entirely consum-
ed in less time than we already know it
to have been in existence.
How then does the sun maintain its
heat? The theory now held by scien-
lists is what is called the contraction
theory, writes Lawrence Hodges. That
is that the sun is slowly cooling, and
therefore contracting, and that the
enormous pressure produced on the
inner mass by this contraction causes
it to become white hot aud give out
heat and light. There is no serious
palpable objection to this theory. On
the other hand, it fits in with all the
observed phenomena of the SUM- There
fore, it must stand until fully disproved
or more likely theory is offered. Like
wise this theory is in accord with COM
mon sense. We all know that pres
sure produces heat, and we know that
hot body in space radiates it's heat
and tends to contract, and we know
that contraction produces pressure; so
there you are.
Not many people have any idea as to
the enormous amount of heat that the
sun sends off into space. Our earth
gets only very small part of it. The
head of pin placed 20 feet away from
an electric light gets in proportion to
the light on the surrounding walls
of a room about what the earth gets of
the suns light and heat radiated into
space.
Why does not the earth lose its heat
as fast as it gets it, as the moon does?
Because the earth has an atmosphere
and the moon hasn't. The atmosphere
allows light waves to 60 through it to
the earth; but when the earth changes
them to heat waves, the atmosphere
will not let them out, except very
slowly. Thus our heat is kept through
the night. All are familiar with this
property, from the common dollhouse.
The glass allows the light waves to
come in and be changed to heat waves;
but it will not let the heat waves go
out. Thus the inside of such place
is much warmer than the outside air.