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The Jones County news., 1915-09-09
ROAD
Bull DING
IMPROVE ROADS IN ILLINOIS
Expected That State viii Spend
Nearly s2oo.ooo,ooo for Better High.
ways IN Next Few Years.

CBy II. A. JEFFHJEs. Member of Illinois
Good Roads As8OciationJ
Illinois has been one Of the last
states TO take ur seriously the prob
lem Of improving its roads, but now It
"a going into Il with a determination
10 make big advancement In a short
time A commission OF Illinois road
enthusiasts has been touring the
states. inspecting roads and inYesti.
eating the methods OF road building.
II rs expected that the state win spend
in the next few years nearly s200000,-
600 for good roads. and necessarily
our people want 20 get the best roads
possible,
The question Of whether there shall
be macadam roads. brick roads or con
crete roads rs one TO be determined.
Many OF the new roads are OF mac.
adam construction, and there has been
a lot Of sentiment for the brick high
ways. Concrete roads have been OBJ
Jected 10 largely because of tho great
cost OF construction. II costs $4,000
a mile for ain 18foot concrete road,
and this initial outlay is so great that
1t ordinarily scares any community.
Tho advantage OF the concrete road,
however lies In the small cost OF
maintenance
The expense OF keeping up con
crete road, It Is said Is less than $40
q year per mile With the experience
Of New York, Massachusetts,. New Jer.
sey and Pennsylvania shows that It
costs $500 mile 70 maintain mac
adam and brick roads.
II makes no difference what kind of
construction, so long as we get i'm.
proved roads. and we can well afford
later on TO change the style Of road
If we get hrstclass highway across
tho continent, which, I believe, Will
bo accomplished in the next ten
years,
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The night clothes OF little lads and
maids. when made for other seasons
than winter. do not differ much from
those worn by their elders For little
girls. nainsook and batlate and the
light muslins are used for the gowns
and narrow lingerie laces for trim
ming The trimming is simpler, that
is not 80 much lace ls used and the
methods OF applying II are less intri-
cate
With the return Of fancy needlework
to fashion IN the belongings OF grown
people. Il is sure to appear on chill
drens clothes, where II seems more
appropriate than any other sort Of
trimming The small and dainty pat.
terms in laces are chosen when laces
are used.
The little empire gown shown in the
picture has a body OF narrow lace
and fine embroidery 1t is sleeveless,
with rulIio OF wider val lace finish,
ing the arm eyes This is a pattern for
summer wear and few sleeveless
gowns are made for little girls For
between seasons, little models are
made with high neck and long sleeves,
finished with fancy needlework and
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top edge of the lace down about an
inch and half, to form a standing
rufiie. When this fiounce has been set
about the waist. small chiffon roses in
light pink, blue and yellow with pale
green chiffon leaves. are to be set
over it in a row. with one color fol-
lowing another These roses are inn
portant and the negligee would lose
character without them.
A width of three or four inches is
cut from the top of a length of lace
to form the ruffie for the neck and
front Of the body. The remainder Of
this length viii make the rutiies that
are set on to the ends of the sleeves.
The narrow, standing ruffie makes a
heading and single chiffon rose in
pink, with its little, pale green leaves,
is set at the top of each ruffle against
the net.
The negligee is worn with cap to
match II has a small lace plaque at
the center of the crown. A pun of
crepe is gathered to this and edged
with lace. 1t is drawn up about the
face on an elastic band A few very
small chiffon roses are set with bows
of narrow satin ribbon in the fiouncs
OF lace that falls about the face.
JULIA 5oTToMLEY.
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Oil Cloth Tahl. Mats.

Oil cloth table mats for the chil-
dren will save many soiled table
cloths. They can be made by taking
either a square or an oblong of white
linen, drawing threads and hemstitch-
ing all around. Sew on back. max
ing the finished article look vers much
like a pillow cover with one end open
for the pillow Into this slip piece
sof oil cloth the size of the mat. and
you will have a useful and attractive
means of keeping the table neat. The
rhilds initial embroidered in the cen
-er would add much to the beauty G:
the article.
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The making OF good roads is one
OF the most important duties OF the
people and their prompt repair and
careful maintenance Is essential.
There is probably no subject In which
the progressive. farmer is more deep
iy interested than that OF having
roads connecting him with his mar
kets over which he must be able TO
haul the greatest possible load Good
roads like all other good things, are
too expensive to build and OF too
much value to be neglected
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09
CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? MOI! STOP!
ACTS LIKE DYNAMITE ON LIVER
Guarantee Dodsons Liver Tone viii Give You the Best Liver
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever HadDoesnt Make You Sick

spoonful and IL 1t doesn't straighten
you right up and make you feel fine
and vigorous want you to go back TO
the store and get your money. Dod-
sons Liver Tone is destroying the
sale Of calomel because it is real liver
medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore
it cannot salivate or make you sick
l guarantee that one spoonful OF
Dodson's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and consti-
pated waste which is clcgging your
system and making you feel miserable.
/ guarantee that a bottle OF Dodson's
Liver Tone will keep your entire fam
lily feeling fine for months. Give II 70
your children. 1t is harmless; doesn't
grippe ana they like its pleasant taste.
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

Stop using calomel It makes you
sick Don't lose a days work. If you
feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti-
pated listen to mel
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis Of the bones
Calomel. when it comes into contact
with sour bile, crashes into it, breaking
1t up. This is when you feel that aw-
ful nausea and cramping II you feel
"all knocked out" If your liver is tor
pid and bowels constipated OF you
have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, il breath is bad or stomach
sour just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson's Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee--Go to any
drug store or dealer and get 50-cent
bottle OF Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

In Time Of Due Prepare for Drought.
Brother Cassius Cautious Kush came
forward to be baptized at the colored
campmeeting. The parson was tired
of baptizing brother cassius and said
"Waffoh you always come forward
to be baptized into the fold? You
done been baptized II times, Use bap-
tized you my own self every fall since
the big woods burned and Marse Hon
eycutt died rom oberexertin' hisself
Amt dat de truf?"
Amen" said Cassius.
How many times you-all expect to
be baptized, dat's what l ak yer
4 reckon" replied Cassius Cautious
Kush, "Ill be baptized every year
De oftener gets dis mortal clay
soaked down, de safer I'll be from
sparks on dat great day when de world
am all on fire. HallelujahH-
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09
Whenever You Need General Tontc
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteiess
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen.
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known ionic properties Of QUININE and
IRON. 1t acts on the Liver Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. so cents. = Adv
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09
Disseminating.

A party of young men and women,
members of a sketching club, were
motoring alons country road. just
within the fence on the left grew IN
Vulnerable graceful stalks. each bear
ing glotes OF pale green that shaded
into gray and purple.
How enchanting" exclaimed one
young woman.
DO tell u.s. said another young
woman equally enthusiastic. to a gar
dener standing near, what those beau
oo-tiful things are"
Them? Them's onions gone to
seed. New York Times.
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

A Mseadam Road on the Prairie.
from place to place The person max
Ing q long orosscountry tour finds
the Journey the Joy he counted on and
not a trial. as It certainly is where
travelling Is bad In the second place,
good roads increase the value of prop
erty-so real estate is benefited.
And so | could go on down the list
the hotel man, tho butcher, the
baker, all are benefited. either directly
or indirectly. by good roads; and by
good roads mean roads that permit
OF foot or vehicular traffic during all
seasons of the year.
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small tucks. These are to be replaced
as the cold weather comes on. by
gowns OF canton flannel made long
The small boys paiamas hardly need
description They are made Of light
cotton materials The pants are
fastened at the waist with a tape
which Is run through hem in the
top. They are as plain as can be and
so Is the coat. This is usually bound
with braid and provided with pock-
ct at one side. The same pattern is
used for the canton flannel palamas
used IN cold weather.
For the comfort Of little ones who
sleep in cold rooms and are liable to
kick their feet from under cover, bed
shoes OF canton flannel or Of elder
down are recommended They are
easily made and easily Numbered and
they are most comforting.
There are numbers OF patterns for
little nightdresses the simplest ones
are the best For the little boy, pa
iamas. like those shown in the pic
ture, cannot improved upon.
There is no keason to doubt the sin
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09
INTERNATIONAL
SUNDGYSNOOL
LESSON

CBy O. E. SELLERS, Acting Director Of
the Sunday School Course Of the Moody
Bible InstituteJ
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09
KIND lie liked Best.

She-You like melon do you not,
Mr.. Bond.
He-Yes; especially the kind fire.
quently Gu. by large corporations.
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

Some men manage to make little
noise in the world by rattling their an
cestor's bones.
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

Many a man who has to swallow
his pride couldn't digest it.
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

There IS no Xeason to doubt the sin
cerity Of . xpman who voluntarily
wears Salf on army bonnet
The Jones County news., 1915-09-09

I,-~x.,~. Va J.a Collect and sell names a.ac
i1StsdN lOuI INCOME addresses Big Income no
asslnS; Ioe bring dstais and some tnferesS 81
o1ers. a Thurston 29o5 5ta Ave. Tsrrs HAnso Ina
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wha, ne meant was tina, any single /"

what he meant was that any slng!e
color or combination OF single co.ors
for instance. a pair OF sky blue
breaches with pink insertion behind
Is not regarded by a French tailor as
a fantaisie or fancy, But any mingled
color, such as the ordinary drab gray
of the business man is n fantaisie OF
the daintiest kind. To the eye of a
Partisan tailor a Quakers' meeting Is
a glittering panorama OF fantasies,
whereas a negro ball at midnight in a
yellow room with a band IN scarlet
is a plain, simple scene.
I thanked him. Then ] aid
Measure me. mesurez-moi, passea
lc tape line autour de mol
He did 1t.
| don't know what 1t Is they meas
ure you in, whether in centimeters or
cubic feet or what 1t is. But the effect
is appalling.
The tailor runs his tape round your
neck and calls sixty" Then he pn's
+, round the lower part OF the pack
at the major circumference. you
Understandable shouts, IA hundred
and ffty."
II sounded n record breaker. |
felt that there should have been a
burst Of applause, But, to tell the
truth, l have fricnds-quiet. sedentary
men in the professoriate-who would
easily hit up four or FIVE hundred on
the same scale.
Their came the last Item.
"Now," | said, when will this COM
plete' be ready"
'Ah. monsieur said the tailor with
winsome softness. W are very busy.
crushed, ecrases with commands.
Give US time, don't hurry u.s."
Well" | said, how long do you
WANT
"Ah, monsieur" he pleaded, give
us four days."
I never moved an eyelash.
what" I said Indignantly, four
days, Monstrous' Let me have this
whole complete fantasy in n day or
| won't buy it,"
An. monsieur, three days.
mo" I said. make It two days"
1.-TWO days and n half. monsieur
Two days and a quarter" | said;
give It me the day after tomorrow
at 3 O'Clock in the morning"
"Ah, monsieur, 10 o'clock"
Make it ten minutes to ten and
It's a GO" l said.
Bon" said the tailor,
He kept his word. am wearing
the fantastic as | write. For a fan
taisie it is fairly quiet, except that
il has three pockets on each side
outside and a rolled back collar suit
able for the throat of an opera singer
and as many buttons a. = na,rn
skirt. Beyond that, it's a first class,
steady. reliable, quiet, religious fan
/ tais.c, such as any retired French
ballet master might be proud to wear.
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By Stephen Leacock

tip. til the brain is weary, not with
the cost Of II, but with the arith-
metical strain.
No pleasure is perfect, Every rose
has its thorn. The thorn OF the Par.-
sian holiday maker is the perpetual
necessity of handing out small gratu-
tiles to a set of overgrown nunk!es
too lazy TO split wood.
Not that the amour OF the tips,
all added together, is anything seri-
ous. No rational man would grudGe
1t II II could he presented in a bill as
a lump sum at breakfast time every
morning and he done with for the day.
But the incessant necessity of hand
ing out small tips OF graded amounts
gets or ones nerves. II is necessary
N Paris to go round with enough
money Of different denominations in
ones pocket TO start a bank-gold and
paper notes for serious purchases. and
with them a huge dead weight OF great
silver pieces, five franc bits as large
as a Quaker's shoebuckle, and a Ting
ling mass Of coppers m a side pocket.
These one must distribute as extras to
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II trust that monsieur has slept we'll"
S we'll" I answered. that mon
sieur must absolutely insist on your
accepting s~eventy-fve cent!mes on the
spot, Come, don't deny me. This is a
personal matter. Every time ! sleep
I simply have TO give money away
Monsieur is most kind"
Kind, | should think not. II the
valet de Chambre and the maitre
d'hotel and the chef de service and
the others of the ten men needed TO
supply me with II cents worth of cof-
fee could read my heart they would
find II an abyss OF the blacklist hatred.
fet they take their handful Of cop
pers-great grown men dressed up in
monkey suits of black at s in the
morning-and bow double for 1t.
II they tell You 1t is a warm morn
ing. you must give them W cents.
II you ask the time, it costs You two
cents. II you want a real genuine
burst Of conversation, 1t costs any
where from a cent to a cent and a
half n word.
Such is Paris all day long. Tip. tip.
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linguistic struggle in a French tailor's
shop.
There was a sign in the window TO
the effect that completes" might be
had for "A hundred" II seemed a
nance not to he missed. Moreover,
the came sign said that English and
German were spoken,
So | went in. True to my usual
principle of ignoring the French Ian
guage, | said to the head man:
you speak English?"
, lie shrugged his shoulders, spread
out his hands and looked at the clock
or the wall.
"p~resently," he said.
"Oh," ! said. "youll speak 1t pres
entity, That's splendid. But why not
speak it right away"
The tailor aSain looked at the clock
with a dospa!ring shrug,
"At ~ o'clock" he said.
Come now" / said, be fair about
this. ! don't want to wait an hour and
q half for YOU to begin 70 talk. Let's
get at It right now"
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But he was obdurate. He merely
shook his head and repeated:
Speak English at ~ o'clock"
Judging hat he must be under a
VOW Of abstinence during the morning.
! tried another idea.
"Allemand?" l asked. German.
Deutsch. Ell. speak that
Again the French tailor shook his
head. this time with great decision,
Not till 4 o'clock" he said.
This vas evidently final. He might
be lax enough to ak English at noon,
but he refused point blank to talk Ger
man till he had his full strength.
l was Just wondering whether there
wasn't some common in this
after all, when the solution of it struck
me.
All" I said, speaking in French,
tires bong there Is somebody who
comes at II, quelGu'un qui Went a
midi. who can talk English"
"Precisement.' said the tailor.
wreathed in smiles and waving his
tape coquettishly about his neck.
You flirt!" ! said. but let's get to
business. I want n suit, I'm SCOT, un
complete. complet. comprenez-vous,
weston, gilet, n pair de panteloon-
everything-do o get it?"
The tailor was now all animation.
"Ah, certainement," he said. mon
sieur desires a fantasy. une fantastic,
is it not?"
A fantasy. Good heavens.
The man had evidently got the idea
from my naming SO many things that
l wanted a suit for a fancy dress ar
nival.
Fantasy nothing" I satd-'pas de
fantaisie. un SCOT angla!s"-here an
idea struck me and I tapped myself
on the chest-"like this" said.
CONNIE cecil"
Bon" said the tailor, now perfect
ly satisfied, "une fantastic CONNIE
porte monsieur"
Here I got mad.
Blast you" I said, this Is not a
f~antaisie. DO you take me for a
dragon fly, or what? Now come, let's
get this fantastic business cleared up,
This is what ! want"-and here ! put
my hand on n roll of very quiet gray
cloth on the counter.
tires ben" said the tailor, "une
fantastic"
| stared a. him.
rs that n f%antaisie? ?"
"~Certainemcnt, monsieur"
Now" ! said, let's go into It fur
Their" and | touched another piece OF
plain pepper and salt stuff OF the kind
that is called in the simple and re-
fined language Of my own country
gents painting.
'Ta.s?"
"Une fantastic said the French
tailor.
Well" ] said, you've got more
imagination than ! have"
Then ! touched n piece of purple blue
that would have been almost too loud
for a Carolina negro
'Is this a fantastic"
The tailor shrugged his shoulders
"Ah, non" he said in deprecatinI
tones.
Tell me-" said, speaking in
French, lust exactly what 1t is you
call a fantasy"
The tailor burst into a perfec,
paroxysm Of French, g~esticulating and
waving his tape az he put the sen.
fences over the plate one after an.
other. II was fast pitching. but
took them every one, and I got him
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"Musshoo, Sill vous plat, which is
la direction pour aller a le Palais
Royal"
And lie answers:
well, I tell YOU, I'm something OF n
stranger here myself, but ! guess it's
straight down there a piece"
Now it's nc use specializing whether
that man comes from Dordogne In
ferieure or from Auvergnc-sur-les-
Puts, because he doesn't.
on the other hand, you may strike a
real Frenchman-there are some eve
in Paris. | met one tho other day in
trying to find my way about, and |
asked him:
"Musshoo, sill vous plat. which is Ia
direction pour aller a Thomas Cook &
SOM"
B'n'm'ss'ulvla'n'fs
| said: Thank you so much. |
had half suspected It myself" But !
didn't really know what he meant.
20 ! have come TO make II . rule
never to use French unless driven % Il.
Thus. fof example. I had . tremendous
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PARTISAN PASTIMES
The Advantages of a Polite
Education.
VT AXE it from me- said my
friend from Kansas. lean

1T AXE i, from me- said my
friend from Kansas. lean
ing back in his seat at the
Taverne Royale and holding his cigar
In his two fingers-"don't talk no
French here in Paris. They don't ex-
pect 1t and they don't seem to under
stand It,"
ibis man from Kansas. mind you,
had a right to speak. He knew
French. He had learned F'rench-he
told me so himself-good French, at
the Fayetteville Classical Academy.
Later on he had had the natural
method off a man from New Or
leans. 1t had cost him fifty cents
a throw" All this | have on his own
word. But in France something
seemed to 60 wrong with his French.
mo" he said refectively, Il guess
what mos Of them speak here is a
sort Of patois."
When he said it vas a patois I
knew Just what he meant. 1t was
equivalent to saying that he couldn't
understand it.
had seen him strike patois before.
There had been a French steward on
the steamer coming over and the man
from Kansas. after a couple Of at
tempts, had said IL was no use talk
ing French to that man, He spoke a
hopeless patois. There were half a
dozen cabin passengers too returning
70 their homes in France. But we
soon found from listening to their
conversation on deck that what they
were speaking was not French ou,
some sort Of patois.
1t was the same thing coming
through Normandy. Patois every
where; not a word Of French-not a
single sentence OF the real language,
in the way they had It at Fayette-
VILE.
We stopped of a day at Rouen 70
look at the cathedral. A sort Of abbot
showed us around. Would you be-
lieve 1t. hat man spoke patois,
straight patois-the very worst kind,
and fast. The man from Kansas had
spotted 1t at once. He hadn't listened
10 more t~hanAtsn sentences before he
recognized It. "Patois," he said.
OF course it's fne to be able to de-
tect patois like this. It's impressive,
The mere fact that you know the
word patois shows that you must be
mighty well educated.
Here in Paris It was the rom way.
Everybody that the nan from Kan
sas t~ried--waiters, hotel CLERKS, shop
people-all spoke patois, An educated
person couldn't follow 1t.
On to s:.ole I think the ADVICE OF
the man from Kansas Is good. When
you come to Paris leave French be-
hind. You don't need 1t and they
don't expect II of you,
In any case you soon learn from
experience not to use II,
If You Try 10 this l. what happens
You summon "A waiter to you and you
say TO him very slowly, syllable by
syllable, so as to give him every
chance in case he's not an educated
man:
'lIringeH moi dc Ia soupe, de Ia fish
Dc u roast pork ct de la %fromagc."
And hc answers.
We, sir, roast pork, sir, and a little
bacon on the side?"
That waiter was raised in Illinois.
Or suppose o stop a mar on the
street and you say to him:
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The Joys of Philanthropy.

Good morning" said the valet de
chamhrc, as ! stepped from my room.
Good morning" | answered, pray
accept twenty-five ycntimcs."
Good morning, sir" said the maltre
d'hotcl, as l passed down the corridor,
"a lovely morning, sir"
so lovely" l replied, that ! must
at once ask you to accept forty-flve
confines on the strength OF It."
"A beautiful day, monsieur" aid
the head waiter, rubbing his hands.
The Newark journal., 1915-09-02
FINE FARM FOR SALE

We have for sale, a tract of 450 acres of the finest land in Big Bottom, lying between White and Black. rivers near Jacksonport and convenient of access to that place. Sixty acres of land in Cultivation, is the most fertile and produces more stuff than any land i'll Big Bottom. Fine cane pas ture of 350 acres under good new woven wire fence, and will support several hundred head of stock the year round. More than 1000 bearing pe- can trees on the place. About 400 acres of this place is sus- ceptihle of cultivation and when cleared and put in cul- tivation, which can be done at an expense of $10 per acre, the land is easily worth $60 an acre. Can be bought now for SIS per acre.
 H. E. Hawthorne, Mgr.
 Newark, Arkansas