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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
BOOSTER FOR BETTER ROADS
Cost of Transportation of Produce to
Market Is Lessened-Ditch, Drain
and Drag Roads.

Good roads not only cheaper the
cost of transporting farm produce to
market, but make the country a de-
srable place to live in.
We hear much. talk about federal aid
for good roads, yet if we wait for
this movement to crystalline into a
reality, the people of the country VIII
be riding in mud for some time to
come. The thing to do is to take on
coats and buckle into plan for local
road improvement. Be booster for
the grading of roads and follow up the
work with the King road drag for
maintenance.
The principle of all good roads in
all States is the same, viz, keeping
the water out and off of the roadbeds.
Ditch, drain and drag the roads. This
is the tripod of good road building.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
WAR UPON PAIN!

Pain is a visitor to every home
and usually it comes quite unex-
pectedly. But you are prepared for
every emergency if you keep a
small bottle of Sloan's Liniment
handy. 1t is the greatest pain kill
er ever discovered. Simply laid
OIL the skin-no rubbing required
it drives the pain away. 1t is really
wonderful. Melvin II. Soister,
Berkeley Cal. writes: Last Satur-
day, after tramping around the Pan
anna Exposition with wet feet, |
came home with my neck so stiff
that. l couldn't turn. l applied
Sloan's Llniment freely and went to
bed. To my surprise, next morn
ing the stiffness had almost disap.
peared, four hours after the second
application | vas as good as new."
ali Csc drugeisls.-l
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Sims That Save.

A decided decrease in the number
of traffic accidents is reported from
Portland, Ore, since the installation
there of a comprehensive system of
warning signs. The signs consist of
red steel dials 1S inches in diameter
mounted on steel rods sunk three feet
in concrete at the curbs and standing
eight feet deep on the top of the dial.
The dials are painted bright red with
black letters, and read: School, Care
full" Caution, Bridge" Caution,
Steep Grade" Danger, Drive Slowly"
Hospital. Quiet" Caution, Fire Sta
tion." Danger. No Outlet" "Cau-
ton. Dangerous Corner" and so on.
The signs are set in pairs about 100
feet from the danger point and in all
street directions from it, and are so
placed that the street lights will shine
upon them at night. Portland has a
population of about 100000 greater
thar Rochester, and embraces more
than twice the area OF this city
Rochester Post-Express.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
BEAUTY AND GOOD HABITS
700 Few Seem to Recognize the Part
! That Health Plays in Matter OF
/ Appearance.

1t is impossible to be beautiful with
out being healthy. Health is the foun:
dation of beauty. If one wants to be
really beautiful, the beauty must be
more than skin deep. The trouble viii
most people is that they are quite sat
isfied with beauty that is superficial
enough to deceive the onlooker. Beau
ty includes vigor and efficiency.
To be really beautiful one must have
not only a beautiful face, bat beautiful
hands as well; not simply good com
plexlon all over. Not infrequently a
persons body is covered with pimples
With such blemishes on the face one
would feel very badly, but so long as
they are out of sight, they areSnot re-
garded. However, they mean the same
thing as if they were face pimples.
They mean that the whole body is in
a state of uncleanness and OF low re-
sistance because OF this uncleanness.
The only way to be really beautiful
is to live beautifully, to live rightly
That means to live naturally. For ex-
ample, if one is aiming to be beautl'
full, one must eat beautiful things, be-
cause our bodies are made of what we
eat. If one eats corpses, how can one
expect to be beautiful? But if one
eats the beautiful fruits and nuts that
are hung from the trees, inviting us to
reach up and partake-if one eats
these and other natural foods that ma
ture has prepared for US, that are all
pure and sweet and good and clean,
then one may have normal, clean
blood, and tie result of good, clean
blood will be clear skin and good
complexion. A lady once asked the
writer what was good for her complex
ion, and we told her oatmeal. She
said, "Do you mean rub it on?" "Yes,"
we said, rub it on, and rub it in
swallow it."--J. H. Kellogg, M. D., in
Good Health.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
SEPARATION OF SOUR MILK
Pour From One Pan to Another,
Breaking UP curd as Fine as Pos
sible-Prevents cIogging.

Milk that has curdled will separate
with difficulty. Such milk should be
thoroughly mixed previous to separat'
ing, by pouring from one can into an
other. In this way the curd is broken
up as finely as possible, so that 1t will
not clog the machine. The separation
of curdled milk finally clogs the skim
milk tubes, with the result that more
skim milk passes through the cream
outlet, making thinner cream.
On the other hand. when sour milk
which has not curdled is separated
the cream produced will be thicker.
This is due to the fact that cream
from sour milk has a high viscosity,
or is less fluid, and smaller proper
tion of cream is delivered, contain
ing higher per cent of fat.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Tyranny Of Power.

No citizen can do a higher duty
than to resist the majority when he
believes it wrong; to assert the right
of individual judgment, and to main
tain it; to cherish liberty Of thought
and speech and action against the
tyranny of his own or any party. Till
that tyranny, yearly growing more
burdensome as the main object of an
old party becomes more and more the
retention or the regaining of pow
er. instead Of the success Of the fresh,
vivid principles on which new parties
are always organized-till that tyranny
is in some measure broken, we shall
get few questions considered on their
merits, and fail-as we are falling
to bring the strong men into the serv-
ice Of the state.-Whitelaw Reid.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
INFLUENCE COLOR OF BUTTER
Markets Demand Yellow Tint Which
Is Supplied by Use Of Dyes or
Character of Cows Feed.

Although it is a fact that some dairy
breeds give yellower milk than others,
even though it may be no richer in
fat, the thing of greatest influence In
color is the kind of feed the COWS
are getting. Market demands call for
a yellow butter, which is supplied in
the creamery by the use of certain
harmless vegetable dyes, the use OF
which dairy laws rightly permit.
The color also can be fed into the
milk and make the use of dyes un-
necessary. Carrots, for example, color
milk and creaE. quickly. One of the
natural coloring materials in milk and
butter is called carotin, from carrots,
and this material is found in many
food materials. 1t is plentiful in fresh
green grass, hence the milk colors
up well in early spring. Alfalfa hay,
cured to have a bright green color,
contains good SUPPLIES of carotin, which
appears in the cream as a result.
Hay which has lost this green color,
dry corn fodder, silage, straw, yell
low corn and white, wheat, wheat
bran, cottonseed meal and other milled
feeds contain practically none, and
cream from COWS so fed will produce
a light colored butter unless artificial
coloring is supplied. The color adds
nothing to the value or digestibility
of butter, save in ones mind, but the
market demands yellow butter all
the year round and the color must
either be supplied In the feed or IN
the creamery.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Improved Michigan Road.

state highways constructed in Ohio
in 1913 was $S,3S3. According to types
in 1912, the brick-paved highways av'
eraged $14,65O per mile and the mac
adam highways $3.50. In California
the first $50 miles of the state system
of highways cost an average of $S,'
143 per mile and consisted principally
of thin concrete with thin coat of
bitumen. The maximum and mini
mum figures given in this paragraph
are not absolute, but are intended to
present the usual range Of costs. The
rates given include grading, drainage
surfacing, and engineering costs.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
William Morris and Paul PoIret.

We pay homage daily to Paul Poiret
as an apostle of good line and brilliant
color in dress, but the world does not
half know or praise what William Nor.
ris did in interior decoration. Working
as did Poiret he banished the superb
cial, artificial, superfuous adornment
of personal belongings. Down went
the spurious, up came the genuine, un-
der his teachings. And yet, the most
that the many know of him is that he
gave his name to reclining chair.
The very phrase Nottingham cur
tains" would discourage him in the
same way as it pains Poiret to see a
woman wearing a string Of pearls
with a t1ilored suit, as SO many hun
dreds Of American women, unfortu'
nately, have habit Of doing.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
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COST OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Much Depends on Amount and Char
acter of Grading Necessary-oth-
er Factors Considered.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture)
The cost of road is dependent up
on not only the type of construction,
but the amount and character of grad
ing to be done, the cost of labor and
materials, the width and thickness of
surfacing, the character and amount
of drainage required, and other fac
tors of equal variability. Based upon
general averages, it has been ascer-
tanned by highway specialists of the
United States department of agricul,
ture that under average conditions mac
adam roads can be built in southern
states at from $4,000 to $4,000 per
mile, gravel roads at from S1,5OO to
$2,500 per mile, and sand-clay and top
soil roads at from $500 to s1,50O per
mile. In New England and the other
eastern states, macadam roads are re-
ported at from $4,000 to $4,000 per
mile, gravel roads at from $4,000 to
$4,000, and bituminous macadam from
$4,000 to $4,000, according to the
character of construction, whether sur
face-treated, penetration, or mixing
method. The bituminous type is
quite general in the eastern states.
AS indicating costs in other sections
of country, the state highway commits
sioner of Michigan reported in 1913
the average cost for macadam roads
$4,000 per mile, clay-gravel roads ST.
500 per mile, and concrete roads about
$4,000 per mile. The average cost Of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Auditors Notice.

All persons owning property OF any
kind whatsoever, or in any capacity,
as husband, guardian, executor, ad-
ministrator or trustees are required to
make returns of the same to the Audi
tor under oath within the time men
toned below and the Auditor is requir-
ed by law to add a penalty OF 5o per
cent to all property that IS not return
on or before the goth day of February
in any year. 49, ,.
of 21 and go years except those eX-
empt by law are deemed taxable polls;
The so per cent penalty will be added
for failure to make returns.
For the convenience Of tax payers, l
or nv representative will be at the
following appointed places on the dates
mentioned to receive tax returns:
Ropers, Wednesday, Jan. IL, 1916.
Meriwether, Thursday Jan. lS.
Golfers, Friday Jan. IA.
Red Hill, Saturday Jan. Is
Clark's Hill, Monday Jan. II.
Modoc, Tuesday Jan. l8:
Parksville, Wednesday Jan. l9.
Plum Branch, Thursday. Jan. 20.
Morgan's Store, Friday Jan. 81.
Liberty Hill, Saturday Jan. 22.
Cleora, Monday, Jan; "A. Or
Pleasant Lane, Tuesday Jan. 25.
Meeting Street, Wednesday Jan. 70.
Johnston, Thursday, Jan. ~
Herring's Store, Friday, Jan. 28.
Trenton, Saturday, Jan. %.
The office will be open to receive re.
turns from the first day of January TIL
the goth day of Feb. 1916, as prescrib-
ed by law. n,,,,,rn,,,n
Auditor, E. C. S. c.
Dec. 8-1915.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
COMMUNITY PRIDE AN ASSET
The Town That Cares for It's General
Appearance Is the Town That
Will Prosper.

Community pride is an asset, and 1t
is one OF the greatest of all assets.
The town that improves its streets,
cleans up the alleys, paints the houses,
cuts the grass, rakes the lawns and
plants its flowers is not only encour-
aging cleanliness, but is making for
itself a name among the peoples of
the outer world.
Commercial travellers and others
come, and look, and so away and talk
and the talk is all in favor OF the
town and its people.
Talk travels. and grows, and null
ti6lies until the tom becomes known
IN many climes for it's cleanliness and
progressiveness.
In time other men who are looking
for change of location hear of this
town-and then they go, and look, and
:.alk, and are pleased, and it becomes
their home.
And the town continues to expand
and progress, and as the years roll by
it gradually assumes larger proper
tons and a more commanding and
dominating position in the world.
When Community Pride comes in
Prosperity enters by it's side, and the
two become the mighty levers that
control the machinery of success.
Personal Pride and Community
Pride should march side by side, for
when these two potent factors join
hands in a laudable purpose opposi.
ton quickly melts away.--Laredo
Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Typical Dutch Mixer.

already bought, and purchasing bet
ter individuals belonging to the same
breed.
1t is usually safer to try to improve
within the same breed than it Is to
improve by changing to a different
breed. There are good individuals and
good strains within any of the breeds
intended for a particular purpose.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Ordinary Cow Stalls.

The ordinary cow stalls should be
FIVE feet long from the stanchion back
to the gutter. This is the standard dis
lance and does for all except abnor'
mally large or small stock. The width
of the stall varies somewhat with the
breed ecd size Of the COWS, from three
feet four inches to four feet Three
feet eight inches is a good average.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Idaho Boosts Good Roads.

The Southern Idaho Motor associa-
ton was perfected at Boise, Idaho,
for the purpose of making a good
roads campaign in southern Idaho.
This marks an important step toward
giving impetus to the good roads
movement in the state.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-01-05
Keen Weeds Down.

It does not take long to NOW the
growth along the roadside, ditch
banks ani fence rows. You could do
It going to and from the fields oftimes.
OF when you have an hour to spare.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-26


Miss Ray Clark, Of Oxford, o., is
the attractive guest Of Miss Eliz-
obeth Lockridge
Misses Bessie and Clara Stamper
spent the weekend with Mrs. Rob-
ert e. Burke, in Lexington.
DR.. and Mrs. Russell Henry have
returned to their home in Winches-
ter after a visit to the family Of
James Harve Henry in this county.
Mrs. Ben +. Herriott had for her
guests last week her sisters, Mrs.
Belle Bean, Of Fayette county, and
Mrs. Richard N. Ratliff, Of winches-
ter.
Mrs. Marcus A. Prewitt left Thurs
day for Mcintosh, Fla, where she
will spend several weeks visiting
her niece, Mrs. Mary Graham Tur-
nipseed.
Mrs. John Feaster and son, John
and daughter, Miss Laura, of Ash
land, were guests the past week of
Mr.. and Mrs. N. A. Wilkerson, in
this city.
Mr.. Jack Winn returned to
Princeton University Friday. Mr..
Winn had been confined to his home
with la grippe for several days or
would have returned some time
sooner.
Miss Frances White has returned
from a visit to Sharpsburg, where
she was the guest Of honor at a
delightful course luncheon given in
compliment to her by her sister,
Mrs. G. Elgin Sharp.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-26
TWO RATHER BRIGHT DOGS
One Recognized the Letter Was Over
Weight and the Other Perceived
Wrong Address.

Two suburbanites, one living near
Morton and the other near Primes.
were swapping stories OF country life
as they went home on the 5:35 train.
Il have a most intelligent dog
said the Primes man. 81 Just hand him
letter and say: There, Spot!' and
of he goes to the post office. | gave
him one yesterday and he dropped IT,
He refused to pick It up, but wagged
his tail instead suspected some.
thing was wrong and picked up the
letter and weighed It. II required two
cents more postage"
Without the least show of surprise
the man from Morton proceeded with
his story
Dogs are intelligent" he began. My
collie, Carlo, always posts my letters.
and one day he, like your dog. dropped
letter on the floor. thought posi-
bly, one stamp was not enough, but
In weighing the letter I found that the
postage was all right. | gave 1t back
to Carlo, but he let It fall again to
the floor inspected the letter care
FULLY and found that II was addressed
to South Penn square. New York, in.
stead Of to Philadelphia. "--Philadel.
phia Times.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-26

Millionaire Collectors Gather Much
STUFF That Has No Real Value
TO the Owner.

ga fake Raphael costing half a
million marked J. Pierpont Nor
gan's debut into the collecting field,''
said, with an evil laugh, an art
dealer. W
Morgan once showed with great
pride a miniature of Mary, Queen
Of Scots, in the full bloom Of her
womanly beauty.
ga Holbein,' he said, in his
gruff, stern way. "A Holbein mas
terpiece.'
"'How strange that isp said |.
and Holbein died before Mary,
Of Scots, was a year old, toop
81 had a Botticelli that | wanted
to sell Morgan. But it was dubi-
GUS Botticelli. So Morgan shook
his, head over it and said:
"My collection contains only
masterpieces, and every one of these
masterpieces is authenticated
"'But,' said |, there's one fake
in your collection fake Benvenu-
TO Cellini.'
"'How do you know it's a fake?'
said MIR. Morgan contemptuously.
because l sold it to you myself,
said /.
"These millionaires are like chill
dren in our hands when they begin
to collect objects of art. Why, a
Fifth avenue trust magnate showed
me superb silver teapot the other
day and said:
""This belonged to William the
Conqueror.'
"'Ha, ha, HAP l roared. Don't
you know, sir, that they didn't begin
to brew tea in England till centuries
after William the Conqueror was
dead and buried%
"No, he didn't know it, and he
put the teapot away with an angry
frown. l think he'd have contra
dicted me if he'd dared.
"When l am escorted through
these millionaires' galleries / always
think of John Sloan's remark about
Corot.
"'The indefatigable Corot,' said
Sloan, regarding me gravely through
his black-rimmed pice-nez, painted
during his long and laborious life
5000 masterpieces, of which no less
than 10000 are still extant.'"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-26
THE SICK

Mr.. Shields Cunningham is con-
siderably better this week.
Mrs. A. L. Mitchell is able to be
out again after an attack Of la
grippe.
Mrs. R. D. Parsons, who has been
quite sick with la grippe, is slightly
improved this week.
The many friends of Mrs. T. G..
Denton viii be pleased to learn that
she is able to be out again after
several weeks illness.
Rev. E. L. Southgate, pastor of
the Methodist church, is confined to
his home with an attack of la grippe
and was unable to occupy his pulpit
Sunday.
There is little change in the con-
dition of Mr.. John w. White, who
is seriously i'll at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Hugh F. Minis, at
Morristown, Tenn.
Mrs. Anna Byrd, who has been
quite sick at the home of Mr.. /. T.
Rogers, in this city, for several
months, was taken to the Winches-
ter hospital Monday for treatment.
Mr.. John L. Mccormick who was
stricken seriously ill in Florida a
short time ago, was brought to his
home in this city Sunday. His con-
dition remains extremely grave but
the doctors think he has a slight
chance. Mr.. Mccormick is one Of
Mt. Sterling's most prominent men
and his many friends hope for his
recovery.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-26
NEEDLESS WORRY.
''Why the cogitation ?"

"Why the cogitation?"
81 dislike to take my engagement
ring to jeweler, and yet l should
like to know what it cost. But it
would embarrass me to take it to a
jeweler."
'You needn't. There are at least
two girls in our set who have had it
valued" - Louisville Courier-J our
nal.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-01-26
AN APPEAL
To Growers of Tobacco for Dona-
tons for the Consumption of
Soldiers In the War Zone.

! Among the many appeals in
connection with the War Relief
work done in Europe by Americans,
the call for tobacco comes with
such peculiar insistence to the
people Of Kentucky, that the courte-
sy of the press is requested for a
brief statement to growers OF to-
bacco, from the War Relief Com
mittee operating in Louisville.
During the war Of 1870 between
Germany and France, tobacco was
issued as part Of the soldiers daily
rations. At the present time this
is impossible, yet the need is great
err than ever before, and must
appeal to every man accustomed
to its use. Tobacco steadies the
nerves, takes the place of stimu-
lants and food, and is the only
thing that allays for time the
sickening stencil Of putrefaction
which pervades the battlefield.
The call comes from the soldiers
of many nations. Some lie suffer-
ing in hospitals, blinded, manned or
disfgured for life; others crouch
within the narrow confines of
trenches, listening to the thunder Of
guns, the din of battle, the cry of
the wounded.
Shall not we show our pity and
our comradeship by responding to
their appeal in manner beftting
the dignity .and honor of Kentucky
as a tobacco growing stateY
Notwithstanding the fact that
the sale of tobacco is a government
monopoly in France, the following
letter has been received:
Louisville, KY, Nov. IL, 1915.
Agence Consulaire de France
"Mrs. Gilmer S. Adams:
Dear Madam Il have the honor
to inform you that all restrictions
are lifted as to the sending of to-
baccos to the Allies. You can
therefore send all tobaccos you
desire to donate direct to the Inten-
dance Militaire at Bordeaux, France.
[ am instructed at the same time to
thank you and your friends in the
name of the French Government as
well as. in my name for your gen.
crosby.
(Signed) MICHEL HERMANN,
Agent Consulaire de France"
The War Relief Committee of
Louisville, or Mrs. John w. Jones,
of this city, will gratefully receive
any contributions of leaf tobacco.
They will be conveyed to the War
Zone through the medium of the
American National Red Cross, and
the courtesy of the French Govern
ment, without expense to the donors
Packages must be directed to the