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Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Enary tests show that the seed is GOOD,
the owner then can continue his pre-
cautions to guard It from weather
damage. If, however, this test with q
few ears indicate that the seed is OF
low vitality, the farmer should at once
make further tests to satisfy himself
as to whether his seed corn generally
is good or bad.
II farmer finds his seed is bad he
should take steps at once to meet tho
difficulty. The purchase of seed should
not be delayed till spring, especially
when so much corn in various sections
has been damaged. The farmer should
secure his seed from well-knOwn
sources, buy it upon terminating
guaranty basis, and get his seed or
typical samples early enough to make
his own terminating tests. 1t is prob
able this year that many farmers who
have not followed the wise practice of
selecting enough special seed from
good crops to last them in an emer-
Cency for two or three years will have
to buy seed. In buying seed, farmers
should try to secure corn Of varieties
known to prosper in their section. The
safest seed would be that carefully Sc
lected from good corn grown in the
immediate neighborhood, but at any
rate effort should be made to obtain
seed grown in districts where climate,
soil, and farming conditions in general
are similar to those at home.
If the farmer happens to have a
stock of seed left over from the 1914
crop and doubts the seed saved from
his 1915 crop, he would do we'll to test
the older seed also and then use
whichever shows the greatest vitality.
Seed corn if properly cared for will
retain it's vitality for several years.
Many farmers knowing this always
select an extra amount of seed from
an unusually good harvest.
The following method of testing
seed corn is taken from Farmers Bull
letin 7O4. The corn is placed on dry
ing racks made by driving wire finish
ing nails about four inches apart on
four sides Of a stick A number is
placed over the nail and the butts
of the ears are put On the nails. If
wire fencing or other seed racks are
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
"DIRT ROADS" AND RAINFALL
Easy to Be Seen That Good Roads
Proposition Gets Down to Ques-
tion of Dollars and Cents.

Back in the boom days of railroad
building many a county in full many
a middle West and western state
voted hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of bonds to get a railroad
to cross its boundaries. This was in
the old DAYS of pioneer poverty when
lands were selling anywhere from
$1.25 to SIS an acre. Some counties
are still paying off railroad bonds,
some repudiated the debt and others
have had half a century of litigation
over them. However, for the most
part the roads were built and agricul-
tural development followed their com
ing.
Something like three-fourths of all
the freight hauled by railway lines
must. first ore last, pass over public
highways. 1t has been shown over
and over again that every ton so
moved costs % cents a mile. 1t is
easy to see that the good roads prop
osition gets down to matter Of dol
lars and cents.
Next March, or maybe April, when
we have to walk to town across the
fields; when it takes a six-horse team
to move load of hay mile; when
the mail carrier cannot get around for
a week and the children miss school
on account of the mud-then we
are all for good roads. AS the mud
dries and the chuck-holes fill, we get
lukewarm. When the road-bond prop
osition comes up we begin to talk
high taxes and either stay away from
the polls or vote against it.
Good roads will never come till We
change our views and keep them
changed. Left to themselves a dirt
road and rain will always mean mud.
Farm Progress.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

GOOG ECGN EhOhS GSs''N ~Sooh'
to $4,000, according to the character
of construction, whether surface treat
ed, 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 that in
1913 the average cost for macadam
roads was $4,000 per mile, cIay-gravel
roads $1,500 per mile, and concrete
roads about $4,000 per mile. The
average cost of state highways con-
structed in Ohio two years ago was
$3.50. According to types, in 1912
the brick-paved highways averaged
$14,65O per. mile and the macadam
highways $A95O.
In California the first 356 miles of
the state system of highways cost an
average of $S,143 per mile and con-
sisted principally of thin concrete with
a thin coat of bitumen. The maximum
and minimum figures given are not alb
solute, but are intended to present the
usual range of costs. The rates given
include grading, drainage. surfacing
and engip eeTing costs.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
One Use for Him.

An English prisoner had for the
tenth time been convicted for theft
and to avoid punishment for his last
offense had promised to enlist Ths
judge was greatly perplexed as to
what degree of leniency he should
deal out. Addressing the counsel, he
remarked: 1T is difficult to see what
use such a man as your client would
be in the army" Counsel for the de-
fense, seeing that the judge was in
excellent humor, decided bit of face
tiousness might accomplish what .
fearful plea would not, and replied,
Well, my lord, he might be usefully
employed in stealing a march on the
enemy"
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
BILIOUS, HEADACHX,
SICK ''CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 1O-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness, diZzi
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the In
testines, instead Of being cast cut
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
ESTIMATING COST OF ROADS
Much Depends on Type of construc-
ton and Amount Of Grading to
Be Done-Scme Figures.

The cost of a road is dependent
upon not only the type Of construction
but the amount and character CT
grading TO be done, the cost OF labor
and materials, the width and thick
ress Of surfacing, the character and
amount of drainage required, and
other factors of equal variability.
Based upon general averages. ii has
been ascertained by highway special
lists of the department that under
average conditions macadam roads can
be built in southern states at from
$4,000 to $4,000 per mile. gravel roads
at from $500 to $2,5Oo per mile, and
sand-clay and topsoil roads at from
$500 to $1,5OO per mile.
In New England and the other east
ern states macadam roads are report
ed at from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile.
gravel roads at from $4,000 to $4,000,
and bituminous macadam from $4,000
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Not a Justification.

The lady of the house was hurried
ly finishing some work neglected the
day before, when the old negro butler
happened to pass by.
Miss Ginnie! Miss Ginnie!" he re-
mOnstrated. "You shore is breaking
the Sabbath day."
But, Uncle Clay" she argued, the
OF is in the ditch, and"
Miss Ginnie," broke III the old man,
that OK amt nothing but a stumbling
block for folks to hide behinst. The
Scriptures do say If he is in the ditch
to pull him out; but it don't nowhere
say to push him in on Sat'day sc as
to have the chance to pull him out on
Sunday YOUTHS Companion.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Wireless Men in Demand.

Radio operators are enlisting III
great numbers in the ranks of the bel
ligerent nations of Europe. It is re
ported that in the British navy alone
more than $3.50 radio operators have
enlisted. Among those serving on
warships one has earned the Victoria
cross, one the cross Of the Legion OF
Honor and four the distinguished-con-
duct medals.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Poultry Cleanliness.

Cleanliness is one Of the most i'm
portant factors in raising poultry or
pigeons. Impure food and water, de-
caying animal matter, old cans of stag
nant water and other filth are things
that cause more disease than almost
anything else. Keep the hen or pigeon
house clean Of rubbish and free of
bad odors.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
A New Remedy for
Kidney, Bladder and
all Uric Acid Troubles

Dear Readers:
/ appeal to those of you who are
bothered with kidney and bladder
trouble, that you give up the use Of
harsh salts or alcoholic medicines and
in their place take a short treatment
Of "Anuric." l have taken many Of
DR.. Pierce's medicines for the PAST
twenty-five years with good results. I
suffered with kidney trouble for some
years. I recently heard Of the newest
discovery of DR.. Pierce, namely, his
"Anuric" Tablets. After using same
I am completely cured of my kidney
trouble. A doctor pronounced me a
we'll preserved woman for my age. all
due, l believe, to DR.. Pierce's aid.
MRS. MELINDA Z. MILLER.
If you suffer from backache, lum-
bago, rheumatism, get "Anurie" new.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
DEHoRNING CHUTE is USEFUL
Illustration Shows Device Used With
Success by South Dakota Man
L Is Easily Made.

We have a dehorning chute which
we use with good success, writes a
Stanley county. South Dakota, writer
in Independent Farmer. Two-inch
stuff is used throughout, excepting two
upper pieces on each side, which are
Ike. A stanchion is provided at one
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
WATER OF MUCH IMPORTANCE
Cows Giving Milk Require Great Guam
titles of Water-As Essential
as Feed in Winter.

Water is fully as important to the
dairy cows as feed during the winter.
They must have access to it so that
they can drink all they want, wheth-
er they have it in automatic water
basins, or in the yard tanks.
Cows giving milk need great guam
titles of water. Careful experiments
have proved that it requires more
than five pounds of water for every
pound Of milk produced by the COW.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
He Was Riqht.

A man rushed to the entrance Of a
lunatic asylum in the middle of the
night and yelled to the keeper to let
him in.
Let me in" he cried. 4 have sud
denly gone insane"
The keeper woke up, thrust his head
out of a first-story window and bel
lowed down i'll rage:
What? Come here at this time of
night? Man. you must he crazy!"
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w. N. U., BALTIMORE, NO. tO--1s1A
After Grip
Winter Colds
Bod Blood

You are pale, thin, weak-with little
vitality. Your liver is sluggish and
the bad blood causes your stomach
muscles to lose their elasticity and be.
come fabby-then indigestion.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov.
cry, purely vegetable and free from
alcohol or narcotics, is the great and
powerful blood purifier of today. EH
tracted from American forest herbs
and roots. Contains no alcohol. In
gradients printed on wrapper.
Taken as directed It will search
out impure and poisonous mattaP
throughout the system and eliminate
It.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
TampinG Posts.

If you will use only clear dirt and
no stones in setting posts and tamp it
down well about the post the frost is
less apt to bring it out. The reason. is
simple: Stones placed about the post
will leave a space where water will
collect. This water freezes and ex-
pands and up comes your post.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
WOMAN HAD
NERVOUS TROUBLE
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound Helped Her.
West Dandy, N. Y.-"I have had
nervous trouble all my life until / took

ILydla u. RlnKnaIn 8
V eg etable Com
pound for nerves
and for female trou-
bles and it straight
ened me out in good
shape. IwOrk nearly
all the time, as we
live on a farm and l
have four girls. do
all my sewing and
other ork with
their ha1O- 40 IT
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Now Is the Time to Get Bid of These
TIPlY SnOtR.

There's no longer the slightest need of
feeling ashamed of your freckles. the
prescription othine-dOuOle Strengths
guaranteed TO remove these homely spots.
Simply get ounce OF othine-dOuble
strength-from your druggist, and apply a
little of Il night and morning and you
should soon see that even the worst freekles
have begun TO disappear, while the lighter
ones have vanished entirely. 1t Is seldom
that more than one ounce is needed to com
pletely clear the skin and gain beautiful
clear complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength
othine as this Is sold under guarantee of
money back If 1t fails to remove freckles---
Adv
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Economic Maintenance.

The split-log drag has contributed to
large extent toward the economic
maintenance of public highways. It is
an improvement which can be built
or purchased at low price and is
easily operated by anyone who can
drive team.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Concrete silo cheanest.

The concrete silo keeps silage per-
fectly, is almost indestructible, and
may be built very cheaply where
sand and gravel are available.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

end with loose pin which can be re-
moved quickly and animal driven out
in front if desired. After the animal
is fastened in the stanchion a rope run
around its neck and nose is fastened
to the windlass and drawn through.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Variety is the spice of life to the
bald man in the front row.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Good Rnads Would Helm

1t costs So to haul ton of freight
hundred miles by rail. 1t costs 50
TO haul ton ten miles on the ordi-
nary country road. Would good roads
help?
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

To keep clean and healthy take Dr..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver. bowels and stomach.-Adv.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Right is SO slow in asserting itself
that some people doubt that it will
finally prevail.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
TouIouse Geese

While Toulouse geese are good lay
ers they do not become broody 90
readily as other varieties
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Weeds Become an Asset.

A rank growth of weeds becomes an
asset when plowed under before they
make seed.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
No. Co. ua,r. ,,nt r,.sa &c.

UEt1y ny
make US look older than we are. Keer
your Eyes young and you will look young
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Dom
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago, Sends Eye Book on request
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Avoid Sour Feed.

Don't give ducks sour feed, as it is
likely to cause commissions.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Get Rid Of Lice

Occasionally take all the roosts
down and wash with boiling soapsuds
to kill the lice.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

A little nonsense then and now may
stir up an awful row.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
DllAAl.IIEDgNyEES DllAl.IIEg
milk crop is one which comes in

The milk crop is one which comes in
every day.
When possible, test the cows milk
before buying her.
Never buy cow whose, milk tests
below three per cent.
Stanchions are thing of the past.
Cow ties are now in order.
After the good COW, is born there rs
lots of work in her making.
The sooner dairy tools are washed
after using the more easily they will
be cleansed.
Why not settle on dairy farming as
business? Then breed and feed and
work for better breed.
Dent use the milk pail for carrying
feed to the pigs if you desire to be
classed as good dairyman.
=
The grade bull calf will not pay for
the cost of raising if the dairyman can
dispose of his products otherwise.
There's as much in the man behind
the COW as in the COW herself. Brains
count everywhere in dairying.
AS rule milk should not be used
within Is days before calving or dur.
ing the first five days after calving.
You don't know much about your
COWS until you weigh their milk and
test it with Babcock tester. Keep
records.
Give every COW a place of her own
in the stable and expect her to be in it.
She will soon know where she belongs
and always go to her place.
Whatever mode of fastening is used
always have the comfort of the COW in
view, as the profitable COW must be 8
comfortable COW.
Wash all milk bottles as soon as
milk has been used. This will not only
relieve the dairyman of work, but II
will also help him TO give you clear
milk.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

A mean man always attributes his
dislike of his neighbOr to envy.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

A woman has the same ambition to
get into society as a man has to keep
out of Jail.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

From the bulldogs point of view this
is a very quarrelSome old world.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Calling a Bluff.

My heart is a very sound organ.
THAT may be, but I know belle
who can wiring it,
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04
Blown Up.

BLOWN UP.
Groans-My uncle lost his life last
week in an explosion.
Grins-So? Wife or boiler?
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Give every COW a place of her own
in the stable and expect her to be in it.
She will soon know where she belongs
and always go to her place.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Wash all milk bottles as soon az
milk has been used. This will not only
relieve the dairyman of work, but II
will also help him to give you clear
milk.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Whatever mode of fastening is used
always have the comfort of the COW in
view, as the profitable COW must be 8
comfortable COW.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

You don't know much about your
COWS until you weigh their milk and
test it with Babcock tester. Keep
records.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

Insolvency cripples a great spirit.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

AS rule milk should not be used
within Is days before calving or dur.
ing the first five days after calving.
Middletown transcript., 1916-03-04

There's as much in the man behind
the COW as in the COW herself Brains
count everywhere in dairying.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-12-01
A GREAT CONVICT.

The world usually turns pretty
cold shoulder on the ex-convict. The
man who has served term in a pris-
on has a pretty hard struggle in after
life. No matter what evidences a for
mer convict may give of reformation.
no matter how circumspect his walk
in life may be when the prison bars
are opened, he is the object of scorn
and suspicion from the world. Peo-
pie are prone to gossip about the mis-
deeds of their neighbors. We lack a
whole lot of practicing the greatest Of
the Christian virtues, charity. The
world does not forget and it is slow
TO forgive those who have been con-
victed of a violation of its conventions.
Mark the word convicted"
But great men sometimes go to
nrison. o Henry, recognized by
many as the greatest of all American
short story writer's, the equal even OF
Washington Irving, served term in
the Ohio prison for embezzlement.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-12-01

ear to the just claims of the Univer-
sity. One of them Hon. w. ]. Rus
sell, is graduate of that institution
and now has boy enrolled there; and
in addition he is great advocate of
public education. AS a district direc-
tor, member of the county board of
education and the county high school
board, he has rendered distinguished
aid to the cause. The other member
Hon. Thos. Y. English, is a former
school teacher, the moving spirit in
the erection of the best country school
in the county, and one of the foremost
advocates of popular education in the
county court. That the great cause
Of popular education, the greatest that
can engage the attention of our law
makers, will have consistent and
earnest advocates in the members
from Maury admits of no sort of doubt.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-12-01

His real name was Porter and as such
he served his sentence. During his
stay in prison he wrote his first stor-
les, using the name by which he is
known to literary fame, 20 Henry"
Probably had his stories been recog-
nized and labelled as those of COM
mon convict the world would have
been slower to recognize his genius
or do proper honors to him. AS o
Henry he achieved immortal fame, as
convict his efforts would not have
been appreciated until much later.
1t is not recorded that after he left
prison o Henry ever departed from
the straight and narrow path. He
probably lived as hundreds of other
ex-convicts have lived, life of honor
and rectitude. There are many sin
cere and honest hearts that beat be-
meath prison garbs. Too long we have
maintained our prisons for the punish.
ment rather than the reformation OF
men. We have made their labor
source of profit. 1t is hard to reform
even well intentioned man amid
hard surroundings, lacking wholly in
the greatest of all factors, human
sympathy and appreciation. There
are in all prisons men who could be
made into useful and honorable citi-
lens if only proper effort was made
by the officials and a little encourage
nent, helping hand, extended when |
released from the prison.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-12-01
HELP THE POOR.

Members of the Guided Circle of
The Kings Daughters do a very large
portion of the organized charity work
of this community; this they have
done for more than a quarter of a
century. In that time they have col
lected and distributed among the
needy thousands of dollars. They
have helped to keep suffering from
many homes; they have aided in driy.
ing the wolf of distress and poverty
from many doors. Their noble minis
trations have been a blessing to hun
dreds.
Without this organization The Her
aid trembles TO think what might hap
pen to many homes in Columbia dur
ing the dark and cold days that are
TO come this winter. 1t cannot do
more than its means will permit. 1t
must depend upon a generous and God
serving people for the means with
which to go about and perform its
Christ-like mission of service. The
people of this community have pros
oered this year. They have enjoyed
plenty. They are able to respond to
he appeal of organized charity. They
should not hesitate.
Every dollar of money, every article
If food or clothes, contributed through
The Kings Daughters to charity will
be properly distributed. The contri-
buttons will be used where they will
10 most good. OF that no one has any
loubt. The Herald sincerely hopes
that the appeal for aid will not fall
upon deaf ears.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-12-01
HERALD GROWS BETTER.
Subscriber Declares That 1t Is Now
The Ideal County Weekly journal.
Messrs. Finney and Hastings,
Columbia, Tenn.

Messrs. Finney and Hastings,
Columbia, Tenn.
Dear Friends:
The Herald grows better and better
under your management. 1t is a model
country weekly and sets a mark in
every department that few papers of
the class ever reach. 1t is worthy of
your high ambition and a credit to the
splendid town and county in which it
is published.
/ hope the new owners will prosper
more and more.
| am doing we'll as a farmer and
stoek-raiser-not growing rich, but
making good living-leading a SIM
pie and contented life, deeply interest
ed in the growth and improvement of
my herds and flocks, surrounded by
good neighbors, with good lands, good
roads and good schools.
Mrs. Farrell and the children are as
interested and contented as I. We
are all blessed with good health.
Mrs. Farrell joins me in regards to
you both and to all the members Of
your homes. Your friend,
E. R. FARRELL.
Catherine, Ala.