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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
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ROAD MAKING Is IMPORTANT
Work Should Be Done in Late Spring
or Summer to Get Well Settled
Before Cold Weather.

Road making is a matter of a lot
of Importance to the city man and the
farmer alike. Many thousands of
dollars are expended annually in this
work. Far TOO great a per cent OF
the work is done in the fall, sometimes
running clear into the winter, for the
good of the road and for the judicious
expenditure of the money.
The road that is made in the late
spring or summer becomes well set
tied and solid before the freeze OF
the winter season, and if properly
taken care of is a good road all win
ter. We have driven over q good
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
Dous' Status Under the Law.

"The very fact that they (dogs) are
without the protection of the criminal
laws shows that property In dogs is of
an imperfect or qualified nature and
that they stand, as it were, between
animals ferae naturae, in which, until
killed or subdued, there is no property,
and domestic animals, in which the
right of property is perfect and COM
plete. They are not considered as
being upon the same plane with horses,
cattle, sheep and other domesticated
animals, but rather in the category OF
cats, monkeys, parrots, singing birds
and similar animals kept for pleasure,
curiosity or caprice."-Brown, j., in
Eentell VS.. New Orleans, ETC., II. Co.
1GG l.. S. T01.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
Easily Explainable.

Some time ago q c%ountryman went to
the parish priest and told him that he
had seen Il ghost at the wall near the
church gate. The clergyman only
laughed at him and asked: "What
shape was 1t in?" 1T was for all the
world like an ass, sir" $50 home, my
man." said the clergyman. "1ou must
have been afraid Of your own shadow
, when you saw it on the wall"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
Making Roads Better.

Only 10 per cent Of the estimated
100000 miles Of roadway in the
United States can be classed as sim
proved" according to the American
Highway association. But road i'm
provement is going forward in 1916
faster than at any previous time in
the history of the country.-Good-
rich Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
Another Highway Link.

A new connecting highway has been
proposed leading from Savannah, Ga,
to Seattle, Wash, crossing the Lincoln
highway at Omaha. An invitation will
shortly be extended to all the cities
along the route to send delegates to
q convention to be held in Omaha in
February.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
GUARD THE WATER SUPPLY
Subject That Is of Immense lmpor-
lance in Every Home in
the Country.

In thousands Of farm homes 1t is
now possible to find up-to-date water
systems, providing both hot and cold
water for the bathroom. the laundry,
the kitchen SIM. and various other
parts of the house and barn.
When a water system is once in
stalled the farmer and his family usu-
ally wonder how they ever managed
to get alcng without it before, and
seldom regret the cost. Yet, in spite
of the comparative ease with which
the average farm home can be
equipped with many of these conven-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
."GooD ROADS DAY" WORKERS
Governor of Pennsylvania and Others
Contribute Their "Bit" to Improve
ment Of Highways.

Governor Brumbaugh was n Of the
10000 Pennsylvanians who gave May
25 to the cause Of better highways.
The photograph shows him doing "his
bit" Many womenfolks Of the COM
munity gave their days work to the
Improvement of the roads. Not only
did the governor make the dirt fly
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
Courtesy on the Road.

Being courteous on the road does
not cost anything, but it makes the
trip much more pleasant for you, and
the other fellow, too.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30

anu 0dCKcO Up WIFI FuO0iSQ SidJ
Makes a Practically Impervious Cas-
Ing.
fences, how often do we find the coun-
try household still depending upon
the distant spring, the open we'll, or
at best the out-of-doors lift pump to
supply the hundreds of tons Of water
required for each household every
year?
Inquiry usually develops the fact
that the old methods are still retained
for one or the other Of the following
reasons, namely: The cost of sewer
systems is assumed to be %prohibitive,
or else the possibilities of fully uti-
LIKING the existing water supply have
never been carefully explained and
brought to the farmers notice.
A we'll can be protected from pollu-
ton by extending the tight casing or
lining six or eight inches above the
ground and covering with a water
tight concrete curb having a slope
away from the center in every direc-
ton. This cover should extend at
least one foot beyond the edge of a
dug we'll, and should never be less
than sever feet in diameter for a
driven well. A drain trough should,
Of course, be provided to catch the
drip and convey 1t away to a safe dis
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-08-30
Governor Brumbaush Riding a Log
Drag.

with his shovel, but he also drove a
.split-log drag, which is one of the
most effective road machines yet con-
trived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-13

rible. And New York, as general rule, has the habit well developed. It causes much annoyance. There is no more dan Gerous man than your coward when he is so trapped that he is more afraid not to fight than to fight. And that is the way the New York fear affects many of it's victims. They fear so many things that they develop anger toward almost everything and everybody in the effort to avoid the things feared.
 Some-too many by far-become so afraid of life here that they seek death by preference. It is perfectly true that, did they not fear life more than death, they would continue to live. But New York is not the place for a depressed down-and-outer to come to. It will have the worst effect in the majority of in- stances. It minimizes mans opinion of himself to such an extent that he often decides that life is not worth living. whereas, had he sought the open, the fields, the appropriated sections, wherein nature speaks more clearly to her chill dren, he might have reached an entirely different conclusion.
 But to him whose lifes horizon is not bounded on all sides by selr, New York is by no means a depressant, no matter what his condition may be as regards s1ccess or failure, as the world weighs such The person who lives in wider sphere than SCH, IinuS nefe greater op- portunities than elsewhere. for happ1- ness, because here there are more chances to be of assistance. helr >nd service to others, and, say what you will, if there is any real happiness to be found through any other process than that which in- cludes the bringing of happiness to others it has not yet been discovered. as a self-investigation will soon prove to any one under whose eye the new-old truth may fall
 But fear seems gaining a greater hold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-13

Pytnagooras had have cut out this musick thing we beeeve that his unfortunate end mite have been widely mourned, and our greef would have been moor accute Pythagooras also belonged to the Bryan and Ford school of thoughthe the furst to teech the idear of natural law he declared that the unni verse was butiful harmony law assisting law and all laws wurking to produse cosmos, which in Samoan lingo buty and perfectsion and consequintly opposed to prepardness The only consolasion that have this subject is that if Pyhagooras had been spared for few thousand yeers to he would have changed his mind aftur studdy of the Uropeean
 The infewanse of Pythagooras seemed to have been widespread It had much to do with the shaping of Platos fllossoy Out of Patos fillossofy grew Neo- Plantomism, whatever that is, so we see that all down the line lot of demmagogs stole Pythagooras' campaign thunder, and got away with it all rite
 Until had the pleasure of reedng the life and wurks of this wunderful man, we knew little of his history and acheevemnts. He rendered his grate service to his peepul and posterrity and while the most famus man in his neck of the woods for menny meeny yeers he successfully dodged the insidus meeting and the ernest sossitason of persunnel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-13
AMONG THE METLAKAHTLANS IN ALASKA

of which I have spoken and it is also giving them greater voice in their own government and in the administra- ton of their own business. Much of this has been done in opposition to and against the protests of Father Duncan, who thinks the Indians should be treated more like children, and that their education should be almost alto gether a religious and industrial one. There is 8 division of opinion among the Metlak ahtlans as to which theory is the right one. and the friction at tpresent existing is not good for the community. Every one will concede that great deal of consideration should be shown Father Duncan, and it is hoped that the matter can be so handled as to give the Indians all civic rights and the best of educational fa- cilities without destroying the Chris tian spirit of brotherly love that has existed between them and Father Dun can from the beginning.
 close my letter with the Lords prayer in Tsimpsean:
 We Nahgwah- dunn koo tsim lachah- gah, Nclootiksh ah Noo-wahnt. Shaba- ksheah ntsabbany. Shah-koad- tum wah1 ab halletsohamee. Ne-wahltksh tsim lachah-gah Kinnam klahgam ah chah quah ahm shkaboo wenayah Kamkoadan ah naht-ahtakamee, new aht-ach -ah -deah gam; Kiliohmdzah aht-ach -ah- deah gam; Killahmdzah tahtank umt shpiet tin shpahlt koad- umt; addah nah al tillahmantlxum ah haht-achahdat; ahwilI ntsabbaniat. ads dab nahkat kettandat, tilth n'cloadant. addah tum c1ah- -willah wahl. Amen"
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to Go to Gonkus and Sputtasius for hy class boots and shoes, flower salt calico, taller candus and union suits with each purchase of three kopecks the customer will be givven coupon entiltling him to admission the Colosseum wheere he will enjoy the unparalleled privilege of seeing Samoas justly celebrated orracle uther city in the modern world can give you such advantages, and we have secured this exclusive privilege at grate cost to the utter confusion of our competturs. Look our large line of fawlse teeth before purchasing elsewhere"s
 Thus it will be sceen that Samoa was not only proud of Pythagooras but they took full advantage of his reputasion and fame to boom the town It was grate blow to Samoa, therefore, when Pythagooras passed away It put crmp in reel estate and the stock ket broke menny points and specuaturs and reckless investurs went into bankruptcy and hysterricks
 In the Life and Wurks of Pythagooras" issued in de Lux and six vollums $2 down and dollar week for six yeers to reguler subscrburs it sed that he
 discuvvered the grate truth in musck that changes of sound air indssollubly connected with and nde pndint upon changes in length and tension" We don't know just when Pythagooras discuvvured this but it is one of the things we hold against him. If
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PythagOraS as an

trends and newer elected mayer of Samoa. He refused evven to serve the citty counselin short he eschewed polyticks in enny form. He sertany sum oracle alrite
 We don't persunnelly know enny of the desendents Pythagooras but if theere be enny of the heirs to his estate now in this country they have kick com ing if not bul suit against secret sosetes and assosiasions we have obsurved In of them they have Pyhagooras rathur they have him represinted by sum membur. have seen Pythagooras impursun mated by yung limb of sosety who did not have college educasion and whose of the Kings English wcnld make old Pythagooras turn ovver in his grave and throw fit Moor than that if Pythagooras looked enny thing like the effurts have make ups to reproduce himall say is that he mite have been bowling success an oracle and fillossifer of antiquity but when it cums to looks he was not theere. All the Pythagoorases have seen had moor hair and whiskurs than nolledge of geeometree, or music-to say nuthng of enny insite to the oracle bizness The reproductions of Pythagooras we have had the displeasure of seeing looked moor like the of the populist party than like the inventur of mathematics.
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unstable stocks may go; if he is a the- atrical man, he fears for the success of the production or productions in which he is interested; if he is a busi- ness man he fears for his business in one way or another, or fears that 1t will not be properly conducted by his employed assistants; if he is idle, he fears he will get no work; if he is employed by someone, he fears that he will lose his position. And there seems to be no fear here greater than the last named.
 Nervous men and women are con- tinually fearing that some terrible ac- cident will happens; some of them fear a subway explosion, an 'L" disaster, or street accident. Others fear noto- riety. still others fear lack of it; the husband fears--but there's no use go- ing into further details-you get the fear idea
 And what is the effect? On all who suffer from it, it is nerve strain that cannot but wear out the nervous sys- tenn sooner than a fearless life would Here and there there have been cases which proved that fear of anything carries with it tendency to bring the thing feared upon the person who fears it. In the light of modern knowledge it has been revealed that this is true even as concerns the physical being Aedt oi q uiSSdoo HithrS lt cdSicr ioi the disease to take hold. and even the quacks know this. as careful reading of any one of their ads will show. Dc they not always undertake to so de scribe the symptoms of this or that trouble in such manner that almost any normal human being might, aftel reading say. "Why. I believe I have 6 lot of those symptoms myself?'t
 It is bad enough to entertain fear un- der any circumstances but when it be- comes a habit--chronic fearing-it is ter.
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a part of their religion. and was con- nected with the rites of their medicine men.
 Upon my asking him as to the people he had seen eaten, he first cited the case of the woman referred to above. He said:
 T had heard of the cannibalism, and one day an officer of the fort ran into my house and told me the Indians were about to kill one of their women. He warned me to keep in and said that would surely be killed if I attempted to interfere. A moment later another man rushed in and said that the woman had already been killed We went out to the beach where the ecrowd of Indians was. They were divided into two bands, each led by 8 brave who was stark naked. All were howling horribly. They had killed a woman and cut her in half and each of the nude Indian leaders was carrying his half of the woman in his teeth. As we came up the bands separated and each gathered around it's leader. They were so crowded together that I could not see. They sat down in two great buehes on the sand When they got up not vestige of the woman was to be seen.s What became of the flesh I do not know, but was told it was eaten, and that all had engaged in the feast.
 Do you mean to say that they ate the flesh without cooking it?'
 Yes they must have eaten it raw, for, as I say, the woman disappeared They may have buried the bones in the sand. I doubt however. whether the flesh agreed with them. for the officers of the Hudsons Bay company fort nearby told me that it was the custom of the Indians after every such cannibal feast to come into the post the day following and buy large quantities of epson salts"
 You spoke of seeing boy killed Fa- ther Duncan?'
 No l did not see him killed. The boy died of consumption. His body was laid out upon the beach and it was there eaten by the people,
 At another point in the conversation l asked Dr. Duncan about some of the at tempts made to kill him. He described them most graphically, and as he talked I could see that he was again living over the past He rose to his feet and acted the story, his eyes flashing and his arms waving gestures. He told me how one of the chiefs tried to close his school being melted. as Father Duncan thought by the officers of the Hudsons Bay com pany, who wanted to get rid of him. Ir one such case a chief demanded that Father Duncan close the school because his beautiful daughter was just about tc drop down from the moon to be married The chief said that she had gone away and would come back in great state. She would drop from the moon into the sea and would rise out of the water with 8 bearskin over her shoulders and thus ap- pear to the people. At this time there would be many ceremonies that would nrevent the school being held
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upon ussin this city just at this time. Recently guards nave been placed at the subway entrances to stop robberies, and escapes via the subway kiosks. The popu- lace. however, has elected to decide that these guards are there to prevent per- sons carrying bombs into the subway for the purpose of blowing it up. Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Williamsburg bridges across East river have also been under guard recently,s and these steps have in creased fear in New York until it may yet break forth into somsthing very much resembling panic.
 Do not the hurry, hustle, noise and jam of the great metropolis create fear, as result of disordered nerves? you ask. Not necessarily. Many New Workers will tell you that all these things merely act as a sort of stimulus, giving them pep and energy. which quieter life would not produce. And certain it Is, that people living here seldom grow old, though they five as many. and often more years than they would live elsewhere.
 But such as these enter into the spirit of the big city life; live it on broad plane-broader than self-and their at tltude toward 1t is not that of fear, but of joy in the conflict.
 Columbia university, this city, Is go- ing to do it's part in the general plan of ''preparedness Vt has already am nounced coursescin naturalization, cit izenship and government. and has pla- carded the lower Eastside with notices to the effect that dwellers of that hyphenated section can obtain such courses henceforth. It will be a part of the general melting process here in the great melting pot of Gotham.
 This has been made possible by the new extension system of the univer- sity and these courses will be taught at 34 Stuyvesant street. The plan is
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Example

The life of Pythagooras only shows what yung man can do < ze will only try. When Pythagooras small boy who saw him running round the streets of Samoa with large crimson patch on the sect of his blue rowsers and stone bruse about the size of prune his rite foot thought he would grow up and becum oracle. He maid no spesial progress in school and newer mensioned as one who possessed enny of the sympums of an oracle in his yuth. No tell what boy will do or how will turn Sum of the eest promising boys free quintly grow up and becum grate men; while uthers who weer touted up being sumthng extry, eether land in the pennetensiery the Legislature
 Do not feel discouraged with Sun, then, if he should show dispossison to neglect his books and munkey with nature too much. He may be a cumming orracle-a secund Pythagooras so to speek
 Enny way Pythagooras is ded-those who have not herd of this sad occurrence will doubt feel sad and shocked for the rest of the day, but the had be broken to them and mite well do it enny else. Hoping you air the same, am,
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. Washington, D. c.
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community. They put up comfortable homes with gardens of vegetables and flowers, and, in short, established the most advanced native community in the western part of the North American con- tinent
 The settlement was called the New Metlakahtla and since then the Indians have been known as the Metlakahtlans. In 1891, Annette Island was set aside by Congress as a reservation for them and it was provided that it should be used by them in common under such rules and regulations as might be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
 wish I could show you Annette Is land. It is one of the most beautiful parts of southeastern Alaska. It is 15 miles long and 10 miles wide anG is formed by long mountain on the back bone of which are number of beauti- ful lakes. The mountain is wooded and it assumes a purple tinge under the cloudy sky. About Port Chester the land slopes gently down to the sea. Here the trees have been cut away and few hundred acres have been cleared and di- vided up into town lots for the buildings. At the left as you come into the harbor you see a silvery cascade tumbling down the slope of the mountain. It comes from Lake Chester, a short distance inland and at an elevation of $50 feet above the sea.
 The most conspicuous building in the town is a great white frame structure with two towers. This is the Westminster Abbey of Metlakahtla. It is Father Dun can's church and was built by the In dians at cost of $12,000. It is the largest church in Alaska, and will comfortably seat 800 people.
 On the left of the church is the govern ment school recently erected by the Uni ted States, and still farther away is Father Duncans guest house. his office his school and the great store which he built to supply the needs offthe people.
 Right at the dock is a salmon cannery which has at times been very profitable undertaking, giving work to all the peo- pie and bringing in a great deal to the colony. Its capacity is about million cans of salmon per annum, and connected with it is 8 box-maxing establishment, where are made the 10000 cases or boxes used for shipping the fish. At times as many as 10000 salmon have been handled in single day, and altogether great many million cans have been shipped to the markets.
 One of the striking buildings of the new Metlakahtla is the library and jail. This is painted in the colors of the Amer ican flag
 The first story is bright red; it is the jail. The second story is snow white; it is the library. The cupola on the top is bright blue.
 Close to the beach and running back from it toward these public buildings are
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finding much favor here, as well as elsewhere.
 Of course, you knew that Geraldine Farrar (accent the last syllable if you desire to please her) the operatic and very recent movie star, married Lou Tellengen, the Holland actor. here this week. At least that is the way it has been reported here, though some people seem to believe that he married her
 We'll, one has to be very careful here, as we'll as in village, when one does thing of that sort-or goes into politics. It brings out past records and statements and now that Mrs. Tel legen is wed it is being remembered that she has said many things against marriage. It was she who said II shall never marry, because marriage means eating one cake all your life" -terrible thing to say? Not at all-- it merely indicates that she intends to be perfectly true to her husband
 She also said once: You can't study a role with baby squalling in the next room. And now they are hold ing that against her! An, well. peo- pie always would cross bridges be- fore-but besides, why couldn't she have the baby locked up in the base ment or some place while she was studying?
 And yet again, while she was bear ing the name of Farrar she said: Men are like cakes in bag. After you have begun to eat the cake with the green icing you think you would like the one with pink icing better after all, however, the last show MT. Tellegen starred in was Taking Chances"
 New York has admitted recently that James K Hackett is brave man. He