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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
MyiJd Rosa Hedue,

Wherever there is wild rose hedge
# should be retained and encouraged,
If the blossoms are Of good shade.
Otherwise one should try to get in q
more pleasing variety. Wild roses diff
fer enormously in their color tints'
ranging oil the way from very pale to
q very deep and beautiful pink. Evi-
IDENTIFY there are a great many varie-
ties among wild roses. There is Il
fixed belief that wild roses will not
stand being picked. The writer one
Sunday morning attended church in
Minneapolis, where wild roses were
twined in great profusion about the
pillars and balconies of the church.
They were there by the thousands and
had been there for many hours. They
retained their freshness throughout
the day. The secret of their retaining
freshness was that they had been
gathered very early in the morning be-
fore sunrise and while covered with
dew. Some varieties Of wild roses
seem to bloom till very late. The writ
er has picked wild roses as late as
September, and In Cook county, too!
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Home IollJIl
7 Helps '
GARDENS IN BACK YARDS
Mistake Is General, According to Al.
thority, of Starting Them Too
Ambitlously.

Even the city dweller can cut ex-
penses by utilizing small yards for
raising vegetables, and the Garden
Club of America has engaged experts
to tell how it can be done. The in
formation is being embodied in a book
for backyard farmers. The book was
begun in the fall, when members OF the
club anticipated hard times and scare
ity of money for the working man, and
it will be ready for publication and
free distribution in few weeks.
1--WE plan for the average yard of
about 25 by 10 feet" said Mrs. J. Willis
Martin, president Of the club.
"Our aim has been to state the prln-
ciples of gardening as simply as posi-
BILE, planning the needs of the average
family Of four through the entire sum-
mer."
Philadelphia has the distinction OF
being the birthplace of the Garden
Club of America, which embraces y
clubs in other parts of the country,
and Mrs. Martin is also resident OF
that city.
The mistake that is made by nine
out of ten amateur gardeners, how
ever, is that of trying to do more than
they are able to accomplish, and Of en-
deavoring to grow too many things
| within the restricted bounds of an
average suburban lot. 1t were well to
bear in mind the fact that, after one
has worked eight or nine hours in an
office, ones strength is equal only to
an hour or so Of work in the garden.
1t should also be remembered that only
about so many plants Of any kind Will
grow and mature on a given area of
garden ground.
Instead of trying, therefore to grow
half dozen plants each Of a score or
more of vegetables, confne your efforts
to those vegetables Of which the fam
lily as a whole is most fond. Every
body, almost without exception, likes
some vegetables more than others, and
when the list Of favorites is compiled
it frequently will be found to De re-
markably restricted. Here is the ten
tative list, which may be modified to
suit individual tastes:
Sweet corn, an early and late va
riety or a single variety planted for
succession; string beans, planted for
all summer succession; peas, two or
three paintings ten days apart; to-
matoes of a long bearing variety or
planted for succession; lima beans
either the bush variety, if the garden
Is small, or the kind grown on poles,
If more space is available; a small
plot for lettuce, preferably the kind
that form heads; another small bed of
onions; two or three hills of cucum-
bers; and, if desired, a short double
row of beets for early summer use.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Shady Lanes.

That the chief aim of man is not de-
structiveness finds so few exceptions In
these parlous times that any evidence
to the contrary calls for mention.
A comforting instance of this sort is
contained in a brief news item from an
exchange, thus: ION leading road
way out Of this city farmers for six
miles have agreed to plant shade trees
on both sides 60 feet apart. The same
variety of tree will be used the entire
distance"
This is q little message with an ap-
peal that is vital. These public-spirited
farmers have their counterparts in all
directions from the shaded avenues
that will result from this wholesome,
sensible, artistic and altruistic en-.
deavor, already conceived, and, it is
fervently hoped, already on the way
toward being made an accomplished
feet.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
DEMAND FOR SHADE TREES
Massachusetts Journal Recognizes the
Value of Proper Adornment OF the
City's Streets.

A real good hot summer day brings
home to Bridgeport the shame of
shadeless streets. In this case it is a
burning shame, and no mistake. we
wonder what administration will devel-
On the foresight and public spirit to
toke the steps necessary at the present
for the assuring of shade trees for the
future?
Shade trees add to the value OF prop
erty. They help to keep the city cool
IN summer. They conserve public
health and comfort. They please the
owe and are one of the greatest fac
TORS in the Identification of city.
people have an instructive apprecla-
t;on of trnes-all the world knows that
New Haven is a city of elms, and the
most famous street in Germany is "Un-
for don Linden" Poets have rhapso-
died over trees, and Handel wrote his
famous Largo" in celebration OF a
plain tree, which afforded grateful
shade to the composer. And the prac-
tical advantages of trees are equal to
the esthetic advantages. But 1t Is I'M
necessary to cite these facts, because
practically everybody agrees. WHAT
IS needed is the taking of definite steps
70 assure shade trees in the future and
to counteract the lack of such a provi-
sion in the past.-Bridgeport (Mass.)
Telegram.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06

are satisfactory for purposes OF trar'
fic. The Jefferson highway was a
dream in mems minds for a few
months, then it became highway on
paper for matter of few weeks.
Rapidly now the ribbon of gravel and
rock and concrete is unrolling through
Winnipeg, Minneapolis, st. Paul, Des
Moines, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Jop'
lin, Muskogee, Denison, Shreveport,
Baton Rouge and New Orleans, ira
yersing the agricultural heart of Amer
lea, the most broadly developed agri'
cultural country in the world. In less
than three years time the great high
way not merely ought to be but will
be transferred from mems mind and
from paper to the ground, 2,000-mile
hard-surfaced, 365-day road from Win
nipeg to New Orleans.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
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ANIMAL
DESTROYING VERMIN ON HOGS
Crude Oil, Mixed With Equal Volume
of Warm Water, Is One of Best
Known Applications.

Crude oil is one of the best applica-
tons for killing lice on hogs. 1t is
sometimes used on cattle, though less
often. Use it mixed with an equal
volume of warm water. Apply with
rag, sponge or spray pump.
For quicker but less thorough work
it can simply be poured on from
kerosene can and allowed to run down
the sides. For large number of ami
mails, use a dipping tank or hog oiler.
Crude oil makes dark stains, and is
objected to by some men who keep
white hogs. One gallon of crude car
bolic acid added to each barrel of Oil
makes it more effective.
Machine oil mixed with kerosene,
half and half, can be used in the same
way. Pure kerosene Is too harsh on
the skin.
Tobacco infusion is an old reliable
remedy. Soak tobacco stems for II
hours in water, using one pound stems
to two gallons water, then bring the
water to boiling for a few minutes,
and let it cool. This decoction can be
used on all kinds of animals, applied
by hand or as dip.
With all these preparations, the
treatment should be repeated after
one week. Most of the lice will be
killed the first time, but not all the
lice eggs.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
counciIwoman at Work.

A fight against the unsightly, un-
sanitary and value wrecling billboards
Of Los Angeles has been reopened by
Estelle Lawton Lindsey, councilwom-
IN of that city. Mrs. Lindsey an
aounced recently that she would at
once renew the fight to bar the bill
boards from the residence districts
and would ask the council to pass the
ordinance barring them. This meas
ure provides that the consent of a
majority of the property owners in
the same block must be obtained be-
fore billboard may be erected in a
residence district. The Chicago ordi-
nance was the model for this Los An
geles bill and the supreme court of
illinois upheld the measure in Chi
cago, but the billboard posters ap-
pealed to the Supreme court of the
United States and the case is still
pending.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
TAX ON STREET ADVERTISING
How They Do Things in Franco to
Make and Keep Their Cities
Beautiful.

The imposition Of a tax on mural ad-
vertisements, which Mr.. McKenna Is
reported to be considering, has pro-
duced satisfactory financial results for
many years past in France, the Lon
don Chronicle states. Not q bill can
be displayed on any boarding or in any
window in that country without hay
ing affixed to it an inland revenue
stamp costing at least q penny. The
atrical posters, cards announcing
apartments to let, and bills offering
rewards for recovery Of lost dogs all
come under the same law. On printed
matter the stamps are usually attached
before printing. Frequent inspection
renders evasion difficult.
In this connection our French neigh
bors put into operation, just over three
years ago, another excellent idea
which might we'll be adopted in this
country, is the plan adopted to get rid
of the hideous advertising boardings
which then desecrated so many of the
national beauty spots. A bill was
brought in proposing tax of $40
square yard per annum on all board
ings under six yards square, $50 yard
up to 10 yards, $40 up to 20, and $3.50
on those above 20. If two separate adj
yertisements appeared on the same
boarding, the tax was doubled; If
three, trebled, and so on. The bill was
introduced solely on artistic grounds
and was passed with the enormous ma
jority Of 500 votes to 3.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
f0[}ll(C
ROADS
CANADA TO MARDl GRAS CITY
Ribbon of Concrete, Rock and Gravel
UnroIling Between Winnipeg
and New Orleans.

CBy FREDERICK J. WRIGHT, Presi-
dent Of Jefferson Highway Association)
In New Orleans on November Is and
IS of last fall, after six months of sys-
tematic agitation, more than 400 good
roads enthusiasts from eleven states
west Of the Mississippi river met and
organized the Jefferson Highway asso-
citation. Now a ribbon of concrete and
rock and gravel is rapidly unrolling be-
tween Winnipeg, Canada, and New Or
leans, La, which latter city aspires to
be known as the winter capital Of
America.
In less than six months Of it's official
existence, the Jefferson highway has
become second in Importance among
Americas great new national high
ways. The Lincoln highway is natural
~ and rightfully given first place, con-
Meeting as it does New York and San
Francisco, and spanning the entire con-
tinent from east to west. The Jeffer-
son highway, On the other hand, ira
verses the great agricultural center
and connects the Dominion Of Canada
at Winnipeg with the Gulf of Mexico
at New Orleans. 1t crosses the rich
agricultural states of Minnesota, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas
and Louisiana, with possible branch
through the Ozark mountains in Arkan-
SaS.
Thomas Jefferson is justly entitled
to the honor which the Jefferson high
way is expected to confer upon his
name. The great north and south
highway traverses the Louisiana pur-
chase territory with the exception Of
a short dip into Texas, made to provide
level route around the mountains OF
Arkansas. This diversion makes the
Jefferson highway farm land, level
country route from beginning to end.
The actual work of graveling, rock
ing, matchmaking or surfacing with
concrete is now being arranged for
with surprising energy. Single coun-
ties in Texas and Louisiana have
voted 100000 and 100000 bond is
sues. Counties and road districts in
which it would not have been supposed
that ten per cent of the voters would
approve Of bond issues for building
roads have won their bond issues cas-
lily because of enthusiasm for the JEFF
ferson highway.
Highways must be built on the
ground as well as on paper before they
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
CAPPER DISCOVERS MUD TAX
Farmer Loses on Wheat Crop Because
Roads Are Soft and He Can
not Get to Market.

While taxation problems are so gen.
orally in the air comes Governor Cap
per of Kansas and deposes that he
has discovered a new tax, mud tax"
There is an average mud tax Of six
cents on every bushel of wheat grown
in Kansas" says the governor, "and
the farmer has to stand that loss. 1t
costs him about 5000 year because
the roads are soft and because he can
not get to market when the price is
highest" Motorists will be among
those who indorse the governors
words.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Network of Good Roads.

This whole country will some Of
these days be network Of good roads,
which will have place on the maps
along with the railroads. The Lincoln
highway linking the East and the
West, the Jefferson highway, connect
ing the lakes and the gulf, and the
Dixie overland highway, are a begin
ming
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Path for Pedestrians.

A phase of the good roads movement
In some parts of the country is the pro-
vision of path for pedestrians along
side the roadway so that they will have
a chance to take the best exercise in
the world without mourning the risk OF
being run over by automobiles.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Three-Inch Tired Wagon Best.

Buy the wagon with the three-inch
tire, is the advice that the highway
commissioners at Ames give the farm
ers. This width tire is not only the
least wearing on the road of any
width, but, according to test, it re.
quires less draft to pull it. The mar
row-tired wagon cuts the road too
muca, while the wider tire requires
too much of draft to pull.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Money Well Invested,

New Jersey has voted 100000 for
good roads, and it is one of the states
that have learned by experience that
money spent on highways is we'll in
vested.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06
Chapel in the Trenches.

In one of the French trenches the
men have constructed small chapel
underneath the earth. 1t is sufficient
ly large to admit 20 men at the same
time. Every effort has been made by
the clever workmen who have built it,
skilled miners from the district Of La
Loire, to make the underground chapel
difficult of bombardment. The inte-
rior ornamentation has been carried
to high perfection, for parquet floor,
carpets, candlesticks, kneeling chairs
saved from the ruined churches are to
be found in it. A wooden altar has
been erected in the trench chapel, and
a magnificent French flag, the gift of
an officer, has been hung in it.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06

Surface Water Left.
Poor drainage leaves much surface
water on poorly constructed country
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06

Buy Prince Albert every
tDhere tobacco is sold in
fopPy red bags, Sc; tidy red
tins, 10c; handsome pound
and half-pound tin huni-
dors-dnd-that corking fine
pound crystal-glass hun1i-
dor with sponge-moistener
top that keeps the tobacco
in such clever trim-ciUays!
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06

Clean Brooder Lamps Daily.
Brooder lamps should be cleaned
every day.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-10-06

has flavor as different as it is delightful. You nev
And that isn't strange, either.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-07

PARIS, May 6.-"France is not go
ing to export any of its war orphans"
said Monsieur Alfred Croiset, head Of
the Faculty of Letters of the Sorbonne,
explaining the participation of Amer
leans in the work of the Orphanage of
the Armies of which he is president.
Il know statement was published
recently to the effect that 10000
American families had offered to adopt
orphans of the war. The number was
little exaggerated, and the word ad-
oGtion used in its general sense was
misleading. Orphans of the war so far
as it is possible are to remain in their
families, especially when the mother
is living. Where there are no immed-
late relatives to take care of them, they
are to be placed in other French fam
lies and ultimately will be cared for
by the State until their majority; none
of them are available for adoption I'M
der the common acceptation of the
term.
Most of the Americans who have
expressed the desire to participate in
this work understand this point quite
well; in fact in our correspondence
the majority of the letters from the
United States express the desire that
the children which they agree to sup
port should remain in their families.
The supposition that there are $4,000
American families wanting to take
care of orphans arose no doubt from
the fact that We were asked by Amer
leans as to about how many war orph-
ans there were needing assistance, and
we put the number at 10000. This, Of
course, does not comprise all of the
war orphans. They were estimated
recently in a debate in the senate by
Senator Jenouvrier at 100000 which
Of course included half orphans, but a
great proportion of these will never
become the objects of charitable work
and the exact number may never be
precisely determined
COMMITTEES have been organized in
great many American cities to re-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-07

electricians can devise. Cigars and
cigarettes are scattered with bountiful
hands among the guests from the rest
Of the feet. The mess tables are put
down and oladed with eats" of every
description and everybody helps him
self The only thing that is barred is
demon rum" because these affairs
are always strictly "prohi."
Usually a number of excellent box
ing bouts are staged Seven three
minute rounds is the limit of any one
bout, unless the judges have been I'M
able to make up their minds as to
who is the winner, and require another
round Another favorite sport of the
navy is boat racing. Every ship is
supplied with light racing cutter, all
OF them being of the regulation pat
tern, so that no ship may have an I'M
fair advantage. The devices resorted
to by race boat coxswains to keep
other ships from getting any accurate
knowledge of the speed and endurance
OF their crews while in training for
race are a legion. There have been
instances of where a coxswain has
secretly fastened a block TO the keel
Of the boat to obstruct it's speed. APP
parently his crew would be pulling
their best, still his boat would be
SLOW One coxswain worked out a
scheme with complete success of train
ing with his good crew at night. The
crew Of the opposing ship were COM
pletely deceived by this clever dodge,
and the result was one of the worst
beatings for them ever scored.
G. E. SMITHERMAN,
Z. S. Navy Recruiting Station,
Americas, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-07
ATHLETICS IN THE.
NAVY ARE BENEFIT
TO FIGHTING BOYS

No keener sportsmen live today
than the sailors of Uncle Sans Navy.
Tie Navy Department encourages
sports in every way by issuing base
ball outfits, football outfits, boxing
gloves, fencing foils and a great
many other things free of charge.
Every year meets of all kinds are held
to determine what ships or stations
will carry the honors for the ensuing
tv elve months. After the fleet finish
es the winter practice and war games
in Southern waters, usually about
March, from three to four weeks are
given over entirely to athletics,
which take place at Guantanamo,
Cuba, (ie) with the exception of foot
ball games. There is more excitement
al games of baseball that is being
played for the navy championship
than at any of the big league games.
The bleachers and grandstand are
filed with leather-lunged rooters, both
contesting ships have full band on
the scene. Nothing is neglected that
will make noise. When either team
makes a good play or home run
comes in, bedlam breaks loose, and at
the close of the game the members of
tie winning team are borne in triumph
from the field on the shoulders of
their admiring shipmates. A canteen
OI ship store is maintained on every
ship in the U. S. Navy, and such ar
ticles as smoking and chewing tobac-
CO, toilet soap, candy, paper canned
goods, etc, are sold at a price just
slightly in advance of cost. The profits
derived from these stores are turned
over to the athletic fund and be-
comes available Off giving entereain-
ments which are called smokers"
Such entertainments are joyful occas-
lens. The ship giving the smoker is
gayly decorated with lights and such
ether electrical displays as the ships
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-05-07
France WMNot Export Any
OtHer War Babies Abroad

ceive propositions of families, not to
adopt orphans, but to support them in
their own surroundings for a period
OF two years, which is supposed will
go beyond the end of the war and carry
them to the time when the measures
taken by the government for the care
of orphans become effective. All the
people in France connected with this
movement have been deeply touched
by the generous ardOur of Americans
in this work. We have received many
thousands letters, the numbers are in.
c~easing every day, from families who
want to enter into direct communica-
ton with orphans and start cores
pondence with them so as to follow
them until such time as they need no
further help.
The plan of the Orphanage of the
Army is to bring these children up
without making them feel that they are
objects of charity, without withdraw
ing them from their usual environment
except when that environment is bad.
We support them in their own homes
with contributions of money, clothing,
books, pending the organization of
official means of providing Off them.
We are aided largely in this work by
pupils of the publis schools. There
are about 10000 different schools in
France, and the children of each school
contribute their sous for the support
of an orphan. Eventually each one of
these schools will have a ward as it's
charge"