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The Farmer and Good Roads. I AVhy is it that the farmers of the United States throw away $300,000,000 the year T It is because they have not as vet sufficiently realized the econ omy of good roads. The profit that improved highways would pay the farmers of this nation were all farm lauds served by good roads would amount to the tremendous total of $300,000,000 annually, according to I'nited States Highway Engineer E. W. James, who knows whereof he! speaks. The history of nations. I he points out, proven that good I roads are indispensable features j of public economy. Engineer James says: "The cost of transportation to the farmer is important. It is I estimated that the cost to the 1 farmers of the United States in { marketing farm products is about $600,000,000 annually. This charge is a dead load carried by the farmer. It. is uot like a fer tilizer bill. If you spend $1,200 per year on guano or cotton seed meal fertilizers, you may expeet | to get it back in increased j The farmer who hauls Ins pro-1 duce ten miles to market gets no ' more for it than the man who hauls five miles. There is little 1 traceable connection between' the cost to the farmer of market ing his crop and what he gets for ; it. The only way to make money j on transportation is by cutting 1 down transportation charges. To ' haul more cheaply, the farmer 1 must make his hauling easier, I must be able to haul more rapid-: ]y The only method by which to reach these transportation expen-! scs and reduce them is improved 1 roads. "You can't feed your stock less; you can't drive your! animals faster; you can't load' your wagons heavier on your pre sent poor roads.'' The only thing left is to improve the roads. A farmer of Claud, Elmore j county, Alabama, kept a record of his hauling to and from his market town, Wetumpka, for a year. lie made 120 trips, lie rat ed these trips at $2 each. lie figured on the market price for labor and team. By doubling his; load, he could, therefore, save ' $120 the year. It is apparent. | therefore, assuming the correct ness of the figures, that if we j can cut transportation charges by half for the farmer, he will be 1 $300,000,000 better off than he ! now is. The question comes up: Where; is this $300,000,000 going to j show? "Wnat part does the in-! dividual get ? It is true that I this $300,000,000 is a charge' against the farmer's land and ' outfits. If he can save the; amount, it will show somewhere. I Every farmer has a share in this saving. On this point Engineer James says: "There is a way in which the farmer's saving in transportation charges shows in the value of his fmm. Here is a farmer who holds title to 100 acres of land at $10; xalue, $1,000. The farm is five miles from town, on bad roads. Let the county put that five milef of road in first-class condition.; What is the result? Some one comes along and offers that far mer $1,500 for the place." The farm is the same. Yet the value of the farm is $5 the acre' more, and the wealth of the own-) er has increased $500 in a single | year. This may be really more than the farmer's share for a single year, but real estate val ues are likely to jump in that way. The increased value will persist through many years, and at the end of five years the far mer's place will have an estimat ed value, generally admitted, greater than it had five years before. A very large part of this increased value, of course, is at tributable to good roads. This ef fect of improved highways on farm values is an attested and in-, disputable fact in Virginia. Es- j pecially is this so in thel counties of the Southwest, which have constructed good roads. The increased value of real es- J tate holdings is the chief tangible benefit of good roads. A banker I in Alabama lately, during a cam paign for good roads, asked a farmer to set a fair price on his place, and agreed to buy the, place on the day after the elec tion, with an increase of $1,000 in the figure should the good roads bond issue pass. There are wavS not financial in which good roads bring bene fits. Improved highways greatly increase educational advantages, uplift and extend social and com munity life, widen religious op portunities. Farmers who realise the benefits of school privileges for their children should see the vital connection between good roads and good schools. The far-1: liters do not see this connection in ? some sections, in which bonds can i be Voted for school purposes, but no' for good roads. "It is probable that the most ; nimked influence of good roads on the school question will be in the direction of the development < of school centres in each coun- ' ty," thinks Engineer James. It is possible and practicable, in a large numbre of counties, to have two or three educational centres, that will serve the entire county, , provided that county has a sys tem of good roads. Massachu setts and Connecticut have the finest public school systems in the nation. They have attained this position chiefly by the cen tralization of their schools, which is only possible where there are good roads over which pupils can be brought in a reasonable time from remote places.?Richmond Times-Dispatch. Hardware In the Stomach. From time to time there ap pear in the medical journals ex traordinary catalogues of foreign bodies found, usually) at necropsy and much less often at operation, within 1lie stomach of an insane person. That such aggregations should be tolerated by the stom ach for long periods of time is surprising enough, even when they consist of soft and yielding substances, such as the hair which becomes matted together to form a hair-ball; but when post-mortem examination of a' person who has never shown the smallest sign of gastric discomfort discovers with in the stomach a multitude of me tallic objects, sharp, rigid, ditii cult to swallow and dangerous to retain, the only possible explana tion of such an extraordinary in sensitiveness must be found in the fact that the metal-swallower had been demented for years. The London Lancet records a truly remarkable instance of this in sane propensity in the case of a mulatto woman, aged 33 years, admitted in 1903 to one of the Missouri State hospitals with acute mania, ending in dementia, and caused by excess in cocaine and morphia. "From this time until Septem ber, 1!)10, when she died in the hospital, she never showed the least sign of disease of the) diges tive system. The attendants of ten saw her picking up nails and pins, but no one had seen Her swallow any. Death was due to nephritis, and until a week be fore her death she never refused her food. l)r. A. 11. Vandivert and Dr. II. 1'. iUiils, who made tue necropsy and reported the case in the Journal of the Ameri can Medical Association, were surprised to lind tiie lundus or the stomach stretched down in a long pouch which readied into the left iliac tossa and adhered to the parietal peritoneum in that region. In this sac lay a hard mass which proved to consist of a large number of foreign bodies, leaving a narrow channel for the transmission of food along the lesser curvature. Adherent to the peritoneum of the stomach was the great omentum, remark ably thickened, and inclosing a number of small abscesses which represented the points at which the foreign bodies had made a way through the wall of the stomach, general peritoneal in fection being averted only by the omental adhesion. The mucous membrane of the stomach was atrophic throughout, anilj ulcerat ed in patches; the subserous con nective tissue exhibited a general dense fibrosis. Ulcers and wide spread erosion were also seen in tne mucous membrane of the oesopnagus. In addition to the foreign bodies in the stomach there was a needle in the oesoph agus and another at the baser of the left lung. The foreign bod ies in the stomach weighed; 2,268 grammes (5 pounds avoirdupois) in the aggregate, after thorough washing, and consisted of 453 nails, 42 screws, 136 ordinary pins, 115 hair-pins, 105 safety pins, 52 carpet tacks, 63 buttons, and a miscellaneous collection of bolts, metal nuts, teaspoon hand les, thimbles, needles, beads, coat rack hooks, fruit seeds, stones and pieces of glass, and all sizes and shapes of similar objects, the total number being 1,446. The writers have arranged this scrap heap in rosette form for purposes of photography, and have thus achieved an extraordinarily viv id picture of the possibilities of the human stomach."?Scientific I American. The Fly. The medical world and the newspapers are engaged iu incit ing relentless war on the fly. And now we are told there in another side to the question. It is argued that but few people know much 1 about the evil of the fly, "be-1, yond the fact that the house-fly j I is a carrier of the germs of cer- j tain diseases, such as typhoid fev er, intestinal disorders and tu- , berculosis"?as if that were not j enough. Yet, some of the great: ( est entomologists on the North j \meriean continent, discuss it >n < the June number of Popular Me- , r-hanics' llagazine. The follow- J ing question is raised: '"If the < fly be exterminated, supposing j that were possible, would it tend j to upset the 'balance of nature,' j and result iu some other plagues that might be even: worse than ?he flies themselvest" And it is argued: "Similar things have happened before. The decimation1 of the coyotes resultde in a1 plague of gophers. The mongoose was practically exterminated and i the rais multiplied so as to be- < come a nuisance. The weasles were killed off and the rabbits overran the countryside and ate up every green thing in sight. The English sparrow was import ed to destroy the measuring worm and now people are won dering how to kill off the spar row, which had inereasde so al armingly as to become a pest. In northern China the wolves Kept down the marmot or land otter, but when the natives waged war on the wolf, the marmot in creased and spread the plague.'' But what worse than the fly could comet Were it possible to get rid of the fly completely and for all time, we would be willing to risk any sort of aj thing that might take its place.?Charlotte Chronicle. There is one medicine that every family should be provided with and especially during the summer months; viz, Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost cer tain to be needed. It costs but a quarter. Can you afford to be with out it? For sale by All Dealers. Tne Good Roads Movement In Virginia. "With ninety-three of its one hundred counties participating in - the good roads movement, Virgin ia's highway-building comes on apace and in a few yeard thous ands of miles of beautiful road' will have taken the place of the stretches of mud or sand to which we have been accustomed. Spending money scientifically in building good roads is abso lutely the highest class of invest ment a county or community can make. It is better than banking the money. A quarter of a mil lion of dollars carefully expend ed on road^ in any county in Vir ginia will create in a few years enhancement of four times that sum in real estate immediately contiguous to the roads construct ed, and will raise the level of val ues in the entire county, bringing in enough new people and suf ficient additional revenue to pay the interest on the investment, be side relieving the farmer from the awful mud tax which has cost Virginia millions of dollars annually for two centuries. When ever a farmer makes two loads where one should have been suffi cient he pays the mud tax. < Whenever he is compelled to use two horses to take a one-horse load to depot or market, he pays mud tax. Whenever it takes him two hours to make a load which should have been handled in an hour, he pays mud tax. The mud-tax habit is a costly one. Let'8 quit it. However, the benefits of good roads are not confnied to enhanc ed values, more eomfortable tra vel, and cheaper transportation. There is an even more inspiring phase of the situation. A stretch of good road boob means a stretch of well-kept fencing, of farms with modern machinery, and home comfort*?an air of thrift. It means that of which much has been written?a genu ine back-to-the-land movement, which will cause Old Virginia to blossom grander, nobler, and bet ter as the years go by.?Rich mond Virginian. | A Dreadful Wound. From a knife, gun, tin can, rusty nail, fireworks, or of any other na ture, demands prompt treatment with liucklen's Arnica Salve to preyent blood poison or gangrene it's the quickest, surest heelet ?or all such wounds as also for Burns, Boils, Sores, Skin Eruptions, Eczema. Chap ped Hands, Corns or Piies. 25c at Hood Bros. | One Way of Saving a Baby?Free to Try The mother do*# not live who would not do all In her power to keep her child healthy, but often (he does not know how. So when a doctor of standing points ' the way all can afford to listen. It la an accepted (act that nine out of ten of the trouble* of Infanta and chil dren la Inteetlnal. You notice It by the I fact that the child la constipated, It < belches, la peevish and cries. Don't give | i remedy that oontalns an opiate, because the child will set In the habit of needing It, and dont become alarmed and run at ] uoce for a doctor. Try a scientific laxative first. Olve a mall dose of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepeln. i the remedy that la Intended for the use < ~f children. It la mild, gentle and non- 1 piping The remedy Is abeolutely pure < and Is guaranteed In every particular. Mrs. Toomey of Emlngsvllle, Pa., and J Mrs. Fred Cromi of Altnion, Mich, never give their children anything vine. These a re only a few among thousand* of women. You can buy a fifty cent or on* dollar bottle of any nearby druggist, for they have all sold It for a generation, but If you want to test It on your child first send your address to Dr. Caldwell and ha will cheerfully send you a free sample Bottle. Dr. Caldwell does not feel that the purchase of hla remedy ends his obli gation. lie has specialised In stomach, liver and bowel diseases for over forty (rears and will be pleased to give the reader any advice on the subject free of chrrge. All are welcome to wrlta him. whether for the medical advice sr the free sample address him Dr. \V. B Caldwell. ?01 Caldwell bulldln*. Mouticell'j, 111. Economy in Painting Your House does not mean buying the paint sold at the lowest price per gallon. It means getting the paint that covers the most surface per gallon and gives the greatest number of years of service?in other words, the best value for your dollar. acme quality HOUSE PAINT costs less because it takes less and lasts longer. Let us show _jf, you pleasing color combinations, esti mate quantity needed, or be of any other service we can, whether you buy or not. Come in and get an Acme Quality Painting Cu/de Book and soma color suggestions. COTTER. HARDWARE CO. SMITHFIELD. N. C. THE**-,: IMPOSSIBILITY! OF FERE the fires start on the roof, but New Century ifejjMetal shingles are absolutely fire-proof and will pro* SSjT tccl your building from flying sparks and cinders?will Ejjff ?1s~ reduce cost of your fire-insurance?a fact well worth con* ffT siderinjJ when Louring the cost of a new roof. Our Shingle Book No. 25 is handsomely illustrated and tell* fm el! about these shingles. Write for a copy now?we mail it free. V ? Qus Crfhitl Urates will give more heat for less money than jfl R any other ?irate on the market. Ask your dealer to show you ? Cahiii ?irate# and be sure you buy no other. # *,'? fzatritiity CciiinySm Southern Ornamental Metal Ceilings are Ej-j E* Fire-proof, Rat, Mouse and Vermin -proof. Write for prices and mm ?E& lull information. Made in the beautiful Lovis XIV and Colonial MU jfkAk designs?will add a hundred per cent to the beauty of the room. ifroSV iVf MrinufaciurG all kinds of Sheet Metal Building JSBm l^^^>ijjK^^MeteriaJ. Also Architectural Cast and Wrought^^^^^^ COTTER HARDWARE CO., Agents for Shingles. EXCURSION j 1 JACKSONVILLE aivd j TAMPA, FLORIDA I | Via The I j ATLANTIC COAST LINE { | On Tuesday, June 6th, the Atlantic Coast Line will t f sell round trip tickets from Smithfield to Jacksonville, X | Fla., at $7.50 and to Tampa at $9.50, limited return- ? * ing to reach Smithfield not later than midnight on Tues- t | day, June 13,1911. * ? Extra sleeping cars and coaches sufficient to ac- X J commodate all passengers will be placed on trains and ? | everything will be done by the management of the At- ? i lantic Coast Line to make this a first class excursion. | Proportionate rates will be made from other points * | in Virginia, North and South Carolina. ? For tickets, pullman accommodations and schedules T t see the nearest Agent or address, T. C. White, Gen. Pas. J t Agt., or W. J. Craig, Pas. Traf. Mgr., Wilmington, N. C. 2 +++++++++++++ + + 4? TREASURER'S 4. ' 4* ANNOUNCEMENT. 4. 4? I have moved the Treas- 4* 4* urer's Office from the rear 4* of the Smithfleld Bank Bull- 4* 4* d'ng to the office In the 4* 4* Court House, formerly oc- 4" 4? cupled by Attorney J. A. 4* ?J* Wellons. I will be In my 4* 4* office every Monday and 4* ?J* Court Weeks. In my ab- 4* 4* sence the Bank of Smith- 4* 4* field will attend to any of- 4* 4* flcla] business. 4* 4- W. LESTER STANCIL. 4 ! 4* County Treasurer. 4* 4* ^ 4* NOTICE. | The undersigned having qualified i as Executor on the estate of Joseph I YValford, deceased, hereby notifies all ' persons having claims against said ' estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 12th day of May, 1912, or this notice will i be pleaded in bar of their recovery; ! and all persons Indebted to said es tate will make immediate payment. Q. P. MASSEY, Ei'r. This 11 day of May, 1911. Princeton, N. C. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified its Administratrix on the estate of . C. L. Eason, deceased, hereby noti fies all persons having claims against said estate to present the samo to ine duly verified on or before the 19th day of May, 1912, or this no tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 28th day of April, 1911. ELLEN D. EASON, Administratrix. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administratrix on the estate of W. P. Hicks, deceased, hereby noti fies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 28 day of April, 1912, or this notice | will be pleaded in bar of their re covery; and all persons indebted to | said estate will make immediate pay : ment. This 22nd day of April, 1911. MRS. POLLY HICKS, Administratrix, Selma, N. C. POU & ALLRED, Attorneys. TEACHERS WANTED. The Trustees of the Selma Graded Schools will elect a Superintendent and six lady teachers for the white school and a principal and one as sistant for the colored school on Tuesday, June 6th, 1911, for the en suing session of nine months. *Appli catlon, with testimonials must be sent to R. J. NOBLE, Sec. Selma, N. C., May 25, 1911. CHICHESTER SPILLS DIAMOND BRAND o? Ifc jd ***. LADIES I v? A?k your l?rarrl*t for CHI-CHES TER'S A DIAMOND BRAND PILLS in Rrd ?udM Gold metallic boxes, sealed With Blue\Oy Ribbon. Take no OTIgft. Buy of to?r\y l?ru*?<?t and auk for 4'IIM If 1 M-Tf K H V DIAMOND BltAM) PILLH, for twenty-five years regarded as Best,Safest, Always Reliable. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TlMK tlTRVU/UPRE WORTH txihu tVtnTnntnt "'?kstko OVER 66 YEARS' ? V 1 I J * L r ^ j V 1. 1 ? J ? 1. ^ II ? V ? 1 Trade Marks Dccmn* 'fTm1 Copyriqhts Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and deeerlptlon may qnlckly ascertain our opinion free whether an Invention la probablr pai<*>tajt>la. 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