SOME POLK COUNTY HISTORY.
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infancy, proved a serious loss. . No
improvements were -made from 1861
to 1865.) It is no use mentioning' the
coriditibn of the people at the close of
the war, for the tale has often been
told. Very, little was done in the way
of improvements until the years 1876-7-8,
during which time a line of rail
road from Asheville, N. C, to Spar-
, tanburg, S. C, was located and be
ing built through the western part of
the county, caused our people to take
on new life and the. result was the lo
cation of several little towns in the
t county on this line of railroad. Try
on, five arid one half miles west of
Columbus, a thriving little town oc
cupied by as many good citizens as
any town of its size in this part of the
state. Saluda, another town on
. the line of railroad, ten miles south
west of Columbus, is noted for its
good citizens, good schools, and is a
pleasant summer resort.
Five miles northeast of Columbus
is Mill Springs, beautiful for situation
located at the base of the great White
Oak mountain, and noted for its hav
ing been the place where the first two
sessions of the county court were held
and for ts being the supply town of
the county, situated as it is in almost
the very center of the county and be
ing surrounded by a splendid farming
country.
" Columbus, the county seat, is one
of the most desirable locations for a
town in Western North Carolina, and
had it not been for the late war would
now, no doubt, have been a city of
several thousand people. . The town
was in a prosperou s condition from
1855 up to 1861, when all things
seemed to stop, property depreciated
in value and the town was soon in a
dilapidated condition and remained so
until the year 1891, at which time Mr.
F. M. Stearns, of Cleveland, Ohio, vis
ited our village while on a trip thru
the South, who saw at a glance our
peculiar natural advantages over
many other places and began at once
-to purchase property and make sub
stantial improvements. Purchasing
one whole square in the center of the
town he "erected thereon a two-story
school building, putting m patent
seats and . desks and employing a
teacher of culture and ability; finding
his work appreciated and an increas
ing interest in the school he erected
another handsome building for a
kindergarten and public library. For
this part of his philanthropic work he
engaged the services of a teacher of
rare ability, opening the school doors
to all who would come, free of charge.
By this generous act on the part of
a stranger our people were encourag
ed, and with his continued interest
the town is . taking on new life and
improvements are being made on ev
ery hand. The name of F. M. Stearns
has become a household word and is
synonomous with progress and im
improvement. Through this good
work the town and county has great
ly improved in wealth and good citi
zenship. The taxable property of the county
for 1876 was $520,000, and for 1895
.it was $1,500,000. It will be seen by
the above statement that the valua
tion of the taxable property has more
than doubled since the year 1876 and
most of this increase has been within
the last five years, with brilliant pros
pects for the future.
PLAN THE WAR GARDEN NOW
Mere Food Than Ever Before Should
. Bo Raised by Amateur Growers
This Year.
The ending of the war has placed
additional obligations on the Amercan
people. We have not only our friends
the allies to feed, but our former ene
mies must also be kept from starva
tion. The larger part of the people of the
evacuated regions are destitute; they
must have food and this country is
the. only place it may be had in suf
ficient Quantities. This means that
we will be asked to get along with less
meats, fats, grains and sugar and
make up the difference with things we
. can grow in our Qwn gardens. The
home gardens of America must be re
lied upon for a larger proportion of
our living than ever before.
Potatoes, beets, carrots, peas, corn
and tomatoes are among the most im
portant garden crops from a food
standpoint Radishes, lettuce, onions,
cucumbers, turnips, squash, cabbage,
cauliflower, spinach, parsnips, egg
plants, peppers, etc, add to the va
riety. Potatoes, peas, beets and carrots
can be planted almost as soon as the
frost is out of the ground, andthen
can be followed by the more tender
crops as soon as the -ground has be
come reasonably warm.
When there Is sufficient room an
asparagus bed should be planted, also
rhubarb and the small fruits, particu
larly raspberries.
Larger grounds afford room- for
grapes, blackberries, currants, goose
berries, strawberries and possibly a
few apples, peaches, pears, cherries
and plums and the children especial
ly enjoy and thrive on plenty of fresh
fruit ; -
Grade Streets With Marks.
Grading streets and giving them
marks as is done with pupils In the
public schools is the plan used in the
city's petition to force the Pittsburgh
Hallways- company to spend $626,447
In track and equipment improvements.
Some of. the company's tracks are
graded as low as 30 per cent this rep
resenting the worst stretches of road.
The receivers ,of the company. Insist
that further increases in fare will be
necessitated If they are forced to im-
Drove' their equipment.
Soon Grows to Mutton.
- Visitor "Do things growrapldly in
your part of the country?" Young
Housekeeper-MI should think-they dol
When I order Iamb from the butcher it
always grows into mutton on the waj
fcome.H Imdon 'jawao. - y ;
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STATE BOXfooFv
Schools And Physical
Education
A school superintendent, principal
or teacher who complains that the cur
riculum is already so completely tak
en up by other subjects that it is diffi
cult to find time for physical educa
tion in the public school merely con
fesses to a faulty training, since every
modern authority on education gives
due place to the importance of regu
lar daily exercise in the development
of healthy, clean-minded young men
and young women. Efficiency is the
word nowadays, and physical training
is one of the essentials.
Jl curriculum which takes up so
much time that even the inalienable
right of the child to a dally forenoon
and afternoon recess of fifteen minu-
subiect. In the past it has been even
considered fashionable to be delicate
and sickly, and among the, older gen
eration of school teachers we fear
therea, still a sort of contempt for
jnoi nrtpjiMon the contemnt of
JAJ.J OIVUI m-
crass Ignorance of the subject Mod
em pedagogues, however, asstated
are unanimous In their Insistence upon
the necessity of physical training
along with mental training in the pub
lie schools. The great war has prob
nhiv strengthened this feelinsr. We
hope it has, at least
It is a curious, yet a deplorable fact
that most of our laws regulating the
practice of medicine or the healing art
are made by legislators who know
nothing of this art .or of the ways of
hveiene or health. It is a wonder
that our laws are as good as they are
Shall we permit school superintend
ents, principals and teachers, with lft
tie or no knowledge of physical train
ing and less respect for it, to emascu
late such laws as may be made in
f ;xiilJLtimi
METSTAL ahd PHYSICAL. .
DEVE LOPMENT
GOOD HEALTH OUT WEIGHS ALL ELSE. .
With Good Health All Things Are Po ssible. Without It Nothlnfl Is Worth
Wh He.
tea In the open air is forgotten or
Ignored, in the hot pursuit of history,
mathematics or highfalutin smatter
ings of science, is a very poorly ar
ranged curriculum indeed.
Fifteen minutes of general exercise
every morning and every afternoon
would go far toward overcoming the
Inherent physical defects of the race
which were so sadly in evidence in
the huge proportion of candidates re
jected by army, examining boards in
the recent drafts.
Before real physical education can
be imparted in the public schools the
principals and teachers themselves
must acquire some knowledge of the
behalf of this vital feature of educa
tion? Shall we admit that the cur
riculum , as arranged by such educa
tors cannot be modified sufficiently to
give the necessary time to the health
ful physical development of the stu
dent's body? No, not if we hope to
see our children grow Into strong vig
orous manhood and womanhood.
It is up to every Intelligent parent
to see to it that sons and daughters In
school receive proper physical train
ing. It is still more the duty of every
sehool board to make due provision
for the physical training of school
children under , the supervision of a
competent instructor.
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Puzzle: Find The Felon
MA year ago I had a felon. My doc
tor put on some salve. Well, you
know what happened. Presently I
entered the hospital, and they fussed
with it, boiled it, poured iodine into
it, salved and poulticed it, until I got
tired, after a month, and insisted upon
an anesthetic and thorough surgical
relief. They trimmed off the ring fin
ger. Since that time I have never
GEE, HOW IT HURTS.
And all to no purpose, either. If You
Have a Felon Have It Cut Out,
been able to close the other fingers,
and the fttub Is always freezing. I am
wondering whether, by -having the
other joint removed, 1 could not get
relief from the coldness and tendency
to freezing. Or would it help any to
poultice or apply skunk oil?"
It takes a great deal ef didiAtic in
struction to teach some Wicf&ns'pf
felon a lesson. -Tale man is sfl true
to the poultice in spite ef all the need
less suffering it has caused aim. And
the skuak oil! Credulity runs high in
the outlaeds. ,r
Felon salve hospital long 4isa
hUity. The formula usually works out
that way. It is bad arithmetic
Felon ether scalpel drainage
all well in six days. That is alge
braic a little too difficult for many
plain folks to understand.
Pelon poultice danger - perma
nent deformity or permanent trouble.
That is neither arithmetic nor alge
bra, but blind gambling!
A felon is -a deep infection. Usually
the pus-producing germs are UDon or
underneath the periosteum, which -fif
the protective and nourishing covering
of live bone. If pus accumulates here,
or even In the deeper soft tissue of the
finger, the patient will suffer great
pain. If the pus is under the perios
teal membrane, it will strip this nour
ishing membrane away from the bone,
and the result of that is necrosis or
death of the bone. When dead bone
Is present there Is certain to be pro
longed, trouble from a sinus or running
sore the condition described by the
correspondent.
As soon as pain, swelling, redness
and localized heat or inflammation ap
pear, that is the time to have the felon
opened. And not "lanced." Lancing
is old stuff, painful, brutal, inefficient;
it is the half-way measure of the
timid. The felon must be freely In
cised, right down to the bone, with the
patient under the effect of ether. Only
In this way can the thing be nipped in
the bud. In from three to six days
any felon should be practically healed.
That is, if the accumulating pus is
drained before serious damage has
been done by, procrastination.
Felony, the advocates -of salves and
poultices should bear In mind, is a
crime.
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