f ) THE ROWAN RECORD, CHINA GROVE, N. C. i ' WHAT IS ml LAX-FOS is an improved Cascara (a ionic-laxative) In LAX-FOS the Cascara is improved by the addition of certain harmless chem icals which increase the efficiency of the Cascara. making it better than ordinary Cascara. LAX-FOS is pleasant to take and does not gripe nor disturb stomach. Adapted to children as well as adults. Just try one bottle for constipation. 50c EDITOR AS BOY SEES HIM California Youngster Evidently Has Not a Very High Opinion of Molders of Thought. An essay on editors by a schoolboy ..j.pears in the Enterprise, Fallbrook, ';:!. : -Don't know how newspapers come ln in the world. I don't think the .-Hil Lord does, for he ain't got noth-i;..- u say about an editor in the Bible. I think the editor is one of the miss is;:: links you read of and stayed in the umiu'ss until after the flood and then nine out and wrote the thing up and iias hoen here ever since. "If" a doctor makes a mistake he buries it, and people dassent say notliiu". "When the editor makes a mistake, :here is a big swearing and a big fuss, but if a doctor makes a mistake there is a funeral, but flowers and perfect silence. "A doctor can use a word a yard on? without anybody knowing what ir is. but if an editor uses one he has to .spell it. "If a doctor goes to see another tiiuu's wife he charges for it, but if the .alitor goes he gets a charge of buck shot. "Any old college can make a doctor, but an editor has to be born." important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle ol CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use for Over 30 Years! Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Height of Boastfulness. "Isn't Blower inclined to be just a little boastful?" "Boastful? Well. I guess yes. After a beggar has touched Blower for a nickel he will tell you that he has just been giving a little dinner to an ac quaintance of his." Only One "BROMO QUININE ' To get the genuine, call for fall name LAXAT1V H BROMO QUININE. Look for ijrnatnro of B. W. GROVH... Cures a Cold in One Car- 26c Under Way. "I'm going to put on a musical show," said the manager. "Have you secured the music?" "No; but I've hired a costume de signer." Exception to the Rule. "New brooms sweep clean." "No cleaner than old brooms before Christmas. Christmas." Details Wanted. "Whar you git dem hens, Rastus?" "Raised 'em." "Frum war eggs or coops?" Why That Lame Back ? Morning lameness, sharp twinges when bending, or ah all-day back ache; each is cause enough to sus pect kidney trouble. Get after the cause. Help the kidneys.. We Americans go It too hard. We overdo, overeat and neglect our sleep and exercise and so we are fast becoming a nation of kidney sufferers. 72 more deaths than in 1890 is the 1910 census story. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Thou sands recommend them. A South Carolina Case T . Miwr ru- jonn m. wuson. k. r .TM 1. u. a, travelers Rest, S. C., says: "Hardships weakened my kidneys and I had awful pains in my back. I steadily got worse and was terri bly annoyed by scalding- and too . frequent passages of the kid ney secretions. Rheu matic pains in my hips kept me awake and my ankles and feet swelled. I had awful dizzy soella. too, Doan's Kidney Pills restored me to good health." Get Doaa's at Any Store, 60c a Bos DOAN'S V?"" FOSTER-MILB URN CO- BUFFALO. N. Y. COLORED people can have nice, long, straight hair by using Exelento Quinine Pomade, which ys a Hair Grower, not a Kinky Hair remover. You can see the results ly using several times. Try a package. I'riee 25c at all drug stores or by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. Agents wanted everywhere. Write for par ticulars. Exelento Medicine Co., At lanta. Ga. Pecan Trees Now is the time to set them. Begin bear Ing in three to four years. Add both beauty and utility to the home. Prices and valuable information free. J. B. WIGHT, CAIRO, GA. FROST PROOF CABBAGE PLANTS Early Jersey and Charleston Wakefield, Suc cession and Flat Dutch, by express, 500, $1.00 1,000, $1.50, 10,000, at $1.25. Satisfaction guar anteed. Postpaid 25c per 100. D.JF. JAMISON, SUMMERVILLE, S. C. Attention Cotton Ginners ! ! Ship us your gin motes at South Richmond and "we wai pay you one cent per pound at your station for tnem If they are dry and in good condition. This a Dig saying over throwing them on the land. Richmond Waste Co., South Richmond, Va. Cotton Expert has cash and Peruvian seed, which has reached the highest price In European market; wants partnership with American landlord. State full particulars concerning yoursell and farm. Ad dress LAKUABUKH, Astor Hotel, New York City ,'R0UGHonMTS"KBJiS,i?,,Eti5"IS: Avoid operations. Positive Liver & Stomach remcdv So Oii) Kesnlts sure; home remedy. Write todaj GalUtMM Remedy Ce.,Dept.W-l, 219S.DearboraSL.Chicaf c W. N. U., CHARLOTTE, NO. 1-1917 enperance (Conducted by tne National Wo Christian Temperance Union.) SAFETY IN A DRY STATE. minef ed&nd UnkemPt- George Mertz,, wl?kLaD? Sef-Stl Py of liquor talked into the office of the Associat ed Charities In Pomona and begged ILV f Shoes so tnat he might state" ArIZODa and "et into dry Questioned by Mrs. W. J. Rogers, in charge of the office, Mertz brokenly told her that he had gone to Los An geles from Globe, Ariz., and a few flays ago was sent to jail here for drunkenness. Released, he started to walk into a "dry" country. "Everywhere I turned in Los An geles a saloon reached out for me" said. Mertz. "They took every cent'l had. I simply could not resist." "Why don't you take a cure?" asked Mrs. Rogers. "There is no cure for a man whose will is gone," replied Mertz. "Just give me a pair of shoes so that I can get to Arizona. I was all right there. I had not had a drink since prohibi tion became a law." He was furnished with the shoes and resumed his journey. Los An geles Express. WASTING FOODSTUFFS. The following editorial recently ap peared in one of the leading dailies of the middle West under the caption of "Foodstuffs." "The time is here when farm crops must be used for food ; when the prod ucts of the land will not suffice to feed the people of the world. To use for making liquors the grain which is need ed to feed the people is an economic crime and an offense against humanity. This is the broad view of the beverage liquor question. It is outrageous to think of hundreds of thousands of hu man beings being insufficiently , nour ished, scantily fed, while the crops are being taken for the manufacture of booze. If the people will think of the liquor question from this point of view there will be small delay in bring ing about the adjustments which shall not only cut off the evils of the liquor traffic, but also will stop the misappro priation of the foodstuffs of the people to stock the saloons with poison." PRIVILEGED. While some boys in Somerville, Mass., were playing in a vacant lot, one of them found a splendid place in 1 which to hide from his companions. It was an old boiler, and in it he scrambled. But more quickly he scrambled out and ran to give an alarm, for in that hiding place he stumbled over something that had been a man. Beside it was a whisky bottle. If it had been a thug or a gunman that had done the killing, with what zeal would the officers have pursued him, and how securely the authorities would have locked him up ! But a whisky bottle that is a priv ileged slayer! That is permitted to go scot free, although its killings many times outnumber those of all the thugs. Exchange. ALABAMA BANKER'S OPINION. J. B. Wadsworth, a banker of Gads den, Ala., gives the following testimony to the success of prohibition in his state : "The common masses of the people are the beneficiaries of prohibition. They have the money that formerly went for liquor to pay rents, buy clothes, shoes and groceries, send their children to college, etc., etc. Thousands of wage earners now have them who formerly had no bank accounts. The economic feature is marvelous. Cost of officers, police, judges, etc., is reduced to a minimum." FOR WORLD WEAL. "I am more an American than I am a southerner," said Dr. Ira Landreth in a recent speech, "and if you, aren't more of an American than you are a northerner, you are an undesirable cit izen. This is no time to be southern ers and northerners, Englishmen or Germans this is the time to be una dulterated and unapologetic, but un boastful, Americans, personally true and upright and internationally una fraid, but fraternal. America first, but America sober; America first, but America for the weal of the world." A PAT STATEMENT. One of the dry campaigners in Mich igan struck the keynote when i ad dressing the employees of a Detroit au tomobile factory he said : "If the sa loon tends to make men and women and boys and girls better citizens and more efficient and capable, then no de cent man will' vote dry; but if the ten dency of the saloon and the liquor traf fic is to make them less capable and destroy homes and ruin character, then every clean, decent man will vote dry." SIDE LIGHTS ON PHILADELPHIA. The Local Option League of Penn sylvania has issued a bulletin entitled "John Barleycorn in Account With the City of Philadelphia." It contains many very interesting items bearing on the rum question. It goes into statistics extensively and shows that Philadel phia spends practicajly twice as much in taking care of the victims of drink as the city receives from liquor reve nue. The revenue is $1,919,165. The estimated cost of caring for rum vic tims reaches the enormous total of $3, 900,000. DECREASE IN BEER. The United States revenue receipts for the month of September show a reduction in the consumption of beer over September of last year of more than $200,000, representing about 170, 000 barrels. PLACE FOR HIS MONEY. "Two days after Denver went dry a fellow came into my place and opened an account," said a banker of this city. "In doing so he explained : 'If I can't buy booze I'm going to start a bank account.' " I POPULAR AND COMMON BREEDS OF GEESE ! Mil III 1 TOULOUSE IS GIANT The Toulouse is the giant of the goose family. It is a native of France. Its ordinary weight is from 15 to 20 pounds, but it is not uncommon to find specimens weighing from 25 to 30 pounds. This is the typical gray goose, but beneath and behind these are white areas in the plumage. It is said by those who have had experience with this breed that young geese duriug the first year lay from 15 to 25 eggs, when older they may lay from 25 to 40. The Embden is a popular breei in some places. The body of the birds is snowy white, the legs and bills yellow. They have good type and con formation. In size it is the same as standard for the Toulouse, though it Is said a smaller number of Embden reach this standard than of Toulouse. FEEDING WILL DOUBLE EGGS Average Hen in Missouri Lays Sixty Three Eggs Annually Scantily Fed Hen Is Poor Investment. (By H. L. Kempster,' Missouri College of Agriculture.) According to the United States cen sus, Missouri's 21.000,000 hens lay 111, 000,000 dozen eggs annually. If this is true, the average hen lays about 63 eggs a year. This is a poor record. One reason why hens are not more productive is because usually they are half fed. It is false economy to ex pect them to pick their living from the leavings of other stock. Many farmers admit that they feed their hens nothing during the summer. In so doing, they are saving feed but los ing money. A productive hen requires from 70 to 80 pounds of feed a year. If she gets only 40 to 50 pounds, she will simply satisfy her body requirements. She will not lay eggs. The scantily fed hen is a poor investment. It is only the liberally fed hen that yields the profit. Farmers should keep dry ground feed, such as a mixture of bran, shorts and cornmeal, in hoppers before the hens at all times. Either sour milk or butter milk should be given as a drink. Crushed limestone or oyster shell should be before the hens all the time, and the hens should go to roost with full crops. One correspondent wrote that after feeding according to the directions of the poultry department of the Uni versity of Missouri his hens laid twice as many eggs. These directions are given in circular 76, entitled "Feeding for Egg Production," which is distrib uted free. GOOD POULTRY FEEDING TIPS No Economy in Giving Fowls One Kind of Grain Ample Watter Supply Is Important. There is no economy in feeding fowls one kind of grain, for that com pels them to eat more than they ought in order to get a sufficient quantity of food elements. A large part of the egg is water, a fact which shows the necessity of pro viding layers with an ample supply of pure clean water in fountains or dishes which are frequently disin fected. A sluggish hen is never a good layer. The flock should be made to exercise by scratching for whole and cracked grains in a deep litter of clean ma terial and jumping for green food, such as cabbage or a mangel. KILL CHICKENS FOR MARKET To Prevent Food Remaining in Crop and Intestines Fowls Should Be Starved 24 Hours. The chickens must be starved 24 hours before killing. This will prevent the food remaining in the crop and intestines, which decomposes and spoils the flavor. Several hours after the last feed al low the chickens what water they wish to drink. They should then have a complete fast until they are killed. For market purposes, the - birds should be killed by bleeding within the mouth and piercing the brain. Separate Old Hens. Put the old hens by themselves and feed liberally with corn to fatten thein for market. Do not winter any loafers, but It may be well to keep a few for hatching purposes. OF GOOSE FAMILY. The Embden when well bred, prop erly fed and prepared makes a car cass that sells well on the market. But it is said that many breeders in this country have not given much at tention to fine quality. There are two varieties of Chinese geese, brown and white. This breed has different characteristics from the others mentioned. The birds stand more erect and have longer and slen derer necks than the others. The Brown Chinese have at the base of the bill a peculiar dark-colored knob. The Brown is considered the most prolific of all the geese. The stand ard weight for the gander is 15 pounds, geese 12 pounds. The female is said to lay from 40 to 50 eggs, some times more. A large per cent of the eggs are generally fertile. SELECT HENS WITH RECORDS Mate Them With Cockerels of Good Laying Strains and Hatch From Them Progress Slow. The hen as we have her today has been developed very rapidly as an egg producer. The jungle fowl from which our laying hens have been developed probably laid about two dozen eggs a year at most. Perhaps many only raised one brood. Hens of anything like good type and breeding today may average 140 eggs a year. There are, of course, 200-egg hens and a few that have made records much higher. But these high records are by no means common. It is said that a high average for a pullet is 150 eggs a year, for a hen 140. But we must remember that hens, like cows, have their own indi viduality and It is not easy to find a flock of high producers. The way to increase the production of eggs is to select pullets or hens with high records, mate them with cockerels from good laying strains and hatch from them. Even then, the progress must be slow, for there is apt to be a large per cent that will be poor producers. But this is the only safe way to raise hens that lay a large number of eggs a year. SELECTION OF BEST LAYERS Look for Full, Well-Developed Breast and Crop This Gives Assurance of Strength. The selection of the best-laying hens may be made in several ways. If you know that the mother hens were good egg producers and the pullets have the same formation of the body it may be reasonable to- expect that the pullets will also be fine egg producers. There is, however, one almost certain sign that may be used in selecting laying hens. Look for a full, well-developed breast and crop, showing a large pock et in which to carry the food sunnlv. ! This gives assurance of strength and vigor, and the ability to consume a sufficient amount of food to sustain the body and produce the eggs. She must have the ability to con sume a large amount of food and the body and abdominal proportions to handle and transfer it into the general make-up of the body and the egg pro duction. FATTEN POULTRY IN CRATES Special Ration of Cornmeal, Middlings, Bran and Buttermilk Adds Weight and Flavor. To fatten poultry put them into a crate, keep them for a day without food, then give them a special ration of seven parts cornmeal. three parts mid dlings and one part bran, with butter milk enough to make a mixture about as thin as pancake batter. During the 10 or 14 days they are fed this ration they gain from 15 to 25 per cent in weight and much more than that in flavor. ENCOURAGE HENS TO CACKLE See That Fowls Are Given Proper Food and Water and They Will Increase Egg Production. Do the hens cackle? Eggs are worth 40 cents a dozen, or 3 1-3 cents a cackle. You had plenty of cackles when the hens could catch bugs and worms (meat) and had green grass to eat nn.3' plenty of water. See that they get the egg-j reducing feeds and they will cackle. IBTDEPWffiE MBIB l&lin New Discovery! Dodson's Liver Tone Acts Like Calomel But Doesn't Gripe, Salivate or Make You Sick Don't Lose a Day's Work Harmless Liver Medicine for Men, Women, Children Read Guarantee! Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose, a day's work. Calomel is mercury or quicksilver which causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes in to contact with sour bile crashes into it, breaking it up. This is when you feel that awful nausea and cramping. If you are sluggish and "all knocked out," if your liver is torpid and bowels constipated, or you have headache, dizziness, coated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour, just try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone tonight. Here's my guarantee Go to any drug store and get a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't straighten you Rat Gave Danger Signal. A strange story in connection with the sinking of the Connemara in the Irish sea was related at Greenore. Pat rick Killen, one of the cattlemen, was coming ashore from the Connemara when a large rat jumped from a ham per he was carrying ashore. "That's a bad sign for the crew," he observed to a Greenore railway man, "and it is time fqr us all to leave the ship." The incident impressed him so much that he had to be coaxed to go back aboard. London Globe. MOTHER'S JOY SALVE for Colds, Croup, Pneumonia and Asthma ; GOOSE GREASE LINIMENT for Neuralgia, Rheumatism and Sprains. For sale by all Druggists. GOOSE GREASE COMPANY, MFR'S., Greensboro, N. C. Adv. Exempt. "Avoid criticizing," she said. "Don't make a practice of finding fault with other people, or picking flaws in what they say or do." "Teacher," spoke up a little boy, "that's the way my father makes his livinT "You surprise me, George! What is your father's occupation?" "He's a proofreader, ma'am." The teacher coughed. "Well, George," she said, "I make an excep tion in the case of your father." Youth's Companion. DANDRUFF AND ITCHING Disappear With Use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment Trial Free. The first thing in restoring dry, fall ing hair Is to get rid of dandruff and itching. Rub Cuticura Ointment into scalp, next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hoi water. Prevent skin and scalp troubles by making Cuti cura your everyday toilet preparation. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. Father Hennepin as Business Man. The University of Minnesota regents have been asked to establish a class in real estate transactions similar to the one now in force at the University of Pittsburgh, anil one speaker sees sanc tion for the move in the record of Fa ther Hennepin, early explorer. "He was ihe first real estate man in Minne apolis," was the declaration. "He made a personally conducted tour of the place in 1680. then went back to France and wrote a book about it." GIVE "SYRUP OF FIGS" TO CONSTIPATED CHILD Delicious "Fruit Laxative" can't harm tender little Stomach, liver and boweis. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, your little one's stomach, liver and, bowels need cleansing at once. When peevish, cross, listless, doesn't sleep, eat or act naturally, or is fever ish, stomach sour, breath bad, has sore throat, diarrhoea, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrtp of Figs," and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, undigested food and sour bile gently moves out of its little bowels without griping, and you have a well, playful child again. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which con tains full directions for babies, chilr dren of all ages and for grown-ups. Adv. Helpful Work. The United States department of agriculture has a large force which de votes its entire lime to developing new by-products and methods ' of saving material now waited. j Quite in Keeping. j "I am from the Nutmeg state." ! "Grate place to come from." Balti- j more American. It your child is pale and thin, notwith standing a voracious appetite, it may be be cause of Worms or Tapeworm. A single dose of Dr. Peery's "Dead Shot" will expel the Worms or Tapeworm, and set diges tion right again. Adv. Logical Process. "What gurteral tones that speaker has :" "Yes ; they ought to be curbed." Strangely enough, people with the most taste use their tongues the least. Australia boasts of the tallest trees grown on British soil. WILL ON TORN BIT OF PAPER Maine Hermit, Who Had Been Thought Penniless, Left Thousands to a Nephew. The will of Charles Purinton, who died in this city last July, was ad mitted to probate recently, according to an Auburn, Me., correspondent of the Boston Globe. It was written , on a torn and ragged piece of paper by the testator. It was as follows : "Auburn, Me., May 8, 3014. The per son who finds this give it to Ralph E. Locke. I will all my estate to him, to pay $100 to all other heirs, and set a stone for me in the yard. Charles Purinton. Witnesses. J. I". Hutchin son, Samuel Ashwell, I. V. McKenney." All of the witnesses to the will are dead and the will was proved by prov ing the handwriting of the witnesses. When Mr. Purinton died lie was sup posed to be practically a pauper, but after his death bankbooks showing de posits of more than Si'O.OOO were found in the little old hor.se at Marston's Corner, in which he had lived for 30 years as a hermit, with hardly the necessities of life. Mr. Locke, to whom he left his estate, is a nephew. Mr. Locke not long ago went to the house at Marston's Corner and found an old wallet hidden among the mat tresses of the bed. In the wallet he found the will, and tied up with it a worn and battered copy of the New Testament. Kidney Medicine Highly Recommended By Druggist For eighteen years I sold Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root in Ohio and during the past four years have been Belling it here. Its value has been tested and proven by people who were afflicted with catarrh or inflammation of the bladder, liver trou ble and rheumatism and after experiencing the wonderful benefit derived they were happy to praise the remedy that brought them so much comfort. On account of the splendid success and excellent repu tation which Swamp-Root enjoys I am confident that it is a valuable remedy for what it is intended. Very truly yours, W. A. WHITAKER, Druggist. Sept. 21, 1916. . Apex, N. C. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bot tle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable infor mation, telling about the kidneys and blad der. When writing, be sure and mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores. Adv. No News. Teacher Your daughter, sir, has a fine carrying voice. Father I know that by the way it is carrying off my money. The consumption of coffee in France has about doubled in the last fifty years. Of any two evils choose the one you enjoy the most and that costs the least. W DLLTKinC Sold for 47 years. For Malaria. Chills and Fever. Ala a Fine General Strengthening Tonic. 60c aid $1.00 st all Drag Stan. 13 II ( Leader" and Shot For the hih flyers, or the :er' shells have the "Repeater" tion. Their great sale is due to these .qualities, which insure a full bag. Made in many gauges and loads. BB SURE TO ASK FOR THM W BRAND right up and make you feel fine and vigorous I want you to go back to the store and get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying the sale of calomel because it is real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore it can not salivate or make you sick. I guarantee that one spoonful Of Dodson's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which is clogging your system and making you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling fine for months. Give it to your children. It is harmless ; doesn't gripe and they like its pleas ant taste. Adv. The People's Physique. Some consideration should be given to the effect that the change in loco motion will make upon the physique of the people ; for even the farmers are now using the automobile, and the horse is used for little but draft pur. poses. Will not the race become lax' and nerveless that lolls upon soft cush ions, protected in every way from the hard joltings of the road? More and more, machinery is brought into serv ice, and less and less physical exertion is required in the Carrying on of open air occupations. Man touches a but ton, and a gas engine does the rest. This makes things easier; but the question is whether it confers an actual benefit in the end. Mobile Register. OF INTEREST TO MOTHERS The cost of food today is a serioua matter to all of you. To cut down your food bills and at the same time improve the health of your family, serve them Skinner's Macaroni and Spaghetti two or three times per week. Children love it and thrive on ft It is the best possible food for adults. Write the Skinner Mfg. Co., Omaha, Nebr., for beautiful cook book telling how to serve it in a hundred ways. It's free to every mother. Adv. Score of Waterpower Projects. Chief Forester Graves announced that 20 new waterpower projects utilis ing national forest lands began opera tion in the year ending June 30, ,and 40 applications for power project per mits were received, including eight from Alaska. Forty-two per. cent -of the total developed waterpower of the country is from streams on national forest land, he declared.' Constipation generally indicates disordered stomach, liver and bowels. Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills restores regularity without griping. Adv. Some Required. "Mr. Jobbins Is a very brave man. "Yes; that's why Gladys asked him to her mistletoe party." A little logic often convinces quicker than a long line of talk. Ticket gtlkr "Newt; all Um Usiaa ia w akaw lidt kut-buk." rtnatr 8tkMeSd "Gaafc all healaakt III fa ft lack Via mr. Duel Ibty ft cold twia' aa mmck aipoarif If you are exposed to rain or snow you should take two or three doses of Boschee's German Syrup the universal remedy for colds or bron chitis. Stands pre-eminent today after more than half a century of successful treatment of the many disorders aris ing from exposure. 25c and 75c sizes at all druggists and dealers everywhere. Repeater" Shells low flyers, "Leader" and reach, spread and penetra- 0 ! - ..- ..... ,. . : ' ' " - - ' - - -J - L. . I 1 um II