MOREHEAD Block A Til? Co. Ik. PIkkm 6-3970 Stop Taking Harsh Drugs for Constipation A raid IntaftNl UpM? M MWTM GmM ViptaMe Uudra Wijl Foe constipation, mmr akc h?nh draffc They cuiK bmn J cramps and griping, disrupt noraui bofrd action, majtc re peated doscf KCtt needed. , When ye longest straight stretch o t railroad track in the United States ? 78.86 miles in North Carolina between Wilmington and Hamlet. Had it not been for the slight bend of the track at milepost 340.85, the continuing section of 19.20 miles, which also has no curve, would have made the total distance 98.06 miles without a bend. spring of the year, was sometimes a bother to locomotive engineers in the days of steam? they possibly could get "lost" op the Ipng Straight section of track because it has no identifying curves and lit tle or no dips or rises, and not too many trestles. The average change in elevation on the straight sec tion is only six inches every 100 feet, hardly discernible with the naked eye. Learned by Sound "What we had to do then," said A. B. Edwards, of Hamlet, N. C., who began working on an engine along this straight section of Sea board track in the days of cab bage-head woodburners, "was to learn the sound of every aiding switch along all that straight track, and the sound of every trestle. 1 got so I could1 tell exactly where I was by the noise the wheels made going over a switch, and I could have stopped on a chalk line in a pea soup fog anywhere along the whole length of that line at any one given place." Edwards worked on one locomo tive that set nine miles of the straight section of track on fire ooe day, and then put it out without help. The engineer on the lo comotive directed that heavy resin knots found at a turpentine still near a wood-loading stop bfc thrown into the firebox to make a bigger fire in a faster time. j The train had gone nine miles c down the track before it was dis- a covered that hot turpentine drip- \ pings were running through (he t grates and out of the ash pan down onto the ground, setting the croesties on fire. As far back as they could see, Edwards said, the track was nothing but a long lane of curling smoke in a chasm of trees. "We put the cars on a sidetrack, turned the injector so the water from the tender tank ran into the ashpan and overflowed onto the ground. Then we commenced back ing up, putting out the fire like a sure enough fire engine. It took us half a day to get it all out be cause we had to run back now and then to a water tank down the line : and fill up the tender tank. We made a pretty good job of it, but I must say when the section mas ter found out what we'd done to his track he got hotter than his own roadbed had been We never fired her any more with resin Mots." Built netore war This long tangent of track was originally a part of the Wilming ton, Charlotte and Rutherford Rail road Co., which had its principal offices in Wilmington. Construc tion commenced on New Year's Day in 1857, and the length from Navassa, a little place just across the Cape Fear River from Wil mington to Rockingham, which is not far from Charlotte, was com pleted on April Fool's Day in 1861, right in the face of the War Between the States. The line was quite an important piece of prop erty during fhat war. It) 1873, the Wilmington, Char lotte and Rutherford ended a per iod of receivership by being sold to the Carolina Central Railway Co., and this line in 1880 became the Carolina Central Railroad Co. In July of 1800 the line was ac quired by the first organization of the present Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co. Many people have wondered about the slight bend in the straight length of track that pre vented It from being 98.08 miles long without a curve or bend. Since there were no lakes, big rivers or hills* ? and the controlling grade for the whole length is only one per cent, or a rise or fall of one foot in every 100 feet? curves were unnecessary, and there seems no logical explanation. The little curve itself is only enough to cause the track to devi ate about 11 feet from the original course in a bend S00 feet long. It 'might have been due to an infin End of May Extra Special SALE MAY 27 ? 31 ONLY HALF GALLON CONTAINER WAitat ICE CREAM AND SHERBET FOR YOUR SELECTION AT 69c A- HALF GALLON ICE CREAM SHERBET VANILLA CHOCOLATE LEMON BANANA RAINBOW ORANGE . LIME PINEAPPLE A BUDGET SAVING SALE... 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