FARMS WITHOUT WEEDS
INDICATE PROSPERITY
Fence Rows and Corners
Should Re Cleaned Before
Seed Can Ripen
Naetness around the farm
stead is an outward appear
ance of prosperity w'tbin and!
a good sign that tht land is i
comparatively valuable. Paint
on the buildings, well kept
fences and clean crops and
fence rows are some excellent
indications that the farmer
takes pride in keeping his
premises in good condition.
Farms that are cleaned oi
weeds and sprouts, in the
fields, fence corners and road
sides, always present a pleas
ing appearance and in most
cases a close examination will
show that such farms are
good producers and that the
owners are prosperous, ac
cording to H. K. Thatcher,
district farm agent.
Weeds and sprouts are eas
ier to kill at this time of the
year than at any other. If the
weeds are cut from the fields
and the fence rows now the
seed will not have a chance to
ripen and scatter. Weeds that
pupagaw u%y line iarm
crops, have as their main pur
pose the production of seed
so that they may perpetuate
their kind. Therefore, they
should be cut down before the
seed has a chance to mature
sufficiently to produce anoth
er plant.
Other weeds and sprouts
live in the ground from year
to year and use their leaves
for the manufacturing of
plant food to be stored in the
stems and roots for future
use. When these weeds are
cut during jhc hot days, the
moisture is evaporated from
the roots which has a ten
dency to kill the plant.
THE PAHSON PRAYS
FOR MO’ POWER
Following is said to be the
prayer of a Negro preacher at
his Sunday morning Church
service.
“Oh, Law'd, give Thy ser
vant this mornin’ de eyes of
de eagle and de wisdom of de
owl; connect his soul with de
gospel telephone in de central
skies; luminate his brow with
de sun of heaben; pizen his
mind with love for the people;
turpentine his imagination;
grease his lips with ’possum
oil; loosen his tongue wid the
sledge hammer of Thy power;
’lectrify his brain with de
lightnin’ of the word; put
’petual motion on his ahms;
fill him plum full of the dyna
mite of Thy glory; ’noint him
all over with de kerosene oil
of Thy salvtion and sot him
on fire—Amen.”
MURPHY CELEBRATES
Newport, Aug. 10.—Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Murphy of tjhy
city are having a family re
union at their home this week
celebrating the seventy-fifth
birthday of Mr. Murphy. A
son, W. D. Murphy, and his
family, of Batesville, and a
daughter, Mrs. Sig Shoffner,
of Auvergne, are members
of the family who are enjoy
ing the week in the parental
home.
Oldest Living Thing.
The oldest living thing In the world
!■ thought to be the famous cypress
to the churchyard of the village of
Santa Marla del Tule, a few miles
from. Mexico city. Experts have esti
mated its age as between five and Rix
thousand years. It Is said to have
been a stripling two hundred years old
when Cheops built the greut pyramid
—Exchange.
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REVERTED TO ANC'ENT WAYS
Serious Trouble in Village *n Eas1
India When Natives Offe,r Up
a Human Sacrifice.
v British government report on
the serious riot which took place
in the village of Sirohi, in the Raj
putana agency, says it was caused
hy tlfe olfering of human sacrifice.
Seven persons were killed and ten
were wounded.
'1 lie village, which is the home of
many members of the ancient sect
of Charays, became greatly excited
over the refusal of the Charays to
pity the usual revenue contributions.
Sepoys were sent to enforce collec
tion, the report says, and found that
the Charays had followed tradi
tional methods of bringing the ven
geance of heaven on the state by
burning an old woman alive. She
had been placed on a pyre, which
was lighted by her nearest relatives.
When the troops attempted to res
cue the victim the villagers opposed
them with knives and swords,
wounding several soldiers. The Se
poys fired a volley into the crowd,
which scattered, but the attempt at
rescue came too late to save the
woman.
GONE
Hold-Up Man—And now will ver
kindly tell me what time it i.«?
^ ictim—My watch isn't running.
Hold-Up Man—Well, I’ve got
somethin’ yer what’s guaranteed to
make it go all right.
FRANCES NEW COIN.
Was
Very
Weak
"After the birth of my
baby I had a back-set,”
writes Mrs. Mattie Cross
white, of Glade Spring,
V*. "1 was very ill;
thought 1 was going to
die. I was so weak 1
couldn’t raise my head to
get E drink of water. I
took . . . medicine, yet I
didn’t get any better. 1
was constipated and very
weak, getting worse and
worse. IsentforCardui.”
TAKE
The Woman’s Tonic
"1 found after one bot
tle of Cardui 1 was im
proving,” adds Mrs.
Crosswhite. “Six bot
tles of Cardui and ... 1
was cured, yes, I can say
they were a God-send to
me. 1 believe I would
have died, had it not been
for Cardui.” Cardui has
been found beneficial in
many thousands of other
cases of womanly trou
bles. Jf you feel the need
of a gobd, strengthen
ing tonic, why not try
Cardui ? It may be just
what you need.
All
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Druggists
ABLE TO FORETELL WEATHER
Nature Undoubtedly Has Endowed
Many Birds and Beasts With
Keenly Prophetic Instinct.
Do birds and animals sense weath
er changes in advance? P. Connor,
who forecasts weather for Kansas
City and vicinity, referred to a
weather bureau bulletin on weather
folklore. “Observations of natural
ists and herdsmen,” said the bulle
tin, “go far to prove that birds and
animals are cognizant of approach
ing changes in the state of the air,
before we know of their coming bv
other signs.
“To many kinds of animals and
birds,'* it continued, “the weather
is of so much more importance than
to us, that it would seem strange if
nature had not endowed them with
a keenly prophetic instinct. It is
not difficult to imagine that the
physical organism of animals may
be sensitive to weather changes, and
that it has become an inherited in
stinct to associate the sensations ex
perienced with the different kinds
of weather.”
As to signs in tree* and flowers,
Mr. Connor explained they simply
express^ past and present condi
tions. “They are influenced mostly
by the varying degrees of humidity,
j aiiu in t* v* eauiiei iuuicuiufb omyt in
i so fur as an increase of humidity
might portend rain,” he added.
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JAVA WOMEN SEEK ‘EQUALITY’
Movement Toward Emancipation Said
to Be Making Headway In the
Dutch East Indies.
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Women’s suffrage movements
have reached the Dutch East Indies,
the colonies whose history and an
cient savagery were chiefly known
to credulous Americans through
circus side-shows, wherein the “Wild
Man of Borneo” and “The Terrible
Dyaks, Ferocious Head-Hunting
Cannibals,” drew many dimes while
the crowds waited for the “big tent”
to open.
Head hunting and kindred sav
age pastimes still continue, to some
extent, within the jungles of these
Dutch islands, but, according to the
Dutch press, most of the natives are
rapidly adopting modern theories.
In Java, the upper class native
women, under leadership of Raden
Ad j eng Kartini, a woman of high
birth, are reported to be making
rapid strides toward emancipation,
although the Mohammedan custom
of polygamy still prevails. In all
the “Kartini schools,” the girls of
the upper classes are being taught
occidental theories of equality with
the men. Dutch correspondents say
the progress of the movement is nec
essarily slow, but appears to be cer
tain of ultimate success.—Brooklyn
LAST SHOT WAS HIS.
When John was engaged to Ruth
he gave her a diamond ring which
she failed to return when she turned
him down for Jimmie. Of course
John was peeved and all the more
so when he saw another diamond on
her finger and was informed that it
was Jimmie’s ring which accom
panied his. He showed it the first
time he met Jim. ‘‘Sav, Jim, but
Ruth sure does look classy with both
my ring and yours on her finger,”
he said.
Cheerful Jim grinned. “Oh, I
don’t mind.” he retorted, “since
mine is the ring on top.”
“Yes,” John returned, “but keep
a close watch on that finger, old
man, so that you can make a hur
ried exit when the third one comes
into sight.”— Exchange.
PAID WELL.
“I wuz in de movies once,” said
the tattered visitor.
“Not an actor?”
"You could hardly call me dat,
mum. But in de big scene I wuz
thrown out of a barroom by de star.”
“You should have been welt paid <
for that.”
“Well, I got my $5 a day, an’ de
drinks I took wuz real ones.”—Bir
mingham Age-Herald.
LYMPH FOR FEVERS.
Dr. Artault de Yevey told the
Societe de Therapeutique of Paris i
j at a recent meeting that he had
I great success in treating nearly a
thousand cases of infectious diseases :
such as influenza and puerperal fe- |
ver by injecting the patient with his
own lymph drawn from a blister. 1
He had also succeeded with it in j
rheumatism, facial neuralgia, appen- |
dicitia and other such troubles.
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note in the joys of rolling era!
Talking about rolling
your own cigarettes, we’ll
tell you right here that
Prince Albert tobacco has
’em all lashed to the mast!
You’ve got a handful-of
happiness coming your di
rection when you pal it with
P. A. and the makin’s
papers! For Prince Albert
is not only delightful to
your taste and pleasing in
itsrefreshingaroma,but our
exclusive patented process
frees it from bite and parch!
And, for a fact, rolling
up Prince Albert is mighty
easy! P. A. is crimp cut and
stays put and you whisk it
into shape before you can
count three! And, the next
instant you’re puffing away
to beat the band!
Prince Albert is so good j
that it has led four men to !
smoke jimmy pipes where
one was smoked before! It’s
the greatest old buddy
smoke that ever found its
way into a pipe or cigarette!
prince Albert
the national joy smoke
Printt Albert If
told in toppy red
hoes. tidy red tint,
handsome pound
and half pound tin
humidors and in the
pound crystal glast
humidor with
sponge moistener
top.
Copyright 1921
by R J Reynold*
Tobacco Co.
Win* ton-Salem,
COMFORT AT HOME
Comfortable living on the
farm should be the ambition
of every farmer. Every man
is justified in striving for
enough income to enable him
and his family to live in com
fort and to have enough of
the desirable conveniences to
afford comforts and even lux
uries.
Comfort gives physical
satisfaction which is necessary
for the better part of nature '
ft affords selfrespect, and j
■stimulates pride.
It is doubtful whether any,,
jther use of the farm income
^ives as much pleasure and
affords as much satisfaction
as that used in buying com
forts for the home. It is
certain that no other invest
ments give young people in
:he home the pride and the
pleasure and the reward of
liligence on the farm that
lome conveniences do. The
ack of them often discourag
*s and disgusts young people
,vith the farm.
Only That Diffe-ence.
As I was going shopping I met a
arming little follow, who spoke to
me quite* politely. In further corner*
ti Son I Inquired his name. “Oh,” he
.-red with easy assurance, "It't
jus; the same as my daddy's, only it's
d Mr.’ on the end of It.”—Chicago
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