The Adair County news. [volume], September 17, 1913, Page 2, Image 2

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THE ADAIR BOUNTY NEWS
ODD FACTS.
About Our Soils Heat Penetrates
Only Three Feet Down.
How far does the heat of of
the,full summer's sun penetrate
into the ground?
Probably not one person in ten
will give an answer that is even
approximately correct. Their re
plies generally vary from one
inch to many hundreds of
feet. Actually, the distance is
about three feef. Beyond this
depth the temperature of the
soil does not vary appreaciably
from hour to hour, let the mid
day be never so hot and the mid
night never so cold. At this
depth the mean temperature in
the summer is about 58 degrees
Fahrenheit, and in the winter
about 36 degrees Fahrenheit.
And the annual difference?
Thatjis to say, the depth at which
there is some difference between
the summer temperature and that
of the winter? Vell, a depth of
60 feet it is impossible to meas
ure any change due to the chang
ing seasons ovehead. Go down
only 40 feet and it is minute
hardly measurable. But at 25
feet to 30 feet it is quite a defi
nite amount.
The surface heat must take a
long while to penetrate down
ward. In fact, curiously enough
the change in temperature of the
ground takes more than six
months to reach the end of its
twenty-foot journey. Thus, we
are faced with the phenomenon
of midsummer upon the surface
occurring at the same time as
midwinter 25 to 30 feet down,
the vice versa.
As most people are aware, the
temperature increases with the
depth. At three feet down the
average annual mean is just short
of 44 degrees Fahrenheit, while
at 25 it is just over a degree
more, that is, 47 degrees Fah
renheit.
In agricultural districts you
will hear farmers in the same
village talking about "cold7'
soils and "warm" soils. This
although it sounds improbable to
those who have never had any
thing to do with the land, is an
actual fact.
Everybody knows, from per
sonal experience, thatblack cloths
are hotter to wear when hot sum
mer's sun is shining than white
ones, hence the "flannels" for
men and the white frocks for
girls. The reasod for this is
that black and other dark colors
absorb heat, while white and the
lighter shades reflect it. And
this applies to soils equally with
cloths.
Those soils which by their in
gredients are a darker color are
literally warmer than their
lighter neighbors. Peaty soils,
some of which are nearly black,
others a rich dark brown, are
the warmest. Light colored
clays and chalk the coldest.
They may be as much as 15 or
16 degrees Fahrenheit between
the temperatures of two soils
.lying next each other and upon
the same day. On a warm sum
mer's day the temperature of
peaty soil may well be over 87
.degrees'Fahreneit, while a chalky
afield of similar situation in the
.same district will not rise above
73 to 74 degrees Fahrenheit.
Of course, the great advan
tage of a warm soil is that the
crops upon it come to maturity
so,mucharliertban those upon
a cold one. Therefore, the man
who is cultivating the former is
enabled to place his produce up
on the market very much sooner
thai his rival, and often gets
an enhanced price in conse
quence. Tit Bits.
Mother of Eighteen Children.
'I am the mother of eighteen child
aen and have the praise of doing more
work than any young woman in my
town," writes Mrs. C. J. Martin,
Boone Willi Va. "I suffered for live
years with stomach trouble and could
not eat as much as a biscuit without
saffering. I have taken three bottles
of Chamberlain's Tablets and am now
a well woman and weigh lbS pounds.
I con eat anything I want to, and as
much as I' want and feel better than I
haveat any time in ten years. I refer
to any one in Boone Mill or vicinity
and they will vouch for what I say."
Chamberlain's Tablets are for sale by
Paull Drug Co Ad
Newspaper Support.
A newspaper, if it has any
brains, conscience and muscle
back of it must continually de
cide between doing its duty
injuring its pocket. In any
sition but that of an editor
and
public is able to separate the in
dividual home from the collect
ive citizen. But if an editor
does not please them its at his
pockets they aim. Thu3 it is the
newspapers learn who their
friends are. The man who reads
the newspaper and admires it all
the year around, yet gives his
business to some other concern,
whose principles or the actions
of its editor he detests, and the
man who never is a friend of the
newspaper until he wants a fav
or granted by the newspaper, is
not a friend to the former news
paper. Admiration alone will
not run a newspaper. There are
too many men who expect an ed
itor to slave in defence of their
pet notions and cooly withhold
the business support b y which
alone a country newspaper can
live.
Talk about a paper having a
public duty to perform, and an
editor having to . work for his
principles, is cheap when others
stand back and extend a luke
warm neutrality. The result is
the editor may starve while lab
oring for his principles and the
cause of right and justice, which
they admire, but do not support.
E-town News.
Uncle Ezra Says.
"It don't take more'n a gill uv ef
fort to gib folks into a peck of trouble"
and a little neglect of constipation
biliousness, indigestion or ooher liver
derangement will do the same. If
ailing, take Dr. King's New Life Pills
for quick results. Easy, safe, sure
and only 25 cents at Paull Drug Co.
Ad
The Prince of Monaco, as the
man who gets the larger part of
the revenues from the gambling
joint at Monte Carlo calls him
self, is coming to New York, and
expects to make a trip through
the country. He will find pool
rooms running in nearly all of
our large cities, but if he wants
to feel really at home, he will
have to wait until after January
1 and go to Southern Florida.
Americans are prone to .-" '
their heads over the wickea-co
of Europeans in permitting such
a place as Monte Carlo to flourish,
but we are developing several
Monte Carlos in Florida, and at
least one of them is licensed by
the Legislature of Florida. Ex.
Despondency
Is often caused by indigestion and
constipation, and quickly disappears
when Chamberlain's Tablets are taken
For sale by Paull Drug Co. Ad
Where Are the Dogs?
The amount collected as tax on
dogs, over and above what i s
necessary to pay the owners of
sheep for stock destroyed, is by
law turned over to the school
fund. The amount varies each
year with the number of dogs
assessed and the demands made
upon the fund by the sheep own
ers. The latest report from
Frankfort shows a material fall
ing off in the number of dogs in
the State. As a consequence
the school fund will suffer.
Has there really been a falling
off in the number of degs, or
have the assessors done their
duty in the matter? We are in
clined to believe that the asses
sors are negligent. There is no
particular incentive in listing the
dogs, because there is no partic
ular pay in it to the Assessor. It
is somewhat like the old vital
statistics law, where the Asses
sors and clerks were required to
furnish a lot of statistical inform
ation without compensation.
Perhaps the best plan would be
to require a listed dog to be tag
ged, so that all could see wheth-
I er a dog had paid the tax or not.
Bowling Green Messenger.
Many Driven Prom HOme.
If very year, in many parts of tne
country, thousands are driven from
their homes by coughs and lung dis
eases. Ffiends and business are left
behind forjother climates, but this is
costly aud not always sure. A better
way the way of multitudes is to use
Dr. King's New Discovery and cure
youaself at home. Stay right there,
with your friends, and take this safe
medicine. Throat and lung troubles
find quick relief and health returns.
Its help in coughs, colds, grip, croup,
whooping-cough and sore ludgs make
it a postive blessing. 50c. and 81.00.
Trial botele free. Guaranteed b y
Paull Drug Co. Ad.
Water Scarce.
In the vicinity of Pinchem wa
ter seems very scarce and the
people are becoming alarmed.
The Logan Lick spring about
five miles from town, never
known to have gone dry, has
sunk into the earth. Col. Bob
True says that the continued
blasting along the route of the
new railroad, has caused many
of the springs in that section to
disappear. Thousands of dollars
in live stock and crops will be
lost this year on account of the
drouth in Ciark county. Even
in the Becknerville, Bonesboro
and around Elkin station, where
a good season was had, the peo
ple are about out of water.
Caught a Dad Cold.
"Last winter my son caught a very
bad cold and the way he coughed was
something dreadful." writes Mrs.
Sarah E. Duncan, of Tipton, Iowa.
"We thought sure he was going into
consumption. We bought just one
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy and that one bottle stopped his
cough and cured his cold completely."
For sale by Paull Drug Co. Ad
Good soil drainage is one of
the most important requisites to
full crop production, even on
many soils which may not appear
wet. The Department of Agri
culture has a number of free bul
letins on the subject and more
over is always glad to give ad
vice on drainage.
, Diarrhoea Quickly Cured.
"I was taken with diarrhoes and Mr.
Yorks, the merchant here, persuaded
me to try a bottle of Chamberlain's
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Eemedy.
After taking one dose of it I was
cured. It also cured others that I
gave lb to," writes M. E. Gebhart,
Oriole, Pa. That is not at all unusu
al. An ordinary attack of diarrhoea
can almost inuariable be cured by one
or two doses of this remedy. For sale
by Paull Drug Co. Ad
Bill White on Dress,
That's some dress . you've got
on, little girl it sure is. That
delicate, clinging, crinkly stuff
is the prettiest cloth on the store
I counters; that silk Persian sash
of manv colors so gracefully
swathed about the center section
of your anatomy would knock
the spots off Joseph's coat.
You are corseted and tailored ac
cording to the most extreme
model in the August fashion
books. But your neck is too low,
and your sleeves too short, and
and your skirt is far and away
tighter than skirts were ever
meant to be.
slit exposing
ankle shows
And that graceful
your dainty left
stockings above
your pump that is almost trans
parent enough to read through.
And you haven't any more pet
ticoat than a rabbit you know
you haven't. Oh, you're some
swell, are you? Have you no
ticed how the loafers around the
grove rubber after you as you
trip demurely by on your way to
the uptitt lectures? Ask your
brother about it. If he's got
any sense he ll tell you some
things that will be hard on your
vanity and good for your soul.
And if you've got one sense
you'll take his word for it; you'll
lay that dress away and don
something that's wide enough
around the bottom to allow two
petticoates and one pair of legs.
For there never was a dress de
signed, little girl, that is half so
beautiful as a young girl's mod
esty. Emporia Gazette.
Don't Let Baby Suffer With Eczema
and sKIn Eruptions.
Babies need a perfect skin-covering.
Skin eruptions cause them not only
intense suffering, bub hinder their
growth. Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oint
ment can be relied on for relief and
permanent cure of suffering babies
whose skin eruptions have made their
lives miserable. "Our baby was af
flicted witn breaking out of the skin
all bver the face and scalp. Doctors
and skin specialists failed to help.
We tried Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oint
ment and were overjoyed to see baby
completely cured before one box was
used" writes Mrs. Strubler, Dubuque,
Iowa. Paull Drug Co. or by mail, 50c
Pfeiffer Chemical Company, St. Louis,
Mo., Philadelphia, Pa.
&
Hogging off Corn.
The practice of hogging off
corn is one that is meeting with
much favor among hog pro
ducers, says a Missouri State bul
letin. The scarcity of farm la
bor, the cost of harvesting and
the further fact that it has been
demonstrated that more pounds
of pork may be produced from
an acre of corn when harvested
by the hogs themselves are good
reasons for the growing popular
ity of the practice. Nor must
the importance of pasturing off
the crop on the ground, and
thus returning to the soil the
greatest amount of fertility, be
overlooked in discussing the
merits of pasturing off corn
with hogs.
What We NeveT Forget.
according to science, are the things
associated with our early home life,
such as Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that
mother or grandmother used to cure
our burns, boils, scalds, skin eruptions,
cuts, sprains or bruises. Forty years
of cures prove its merit. Unrivaled
for piles, corns or cold-sores. Only 25
cents at Paull Drug Co. Ad
Kentucky Fair Dates.
Scottsville, Sept. 183 days.
Horse Cave, Sept. 244 days.
Bowling Gjeen, Sept. 244 days.
Glasgow, Oct. 14 days.
Hopkinsville, Oct. G Gdays.
Special
All Pesrons Who Are Behind
One Year on our Subscrip
tion Books
Will have to Come off, Under
the Law, if not Paid at once
The Government
Will Not carry Papers in the
Mail for Parties who Owe
More than one Year
Good Roads at State Fair,
One of the best features of the
Kentucky State Fair, which will
be held at Louisville, September
15-20, will be the magnificent
good road exhibit. This exhibit
will consist of road models from
the national government, which
will occupy about 1,000 square
feet of floor space and will show
each and every character of
road in different stages of com
pletion, and models of the most
modern and up-to-date machinery
for building roads. There will
also be types of culverts, subsoil
drainage and other features of
road building. There will be a
large exhibit of enlarged photo
graphs, showing different char
acters of roads and their usage
throughout the United States.
This picture exhibit will occupy
about 300 feet of wall space.
There will also be a daily illus-
i
trated lecture on the fair grounds
in connection with this exhibit
by a representative of the nation
al government from Washington.
The annual convention of the
Kentucky Good Roads Associa
tion will be called to order by Mr.
H. A- Sommers, chairman, on
Tuesday, September 16, at 2 p.
m., in the convention tent at the
State Fair grounds. A number
of good speakers will be present,
and important matters relating
to road building in the State will
be discussed. Home and Farm.
Things Worth Knowing.
The first steel pen was made
in 1830.
The paupers of London number
100,009.
Europe has an area of 3,800,
000 square miles .
Only one man in 208 is over 6
feet in height.
Australia raises nearly 10,000,
000 acres of- wheat a year.
The donkey is the longest
lived domestic animal
A Russian does not become of
age until he is 26.
Epping 'Forest is the largest
recreation ground in the world.
There are 900 cells in a square
root of honeycomb.
New York has thirteen Yiddish
papers, three of them dailies.
Persons with blue eyes are
rarely affected by color, blindness
In France last year the births
exceeded the deaths by 35,000.
As a rule tears do not accom
pany a babies cries until it is
three months old.
I have
barn.
45-3t
Fertilizer
for sale at my
T. F. Collins
Ad
Notice
The First Mastodon Skeleton.
The first mastodon skeleton
ever found in Kentucky was dug
out of the ground in Paris. On
the lot where the Y. M. C. A.
building is to be erected, Prof.
Howard Henderson, father of
the late Rev. Howard Hender
son, former Super intedent of
Public Instruction, was having
the excavating done to build a
structure to be used for a school.
The workmen struck an immense
skeleton, but were unable to tell
what it was, and it afterward
to be that of a mastodon. It
was mounted and sent to the
Smithsonian Institution in Wash
ington City, where it still re
mains. Paris Democrat.
The Fatal Name.
The Irishman had a seri
ous accident and had been hus
tled off to the hospital to be op
erated upon.
As he lay on the bed he beck
oned to the nurse, and said weak
ly: "I'll not be operated on by
the that docthor. Ye must find
another one."
"Why?" remonstrated the
nurse. rle's one or the clever
est surgeons living.
m
Enterprise.
He was a young architect,
clever, energetic, determined to
go on, ready for anything that
might come along. But, alas!
there did not seem to be any
great demand for an architect
in his town.
One morning he appeared at
the house of one of the biggest
owners of property in the neigh
borhood, and asked breathlessly:
"Can I design you a new shop
front for your place in the High
street?"
"No," was the curt reply.
The tenant is quite satisfied with
the present one, and it will las
for years."
"No, it won't!" cried
young man triumphantly.
the
"A
motor car ran into it and smash
ed it to smithereens ten minutes
ago!" He got the job.
Strengthen Weak Kidneys.
Don't suffer longer with weak kid
neys, you can get prompt relief by
taking Electric Bitters that wonder
ful remedy praised by whraen every
where. Start with a bottle to-day,
you will soon feel like a new woman
with ambition to work, without fear
of pain. Mr. John Dowling, of Sau
Francisco, writes: "Gratitude for
the wonderful effect of Electric Bit
ters prompts me to write. It cured
my wife when all else failed." Good
for the liver as well. Nothing better
for indigestion or biliousness. Price
50c. and $100, at Paull Drug Co. Ad
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