A National Movement.
aN argument used by tie
opponents to both'" State
and National, aid is that
it Will encourage local com
munities to neglect the im
provement of the roads and
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depend wholly on the State and Fed
eral Government to do the work for
tnem. This argument, however, has
proven to be wholly imaginary. In
every case that State aid has been
tried no such result has appeared.
Quite to the contrary, it has been
proven that money from the State
treasury serves to stimulate local self
help. Among the counties and town
ships there is a great competition to se
cure a share of the State funds. Local
communities, in fact, instead of sitting
down quietly, it is found, are raising
a great deal more money under the
stimulus of State aid than they did
ibefore. One very important advantage
that rnms from Stnrp nlrt that shrmlri
he kept constantly in mind is the in
telligent supervision in the laying out
of roads, the selection of materials,
and, methods of construction. The
great difference always between suc
cess and failure is doing a thing right.
Every year millions of dollars are vir
tually thrown away in fruitless at
tempts to repair bad roads by merely
filling up mud holes, and by trying to
Improve roads with steep grades, sim
ply because there is no one in charge
of the work with sufficient knowledge,
judgment or authority to do the work
properly. National aid, as proposed, is
ibascd upon the experience of State
aid, and the correctness of the princi
ple has been proven. "Good roads"
are fast becoming a National issue.
.A ut; uccus ui iuc tuuuu; utuauu im
proved roads and there is nothing to
top the movement to secure them.
In the more progressive countries of
Europe the building and maintenance
of roads is one of the most important
functions of the Government. France,
Germany and Switzerland are com
pletely, eovered by a network of the
finest roads in the world, and, as a
result, that part of Europe is the
pleasure ground of the world. The
revenue 1 derived from tourists is one
-of the principal sources of income for
the people of all classes. It is a mat
ter of business, and to attract the tour
ists these people make their roads
mni in nrdpp i n lmvr tliplr lnnnntn his.
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Jakes aud valleys accessible. In our
own country we have some of the finest
ascenery ia the world in the mountain
ous sections of the great West, but it
is inaccessible, simply because we do
not liave roads that wil! permit tour
ists to go there. Good Roads ilaga
. zinc, .
A Good Resolution.
rAt a meeting in Minneapolis, Minn.,
the friends of the good rcrj move
ment adopted the following resolution:
""Resolved, That it is the sense of this
meeting. that in ,vie-.v of the great im
portance to the city of Minneapolis of
a good system of highways leading iiito
the city from producing districts; and,
whereas, large amounts of money have
been expended by the ecus try and the
various towns and villages therein in
"bettering the condition of these high
rways, we deem it to the best interests
of the producers, the consumers and
the public generally that the Common
Council of the city of Minneapolis bo
requested to arrange for a tax levy of
a sufficient amouut of money to put
into proper condition for general travel
the city pcrtioa of all highways lead
ing into the said city. The amount of
uch levy or appropriation to be di
vided among the several roads in pro-1
portion to their importance."
- la .Jasper Comity, Missouri.
rA" system of nearly 100 miles of ex
cellent roads is found in Jasper County,
Mo." The excellent roadbed is first
graded up with considerable crown
nncl with quite large ditches on each
side. After the bed is properly made
and rolled, from 'four to eight inches
of finely crushed zinc, locally known as
"tailings," is spread on it. The road
after n short period of use becomes
smooth and hard. About $00,000 has
ibcen expended on these roads, the pay
ment of this fund being in the hands
of a special road committee appointed
by the county court. Good Roads Mag
azine. , ,. , , j . ' .
"DIsadTaiUase of .Broad Streets.
James W. Abbott, United States Gov
ernment road expert," in commenting
on the roads of Colorado Springs,
called attention to a fact that applies
1o many other places where the luxury
of broad streets has been secured, viz.:
that such streets give a dust area en
tirely too large and make the expense
of laying the dust an enormous bur
den. He suggested the reduction of
ttuch streets to a width sufticient only
for the' actual purpose of traffic by
parking1 them either in the middle1 or
at the sides. Good Roads Monthly.
- .Utilizing Cinders. j
It Is reported that in Now Jersey a !
test of the use of cinders in road mak
ing was made by the Government Ex
periment Station. The cinders, con
tributed by the various factories of the
different cities of the' State, made a
good surface for a short time, but they
ground into a fine dust which was in
clined to wash out during heavy fains.
By mixing gas lime with cinders an
other test was made, which it is
claimed, has given, for the past three
years a very satisfactory road for both
heavy and light vehicles, and no re
pairs have been necessary.
DOUBTFUL WEATHER PROPHETS.1
Marked Scales on Barometers Do Not
Always Tell Conditions.
Much of the current faith in the ba
rometer as a weather prophet. Is, it
appears, misplaced. Because a storm
is generally threatened when the fall
of the barometer is great and sudden,
and vice versa when it suddenly rises,
it has been for years, the practice to
mak" barometers. with "fine." "change
able" and "storm" marked on them,
and such is the confidence placed in
these by many people who own them
that they grow indignant at the weath
er if it dares to rain when the indica
tor says "fair" or to be clear if it says
"storm."
All that a barometer shows is the
pressure of the air upon the earth's
surface at the point where the barome
ter, is when the reading is made. The
pressure does, indeed, vary continual
ly with the .weather conditions, but it
varies also with the elevation of the
point of observation above the. sea
level, and it .takes an expert to tell
whether any given variatioOis un
usual or abnormal, and if so. what it
means. A barometer adjusted with
weather signs for the seashore may
often predict great storms there, but
if taken to another and higher alti
tude the markings are wholly unreli
able, even for making guesses. T. F.
Townsend. at the head of the Phila
delphia Weather Bureau, is frequent
ly called on by people who know this
much to adjust their barometer for
the level in which they use it, but he is
always careful to point out why, even
after 'such adjustment, the indications
are not reliable. Philadelphia Record.
Three Scotch Stories.
. 'A shoemaker came to the miuister
asking his advice because "that sweep,
his landlord, had given him notice to
quit and he would have nowhere to lay
his head." The minister could only ad
vise him to lay his case before the
Lord. A week later the minister re
turned and found the shoemaker .busy
and merry. "That was gran' advice
ye gied me, minister,", said the' man.
"I laid my case before the Lord, as
ye teli't me, an' noo the sweep's deid."
At a funeral in Glasgow a stranger,
who --had. taken, his. seat in one of the
mourning coaches, excited the curios
ity of one of the other three occupants,
one of .whom at last addressed him:
"Ye'll be a brither o' the corp?" "No,'
I'm not a brither o' the corp," was the
prompt reply.; "Woel, then, ye'll be his
cousin?" "No, I'm not that." "No!
then ye'll be at least a frien' o' the
corp?" ."Not that either. To tell the
truth, I've not been weel myself," and
as my doctor has ordered me some
carriage, exercise, I. thocht this wad
bo the cheapest way to tak' it."
A clergyman was rebuked by one ol
the, ruling elders for sauntering on the
Sunday along the hillside above the
manse. The clergyman took the rebuke
in good part, but tried to show the re
monstrant that the action of which he
complained was innocent and lawful,
and he ..was about -to cite the famous
example of a Sabbath walk, with the
plucking of the ears of corn, as set
forth in the Gospels, when he -was in
terrupted with the remark, "Ou ay,
sir, I ken weel what you mean to say,
but for my pairt I hae nefcr thocht
the better o' them for breakin' the
Sawbbath." Geikie's "Scottish Remin
iscences. ,
v Taper From Rags.
It Is not a pleasant thought that the
brilliant white note paper which your
hand rests upon may have in it the
fibers from the filthy garment of some
Egyptian fellah after it has passed
through all the stages of decay until it
is saved by a ragpicker from the gutter
of an Egyptian town; and yet it is a
fact that hundreds of tons of Egyptian
rags are exported every year into
America to supply our paper mills. At
Mannheim on the Rhine the American
importers have their ragplcking houses
where the rags are collected from all
over Europe, the disease infected Lev
ant not excepted, and where women
and children, too poor to earn a better
living, work day after daj with wet
sponges tied over their mouths, sorting
these filthy scraps for shipment to
New York. Our best papers are made
of these rags and our common ones of
wood pulp, which is obtained by grind
ing and macerating huge blocks from
;ome of our soft-wooded "forest trees.
David G. Fairchild, in the National
Geographic Magazine.
A Pennsylvania fisherman has "dis
covered that bullfrogs act as sentries
to fish, and that it is nseless to try to
catch bass when a deep-voiced, bellow
ing frog is' watching. ' ' ""
THE MUJIK'S WISDOM.
A. Modern Parable; is Told of tha Russian
Peasantry. "
The following .anejc4pte.wastpld.by
a Talmud student, arid I give it as
related by Dr. Frank. An astronomer
and physician were traveling through
Russian, and one evening' were obliged
to ask for quarters at a peasant's
(mujik's) log cabin. The request waa
cheerfully, granted. They were, how
ever, informed by the landlord that
the resources of the table were of the
plainest kind. As the cabin contained
only two rooms, . they had no diffi
culty in observing the preparations for
the evening meal; The supper consist
ed of stale fish and side dishes of. an
equally,: ' uninviting ; nature. , .The
hungry travelers objected to taking
part in the repast, as the doctor af
firmed that such indulgence would
surely result in death from ptomain
poisoning. The family had no such
scruples and ate freely. Contrary to
the prediction of the doctor, all were
hale and hearty the next day.
The farmer, invited the travelers to
spend the night in the cabin, as he pre
dicted a heavy storm during the night.
From the existing atmospheric indica
tions, the astronomer could not agree
with his hosts' prognostications, and
the two slept outdoors. At midnight
they were awakened by a violent storm
and 'they had to take refuge in t the
house. In the morning the learned
astronomer asked the peasant by what
means he could predict with such ac
curacy the storm, when in the even-ing-the
sky was cloudless. The doctor
desired to know why the tainted. food
produced no ill results. The mujik's
reply was: "We take a drink of vodka
before, and after meals, which destroys
the poison, and we could predict the
storm by the peculiar restless behavior
of a young bull, which always meant
an impending storm." The lesson to
be drawn from this story is that the
Russian has no use for doctors and
astronomers, and that wise men can
often be instructed by the ignorant,
who are often well-Informed in what is
contained in nature's open book. Dr.
Nicholas Senn, in St. John's Quarterly.
What Katlonal Pleasure Means.
There is a time, which we all know,
when most people read the poets with
plsasure, and few can be restrained
from themselves writing verse. If
a man passes adolescence without ex-,
ercising the poetic .sensibilities there
is small chance of his acquiring them
afterward. Darwin relates that in his
early youth he was fond of the best
poetry and music,' and that, having
neglected the arts for science he ar
rived at a time when Shakespeare and
Beethoven bored him. ,
In our endeavor to insure the culti
vation of the more serious and funda
mental virtues, intellectual and moral,
we haw neglected the importance of
youthful training in habits of relax
ation and rational pleasures. Parents"
and educators are learning to revise
the adage, all work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy. If Jay Gould had
spent a reasonable share of his youth
among orchids and on the sea his
riches might have , been less, but he
would have been pretty sure to have
lived longer to enjoy them. If Mr.
Rockefeller had taken , to the links
at the age of. when he .was fixiug the
habits of thrift his digestion would not
require so much golf now to say noth
ing of the profit to. his driving and
putting! Saturday Evening Post.
Koyal Doubles.
Now that there is so much in! of
"doubles," it is worth noting that near
ly every well-known personage has a
double, who, by careful dressing, doss
his best to keep up the Sattering illus
ion. King Edward has several, but
the one with the strongest resemblance
lives in the East End. The Kaiser's
double is a tailor. King Oscar of
Sweden's au inhabitant of Lyons, the
part of the country; by the way, from
which the Kinjs grandmother origi
nally came, arid King Leopold or Bel
gium's is a: pickpocket, who takes r.d
vautage of the likeness to practice his
rascality upon smart crowds cu public
occasions. .
Leaving the crowned ''heads. Presi
dent Loubet, it was shown the other
day, has a double in Paris, while Presi
dent Roosevelt's likeness a comie
singer. Combes, the rrench Premier,
Is the exact likeness of an old general
of the empire, while M. Pelietan, the
French Minister of Marino, is doubled
by a bookmaker, and a cabdriver.-
Sketch.
The Peculiar Passenger.
As one of the big red cars of the
Wentworth avenue line was approach
ing Fifty-fifth street the other after
noon a large, well dressed woman left
her scat and strode .haughtily toward
the rear door.
"Let me off at this street, sir," she
said, imperiously, to the conductor.
The car stopped.
Everybody .watched her as she
stepped off.
Catching up her skirts with one
hand, she grasped the railing .with
the other
, And got off the car with .her face
toward the front end.
'Left-handed:" exclaimed the con
ductor in an' "awestruck whisper. Chi
cago Tribune.
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PRAISE FEOM THE EX-G0VEEN0R OF OREGON.
PERUNA is known from th Atlantic to
the Pacific. Letters of congratulation
and commendation . testifying to the
merits of Peruna as a catarrh, remedy are
pouring in from every State of the Union.
Dr. Hartman is receiving hundreds of
such letters daily. All classes write these
letters, from the highest to the lowest.
- The outdoor laborer, the-iadoor artisan,
the clerk, the editor, the-statesman., the
preacher all agree that Peruna is the ca
tarrh remedy of the age.
The stage and rostrum, recognizing ca
tarrh . as their greatest enemy, - are espe
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timony. ; ; , ;
Any man who wishes perfect health must
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vrell-nigh universal; almost omnipresent.
Peruna is the only absolute safeguard
known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh.
To-prevent colds, , to 'cure colds, is to cheat
catarrh of its victims.
FemmanSt only cures catarrh, but
Sreventstt. Every household should
e .supplied with this great remedy
or coughs, colds arid so forth. '
The ex-Governor of Oregon is an ardent
admirer of Peruna. He keeps it contin
ually in the house.
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Israel Zangwill is again a visitor to
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A Suicidal Record.
1 The chief medical examiner of the
Royal Arcanum reports that 103 mem
berg committed suicide during 1903.
Among the supposed causes were: Do-
mestie trouble, sixteen; financial dif
ficulties, twenty-six; ill health, thirty
one; X)S3 of employment, ten.
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. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.
Tagging Fishes.
The United States Fish Commission
has contracted the small boys habit
of tagging fishes. Metal tags are fas
tened to marine fishes, which are let
loose in the ocean with the idea of
identifying them in case they are
caught at any future time.
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The reason W. Done-' an til SO shmi r 1t
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In a letter to The Peruna Medicine On,
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State of Okegon, 1
EXBCTJTIVE DEPABTMKWT, J
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0.
Dear Sirs---f hive had oc. anim 6
use your Peruna medicine in nty
Jamlly for colds, and it proved to he
an excellent remedy, l liave nebhcwl
occasion to use it for other ailments,
Yours very truly,
W. M. Xord.
It will be noticed that the ex-Governor
says he has not. had occasion to use Peruna
for other. ailments. The reason for this is,
moat other ailments begin with a cold.
Using Peruna to promptly cure colds, hm
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Such families should provide themsefve
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Address Dri S. B. Hartman President of
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