Our County—Its Progress and Prosperity the First Duty of a Local Paper.
'T. J. MIjS'EU. Maniiu'cv
BREVAED, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY. N. C., FlflDAY. SFPTEMltEE 15. 1905.
VOL. X-NO. 37
Dunns Rock'Lodge No. 267
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ery Tuesthiy ni»!ht in Ma
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iiouKs:
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THE EAliMEirS LOSS.
COST OF HAULING PRODUCTS OVER
UNIMPROVED ROADS.
To l>ottor advcrtiso tlif> SoiitJiVs l.eadin);
Collejjp, just ;i few scholarship..; are
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Secrotnry of the >I«»rtoii on
AmtM-ica’N Poor Ilii^hwitys—JIow IIo
AVonl«l Itiiitrove Thom — Kxtrava-
KHiiee of Dad KoailN.
“I haven't a hit of doubt f.i.-it I’.-iul
3Iorton will make a good secretary of
the navy.” said a Kansas (’ify man lo
a ropresontjitive of the Kansas (’ity
8tar recently. “No douht lu* will he of
frreat value to the f^overnnient tlu're,
hut If 1 had heen presiilcnt-try t<>
imairine it—I Mould have used Mr.
Morton for a new cabinet pla.ce. IIo
would have been at the head of t.he
department of roads not railro;uls. but
county road.<5, highways. That’s it;
he’d be se('retarj’ of hiuhway.'!. :ind the
inirpose of his departnu'nt would Ix* to
b’.iild and ninintain roadways- fine,
smooth highways from oni^ end of the
country to tlie other.
“1 was riding through Kansas with
him one day when he was s<vond vice
president of the Atchison, Topekji and
Santa Fe railway. The train stoppcnl
at a tanlc, and we watched ;i farmer
trying to make t\vo lino horses drag a
wagon loatl of wheat through mud that
came to tlu‘ hubs.
“ ‘There's a good examido of it.’ said
Morttni. ‘That man h;;s prohal)ly (’.riv
en live or six' miles through soft roads
to bring that wheat to m;irkeJ, ;ind it is
doubtful if he has considered the loss
in time and money mud highways
mean to him. The jtoople seem to lake
bad roads as a matter of course. No
man would think of thrissliing wl;o:it
with a Hail nowadays, l»ut stil! ilicy use
seventeenth century roads—!-o:i(h; ‘JiX>
years or more bi'hind tlie rest of the
farm e»iuipmont.
“ ‘That farmer back there probal)Iy
lives live un'ies from the shii)]>ing point,
and it costs him as nnich to haid a load
of wheat to the mill Jis the raihvay
comriany charges to liaul it IMKI mih>s
to Kansas (Mty. The time and lalior
given to hauling tha.t lo::d of whe:it to
mark(‘t are a direct tax on the fanner
and in(i!rt‘ctiy on the consumer. (lood
roads to market save money for farm
ers as directly as do imi)rove(l ma
chines.
“ ‘My idea Is that hibor organizations
and the farmers b\' working together
could bring results, and rniick oih‘s.
T!ie laboriiig man is inter<‘st<.Ml on the
otlier side -a.s a consumer. P.esiih's, tlie
workingman's i>ro(hicls are returned to
the farmer, «nd there is another n(*c><l-
less tax eoll(M-ted by bad roaiis. If I
were' a leader of organize.I labor 1
would do what I could to have both of
the gn'at political parties dechire for
tli(* use of convict lal)or in road build
ing a!ul denovince the inainifact\ire of
sl.oes. agricultural impl(*nients, <-ooi)or-
at:e and so on by j)risoners. T?uilding
of highways is a public service, and it
seems to me that it is the right direc
tion in which to emi)Ioy ablebodied peo
ple maintained at public exj»ense.
“ ‘I am sure that the railroa.ds would
be glad indeed lo carry stone and otlier
raw nuiterial at a very low r;ite for
road improvements. Material could bo
prepared in the prisons, so Iceeyiing
down the number of convir*ts who
would have to be at woriv on the road
proper. The railways appreciate Avhat
goo<l roads mean to them. The llrst
result would be a din'ct saving in time
and money to the farmer, giving him
a better chance to im])rove his land.
Tlie more the soil produces the better
for the railway in that territory.
“ ‘The chief ohjectl!)n to farm life is
tlie lack of so( iety. The t<'Ir-plione has
overcome that to some extent, but any
young f<‘llow on the farm v. ill tell you
tl’.at a t('lephone conversation is a poor
substitute for an evening drive in a
buggy. The men in the country have
tlic buggies and surreys and horses,
but they can be used only about haif
the time. Mud to the hubs I
" ‘A farmer on average country roads
in av(‘rage weather, rain and shine,
with two horses may haul two loads
of sixty bushels of wheat each in a
d.vy to town, say five miles awjiy. His
time and team are worth a day at
least. He can get tliat much working
on a railroad. Now, that means it
costs him 2Vo cents a bushel to haul
that 120 busliels of Avheat to market.
Say he raised thirty bushels of wheat
lo the acre, just to be liberal, drayage
alone costs him 7i5 cents an acre. On
corn it would cost him $1. That’s what
you miglit call heavj’ taxes, and most
of the farmers are paying it every year
without realizing it.
“ ‘On a good macadamized road, laid
out with respect to the topography of
the country, the same team could Easi
ly hauL twice as much as on a mud
road. That would reduce the cost of
transportation by one-half-cut down
the farmer’s drayage taxes from an
acre to HO cents. Resides, any farm in
touch with good roads would be worth
?10 an acre more than the same land
on a no bottom highway.’
“It was all very simple, the Avay
Morton told It,” the Kansas ('ity man
continued, “and most convincing. You’d
hav(‘ thought he was driving a wheat
wagon <‘very day in the ye.ar. And
the best of It all is that he was right.”
IiiippovInK’ 01«1 Roaclft.
Frequently old roads can bir improv
ed at very little addCKi cost, says the
American Agriculturist. Thoroughly
drain by using tile and render more
efUcient the open ditches along the
sides. Careful artention to the road
surface, keeping it pmooth and free
from hollows, avIII result in very mark
ed Improvement. Sand and gravel add
ed to a claj' road will often make it
much better, and clay added to a sand
road fre(]uontly is of great l)oncfit. I'ill-
ing hollows is one of the most effective
methods of Imiiraving roads in a rougli
CHaintrj'. The soil is e;isily dragged into
the hollows, and the grade is thus ma
terially reduced.
FATAL TO GOOD ROADS. '
drain Is as effective both for removing
the water and supporting the metaling
as side drains and a telford base. Its
cost is approximately 77 cents per lin
eal foot of road less than construction
with a telford base and two drains
and cents less than the same base
with a single side drain.
This system of construction Is direct-
ly opposite to that advocated in most
of the accepted mamials on the sub
ject. The old Idea has been to get the
water oIT tlie roadbed just as (Hiickly
as i)ossible. To accomplish this the
subgrade has been crowned and rolled!
and the lov.'or courses of stone are
coarse and often of considerable thick
ness. By the new system of construction
the water remains on the roadbed and
is collected by the outlet drains at fiftj'
foot points, the draining not being dis
turbed along each side of the road, but
concentrated at a regular series of
points.
Bad DrainaKi* Will Kniii the ^lost
Kxpen.slve lUs'hwaj'.
An esso’itial feature of a good road
is good drainage, and the princii)les of
good drainage rom;;in the same wheth
er the roads h.e constructed of earth,
gravel, shells, stone or asphalt, says a
writer in tl:e Kansas City Star. The
lirst d('mand of good drainage is to at-
t<'U(l to th.e shape of road s'irf;i»’e. This
must be “crowned.” or roimd(>d U]) to
ward the middle, so that there may be
' a sligiit fall from the middle to the
sides, thus ('ompelling the wattM' to
t!ow from the surface into the gutters
THE MAIN ESSENTIAL.
Drainnpro, >‘ot ThifUnes.<» of >Ietal-
in^, MakcN a Good Ituad.
It is instructive to observi* how stead
ily the feeling is growing that drain
age and not thirkness of metaling is
the main es.sential in road building,
says tiie Engineering Record. Howev
er much we may respect the memories
of IVlacadam. Telford and other great
road builders who first led public au
thorities toward a sensible method of
construction for country highways, the
fact remains that many of then* recom
mendations are now known to be mis
leading. Their advice was important
at the time when it Vv'as given, but it
i.s not in keeping M'ith the broader
knowledge of tlie present time, gaiiu\l
by careful examination of roads built
in strict conformity Avith Avell known
si)ccifications.
Years ago the theory of thin roads,
with a V shaped drain along the cen-
ter^^ received_ favor. Thi^ V shaped
The Vnlne of Good Ronds.
There could be no better investment
of the i)ublic funds than in road Im
provement. By improving and shorten
ing the road to market millions of dol
lars’ worth of products that are nov/ a
dead loss would be turne<l into money
ajid the price of all commodities would
be reduced to the consumer, giving the
producer a greater profit than he is now
receiving. The congestion of business
during winter months would disap
pear, and iieople could go to the mai‘-
kets at all times. The material ad-
vantacres which would follow are too
numerous to mention and too great to
estimate. He would be blind indeetl
who could doubt the wisdom of such
an investment.
Rural Delivery Notes
The number of pieces of mail deliver
ed by the carriers in the rural districts
last year was 00d,424.121, and the aver
age number of ijioces per caiTier was
3..‘i(50. At the same time the carriers
collected 1.33,lS:i.:i.'31 pieces of mail, an
.average of ('>04 per carrier.
I.,. A. Clark of ^lichigan has been a
rural free delivery carrier since ISOt;
and during this time has ridden an ag
gregate of 20,000 miles on his bicycle
alone.
The i)opularity of the rural free de
livery service is seen in the fact that
0.447 nmtes were established during
the past year.
rOT NTllY KOAD AFTFlt A STOIill.
and from there discharged in turn into
larger and more open channels. There
is often danger, however, in making
the “crown” too pronounced, in which
rase the water Hows so rapidly to tl.e
gutters that it cuts v.-ays into the sur-
f;’.ce.
Water from hillsides should never 1)0
permittCHl to flow across the road. Cul
verts, tile or stone drains should be pnt-
vid(Hl for that purptjse.
liuLs. Avheel tracks, holes or hollows
in a ro.'.dway hold water, and that
which is I’.ot (‘V;\jK)!’atcd is absorbed by
the material of which the road is coii-
struct<‘d. In thi.s case the material
loses its solidity, softc'ns and yields t •
the iiiipact of tlu; horses’ feet and th(>
wheels of the vehicles until tli(‘ sur
face is complcti'ly d(‘stroyed and the
road is readv for a new contriict.
America’s “Smart bet.”
la our more primitive days tlio
schoolmaster was counted as the
“i^martest” person in the community
where he labored. Ih; could teach, of
course, preach sometimes too. lie
could lecture and generally couhl sing.
Some of the fraternity <-ouid ]>lay. and
all could Avork outdoors in r. prr.ch at
farming or lumhoring. If it <-an;e to
that, the schooimasicr coul',1 tlir.-i.-h tiie
village bully and other ol)str*';)croiis
grownups. Unless things are altogetli-
er out of joint the Kvicln'r of today is
relatively :is “sniart” as in the i)ast.
And how the number has grov/nl Tlu're
.are over three-tjuarters of n miilion
nu'n and Avomen eng:igcd in various
blanches of instruction in t!il.; country
today in the schools alone. Th.at maiies
a “smart set” Avorth con.ddering.
It is as true now as it v.jis i:i the
past that in the popular mind “K'acluT
Avill knoAv” everj" puzzling (juestion
and “teacher can do” Avhatt'ver is
wortli doing. As a rule, te;ichers are
not smart at money grubbing, l)Ut that
is no evidence that they f;iii to get
great good out of life, Avhile tlie publii*
thrives on their talents. A "simpk; j
life” is their lot, but they tliink nobly
and act Aveil. AVith ambitions higlK'r
than mere money making, they may be
the su]H-riors of those Avho surpass
them in material achievements. Noaa'
that the land is rich, th.e standards of
living and the co.?t of in-eparation for
teachers higher, they shoukl not be
OA'erlooked in the handing out of
aAA'ards. They should not bi* pushed
into the background by a smartness
Avhich is simply audacitA’.
ilization by the use of the AA'ireless
telegrai)li. The outtit of this daring
explorer is described in the Hamburg
News as folloAA’s;
Tiie balloon will be provided with an
elcctrical motor which v%ith one charso
Aviil run for 200 hours and Avhlch occupio.s
a very small space. The motor Aviil bo
UEc-d only when the Avind i-s wealv or A\'hen
it is desired to deviate from the diroctioi)
of the wind. But even Avith continual use
of the motor three char.ijts will last COO
hours, or twenly-five days. T.'io ba.sk-jt
is In the form of a great .‘square fastened
to the balloon by a mantle and not by a
net. The bnFkot is al.so large enougli to
permit the occupants to lie down. ai;d a
ncAv arrancrement for rontrolling the gas
f=r.pp!y can V>o oporfiled from the basiv<*t.
The V)asket may b<- clo.sc-d at tiie toi> so
that in ease of a fall into th'i sea it is
buoyant. Sand is not to be u.sed as bal
last, the ordinary provisions acting as
such.
Marsillac is provided with several in
struments uiiknowu to Andre, the most
important being knoAvn as the ther
mogen. This instrument Avill negative
the effect of cold on gas. It is the oiiin-
ion of Marsillac that Andre’s balloon
lost its buoyancy through the cooling
and contraction of tiio gas.
Tracinjf Back; a Common Sayliisr.
It is a curious bit of literary exercise
to take a common saying and tr<;ce it
back to its origin. Take the common
saying, for instance, ‘“All that glitters
is not gold.” It is found in current
literature e\'orywhere «nd in a dozen
different forms. Hryden reiulers it,
“All, as they say, that glitters is not
gold.” Spenser says, “(ioid all is not
that doth golden seem.” Lydgate has
the same idea in the Avords, "All is
not gold that outAvard sheweth l-right.’'
Ch;uicer expresses it in somcAvIiat tlil-
ferent phraseology. Middleton has it.
“All is not gold that glisteneth,’’ anti
Shakespeare says, “All th;it glistens is
not gold.” (lO a little farther back,
hoAA'ever, and the same exin-ession is
found Is the monkish collection of
proverbs, and there is no doubt if a
classical scholar Avere to set to Avork
with the determination to hunt the
proverb doAvn, no matter Iioaa' long it
took, he Avould lind it in Latin, Greek
and most other ancient and dead lan
guages. It is a natural outgri)AVth o^
sarcasm as apj>Iied to fictitious show
.and is no doubt ;is old as the science
of metal Avorking.
Entrai>i»iiis;r Mtirine Monsters.
On the northern co;i'-t of Norway th<>
ti>h(‘rmen get a yearly harvest from
l!te Avhales Avhich Siray into th.i har
bors. At certain lo'-a.lities, Avhero tiu?
bays are almost landlocked, lofty
sta.nds are erected, sirnilar to the otter
outlooks on the north I’acitic, and
Avhcn a school is sighted scores of
bo;its put out and, by the simph’
process of driving, lu:ndre<ls of the oil
producing cetaceans are entrapi)ed.
Th.e Faroe isla.nds are famous for this
method of AA ualing. One of the largest
ciitches ever made Avas in Hvartiord.
Iceland, Avhcre eleven hundred Avere
driven asliore. The blackfibh, or
Avhales, come doAvn the Atlantic coasts
from the north, encounter shalloAA
water, then folloAV it along and are
naturally led into the cul-de-sac await
ing them. Here the boat;s easily sur
round and drive the Avhales in.
Racing Peary With a Kalloon.
An adventurous Frenchman, M. Mar
sillac, is to venture on an expedition
into the arctic regions in a balloon.
Andre's failure has not deterred Lim,
and he oA’en expects to Avin success
AA'here the latter fotmd death by mak
ing use of the lessons of the latter’s
failure. M. Marsillac intends to keep
in constant communication with civ
Attackod i>y a 3lob
ami beaten, in a lalxu’rio t, unti! cov
ered with sores, a CJiica^o street car
coiuluctor a[>p!ied iiuekh'ii’s Arnica
Salve, and was soon sound and well.
“I use it in luy lamily,'’ writes C. J.
Welch of Telvonsha, Mich, ‘-and find
it perfect.’’ Siniply j;reat for cuts
and burns. Only at Z. \V. Nich
ols’ druj? store.
Acting upon the suggestion of th*'
department of commerce and l.ibor,
tlie American Ex[>ort Shipping com-
jiany is about to launch a lloaliiig ex
position to shoAA' otf American p-rod-
ucts in foreign lands. A large steam
er Avith products suitably arranged
Avill circle the globe and stop for dis
play in the ports of the most important
commercial countries Avitli a vioAV to
stimulate export trade.
( liamliorlain’.K l*a;;) i>;j!i!s;.
Thi.s if a liniment re'narkablo for
its ffreat power over pain. It (|uickly
idlay.s the excruciating? pains of rii. u-
matistn and makes slee[> and r<*st
possible.
For sale by Z. \V, Xichole, I^revard
and O. L. Erwin, Calvert.