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Tha Annual Mud Tax. : .
'A careful study of the road problem
In detail reveals some Important and
Ignlficant featares While good road
tone Is found In a very few places In
this country, igood clays are found In
iiearly every locality. -
"If these abundant clays," Mr. Dodge
argues, "can be' used economically to
)ui!d ffood roads they will greatly as
ist In meeting the important problem
tf how to construct our country roads.
"Again as all loads are hauled over
very narrow portions of roads through
wheel contact, railroad cars for ex
ample It . follows that if such narrow
Jjarts of our roads are cheaply con
structed to properly resist the weight
and grind of the wagon-wheels," new
a:-1 Important results will be attained.
"At a cost of construction of say
?S00 a mile, brick track roads for the
entire country would cost less than
four times the ?U30,000,000 loss which
it is estimated we are now sustaining
' each year ou account of our bad roads,
"In other words, we are now paying
for the pleasure of using our present
deplorable roads an annual mud tax
which in 'less tbaii four years would
Imild the finest and best roads in the
world throughout the entire country,
nnd which v'ould effect a saving of
nearly $7, each" 'year for every man,
.woman and child in this country, to
say nothing of the pleasure, the satis
faction and the; moral benefits of driv
ing over good Bard roads every day'
of, the year Instead of through a series
of mud holes or a cloud of dust. .
.."To the rapid and economical ex
tension of rural mail delivery only
one obstacle worthy of consideration
presents itself, but that obstacle is of
such a nature as to greatly, affect
its practicability, and economy. This
is the present condition of our country
roads. i '.;."-. .- v.. r;
' "Without question, one of the first
Croat movements toward the economi
cal free run; 1 delivery of the mails
should be the construction of passable
roads. This is already evident from
the fact that some of the mail deliv
ery routes have had to be abandoned
on account of bad roads. -
"The circumstance. that over-six mil
lion dollars was appropriated by our
last Congress largely to be buried iu
our muddy roads In the delivery of
our rural mails, while, only the small
sum of, $20,000 was last year devoted
to meeting the road problem, indicates
the great need of Education regarding
the present necessity "and demand for
vigorous and intelligent road wonr.
"As much of ;,these hirge appropria
tions for riu-ai ma if delivery c'riuld' be
caved if we had good roads, It is ob
vious that an amount equal to a con
siderable portion of these sums - could
lie spent to good advantage in educat- i
ing the people in the work of improv
I ng. our country roads and thus forever
close a large drain on our national casl
"In view of these facts, could not
million or more be spent to the best
possible advantage by the national gov
ernment. in constructing a section o
brick track road near each county sea
throughout the .country as an object ies
son In each eounty In the most ad
vanced methods vt road construction?'
Narrow Urea Road Killrm.
V The town of Plymouth has been In
fue list of towns 'hat have improved
.highways nnder State aid. We have
built nearly two miles of macadam
road. These sections were put in six
or tfeven years ago, nr.d have proved
satisfactory, and at the present time
are in good condition. This . kind of
road -Jieeds repairing , by top dressing
with three-fourth inch trap rock twice
n year, and when vhe roads commence
unravel or pick vr "'they must be
At'iAiired.at once to prevent serious In
jurjv to tiie roaas. cost oz repairs
should say ?40 to Jj50 per mile per
year. We have also done several miles
of grading .and graVeliug' during the
' last two years, greatly improving the
highways thua treated. Our grave
section would hate done much better
service if wide tires had been on heavy
wagons; narrow tires on heavy wagons
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ure rouu iiuers, r.na tueir use cnu-
not but.be most strongly condemned
I fully believe the cost of repairing our
highways is thirty per cent more by
rpason of narrow and well worn, tires
on heavy team wagons, Henry E
jllmnan, Chairman of Selectmen. Ter-
ryvilio, Conn., ia Good liouds Maga
' ICotliinff Mow Katpenatre.
. There Is .cothing more expensive to
the farmer r merchant or other busl-
lioas man than Impassable roads, which
prevent th?' farmers from marketing
tht'ir products or from pi-ocuring the
urticls they need in farm Lug opera
tions. The burden of the? tax is heavy.
The Agricultural Department puts the
co?': of transporting ;,roous in wagons
over Southern dirt '..ro.-ids at $3.05 per
ton,- while in the Northeastern States
it is but fl.SO ;er ion, a difference in
f-mr of 0cd roas if r. ton. ' The J
weight of the average load in the East
s 2216 pounds, whereas the weight of
the average load Jn the South is but
1397 pounds. Good Itpads Magazine.
Indiana In tli Van.
It is said that Indiana yyUI be the
first State to have complete rural mail
delivery as ft result of the law passed
by the last,. Legislature nnder which
counties are required to keep in good
repair roads on which jiral mail routes
have been established. Good Roads
Magazine. ' '
T . , s Quick Action. ' '
The leading miller of Eganville, Ont.,
on the completion of a stretch of stone
road thjre instructed his drivers that
they were to increase their loads by
300 pounds each, and that they were
to maki an extra trip a day. '
REMARKABLE MAIL CARRIER.-
The Kotnautio Career of a Frontieramau
Who Carried Uncle Sam's Mail.
v Robert L. Athy, who has just been
appointed mail carrier between Camp
ton and Spradlin, Wolfe County, has
the most remarkable record of any
man in this part of the country. His
unusual record, began at his. birth,
when he weighed only, two and one
half . pounds, and he could ;be put in
a coffee pot easily. He grew uphow
ever, to medium size.
Athy has been a mail carrier In dif
ferent sections of the mountains for
nearly twelve years and in that time
lias made a great reputation as n
hunter, having killed several bears, a
large number of, wildcats and almost
a thousand squirrels, besides a num
ber of rattlesnakes. Several times in
his career Athy has been compelled
to leave his horse at the bank of some
swollen stream and to place his mail
sack in his teeth and-s.wim acvoss. In
all his twelve years of service tin
mail has never once been delayed.
Once' Athy ; narrowly escaped being
killed by a landslide ' which swept
down a mouutninside and -.completely
obliterated the road just in front of
Athy.-" '
Athy Is also a preacher of the gos
pel. Each day at one cr two points
along the trail he finds a crowd await
ing him, and. there he gives five or ten
minute talks on the methods of getting
in and staying in the straight and nar
row path. Many have been converted
by his teachings. Athy also acts as
messenger boy for .that' entire moun
tain district, and when any one wants
a: bundle brought from the store he
never hesitates to ask Athy to bring
it for him.
Athy .states that he has been en
gaged to be married twenty-eight
times and has never been "in 'earnest'
yet. Athy has educated himself and
is well read for a citizen of that part
of the mountains. He is always well
dressed and polite, and is undoubtedly,
one of the most popular of Uncle Sam
uel's mail carriers.
Athy is thirty-seven years old. no
has ridden one horse all 'the time that
he has been mail carrier, and it is es
timated that they have covered nearly
12,000 miles together. Correspondence
of the Washington Star, O wingsville,
Ivy.
Fros Culture by millions.
The cultivation of frogs is a new in
dustry, but it .-can be made profitable,
as there are thousands of acres of
swampland in Pennsylvania, worth
less, which could be utilized. . About
2,000,000 will . be distributed in, the
State. Some of the applications re
ceived by the depai-tments are very
amusing, and they will be stored away
among' the State -archives. A New
Bedford applicant wants to know if the
frogs "will flourish and do- jyell in
ponds that, have been constructed for
fish, but abandoned, or ponds that are
made to cut ice off, as they are fed
with' clean water." A Breadysvllle,
Bucks County, farmer asks for from
10,000 to r.0,000 frogs w)th . which to
stoci; ' Neshaminy Creek, " which, h?
Kays, "seems to os-fun ou: or usu, so
let ns have some bullfrog's?' A Tully
town mdn writes ror jh supply to stock
"our millponds wit as they are ex
cellent ponds for "that purpose." ' A
Philadelphia man writes to know if
the frogs are green, and "if they will
keep babies awake nights by their
croakings." A Clearfield County mart
asks if the frogs are "good eating," and
whether they are "real frogs, or only
hoptoads." rittsburg . Chronicle-Tele
graph.
, A Case of Pronouns.
Tommy Mulligan, of the Seventh
Grade, was absient from the class room
for one entire. day. It would appear
that he had played truant, for mi-,
known to Tommy, his teaclier , had
spied him trudging homeward with
pockets bulging suspiciously when she.
too, was homeward bound that after
noon.
But Tommy brought ,a note of ex
cuse the next mcrning, which, of
course, would prove that he had been
detained at home legitimately. The
writing was hardly that of a feminiud
hand, and the note appeared to have
beem written laboriously and with
much blotting; furthermore, the pen
manship seemed strangely familiar to
his teacher. The note read as follows:
Dear teacher Plpasfl pschs . Vnmir
for not comolng to shopl yestlddy. he
cudnot come. I tore my pants., Mr.
Mulllgam" Sunday Magailne.
SOUTIi'S LARGEST GAIN.
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lias -licet? in Controlling
and Driving Out the
Whisky trafilc. L i
from the Saturday Evening? roit.' '
OR a decade a remarkable
change has been going on
in the South. The mani-
Pissgal but the results bear the
, ; ' , semblance of a great move
ment. Afte the war the South had
almost as many drinking places as it
had stores. To-day more than one-half
of the counties below Mason and Dix
on's line prohibit the sale of liquor.
For instance, almost sixty per cent, of
Texas, nearly eighty per cent, of Geor
gia, ninety per cent, of Mississippi and
all of Tennessee except eight cities
have voted out. the saloon, while even
in Kentucky thlrty-seveu coynties arc
under prohibition rule.
There is nothing of particular polit
leal importance in these facts, but
there is in them a vast deal of social
and personal significance. In litera
ture pretending to represent the life of
the South the mint julep figures as con
epicuously -as the genialf sunshine or
the climbing roses, when, as a matter
of fact, ice water or lemonade might be
more realistic. The Southern "majah,
sah!" with some, of his old manners,
still hangs on," but the Southern man
of to-day is quite another kind of per
son. This may be a loss to romance,
for. even to the , abstainer, there is
fragrance in the mention of mint which
lemonade fails to suggest, aud the
major with his large manner aud con
ieiupt for statistics, fills more of the
atmosphere than thequiet, agile worker
who thbgks of crops, cotton mills and
stock quotations instead of the lost
cause and its battles.
But the same qualities of grit, endur
ance, fidelity and cheerfuiness which
made splendid records in war are
bravely at work solving the problems
of peace. In most cases the liquor
question has-been handled as a plain
business proposition.. The- saloon
balked enterprise, . reduced. . the labor
supply, increased lawlessness and kept
communities poor; wr0fse stlll, it played
havoc with the individual. In more
than four hupdred counties the good
citizenship of ail parties arose and ban
ished it. , - . t ;;
Behold the benefits! This year the
South has made more inouey than it
has ever known, more money for spend
ing; "so much of it, in fact, that three
of the great cities of the North have
formed special business organizations
to secure Southern trade, while the
cities of the West have met the com
petition by the most alluring induce
ments. But the larger gain is in the
spite the occasional outbreaks ofcrime
in most cases where the saloons still
exist the whole trend .of the South
is steadily toward wise and safe con
servatism, and the evolution of South
ern personality is, producing broad
minded Americans, who live clean
lives, do good work aud carry no chips
on their shoulders.
Itdas been said that had it not been
for whisky there would have been no
Civil War. Hard drinking, both North
and South, inflamed the passions en
gendered by slavery. It follows as a
hopeful fact that in the consideration
of the race question, which lingers
long after the abolition of human bond
age, the work cf conciliation and ad
justment will be done by men of tem
perate habits and temperate minds.
In the new conditions being wrought
by the South itself there must come
higher character and achievement than
Its oldest and finest chivalry could
show. ,
Dolus Ills Bct.
"Yes, we're goh:g to more," she said
to the agent. "We simply can't stand
it." -.- . '
"Have patience, madam," he argued.
"Patience has ceascfd to be a virtue,"
she retorted. "Wo complained twice
of that woman in the flat above us
who pounds the piano and sings botli
day and night, and you said you would
get her out. Instead of doing that you
have calmly let the flat next to her
to a man who plays the comet."
"But that's part of the scheme," lie
protested. "We put him there on pur
pose. IIs instructions are to make so
much noise sue can't hear herself sing.
She has a lease, you know, and the
only way to get ber out is to discour
age her." Birmingham (Eng.) Post.
The Turkey and the Boll 'H'eevfl. '
It has been demonstrated that lb,
turkey is a fine destroyer of the boll
weevil, the tobacco worm and the to
mato worm. They get fat on that sort
of diet and keep so with a bit of grain
thrown in once in a while and atten
tion to their sleeping quarters. The
boll weevil gets busy in the spring,
and so do the young turkeys. The to
mato worms are about the fields at
the., time the young birds are most
eealous in satisfying an appetite that
hag ho bounds. The boll weevil and
the worms go into hibernation in the
fall just about the time that there li
a demand for fat turkeys that can't he
satiated. Houston Post.
IIIEII!
CAUGHT BY THE GRIP-
RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA.
The Wort r " -m" ;
of Medicine .-- s; jaw i
.'Recognizes Grip. : .jSp-' 5
! os Epidemic m$Wrjdktf jL "W f W . 5
Cata,-rh.i- ' pip. f f ' '
I laical Talk, i rAl 7 . I
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La Grippe is Epidemic Catarrh.
IT spares no class or nationality. The
cultured and the ignorant, the aristo
crat, and the pauper, the masses and the
classes' are alike subject to la grippe. None
are exempt all are liable. , 1
Grip is well named. The original French
term, la grippe, has been shortened by the
busy American to read "grip.''
Without intending to do so, a new word
has been coined that exactly describes the
case. Aa if some hideous giant with awful
grip had clutched us in its fatal clasp,
i Men, women, children,-whole towns and
cities are caught in the baneful grip of a
terrible monster.
Have you the
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Or, rather, has the
read the following
grip got
letters.
you:
so,
These testimonials speak for themselves
as to the efficacy of Peruna in cases of la
grippe or its after-effects:
A Southern Judge Cored.
Judge Horatio J. Gross, Hartwell, Ga.,
writes: .
"Some five or six years ago I had a very
evere spell of grip which left me with sys
temic catarrh.
Richest American Soil.
Something frequently happens that
goes to prove the fertility of the soil in
"the" Salt River valley. It ; is . nothing
unusual to hear . of cutting several
crops off one field In one season ;
grapes frequently bear two crops and
so do figs. The latest, however, is re
ported by James Goodwin. He has in
his yard a tree that to the casual ob
server is only an ordinary pear trce.
It was nothing more than this to Mr.
Goodwin until this year. He had al
ways noticed that it was of an early
variety, and this season along in May
a crop of pears was picked. A little
later his interest was aroused by notic
ing the tree In full bloom again. What
Is still more interesting is that at the
present time the tree has another fully
matured crop of pears on it which are
now ripening as well as did the fir3t
crop.
Better Fruits-Better Profits
Better nnrhs. anntcis. rtar nnrl
berries are produced when Potash
is liberally applied to the soil. To
insure a full epp, of choicest quality,
use a fertilizer containing not less
than 10 per cent, actual
Send for our n radical books of informarinn
1 ' c iius iiuvrriisinB prtnpc. DtKTmjH-.'
pcviai icnuuers, nui arc auinonuuve
treatises. SsentireetortheasiuDg.
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John White & Co.
LOUISVILLE, KY.
Eitobllibed 1S37
Blrt urarket arte
FURS
and Hides.
If fCTictf4
Mil it ra.it
Thompson's EyB Water
T 'AHTE-Ib ch Pta'f. ItUitt to aU
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"A friend advised me to try your Pe
runa, which I did, -and was immediately
benefited and cured. The third bottle com
pleted the cure." H. J. Goes.
Cured in a Few Weeks.
Miss Jean Cowmll, GriswoJefc Opera.
House, Troy, N. Y., is the leading, lady
with the Aubrey Stock Co. She write
the following: .
"During the past winter of 1901, I suf
fered for several weeks from ;.-a; severe at
tack of grip, which left a serious catarrhal'
condition of the throat and head.
"Some one suggested Peruna. As a last
resort, after wasting much time and money
on physicians, I tried the remedy faith "
fully, and in a few weeks was as well m
ever." Jean Cowgill. . J .,
"' - Saved by Pe-ru-na.
Hon. James K. Guill is one of the oldest
and most esteemed men oL Chnaha, Nehw ,
He has done much to make it what it iv
serving on public boards a number of time. .
He endorses Peruna . in the "following:
words:
"I am 68 years old, am hale, and heartl
and Peruna has helped me.attain.it. Tw
years ago I had la grippe my life was de
spaired Of . " Peruna save me. J; R. GuilL
"I kad tronbie with my howsla -hieb mao svv
Diooa impure. Mt im im eorerea with pistW
whib no extml remedy could renovt. I trv4t
jvut uucBr ana cr wn my joy wbn
Bl SB DI.. dia.nn.ar.it nft.v . mA.ik. ....-.4
I t rveotnmouded them vo ll tny frianda
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C. J. Paaeh, 57 f trk Arm., Kw York City. N. X.
Beat for
The Dowels.
Pleaaant. Pltble, Potont, Ttmtt Good. Da GmC.
RTr 8elfn, Weaken or tiHixi, lot.. S, iOc. NW
old in bulk. The eenntne UbUt tamped COO.
fiaaraatd to core or jronr aoojr bek
Sterlinx Remedy Co.. Chicago or M.V. te
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BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
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