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t Humor and Philosophy Haw Road Builders Have Improv ed on Scotchman's Idea. 9r By BERTHA STONE. (Copyright. 1909. by American Pres» Asso ciation.! »vjrcAA M. Real Estate Snaps Woman’s World Are not always floating around, but, I have a few that will surprise you. both in city and farm property INSURANCE Insure your home or business property before the fire comes You can have your choice of a big line of companies. smrt ruth st . denis Tbe train rolled out of the station, THE NEW HERO. rattled on tbe rails through the en IDEAL HIGHWAY NECESSITIES virons of tbe city and was steaming rilHE conquering hero of today Is not ttw man of battle out over hill and dale when a slam of Who wins his fame where charger» foam tbe door warned the passengers that Careful Grading. Good Drainage, Sub- And muskets loudly rattle. No: ’tis the man who finds a germ (tantial Foundation and a Wearing the conductor was coming. Every man And has a weapon handy instinctively felt for bis ticket. Surface Necessary For the Up to To neutralize the pesky thing A little man rather shabbily dress«*d Who now is all the candy. Date Macadamized Road. went through all his pockets succes The hero does not seize a gun In a recent spe«K’h ou the construc sively without finding what he wanted And thus fare forth to pttlage. tion and maintenance of macadam He continued his search till the con He monkeys with the microscope Around the little village. roads Austin B. Fletcher, secretary of ductor reached him, when he said: And when he finds a bunch of germs the Massachusetts highway comm ¡8- “Conductor, 1 have either b«*en re In one small water bubble siou, said: lieved of or have lost my pocketbook He feeds them raw formaldehyde And puts them out of trouble. Macadum’s road is a tning of the with all my money and my ticket in it. past, in fact, tbe road of tbe kind If you will pass me I'll see to it at the The hero is the gentleman Who searcties distant spaces built by tbe .Scotchman John Loudon end of the journey that you receive the Ten thousand million miles away Macadam and named in bis oonor has fare.” And on the stars keeps cases The conductor looked coldly at the He looks the comet in the eye been obsolete in this country tor some shabby man and replied: In all Its glowing splendor time. And tells It it should wear through apace “1 must have your fare.” Macadam knew nothing of machine A modern street car fender. “But 1 haven’t got It.” broken stone, and he did not dream “'Then you’ll have to get off.” *Tis science makes the heroes who that a broken stone roadway could be Are tit today for framing. He pulled the bell cord. The passen The fellows who the elements made as smooth as a billiard table by ger arose from his seat and was mov Of earth and air are taming. the use of steam road rollers. ing slowly to the door when the con Those who in gaudy uniform In these days when we speak of a ductor gave him a succession of pushes Stand bravely at attention macadam road we mean a road with to hurry him. The ejected passenger Will be forgotten when the men Of germs get all the mention. the following characteristics: alighted in mud and stood looking aft ▲ road with easy gradients, usually er the train as it pulled away from . Something Lacking. not exceeding a live foot rise in 100 him. The day was bleak, with min “ Pretty bum joint,” said the visitor feet of length, i gled snow and rain. The ejected pas A road with drainage appliances so I senger walked on th«* track till he from the miniug camp, lookiug over perfect that substantially uo water came to a road «Tossing it. which he th«* big marble front of the hotel at reaches tbe broken stone from below. followed, at last reaching a farmhouse which he was stopping. “Costs enough to slay there, doesn’t A road with a foundation consisting wet to the skin. There h«* was kindly of either tbe natural soil, if suitable received, given hot drinks and put to It?” asked his friend. otherwise of artificially placed gravel bed. In the night be awoke with a “No kick on that score.” or unbroken stone, so that the fouu chill, followed by a fever, and in the “Ain’t the beds clean and tbe grub dation with the superimposed broken morning had developed a serious case all right?” stone will have sufficient strength to of pneumonia. For several weeks he “Yes. maybe.” distribute over the underlying soil any I was nursed by the farmer's family, “Then what are you kicking on?” load to which the road is likely to Iw I under whose tender care he recovered. “Kicking on! Look at all of this subjected. Before leaving, having received funds, pretense, and they ain’t a single tooth A road with a wearing surface of he offer«*d them compensation, which brush in the rooms!” two or more layers of broken stone they declined. small in size, those at tbe bottom Impartial. few days after his departure be usually not more than two and one “I didn't know Blinks was so deceit ed the general offices of the A. D. half inches in diameter and those at P. railway and asked to see the ful.” the top generally varying from one president. He was required to state “I didn’t know it either.” and one-quarter inches to one-half inch his business. He wrote on a slip of “Tell you what I saw him doing. paper Ills message, stating that he had Yesterday afternoon he was drinking been put off a train on tbe road on ac a Peary cocktail in a saloon, ami he count of having lost bls money and went right across the street and ac ticket. Th«* president wrote on the cepted an invitation to drink a Cook slip "Referred to geueral passenger i cocktail.” agent.” The visitor saw th«* general Not Timely. passenger agent, who told him that the “Canals on Mars are said to be dry conductor had only done his duty. “You mean.” said the applicant for ing up.” “Well, why not?" redress, “that a railroad is a mechan “No objection at all, only it seems ical contrivance, those who run it are bits of mechanism, and tb«-re is no strange that Mars should dry up Just at a time we were exp«*eting it to talk heart in it.” "You've stated tbe proposition about to us.” right.” replietl the passenger agent. The Melancholy. "in other words, might makes right." The melancholy days are come. “We couldn’t run the rqad to a profit As some one said before. if we passed people over it without Anil every man must hustle some To till the bln once more. pay." “I'm glad to have the matter ex The hammock's all forsaken now; plained," said the visitor. “Gotxl morn The fan no longer jerks. ing I” We don’t care a nickel how The soda fountain works. The incident was forgotten by the BEAUTIFUL, BTKETCII MACADAMIZED railroad officials, aud the system went For frozen, iced and cooling things HOADWAY. We've lost our appetite (From Good Roads Magazine, New York.] on working with tbe precision of a And broadly grin when mother brings steam engine. In diameter, each course or layer care The soup that's seasoned right. Tbe A. D. and P. railway received fully spread, uniform iu depth aud freight and passengers from one main The brisk mosquito's solo shrill rolled thoroughly with a steam road line and delivered them to another, re Has lost its fearsome sound. roller before tbe next course is placed. peating the process vice versa. It was Tho merry laugh we’ll give him till Another year comes round. By this process, tbe rolling being done consequently independent and thriving, on thin layers, the stones become thor for it was esseutial to both its feed e Possible Aid. oughly compacted and th«* void spac«*s ers. Suddenly the stock began to act “So Charley has proposed to you.' or interstices between tbe stones are like th«* float of a fish line, indicating “Yes.” largely eliminated. The final process that something was going on below the “Was it much of an effort for him?” consists in spreading over "the surface surface. Then th«* price commenced “Why. « of course not.” of tbe upper layer of broken stone a to fluctuate. Now it woul«l sink grad “I was i just wondering if be did it thin covering of the screenings which ually. then suddenly jump up several result from the machine breaking of points. These fluctuations continued I naturally ■ or if you had to chloroform him.” the stones anti which contain a con for several mouths, then A. D. and P. siderable proportion of fine dust, then stock cease«] to attract any attention Double Fall. flushing or grouting the screenings whatever. “I fell In love with him at first into such voids as remain between tbe On the first Wednesday in January sight.” broken stone and rolling the road with r occurred th«* nnnunl meeting of the di "How romantic!” the steam roller. V l rectors. The officers were waiting for “But I fell out again.” I. So far as the treatment of macadam the formalities to be dispose«l of before “How Is that?” roads is concerned, the remedy seetns settling down to their work and their “Used a little second sight.” to be in tbe application of protective salaries for another term. Suddenly coats or coverings of a bituminous na word was tiasbe«! through the building Some Comfort. ture. as if by telegraph that a block of stock “I hear he is a race track fiend.” Before any of the bi* inf >us nia- amounting to fifty-five hundredths of ‘He playA tbe races In his sleep.1 terials are applied it is < se rial tbat the whole had been voted, changing a “That must I m * very annoying.” the road surface be cv< rd up and majority of the directors. Every man “No; it Is th«* only time he wins.' patched where necessary, olied and rushe«l to the room where the meeting swept clean of all dust. Tbe bitu- was in session. The door stood open. No Cheap Aviator. ruinous materials are then applied hot an«1 In tbe excitement of the moment Come, pretty maiden fly with me * to the road surface by means of spray all crowde«l in. A little man shtiffl<*d To regions of delight. ing machines or gravity distributers or past them and. standing beside the “Go chase yourself,’’ Bhe calmly said, "You’re not a Wilbur Wright." by hand in quantities varying from long table around which the dir«*ctors one-quarter to three-quarters of n gal were seat«»d. thus address«*«! them: lon to the square yard and immediate PERT PARAGRAPHS. “Gentlemen. I hold a majority of the ly covered evenly with sand, fine grav stock of this road and therefore am In el or broken stone screenings. In the gam«* of lift* honesty and truth control." The annual maintenance will be mere “Great Scott!” exclaimed the gen are often found in tbe discard. ly the cost of renewing the covering, eral passenger agent. “It’s the man probably from 4 cents to 5 cents per who was put off the train.” Too many men have faith In the square yaril per annum, By this meth The speaker continued: “I am a other fellow's money. od no wear whatever will take place stranger to your city and your ways, on tbe broken stone, and in a sense having resided all m,v life tn the far Many a man that portion of the ordinary macadam west. When coming here 1 found my likes to play the road which takes the wear will there self on the A. D. and P. road. Having fool who hut es to after be only a foundation for th«* neither money nor ticket. I was put off get caught at it. bituminous wearing coat. the train on a cold day. contracted dis The protective coat referred to would ease and came near dying. I was in People who probably be inade«iuate for traffic, and formed by the officers of the road that can't make any- the introduction of bituminous binders it was a mechanical system set to run thing else are into the voids between th«* brok«>n i io a certain way and without any sometimes mas- stones would be necessary. heart, Having some means and Influ- ter hands at mak A goo«l deni of work of this sort is entfal connectfons in tbe west and no- ing failures being done now in an experimental tiring the value of the A. D. and P way by mixing the bituminous mate road as a connecting link. I have With dollars rial with the broken stone before it bought the control for myself and tny and sense a man is placed on the roadway or by grout friends. 1 do not intentl to run It on can get any- ing the bituminous material into tbe principles of justice. 1 don’t intend to where. spaces between and around the broken run it at all. It will be turned over stone after it has lieen placed and par to its feeders—for a profit. It was ad There may be good-in everything, but tially rolled. mitted to me by an officer of the road Tbe cost of the ordinary macadam that might makes right. I have the If so it sticks close in some instances road is probably from 20 to 50 cents might. I would be pleased to receive so that you never would guess it. per squan* yard, and the roadway wtll the resftmarion nt »very officer from Wisdom bas its#price and always ex require a protective covering at least the president down, the same to take acts it. as often as once in two years. • It effect at once.” would be economical to rely upon the A block of the stock bought—on a tip protective covering and to omit the bi- —by the farmer who had sheltered the Gossip has survived the centuries taminous material from the voids Ite »peculator nett«»d the purchaser a small , and l»een sanctioned by custom. Wliat I !we»n the stone while tbe traffic re- fortune, which was afterward tncraes- I more does it lack .to make it respeet- I • Jblef «■I ds as at pi»Mut. •d to a big one I The American Girl Who Has Charmed Europe With Her Indian Dances. i After an absence of two y« us Ruth St. Denis . . again in this country be -J witchi' g her audiences with her won derful Indian dances. A few years ago begging for work in New York city, today the most courted ami talked of performer before kings ami queens on the western hemisphere—that, in brief, is the story of Ruth St. Denis, once of New Jersey, now Rliada, a dancer in extraordinary to the court circles of Vienna, This remarkable young woman believes that she is a reincarnated East Indian princess, and she has made th« artistic and theo sophical circles of continental Europe believe with her. i Less than thirty years ago in th«* town of Passaic. X. J., a littl«* «laugh ter was born to the house of De.inis. The mother came of st**ni New Eng land stock; the father was an English man fond of travel, with a touch of wanderlust, a strong imagination, but little practical energy. From the time Ruth Dennis could read she pored over fairy tales, folklore and books of trav el. When other girls were curling their hair and going to sociables In the village Ruth was dipping Into the osophy and occult science. With tbe full sympathy of her mother this tal ented girl went to New York city. and. changing her name to St. Denis—pro nouncing it in the French fashion—she went on the stage. Eventually she drifted into the Belasco fold, where she remained five years. David Belasco did not mark her as one having special talent. Night after night she played with Mrs. Carter, and . i Í Rates ¡pt.no to ÿ.’.oo per day. week or month. Sample Room in Connection Oregon Bandon isyi laid Orei;«'»! C-oast Steamship Ip. Steamer Alliance plying between Portland ami Ceos Bay , WEEKLY TRIPS T. B. JAMES. Agent GRAY A HOLT CO.. Gen. Agents Marshfield. Phone 414 728-730 Merchant, Exchange San Francisco J E. WALSTROM, Agent, Bandon MISS ST. DENIS AS THE NAUTCH GIKE. during the morning when there were no rehearsals or matinees Ruth St. Denis sat in the libraries reading or explored the dim corners of old New York until she reached the heart of its East Indian settlement. Ami every penny which could be wrested from keeping up the appearance of the Denis apartment went to pay for dancing lessons, blit no one could give her an Insight into the dancing of India. One day while walking along the street slie saw in the window of a cigar store a huge poster of an East Indian dancer, She rushed into the store ami begged the picture, Like a flash the key to tbe dance she was working upon spread out before her mental vision in that one glimpse of the peculiar pose of tbe «lancing girl. Now began the great struggle in which ltuth St. Denis sought all who might serve her pur pose, from the fortune hunters at Coney Island to an apostate Buddhist priest hiding in the eastern colony. She posed for artists, and Edmund Russell, the artist and authority on East Indian lore, when success came to her planmsl her scenery, her cos tumes and her jewels. When funds were low she even entered a bicycle race ami won a hundred dollar prize for riding. When her dances had taken definite form a new problem faced her there was no one sufficiently versed In In- dian lore to muke her costumes. So she set to work herself. She also learm*d to hammer tbe metal and set the gems sb«* was ol>lig«*d to use in her dancing costumes. When her makeup was complete she trailed from manager to manager until at last she encountered one who was giving a series of trial matinees of va rlous sorts. He told her to bring down her stuff and go through her turn on the stage. When she left the stage door it was as Rhada, and the man ager sent her abroad, where she began henomenal success in a series of her phenol dances s ^JjPJkent«*d by the names of “The 1 ITrffa* «7 “The Street,” “The Pal- ace,” “The Forest" and “The Temple" respectively. In “The I’erda,” an Indian word meaning a curtain, the dance is called the spirit of Incense, and the curling of the smoke suggest«*d to Miss St. Denis the peculiar rippling movements of the arms which are characteristic of this dance. In "The Street” scene Miss St. Denis gives a marvelous exhibition of the movements of the cobras that are being charmed. Her Interpretation of me nnutch girl dancing in th«- dancing hall of a rajah Is a graceful and beau tiful performance. “The Forest” Intro duces the dance of the Yogi, the In dian ascetic, who seeks the solitude of the jungle In order to meditate rnd practice his devotional exercises, ’i he last dance on the program. “The Ten« trie." Is the one through which Miss Kt. ' >enis is widely known as the Indian, otnple dancer • • 9 OAKES he R«?al Estate Man