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Humor and
Philosophy
Haw Road Builders Have Improv
ed on Scotchman's Idea.
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By BERTHA STONE.
(Copyright. 1909. by American Pres» Asso
ciation.!
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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
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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-
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•d to a big one
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The American Girl Who Has Charmed
Europe With Her Indian Dances.
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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.
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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
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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
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