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fated by double winged one horse
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I.. \ . W O O D «, .VI. D.»
Physician and Surgeon.
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D u II mh , Oreifou.
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DA. S. J. HOWAlitl
KALAMAZOO CELERY.
Physician and S u rgc°n
DALLAS. O f i E C O N
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Some facta about the celery Indus
try* gathered In the famous celery
grow in g district located on the out
skirts o f KulmuaKOo, Mich.,, are given
by a w riter in Ohio Farmer after a
trip for the purpose o f obtaining such
information:
"H o w much net profit do you aver
age from an acre o f celery?” I in
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quirt'd o f several growers. One or two
"did not know,” one "didn’t care to
say,” but others were more frank and
better informed. Judging from the v a
rious replies received, I should esti
mate the average annum returns, after
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S I B L E Y <* E A K I N ,
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t -1 a i w .
Ww i.uve the only net oi
t book« in
mil* y. Iteli.il>lc a >stracti* lurnieln d. aiMl ju**li*>
an. No coinniiasiim charged on lou.is. Hooine
id 3 Wilson’s block, Oalln*
J. L. COLLINS,
H IL L IN G OlCLKltY
. ioriiey and Counselor at Law.
M e lir llo r au C h a n c e ry .
Ifi,
n practice of hia profession in this place
ah .ut thirty years, and will attend to all business
lim ited t** his rare. Office, corner Maiu and Court
c OalliiS, Polk Co, Or
J. N . H A K T
A T T O R N E Y -A T -L A
R oom 1, Oslielil building.
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A - t t o r n e v 'a t 'I - j a w .
(Jttire up staira in Cam pbell’ « bo ld
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DALLAS
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OREGON.
Y. L . BUTLER
K F. ( l i t
B U T L E R A COAD
Attorneys-at-Law
D A LLA S , OREGON.
W ill practice in ail courts.
over bank.
Oliice,
W .J. STOW,
TRUCKM AN.
D a lla s : O r e g o n
A fair share o f patronage solicited
i ad all o-ders p rom ptly filled.
MOTOR TIME TABLE.
L*ave* Independence for Monmouth and Airiie —
. :30 a in
3:30 p in
Leaves Independnce for
Monmouth and Dallas-
M :10 am
6:15 pm
Leavi s Monmouth for Airiie -
.50 & in
3:50 p m
Leaves Monmouth for Dallas—
VI: 20 a m
7:30 p m
leaves Airiie for Monmouth and In lependence—
1:00 » in
5 p in
Leav as Dallas for Monmout ti an < lime ond-mce—
! :00 pm
7 30 i» m.
R. C. C R A V E N
H. E. u n i l a .vis.
| 'i'«M il«iil.
C a sh ier.
W . C. V A S S A L L , a s s i s t a n t C a s h i e r
DALLAS
Or
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DALLAS,
i»AA h
ORKUON,
TraiiHacts a general banking misi
in all its branches; buys and sell*
sAchange on principal points in l lit
United States; makes collection s on all
points in the Pacific N o rth w es t; loans
money and discounts paper at the best
ottes ; allow interest on tim e deposits
jchh
1 v is it D R . J O R D A N ’ S g reat |
deducting rent and all other expenses,
at about $100 per acre. I think this is
a fa ir figure for the entire district.
Celery land is valued at about $300
an acre, blit a great many o f the gro w
ers are renters, paying from $30 to $40
rent per acre per year. The majority
of the celery farms are small, four or
five acres being the rule, and the grow
ers are mostly Hollanders.
Kalam azoo celery soil is remarkably
black, spongy and rich.
Pick up a
handfnl, ami It feels and looks very
much like a handful o f soot, only the
soil Is somewhat coarser. It is light
and fine and moist, but not wet or
"d irty.” I walked over the fields, w ear
ing a pair o f nicely blacked shoes; but
although I sank deep Into the spongy
mass at every step, I was surprised to
find that my shoes remained as dry and
shiny as If I had been w alking On dry
sawdust. It Is the most peculiar soil
I e ve r saw.
Yet, despite this wonderful natural
richness, the grow ers told me that it
pays to apply liberal quantities o f sta
ble manure to the fields every year. The
celery fields are all thoroughly drained
by open ditches. T ile Is seldom list'd.
T w o , sometimes three, crops ara
grow n each season. W hite Plume Is
the preferred early variety. Long K eep
er and W inter Queen the favorite late
varieties. There is, so fa r as I could
learn, no special local variety called
Kalam azoo. The growers, ns a rule,
raise their own early plants in hotbeds.
The operation of. "b illin g un” 1 « ftmin.
R A IL W A Y
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F A R M S A M D C IT Y L O T S
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T H E DAIRY COW.
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of
(h e A u li n u l a n d M i lk
B u t t e r P r o d u c t io n .
GAY OltPHAN, 26,958.
[The foundation cow of the Kentucky ex
periment station herd.]
and
pend, however, upon the ability o f the
milker. Carlyle found no appreciable
difference iu the frequent changing of
milkers. Tracy found by u good milker
follow in g a careless one au increase
with five cows o f 244 pounds o f milk
In tw o weeks.
Cows fed at milking time are apt to
hold tlielr milk when the customary
feed Is withheld. This may occur even
when the animals have access to abun
dant pasture.
This is so noticeable
with some o f the station cows that It
is advisable to give them a little grain
through the summer season ¿ o induce
them to give down their milk. Emery
notes that a cow that guve over seven
pounds o f milk gave only tw o pounds
when her customary feed was withheld
at milking time.—D. W . May, Kentucky
Experiment Station.
TASTELESS CHILL TONIC
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R e u n lt.
Mrs. Secondtime (peevishly)—M y first
H as stood th e test of^25 years. A n
husband used to let me have my own
nual sale o ver 1,500,000 bottles.
way in everything.
Does this record of m er
Mr. 8.—And what were the consc
it appeal to you?
queii ces?
Mrs. 8.—H e died.
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Enclosed w ith every bottle
c en t package o f Grove's
B L A C K HOOT
is a 10
L I V E R P IL L S .
R - M ’ A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind.
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The 5 cent package ia enough for usual occasion*.
The family bottle. «0 cents, contains a supply for a
year. All druggists sell them.
v£:\.
CURES A COLD IN ONE DAY
CURES GRIP IN TWO DAYS
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Our fine new tli^pla. r o m —
Repairing Promptly Done.
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IRON WORK TO ORDER
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fi Michigan, and other eastern tim ber dealers. Room ™
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A sic your doctor %yhat h** thinks o f A y e r’ s
SarsapanllH. lie knows all about this ¡¿rand
old fm n ily medh ne. Follow his advice and
we w ill bo satisfied.
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Dallas Foundry!
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afte r a little study and careful manipu
lations with the aid o f proper Instru
ments, which should be o f the best and
may be procured at a moderate cost.
It Is desirable, o f course, that one see
the operation performed by another be
fore attempting It alone, but should
this be Impossible It may be i-uslly
mastered, and the loss w ill not exceed
2 per cent afte r one Is a little aceux
tomed to the work.—W . S. Sullivan li;
American TouR ry.ionrsiaL.
Van Orsdel, Hayes & C o .,£
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5;50 p
2;13 p
1:20 p
trains
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Don’ t forget that it’ s
“ A y e r ’ s ” Sarsaparilla
that will make you strong
and hopeful. Don’ t waste
your time and money by
trying some other kind.
U se the old, tested, tried,
and true A yer’ s Sarsapa
rilla.
$1 30 a bottle. All druggists.
q a o v E ’s
General Manager.
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C O R V A L L IS M A IL— D A IL Y
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A t Albany and Corvallis connect with
Oregon Central and Eastern railroad.
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Trains btouon si</*:al- o*t!y.
• a il c a r » fo r M u f t a r o . a q u ic k a n d I
«.»d iesi c u re fo r • * ll«»a , T l i » « r » and
F i l i a l » » , L y D r . J o r d a n ’s s p e c ia l p a in
lo rn wieth ods.
C o rw iu ltaS o « fre e a n d s t r i-t !y p r iv a t e T re a t m e n t p e r 1
it&iTy 0» b y le t t e r. A P 04itir« C W « in e v e ry ca se V
! i s W t J i a a . W r i t e fo r B -o k n i l L O n O T P l Y
e f i
1 r i A H 1 1 I A U K , M A IL E D F K E h . ( A v a io a h ’- b o o k f
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1 39 p in .7:3» a iu iv Gilliams
ar 4 31
1:45 |* m|7:45 a tn |v*Rri«lvrei»oit ar 4:4'»
L:.'*5 ji ni|7:55 to m|ar Pal H City lv 4 S3
blanched almost entirely by the aid of
wide boards set on edge and held in
place by stakes.
H illin g up Ls necessary for the late
crop as a protection against frost. The
very hitc crop is pulled, stood up in
rows a foot or more in width and then
bunked up by hand until only the top
leaves show.
As tho weather gets
colder even the tops are covered lightly
witli straw and earth.
The celery output o f the entire dis
trict is enormous. The shippers usually
pay the grow er 10 cents per dozen
stalks—trimmed, washed, bunched, tied
and delivered at the "warehouse” (shed
is a better word).
Most shipments are made by express,
and the celery is packed in neat pine
boxes, holding from four to twenty
dozen stalks, according to the size of
the celery and the market require
ments. One dozen stalks make a bunch,
and each bunch is neatly tied with
string at top and bottom and wrapped
in waxed paper.
Poorly?
I profits o f two cows for 150 days. Be- j
(ween tw o others o f accepted dairy 1
form the difference was $14.90, and be- I
tween two of similar type $12.48.
The cow Is a creature o f habit, and
therefore the time and manner o f m ilk
ing should vary us little as possible
11 For two years I suffered ter.
ribly from dyspepsia, with great J from day to day. The yield o f milk
w ill sometimes vary by reason o f mat
depression, and was always feeling jj
ters o f such small moment that w e fail
puorly. I then tried Ayer's Sarsu- I
parilla, and in one week I was a H to reckon them. From our results a
n e w m a n .” — John McDonald,
change In milkers showed a small aver
Philadelphia, Pa.
age loss In yield. Some cows w ere not
affected at all, while others gave
»ligh tly reduced yield. This w ill de-
There 1 m a certain type of cow ex
hibiting marks that Indicate dairy ex
cellence. This is so well established
as to make the decisions in the show
ring and to enter in as au important
A S tn d y o f tlie R e d w o o d .
factor In the buying and selling o f
In a study o f the redwood by R. T. dairy unimals. This matter o f type is
Fisher, made more with reference to Illustrated In our station herd, the tend
the young, second growth redwood ency being for the animals scoring
than to the mature trees, the author
highest in the Judging ring to be the
claims that redwood reproduces Itself largest and most economical producers
abundantly by sprouts on cut over land of milk and butter. The animal scor
and occasionally by seed; that in thirty ing highest in the station herd has
years in a fair soli and a dense stand it made a yield o f ten times her weight
w ill produce trees sixteen inches in di In milk and 08 per cent o f her weight
ameter and eighty feet high, yielding In butter in one year. Taking the whole
2,000 feet H. M. per acre. On account herd into consideration the type will
o f this rapid reproduction after care not alw ays follo w the yield, the excep
M ilk C o n ta m in a tio n .
ful lumbering it wil pay to hold cu1 tions to tfie rule being sometimes quite
The w hey tank is a common source
over redwood lands for future crops. marked.
Bogdanow, a German au o f Infection at those factories where
The redwood described is Sequoia sem- thority, made measurements on eighty
tho whey Is returned to the patrons in
pervlrens, distributed through C alifor cows whereby they were formed into
the milk cans. This practice is detri
nia and into Oregon. The conservative groups of types.
From the results, mental to successful cheese making,
management o f redwood forests, as In knowing the records o f tlie animals, he but when it cannot be arranged to
dicated by the report o f a company concludes that there is an unmistaka have the whey disposed o f in some oth
operating In that region, show's that ble relation between external form and er w ay the tanks should bes kept thor
the redwood can be readily handled as production of milk and butter. Beach, oughly clean in order to lessen the dan
a permanent Investment if sufficient
from the results o f experiment and ob ger of contamination. They should be
seed trees be le ft and the protection servation, states that tizt- type o f the emptied at least once a week.—W. A.
given a "»lu s t fire iiml
I- c l a
cow is more essential than the breed Clemons.
as indicating the ability to produce
Oat n u ll« K i l l C h tr k .n .,
milk and butter economically.
A n R x n ffffe v a le d R e p o r t.
Dr. E dw ard Moon1 o f Albany, N. Y.
The final test o f any dairy cow Is the
The fam ily doctor had been sum
member o f the Royal College o f Veteri
amount of milk and butter fat she will
noned hastily, and he climbed the ten
nary Surgeons o f England and expert
yield for the food consumed. The d if •ment stairs with a gra ve face. A wo
for the Country Gentleman, status that
ference in cows in this respect is quite
nan was aw aiting him iu the doorway
he is fu lly satisfied that many thou
marked. W ith the scales and the Bab o f n fiat.
sands o f chickens die as the result of
cock test It is easy to learn what each
“ I understand little Tom m y has sw al
having taken Into tlielr crops whole
Individual cow Is doing. W hile some lowed a quarter,” he said. "W h e re is
oats or oats with the hull on. The fiber
animals in the dairy may be making he?”
o f whole oats lacerates the crop o f th ■
profits others may be losing to such an
"Oh, doctor, I ’m glad to tell you
fow l and tho passageway from the crop
extent as to even wipe out the profits we’ ve made j i mistake,” she said blithe
to the gizzard and causeR Inflammation
o f the bettor cows. During the year
y. " I t wasn’ t n quarter after all. If
from which the fow ls die. The doctor
under experiment our best cow gave an • was only a nickel.” —N ew York Press.
status that he has opened a large nnm
amount o f milk and butter more than
her o f dead fow ls that have been affect
tw ice that o f one o f the poorer cows.
I l o y S o ld T e i’ N I n S o n t li A m e r i c a .
ed in this w ay a »d he is fu lly assured
The difference In the gross receipts for
In Venezuela. Colombia and other
that whole oats are injurious feed for
the milk during the first eight month*
poultry. Now that w e can buy bulled follow in g calving was $184.80 In favor South American countries it is no un
outs at about the same price as whole o f the better cow. W aters and Hess common thing to see boys o f ton oi
oals, tlie feeding value considered. It found n d ¡Terence o f $33.10 in thp tw elve years o f age or even younger
tarrying riiles and marching to bnttl’.
w ill tie much better to make use o f the
with the armies which fight in the civil
hulled outs.
wars of those lands. These boy sol
diers are usually o f Indian blood, and
C w p o n ia ln g .
they fight quite as w ell as the oldest
The process o f caponizing Is a slmpl ■
veteran.
one and can be performed by any on •
SUM, F/LI.S CITYiWESTEfIN
E1WSEU« OF ANATOMY1
> V P H
N O . 39.
DAI .LAS OREGON SEPTEMBER 25, 1903
VO L. X X IX .
fin* r in flit- » u t e ,
2 6 9 L ib e rty S t r e e t Jjs.Tfc?°r°Rs°.tso:'a
* I took two bottles o f yoor
‘ Favorite Prescription’ and two
the ‘ Golden tidiest Discovery and *m feel
ing w ell." writ Mrs. Dan McKenzie, o f Lorway
Mine». Cape J »on Co.. Nova Hrotia. " I had
uterine troulit« also pain in the side am! head-
*che After tn ing your medicine I was cured.
You may publish this or use it in any way you
think best, as cannot speak too highly o f Dr.
Pierce anti hi* icdicine.”
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t h is
eiQ N ATTm a
N ext door to Jos. Moyer tk Sons.
Stores: Salem and Albany
House is one of the duties
that a weak woman looks
forward to with dread. As
1 n,le* s^e knows that she
mist pay for the over-strain
with d^yrf or weeks of
womanly suffering.
Dr. Pierce’ s Favorite Pre-
sCTiption m a k e s
weak
w o m e n strong and sick
women well.
It cures the
vrotnanly diseases w h i c h
n d e r m i n e the general
•calth. It establishes regu
larity, d r i e s weakening
drains, heals inflammation
and ulceration, and cures
female weakness.
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f«*r en ou Th o f tlie fin« i-t furniture polish
to rejuvenate .your « n lire house.
The House Furnishing Co.,
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ON EVERY BOX OF THE GENUINE.
" Favorite description * has the testi
mony of thousands o f women to its
complete cur; of womanly diseases. Do
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F r k *.
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Medical Adviser is sent fre e on receij
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Send 21 one-« ent stamps for the liook in
paper covers, or ti stamps for the clotb-
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DRAU 6 HT
STO CK
PO U LTRY
M E D IC IN E
NEED OF GOOD ROADS
POOR H IG H W A Y S A BAR T O EDUCA
TIO N AL PRO GRESS.
C o n d it io n o f t h e H o n d a In C o u n t r y
D is t r ic t s a G r e a t D r a w b a c k to th e
S u c c e ss o f R n r u l S c h o o ls —ut S u p e r
in t e n d e n t 's R e p o r t .
The advantage o f good roads to
dwellers In the country districts lies
not alone in greuter ease by which
crops cun be transported to the dhr
trihuting centers and towns, says a
w riter in the Municipal Journal und
Stock and poultry have few
Engineer. They play a great part in the
troubles which are not bowel and
education o f the children o f these dis
l i v e r irregularities.
Bl ack
Draught Stock and Poultry Medi
tricts inasmuch as the more the chil
cine ¿3 a bowel and liver remedy
dren can be drawn together in large
for stock. It puts the organs of
central schools the better can they be
digestion in a perfect condition.
educated. W ith a number o f small
Prominent American breeders and
farmers keep their herds and flocks
schools scattered over the rural dis
healthy by givin g them an occa
tricts it is too expensive to provide
sional dose of Black-Draught Stock
much more than instruction in the ru-
and Poultry Medicine in their
dinientury branches, but If the children
food. Any stock raiser may buy a
25-cent half-pound air-tight can
can be brought together In large cen
of this medicine from his dealer
tral schools the cost o f Instruction is
and keep his stock in vigorous
divided among a greater number and
health for weeks. Dealers gener
more branches can be included in the
ally keep Black-Draught Stock and
curriculum.
Poultry Medicine. If yours does
As is pointed out In the follow in g
not. send 25 cents for a samnle
extract from the report o f Superintend
can to the manufacturers. The
ent o f Public Instruction Charles R.
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Skinner o f N ew York state, it Is impos
sible to bring the children together
unless the roads are In good condition:
R o o h b l l b , G a ., Jan. 30,1902.
B !*ck-Draught Stock and Poultry
"T h e arguments thus fa r advanced
Medicine is the best I ever tried. Our
in the commendable agitation for good
stock was looking bad when you sent
roads have not considered tlie w elfare
me the medicine and now they are
and com fort o f our school children as a
getting so fine. They are looking 20
factor.
per cent, better.
8. P. B R O CKINO TO N.
"T h e farm er Is told that good roads
w ill put money into his pocket by sav
ing his horses and wagons, that the
value o f his farm w ill be enhanced and
the trip to town or to church will be a
pleusure rather than a burden. The
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D e lh i, t h e ' G era M a r k e t .
merchant is assured that his trade will
Delhi remains the center o f all In m ightily Increase if good roAds leud to
dian Art industries. The most skillful the village. The bicyclist knows by an
Jewelers and gem cutters, painters, occasional run over rare sections o f
carvers, embroiderers nnd craftsmen well built highway what com fort
whose creations could tempt the purse would result if good roadc were the
or minister to tlie luxury o f the great rule Instead o f the exceptkn. Those
er and lesser Moguls have gathered who are able to indulge in the luxury
there for centuries, nnd trade habits o f automobiles also see pleasant v i
are but slow ly broken. Along Chandni sions.
t ’ hauk plump merchants In snow white
"Nothing, however, has been said
clothes and tiny Jewelers’ turbuns in about tlie children as they go through
vite one to tlielr whitewashed, felt the mud or dust, up hill and down, from
floored Inner rooms, and there, tread their homes to the schoolhouses one to
ing catlike iu stockinged fe e t they en three miles distan t Is It unreasonable
roll gold and silver embroideries, K ash to believe that these men nnd women o f
m ir shawls and "cam el’s hair” stuffs tomorrow would prefer well graded,
and cover the last inches o f floor space macadamized roadbeds to the miserable
with jewels.
pretenses for highways which now dis
Necklaces, girdles and a queen’s or figure so much o f our landscape? It Is
naments are. drawn from battered box not difficult to imagine the country
es, scraps o f paper, cotton cloth or old school a much happier and busier place
flannel. Nothing seems quite as Incon If the children could gather after pleas
gruous in this land o f the misfit and ant walks nlong w ell built and well
the incongruous as the way in which kept highways.
the Jewels o f a rajali are produced
"W h a t to do with our country schools
from okl biscuit tins, pickle bottles and Is becoming a serious problem as the
marmalade jars. One buys the gems of years go by and the rural districts be
a temple goddess, and they are laid in come more sparsely settled. When more
grim y cotton wool and packed in rusty than 80 per cent o f our rural schools
little tin boxes o f a crudity ineonceiva- have an average dally attendance o f
ble.—From Eliza Ruhamuh Scldmore’s less than ten children something should
"W in te r India.”
be devised to put a stop to such need
less waste. Combination o f resources
S n p e r s t i t i o n o f t h e U n lu c k y - T h i r t e e n
and capital cheapens production and re
When Ki ng Arthur founded the fa sults In an Improved product. It Is tlie
mous round table he requested Merlin, opinion o f educators that a reasonable
the enchanter, to arrange tlie seats. application o f this principle tu our rural
M erlin arranged one set o f scats to rep school problem would result beueflclal-
resent tlie apostles. T w elve were for iy-
tlie faithful adherents o f Jesus Christ
"W ith the present condition o f coun
nnd the thirteenth for the traitor Judas. try roads the transportation o f the chil
The first were never occupied save by | dren to central, well equipped schools
knights distinguished for their achieve I Is practically Impossible during most o f
merits, and when a death occurred | the year. Good roads would remove %
am ong them the sojit remained vacant j serious obstacle to this most Important
until a knight surpassing him in heroic j step forward In the Improvement o f our
and w arlike attainments should be con- j country schools. The l*oys and girls of
side rod worthy to fill the place. I f an j the country with one accord demand
unworthy knight sought the chair lie good roads that they may enjoy school
was repelled by some magic power.
privileges equal to those o f their broth
The thirteenth seat was never occu ers and sisters lu village and city.”
pied but once. The story goes that a '
haughty and Insolent Saracen knight j
R o m e 's G r e a t H i g h w a y * .
sat down upon it and was Immediately | One o f the most striking evidences
swallowed up by tlie earth. E ver after of the civilization reached by Rome Is
It was known sis tlie "perilous seat,” the remains o f her great highways,
nnd, brave as the celebrated knights o f says the Philadelphia Ledger.
It Is
the round table are said to have been, said that 50,000 miles o f roadwuys
not one ever had the courage to sit on w ere built by the Romans, structures
the thirteenth chair, and the supersti which in tlielr decay are the envy o f
tion against It still survives.
the modern road builders. It Is a re
flection on tlie American name that In
W a te li a H orse’ s E ars W hen D riv in g . the older states, which have been or
W hether you d rive a single horse or a ganized communities for more than
team the principles are the same, but tw o centuries, there are thousands o f
In d rivin g a p air see to it that each miles o f roads that are practically iu
horse does his share o f the work and no better condition now than they
no more. A pair o f horses, moreover, were In the early days. In some states
unless well driven are sure to get In there are thousands o f miles o f road
the habit o f wandering over the road.
way maintained In no better fashion
T o d rive well you must keep your eye than they w ere at the beginning o f tlie
nnd your mind on the horse. Watch Inst century. The value, convenience
his ears. They will be pricked forward and pleasure o f good roads are adm it
when he Is about to shy, droop when ted. They Improve social condition*
he Is tired, fly hack Just before he In the countryside and Invite residence
"breaks” (Into a gallop) and before he there.
kicks. Before kicking, too. a horse
G o o d H on d a.
usually tucks in his tall nnd hunches
A t the national good roads conven
his back n little. When you observe
any o f these Indications, speak to him tion held In 8t. Louis banners were dis
played on the walls o f the convention
sharply and ptpl up Ills head.
hall portraying these sentiments:
Gypnlen nn«l Death.
"Good roods are necessary for rural
The custom o f placing the property mall d elivery."
"Y ou r town w ill prosper In pro|K>r-
o f the ciend In their graves lias alw ays
been follow ed by the true Romany tlon to the Improvement o f your coun
gypsies. It is due to some old tradition try roads.”
o f ill luck attending the possession of
"W id e tires are roadmakers; narrow
on article whose form er owner is gone,
Ires are road breakers.”
nnd much valuable property Is burled
"Good roads are conducive to good
In this belief. There is also a senti morals; good morals to good citizen
ment among gypsies against the pos ship.”
session o f anything that has belonged
"Good roads make even trade the
to a dead person, because it serves to year round.”
remind the livin g o f the departed and
"T h ere Is no more common Interest
Inspire In them n dread o f death. The than the common road.”
custom o f burying their property w ltl
"A s the public roads are the proper
gypsy dead dates from the earliest his ty o f all and for the use o f all, their
tory o f the Koman.v tribes.
shquld be shared by all.”
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