Goddess” G 07 V\ING “The POOR ROADS IN EVERY COUNTY Only 150,000 Miles of First Glass Highways In America. The Ideal Handsome Lover and the Ideal beautiful Sweetheart. N ot a jum ble of s tu n ts and thrills and h a ir-b read th escapes, but a picture story th a t will delight you all. Watch f o r the Date Fresh air enthusiasts are familiar enough to most of us, but we bear less of enthusiasm for light. Darkened parlors, darkened bedrooms, darkened sickrooms are too common. Sir B. \V. Richardson, the eminent London scientist and physician, de­ clared that when the professors of healing enter a sickroom their first words in most cases ought to be <4oe- tlie’s dying exclamation, “More light, more li...it!” The light of the sun is Clod’s own microbe killer, germicide, disinfectant, prophyiacti”. sickness healer. There is no physician, no chemical antidote, no compounded prescription to be com­ pared with sunlight. Without it na­ ture could not perform her functions. Man, boast, bird, insect would full vic­ tims to the deadly gases that would prevail. The horrid mists and deadly cases are dispersed ami decomposed by the action of light. I.et It in. everywhere! I.et the light In more uml more-abundantly, faded carpets arc not ns pitiful as faded cheeks. Spoiled cushions are trivial compared with spoiled health. Dark­ ened rooms are too suggestive of dark­ ened lives.—Christian Herald. T h e Co-operative Plan A Farm er T rie, It on an Auto By SHOOT STRAIGHT M. QUAD Copyright, 191G. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. 1 was (Iriving across the country with a horse ami buggy when I came to the wreck of an auto in the ditch, ami a farmer was tinkering at it He had a sledge, crowbar, an ax, a cold 17950689 chisel and a screwdriver and had work- up u nice llttlo state of [>ersplra- tlou. “You appear to have a wreck here,” C o n d i t i o n s In E n g l a n d of T w o C e n ­ I said as I drew In my horse. t u r i e s A go C a n Be D u p lic a te d In C e r ­ ‘.‘Appear!” he shouted as lie looked t a i n S e c t i o n s of T h i s L a n d of P r o g ­ up. “If this isn't the durudest wreck ress— L a r g e P e r c e n t a g e o f U n i m ­ anybody ever saw’ I’ll eat my hat!” pro v e d R oads . “How did it happen?” "now does anything happen to an It has been estimated by careful gov­ auto with a fool driving it?” ernment experts, says the New York “Was it yours?” I asked, scenting a Evening Post, that only about 150,000 story. miles of really first rate modern high- "One-fifth of her was mine up to 11 ways are to bo found In the United last night Now the whole sad remains States. The total mileage of public belong to me. Did you ever hear of roads In January, 1015, was 2,273,131. the co-operative plan among farmers?” The total mileage of all “surfaced “Lots of times.” roads” was 247,490, and it has been “Waal, then, this was co-operation in very nearly 300 years since our first buyiu’ and runniu’ an automobile, and this is one of the results of iL The American parents began to appropri­ TIRES OF A MOTORCAR. other result is that I am about $300 ate the lands of the aborigines so that they might redeem this land and make W h y T h e y A r e F o u n d H e a t e d A f t e r a out of pocket and have lost a widder om who was goln’ to be my wife. If you Long a n d F a s t Run. it the habitation of civilized peoples. % want to hear all about it I’ll tell you, It is well known that after a long There are many striking parallels be­ for I guyss it baln’t any use to tinker tween the United States now and Eng­ and fast run the tires of an automo­ any more at this blamed old thing.” bile are found to be very hot, and land in the time of which Macaulay The farmer took a seat on the mor­ many have supposed this is the result wrote, something over two centuries of the friction of the tire on the road. tal remains of the auto and drew a ago. The most of the public roads Tlie Scientific American says that such long breath and proceeded to say: here are little if any better than were Is not the nine, at least as to the great­ “There was Tom Evans, Joe Baxter, Jim Williams and Si Perkins. They the roads when Charles was king. In er portion of the heat. “The real cause of heating,” says that are all farmers and live about here. his time the people objected to the lay­ ing of taxes for the construction of magazine, “is the internal friction of They are all married men, and each good roads. They do now In this coun­ the tire itself, for as the tire is being one has a gang of children. As for try. They protested against working constantly deflected by contact with me. I am an old bachelor, but I w’as the roads then. They do now in this the road the various piles, or layers, a sparkin’ of the nicest widder woman new land of light and liberty. When which compose the tire do not act uni­ in this county. The four men I have what were called “flying coaches“—a formly, and consequently there is more mentioned come over to my house one a style of carriage which under favor­ or less motion between them that re­ evenin’ a month ago, and Tom Evans able conditions of wind and weather sults In friction and heat. The great­ he asks if I would go in with ’em on and with ample relays of horses could er the change in shape in the tire as it the co-operative plan to buy an auto. ‘“ How* much?’ says I. go fifty miles tlie day—were first in­ contacts with the road the greater will “ ‘A thousand,’ says he. vented, there was much objection be t ho friction. ” ‘That’s $250 each.’ ' “Of course the harder the tire is pump­ among the “special interests'* because " ‘Jest so. Sam.' this innovation would interfere with ed tlie less will be the friction, but it “And the auto was bought?” I their "vested rights,” the keeping of Is evident that, while a perfectly rigid inns where entertainment was furnish­ tire wouk generate but little heat, it queried. “She was, sir. She arrived here glis­ ed for man and beast: the untimely would fail in giving easy riding. So schedules of the coaches, which arrived we must put up with some heating and tenin' like a star, and she excited the too late for supper and departed too consequent wear of the tire. The sub­ wonder of folks for ten miles around. early for breakfast; the destructive ef­ ject is one that is being successfully We got a feller from town to show us how to run her, and in about a week fect the new business would have on studied by tlie tiremukcr.” we was all ready to glide around the the breeding of horses, and the general country. Bein’ I was a single man and H a n g e d t h e C le v e r For g er . disturbance of settled conditions. Of curious petitions against the mightily in love with a widder, they It was gravely recommended that *k>0O<>G&<>OQ<>OO <>& 2<>C O *>O & no public carriage should be permitted death penalty being enforced one re­ said I might take the auto out first, to have more than four horses, to start calls tlie eighteenth century case of which was very decent of them I felt of toner than once a week or to go William Lyland, who was sentenced sure I could run the machine as good i t « a h m b j c s o E o a w f f i o e « e more than thirty miles a day, and the for forging a bill for £7,114 on the as any man in the state. It was a king was solemnly petitioned to this East India House. The forgery was bright moonlight night, and the whip- . [i end. Before the reformers of 1685 a work of art. No less than thirty poorwills were singin’ and the katy­ n could get what they wanted in the signatures were Imitated, and at the dids chirpin’, and that widder woman way of good roads they had to fight for trial not one of the victims could should promise to be mine before we It. They got it, so that within a com­ swear that the signature was not Ills returned.” “And did she?” was asked as the paratively brief time after tile condi­ own. However, with the help of tlio tions had become so bad they could not paper manufacturers Hyland’s guilt fanner heaved a long sigh. , s i s “She didn’t, stranger, and I’ll tell get any worse the building of high­ was brought home. Then came the ways began, and 30,000 miles of turn­ petition of Ids friends. So clever a you why. We had gone about a mile pike roads made life all the more man ought never to be hanged, they as steady as an old horse when the pleaded. His craftsmanship should auto shied at a stone in the road, ran worth living in England. Isn’t it strange that with the history save him. It gained him a respite. through a rail fence, wrecked the auto, -------------------- § -------------------------------------------------- and experience of all the countries of He was allowed to finish a fiue en­ and the widow gave me fits.” "It gets interesting.” I said. the old world to guide and warn, the graving he had begun, but nothing “Kinder interestin’, stranger—kinder United States should have chosen to more. Though the engraver was a fa- make the same old mistakes on its own vorite of George III., that king quite so. We got a machinist to tinker $20 account and that, with all its unexam­ failed to see how a forgery eould lie worth of tinker, and tlie old machine pled growth and wealth, there should excused on tlie ground that it was a could run again. Then it was Tom’s turn. He has a wife and five children, be at tliis day over 2,000,000 miles of clever forgery.—Pall Mall Gazette. > •— — Eg and they all piled in. They was clip- unimproved roads in this country? The pin' along as happy as larks when D on't T a l k T o o Much. poorest states in assessing values are Recently a voluble salesman was try­ they came to a crossroad. The auto not by any means the slowest states In public spirit. There is the state of Illi­ ing to close a deal with a good cus­ was for keepin’ straight ahead. Tom nois, for example, with property as tomer. The salesman was doing all wanted to turn to tlie right and his sessed for taxation at $2,455,960,345, the talking, and t!ie buyer was becom­ wife to tlie left, and the result was Is just th e one for whom we like to do printing. We like to meet the with less than 10 per cent of its public ing not a little annoyed. Several times that the machine run into and knock­ man who wants what he wants when he wants it and who insists on highways improved; Texas, with prop­ the customer started to speak, but tlie ed over the guldepost and then tried erty assessed for taxation at $2,744,- salesman would choke him off and to climb a fence. The whole family having i t We are equipped for serving him, let him be as exacting 205,347 and less than 8 per cent of im­ start on another line of argument. took a spill and was scattered for as he will. proved highways; Colorado, with $1.- Finally the manager saw what was up twenty rods around. No one was kill­ Come and see us about that job that must be done “just so.” T ake 309,559,205 of assessed values and and suggested to the seller that he al­ ed, and there was no broken bones, barely 2 per cent of Improved public low the buyer to say something. This but tlie bruises are yet blue, and Tom plenty of time to tell us what you want, and let us show you that w.* roads; Nebraska, with assessed values the buyer did and quickly. He said still walks bent over like an old man of $480,844,001. 80,338 miles of public that lie had been trying for half an on account of the jar to his spine. By can meet your wishes. roads and only three-tenths of 1 per hour to tell tlie salesman that he this time we had all got skeery of the cent of t Ifcsu roads in an improved con­ would take the goods. — Farm Ma­ machine; but, it bein’ now Jim’s turn and he not wantin’ to he called a cow­ A. J. SHERWOOD. PRES. chinery. R. E. SHINE, Y.-Pres dition. ard. lie took out Ills family for a prome­ If the people who lived in England L. H.tHAZARD, Casim. 0. C. SANFORD, Assi. Cashier nade. As tlie other accidents had oc* H is Gilded P r o m i s e s . three or four hundred years ago eould “Why did you break off the match? cured at night, Jim went out in the come back from the land of shades afternoon, lie thought there might be a» 1 make a trip to the United States Didn’t you love tlie girl?” “Yes, I loved her, blit I saw that our somethin' in the night air that affect­ they would find the going in great re­ O R C Q Q U IL iL i E , O R E G O N . gions of this country precisely ns it married life would not be happy. It ed tlie old critter. There was seven in the family, and they was climbin’ the was when they fumed and swore and was better to part in time, was it not?” l ' r a n s a c t s a G e n e r a l B a n k i n g B u»ine«-e- "I suppose so. But how do you know hill beyond tlie red ridge when all to sweated in the days of Charles. once the auto gave a snort and stop­ that your married life would not have « •ird ,f D in d o n . Corre.ponOentr. ped in her tracks. been happy?” C o n c r e t e R o a d s A re t h e C h e a p e s t . “ ‘What’s the matter?* asked Jim’s !*• C. Dement, A. J. Sherwood, ; National Bank of Commerce,New York Cit "Well. I had promised her a grand Concrete roads built in the United piano and an automobile. In fact, I wife. L. Harlocker, L. H. Hazard, Crocker Woolworth N ’l Bank, San Francise States during 1914 cost on the average had made her more promises than I “ ‘Durned if I know, but she’s got to Isaiah Hacker. K. E Shine. First National! Bank of Portland Portlan $11,921 a mile of sixteen foot width. could keep.“-—Pittsburgh Post. go!' lie answers. One hundred and forty-four concrete “And she did go, sir—she went back- I roads built during the twenty years | wards. There was screamin’ and yell­ S q u a r i n g H e rs e lf . previous to 1914 cost $12,760 a mile of He—But 1 as d you. dearest, to in' and swearin’, and Joe's wife slap­ sixteen foot width. Most concrete keep our engagument a secret for the ped his face, but nothin’ did any good. roads are sixteen feet wide. Upkeep present. She 1 couldn’t help it. That That auto kept on goin' backwards and repair charges have been less than hateful Miss OUlun said the reason I until it dumped them all in the river, j $25 a year for a concrete road built in ' wasn't married was because no fool which was about three feet deep at Bollefontuim*. ()., more than twenty a bank account stands be­ had proposed to me, so I up and told that time. They was shook up and I years ago. The yearly maintenance of bruised and half drowned, but they ! tween a man and many busi­ the Ufty-one miles of concrete roads In her you had Detroit Journal. were lucky for nil that. They waded 1 Wayne county. Mich., costs $28.42 a ness difficulties. It enables ashore and left the old auto lyin' on Outrageous. mile. It costs $13.92 a year to keep up “I wouldn’t mud paving a tax on its back in the river.” him to know exactly what his a concrete road at Spencer, Mass. Con­ "But you got it out again?” 1 asked. crete roads are not affected by the my income if 1 d one,” said the poet, cash resources are at all times. “Yes. We had to,” was the reply. weather, traffic or mud or trash tracked "but l do oi j t to paying a tax on It puts him in a position where upon them, ns in tlie case with some niv hopes. That's what it amounts to “It was in try In’ to get the old critter on the manuscripts home ag’in that she suddenly bolted Improved roads. Freezing and thaw­ when 1 pay i ami run into a telegraph pole and he can ask a loan to meet an I send out to editors.”—St. Louis Post ing have no effect on them if properly wrecked herself as you see her.” constructed. Heat does not soften Dispatch. emergency. Call here and “And she won’t be tinkered up them nor cold make them brittle. Con again?” Defined. learn some other advantages. Crete increase* In strength with age. "She can’t be. There’s nothin’ left Knh her What is a will? Bocker— A Wayne county, Mich., has the most re­ process giving v hat you can’t use to to tinker, unless the blacksmith thinks markable system of concrete roads In the l ulled States. This system was si mebodv wl. uu somebody else doesn’t he can make five wise men out of the five fools who bought her and lost begun seven years ago. The value of wish to hn\ > u New York Suu. »bout $230 apiece I used to think co­ the abutting farm land has been dou­ Tlie essence o: knowledge is, having operation of farmers was a beautiful bled in some instances, and all land lias increased In value because of con It. to apply it; m t having It. to confess thing, but durn my cats if I ain’t hrough with it!” your ignorati, e. i ’oufucius. * Tfe roads. -Farm and Fireside. 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