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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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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