HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1898-06-23, Page 3ROADS,
elected by t'he people Go Iwy out, and Chown tile! road with a Vise at one DOLLS OF FAMOUS WOMEN.
4,�O0Dconstruct Certain o14the leadirugroad, iJaoly to tI►s foot Erwin side to cel3tra ao-,,�WEWA1� to be Au hi E5a aired 'thereafter maim- so to !#bed water front, the roadway to
tailed by n r�..n,.,t.. �,o a%_ A lion1e IntelrcelRuR Aecaun4a About llt4w the
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A bill tali just pass the New York'
Give the open drains a good fall to
Pets were 7'reaited auQ Uretaaed
A `�, (�
A. Campbell, C. �oa(ti°n
maY be aderlrted aa's ate roads. The pe-
°f AM
°qty Council, certain roads
a free outlet. Lay the underdrains
Where needed.
When Charlotte sad Emily Broute
were little woman they lived a hard,
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rens yba adopted as state roads. The pe-
tation is first presented to tqW State
' Drain thoroughly., Keep the road
surface dry. ifeop the earth under
desolate 1dEe on the bleak Yorkshire
Commissioner 11s51oner of Ontario.
E'ogeneew• ,Xf be approves of the sec-
aeal,tb,the surface dry.
moors, and found the Chief, pleasure of
lu
tiolu of road thus sought to be improv -Use
road machinery.
their Young lives in playing with a
.
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ed, she Prepares plans, sepcifieations and
estimates.
I 'Use (graders, stone crushers and road
a9et of very ugly wooden dolls. They
The Great Need of This Country is (hood Roads --(-low
These are Presented to the
legislatui a and, if approved by that
. rollers.
Improved machinery is as necessary
thou gh't rather slightingly of doll Ia-
to Build Them Economically Explained by an
body, 60 Per cent. of the cost of con-
I for good and economical work, as are
biea, dressed the wooden figures in
Expert --Useful Hints
and Diagrams to the Road
struction is paid by the state.,self-binders
The New Jersey'H$ghway
and steam -threshers.
Employ one man to take charge of
coats and trousers, and gave them most
Builders of this Countyy
law pro-
vides that on the petition of the owners
themachinery. He will become ex-
do better cheaper
heroic ,names. Charlotte Bronte's fav -
orite playfellow was called the Duke
In order to extort some violent emotion
the bars, seized the canaries, and twist-
Of two-thirds of the land bordering on
perienced and and
in a special way, and that special way.
Any Spaniard over the age of nine-
is an extravagant way, but there is
a road, the state Commissioner of
work.
of Wellington, and the gallant Duke
.,
WAGON TIRES.
fixes a large peweentage of our annual
Public Roads will cause the road to
be improved in accordance with plans
The same teams should be always em-
ployed to operate the graders, They
bed, Armies of tin soldiers against Em -
it's Napoleon, or stood up to listen
It would seem as though in every-
. o thing the present methods in regard
tax. If these emiverta awe in their
, proper loeatioona, natural watercourses,
and specifications prepared by him, sub-
eot to the approval the Legislature.
became accustomed .to the work and
give better service.
whhiss long poems
hile Carlotte read to
. to roads in Canada are contrary to good
and other fixed places, tlhey will always
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of
Ce owners oil the land affected b the
Do not cover an old gravel road with
she had compared in his honor. Besides
judgment. Gravel or broken atone in
dumped loosely, without even spread-
be required and thoir constwuotion in
the most durable manses- is Ghee best
Improvement pay one-tenth of the cost;
the county six the
sod and earth from the sides otl- the
road. Turn t4da earth and sod out-
the battles, those children built a tiny
Ing, on a badly graded, badly drained
and most eemo heal plan.
Pays -tenths; and
state three -teethe.
ward and raise the Contra. with new
stn in their nursery, aril wrote lit -
Bub -soil. In the use of these roads the
Few small culverts there is very lit-
Connecticut has introduced a plan of
gravel.
tie plays for the dolls to act, and Coln -
same recklessness is glaringly appar-
tie difference in the cost of timber and
highway Improvement providing for
Adopt every means to secuire a (hard,
posed romances, in which one doll res-
ent. When wide tires have universally
vitrified pipe. If properly laid the lat-
the appointment of three State cam-
l smooth, waterproof auVfaoe,Cued
another from the pirates or Turks,
replaced the narrow tires which are
Aiw found farm
ft.
ter will withstand the frost and is dur-
to
missioners. When a township votes in
Do not let stones roll loosely on the
or went tiger ehoating in a jungle of
on wagons, a great
Part of the road question will bei sole-
r
able. These pipes may be used up
18 inches in diameter; and the capacity
favor of constructing a road under the
provigi°ns of the State Highway Act,
road.
DO not let rults remain. They make
shawls in one end of We play -roam.
11 ed. Narrow tires of two and one-half
may be increased by laying two ar
specifications are prepared and submit-
travelling difficult; and spoil the road
The Brbnte dolls had very exciting
Inches in width have only one half of
. the bearing on the road which wouldI
more rows, but t1ba pipes should have
at least one foot of eawbh or other fill-
tad to the state Commissioners. If the
commission apprarea, the township
by 'holding water.
Make repairs as soon as tate defect
lives indeed, but their end wan "It so
be provided by tires of proper width.
Ing between them. Culverts of 5 Or 10
council lets contracts far the work, to,
appears.
sad as that of Jane Welsh' Carlyle's
By referring to the supporting power
feet span should be oement concrete
be peTformed under the supervision
Use wide tires.
doll. This clever woman was preco-
oP sons discussed in the paragraph on
"Foundrztilons,"
arches, which is permanent if the con-
of the state Commissioners. One-third
Improve the drainage of the hills.
cions as a child, and she loved Only one
the effect of this is
more apparent. By the use of a six
Crete is properly made. The concrete
should be composed of first class nem-
of the cost is paid by the state; clue-
tbdrd by the county; and oue-third by
Make the crown of the roadway higher
doll. When at last is her studies the
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Inch tire, the roadway will support,
without yielding, twice the load which
a ent: clean, sharp, silioious sand, free
from earthy particles and coarse en-
the township. The expenditure by the
state in this way is limited to $75,,000
than on level ground.
Change the location of the road if, a
girl began to translate the first book
of Virgil, she decided it was time to
It could support with a three inch tire.
I ougb to pass t'hroug'h a twenty mesh,
annually.
steep hill Can be avoided,
Do for culverts. Use
give up doll gasses. Accordingly, she
Narrow tires cannot be too strongly
Condemned. They cut and grind the
sieve; clean gravel screened through an
inch and a half, screen, the largest
The State of Rhode Island has ap-
not use wood
conorete, vitrified pipe or atone.
nc
piled on its ball the doll's clothes,
ed
road, plow and upheave it. Wide
stones to be nat more than two and
pointed a ooluimissioner of highways.
When a council represents tan the com-
Use
not build wooden bridges.iron,
added several lead pencils, a few
tires on the contrary, are a benefit
one .half inches in diameter; oar in place
missioner the need Dar improving a cer-
stone or concrete.
sticks of cinnamon, grated over this
rather than an injury to the road
of gravel broken st.anes that will pass
tain road an examinations is made by,
Build good roads,
some nutmeg, a,nd emptied over the
. Inasmuch as they act as rollers to pre-
through a two and one half inch ring.
do in matters in which I am profoundly
interested or which are very important.
ables a person to measure a liquid drop
funeral' pyre a vial of perfume. Fin -
serve a smooitbe hard surface. In some
, localities wide tires are objected to un-
These materials should be mixed in the
proportion of one cwbic foot of cement,
of this novelty are an air inlet and a
demand an excuse for illegitimate ex.•
rete nd-
ally, with many tsars, she pretend-
.. . deer the argument that they increase
two cubic feet of sand and tihree cubic
.
bottle.
erend-
that the doll baso stashedly,
the draft required to move the load.
feet. of gravel air broken gtone„ with
swung out her shingle as a barber, and
little creature.
The present nurse loaves the tabyy,
and laying the unhappy sawdust corpse
,; This may, occur under certain occas-
tonal conditions of very wet and soft
just enough wester to make the whole
into a plastic mass. The sand and cem-
to a lot of senseless babble and harm -
she is of the opinion that men prefer
on the bed set fire to ' it. When the
roads. But when wide tires are uni-
ent, must first ire mixed dry., then a
band to make himself disagreeable in
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fire pagan to burn the doll Jane
. rviersally used this objection will dis-
sufficient quantity of water added to
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Welsh's feelings y.
nB gave wa, She anatch-
1 appear, as the increased draft is due
make it into a thick paste. It should
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fla,naw, b t all too late,
mat dem
I 11 to the rats and mud caused by narrow
then be thoroughly mixed again, spread
turning to the grandmother, "got al
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toy t
y
tires.
out, the stone or graivel added, and the...
Madre Mountains. Chihuahua, Mexico,
fined' that it can't dart its strengthen -
ashen.
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whole thoroughly mixed until every
A GOOD ROAD COVERING. -Cross-section.
Geordt Eliot possessed several dolls
For the aiveTage country road, a
. graded roadway twenty-four feet in
stone is coarted with the mortar„ then
gut it in
I place. The walls should ex-
The largest stones in the bottom and the smallost at the surface, free from
in her childhood, but gave them her,
attention or affection onlyLits and
width between the inside edges of the
tend well below the frost line and have
sand and cls
clay; and thoroughly rolled.
while pursuing a wounded deer. Rich
starts. In "The Mill anthe Floss"
open drains, will be ample to accommo-
date travel. For the average road, if
a win at idle ends to protect the em-
bankment from waslh.
him• I1 be considers the weak recces-
sarY, she prepares plans, specifications
a WHERE THE DAY BEGINS.
she writes3 o1 a little girl, Maggie Tul-
liver, who kept in the garret a hideous
the central eight feet is metalled with
BRJDGES,
and estimates; and reports to the mun-
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wooden doll, lacking a head, one arm
and a leg. When poor Maggie was in
gravel or broken stone, it will be suf-
fident. The depth and width of the
Vt ooden bridges, except where timber
is in
ici alitieaaPfected also to the state le
P g-
islature as to the in winch
Proor That 'there is Snell a Place to the
trouble she went to the, garret to weep
afsen drains will have to be governed by
ver plentiful the immediate local-
ity, arnot a,.good investment in view
proportion
the expense should be met by the state
I World is Here submitted.
and drive nails into the forlorn body
of this called Fet-
circumstances. Sufficient capacity must
- beprovided to carry away all surface
of the reduced cast of iron and 'steel,
and the increasing cost of timber. Tim-
and this municipalities benefited. If
tie state legislature approves the work
' Seeing that as ono moves westward
this time gets earlier and earlier, so
wretched placything
ishe Every nail in Fetish's body rep-
water. The depth must be dependent
also Con the fall obtainable. With tile
ber decays quickly, and while cheaper
than
is performed by contract
Vermont
that when it is Monday noon in Lon-
resented the fault for which Maggie
mourned or suffered punishment.
underdrains, deep open ditches are not
steel in first cost, is moire ex en-
P
sive after a term of years since the
and Californiaalso contr.
bate largely in tete form of state aid,
don it is some time on Monday morning
When grown to be a famous woman
Eliot that in her
needed to drain the road foundation.
T�e�
cost of repairs is very great. '
while 'Indiapna, Kentucky and others
in America, it follows than, if this
George confessed
youthful days she had owned and mal-
10"� use of tale does away wiltlh the
deep and dangerous open ditches which
Generally speaking the cost of an
iron
c'ontribulte to a less degeree, Only the
bare outlines of the systems have been
principle were continued without lim-
it '
treated a doll called Fetiah and Mag -
may otherwise be necessary. The crown
. superstructure is more than that
of wood. The substructure of stone or
stated, with the object of sbowin'g the
all the way round the world, at
the
gie's behavior was thse true story Of
her own childish life.
of the road should be such as to g{ve
s fall of one inch to the foot from
concrete is moire expensive than pile Or
P
Crib work, but as In ether structures a
Prominence the question of road im-
Provement has attained of recent years,
same moment that it was Mon-
da y noon in London it would be al-
Miss Jean Ingelow possessed a special
that Amelia.
Centre to the edge of the ditch.
firm foundation is most serviceable and
adopted within the past five years. In
so twenty-four hours later-i.e„ Tues-
waxen favorite she named
Amelia went everywhere Jean did, and
HILLS.
• Hills are among the difficult portions
economical. Wooden foundations from
decay and other causes settle and the
adopted within the past five yeaxa, In
all these systems, safeguards are placed
day noon in London, As this is ,a re-
ductio
she was introduced to all the agreeable
who cams to the Ingelow house,
of the road to co truct, and are a
Construct,
constant source of expense for repairs.
least settlement in the foundation
twists the timber causing a disarrange-
to Prevent the expenditure exceeding„
fox any State ox any locality, certain
ad absurdum, we have to look
for the limit, which does, in fact, exist,
people
her dresses were always made from. a
piece of whatever cloth Jean wore, and
The reason of this usually is, that the
ment of the strains awl. frequently
reasonable limits, according to require-
to the principle that as one moves
when games of merry times were en-
draina.ge is imperfect. Water is
transferring the greatest load to the
meats and ability to meet the pay-
westward the time 'gets earlier, and
joyed in the nursery -Amelias was plac-
brougdit long distances in open drains
b y the aaaadside, and pooled aver the
weakest point. Wherever timbers have
a seat or bearingtax
sexy soon
menets. In most oaf these states the
is so levied that the towns and
as one moves eastward gets later.
ed wherever she could take, in .the fun
with the rest of the young folks. An
• •.'hills, frequently to flood over the whole
surface, It is to Lind
commences, and tidien least expected,
collapses under a 'heavy load,
cities pay the greater portion of the
cost of state road construction; for.ex-
Before the circumnavigation of the
B
globe tabre
ill-advised bath on a hot day was "so
to Amelia's
. not uncommon
the centre of the roa+i over the hill
Wherever timber is used in bridges
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ample, in the State of New Yolrk it is
was no difficulty. When
on a Monday the son stood over Lon-
hopelessly destructive
painted beau! and sawdust constitu-
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--. lOweT than the open drains at its side-
• it there are drnir,s at all. The natural
it sehould be used in members from four
to six inches in thickness, the strength
estimated that the people outside of the
towns and cities will pay only 10 per
y
don, it was Monday noon in London. As
tion that the lnlgelow family pronouno-
ed her quite dead. Her funeral was
1. result is that washouts are constantly
of the beam or chord being. obtained
cent of t ,
the cost
, the sun moved (to use thespopular
well attended and for many months
rc
oulring. For conditions of this kind
by building se,verat members together,
IN BRIEF.
phrase) westward, and stood a little
Jean sorrowed for Amelia and refus-
tele simple remedy is to dispose o1 the;
water before it reaches the hill, by
Properly breaking joints, and coating
j each bearing with lead. A further
Roads that "break up" are bad roads.
later over Dublin, it became Monday
ed ever to take a.uotheii doll to heart.
big doll family,
con-
MYang it tWough the adjoining fields
Protection is to cover these built timb-
Make road improvements in such a
w ay that they will be Permanent.
noon in Dublin, and so on until he
Not only her own
but all dolls, five or shabby, large or
. 11if necessary. The probability is that
ers with galvanized iron to protect the
Whether by statute labor or other
reaklied the western limit of the
small, black or whits, who came An-
. the greater amount of water has been
numerous joints and bearings from
means undertake roadwork systema-
known world. WTien the sun passed
nie Tbackeray's way shared the ten-
. carried in deep ditches past water-
Moisture. All caps, cocrbles, chords,
tically.
over that limit that was the end of
der affection of her overflowing heart.
course after watercourse in order to
' dispose of it never the hill; thaaretys
hraees and floor beams should be made
in this way so that the thickness. of no
Appoint a supervisor who will have
charge of all the roadwork.
noon for that Monday, and nobodyWhen
a very little girl she believed
dolls were quite as much alive as, real
avoiding the necessity of constructing
timber will be more than six inches.
Make road bea.,s five miles in length,
knew what the sten was doing until he
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babies, and if they lost head or arms
drains through farm land in the natur-
A wooden bridge should be painted one
choose the est men as pathmasters,
h
reappeared on the eastern limit of the
the missing members would grow
al watercourses. The secret of success-
. fill odrainaga with respect to roads, is
,year afteT erection; iron bridge at time
of erection,. and care should be taken
i and keep them In office .
Classify the roads according to the
known world, bringing with him Tues-
again. 'When her dolls suffered an ac-
cident she went weeping to her fath-
. to dispose of water in small quantities
to see that they are kept painted and
nature and extent of traffic over them.
day. morning, It is evident, there-
fo that
er and be would gravely assure her
i _ before it can gain force and 'headway.
that all nuts are 'kept tightened so
Specify the width of grade, amount
re, while the sun was in the
that all dolly needed was an interyiew
,w Another cgmmon occurrence is to find
water• oozing_ from the the
that each member may carry its fair
I share of the load,
of crown, plan of drainage, kind, width'
unknown abyss between west and east,
with the family physician. Putting the
to
surface of
and depth; of material to be used, and
be dropped the attribute of making
may' in his pooket he would pretend
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see that these specifications are carried
the time at all places directly wider
be off to the doctors,, Instead he went
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out..
straight to a top hop, -had the doll
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Purchase gravel by the pit not by the
h18 rays Monday noon and took to
repairecr, and returned her whole and
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load,
i himself the attribute of, making it
hearty to his daughter.
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Use clean road material;
j Tuesda' noon.
When, at 14 years of age, George
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'' READY TOR EIVE THE G12AVEL.-Cross-section.
Strip the clay and earth from over
the ravel Pit, before the time of er-
g I p
I As the Confines of the world were
Sand heard some one laugh at the idea
o,f so (lolls.
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Showing earth shoulders as turned
g
back b the
Y graaiug machine.
forming statute labor.
If screening or crushing is neees-
I Pushed further eastward and west-
j ward, respectively,
Like .lane •Wd sh, she conludedlt.
theme up, With teens and hearty huge
1.
VlToad arm hills. This is especially no-
.
The cost o[ renewing a wooden bridge
wry' let this be dons before the time of
statute labor.
s THE UNKNOWN ABYSS
she lade every one of them adieu and
locked them into a garret closet. At
rq-,;,ticeable after the frost leaves these
spots.. The sufrface is sofa and spongy,
in w.hich.a man has to he sent. to put
in a new timber from time to time,.
Do not scatter money- in making tri-
where this change of attribute had to
be
first the separation from her adored
,r .aeud,4a out readily by wheels. Such,
11.
• should .be drained by placing a
will amount to twice the initial cost of
tete Bridge. In this way the ultimate
fling re
g Fairs on temporary structures.
Roads, culverts and bridges will al-
'their
made got narrower and narrower,
1 until, when the gighe was circumna-
playfellows was almost.morethan she
could bear, and every ia-y-she would
,itiilla
,'Iiue of the down each side of the road-
cost of a timber structure becomes very
to aye l;e re aired, and construe-
tion in the most durable manner, suit-
� vigated' the place of change became
sit Por an hour or two, sad and tear-
ful, outside the closet door, sometimes
y,'• wAY between.Mw givtter and the gray-
elthese, underdrains to proper
grealt"
s .Cilie course pursued by some, indeed
able to requirements, is most 'con-
a simply a line. This line exists and Is
whispering words of comfort through
.Carrying
i' outlets, Cross drains should be laid in
+eta'fiat>3 t leadiat to the side under-
Iia g
most municipalities in erecting iron
Brill os is likel bows er, to result dis-
B y''
omical.
if statute labor is to be made suc-
the place where the days begin. As
the sin crosses this remmrkable spot
the keyhole, to the poor exiles, but she
never broke her vow to have done with
+r.
thratine'in a'diagonal course. Well con-
asterouslq, and threow iron and steel
cessfu'1 the work must be systematical-
ly planned and some definite end kept
the time jumps twenty-four hours on-
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dolls, and by and by they were forgot-
ten.
ce1Ve$1T utters should be made on each
aid8: of the roadway* and at regular
into diserepute. A council advertises
for tenders. The companies responding
in v{es-.
e ward -from noon on one day to noon
Florence Nightingale's dolls all en-
c=
iof 'reals catch basins should be placed
foo artiest Plow of weber in these
supply their own plans and specifica-
tions. Thus fax the is en-
Have the work properly laid out be-
Pore this day appointed to commence
!the next day. The situation of the
lino has been located quite fortuitous-
J°Yeo very indifferent health. Time
and main disease stalked through' the,
,$ .the
wtitpas "leading it into the the under-
,',
procedure
tiwely, satisfactory. Tete difficulty
anises
work. Only call out a sufficient num-
her of mea and teams to properly carry
1 namel
Y- y By the eircunrstance rhe -r
list an i
nursery and laid the dbllst so low that
their lives were quite despaired af, but
tisk,
e.ruadway erre a hall should be well
when councils accept the lowest
tender without obtaining the adevice of
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out •the walk in hand and motif them
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y given Place was first reach-
ed by civilized man journeying from
the little girl, who was to grow up to
' }f+ov;ied. This will Cines- the water
r`s-•gtti
an experienced builder o£ 'floes Bridges
Of the implements each will be requir-
ed to brio
the east or from the west. The discov-
be a ministering angel to thousands
in real suffering, always her
T, ly to tole drains at the side of the
' r4aJiustead of permitting it to follow
as to the plane and specifications sob-
muted,. This is a matter in vvebich few
B•
Let no athmaster return orate -pay-
P
stet brought with him the almanac
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from whence he came and if he came
Y pulled
babies through their worst attacks. One
i; tracks deepening them to
f'
township engineers and suTeveyors are
era' statute labor as performed, wales!
It has been dome to his satisfaction.
from the west the time in the new
country be later,
night
g youthful Miss Florence assured
her nurse that she could; not possibly
sa; ;
'LOCATION OF ROADS.
qualified to decide, and certainly the
wisdom o8 councillara, ent[mely with-
In justice to others make the statute
would and if be
came from the east it would be ear-
g° to bed because a feverish rag baby
hora:are very marry instances where,
out Professional Graining in such mat-
labor returns clearly ; show what world
has not been done.
lier than the time in the country he
would need
onl d hevto ebat �nurae
,fib :,'g{ng the course of a road
mum{ciyalities would save a
tela, is not to be trusted. (Cases have
occurred in wlhioh a difference of five
c
See that the caundil collects the am-
ount from the delinquent parties and
came Prom,
America was reached by civilized
y and moth-
er assured the little girl that one of
them sit right beside the invalid
y�Lg9ittly„
, e; Aum im construetiorr, anti at tihe
time a better IA
,`e
dollaora oleic influenced a council to ac
septa tender for a bridge which was
have it expended the next year.
man voyagging westward, and China b
+ y
man traveling
g eastward, and the re -
lured
that Florence consented to to bed.
go
pproduce road.
Vieltian w+acid Die u n t avoid
- igliel , '11.. q e t y °
manifestly, to 0. man of experience,,The
patltmaster should inspect the
roads tinder his charge after every
awlt is that the line that marks where
the days begin
Once or twice, thi'nkin'g tl child was
fast asleep, the nurse atttemptiecl to
py`;i\i wet giroetmd, or would do
, 1!:'�rov>!t the necessity of expensive'
worth less tbam the other by several
hundred dollaers; and which was indeed
heavy rata -storm. A few minutes'
lies between these
i two, in the Pacifio ocean, and in -
leave ber post, but Florence was awaits
Y s•.'daid"!ills. A.will can sometimes
x
'unsafe offering ever likelihood of Pail-
y
ore
work in freein drains frons obstruo-
g
tions, filling holes, diverting a cuirront
I stead of being a straight line, zi
, zagsa g
Wit' dividing islands
fo an {natant. At midnight n second ef-
fort nes made desert. the sufferer,
���y
�,l arun!0d or tore girade very much
' tiCed by altering the location of the
with attendant loss of life and
great expense Don• reconstruction. It
of water may save several days' woriq
p-
wh{ch hap-
paned to be discovered from the east
o
but the child wake again, and in the
the
.
;!lpi�s� is a prejudice against talc-
is difficult to understand the action of
If neglected.
Bl
It is impossible to do satisfactory
t
from those which happened to be dia-
end nurse was obli d to remain
r
beside the dolls bed until Miss Night -
i I tlll9 iib da Ltro& Vile linee laid down
t t, tkcig{nal survey, and roperty
some councillors sha•ewd in other mat
tewa, in tare conatruetiolu of brio gee and
work on clay roads which are very wet,
have
covered from the west. There must
still be man islands in that ocean
Y
up, bright and early a the
morn to
,. � d,ftq� Prefer' to helve their farms
other Public woft4ka* prooeeding with
Cr which become baked and hard-
erred b heat and drought. The opera- !
y
where it not yet decided to which
morning, and able
g,
g, pronounce the
patient vastly improved.
tittraleght lines. At the same
such apparent disregard for the true
a
side of the line they belong, and
x±�ledby
t'lie Value of good roads to the
interests of those whom they represent.
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where if one were put down one wouldA-a
s, s iduld not be overlooked, and
A small sum spent in securing reliable
not know whether it were to -day, to -
i
11 atAc & change in the road allow-
rieeane'if>a Change from a bad to
advice is as much a matter of economy
y
im colic as in private affairs.
p
:s
morrow or yesterday.There must also
be many islands thre which, never
liZtEAQVrr ALIAS,
Mrs. Honk, Looking ficins
loed a>Ir a Change Yrom a �t��p
?-*q�
RECENT ROAD LEGISLATION.
Navin been p Y
B Permanently occupied b
y
up thascoun-
*Ia ade, tue slight inconveni-
g
The Staete of D?� maolnisetts is one of
those
�I
civilized people, change their day
from time
t y newppaper-How aLeees it come thrut
the swindler they've got in jail in town
. 6r&vtbd by tihe alteration orf boun-
which has falces advanced ate g
P
{n
to time, so tbat a ship call.
P
Ing there
has two natures? The colds Lim
d'. lilies will be many times repaid,
,-, t , ,
woad improvement, On petition ofI
a county, the state road commissionto—MI
coming from China might
arrive on Tuesday, while another ship
Paper
'n one place, Bill Johnson, and. in
1.6MV.>i;Itfl .
tI n ,brteaot% Cd municipal wos•k is
may, with tyre ass ret of the Legislature,
adopt any road within. the county as a
`""-
I
arriving at the same time from Am-
erica, would arrive on Monday. 'There
another, Walter St. Elmo.
FaraieT Heomk-Ob„ Jobnson is bis
,.
'%tit, nttti maMisy wasted as in the con-
�yrt4rttt5tlkt' afeci, maintenance of sluices
state bJgbway. Except that the grad-
ing and iu•idging is done by
COMPOSITION OF THE AVERAGE
must be people living so near this
lino flat by going a few the
real name; the other is his Ananias.
--
�ti btthve,fiN. In most townships these
the county,,
the work thereafter, both construction
ROAD.-Croaa-section.
miles y can
leave to-daY and get into to -morrow,
UNANSWERABLE.
1e+1.a bli.tlt of timber, 'Timber is perish-
e, V111 eats erre subjected to repeated
and maintenance, is under the author-
itY of the state Commissi in. Also on
Daily grave I is dropped on the roads I
or by going back can find Yesterday.
How convenient for troublesome
" If you insist upon knowing, there
cs of Wet, and dry weather, the
teat to wpifcpi timber could be
fat.•
petition of two oro inose cities or towns,
a road betweaxn them ma be made a
y
without further treatment, The..stones
are forced down into the mud, and the;
a
pointmeents 1
M other stir{Cue considerations
are two reasons for my refusing You."
"And they are ?"
,fit Erick year a {ar+go number
state Std ,Kibosh. The "'state cam-
mud comes to the surface. _ -
- i
� b
oeCuar nae, ut have sand enough to
" Yourself and another man."
tit' tl# se atilvdItts.ai a renewed at a cost
of•"'f'Aom '# tb, 50 6A01ht, in some town-
mission" is corn
composed ofThree com-
missioners v&o Com ile statistics make
tom' of title grading machine ahpupd have
instructions to commence work on Clay
ghbw-what ever gone does not per-
hsps realize --that there ie a place in
-....-,
M'.eg#ening f X500 to $1,500,
obis i h ttiiet T outlay. The life
investigations, advise regarding road
roads as soon as the grouted has be-
the world where the days begin,
(ANCIENT PUSURVED FLOWERS.
'Nell
• po ehoert that it
wnstruatiate and maintenance, and hold
come sufficiently settled In spring---
-`��-"-`-
-preserved flowers discovered. at
fie" ea6if ilii a before re-
public meetings four the discussion of
road malttera. One-fourth the Dost of
and not to leave this work ubtil the
time of statute labor, usually in June, I
The mem who has never been In dan-
Dahewurh, In Hgypt in tombs of the
imps of the Pharaolis, have just been
11 re.. . red and these repairs in
Almost to
Construction is paid by the County the
When the lgroulnd is heard and dry. i
e °t answer for Lis courage.-•-
plued in the Cairo Museum. The Com-
timn trmovhi't renew
remaining thlree-bourths being paid by
With the mOhey which Can be spent,
tnonest of these were the white or blue
tpue InbA dkpe'flsiye kind. ,A brok-
the sitMe. In 1894 the state spent $80q,-
build permanent culverts, permanent
A London idiot, who for years has
lotus, the red poppy, the leavea and
artist 0 sbxxngef, a rotten log or
tllller lielilttt~atd !vitt' new at differ-
000, in t9tas way' in 1805 $400,000; and 1n
1698 $600,000. ]fit is Inetended
bridges, buy machinery, buyy gravel I
for
belch, eI rorimelntingi witih projectiles,'
flan rs of the pamogwamate, of the sat.
d the orooual'
jod+s, tmarkes 'the maintenance
thin Clause of structure
that wl-
tamaitely about ane -tenth of the entire
pits, prepare gravel hauling, eon-
dt'ruct drains, operate the machinery.
olalmet 'flat he halt invented,, a bullet
that will shoot rotund a corner, or dowtk
I ' •-•-
tiy; Aho
toiw !iced expenshve, No
road mtleage will be built as atate high.
ways.
fuse the statute labor an far as pow-
behind a parapet. (After lsiltrl� thte
p"ito�rtity
gi'3e ti y all been rebuilt than
In M oibigan, upote a majority vote
ee(b1d in drimin,g gravel or broken
guW6 ft dturfs forward hoAsontall��0
turns to
A ouious accident befall a boy at
ltt� ir>t +clafhtmpinee .!ilio recces-
t#A horst, in this wttq the
of
tore relic 1�ayeara lu any cptnuty, a county
woad
stone,
1?a not leave the gravel or broken
thlent sbarmptly this right nr lett,
upward or downwarrd as the marlulman
Golden Hing, ,Mr]., and nixie Lilco deaf
'firer one ear, go st�lmbled in a field,
dt
e b0bW40 pe*411al, and
system May be ad6piteal IA boatrd
of cClmmi illonera five in su)Abety
otane Just, a9 it drops from the wagon. I
Spt"d the
deorees, twording to tial object he tie»
A briar stem aluitsred his ear, and pier&
are
x"tel. f
sires- to hit. I
W the dt lwn, , '
I
INTERESTING ITE MS.
L..l
%r.-
A Few Nwrat\rnpha heath Wl1I It iFoglr4IN
I
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013
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\Vara Hese
h itanti.
Two-thirds of Spain's population Cant
neither read nor write.
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The fathe}• of the new baby taken
A Japanese bride gives her wedding
the Child in a WOW that entitles hisloi
Presents to her parents as some s4ht
recompense for in
almost to be called the new father- 1101
views the baby with absolute serious -
their trouble rearing
her.
cess. "I inn unable, quite unable." he
Tho war, 'bugle that .sounded the
said, in an interview, "to treat the 3100
charge that sent the Light Brigade to
badly with even occasional lightness.
destruction at Balaklava, was lately
That is why I hate to have anybodyl
sold at auction Ia London for $8,085.
dandle, shake, or tickle it. it seems
A sparrow -hawk caused the death of
to be the desire of relatives and friends
two exuaries in a cage at Portland,
to go through aome, violent contortion
Orelgoen: It thrusts its head between
In order to extort some violent emotion
the bars, seized the canaries, and twist-
in the baby. They treat the baby
ed thea necks..
in a special way, and that special way.
Any Spaniard over the age of nine-
is an extravagant way, but there is
teen Is liable be called into military
service for three
e years. By the payment
no reason why the baby should not
of 1,600 pesetas, $800, be can escape mil-
be treated soberly, like anybody else.
itary duty.
"These people, who thus trifle welt
Long hours of labor and small pay
the baby's nerves, are nolt so much
cause much dissatisfaetiori among the
interested in the baby as they are in
workmen of Persia. • In the manufact-
themselves. They seek to attract the
Cries of that Gauntryy a. day's labor ex-
tends from five A. M. until eight P: M.
baby'a attention, to establish relations
between them -elves and the baby. That
From youth to far beyond middle age,
is not the wW to take the baby seri-
Humbolt seldom slept more than two
ously ; it is selfish and superficial. I
hours, a day. From the time he was
seventy until his death, at the age of
acre so much interested in the baby that
ninety, he slept four hours a day.
Ido not feel the there area u•Yr re -
To be classed as a millionaire in the
lations between it and me. With oth-
United States a man must at least be
era, with grown people, I feel that i
United States a ,Klan must be worth at
both give and receive; I have to do
leas0 01,000,000; in England he must
with them because I wish to establish!
have five times as mesh, or £1,WO,000 ;
a reciprocal relation. But I take the
i,n Germany, 1,000,000 marks, ,_ $240,-
baby absolutely. I never think of its
000.
feelin,ga os relation to me, but solely
Gamblers on the ocean steamers have
of its good and its future, and, there -
been doing a profitable business. By
foire, I let it alone as Much as I can. I
means of a small mirror held in the
Palm of the left hand, they are able to
know thaet the nurse, in spite of all
note the cards dealt to their unsuspect-
that I can do, talks and laughs to it
ing adversaries.
too much, and so I keep away from
The greatest fruit -growing state is
it as much as possible. Sometimes
Missouri. The value of its 'fruit crop
when it is lying alone in its crib andl
exceeds that of California by $2,500,000,
I pays the open door, it yells to me,
The apple crop alone is valued at $121-
with all the force of its 8 -months -old
lungs, and wants me to come in; but i
000,000, while the entire fruit crop is
worth catcall 019450040'00 -do
not, although I love nothing more
in the world to look at it without
The streets of Pekl�„ China, are w
speaking as itt lies quietly in its crib,
ie
lighted save by two gaslights and throb
I +know that others excite it so much
kea'oaseano lamps, Tare first two are
that it is my business not to add to its
before the Russian embassy, and the
future weakness and hysteria.
kerosene lamps illuminate the front of
"When I do go to see it I look at it
Oe JWBoo-Chimieso Bank,
with anxiety, sweet anxiety, but yet
A quarrel between Frank Tretter and
anxiety rather than delight, for I al.
ways think then oaf its future. And
his wife, at Sandusky, Ohio, made him
when I am alone, too, after my work, I
so tired of life that he resolved to end
think cd its future, how its life would
it. .He placed a stick of dynamite on
be affected by casualties whish might
his breast as .he lay on the floor, ignit-
happen,"
ed the fuse, and was blown into atoms.
"T was talo the other day '• said the
Fresh' meat' easily absorbs nicotine
visitor, "tbAt the doctor Wv i said that
from tobacco smoke, and soon becomes
it was necessary to shake the baby oe-
casio nally for the sake of its digestion
tainted. Aware of this fact, the pro-
A
and that roxnsequently, you had in-
prietors of some of the New York hot-
formed the nurse that she might agi-
els will not permit .kitchen employes
taste it gently now and then, but nev-
to smoke in the kitchens or storerooms.
er to do so when the baby wanted it,
The heaviest projectile thrown by a
and always to stop when the baby be -
first -class battle -ship is from a 18 -inch
Kan tC show pleasure, for then the
nervous excitement would be too
gun, and weighs 1,150 pounds. The Gat-
great."
ling guns throw bullets weighing about
.The father smiled a patient, beatific
tbree-ten'thv, OA an ounce. A shower
smile. "Of course," he said, "people
from,the GntAilrig guts soon clears the
will burlesque and pati-oly anything
deck of an enemy's vessel,
they can. Parody is •aa,y. I often
A new•'cork has been contrived, It is
indulge in parody myself, but new
intended for medicine bottles, and en-
do in matters in which I am profoundly
interested or which are very important.
ables a person to measure a liquid drop
What I really said to the nurse was
by drop. The distinguishing features
that she should not make the doctor's
of this novelty are an air inlet and a
demand an excuse for illegitimate ex.•
liquid outlet, with a bulb over the air,
citement of the baby; that she should
inlet to control the air vacuum in the
not use the plea of the baby's diges-
bottle.
tion as an excuse for satisfying her ex -
A young widow in St. Louis has
plosive tenderness toward the helpless
swung out her shingle as a barber, and
little creature.
The present nurse loaves the tabyy,
is dols a g
g profitable business. Her sign
That, in itself, is no fault, but it leads
reads: "Miss Boyd, Barber," because
to a lot of senseless babble and harm -
she is of the opinion that men prefer
fat gesticulations. I have to watch hen
to t;e shaved by a lady who has no hus-
carefully, but she is preferable to the
band to make himself disagreeable in
last nurse, who took no interest of
the presence of her patrons.
any kind in the baby. The last nurse
•A near-sighted old gentleman in Con-
seemed really rather inhuman about
it. She seemed to see no more in •the
sh°hocken. Pa., has a heard about ten
baby than she would have -seen in a
inches in length, and he is very fond
piece Cf clay, and such insensibility'
of it. The other day, while repairing a
Points to too small a soul to have sI
picket fence, he unintentionally nailed
baby intrusted to.
We must," continued the father,
hi; ;;card between the crossbar and the
railing. When about to move CPP, he
turning to the grandmother, "got al
Pound himself fast. like a chained dog.
larger crib fm• the new baby. In the
morning when it wakes up and finds
A valuable gold mine in the Sierra
itself sonarrowly'cabin'd, cribbed, con -
Madre Mountains. Chihuahua, Mexico,
fined' that it can't dart its strengthen -
was worked eighty years ago by a par-
ing little neck from side to side w-ith-
ty of Spaniards. The Apaches drove
Cut bumping its blooming head, it is
peculiarly inclined to protest."
them away and since that time all
Yes' answered the grandmother,
trace of it was lost. A short time ago
'acid when I take it out of the crib
it was accidentally discovered by J.
and put it on the bed it rolls over in
Newton Fowler, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
physical glee aad howls with freedom
while pursuing a wounded deer. Rich
and delight. Oh I Oh I the dear little.
specimens.of gold were conspicuously
thing I And the doctor said it ought
evident in every part of it.
to be rushed upand down the hall for
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its digestion's sake. And the poor
little thing does look so pathetic in
A PLEA FOR LESS STUDY.
the morning with that bandage around
its head to keep its ears down I"
Famom, areneh Scienthd Nny+i That Child-
ahoarl,l
The visitor emboldened by the trend
of •the grandmother's remarks, said to
ren I18%4• Til lee ori Nisch Play.
the father: "How do you prevent the
M. Berthelert., ebe famous French ici.
new baby from enjoying itself? I
entist says that chbiclren in school
have remarked that it stretches its
sh-wold have tw-ice as 'much play as they
neck in evident delight in its muscles
have now, widh a. radical change in the
,,
andgives vent to deep and changing
tomes, indicative of interest in the de-
charactex of their studies,
velopment of its throat; that it laughs
In an address before a scientific body
and smiles whenever it sees anything
im Parts M. Berthelot said millions of
which is not black."
The father didn't feel that it was
flan s were wasted every year in pour -
necessary to answer what seemed to
ling ieearning into sieves.
him a frivolous question, but a little
"Amording to the eduoationa-1 meth-
later he confided to the visitor the deep
od im vogue.." said Berthelot ',must of
and growing horror he felt for indivi-
ualsho could not take serious things
eduoat.ion goes in at one ear and
serious
out at the other without leaving any
I "Apropos of your recent question, I
other imWpression than mental disgust
may say that it is not remarkable that
for further education. What educators
the baby takes delight in itself, for
need to do is to cost aside at once that
at present it is about the only thing
iniquitous institution called "weekly
it has to be joyoub' about."
examina+tion," which compels the pupil
This remark of the faihe'r might seem
to cram„ cram, oram. •
to indicate that he himself felt that
"In its pbaa2,e should be edtablished a
his own method in training a new baby
system of interesting each pupil's mind
had elements of somberness. But in.
in 'particular studies by pointing out
every deep and serious religion -anal
to him bow he individually has a perm-
the father's attitude toward the new
anent interest in pursuing them, and
baby is distinctly religions -there is a
then give the pupil plenty of leisure
somber element.
to think over what has been told him.
"There are entirely too many sub,-
_
- - "v
jeots being taught," saTs Berthelot, in
A PAIR OF INNOCENTS.
conclusion. "Reduce the number of
Mamie, said the father, who looked
subjects of study, shorten the hours,
as Innocent as he could, I accidentally
land if we are to have examinations let
overheard some of your conversation
them be as brief and as far apart as
with that young man in the parlor last
possible."
evening. Why didn't you sit right
, clown on him when he said You could
begin economizing by both using the
HELPING HIM OUT.
same chair?
During the great strike a few ears
g y'
sago. among the 6miployes on the North
I did papa, and she also looked ac in.
namsnt as she could,
Britiah Railway., much difficulty was
OLD, INDEED I
experienced in finding qualified en-
gime-drivetre. UWon one occasion a
• Mnruer-Did be ask you the old, old
young fallow was put upon a section
in Fifei. One day he ran some didtance
"nest.ion ?
Sareiptm,-Yee, imdeed I% Aitmoet. his
past a station, and upon putting back
first words were Is it hot enough for
he went as far the other way,. The sta-
you? ;
tion -master, seeing him preparing
�-
for another Attempt, to the great am-
ussmemt of the passengers on the plat-
TOO TRUE,
fiorirn shouted:
Life is u.ncerte.in, observed the phut.
Just hide aha r ye are, Tummas,
sophic codfish; we are here to -day, and
We'll shift the tation I
to -morrow we are cod-liver oil or cod-
fish balls,
OV,R FRID" THE CORNETIST.
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bay, hadn't you better stop play-
HIS SAD FATE.
ing naw? 'Dou know that old lady
First Tramp -Din tract. de ole lady
dewngta{rs tAkea a nap every after-
gev me is quite affeetin', It's nlxmt
noon,
a man what drank heavily for 20 years,
She's not going to take her nap this
an' whait de yer t'i'nk happoned tohim?
wfternottn.
Sal and Trac mpr--Wham ?
Why !
P irbt Tvamp•-Ile took de pledge an'
934,tlartee I'm going to splay. •
never tasted ,liquor again.
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