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GOOD ROADS NOTES.
Money Lobs by Had Honda.
lt is said that the direct money loss
by bad roads in New York State is
about $30,000,000 annually; this is no
guesswork, but the result' of careful
investigation and computation. Illi
nois loses $25,000,000 annually from
the same cause, according to General
Hoy Stone. New York and Illinois
are similarly conditioned ns to city
ima country population, and the main
object everywhere now is to bring the
cities to the aid of the country iu
building roads. Professor W. C.
Latta, of Purdue University, Indiana,
has shown iu a carefully prepared
statement that the loss by bad roads
for the whole farm area of the United
States is very close to $500,000,000
annually. Ho also pointed out that
permanently good roads would prove
financially beneficial to farmers in
these ways: They would economize
time and force in transportation be
tween farm, aud market; enable far
mers to take advantage of market
fluctuations iu buying and selling;
permit transportation commodities of farm products during
and purchased comparative leisure; reduce
times of
wear and tear on horses, harness and
vehicles; enhance tho market value of
real estate.
It is as cei tain that as long as rural
roads remain as they are, rural free
mail delivery will often be a physical
impossibility. General Stone states
that one of the latest electrical car
riages, or automobiles, for two per
sons, weighs only a little over a ton,
including passengers and battery.
One horse jiower will move this ve
hicle over a good stone road at fifteen
miles per hour, or 1000 miles pex
week by daylight. This gives a jour
ney of 1000 miles for two persons for
$1, or at the rate of about one-fortieth
of tho cost of railway travel. This is
progress enough in the art of trans
portation to suffice for a few years at
least. The students of aerostation are
succeeding so well in the art of flying
that when they do equally well in the
art of alighting they may do away
with the need of roads altogether;
but un til then we must go on improv
ing both roads and vehicles and make
travel as much like fiying as possible.
Good Roads in Other Countries.
There are, it is estimated, 300,000
miles of highway roads in the United
States, about twenty per cent, of the
roads of all the world. Great Britain
has 120,000 miles of roadways, and
these are some of the best iu the
world. Germany has 275,000 miles
of roads, and some of them are astioor
as the roadways of a great country can
be. France, which has taken an en
lightened view of the good roads
question for many years aud has spent
by governmental or local authority
more than $1,000,000,000 on highways,
has a road mileage of 330,000, more
than any other country. Bussia, with
an enormous area, has only 70,000
miles of roadways, while Italy, a
smaller country, has 55,000. AVide
tires for heavy loads are prescribed in
all these countries.
A computation which finds much
favor among the advocates of good
roads is this: There are approxi
mately, though the number is steadily
on the decline, 14,000,000 horses in
the United States (there were 15,
000,000 by the census of 1890), and
there aro about 2,000,000 mules, prin
cipally in the South, the annual cost
of fodder for these animals being
$1,500,000,000. On fine stone roads
one horse can haul as much as three
can haul over the average dirt road of
this country. It iB estimated that it
would be necessary to build about
1,000,000 miles of macadamized roads
in the United States in order to have
as good a system as is found in several
European States. At $4000 a mile
this would involve an outlay of $4,000,
000,000, a pretty large sum. But if
one-half of the draft animals could be
dispensed with by the building of such
roads there would be an annual saving
of $700,000,000 in the food bill. Conse
quently if road bonds were issued
bearing three per cent, interest 6,000,
000 miles of macadamized road could
be built without increasing the annual
expenses one dollar.
the Antl-ltut Affitatlon in Brief.
Twenty years ago there was scarcely
A mile of good wagon road in Egypt.
1000 During the last six years more than
miles of fine roads have been con
Btructed.
The recent good roads conventions
held by farmers in Minnesota, Wis
consin, Iowa and Illinois have given
substantial encouragement to highway
improvement.
A Toronto man wants his govern
ment “to enact a law compelling all
^ Q hicles carrying a dead weight o!
f. highway, P oun to ds have or over tire on not the less public than
a
five inches wide.”
Governor Mount’s determination to
ma he a pretentions display of Indiana
roads at the Paris Exposition and the
which he has already begun in
collecting <*f the pictures from every section
State ha3 occasioned a great
deal of comment of an adverse nature
*-he people of his own and of ad
Joining States.
State and oounty taxes being levied
upon every taxpayer in proper tion to
us wealth, the State aid system makes
j, P 0£s iblo to obtain contributions to
ne cost of good roads from railroad,
insurance, street rail way and telegraph
® oia P® n ies, and from the wealthy citi
Zc ' ns the cities, thus relieving the
( arn: ier of considerable burden.
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U is seldom safe to trust the water
Supply xtalian cities. Homo asuai
ln v u ^ as September pure water, there but during August
were so many
sses of typhoid fever that two of the
‘■ater-sources had to be temporarily
The Natal Carblnters
The Natal Carbineers are the oldest
volunteer cavalry corps In Natal.
Hence It was not inappropriate that
they should bear the brunt of the dea
ultory fighting that took place west of
Ladysmith, at Bester’s Station and
neighborhood, In the opening days of
the campaign. This corps has twice
been under fire, and lost several men
on both occasions. In 1873 a patrol of
<57 Carbineers sent against a refractory
native chief lost three men In a fight
a t the foot of the Drakensberg Mmin
t/Uns. In the Zulu Isandlil- ■
war, at
wana In 1879 22 of their number fell
in action. Most of the members of
the organization are ia the Natal civil
service,
Must Have Been Born Lucky.
“How did you make out with that
effort to break your uncle’s will?"
“Fine! After it w-as all settled up,
and the lawyers had the estate I didn’t
owe them a cent.” — Chicago Times
llerald.
It Cnrrs All Skin Eruptions.
Tetterino is the name. Sold at
druggists for 50c. a box, or prepaid
direct from J. T. Shuptrme,Savannah,
Ga. John H. Pahlen of Lexington,
Miss., writes: “Enclosed find $1.00
for 2 boxes of Tetterine. My father’s
hand was cured by it, and I take
pleasure in recommending it.”
“First Volksraad of the Transvaal.”
The first parliament house of the
Boers was under the banyan tree, un
der which the rulers of the Transvaal
gathered in the early days of the re
public to discuss questions affecting
the country, and the tree has thus be
come known as the “first Volksraad of
the Transvaal.” The Boers call the
spot “Wonderbloom.” It is a few miles
outside of Pretoria, at the entrance to
a cleft in the mountain.
Putnam Fadeless Dyes are fast to
sunlight, washing and rubbing. Sold by
all druggists.
The Curse of War.
Mrs. Hen peck—If it hadn’t been, for tho
Soudan ^ campaign you wouldn’t have been
my husband.
is! Air. Henpeck (savagely)—What a curse war
Attention is called to the very useful
articles contained in the premium list of the
Continental Tobacco Co.’s advertisement
of their Star Plug Tobacco in another col
umn of this paper. It will pay to save the
“Star” tin tags and so take advantage of
the best list ever issued by the Star Tobacco.
“Do In Training.
you understand the nature of an oath?"
asked the judge.
“i should think I ought to,” raid the ner
vous little man. “I’ve been putting up
stovepipes for m.v wife all morning.”
There is more Catarrh In this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until tho last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney – Co. Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. It is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer oue hundred dollars for any case
It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testi
monials, Address V. J. Cheney – Co., Toledo,O.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Hall’s Family Fills are the best.
Vitality low, debilitated or exhausted cured
by Dr. Kline’s Invigorating Tonic. Fkbe $1
trial bottle for 2 weeks’ treatment. Dr. Kline,
Ld., 931 Arch St., Philadelpha. Founded 1871.
Piso’s Cure for Consumption )ms saved mo
many a doctor’s bill.—S. F. Haupy, 1894. Hopkins
Place, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 3,
Should Have Died at Waterloo.
“Many,” Napoleon once said to the
physician who accompanied him to ex
ile on St. Helena, “were of the opinion
that I ought to have fought to the last.
Others sain that fortune had abandon
ed me—that Waterloo had closed my
career of arms forever. My own opin
ion is that I ought to have died at
Waterloo, perhaps a little earlier. The
smiles of fortune were at an end. I
experienced littie but reverses after
ward; hitherto I had been unconquer
ed. I ought to have died at Waterloo.
But the misforunte is, that when a
man seeks death most he cannot find
it. Men were killed around me, be
fore, behind, everywhere, but there
was no bullet for me.”
On another occasion he remarked:
“Had I died at Moscow I should have
left behind me a reputation as a con
queror without a parallel in history. A
ball ought to have put an end to me
there, whereas when a man like me
dies in misfortune, his reputation is
lessoned. Then I had never received a
check. No doubt afterward, at Lut
zen and Bautzen, with an army of re
cruits and without cavalry, I re-estab
lished my reputation, and the cam
paign of 1814, with such an inferior
force, did not lessen.”—New York
World.
Wanted
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«5ii nnd expenses. Experience not i’ocuhontas absolutely
necessary- For particulars addreBB
Tobacco Works Co., Bedford fity, Va.
The man who always plays up to the gal
lery, is apt very often to full flat in the pit.
McMU By writing at * $ 40 ■
once
for the remarkable offer of the Sotrtli’s great
er institution of Practical Business Training,
The 6 a.“A!a. Business College,
Don’t Delay! MACON, G A.
Barter's Can’t he beat. ink
CARNEGIE SHOES
Will Wear Like Steel.
50,000 pairs sold the past season.
Not a single complaint.
Men’s $ 2 . 50 = == Boy’s $ 1 . 75 .
It’s Economy to Demand Them.
Hade by
J.K.ORK SHOEeO.
ATLANTA, GA.
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STRANGELY ILLUMINATED.
The Weird Effect of Phosphorescence 00 «
Ship la Bering Sea.
“I have often heard of the wonder
ful phosphorescence of Southern seas,”
remarked a traveler from the North,
“and I have seen some pretty fair
samples in the Atlantic between New
York and English ports, but I did not
know It x>revalled to any extent In
Northern waters until during the past
summer. the
“In August lost I was on board
revenue cutter McCulloch, In the Be
ring sea, about 63 degrees north lati
tude, bound north, when one night
about 10 o’clock I happened to *0 on
deck, and I was almost frightened by
the sight of the sea. The wind was
blowing sharp enough to raise the
white caps, and the whole sea looked
as if it were lighted from Its depths
by a million arc lights, throwing their
white rays upward and under the fly
ing foam. The hollows of the waves
were dark, were dark, but every crest
that broke showered and sparkled as
if it were filled with light. From the
sides of the ship great rolls of broken
white light fell away, and she left a
broad pathway of silvery foam as far
back as the eye could reach.
“But about this hour was the most
striking display. Here it was as If the
ship were ploughing through the sea
of white light, and as the water was
thrown back from her prow It fell in
glittering piles of light upon the dark
surface beyond, and was driven far
down below, lighting the depths as if
all the electricity of the ocean were
shooting Its sparkles through the
waves and turning Itself into innumer
able ineandescents that flashed a sec
ond then shut out forever. I stood on
the forecastle deck looking down into
tho brilliant white turmoil of the wa
ters until I began to feel as if we were
afloat upon some silver sea, and a
really uncanny feeling took possession
of me. The white ship wa3 lighted by
the phosphorescence of the waters, so
that as high up as the deck there was
a pale, weird white, that made one feel
as if the ‘Flying Dutchmen’ were
abroad upon the sea and had passed by
us. The masts towered In ashy gray
above the decks, and every rope and
line stood out distinctly in the light,
but cast no shadows. It was all as
ghostly as if we had gone up against
the real thing, and it was a positive re
lief to get back into the ward room,
where there was something more hu
man. I don’t know how long it lasted,
but when I went to bed at 11 o’clock I
could still see the silver shining
through the air port in my stateroom."
New Use for Horse Hide.
Ilorsehide has in recent years come
to be largely used for gripmen’s and
motormen’s mittens. There is made
of horsehide for this use a leather that
is not only strong and has good wear
ing qualities, but that Is at the same
time soft and pliable. One kind of
horsehide mittens is made with a wool
en lining, and with what is called an
extension cuff, also of wool, to be turn
ed back over the wrist of the wearer.
The horsehide tanned for mittens does
not get hard, nor does it shrink. Of
course, no man using leather gloves or
mittens of any kind ever throws them
aside when they are wet, to care for
themselves; blit he dries them careful
ly, occasionally working them with a
sort of massage, to keep them soft and
flexible.
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Indeed a Monarch
The Emperor of China has some
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dering of the seasons. In China it is
summer when the Emperor says it is
summer. All domestic arrangements
are made io suit the season, as pro
claimed by the Emperor, although they
may not suit the Individual at all.
A Non Suit.
“My entire future depends upon the
favor you show my suit,” he pleaded.
“Yes, Mr. Sharp,” replied the beauti
ful young heiress, coldly. “I have
heard that you refer to me as your
long suit.”—Philadelphia North Amer
ican.
As to the Rooters
“Think they are college men?”
“I don’t know. There are some col
lege men whose lungs are more vigor
ous than their brains.”—Puck.
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“Is this the beginning of tho end?”
asked the casual churchgoer, as the
minister seemed to approach a perora
ation.
“I don’t know,” whispered the reg
ular attendant. “It may be only the
end of the beginning.”—Puck.
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Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives
quick, sure results. Refuse substitutes.
Dr, Dal? s Pills curt Biliousness* 7 rial, so for sc.
Average Marriage Age.
The sver»KB wenty-eight, ego *t whirh months, Englishmen ami
marry is t years live
the average age of Knglish women at the
time of marriage is twenty-six years two
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“ Star ” tin tags (sb ig sm P 11 stars printed O n under side
of tag), “ Horse Shoo, >> 4 4 J. T., - “GoodLuok,” *• ‘ Cross Bow,"
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securing presents mentioned below, and may bo assorted.
Every man, woman and child can find something on the list
that they would like to have, and can have
TAOS.
1 Match Box.......................... 36
2 Knife, one blade, pood stool....... 25
5 8oi*Bora, 4H inches................... 26
4 Child'* Set, Knife, Fork and Spoon 25
6 Salt and Pepper Sot, one metal......... each, quad- 50
ruple plate on Wood white Pipe.............25
6 French Briar
7 Razor, hollow ground, fine English 50
steel.................................. best
8 Butter Knife, triple plate, 80
quality............................... Shell, triple plate, best qnal.. 60
0 Sugar Box, sterling silver.......... 70
10 Stamp Knife, Kufcter," blades.. 76
11 "Keen two
12 Butcher Knife, "Keen Kutter," 8-lri
blade 75
13 Shears, "Keen Kutter," 8-inch...... 75
14 Nut Bet, Ciacker and 6 Picks, silver
plated................................ 80
lli Bane Ball, "Association," nickel................. best qnal.100 150
16 Alarm Clock,
17 6a8pO .°“ S :. bO ? t
. 150
18 Watch, nickel, etam wind and set.. 200
19 Carver#, good steel, buckhorn
handles ..............................200
20 Six Genuine Rogers' Table Spoons,
best plated Knives goods....................250 Forks, buck-
21 Six each, ami
horn handles......................200
22 Six ouch, Genuine Rogers' Knives 1
end Forks, best plotod goods.......50J
THE ABOVE OFFER EXPIRES NOVEMBER 30th. 1900.
Special Notice! Plain " Star " Tin Tags (that In, Star tin tags with no srmll
stars printed on under side of tag), are not (food for presents,
sssssssssss Imt will be paid for in CASH on the basis of twenty centsper
hundred, if received by us on or before March 1st, 19W).
ft7~BKAR IN MIND that a dim v 9 * worth of
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23 Clock, 8-<Hy, Calendar, Thermom
eter, Baromer er.................... wo
24 Gun <*%»e, feather, no better made. 6QQ
35 Revolver, automatic, double action,
Sfi or S8 caliber...................... 600
26 Tool 8et, not playthings, bat real
tools................................. 1 tto
27 Toilet Bet, decorated porcelain, 800
very hautfsome..................... : 860
Remington Itffle No.4, 22 or 32 ml.
2y Watch, Mferlln# silver,full handsome jewelfed 1000
30 Dross Buit Case, leather, 1000
aud durable....................... Machine,
31 Sewing first class, ■with
nil attachments.....................1800
32 Revolver, Colt’s, 88-caliber, blued
1500
S3 Rifle, Colt's, 16-shot, 22-caliber..... iftOO
34 Guitar (Waahbarn), roue wood, in- WOO
laid
35 Mandolin, very handsome 2003
34 Windsor Repotting Shot Gnn, 2000
pauge.............................
37 Remington, double-barrel, ham- 2000
mer Shot Gun, 10 or 1.2 gauge......
S9 Bicycle, standard make, ladles or M00
gents ' V,' V.*’*
8» .. Shot a .. ru Onn, n Remington, double b»r
rel, h»iuraerle*a.....................3000
*0 Regius Music Box, 15# inch Disc..5000
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