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GOOD ROADS COMING. THERE IS NO MISTAKING THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES "Widespread Discussion Has Shown the Pressing Need of Highway Improvement?Men From Ali Walks of Life Have Enlisted In the Cause. There is no doubt in the minds of those who have studied the signs of the times that an era of road improvement has dawned on this country. Continued agitation has awakened the people to the necessity of action. The Cedar Rapids Gazette tells the story of progress in a conversation between an old editor and a farmer. "At last,"said the old editor, who had been in the harness for nearly 40 years. "I see signs which indicate the certain approach of an era of good road building, and I look upon it as one of the beat signs of the times." "1 infer that you think it high time for such an era," remarked a farmer subscriber who had dropped in for a few financial transaction. "I purely do. In fact, I can't fin 1 even the shadow of an excuse for any more delay m ."fs journey our way. I only wonder why, when advances are being made in so many other respects, some of which are of little importance compared with the roads over which manv millions must pass each year, that the day of practical planning for better roads did not begin several decades ago." "May I ask what it is that gives von encouragement that there is . approaching a revolution in the matter of roads?" asked the farm-. er, adding that he was "aware that good roads mean more to me and my brother farmers than to any other class," and that ho was anxious to see his work go on. "Agitation, sir, agitation? the practical agitation that is going on in every direction. Why, the ministers are preaching about if, educators aro lecturing on the* subject, the farmers, at least aii who aro organized, and thoy are orgmized in nearly all tlm stati are awakening to its importance to them, personal]}*?to their purses and comfort. Few, if any, of the farmers' institutes have passed without more time being! Kiven to Rood road agitation than to almost aii3T other qut stion. "The question has heen taken j up in 0110 way or an other in 20 different legislatures, and the discussion on the various measures : touching hotter roads has been far-reaching, tin* papers quoting more or less from the hills and: the speeches. Debating societies i in thousand of] schools have (lis- ' cu 1 the good road* question, j Hundreds of thousands of men and women who ride wheels have talked more or less on the samel question, and the great national organization of wheelmen known as the League of American Wheelmen, whose membership, I understand, is fast climbing to to the 100,000 mark, has done a vast amount of work in making right public sentiment. "Wo must not forgot that among those wlieelmon are thousands of farmers and tlieir Hons; stateslnon, diplomats, merchants, lawyers, doctors, manufacturers, capitalists mechanics, workmen ? men from all walks of life?as good people as we have, patriotic,, public spirited, pushintr citizens, whoso power is being felt more' and more in many laudable directions. I used to look wirh sus- ' picion upon thoir efforts. 1 do so | ] mo longer, for I have never known I them to take up any work that ;jdid not tueau more for others; than it did for themselves. "I must not forget my own profession. Why, 1 can hardly pick [ up an exchange in which thei" 'is not a reference to the good I roads subject. Look at this, just clipped from a widely circulated publication. The editor was talking about a proposed piece of good road between two western cities. His closing paragraph is worthy of close study and is as f o 11 o w 8: "'Ilut these roads cannot all bo built in one year. The county board should lay out a plan for road improvement covering a number of years. A given number of miles might be allotted to be complete each year. All parts of the county might be included, and in timo a system of roads would be built that would he a credit to the country and a saving to the farmers. Perhaps if the sessions of tho county board were to be held in tho early spring months, instead of in the fall, when we nearly always have good roads, we might see something, substantial accomplished.' ''Here is a paragraph from a. I Minnesota paper that attributes! the failure of four merchants in ! I 1 ; March to bad roads. The roads were so bad that collections could not be made. Oh, yes, my pro j fession is doing its part in lias-. II >ning the good roads era." The conversation was encour-; I aging, very, and indeed rather} | inspiring, for what the old editor j said is true. The agitation is in-j deed widespread. It must result " - ' ' in mi; u^uuiHiiiif; ui me requirou good roads sentiment. ONE OF TWO WAYS. The bladder v.aa created for one purpose, nainoly, a receptacle for the urine, and as such it is j | not liable to any form of diseaso : except by one of two ways. The first way is from imperfect action i1 of the kidneys. The second way J' is from careless local treatment'' i of other diseases. <ini:r ( %i tu:. I'nliealthy urine from un healthy kidneys is the chief causei of bladder troubles. vo the'1 womb, like the bladder, was ere-1' ateil for 0110 purposand if not ; illli'tfirA/t tr.i > 11111..1. o 1 I I? VWW i ti (t v 'i j- li\M lIAUli' J I to Wf-aknc or disease, except in! ; r.tr,- cases. It i- ltuated hack of j I and very clos.? to the bladder,! therefore any pain or inconvon- ( i-nce manifest d i. *!o kidneys, 1 back, bladder or urinary passage , is often, bv mistake, attributed to I, female weakness or womb trouble of some sort. 1 he error is, easily made and may bo as easily |' avoided. To I".ml out corretly, 1 set your urine astdo for twenty J four hours; a sediment or settling , indicates kidney or bladder trouble. The mild and the extraordinary effect, of I Jr. Kilmer's Swamp- : Hoot,the j^reat kidney,and bladder ' rentedj' D soon realized. If you I need a medicine you should have M the best. At .druggists fifty cont?j< ami one dollar. You may have a sample bottle and pnmplet, both sent free by mail. Mention the , Kntkrimsisi: and send your address to Dr. Kilmer tV Do., liingham-i, ton, N. Y. The proprietors of!, this paper guarantee the gen-1 uinoneas of this offer. Two little trir 1h in Kokomo, Ind.,! Raw in a merchant'* advertise-! incut, "Dolls for a song." Children always take thing" literally,1 and the two little tots went to the storo, climbed up on the counter and sang a little song. Then they asked for their dolls. The amused1,! merehnnt gave them a doll each but changed his advertisement. Vcllow Jnrli Caacarota. Candy Cathartic kills Ycllon Jti . . w h'-nv<r they rtn?l lilin. No one who tn'-n j Cascnruta regularly a?'? y tomallt-al , <l;inwr from ilif ilfntlfil On , r? t.-. ( kill Ynllntr fov>-r K**ri!i4 >' tlu' ! >? < ami pr< ^ nt new nni-w fori broctiu.fr |0e. Vk Mil- u i druggHlfl English Cotton Mills. V,Te 1 avo been talking, for years, at the South of New Eng. Intul cotton mills moving to this ,=o 'ion, but now there in a report that English factories will he en* tabllshed here. Tho Boston Transcript says this would bo an undertaking that would make old Lancastrians turn in their graves, cause every mule frame in Oldham to run out of gear and every loom in Manchester to lose picks. Our Boston contemporary adds : "But what better alternative presents itself? In our Southern States, in close proximity to the staple and with other advantages nrhinh UTAIIM l^nlrv f ? "The contemplation of such a possibility as tho removal of Knglish cotton mills here, naturally mggests tho British policy relating to cotton manufacture in facer in the last century. Then, Nimuel Slate r, Arkwriglit's young 4 .prentice, . tole secretly out of England with las head full of tho letails of spinning machinery, btit with never a lino or model, ;he lindir : of which would betray ii- secret and give liirn a turn in jail for the hotter protection of Kngli-h spinners against colonial competition. Thanks to his retentive memory, the foundations >f American cotton manufacture were laid de ep and sure, and what the superstructure is to-day we ill kno v. It would bo k strange "fit > that made the successors of Loos, Stutt iiml Ilargreaves ao;opt the hospitality of his country, which, in spite of embargo "itxi repression, has made its mlustrial power felt throughout tlio v.'urld, and now magnanimously holds out a glad hand to tho ioscondants of its old oppressors.'1 "When 1 got to ho a man," said a hoy to his father, "I am going to \trive to cultivate an unselfish nature." "That's right," replied the father. "How aro you iminu tr> en nlwnit i fr 2 *? Wnl 1 i .. ?!>.. p," www.. ?; a V t '? OH,III IUU lirHt place, if I have any little boys I'll let them shoot their own fireworks, instead of telling them they must let me do it for fear they will hurt themselves." W A N'l'Kl > AGENTS. "THE CONFPDERATE SOLDIVH IN THE CIVK WAP." jlannd contains MW pages IJxfo Inches, anil jvi i 1 1 ii i'r Haul.- St. in I'ortrnil . M.ipH. t.- i great* at ai .1 largest War 11. n ever 111. .1 U ol.iv wli< illllt (iucii JUStl.'O tO i in- Cottfrdi rate mldirr and tho oauso no fought for. i.1 >i.i- volume Atti'iils Huntril veiywli'-re to >'-11 t)^t- t ook on our ro w ntui an) plan Many of tho liMly ana gontininon i/i t w lio nr. :it u .r.? :ir. tiioklt.g from $IOO v i'l.o.N, t Hi..- '..tti iimi/ht'Ts of Wti rnn*. nnd other* liitirentcil ti to ! f. r i I. iiitiftil lllt.-itrattil \c circular t fr.-. i anil termn to agents. v fwl.'HIKIt ,lC>t 1INAI .I'll I'iiimin.; I' . . I.Olllrt vlllo, l\ y. I! I f? uavu ff VIIIV4 lUOlll some of the ground which they have lost through one cause and another, we have room and to spare for all buch, and their coming here together with their workers, would be a boon to whatever section they settled in. In the present crisis in the cotton industry throughout the world, Kngland is tho most unfortunate of the countries engaged in the manufacture. The trade otica compact is being broken up as new factors are coming to tho front, and she sees her old customers supplying their own needs, as well as catering to the trade of others. "Tlie part America is taking in this Mi of the cotton goods trade, has been commented upon before. There is no pood reason why we should not hold fast what we have acquired in this line aboard, or why we should not ourselves from time to time of new territory in the commercial world, and whether such acqusition be the result of natural conditions or of the native enerpy of Northern or Southern manufacturers, the plory and the advantape accuring from it will be shared by the country as a whole. ouiu uirec* AT FACTOR1 , Sont C, O. D. prlvllogo of of $5.00. Monoy roturn not nccoptod. ? Klondike, Al< TIiouhuihIh are rushin will ho disappointed. Far Off Yukoi to secure the Agency ami next year it will BONANZA. NVrito lor particulars. j vikim; Hi UWIQN < | ^ |f* m w y hl]> ,wf! /?A $ . [-" - - * I AVcgctnOlcTVcp.iralicnforAs- ''" slmilatin$ the Food andP.ctfula- # i liijg lite bloat.uhsand Dowels cf U ! inEnnraimi i ?-? rh Promotes I)igeslion,Cheerful- jv , ncss and Rest.Contams neither toi Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. NotNakcoiic. o/-OUIk-SM4UELFaUira V J\unplim Se*l~ SS ALx.Jrnnm * I R1 IlmMJUSJu- I J$d jtrv'tt SttJ * { KKj Jlfperruiut . ) K9 Jh Cn/h ?Kitr Siia * I Pj fUmtSrta - 1 Jh. Clnnfitd Stuprr l V" * , ItnMyM / itt i rr J T .' a perfect Remedy for Constipa- EE? lion. Soar Stomach,Diarrhoea, 2* 0 Wor:ns,Convulsions.Feverish- ^ \ ncss and Loss of Sleep. ! |f TscSimi'c Signature of OjijJ | EW^ YOR K._ | |j tXACT ccpr OF WRAPPER. i r.- ::, . VTV'-v ' _? cy i _i T\ - ~ 4 SEE THAT THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF IS ON THE WRAPPER OF EVERT BOTTLE OF C.;s'.or!.v lj pat r.p in ono-alxo bottlos only. It i act eoM la balk. Don't allow anyono to Bell cn anything eke on tho pica or promiso th&t it 'Ai "just 03 good" and "will answer every pur- 1 o-.c." ?3- fko tbat J en get C-A-3-T-0-P-I-A. nio (>c- ^ I,f ^4 YwAPESect ? : to "Rider / PRICES. examination on rocolpt od luss oxprossayo It iska. 4ig tlicrc for gold, and thousands You don't have to go to tho T/r??7?T\T<fV lor the > ll!'\ ILiyitfo { ho a 7 K K fh'j*. ii\m are stmm a Toledo, Ohio.