The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, February 24, 1910, Image 6

Newspaper Page TextT" " ' Ever vi.;ii a Ciinill.v whoro they have | cupcrstltions?" askeil the sunn, good- I uutured member of the group, who i looked as if he believed in Uv.n about as much a week-old infant believes In the molecular theory. Nobody could recall any such :ulvcnture. "You want to try it. thou," h<> continued, grinning (o himself ;it the I IIUVI^JH. It * II1UI (* (#1 ?l IlfJIirH} ( 11 a 1 11 vhon your wife's gone* to tho country and more exciting than tho la^i iwotblrdB of a picture puzzle. "I wont up Hurrillvillo way a v.'hilo ago to visit old friend of mine over Sunday. ;ind dropped plunk into a pia<e where if mad* all thr difforonce in the world whether you put on your right or your left shoo first, and where if wn < a nuar-t rasedy if you afiw tin* TM w m?i > i orer the wrong biiouldev 'It Will! mv fri " '! li'n-xl'e vvif? llirl ]?nd the boodle, jr.! hiil me razr.le-dav.y.led fro::i >h? ;"ji-a\\uy. By j the tim<- I'd ! ?? (h ?r<? two hours 1 dldu't hiirdly darr wtlr iti my tracks lt fear !'i! slump inio whole bliuehes of bad luck. ' I'd never won her bal'ore, though If rod's been married thro*; or four years, and after he'd been borinu me to week-end with him most of that time, 1 finally sj>ou oil up i 'v<s" and trotted nlonj; <no S:tlnr !m> aft<rnoi>n. ' Prcd'H wife I'M call her Minulo, b' oaUPf' 11 :i* * - in"- nnni?\ and sdi" proved to 'n.' or;.' <> 1 ihi-so < luuniny sorts thai first-natiio ' oi ir. ido : (n iirst hour, as ! A as you'ri.' : fri<ind of her huKhand's .hi- ' >n of th- so | women that j;< ?ni to liavi a let <>l fun roint'iuboring all th irood and bad * *i v. rv risnn *11111 nn'-mru, die] t'nfitenins 'fin lo "ver\I liiiiR that; happens from mnniii' : io nlKht. Honrs: !y, I didn't Itnow wore so many eomr'or. or garden varieties of superstition left floatin;- around little old llhotle Inland. "Not that she took Vm t?ri uisly, you understand or a I. least , she pic KMulwd not to. Though nrivately I've a notion that if it camp to sittint; thirteen at tali)'', hack into a cornor t ami cream for help, till somebody! dropped out o: somebody else came, i "She was one of those chic little' sorb. awfully strong for hubby and I 1hc kids l>?it riuht iher;' with the i;lad welcome till y<m felt as if you'd alv.ay hi iomsed there, and it didn't i'in to s' Mid to reason thai, she' it uld really take the superstiiiioii iff seriously. Still, you never <an t 11 how much of that or I oi i n,n' t vi ii a - nsihlo person w 1 winj?. "It Ijiuan tho inirt .1 I jioppcul tip lli< si p? and |'ii lis ii-" l)c!l. She ani<>> rf-cl it lit'r.-olf, and stilfk out h 1 1. .1(1 tn WolcMIIll 111', 1\ !:; IW i ! I!; who I .. 1 . of course. A' '! as ! \v; ; st>' 1 i .-r i:i I stinnb'.ed iV'T the rim v> ill / was I i ,'hcr 1 < . tvW? landod full I ii-'j ", 011 t h ' 'Oh. Rood '' 'ill 10. '11 w : i V* lit f/Ant \i n't > ' * ! t ii 1> and feeling lik :i I. 'Hii' ii ?? docs llial holii'f " 'Why, liroau ii.if , >\ awfully -lad 1 < > < yon. II it l:.id 1 >00li 11)'' l]|| one tfllni!- .f 1: < :: . , .'die f 1:isJ)< c 1 me and derided on i :e ftnnl. Ilia! il wonlil liavri !>< >i . < 11y :iinl a hall if I'd doiw u ' Ym clHO I ha II stumble. Ml lit:. a it v villi I lie right foot. "In falling, fhoiiuh, 1 dro >'"1 iny umbrella half arro.-.-; tin1 iall. I k! * (1 for it, bill sh< I' ' <i'i' ! . ( - .tin 1! >1 bp iwrlil mo n j> : lvul. ' ' I touch if..' ijlu- t il : : ! ' d ! rwaI'd 1 'mvu'II In.:]' ir. t c1:. i it up a ml ha : ! d ( 1 n ,??su? I ill I. I hav" o(. : <! imi' f< d! 1i a! t hat. . o ii< c-:i :i. 1 tl i- ' in- av.ain hy < x; I iuiin1. " | i.ci'i ><ni . ( '' Y(?n (> I 1 ye I.. .1 lurk an." . n : way lliaii Itv I ll)> your uIn 1?r? i i (! )) il . \'i vi'-r, l;i - VOi : 11 i l 1. . i:iio'; . ? \\ m1 v i: n;i(<{> : in n. :v? i i|( >', vi \ !. 1\' 1 ?|. ! illS-1 '>11 ( i; ! I, ,> I' m , t hii I. Ik ;i \v - \ t <11 ;: i, i :ii li- i* , ?!'.{? ; ! i . u'c ' sil ><tk ' : :M! . r 1. 1 ' II lOS' t ' i! Y< !1 | : '0:i i?1 >' ' iv; 1 i-di'I < nrs 11'iiii hi r ' . l : l. .- II I ,>Vf >U lit. : ? ; itn'i i > <" I.i i. ; Uiimili ' ll? ill' Hi' '?!; ' i)'' ' ii i i whi'i ilir ; i fn, ?. ."51 . ; i , iv i I,. !. ii . lioM. oil 1 ' <1 I -i ' i son I ? iia i !> < i! I' I jioli? r> 'i ,| M'ji ! ,ir" <| > (i Inn I. i M : I li i \ i ' i: i : ; i i (1. 'I :,< t ? 1 ii!io Mnko a w: .1- wliiin: ;..)t ; i, in yont* i: mi. , I if i v i '! you ran, l? m . .> li i il "Vet \ ' " 'Wil li's n w' !/ 1 i do v ir!i I'm bftliy ' I : . k i I l , .1 i i ! () hI. ' vi. ii i In 1 ai?y for ! (li t -. :u : . i it'll ?nine 11 ni dn .it ' Tc'ti vv . till' I (ook h" kiii iJill M "I i. m 1 ooiili!. lit)(II r 1)' 111>u I. ui'l i' ; ii'il r 1 >I - ! ', 1 li<> w;i illt'.v .i 1 way? W i it rlid nil \\ i :i |{i I Ki I I " 'i i< iivcii. I) 'n't 1> I i.im,' Minnie. 'It jioiL > !< w if y?. t.-ll. "Til jus! ,'ix : oon i 11 . not.' I nUHwered, 'because I've already n?>f i* I wifllled I wouldn I drop tin- bflby find I didn't. Ho I reckon I hat sJgn j? nil to tli** t;ood.' "She didn't coin to care for thn' Thought I was making fun of her. f KueaB. lint kIh passed it over, being t - ? ' "V , 1 . ?. ii mm i l u umiiJJU. \p gome busy quieting tlic? kid, and in a minute or two it was crowing away ns happy as over. I remarked that it seamed to be a pi"ity good-natured little devil, after all. " 'Of course hd, " 'Why, don't you know the old sipn: "Wednesday's child is sour and sad. Thursday'.'1 child is merry and glad." Tootlutnn hero was ton weeks old last Thursday. He'll always he happy. Now Robbie here.' and with that she introduced Robbie, three years old. who had been hnuc.iiK* around the eds;^r. was horn on Saturday, and h^'s sot to work for a ! livim; Haven't you, Robbie'." "1>ol>bi<\ beitif. a Rood kid. aprof d , with 'i moflvr. ^fier which he eonrented to im!"- fi-iends ^ith me. We | W( re h.HN HIT ? rrv.uh antl tnm'nl.i ' ui'ound 'lie fh> . running I ia 11 mid dnwu;"d mo buck. " 'Don't fir ft!" Kim called. ' I jiinipod hark and ask-d lvhal I'd done that time. And then who explained that, il I'd stopped iicros ; him if would 1 ave si tinted his growth or kotiio such thiiiiT. It m'i nu, mnroovor, that if I d stepp'd neross our h>g and ' n> t! r other, tint log would always t i i\r ho( ) shorter than t.lie other ono. ! J was: r.lad ! hadn't done it. ., > ...I M v > i:11f in:- i !)v, i work, and was busy in the kitchen tor a while When she 1 came i: to tell us supper was ready ! she })!id a couple of smooches of Hour i across her face. She'd l>oen making I biscuits, 1 suppose. Fred called her' attention to it, but instead of looking , shocked the \va> women usually do when anything is wrmi? with '? in she brisked up ripht away. " 'is there?' she asked. eau'-:- .<. if he'd told her a happ> v< n I. ''I'll. means I'm jroiiifx to * '? t t\'n,wl?l< n-loil it'll 1 . ?> . . M . - . . ...mi li II II . i ... I I I ' , I W i I it off on my kitclnui nj, <ir I'll spoil tho fortuiv ' "I not through IJio upper without I anything wor- ii : 11 : ; ?u I i 111 < fcnit. which t )vi;i Hi j mini! | to throw < ' 1' ' oniitor 1??'- j fore? sin li ill a i i ?i> kp a k, and ' <1 I D],pill ; VC ill! t !>(> I.-1111 ' 'ill . ; i w iiai I hat i was a i hi ' 1!! s : ;' \ " < ? I o help j I d " !; i an wori d. and ' I >v , i'; ivi v . ti n o. Hut i ?\ 1 illwayj : i". i*.t for wiping dishes 'it - . ;t , ; i v woina n \\ a hin in.. Ho I i 'i ' out iii f> t ho !i a \v : 'i i-v I . nppca ml i i? in* i working ' :i . with coal .i' I ; Ina proi: I : roili: ] my m > k. kWI.M * mi * 1 ,. > . > i III \\ ii :-i n <1 i. mi s iti mi iif . :in?l wliil<> ' : hi' was |int iinl; snuilj Hull iliiu Hi'' rot i.jorator i! hoi^ali to It II. Tho ! 'lit . 11 j ho lu aid it i" < a I led I o j Fi oil: Tako it off. Iidii'I you ; k: o\v it*j awt ill luck in liavo ji'otir j dish wator Itoii? Ilvi ry babbh adds I iiinro ; o ii.' " I for <i!:i< k it off Mi tin if 11 ro|t|>c 11100110'. oouiiir,. I \vo..h-r wiio it. is.' W ::n\ ihn v.ith th< ?ii~!i .' .\ : Ml It: i!) KI \ , 1(1 ] V fi < lit):' j i) much liko wo ' <. a a!i<r w <1 iiliI,,.. 1 1 r?. i I.1 .. I .. 1 .. ... . , I .1 ...H , I .1 I III ,| I I I I 111 I 111 ' i <>! lie;- ami h? an to . vv > p up -?o:.n> i!i In lis from ill' llfni'r. !: 11 Miniiii :/.< i| I In l-i . Kill v. It . |i ' 1 )! >11 t Von llli . ' ' !, " In nn,' nun i. " A i| v hli Miilii) ". ' i mi ;i\\ t ill i ' Ki ' Wi \, r i I i vo 1I;M1 ? iii' < >ni'11 it' Mill'<! w ! tlto ( ' *"(>> il.irt i ' i: I if 1 ;';i r I, which It i u ii Mi it i h;i! \*"i? \\f?11! t : i" >i I in! itii' s i ji .v! i 1 .k 1 i;<> ;iMo I i>. V. .1 l l ( If. I. ! .(i ii sllonc'i Vim'il l?i i ip< 'I \ our 1 V Oil"' . 11 ; !il> n ' ii,. I I 'ri-il oiil it 1 ;| ' .! ' < In- i;il;i ' - liljitf tlii?' 1 '? u i ; ''i iiin ;iry juk! a' i|??? . !i i ':> > !> (ir" l<? 'n.< hi V? rsatioh v inn atfinfi, . . ! I tloill : . I: i ! f .ilk i MIX. \V in II h i't( rriil't ?' - lie w:i. < \' b.\ exohiimit ' oh, |(Kiv' i M?iriM ' I y rich. a ml hti | i . '>!>!? jul > < 11#v .-iiol ;iI 1 ir (iI I h' lii :I ' ' > i : uiliff'ii ,i .I'-cd l ho :ii' ' <'. :II <1 111 ;i: ' 1 , : avc i I i ki.-s ih 'M proluiltiy in. I his* In way if ho iKI'l I) Ilrfi 'III) ' "I'i me aid I ' ii! whftt'p lhat forr " "M . . oil i hod ' ;plainod, nd >< i.aow wlui ; ,i monna. Sc.'o a i iitx? r, l<is> a ool or ho in dansor." I didn't win in hoc a 'raiiRor or h<- in dall^i . > I thought I <| take It "And then lie dodged uid erojwd , her lingers as I'Ted made a dive for ) A \ tier, and took it out in laughing at hiiu while ho threatened to sue for divorce 3f she culled him mimes any more. "Sho was quint for a while then til! she caught Fred hugging his knee as we watched i'or more sparks. " 'Don't do it,' she told litin. 'Every limn v..ii <1<? vim li.i.r 1.11 il.lo for the future. Besides, it's awfully bad manners.' "Fred allowed he take chances on the danger, and that it wasn't bad manners, with nobody hut her and me there, but she wouldn't have it, so there was nothing for Fred to do but straighten up. I began to think I'd light shy of these superstitious people. It looked like a good deal of work to get along with them. "When it came bed time, she aaid she was sure I'd sleep well, because the head of the bed was toward the north, and that was u mire sign. I went upstairs to bed. and dreamed of stubbing my left heel with my right too, and Rotting ninoty-nine years in prison for it. "Next morning Frc<l routed ms out in time for breakfast, and wo jollied each other more or less, laughing; some. Hut that wan dead wrong. "'Hotii of you boys will be crying before supper,' she unid when we iat down If) breakfast. " 'Mow so,? 1 asked. " Heenuse you were laughing before breakfast. It's certain to work' out Hint way. And yon,' alio added.) turning to me, "are goitiR to have J (lie worst luck of all. because you whistled before breakfast. There couldn't be anything worse than that.' "Hobble, who was at the table with Us t lii<; limn ivn? chiinioi' -j lat-lr 3o chipper (hat he waved his hand | across the (able and tipped over a i salt dish. " 'Throw some over your left I shoulder, quick, Bobbie,' I said, because tlint was the one supcrstiliton i was sure of, and I wanted to be in on the situation as much as 1 could. "But 1 was wrong again, it seems (here's a different rule for kids and grown-ups. 'Utile boys that spill salt on the table always get a whipping before bed time,' sr.id his mother. 'You'll have in be very good all day to pre\. tit it's ( (lining true, Robbie.' "MhI tix way tin* kid sobered up. I was sorry lor him. It" I'd been ( 't'd I'd have called off the superstition stunts while the kids were around. Hut probably he'd tried it and found out that it was unlucky to hint in. "Waslilinx dishes a little while lat? r. she dropped a cheap saucer and smashed it all to smithereens. " 'Lucky it wasn't one of the good ones,' said Fred, but she shook her head. " * 11 isn't so much this .aucer,' she said, 'as the six others.' "I asked for enlii;htcum nl and i;ol it. " 'Break a dish on Hiinday and you'll break one ev< -y day in the week. Heaven only knows what of the best China I'll have dropped by the ead of the week." I : i rolled out into (he yard after a while to have a smoke with Kred, but t'or:;ot my pipe and started back alter it. .lust as I was koIux out a iiin Minnie called after ine: hid you ;.it downV "Ml ( whielr." 1 asked. " Si doivn. Don't, for mercy's .at come haek into the house after . i> m-i hi:i> ?hi' ve forgotten without : i11in- down ;> minute, li s the worst lliin. vo;; could possibly do.' "So I ;;i down, counted sixty and wen; out. That was the only break I had till nearly dinner time, .lust as Minnie was calling us I sneezed, one of those s 11 eez< s that catches you bohind ih> ? ar ..mi blow^ your head off ( fore yon i , .re il.an half know if.';> ( oininfr. ('.oil lili s Mn.'" :ii 1 Minnie, and added Vnu'i'c >inr Io It ar jsonm droadfully I in i < ii . i: i;.-u within a few lion rs." " N'ovc 1' :?i <1 that one before," said Kr?'d "Von n?*\ ! lull) ino that.' Yon in :oi lia]>pcn? (1 lo snooze hoi w? ' -ii i:: a n i i.' fa Id his wife. 'Siurt-'/o wi h i .tn hour after noon !nd i( a i i i . i vuiuK lo hear n<"w, And tho li i' l the sneeze the liloio imp'>i niil t'n -iiko.' "I reel'oiioi! tli: ii tlii i liimc kept np Ik' n . ir> in ws I could hen r won hi I < ill iiiK ni" hack to il " c. T > stalls wore LiokIii tiin;{ t ? v <>!: i . nerves. '"Chore < -ill cranberry : inco lor t!i " ' \iaki o\( 1:iiiiic*< 1 M imi i . mi ' I UK (') lake " i i: I 1 i < i;< (1. " ' Hel m < < 11 ir. lie :<nl(1. I i It i. I In ! . atoii I li i: all V "No,' ,t id I. In 1)0 ubld to onr* 'Mm. "That ?i ritio i ><point her ft l (. \\'i II. jiii vv 'd. 'it'H I li" I I've hail, ill ' i ii> niftko i will. Yoil do i ' \ ml so t III \ I i i . |tor>nfill * i i i aiili'-rry in . while (hoy ni li il I I II f jll 'i !' 1)1 Ol I II'' uii on Ilib ia!?lt i i Homo i lit', not Itiiii; 1 iti'.'irod to \\ h. I lie :i I ' I iliic?' I , !'< (!. ? vplaitti 'l II i inaUo i i lie lir.-M I'i; ' vi i;?'iat)T in sea: dm, ii v. niic I rue. I it .i inc I Iii .1 l-'red. h allowed i The way il it in !(|c inc > hi in and iiii w Ii il he'd i. Cut Ii'' i I'll. At Ii' 'iiiic told i I'i lor fear i I I ;>oil tIi< ' liu' i Id way Ik- i d mado Ik . 1 i III i tul, il 11(1 ill I) Kllll I 11 < liini. Of I joined i . 1 >iit Frod hallo <1 fa i and I i. Said ho ; : i iaU?' hilu h slot u in i?na an hut it)i one iniil ! reasonat> l?? iiiin. :tii look any rhanoos "with ' ilinK a wlfih i hat Ik hopod would 11 m?) (rti?\ "Thorf wasn't any lot-up In Ilir> ,-i P' si if ion spasm all (ho timo 1 \va ? ? - ii tn .> in I'll i WilllMIlK III IIIC afternoon, Fred and his wife and rn<Sho saw a jl>1 n ou the tidewa.'k and $>. /? y *' chuckled bceauso the point wj?u toward her. 'That brings tho good luck just Vo much quicker,' bIio explained. It way cold and damp, and during tho afternoon a couple of ilakcs of nearsnow fell. She wished on those, and tried to et Pred to. Ilut he wouldn't. " 'I've made my one wish,' he said, and swore ho wouldn't make another. | " iitaf luvt',,,.,. onttunf alivmto sight of the new moon, and hnd to whirl around three times and repeat some sort of incantation bocautso she saw it over the wrong shoulder lirst. Then she sprung a new one. " 'Got any money in your pockets, you boys?' she asked. "We allowed we had a little. "Then turn it over, quick,' she said. "We did it and she explained that it meant we'd have plenty of money till the next new moon. "There were half a dos?.en more that, evening, but the climax didn't come till 1 was leaving in the morning. Fred was coming down to the city with me, and we went out by the side door, to cut across lot? to the it At ion. Hut we hadn't mono twenty fe?t before Minnie called ue b?ck with a aoreoch. "Fred probably thought the baby i had swallowed a pin. I reckoned tha house wan on fire, and so we both turned and ?hot back. "Minnie grabbed me a.t the door and pulled nie ir.sids, and tken turned 011 Fred. 1 " Don't you know any better than that?' ?h<* awked. 'Here you've tak^n him out of a different door from the one ho came in by. That't; the moirt awful bad lin k that could happen to anybody. You've got to go out tlio front door.' "Fred emitted u groan, but dashed i for the front door and told tue to follow on the jump, becaune we were j late for the train as it was. Hul Min- > lile blocked the way. I ? " 'Sit down a minute,* she said to I in#?. 'You know it's a fearfully dan- J gorous (liing to come back into a house withour. silting down. 1 told j you that yesterday.' "So I plumped into a chair for about four seconds and then started, Fred holding the? door open so wc could make a dash for the station. We were some out of breath when we pot on the train, from running to make up the lost time, hut as soon as ho hegan to breathe normally again, Fred looked at me and 1 looked at him. " 'Say.' ho said, 'want to know what I wished over that cranberry . yesterday?' " 'Sure,' said I. 'if you don't think | it'll spoil the charm.' " 'Hang the charm!' he exclaimed. 'What. I wished was that Minnie would forgot nhonl ton million signs and omens for the rest of her natural born life."?Providence Journal. WORDS Ol \\ ISDOM. flood looks may a man a wife, ' imi 1 good manners hold her Io?g< r. When it oome? to faring the music, nearly all the kir 1 are willing if it is a \V( dding inarch. \s for lieav. til ?ii . m . little cllll- j dren who lieli< v< n Saina Clans have a monopoly of Ih . One reason locors disagree is because they h:;vi i:'l had a ehanee to get together and "consult." It is a wise i n who doesn't for- j K( . i :;ally and wonder if he is making fo >1 of himsedf. About the : 1. thing all the stock- i holders in a ! ought to l>?? larger. Fnrtherni<> . how can woman expect to li ili'' political scale as long as sli" : i '>11 the lloor to put on . her shoes? I'erev .Wi : ;ivs Hint he used !o have ;i vn , i . wlio was so narrow niimh ti he- h- i > part his hair eross- 1 ways Takiiif.' it 1 and largo and on the average, i!t< azine writer wlio is proudest <> ! literary style has the fewest i i ; Ther> i who would ratlxr have ti ti'.il in nothing to talk about. What 11 the lr<pilot's owner mad is tl i fir a fresh bone to a blue 1 ihl A in; 'i t lly willinc; to admit thai 1 11 i - . 1 a; lira t ion ii in i 1 ho riink' ; ! hit. Rome:; !< ! ronson ii man lik< < t o i ' n> 11; ! 'in is heca 11. " he diiren't ill:1 i\vn t.1 A w " 1 l< (>! a "comfy" lunch Is a 15' 1 > iliiiiK to cat and a Ul!V,'\ !' Ill Weill', Tali ir 1 : . lie is and on the avcrar.f > would lalln-r he trill l> I ]>'' : ' :11 yl hi: eh e ill til i.' world. Win" ' i' < r do -a't snv lu r hah ' i ii Ii . n't had its | n:u . ti i Ii'tm i. . il has just \valc?<l V.'Immi ' .'i ' to (ho kIi'Ir, none of i lieu I 1 it \ oil lit' nihil is willing to ':ni :r tiritloih if In- can't ;;ot in on I it' ii.(i lloor. \ny v -iiian will ix vcr amount to iiiik Ii i lilies until si in jjivcs up tlir i?l?lililini? her ?|oor kr>y un(1 r iIn -n il liafll's l?ur^lars.? I mm Shots," hi i ho Dalian Xi \V: . I!, i fMuni in lllooin. V1 ii ihe Hi on I: >tanlcn1 f!;i1 "1" n i nov 11:iv 11' itniMiinl ' . i> : i iIIK a :i('fics of aira \ < iii ' n 'I'll'1 i.lanf i in t li<> ( -mi: < ! |ii|!?li<- :i rvatorioH, ' i I . loi ins |> < r 'it 111' r? ?| I: ion <>! A ban (1 plants inb-d during t!i mm or. It it ]>r< tlio tnosl <'<)11. pb-IIOliS <>I?< ! iii Hi "?11? (tion. I'roni tlicioirfil CO und to r .ipox of tho brown llo riim sloin, w ii! -Ii has ;i basal dk'i ' '"i" of nlio it two and t\ half In< I . il irt nincifon foot two lliohos t: P. about, om rpmrtcr of this longth 1" in occupied by tho intlmsnnon. - ,\. w York lJotanbal Garden Journal. j Tonvi i .-ition 1h a Rood form of rx! I'rrlsp for I afflif-frwl uillh liourf ! Ulscane. , . ( .... xtr^riv. 1 IMtpFff HISTORY OF ROAD BUILDING. IMrst Iiaw to Improve Vnltcd Slates Highways Passed in 1(J3U. My K. 1j. POVVKHS. Our public road* are an evolution from the primary paths made by animals and by men. Of the identity of the first heinr,b- who made paths id the wilderness we are uncertain. Whatever their character and origin, we mfcy be reasonably certain that fhey had toads of sonic sort. it cannot be positively asserted that (he mouud-buildiuK Indian? uiade ro Jul a, but that audi was the case Beenui not unlikely. Several circum- 1 stances indicate that they ImiJ some 1 ayatem of communication. The re- ' mains of their works are often found 1 on atrwRDis that were uot navigable, 1 and group* of them are found con- ' centrated alx>ut natural strategeic points such an mountain passea, thus making natural the inference that * some avenues of overland travel ei- 1 isted. Road building began at centres, 1 and spread out with the spreud of population. Probably the real work of opening the roads in America be- ! gat) with the bridle pat lis on the At lantio Slope. In 1639 u measure was ! passed in the Massachusetts Buy Col- ' niiy which provided that two or three ' men from adjacent towns tot togeth- 1 ??r and lay out proper roads. They ' wore instructed to place ihe roads whore they might he most convenient, ami those deputed lo tiie work were to iiavo the power to locate them j ' wherever they chose provided it did not necessitate pulling down a man's house or going through liis garden or | orchard. These men seem to have , been (about) the first highway com- . mis9ioners of whom we have record. \ In 17G0 there were three routes , running through Southwestern Penn- ! ( syivania. Central Pennsylvania and Central New York. These roads arc ] said to have boon wide enough for I I wo pack horses to pass In 1 7 f? 5 two roads were opened westward by troops nl Washington, Hraddock and Forbes. ' j These were long Hails widened by 1 pack horses of the Ohio Companies' ' agents. Uraddock'.; 'road was cut I hrough in I 7~>r>. 11 I it about 1 N: 2 Hie development of 1 l.he railroads took from the National ' Pike die bulk of navel and (radio, as 1 well as (he mails between the Mast j' ami West. Thus beiran the ]ieriod of 1 decline of the moh'i lain);::; road in our history. In l I. I sor, and 1 S00. through (ii" favor <11' I h National Congress. the l.owis (Marl; expedition v.;1;; organized, for I lj. pitrpo.-o of est ah- 1 lishing a route from the Atlantic to j the Pacific by following tho Missouri | ' to ils source, i rossing to ami following to t idewiit( ] ih" groat rivet' which ' lornu tho :out!i"i,n boundary of tho State of Washington. Great credit is; duo Meriwether Lewis and Captain Clark and their company of explorers in carrying out thia work. Praise is also due to .John C. Fremont, the em-I inent engineer, who in 184 4 surveyed ; a route to these shores through what was then named the South I* us of Hock les. Tin* plunk road came into existence as a rival of macadam construction in the year 1 X:{r.. The first road of 11t is sort to lie huilt in the United State was constructed at Syracuse in IM'.T. A large number of plank road companies were organized, and within fifteen years frotn the Introduction <>f : that method of road construct lo i 121 til', miles had been constructed in the State of New York. The e road were usually built single track and i?f planks, eight by three inches, laid <>n stringers resting on more or !? \v< II j laid foundations. The average cost j in New York was? loss than $"eno pi r mile, and their cheapness m:i:l I h< 111 popula r. r.as' (I roadways appear to hav rcci\id attention ill the luivii ; :un! i it. i- s lifforo very imicli attention was i\ < m to I h?* subject of countr> road 1 miiIr 1111According mo t antlienl ie record:;, the first pavement* j laid it: li?> I'liited Stater wcr<- put down almost simultaneously i i tlie <'i of N< w Vork and Mos'on in the ear Tlieso pavement.; tiavc I M n I erred to as pehbh , proliai'ly \ .ii we would call cobbl* . lot)'- | iv? i. :it . Tlie development of tliis In in !i of road IniildiliK ha ; b"< n l iiMK-iil i > a liiull state of d< elopm?nt. chin, of course, to the treat ai "tint and diversified nature of th< tnifiii to ho accommodated. The modern awakening to the >io. < > >i> for belter roads, or, a- it is ihor. commonly called, the pood load! inovciiirnh begun iri lvs." when I ! , |,l,.V ...I,. triii ...... I .. .. Ituyt l' H became very popular, and in i 1 m <'(|ikmic<> a lai'K'' army of n< \v 11. i> of ilu' highways was produced. 'I ln < wheelmen fpilckly saw the ne<' 11\ for better highways, not only for hemselves, but for all oilier road in i a well. 'I hoy organized them s> lv< and he^ati issuing literature callint the attention of the public in the i' at loss entailed from lack of i hell' lounivv roads. Statistics were piil>! Ii'mI idiowlnr 'lie cost of had road io the farmer and to all other oitiz. n This literature was Kent hroadca t anil the newspaper:* were appci I' I to. The press alwayr n most i on-nt factor in the molding of public 'minion took the matter up. and p'llilic senllmonf w.is aroused Tlif 'lflico of Public Hrifds watt 1nnuKur.Hi.l in the year ISO:', iri the 1Tu11<m! Stains Department of Ap;rir-111 ture for the purpose of disseminating Informal iA'i, testing materials and giving instruction In (lie art (if road building. Statistics compiled and published h\ this office in lh? year 1004 rIiow that fit that time there were 2.1 r. i.o7 miles of roads In the I'nited States. of thix mileage, however, only 1 r.f?.,0r,2 miles were of tmproveri roads, or a little more trtnn ??even per cent, as compared with In*1 " :otal length of all tlio roads In tfi? :ountry. Education, organization and administration aro tlio great factors In carrying on the work of road buildng; let them all bo gh'on due attention. It may be true that wo aro on the evo of great developments in the lavigauon or me air. witn tne ouuang of roads above the earth we are not concerned at present. We have [he roads hero on earth to-day, and jvo will have them with us to-morrow. We must rely upon them, and therefore we must make them good. We "an do this through unity of action, ihrough enterprise and through education and organization.?New York rimes. Maraduiii Montis Co?t $?JOC a Mile. Harold Parker, chairman of tho Massachusetts Highway Commission, r quoted at some length to the effect that while $100 a mile had been :he previous cost for maintaining macadam roads, that to keep them in H?rfectly good condition at least $300 i mile should now be provided. "Figures in the possession of the Wai?saehu6ett?s Highway, commission shew that about, fifty-three per cent, af the destruction of 8tate highways ' is due to automobiles." . "It may be, and. indeed, it hporis almost ertain that a material will be found, If it has not already been found, which, when placed upon the surface, :ji- embodied irr <1ip top course of a macadam road, will offer a surfacing which will not be destroyed by the abrading motion of the automobile wheels." It is evident, according to Mr. Rich- i ii unuu, wiai UM' wcsi i vpt* Ui IMUIIIary macadam road that can ho constructed to-day will ho rapidly destroyed by motor traffic, and that recourse must be had to a bituminous macadam for relief. The question, Lhen, is that of the additional cost OUT OF FASHION'. Vlrn No lyonger Carry Their llats to the Drawing lloom When ('ailing. A number of customs which used to be part and parcel of the social | system are beiiiK much modified or ire fast disappearing altogether. Paying afternoon calls, for instance, and conversation after dinner have been completely elbowed out by bridge. "Dining out, unless you are a l>li<lt?f> iilnvw is rpdiicoil to :? mini. muni," Hays the Gentlewoman, "aiul those who cannot join in the fashioriliio game have to lie content with an Invitation to luncheon where they used to dine. "Among the minor changes in fo: iti 1 usages 1 have remarked lately Ihat it is now quite demode for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman under any circumstances whatever, xcept just for going into dinner, and I hut perfunctory sign 'if feminine weakness will ulso probably disappear very soon. "Formerly after dancing, and when '"'inin to supper at a ball, young 1 ladi"S always put. their hand through ' ihe arm of their partner, but now if any one did such ? tiling in an up to ilate ballroom they would be looked upon as ( in the phraseology of the ria> > not quite there. "Ilow very seldom too yon see a j man in iiH'.vf? uiiys, nm in nanu, in a lady's drawing room! I'p to quite a short time ago elderly gentlemen who went to evening parties invariably walked in, 'crush hat' under arm; while every man, whether young or old, went ii|i to the drawing room, hilt in hand, when going to visit a lady. It used to he said that this custom differentiateil a social call from thai of a doctor or lawyer. "The practice had Us inconveniences, for there was always a danger of an all too heavy foot being planted in the middle of a band new silk topper' by an absent minded fellow \isnor. nnynow, wncmer lor good or evil, the custom l,;;s disappeared like many others." High <'ost of I??*11 ii(y. Though the nrest ription seems to have disappeared from t.lio pharmacopia of modern "l?c*u?ity specialists," it waa for centuries notorious that to feed on snake meat, was the way to win perpetual youth; to euro goiter, or any other swelling, all that was necessary was to munch a viper, from the tail tip, as it. might lie a slick of celery; while yet another snake, if eaten, conferred the power of 11 ml. i':>(and 1 ng all the tongw of birds. Hath For flu* Capitol. The I'niled Stati eapitol icens its annual hath a short lime before I'dtlKro: s convenes, the toilet articles! that are used consisting of about i:."??)?> feet. of hose in tho expert hands Of one company of lho lire department. Powerful streams of water at high pressure remove dust, Hpider webs, insects of all kinds, birds' nests and other foreign subst'ilicis from i ho many crevices. Knee llreeclies Forefohl. According to tho opinion of Mr. Thornton, who presided at a recent, conference of the foreman tailors of London, men's dross will soon unricrj;o a great change and the present stvlos will irive wax to "morn classic." garments. Knee brooches and fancy waistcoats will be introduced. 11()\ i( ( !(>< '(>(>1 (looms. An unusual means lias been devised for eoolliiK the rooms of the Railroad Club on the roof of a Now York City oilier building. A >rlass covering has been l?iiill above the rooLproper and over ihis a stream of water is kept eonslanlly running. Tho water H dr.'.wn off in copper leaders. The flight I'lftee. Tlio Tramp? Ah, Mister, what Would you do If you felt like you did not have a friend in the world?" Tho Rich Man "What would 1 do? Why, I'd apply for a joh as baseball um l?iro, 01 course. ? nicngo incws. Members of Hie London Stock lOxehnnge wore trimmed by a faker Hilling "Imitations" of common almond nuts at two cents each. But Mm "imitations" turned out to bo real nuts, showing ihat brokers know more about melons thar nuts. > f ?.? i .j TAKE A DOSE OF PISO'S > CURE ^ m tEST tttWURt fOTt (?VlUKtf??ia$ III will Ltutaoli) relieve th~t racfcicc cough. 51 T*Imq promptly it will ohw pic vent hi A^riimn, Baaoubitu and setioiu tbioot and H Iuttjjjrtpblos. Guaranteed ?a(c and very I All DrociItU, 2G cent*. jj HMWaiMMPSWaagjgjiipajl gurrHE BESICOTTON SEfD (nersiajKi your yield 100 to 500 pounds iJnfc p?rk<M,?, by ulimtW ' Slmpkins Prolific" ab?olutoly Uie> beet. O ur ar<uiU*c with ovory aack. pmV up lt| 3 J-J! buahol ba**. Price $i.2o i*tr t>uah?l f.o.b. HaUiffh, Ordnr uulck. if you warvi lbs b<Ml uiloi'tfil wwd. OlIA UAN'I KK KICD COMPANY, ft T. Hon. M'tfr. ? XT til I trlr.-.li M fi iw. " " Do u you would bo done by. M?w to lieot* Baby's Hklu Clear. Jfaw parents roailae how many estlrnabl* llvofi have been embittered and social uud buBliioaa cueouus pro-* vent*d by c?ilous nkln affections whloh to ?ff*u rt*>?!t fi-oin tb<> neglect of iulaor ruptiout; lr infancy and childhood. With but a littl* care and tho uae of tke proper Jnolliento, baby's stein and hair may be pro??rT?d, puilfi?d and buautifiod, minor wnptioua praventod from becoming chronic aud torturing, disfiguring rauhe?, itchinge, irrltationa and chafing* dispelled. To thle end, nothing is bo pure, so sweet, ?o speedily effective as tho use of Outicura Boa p. assisted when noc?fuuiry, by Cutlcura Olnttnont.. Seud to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp.. nolo proprietor*?, Uoeton, Muss., for tholr free 3J-pagv Cutlcura Hook, tolling all about the care and treatment of the Hkin and uc-nlii The o&p HlwayH fits the utility cue. WlfMN YOITH BACK ACI1KH SUSI'KCT TUK KIDMKVS. Rackache 1a kidney oche In moat mmm. The kldueys ache and throb with dnll palu becnuoe there is in^ \ rew$lcv,r? '*le caupe?1',? Vtr j) yiffM kldnovw. Donn'sKldney Pllln cure sick utjyu to normal condition. Remember the name?Donn's. For sale by nil dealers. r>0 cents a box. Foster-Mil burn Co., Duffnlo, N. Y. Ho thut Ih faultier is iiffl^KS. The old practice of dueling in Onrman universities was a harmless amusement compared with football as it Ih played today, and a gr<y;)i many people are now* asVim; tffb question: Are the coIIckob and nnl vornltlea of tho layd countoniinelng nmrdor? declares the .Tnok5onville Times-Union. If t 1j??y are, tho Stato should not do If. Tho gamo should ho * tap pod until those uMio play it eliminate hoiulcld?> from it. Thoro la nothing sained by way of componnation for tho wook-ly toll of victims unla?H tho enjoyment of those who w1*h to omriiko In brutal ?port an<| of tho cmwdh that wIkIi to wit newt It aro coaaldorod ? A.t any rato. It wo oaii't stop the homicide of football, wc cun quit talking about tlm brutalizing e?ftM?1? <W IkiII flfjhts, unlo?K wo value th?N lil> of a Mexl. on kiill . V>.. .. tl.nl ..f .... A ni^?. iran coIIcko bov. A Toogue Twister. Tho watch that iwato.hcd tho watch that watched Umt wart oh, watched tho watch that watx'iied the watch that watched that watch watch that watoh.--<Now York THftKrn id. Avera the Boston Post-?Yes, wo havo given away too much from tho ptiitolio'K treaauroa. Tho past is, per: hapfs. irrevocable, 'but tho present, j and tbo futuru arc in our own hands. It is timo to stop short and make c. now it-solution si IK vi ir nut It Wius a Hard I'lill, It in hard to bdiovo tiirtt coffeo *111 put ? person in puch condition ?s It did nn Ohio woman. Shu tella her own story: "1 did not believe coffer cruised my rroui)lo, und fr?(juontly naid 1 lik?d it so wall I would not, and could not (jiiit drinking it^ 1>tit 1 was a rniBerablo gufforor from heart troublo and norvouw proHtration for four years. "I wiih ncarcely able to be around, had no oner^y uud did not caro for ! anything. Was emaciated and hod a. ] constant pain around my heart until I thought I could not endure it. For I months I never went to bed expecting? to get up In tho morning. I felt as though I waa liable lf> di<" any time. ' "Frequently I had nervous chills | and the leant excitement would drive sloop away, ami any little noise would upoot mo terribly. I was gradually getting worno until finally one time it tamo over mo and I asked myself i what's tho line of being bIoU all tho> i time and buying medicine so that I j could Indulge myself In < offoe? "Ho I thought I would If I could quit drinking coffoe and K"t BOme Pontum to holp ni? quit. I made (lfc I strict y according to dlrectlona find I ) want to toll you, tliat change wan tho grnntc?t stop In my 1 ifIt was easy | to quit coffen because 1 had tho I'ortum which I now like bettor than th? old coffeo. "One by ono the old troubles loft* until new I tun lu splendid health, n?rv?? atoady, hoari all right and the pain nil gono. Never have any more nervous chills, don't take any modlolno, nan do all my housework and t\ n ?f A /I < 11\ a (i rrrmi I I V\<\oi<(i> " unrv uuini a <m , Road "Tho Honrl to Wnllvillo," In pkgn. "Thero'a ft Rennon." Kver rrnrt the above Wlrr? A n<?w, on? from time to time. They ota gnnnloc, trno, and full of human Interest. 9

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