The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1909-1911, August 31, 1911, Image 6
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F there is any field of public.
spirited activity in the United
States which stands out con
spicuous above all others be
cause of recent progress it is
that which concerns itself with
the betterment of our public
highways. If anybody had pre
dicted a few years back that the
beginning of the second decade
of the twentieth century would
see so marked and widespread
an improvement of the public
roads of the United States he
would probably have been
laughed at by all save those few
enthusiasts who were looked upon until a short
time ago as "cranks."
This is not saying, mind you, that there is not
much yet to be done to bring the highway sys
tem of this great land to the point where it ought
to be and to maintain it there. We are still a
very long way behind most of the countries of
the old world-notably our sister republic of
France-in the condition of our roads. But that
is perfectly natural, not because the foreigners
are any better road builders than we are, but
Simply because their highways have been in the
making for Many centuries, whereas we have
mighty few turnpikes that are more than one
hundred or at most two hundred years old. And
furthermore on to) of the youth of our country
in road building there is the circumstance of the
tremendous size of Uncln Sam's domain. No
Wonder the luropeans have been able to have
good roads when half or two-thirds as many peo
plo as ,wo have in this whole vast country have
been contributing their work and their taxes lo
keep up the roads in a territory no larger than
one of our mdium size states.
But for all the leal' given by time and the ad
vantage of dense population it looks as though
we wvould overtake our cousins overseas in the
matter of the possession of good roads. Indeed,
oven now in some states, suchu as sections of
Massachusetts, there are roads an fine as any
thing of similar character on the other side0 of
the big pond(. The secret of this boom in road
building in America lies in organization as wvell
as agital ion and the country is likely to see new
fruits from both during the middle wveek of Sep
tembher when a "Good Roads Week" will be held
throughout the United States. This week of
"missionary wvork" is expected to stir up a good
ly share of our people On tihe question of good
roads and it is hoped that some of the new con
Verts aund the old will that wveek practice what
they preach to the extent of lending a handl to
the building here and there of stretches of
"muodei roadi" that will serve ase convincing object
lessons.
"Good Roads Week" is going to be held in con
nection with the first annual convention of the
Americanu Association for Highway Improvement
which will be held at Richmond, Va., and wvill be
addressed by many of the most pirominent men
in the country. This national organization will,
of course, be much in the public eye in this con
nection, but it is only one of scores of associa
tions great and small that have been helping in
this cause. There are state organizations and
county organizations and even township organi
zaitions all over- the country that have been suip
porting our national, state and municipal govern
ments in what they have been doing for better
reads, and the results attained prove what can be
accomplishued when a large number of people who
are very much in earnest set out to all "pull to
gether" toward a dlesired goal.
A good many people who have not looked very
deeply into the subject have gained the idea that
the motorists are more largely responsible than
any other class of people for this dawning era of
good roads. Now, it would not be right to dis
parage what the automobilists have done, which
has been considerable in one way or another, but
in the interest of the truth it must be pointed
out that the one factor supreme in influence for
better roads has been the wide-awake farmer. To
be sure it is a fact, and a 'mighty significant one,
that the largest and most powerful corporations
in the country--business interests such as our
biggest railroads and the steel trust and the
Standard Oil corporation-are working energetic
ally with the new American Association for High.
way Improvement becauae they realize that any.
thing that will help the condition of the country
at large will help their business. At the same
time it is the farmer class that are supplying the
backbone of this movement just as they are of
every ether big movement affecting rural condi
tions and have been from time out of mind.
It is just as well to admit right here, too, that
the average farmer who is going in hard for the
cause of better roads is not devoting his time and
his labor to the prof'ect on any fanciful sentiment
al basis. Of course, it contributes to his pride to
flee his farm bounded or bisected by a splendid
road and he is gratified that the good folk who
go past his door pleasure riding sh-ould have an
easy pathway, but the great underlying impetus
is found in the need of good roads to enable the
farmer to market his -produce conveniently and
economilcally.
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:Busy Times in Minnesota
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ne. Those in charge of digging the state drainage
od ditches complain that they cannot keel) men be
red cause the farmers grab the laborer-s to work in the
Leir harvest fields, says the St. Paul Dispatch. A Min
neapolis man with an automobile tells how he was
ont shanghaied by those tvho wantedl a machine in
on- wvhichio ride to and from their work as burglars
out It would seem as though no one is .safo in these
be usy harevne times.
BAIT IS A HUMBUC
Queer Freaks In Lures Thai
Tempt Finny Tribe.
Piscatorial Brood Eagerly Jump foi
Hobgoblin Monstrositlea 'that
Would be Food only f or
Billy Goats.
St. Paul, Minn.-Why does a fisll
bite? Of course there is the angler's
dexterity, adroitness, luck, experience,
personal magnetism and all that, and
everyone can tell why a fish doesn't
bite; there are as many jinx as there
are fishermen. But why does a fish
bite? What is the psychology of bait1
Doubtless angling originally con
sisted in offering something to tempt
the appetite of the piscatorial brood.
But that idea seems almost to have
dropped out of the world-old business
of fishing. For of all the hundreds of
lures used by casters for fish few
would satisfy hunger. If the game
sought were billy goats or ostriches,
the combinations of rubber, tin, glass,
paint and feathers might be tempting.
But why any sane fish will jump for: a
red and green hobgoblin that resem
bles nothing it ever has seen' before,
is a mystery to fishermen. And why
It will grab it today and pass it by
with cold disdain tomorrow is as doep
a mystery.
They're inconsistent, too, and you've
got to give theni something new all
the time. Now, the ibis fly is the bob
ble skirt of angling. Last year it was
the bucktail, and the year before
something else. You've got to keep
up on the fashions in flies if you want
to catch fish.
The ibis fly resembles nothing that
the fish feed on. A vermillion feather
hides a hook that may or may not
have attached a "tab" of salt pork
Yet the fishermen who have caught
the big bass this year say there is
nothing so good as the ibis fly. The
fish take it and the angler has no re
gret in being a nature faker.
Th'ere is a story of the buck tail's
origin that, being a fish story, cannot
be questioned as to its authenticity
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Some Freak Artificial Baits.
A hunter in the north, stalking deer
saw a herd in a lake and while get
ting range saw a large fish jump ro
peatedly at the tail of a buck. Aftem
bringing down the deer he fixed thE
tail on a hook; it proved the best bail
he ever had used. The buck tail fly
a brown and white tuft of hair, is s
good bait, though there is no inseci
listed that it could have been copied
from.
But the buck tail and ibis fly are
attractive morsels to human eyes,
compared with the monstrosities thai
the fish have been invited to bite at
in seasons past. Any self-respecting
fish getting in early from a little craw
dad supper of the night before might
not be blamed for mistaking an ibis
or a buck tail for something he had
seen in pairs, or fours, at somne other
time. But the fish that strikes at a
"coaxer,"~ or a "yellow kid," twe
freak baits, probably has had domes
tic troubles.
The Paris of fish bait fashions is
in the east, and it is a notable fact
that none of the frivolous things have
come from prohibition t.orritory. The
inventor of fish lures has a tempera
ment that is not fostered in dry coun
tries. Take the "coaxer," It re
ser~ibles a miniature rooster In pro
file; a hunk of white wood is set off
by a port tail of red feathers and two
cute little suggestions of wings of red
felt. Natural histories show no
freaks that could have been the in
spiration for this. And the coaxer is
some persuader, anglers will tell you.
From the impressionistic school
conmes the "roamer;" the motif of this
is purely allegorical. In your worst
nightmares you may have seen the
roamer family in various colors, The
roamer also is cigar-shaped; it has a
round head with protruding eyes and
a fan tall that is a beauty. Six wrig
gly red legs-guaranteed to wriggle
add to the grotesqueness and hide the
hooks, The prevailing color is a mot
tied green with white underneath,
Somehow the roamer makes a strong
appeal to the fish.
And in all this catering to the
whims of the haunters of deep pools,
the designers have not forgotten the
tender phase that has a part in the
fish's existence--the season of senti
ment. For this there is the moonlight
minnows-they even gave it a poetic
name. For night fishing this bait
has succeeded, and typifies earthly
love. Ungainly and of a dead white
in the day time, it glows into a grace
ful shape as it is dIrawn along the
surface of the water at night, Several
hooks are hidden in its nebuious5ness,
but the fish donn't krnow it
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The Bridegroom's Portion.
Miss Elsie Gentsch, who teaches
Sunday school, had been reading to
her class from the gospel of Matthew,,
and was examining a promising boy,
a newcomer, about the subject matter.
"There were ten virgins," said the
young man, "five wise ones and five
foolish ones, and the five wise ones
filled their lamps and the five foolish
ones wasn't in no hurry. And at
midnight came the bridegroom. So
the five foolish ones went across the
street to buy oil and got locked out."
"Very good," said the teacher.
"And what did the bridegroom do?"
"Why," said the good little student,
"he married the five wise ones."
Cleveland Leader.
HIS COLOR CHAR
Evelyn-But when it comes to love.
making H-arold is rather green, isn't
he?
Myrtle-Not now.
Evelyn-Indeed I
Myrtle-No, he's blue; I rejected
him last evening.
GET POWER.
The Supply Comes From Food,
If we get power from food why not
strive to get all the power we can.
That is only possible by use of skil
fully selected food that exactly fits
the requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a
poor fire is not a good steam producer.
"From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs, I suf
fered grievously for a long time from
stomach troubles," writes a lady from
a little town in Missouri.
"It seemed as if I would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for me hardly anything that
I could eat would stay on my stomach.
Evory attempt gave me heartburn and
filled my stomach with gas. I got
thinner and thinner until I literally
became a living skeleton, and in time
was compelled to keep to my bed.
A few months ago I was persuaded
to try Grape-Nuts food, and it had such
good effect from the very beginning
that I have kept up its use ever since.
I was surprised at the ease with which
1 digested it. It proved to be just
what I needed.
"All my unpleasant symptoms, the
heartburn, the inflated feeling which
gave me so much pain disappeared.
My weight gradually increased from
98 to 116 pounds, my figure rounded.
out, my strength came back, and I aim
now able to do my housework and en
joy it. Grape-Nuts food did it." Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
A ten (lays' trial will show anyone
some facts about food.
TIeadl the little book, "The Road to
W ellvilie," in pkgs. "There's a reason."
Ever rend the above letter? A new
OnE Appena from time to time. They
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