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Bond Work For France. In his report to the Mayor of New York on the International Road Con? ?. gr ess at Paris, to which he was a del egate, Chief Engineer Nelson P. .Lewis, of the New York City Board of Estimate and Apportionment, refers io the French road organization in the following terms: . "Tho French highway system, has been in evolution. The work of con struction and maintenance is entirely under the control of the Engineers of Bridges and Roads, a thoroughly trained corps of technical men consti tuting what is probably the greatest engineering organization in the R* world. All of the roads in commune, " department or city are under their jj Jurisdiction. There is no conflicting %'?' authority, no .diversity of policy or method in contiguous 'departments or communes. The results have been so striking that the nationalization ci highway work has lately been advo cated in Great Britain. This policy is In marked contrast to that prevailing In this country, and especially in the city of New York, where in five bor oughs there are five distinct highway bureaus entirely independent of each other, each one of which has its own organization, its own methods of ad ministration and its own standards of work. The French system of nation alization might not-be adapted to the ( conditions existing in this country, but that system has resulted in France in the best built and perhaps the most thoroughly maintained highways in the world, while in this, city there is palpable waste of ener gy, material and money, and the re sults are by common consent unsatis . factory. This is not Intended as a condemnation of what we do at home and an exaltation of what is done abroad. We have heard quite enough of that. Street maintenance in Paris is expensive, although it is very thor ough, while some excellent work is being done in this city; but with a better organization, more co-opera tion and more intelligent investiga tion, vast improvements could be ef fected." In speaking of highway adminis tration, in the French capital, Mr. Lewis says that the conspicuous fea ture is "the constant investigation and experiment which is being car ried on by trained experts. Analyti cal Investigation of the composition of pavements, instituted by M. Buffet, Engineer of Roads and Budges, in 1868, has developed into the present municipal laboratory, which has con stantly extended the field of its tests and studies until to-day it is undoubt edly the finest in existence. Appara tus for testing resistance cf paving materials to wear by friction was in stalled in 1868, and in IS73 there was added a machine for testing the resistance to abrasion of stone used in macadam roads. A special drilling machine is in use for testing the thickness and the degree of compres sion of asphalt pavements. This ma- j chine makes a round hoje only one.| and three-eighths inches in* diameter, - ?which is simply and effectively re- j -fllled without mutilation of t^ie pave- \ ment. Constant experiments are in progress to determine the life of this material and the forces which con tribute to its r'sstruction. In order that these problems may be most ef fectively studied, the laboratory makes use'of an artificial 'rotter,' by means of ' which the action of these forces and clements can be intensified and their effects studied. In Paris, as elsewhere, the difficulty of main taining pavements on streets contain ing surface railway tracks has been apparent, and there has been in use since 1905 a device for testing the flexure of rails under the traffic of the .cars which they are designed to ac-j ?commodate and that of vehicles which I follow them. Appliances for sprink ling and cleaning the pavements have -received much attention. This work Is considered a part of the street maintenance, although in the case of .pavements other than macadam this .expense is kept separately, as al-j ready indicated."-Good Roads Mag* azine. - . . < ! Hardshell Baptists Down South. Thirty years ago young men were j leaving the Baptist ministry becauso they were required to preach close] communion. Now there is nobody l?reabout to defend it. Even Profes-1 sor Wilkinson ls silent. In the South the doctrine still sur-1 ?vives. A Baptist church in Atlanta! called Hugh S. Wallace to be its pas tor. He told them that he did not be lieve in close communion, but they said that made no difference and unanimously called him. The ministers refused to ordain him and the people still stood by him. A second time the committee of min isters declined, and thir, time the church weakened and Mr. Wallace withdrew, but be has set up a tent to preach in and will build a church of-hls own.-The Independent. Impure Air and Wrinkles. . Some recent writers on the subject of wrinkles hold that th* air in our rooms should be changed three times every hour. The skin owes Its beauty to the nerve3 which control the fine blood vest?s of the surface, whose work lends glow and clearness to the face. The nerves In turn owe-their sen sitiveness to the air, which is our I chief nutriment, inhaled by gallons! hourly, and should be pure and in vigorating. When the nerves are ?deadened by close air the fine muscles lose their tone, the tissue of the face shrinks and these shrinkages become wrinkles.-London Glob i. Fanny Spots In -'Life." Duck-"That mud turtle down there has just been trying to make me believe that he is over fifty years ?id." Bird-"The very idea! Audrie ls not out of his shell yet!"-"biston Transcrlot THE END Ol -Cartoon by C. WAGES HAVEN'T KEPT PRICES, SA\ Alexander McDonald Sees No I; Nothing For the Future, an a Readjustment Somevv Cannot Support Hi Cincinnati, Ohio.-Alexander IV some declarations on .the high cost o coming as they do from one of the i McDonald, who "ls seventy-six years ol health, nevertheless keeps in close to; "It is becoming impossable for meet. I do not recall when the cost o kept pace with prices. We will have "It is not good that the mass of hand-to-mouth existence. There is no lng for the future. The saving abilit: "I cannot see how the clerk who support a family and save at the san tion cannot be anything but bad. I things, and those who have means ar? "The automobile, for instance, financial standing. The result is that show as for use. "This is an age of much business titles. I say that nine-tenths of such is most deplorable. "I have two grandchildren (the for the hand of one of these girls am would order him to citar out." FOR COST OF L Congressman Hull Asks For ? of Ohio, Statesman-Farmer, uation-Wants Rush Mad body Produce s Washington, D. C.-Members of Congress who insist that the salary of $7500 a year, which they receive now, does not go as far as their old | salary of $5000 did a few years ago, are much agitated over the rapidly increasing prices of the necessities of life. This subject-promises to be talked about a great deal in the House and Senate this year. It is regarded as practically certain that a joint commission will be appointed to in vestigate. A resolution by Mr. Hull, Demo crat, of Tennessee, provides for a committee of seven Representatives and five Senators to investigate if the high prices are due to: . 1. Trusts and combinations. 2. The increased volume of money. 3. Increase in city population. 4. Increase in demand ned de crease in supply. 5. Increase of the Government's bonded debt, or 10. The tariff. .This resolution declares that the prices of the necessities of life have increased from eleven to thirty per cent, in the last twelve months. It is asserted that the high prices of beef have enabled the Armour Packing Company to make a net profit of more than thirty-five uer cent, on its capi talization. Mr. Hull charges that the price of sugar is two cents a pound higher in the United States than in foreign countries and that this com modity is controlled by the Sugar Trust. The most interesting development in the high price problem at the Capi tel was a carefully prepared speech by Mr. Douglas, of Ohio, who succeed ed that eminent statistician and prog nosticator, Charles Henry Grosvenor., Ever since Mr. Douglas was attending a performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and a pair of opera glasses fell from the third balcony and bounced off his head, he has been deeoly interested in weighty problems. He has given a great deal of thought to this subject, and turned loose the result^ in a 7000-word speech. Mr. Douglas has a theory that he thinks would settle this high price proposition. He believes that if coun try life could bfi made snfflcientlv at tractive to intelligent men and wom en, farra houses fitted with open plumbing, pianolas and mission wood furniture and the land toned up and H. P. Whitney Buys Father's Man sion, Paying Nearly $3,000.000. New York City.-The magnificent mansion built and furnished at lavish expense by the late W^HA?U C. Whit ney on Fifth avenue was purchased by his son. Harry Payne Whitney!* a'c a price said to be a trifle under S3, 000,000. He obtains the mansion wjth all of its costly fittings practi cally intact as left by his father on his death seven years ago. In 1904 the house was sold by the Whitney estate to the late James j Henry Smith. Prominent People. Professor Charles Le Verrier ar rived from Paris to lecture. General Wood is to receive" another promotion, the last one possible at present. Wu Ting-fang told a reporter for the World of China's eagerness to build railroads. Mark Twpin returned from Ber muda 111 and saying: "My work in this life is done." Frederick Greenwood, author and journalist, who founded Pall Mall and St. James' Gazette, died at Lon ! don. ? THE'ROAD. li. Macauley, in the New York World. PACE WITH rS STANDARD OIL MAN acentive in Work That Produces id Declares There Must Be rhere-Ordinary Clerk 3 Family and Save. [cDonald, the oil millionaire, made f living that will challenge attention, original Standard Oil magnates. Mr. d, and confined to his home by feeble ich with current events. He said: t.be wage worker to make both ends f living was so high. Wages have not to have a readjustment somewhere. our people should be forced to live a incentive to work {hat produces noth f of our people must not be curtailed. must pay the present high prices can ie time. The results .of such a condi t discourages marriage, among other i living too extravagantly, unfortunately has become a sign of it is now often acquired as much ipr . We find rich American girls buying marriages are purely commercial. It Misses Stallo). Should 'any one ask i mention money at the same time, I ?V?NG INQUIRY. m Investigation-Mr. Douglas, , Gives His Ideas on the Sit ie For Farms-Let Every md Prices Fall. . made to yield 300 bushels of potatoes to the acre where twenty sow grow, a great many worthy people who now eke out a precarious existence laying brick and driving hacks and running trolley cars would be for the country and proceed to get wealthy. This, in-its turn, would result In greatly increasing the production of all the necessities of life, which In volume have fallen behind the stead ily increasing percentage of popula tion. He had an imposing array of figures to present to the House to prove that while the population of the United States liai been jumping ahead ! by leaps and bounds for the last I twenty years the production of cattle, hogs, sheep, grain, potatoes and other meat and vegetables, staples had fall en behind. Out on his farm in Ohio Mr. Doug las raises lots of things. One of the ways he makes money so that he can stay in Congress is by fattening thin cattle and selling them to the Beef Trust. "I get so much money for my fat stock." he said, with tears In his eyes, "that I am ashamed to take it." Mr. Douglas added that any man who had been running a decent farm tor the last five years and hadn't got so wealthy that he had Brussels car pet on the woodshed floor und a pedi greed Great Dane sitting on the frpnt porch had only himself to blame. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson told Mr. Douglas just the other day. he said, of an instance in New York not six miles from Ithaca where land had been sold recently for $2 an acre. Representatives John Dwight and Dryden and Representative Bennet, of the Bronx, later confirmed these figures. The Secretary also told Mr. Doug las of the case of a New York farmer who had a poor, worn-out hill farm on which he had raised the year be fore only twenty bushels of potatoes to the acre. At that none of them were large enough for market. The farmer was induced by an agent of the Department to try an experiment with bis land. He was supplied with Government seed potatoes, told how to do the trick, and without the use of fertilizer he came across with 200 bushels to the acre, and since then ha?? raiped not.hinc but potatoes. That Mr. Douglas.considers an ar gument for a greatly increased appro- ] prlatlon for agricultural purposes. Americans Restore Chapel Built in England by Prisoners of 1S12. London.-The little stone chapel of Prince Town, Devonshire, built under forced labor by the American sailors confined in the adjoining Dartmoor prison during the War of 1812. has been restored, and a window has been placed in it to the memory of those engaged in the original work. The cost of this renovation and the window has been borne by Americans. The vicar of the church recently ap pealed to the American public for funds to restore the building. Minor Mention. All automobilists in Italy refused to take cut new licenses. China and her awakening was dis cussed by the American Economic As sociation. Mayor Gaynor took office and New York City began its "businesslike" administration. The new pension order of the New York Central Railroad went into ef fect, and between 700 and SOO men are retired. The President decided to appoint Judge Alfred C. Coxe a member of the new Court ox' Customs Appeals. A WARN?l Pain in the h timely warning i its deadly grip pains and disordc often hidden ant iii. Suspect the or have lame bac tion, weak heart, algia. What yo an experiment, b Doan s Kidney f backache-regula AKIDNE1 DOAN'S KIDN lead a nearby druggi? ] Every Picture RESOLUTIONS FOR A - E. G. Ho The Well that Thev Mav Keep Well! For the Sick that They May Get Well! Resolved: That I will take better care of my body. Resolved: That I will seek to know- more about my body and so be better abl0 to give it proper care. Resolved: That I will try to aid others that they may take better care of' their bodies. Resolved: That I will plan to' learn more about the conditions which affect the physical well-being of others. Resolved: That I will give partic ular attention, as occasion makes possible, to conditions affecting the A PE EVIE The learned writers for the press Are very, very good, At proving how we waste on dress OT furbelows or food. Each writer new who makes his bow With other sasres vies To show unhappy mortals how They must economize. WOMANLY WISDOM. From January Farm Journal. .The young Avife: "This rabbit (sob) I've been plucking it (sob) all the afternoon, and it isn't half done yet." Grind up the meat that is left over stir it up with potatoes and make croquettes for supper. Nice as can be. . Some girls would be successful in obtaining a husband if they would remove the hatpin before setting their caps. Never wash flannels in water in which cotton clothing has been wash ed, as there is lint always left in the water that "fulls" the flannel. When making boys' pants, if mother will put in a large piece of the same material in the knees be tween the lining and outside, it will be there ready when needed. lt isn't safe to buy eye-glasses of pedlers. If your eyes need glasses, go to a reputable oculist or optician in some near-by town or city. Econ omy is false wisdom when it comes to eye troubles. It is heavy work to cary up a full scuttle of coal, but if a grape basket is kept at the head of the cellar stairs, and if each time a trip is made to the cellar it is filled and brought up, the scuttle may be kept supplied. Even the children can help do this. Iiooks, music and good lights may not increase the corn crop, but they wonderfully increase the heart crop; and that is worth a good deal more when it comes to keeping the boys and girls on the farm. A week filled up with selfiishness and a Sabbath stuffed full of re ligious exercises will make a good Pharisee but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge willi which lo wipe out the sins of the week. It is natural for children to like candy; and good candy is wholesome for them; taken at Hie proper time, -which is not bet ween meals. A good plan is to serve it for dessert sev eral times a week ; a few pieces are enough for each child. Used in this way it is not extravagant, as it saves the making of other desserts. /G THAT MUST NOT BE a ck is the kidneys* signal of s ignored, kidney disease for kidney sickness first -rs in other parts, and the il fatal Bright's disease 01 kidneys if you are rheum :k, painful, too frequent dizzy spells, headaches, I u want, is a special kidne ut one that has stood tri HUs relieve weak, congest tc the urine. EY PILLS beg?ft curing lame it, James Doan, to prepare it fo present proprietors, are made from only They are u sed and p DOAN'S KW1 C. P. Eartling. 136 Middle Si says: "For some time I suffer? of kidney complaint. 1 had dui and pains actoss my loins, and f way. Often I was in such a c< not attend to my work. The k irregular in passage and unnat that my kidneys were not perfo properly, learning of Doan's K to try them and procured a bo: Store. I began their use as dil cime they effected a complete cur Apr. 2, 1903.) On Jan. 25, 1908, Mr. Bartli statement publicly recommendin in 1903 and at th"is time I glad! said. I have had no trouble fr this remedy cured me." A TRIAL Ef?EE Cut out this coup Foster-Mllburn Co. E'DEE TRIAL Box of I be malled you p i m wmmwi ui rm ill dealers. Price 5o cents. FOSTI NY DAY IN THE YEAR. utzahn. health of the poor, the ignorant and the neglected. Resolved: That in school, church, club, lodge, union or society I will en courage the discussion of health top ics and the suggestion of plans to wards better health conditions in the community. Resolved : That I will i endeavor, every day of every year, to "Sleep in the Fresh Air." "Work in the Fresh Air.,; "Play in the Fresh Air " "Live in the Fresh Air." Resolved: That I will present these resolutions, if possible, to every class and society to which I belong. ! H PLAINT. They tell us of the thrifty French Who all excesses shun But I'm not anxious to retrench; It isn't any fun. I'm weary of this endless song; I wish some seer wise Would show us how to get along And not economize. THE POULTRY YARD. From January Farm Journal. Gather the eggs several times a day. Clean out the nest boxes and burn the old straw. A good grain mixture for winter evening feeding is two-fourths whole corn, one-fourth wheat and* one-fourth oats. Changeable weather this month is apt to develop colds. Keep a close watch on the stock, and,at once re move an ailing bird from the flock. A warm, dry coop or cage, and a one-grain quinine pill each night for three nights in succession, will soon bring the bird back to good health. I kept close watch of my flock, and the hens that began to lay first after molting I put into separate pens. From these pens I gathered my eggs for hatching, and by so do ing I have wonderfully improved the ! laying qualities of my flock. This mating has also been the means of rearing birds with stronger consti tutions-more hardy and vigorous. Ventilation that comes in every where through the cracks is not cen tilation at all; it is cold shivers up and down the back and lots of dis comfort. Don't let it oe that way in your houses. I never crowd too many into one house; six square feet of floor space for each bird is about right. I have found double-board floors, up off the ground, the best. I keep plenty of straw on the floors and throw the grain in this so they must work to find it. In cold weather I feed oats and bran mixed with milk or warm water. I allow the mixture to stand over night, and feed warm in the morning. In the afternoon I feed corn. I keep ground bone in ?i box where the fowls can have free access to it. Occasional}- I also supply oyster-shell. The chill is taken off thc drinking watei-. The floor of the coop is bedded with straw or other litter. I have pullets that were hatched in July that began laying in January. One pullet in particular began December 20th, and is still laying. SIGNAL OF D IGNORED r distress. x If this" ! silently fastens : shows itself in real cause is too ' diabetes has set atic and nervous" or scanty urina*? floating or ncur y medicin?-not ie test for years,, ed kidneys-cure backs and sick kidneys 75 yean r sale. From him the magic fe Now, as in those early days,. the purest drugs and are absoli raised all over the civilized woi VEY PILLS MAKE LA t.. New Bern, N. C., ?d from a severe case 1, grinding backaches cit miserable in every jndition that I wald idney secretions were ural, plainly showing rming their functions .idney Pills, J decided ? at Bradham'a Drug .ected and in a short e." (Statement given ng said: "I gave a g Donn's Kidney Pills fy confirm all 1 then om my kidneys since Mrs. Henry Sykes ?lays: "Doan's Kidi an J J am glad to rece J suffered from a dull of :ny back and kulm and if 1 stood in 01 time, or did much ste ly intensified. Uoing vated my trouble. Pills. I procured a I and began their use. began to disappear i short time when 1 plaint. No words cn Doan's Kidney Pills. On Oct. 4, 1908. i ment 1 gave some j Kidney rills was c* cured me-of kid nev tically no trouble frc Try Doan's Kidney Pills without cost, on and mall it toi . Buffalo. N. Y. A Doan's Kidney Pills j romptly. A. C. L. PH ER-NILBURNI Co: Buffalo. N Y- Pl I GUMPTION ON THE FARM. I 'The merry, merry days are here, Most joyous of the year, ?For the bins are full of fodder, And the farm is mortgage clear. A run-down farm needs winding up. .:, , i j Are your insurance policies good and tight? 3 A man is often known by Ibis paths through the snoSv. A Some advice is no good until m is tested, and some is no good afrer ward. Many a man's honesty has ;kept him from biting on a get-rich-quick scheme. A five-cent pocket-book may be the means of making a business man out of your boy. A man who hurries so fast that he hasn't time to be careful, will al ways be behind with his work. It is folly to strike while the iron is hot unless you first know what you are going to make of it. Storm doors do not look well, but try them this winter and see if their convenience does not overbalance their want of looks. When the devil can not tempt a man to give up a good fight any other way, he oilers him a "broader The snail does not break any speed records, but often it goes farther and to better purpose than a two-minute nag on a racetrack. Providence will never be able to do much for the farmer who treats his cows and horses better than he does his wife and children. Something wrong with wheels that wobble. , Have them fixed up before you drive them over rough roads or. you may have a breakdown. The thing that never comes to any of us, is the thing that is as bad as we think it's going to be. When you come to make out the contract with your tenant for the I new year, put yourself in his place, if you can. It will help you to do just the right thing. And then write it all down. The hired man who takes notice of the broken rail, or open gate, and remedies the evil at once, is of big value to his employer; but the hand with the unseeing eye who waits to be told every little detail, is an an noyance. Never mind about the North Pole, .but be sure that you remember where you stored the bean poles when you took them up in the fall. Is the heavy wagon getting a little rusty? Let it go and it may be spoiled by the weather in a few years. But you can paint it yourself. Take it all apart on the barn floor where you can shut the doors and keep out the cold; get some nice smooth wagon paint and a good brush, roll up your sleeves, put on a pair of old overalls, and go at it. There are too many people who are like my new teakettle. You can [pile fire under it, and polish it all you please, but it won't sing; all it will do is to grunt a little, and if you take the lid off, it will scald the hand. Isn't that a picture of grumpy, surly people who don't ap preciate kindness? Give me the old kettle that can sing, and the old joli}' people who can sing, also. . If your oven does not bake, don't | get mad about it and think the stove is a nuisance. Just clean ont the top and bottom of the stove. January Farm Journal. ?STRESS ERIENCE sago. The demand >rmula passed to tho ?oan's Kidney Ptlls Jtely non-poisonous. ld. iSTING CURES , Field St., Naugatuck, Cona., ley Pills benefited me greatly tmmend them. For some time [, heavy ache across the small ;ys. My bucle ached constantly ie position for any length of .oping, my suffering was great* up or down stairs also aggra Leurning of Doun's Kidney box at Brennan's Drug Store, The symptoms of my trouble inmediately and it was but a was free from kidney com n express mv high opinion of " (Statement given in 1899.) 1rs. Sykes said: **The state :ears ago in favor of Donn's nrrect. Doan's Kidney Pills disease and I have had prac im my kidneys since." .uprietors. IfttelMTjj& HINTS FOR STOCK OWNERS. (From January Fr Never feed corp is false economy. Carelessness in hi bad habit to aequii Even on cold have plenty of good^ The idea that auj enough for a pig is a Some farmers sall ed and others dispc ear,' bpi western most profitable to'"sc Nowadays draft horses" matched to sell well. . olioose for the breeding :inare a solid color,-dark hay, black or chestnut. In countries where colts run out the year around, the niature hor?es have much stronger legs. Horses off color and with peculiar markings never sell so well as those, of solid color; besides they ave more difficult to match. ^ Look out for had habits in your" colts. It is so much easier :o keep them out than it is to1 get rid of them if they once get a hold on the young horse. All good farmers watch condition of their colts when put into winter quarters. A colt allowed to lose its colt flesh and become thin, will never make the horse he would if kept growing from the start. Some corn-stalks may be fed to the porkers every day. They arej sweet and do the hogs good. The best feeds are clover hay, a mixture of oats, wheat bran, linseed meal and roots. The sheep barn must be dry and well ventilated. Foul odors-and too much heat bring on pneumonia. All straw, stalks, etc., used for litter in the sheep bani should ba run through a cutter to increase tho power of absorption. A juicy wether hung up in a cold, dry place will provide choice dinners for the family until it is used up.' Don't forget ro have mashed turnips and. butter with it. A good rack for feeding sheep ca?ar be made by almost any sensible farmer. About all that is needed is a support for the hay so that ?it shall not fall lo the ground and/ ta wa- ed and also he handy for the sheep to get at. A temper under control is an in valuable asset to a man employed in handling cows. Make up your mind that you will not let the calves get stunted this winter. Keep them growing. They will be better cows, and better cows ?are what we are all working for. It is much better and cleaner no to wipe dairy utensils with a cloth, no matter how white it may be. If . the cleansing water is plentiful and hot, the vessels dry much more healthfuly without wiping. Increase the supply of com in the evening feeding as the weather g/ows colder. Corn is an excellent heat ing food. ^ Every cow should he brushed thor oughly each day. Keeping the skin clean and active is conducive to health. There is no danger of overstock ing the dairy cow market so long as thc systematic robbing of th? herds by the disposed of the calves con tinues. When cows sell for from 850 to $70 at public sales, it seems , like folly to hurry off the calves for few dollars a head.