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One of the traits ofj a wide wake, progressive town is civic ride. It is a good trait, for ilde sometimes it leads one in > making slightly exagerated atements, yet in the main it is good, healthy feeling for the Idividual, and at all these con ucive to the prosperity and rowth of his city. It makes de vigorous in defense. and per stent in undertaking! it is an~ acentive to industry, it makes Le individual contented and ierefore happy. Believe in our town and talk your belief. fyou have any old fogies re* ember they are in the minority d that ib take all kinds of peo le to make a world anyway. ~ncourage live people to move iby making it worth their bile. Welcome outside capital ideveloping any natural re >urces the town has. Don't be rudge the dollars the e~nter* ~rismng man makes, but hustle round and collar a few your lf. Above ail "pull agether' nd the town will ride the high ave of prosperity over the lost discouraging breakers, and very inhabitant will get his or er share of the profit from the oyage. We are not given to boastmng ut we are proud of the farmer hoys of this vicinity. They are, Tith rare exceptions, a healthy, telligent and happy class of oung men. We feel like taking ur hlat clear off when we meet em upon our streets, and no lass is more welcomed to our ifice. Too many boys leave the arm where they would have lade substantial and good citi ens, and go to the city where inly one in a thousand succeed life's battle. There are farm rs who fairly drive their boys way. There is no excuse for his. The farmer boy is entitled his vacations, to several relax tions, his visits to the city, :ood books, magazines and his iome paper. To the observing e it is plain to be seen that e old farm is the best place in e world for the average young an and never fails to bring a iappier and more useful life than e city. Young man, you whc ill the soil and earn your bread y the sweat of your brow, we re proud of you; our latch tring is always out to you and rou will always have a friend this paper. Come and see us nd give us the news from your ihbrhood. R STORE is r Men and fc - Suit eleganc its--our lines < aft Furnishir rity. a sort of thing rill be a pleas Men's Suit 10.00, 15.00, 2 * oys' Suil $2.50 to $12 1. CII TEE VALUE AND NECESSITY OF EN. IGINEER FOR IMPROVEMENT-AID CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS. A great deal of energy has been spent trying to determine in dollars and cents the benefits to be derived from improved5 roads, but it has been found ex tremely difficult to do this with: anything like satisfactory accur acy. The fact that so much at tention hlas been devoted tc these purely commercial features may help to explain why it is that comparatively little em phasis is so often given to some of the most far-reaching effects of such improvements-their social, educational and moral influences. .To argue with the average farmer that he car afford to help pay for good roads merely because he can haul the same loads to market with less tractive power, and because the value of his farm will be in creased, is to insult his intelli gence, Yet, when all the effects of improved highways are, taker into consideration, it would be an even greater insult to his m telligence to claim that he could aford to do without them. To discuss the advantage ol good roads, however, is a large question that will not be under taken here. Let the reasons be wat they may, the fact remains that an ever-increasing interest in better roads is making itseli felt throughout the country it no uncertain .fashion. In some communities this interest is onl3 slightly developed as yet; in many it has the support of pub lic opinion to such an extent that the maintenance of existing earth roads, together with some progress toward more or less permanent roads, is a very lhve question; in still other commu nities public opinion is sc thoroughly awakened that the demand for roads of the best possible type is imperative. In discussing the value and necessity of the engineer for this work of improving andconstruct ing roads, let us take, first, as an illustration, a country where little or no work pretending to be permanent has ever been done, but where people are be ginning to realize thoroughly the desirability of better roads. Suppose that it is considered possible that the funds available could be used in such a way that the existing dirt roads might be kep in appnrimately their fairly loaded ~r Boys. e in all the ne >f Boys' Clothi igs and corre -s you'll like t< ing and satisf S8, .00, $28.00. .50. usual condition throughout the county, and still have enough left therefrom to make some progress with the work of a more permanent character. The funds may or may =not be sup plemented by 'a small bond issue, but the work of maintaining and improving or constructing is all considered to be under one man agement. Ask any rural taxpayer in the average Southern county how much his county spends annually on roads and bridges, and then ask him what part ot that amount he thinks is wasted. His answer may be influenced by his personal opinion of the officer in charge of the roads, but in any case is likely to give food for thought. A small per cent ot the whole amount is a handy sumin itself, and. if ap pled regularly and intelligentiy to carrying out some definite plan of procedure, would accom plish some very creditable re sults in the course of time. A carefully considered plan of procedure is necessary in order that the greatest benefit may be derived by the greatest number of people possible. The ultimate objection is to bring the entire road system of the county to a higher standard of excellence in the most expedient manner, and no material deterioration ot the roads can be allowed for the sake of the improvement of any special road, no matter bow creditable that improvement may be in itself, it is evident that the problem of maintenance is one of the most difficult to be solved. For many reasons the existing roads must be kept in shape and to do this with proper economy the most careful man agement and efficient work is necessary. Even if bonds are issued in small amounts, making additional funds available, prob lem of getting results is not les sened as much as might seem probable at first glance. For if the maintenance work and uot the new work are all under the same management and paid for out of the same funds, the sale of the bonds is usually taken as a signal for all men who have helped maintain the roads to iay down their tools and quit, for now tax bond money is going to do it all. At least that is the way that human nature seems avsabie that care always be OD I with new)] w and corre ng and cute i ct Hats--all b o wear areht actory one. l\ -l\ $7.50, 1 -Suits 19s CLOT used-as it sometimes is--to see that mantenance money and con struction or improvement mon ey are kept legally distinct. The office of the improved road is not only to furnish a sat isfactory surface on which trav el may pass. but also to reduce the cost of maintaining it in that condition. Always we come back to the problem of mainten ance, for it is ever at the root of all road problems. In all road and bridge work there must al ways be the fixed purpose to -make all work count all that it can toward permently reducing this maintenance cost. Every leak in this direction perman ently stopped means shutting off that much of the steady drain upon the coantry's resources. To do this requires far-sighted efficiency. There are a great number of extremely competent laymen who are road officers through out the South. This is no argu ment against them or their work -they are apt to deserve more praise than they will ever get but a discussion wherein the rea sons for the engineer will be brought out. Roads and poli tics do not mix well, for the one is eyer a threat against the oth er. To remove roads from pol itics is a great step toward im proving them. It is a very pos itive advantage to have the road officer holding his position through merit only, and to be required to give his whole time to his work with no other inter ests whatever to distract his at tention. Also the periodical shifting of officers is injurious to the organizations under their control. These are a few of the arguments in favor of putting some one man in charge of the work under the direction from time to time, of competent direc tors who shall require results of him for his tenure of office. When the advisability of em ploying an engineer is tirst dis cussed, as in the conditions of the illustration, the,question of whether he will be worth his salary or not is apt to be one of the first brought out. 'The an swer is tbat the engineer is not a woik of art, valued for the beauty of his achievements, but for his efficiency. His work is a matter of cold business and if he cannot save for his county con er~a'ny more than his salary E'all and Wir ::t styles--our rarments for I ear strong e ~re, and every lay we show [en's - Overcos 0.00, 15.00, 20.( lade to Meas $15 to $45. over the next cheapest method of getting what is required then he certainly is not the man for the place. The county will have its own forces for doing part if not-all of its work This force must be well organized and kept under efficient management in order to produce good results. All need. less expense must be eliminated and the work done must both in amount and value count. Send a force in proportion to its size, enables the county to get its wol-k done economically and serves as a powerful factor for inviting low bids from contrac tors. For, if contractors bid~s are asked on the construction of roads or bridges. it is not so much with each othee that the contractors are competing as it is with a first class working or ganization of the country's own fully prepared to do the work it self if necessary. Right here lies one great opportunity for the engineer to serve his coun ty. The average contractor welcomes the opportunity of having his work supervised by a competent and fair engineer, for he can count upon being re quired to give full value in his contract without having any needless hardship worked upon him. He fears the laymen's lack of technical knowledge as much as the peddler, with his goods made by the mile and sawed off to order, depends up on it and glories in it. At least a. part of almost every country's work is done with its own torces so it is essential that the county engineer not only knosvs good work when he sees it atid be able to plan and supervise it in every particular, but also that he shall be able to do it at a low cost with the county forces if necessar-y. Often there is more work at certain seasons than the regular forces can do, so part must be let to conitract. But if each individual parts is bid for in competition with possible county force construction, and the contractor knows that he need not make an extra allow ance for unfair supervision, very low bids are apt to result As the importance of the coun ty's work increase, the need for the engineer becomes more and more apparent. The work be comes more technical in charac )THI .ter .wear bhandsome ittle Men--A idence of price we you? ats, ~0, $28.00. ure from SLJMTE~F9 such a scale tbat executive as well as technical ability becomes a prime necessity. If the road surfaces are to be of the hard types, it will be necessary that these be built on the correct grades and locations in order that the full value of the invest ment mnaylbe realized. If the county has been for some time employing an engineer for their work, there should be but little change necessary for their grades and locations that he has been building up into sohid earth sand clay roads in previous years. This work acords excel lent foundations at a minimum cost for the expensive surfaces. If the roads have been develop ed along the original haphazard lines and grades, much of thre work done on them will have to be thrown away and new founda tions built at an additional cost and with less solidity. The same statements apply to the bridges. Many wooden struc tures are maintained from year to year of an expense that would pay interest and a liberal sink ing fond per cent on the cost of a concreate bridge tha~t would give perfect service and cost not one cent to maintain. These concreate bridges, if properly built and located are in place and ready for the most improved type of constr uction to go over them that will ever be used. In the writer's opinion, the use of funds derived from bonds wose life is longer that that of the improvements they are used to pay for is a practice open to just criticism. This seems ob vious, but it is often -done. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and in our South ern counties the weakest as well as the most expensive links are usually the bridges. The con rete bridge is the one factor of highway construction which re quires no maintenance. A num ber of bridges can be built more cheaply per unit an one time than when only one or two are built at a time. Therefore, it seems that the county engineer has here a great opportunity be fore him when he ban serve his county by building bridges that will for all time sop the cost of maintenance and allow those same funds, formerly used for maintenance to be diverted for otheLr purposes. Whether the funds are derived from the sale f bondls ar fro an annual say -U' ing from ordinary sources, every permanent bridge is a step to ward eliminating temporary structures and annual expense. -Maufacturers Record. Now's Thist We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured bw Nai's Catatra Cure. F.3J. CHNEY & CO., Props:, Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F.3J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him pretly honorable inani business transactionsan uan aiyable to carry out any obligations made by thei firm. Was? & Tawix, wholesale druggists, Toledo, 0. WALDmo, BBNANhz & MiAvut, wholesale drug gists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken ntral, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sufcsof the sytema. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all prugits. Testimonials free. Hal's Famil r Pills are the "est letterhead cof a western village improve. ment association, Is excellent advice. What fine things a large personal ac quaintance can do for us, provided we are worthy of it! Let us put aside any petty dislike, engendered perhaps by fancied faults in other people, and go out and shake hands with neigh bors whom we probably have never really known. Let us talk over, our common problems with them; discuss the welfare of. our community, the state, the nation, so that we may all have a better understanding of our common hopes and aims. All this pays. Its returns come not alone in the help we can be one to the other, but in the greater discernment with which our personal business can be conduct ed, and in the better feeling and prog ress that follows in a town or city where all are working for the common good.-Countryside Magazine. Stage Fright. Stage fright, if I may encourage star tied readers, does not appear to have affected William Cobbett, whose maid en speech In the house of commons must have been one of the most aston ishing performances that even that seasoned assembly had ever listened to. Here is the opening sentence: "It ftp, pears to me that since I have been sit ting here 1 have heard a great deal of ain and unprofitable talk." By way of contrast, we have the case of Gib son Craig, whose abortive eloquence, on his introduction to parliamentary life, was thus described by Disraeli: "Gibson Craig, of whom the Whigs had hopes, rose, stared like a stuck pig and said nothing. His friends cheered, he stammered. All cheered; then there was a dead and awful pause, and then he sat down, and that was his per formance."-London Spectator. The Dipper. That beautiful constellation, the Dipper, hangs, silent and solitary, amid the northern star lighted firma ment, like a veritable sky dipper In deed, or a sky plow driven around and around Polaris, the north star. As we all know, the dipper's "pointers," Merak and Dubbe, Indicate pretty ac curately the whereabouts of the north star- There are five other stars In the Dipper.. They are respectively in or der from the end of the hapdle Benet nasch, Misar, Alioth, Megres and Phe coa. Here In the Unitcd States we speak of this collection of stars as the Dipper. while abroad It is known as La Grande Ourse, Der Grosse Baer. Orsa Maggiore, and among the ancieni Egyptians, who were not acquainted with the bear, it was known as the manponot*me .-New York Times.