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; Q&o&f^a&as T.'ie ItaiaiilcntioiiK of tJio Problem, liou James G. lierryhill spoke as follows before the Iowa Good Itoads Couvention: We are all agreed without exception that the movement lor good roads is uu important one. I will not consume your time in discussing that proposi tion, but will briefly refer to some or the conditions which have influenced the calling of this convention. How docs the movement affect the farmer? And when I sneak of the farmer's interest I refer to the interests of the whole community, because the interests of the merchants, professional men. bankers, and of all citizens, are absolutely dependent upon the interests of the farmer. If the farming interests prosper, the whole State prospers. We have in the State of Iowa, during six to nine months of the year, the best roads on the face of the earth, but during the remainder of the year we have Jie worst roads In existence. Let us consider now the effect upon the r*rrt(3iir>f.v nf r?7U" f 1 crtlllS. Take the producer of corn, for example. His harvest takes place in the fall. His grain is not in fit condition for the distant market until the month of December. He is forced to market his grain immediately after its maturity. While tlie roads are in fair coudition, ' or postpone the day of realization thereon until the following summer. The result Is that he must unite with his neighbors and with ail producers throughout the community and deluge the market with bis crop. It lias a disastrous effect upon the market in depressing the price. It produces an embargo in railroad transportation, and frequently during several months of the year it is impossible for the common carriers to furnish rolling stock adequate to carry the grain to the market. What is true of the corn crop is likewise true of other cereal crops. It is true of the hog crops, although the hogs themselves may furnish their own locomotion; but you know how serious an enect upon me w^inui the animals the driving ol" a drove of bogs over five, six or ten miles to market is. Therefore it is in the interest of the farmer that roads should be ?pen and passable and available for the transportation of his produce for the entire year. But agriculture is undergoing a transformation. With the growth of population in cities and towns there is a demand for a better class of produce. Thus the creamery and the dairy develop. Now roads must he open throughout the entire year in order to market milk, the cream, the butter, the eggs, and the perishable garden crops which the farmers likewise produce. At the national convention held at Chicago in 1S03 this proposition was discussed as it affected common carriers. and it was there announced that the Wabash Railroad had voluntarily offered to transport all building meterial necessary for the permanent improvement of their highways at cost. I am satisfied that if we undertake a movement upon practical lines we can secure the co-operation not only of business men of the cities, but of com mon carriers tiirouguout tne lengin and breadth of our State and of the land itself. It is to their interest to co-operate, for the reason that they want to utilize their rolling stock throughout the year. They want to avoid freight embargoes. They do not care to see avalanches of produce forced upon thein for transportation during a limited period of the year, overtaxing their capacity and involving them in controversies with shippers. but would prefer to keep their rol-u;; stock in motion throughout the year 'nstead of having it overwhelmed a po icn of the year and lying idle upon the tracks the remaining portion. I met a gentleman who is in the livery business. I put the question to him: "Do you not think that we in Des Moines are interested in the improvement of country roads, the leading highways passing from the city into the country?"' "Why," he says, "most assuredly, and we ought to pay for j them. I have paid during this present bad road term $15 a ton for hay, whereas if the highways leading from the country into the city had been open throughout the entire winter I J would have paid but $S." Now that is an illustration that can bo carried very much farther. Take the merchant for example. During the period when roads are bad he linds his business absolutely stagnant, lie makes his sales to his customers; the customers buy 011 credit. The merchant J demands payment. The uniform excuse is: "We can't pay. We can't haul our produce to market. You will have to wait until the roads are open." I The result is that the merchant is ^ compelled to go to the bank and Lor- j row money until he can collect from his debtors. Take the manufacturers and the jobbers. They sell to the country merchants. The country merchants suffer from the embargo caused by bad roads. They cannot collect from their country customers, and in turn cannot pay the jobbers and the manufacturers. The result is the jobbers cannot pay for their goods. They are compelled to incur indebtedness; compelled in many cases to submit to serious embarrassment. Many a failure bas been caused by this same ,'nfluence, the inability ol' the entire community to transact business on account of the embargo caused by bad roads.?Good Roads Magazine. \ I Pe-ru-na Drug C< Gentlemen j ru-na and I believ Admiral sciiley. one of the fo century. A name that starts terro of steady nerve, clear head, undau Approached by a friend recently, hi Poruna, the national catarrh remedy. I mis remeuy uis euuurseiuem. n ?i?i? baa been used in his family, where it is Such endorsements serve to indiea upon the miuds of the American people aiul famous a man as Admiral Schley his endorsement to Peruua than his p< that he says it is. S for uniform shooting and satis- ifi I factory results.. ft ^ Ask your dealer for U.M.C. fl $ ARROW and NITRO CLUB Smokeless Shot Shells, S The Union Metallic |||L BRIDGEPORT. MB Biliousness "I hire used your valuable Cascaret* and find tbrm perfect. Couldn't do without them. I bava need them for tome time for lnthgestion and biliousness and am now completely cured. Hecnmmend tliem to everyone. Once tried, you will never he without them iu the family." Edward A. Marx. Albany, N.T. Best For Sf ^ The Bowels wmmm candy cathartic Plevtiuit. Palatable. Potent. Taate Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken or Grip--. 10c. 21c. 50c. Never old tn bulk. Tho cennino tablet damped CCC. I Guaranteed to care or your money back. ? Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. 602 ASHUAL SALE, TEM MiLUOH BOXES Cross? i Poor man! He can't help it. He gets bilious. He needs a I good liver pill?Ayer's Pills. They act directly on the liver, cure_b i 1 iou sness. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use j SUGKSNGHAM'S DYE ! nrrr cr*. q*- Tmr'.qsf.r*h ? *aU- ' r? - y. n. I M^/TArAl *NEW RIVAE" J& *ts ^e ^orouS^' 1 wTfl?9K|PMr ing and the use c Winchester Factory I ter pattern, penetrati 11' I llyl ally than any other s! ?' cheeter patent corru ^1 Rival" shells give i 4 BE SURE TO GET ^ Deer in City of Vienna. Lack cf food or. the snowclad hills drove a wild deer into a suburb of Vienna. It was chased and died of fright. Great efforts are being made to fur ther tne coucn cuuure in ue uciuiau colonies, and the most important cotton mills of Germany have, after thorough trial, declared Togo cotton to be of excellent qualities, and are endorsing the efforts of the German colonial cotton growers, hoping thereby to become independent of American cotton, especially as Germany manufactures at present about $200,000,000 worth of cotton goods yearly, giving employment in its cotton industries of all kinds to over 1.000,000 workmen. LLl THIS COUPON BE YOUR FROM KIDNEY, BLADDER, It's the people who doubt and become ' cured while they doubt 1 i who praise Douii's I'ills A the highest. Erj/ SjSftPRI, Aching backs are eased. IA/ f' Hio, back, and loin |ains | Dm I overcome. Swelling of the ' J limbs and dropsy aigas Tjk" rmtt. so : vanish. \X ,, *wtw They correct urine with < brick-dust sediment, high I colored, pain in passing, N . u _ dribbling, frequency, bed wetting. Doan's Kidney j _ Q Pi lis remove calculi and " gravel Relieve heart palpit at ion. sieep'essfiess, ? headache, nervousness, For free trial tx dizziness. Festor-Sllwim Co.. TAYLORVtr.tJt. MlSS.-"I ?* <*'" UuuOcirnt, I tried everything for a weak .__ back and got no relief until t ?? ?2 used Ptgm's PI Is." MliDICAL A J, h' Lewis. . -?V- ?-4a ~6/23CA Columbus, Ohi -"I can cheerfully e with good effect roniost, notable heroes of the' nineteenth r in the heart of every Spaniard. A uian uted courage and prompt decision. s opinion was asked as to the eflicaey of Without the slightest hesitation he gave 'ared on later conversation that Peruna a favorite remedy. te the wonderful hold that Peruna has1 '. It is out of the question that so great could have any other reason for giving j >sitivc conviction that the remedy is all J DEAL IN BOGUS ANTIQUITIES. Sharpers Have Many Tricks Calculated to Fleece the Unwary. With the nume'ous instances of duplicity on the part of dealers in antiquities it is not to be wondered that many men of wealth and culture are looking with suspicion on the works of art which they have collected at the expenditure of much money and effort. It is a wise collector who is certain of the genuineness of his collection. Ono piece of the swindlers' work is the making of artificial moth holes in | a chair of the pattern used several | cc%uries since. It is a good imita tion, and has been diiapiaatea purposely, a piece being missing from the baclf. It only requires a few dozen moth holes to complete its "ancestral hall" appearance. These are provided by means of a tool like an awl. with five steel points. Held over a likely part, a smart tap of a wooden mallet sends the points, made to the exact size of a moth hole, into the wood. This process is repeated as many times as necessary. Then the moth ! holes are treated to a slight applica| tlon of candle flame, which darkens | the holes inside to the required tint. News of the Day. Mr. William E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record-Herald, has discovered the dean of the newspaper profession in the United States at Ottawa, 111. The honor has heretofore been accorded to D. R. Anthony, of Kansas, who is 70 years old and has been editing r. paper continuously for more than fifty years, j The Illinois editor is William Osman, I of the Ottawa Free Trader. He ^as 84 yars of age on the 19th of last June i and has been the editor of the Free Trader almost continuously since the 1st of August. 1840, a period of more than sixty-three years. Even now he goes to the office and does his full share of the work. Under date of June 20, 1903, Consul General Kienara tmenuier, ui r raimfort, reports that, according to German imperial statistics, the losses of German registered ocean vessels during the year 1900 were 85, of 57,078 tons gross and 44,720 tons net. Of these ! 32 stranded. 2 capsized. 14 sank, 11 were lost in consequence of collisions, 9 as the result of severe damages and 17 have not been heard of. Of the L073 persons aboard the foregoing?982 of whom were members of crews and 91 passengers?3 passengers an'd 280 members of the crews lost their lives, or a tqjal of 289 fatalities. BLACK POWDER SHELLS. Y modern and scientific system of load?f only the best materials which make .oaded "New Rival" Shells give beton and more uniform results generhells. The special paper and the Wingated head used in making "New them strength to withstand reloading. WINCHESTER MAKE OF SHELLS. | Origin of Ox-Tail Soup. Ox-tail soup, now regarded as a na tional English dish, was first made bj the very poor of Huguenot refugees from France, after the revocation o: the edict of Nartes, because ox tails then had no market value. The Rev. Mary Safford, of Des Moines, la., is one of the most successful preachers in the country. She was born in the West, although she is of New England ancestry. She entered Iowa University at the age of 18. She was pastor in Boston a year and a- half and then regularly ordained to the Unitarian ministry, after which she was pastor of the church in Sioux City. She travels a great deal, organizing and stimulating churches. MESSENGER OF DELIVERANCE AND URINARY IKUUBLtS. ?-p The reason yon can get thin trial freo in bc? cause thev cure Kidney ills and will prove it to you* West Branch. Mich.? "Doan's K idney Pills hit the case, which was an unusual desire to urinate ? had to | get up live or six times ( ' a night I think diabetes | was well underway, the | feet and ankles swelled. ? ? ' There was an intense pain in the back, the heat of 1 which would feel like putting one's hand up to a lamp chimney. I have mull this coupon to usoo the free trial and two Uuffnjo. N. Y lf shore full boxes of Doan's Pills ?nn sddrens on sep*. with the satisfaction of feeling that I am cured, r* ******"-They are the remedy par J)VICE FREE. excellence." B. F. Ballard. v.- l->r. m . r ^ y 4 2HLEY o: say that Kirs. Schle W. S. SCHLEY j The fact is I'erunt has overcome all oj ' hearts of the people. The natural timidity i aiving endorsements to any remedy Is 5?i* | help others has inspireii thousands of pooi ! runa who heretofore would not have eonso Never before in the .-innate of unxlicini of national anil international reputation 1) and public endorsements to a proprietary could have accomplished stieh a result, reruns cures catarrh of whatever phase c is wby it receives so many notable and tin Address The Peruin. Drug M'f'g Co.. f catarrh. If You Don't Want CURLS IN YOUR HAIR / i VOL" DO WANT Carpenter's OX MARROW POMADE (BEfrxni; o? T>*rr*rio?cs.> ? It i? th? lieit h?ir ?tntelit*ner malt?" I th? h*l- ?oft ?nJ *1 11? Perfectly harm- I Am arnrth th? prlc?. ( PRltE. 25 CENTS. Ana If vour drucirfnt hasn't It we will *eni it by mail on receipt of lis cents in stamp*. ' Address, CARPENTER & CO., LcuisviHe, Kv. ! w K AAA BANK DEPOSIT l|Jv Railroad Faro Paid. 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