Show ’T 7 :i ’CONSTRUCTING GOOD ROADS IN WISCONSIN The Oldest Jewelry Store in the Rocky Mountains W rite for Catolo&ue FORTUNE Reservoir of Buenos Aires IN THE PUNCTURE in an automobile tire according a misfortune to the recent experieneo of an autolst The reason at Grass Valley Nev for his philosophy may be explained In the fact that while driving be suddenly heard a report and leaving his seat he looked upon the spectacle of a punctured tire and proceeded to fix It During the course of his labors he had occasion to step near the little stream of water that was close His eyes were caught ly a sudby den glint between the rocks and over he picked up a gold stooping nugget that proved to be worth 70 The nugget exactly fitted the cut In the tire and caused the puqcture A puncture isn’t always SURE SHOT WITH LAKE 106 Main Most people their convictions LIGHTNING WONDERFUL ROCK CHIMNEY What is perhaps the most wonderof in the whole ful rock chimney America is shown in the photograph here reproduced It stands near High wonBridge Ky itself one of the This natural chimders of the world feet high and only ney is seventy-fivIt is four feet by six at the base so delicately moulded that it looks as if a push would send it over yet it defied the storms of has successfully unknown ages4 FIRST SCULPTOR IS FOUND at the ColDr Capitan professor lege de France has had the good fortune to discover the remains of the first sculptor in the world buried at the foot of his masterpiece executed some 30000 years ago world Last year the archaeological waB deeply stirred by the unearthing under the pick of Dr Lalanne of Bordeaux of a prehistoric Venus carved in the native rock of a grotto near Lauselle The rocky pocket in which this momentous discovery was made was filled with archaeological deposits hones of animals especially reindeer for the whldh were common game hardy hunters of the Magdalenian Many utensils epoch in Dordogne and the of the hunter the fisherman were also found — delicate artist chisels scrapers harpoons and spears of bone could only Most of these evidently have served for the hunt the house the kitchen or warfare but there were others mingled with them exceptionally big and heavy — whose use remained unexplained until the dust of ages having been cleaned from the wall of from the wall of mained unexplained horses cut the grotto five in the rock in a free and living workmanship were revealed The excavaa spade soon and continued were tions struck on the skull of the author The on his left old artist lay crouching of In the attitude side something Rodin’s statue “The Thinker” which Stands outside the Pantheon at Paris WAKENING CHURCH SLEEPERS One John Rudge is on record as of to the parish having bequeathed England in Shropshire Trysull twenty shillings a year to be paid to to about go a poor man” employed to keep people in summer church awake that of At another English church it was the practice Acton in Cheshire during the middle of the last century for one of the church wardens to proceed through the church during service with a huge wand In his hand if any one of the congrewherewith gation were observed to be asleep he was Instantly awakened by a tap on the head In Warwickshire a similar custom A warden prevailed bearing a stout wand shaped like a hayfork at the end stepped stealthily up and down the nave and the aisles and whenever he saw an individual he asleep touched him so effectively that the rap was broken — this being sometimes accomplished by the application of the fork to the nape of the neck A more playful method obtained in another church The beadle went about during service carrying a long staff to one end of which was attached a fox’s brush and to the other a knob With the former he gently tickled the faces of the women sleepers while with the knob he bestowed a sharp rap on the heads of male offenders — Harper’s Weekly MUSSED HIS ttsr- - Piece of Heavy Grading Approaching Hill Old Grade 16 Per Cent Near Sparta Wis ROADS Study Navigation on Roof Tf 7i4 8 Per Rich Fragrant nntl Delicious — Always Good Ask your grocer for LUNETA TRA The Good Tea Received will repay you lor Cent Much ROADS ARE EXPENSIVE In Next Expended Needed Improvement of Public Thoroughfares Money Years for Ten the trouble for Free Fine Silverware (By HOWARD H GROSS) remarkable that so few people Rogers’ Coupons any community are willing to profit iu every by the experiences of bther people In package other localities where the problem of good roads has been taken up and solved The dread of taxes Is the bugMany a married man spends the rest bear the reason this Is so probably of his days wondering why he did it lies in the fact that we usually see so little benefit for what we pay out so far as road taxes go It is safe to good Is wasted besay that fully cause of lack of skill doing perhaps of the wrong thing or doing the right If we had thing In the wrong way Deposit it by mail in a the county as a road unit Instead of saving’s account with this the township we could afford to hire bank where it will be al- "5W a first class man to givo his whole ways safe and drawing 4 time to road supervision and by this per cent compound interSSi'jjJJ est Send for booklet means we could get approximately at least a dollar of benefit to rthe dollar expended By this plan Illinois alone would save at least $8000 a A pro day for every day In the year Balt Lake Citr rata saving could be made in the ma"A Tower of Strength Founded jority of the other states It Is well within tho truth to say that the money wasted In road adminMany a fool man commands respect istration would pay the Interest and by merely looking wise provide a sinking fund upon a bond issue large enough to permanently Imin the prove all the main highways land “A Devil of A Good road3 cost money surely they do but bad1 roads cost more Good Good Cement'7 roads greatly Increase farm values For All Purposes a and bad roads depreciate them Wherever any community has had the f r r h had both of experience having kinds they always and unanimousAbout for good roads ly go in the lamest objection to good roads Newhouse Victor Oneida the writer has ’ever heard was mad 'Jump and all kind of Traps Guns farmer who is th( Ammunition and Animal Baits at rock by a bottom prices Write for large illustrated 5UW He standing joke of his community HUE fio wrstt for fn thwtrj fciK j said: “Good roads will make my farm I AfffitPIKHS&CO worth more sure it will but if it is ’VMwgagsmsTOtMaaMigaBr worth more they will tax me more One of the bystanders said: for it” MEN AND WOMEN Bill B’pose you trade your farm for fore on account of many mlilt-- money making the Smith place it’s as good as yours Good opportunities open unit barbers facilities We teach the trade complete (’nil in demand but the taxeB won’t be half so much” Commercial or write Molar Barber Col ago said he Bill took another think and Street Salt Lake City Utah allowed he would keep the farm he had Good roads are a relative term When any community is used to very bad roads they appreciate a road that is not quite eo bad but far from beBall Bearing Long Wearing ing a good one Really a good road should be one that Is hard and smooth A road that every day in the year is often good but many times bad is lika a balky horse not to be depended upon The writer was told of a woman driving a span of mules over one of the worst roads in Arkansas the mud was a foot deep and both she and the mules were plastered with She finally came to a it The Typewriter' without a road through the botof corduroy Speed Limit toms As she bumped along over the logs that composed it she remarked: the L C The escapement “I do enjoy a good road I don’t see Smith permits carriage to why they don’t build more on ’em” from the The Indications are that more money printing get away will be expended for good roads in the so instantaneously! next ten years than has been spent in point of no that speed Is Ohio operathe last twenty-fivyears soon to vote on a constitutional tion is too rapid to authorize an Issue ol amendment The hair trigger touch $50000000 of bonds to build a system of the ball bearing type of state roads reaching every couni3 The federal government is conbars' a carriage ty sidering the plan of aiding in the connevershifted for capitals struction The matter will be given t recapital shift hearing before the house committee d within the next few days The indica- quiring only tions are that something will be done a ordinary Sentiment is running along this line combined strong in that direction It Is care your moneys Take CONCRETE FOR GOOD ROADS Chicago City Officials Impressed With In Construction of Pavements Michigan Township ComIn its publication Chicago of merce the Chicago Association Commerce thus presents details of an and inspection of concrete pavements roads in Michigan: “A party of 30 Chicago aldermen RELIC OF QUEEN the president chief engineer and members of the board of local Imand the engineer of the provements streets of the committee on downtown association of commerce inspected the in concrete roads and pavements The trip Wayne county Michigan was given in the effort to make city officials and others Interested in good paving construction realize the importance of concrete “Arriving in Ann Arbor the party made a trip of Inspection In autos WRONG BRIDE AT THE ALTAR over the concrete pavements of that city accompanied by the city engineer E W Groves The concrete paveThe story of a bridegroom finding ments In Ann Arbor are laid six the wrong bride at his side for the Inches in thickness in two courses wedding ceremony was told in Bomone a base course of gravel A bay high court a short time ago concrete upon which is laid a 1 member of the religious sect known as the Jains being forbidden wearing surface of a 1 to 2 miby Jain Over xture of cement and coarse sand custom to seek for a bride for himself commissioned another man to this wearing surface is spread a thin is After a selected bride had find one coating of refined pitch which dusted over with sand been “viewed” by tho Jain at a railExpansion to pay the way station he agreed joints filled with pitch are provided 25 feet bride's father $1000 and This wearing surface prospective “Office de la D- every This as an to an intermediary $30 and part of ivine Providence a l’Usage de la has much the same appearance Mr Groves states At Maison the money was paid in advance a asphalt pavement Royale de Saint Louis the ceremony the “bride” wore a Saint Cyr et de Tous les Fideles”— that with the traffic in Ann Arbor heavy veil and when the Jain asked has been identified as a relic of Marie which is light the protective coating The her to remove it he found that some- Antoinette and contains probably the of pitch will last three years one had been trying to pass off a sublast words she wrote before her execu- pavement cost about $1 per square These adven- tion on October 16 1793 The inscripIt Is claimed that the low first cost stitute for his bride in India tures are not uncommon quality and tion which is on the back of page 219 sanitary qualities wearing Sometimes a very ugly girl is passed ease of repair should recommend this and in the queen's writing off on a bridegroom reads (translated) “This day Octo- pavement for light residence streetsN with Mich Edward “At Wayne My ber 16 at 4:30 in the morning road commissioner of Wayne PAWNED GOLD TEETH ARE God! have pity on me My eyes no Hines an inspection 'was begun of longer have tears to shed tor you my county the county’s 40 miles of concrete Marie An "You would be surprised at the funpoor children which roads These roads vary in width from The ny things that are pawned at the local toinette” 12 to 18 feet They are built of about and stores" has been In the museum at pawnshops inches of a rich concrete mixture 6V6 for a long while and has said Detective Frank Elvin of Louisfor what it 1 to 114 to 3 applied in one course "The last thing that you would only just been recognized ville is was printed in Paris Expansion Joints are provided every suppose a person to pawn is the fill- undoubtedly In 1757 There are various signs ol 25 feet To prevent the wear which ing out of his teeth but it is a common practice mutilation during the revolution the usually takes place at the expansion They don’t get much on the binding has !een Joint in concrete pavements a plate of but I guess ‘every little bit helps’ Is prowhen them with they need the erased and ornaments have been de soft steel flush with the surface vided in the newer roads No surfaco faced money" covering is used it being the belief of the road commissioners that for counsurtry roads the concrete wearing face will prove so durable as not to justify any increase in the first cost The roads built in the last four years have varied In cost from $128 to $171 per square yard Mr Hines states that practically nothing has been spent upon any of these roads for mains' " tenance In appearance the roads are 6 alremarkable for their cleanliness though they are never cleaned except by the falling rain O' "A defective bridge which made necessary a detour of several miles over unimproved clay roads upon which a hard rain had Just fallen together with an exciting slide down a hill covered with soft clay In autos wr Jf Sf ' served to give a striking example of i vnf the condition of Wayne county roads before improvement and the value of such improvements “The general opinion seemed to be that for the conditions existing In Wayne county the road commissioners had made no mistake in adopting con Crete as their standard of construction for country roads Chicago’s city officials agreed that the concrete road I or pavement properly constructed and used under right conditions has its chance to learn how to be sailors In the British lads have an unequalled place and expressed their willingness In Glasgow Notable among Iti to equipped school of navigation excellently give concrete a trial in Chicago” novel pieces of apparatus Is a large devlaseope mounted on the roof This which consists of a revolving platform mounted on a central axis Instrument Cost of Transportation Is and for experimental and operated by a designed gearing There are 2000000 miles of unimwork In adjusting a ship’s compase for the various magnetic forces which are The several fittings near the compass proved roads In this country and It In the steel hull of a ship generated costs an average of about two cents are of gun metal to eliminate as much aa possible the erratlo effects of made The per bushel more to haul wheat nine being traneous metal and to admit of delicate experiments students stand on the platform and are carried round with It ae It revolves miles to a station than it does to ship la aa the same bushel from New York to made as la so that the operation of “swinging ship” nearly practical Liverpool 1200 miles away poealbla on shore JU New Grade In HAIR Edward Kones prefers In the future to comb his own locks and wishes lightning would leave them alone county When his house in Sullivan Pa was struck the electricity plowed small furrows about sis skull taking the hair off his head in every place His injuries besides deit touched stroying his hair which will not come in it is said were slight to Hewlett’s BAD This building furnlahea one of tho greatest aurprleea to the visitor to Buenoa Aires It Is called the Aguas Corrlervtes and though It looks like a great art museum In reality It Is but the outer shell of the pumping station which distributes the filtered water to the 1320000 people of the city a who live according are convicts Luneta Tea HAMMER John Lupton of Fort Lupton Colo has never taken ahy medal for hammer throwing but believes that he is entitled to one since his exploits while he was at work on the roof of a house he was building eaBt of town He saw a coyote about fifty feet away running off with a hen in its jaws Although the animal was on the run Corcoran threw a hammer so effectively that he killed the animal and liberated the chicken which was still alive and uninjured ClTt Street Walker Brothers Bankers LC Smith & Bros Typewriter of the last that a key pressure return and line space which spaces one two or three lines with the same sweep and the lightest possible carriage( tension — give an ease of operation that makes all day speed easy for the operator carriage Good Roads In New York New Jersey was the pioneer In the but New York good road movement has 80000 miles of road with a greater than mileage of improved highways all the other eastern states put toYork will this year New gether on roads epend $21000000 Progress of Community as your road machinery According is being worn out or being rusted out or re your community is advancing treating in the battle against poverty Engineer Is Essential There is no more sense in trying to build a good road without a highway engineer than there is in going into a lawsuit without a lawyer The alwaya rigid carriage stationary printing the arrangement oi ribbon shift and back and the (act that no ncceuary operation ipace key lakes the handa from writing position combines with accuracy in the L C Smith peed Mail a postal fot literature today & BROS TYPEWRITER CO SMITH C L point SYRACUSE Denver What Opposition Does The farmer who opposes good roads doesn’t exactly kill the goose that lays the golden the gosling eggs — he merely prevents from being hatched Branch 1647 Denver NY Champa Street Colo when a friend telta you something for your own good It’s a sign that pleasurer will be all his But |