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Show Broad Is the Road. Tlio tramp who goes afoot and tha -millionaire who rides In an nutomo- l bilo aro equally Interested In tho great vl American problem of good roads. Mac- 1 adam makes walking hard for tho . J 'tiobornnuwncn no comes to a Btretch . J of It ho generally takes to tho ad- " 9 Joining fields. Dirt ,roads and toui I lng cars nro not suited to each other. 1 Tlio great desideratum ia a duatlcsa rond, Boft and elastic to tho foot, but I hard and unyielding to tho heavy ve- I hlcle In fnct, n sort of paradox and B anomaly of a road. That ia the K dream, and tho mnn who makes it a m reality will be ono of tho greatost benefactors of tho world. Tho prob- K lem would perhaps bo moro easily ml solved, and at less expenso, If the Mi country roads In tho United States M wero not so wldo. In tho middle and K western stntes their averago width Is Si 6G 2-3 foot, two-thirds of It given over to weeds which furnish a perpetual H supply of seeds to tho adjoining farms. B A rond of that width costs nearly K twlco as much for building and main- B; tennnce ns would a highway 30 feet B wide, upon which nil tho expenso and HI work could bo concentrated. Ger- K mnny, whoro tho travel is vastly great- U er than In this country, gots along K finely with highwnyB averaging only H 30 feet in width. B |