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Show HISTORICAL ROADS. Tliny Were Ilallt ,j llnnl Work anil Rii-llrrly Rii-llrrly VVIIIiout Itrauliitluua. Wlieu Appius CJaudiiiMfctnrtcdoutto bu'ld the now fninoun Appiim way, he didn't wait for carriage hulMcix, liley-rle liley-rle clubs and "fnrmcts' piv'nica" to pass resolutions on the subject He simply put men toworKniKiconsirueieunioiui .'.HO mllej In length, liy 11 o IB feet wide from It'ime Mintli (hrniich Cnpau to llrludlsi, apd nlthailgli - -Ufl yeais have possed time then, the Applan way Is Mill the lsiKt country londtjtt Ihiropq, VVhen NiiHileoiidelei mined that I'lauee should have tho best hlghwnysonenrtri lor the apld mocmentif troops unci the ready sUpply of var'in'ea with provisions, pro-visions, ho didn't pause for the adoption of constitutional amem)weut, lint at onco took Ids soldiers out uml built the lonils. And then; they nre to-d.iy. the finest and best highway t c cr const met-, td. This dictatorial vny of doing things Is of courkc neither jiohsible nor iiihlsuble in n republican country, but It Is u part of history which trachea us that, tho only way to'get good roads Is to build them, no matter what the cost. Vhat Is wanted niobt In thocoufnictlon of country roads Is a 'disposition to gle up the easi iccpjlml fpr the purpose. pur-pose. A bushel of resolutions iicu-rycl liullt a foot of roadway anv where under hcuvrn, - lttiral World, |