Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 April 1897 — Page 7

STOP MAKING RUTS.

PLACE A PENALTY ON THE USE OF NARROW TIRES.

Tlicy Are a Menace to All Good Itmls A lid MrIic Poor Oucs Worse Itroail AVheels I-igliten tlie llorse'8 Labor. .Save

Time ami Improve the lloadway.

Narrow tiros arc a prolific source of trouble and expense in the maint of highways and liave been condemned by all authorities on roadniaking. A writer in the Davenport (la.) Republican makes some suggestions in this connection, which, while not entirely now, aro worthy of consideration. He Bays:

Since the question of good roads is being considered with more interest almost daily, I beg to offer a few suggestions in regard to our present country roads being kept in repair, with little expense and no attention required to speak of, after they are once properly leveled off -and graded, allowing the necessary fall for good drainage. Would it not be feasible to urge the use of broad tired wheels for wagons, say 8 or

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*1 inches wide, and, in order to secure their early adoption, levy a tax on all wagons having tires less than 8 inches wide, while wagons with «i inch tires, or even wider, should not be taxed as much, if at all?

In this, as In other cities, the use of narrow tired wheels for heavy hauling, particularly over paved streets, is prohibited by law, and why should 111i~ law not bo applicable to all wagons with narrow tires used in the country for the betterment and improvement of the common dirt roads? With few exceptions the present 1}, inch tire wagons uro cutting our country roads into ruts and making them almost impassable. If it were not for the ruts, our country roads would drain n'f nicely and be in good condition the year round, but during the wet season, especially in the spring, after the frost leaves the ground, the I?.,, inch tire wheels act as a plow and find their way some S to 12 inches into the soil.

The narrow tired wheels are being used in less numbers every year, since the farmer fully realizes the fact that he must use broad tires in order to lighten the load for the horses, especially over the soft meadows and fields. Farmers would bo only too willing to abido by the law by using broad tires, providing the law is rigidly enforced. The use of broad tired wheels would enable the farmer to haul heavier loads «to market, and where he now makes three trips to transport the produce to market only two would bo necessary. This to him would be a saving of time, labor and horseflesh.

It is said that the average cost of moving a ton one mile over our country roads at the present time is about 25 cents and for fivo miles $1, not including the time lost by the farmer. Such a tax for hauling is heavier than that paid for simply keeping ordinary roads in ropair. As a natural consequence, when the roads are improved, heavier loads can be hauled and better speed secured. Why not, then, encourage the use of broad tired wheels exclusively for the improvement of our roads? In my opinion the question of good roads cannot be passed upon more economically by our county supervisors and obtain equal results than by levying a tax on all narrow tired wagons. Have each wagon so taxed, numbered and recorded and the revenue derived therefrom placed for the improvement of country roads in the district where the taxpayer resides. Should an inducement be offered to discard the narrow tired wagon wheels it would only be a question of time when they would be :v thing of the past and the broad tired wheels would be used exclusively instead.

Thn Very Best Koacl.

General Roy Stono says that the best road in this country is the Jacksonville (Fla.) boulevard,- which extends six miles in a circle around the city. It is made of white flint rock and is 30 feet wide. The macadam is 1(1 feet wide and 9 inches deep. The road was built by convicts at a cost of $0,000 per mile.

A Handicap to Pleasure*

The king's highway belongs to everybody, and when it is well planned and well cared for it is a pleasure to all who pass over it. But bad roads area handicap to pleasure, a positive hindrance to business, and it is scarcely too much to aay area disgrace to any community in which they are found.—Selected.

lload Improvement on Lung Island.

The Queens connty (N. board of supervisors has authorized an issue of bonds amounting to $496,0£0 for the improvement of county Toads. The bonds are to run for 20 years and will be of the denomination of $500 each, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent.

Money Thrown Away.

At a good roads meeting of the property owners of Montgomery township, Pa., it was stated that the township had expended $28,311 in the maintenance of dirt roads since 1S79, and instead £f improving them they wero getting worse every year.

WHEN WORKING' A TEAM.

Where to Unhitch, Whether on Plow, Harrow or Drill. It is a favorite habit with many farmers and farmhands when working a team, whether on plow, harrow, drill or any other implement, to turn around and start on a new track or furrow before unhitching at noon or at night. I have also noticed this samo practice when one horse tools aro used, such as Cultivators, shovel plows, markers and the like. The reason for this is, as one plowman explains it, to be ready to go to work again. This may bo very commendable in the individual, but it is an expensive notion, and, when circumstances are just right, it may become very expensive. A case o^this kind is brought to notice, with the aid of an illustration, in Farm and Fireside:

A, B, C, represent a partly plowed field. The land, 10, is back furrowed and

WIIKS AND WIIKKE TO UNHITCH

ready to leave for the land, F, to be plowed by going around it or turning to the left. Before turning out, in coming down the last furrow, the team turns the corner a, travels across the back furrow land, 12 which is about 10 pace® wide, turns the corner at b, travels up the furrow until the plow is started and is here stopped and unhitched. It is theturned clear around, comes down arounu the plow, turns the corner at b, travels back across the same land and is then ready to start for the .stable, the direction indicated by the aifow. After dinner, when tli'1 team arrives at a, it travels across the same inu and makes the various turn a third time, all for the purpose of "ueing ready to go to work.

The proper way would be, as shown at G, to stop and unhitch at cas soon as the plow is thrown out, follow the direction marked by the arrow, and, after taking our nooning, come back to e, hitch to the plow and go to work. In comparing the two methods we notice that all the travel marked by the dotted lines at a and is entirely useless. .All that is necessary to accomplish the same object is the travel indicated by the lull lines at and d. This may seem like a small matter, but when work is crowding time is money, and these daily repeated wa1'cs an.iunt to something in time and help.

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In. reply to a query asked in The: Prairie Farmer a contributor makes this reply:

The amount of blue grass seed to sow may vary all the way from two pounds to half a bu- hel to the acre. If only a very little is sown, it will in time take possession of the whole soil—that is, if the soil is adapted to its growth. If it is desired to get a rhi'-k blue grass sod as quickly as possible, then the largest amount mentioned should be sowed. Blue grass spreads by the roots creeping underground The first year after it is sowed it is very small and line and will hardly be seen when sowed with timothy. The seed is light and chaffy, a bushel weighing but 14 pounds. It is so light that it is quite, difficult to sow mixed with timothy in a seed sower. I have found a good way to sow it is to sow the timothy by itself with a wheelbarrow grass seed sower. Then go over the ground again, sowing the blue grass by hand. This must be done when there is a very

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spread the seed. If the wind blows hard, the seed will go, nobody knows vrliere.

Sea Island Cotton.

It is told in a monograph on the cotton plant by Professor Dabney that at present the sea island cotton is chiefly in the hands of small farmers of the colored rac\ who are wholly occupied in securing bare subsistence. He says. "It is doubtful if there is any local monopoly of the production of long sta pie cotton. It has been grown successfully in the up country, more than 100 miles from the coast, and all of the seed from which the finest sea islam' cotton has been derived came from seed planted in the interior of South Carolina for several years during the late war. When in Florida, the culture of this fine staple is restored to the intelligent class that originally practici-d it—that is, the present orange growers— there is good reason for believing that not only may the texture and quality of the fiber be much improved, but that the business of growing it may be made much more profitable."

An Early Potato.

A potato that has been tested to some extent with promising results at the stations and elsewhere is the Bovee. Especially satisfactory yields wrere gained with this Bovee at the Pennsylvania station. Bovee is classed among the first earlies and is claimed to be a heavy cropper.

News and Notet).

It appears to have been conclusively proved that electricity hastens the dissemination of seeds.

Thrifty growth, frequent transplanting and careful hardening are the secrets of strong, tough, early vegetable plants.

Professor Bailey has succeeded in grafting the tomato upon potato stems. A contributor to The Orange. Judd Farmer says that club root follows when hog manure is put upon cabbage ground.

The Juno pea is amain crop variety for which special merits aro claimed. Eighteen Htindred and Ninety-sev-eu is anew early pea of promise.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON IV, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 25.

Text of tin- Is«oii. Acts xii, 5-17—Mem-ory Verses Colclcn Text, Ps. sxxiv, 7 Commentary by tho 15cv. I). M.

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5. "IVter was therefore kept in prison, but. prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him." Thero is no doubt but. that God could prevent the devil from touching one of His children, but such is not lis way. When on earth, the Lord .Testis said: "In the world yo shall have tribulation. Whosoever kille'th you will think that he doeth God service" (John xvi, 2). l-'roin the glory after His ascension lie said, "The devil shall cast some of you into prison that yo may be tried, niul ye shall have tribulation" (Rev. ii, 10). line this also we arc perfectly sure nl'. that nothing can possibly come to a child of God without God's permission (Job i, 10, 1~' Zceh. ii, 5, 8 Rom. viii, 28). '5. "Peter was sleeping between two soldiers. bound with two chains, and the keepers before tho door kept the prison." The enemy did his best to make sure of his prcv. Two words in the Greek tell the story of James (aneile mnchairn) killed with a sword. For Peter, God had other work yet to he accomplished and suffered him to be placed' in these circumstances that He might, shew fort lull is power. In the hands of the authorities and under tho constant guard of four soldiers, to two of whom he was chained, the deliverance seemed hop.-less, but the believers did all they could do and cried instantly and earnestly to God (margin). 7. "And behold the angel of the Lord came." Double guards, chains, bolted doors and prison walls are nothing to one of those holy beings that excel in strength, that do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of llis word (Ps. eiii, 20). From heaven to earth as a flash of lightning, through storm or sunshine, they haste to do His will and minister to His redeemed ones (Heb. i, 14 Kzek. i, 1-1 Acts xxv ii, u'o. 8. '-Cast thy gnrment about tlico and follow me." Awakened by the angel's touch, Peter, loosed from his chains, arose from between the still sleeping soldiers and in tho light that shone in the prison girded himself and bound on his sandals. There is no stealth, nor injunction to step lightly, nor fear of anyjkind, but the quietness and majesty of the power of God.

J. "And lie went out and followed him, and wist not, that it was true which was done by tho angel but thought he saw a vision." In deepest trials God sometimes gives restful dreams or visions of coming blessings or deliverances, as when to Jacob in his sorrowful journey from home He revealed Himself to him at the top of the wonderful ladder on which angels were seen ascending and descending (Gen. xxviii, 12. 1:31. It seemed to Peter as if this were some such vision. 10. "Tliey came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city, whk'h opened to them of his own accord. The angel needed no open gates or doors lor him to pass through, but for Peter in a mortal body doors and gates must open, and they did without any touch from human hands. The same angelic ministry attends us today, and all doors will ily open before us when our Lord desires it. 11. "Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent His angel and liath delivered me out of the hand of Herod. When Peter found himself alone out 011 the street in the night,, lie began to come to himself. There were 110 eha. ns upon him, 110 soldiers near him, no walls around him, but God's earth beneath him, God's sky over his head, and perhaps the stars looking peacefully down upon him. Then he began to realize that, for the second time (Acts v, l'J) an angel had brought, him out of prison. Is'o power can hold those whom God wishes to set free. 12. "He camo t.o the house of Mary, tho mother of John, whose .surname was Mark, where many were gathered together praying." He had 110 difficulty in deciding whither t,o direct his steps, nor did tho angel need to tell him where to go. Does God see that when you are free from the duties of daily cares you will promptly go to where they meet for prayer? (Acts iv, 23.) 13. "And as Petet- knocked at the door of the gate, a damsel came to ask who was there named Hhoda." Many women's names which we would like to know, such as the mother of David, are not found in Scripture. Why should this girl's name be here, inasmuch as the Spirit does nothing without a reason? If any one has the answer, let us hear it if not, we can wait, anil some day we shall know. 14. "And when she knew Peter's voice she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in and told how Peter stood before the gate." Knowing Peter's Miiee makes us think of John x. 27. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me." Vet how many hear His voice, but becausothey will not open to Him He does not come in, and they do not become His sheep. In this case joy caused Hhoda 10 lose her head, as we say. and she left poor Peter outside the irate w!«ilo she ran in to tell. 15. "And they said unto her. Thou art mad. But she constantly allirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel." Yet they had been praying that, if possible, he might be released from his enemies (verso f). Would we be about as much surprised if some of our prayers were answered, or do we always pray and expect an answer? 10. "But Peter continued knocking, and when they had opened the dour and saw him they were astonished." Peter was bound to get in, and therefore kept knocking. That is the way to do, even as our Lord taught us in Luke xi, 8, 0 xviii, 1. "Yo shall seek Me and Hud Me when ye search for Me with all your heart'' (Jer. xxix, 13). Tho fear of the Lord, the knowledge of God and wisdom will bo obtained when wo seek it as silver and as men search for hidden treasure (Prov. ii, 4). Would gratitude or astonishment fill us if we had today the answer long looked for? 17. "But he, beckoning unto them with tho hand to hold their peaco, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of tho prison." Stilling them—which perhaps was no easy work—he declared unto

them tho works oFGod. It would be very interesting to hear Peter's version ol the angel's deliverance. Some day in the glory he may go over it for us, but wo have all tho facts of tho case in our lesson. Peter was simply obedient, and the Lord, by the angel, did it all. Having heard, they wero to go and tell James, who seemed to bo tho leader (chapter xv, 13), and the others. This was rot James of the favored three (verso 2), but .Tames, son of Alpheus (Luke vi, 10). The great stir in the morning and the death of the soldiers make us think of the morning of Daniel's deliverance and the death of his enemies.

BOWERS OF ROSES

POR THE BOYS

Bunches of Chrysanthemums, Lilacs' and Iris, blooming beds of Carnations, Poppies and Narcissus and trellises of Morning (i lories in full bloom describes the beauty of our fine, Organdies, Dimities and other wash stuffs. The softest touch of the artist's brush and the greatest skill of the printer's art are combined to rival nature in beauty of design and richness of colorings. This year I he domestic, manufacturers vie with the foreign in producing marvels of prettiness. We show an immense selection of both and sell them at corresponding prices. For instance: Foreign Organdies are 29c, 39c and 50c. Domestic Organdies are 15c, 18c and 23c. If you pay a foreign price be sure you get foreign printings. We show the only foreign printings in the city, and our patterns are not in danger of being common, never more than two dress lengths of a style.

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WAISTS

WASH WAISTS.

Why waste your time and energy and planning these garments when you can wear away a dream of beauty for a few dollars and never but a. trifling sum more than the material would cost? The best of materials, lastest styles and perfect workmanship. They are dress-maker made with half or three-fourths of the price of making left off. Five to six dollars covers many handsome styles. Other prices, more, or less.

$ Shirtwaists promise to bo as popular 'this year as last. We are just receiving the latest conceits of the New York makers, many of which are extreme novelties and are indeed beautiful after one has become accustomed to the new sleeves and other important changes. The materials embrace the ever popular dimities ami line lawns as well as the more novel bcotcli lappets and etamines. The colorings are brighter than ever before and some important changes are noted in the yokes, collars and cuffs. The full line will be ready for your inspection this week.

TO MATCH EASTER GOWNS.

THE ma STORE

We are prepared to shirt and waist every boy in this county from 3 to 14 years of age. For the little fellows of 3 to 8 years of age we show a handsome line of Fauntleroy blouses in white and printed lawns handsomely trimmed with ruffles, laces and embroideries, while we show the ever popular "Mother's Friend" shirt waist for all ages. We have just added a line of boys' laundried and unlaundried shirts for ages 10 to 15. Some are all percale, some are white bodies with percale bosoms, with collars to match. Colors are fast fit perfect. Prices, 35c, 50c, 75c, $1.

We have made a special effort to match the new spring gowns with gloves, fans, veiling, hosiery, belts, etc. The new kid gloves are beautiful in their delicate shadings of greens, reds, helitropes, browns, tans, modes, cream, white and butter colors. Most of them are heavily stitched on the back with silks of self colors or contrasting shades. New veilings are with larger dots in black, green, helitrope, white and red. The beauty of buying veiling here is the price. It's rarely more than half the price charged in millinery stores. New belts come in shades of green, blue, red, brown, tan, and of course black with large harness buckles. Elephant skin is the new leather. Hosiery are to match the new shoes, such as ox-blood, and a dozen shades of tan and leather shades, cadet blue and stone grey. Some of the newest fancies are beautifully striped with Persian shades. No matter where you buy your costume ten to one you can match it better here in these items than any place else.

LOUIS BISCHOF