Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 April 1893 — Page 8

HOW TO OITAIN GOOD ROAD.

Owl Material It AtmaaaJrt'OrXxpM la Net NeecMM?. Bo mack has been said abont the diffltalty of making good country roads Without involving a great outlay of none? that it teems rather promtming to take a contrary view of the subject, bat I tkiak the natter has been much exaggerate and that in any part of the country where clay, kafdpan, gravel or disintegrated rock can be found it is it easy to get excellent roaaa at comparatively little expense. I speak from seme practical experience acquired in roadmalring in a very wjld and hilly region of northern New Jersey, where we are accustomed to work out our taxes on II or more miles of public highway, and by adopting the following system we have found it easy to keep the roads Is such good condition that they can be driven over at all times with speed, comfort and pleasure. The proper time to begin work or re pairs Is In the early spring, just after the frost comes out of the ground as toon as the roads have thoroughly settled and dried out. Where the road is old, With a good, solid bed, the first thing to is done is to cover it all over with s hght dressing of gravelly material, and When possible finish it off with a top coating of hard pan, but avoid putting it on too thickly, lest the going become heavy, as it is slow to dry out. Loam is worso than useless, because it never yacks properly and makes mud. Oars must be taken to raise the road up toward the center and give it a anght elevation at the crown, but only just enough to shed the water on either side into the gutters. On a level straight road the crown should only be slightly convex, for rounding up a narrow road in the middle is objectionable, insomuch as it has the immediate effect of forcing wheels of vehicles to run always in the same line aud wear away the smw material into deep ruts, that quickly become water courses for the wash of the next rain and assist the rapid destruction of the road by preventing the water from reaching the gutters. t Am f set as the new material can be laid on it should be very carefully raked ever to remove all the large stones and as many of the smaller ones as possible, for where this precaution is neglected until the stuff packs down hard, which happens In a few days, the stones become so firmly embedded that they are not only difficult to remove, but soon use the road to wear in humps and bumps, and later in the season, during the dry weather, they work up continually and become a source of annoyance The) gutters should then be carefully cleaned by removing from them all depeeHe of mud, decayed leaves or branches wkiohhave collected there during the winter ssonths. Never allow this stuff to bo heedlessly thrown along the edges et the gutter or on the banks above them, for the first rains will surely wash all hack to its M place, and the work hat to he dons over again. Another practical reason hi favor of beeping the gutters free Jost after the toads are first repaired is that when the heavy spring and summer showers have washed away the greater portion of the good, new coating it is at once caught and retained in the gutters, ready to be need the first time the road needs patching, when a man or two can quickly put It in trat class order by simply shoveling back the material into its old place again and then raking it over. hi the early spring, while the gravel ar hardpan is still sticky or heavy, the process of drying out and packing down can bo greatly accelerated by keeping some one raking over the road to level aff and smooth down the ruts as fast as they arc made by ths cutting in ef the wheels, instead of allowing them to wear down deeper and deeper, and to furnish sure channels for the wash of water, which adds to the difficulty and expense f repairing. This method is quicker, easier and far mors economical than rolling, which requires a pair of horses, and it is surprising how great a distance a smart worker can gut over and put in perfect order during aday. By repeating this) raking caos or twice, according to ths condition af the read and the amount of travel Upon H, ths turf acs will pack down ejntie as hard and even as that of a park a nuM puodie appears, owmg to some slight depresion, in a place at shaded by trees or shadows of hills that the tun loses its power, it should never be left to dry out slowly, day after day giving the wheels a chance to cut mien more deeply, but as soon as discovered a oartload of good, dry gravel should at once be dumped into It, then raked af, tamped down and perhaps reraked untO it packs hard and anwotkCarah Cooper Hewitt in Harper's. In Verer eff Metier Highways. The authorities of Vermont and New gssnpshire, who are looking after the abandoned farms in those states, report they have a list ef 1,700 wealthy In the eastern dues who ssrsress a to purchase farms for sum mer rastasnoss at toon at the road system is unproved. The lessen In this cast It applicable to ism section, There are tbousnads of nnsitny men hi southern cities who wwnldtnrchasaf arena and keep them up fti good trM If the country roads wert hiLws Um eeation.-i.Uaata OontMof tM est eeuatry If only she state esned be induced to proper laws. If the convicts of AkbsjnntrAr for Inctsnos, wert set to work m the pubtte roads and tart therein JaVVtrVy Ht W sstwSni ssÄ wÄÄsmtOwsI SSrCa cMMtsVsl sbbbsbssj "should be removed forever, what a godBBsm1 aspedtriates4y cropof bnrtWi si ether ndsit would be to those A a I

' The Doublet. The term "dotiblot" during tho suiddlo ages had boon ft gonorlo nanm f or malo outer dothine. the in

ner tuuio being thoa called thovratetcoat; but wlion fior gannonra worn open ia front tho word "coat" began to bo employed "waistcoat" and "doublet" became used interchangeably to denote the iinderdress. At tho effeminate court of Henry III men as far as possible had copied the Medici toilets of tho ladies, and the doublet, or closed jerkin, wna reintroduced Into England during Elizabeth's reign in the shape of a padded and pinched imitation of tho Medici bodice, and the doublet form, belted round the waist, fastened at tho throat and finished there, whether by n ruff or falling collar, held its own, both in this country and in France, for the next hundred years, when (unless we consider it to have lately revived under the guise of the Norfolk jacket) it was finally conquered by the juste-au-corps. Not only the bodice of the Medici dress, but its farthingale also, in tho shape of grotesquely padded breeches, was as far as possible pressed into the service of masoulino costume during the latter part of the sixteenth century, and as this clumsy fashion recommended itself particularly to James I as n protection from tho assassination of which he lived in constant dread it survived throughout his reign, and only gave way to a fresh importation from France on the marriage of Charles I with Henrietta Maria, Edinburgh Review. Writing- Oae'a SlfBatmi. "There is something peculiar about tho way people sign their names," remarked Head Clerk Sims of mo Coatee to a reporter. "No twöen do it the same not tho writing, but the manner. Some men will como in, pick up a pen, dart off their name and are ready for a room in a minute's time. Others have to see who has been here for n week past, and do not appear to know whether they want to register or not There is another manner of man, who, after looking over all the pens, selects one to his fancy and starts to write after many false motions. He generally a mm ntgns his name in xuu. "This man naturally writes a small hand," remarked Mr. Sims, pointing to a signature that almost required a microscope to decipher, "but n signature of that kind is all the more conspicuous. We have n traveling man who signs his name in n very peculiar way. All the letters are of the same height, about half an inch, but they are only an eighth of an inch in width. Every time that he leaves we find five or six sheets of paper in his room covered with his signature, where he has been practicing. Kansas City Times. DbaSmt ClMallaMfc A careful, tidy young housekeeper has n small, round, nickel plated clock which recently got out of order and would not run. "What have you been doing to itl" asked her husband. "Why, nothing but cleaning and brightening it up. It was very dirty, and I washed it with soap and water." "You didn't dip the clock in water f" exclaimed the questioner. "Yes, I did," was the answer, and then, as the absurdity of bathing a dock burst upon her, tears filled her eyes in vexation of spirit at her mistake. When the dockmaker pulled the rusty works apart, he exclaimed: "Jeewhilildns, how damp that man's house mutt be "Indianapolis Journal. The DItMm af CIwUms. One of Sam Jones' best stories is on his wife. Being asked by an acquaintance how things got along at home, Sam replied: "Me and my wife never have any trouble because wt started right When I woke up the morning after ws were married. I reached over and Tri seed her and taid: 'Wife, I ten "two chain out there in the middle of the floor, and two piles of clothing en them. When you get up, I want you to choose which you intend to wear and leave the others for me I' Well, sir, she got up and put on the dress, and I put on the breeches, and from that day to this we've ntvtr swapped." New York Tribune. Haw They Vat Brite la Teals, A girl in Tunis after she trothed is cooped up in a small ss n, with shackles of gold and silver upon her ankles and wrists. If she Into be married to a man who has discharged, dispatched or lost a former wife, the shackles which the former bride wore an put upon the new bride's limbs, and she is fed till they are filled up to the proper thickness. The food used for this custom, worthy of barbsxians, k a seed caned drough, which is of an extraordinary fattening quality. With this seed and their national dish, cuecusso, the bride is forcibly fed, and many actually dio under the stjooti.- Eastern Age. A UMk SWi A General Corse has a little boy about 10 years old, who inherits his father's seano of humor. Ht cams into tho room the other day when I was at the general's house, and I asked the general whether he Intended to make a soldier of the sturdy young chap. "Ha rather asturea." said the sreneral. "tu the occupation of a sailor." And okjy adhüfflah tetfrje interjected,

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Cmtoria. M OuSeria le aa aseaUtat BMdMae f sr ehD drea. Mothers have rayateily teU ef Its good aCwt upoa lUir aklldrae." Dr. O. C. Oseoov, IowaU, Maat Castorf is Um baaTränedr f or ckllda ef whlchlamaoquaUUxL I aopa the Ujr ia bo far distant when mothers will ooaakler the real laUrert of their cUldm. aad aae Carteria Inpt(d of UerartoqadCBatruanwhIch aro dMtrorlag their lorad mm, ay forcing-opium, morphia, aooUilac WW -sd other hurtful agaaU dowm their throats, thereby aandiac i to prämatur grwm." Pa. J. r. Ktxouauoe, Conway, Ark. The Cental y, TT X

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