Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 March 1910 — Page 3

'THE STORY of the ROAD

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; g S 0 08 Hern vt oa redliewns spirat Anid oyariy exhihiie B tesleno o ) FoR : Chitdron 1l tears olg i Wd by uriisity U ey Flote e uneawn | The TRAVERE MR DRe WAs done i BHtes A% Lest he ean thyoagh {irex or pral Corle ABthE ChOE Y Bl Lo Bitide no “reauds Bt gpoes forward dn the line of tevast reaistiines The Luflalors of the praivie follow besten paths it s satd the #ireeiy of -li;{;!.siz wNre mnde 1o foflow eos pelbN of cotoninl days ; - When z“;:%?‘;;’é}iin‘:;:} fame 1o mankind we find BT Itk eatly activities et detde of progress (o road hullding As < Hebt dawned upan bßim he found an ‘econcinle advantage in on :xki:::‘p;' fhe © paths smooth It sleo entered b conscioggness thal o remove ob stncles fo trasel ®as a commmon dulty of everyoned apd notl the é;n"'ix':": ity of antale oF & (6w NGO troer saving . cun be foubd than that the cundition uf the pubile roads in any community fs an indicaticn of the standard of eteitizntlion. Bot an intu i hie nne of COUTSY byl wery Afrustearihy npever theicas ' S . ft will he fteresiing to note what the world Las dobe and jx doine in making Ihe readway lelter so thes Coowill o mare tuly meel the sonnnanie ‘and sovinl Beeds f Ihe peanle atd ‘the sinte - Medsgted hy the wre of the Maditarearonn md oriental coun Trivw GUY BWH BEd sbt 55 infant bt g Yona gilowe and wosed striose beyahd BENY o dlw ativpsiors 1t not ~only bhae el el fron the pider countiies BRt Bas been ahle 1o feaoh them many Ihifigs as well In gome things BOWeNEr B Gt confoss that we stabd 0 L 00l o 7 16 ciass (¥ns A ot buit IR o et banenicdour futlnres in the adminiaitation of public arafis ihe fremtelent | waute V’ Twethods Of administering Gur. prest Csnunicipaiities awd Hhe cither. Ixiture Loeven nioare eomaibte rolates to Lha nat only inadeguate but faiotie mathods that Lave yuMﬂNl 1o the qusstion of public highwars : o . Spsce Goos 80l permt hor 1s {t parst f the “Story of the Rond” to sef forty & signal fafure i ihe misfanage went of our cities, but rather o poine - out some of our shorteomings as o the publie Bighways as compared with the rest of the worid. A wellknown advertiser, In speaking of the excel lence of M 8 praduct and fts popular ‘fty. eavs: “There’'s & reason” and so there I 8 & reason why we have 8o com pletely. falled in doing our duty 1o the roand Theve hias been money erough expendod tpon them in the last three genoratinzs to have made bouievards of all the matn highways, you they ate nof mueh better ns a rule, than the¥ were a hall:century - ago, and this Is particularly true in the middle west:

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This shows a splendid type of a hard road in southern California, with palms upen eone side of the road, pepper trees on the other. Compare this drive with a Mississippi valley road. The residents of California are no better able to build good rcads than the farmers in the coru belt. > - : %

HE NEED NOT HAVE WORRIED

Speech Made by Chauncey Depew Long Ago Was Dismissed with : . Scant Comment.

Senator Depew the other evening told a story on himelf, and it has since tad a goed deal of vogue in the senate,

“When I was a very young man,” be said, “I went out to maké a political speech with some older men one

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[ “stunts” of physieal prowess such as Jumping, wrestling, etc. with a small Lamount of %iﬁ plowing up =& ‘streteh of r@i&;ﬁu;ﬂng loose earth together with weeds and grass in A Lawinrow, andm%ﬁ; it there and call . ing this road bullding By the opera . tion, pf‘nbanggii%hundred dollar road tax had been worked out and prob . ably two hundred dollars of damage { done to themlm doing so. This 15 Bn extrem® oase, but there are lois {of thousands of such instances in L more or less aperavated form :

night. They wanted something red hot &nd | handed it out. .

“1 just turned myself to skin the opposition, and on th¢ whole the audieénce seemed to like it. The more they cheered the more I warmed up to it. 1 was imensely pleased with my success. But after 1 got home 1 was worried. I lay w-oudermgw't wouldn't react and injure our “side more than the opposition. ' }

- Anypoe knowing the Bet priseipies of raad buliding sbould know the sur Yare 3 the groond sheuld pot be dis turthes after the Brat of July and that road grading doue I 8 March Apri) or May glies the Desl PmUE BE the remmer rsite xnd e work the carth dows stnooth std bard so that stand fue trylng westher of the wioter wnd wpting following @ The first greal sl I 8 refots i 8 wize &nd saße exfamditure of the moaney Bow raised *E{Qfﬁzﬁ finolis wbout $5.000.000 ser yesr The weiter bas spoken pom ikﬁwmm! Bigh: way improvement in mure than ose helf the countien of Hilnois and bas discipmcd the “labur syalem methods emplored with husdreds of the most inteliigent farmers of his country, and they goberally Bgres thal most of the mopey rajsed I 8 wasted There are wome fundamenial errers fespon sible fur this and sofe miscoßoep

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?tim‘zs that must be gotten rid of be | fore any real progress can be niade j Among these is the abolishment of i the lzber system, collecting the road {tax in cash and the employment of i someone of good judgment and skill i to do road work, following the advice | that they can secure from the state | engireer, and from him learn what {to do. when to de and how to do it §~ A thorough drainage of the main i ronds either by open ditches with uné()bs(rucwd cutlét, or, better, by tile ’drains.nu either side, is an absolute i necesslty in oreer to have the best I results (unlens perchance there may | be inzdequate natural drainage, as in t(he case of roliing, sand¥ soil) and i frequent and timely use of the split log drag, used during or immediately after the rains, or when two or three i inches of the rough, frozen road has itha\wed out, it would heip matters s e e o A o et

*“Then | bethought myself of some personal allusions 1 hed made that might easiiy be construed as libelous. I got a good deal excited and slept very little. In the morning 1 hurried down to sce whether the papers had roasted ma. The meeting was reported all over the front page. 1 plunged into it, shivering in nervousness. But 1 needn’t have worried. What it said about my speech was in tha last two lines:

“*A young man named Depew also spoke." " = '

Cvery greafly Some farmers and & few woiialied experts, Bowerer entire iy pyecostimats the value of Ihe drag | Thére is only coe 13pe of rosd that is worihy the tame of good. and that ix one that ie Bard emooth and ukable 365 days in the year. and ome that s not afecied by wenther conditions | The main rosds (thess comprise Dot more thas 15 per cett of the total L mileage) sbould be grareled or mae Cadarsized after frel being (horeughly graded and dralnsd. The experience of the world for twenly centuries i back of this wrstens Among the Hiue Cirelisns on tEls page are suthe siune Croads that for DOOO years have been ueed dally with byl & moderate cost for maistenance S . ; Another fallacy that st be put Lon the shelf fx the belief that s hard remd cantot be bullt in the corn belt; cihat ¥ owonid not THABd ap et Lupon the beavy biack sl Exery en }_ﬁiﬁ‘f’f“;\; knows atd eliperisnce shows i ' e

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The above iHustration shows a detachment from the Japansese army building a road so the. army with its ordnance coui® approseh Port Arthur in the late war ' The cloth hanging down the back of the headgear is 1o protect the base of the brain from the heat of ths sun and 1o Kewp insecis away, A similar device is used in the interior sf Aus tralin, where they nre offled “puggeries” Why this nam= was given it the wiiter pever vould ascertain, e _

that this soll, if drained and graded, makes an exceplionaily good foundation te bulld upon. . Another mistake apd a rank injust ice has been to place practically all the burden of road taxes upon farm property. . This plan bas obtained from the grx«‘ and is still in vogue in about coe-Lad! the states. The other half have learned that roads are public property--they belong to evervone and it iz unfair and indefensible to place the whole burden of public work of this nature upon the farms. It is sometimes said the farmers use the rozsds more than others and that is given as 8 reason why they should do all the paying. Well, the lawyers use the ¢ourt bouse more than others; shall we tax them for the county buiiding? _ : ' A Jersey man in the last decade of the century just closed made a discov-

. The New Woman of Asla. Under the title, “The Lady of the Harem Emerges,” Raja Rama contributes to Harper's Weekly en account of the woman of the Ori=nt, as she stands to-day upon the thieshoid of emancipation. “Compared whth the dark, quiet eyes of these Orientals,” he writes, "the eyes of European or American women are restlesg perturbed, full of disquietude, ass&puéh, whiis they have won enfranchisement, they bave lost a secret imspiration; something that they miss and seek,

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pry far more iniperisnt than the Bnd” g of the porth pale [ was that the rumde pelung o the public sod that everyors oight to be laxed ta Bolp bulld the ronds 1o this though: state aid was born, spd it Baa sproad frogn wtale to siste watil pow 2% of the 40 states are building hr this pian. 11 bas boen tried cut and found siveesalnt. 11 is no experiment <ot 18 an equitable, workable: plan Ihat gels resulta and spreads the cost in such a way that it ia no burdea and gives everyutte 4 square deal v The building ‘of a good stone and gravel road adds to the value of farm property, so for that reascn it has beén found just and practicabls to

make some such divisiop as this ‘ac to the cost of the public roads in any townsiip leaving 1t 1o the peaple of the township to say whatl roads shali be improved and when and bow much money siall be expended, viz. that the state, from a geperal tax levied upen all properts in the state. sball pay oueball and the property owners of the wwaship sball pay the other hall . Suppose $2.000 were spent upor the toads ©of any township Under ihis plan onehalf wivid be paid by the property owners of the township snd a like amount, 21000, would be d*fawn

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without guite understarding what re- | mains unfound. And with the still.| selfish serenity of the Asian woman goes a degree of power we hardly | credit or understand. | read the oth- | er day the declaration of a Latin wom- f an, who said that women of the An-| gle-Saxon and Teutonic races do not | know how to manage men: the wnm-; en of the Latin races on the contrary, do know how to mancge man. Bat it seems to me that the v omen of t‘h»i Orient, whether in Indiz China or Ia % pan, or among the L. 2'n peoples, |

. BMIES by DNIRES " Howard H. Gross l of she rm"}'mzﬂm League

from the stabe Of the latisr §1 079 ;15?_@'3 would be santributed Bi cilies towns, rsiitpade’ corporatints and g ather fofina ‘of property The writer ?him al mran.l ttses mkm lasmoets ! whether 1t would be warth 1o them §!w<; Copts B %ﬁr:’;g&r‘ an thelr crope @ 5 bave 8 frsleisnsg riad brer whirl i Cmarket B Very seldom Bas be lound Lan iniellipeds farmer who Akt st gu?we thiet 8 toxd ﬁ'tii;?iihﬁ; ol :&;i.ﬂ ek value 1o himoand ShEt by has ;ilm gornd roads and watehing the war ket -he conll eagily get hat mouch %:ﬁ;cwef for hig crops and he could cer Ctainly txke them 1o parkel at less Lexpense than under ordipmry condt tions. fEEGes ’ f A calculation bas been made very Ccarefully by the writer and Las been chetked over by the best authorities of the state. 1 shows, and the writer is prepured o defend §t that under the siate aid plan the maln highwars in Hlinois ¢an be improved as firet class gravel and macadam toadways P Within A 0 dr 12 years 8t a cost of Eummt-m cENIy POr RCTE DEr year on i the tarm lahds of the sinle. or a tax %" equal in the aggregate 1o 31 to $1 70 &5 acre. - - ' ‘ § The writer helieves that the prine ; pai-r;!x}vvtsm"s; tor Bard rosds ‘hroaghont the state {8 by retired farmers, who fobject to buflding rosds for the ten :i':iﬁl It H,s#}"j‘ would but realize that izu‘:u per cent on thelr fant. which i {anywhere from §4 to 87 per scre. will fpuy the tax, and that #1 will make Zm(ﬁr farm miore desirable sod hey fcan get thetr gelicton of tenants nnd somet i es *él PONLE AR ACte. giore ozl rent, they \;’risﬁ.z!dla.r:i’:a at the conriy gsi&';z:":, it they are oot frefidieed, that D the money invested in roads is the ; Lest ;!)'ii'}f!!ji%l"h! fhey exn make £ The trouble hal beon that thw furm gi.?!'..-i a:j‘z- paying enormons smounts of ﬁ;’:’:m—.:fq.? for Righways impraversent and ?,{?w; bpve nétl seep the Hnerovemuests 1 The métoy bas been squiindered §, Next o :.;'s'%a;é‘ixzi;?.ia.)ﬂ" the worid's | greatest industry {3 distributicn In thin worid-wide’ gystem the- farm wagon and the country road occupy tihe first place and oaght to have the { firet constderation. If the giate or the i'nation bas the monky to spend on {internal improvements, let them asrist [ the townships to build geod roads; ;;rw highways over which the children [ must go to sehool, the doctor to reach P the suffering, snd over which must | pass every, bushel of grain and every i bale of cotton rdized . The road { reaches every field, every farm home %md every (market (own. The people peverywhere demand good roads Good trosds mean betler schools. wore so { elal life. 5 Bigher standard of living - | they. mean progress and eivilization {0 R e e - Waterproc! Asbeston. i According to a Cerpmn publication, ja frm in Murilch bas succeeded in ariificially revdering asbestos water i prond, 13 : :'_

may have a finer and deeper secrel still, wielding a far greater ipfluenca because they do not seek to wield any influence at all.” : Cheap Railway Travel. .In_the cities of Great Britain tnu population of which is 200,000 or more, the average rate of fare fof street railway travel is 1.1 cents a passenger mile. In the cities of continental Furope the average .rate of tare paid for urban transportation is cne cent a passenger mile.

THE POWER OF FAITH

Sesisy Scheod Losson for Aped 3. 1910 T Ripmaly Aovgkgpwd ton 'l i Pagmer

ML EpE R TEXT -Mannes ¥ a 3 MeenSHLTER PR % phinge ETw B bk Gt that 3 ) Kats » 55 LaB Lo 2 7, ! i Thpeer i i i e o) A REY = o i eivs . ) . Suggestion and Praciics! Thßsughis AW ket el ls Ve 3N s Whkevre wae Jiwid when By soerhod the fnir schos W are o stady” in lis own cite,” Uarerrauin ie wax iresh from twy sinpendous mirscics. ke wtiiling €6 Iks '-i“-”,‘a‘t;;‘i;t', G ‘hte geon o dimiiies GEa the DeßiiEe of the Lsdsrene de THORIATE ACTTRS _';;s. 4G ? . Caper B : ) ow 43 Jalrus Bring Lis petition o Jeaas Hy pal 5l =l & rigs Bls prayessat e wmte kied # ru ver Thagt pote résiliy e woreNiped him fail ing 6% Bie feed and Tu hing hiss el {MArE: e woas ._ sading Tor f’;{a’ enly ohiet ek " the pwalinit of fe ¢ .' \\ :' ot BBy b agial s Eomiow wmhaerd s . wyogk vt eYO B Eiteg? ¥ ¥y £ agd EO%- SR 1B XMatisow gl B & dy gade Phe bl ke in 2 Frats Cra ditieen Bow did Fairus s . e Ftay by seping that sl . % ta Voo g A Lrals «' Aug she abouigd L »: did Feduk pespopd. 1o O v porifiinn He arews st ofice, and Lr. Bis and e dld Bix A ; ot B i ¥ ¥ St $2 % ¥ s g gt § ‘ o 8 the ®ay \_;' revt Hese i o iprsd - Wt was the troaXie wioh thie pew petitianer Shee cßadt R fered fr 12 vohos waßog bloedy B . biow 23 she ap ch lewis* | Ghe "eane el naf R 4 ed the Lige atid white thesels tha hong from the four corasrs of his oloak o What wie the ressis” She was cyred alintee, A%l Knew that she was eyred Faith far Anather Ve 257 What test of Jalrus’ falth came an they ag promohed Bs Bouge ™ Some onte ran te st Bt telling Bl ¢ Mark and Lake) that his daughter was doad Flow A4d chriatl strepgiheon the rylec e faih ™ My stdding him “Fear not anly belteve, sndd abe shall be made whols What ek the prooess of the wiracisa® Very - fmple, #e in the ease of all Chrigt's witrdorful works He merels ok hes by IHe o hand et #3ll] Taiitha el wkod He satd arcae Ceanrades in Faith Y *T 3t When wisE the pext apnwal 1 tye 2 fosiie? When b Sennrtial thes fram the Fooaiaet £ _‘qve‘l & or feon £y €O H Whe tonde 2 T Ten f 1: g ,*;,;:, ’; b found v ' eroved theliix day ) How 5% the ¥ OHTA ke ¥ A; it WNot iok gulel v way ik laieae,. Hor il sw el hrinKire 5 s Waltman witk an o ¢ bloswd et thev folipvaod Bisp e " ; Fourat e ER T o of "L‘g Nayr ryEsEOy 514 W sre net resieicts s - Yersan nf APpesl 10 appe Bing ¢ faord, bt What = 3 d t By riis eade o addrossT S of David” was g well knows phpular ity of thaet ik ) Bt thergßrh Jdes i, cathigd ki el those that il hins € hring v Messial he did eki ﬂf' the tithe SBon of David as §0 implied 5 deilverer of '« from a foreign yorke and a roler in Jorusalen . and he pecin Bt o have dewired (18 use hy ey S Prigeipal Oarvie Sese In duetivé Biody “ Why did Chirist, before healing them sk abdantl their fai*h in him? e Aause he wanted o show them -th nears of the matier oot hls powes Deppdsers of Fal'h Vs 2524 What was the lagl caze in' this seclis of heal ing miracles® A dumb man How did the spectators recelve this mirggiey With entire amazement The - eure of the dumb vnd deal —deafnoes béing uknally sssocinted with dumbd nésgowaß consblered the mest 4if rult of all cures Why was falgh a necessiry before Christ eonld work %ls racles? Be canse infyence of all Kinds canpot flow pXrEnt #IONK appropriate chantels, W woreid think a man s fool i he wanted slecirieity byt refused fto siretch a wire for #1; or if he wanted to condaet wxter from a river 10 his field and seorned 1o dig a diteh for {0 in -the suame way, ¥ a wan wantx knowledge be knows that 1t wili flow inte his life only aleng the channed of a clear and industrious brain, We must have faith in & man befors we can enter-into the inya of friendshin. suspicious guestioning would st onee cut us off from him S A Pravyer. . How good of thee. O God, to go with us all the way in Hfes pilgrimage’ We are npever alone There are no galltudes, for thou art in the shadows, In the silences and in the full-orbed day In thy presepce wa live, and move. and have ocur being.. As we live and work together, grant that our natures mey be reflned and “trupsformed. As we behold thy glory, hold sweet converse with thee, and are warned and scothed by thy love, may we grow into thy tmage. from glory to glory. So shall the day be thine and ours, a trinmph for good and ‘a victory for peace. - : & A Great Christian Man. . Gladstone was a member of pariiament seven Mears before Queen Vietoria ascend=d the throne, and was as great a fpure in the world's eye as the queen when she celebrated her gixtieth regs’ anniversary. He was great in the splendor of his setting sun, sublime. as his death approached, ‘as he discovrsed of God, of the forgiveness of xins, of the great here _after, and made sublime in the eyes of all men when his lifelong opponent, Lord Salisbury, conferred on him the highest titis that even the Creator himself can bestow? upon a human being: “A great Cbristian man.”—Dr. J. M. Buckley in the Christian Advocate. el The fact. that our interests gradu‘ally take & wider scope allows more tensation—Dingh Mvlock Craikx

SURE THING. i/ e = i % gL # ~ e »’i. } '\ S’ \ g “AY % ! “~_ :'. ~ “‘ . ¥ § % 8 it 1 thatl goes Coming Down i ‘ wiid r alrship S ————————— ] Al - inl ' Need Lydia E. Pinkham's E g = Yegetable Compound ‘Brookfeld, Mo —"Two yearsago | was ytabistodoany Kind of work and ouly weighed 118 pounds. My troable '}‘.‘.»‘ tiack to the g ;' : that women 3 - lAy expect patlure (o bring on them i the Clangs of Life = {1 gt a bottle of B RS £ - 5 kgl‘v;.;: Pinkham's (&2 P MVegetable Com 3 tpound and {t made % 3 s v e 50 droe fecl much better, ; > 7l d 1 have contin. . ‘qﬁ anag 1 La « ad £7/ [ ued lia use. ]am ’ ? (YerY gt vteful to you =2 Jtor the good hLralth am now enjoving — Mrs Saran LovsianosT, 414 8. Livingsion Street, Brookisld, Mo ' The Change of Life is the most critd cal pericd of a woman's existence, and negiect of health at this Ume luvites disease and pain Women everywhera ghonld remem. ber that thers i 3 po other remedy kncwn to medicine that will so suecessfully carry women through thls trying period as Lydia E Pinkham's Vegelible Compound, made from pa Live rocts and berla i For 30 years it Las been curing women from the worst forms of female {iis—inflammation, ulceration, dis Jacementa, fibrofd tumors, {rregulari. Lies, e i Palns backache, and pervous prostration, If vou would like special advies about your case write a contidential letter to Mrs Pinkham, at f.ynng Mass, Her advice is freey snd always helpful

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