STAY HOME AND HELP YOUR TOWN It Is the Duty ot All to Do What We Can. CITY NO PLACE TO LIVE. Overcrowded, Unhealthful Metropoli tan Centers Have Little Room For Country Youth—Your Own Town Has Larger Prospects. By JAMES SCHREIBLR, Jr. As one who long in populous city pent. Where houses thick anil sewers annoy the nlr. —From "Paradise Lost.” It was ever thus and will no doubt ever be so—the city, where houses thick and sewers annoy the air; where the suit’s rising and setting are seen by few unless by chance; where the moon is forgotten, being undistin guished from the dull glare of the electric lamps swinging above the street; where people are confined in tenements and small roomed apart ments; where souls are huddled to gether. all striving to bent their neigh bors to a phantom goal—riches; where guileless wanderers come from afar and become lost m the mire or raiiure. Or say success is attained—that is, a moderate success, for one in a hundred reaches the topmost rung. Is it worth striving for? Doesn't your own town show more advantages? The city is a fascinating place. The height of ambition of most of the people living outside the big cen ters of population seems to he to visit New York, Chicago or other large places. Visit them all to your heart's content, but don’t make your home in one of them. A great city is no place for the am bitious youth who wishes to become a power where he lives. A clerk in a country store can do more with his salary than a manager of some of the stores in the city. The smalt town lias advantages which you can see if you will, but take your eyes off that mirage, the city. The duty of tDo average youth lies in the town of his birth or adop tion. Instead of wanting to quit it yourself, you should try to induce city people to come and live with you. Show them where they can benefit by so doing. Help increase the pop ulation of your town in this way. Tell them that yon are a big family, not a lot of strangers to one another, as they are. Speak of the good times you indulge in that the city people never enjoy. There are thousands of people cooped up in the cities who if they are brought face to face with the beau ties of the small town will come to you and help you grow. By tho recent census it was proved that in Missouri wherever a town showed a decrease in population it was due to the lack of good roads. This neglect wil! have a demoralizing effect on nny community. People who other wise would reach your town will avoid it if the roads are in poor condition. Some of your own people will pack up after awhile and leave In disgust. The same might be said if the town itself presents a slovenly appearance or if it shows a lack of civic pride. But the place that shines out in civic improvement, whose streets and roads show lliat the people are up and do ing, will be the gainer by its neighbor's neglect. To Build Beautiful Market. In Glen Itldge, N. J., a village mar ket. a unique and pretty feature of modern suburban Improvement, is to tie erected at the corner of Hloomfield avenue and Herman street. It is part of a general plan for the beautification of the borough and protection against the erection of unsightly structures. The main building will have six stores, each 24 by 40 feet, with offices on the second floor, a salt having al ready been reserved for borough offi cials and the borough council chamber. The buildings will be of light brick and have a risi tile roof. The stores will be in an arcade. The borough of Glen Ilidgc is now without a single store, not even a drug store being lo cated within (lie limits of Ihe munici pality of over 3,000 inhabitants. Cities Destroy. Cities always destroy; they never produce. The city sits like a parasite on the face of the country absorbing its best. The country always con tributes to the city, the city never to the country. The cities could not ex ist but for the country. We have de veloped the city civilization beyond that of the country.—Professor Hailey. A Quick Thinking Advertiser. It happened in Topeka. Three cloth ing stores are on the same block. One morning the middle proprietor saw to the right of him a big sign. "Bankrupt Sale,” and to the left, "('losing Out at Cost.” Twenty minutes later there ap peared over his own door in large let ters, "Main Entrance.” — Everybody’s Magazine. One Way to Keep Trade. There is none who has greater op portunity to make friends than the clerk in the store, and to him friends are valuable. Never consider any one a bore who is a customer of the place. It Is quite as easy to be goo] natured and smiling n« to be short, crisp and frowning. DUST LAYING. Oil Used by Canadian Town to Sprinkle Streets. Consul Augustus (}. Seyfert of . Owen Sound. Out., says that “the ! sandy lake shore soil upon which | Owen Sound is located results in very ' dusty streets. .No matter how much rain falls or how much water is sprinkled on the streets In an hour thereafter the dust becomes a nuisance and a menace to health To overcome this the municipal authorities ex poritnenled with oil. which proved such a success that now all the priu eipal streets in the town are oiled. These thoroughfares are macadamized nml are lirst swept clean and the oil put on immediately after with the sprinkler. “The objection at first was that the odor from the crude oil was offensive, but in a day or two this disappeared, and the change for (lie better to dust less streets was recognized by all The lirst application of oil lasted six weeks, and llie second application was put on tlie other day, and what were some of the dustiest streets are now perfectly dustless. “The town officials state that it will be an annual saving of $2,000 over the oid water system and at the same time give much better results.” y There are no slums in the coun- ^ f% try, no ward heelers, no dives, no y houses of infamy, no schools of Z crime. Hut there are indescrib- <* '• ably awful roads, especially in % the winter. <;> sign of backwardness, indolence I, and Indifferent citizenship. V\ VN v”V VVV\ VV .vvvvvv^v. - - - - ONE WAY TO BETTER ROADS. Automobile Club Gives Free Drags to Farmers. A plan Inaugurated several months ago by tbe Manhattan (Kan.) Motor club lias been successful In bettering the condition of the country roads in a radius of ten miles from Manhattan at least 60 per cent, and the plan is so inexpensive that the club is urging other towns to take it up. The club gives a road drag to ev ery farmer who will guarantee to use it to keep three miles of road in good condition. The club lias given away more than forty drags and Is getting calls for them at tlie rate of about four a week. The club first made the offer several months ago. Tbe farmers were slow in taking advantage of it. but a few days ago tbe club's president, Dr. J D. Colt, advertised the offer in the lo cal newspapers, and the result has been that the drags are being taken by the farmers as fast as the club can get them made. The club lias placed no limit on the territory in which the offer is good, and the drags are in use In all sections of the county. They cost the club about $0 each. 44 4 4 44 4 44.'444>4 444444444 4444 4 Are you in favor of good <£> % roads? If not you don’t belong % I' to this age of the world and this Z town is no place for you. 2, 4> 4> 444 4 444 4444444444*44 • • 4444-• Tar on English Roads. The county surveyors in England have reported that the tarring of roads has resulted in a saving of JO to JT. per cent of the cost of the road piainteuaucc. The average cost of spraying with tar is $1!)." per mile. Experienced men say that it pays to spend tliis much for tarring the roads that cost $760 to $1,000 per mile a year for maintenance. Nothing more satisfactory than tar lias been found. Two methods are used in applying it If tlie road is resurfaced the material is previously saturated with tar. On roads that are not used too much such treatment will last five or six years. The other system is to spread hot tar on the surface, and this lias proved to be more than a dust protector. It makes the road waterproof and binds together tbe material, making it more resistent to water, wheels and hoofs WHEN BUILDING A GRAVEL ROAD * Use No Stone That Is Larger Than a Walnut. ALWAYS NEEDS ATTENTION, From the Very Instant of Completion Either Gravel or Stone Road Begins to Deteriorate, and the Longer It Is Neglected the More It Will Cost to Repair. Following Is nu extract from “The Maintenance of Gravel and Broken Stone Bonds," written by Daniel N Button, Perdue university, Lafayette. Ind., in Stale's Duty: “The gravel used should contain no stone larger than a walnut and should contain not more than 40 per cent of tine material, which limy con sist of sand and clay in about equal WORN ORAVEL HOAU. [Courtesy Good Roads, New York.] proportions. At least 20 per cent of fine material must be present for ce menting purposes ami to help make the gravel impervious to water. A Test. “If after a hard winter’s frost the sides of a gravel pit remain steep without caving it may be taken as a satisfactory test that that gravel is a suitable road metal. “When a business man invests money in a business project, such, for instance, as the purchase of houses for renting, ho finds it to his interest to keep tliose houses in good repair. If tlie roof begins to leak it must be attended to at once or the interior may he ruined. If furnace or chim ney tines become defective (hey must be repaired before the dwelling is en dangered by fire. So it should be with our highways. A good road sur face must not only support loads, hut it must act as a roof to shield the softer foundation front moisture. A leak in the surface of a road may be as disastrous to the capital Invested as a leak lu the roof of a dwelling.” Road Deteriorates. “From tlie very instant of comple tion of either a gravel or stone road, that road begins to deteriorate, and the longer it is neglected tlie more rapid will be tlie loss, due to lack of maintenance. What such roads need GIUVKIi ItOAlJ M’VJjh I'AltKIi FOR. [Courtesy Good Roads, New York.] is not n great amount of new material to replace the wear due to traffic, but attention nnd labor. Fifty cubic yards of gravel or stone will replace material worn from one mile by a year's traffic. “The gravel or stone should be up plied in small quantities and only when the road is muddy. It should be ap plied upon the low spots, cure being taken to keep the center of the road always crowned and all cliuck holes and ruts filled and leveled. Wherever water is found standing upon the road that spots needs new road material nnd It should be applied before the water dries off. The aitn should he to keep the road in such shape that (here would he no opportunity for water to stand upon any portion of the road surface It should have a ready means of escape to the side ditches, and then should escape front ditches before it has time to saturate the foundation." I $> “ The sand and oil roads of ('all T fonila are said to be waterproof. ! ••••••••.. HOUSE CAT BESTS BEAR CUB Exciting Encounter In Candy Store at St. Paul Witnessed by Many Stenographers. Rt. Paul. Minn—A fight between » cat and a black bear cub took place in full view of several hundred employee* of the Great Northern general office, and but for the timely arrival of the keeper tho bear would have got the (worst of tho "scrap." The tight start- j od when an employee of one of the I express companies playfully took tn« bear cub out of Its crate, In which It was being shipped from Duluth to Chi cago, and started out to tlnd some thing to eat for the animal. The expressman, who had constf ted himself keeper of the animal, took the cub, on tho end of a leash, to a confectionery More on Rosabel street, near Third, and just as soon ns Bruin, Jr., entered the place the leash slipped and the bear became the possessor of the little Btore. The proprietor, a well known smnll merchant, was behind the counter when the visitors entered, but, upon looking up, he made for the hack exit, leaving the bear to do his best to de vour the array of pies and cakes upon the showcase. The cat In tho meantime escaped the bear's observation for a few min utes, but soon the cub saw It and play fully slapped her under the ear. The eat as playfully slapped back and evi dently got her paws tangled up In the cub’s whiskers, for he grew mad and cufTed the cat a jab that sent It Into the street. The bear followed up Us advantage and the two were having the "go" of their lives when the ex pressman managed to grab the cub and attach the leash just In time to save many of the stenographers of the big office building from hysterics. The merchant said later that h* thought the cat would have licked the bear if it had had a fair chance. PIGEONS ON HORSE’S BACK Unique Spectacle Is Witnessed by Wayfarer on Down-Town Corner In Busy Chicago. Chicago.—Pedestrians In Wabash avenue at Washington street paused (the other day and watched with inter est the spectacle of pigeons almost a dozen of them—walking on a horse's back. it was a unique sight. There are a number of cabmen who make their stand at the northeast corner of Washington street and \N ab ,ash avenue and one of them, perhaps because he Is more kind-hearted than lthe others, always saves a cob of the corn which he feeds ills horse for the innumerable pigeons which make their !nest8 in the cornice of the Chicago (public library, half a block distant. 'The pigeons have learned this and have grown to accept the dally :,‘treat.” t On the day In question a fellow (jeliu suggested that the corn be sprinkled on the horse’s back Instead of over the cobblestones, as usual, to *ee if the birds would alight upon the animal and gather the few grains at a time which they were allowed. The cabman acted upon the suggestion. He shelled oft a handful of the corn and scattered it on the horse's back, from Its ears to its tail. In a trice a dozen 'pigeons, which had sat on a building across Washington street and watched their benefactor's movements, whirred down and planted their feet lightly on the horse They pecked away, one grain of corn disappearing with each J>eck, just as much at home as if they had been gleaning their noonday meal from the more finulllar cobblestones. The born* never winked an eye when the birds alighted on his back. He was having a "bite to cat’’ him* (self, and nothing else mattered. -- - „ LONE MULE CLEARS $928.10 Alabama Farmer Demonstrates What He Could Raise With Aid of One Animal. TuBOumbta, Ala A striking Illus tration of what can bo done with one mule In farming during a "short crop" year Is shown In figures fur nished by L. A. Ford, living near I^lgbton. This mule enabled him to ralee: Seven bales of cotton weighing 608 pounds each; value at 14 cent*. 1491 96. Seven thousand pouuds of cotton seed. at 11.86 a hundredweight, $87.60. Remnant of seed cotton, $37 14. Two tons of pea vine hay. $86. Thirty-two gallons sorghum, $16. Three hundred and fifty bushel* corn, at 75 cents, $262 50. Total value, $929.60. The hired labor employed In pro ducing this crop cost $1.50. The net profit was $928.10 To Appease "Cow 8ouls.” Seattle, Wash.v— Steamer advice* tell of the ceremony of the "beef soul celebration" recently In Tokyo, for the purpose of appeasing the souls of thousands of cows and oxen killed dur ing the recent war to supply the army In Manchuria. It was estimated 130 a day were killed. A monument waa erected "to prevent the souls of those slaughtered animals rising In retribu tion against the butchers.” Fund for Good Food. Wllllamatown, Mass.—An unusual gift to Williams college Is announced here. A fund of $10,700 has been de posited with the officials, the Inromo of which Is to be devoted to Improv ing the quality of the dairy products served to the students at the college dlalus hall. 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