Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-28

feeling thus displayed manifests itself ia
| everything these ohiaans do. With them
q road is a road and not a mud creek Al
| least that Is the case IN most OF the district.
| which | have visited In some places
/ there are several feet of gravel On the
! highways aud they are entitled To tie
name Of pixies In this state every voteE
not exempted hg law is expected Ia work
out his road tax. The only voters Felcas-
ed are those who haze seen their iifiy-sey
enth birthday and those veterans who are
receiving pension 0i icourse substitutes
may he hired Ia do the work But the
farmer engages no substitute He works
on the road himself, and fakes a pardon
able pride in keeping it in order tell
sou what, these men will put the average
Pennsylvania farmer to shame They
| know that they are part Cf the Common
wealth and they are not So foolish a. 10
try to cheat themselves in working on
| their own roads. Ii seems To me that this
is d more serious question than the aver
age husbandman seems TO think. The
man who shirks his duty in working out
his read tax Injuries the morals of his com
munity. | have noticed that when the
roads are real bad the churches are quite
empty aud Uice cegSd. impossible roads
also cut off the interchange OF intelligence,
stop traffic, and sometimes keep children
from school Consequently they interfere
with the exercises of religious duties and
promote ignorance. The lanes and high
ways are the Veins aud arteries Of the
community and when they are stopped
up with mud it yitiates the whole system,
and it is sure to break out in moral sores
OF throw the community into a state of
torPor.
As We drive along We notice that the
farms and their buildings are better than
those OF our native country. 1t seems odd
TO see the stubble Of corn stalks standing
III the green fields of winter wheat After
cutting this corn they simply harrow the
field and SOW their wheat So far as l can
see this is the rule aud not the exception.
The herds, barring some big hocks of
sheep, are nothing extra. We have seen
much finer stock at home. However, we
see no worthless scrubs here. You know
there is IA surfeit of that kind OF stock in
some parts OF the Keystone state. Every
whip a brick building with a white
cornice and cupalo appears on a hill or
energies from a valley like some old Qua
ker mother with sombre bonnet trimmed
with white facing. If you think these are
country churches above the average, you
are badly mistaken. They are public
schools. Herein the Buckeyes can also
teach you an object lesson OF two. | have
yet To see poor school building in this
state Those To which just all uded cost
$1,000 apiece. All the schools of the same
township are built on the same plan. /
have been in few Of these country schools
and fonnd them well lighted, heated and
ventilated. The ceilings and wall were
tastelnlly papered. To tell truth, | felt
mean when | thought of my wealthy but
frugal % home county. Sueh a perforat
cd cheese-box with a chimney as is hung
to the side of hill, within mile and a
half of Buter's temple of Justice, would
never pass here for a school house. As /
sec it, bad roads, poor schools and indiffer-
ent morals are members of the same house
hold mid unlike the tippler's wine, they
grow worse with age.
In wandering through the country one
occasionally strikes a little one-story
bulding at on near the iuter5eetion Of two
roads This is called The township house
and it is located in the centre of its little
province. At it the citizens of the pre-
cinct vote, in it the officers of the town
ship transact their business, and on it no
mortal dare post bills. The result is
that it is as nice and prim as
IA country woman getting dinner
for stranger on Sunday. / speak
now OF the exterior of the house. / only
got two views of an interior and they were
had on election days when the house was
put to its highest use. | found that it was
parti0ned off into two rooms Of unequal
dimensions The smaller apartment was
occupied by the election officers The other
was thickly studded with freemen who were
smoking, winking, and at regular intervals,
squirting copious jet Of tobacco spittle on
the door This splitting mag have been
typical OF the low regard ia which they
held their opponents aud the smoke, as It
was waited up in columns aud clouds, per
Iar, inI lf.h rN In III Al,
they held their own party and its oandi
dates. 70 me the whole thing was EN-
blematie Of the corrupt state OF party pol
itcs and Extensively odofiferous to boot
But the township house is thing of utili-
ly and ought to be adopted everywhere.
By this time We spy our little town from
aiar, look at our watch, see that We can
reach our destination on time, crack the
whip and make last, desperate attempt
10 get there. Soon we meet people re-
turning from church, ask if members are
still there, and learn with pang that the
congregation has dispersed. Our inform
ant learns who We are and why we are
late, passes some pleasant remarks, laughs
and asks us to ''fall in behind and get
something to cat That is welcome for
we haze had no breakfast and We do as lie
bids. We soon find ourselves at rest in
little white house with big hearted Luth-
Gran farmer. The wood fire crackles, the
dog snorcs, the dishes clatterand the odor
Of dinner cIeeps i'll under the kitchen
door and steals through the key-hole. We
deem ourselves very fortunate and are con-
tent TO make this our headquarters in Per.
ry county. In trice dinner is announc-
ed. And now, having reached our desti-
nation and onr dinner | think this the
proper place to say stop. And stop it
shall be. More anon Till then,
Yours with emphasis,
PAT.
COLUMBUS, ONO, MARCH 8, 1890.
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