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The morning call., 1891-03-28
HeIpinr the Core-Makers.

Brotherhood of Carpenters, No. %, re-
ceiyed delegation from the Core-makers'
Union last night, and pledged itself to assist
that union by purchasing tickets to its ball.
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WORKING OUT ROAD TAX.

similar subjects, upon which these pub
lie spirits are so well versed.
"A stitch In time saves nine, ;" applies
to ad-bulding as we'll as to feminine
employment
To simply fill up hole with the sub
stance nearest at hand generally proves
about as satisfactory as trying to fill a
sieve with water.
Wherever piece of quicksand is
found 1t should be thoroughly removed,
II possible, and the hole filled with stone
or some hard material.
The custom OF dumping stone, regard
less OF size, into low places, and then
covering with roadside dirt causes much
trouble. The small stones soon work to
the bottom and the largo ones to the
surface, where they become slippery.
and as they are net bound together they
cause jolting which is harder on horses
and vehicles than hauling through mud
would be.
The Chinese roads are built, many of
them, of solid rock. If some system
which was a compromise between the
macadam and Chinese systems could be
carried out, the problem would be solved
The macadam roads, where they can be
afforded. are undoubtedly the best. A
study of the Telford and macadam
methods by all citizens interested In pub
lie affairs would be very helpful.
The width, depth and method OF con-
structlon must be governed by circum
stances, but the depth should, of course,
depend upon the amount OF traffic the
road is required to support For heavy
traffic depth of from twelve to eigh-
teen inches should be observed The
stones should be small, with sharp edges,
and should be closely packed. The road
bed should be dug in the form OF q
trench the required width. where thor
ough work can be afforded. After pack
Ing the stone the interstices should be
filled with chips, and finely broken stone
placed on top. This should be packed
and pulverized with the roller, then
covered with layer Of gravel or screen
ings. OF course the expense Of a road
of this character would prevent its use
at the present time In country districts
except in the worst places, and in such
contingencies the most thorough method
is the most economical. Considerable
attention has been given TO surface
drainage, but many wel-built roads are
watersoaked until ruined for lack Of
proper sub drainage. Good drainage
should be obtained regardless of ex-
pense; the necessary ditching may be
utilized for draining adjacent lands.
In many places in Illinois swampy
meadow lands have been redeemed by
! the ditching made for road drainage. 1t
is hard to estimate the addition which
good roads give to land values, but farm
ers especially are becoming awake to the
fact that improvements in property con-
sist not simply In trees and buildings
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OUR COUNTRY ROADS
ARE SADLY NEGLECTED PUB
Lie INSTITUTIONS.

A Few Suggestions Concerning Their
Structurs and Maintenance - Illustra-
tions of the Effects of Both Good and
BAD Causeways-Good Roads Are Proht-
able.
A prominent English gentleman, who,
while travelling through the States, had
occasion to do considerable riding
through the smaller towns and country
districts, once remarked that while the
buildings he saw represented high
standard of civilization, the roads were
still frontier highways, on which little
thought or money had been spent.
To the expeditions traveller the wind
ing roads so often seen seem TO be the
greatest possible distance between two
points, and are not only an annoyance,
but cause an absolute loss OF time and
money.
The losses resulting from the imper-
feet building of roads, if seen or felt in
the aggregate, would call the attention
of the public to this work until evils
would be remedied; but unfortunately
the same Indifference is in human nature
which the old Eastern farmer showed
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liar locations where these improvements
havo not been made.
Villages and towns have authority to
vote special amounts for road building,
and though the present laws are unsat-
isfactory In many ways, o proper use OF
existing laws would bring about state
of affairs more fitting to our present
civilization. Let road districts unite in
a proposition to begin at certain point
and make thoroughly good roads for
certain distances each year.
A small stretch of road, well built,
with proper drainage, would furnish an
inspiration to all who had occasion to
use il, which might lead to an enthusi-
asm for this too often neglected branch
of public work. No method of building
can do away with the need for constant
repairing Much labor and expense
could be saved by taking the work in
hand soon enough. The covering wears
away and the road, whose rounding sur
face should always be preserved, is In
need Of new, small supply.
III this work could be done oftener
the new material would quickly join
with the old, If put on in small Quanti-
ties, and the hindrance TO traffic over
patched places would be in degree
N
should be so thoroughly done that the
rounding surface of the road may be OBJ
served, instead Of burdening traffic with
a heap OF stones in the roadbed.
Unless strong reasons exist TO the con-
trary the work should be done when the
ground is wet. In filling long ruts only
short pieces should be filled at q time
If work Is all done at once, vehicles
avoid the place, and new ruts are
formed. The use Of the roller in the
building of roads is too we'll known to
need mention, but section of patched
road, which is practically useless for six
months in year, could be made much
more suitable for traffic by its use.
The Yankee In London opens his eyes
at the unusual speed with which he is
whirled through the busy streets Of that
city. He grasps his carpetbag tightly
In both hands and bends his long body
forward as he rides to what seems to
him certain death.
Such speed would be checked by q
policeman In New York or Boston. The
carriage in which he rides is heavier
than those he mas seen at home. The
horses are much better looking than
those seen In our cities.
Says DR.. Holland, In a letter to the
Springfield Mass Republican: al have
never seen but one lame horse in Lon
don during all my stay here. The En-
glish horse does twice the work Of an
American horse similarly employed.
The simple explanation is, that the
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but In building and maintaining good
roads. In sandy country it pays to haul
clay and gravel distance Of four or FIVE
miles.
Tho town OF Allegan, Mich, q village
Of 1900 people, situated In the center of
trade for over 90, people, is in the
wors. possible location for building even
fair roads. But oil the roads leading
out from Allegan are clayed, graded,
turnpiked, and drained for distance OF
eight miles In every direction.
The clay and gravel were hauled in
many instances four miles. The result
OF this oauAy Of money and labor is
that these ma .urally bad roads are good
ut oil seasons Of the year. and tho farm
Ing lands are moro valuable than I'm sim
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OF poor road In one month, where con-
slant traffic is to lie supported, would
cover tho expense OF building road
which. with slight repairs, would last
for years. In St Joseph County, Michi-
gan, strip OF corduroy through a
marsh thirty rods long caused two deaths
years ago The township paid
So, 900 in one instance, and losses re-
sulting from accidents from time TO
time would make no small sum; yet the
road remains In an unsafe condition,
while at either approach to this strip is
material enough to make road sixty
feet wide, and its use would remove two
long, heavy grades.
The indifference and ignorance OF
farmers in working out a poll-tax is un-
explainabe. A half dozen men, with
two or three teams, meet to repair a
road which is used for heavy traffic.
These men are obliged many times to
haul loads over roads which have no
foundation drainage and imperfect sur
face drainage, full OF holes and wash
outs; yet without plan or method they
gather, and by the use OF the scraper
the dirt from the roadside is dumped on
TO the roadbed, which has not been pre-
pared to receive it.
One or two enterprising citizens fill up
two OF the ten holes without removing
the cause, while the others sit about on
the rail fence and discuss the tariff and
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when he drove every day around the
great stump In his driveway. Instead
of trying to remove 1t, he said: ooh,
it's only little bother to drive around
IT, but 'twould take day to dig 1t out. I"
In building roads in this country too
little attention is paid to two important
things, viz, good surveying and proper
drainage.
Road limits should be as straight and
clearly defined as the rows Of the marker
in cornfeld
The Romans, without consideration OF
expense. always made their roads the
shortest distance between two points to
be connected. This will not Of course
be found to be practicable in many in
stances; but, while the road must be
laid In such place and manner as to
make the least expense of building and
repairing, some sacrifice of money and
labor can be afforded, when the question
of loss of time is to be considered. OF
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all the painful disorders and
chronic weaknesses peculiar to the
female sex. They go, with the use
of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton. Periodical pains, weak back,
bearing down sensations, nervous
prostration, all "female complaints "
are cured by it. 1t is purely vege-
table and perfectly harmless "a
powerful general, as we'll as uterine,
tonic and nervine, imparting vigor
and strength to the whole system.
1t costs you nothing if it fails to
give satisfaction. It's guaranteed
to do so, in every case, or the money
is refunded. 1t can be guaranteed
for it does it. No other medicine
for women is sold on such terms.
That's the way its makers prove
their faith in it. Contains no alco-
hol TO inebriate (; no syrup or sugar
to derange digestion (; a legitimate
medicine, not a beverage. Purely
vegetable and perfectly harmless in
any condition of the system.
Worlds Dispensary Medical As
ISOLATION, Proprietors, No. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
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100000 MILES A MINUTE.
An Electric Current Girdles the Globe in
Three seconds.

An Electric Current GirdIes the Globe in
Three seconds.
Philadelphia scientists are prepar-
ing to find out how fast an electric
current travels. An experiment will
be made, probably from the Franklin
Institute, by connections over the At
lantic cable to Liverpool and return.
A recent test appeared 70 show that an
electric current is slow coach as COM
pared to light, being only able to get
over to Europe and back in something
like second, or at the rate of only
some four hundred thousand miles q
minute, while light ambles along at a
million mica minute gait. The Phia-
delphia scientists who are proposing to
make further investigation are not
satisfied to give up the record to sun
light, and hope to prove that the cleo
trio current, if not handicapped, is the
swifter element. The most recent ex-
pertinent was tried at McGill College,
Montreal, says the Philadelphia
Record. The current was transmitted
in Montreal, was transferred to the
cable at the Newfoundland cable sta
ton by means of Thomson's mirror
galvanometer, sent across to the sta
ton at Liverpool, and returned to
Montreal by the same method. The
distance traversed, partly by overhead
wire and partly By cable, was 5000
miles. From the time the current left
the key in Montreal until it returned
to the receiver in the same office just
l second and 1-20th of a second had
elapsed; but the conditions were not
as good as they might have been,
hence the further experiment to be
made here. The rapidity with which
the current travels over short wires
with no delay indicated unlimited pos
sibilities in the direction of practical
tests. Prof. Marks, of the Edison
Electric Light Company, is authority
for the assertion that if the globe was
encircled with continuous cable a
current would trayel the entire dis
lance in trifie over three seconds.
At this rate a current would travel to
the sun, covering the entire distance of
100000 miles in three and half
hours. I'm this age of SCIENCE" said
one of the gentlemen who will partici
pate in the experiments, people have
an idea that we know so much now
there is nothing more to be discovered.
Why, we are yet in our infancy as far
as electricity goes. New discoveries
will yet be made, and we will live to
see them put into practical use, which
will revolutionize the entire world.
The experiment which we are about to
make in telegraphy is only feeler
which will lead to other and more
startling experiments. The establish
ment of telephone communications be-
tween the hemispheres is already be-
ing seriously discussed.
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For heavy teaming q road rising ten In
one hundred is supposed to be Injurious
Near the highest point the grade should
either be decreased or tho plan adopted
by Telford practiced. Where the ex-
pense OF making piece of road q mile
long on O less grade than five in one
hundred was too great, he provided for
the increased fatigue OF the horses by
Building mile OF much smoother and
Better road than that of the first part Of
the ascent There are few localities
which are not provided with some suit
able material for building or repairing,
yet In localities where such material
abounds may often be found the worst
possible roads. The loss by wear and
tear on horses and vehicles on stretch
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AIox ON the Ear.

One OF Browning's most beautiful and
pathetic poems commentaries the act Of
an old Earl of Arundel who, having
struck his little child on the head, had
the picture Of himself and child painted,
the child as he became In after years,
imbecile from tho effects of that blow.
1t would be well for that parent, and for
those having children on their hands, to
commit these verses to memory; for the
injury done to children by the quick and
careless box on the ear, that is thought
nothing OF at the time, is something in
calculahle
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THESE two adjectives by no means imply the
possession Of great muscular strength. There
are many men and women Of slight build and
inferior stature to whom the terms -hale and
nearly perfectly apply. Their compilations arc
clear. eyes bright and vivacious. pulses itran-
gun, step elastic. movements steady. sleep un-
disturbed, appetites sound. These indtcia OF
haieness and heartiness Hostetter's stomach
bitters VIII assuredly bestow upon the feeble.
the nervous and dyspeptic. No tonic of the
century compares with 1t in popularity. no
other rivals it In efficacy. As permanent in
vieoration means also the previous regulation
bitters must also be regarded as CHEF among
Iesuiators. IL conquers and prevents malaria
AM. rheumatism, oyercomes Inactivity OF the
n ,ts bowels and Kidneys and promotes the &C
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Wa.ch Glasses.

1t is interesting 20 know something of
the details and labor connected with the
production of these handy adjuncts to
the laboratory. The glass is blown into
a sphere about meter in diameter, suf-
fcient metal being taken to give the re-
CURED thickness, as the case may b..
Disks are then cut from this sphere with
the aid of pair of compasses, having a
diamond at the extremity OF one leg.
There is q krack in detaching the disk
after it has been cut. A good workman
will cut 6, 900 glasses in q day.
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course there can be no arbitrary rule in
regard to width, but many country roads
are inconveniently narrow. i have often
driven over long stretches of road in the
State Of Illinois, where to meet team
meant certain collision, and have sew
eral times seen light buggy lose its
balance and women, children, and
numerous bundles Of dry goods and gro
ceries roll in general confusion down
the embankment, simply because of too
narrow road-bed. A bed amply wide
enough for the meeting and passing of
vehicles, with strip of sod five or six
feet wide on either side, would be much
more satisfactory, and its construction
would require but little moro labor or
expense.
For country roads the greatest in
clination should not exceed rise Of
rom five to seven feet in one hundred.
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The Deadly Cigarette.

If anyone were discovered putting
arsenic and phosphorus in the cigars
which men use, how soon law would
be found or made to fit his case. But
when the same poisons are employed in
preparing cigarette wrappers, with fatal
results to boys, there is no mention
made of legal proceedings contemplated
or begun. Anti-cigarette legislation is
practically failure, but there is no
good reason why law against poisoning
tobacco should not be made a success.
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Used Up.

A Detroit youth Of 6 years, who has
just begun going to school, was so i'm
pressed with the Importance Of it that
he was early out of bed and down
promptly to breakfast for two mornings
The third morning he came little late,
looking very sleepy.
slows this?" said his father, pretend
ing to reprove him.
"Well, by jiminy" said tho young
ster, "this hard work at school is using
me up"
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WOMAN suffrage has been rejected
by the Michigan Legislature, and vot-
ing in the State will be confined to
Michiganders instead Of being extend
ed to Michigeese.
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CLARICE-And so your engagement
with Maitland is really Off? Isabel-Yes,
] got tired Of machine-made love. Clar-
ice-Machine made love? What do you
mean? Isabelle wrote all his letters
on a typewriter.
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w. A. SARToRIs, of England, an uncle
of Nellie Grant Sartoris, has been on a
quiet tour of the West, with a view Of
making some investments.
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TAKE iron stains from marble with
lemon juice or mixture of spirits of
wine and oxalic acid
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Gratifying 10 All

The high position attained and the uni
versal acceptance and approval OF tho pleas
ant liquid fruit remedy. Syrup Of Figs. as
thy most excellent LA stivs known. illus
traie the value OF the qualities on which its
success is based. and are abundantly erati-
flying to the California Fig Syrup Company.
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TINS century has produced no woman who
has done 80 much TO educate her sex to q
thorough and proper knowledge OF them.
selves as Mrs. Lydia r. Pinkham.
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THIS century has produced no woman who
has done so much to educate her sex to a
thorough and proper knowledge OF them
selves as Mrs Lydia f.. Pinkham.
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PAINTING the town red should b,
classed among the cardinal sins.
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ALBERT BURCH, West Toledo, Ohio says !:
Halls Catarrh Cure saved my life." Write him
for particulars. Sold by Druggists, Zoe.
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FTTS.-An Fits stopped free by DIR. Kline's Great
Nerve RestOrer. No Fits after first days Mar
velous cures Treatise and $500 tr al bottle free TO
Fit cases. Send TO DR.. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phia. Pa
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PAUL KRUGER, the President of the
Transvaal, receives salary of $4,000 q
year, but IS not much on style.
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No Opium In Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail 26c.
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CHANGE for the Observation-Disclosures
for the heather.
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No Opium In Pso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. Csc.
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III afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it $50.
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Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer
Lauzon, Lewis, Quebec, writes: II
have used August Flower with the
best possible results for Dyspepsia. I"
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JUSTIN 5. MORRILL,, the father Of tho
Senate, IS now 80 years Of age
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If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac
Thompsons Eye Water Druggists sell it Csc
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c. A. Darlington, Engineer and
General Smith, Sydney, Australia,
writes: August Flower has effected
complete cure in my case. 1t act
ed like miracle"
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Geo. Gates, Corinth, Miss. writes;
81 consider your August Flower the
best remedy in the world for Dys-
pepsia. / was almost dead with
that disease, but used several bottles
Of August Flower, and now con-
slider myself a we'll man. l sincerely
recommend this medicine to suffer
ing humanity the world over" o
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufactured,
Woodbury., New Jersey. U. S. A.
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August
Flower
For Dyspepsia.

A. Bellanger, Propr., Stove Foun-
dry, Montagny, Quebec, writes: II
have used August Flower for Dys-
pepsia. 1t gave me great relief. I
recommend it to all Dyspeptics as a
very good remedy"
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THERE are 81 millionaires in Denver
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For Youngstown and New Castle 1880, $500 s:55
q. m, r:50, -4:20 -s:4 p. In. For Beaver Falls.
4:S0 7:OO $500 9:55 a. m, 1850 3:30, '4:2O, $50
'9:45 D. III. For CHARTERS, 1880, $780, 5:35, F655
700 7:35 1850 $500, S45. -910, 0:55 a. m, 1910
Sl245, 1870, :55 $3.50. 4, $780, 1876, $50 $500
f6:25, $500. i9:45, 1920 p: IN;
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town and New Castle, g. 10, 1000 a. m, 'i2:So,
$40. 7:5c, lo:O5 p. m. From Beaver Falls. 5:2o,
"640 7:20 '0:00 m, '1230. 1:20, 5:4o 1850 1005
p, c. & Y. trains for Mansfield 1885 a. M, 12:lo
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