The Newtown bee., 1892-02-12


 Is there more offensive way of work ing roads than to plough off the shoul- ders of wheelbarrow road and uncover the supports, the rocks, stone and pack ed dirt that holds the sides firm? We had rather that some roads would not be this way.
 Would a farmer plough up his mead ow to make it easier to cart wood and timber through it? If he did, he would prove himself foolish, as every road worker does who is allowed by our useless inspectors to soften, destroy and make public travel a sorrow instead of a pleasure. When a road gets solid, keep it so for the teams sake, for mans sake and, to use common expression, ''for Gods sake"
 One days work in filling mud holes with stone and gravel is worth 10 days running the plough through the shoul- ders of the road, once or more each side commonly once. Then two or three fur rows "way back'' for the inspector to see that more dirt was really not needed.
 Every man who drives an OK team on our country roads knows how hard it is to keep the road. So with two horses. Your wagon is in the ditch one side, then the other. Where your wagon is six feet and the road five feet, old Phaeton him. self could not keep "the path"
 Now, what is the remedy Abolish the contract system. Get your roads hard and wide and firm, then keep them so. Work up low places with gravel and small stone or crushed stone, not with mud. Keep the water off the road, not in it.
 The selectmen stand between two fires: To improve the roads or not to i'm prove the roads Sis the question: Like Hamlet, they have little doubt, but conclude that the stingy taxpayers pre- vail. And so they forget whether they are living in the dark ages or in the l9th century.
 In this quandary, they think of their report and refuse to lessen the grade ot a hill, the filling of sink hole, or doing anything to benefit travel. All this fa- vors 'paternal government" a govern ment which dares enslave the people and make all work still more expensive and subject to tyranncal power.
 This remedy, or attempted remedy, would be worse than the ''evils that we know not of" and for towns to beg of counties and Uncle Sam to own our rail- roads and ''second class roads," our S5 sluices and milk routes, would, if grant ed, swamp us lover head and ears
 If towns have not enterprise and hon. or sufficient to build good roads and bridges, they ought to have, like Sinbad the Sailor, an old man fastened upon their backs that they must get drunk to get off.
 For one, we are ''tired' of selectmen. or any other men, who forget the age and country they live in.- G. w. Brad ley.
 TRUE TREATMENT OF YOUNG LADIES.
 A very interesting subject was opened by correspondent in this department ol the BEE, few weeks ago, on the sub ject of a young mans relations with girls. It is a subject on which men ot the cloth, among whom 1 have the good fortune to be numbered. do not feel free to discourse and, therefore, was little surprised that none of the younger of your readers took it up, for, surely, if anybody is to speak with authority or such a subject, it is the young men and young women themselves, about whose relations with one another your cores pOndent so wisely speaks.
 There is no doubt, in my own mind, that the young people of our country ciples, the recognition of which would do much to elevate the tone of their manners and SO materially raise the standard of morals in our respective communities. 1 happen to be living among the best young people of the State of Connecticut and that is saying a good deal, for the best people of Amer ica are to be found in this land of ''steady habits.'' But this should not and, believe, does not, hide from the eyes of the young people themselves the need and room for improvement. For, like all young people at certain stage of their lives, the impression is abroad throughout our State and, in my travels, have found it elsewhere, that the chief end of life is to have a good time and anything is right if it contributes to this end. Back to principles then, ,out of this chaotic realm of senseless pleasure seeking.
 Now, one thing I would like to say is, that in our dealings with young women, we should never forget that it is the proof of a man always te be gentle. You woman. It is the treatment accorded to women in this country that gives Ameri- ca the right.to be called the most enlight- ened country upon which Gods sun shines. Every American woman is queen. Even if we are bound to admit that her part in the affairs of the world has only been slowly admitted, still there has been theoretical recognition, at least, that woman is weaker, of finer calibre than man and is, therefore, en- titled to treatment corresponding to these facts. But,like great many more, I am obliged to confess that have wit messed actions done by some of our best young men, which have not suggested to my mind any sense whatever of a difference in sex between themselves and the female with whose comfort they -nonaaa ,ratu ll1r crod EC, ho