Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-10

r1dgel IN the middle. Iney always lnLend
to do more, but by that time their road tax
is worked out. The RAIN comes and turns
the plowed earth to a quagmire. The hot
sur comes out TO dry it and the road
warps in drying. Then it's q beauty. The
dry weather comes and the oft plowed
earth becomes a bed of dust.
Well, there is q section of just such q
road ON exhibition in jackson park and
near it are sections showing three styles
of model roads, the best Macadam, the
Telford and one other. But the cheapest
of these costs s., 600 a mile and the best,
the Telford, $4,000, and that settles it with
the farmers who gaze on .the specimen
with admiration. Youmight as well sing
psalms to a dead horse as TO talk to the
people of a western state now, whether III
town or country, about spending 5000 u
mile for a road. They cannot afford the
half of it, nor yet the quarter of it except
on a few main lines. The little building
in which the National League for Good
Roads has It's headquarters is at the south
end of the grounds, east of the windmill
exhibit, and there are men there who yill
talk so ably on good roads as TO make a
farmer feel, for the time being, that $a0,-
600 a mile would not be too much for such
a blessing.
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All this brings me around by easy and
natural stages to evolution again and the
Midway plaisance and the great society
event which is to come off there just a
week from today and which all who can
get there ought to see, for then and there
viii be the international ball and congress
of nations and a grand parade Of all races
aud rpl.s.S A., oy.ct ~ mill inlaal hn rbA
greatest day of the fair on tho plaisance
and possibly the greatest day of any fair,
for it is not probable that so many indi-
yiduals of SO many different races were
ever thus collected before. Forty-five
races and subdivisions of races viii take
part and after the main show Of the day
there viii be a rather private affair
(rather, for the tickets even for spectators
are SIS EACH at night. This will be the
ball and supper, where every nation and
race viii have its own accustomed food
prepared by its own cooks.
And this brings me back by quite logical
stages to tie question with which i began,
| viz, how did all these fellows come sef
Everybody knows how different classes
mutually improve each other, burglars
and lockmakers for instance. No sooner
does the lock man invent a lock which is
absolutely burglar proof than the burglar
invents a jimmy which will open any
thing. Then the lock man does a little
better and the burglar improves again.
It's the same, ! observe in the exhibit
here, with armor and projectiles. First
one man invented an (which was alb
solptely iinpenetrable and then another
man invented a gun which would send q
ball through it like a knife through old
cheese. Well, it'sthe same with these fell
lows. 1t really makes me sweat to look at
the Esquimaux, especially the women,
they are so round andf fat and oily looking.
And it almost gives me a pain in the back
to see some of the Algerians and Egyp-
tians, they are so long and lean and lathy
and leathery. Well, it's a plain case; all
the lean folks died long ago up north and
as to the fat ones in Africa death was GER
tainjy a mercy to them.
Of course this social event will be q
fancy ball, for each race will wear it's pc
culiar costume and as each will dance in
turn to the music of its own band the oc-
casion will no6 lack variety. 1t L. q mat
ter Tor congratulation hat the health OF
all these far foreign people continues good.
And this brings up the old question,
asked after every worlds fair: Do not
these great gatherings soften race and na-
tiona! prsjndices and tend to make ma
lions more friendly. Everybody says yes,
ON general principles, but so far exper-
Sence has been just the other way. 1t was
confidently predicted that the first worlds
fair. in london, would bring in the era OF
peace. The people went home to get ready
Tor war and In the next twelve years oc-
curred the most dreadful wars of modern
times And what do all these strange
people think Of nj religionf Nothing
at all. apparently. l asked an English
gentlemen engaged in business this ques-
ton, "Of all the Asiatics and Africans
you have taken to England or brought to
America 10 exhibit. how many adopted
C~hristianityf" His answer was en-
phatic; Not Onel" j. II. BEADLE.