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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1899-07-14
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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
Requisites of a Good Road.

The three requisites of good road
are straightness, solidity and smooth
ness. Straightness should to some ex-
tent yield to grade. It is better to
lengthen the road than for the grade to
exceed 1 in 80. The side slopes should
not exceed in 40. The roadbed should
first be well drained, properly sloped
each way from the center, and all vege-
table matter removed. Then in dry
weather the first coat of clean stone,
four inches thick, broken by hand to
the proper size and shape, should be
spread over the roadbed and rolled with
a heavy roller until nearly consolidated ;
then on damp day another coat, four
inches thick, should be spread evenly
over the first and rolled as before after
ward the last coat, three inches thick,
should be spread as was the second, and
a dressing of clean gravel spread over
,this.-Exchange.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

SOMEONE has proposed that, in view
of the fact that appointments to JAM
torships in the public institutions OF
Milwaukee are made through examin-
ations, the candidates for the senator
ship should be subjected to examina-
ton and the successful candidate
nominated. We have simpler recon
mendation. Photograph them and let
the candidate that looks the prettiest
and most dignified be nominated. We
make this suggestion, because we are
confident that the candidate we favor
j, Y. Quarles-w easily secure the
plum under the existing conditions.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
WE hone that the city will make

WE hope that the city will make a
public playground of the block be-
oueathed by the late Edward Balm
and not turn it into flower garden.
The city has long needed place in
which the boys may play base ball and
foot ball, and it can now with very
little expense turn this orchard into a
playground. By taking out the trees
and leveling the ground great i'm
provement may be made and a small
recreation park in the middle of the
city will be of advantage to the devel-
opment of our youth, and will, at least,
keep them off the public streets and
give them something to do. Let US
therefore have playground.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

Of conveyance in the country as we'll as
city. Machines driven by electricity
would gradually come to supersede the
horse. This would require more elevat-
ing manual labor in the manufacture of
all the machinery needed to replace the
horse.
In England, France and Germany the
roads already admit of the use of cleo
trical vehicles, which are becoming
more and more popular each year. In
some parts of Germany it is said that
farm produce is now being transported
on electric wagons. The use of electric
ity as motive power is as yet but i'm
perfectly understood and the construc-
ton of horseless carriages is still in it's
merest infancy. Great developments
may confidently be expected here in
this line, but American ingenuity will
be hampered until highways are con.
structed over which it will be feasible
for such vehicles to travel.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

A new cotton mill has just been
started in Concord, N. G. 1t is unique,
for it is the only cotton mill Gin the
world that is owned and operated en-
tirely by negroes. The result of this
experiment will be watched with pro-
found interest. If success should
attend the venture, the negroes will
reap financial gains; if failure, yet the
negroes will have demonstrated the
fact that they are not the lazy. shiftless
race that they are supposed to be, and
that thrift, industry and ambition sway
them as powerfully as they sway the
white races,
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
Official Conservatism.

Disgruntled Cyclist (trundling his
machine over country highway)-This
is what you call roadmaking here, is it?
Scraping loose dirt up over the center
and leaving it there for the heavy wag
ons to cut up into ruts
Sturdy Farmer-Yo Teller, I've
been highway commissioner fur this
township 81 year, and learned road
maxim from my father. He had the
office fore I did. Do you reckon you
kin teach me anything about it, mister?
Chicago Tribune.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

THE Evening Wisconsin, in taking
us to task about teachers conventions
held in vacation says that we are not
80 we'll up as we might be on the sub
ject of teachers conventions. 1t then
goes on to tell of the intellectual
stimulants," the enjoyable and i'm
proving acquaintanceship" to be de-
rived from such gatherings. The
Evening Wisconsin is evidently we'll
up on the subject of teachers conven-
tions," but we are stronger on the
subject of vacations. To extend the
application of the theory advanced
lawyers should spend their vacations
in consultation with their fellow
lawyers; merchants should go to large
centers and select dress o ttterns for
the next season; newspaper men should
go into the printing shops OF some
other city and swap stories with their
fellow reporters, and clergymen should
go and listen to sermons. Again we
say let these teachers conventions be
held at some other time than during
vacations.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
Reasons For Road Improvements.

The three most important reasons for
road improvement are, first, the desir-
ability of reducing the cost of mailing;
second, the Importance Of making most
of our roads fit for pleasure driving,
thereby attracting to the rural districts
in summer thousands of people who
create local market for various farm
products; third, the economic principle
of preventing the great waste of labor
which now is fruitlessly expended in
making bad roads. Professor F. J. FL.
Merrill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

WHITELAW REID will go down into
history as the mentioned" man OF
the nineteenth century. His friends
suggest his name for every Office within
the gift of the president, and they fail
to secure an appointment for their
favorite. He is now " mentioned" as
military governor of an island in the
Philippine group. There surely can
be no honor in so insignificant an ap-
pointment for a man of Mr.. Reid's
ability and position.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
Road Maintenance.

The only way by which macadam
roadway can be kept firm and compact
and preserved through summer heat is
to moisten it regularly. If macadam is
worth paying for, it is worth caring for.
But this is done only in spots, where
private parties bear the expense, and,
instead of keeping the roads always
good and firm, it is customary to wait
until the sun has disrupted the surface
and then to spread on quantity of
earth, stones and sod to ''protect" it
Exchange.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
System In Road Maintenance.

No one has ever supposed that rail
road corporations spend money for the
mere sake of spending it or adopt ex-
pensive methods when cheaper ones are
better It must be, then, that there is
some pretty substantial reason for di-
viding their roadbeds into sections and
keeping men constantly employed on
each in caring for them. Precisely the
same principle applies to ordinary high
ways The only way that they can be
efficiently maintained is by establishing
a similar system, and the more expen-
sive they are to construct the greater
the saving that will thereby be made
and increased efficiency secured.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

A new chapter has been added to
the story of the triumph of American
steel in foreign markets. One of the
principal railways in England has just
placed an order with two American
locomotive companies for twenty eight
freight cars, to be used on English
lines. This circumstance, added to the
fact that Carnegie has contracted to
sell steel rails at fifteen shillings ton
lower than the lowest European COM
petitor for use in South Africa, is a
clear proof that our country is in the
markets of the world to stay, and can
compete with European bidders. And
in spite of all this there are those who
refuse to acknowledge that protection
has built up the industries of our coun-
try, so that we can at the same tine
pay better wages than other countries
and undersell them wherever we are
brought into competition.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

some good work early in the season, is
in high state of efficiency, and the
farmers are pulling the heaviest loads
over it. This road was almost impassa-
BILE for heavily laden wagons until this
year. We are fully satisfied with the
work we did and shall continue on the
same lines this season and reconstruct
many miles of the principal highways
in the county"
The new method calls for the use of
10 horsepower grader which is used
for removing the earth from the sides
of the roadway and piling it up in the
center. AS fast as it is deposited there
it is spread out and thoroughly pulver-
lied by a slender toothed harrow,
which is followed by roller weighing
several tons. The loose earth is put on
in layers of only about an inch in thick
ness, each subjected to repeated rolling.
In this way a roadway, often several
feet in thickness, is built up, firmly
compaoted from top to bottom. The sur
face has an oval form which sheds the
water readily. Formerly in the public
highways short distance from the city
there was only one narrow roadway
where all of the vehicles travelled, turn
ing out only to pass each other. On the
new roadways a surface of from 90 to
40 feet is used.
The roadmaking committee in the
county board announces that the same
general plans Of last year will be fol-
lowed this year and that all of the taxes
realized from the 1 mill levy in the
general road fund of the county will be
devoted to the work. This fund has
yielded about $40, 900 a year for many
years, and it has been the practice here
tofore to apportion it to the several
townships and permit it to be used I'M
der the direction of the township road
supervisors, who have expended it. to-
gether with the additional township
levy, to defray the cost of annually
blowing up the roads. The board will
endeavor to induce the city to consent
this year to the REIMBURSEMENT Of its
share of this fund to be used in making
permanent roads in the immediate vi
cinity of town.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
Beet Sugar in Wisconsin and Min
nesota

ANENT the proposition that Wiscon-
sin should embark in a large and gen
,erous way in the production of beet
sugar, the Milwaukee Sentinel very
pertinently calls attention to the rivalry
which the beet sugar men are likely to
tace in the revival, under improved
conditions and with superior methods
of the cane sugar industry in Cuba,
Porto Rico and other tropical islands.
But it is not likely that the sugar pro-
ducts of those islands will be admitted
free into this country. At least that is
not the policy which it has been freely
intimated would control3sour CONNER
cial relations with those islands. They
are to have their own tariffs and the
United States a tariff on imports from
them. A moderate duty on sugar
would probably serve to develop the
beet sugar industry in this country to
an extent which would affOl d large and
profitable returns upon the investment.
This has already proved to be the case
with beet sugar factory recently es
tablished at Minneapolis. The product
is equal to the best imported cane
sugars, and Sat the present market
prices a large profit is said to have been
realized on the cost of production.
This is remarkable fact in view of the
export duties on German and French
beet sugars, the effect of which has
been to ruin the sugar industry in the
West India islands. If we can produce
beet sugar at a good profit in competi-
ton with the cheap products of the
same industry in France and Germany,
forced upon the markets of the world
by liberal bounties on its expectation,
there is no reason, apparently, why
the industry should not be thriving
one, especially in Minnesota and Wis
consin, the soil and climates of which
are admirably adapted to the produc-
ton of beets of the highest saceharine
quality.-Pioneer Press.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
Dreadfully Nervous

Gents:-I was dreadfully nervous,
and for relief took your Karls Glover
Root Tea. 1t quoted my nerves and
strengthened my whole nervous sys-
tenn. l was troubled with constipa-
ton, kidney and bowel trouble. Your
tea soon cleansed my system so thor
oughly, that l rapidly regained health
and strength. Mrs. S. A. Sweet,
Hartford, Conn. Sold by Stark
weather Sc Co. tt
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

Rules to Observe In Practical Modern
Highway Construction.
First. Measure and mark all main
roads at the end of each mile with per-
manent stone mile posts from the coun-
ty seat to county line. Crossroads should
be measured and marked in the same
way.
Second. all main and impor-
tant roads.
Third. Use a good Typographical
map and make careful survey of all
roads in the county in order to secure
the best possible alignment, changing
the location of any road whose grade
can be thus improved without much ex-
pense.
Fourth. no work on a road
unless it's width is at least 80 feet.
Fifth. -Macadamize the worst stretch
es Of these graded roads, making metal
ed portion from 16 to Is feet wide (about
half the width Of the roadway. Macad-
am should be at least eight inches thick,
composed of pieces Of hard stone (pref-
erably limestone) small enough to pass
through ~ inch ring.
By such a system of practice all the
dirt roads will be soon improved. The
macadamized stretches should bring the
people to the conclusion that road be-
tween two places is really not much
better than it's worst part, and the
eventual piking of the whole road will
be the natural outcome. The rule which
allows taxpayer to "work out his tax"
should be abolished, for he usually
works out the best parts of the road
way in so doing. Witherspoon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
MACHINE ROADWAYS.
THEY RECEIVE A PRACTICAL TEST IN
NEBRASKA

successfully Withstand Frosts of Winter
and Thaws of Spring Smooth, Hard
Roads Take the Place of Mudholes.
Method of Construction.
The members of the board of county
Supervisors are taking a deep interest
in the public road work that was done
last summer on several of the main
county highways and Have started a
systematic inquiry with view of as
pertaining how the roadbeds have with
stood the spring thaw, says the Omaha
Bee. Colonel Baker has perhaps taken
more interest in this work than almost
any other member Of the board He
says:
"We have every reason to congratu-
late ourselves and the people Of the
county who use the roads that the effort
to construct modern highways was be-
gun last summer. Of the "a miles of
roadway we constructed last summer
our reports do not show mile that is
not in good passable condition. In
many places where at this time last
year the mud was axle deep to thNYe-
hicles that attempted to traverse WChe
public highways Immediately after the
frost left the earth we now have firm,
dry roadbeds over which heavy loads
can be hauled. There has been more
rain this season than last. The work
we did has certainly demonstrated the
wisdom of the board in investing con-
siderable sum of money in the road
making machinery we purchased and
put into operation. We were considera-
bly, handicapped during portion of the
season on account of the excessive dry
ness of the soil, which could not be per-
fectly compacted by our system Of har-
rowing and rolling.
SAT all points where the new road
ways are not up to the standard it will be
found that the work was done when the
ground was powder dry. Wherever we
had moist earth to work upon we gave
a firm and solid basis for the road that
has not been affected by the weather.
The old Chautauqua road, where we did
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

THE death of Senator Justin S. Nor
rill, of Vermont, removes from the
United States one of it's most honorable
and conspicuous citizens. He will be
ranked with the grand old men of the
century and will be compared favorably
with Gladstone, Bismarck and Leo
XIII. Octogenarians engaged in bust
ness and politics are not exceedingly
rare, but here was man who had
passed the limit of four score and ten,
attending faithfully to the regular du-
ties of parliamentary representative,
and bringing to the discharge of those
duties MUD unweakened by time, and
stored with all the experience of forty
three consecutive years IN Congress.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

The case of the Italian anarchist
Luccheni, who murdered the Empress
Elizabeth, of Austria, is warning to
disappointed Office seekers. Official
investigation into his record shows that
he was an able soldier and industrious
workman until he raised his aspirations
to some small political Office. When
he failed to secure it, he imagined that
he had a grievance, and heaven protect
us from the man with a grievance.
Luccheni was disappointed and started
out to hunt society, and the "non-
working" members. In his case failure
in winning political Office worked ruin;
in the case of many others, success in
winning some meagre political position
often units them for the ordinary use
full employments, when, through
change of party, they lose their political
jobs.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
No Humbug.

Foley's Honey and Tar does not
claim to perform miracles. 1t does not
claim to cure all cases of consumption
or asthma, but it does claim to give
comfort and relief in advanced stages
of these diseases and to usually cure
early stages. tits certainly worth try
ing by those afflicted or threatened
with these dread diseases. For sale by
all druggists. dWd3l
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

WE read of the arrival in Washing
ton of Senior Agoncillo, the envoy Of
the noble and gallant General Aguin-
aldo, President of the Philippine Re-
public" This reminds us of Sancho
Panza, the crazy quilt companion Of
the illustrious Don Quixote. We are
afraid, moreover, that there is a great
deal of Quixotism in this visit OF
AgoncillO.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05

IF we intend to civilize the Fillpinos
we should cultivate in them taste for
a little more clothing. A few good
tailors and few cheap copies of
/" Sartor Resartusu will aid US mater
ially in our efforts to Americanize our
new colonists.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
To Cure a Cola in one pay

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
ALI druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c. The genuine has
L. B. @. on each tablet. DIV
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-01-05
OUR COUNTRY ROADS.
We Are Still Far Behind European Ma
tions In This Respect.

We Are Still Far Behind european Ma
tions In This Respect.
Although much has been done to i'm
prove the condition of the roads on this
side of the Atlantic, there is still great
deal to be desired, says the New York
Mail and Express. This is made espe-
cially manifest when the roads here are
compared with the highways in nearly
all the European countries. We're the
government of the United States to ex-
pend millions every year it would still
be long while before Uncle Sam could
rank his roads in the same class with
those of John Bull In addition to the
advantages generally recognized as in
separable from good highways, methods
of communication would be cheapened
and bicycles become an ordinary means
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22

were as innocent as you think, you'd
steer us up against some game, and first
we'd win, and then we'd lose. and that
would be our finish. 1t don't go, for
We're unto you, but 1 would like TO
know how you done it.
What was it that made You sus-
pfcious?'
Look here. mister We were
talking about the things we're seeing
on the banks of this river. We had not
once mentioned the state of pennSyl-
wanna. All at once you popped out
with that question about Chris Magee,
and we answered it just like gawks.
By this time you know What our names
are and all about us, l guess. OF
course, you found out that we wese
from Pittsburg, and l don't mind say
ing that you are right. But how You
found it out is what gets me-
/ did nv best to explain that any
man who smoked stogies and called
them tobies must be a Pittsburger. But
it was no use. The men moved away
from so dangerous companion. At
intervals during the rest of this trip
could see them casting furtive glances
at me, as one would look at a danger
Gus curiosity, with which he had be-
come familiar in his reading. The init
mate association of the stogy mani
festation of tobacco with the solitary
instance in which / had convinced my
that / was a confidence cp-
orator would always spoil any pleas
ure l might get out of stogies, even
were they made of the most fragrant
leaf