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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
EHeo. Of Good and Dad ROAD.


In issuing a call for a state good
roads meeting that was held at Louis
vile on Sept II Governor Augustus E.
Wilson Of Kentucky said: i.
There Is nothing which hurts the
people more or costs the people more
or keeps them back more than bad
roads. They make It hard to leave
home. hard to get back. hard to haul,
hard to visit. hard to get to heaven
sometimes. There Is nothing that a
man can think of that win do more to
help the people than good roads, which
make 1t easy to travel, easy to bring
goods home. easy to haul your produce
and manufactures to market, easy TO
30 to school and church and easy to
avoid many bitter thoughts that bad
ioads cause"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

alone never makes good road except
in wet. The more the drainage Of
sand road is improved the more de-
plorable becomes its condition. Moth
ing will ruin ne quicker than to dig
a ditch on each side and drain all the
water away. The best way, therefore,
to make such road firm Is to keep It
constantly damp. This can be done by
planting 81 ade trees along It's sides
to prevent the evaporation Of water
or by growing upon the surface of
such sand roads a thick turf, prefer
ably Bermuda grass. Roads running
through loose sand may be improved
by mixing clay with the sand and
slightly crowning the surface.
For the temporary improvement Of
earth or sand roads any strong fibrous
substance, especially If It holds mois.
ture, such rs refuse of sugar cane or
sorghum and even common straw,
fax, swamp grass or pine needles. will
be useful. Spent tan bark Is some
times beneficial. and wood fiber in any
form Is excellent. Enough sand or
earth should be thrown over such
roads to keep them damp and protect
them from catching fire.
Earth Is composed Of small, irregu-
lar fragments which touch each other
at points. leaving voids between.
When the earth Is broken up and pull
verized these voids are almost equal
in volume to the solid particles, and
as a result the earth Will absorb al
most an equal volume Of water. In
the building or maintaining Of earth
roads 1t Is therefore very desirable
that these small, irregular particles be
pressed and packed into as small a
space as possible In. order that sur
plus water may not pass in and de-
stroy the stability Of the road. To
this end rolling is very beneficial. The
work Of maintaining dirt roads will. be
much increased by lack of care in
properly rolling the surface.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Clouds and tho Weather.

When two weather prophets dlsa-
gree does 1t argue error OF inconpe-
tence in elther7 No, says the author
of "Storms and Storm SlgnaIs' in
Yachting. The data upon which they
base their predictions do not always
bear one Interpretation. Thus:
Because the clouds indicate weather
in different manner according to the
geographical location Of the observer,
and also because they are in them
selves but byproducts of the weather
and are not causes, weather predic-
tions from clouds at sea should be, tax
en- with plenty of reservation Of judg-
ment. To say, for instance, that at a
fred sky at night sailors delight Is
very tuneful and possibly truthful
where knowledge is conspicuous by its
absence, but red sky at night may
mean almost anything from a surplus
of moisture in the air, meaning prob
ably rains, to volcanic eruption 1900
miles away which has sent great
clouds of dust into the MIR, causing the
red color by reflection and refraction
of the light rays.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
GRADING a Roadhsd.

1t Is simply extraordinary the lack
Of Judgment shown BY many who un-
dertake to shape a roadbed. The road
allowance in various states covers
sixty-six feet. In rounding up the
roadbed, the earth. Is. sometimes moved
toward the certer from nearly the en-
tire distance of the width Of the road
This means that the bitches for carry
ing away the water are not distant
from the fences that hedge In the
highway. The roadbed is entirely too
wide, says the American Agricultur-
lst 1t cannot be sufficiently round
ed toward the center, and as a result
water does not run of with sufficient
lquickness. The temptation to spoil
roads by grading them thus is all the
stronger since road graders have come
into use. This result follows, from the
comparative qutckness with which the
earth can be moved by these ma
chimes. A distance Of forty-two to for
ty-five feet between the outer edges Of
the bitches furnishes a roadbed sufl.
ciently wide. s.(t
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
FINE ROADS ABROAD.
American Experts Point Out Su-
periority of Foreign Highways.
THREE THINGS TO REMEMBER

Selection Of Routes, Proper Mainte-
nance and Adaptation of Construction
! to Traffic Are Essential, Say Dele
gates to international Road Congress.
Three Of the American delegates to
the first international road congress
recently held in Paris, France, arrived
in New York the other day. All from
Seattle, Wash. they are Samuel HIll,
president of the Washington Good
Roads association: r. n. Thomson,
city engineer of Seattle, and Samuel
@. Lancaster, professor of highway en-
gineering, University of Washington.
Soon after their arrival they united
in a statement to the New York Her.
aid regarding the results of the road
congress.
4 Road builders from all parts OF the
world were present at the conference,
twenty-nine countries being represent
ed. There were twenty delegates from
the United States.
A remarkable exhibition In connec-
ton With the road congress was dis
play of samples of road surfaces.
With the question of the dust raised
by motor cars and the bad surfaces of
roads so much in evidence, this exhibit
was particularly interesting.
The statement of Messrs. Hill, Thom-
son and Lancaster is as follows:
Personal observations made In
France, Germany and Belgium, Hol-
land and England have served to
show in striking manner the back
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
A snoil.d se.n..

E. n. sothern once found his wit fail
him in time OF need. II was in the
fourth act Of THE Lady of Lyons"
sothern played Claude Melnotte, and
Virginia Harmed was cast az Pauline.
BeauSant. the villain, was pursuing
Pauline, and she cried loudly for help.
CLAUDE is supposed to dash to her res.
cue and catch the fainting Pauline in
bis arms. Sothern dashed on to the
stage, but slipped and slid, sitting
down near the footlights. Losing his
presence Of mind, he declaimed the
line: look up, Pauline There Is no
danger" AS Virginia Harmed was
standing, this was, Of course, an i'm.
possibility. By this time the audience
was In an uproar, and when Arthur
Lawrence, who played Beausant, seorn.
fully said, you are beneath me-" the
amusement of the audience knew no
bounds,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Like Father Like Son.

Four-year-old Clyde was a precocious
youngster-very talkative and close
observer. He and his father were
strolling through the meadows one
morning when Clyde observed for the
first time some tadpoles In pond. He
waded in and cried out, "Oh, father,
what are theyT
"Tadpoles, son." the father replied.
please, father, let's take them all
home with us, then come back and
find the mamma and papa, and we'll
have the whole family in our pond at
home"
The father explained how impossible
this would be, and as they walked on
a few steps large, ugly frog hoped
across their path. Clyde's father said
Look. son. Perhaps there is the pa.
pa"
Clyde was very thoughtful He look.
ed at the frog, then at his father. then
at himself and exclaimed:
well, father, was there ever SO
much difference between me and you?'
-Delineator.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

"Long, almond shaped eyes, with
thick and creamy lids covering half
the pupil and with foreheatf that Is
full above the brows-t There you have
the eye of the man Of genius" The
speakers own eyes answered that de-
scription strikingly. but he WAS far
from being man of genius. being. In
fact, magazine editor.
"Protruding eyes," he went on,
''show mental and bodily weakness.
Eyes close together denote cunning.
Those far apart denote liberality. Thin
lashes without any upward curvS to
them and thin brows poorly marked
are signs of melancholy and indeci-
sion. The eyes of voluptuary move
slowly under heavy lids. Those of a
miser are small, deep sunken and blue,
set in bony and perpendicular fore
head. The most beautiful eyes-large
brilliant and clear, gIancing and fash
ing with rapid motion-the most
beautiful eyes denote elegance of taste,
gayety, some selfishness and a great
interest in the opposite se1."-New
York Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
A Picture Romance.

1t is said that one of the most beau
tiful ladies' in French society. today
was first revealed to her husband on
the walls of the salon. 1t was while
visiting the salon in 1873 that the
youthful Marquis de G. was struck by
the childish beauty Of young girl,
one OF the prominent figures in pic
ture Of village fete. Her tumbled
golden locks, her dancing blue eyes
and the freshness and graceful aban-
don Of her figure SO fascinated him
that he sought out the artist and learn
ed from him that the "little witch"
was the daughter Of a poor peasant
near Avranches, where tho picture was
painted. To seek out the peasant and
to make the acquaintance Of his fas-
cinating daughter, child Of nine sum-
mers. was soon accomplished, and the
marquis lost his heart even more COM
pletely to the real than to the pictured
maid. With the fathers approval he
had the girl educated at one Of the
best schools in Paris, and nine years
later, on her eighteenth birthday, the
maid Of the village fete blossomed
into tine still more lovely Marquise
de G.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
CARE OF EARTH ROADS.
How Clay Roadbsd's Treatment Differs
From One Composed Of Sand.


From One Composed Of Sand.
On clay roads thin layer of sand,
gravel or ashes will prevent the stick
ing Of clay to the roller or to the
wheels Of vehicles. Clay soils. as a
rule, absorb water quite freely and
soften when saturated. but water does
not pass through them readily. When
used alone clay is the least desirable
Of all road materials, but roads COM
posed of clay may be created with
sand or small gravel from which a
comparatively hard and compact mass
Is formed, which is nearly impervious
to water. Material Of this character
found In the natural state commonly
known as "hardpan" makes when
properly applied a very solid and
durable road. In soils composed of a
mixture of sand. gravel and clay all
that Is necessary to make q good road
Is to crown the surface and keep the
ruts and holes filed and the bitches
open and free. 49,
While clay alone never makes a
good road except In dry weather, sand
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
rhn stiek Enr wiu.,.

In the old Anglo-Norman marriage
ceremony the gentlewoman used to
promise her husband to be buxom
unto my gentil name" The word
buxom corresponds to the modern Ger
man blegsam. meaning bending or pli.
ant. and the old English was ''busk-
am" all of which goes to show that
things must have been very pleasantly
ordered in the good old days that are
dead and gone. According to the old
English law. which is still unrescinded
in the statute book, the "gentil name"
was allowed to beat his goode wife
with stick the diameter Of which did
not exceed quarter of an inch.-New
York World. :.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02


see It. the building of state roads by
state funds does not best solve the
problem OF good roads for the farmer,
but by the farmers cooperating with
the state. --.- 49,
The local. interest aud effort are need
ed. Then they will get better roads at
less cost In many sections farmers
are; complaining about poor state
roads. r, InEene. road district In New
York two niles of macadamlzed road
were built at cost Of $1,000 per mile.
EOne half OF thls amount; was subscrIb-.
ed by the people living IN the road dis
trict. and the state paid the other half.
This road vas built under the super
vision of the town road commissioner.
and the steam road crusher and other
machinery owned by the town were
/. ..pSsd. y No large profit was paid to
ssss6nfsGctor. Nothing was paid for ma
--terials--The only cost Of the road was
the cost of labor. l would call atten-
!, ton. to-the fact that the. process Of
: 6cientiac road Building as 1t was done,
in this instance Is the reverse Of that
30 long practiced by farmers. The soil
they try to keep in the road is first
all removed down to the bedrock or
gravel, and; when the grading is done
the understratum of the roadbed is
made Of the common field stones one
or two feet thick. Next quarry stone
or refuse from the quarry Is broken
to make a layer several inches thick.
then finished with a layer Of hard
crushed stone from the stone erusher
and rolled with the steam roller
drove over this two years from the
time 1t was built and can say 1t was in
better condition than some state roads
! hnve seen built at the same time.
have taken pains to talk with people
living on this road and find them en-
Iirely satisfied with their Investment
and planning to build more of this road.
think on one mile of this road four
farmers live on the average. The road
cost them $50 per mile, or about $163
each. The interest on the investment
Is less than so. and / think all can
see that no farmer can make a better
Investment. Here they have a road
bed that will last for many years, and
the yearly road tax VIII keep It in
repair. Farms have been cleaned Of
stone In providing material work was
provided for home labor, a road has
been made in the right way, according
10 the principles Of good road build
Ing. and the benefits that follow are
beyond estimation.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

She had passed a season abroad, and
in London, she said modestly, her sue
cess had been unprecedented. The
earl said he could readily believe that
''The dinner" she resumed. ''that
Lady Featherstonhaugh"-
Excuse me. The name is pronounc-
ed Freestonhay." said the earl.
well, at the dinner Lord Dalzell"-
Though written Dalzell, 1t 1t pro-
nounced Deal. But pray go on"
"He and Sir Dugald Colquhoun"-
"You mean Calhoun. Yes"
"And Lady Leveson-Gower and Mr..
Bohun"-
"Lewson-Gore and Boone are the
correct pronunciations.. But I'm inter
rupting you"
mot at all. All these persons and
Lord st. Maur drank"-
mot St Maur-seymour. Wellf"
"Oh, forgot what was going to
say. You've quite put me out with
your corrections"
"And your story was just getting in
teresting too," said the earl regret
fully.-New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Train and Track.

Washouts and landslips occur so Of
ten along the railway in Borneo that 1t
costs, though labor is cheap, S14 per
mile per month to keep the road in re-
pair.
Passengers by the Transsiberian ex.
press now reach Pekin from London in
sixteen days, the eeSorth China railway
having been ihdosed 10 Iap the trains
by nigheas well as by day.
Fourth class passengers will here
after be carried on Saxon railways
every day in the week. Hitherto these
passengers had to pay extra and travel
third class on SUNDAYS and holidayH.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
cutina II Short.

A British lieutenant in the Second
battalion, Lincolnshire regiment, who
was called Leo Quintus Tollemache.
Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet
Observation-Disclosures, gave notice by
means of advertisement that he re-
nounced the names of Quintus Tolle-
mache-Tollemache Plantagenet Tolle-
mache and should henceforth upon all
occasions and at all times sign and
use and be called and known by the
name Of Leo de Orellana Tollemache
only.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

Nothing Paid For MateriaI-No Large
Profit For contraetor-onIy Cost
of the Road Was the Cost Of Home
Labor.
One fact people are slow to learn Is
that the soil nature made for growing
plants In does not make good road
bed Soil Is decomposed or pulverfzed
rock with some humus or vegetable
matter. When this is wet 1t is mud:
when very dry it is dust.
When soil Is used for 4 road the
most Of the time 1t Is in either one of
these two conditions, but there are
short periods when there is Just the
amount Of moisture In the soil that
makes It so compact as to be a firm
road. For many years rural roadmak-
ing has been some process of getting
more soil into the road and the stones
out. can remember how under the
supervision Of the path master" we
used to work out the road tax By
drawing soil In the road with a team
and scraper and afterward throwing
the stones from the roadbed into the
ditch. The next year, after the soil
had been 1attened out by travel, the
same soil was scraped into the center
of the road again and the same stones
thrown out. The last few years this
work has been more cheaply or easily
done with the road worker. This plan
OF roadmaking may give fairly good
country road, where heavy loads are
seldom drawn, for two or three months
IN summer, but for the greater part OF
the year there is no firm. smooth road
bed. but mud. ruts and dust, says W.
H.. jenkins of Sidney Center, n. Z,
In Hoard's Dairyman. For the same
reason that we need better school
houses and rural schools we need
better country roads. Instituting stone
or macadamized roads In agricultural
localities is a most wise and farseeing
policy, for 1t hastens the time Of bet
ter agriculture and civilization and
adds to the value of real estate.
Nan always finds nature has antici-
pated his needs and Is only waiting
for him to work up to a point where
be can use what she provides. he
must learn to make his roads from the
rock before the glacier has ground
them into soil, not afterward. For
many years IN many sections the agri-
culturists have not known how to get
rid Of the stones on their fields or what
use to make Of .outcropplng ledges Of
rock that could be quarried. Now the
modern machinery for making macad-
amized roads and the need of them
and learning the uses of concrete will
make these among their most valuable
assets on the farm. AS / am able to
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Flower ard Tree.

The apple trees In bearing in Canada
exceed 100000, while 100000 more
are growing up.
The raffesia of Suinatra is the lar
gest flower III the world. 1t has five
petals, each one foot wide
4 leafess tree grows on an island In
the Pacific. 1t reaches height of
thirty feet and has branches spreading
like an umbrella.
A japanese florist has succeeded in
discovering rose which is decidedly
unique. The color is a delicate pink
when the plant is in the shade, but be-
comes crimson WHOM exposed to the
- = -1-zuz,N .Atk
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Waves Of Water.

The area of the Pacific ocean is
about the same as the earth's land
area-i. G.. 55,0OOOOO square miles.
The river Polk flows into a cave in
the side Of mountain and completely
disappears at Adelsberg, near Trieste.
On the Yukon river, at distance Of
from 700 to 800 miles from the seq,
there are many points where 1t is
nearly twenty miles wide.
The Great Salt lake is some eighty
miles long and from twenty to thirty
two miles wide. 1t is 1900 feet above
eeafIeyelf and the saline matter in its
waters varies from Il to % per cent,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Canada, Inland ssa

People at home who have only seen
Hudson bay on the map have mainly
regarded 1t as patch Of polar desola-
ton. forbidding and unexplored. In
reality II is nothing of the kind. 1t is
huge Inland sea as large as the Med
iterranean reaching down into the
center Of the, Canadian continent
Milling.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Zealand Out Ear Elm. Rand,.

Highway improvement is becoming
q live issue IN Iceland. It Is claimed
that with god roads more than 10000
acres Of land could be made profitable
for agricultural purposes and that such
roads would lead to the development
Of the rich veins Of gold which are
known to exist near Reyk3svik. the
chief seaport.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

Taking the result of large numbe:
of analyses by different chemists, Il
may be said that the average percent
age eQmposition Of cows milk is as fol
lows: Caseih, or cheese matter, 3.64:
butter. S.55; milk sugar. or lactose,
40; saline matter. 81; water. $3.50.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
.nusrs, ki,..a In Old Rnr

Under the Romans If lover kissed
his betrothed before marriage she In
herited half Of his worldly goods In the
event Of his death before the marriage
ceremony, and If she died her heritage
descended to her nearest relatives.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
No Leak,

Suppose" hissed the villain, sup
pose our plot should leak out?
That's all right" said his accom-
plice consolingly. "It can't. Don't you
remember telling me five minutes ago
that 1t had thickened?"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
The WRONG Heart.

''Mr. Bubkins," said the proud father,
shaking the young man warmly by the
hand, "let me tell you that you are
man after my own heart"
"Oh, no, sir" protested the blushing
suitor; I'm after your daughter'sr'-
london Answers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
What sh. Wanted 10 See.

The chauffeur was taking his load of
tourists for ride through the resi-
dence portion Of the metropolis and
pointing out to them the state man
lions of the nabob. "Pve often heard"
laid the portly dowager with the dia-
monds, 'of these Oliver Wendell homes.
Would you. mind showing u one Of
em?-saD ETancisco ATeOnaut.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

The ginger grown in Jamaica COM
mands more than double the price Of
any other. Under favorable conditions
an acre win produce as much as 1000
pounds. ,,,,,..EIlsglls.,
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rook hlm Al I'm. Wn.d

A young man of Vienna thoughtless-
ly promised his aged aunt that he
would never part with any treasures
she might bequeath to him. He now
finds at her death that he has taken
upon himself the care Of ffty-six cats.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02
Hans rs IheY Law.

A hen attains her best laying capac-
lty in her third year. She will lay in an
average lifetime from 300 to 500 eggs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

The wealth of a man is the number
Of things he loves and blesses, which
he is loved and blessed by.-Carlyle.
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Dancer In Dust.

Nine horses that were employed on
gravel road construction in Hamilton
county, Ind, died from the effects Of
breathing dust.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-02

The greatest altitude in Pennsylva-
MIA is Blue Knob. being 8A38 feet
above the sea.
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RURAL ROADNAKING,
How Some Farmers Built a Good
Highway CheapIy.
STONES FROM FIELDS USED.

Nothing Paid For MatsriaI-No Large
Profit For a contraetor-onIy Cost
of the Road Was the Cost Of Home
Labor.