The Green Forest tribune., 1909-08-27
HAD A VERY NICE TIME
John and James, Outing Marr-
 ed by Condition of the Roads
WRITTEN BY THE WRITER

crop on the farm would have been a bumper. The old lady and the girls looked after the garden and house work and the unusally hot weather had in- creased the effects of that tired feeling considerably.
 But that is not what I started in to tell. It was like this: John came in the other morning and said to his faithful wife: "Jane let's go visiting. We will simply take around going to see our kinfolks and incidently see some of our friends, take whole wsek for it and have good time. AS the girls say nowdays, we will have a sort of an out ing"
 Jane says, says she, ''I hardly think, John that we could both leave home for so long,"
 "But, Jane," said John, ''it looks like if these kids are ever going to get big enough to take care of things, they ought to be now, and the boys can care for the stock and the girls can keep house and everything will be all right" /"
 We'll, Jane's good nature as- serted itself and she consented to go for the "outing."
 Old "Jim and Frank" were hitched up to the buggy and after kissing the kids around the old man and the lady 'hopped in for the journey. They hadn't gone far until Jane remarked to John."
 "John, the roads are very rough and they do not seem to have been worked for a year. What do you recon is the mat. ter."?
 "Why Jane, said John, as he recovered from jolt caused by a big rock lying in the track, "you see our Representative passed new road law to make the school districts road districts and the people elected district overseers last May and they could not get any money to pay their hands and for tools until the county court met in July and by jollies, Jane, do you know the Prosecuting Attorney declared the law unconstitutionat and the county Judge has put the matter back in the hands of the township overseers, and now I recon if the weather ever gets fittin' we will have the roads worked same as before."
 "Well, John," says Jane, "don't you think we ought to have bet ter work than we have been hav- ing on the roads, anyhow?
 "Yes, Jane, they do seem mighty rough and a great deal that has been done to them has not counted for much. First rain comes, way goes the fixing and the road is left worse than ever. But the overseers are learning and may be they will all get the idea after awhile." John and Jane had made a visit of 8 day at Cousin Ann's and the next drive was across a flint-rock section of the country, and as they started out the road looked pretty good and John gave the old horses little touch up and they fairly sailed away when all of sudden rocks were found piled up in the road like somebody had started to build a rock fence and the buggy fairly bounced off the earth. Jane grabbed John by the arm and asked him to stop the horses from going SO fast. She had a touch of the headache any how and now it was about to send her crazy.
 "John, I want you to be care- full for goodness sake, I will never live to get back home if we encounter many more such places."
 They hadn't gone much farther until a big powder was found right squarely in the track. "Perhaps some one had started to build a stone house and drop- ped it from the wagon. Surely no one would put it in the road on purpose, said Jane," but John said they had put it there to fill a mud hole. Jane said a mud hole would look good to her compared with that horribly jolty, old rock"
 But before Jane got around on this trip she got use to that sort of road work, for one section of country was just made up of that kind of road building.
 They drove in town one after noon and Jane was mortified to find that all around the hitch rack in the public square the rocks were piled high and dry, rocks big as washing tubs almost lying up edgwise right where the old horses had to