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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
Asphalt Roads In Massachusetts,.


It is the expectation of the Massa-
chusetts highway commission to ex-
tend the use Of asphalt compounds for
the coming season in it's roadmaking.
The general opinion of its engineers
last year as the season progressed was
that the asphalt products were more
reliable and gave better results than
the tar products; also that it appeared
that the asphalt would wear for a
greater length of time. As result Of
its experiments the commission treated
many miles Of macadam surface.
which was badly worn. by filling all
ruts, holes and depressions with mix
ture of asphalt. oil and gravel or a
sharp sand or stone and stone screen
ings. the road being evened up and
brought as nearly as possible to a uni
form smooth surface. Then the road
was coated with from one-fourth TO a
half gallon of hot asphalt oil to the
square yard. The oil was laid on as
evenly as possible over the surface,
being spread with a broom where nee
essary. II was then Immediately COW
cred with sand. gravel or screenings
spread evenly over the road surface
In sufficient quantities to absorb all of
the oil. If oil appeared it was covered
from time to time, so that no oil
should come in contact with passing
vehicles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
Starters Of Good Roads.

II highways are an evolution from
the primary paths made by animals
and men. the first roadmakers did not
make their paths straight certainly.
and many road today is monument
to the leaders in roadmaking of the
long ago. Nevertheless 1t is said that
some animals. the buffalo especially,
were pretty fair engineers. They had
an eye for grade, which cannot be said
OF some of their successors In the
west engineers hunting pathways for
railroads are said to have largely fol-
lowed buffalo trails.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
GOOD ROAD BOOSTERS.
Valuable Hints From Address BY Cons
qressman Ferris of Oklahoma.

Valuable Hints From Address by Cons
aressman Ferris of Oklahoma.
Congressman Scott Ferris of Oklaho-
ma in an enthusiastic address on the
subject of good roads uttered the fol-
lowing:
Good roads bring the products of the
mine and forest to the factory door.
Good roads bring thrift to the farmer
and thrift to the consumer and wealth
to the nation.
Good roads make farm life pleasant
and profitable and enhance its useful
ness.
Good roads bring us more rural
routes-will bring us better ones and
more efficient ones.
They make better homes, happier
flresides. more patriotic people.
They distribute the products of the
mine. the forest and the factory.
They are the avenues Of progress
and the highest and best proof of the
intelligence we enjoy.
It does justice to producer and con-
sumer and withholds injustice from
all.
They save time. labor, money and
failure. They patronize the railways
and the waterways you have appro-
priated for so savishly.
Highways. tell you. sir, are not the
property of one class of men, but are
the property and interest of every one.
whether he be black or white, educat-
ed or uneducated, weak or strong.
high or low. savage or civilized. They
are, tell you, the property of us all,
and we should all aid In their upbuild-
ing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
HIGHWAYS TOO WIDE.
Those Of Germany Compared to Roads
Of the West.

Those Of Germany Compared to Roads
OF the West.
1t is argued that as a general thing
and particularly in the west the roads
of the United States are too wide.
The west and Germany are compared
in this respect. 1t is pointed out that
while in Germany, where the traffic Is
enormous, the highways are but twen-
ty and twenty-one feet, in the west.
where the traffic is comparatively light
and land worth 500 an acre, the road
ways are from fifty to sixty feet in
width, three-fourths Of which grows,
up in weeds and grass.
1t can hardly be said, however, that
the roads are too wide in the eastern
states.
Mountain travellers especially will
smile at the idea of wide roads In
reading of the subject, having many
a time and oft met face to face other
travellers far from the "wide place"
with the result that their vehicles bad
to be taken apart and carried by pieceS
meal or stood up at a dizzy angle
against the cliff while the other Rugged
the perilous edge of fathomless ra-
vine, ~ q
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
DRY VALLEYS
INDIAN SUMMER.
How Springtime Returned to a
Middle Aged Sheepman.
Bv o. HENRY.

copyright. 1907. by the Mcclure company.l
Dry Valley johnson shook the bottle
You have to shake the bottle before
using, for sulphur will not dissolve.
Then Dry Valley saturated small
sponge with the liquid and rubbed it
carefully into the roots of his hair.
Dry Valley had been sheepman.
His real name was Hector, but he had
been rechristened after his range.
Many years of living face to face
with sheep on their own terms wearied
Dry Valley Johnson. So he sold his
ranch for $4,000 and moved to Santa
Rosa to live life of gentlemanly ease.
Dry Valley bought four room cot
tage in the village and a library on
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20

shine in her eyes that had always puz-
zled him. Now 1t stirred his wrath.
His whiplash whistled through the
air. He saw a red streak suddenly
come out through her white dress
above her knee where it had struck
Without fiinching and with the same
unchanging dark glow in her eyes Pan
chita came steadily toward him
through the strawberry vines. Dry
Valleys trembling hand released his
whip handle. When within a yard of
him Panchita stretched out her arms.
God. kidr' stammered Dry Valley.
"Do you mean"
But the seasons are versatile, and it
may have been springtime after all In
stead Of Indian summer that struck
Dry Valley johnson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
Good Road Legislator. Needed.

What we need in this country"
says a good roads expert, "is legisla-
tors who are willing to sacrifice their
political future in behalf of good
roads. In thus dying politically they
VIII have rendered more service to
their country than by living many
years. We like the temper of those
Alabama folk who are demanding of
candidates for Office that they speak
out plainly for better roads"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20

strawberry culture Behind the :cgt-
tage was a garden of which he made
strawberry patch.
When his strawberries were begin
ming to ripen Dry Valley bought the
heaviest buggy whip in the Santa Rosa
store.
In the house next to Dry Valleys
lived "a widow with pack of children
that gave the husbandman frequent
anxious misgivings. La the woman
there was strain of the Spanish.
She had welded one OF the name OF
O'Brien.
Between the two homesteads ran a
crazy picket fence overgrown with
morning glory and wild gourd vines.
OFTEN he could see little heads with
mops of black hair and flashing dark
eyes lodging in and out between the
pdckets, keeping tabs ON Ea1e reddening
berries.
Late ,one afternoon Dry Valley went
TO the postofice. When he came back.
Hike Mother Hubbard. he found the
deuce to pay. The descendants of Ibe-
rian bandits and Hibernian cattle raid
ers had swooped down upon his straw
berry patch.
Dry Valley slipped into the house.
got his whip and charged the maran-
ders. The lash curled about the legs
OF the nearest. a greedy ten-year-oid.
before they knew they were discover
ed. His sTeech gave warning. and
the flock scampered for the fence like
drove of javelis flushed in the chapar-
raj. Dry Valleys whip drew a toll OF
two more .elfin shrieks before they
dived through the vine clad fence.
Dry Valley, less feet. followed them
nearly to the pickets. Checking his
useless pursuit. he rounded a bush.
dropped his whip and stood. voiceless,
motionless, the capacity of his powers
consumed by the act of breathing and
preserving the perpendicular
Behind the bush stood Panchita
O'Brien, scorning to fly. She was nine
teen. the oldest OF the raiders. Her
night black hair was gathered back in
wild mass and tied with a scarlet
ribbon. She stood with reluctant feet.
yet nearer the brook than to the river,
for childhood had environed and de-
tanned her.
She looked at Dry Valley johnson
for moment with magnificent inso-
lence and before his eyes slowly
crunched luscious berry between her
white teeth. Then she turned and
walked slowly to the fence with
swaying. conscious motion, such as
duchess might make use of in leading
a promenade. There she turned again
and grilled Dry Valley johnson once
more in the dark flame Of her auda-
cious eyes, laughed trifie schoolgirl
ishly and twisted herself with panther
ish quickness between the pickets to
the O'Brien side of the gourd vine.
Dry Valley picked up his whip and
went into his house. He stumbled as
he went up the two wooden steps. The
old Mexican woman who cooked his
meals and swept his house called hil
to supper as he went through the
rooms. Dry Valley went on, stumbled
down the front steps, out the gate and
down the road into mesquite thicket
at the edge of town. He sat down In
the grass and laboriously plucked the
spines from prickly pear one by one.
This was his attitude Of thought, ac-
CURED In the days when his problems
were only those Of wind and wool and
water.
a thing had happened to the man
2 thing that, Il you are eligible. you
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20

colonel, had come. Colonel Scott, who
has a sincere affection and sympathy
for these people of an alien race, told
the sultan to defer his visit to later
day.
1.-THE sultan of Sulu," said Captain
Scott, ''is little fellow about FIVE and
a half feet tall, weighs about $50
pounds, has a small mustache and
when dressed for state occasion
wears a gorgeous Uniform that cost
him $1,000, gold, in Singapore, and on
which he was assessed $500 duty when
he brought it back to Jolo. 1t seemed
pretty hard to charge him $500 duty
to get his new uniform into his own
country, and so communicated with
General Luke e. Wright, then the gov
ernor general, and recommended the
refunding Of the duty, and the sultan
got his money back. He win surely
wear that uniform when he comes to
America.
Nominally Rules Archipelago.
'sThe sultan's country consists Of 182
small islands, which form continuous
chain of islands, islets and coral reefs,
connecting the peninsula of Zamboan-
ga with the northeastern extremity Of
Borneo and separating the Sulu from
the Celebes sea.
His highness, as Jamalul Hiram III.
likes to be called, came to the throne
of Sulu in 1894 and until the Ameri-
can occupation of the islands was a
power in the archipelago. Now, how
ever, practically the only authority he
has left is as the head Of the Moham-
medan religion, Of which about all Of
his former subjects are followers.
"His home at the present time is at
NAHUM, a small town about fifteen
miles distant from Jolo, the capital,
where he is permitted to exercise au-
thority as the village presidente, which
In America is the same thing as
mayor. This is practically the only
civil authority he has left.
1.-THE story that the sultan offered his
hand in marriage to Miss Alice Roose-
welt. now Mrs. Longworth, on the oc-
casion Of the visit Of the Taft party to
Jolo is not true. The sultan and sew
eral others Of the high Moros asked to
be presented to Miss Roosevelt. They
looked upon her as princess because
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
Value Of Good Hinhmaxs.

Good roads are the most valuable as
set county can possess. Every farm
within their operation Is largely In
creased In value. The farmer is closer
to his markets, his church and to the
city. The eonveniences and pleasures
Of country life are enhanced tenfold.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20

the offer Of marriage. The sultan never
had any such Intentions
1.-The sultan had forty or fifty slaves
when we got to Jolo. President Me-
Kinley ordered them liberated, and
we made him obey. The sultan's ia
vorite recreation is horseback riding
Manila Amazed Him.
Colonel Scott told Of the sultan's first
visit to Manila, he being the first sui
tan to visit that city since the Brit
ish occupation in 1852. Colonel Scott
wanted the sultan to go to Manila
with him so that among other things
he could see first hand the American
troops, the guns, the warships and
other things that would tend to I'm
press upon him the uselessness Of OPP
position to American control of the is
lands.
when we got to Manila" said he,
II showed him everything there was
to see. One place that interested him
greatly was the government printing
Office. He saw there a typesetting
machine for the first time. He watch
ed the printer as he made the type,
and when he saw the letters printed
on paper he turned to me and said,
That thing Is run by spirit
II wanted to show him something
that would impress him even more, so
took him to the General hospital at
Manila and told him was going to let
him look into a box and see the bones
in your own hand
That is entirely impossible replied
the sultan, for look now and you see
there are no bones visible at ALL He
took peek into the x ray machine
and he saw the bones In his own hand,
and he never forgot it."
Given Ivory Cane.
At Manila the Philippine commission
gave Colonel Scott money to buy a
present for the sultan. Colonel Scott
decided to buy him walking cane
and found one made of ivory with a
big gold head on 1t.
The sultan now lives on farm near
NAHUM, where he raises sweet pota-
toes, hemp, cocoanuts and rice. He is
allowed 5000 pesos ($1, 500 by the
commission and still receives volun-
tary support from his people.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
First American Maeadam FOO.

The first -oad to be built ACCORDING
10 the macadam method in the United
States was begun in the year 1892. n
was called the Lancaster pike and ex-
tended from Philadelphia to Lancaa-
Ter, Pa, distance Of sixty miles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
Rival Rulers Give Pearls.

when Miss Roosevelt was present
ed to the sultan he bowed profoundly
and said few courteous words. Then
Miss Roosevelt was presented to Dat
to Jokonain, who promptly fished down
into his pocket and brought forth a
beautiful pearl, which ne gave to Miss
Roosevelt. This act on the part OF
Jokonain completely upset the sultan,
for the latter had not brought any
present. Then he happened to look
down at his hands and saw on one Of
his fingers splendid pearl ring. Quick
as a flash he took the ring of, and,
bowling profoundly, he presented 1t tu
Miss Roosevelt with the compliments
Of the sultan of Snlu.
"That is the whole story out OF
which grew the untruthful one about
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
LTAN OF S1LU 70 HRDIE GLOBE
.gdOnless Monarch, Famed
? Song, Story and Comic
Opera, Coming Here.

Ala MUDA AMIRUL KIRAM.
VINO on succeeding to the sui
a. tanate Of Sulu sixteen years
ago assumed the name of Sui
Jamalul Hiram IL, is one of the
lresque figures in the far east and
many respect one of the most pa
lc. He was the subject of George
is comic opera of the same name.
le sultan has begun a long contem-
ed globe girdling trip, during which
VIII visit Europe and the United
yes. He is little man and knows
cucally nothing Of the great west
civilization that he is to visit. He
be the first Sulu sultan who has
r set foot on territory west Of Nee
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
To Visit Old Friend, President
Taft, In Regal Uniform
That Cost $1,000.

she was the daughter Of the president
Of the United States.
THE presentation took place in the
ballroom of the Of7cers' club at Jolo,
and the sultan was seated alongside
his mortal enemy, Datto Jokonain. a
Moro chief with whom he had former
~ been at war.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-07-20
Planned visit Before.

our years ago, when Colonel Hugh
Scott, then the American governor
Sulu, was relieved of that duty by
, war department and ordered home
become the superintendent of the
lifted States Military academy at
est Point, Jamalul Hiram II. begged
"a to permit him to accompany him
the great country from which @my
ther," as he affectionately called the
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-12
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION.


The great wealth of John D. Rockefeller the oil
magnate, is to be used to nplift humanity. Last
week, what is known as the Rockefeller foundation
formed, and the object, as stated in the daily
press, is straightforward tFback to the farm
movement. Mr.. Rockefeller considers that great
many of the problems of modern society Will be
solved when more people are engaged in tilling the
soil, in producing what the people need rather
than in adding to the artificiaties which today are
the most expensive portion of our life No doubt
Mr.. Rockefeller is right. His long experience in
the business world, in which he has been eminentiy
successful, if success be measured by the worldly
returns, has given him clear insight into the needs
of the world, and his leisure moments have been
spent of late years in studying how best to dis
tribute what he has accumulated. =
The PLAN of course, is open to the serious obiec-
ton that the people do not enjoy being exploited
If they want to go back to the farm they would go
there. But the natural tendency of late years is
to get off the farm. The city is more alluring
If the Rockefeller millions can make the American
people see the real pleasure of an outdoor life, of
farm life, even if it is accompanied by much
hard work, the spending of that fortune will not
have been in vain But, as we have said before.
the spending of the great fortunes made by develop
ing the natural resources of the country is attended
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-12
SENATOR PLATT.

|
Thomas Collier Platt, formerly United States
Senator from New York, died Sunday afternoon in
New York City. Senator Platt was one of the old
time Republican leaders, not only in state affairs
but in national politics. Like many others of his
time he influential factor in forming public
opinion. Unconsciously he made President Roose-
welt what he is. It was not through any desire to
boost the political fortunes of Roosevelt, however
that Platt used his influence to have Roosevelt
nominated for the Vice Presidency on the ticket
with William Mckinley, of Ohio. The geographical
location of Roosevelts home was right and Roose-
welt was becoming menace to the oldtime political
leaders of the nation. By securing his nomination
as VicePresident, it was hoped that in the quiet
of that office he would be forgotten. Mckinley
was shot, however, and Roosevelt succeeded him
the Presidency. 1t was this incident in the life
Of the nation that spelled the defeat and the dis
crediting of the older generation and new leaders
up, and Plat was forgotten. After his retire
ment from the senatorship Platt made but one more
public appearance, and that was in defense of
suit brought by Mae Wood, clerk in tie employ
of the government, who sued the aged and senile
Senator for divorce although that the Senator
had ever married her was not proved ,.9e,i
Senator Platt was at one time one of the most
influential members of the Republican party and
of the nation He grew old in the harness, outliyed
his usefulness and passed from the public stage 4
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-12
AN OLD, OLD STORY.

An enterprising gatherer has resurrected
the old story of feeble-minded Wall street firm
which entrusted $4,000 bill to the case of small
messenger boy be deposited in the bank the small
messenger boy disappearing, and the $4,000 bill
not yet recovered. 1t makes a remarkably good news
story. First, it shows with touching simplicity the
confidence of Wall street firms in the honesty and
integrity of small messenger boys But that portion
of the tale is overlooked in the story of the diff
culties of the small messenger boy to dispose of his
treasury without arousing suspicion. Of course he
cannot go to his banker and deposit the amount to
his credit for the suspicious of the bankers are more
easily aroused than are those an innocent Wall
street firm which would entrust the sum to small
messenger boy Nor can he get it changed at the
corner grocery by purchasing a nickePs worth
of gum Saloonists, even New York saloonists,
would hesitate to hand over $9,99995 in change
after the purchase of glass of beer by small
messenger boy.
The innocence of the Wall street firm, however,
is not less notable than the care exercised by the
firm in taking the number of the bill before hand
ing it to the small messenger boy for deposit,
for the story says that all bankers have been noti
fed to look out for it. If anybody tried to get it
changed, he would Immediately be subjected to some
questions, to which would doubtless get him
self and the small messenger boy into trouble.
It's great story. The small messenger boys
with $4,000 in his clothes is most pitiabe object
Rich beyond the dreams of avarice, he yet is too
poor to buy meal perhaps. His condition is about
as pitiable as it that of the news gatherer who
springs the story every few years.
The Society for the Prevention of Unnecessary
Noises ought to get busy on the "sane and safe"
Fourth
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-12


by quite many difficulties as was the accumula-
ton. Objection is raised at every profferz of.
assistance from our Hlulti-millionaires. With the
vide experience of Mr.. Rockefeller it is doubtful
if anybody could suggest better method for spend
ing his money than he has evolved. 1t has been
an age of accumulation; perhaps We. are to enter
age Of better distribution of wealth 1t is GER
tain that the vast Accommodations of wealth in the
hands of the few has been to the detriment of the
many It is also certain that all the possessions of
man beyond sufficient amount to guarantee him
against want, unless it be invested for the good of
the whole people, is useless =.-
The development of this country during the
past twenty years has been almost wholly in the
development of towns and cities. Statistics show
that while the population has more than doubled,
the production of farm foodst11ffs has increased
only about so per. cent. Since 1888 the population
has increased 63 per cent, the farm yield only %
per cent, The natural RESULTS that the prices of
commodities have gone up much beyond the average
increase in wages. Professions and trades have
more men than can be accommodated, while much
land lies undeveoped. If the Rockefeller founda-
ton can really take. people sbae to the farm" or
can furnish the opportunity for those who. want
to go back, it viii be one of the most remarkable
economic developments OF the Twentieth century.