What Good Roads Will Save

If the oost oí nuarfcetang the erop of a given o Uttty can be reduced by ten per cent. tjr.'ougli the bui.diagoi good fioaide, thflt eounity wCl flnd l?ood m.uls a p&ying in-vivst,m;ent. G-ood io.hIs anee Im.i'.'t will last almost iorener, mul tihfi oajt of maintaining tihem is relatively smaller the bettcr tihey .are built ia the iirst piaoe. Orops are marketed year alter year, and the inneciessai"y expenditure oí t.inie and cfïort, tli.e ranneceseary wear ain.d toar on wagons, resuSbing irom bad roads, ïepeat ihemseives annuaay. Momey epe.nt on good i-oads is an tovestaaent whicto paya luuulsome anuua; (Uvi;lcnl. Tliey are as certaiJi too, as the anmiaL Veturii of the warm spring suiushine after the ïrost and SHOWS of wiiite.'. (_food i-oads are a most pi-ofitab.e investment. It luas been es'tiïmated that iive dred miilioa 'ons oí farcn produce ave liauied to market aimually ín the UnAted States, and tliat the cost oí míarketÉog U is tivo Holláis a ton, or just about orne biClion dollars. Tliis Ib no't morney paid out, but is tdie valué oí 'i. he tima spent Xy farmers wltih teams in marketing crops, or Wliat these men amd teams w&utö nave earned tl they had been hired for cash. Vio do tihis amoont oí hauling. Tlie seci'etary oí the Farmers' N,if. .hui; Oongrees, and ttoe U. B. Department oí Ag!'i'au.Jtiire agree in tliis estímate. They farther agree in estimaiing t'liat atroat 60 per cent, of tihis ,TOSt amoiwit or $000,000,000 wouM .be saved eaoh ii tarmers were able tío do tliis jiáiüing over good i-oads. ÏLiis, tlion, is the amo uut of the annu-al mud i'ax to wlïicii we have been submitting. Kailiroadss, telegraphc, and steamboat Tines have been assisted by the si a i es and tiubsidized by the govennaenrt, but aothilng has been ii . for the comino country ï'oad. The faraiers aloae have had o build eounitii'y roads without assistance fiiom ttoe oitie, ïpom wealithy corporatiioms or f rom tbe state. Kvery ciitizen wiCl be banieïiteid by the constructdou of good roads directly and lndireotCy, and every tax-payer sbouïd canbribute his share to their cost. No wonder the farmer opposes tbe g'O'Od roads movement ií he alione is to stand the expense. He has nigh't'ly enggested that he should be assisted thpough the medium of a sbat-e ïoad tax, uader a system oí state aid, as now emp'joyed in. New Jereey, Comiecticut and Massachusetts. TheOlü.OidHablt. Stie's president of seven clnbs. Her nnme In print you often s-e; OI ii 11 new womon in tbe land There's not a one more new than she. She lectores, writes, and is, iu Tact. A slurdy leader of her kinrj : She wears a vest. mispemlers und Is notcd for lier breadth of mind. Yet, wtaen shegoes to bed at night, She kueels beside it- not in prayer, Bnt just lo lonk beneath to see If any horrid man is there.