Jacksboro Gazette. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1903 Page: 4 of 4
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By “ OUIDA
CHAPTER XIII.
lEFOKE the sun hnd declined
from tfie zenith the French
were masters of the field, and
pursued the retreat of the
Arabs till for miles along the plain the
line of their flight was marked with
horses that had dropped dead in the
strain, and with the motionless forms
of their desert riders. When at length
she returned, coming in with her ruth-
less spahis, whose terrible passions she
feared no more than Virgil’s Volscian
huntress feared the beasts of forest
and plain,' the raven still hovered
above her. exhausted mare, the torn
flag was 8till in her left hand, and the
bright laughter, the flash of ecstatic
triumph, was still in her face as she
sang the last lines of her own war
chant. The leopard nature was roused
In her. She was a soldier; death had
been about her from her birth; she
neither feared to give nor to receive
It; she was happy as such elastic, sun-
lit, dauntless youth as hers aloue can
be. returning in the reddening after-
glow at the head of her comrades to
the camp she had saved, while all who
remained of the soldiers who. but for
her, would have been massacred long
ere then, threw themselves forward,
crowded round her, caressed and
laughed, and wept, and shouted with
all the changes of their intense mercu-
rial temperaments, kissed her boots,
her sash, her mare’s drooping neck,
and lifting her, with wild vivas that
rent the sky,- on to the shoulders of
the four tallest men among them, bore
her to the presence of the only chief
ofllcer of high rank who had survived
the terrors of the day.
And he, a grave and noble looking
veteran, uncovered his head and bowed
before her as courtiers bow before
tlieir queens.
“Mademoiselle, you saved the honor
of France. In the name of France, I
thank you.”
The tears rushed swift and hot into
Cigarette’s bright eyes—tears of Joy,
tears of pride. She was but a child
still In much, and she could be moved
by the name’ of France as other chil-
dren by the name of their mothers.
"Chut! I did nothing,” she said rap-
idly. “I only rode fast.”
The frenzied hurrahs of the men who
beard her drowned her words. They
toyed her for what she had done; they
loved her better still because she set
no count on It. v
“The empire will think otherwise,
said the major of the zouaves. “Tell
me, my little one, how did you do this
thing?”
Cigarette, balancing herself with a
i loot on either shoulder of her support-
ers, gave the salute and answered:
“Simply, my commander, very sim-
ply. I was alone, riding midway be-
tween you and the main army—three
leagues! ’ say. from each. I was all
alone; ofaly Vole-qui-veut flying with
me for fun. I met a colon. I knew the
man. For the piatter of that I did him
once a service—saWd his gee.se and his
fowls from burning oue winter's day
In their house, while be wrung his
hands and looked on. Well, he was
full of terror and told me there was
fighting yonder—here he meant—so I
rode nearer to see. That was just up-
on sunrise.. 1 dismounted and ran up
a palm there.” And Cigarette pointed
to a faro# elope crowned with the re-
mains of a once mighty palm forest.
“I got up very high. 1 could see miles
round. I saw how things were with
’ you. . For the moment I was coming
straight to you. Then I thought I
should do more service if I let the main
orniy know and brought you a re-eu-
foreeuH'iif. I rode fast. Dieu! I rode
fast. My horse dropped under me
twice, but I reached them at last, and
I went, at once to the general. He
guessed at a glance how things were,
and I told him to give me my spahis
and let me go. So he did. I got on a
ntare of his own staff, and away we
came. It was a near thing. If we had
b«eu a minute later, it had been all up
- ■with you.”
• “True, Indeed,” muttered the zouave
In hi* beard. “A superb action, my lit-
tla one. But did you meet no Arab
Scouts to stop you?”
Cigarette laughed.
“Did I not? Met them by dozens.
Some had a shot at me; some had a
■hot from me. One fellow nearly wing-
ed me. hut I got through them all
•omehow. Kapristi! I galloped so fast
I was very hard to hit flying. Those
things only require a little judgment.
But some meu always are creeping
when they should fly and always are
scampering wlien they should saunter,
•nd then they wonder when they make
fiasco. Bah!”
And Cigarette laughed again. “Men
were such bunglers. Ouf!”
“Mademoiselle. If all soldiers were
like you,” answered the major of
■ouaves curtly, "to command a battal-
ion would be paradise.”
"All soldiers would do anything I
have done,” retorted Cigarette, who
never took a compliment at the ex-
pense of her "children.” “They do not
all get the opportunity. Opportunity
la a little angel. Some catch him as he
goea; some let him pass by forever.
Tou must be quick with him, for he Is
like an eel to wriggle away. If you
this. If you had seen him kill the
chief!”
“He will have justice done him, nev-
er fear. And for you—tlie cross shall
be on your breast. Cigarette, if I live
over tonight to write my dispatches.”
And the major saluted her once more
and turned away to view the carnage
strewn plain and number the few who
remained out of those who had been
wakened by the clash of the Aral)
arms in the gray of the earliest dawn.
Cigarette's eyes flashed like sun play-
ing on water, and her flushed cheeks
grew scarlet. Since her iufaucy it had
been her dream to have the cross to lie
above her little lion’s heart. It had
been the one longing, the one ambition,
the one undying desire, of her soul,
and, lo, she touched its realization.
The wild, frantic, tumultuous cheers
and caresses of her soldiery, who could
not triumph in her and triumph with
her enough to satiate them, recalled her
to the actual moment. She sprang
down from her elevation and turned
on them with a rebuke. “Ah, you are
making this fuss about me while hun-
dreds of better soldiers than I lie yon-
der. Let us look to them first. We
will play the fool afterward.”
And, although she had ridden 50
miles that day if she had ridden one,
though she had eaten nothing since
sunrise and had only had one draft of
bad water, though she was tired and
stiff and bruised and parched with
thirst. Cigarette dashed off as lightly
as a young goat to look for the wound-
ed and the dying men who strewed the
plain far and near.
She remembered one whom she had
not seen after that first moment In
which she had given tho word to the
squadrons to charge.
It was a terrible sighMCthe arid plain,
lying in the scarlet glow of sunset, cov-
ered with dead bodies, with mutilated
limbs, with horses gasping and writh
ing, with men raving like mad crea
tures in the torture of their wounds.
She had seen great slaughter often
enough, but even she had not seen any
struggle more close, more murderous,
than this had been. The dead lay oy
hundreds, French and Arab locked In
one another’s limbs as they had fallen
when the ordinary mode of warfare
had failed to satiate their violence, and
they had wrestled together like wolves
fighting and rending one another over
a disputed carcass.
“Is he killed? Is ho killed?” she
thought as she bent over each knot of
motionless bodies where here and there
some faint stifled breath or some moan
of agony told that life still lingered
beneath the huddled, stiffening heap.
And a tightness came at her heart.
An aching fear made her shrink as she
raised each hidden face that she had
never known before. “What if he be?”
she said fiercely to herself. “It is
nothing to me. I hate him, the cold
aristocrat. I ought to be glad if I see
him lying here.”
But, despite her hatred for him, she
toukl not banish that hot, feverish
hope, that cold, suffocating fear which,
turn by turn, quickened and slackened
the bright flow of her warm young
blood as she searched among the slain.
A dog's moan caught her ear. She
turned and looked across. Upright
among a ghastly lot of men and charg-
ers sat the small, snowy poodle of the
chasseurs, beating the air with its lit-
tle paws as it had been taught to do
when it needed anything and howling
piteously as It begged.
“Flick-Flack! What is it, Flick-
Flack?” she cried to him, while, with
a bound, she reached the spot. The
dog leaped on her, rejoicing. The dead
were thick there—10 or 12 deep—French
trooper and Bedouin rider flung across
one another, horribly entangled with
the limbs, the manes, the shattered
bodies of their own horses. Among
them she saw the face she sought as
the dog eagerly ran back, caressing the
hair of a soldier who lay underneath
the weight of his gray charger that had
been killed by a musket ball.
Cigarette grew very pale, as she had
never grown when the hailstorm of
She forced the end between his lips.
shots had been pouring on her In the
midst of a battle, but, with the rapid
skill and strength she had acquired
long before she reached the place, lift-
ed aside first one, then another, of the
want a good soldier, take that aristo-[ lifeless Arabs that had fallen above
crat — that handsome Victor. Pouf!
All bia officers were down, and how
splendidly he led the troop! He was
going to die with them rather than sur-
render. Napoleon”—and Cigarette un-
covered her curly head reverentially,
as at the name of a deity—“Napoleon
would have given hitn his brigade ere
-~T-,T-
A FACT
ABOUT THE “BLUES”
What Is known aa the ••Blues'
Is seldom occasioned by actual exist*
tag external conditions, but in the
gnat majority of cases by a disorder*
ed»iwo —
^ THIS IS A PACT
. , which may he demonstra-
ted by trying a course of
Tutt’s Pills
They control and regulate the LIVER.
They bring hope and bouyancy to the
•tad. They bring health and elastic-
ity to the body.
I ^ TftKE MO SUBSTITUTE ?
hiui and drew out from beneath the
suffocating pressure of his horse's
weight the head and the frame of the
chasseur whom Flick-Flack had sought
out and guarded.
For a moment she thought him dead.
Then, as she drew him out where the
cool breeze of the declining day could
reach him, a slow breath, painfully
drnwu, moved his chest. She saw that
he was unconscious from the stifling
oppression under which lie had been
buried since noon. An hour more with-
out one touch of fresher air and life
would have been extinct.
Cigarette had with her the flask of
brandy that she always brought on
such errands as these. She forced the
end between his lips and poured some
down his throat. Her hand shook
I slightly as she did so, a weakness the
I gallant little campaigner never before
then had known.
i It revived him in a degree. He breath-
ed more freely, though heavily and
| with difficulty still, but gradually the
deathly leaden color of his face was
j replaced by the hue of life, and ids
heart begau to bent more loudly. Con-
sciousness did not return to him. He
lay motionless and senseless, with his
I head resting on her lap and with Fliek-
' Flack, in eager affection, licking bis
hands and his hair.
“He was as good as dead, Flick- I
Flack, if it had not boon for you and
me,” said Cigarette, while she wetted
his lips with more brandy. “Ah, bah!
And lie would be more grateful, Flick-
Flack, for a scornful scoff from mi-
ladi.”
Still, though she thought this, she let
his head lie on her lap, and as she
looked down on him there was the glis-
ten as of tears in the brave, sunny
eyes of the little Friend of the Flag.
He is so handsome, so handsome!”
she muttered in her teeth, drawing a
silklike lock of his hair through her
hands aud looking at the stricken
strength, the powerless limbs, the bare
chest, cut and bruised and heaved pain-
fully by each uneasy breath. She was
of a vivid, voluptuous, artistic nature;
she was thoroughly womanlike in her
passions and her instincts, though she
so fiercely contemned womanhood. If
he had not been beautiful, she would
never have looked twice at him, never
once have pitied his fate.
And he was beautiful still, though
his hair was heavy with dew and dust,
though his face was scorched with
powder, though his eyes were closed
as with the leaden weight of death and
his beard was covered with the red
stains of blood that bad flowed from
the lance wound on his shoulder.
The restless movements of little
Fliek-Flack detached a piece of twine
passed around his favorite's throat;
the glitter of gold arrested Cigarette’s
eyes. She caught what the poodle's im-
patient caress had broken from the
string. It was a small blue enamel me-
dallion bonbon box with a hole through
it by which it had been slung—a tiny
toy once costly, now tarnished, for it
had been carried through many rough
scenes and many years of hardship,
had been bent by blows struck at the
breast against which it rested, and
was clotted now with blood. Inside it
was a woman's ring of sapphires and
opals.
She looked at koth close in the glow
of the setting sun, then passed the
string through and fastened the box
afresh. It was a mere trifle, but it
sufficed to banish ber dream, to arouse
her to contemptuous, impatient bitter
ness with that new weakness that had
for the hour broken her down to the
level of this feverish folly. He was
beautiful—yes! She could not bring
herself to hate him; she could not
help the brimming tears blinding her
eyes when she looked at him stretched
senseless thus. But he was wedded
to his past; that toy in his breast,
whatever it might be, wThatever tale
might cling to it, was sweeter to him
than her lips would ever be. Bab!
There were better men than he. Wliy
had she not let him He and die as he
might under the pile of dead?
“You deserve to be shot—you!” said
Cigarette, fiercely abusing herself as
she put liis head off her lap, and rose
abruptly and shouted to a Tringlo who
was at some distance searching for
the wounded. “Here is a chasseur
with some breath in him,” she said,
curtly, as the man with his mule cart
and its sad burden of half dead, moan-
ing, writhing frames drew near at her
summons. “Put him in. Soldiers cost
too much training to waste them on
jackals and kites, if one can help it.
Lift him up! Quick!”
“He is badly hurt,” said the Tringlo.
She shrugged her shoulders.
“Oh, no! I have had worse scratches
myself. The horse fell on him; that
was the mischief. Most of them here
have swallowed the leaden pill once
and for all. I never saw a prettier
thing—every lascar has killed liis own
little knot of Arbicos. Look bow nice
and neajt they look.”
She was not going to have him im
agine she eared for that chasseur whom
he lifted up on his little wagon with so
kindly a care—not she! Cigarette was
as proud in her way as was ever the
Princess Venetia Corona.
Nevertheless she kept pace with the
mules, carrying little Flick-Flack, and
never paused on her way, though she
passed scores of dead Arabs, whose sil-
ver ornaments and silk broideries,
commonly after such a fantasia, re
plenished the knapsack and adorned in
profusion the uniform of the young
filibuster, being gleaned by ber right
and left as her lawful harvest after the
fray.
“Leave him there. I will have a look
at him,” she said at the first empty
tent they reached. Cigarette, left alone
with the wounded man, lying insensi-
ble still on a heap of forage, ceased her
song and grew very quiet. She had
certain surgical skill, and she dressed
his wounds with the cold, clear water
and washed away the dust and the
blood that covered bis breast.
“He is too good a soldier to die. One
must do it for France,” she said to her-
self in a kind of self apology. And as
she did It and bound the lance gash
close and bathed his breast, his fore
head, his hair, his beard, free from the
sand and the powder and the gore
thousand changes swept over her mo-
bile face. It was one moment soft and
flushed and tender as passion; it was
the next jealous, fiery, scornful, pale
and full of impatient self disdain.
He was nothing to her! He was an
aristocrat, and she was a child of the
people. She had been besieged by
dukes and bad flouted princes. She
had borne herself in such gay liberty,
such vivacious freedom, such proud
and careless sovereignty — bah, what
was it to her whether this man lived
or died? If she saved him, he would
give her a low bow as be thanked her,
thinking all the while of miiadi. And
yet there she staid and watched him.
She took some food, for she had been
fasting all day. Then she dropped
down before* the fire she bad lighted
and in one of those soft, curled, kitten-
like nttitudes that were characteristic
of ber kept her vigil over him.
She was bruised, stiff, tired, longing
like a tired child to fall asleep. Her
eyes felt hot as flame, her rounded,
supple limbs were aching, her throat
was stre with long thirst and the sand
that she seemed to have swallowed till
no draft of water or wine would take
the scorched, dry pain out of it. But,
as she bad given up her fete day in the
hospital, so she sat now—as patient in
the self sacrifice as she was Impatient
when the vivacious agility of her young
frame war longing for the frenzied de-
lights of the dance or the battle. Ev-
ery now and then, four or five times in
an hour, she gave him whom she tend-
ed the soup or the wine that she kept
warm for him over the embers. He
took it without knowledge, sunk half
in lethargy, half in sleep, but it kept
the life glowing in him which, without
It, might have perished of cold and ex-
haustion as tho chill and northerly
wind Qt the evening succeeded to the
heat of the day and pierced through
the canvas walls of the tent. It was
very bitter, more keenly felt because
of the previous burning of tlie sun.
There was no cloak of covering to fling
Over him. She took off tier blue cloth
tunic and threw it across liis chest and,
I shivering despite herself, curled closer
*o the little fire.
She did not know why she did it-—lie
was nothing to her—aud yet she kept
herself wide awake through tlie dark
' autumn night lest he should sigh aud
Stir and she not hear him.
“I have saved his life twice,” she
thought, looking at him. “Beware of
the third time, they say!”
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SECRET SOCIETIES.
I Stated Conclave Godfrey Commandery 11.13.
Second and fourth Monday of each month. Yis-
I iting Sir Knights cordially invited.
James W. Knox, Ed.
D. C. Horton, Recorder.
She dropped down before the firs.
He moved restlessly, and she went to I Young’s,
him. His face was flushed now; his
breath came rapidly and shortly; there
was some fever on him. The linen was
displaced from his wounds. She dip-
ped it again in water and laid the cool-
ed bands on them. “Ah, bah! If I
were not unsexed enough for this, how
would it be with you now?” she said in
her teeth. He tossed wearily to and
fro. Detached words caught her ear
as he muttered them:
“Let it be; let it be! He is welcome!
How could I prove it at his cost? I
saved him. I could do that. It was
not much”—
She listened with intent anxiety to
hear the other whispers ending the
sentence, but they were stifled and
broken.
‘Listen!” she murmured below her
breath. “It is for some other he has
ruined himself.”
She could not catch the words that | a shop,
followed. They were in an unknown
language to her, for she knew nothing.
of English, and they poured fast and Cigars,
Hensley & Latimer pay cash for
hides. tf
Get your machine oil at B. E.
tf
Buy Cream of Wheat from
Maddox & Bradfield. tf
Hensley & Latimer pay the
highest price in cash for fat hogs.
tf
You will always find a fresh
stock of fruits and candies at
Spears BroB ’ tf
All who are in arrears with the
Gazette are requested to pay as
early as convenient for them to do
so.
Hensley & Latimer have a nice
lot of hams, bacon, lard, and all
kinds of sausages usually kept in
tf
When you want fruits, candies,
etc., give Spears
The Legislature would do well
to adopt measures for the protec-
tion of birds in the State. The
game birds shou d be protected
in every county from indiscrimi-
nate slaughter, ao that they may
not be exterminated, but it is no
less important to afford protec-
tion for the other birds, which
constitute vastly more than is
generally understood and appre-
ciated fio the benefit of farmers iu
the destruction of insects. It is
true tha,t there are many difficul-
ties in the way of enforcing laws
for the protection of birds and
fish, but .this should not deter
wise legislation which commends
itself to all who take a right view
of the interests affected. A ban
placed upon the destruction of
oar beautiful and useful birds
should tend to impress the people
with an appreciation of the value
of birds and cultivate a sentiment
iu favor of their protection.—
[NaBhville (TenD.) American.
COST OF BAD ROADS,
obscure from his lips as he moved In Bros, a trial. They carry the vpry
I'TAtiTlf. \ best that be boeghfc tf
Buy Malta-Vita of Maddox &
Bradfield. They also have Boston
him from exhaustion, inflaming his
brain In his sleep. Now and then
French phrases crossed the English
ones. She leaned down to seize their , „ . , .
meaning till her cheek was against his Brown Flakes, oyster- crackers,
forehead, till her lips touched his hair, and any other cracker® you want,
and at that half caress her heart beat, tf
her face flushed, her mouth trembled „. , , ,,,
with a too vivid joy, with an impulse, I Mibs Ethel Tomlinson and Mrs.
half fear and half longing, that had Julia D. Maddox of Weatherford,
never so moved her before will be at opera house Friday
“If I had my birthright,” he mur- . ^
mured in her own tongue—“if I had it, evening 20th. Admittance 25 and
would she look so cold then? She might 135 cents,
love me—women used once. O God,
if she had not looked on me I had
never known all I have lost!”
Cigarette started as If a knife had
stabbed her and sprang up from her
rest beside him.
“She—she—always she!" she mutter-
ed fiercely, while her face grew duski-
ly scarlet in the fire glow of the tent.
Mr. Whitmire of Adell had Dr.
Adams cut a new pupil in hie
| right eye. The Doctor had cut
one in his left eye a week ago, bis
natural pupils having been ob-
structed all his life. Now with
and she went slowly away, back to the new windows the young man can
",r.»** ™w„a. *ooi p™ »•tte
Her eyes glistened and flashed with I ion he could not see more
the fiery, vengeful passions of her hot | than half what he should see.
and jealous instincts, yet she did not
leave him. i j have used Chamberlain’s
She was too generous for that. "What _ ... . „
is right is right. He is a soldier of Cough Remedy for a number of
France,” she muttered, while she kept years and have no hesitancy in
her vigil. He did not waken from the 8aying that it 5s the best remedy
painful, delirious, stupefied slumber , _
that had fallen on him. He only | for coughs, colds and croup I have
vaguely felt that he was suffering pain;
he only vaguely dreamed of what he
ever used in my family. I have
not words to express my confi-
dence in this remedy__Mrs. J. A.
Moore, North Star, Mich. For sale
Ana inis was tngarerxe s rewara-m , E E Young. f
hear him mutter wearily of the proud | J °
Not a bit of use to endure the
tortures of rheumatic pains when
murmured—his past and the beauty of
the woman who had brought all the
memories of that past back to him.
And this was Cigarette’s reward—to
eyes and of the lost smile of another!
The dawn came at last. Her con-1
stant care and the skill with which she
had cooled and dressed his wounds had there’s a sure relief in reach. Re-
done him infinite service. The fever m0n’s Nerve and Bone Oil goes
had subsided, and toward morning his I,. ... . . , ...
incoherent words ceased, his breathing right to the spot and acts like
grew calmer and more tranquil. He magic. It not only relieves the
fell asleep—sleep that was profound, pajn jn8tantly but if its use is con-
dreamless and refreshing. I .
She looked at him with a tempestu- cures the disease. Get the
ous shadow darkening her face that genuine Ramon’s—every bottle
yet was soft with a tenderness that bear8D8me 0f Brown Manufactur-
she could not banish. She hated him.
She ought to have stabbed or shot himjtDg Go. Jacksboro Pharmacy, f
rather than have tended him thus. He ... ... t.
neglected her and only thought of the A dispatch from Hillsboro says:
woman of his old order. As a daughter “ Recently there have been many
[ marriages in the county in bug-
gies. Some ministers are oppos
ed to the habit as being too flip-
| pant, and the Hillsboro Ministers’
unanimous vote
my circum-
marry any
of the people, as a child of the army, as
a soldier of France, she ought to have
killed him rather than have caressed
his hair and soothed his pain.
Then gently, very gently, lest she
should waken him, she took her tunic. . ,
skirt with which she had covered him Union today by
from the chills of the night, put more decided not under any circum-
broken wood on the fading fire and I tancpg hereafter t0
with a last lingering look at him where
he slept passed out from the tent as the couple on the streets or public-
sun rose in a flushed and beautiful highways.” These ministers are
will never know,” she said to to be commended for their action,
herself as she passed through the dis-1 and their splendid example
ordered camp and in a distant quarter should be followed by all those
coiled herself among the hay of a for- . tn nprfnrm marriage
age wagon and, covered up In dry grass emPowerea to pertorm marriage
like a bird In a nest, let her tired limbs ceremonies.—[Bowie Gross Tim-
lje and her aching eyes close in repose. | bers. The Gross Timbers is
She was very tired, and every now and
then as she slept a quick, sobbing
breath shook her as she slumbered like |
a wornout fawn that has been wound-
ed while it played.
[to be coNmrom.J :
A Most Fatal Gift
Would be the power of foreseeing!
events. This would destroy hope. |
A knowledge of the future would
unmake happiness. There are, of
coarse, some things about the fu-
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SOME STARTLING FACTS
AND FIGURES BY
MARTIN DODGE.
Poor roads in the United States
are costing the people annually
the enormous sum of 1650,000,000,
which is a tax of more than $7 a
year for every man woman and
child. This amazing fact is point-
ed out by Martin Dodge, director
of the bureau of public road in-
quiries of the department of agri-
culture in Washington, says the
New York Herald, He advocates
the construction of brick track
roads with convict labor.
As a result of the good roads
movement, which has been large-
ly stimulated by the e fforts of the
department of rgriculture, the
road question is at present re-
ceiving a remarkable degree of
active interest, as indicated, for
instance, by a movement in the
state of New York for bonding
the state for $80,000,000 to build
country roads. This is wholly in
line with a bill before the last na-
tional congress by Mr. Otey of
Virginia for $100,000,000 for the
same purposes.
Mr. Otey declared, “ Iu view of
our willingly having spent $400,-
000,000 on the Philippines, it is
time to do something tangible for
oar own people.”
“ This is especially true,” com-
ments Mr. Dodge, “in view of
the fact that we are continually
paying an avoidable mud tax of
more than $650,000,0U0 each year
for. the privilege of driving over
our dusty and muddy roads. This
enormous expense is better com-
prehended by saying it equals a
tax of more than $7 each year for
every man and woman and child
in this country.”
A careful study of the road
problem in detail reveals some
important and significant features.
While good road stone is found in
a very few places in this country,
good clays are found in nearly ev-
ery locality.
“ Again, as all loads are hauled
over very narrow portions of
roads through wheel contact—
railroad cars, for example—it fol-
lows that if such narrow parts of
our roads are cheaply construct-
ed to properly resist th« weight
and grind of the wagon wheels
new and important resnlts will be
attained.
“ Close study of these condi-
tions resulted in the construction
of a section of brick wheel track
road in the deparment of agricult-
ure grounds in the early part of
1900, followed by the introduc-
tion of this system in various
places for the improvement of
country roads and city street, also
with most encouraging results.
“ The continued advance in the
area reached by the benefits of
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rural free mail delivery under a'd
from the national treasury indi-
cates its deserved popularity in
the rural sections. A steady in-
crease seems probable in the
area thus benefited until all of the
more densely populated parts of
this country are covered.
“To the rapid and economical
extension of rural mail delivery
only one obstacle worthy of con-
sideration presents itself, but that
obstacle is of such a nature as to
greatly affect its practicability
and economy. This is the pres-
ent condition of our country
roads,
“ Without question one of the
first great movements toward the
economical free rural delivery of
the mails should be the construc-
tion of passable roads. This is
already evident from the fact that
some of the mail delivery routes
have had to be abandoned ou ac-
count of bad roads.
“The circumstance that over
$6,000,000 was appropriated by
our last congress largely to be
buried in our muddy roads in the
delivery of our rural mails, while
only the small sum of $20,000 was
last year devoted to meeting the
road problem, indicates the great
need of education regarding the
present necessity and demand for
vigorous and intelligent road
work.
“ As much of these large appro-
priations for rural mail delivery
could be saved if we had good
roads, it is obvious that an amount
equal to a considerable portion
of these sums could be spent to
good advantage in educating the
people in the work of improving
our country roads aud thus forev-
er close a large drain on our na
tional cash box.
“ In view of these* facts could
not a million or more be spent to
the best possible advantage by
the national government in con-
structing a section of brick track
road near each county seat
throughout the country as an ob-
ject lesson in each county in the
most advanced methods of road
construction! ”
Resolutions of Respect by
Fort Richardson Lodge
No. 320, A. F. & A. M.
To the Worshipful Master, War-
dens and Brethren of F >rt
Richardson Lodge No. 320, A.
F. & A. M. •
We, your committee appoiuted
to draft suitable resolutions of re-
spect upon the life and charac'er
of our deceased brother, M. A.
Gowdy, beg to submit the follow-
ing to wit:
Whereas, the grim reaper has
again entered our midst, and cut
down in the flower of his mau-
hood, and in the height of his use-
fulness Brother M. 4,'Gowdy,
Therefore, be it Resolved
That in the sadden taking off
of oar brother, the lodge has sus-
tained a loss that can not easily
be filled. Iu all his relations to
the craft, as a private member and
as an officer, he has filled each
station he has been called to faith-
fully and wel:;
That in every walk of life, as a
Mason, a citizen, a business man,
a husband and a father, he has
performed every duty to the let-
ter;
That we tender our sympathy
to the wife aud children who at
one fell blow have been deprived
of their protector, and earnestly
commend them to the Great Mat-
ter, who doeth all things well, and
whose watchful care will ever be
over and around them;
That these resolutions be spread
upon the archives of the lodge,
and a copy of them sent to the
bereaved family, and to the local
papers of Jacksboro.
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J. P. Hackley,
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