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THE HALSTON TRIBUNE. RALSTON. OKLAHOMA
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ROYAL LINE IN A DEMOCRACY
"Rond* Rule the World—Not King* 01
Congresses, Not Courts, Nor Con-
stables or Soldiers."
In «n ni-gumcnt fur good rand* so*ne
wise mnn, who*** mint** has b.'*» n lost,
mode us** of th«* following; "Roods
rule the world—not kings, nor con-
grosses, nor courts, nor constables,
not ships n*>r soldiers. The rond Is
the only r*»ynl line In n democracy, the
only legislature that never changes,
the only court that never sleeps, the
only army thnt never quits, the first-
aid to the redemption of any nation,
the exodus from stagnation In any so-
ciety, the call from savagery In any
tribe, the high priest of pros|*erii.v
after the order of Melehlseder, with
out beginning of days or end of life.
The rond Is umpire In every war, a ml
when the new map In made, It simply
pushes on Its great cnmpnign of help
hope, brotherhood, efficiency and
pence."
The ynlue of good ronds may he
better understood when It Is known
thnt the average cost to farmers ot
the United States to transport produce
to market Is more than 23 cents pet
ton per mile. These figures do npt In
dude the cost of breakage of harness
or vehicles. The cost per ton per
mile over hnrd-surfnccd roads Is les>
than half the present average.
GAINER BY IMPROVED ROADS
Cartful Analysis Shows G**«-atest
Gain Over Present Conditions Is
Man on Branch Road.
The. development of sentiment
for issuing bonds to build permanent
roads has brought to the surface many
questions which require careful con-
sideration and demand clearly stated
and convincing replies. Of these, tin
one recurring most frequently Is:
"What advantage Is there In a bond Is
sue for the farmer who lives several
miles from one of the improved
roods?”
At first glonce It would seem that
the mnu living directly upon the im
proved road obtnlns the greatest hem*
fits, but careful annlysls proves thnt
the greatest gain over present condl
tlons Is the man on the side rond
With the limited road and hrldg<
funds usually available In any town
ship and the necessity of keeping th<
main highways at least In pnssnbl
condition, little or nothing Is left foi
working upon the less traveled roads
As repair expense practically cense
when permanent rouds are built, th*
rond and bridge funds formerly spelt
on mnln ronds will be released for usi
upon the side roads.
In uddltlon. money st-ont ui*on thes*
side rouds will go five times as far
or do five times ns much work, a-
Soil Road in North Carolina.
when It was spent upon th** road"
where heavy travel quickly wiped oul
every trace of tho Improvement. A
reasonable amount of road and bridge
money used In ditching and dragging
side ronds will place them In condition
to curry the comparatively light traffic
that passes over them to the main
highway. The mnn on the side road
will have. In place of n continuous
haul through the mud from farm to
town, a much-improved surface from
farm to the mnln highway and a high
)y Improved rond. maintained nt much
less ex|K*nse to the township or coun-
ty, the remainder of the way to his
town or market.—Farm Engineering.
Drag After Rain.
Drag tho road ns Boon after every
rain na possible, but not when the mud
Is In such a condition as to stick to
the drag.
Attention to Road Drag.
If we would pay more attention to
the road dray, w# would buve better
roads.
IN FOOTSTEPS OF FAMOUS FATHER
George B. McClellan, former
nin.vor of New York city, who left a
professorship nt Princeton to study
ordnance nt Prnnkford arsenal, Phila-
delphia, where he bus been for the last
three months, hns been uppoinied a
major In the ordnnnce department" of
the army, assigned to service nt the
port of emhnrkutlon nt New York.
With him are Cnptuln Colton of the
regular army, acting ns his assistant,
mid. It Is understood, a number of
Princeton students und graduates, who
are taking courses similar to that
which their teacher pursued, will be
named to nld him.
McClellan shortly after college
closed In June quietly disappeared
from the campus and It wns thought
by Ills associates he wns spending his
vociitlon ns usual nt an exclusive re-
s«»rt near Gloucester. Unknown except
to a few of his Intimates, lie donned
machinist's overalls and worked stead-
ily at I- rnnkford arsenal. Reports coming here show he wus most proficient
mid mastered the technical side of the mnnuflicture of guns quickly. In the
opinion of the ordnnnce department chiefs he Is especially qualified to super-
vise the embarkation of niniiiunltlon for use abroad.
MHiellnu. Ii is said, wns most anxious to get Into this war. He comes
from u fighting family and. while too old to do strenuous military duty, be
insisted he should he uilowed to do something for his country. President
Wilson and the war officials were very sympathetic with his ambition and. to
tbelr surprise, he worked harder than most of the young men at the student
cutups.
MnJ. George R. McClellan will go down In history along with his father.
Gen. George B. McClellan of the Civil war. He is enlisted In the ordnance
department ns a reserve, nnd ns such he will . erve until the end of this war
und obtain u leave from Princeton university to do so.
HIS MILITARY FAME SECURE
Gen. Luigi Cnnomn, chief of staff
of the Italian army, which, under his
leadership. Is tanking Its triumphant
way * toward Trieste, passed through
the first three years of the war almost
unnoticed. But the campaign he was
quietly planning during that period
now Is reaching fruition, nnd In conse-
quence he stands out today as one of
the great figures of the w’ar.
The following excerpts from a
personality sketch published In the
Boston Evening Transcript reveal te
some extent the secret of his growing
fame nnd popularity. Says the writer,
Amy A. Bernnrdy:
“Not easily elated by success, fully
nnd calmly confident his strength
nnd in that of his men, devoted to
Italy with the deep devotion that needs
no words to he expressed; built, mlud
nnd body, on generous lines; radlul-
Ing power nnd energy from his whole
countenance; nnd above all simple, an-
issumlng, optimlstlc,**rith a slight touch of humor, nnd a great reserve fund
>f goodness nml strength, he deserves fully the love of his soldiers, the grutf-
'Ude of Italy and the ndmlrutlou of the world.
BOOMED SALE OF LIBERTY BONDS
Mrs. Willium Gibbs McAdoo, wife
>f tlie secretary of the treasury, nml
• oungest daughter of President WII-
-on, boomed the Liberty Bond sale to
uch good advantage thnt It Is said
ice personul efforts added $IO,UOO.(JUO
o the total. She confined her work
>rinclpnlly to women, addressing clubs
md forums and urging her sisters to
•how their patriotism by letting go
•f n little of the coin of the realm
list was being ssved up for a rutuy
lay.
Her stepson, young William G. Mc-
Adoo, Jr., enlisted ns n seaman. He
is cruising around looking for such
•uhinartnes ns may come this way. lie
wears the same clothes, sleeps In the
-nine sort of n hammock, and messes
ilnng nt the same table nnd answers
lie same bugle call that brings the
nllsted youth from the slums to the
Jeck.
Miss Margaret Wilson, the eldest
daughter of the president, has a beautiful voice, which she Is
certs for the benefit of the lied Cross. She
i».. ■
using In con-
recently toured the country
making one-night stands and conducting concerts for the benefit of different
charities und the Ited Cross.
HE KNOWS BUTTER AND EGGS
Perhaps It will be possible for
most of us to go bnck to tbe super-
luxury of having butter on our bread
at least once In a while In tbe near
future.
Still more glowing doth Old Time
promise us an egg for breakfast as the
weeks roll around, nnd there are ra-
mors thnt egglesa or one-egg rake, no
much vaunted In the wartime offerings
of women's ningnslne*. will soon he
ruled from the pantry shelves to make
room for richer products.
Mr. George K. Huskel! of Chicago
hns been assigned by tbe government
to net ns the butter and egg adviser of
Mr. Herbert C. Hoover, food udmluie-
trutor. Anyone who Is at all ac-
quainted with this country's busIncM
In dulry and poultry products will In-
stantly appreciate wlmt thin appoint-
ment means. It Is considered that In
calling Mr. Haskell to take up thle
work the government has place*! on
Im stun the man who Is better fitted than any oth«f person In tbe United
State# to help Mr. floover bring the dulryuicu and pouPjjr d’M.'tft ft fed
country laio Um to bain -via the war.
BY OUTSIDE CAR
10 BLARNEY CASTLE
Blarney Caetle.
¥ J HENEVER you make the
% /\ J trip out from Cork, Ireland,
V V to Blarney Castle, be sure
to turn a cold shoulder up-
on the modern tramway nml upon the
motog car. The only way to go
Is by the “outside cur,” or jaunting
car, for this Is so entirely Irish.
Up you will clamber to the rather
rickety step of the cur. thence to
the swinging platform for the feet, up-
on which you must maneuver in some
wuy to turn ubout nnd tuke your seat.
Probably you and your neighbor—If
you have one on your side of the car—
will laugh a great deal and clutch each
other excitedly; if you have the seat
to yourself, you must curl one knee
up before you, in somewhat the wuy
a woman does in riding sidesaddle,
brace yourself ngalnst the iron end to
the seat nnd cling tightly. There’s u
knack In riding on an outside car which
It needs a little time to acquire. But.
no matter, you are off—swinging
around corners and Jolting over the
cobblestones, through the city, across
a river and out into the sweet green
valley of the Lee which leads to the
village of Blarney. If It Is spring, the
trees are nil daintily, flufllly pale
green, the yellow primroses are begin-
ning to show themselves nnd, perhaps,
there Is here nnd there a hedge of bril-
liant golden gurse. Birds are singing
ull around you, too. nnd the river rip-
ples gently over Its stones; but the
probabilities are that your driver will
talk so much that you will not beur
the music of the river.
He will tell you nil about how It was
Cormnc MucCnrthy, back in the fif-
teenth century, who built Blarney rus-
tle; and how, although the place now
belongs to a local landowner, all the
MacCarlhys of the countryside still
feel that they own the place und ure
certain that It will one day come bnck
Into the hands of the fumlly. Every
MucCurthy who plows a field, within
sight of the old Jagged keep of Blar-
ney castle, looks up at it with pride
nnd a sense of rightful ownership.
Kissing the Blarney Stone.
Of course, everyone knows that he
who kisses the Blarney stone is sup-
posed to gain the gift of eloquence.
The legend goes that the original Cor-
ruac McCarthy the Strong one day res-
cued a woman from the lake; and this
woman was so grateful that she of-
fered, by way of showing her thunks,
to give Coniine a golden tongue. But,
she made one condition; in order 1*>
get it, he must kiss a particular stone,
five feet below the top of the pnrnpet
of Blarney Castle. Naturally, Coruiuc
leaped up the winding steps of the
keep, two step;? at a time, ran uround
court, lowered himself to where he
could rench the stone which the wom-
an had Indicated, and hastily kissed It.
Presumably he was afterwards pos-
sessed of murvelous eloquence, und this
Is the renson why nil other visitors to
Blurney have wanted to kiss that
stone, too—If they are both daring nnd
stendy-hended. For this font Is not al-
together nn easy one.
But, by this time, your driver has
put you down by the little Blarney
railway stntion, bidding you cross the
tracks nnd tuke n path through the
woods, close h.v n tiny stream. In n
few moments you come out Into nn
open field, where, sure enough, a Mae-
Carthy Is hoeing the rows; nnd there,
before you, looms the great keep of
Blarney Castle. Tin* keep Is practl-
cnlly nil thnt remains today, though
around Its foot there liuddlv numer-
ous crumbling walls nnd archway*,
which show that there were other
buildings, too. Not far away Is Blur-
ney Luke, atmut which the man hoe lug
the rows telle you a curious story.
"Two o' the gentry,” he 1s saying,
•war one while jlst a ft her diseasin'
how deep was Blurney Lake. Han o'
tftlip said l| wag bottomless, so' Um
other wan he allowed how that Was
noways possible at all. So they agreed
they’d slnd down two divers. This
thing they done prisintly, the gentry
thi nisei ves u-stundln* by the lakeside
und awatchin’. Down wint them div-
ers, but they niver cotne up at nil |
and, though tiie gentry, klpt a-watchin*
and n-waitln’, niver did they see thlm
<llvers again. But, nfther eight weeks
It wns, they had n letter from thlm,
nnd they wuwJu Australia. They wave
so!"
Up en the Castle.
And so you leave the MncCnrtL/. ac
full of wonderful and mysterious
tales, and wend your way to the cae-
tle. You take your time climbing the
spiral, uneven stone steps of the keep,
for they ure very steep and long. But.
at last, you reach the top and stop U
look east, west, north und south, St
the charming views; little green aud
brown fields, murked off by hedges,
dark clumps of woodlaud, here und
there a sparkling blue lake or a dua-
zling clump of gorse. But you soon
bear stifled shrieks and exclntnntloqs
from the other side of the parapet, so
you make your way to the spot. Yea,
there someone is atmut to kiss the
Blnruey stone. A big stalwart youth
Is lying down upoa Ids back. Ills bead
towards a square opening la the out-
er wall of the parapet; another strong
youth, perhaps two of them, sit down
upon his feet, so as to hold them firm-
ly. Then the seeker after eloquence
grasps an Iron bar. placed in position
for this purpose, swings himself down
through the opening in the parapet re-
ferred to, pulls himself up again ou the
outside, and Just manages to kiss the
surface of the Blarney Stone; then, be-
ing strong and lithe, he Jerks his head
bnck In uguln and suddenly he is aguiu
sitting up on the il*»or of the parapet
and the others boys ure letting go of
ids feet. It wasu’t so hurd to do after
ull, you think; nt least, not If you are
n strong young boy who does not mind
looking down ull those giddy feet to
the trees growing against the foot of
the keep. But, doubtless, you are wise
enough to conteut yourself with watch-
ing others kiss the Blarney Stone and
with buying u post curd showing the
famous stone, with Its Latin Inscrip-
tion, “Coruiuc MueCarthy Kortls Me
Fieri Fecit, A. D. 1446." which, trans-
lated in Irish, means
“Cormnc Macarthy, hould ns bricks.
Mail** me In Fourteen Forty-six."
Really, .you know, it does not pay
to go to the trouble of kissing the
stone, for It may even not be the
Identical one which Cormnc MneCarthy
the St rang kne\J. Muny people insist
thnt that atone wus long ago removed
oic-fro ui a iiuir, run umuiliJ ...........*    "•***    irniu>nj
the path which encircled the Inner- ^roln position, thnt tL's is not the
t _ n.  I 1 ■___S M ~    t    t    tfullltilui llloliik at S aa I I a — a _    ^ . a.
genuine stone nt all; ot any rute,
seems thnt the stone once fell from Its
plnce. Probably It Is ns well to ac-«
quire eloquence In some other wuy.
Beet Listener in the World.
The home Is really one of the beet
listeners In the world. He Is always
on the alert for sounds which concern
or Interest him. When lie looks nt any-
thing he turns Ids enrs toward It ta
observe the better whether nny sound
comes front It. If a horse Is particu-
larly Interested |n your driving of him
lie always turns his ear* hnrlnvnrd to-
ward you, tint If tie Ims r« concern on
Hint subject or If he seem anything
fdiend thnt Interests him lie keep* his
• nr* pricked forward. A louse hears
Hie whinny of another bora# nt n great-
1 r distance than th* average man cun
boor it.
Unappreciated.
Tbe Manager He*. |„*re! our audi-
ence* won't Stand for th***** wheeses ot
fours.
'I lie Motiologtdst—| don't see why
not. The fellow | got 'em from said
they'd been enjoyed by hundred! «d
thousands for the last eeatwy.