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BUILDING - ; ±&V. WM«W>Si .?• ***»*» w v/f Strolling down Fifth Avenue, the New Yorker lights a F ATI MA. Pro- gressive young men everywhere buy three times as many FATI MAS as any other 15o cigarette^ OSSocwQx Jl ££%£%* m̂ masr Mlck'i Pipe. The Irish Guards were holding a po­ sition at Yprea, and flying bullets were the order of the day. The Germans ^endeavored to break through, and atter a particularly brisk volley Private JHynn was heard to shout: "Murder of wars, I'm done now alto­ gether!" "Why, have yon been hit?" shouts Captain F--*». • k, , , "Not entofrely hit, sir," shouts Flynn; "but I've been waiting this ten minutes for a smoke from Murtagh's pipe, and by the powers they've just shot it out iv his mouth." Jtfwzs&c OOD roads advocates are giv­ ing increasing attention 'to the question of the employ­ ment of convicts in road building. Throughout the country state good roads as­ sociations are adopting reso­ lutions favoring the adop­ tion of the convict labor sys­ tem. Good roads organiza­ tions and advocates are dis­ cussing the merits and dis­ advantages of the plan, and many are studying the system as applied in other states. Colorado has been using convict labor for the last seven years. So successful has it proved in this state that others have modeled their laws and plan of operation after those of Colorado and the governors during their annual conference at Colo­ rado Springs last August spent much time In studying at first hand the wonderful highways that Colorado has built "by convict labor. Twenty- four governors made up a party for a trip of in­ spection over the Colorado Springs-Canon City highway and the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean road In Ute Pass, two of the most perfect mountain roads in the United States and two of the best examples of the results of convict labor. The Colorado Springs-Canon City highway is one of the best examples of scientific road building In the state; perhaps the country. For a distance of twenty miles or more south of Colorado Springs the road winds around the foothills and mountains, practically the entire roadbed having been cut out of the hillside and in many places blasted out of solid rock. For the remaining twenty-five miles to Canon City the way is over foothills and through undulating country. Besides being a mar­ vel In engineering, the road Is one of the best scenic and picturesque in the West, passing as it does through Red Rock Canyon, Dead Man'* Canyon and many other mountain beauty spots. It cul­ minates in the far-famed highway to the top of the Royal Gorge and the unique and spectacular Sky Line Drive, at Canon City. ' The road averages eighteen feet in width and Is perfectly cro-vned and drained. Although it of­ fers a succession of climbs, so skillfully was the engineering work done that heavy grades have been eliminated and the motorist is confronted with only one grade as high as six per cent. Ute Pass is one of the historic gateways of the mountain country and down Its sides centuries before Columbus discovered America, the Ute In­ dians had worn, with soft mocassined tread, a plainly distinguishable trail. In building the first road across the range to freight supplies to Lead- ville, Aspen and the other mining camps, the white man followed the trail of the Indian. A few years ago the main portion of this road between Manltou and Cascade was entirely rebuilt by con­ vict labor. It has beqn pronounced a most splen­ did example of road building. It has a wide, well crowned roadbed surfaced with disintegrated granite from the mountain sides. Grades have been reduced and although the road overcomes an elevation of 1,125 feet in a distance of five miles the climb is gradual and Is easily negotiated. It is over the Ute Pass road that the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean highway enters the mountains after striking straight across the plains of central Colorado to Colorado Springs and Manitou. Thence it continues westward through South Park over Tennessee Pass down the valleys of the Eagle and the Grand rivers to Grand Junction and the Utah line. Pueblo county also has employed convicts to ad­ vantage, and a notable piece of road is the stretch Just north of Pueblo on the road to Colorado Springs. Garfield county, on the western slope, last year engaged 50 convicts for a period of four years, and they have just completed work on the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean highway west of Glen- wood Springs and are now engaged in rebuilding the road through the Canyon of the Grand river. Weld and Larimer counties, in northern Colorado, also have many miles of splendid road to show for the work of convicts during the last two years. . Wherever tried, the results have been satisfac­ tory. This applies especially to the benefits de­ rived by the convicts themselves. Under the Colo­ rado system, the convict is allowed ten days off his sentence for each month of labor on the roads. This is in addition to the usual reduction for good behavior. Besides, in Colorado, the employment of convicts on the roads has been singularly suc^ cessful because the cost of building many of Its mountain roads would be almost prohibitive if the state were compelled to construct them under or­ dinary conditions. The entire country has reaped the benefits of Colorado's pioneering because It has been able to open to travelers from all sec­ tions of the country some of its most splendid mountain scenery; It has furthermore set the ex­ ample for many of the other states in the adoption of some system for the employment of convicts on state and county roads. In speaking of what can be accomplished in the way of road building by the use of convict labor, Thomas J. Tynan, warden of the state penitentiary under whose supervision the work the last three years has been done, recently said: "The benefits in this or any other state from a broad and scientific system of convict road build­ ing can scarcely be estimated. Basing our figures on actual experience we are confident that we can construct in the next ten years more than five thousand miles of the very finest roadways for less than $500,000 and this without adding any­ thing whatever to the burden of the taxpayers. "During the "period of ten years the internal revenue fun4 of Colorado should amount to $2,000,'- 000. After deducting $500,000 for road construc­ tion, the remaining amount should be wisely ex­ pended in bridge building, road repairing and for similar uses. Add to this the financial assistance from the different counties, and it would enable us to construct not less than 10,000 miles. It can be done in Colorado. Why should not the same con­ ditions apply to other states under more favorable conditions where the roads are naturally better and where cost of construction would not neces­ sarily be so high as in our mountainous sections? "To illustrate better the great saving to the tax­ payers on this class of work and its possibilities, let me quote a few figures from one jof our road camps. During one month we worked 35 men on the road not including the camp help. The num­ ber of days employed was 24%. Each of these 35 men rendered to the state, labor equivalent in value to $2 and $3 a day. The labor for eacll man cost the state exactly 25 cents per day. Had this number of men been employed at the regular standard of wages of say $2.00 per day per man, the cost of wages alone would have been $1,632.50. Each day's work thus represented a net saving of at Ifeast $1.75 per man. The total coBt of all the work for the month, including salaries, care of stock, feed for teams and cost of equipment was $515.15, or 47% cents per day per man. When these figures are considered no one can doubt for a moment the economy of building roads with con­ vict labor. The roads are carefully and thoroughly inspected by competent engineers who testify to the co/npletness and high character of the work. 'What is the incentive for the men to create such great work?' is a question often asked Colorado- ans. It is Just this: the man who is allowed to leave the prison for the road camp has practically seen the last of prison life if he conducts himself properly; his food Is better; his clothing is better; his self-respect is preserved and he is taught "self- reliance and sustained application. He earns an additional ten days a month during the time he works, which very materially reduces his sen­ tence. Eliminating the policy of armed guards, the men have been placed under skilled and com­ petent overseers and guarded only by their word of honor not to run away. They remain faithful and loyal to their pledges. The success of such an honor system was Instantaneous; the plan has worked out better than its originators expected. During the last three years we have had more than one thousand individual prisoners in the con­ vict camps. These men without guards--some 300 miles away from the prison--have created a na­ tional reputation for loyalty. Less than one pef cent have violated their pledges and made sue- cessful escape. Communities no longer fear to have our convict camps established near them We have made manhood as well as money by this healthy, hearty outdoor labor. We have built the prisoners up both physically and morally. Men discharged from our road camps do not have the prison pallor, the physical weakness and the hesitating, hang-dog appearance of the typical dis­ charged convict. They are bronzed, sturdy, heal thy, efficient laborers and are in demand as such. About 20 per cent of those we have sent out upon the completion of their sentence have made good The other 20 per cent have mostly found their way back into prison elsewhere. In his last biennial report Warden Tynan had the following to say with reference to the finan­ cial side of convict road building: "Our largest item of labor performed by the convicts was, of course, the road work. The pris­ oners have been employed In the construction of roads In Mesa, Fremont, Larimer, Weld. Boulder, Jefferson. El Paso and Pueblo counties. They have built 157 miles of good roadway and a great deal of this has been blasted out of solid^rock--that in Mesa county being the most difficult and heavy Fork ever attempted by our men. / "Owing to the fact that it was impossible to get from the various counties the cost of material, such as cement, lumber, steel, corrugated cul verts, powder, tools and supplies, other than ac­ tual labor used in road and bridge building we are enabled to give you only the labor cost to these different counties for the work of the men. This work has been done at an average cost to the dif­ ferent counties of 32 cents per day per man; and as this cost includes Sundays and holidays the cost of labor of these men to the counties for the two years, or 731 days, would be I36.72S.44. We have worked twenty-one state teams and the feed for these teams cost the counties $20 ner month per team, which would amcuiDt to $10,088; making a total cost to the counties for labor of $46,805. The average labor cost for the 157 miles was $298.12 per mile. "It is hard to estimate the Immense value of these roads for the reason that the work In Mesa county alone would have cost, with free labor, not less than $25,000 per mile, as the rock In places had to be blasted for 75 feet In order to get a proper roadbed. In this work it was necessary to drill holes 25 feet deep and to drill three depths before the roadbed was rea< hed. So you can see the magnitude of this work. The work in Ute Pass, in El Paso county, was done through .so'ld rock for six miles, all blasting. Th« work in Salt Canon and Parkdale Hill, in Fremont countv and Ingree Hill, Cherokee Hill and Thompson Canon in Larimer county have been very expensive work, because of the blasting. Thin necessarily would have been very much more expensive had it been done with free labor, and the oountie* would hove been forced to pay big salaries for drillers, blas­ ters, powder men, masons and cement workers. Not counting what the contractor's profits might be and not including any skilled labor, except blacksmiths, cement workers and masons, and es­ timating the cost of free labor at $2 per da£,. by eliminating Sundays and holidavs, we may count 132 men working 210 days at 12 per dav which would give us a labor value of $161,040. We have worked an average of twenty masons and cement workers, which would have cost the counties $5 per day, and would have amounted to $61,000. We have avefaged five blacksmiths. Whose labor Is estimated at $4 per day and this would have amounted to $12,220. Estimating the value of 21 teams at $2.50 per day per team for 610 days, it would have amounted to $32,025. At a low figure the value of the labor of these men and teams would be worth to the counties $266,285. Add to this a depreciation of state equipment, $2,000 and the interest on state equipment $2,000 and you can see that this labor has been worth to the dif­ ferent counties $270,285. The difference between what the free labor alone would have copt the public--namely, $270,285--and what the labor of our men actually cost them shows a labor profit of $233,479.56. However, this labor did not com­ pete with the free labor of the state, for the rea­ son that the counties could not otherwise have afforded to do this work." Little to Cat. "These Mexicans would rather, fight than eat." "Well, the facilities for fighting seem to be vastly superior to those for eating." FARMERSWHOmEEO IN WESTERN CANADA Those Who Exercise Thrift, Prac­ tice Due Economy, and Adopt . Reasonable Methods Are Sure to Prosper. SAGE TEA DARKFNS GRAY HAIR?TO ANY SHADE. TRY IT! Keep Your Locks Youthful, Dark, Glossy and Thick With Garden Sage and 8ulptiur. When you darken your hair with Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it's done so naturally, so evenly. Preparing this -^mixture though, at home is muBsy and trouble­ some. For 50 cents you can buy at any drug store the ready-to-uBe tonio called "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur BaSr Remedy." You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morn­ ing all gray hair disappears, and, after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully darkened, glossy and luxuriant You will also dis­ cover dandruff is gone and hair has •topped falling. Gray, faded hair, though no dis­ grace, is a sign of old age, and as we all desire.a youthful and attractive ap­ pearance, get busy at once with Wy- eth's Sage and. Sulphur and look years younger. Adv. Put Off Old Age Some old folks are bent and shaky. Others are straight and strong. It can't be mere "oldness" that works such havoc. No--it's too often uric acid. ' Fight off this life-sapping poison. Help the kid­ neys take it from the blood. To aid them, live carefully and stimulate their action with the old reliable medicine Doan's Kidney Pills. An Illinois Case , "Rvtn PUtxn TJb m •*»" Mrs. G. A. Wil­ son, 706 Washing­ ton St.. Waukejr&n. III., says: "I had been ailing for quite awhile with backache and kid. ney trouble. My back pained me severely and the kidney secretions passed too freely. I was nervous and •iizzy and my night was affected. I of­ ten got feverish and then again oold chills came OR. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me and I have felt fine since." Gat Doaa'e at Any Stan, SOc a Bos DOAN'S •JftSV POSVaR-MEJBUaN <JCu BUFFALO. 14. Y. -1 '•--Ai "i * € '--J /ili - • * " " " " LONESOME IN GREAT CITY Stranger Visiting New York la Said to *?.?•' Feel His Isolation From Fel- • low Mortals. V • > ̂Km York to the lonesomest cftar In /the world for a stranger when alone. " Visitors have repeatedly said this, but .'fiere is Caroline Lockhart, authoress, from the boundless West, to second ie motion. She says the big city is lonelier than the sagebrush'plains. **1 thought a prairie wolf* sitting an the ridge howling at the moon made the lonesomest sound on earth," she said today, "unless it was that of a pack of young coyotes yapping in the willows before a storm; but these sounds are ragtime compared to the roar of New Yori when you are listen­ ing to it alone. And standing in the window of the hotel /watching the world going to the theater or >ut to dine' is about as cheerful as sitting on a horse thief's grave somewht i e out in the sagebrush thinking of the mis­ takes you've made. When one leaves the hotel it dawns gradually that this | lot with that of more fortunate peo- city isn't all Peacock alley and that i pie." there are minor notes in the whoop-la of joy. But the loneliness of New York even under comparatively favor­ able eife-qnsstances--whew' I have often thought that living in a light­ house or holding down 160 acres wait­ ing fat a railroad to come along must be a lonesome job, but I cannot be­ lieve it is worse than a New York apartment, for the lighthouse keeper and the homesteader are at least saved the constant comparison of their Can You Beat Itf She--Oh, Jack, do excuse me for gel- ting here so late. You poor fellow, you've had to wait an hour for me. He--Ob. no, it'8 all right. I've only just come. She--What! do that's the way you treat me, is it? If I'd come at the time agreed you'd have made me wait a whole hour.--Boston Evening Tran­ script. Those who are interested in devel­ oping the agricultural resources of Western Canada In bringing to the notice of those whom they desire to take part In this development present only the facts. There has never been given the 'impression that farming In Western Canada could be carried on without effort or labor, but It has been successfully stated that better results can be secured with less outlay of capital, either in money or labor, than anywhere else on the continent. Thia has been proven time and time again. Hundreds of cases, could be cited where men have taken up farms, either a homestead, or purchased from railways or land companies, and with little capital at the start have ac­ quired a competence, have established good homeB for themselves, and pro­ vided a sure future. They have com­ fortable homes and all their surround­ ings are comfortable, speak of the r^ ward that their thrift has accom­ plished. Carl Dlckan, of Russian Poland lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., for fourteen years, and saved up $900. In 1903 he took the $900 with him to Alberta. His own story iB that he bought a quarter se<y tion, for which he agreed to pay $1,200. "In 1904 I had thirty acres of crop, threshed 900 bushels. In 1909 I bought another quarter. I now have one hundred acres under cultivation, and have never had a crop failure. Have threshed forty-seven bushels of wheat per acre, but the average has been about forty. My oats for the eleven years that I have been here averaged forty-seven bushels to the acre. I now have 9 horses, 47 head of cattle, 33 hogs, which I consider worth $3,600. I haver a thousand dol­ lars worth of farm implements and my land is worth $8,000. This iB all clear of debt I have every reason to consider this a first-class mixed farm­ ing, dairying and poultry raising coun­ try, as I think that it is apparent that I have had some success. help that I had was my oldest boy, who was 8 years old when I arrived In Alberta." About fifty miles west of Wetaskl- win there is a partially timbered dis­ trict lying between Buck Lake and Pigeon Lake. All this land is ready for homesteading, and judging from a letter received by a resident there, this would seem to be an ideal place for a farmer who desired such sur- roundings. This settler lives on the shore of Buck Lake, his land is willow brush, which is easy to clear. Some of the lumber is good saw timber, and lots of good logs for buildings can be had, as well aa rails for fencing. For wheat growing the soil is excel­ lent. Water is easily secured, fishing is good and plentiful and game is any­ thing but scarce. The settlers are mostly from the United States and Canada.--Advertisement. Soul Mates. Knlcker--What are soul mates? Bocker--Generally two lefts.--New York Sun. Good resolutions are inexpensive, but they are hard to keep. A Soluble Antiseptic Powder to be dissolved in water as needed For Douches In the local treatment of woman's flfcb such as lencorrhoea and inflammation, ho* douches of Paxtine are very efficacious. 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