EUROPE’S GOOD ROADS Regarded as Economic Factor of Life and Not a Fad. Legacy Left by Romans Has Been Husbanded and Has Added to Prosperity of France—Aus tria Is Close Second. The wide interest that the road question has for all classes in Europe is remarkable, and it Is this unity of purpose that builds on the network legacy left by the Romans, Frances Milton writes in the Scientific Amer ican. Since that time, and that of the Henris and the Louises, to whom were due much of the elements of beauty that compose the French road system today, particularly with re spect to tree planting alongside, and since the later day of the military road making genius of Napoleon much has been undertaken in the way of re finement which has produced, if not an actual money rqturn, at least a prosperity which would otherwise have been unknown. To be just there are as good roads in the United States today as in France. In top dressing, in comport • with the needs of the new locomotion, according to any one of the four or five methods commonly made use of ,in America, results are superior even to anything yet achieved in Europe. Brick is found on some roads of Holland, but it dates from before the motor car era, before even that fa mous pavement of Terre Haute, Ind., owning already to some twenty years and still good. Great claims of dura bility are made for brick, and if these two examples have any weight, the thing would seem to be worth some thing. In France there is a famour stretch of Route Nationale in the south, near Marseilles. Straight as an arrow, flat as a billiard table and smooth as marble, with a row ot windbreak cypresses, on the north, which in the writer’s opinion is the nearly ideal roadway. French na tional, departmental and communal roads, as a class, are the best In the world. In the French Alps are the finest mountain roads in Europe, far and away ahead of those of Switzerland on all counts. Many of them were due to the genius of Napoleon and his military road builders, and if their main purpose in times past was stra tegic, today they are essentially prac tical. The mountain roads of Austria are a close second, particularly when it comes to considering them from the point of view of the motor car. Italy has a nationalized roads sys tem; so has Belgium. Austria and mcst of the German confederation. The first three meet the sitnation but • partially, organization and control be ing decidedly inferior to that in France. MAINTENANCE OF GOOD ROADS e’eople in Many States Are Filled With Enthusiasm for Improve ment of Public Highways. The present year promises to be the greatest in the history of the move ment for the improvement of the pub lie roads of the United States, accord lng to the reports received from all parts of the country by the United States department of agriculture. A joint committee of congress is «n gaged in an investigation of the feast bility of federal aid in the construe lion, improvement and maintenance of public highways, and a number ol the state legislatures are considering good road legislation. In connection ■with the general impetus that the good road movement has recently had in all parts of the country, the director ol the office of public highways says: “Too much stress cannot be laia upon the importance of maintenance in connection with the work of im proving the reads. The people 1n nearly all the states are filled with enthusiasm for road improvement and are spending enormous sums of money in the construction of superb roads, and yet almost without exception they are making little provision to care for the roads after they are built. This is true not only ia the various coun ties, but under many of our state high way departments. To maintain the roads in good con dition year after year requires a con siderable annual outlay, but this out lay is infinitely less than the loss which must fall upon the people event ually if they allow their roads to go to utter ruin. The thing for all advo j£tes of good roads to do is to urge continuous, systematic maintenance, and the setting aside every year of an amount per mile estimated by the en gineer in charge to be sufficient for the proper maintenance of the road—a course which must make for economy and efficiency.” Manuring Garden in Spring. Any time in the early spring the gar de».' may be manured. The spring rains will dissolve richness from fer tilizers and carry them down into the soil for feeding the plants next sum mer. If the garden is manured in winter fresh manure may be used with safety, as it will have lost much of the heat by planting time. Future Fence Poets. If you want fence posts for the fu ture, Locusts or Eucalyptus are the . proper caper. Plant some. / _._ HAS AVERSION TO SWEET-SCENTED NOTES Arthur Shafer, Clever New York Shortstop. Arthur Shafer spoiled a romance and made a good baseball item when he reported to the Giants at Marlin this spring. The romance concerned his aversion to playing Joseph to Potiphar's wife. The public prints last winter printed the story that Shafer had decided to quit the game because he ob jected to so many mash notes. Shafer says the man who sent out the story* exaggerated it, to say the least. He admits he did say that a ball player was burdened with a lot of scented missives from love-sick girls and that they got mighty tiresome, but he denies that he ever said a thing like that would make him quit baseball. He will play the game, he says—and throw the notes in the waste basket. The item of interest to the fans on his report ing to McGraw was that the leader of the Giants would make him the regular shortstop this year In place of Fletcher. Shafer accepts the job with all its responsibilities and says he will play out the string. If the girls like him, let 'em write, but they must read their answers in the stars; he positively will cot waste postage making dates. I TELLS ONE ON JIM CALLAHAN White Sox Recruit Willing to Accept Tickets "Bought and Paid For”— No Applause Needed. i Jimmy Callahan, manager of the Chicago White Sox, celebrated his thir j ty-ninth birthday, and his friend Frank Fogarty, the “Dublin Minstrel," sent a i telegram to him wishing many happy returns and big success the coming j season. Fogarty tells a clever little yarn on ; Callahan: “Jimmy and George M. ! Cohan are very warm friends,” said | the comedian, “and whenever Callahan I and his team strike New York while | Cohan is playing there George sends j a batch of tickets around for the : bunch. On one of these occasions when Callahan was handing out the pasteboards he told the boys to give Cohan a good round of applause when he made his first entrance for the eve ning, and also at the finale. The gang went to the show and several of the recruits were busy discussing baseball when Cohan made his entrance. They forgot to applaud. CalTahan was wild and at the close of the performance he panned the boys severely. “Some weeks later one of the play ers met another in the hotel elevator Manager James Callahan. after the game and told him that the boys were going to a show that night. "Going to a show tonight, did you say?” asked the recruit. “Yes. Callahan has the tickets— “Bought and Paid For.” “Bought and paid for,” repeated the youngster, ‘‘/hat's good; the last tickets we got bawled out because we didn’t applaud the guy that gave ’em to us. Now that these tickets are bought and paid for he probably won't care whether we dap or not.” -- j Bert Annis Retires. After ten years in the game as a magnate, during which time he has. according to report, dropped a lot of money, Bert Annis, v.ho recently sold j his Grand Rapids franchise, announces that he is done for all time. Annis has been a pillar of the Central , league and helped keep more than j one club afloat. Schulte After Reccrd. Frank Schulte, the hard-hitting out fielder of the Cubs, has the lofty ambi tion of making 30 home i*uus this sea son. Schulte made 21 circuit drives ! in 1911, but fell down last season. The : record for home runs is held by "Buck” Freeman, who made 2a with I the Washington club in 1899. ..___■_■ : . ' '■ ~ V ..._' It is estimated that the Boston Red Sox entire salary list this season will reach $80,000. * • • Manager George Storali believes that the Browns are 50 per cent, stronger this season than they were in 1912. * * * Shortstop George McBride of the Senators has missed only eight games in the six years he has played with Washington. « • • Arthur Hofman has come back for Fred Clarke. His legs are all that are ailing him. Hofman bids fair to be called ‘'Circus Solly” again. Jack Miller is playing an improved first base game for the ’’irates. and the principal problem that confront ed Manager Fred Clarke seems to be solved. • • • Sam Agnew, the young catcher of the St. Louis Browns, has a great rec ord. While with Vernon last year he caught exactly 100 games and had no passed halls. • • « Long Tom Hughes, the veteran pitcher of Washington, is going as good or better than ever. Griffith has three fine veterans in Johnson, Groom and Long Tom. * • • Brockton of the New England league has signed a deaf and dumb third baseman named Nimrao, who comes recommended by Jack Klelnow, the veteran catcher. • * • Manager Joe Tinker has selected five twirlers to do the bulk of hurling for the Reds for the coming season. Tinker has selected three veterans and two youngsters. • • • Ownie Bush, the diminutive short stop of the Detroit Tigers, has receiv ed an offer from Charley Carr to act as instructor at his baseball college in San Antonio next winter. * • • Connie Mack ia going to carry ten pitchers. He believes his youngsters will learn more watching the veterans pitch than If they were out slaving for incompetent £.uinor league man agers. * * • “I have a young infielder named Smith on my team,” says Manager Stallings of Boston, "whom I picked up on the lots in Cleveland, and he looks so good that I wouldn't take $10,000 for him right now.” WWW Manager Friel of St. Paul will use Walter Rehg, bought from Pittsbugh. regularly in the outfield. With Rehg and Miller turned over to the Saints, the Pirates can call the deal for O'Toole-Kelly completed. * • • Bunnies have the call in American league outfields this season. Four re cruit gardeners are nicknamed "Bun ny.” They are High and Powell of Detroit, Leibold of the Naps and Brief, with the St. LouiB Browns. • • • An Atlanta writer says the Cracker club is bound to make money out of sales of players this season, and then names a half dozen players who are sure to go up and every one of them has already had a trial or two and failed. STRIKE-OUT RECORDS Twirlers of Eastern Clubs Excel Those of West. New York Team Has Furnished King in Seven of Last Sixteen Years— Chicago Supplied Two in Jeff Overall and Beebe. Inspection of the pitching records of the National league for the last sixteen years develops the fact that the leading strike-out artist has gen erally been a member of one of the eastern clubs. Only during five campaigns from 1897 to 1912, inclusive, did a western team supply the pace setter in making men retreat to tlje bench after hitting nothing butt atmosphere. Frank (Noodles) Hahn of Cincinnati twice was the-dstrike-out king of the Na tional league. "Rube” Waddell of Pittsburgh once enjoyed this honor, and so did Fred Beebe during a cam Rube Marquard. paign when he wore the liveries of both the Chicago and St. Louis clubs. Hahn's years of prosperity in the strike-out line were 1899 and 1901. Waddell was the leader in 1900 and Beebe ranked first during 1906, which was the last year a westerner was in the_ king row. "Jeff'’ Overall, the big : Californian, who has just returned to ! the Chicago club, after an absence of i a year, was the hero in 1909. The New York club has supplied the strike-out king in seven of the last sixteen years, Christy Mathewson having been the leader during five campaigns, Richard Marquard in one and J. Bentley Seymour in one. Matty hung up the high mark in strikeouts for a season in 19(03. when he whiffed 267 of his adversaries. The previous best record was 249, made by Sey mour in 1S98. The PhiHies have twice furnished the senior league with its Waltei Johnson. Earl Moore led in breezing men in 1910 and Grover Cleveland Alexander was the hero last year. Below will be found a list of the leading strikeout pitchers in the Na “Jeff” Overall. tiona! league from 1897 to 1912, in clusive: _ Strike rear. Pitojier and club. Games, outs. 1912 Alexander. Philadelphia.46 195 1911 Marquard. New York.45 231 1916 Moore. Philadelphia.46 1S3 1969 Overall, Chicago .3S 20£ 1965 Matliewson. New York.56 259 1967 Matliewson. New York.41 17$ 1966 Beebe. Chk-ago-St. Louis_34 171 1905 Mathewson. New York.43 206 1904 Mathewson. New York.4S 212 1*63 Mathewson. New York.45 “>67 1962 Willie. Boston .51 231 1901 Hahn. Cincinnati .42 237 1900 Waddell. Pittsburgh.21 13 13**9 Hahn. Cincinnati .33 14: 1S9S Seymour. New York.44 24$ 1397 McJames, Washington .42 161 Rooting for Chance. Manager George Stallings of the Boston Braves sent Manager Chance a telegram saying he is going to root for the New York Americans. “I am going to root for the Yankees this year, because some of my old players are with them. They are the finest lot of men I ever met in baseball, and I feel sure that they will work for you as they worked for me,” read the telegram. No Use for Pads. Terry Turner probably Is the only Nap who doesn’t protect both hips with a pair of sliding pads. The rea son is because Terry never slides on his hips. His strong and only forte in sliding is on his stomach, and in this line he hasn't a peer in the league. Another Mack Is Playing. Two sons of Connie Mack are now playing in organized ball. Harry Me Gillicuddy, younger brother of Earl, is playing on the latter’s Raleigh team LOSS DRAFT THE NATIONAL HAIL INSURANCE CO. #. v- . . N0.2fiS4_-^_ FOB LOSS ON POLICY NO.. Lincoln. Neb (wyiJkr Rwtothe order of * .V. :: *• s/4^4£0J«5 To First National Bank. •{ **■ jn^lha*.insohancem. • Lincoln: Neb. ^ —* -, __ NK( Y TRKAIt. HAIL INSURANCE The National Hail Ins. Co.. Lincoln. Neb. Lewiston. Neb., Aug. 31. 1912. Gentlemen—Your draft for $1,440.00 covering loss from hail on my crops during the season of 1912 was handed to me by your agent. Mr. Mayberry, and I wish to thank you for the very fair and courteous treatment shown me in the adjustment of my loss, and especially for your promptness in paying same. 1 certainly appreciate the honesty and integrity of your oilicers. and I heartily wish your company a most prosperous future. Thanking you again. I am. Yours truly. JNO. HEROLD. For the purpose of dispelling any criticism on the part of our local company by agents representing outs'de fire insurance companies who write hail insurance, we have compiled the table below, which is taken from the sworn statements on file in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, showing the premiums collected and the losses paid by all companies writing hail insurance in Nebraska in 1912; Hall Insurance Hail Premiums Collected Losses Paid American Fire Ins. Co.. St. Louis. Mo.1.$ 2.485.81 $ 503.99 Central National Fire Ins. Co.. Chicago . 3,883.98 914.80 Northwestern National. Milwaukee. 5.029.20 2.138.29 People’s National. Philadelphia. 8.954.17 841.90 St. Paul F. A M.. St. Paul. Minn. 21.O6fi.20 5.293.11 National Fire & Columbia Coder writers. Hartford. Conn. 24.336.59 7.853.99 Northwestern F. it M.. Minneapolis. 26.217.80 5.120.88 NATIONAL HAIL. Lincoln. Neb. 36.093.30 17.750.10 Lesser, Tiid by the Natic^al Unil Since Or.TSSiratlcn, $313,429.11. From the above figures you wll! note that we collected $10,000 more premiums and paid $10,000 more in.losses than our near est competitor. One re, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG COMPANY, Quincy, IIL WHILE THERE WAS YET TIME Mear Man Mads His Suggestion and Departed in Some Haste From Meeting of Indignant Women. With tense, eager taces, the great ^ audience of women leaned forward in j their seats, eagerly drinking in the noted speaker's every word. "Mere man,” she was saying, "is wont to belittle woman's ability to en- j ter the fields already usurped by him. j As a matter of fact, she is capable of filling any post of public or private office now held my man, and if ap pointed to tt, could even perform man's tasks with greater faithfulness and greater daring. "Name, if you can, one post for which she cannot*fit herself! Name one office to which she would not, could not, give »the greatest meas ure of capability, the Ihffehest degree of courage, the—’’ A mere man, who had Elipped un noticed into a back seat, rose at this point, and the light of sudden inspira tion gleamed in his eye. "Rat catcher!’” he shouted. And then he fled. Masterfulness Checked. “I've a good mind to go and jump into the river,” said N. Peck, at the end of a little domestic discussion, as he picked up his hat and started out. "You come back here,” said his wife, j "If you intend any such trick ar. that, just march upstairs and put on your old clothes before you start.” LEWIS’ SINGLE HINDER is the best Hinlity. and best aelling 5c cigar on the market. Adv. It takes a man who doesn’t have to live the simple life to see the beauties of it. Be thrifty on little things like bluing. Don't accept water for bluing. Ask for Red Cross Bail Blue, the extra good value blue. Adv. - While engaged • in loving your ene j mies. don’t slight your friends. Commercial Notation. It gives an impressive idea of the immensity of the international trade carried on in vessels to read that 55,- ' 000,000 tons of coal are consumed in a year in the furnaces of* ships em- I ployed in international commerce. And there are certain modern freight ers which transport a ton of cargo a mile by burning half an ounce of fuel, which means moving ten barrels of flour a mile with a piece of coal the size of a hickory nut. — Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for InfantB and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of | In Cse For Over 30’Years. Children Ciy ior Fletcher’s Castoria Will Get Rid of Felon. To cure a felon take common salt, as used for salting pork or beef, dry in the oven, pound fine, mix with equal parts of spirits of turpentine, put in a cloth and wrap around the affected part. As it gets dry put on more. Twenty-four hours of this treatment will kill the felon. When a woman can arrive at satis factory conclusions without expressing them, that is wisdom. Pensive maids may develop into ex pensive wives. FOLEY KIDNEY PIUS RICH IN CURATIVE QUALITIES FOR BACKACHE* RHEUMATISM* KIDNEYS and BLADDER TO ADVERTISE OUR GOODS We give every lady or gentleman answering this ad one of the following premiums abso j lutely free. We. are large manufacturers aad j mean business * One pair full sized lace curtains. 1? yards lace. Dozen handkerchiefs. Dollar fountain pen. Dollar tension shears. Suitcase with bottle perfume. Numerous others. A postal today brings premiums, etc. , Anti median Mfg. Co.. Desk I. St. Joseph. Mo. AGENTS—A new article; record-breaking i sabs everywhere; write for fret- sample and our new catalog. B. S. RIVES ('O.. 53 I*. O. Place, Salt I.ake City. I tah. In Girlhood 1 Womanhood t OR Motherhood HI , The women who have used Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription will tell you that it freed them from pain— Assist Nature now and then, with a gentle cathartic Dr. Pierce's Pleas and Pallets tone up and invigor ate liver and bowels. Be sure you get what you ask for. helped them over painful periods in their life—and saved them many a day of anguish and misery. This tonic, in liquid form, was devised over 40 years ago for the womanly system, by R.V. Pierce, "M. D., and has been sold ever since by dealers in medicine to the benefit of many thousand women. Now—if you prefer—you can obtain Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription tablets at your druggist at $1 per box. also in SOc size or send SO one cent stamps to Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. T. fortrial box. - ->■ W. L. DOUGLAS M3;00 *.*3.50 *4.00' r*4-B0 AND *5-00, SHOES i FOR MEN AND WOMEN! gs T BOYS SHOES in thn WORLD I $2.00. 32.50 and $3.00. 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Th© - VUibZ"o8°un ““ whca thcrB land U-f?* Homcst*a‘UoX r-,^tlftCnrrent' Saskatchewan, farmer writes: “l cum* on my •i0iS!l,,e2,dK *tv