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EPITOME OF EVENTS PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO MANY SUBJECTS. ME SHORT BUT INTERESTING W£3rJ-: i . a - — ■ Brief Mention of What le Transpiring In Various Sections of Our Own and Foreign Countries. WASHINGTON. Senator Lea has introduced a cur rency bill that would revise the Al drich-Vreeland emergency currency act. President Wilson has asked per mission of congress to accept a statue of William Pitt, sent to him by Brit ish admirers. The president has submitted for confirmation several nominations, in cluding Preston McGoodwin as minis ter to Venezuela. The lobby investigating committee j heard from James A. Emery National ' Association of Manufacturers’ side of Mulhall lobby story. Senator Owen has introduced bill to authorize treasury to buy out standing government 2 per cent bonds £t par and interest. No determined opposition to the administration currency bill will be made by republicans in the house, ac cording to Leader Mann. Report from Attorney General Me- i Reynolds was read denying that the j Department of Justice maintained i espionage system over federal courts. ! Senator Penrose has introduced amendment to the tariff bill to pre vent foreign countries from dumping surplus goods in the United States at low rates. Representative Britten has intro duced a resolution for an emergency appropriation ”lrrge enough to begin construction of three additional bat tle ships.” A constitutional amendment prohi biting the sale of all alcoholic bever ages was proposed in a resolution in troduced by Representative Hobson ! of Alabama. Senator Works andseveral other J senators have started a movement to reconsider confirmation of nomina tion of Thomas’Fox as postmaster at ramen to. William J. Price of Danville, Ky., has been selected by President Wil son for minister to Panama. Mr. Price was introduced to the president by Senator James. President Wilson has talked cur- | rency to a number of his callers and has made it plain that he intends to stick to his determination to have a bill passed at the exrta session. Senator Borah, speaking on the re port, charged that agents of the De partment of Justice had investigated federal judges to influence action, Senator Norris endorsing his view in part. James Coffey of South Dakota has been confirmed as revenue collector for the Dakotas after receipt of his resignation as chairman of the demo cratic state committee of South Da kota. Senator Works and several other ed President Wilson’s action in send- l ing John Lind to Mexico as special emissary and declared something else must be done by the administration to protect Americans. Reductions in express rates which will cost the company fully $28,000, 000 a year, approximately 16 per cent of their gross revenue, were ordered by the Interstate Commerce commis sion to become effective on or before October 15, 1913. DOMESTIC. New Orleans is to have one of the largest wireless telegraphy stations in the world, to cost $150,00.0. A pension approximating half pay for every Episcopal clergyman more than 65 years old and financial aid for widows and orphaned children of clergymen are recommended in a pre liminary report issued at New York by the commission on pensions of the Episcopal church. Frank A. Gotch of Humbolt, la., champion wrestler, has closed a deal which makes him the owner of 920 acres of land in Polk county, south of Crookstron, Minn. Gotch intends starting a thoroughbred herd and raising prize winning stock. One hundred and five years of life and seventy-two years of practicing physician is the race record of Dr. W. T. Linn, who is dead at Pana. 111. An appraisement of the estate left by the late Major General Frederick Dent Grant, made public, values the entire personal estate at about $100, UVU. In a circular letter sent out the currency commission of the American Bankers’ association invited the presi dents of several state bankers’ asso ciations and representatives of all clearing houses to meet with the commission in Chicago this month. Preventative diseases among the children of Chicago exact a heavy toll of life and cost in money over $10,000,000 annually. Mrs. George William Hooper of San Francisco has given $1,000,000 to the University of California to be used in research in the medical de partment. f Dr. A. G. Rogers, superintendent of the state scLool for the feeble minded at Fairibault, Minn., has asked Attor ney General L. A. Smith for an opin ion whether it would be illegal to sterilize inmates of the school pro ( vided their consent first is obtained. Leach Cross and Joe Rivers are matched for a twenty-round bout on labor day at the Vernon arena at Los Angeles Stupefying fumes of an explosive overcame sixteep men, killing one and causing a panic among 400 othera in the Catsklll aqueduct, 700 feet upder the streets of downtown New York. Excise Commissioner Anderson of Si;. Louis announced, that he had be gun a campaign against nude pictures in saloon* and hotel barrooms. The commlssionr’s action resulted from complaints made on behalf of the Federation of Catholic societies. v: • i hi Hi liHiiMiiiliFfl—in—rrnir Only one man in ztra is over six feet In height. The United States is a heavy cof fee drinker, with 800,000,000 pounds last year, or 9.33 pounds per head. Philadelphia secured the 1914 con vention of the American Osteopathic association, now in session at Kirks* Ville, Mo. Edison says that the inventive genius of the school boy should be en couraged by some recognition in the school curriculum. Direct appeal for a senatorial inves tigation of the copper miners’ strike has been made by the Western Fed eration of Miners. Mayor Gaynor has vetoed a resolu tion recently adopted by the alder men appropriating $32,090 for the es tablishment of a municipal ice plant. Seven thousand women employed in New York knitting mills have struck, demanding shorter hours, higher pay and more sanitary work ing conditions. Although Chicago housewives have been paying midwinter prices for but ter and a further advance is expected, there are more than 65,000,000 pounds of the product in cold storage. George W. Hayes has taken the oath of office as governor of Arkansas, succeeding Senator J. M. Futrell, who has been acting governor several months. Judge Hayes is the fourth man to take oath since January 13. Private detectives working on the case of the $150,000 jewel robbery cf Mrs. John F. Hanan, which occurred at Narragansett Pier, N. J., July 25 last, have announced that some of the jewels had been traced to New York. After voting by a large majority not to move the headquarters of the order from New Haven, Conn., to Washington, D. C-, the Knights of Columbus, in supreme convention at Boston, chose St. Paul as their meet ing place in 1914. Chicago’s first woman jury heard the cases of twenty-five women and children in the court for the insane at the detention hospital. It was com posed of six women, all of whom are connected with educational and charit able organizations. As the result of an enforced ride taken in a delivery wagon belonging to him last September, Mrs. Anna Riffle, a young matron, was awarded judgement in Los Angeles for $2,500 against Arthur Letts, one of the city's wealthiest merchants. WAR ECHOES. According to a consular dispatch from Torreon, state of Calientes there has been a ten days’ battle between government forces and rebels, in which the rebels were repulsed with great loss. Constitutionalists approached so close to Monclova that dynamiters with hand slings threw high-power bombs into the town held by the fed eral. So far as known the bombs did no serious damage. Representatives of the powers have taken the first step at Constantinople to compel Turkey to exacuate the portress of Ardianople, which its troops reoccupied after war broke out between the former Balkan allies. The second Balkan peace confer ence having concluded peace on a ba sis of compromise which is unsatis factory to all states concerned except possibly Rumania, the question is be ing asked how soon a third Balkan war will break out. Dr. Som Yet Sen, former provision al president of the republic, but now one of the leaders in the southern revolution, has fled the country on board a Japanese steamer for For mosia. an island belonging to Japan in the China sea, off the province of Fu-Kien. Fighting has been in progress in the streets of Teheran caused by the smouldering feud between the Bak htiaris clansmen and the national [ authorities. Firing is going on in the main street of the city, where the for eign legations are situated. In other districts there have been numerous conflicts between the military police and the clansmen. FOREIGN. A number of prominent Germans have started a campaign in an en deavor to induce the government to participate in the Panama-Pacific ex position at San Francisco in 1915. A three days’ armistice was agreed to between Rumania, Servia, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria. This ac tion was taken to enable the pleni potentiaries. to endeavor to reconcile the differences and claims of the var ious states. The new Chinese department of ag riculture and forestry is very largely manned by Chinese graduates of the colleges of this country. The Chilean steamer Isidora was wrecked off Cape Carranza, Chile, and all the members of its Crew except one were drowned. The steamer is a total loss. The Department of Agriculture of Ontario, Canada, was awarded the president’s cup for the best display at the apple show conducted in conjunc tion with the International Apple Shippers’ association convention at Cleveland. The International Medical congress was opened by Prince Arthur of Con naught as the representative of King George in the Albert hall. George Von L. Meyer, former American secretary of the navy, was the German emperor’s guest at lun cheon on the imperial yacht Hoebn zollern, recently. A hundred thousand scarf pins bearing her intial, were ordered by Queen Elizabeth, of Belgium and were sold in the streets on her birth day, July 25, in aid of the anti-tuber culosis campaign, in which she has taken a lively personal interest. The trades federation has Called off the propored general strike of miners in South Africa. Bleriot, the French aviator, won the grand prize of France, covering the distance of 355% miles in 4 hours 21 minutes, 50 seconds. His average speed waa seventy-seven miles an hour. A party of forty well dressed suf fragettes interrupted the service at St. Paul’s cathedral by chanting a prayer .4 behalf of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. Ushers ejected the wo men from the edifice after a scuffle la which several chairs were upset STATE FAIR POLICE ADJUTANT GENERAL HALL IS SUES ORDERS TO NATIONAL GUARD. NEWS FROM OVER THE STATE What Is Going on Here and There that Is of Interest to the Read ers Throughout Nebraska and Vicinity. - Lincoln.—Plans for policing the state fair grounds with Nebraska guardsmen instead of citizens gath ered from over the state have been worked out by Adjutant General Hall and Secretary Mellor and have been approved by the governor. Three men from each company of the military are to be chosen for the duty. The chief of police will be none other than Gen eral Hall himself. His police captains will be members of his staff and the majors from both regiments. The aeronautic squad from Fremont will likely be called into service also dur ing the fair, but merely for exhibition work and not for actual duty. Demands Exemplary Conduct. Lincoln. — Strict insistence that members of the national guard con duct themselves during the coming maneuvers so that people of the terri tory through which they will pass will be glad to have them come again, is denoted in special orders issued by BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA. Sunday baseball was defeated at Ansley. Dr. Bailey of Pella. Iowa, is the I new president of Qrand Island col lege. The Tecumseh Milling company is going to be reorganized and incorpor ated. Madison has bought a sprinkler and will attempt to keep the streets free of dust. Facilities for feeding the crowd at I the state fair will be greatly increased | this year. Burglars and safe blowers have been at work in Nebraska City during the past week. W. J. Bryan is on the program for a speech at the Seward Chautauqua August 11. The Hamilton county teachers’ in stitute will convene in Aurora Mon day. August 11, Eight “prairie schooners" passed through Madison one day last week en route to Wyoming. The Grand Army of the Republic district reunion will be held in Green wood, August 5. 6, 7 and 8. The body of George Engstrom of Sioux City, who was drowned there : Sunday, was found near Decatur. The annual ueunion of the pioneers ! and old settlers of Burt county will be | held at Tekaraah Friday, August 22. Norfolk's first big fall festival will , be held September 17, 18, 19 and 20 ! Hereafter it is to be an annual event The Big Four picnic at Adair last week is alluded to by those who at tended as “the biggest in the world.” The city of Wisner has let the con tracts for extensive improvements tc the present electric lighting system of the town. Chase County Court House, Imperial, Neb., Elected in 1912 at a Cost of $30,000. It is built of pressed brick. Adjutant General Hall. In the same j orders it is likewise emphatically1 pointed out that no hall cartridges are ' to be used in the affair and that com manding officers must take extreme care in detecting possible use of such ammunition. Wet Sponges for Horses. Falls City.—Mrs. I. C. Maust has taken precautions to see that the large ; dray teams at work on the ice and coal wagons belonging to her husband will not be overcome by the intense i heat during the long period of dry weather southeastern Nebraska is now j experiencing. She has provided hats ! for ea<4h of the horses and large sponges are tacked into the crowns.1 The drivers are instructed to keep the ; sponges wet. These teams work from ! 6 o'clock in the morning until 7 in the evening. Corn Is Ruined. Edgar.—The extremely hot and dry weather has ruined the corn in this vicinity and the farmers are cutting it up and feeding it to their stock as the pastures are dried up as well as the corn. Rain now would not help the early planted corn as that is hopeless ly burned, but the late planted corn might be helped some by good heavy rains. , ■ I - In transferring a threshing engine i across the Missouri river at Moore head island by means of a ferry boat, the boat sprang a leak and sank with its cargo. The engine belonged to I Dixon brothers, and they are making j an effort to recover it. i i ++++++++*+++•{•++++-3-++++-M-++ I] STATE BASEBALL NEWS % +++++•»•++*•{-+++•}•++++•?•+ *+-M-++ Columbus lost at Beatrice Tuesday 16 to 11. Five pitchers worked in the j game. Fremont lost at York Tuesday 9 to 3. Kearney won at Superior Tuesday 13 to 5. Grand Island lost at Hastings Tues day 8 to 2. The York club has sold Charley Payne to Omaha. An effort is being made to reorgan ize the Fairbury club. Emmet shut out Dorsey on the O’Neill diamond Tuesday by the score of 3 to 0. Cory, the Emmet southpaw pitcher, did not allow a hit nor a run. and not a Dorsey player reached first base. Cory struck out twenty men. Grand Island won at Superior Mon day 6 to 5. Fremont lost at Beatrice Monday 3 to 2. Kearney shut out Hastings at home Monday 3 to 0. Columbus was defeated at York Monday- ♦ to 1. Friday- was an open date in the state league. Harry Walsh will be retained as manager of the Fremonters. Hastings defeated Kearney in the Sunday game at Blue Hill 10 to 3. Beatrice lost to Fremont in the Sun day game at Wymore 4 to 1. Grand Island lost at Superior Sun day 5 to 2. In a fast eleven inning game at Stanton Sunday Tilden lost 2 to 1. Grand Island lost at Superior Sat urday 6 to 7. Fremont lost in an eleven inning game at Beatrice Saturday 2 to 1. Kearney won at Hastings Saturday I to 4. Charley Kinsley, a Lincoln lad, was bitten by. a rattlesnake while in Salt creek bathing. The state association of rural mail carriers of Nebraska will be held at Norfolk September 1. Tetanus, resulting from running a splinter into her foot, caused the death of little Rose Zamunski at South Om aha. Albert Tibbetts of Hastings had his foot badly mangled when the jack he was using in repairing an auto slipped out of place, the machine catching him as. it fell. .Martin Brott, one of the Vtery first settlers of Tecumseh, celebrated the eighty-second anniversary of his birth last week by inviting all his old sol dier friends to his home to partake of an elaborate “mess.” Mrs. Emma Brinton of Beatrice and Mrs. Emma Reese of Wymore have been granted $15 a month each toward the care and maintenance of their children. This is the first action taken under the “mother's pension act” in Gage county. A barber shop complete in all de tails will enable state fair visitors to “spruce up” right on the grounds this year. Paul Barrett, a three-year-old boji, was bitten by a monkey at Antelope park at Lincoln, and blood poison is feared. Farm Demonstrator Leibers is busy’ teaching Gage county farmers how to get rid of the grasshoppers that have invaded that territory. There 'will be a model nursery on the state fair grounds where mothers may leave the little ones in charge of experienced attendants. A. W. Horner, a bricklayer, died Tuesday evening at his home in Bea trice after an illness of only a few days of ptomaine poisoning. Dr. Frederick Cook, the Arctic'ex, plorer, delivered a lecture and told of his dash to the pole, at the Nebraska Citly Chautauqua last week. Special athletic training in baseball, football, basketball and other sports for boys will be one of the special fea tures at the state fair this fell. Grace Booth, a 14-year-old girl near Broken Bow, was dangerously wound ed when a .32 calibre revolver was dis charged as she was examining it. All property In the state shows a valuation increase of $7,478,991 over last year, according to comparisons between the grand assessment .rolls of 1912 and 1913. Will Marsh, Jr., residing on a farm four mile3 east of Doniphan, suffered a loss of over $3,000 when fire of un known origin destroyed his large barn, full of ha'y and grain. While the family of Charles Ed wards of Shubert was at dinner, the house was discovered on fire, suppos edly from a defective flue. It was burned to the ground, together with a great part of the household goods. Despondent over a love affair, George Arnold, twenty-three years of age, killed himself at Broken Bow Saturday night by swallowing strych nine. Mrs. Johanna Caroline Holmes, mother of Mrs. P. A. Nelson, is dead at the home of the latter in Harvard at the age of nearly ninety-nine years. Ward Gardner, a 14-year-old Cort land hoy, was severely bruised up when the lumber In a car in which ke was riding was shilted to one end during the switching of a train in the yards, planing him up in a nar row apace. \ :\;1. "• , r. V* * ' t. .“jr , MEXICO MUSED PLAN MANIFESTATION OF AP PROVAL OF HUERTA’S COURSE. MAY NOT PERMIT LIND TO LAND I Antagonism Based Upon Sensational Newspaper Reports Is Grow ing Stronger. Mexico City.—What promises to be a gigantic demonstration of popular approval of the attitude taken by President Huerta regarding the com ing to Mexico of John Lind, President Wilson’s personal representative, has been planned by the student element, led by instructors. The demonstration will not assume an anti-American character, it is stated, although the public generally finds difficulty in separating the idea of anti-Americanism from pro-Huerta ism, as displayed in the attitude of Huerta toward the United States. It is announced that the demonstra tion will be participated In not only by students, but all classes of the people. The crowd will march through the streets, halting at convenient places for speech-making. It is be lieved that there will be no difficulty in securing permission for the hold ing of the demonstration, but that the authorities must be assured no vio lence will be committed. May Not Allow Landing. No new’ official declaration affecting the attitude of the government toward Mr. Lind was made, but there is some reason to believe that the govern ment seriously is considering going to the length of not permitting Mr. Wilson’s representative to land at Vera Cruz. Nelson O’Sbaughnessy. the Ameri can charge d'affaires, acting under the instructions of Secretary of State Bryan, reassured the foreign office of the friendly character of Mr. Lind's visit, reiterating in substance the pre vious note of Mr. Bryan, in which Mexico was requested to reserve judgment until the arrival of Mr. Lind. The alarming character given the mission of Mr. Lind was attributed to sensational newspaper reports, Mr. O’&liaughnessy said, and he added that not even the embassy in Mexico City had been advised as to the char acter of Mr. Lind’s .instructions. Deposed King Pawns Gems. London—The report is current here | that the deposed King Manuel of Por tugal, who is now making his home with his mother. Queen Amelie, in the suburb of Richmond, has placed with pawnbrokers a number of highly valuable jewels and decorations which were formerly worn by Manu el’s father. His reported action has occasioned surprise, for Bince the young man occupied the Portuguese throne it is understood that he has been receiving from King George of England an allowance 'of $50,000 a year. Manuel is engaged to be mar ried in September to Princess Auguste Victoria of Hohenzollern, who is quite wealthy. Officers Face Criminal Charge. Birmingham, Ala.—Formal charges of manslaughter in the second degree have been returned by the coroner’s jury against two officers and two members of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose in connection with the deaths of Donald A. Kenny and Christopher C. Gustin. Kenny and Gustin died as they were being sub jected to an electric shock, which was a part of the initiation cere monies. Another Currency Bill. Washington, D. C.—Another cur rency bill was introduced in the house by Representative Lindbergh of Minnesota, progressive member of the banking and currency committee. The bills contemplate the use of bank reserves to meet extraordinary de mands in time of financial strfess end the substitute of emergency currency for the reserves. Driven to Suicide By Mother. St. Louis, Mo.—Three hours af'^r her mother had threatened to kill her erif she let supper burn, Jessie Gal lagher, a 15-year-old girl killed herse'.f with a revolver. Drink 4 Carloads Water. Madison, Wis.—The drink bill of the Wisconsin lawmakers in the session just closed foots up a $575. The drinks consisted of four carloads of a special brand of water. Expenses of cartage and other incidental outlays makes the legislative thirst bill $1,000. Operators Vote to Go Back. St. Louis.—Girl operators and main tenance men of tho Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone company (Bell), have voted unanimously this afternoon to return to work. Insurance Companies Back. St Louis.—That the 125 fire insur ance companies which withdrew from the state passage of the Orr bill by the last legislature will resume busi ness in Missouri a couple of days, was the information which- came from Jefferson City. Metcalfe Arrives in Canal Zone. Colon.—Richard Lee Metcalfe of Lincoln, Neb., who Is to succeed Mau rice H. Thatcher as governor of the Panama canal zone, arrived here ac companied by his family. _2 Japs Fight With Mexicans. El Paso, Tex.—Ten Japanese sol diers were among the force of Gen eral Salazar,' sent south from the '■or der to guard a worktraln, which Gen eral Francisco Castro, garrison com- , mander In Juarez, says will repair track and telegraph lines of the ( Mexican railroad at the scene of last j Tuesday’s battle with constitutional- , (at forces near Rancheria. The Japa- . nese wore uniforms of the Mexican ( federal army, but had no number ] plates to distinguish what regiment they belonged to. FESTIVITIES OF THE PAPUANS " i Poor Creatures Have Little Time to Spare for Amusement—Womerf Are the Workers. New York.—Festive seasons are few and far between among the Papuans. Poor creatures! They have little time to spare for amusement, their thoughts being entirely directed toward the supply of sufficient food. This statement refers more particu larly to the women, who are the work ers and chief food collectors, the men varying their time between occasional hunting trips and lolling about in blissful idleness on the sands oppo site the village. The Papuan male evidently has a rooted dislike for work and ideas of his own as to the duties of wives. In the month of May the principal festival of the year 'takes place—close Papuan Dwelling. ly connected, as might be expected, with the all-important question of food. Pigs are not bred in villages, but are run down in the jungle when very young and then brought up among the people, subsisting precari ously on the miscellaneous debris dis carded by their human companions. The slaughter of these pigs is made the occasion for a dance and general | jollification. On one occasion for sev- ; eral days friends from the neighbor- i ing villages had been collecting at Parimau, straining the house accom modation to the utmost and causing intense excitement. On the night prev ious to the day of days a great dance took place, entirely on the part of the women, for the men—noble creatures —never demean themselves by join ing in such frivolities. The dancing takes the form of a curious shuffling of the feet and much undulation of the body. The greater the movement, of the latter, combined with the least action of the legs, the nearer is the artist to perfection, according to Pa puan standard. _:_ KILLED MAN AND SKINNED HIM — Death of Dr. Isaac C. West in Texas Recalls Sensational Delaware Crime. Dover. Del.—A tragedy that created the greatest sensation in the history of Delaware was revived when word was received here o? the sudden death at Dallas, Tex., of Dr. Isaac C. West. On December 2. 1872, he kill ed Henry C. Turner, alias Couch Tur ner, a negro. In Dover, skinned him completely, and then set fire to the building in which the crime wTas com mitted. His purpose, it was claimed, was to secure $25,000 life insurance by substituting the negro's disfigured body, and making it appear he had ; been killed by an explosion of a medi- ! cinal gas that he manufactured. The case was tried here in April, j 1873. West was acquitted on the ' ground of insanity, but subsequently ! was convicted of arson, and served a 1 term in Dover jail. He left Delaware 1 after completing his sentence, and 1 had not ben heard from for years un til word reached here of his death. The tragedy was one of the mpst terrible ever committed in this coun try. West made a confession, in which he told of having skinned the body and buried portions of it in a half dozen different places here. In order to frighten negroes generally, it was only necessary to refer to the West case. This holds good in some Instances to this day. DOCTOR'S FEE IN A DUEL A Court In Cairo Decides He Has a Right to Charge For His Services. Cairo.—A court in Cairo has decid ed that a doctor has a right to charge for his services in a Uuel, ac cording to the Paris correspondent of The Journal of the American Medical Association, who writes: ‘‘Has a doctor the right to fees for his services as a physician in a duel? A court in Cairo presided over by a French judge recently passed on this question. A doctor demanded $20 (100 francs) as hiB fee for his services in a duel. The duelist declared that the claim wa3 not legal because It was based on complicity in an illegal act. The decision was that although the seconds of the duelist were his ac complices in -grime, this was because the conditions of duels required the seconds to give aid and assistance to the duelist in this commission, but the physician, when he gives no such aid. merely acts in his official capacity, and therefore has a right to bis fee.” DEER JOINS HERD OF HORSES Hunter Says Albino Doe Wae Boycot ted by Its Own Species and Cast Out. Libby. Mont.—Henry Wegner spent l few days in Libby from his upper )7akt ranch. He stated that a pure vhite deer had become associated with lis horses and had become so tame as :o follow his horses into the corral :ach time they entered it, and was no nore wild than the horses. Mr. Wegner said it was a doe and lad pink eyes, so he had named it ‘Albino." Old hunters here say that in account of its freakish appearance t had been driven away by other deer ind had become an outcast, and In uch cases the animal will always go o a herd of cattle or horses. If possi ile. * GOOD ROADS NATIONAL ISSUE Congressman Borland of Missouri Says It Is One of Biggest Ques tions Facing People. Of the addresses given at the recent Federal Aid convention in Washington, called by the National Good Roads board, none contained a more compre hensive summing up of the situation than the remarks of Representative William P. Borland of Missouri, who among other things, said: "I believe that the good road ques tion is the biggest question, without exception, now facing the American people. In congress, we are trying earnestly and sincerely to deal with this problem of the extent and char acter of federal control and federal aid to good roads. There are difficul ties confronting us. "Some of us believe in a continuous system of roads; roads that go some where; roads that give us the benefit of the scientific progress of engineer ing skill that has .been developed in connection with road building. We be lieve that federal aid. if it comes at all—and it must come—must mean a better type of roads, long roads, roads of higher class, roads of a more per manent character, roads that go some where, roads that mean something iD the development of the country. “I want to say to you frankly, that the easiest proposition to get through any legislative body is not a proposi tion that really means betterment; but a proposition that distributes its little advantages as widely as possible. If we could take a little federal money, or a good deal of federal money, or as much federal money as we could lay our hands on. whatever the amount might be, and spread it out over every road district in the United States, and put it in the hands of the existing road overseers for the existing system of roads, and not ask anything in re turn, we could get the greatest ap plause and the most tremendous unanimity of opinion back of it that any legislative proposition could pos sibly get. There is no doubt about that. “But here is the idea that must occur to every thinking man. We do not have to improve the 2,150,000 miles of highways in the United States. That need not stagger any man's imagina tion. Experience has shown at the very threshold of this subject, that 110 per cent, of the traffic on roads goes over less than ten per cent, of the roads. If wo had a system of good roads leading fairly into every section of the country, within the reasonable reach of the majority of the citizens, and producers and tax payers of the country, that system would be a vast advantage over the present system ol isolated local control of highways. “If we can bring that about by « spirit of self-sacriflce and co-operation —not necessarily with any stubborn ness or pride of opinion—but if we can get together on the idea that it is bet ter to have some good roads than it is is to have no good roads, then we will all get behind some proposition and accomplish something for good roads: and it is going to take that spirit ol co-operation and self-sacrifice to bring about legislation.” PATROL SYSTEM IN VIRGINIA Experiments Made by Public Road* Office of Department of Agricul ture on Earth ^Roade. The office of public roads of the department of agriculture has been making experiments on an eight-mile stretch of road in Virginia to demon strate the results that may be oh tained on country earth roads by con tinuous work under a patrol system A patrolman was employed to furnish a horse, a cart and small tools, and lie was supplied with a road drag built of plant and required to fur nish two horses to drag the road when ever it was in suitable condition for dragging, usually following each rain. The use of the road drag has great ly improved the daily condition of the road and rendered it smooth and com fortable for travel for a greatly in creased number of days in bad weatb er. The department expects to con tinue the experiment this year, for it is already apparent that the entire eight miles of road will show remark able improvement under the system atic w-®rk of th* patrolman. Top-Working Apple Tree*. «■« Apple trees up to a foot in diam eter may be top-worked, if unsatis factory. Core, however, should be used that too much of the top is not removed in any one year. Cut off about one-third of the top the first year and insert scions on stubs not more than two or three inches in diameter. The next year remove more of the top and insert othei scions, and the following year com | plete the work. Guard tiarly Development. No matter what the subsequent use of the pig on the farm is to be, his early development should be carefully guarded Remove Profits. Eliminate the hog’s part in tha economy of feeding beef cattle and in many instances you will remove the profits. Determine Client’s Credit. Some of the shrewdest bankers ic country note their client's credit by theiy ability to turn off a good bunch of hogs each year. Condition of Ram. \ Tke ram should be in good condi tion. but riot fat, at mating time.
