Nebraska Newspapers

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The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal
The News , Established 1881.
The Journal , KBtahllshcd 1877.
THE HUSE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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W. N. I lime , N. A. Huso ,
President. Secretary.
Kvery Friday , lly mall per year , $1.60 , ,
Entered at the postollleo at Norfolk ,
Nob. , as second class nmtter.
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No. 212. IliiHlncHH Olllce and Job Itootuo
No. II 22.
Sonio of the Jokes about rotten eggs
nro getting stale.
If experience Is expensive It Is of
ten worth all it costs.
Sometimes a good forgettery Is
more satisfactory than a retentive
memory-
The friendship between China and
Japan BOOIHB to bo suffering from an
attack of nervous prostration.
After tpilto a tramp in from the
Pacific suburbs , Kdward I'ayson Weston -
ton piked It down Hroadway Saturday.
A day's outing i nn airship In Ger
many Is going to bo reasonably cheap.
Nevertheless the trip will como high.
If the forests will only Ucop growing
while the Ilallinger-l'lncliot row is set
tled , there ought to be timber enough.
They say the vermiform appendix
Is of no value to Its possessor. That
may be , but It's worth millions to the
doctors.
The Wright brothers are going to
start a correspondence school to teach
Jlylng by mail. Wo would rather do
ours that way.
The man who can llml or create a
substitute for rubber will not only
ruako himself rich but confer a bone
lit on the world.
When it comes to seeing the comet
there are no reserved seats. The
only preference- given is to the early
riser.
The administration got a big wind
fall from the supreme court plum tree
when Governor Hughes dropped into
Its lap.
Minnesota talks of having a state
spelling bee , and anyone who has not
been to college stands a chance of
winning.
John L. Sullivan Is going to report
the Jeffries-Johnson tight. There are
mighty men in American journalism
these days.
It costs $40 per hour to ride In
an airship in France , almost as much
as It llgures out per hour on some of
our railroads.
Singular as it may seem there are
2,500 sailors in our Atlantic licet who
cannot swim. They arc the men be
hind the guns.
The gold tight ticket to he given
Colonel Hoosevolt , would equal the
value when melted up of several of
his dollar a words.
Hetty Green's son receives 150 pro
posals of marriage. Sympathy witli
those In need still warms the generous
hearts of womankind.
The Hussian government Is gaining
some popularity in this country since
It has been discovered that they sent
book agents to Siberia.
Chauncey Depew is quoted as in
tending to stay in the senate unti
ho dies. Remarkable heroism , to face
Hath March 4 next so calmly.
in San Francisco they are weigh
Ing the fee as well as the evidence
A lawyer in that city was recentlj
paid $100 a pound for his brief.
Holland said , "Great souls have
wills , feeble ones have wishes. " Mucl
of the good work of the world is done
by dull men who have done their best
Oscar Hammerstein gives up gram
opera in New York. If he had callet
It insignlilcant opera , perhaps the pub
lie would have overflowed his theater
With whole libraries of spring
poems , and a great scarcity of bacon
wo are trying vainly to persuade on
versifiers to perceive the romance ii
raising hogs.
The Elgin board of trade knocks the
price of butter down three points to
29 cents. Probably too late for the
picnic sandwiches we've got to ea
next summer.
An exchange puts up more trutl
than poetry In this compact package
"People generally don't care if Go (
does know all the things wo do if he
won't tell the neighbors. "
Now that nlno republican elephants
have stampeded in Uncle Joe Can
non's town , the time seems ripe for a
flock of democratic donkeys to klcX
up their heels at Lincoln.
Although Governor Hughes -will bo
quite busy getting Standard Oil and
tobacco properly tagged , the American
people may not have lost his address
Governor Hughes may linvo Iho do-
Idlng voice on the most Important Is
sue since the civil war , that of trust
organization. Not even the president
B assigned so long a row to hoe.
A witty paragrapher suggests that
it root the chief taint about a mil-
lonalre's money is that "taint ours. "
Flint fact makes the unclean spots on
ho gold so much more conspicuous.
Kennlt and tfthel Roosevelt took an
leroplano ride In France. Now that
heir father has so dropped out of
sight , they arc working nobly to glvo
the family a place In the day's news.
There are 28,200.200 square miles o
fertile ground that Is being put under
cultivation this spring , and this docs
not Include the back yards that are
being planted with such great antici
pation.
The new hank exclusively for wo
men which has been established In
London Is attracting much attention.
If It wants to become popular It will
make a specialty of 'JU cent and $1.98
deposits.
Good breeding Is one thing In this
mercenary land that cannot bo
bought. No amount of money or po
sition will make up for that Indolln-
able something which we call bolng
well bred.
Seldom In Kngllsh history , says the
London Daily Mail , has the nation had
so little reserve food between it and
starvation at the opening of a year.
England seems to bo having troubles
all along the line just now.
Gary , Ind. , has mmuxcd hast Cni.M
go. to prevent East Chicago from an
nexlng It. This suggests David liar-
urn's bit of advice : "Do unto others
ns they'd like to do to you , only do It
lirst. "
No higher compliment was ever
paid to Mark Twain than the one con
tained In President Taft's telegram of
condolence when the president said-
IIo never wrote a line that a father
could not rend to his daughter. "
Poor John D. Rockefeller'was found
fault with for many years concerning
his method of accumulating his pro
perty and now the public is not suit
ed with his manner of disposing of
his millions. The public is hard to
please , anyway.
When Governor Hughes resigns
next October , Lieutenant Horace
White will be governor of New York
for three months. Mr. White will
merely lill the gap. lie will not be
the candidate for the next term for
obvious reasons.
Washington , D. C. , is said to offer
more attractions in the matrimonial
line to aspiring maidens than any oth
er-city in the country. Eligible bach
elors with both brains and money are
unusually In evidence in the capitol
city at the present time.
A comparison of the development
of Texas with that of Illinois indi
cates that if Texas had the popula
tion per square mile that Illinois has ,
there would be 30,000,000 people in
stead of 4,000,000 in the Lone Star
state.
It is reported that Kaiser Wilhelm
Is getting rather tired of meeting so
many Americans of Gorman descent
who have grown rich and are travel
ing abroad. There is at least one
American traveling abroad whom the
kaiser is ready and willing to enter
tain.
The amicable adjustment of our
tariff dillicnltics with Canada causes a
general feeling of relief. The plain
truth is that the public opinion of this
country would not endure a tariff war
at this time with a country which
is our largest market and buys from
us far more than it sells.
President Taft is making a most de
termined effort to have business meth
ods of the most approved kind adopted
in the financial affairs of the govern
ment , hoping to cut down the expen
ditures to the level of the receipts
or below them. Should there ever
be a year when there was no deficit ,
It would be a shock to the people.
St. Paul is to have the next national
conservation congress , which meets in
September. Conservation is a very
live issue at the present time and the
sessions held by the various congress
es have no slow numbers on their
programs. They are full of Interest
from start to finish.
A new departure in the business
world is reported from London , where
a bureau advertises to furnish house
maids , suitably attired in any mini
her desired at an hour's notice , for
the sum of one guinea. With the
advent of the hired bridesmaid ro
mance dies out of the world ,
Governor Ames of Colorado says
that common sense and selfishness
should Impel us to plant trees. A
child that loves and cares for ( low
ers , trees and birds will never be
come a bad citizen. Groves , blossoms ,
birds nro natures poetry. There are
m-mf ioo onft tn nnJnnRht on Arbor
Possibly Senator Aldrlch was not so
wide of the mark In ills offer to snvo
$300,000,000 from the annual expen
ditures of the federal government , If
given a chance to run affairs on busi
ness principles. A commission IB now
working In Chicago that expects to
reduce the city's expenses seven mil-
Ions a year , or about one-third the
annual budget.
This is probably destined to be a
year of numerous railroad accidents.
The tralllc Is so heavy that it neces
sitates the employment of many Inex
perienced men by the railroad com
imnles. No Inexperienced person ,
uowever careful , can scent danger like
the begrimed old hands that have
seen years of service. They Instinct
ively feel danger and know how to
ivert It If possible.
We shall soon know what our
rowth In population has been for the
last decade and where our relative
place among the nations will be for
another decade. Experts place their
guesses as to the number of Inhabi
tants all the way from 88,000.000 to
1)1,000,000. ) In any case the number
will exceed by many millions the last
census , and the \\ealth has accumu-
'ated ' more rapidly than the popula
tion.
Theodore Roosevelt stated a great
truth very clearly when he said in
his Paris speech "War is a dreadful
thing , and unjust war N a crime
against humanity. Hut It Is such a
crime because it is unjust , not be
cause it is war. " The demand of the
"average man" everywhere Is for jus
tice between Individuals , society and
nations. When that is seemed wai
and great many other evils will disap
pear.
Mr. Carnegie has advanced a new
idea. He has decided that he is not
in favor of the income tax , but would
have half of a man's millions go to
the state at his death. It is becoming
every year more lirmly fixed in the
public mind that the great mass of
men not endowed with the money
making talent are nevertheless essen
tial agents and co-workers with those
who have this talent. Without their
active co-operation it could not be
developed and hence , sometime , there
should be a division of profits.
Modern farming is a pursuit with
many branches and the range of
choice is wider than In any other vo-
chtion , while the variety in location
Is almost infinite. Citrus fruits maybe
bo raised on irrigated land witli but
little labor , but more capital is - required
quired for this branch. Stock farms ,
truck farms , wheat farms and corn
farms may all bring a good living
and health and happiness to any fam
ily who knows how to care for the
k ml of lanii 1 < "hoii-es Mid if lit-
uoes not knon there are practlwl
hcl'ools of nricnltui.vlure he can
ier.rn far moro safelv and ' .asily than
in the hard s"hool of experience.
GOVERNOR HUGHES.
It is very rare that any public ap
pointment meets such nearly univer
sal approval as that of Governor
Hughes to the supreme court. The
regrets are mostly from men who hate
to see the cause of good government
in New York lose so powerful a chain'
pion.
pion.The
The career of Governor Hughes of
fcrs some striking suggestions to
young men entering politics. It used
to be said there is no chance for a
young man to win financial success
in politics if he is honest. Governor
Hughes' career disproves that. He
could quit politics now and make
$100,000 a year In law practice if he
wanted to.
Why ? Because the people will do
anything for .1 man who will fjght the
political' .machines as Hughes has
done. They are weary unto death
of the give and take , trade and swap ,
scratch my back and I'll scratch yours ,
of old time machine politics. If a
man will simply Ignore the machines ,
set them at defiance , act as the loyal
servant of the common people , the
voters regardless of party will take
cane of that man , will see that the
assaults of the machines are innocu
ous , and will give him a reputation as
suring him business success when he
quits the game.
THE PROTEST SHOULD BE MADE.
There is a mawkishness In trying to
confuse all standards of right and
wrong , under the plea of forgiveness
and generosity , which is quite as of
fensive as open intolerance and Ini'
placable hate. Indeed , of the two , we
regard as the more admirable char
acter the bitter man who will not
yield a Jot of his animosity rather
than the chewing gum man who loses
sight of all principle In what Emer
son has characterized properly , onca
and for all time , as "a mush of con
cession. "
It Is acknowledged by everybody
at this time that Robert E. Lee was
of a high typo of manhood. Ho was
a good man , n great general , a man of
the strongest and deepest conscien
tious convictions. After a tense strug
gle within himself , he decided to stand
by his state Instead of by the nation.
Ho gave himself up to his convic
tions of duty ; and today wo need not
quarrel with his memory for that , if
there.
Hut It remains Just as true as over
that Robert E. Leo consecreted his
great abilities to the destruction of
the national government. Why blink
at the fact ? To him more than to
any other one man Is duo the pro
longation of the war , the desperateness -
ness of the struggle. Under such cir
cumstances , what possible moaning
can there be In the acceptance of his
statue by the nation ? The proposi
tion ought never to have been made-
but since It has , It should be quiet I/
declined.
DO DOCTORS HAVE FAIR PLAY ?
Great progiess has been made dur
ing the labt half century by the medi
cal profession. Deglnnlng with vac
cination for the prevention of small
pox , the doctor has a long list of not-i
able victories to his credit. Dlph-
therla has b'een robbed of much of Its
terror by anti-toxin , yellow fever and
malaria have been routed by the fight
on the germ-bearing mospulto that
spreads them. Typhoid fever still ex
ists but Its causes are better under
stood and Its victims are fewer. Ap
pendicitis has been so often cured that
to have the appendix removed has bC |
come almost a joke. Pneumonia is
not half so fatal as it used to be and
even the white plague Is surrender
ing its victims. The new surgery Is'
restoring thousands who must have i
'
died hut for its skill. Yet when a
doctor discovers a new germ , or in
vents a serum or devises nn operation
ho rarely piollts much personally lu
ll. The ethics of the medical profos-j i
slon demand that he confer his newly
acquired knowledge upon his fraterni
ty for the benefit of mankind and to
the honor of the profession it is sel
dom that a doctor violates his Hippocratic -
cratic oath. The Inventor of a ma
chine , an airship , a gun or any do.
vice useful to the government is paid .
thousands of dollars and his ideas are1
safeguarded so that no one can use
them. Hut the doctors' brains are
free plunder. He may work half a
life time to trace the cause of disease
and find a cure , but in the end vir
tue is its own reward and many times
wliile he is using every , faculty to the
vanishing point to , study out these
things , his wife is having a strenuous
time making botli ends meet. Some
medical men are so impractical that
they are trying to exterminate all
disease , teacli people how to be
healthy and raise healthy children.
Evidently we are working toward the
Chinese system. The orientals pay
their doctor while he keeps them
healthy , not for treating them when
they are sick.
AROUND TOWN.
a license In Norfolk ?
Now May flowers may flower.
How'd snowballs do for May bas
kets ?
Were your May baskets sane and
safe ?
The queen of the May was found
frozen to death.
Make sure that your measles don't
happen to be diphtheria.
The sweet girl graduate Is getting a
little nervous. Her day will soon be
here.
If you're ns. changeable as the
weather , you're all right. Better
change 'em again.
Eight degrees below freezing on the
third day of May sounds chilly. And
it's chillier than it sounds.
If the weather man would sprinkle
the streets ( and fields ) it would help
some.
If you haven't seen the comet It's
because you're too lazy to get up be
fore 4 a. m , to look at It.
If you took The News' advice , you
changed just in time to get into your
summer ones for that hot day.
Let's ask the Harriman system , in
building through Norfolk from Win
nipeg to the gulf , to run the trains
uptown.
One Norfolk girl calls down The
News for that story which said you
couldn't flirt with telephone girls on
the wire any more. She says it's as
easy as ever.
A week ago we were shivering
around here for fair and the furnace
fire was having a hard time to keep
the building warm. How'd you enJoy -
Joy a roaring furnace fire today ?
An Orchard man is suing another
man for $10,000 because he stole the
first one's wife. If his wife was 'he
kind who would run away with an
other man , why shouldn't husband
No. 1 pay the other fellow for ser
vice rendered ?
Two Norfolk youths are advertis
ing in the want columns of this pnpnr
for a savage hull dog. Here's hoping
they won't get it. There are too many
savage dogs around this town now.
But the trouble Is they're already g"t-
ting answers to their blooming want
ad.
Two weeks ago the Northwestern
depot burned at O'Neill and the North
western has already promised to
grant the petition of O'Neill citizens
for a now brick station. The same
gait in granting Norfolk's request for
to the metropolis of northern Nebras
ka and southern South Dakota.
ATCHISON GLODE SIGHTS.
Very few of us are so repentant
that wo will promise to be good with
out putting an "If" to It.
One of our special friends spends
most of his time In coaxing us to
keep news Items out of the paper.
Another Kansas man who war told
It was toollsh for him to "remain In
a little town , " has Just failed in Chi
cago.
"I was never perfectly satisfied ex
cept In one thing : I would rather bo
a man than a woman. " Parson Twine.
When an automobile stands Idle In
front of a man's house ns long as
thirty | minutes at a time , his neighbors
grow | terribly Indignant.
There Is always In every town , no
matter how small , one girl with hair
so long that she makes a good Goddess
of Liberty in a Decoration day parade.
There may not bo much money In
raising chickens , but , as an average
proposition , It pays better than raising
dogs.
If the wheat is killed it will bo the
first trouble In years the men can't
blame on the women , and the women
can't , blame on the boy.
If a woman Is in any danger of get
ting killed , the hole in her stocking
causes ' her a lot more worry than the
blot on her conscience.
"Speaking of the wheat controver
sy , " said Mrs. Lysantler John Appleton -
ton , "I never waste time wondering if
the cake Is burned ; 1 bake another. "
When we meet a 10-year-old girl on
the street , rushing along on important
business , we wish wo had Important
business in our life ; It Is always hum-
drum.
If a Coolldge girl has an automobile
veil she getsh considerable joy out of
lifo by wearing it and boiling that
some day the automobile will come
bowling along.
A woman writes : "There is only
one way for a father to find out what
a bride's outfit will cost : to buy all
his daughter's wants , and then figure
It up. "
It Is one indication a young man is
in love with a strict church-going girl
when he stops saying "Damn" and
tries to ease himself by "Shucks" and
"Law me. "
There is nothing in tins power of
suggestion. If there were there
wouldn't be so many wives wearing
last year's hats , nor would there be
so many Spins.
A man does love an appreciative
woman , and by that he means a wo
man who will glow and smile for a
week because her husband tells her
she makes good gravy.
A bride attracts a terrible lot of
attention considering that she is noth
ing more nor less than a bunch of
hopes dressed up and on the way to
be swallowed up in disappointment.
A girl is to be married shortly , and
her friends are saying : "Good-bye to
her talent ! " We heard this so much
that we made inquiries , and discov
ered that she sings in a church choir
in a little squeaky voice.
A stranger was trying to induce an
Atchison man to cash his check. The
Atchlson man refused to do it. "I do
not know you , " the Atchlson man
said. "Well , " replied the stranger ,
"any man ought to be able to pick out
an honest man. " "Very well , " re
plied the Atchlson man ; "I decide
against you. "
When there are a number of aprl
cot trees In the orchard , that signfles
that the woman Is the boss. No man
who knows enough to dig a hole in
the ground , will plant an apricot tree.
All that an apricot tree ever does is
to arouse hopes In the spring , which
are blasted two weeks later. An apri
cot tree is a woman's tree , since , wo
men can always hope and hope and
hope without a single statistic to back
them.
"If necessary to make my own liv
ing , " said a wife to her husband , "I
could easily do it. " The husband
wanted to know bow she could do It.
She sailed up stairs and returned pres
ently with n number of clippings from
newspapers. They read : "Wanted
Lady agents. Agreeable and easy
work ; $200 a month and up guaran
teed. Address , " etc. , etc. The hus
band sniffed and the wife looked tri
umphant.
Nothing will cause the sniffs and
snorts to como faster to an old-fash
ioned housekeeper than to hear of a
woman who does her cooking dressed
up. The picture of a woman in a
kitchen wearing n pretty dress and a
ruffy-lluffy apron has caused many an
old-fashioned housekeeper to sniff her
self to death. It has happened many a
time that old-fashioned people have
died of sniffs and snorts , and the doc
tors didn't know what ailed them.
If a woman wishes to see how she
looks when out on a windy day , her
attention is called to the hen. With
every feather In place on all other oc
casions and an example of neatness ,
the hen on a windy day looks as If she
had dressed without stopping to pin
on her clothes. She Is irritated and
mad , and with every feather blowing a
different way Isn't a bit unlike a
woman out In the wind with her skirts
whirling about and looking mad
ROADS MADE OF
OIL AND GRAVEL
THEY ARE VERY DURABLE FOR
HEAVY TRAFFIC.
MEANS OF CONSTRUCTING ONE
Much Cnrc Required In the Selection
of Stones Used Keen Judgment In
Mixing , Heating and Spreading the
Substances Is Necessary.
The highway commission In the state
of Massachusetts desired to construct
a high class road of oil and gravel
during some experiments In road build
ing.
ing.A
A bectlon of the state highway that
was in a dilapidated condition was se
lected for the experiment. The old
surface was loosened up with steam
roller picks , then shaped up with shov
els and rolled down with a steam
roller , but not tightly bound on top ,
the old stones being loose rather than
otherwise to prevent crawling or wav
ing uf the bituminous gravel surface.
The surfacing , whli-h Is really an oil
ml.xturo. followed and consisted of sev
en grades of compositions designed to
determine as far as possible the com-
paralho proportions of materials that
would give the best results.
They found a gravel pit near by and
started to work at onae. The kettles
for heating were set up on the road
near the pit and the mixing done there.
The gravel was screened , separated
Into three sb.s , and the stones over
one Inch were thrown out as being
too large.
About eighteen gallons of oil per
cubic yard of gravel were used. The
oil and asphalt were heated separate
ly In kettles from . ' 500 to 400 degrees
I' . , asphalt being generally hotter than
the oil , care being taken not to burn
by overheating In the kettles. The ket
tles used for this purpose were of two
patterns , both practically designed by
the highway commission. The one
used for heating the oil had a capaci
ty of I'.OO gallons < ind the two for heatIng -
Ing asphalt a capacity of 12. ) gallons.
The gravel and sand were also heat
ed separately by means of thin iron
smokestacks laid on the ground with
wood tires. Tin1 stacks were about ten
feet long and laid In groups of four
about eighteen inches apart and paral
lel with each other. The screened
sand or gravel was thrown over them
to a depth of about one foot , and after
being healed to a temperature approx
imately of 22."j degrees F. the stacks ,
with the lire In them , were lifted out'
of the heated gravel or sand , laid
down In another place and again cov
ered with the mineral to lie heated.
The mixing of the oil , gravel and
sand was done by hand shoveling on
wooden or steel mixing platforms , the
wooden at lirst. but on the steel , which
was much better , requiring less labor.
The healed sand and gravel In the
abo\e proportion were measured out on
the pint font by m < ) ans of a measuring
box. lint oil in small quantities , per-
AN IDI.AI , HinilUAY OK OIL AND GBAVEL
[ From Good Roads AJatiazlne , New YorK.j
haps one-third of the required amount ,
was thrown over the hot mineral ,
turned over once ; then the full amount
of oil added and turned , then the full
quantity of asphalt added and thor
oughly mixed uniil practically no sand
could be seen that was not thoroughly
coated and there were no lumps , and
the completed mixture was ready to be
shoveled into the carts and hauled to
the road.
The temperature of the mixture aft
er reaching the road in the carts was
from 150 to ' T)0 degrees F. It was
shoveled from the carts Into place or
dumped upon a dumping board and
shoveled back Into place. The best re-
suits were obtained when shoveled di
rectly from the cart. Perhaps It was
because there was less cooling. One
man could do all the spreading. All
the coarser stones were carefully rak
ed ahead into the bottom so as to re
duce as far as possible the voids on
the surface. The most careful spreadIng -
Ing was given , and a ten ton roller fol
lowed directly after the material was
spread.
To obtain the most perfect results
teaming should be kept off for a period
which need not be longer than twenty-
four hours after spreading , when the
rolling would bo completed.
Good to Remember.
In planning roml Improvements It
should not be forgotten that when a
road Is once Impioved with macadam
or gravel the ini"e ! Instantly doubles
or trebles , and tlio road surface must
be MillU-iently strong and durable to
provide not only for the present traf
fic on the road , but for the tralllc which
the Improved highway will bring to
that community.
Her Unfashionable Figure ,
Emma I must go right away to n
cure In Mnrlenbad.
"ludcod ! What doctor ordered that ? "
"No doctor-my dresstna-ur. " File-
Kendo Blatter.
Punishment Is a cripple , but ho ar
rives Spanish Proverb ,
COAL TAR IN ROADMAKING.
Similar to Asphalt Pavement , but of
More Resilient Character.
Revolution In highway construction
Is predicted by many road engineers ,
but many others believe the successful
maenilani method modified will bo tlm
only Innovation. In that event the tar
macadam method will surely be con-
sldered. A iiroporly tarred road IH
similar to nn asphalt pavement , but of
n more resilient character. The stone
Is all bound together by the tar Into n
smooth , linn surface , which can ho
swept ntiil washed In imich the same
manner as an asphalt pavement
The main agencies which cause de
terioration of tarred or oiled surfaces
nro heavy rain , frost and the decaying
organic matter which accumiilatoH on
the surface of the road. So far as can
bo determined , one kind of road with
stands the action of these agencies as
well as the other. Water gas tar Is
used In connection with coal tar , but
not to any great extent by Itself. It
has a greater power of penetration , and
less of It Is required , but It Is not so
lasting. It really Is In a class by Itself
and occupies an Intermediate position
between the temporary and the per
manent binders.
In some eases where a limited
amount of money Is available orwhero
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for climatic reasons It is available to
treat the road with the idea of its last
ing only through one season water gas
tar is expected to prove a valuable
dust layer , and any extension of its
use Is thought to lie in this direction.
The value of coal tar In the preserva
tion of macadam roads and as a dust
preventive Is proved by the fact that
In the majority of cases the life of a
treated road has been materially
lengthened , and by applying tar the
complete rebuilding of many roads nt
an enormous expense has been avoided.
A great drawback In the standard
ization of tar treatment Is the Impos
sibility of securing a uniform supply
of coal tar. Coal tar Is purely n by
product , and the processes by which \ .
it Is derived are never run with refer
ence to the quality of tar produced ,
but solely to obtain maximum yields
of gas or coke.
VALUE OF GOOD ROADS.
Increase Price of Farm Lands Fifty
Dollars an Acre.
Mecklenburg county , N. C. . begun to
build macadam roads thirty years ago ,
using the direct taxation method of
raising funds. Today that county has
L'OS miles of modern highways. /N !
As a result of these good roads farm
values have reached that point where
$50 an acre Is regarded as the mini
mum price of such lands and $75 and
9100 an acre the maximum. A few
years ago $50 was regarded as an ex
ceedingly high price for an acre of
Mecklenburg land. Now there are
few-very few farms In the county
that can be purchased for less than
$50 , and no great number are for sale
at that price.
This Is the experience of every coun
ty that constructs Improved roads. In
the face of such hard facts , why the
people of a mud ridden county hesi
tate to acquire Improved roads Is
strange. Mecklenburg , ns stated , has
been building roads for thirty years ,
levying a roud tax.
Now the people are agitating for a
bond Issue to carry the work on more
swiftly and nt the same time to im
prove streets within the city of Char
lotte.
Up to Date "Santa Fo Trail. "
According" to a prominent Kansas
City newspaper , n modern highway
275 miles long through the "short grass
country" in western Kansas would not
only prove nn Illuminating object les
son for the entire state , but for all
the country as well. The people of
western Kansas have started a move
ment to afford the world Just that ob
ject lesson In road building. From
Newton to the Colorado line It Is pro
posed to construct a continuous boule
vard along the Arkansas river and call
It "the New Santa Fe trail. "
Auto Fees to Mend Roads.
Bergen county. N. J. . has received
$37.920 from the auto fees paid Into
the state fund , and to a well known
construction company of Hackcnsack ,
N. J. , were awarded four contract ; *
amounting to that sum for work to be
done on roads much traveled by New
York autoists. The board of freehold
ers nt a recent meeting voted to es
tablish a road system that will cost
about $000.000 and Insure excellent
roads in the district close to New
York.
Rural Delivery and Good Roads.
The intimate relation which exists
between good country roads and rural
free delivery of mall cannot bo too
strongly emphasized. Communities
which would enjoy the latter must
make and maintain the former. In
many Instances bad roads have pre
vented the extension of rural free de \
livery to communities where It was
Greatly desired. ,
Elevating.
Wlgg The man who loves a woman
can't help being elevated. Wagg-And
the man who loves more than one la
apt to be sent up too.-Phliadelphla
Record.