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THE NORFOLK WEBKLL NEWS-JOURNAL , FRIDAY , JULY 1 , 1910. Norfolk Weekly News-Journal flit NUWH , Established 1881. ThoJournnl EstnbllBhcd _ 1877. _ _ THE HU8E P U B L 1 8 H I N G CO M PAN Y. ' " W. N. IIUHO , N. A. HUHC , 1'reHldont. Secretary. Every Friday. Hy iniill per your , | 1.60. Kntorud at thu postolllco ut Norfolk , Neb. , nu BOCO ml olasB " ' attor. _ Telephones : l lltorfal Department Mo. 21 ! . llnslnesH O 111 ce ntul Job Hooina No. 11 ! > 2. _ 1'olleo nrc * hunting for Loon Ling , tlio Clilnutiiiui who murdered Klsle Si- Eel. Union Pacific officials wore In the city to dlscusB switching with Norfolk biwlness men. A IwlBtur struck the vicinity of Clt'tirwatiT blowing over the IIOUKC of "W. .1. Noble and mowing his onts. Little llobhle Mnniuardt , ' .l-yoar-old eon of Mr. and Mrs. U F. A. Mar- quardt , wan neeltlently shot through tlu ; loga while playing with hoys. A bullet , a ll-enllbrc ! ! , entered the right leg , a portion of It entering the left one and hiding Itself one arid one-half Inches In the flesh where It still re mains. A baseball team from Stuart will he Jn Norfolk on the Fourth to cross liatfi with the team of thlB city. After nearly two months of nearly uninterrupted labor on an arteslon well lit Fairfax , S. I ) . , a flow of the best quality of water has been struck at the depth of 1.371 feet. The latest accusation against the sugar trust is that U Invented the do- inoHtlc gooseberry. Korea has 11C active gold mines. No wonder the Japanese were deter mined to gobble this province. The government has Issued twenty bulletins on cooking , but has given no Information on how to get a cooker or keep her after you get her. John D. Rockefeller Insists that the world Is growing better. It Is a com mendable attitude for Mr. Rockefeller to take since it Is largely his world. An Italian scientist has discovered ji way of locating ships in a fog. Hut eo far no one has located the ships of fortune that each one looks for Borne day. IB Bryan the victim of a conspiracy ? Is there a concerted plot on foot to Icecp him out of the senatorial race ? His picture was not In evidence at the Columbus meeting. It Is generally believed that the coining to the throne of England of George V will tend to bind Germany and Great Britain into more friendly relations , as the new king and Em peror William are personal friends. Senator Lodge expresses the opin ion that the navy is the last place where the government should econo mize. The trouble Is every depart ment has an advocate of the Lodge type and so the place to begin econo mizing Is never found. In boasting of the many uses to which the cotton plant , or some part of It is put , a trade Journal says , "The cotton plant has made possible rag- Jess and strawless paper , cocoonless eilk , creamless ice cream , cowless but ter , and hogless lard. " The work of dredging the harbor of Port Arthur and equipping It pro perly to handle the trade which will come to it when opened to the world's tralllc is progressing satisfactorily. It will be quite a world event when the old time fortress Is open to com merce. Greater New York is no longer sal- Jslled to be the metropolis of the great republic , but aspires to become the chief city of the world. Chicago also hopes to out distance New York , but It Is dllllcult to figure how Chica go has the materials or facilities for surpassing development. Norway has a very stringent and effective forestry law which requires that for every tree cut down the lum berman must plant another one to take its place. The penalty for violating lating this law is a fine for the first offense , Imprisonment for the second , and retirement from the lumber busi ness for the third. This makes an American conservation program look tamo. James J. Hill regrets the expedl- ture of | 400,000,000 this season for au tomobiles. A hard-headed business man like Mr. Hill can see what might be accomplished by so vast a sum ol money turned Into productive lines , It would open up and Improve a great many wheat fields , but it Is not wholly wasted in automobiles. They help tc keep up business and keep the money in circulation. It Is to be hoped that President Taft's choice of a successor to Asso clato Judge Moody of the supreme bench will be as satisfactory to the public as the previous appointments of Lurton and Hughes have been , One of the most important tasks that falls to the olllce of the chief oxecu live is the choosing of the oracles who are to Interpret the fundamental laws of the land. It IB rumoreo tnat Ambassador Bryce wishes to withdraw from the Important position he has so long oc cupied with BUCU remarkable ofnclen- cy. Mr. Bryce is undoubtedly the ab lest and moHt popular diplomatist ever accredited to this country and one whoso knowledge of America has al ready made his "American Common wealth" a national text book. Ills return to Great Hrltnin would be a dis tinct loss to this country. The Btnte university of Texas haa uMlubllshed a chair of good roads to give a special course of training to students who desire to learn the art and economics of road building. The universities and agricultural schools that are doing so much to Improve the methods of farming , can do no hotter service than to make a special effort to teach road Improvement. Even a good farm with a wretched road leading to It Is not a desirable possession. One of the best suggestions that has so far boon offered to take the place of the noisy powder observance Into which the celebration of Inde pendence day has degenerated Is that made by Pery Mackaye In the Cen tury Magazine. Mr. Mackaye's idea Is to train the young people of the community to present some stirring , patriotic event In the nation's history In pageant , in as elaborate manner as seems wise. They would lend themselves admirably to the enthus iasms of childhood many chapters In history might be presented plctorlally In the most Impressive fashion. A little less than twenty years ago a new Idea In naval construction was evolved and deemed so practical that our navy built at a cost of $930,000 the ram , Kahtadln. This boat was not built to fight , but to sink an ad versary. It was supposed to be so heavily armored as to be proof against any shot hurled against it. It was to steam up to an enemy's ship , ram a hole in the hull of the opponent and stand by while the helpless ship sank from sight. The theory was all right but hardly was the Kahtadln com pleted before the power of naval weapons was so Increased as to ren der the ram practically useless , and It came to an Inglorious end recently as a target to test the power of a new projectile. Twenty years seems the naval limit between the height of ef ficiency and the scrap heap. When food is high the giraffe likes it. Oyster Bay Is once more on the map In largo letters. Mayor Gaynor is a great disap pointment to Tammany. An exchange has dubbed Nevada "The national bad lands. " The air line Is now the general fav orite at least in public discussion. The man who plans a delightful va cation that he does not take often en joys himself the most. On June 1 the per capita was $34.59. Which did you have , the thirty-four dollars or the fifty-nine cents ? There'll be a big noise at Danville , 111. , on the Fourth. Uncle Joe Can non is going homo to celebrate. Mr. Taft says Mrs. Taft Is the real president of the United States. What are the suffragettes kicking about , anyway ? An Illinois legislator says he'd rath er be a grafter than a liar. The man who is one is generally both. They are two of a kind. Now that the commercial airship service is started in Germany , little asteroids and comets playing on the track should stop , look and listen. The new king of Belgium Is evi dently aiming to have his deeds rather than his "duds" make him conspicu ous. The most dangerous of all modern pets IB the pet bulldog. He is as much out of place on the streets of a town or city as a wild beast from the jun gles of Africa would be. Aviators seem to have taken for their working motto those often quot ed lines , easily paraphrased "Count that day lost whose low descending sun , sees no new aviation record won. " The Harvard Aeronautical society has finished its aeroplane , the Har vard 1. Will Yale soon bo ready to enter the contest with this old time rival in this latest of the "higher" scientific branches. It will be dlfllcult to attach any romance - mance to the latest Alaska placer camp to which prospectors are Hock ing by the thousand , when it bears such a name as "Idltarod , " but to those who strike It rich the name will matter little. It Is only fair to the administration to say that expenses for the last elev en months are nearly $9,000,000 less than tljey wore during the correspond' ing period last year. This is duo tc the pressure for retrenchment from the white house. Duke , the wealthy tobacco man , has just married his fourth wire. If he keeps on making a record he'll soon be able to pair off with Nat Goodwin or Lillian Russell. Victor Berger of Milwaukee says President Taft dooa not understand socialism. The president can console himself with "tho knowledge that he has lots of company. Many Kansas women have hold county olllces for some years past and have proven themselves such efficient officials that It Is generally conceded that most of them will be re-elected. President Taft has gained favor with the college girls by telling the Trinity graduates that in advanced ed ucation the girls have outdistanced the boys. What every ambitious newspaper man wants most to know from the Outlook's new contributing editor , Is how he got by without attending one of the schools of journalism. Great chunks of silence are hand ed out from Oyster Bay. Soon the leopard will decide that spots are out of style , and the Ethiopian will have no use for the Jim Crow car. The governor ot Nevada says he won't Interfere with the prize light. It Is BO rare an experience for that state to get a lot of people to stay over night that anything would go. New York cares little about the world's fair. What It wants Is not to attract visitors , so much , as to persuade its citizens to go visiting and make room on Manhattan Island. Miss Ethel Roosevelt wcr.t to ride In a dog cart with a young man. Now that her father Is at home , the man ufacturers of newspaper copy may not find that she is free raw mater ial. President Taft gives up going to Yale commencement. If he realized the true sociological significance of the Yale-Harvard race , he wouldn't be fussing with little bills before con gress. The big fight Is located at Reno , and the population of Nevada will suspend for a day the hunting of jack rabbits and the manufacture of min ing stock certificates for the eastern lamb market. The first woman ever employed as telegraph operator died recently at Rock Island , 111. , at the age of 78. Sixty years ago she was employed as telegraph operator at Greenville , Pa. It Is reported that Kermlt Roosevelt will stock a photograph gallery. He's got a good stock of valuable negatives to start with and many of his views can never be duplicated by other art ists. Seems strange that a man will pay $1,450 for an old chromo when he can get a new one for less than a dollar at any department store bargain sale. That Is what J. Plerpont Morgan has just done. He's rich and sagacious. If he was poor he'd be called foolish. A shortage In the supply of teachers Is the only thing which prevents an enormous extension of agricultural education. Never before in the his tory of the country has there been such a demand for agricultural infer mation. A decided improvement Is reported In our trade with foreign countries during the past few months. Our ex ports are gaining encouragingly on our imports and financiers look to see commercial conditions both at home and abroad improve rapidly during the next year. What do you think of a speech that required eight days to deliver ? At the Hague , the British contentions In the Newfoundland fisheries case , be tween Great Britain and the United States were presented by Sir Robert Finley. That surely must be the big gest flsh story ever told. The original manuscripts which are being discovered and sold for fabu lous prices , remind us that however famous present day authors and play wrights may become , the universal use of typewriters will prevent future generations from lavishing their large wealth on handwritten original manu scripts. Philip Pathen , who was appointed a few months ago to read the newspa pers of the world for Uncle Sam , and also to collect and publish Important diplomatic correspondence , has a deli cate and important task , for an un wise publication of diplomatic letters might cause the government serious embarrassment. So long as the courts of this coun try are kept free from partisanship and corruption , they will form a bul wark of popular liberties. Our insti tutions have been harmed quite as much by partisanship as they have by corruption and corruption often takes the guise of partisanship to gain its ends. There is one very good , but lone some man in the heart of the great western metropolis. A Chicago bank- er has worked all his life without mlsB < Ing a day. has never had a vacation , never takes any recreation , doesn't chew , drink , play golf or cards , and never goes to the opera or the thea ter. He gets a salary of $30.000. The last large tract of government land In northern Minnesota was re cently opened to settlement. So eag er wore men to secure homesteads on It that for five weeks previous to the date fixed for entry , men stood In line day and night , keeping their chance for a quarter-section of Uncle Sam's land before the'door of the land olllce. The number In line reached nearly thioe blocks before the doors , were opened. There are many opportunities to economize In the expenditure of pub' He money by the government. But the same rules should apply to pub- lie economy that prevail In personal economy. Merely ceasing to spend money does not In Itself mean true economy. If the money needs to be spent for either national or personal welfare and prosperity then It Is a false idea of economy to hold It. The returns realized on money used should measure whether n national or an In dividual practice true or false econo my. A forceful resolute public official can do wonders in stopping the graft , Mayor Gaynor of New York Is proV' ing this. He found that wooden spreaders and skewers used In meat carcasses wore being weighed In and that the wholesale meat dealers of New York City wore getting about $117,000 extra for those articles which were being sold at meat prices , all ol which carne out of the ultimate con sumers. He promptly called the whole' sale dealers before him and told them that unless the practice was discon tinued they would be prosecuted for using false scales and weights. They took the hint and acted accordingly , Horace Greeley said "the only way to resume is to resume. " It Is evident that the way to stop graft is to stop It. NOW FOR A BIG CHOP. Rain came in time on the Rosebud and In parts of northern Nebraska , and the crops are saved , the grain men say. The rain always does come In time in this country , somehow , and the crops always are saved. It now promises to be one of the prosperous years of this always prosperous great northwest. THE GORE CHARGES. Some pessimist has said half the seats In the United States senate were bought. The quick action ol congress in putting all the Oklahoma Indian contracts under the approval of congress , following his charges that an attempt to bribe him had been made , would indicate that there is still a high standard of Integrity In America's legislators as a whole. FOR TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION. The Fremont Commercial club has taken steps to organize a traffic asso ciation among the business men of the city. Fremont papers say that the business men of that place have come to the conclusion that if Fre > mont is to grow as a commercial cen ter , there must be knowledge of rail road ratesi and an organized effort to get treatment from the railroads that the town is entitled to. A traffic association seems to bo the logical proposition for the town that wants to grow. PERDUE FOR SUPERINTENDENT. Frank S. Perdue , at present deputy state superintendent , is the logical man for the position of superinten dent , to fill the vacancy that will be caused by the resignation of Mr. Bish op. As deputy , Perdue Is in the work and has served his apprenticeship. He could take hold of the job and run it as it ought to be run. More than that , he is entirely capa ble. He has had a good many years of experience In Nebraska schools and northern Nebraska knows his abil ity. Ho made good in Tilden and as county superintendent of Madison county. He's the right man for the place. AROUND TOWN. Play ball , City Leaguers. It's less than a week away. Now for the sure-enough paving. The big noise is only a week from Monday. The thunder shower came , but , thun der ! It was short. Christmas is just exactly six months away. Do your shopping early. It is said that Tex Rlckard Is so sore at Governor Glllett that ho never again will use a safety razor. A Norfolk woman IB planning to cut off some of her little daughter's hair to make a switch for herself. Twelve Norfolk women have stop ped their paper because of that item about the hair that hangs in the win dow. Charlie Groesbeck , the Gund man in Norfolk , IB Issuing a card that will be put on cash registers of his custo mers. It will say : "If you're not 21 , 23. " A Norfolk man Bays that when ho gets rich he IB going to have enough ( servants BO that he won't have to scrub the bath tub when he gets through bathing. "I know that item about the hair In the window wasn't about mo. " one Norfolk woman said. "I know It wasij't Not folk \\oinaii said. "I know It was mine , because I never hang my hair In the window that faces the street. " Not to be pessimistic at all , hut the school boy ought to bo reminded that his summer vacation is nearly a third gone. Flrtit thing he knows he'll be back in that hard-backed seat workIng - Ing arithmetic. Orvllle Wright made two flights here Wednesday , says the Indianapo lis News , giving a spdctnculnr exhibi tionof , fancy diving. No other avia tor entered would risk the unfavorable weather. Wright ascended more than " ,000 feet after dark. On reaching that altitude a light appeared far be low the western horizon and going still further up. ho was able to see the sun. The earth below was in com plete darkness , yet he could look upon the light of day. In telling of the flight. Wright said the sight was one of the most thrilling and awe-Inspir ing ho had ever witnessed. He says that aviators soaring to high altitudes may often see the sun after It has gone down to the people below. And old Yorkshire collier , says an English paper , recently surprised his mother by marrying a very unprepos sessing woman , lie always had been reckoned a confirmed hater of the other sex. "Why has thy gone and got spllcod , lat , at thy age ? " one of his friends asked him. "Oh , that's not much a tale , " answered the old man stolidly. "I agree wl' ye 'at Bet sey yonder is no beauty ; if she had been 1 shouldn't have wed her , but that 'ere doy o' mine he was simply pinln' for somebody to look after him while I was away at t' pit. I couldn't bear to leave him in the house by hissen , so I hit on the idea of marry- in' Betsey. She's not handsome , but she's mighty good company for the dog. " ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. What a misfortune It Is to be a coward ! We do hate to see a nice woman de velop into a Lovely Character. One reason there is so much sick ness is that It furnishes conversation. There's no use expecting some men to resist agents ; they can't do It. Housekeepers are becoming so shift less that grocers will finally sell hot water In cans. "The only thing I admire about an automobile , " a man said today , "Is that they kill dogs. " Boys should remember that , In real life , the boy bandit usually develops into a corpse or a convict in pretty short order. . Do you devote a good deal of time to "talking over" fool questions ? If yon hope to get along , you'll have to quit that , too. "I wish , " said a man today , "I could throw my opposition In six seconds ends , and get $20,000 for doing It , as Frank Gotch did last night. " When you call a certain nunibei over the telephone , and central re plies that they are talking , don't you feel as If the party you want has been rude to you ? When a really genial farmer comes to town on Saturday , after an absence of a week , he shakes hands at least 150 times before he completes his trading , and starts home. Youth Is blessed with so much hope dial when a girl fills an incubator for the first time , she expects to make enough to pay the mortgage on the home , and Isn't completely discour aged when she doesn't make enough to pay for the coal oil. The greatest excitement in Atchison - son at present is the fact that you can get two Ice cream cones for five cents. But nearly every time you make a purchase of this kind you are compelled to give one of them away to a hungry friend who hasn't a nick el. So the people are not much bet ter off than before. There IB a certain young man In Atchison who Is out of it ; people have finally decided that he is of no ac count. They do not abuse him , but they do not expect him to amount to anything. And he Is alone respon sible ; he had every opportunity , and failed to make good. Ho paid too much attention to nonsense , and not enough to sense. And If you make a failure In life , you are to blame ; you may blame It on hard times , and say the trusts hounded you , and all that stuff , but people will know you are a liar. An Atchison woman called up a friend over the telephone this mornIng - Ing , and when she heard n response , , asked , "Is this Mrs. A ? " The answer was inaudible. "I want to toll you a great secret , Mrs. A , " the woman said , and for the next fifteen minutes Bho poured out her heart. Then when she stopped to get her breath , a reply came over the line : "This Isn't ' Mrs. A. I will call her. " Then the woman who had poured out her heart , lay down and began to kick , and fifteen minutes later there was so much foam all over the walls It looked as if some one had been doing a big wash. LOWERING COST OF ROAD BUILDING DRAGGING A MEANS OF SAVING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SOLVING THE MUD PROBLEM How Stretch of Roadway In Trenton , Mo. , Deemed a Failure for Tratflc After Rainstorms , Converted Into an Ideal Hlohwny by King's Invention. To iiMTiuni muss nro\\n customs , to chance I lie hljjiua.v legislation of Mates , to rouilniloiii/o ilie rtmdninU- liiK nielhnds nf ( lie nation , in arrest the intention nf the rnadnmkcrs ol n continent , lo Improve tin ? ( -0111111011 earth roads to an Iniinensunihle de cree and ut the same time save mil lions of dollars by reducing road bulld- Ing expenses this Is the province of the simple , cheap , uncouth , hut otllclont King drug Little did 1 suspect when HrM 1 rode a drag down the highway that such claims would ever ho made , says I ) . Ward King. Iho Inventor. The Initial trip was taUon in the spring of IS ! ) * ! , and the result was so pleasing and satisfactory that the work HKIHWAV OF EAItril. IFrom Good Ituads .Magazine , Ncxv Vork. J has never iHjwd from then until now The ( 'fleet on the road was Instantane ous. The | in SMI -if the drag wrought a wonderful change. U horoas the road had been very rough , with two deep ruts in evidence , utter the drag had been used It was comparatively smooth , and the ruts , which before dragging stuck out HUe sore thumbs. were rendered unobtrusive and unob- struct I ve. Before none hut the hardi est adventurer dared drive out of the beaten track ; afterward there was no need to choose a way. for all the sur face was smoother than the best portion tion had been. The stories told about the King drag and Its work ore preposterous. They are unreasonable and absurd , and yet they lire absolutely true. . Hut 1 ask no one to believe , for my only object In tolling them is to shook the public Into giving the new system a trial. Here is one they are telling In Iowa In Cedar county a gentleman riding in n spring wagon on a dragged road drove out on o e side to allow a four horse wucon load of logs to go by him The loaded loss went merrily on their way. but the spring wagon had to bu dug out with a spade. From over near Trenton. Mo. , comes another. It seem * that some years ago a stretch ot creel ; bottom road habitually overflowed after every heavy rain. It regularly became a mass of mud and water. The com munity declared that It was a physical Impossibility to ( ill in enough earth to build a roadway , and the authorities were planning to condemn land for a now road a quarter of a mile away from ( lie crock. At this moment some body suggested a test with a King ilr.iK. Although the crook still covers the roadway during each freshet , there has been no serious difficulty with that rosid since the test began. To the man who drl\es a team the word gumbo moans broken double- trees , horses mired down and other bad road calamities. A quarter of a mile of this sort of gumbo lies between my homo and the railway station at Maitlnnd. One morning when 1 board ed the train at Vllllseu. la. , on my re turn from a lecture trip the trainmen said In response to my Inquiry for news from down the road : "Well , sir , they had a terrible storm at Maitlnnd last evening. When we stopped there the rain was falling In sheets. One could hardly see" the depot. " The train arrived at Maltland. and I stepped Into my buggy and drove home over the gumbo quarter , I could see by the debris on the fence wires , still dripping wet. that water had stood three or four feet deep on the road during the night , yet there was not a puddle on Its surface , and we traveled Its length without the buggy wheels throwing any mud. Another season the floods covered this same gumbo quarter with water and kept It standing there for more than a week , the road being traveled every day. I appealed to the highway authorities to erect a barricade , for I felt a personal pride In that road , and the prospect of Its destruction gave me great mental pain. Hut the author ities said they were powerless because they could stop public travel only when traveling became dangerous to the public , so they did nothing. At the end of the week the water reced- i Hi. and this King dragged gumbo bou levard tmnrci'd from Its seven day baptism absolutely unharmed. If what you have to sell is "personal services" the work of your hands , or of your brain , or of both In equal pro portions take advantage of the best market that want advertising can find for you. Where it's sold more cheaply is us ually known to ad readers ! FEDERAL AIDFOR ROADS. _ Senate Rnporti Favorably on Highway Bill Appropriation $500,000. Aid from Iho federal government In possible for road ma king. A bill him boon favorably toporlod from the sen ate committee on agriculture provid ing for an appropriation of ? . " 00.HK ( ) to be expended In co-operative road build ing Siiiles or counties receiving the I benefit of this aid would bo required by the bill to duplicate the sums used in their territory. The fundamental object of the bill Ute to disseminate sclentlllc knowledge of road construction and maintenance HO as to increase the Interest In good road * and In the means of securing thorn economically. The appropriation would amount to only about 1 per cent of the total appropriation for rural delivery , and It Is estimated that the resultant Improvement of roads would HO facilitate the travel of rural carriers us to save this amount In the long run. The annual expenditure for country roads In the United States from all sources at the present time probably exceeds $ IKKX.0)0. ) ( ) ( ) and It Is estimat ed that half of this Is wasted through unwise administration and faulty meth ods of construction and maintenance. The export advice and supervision of work that would ho possible with fed eral co-operation and the strips of good roads which their work would place for the Inspection and use of the people ple would hasten the time of univer sally improved highways in this coun try. DRAG HIGHWAYS NOW. Earth Road Troubles Will Be Obviated if Work Starts In Spring. Three-fourths of the troubles inci dent to the cure of earth roads would be obviated If with the opening of spring the roads were dragged regular ly , so that the water would run on ? and the surface dry out rapidly. When the frost Is going out of the ground there must necessarily be a few days of bad roads. If farmers would keep off the roads as much us possible during these few days , then Just as soon as the soil set tles go over the road with a drag or n harrow , fill up the ruts and chuck holes so that the surface water would run off , the earth roads would be In condition months ahead of the usual good period and n great deal of the ammunition of the loud mouthed hard road advocate would be destroyed. Stone roads are too costly for the majority of localities In the Mississippi valley. Misguided enthusiasts and tireless promoters will not admit this , but the taxpaylng farmer and the ex perienced road engineer know that by properly draining , carefully grading \ and conscientiously repairing earth roads highways of superior excellence may be obtained during those portions of the year when the transporting of heavy loads is necessary. Look'uftor ' your roads , and do it now. Consider the Children. Look well to the sort of road that goes by a farm before you determine to buy and make your home there. Consider the young folks. "What Is land worth at the other end of this road as compared with that which lies six miles away In the other direc tion along a smooth road ? Every prowii farm boy should have a good horse and a good road upon which to drive If he Is worthy of so noble an animal as the horse. When the young- fanner starts himself he will do well to locate on a good road. There are- always enough persons who are not thankful for ad vice , especially if it bo In print , and who want the cheap land at the end of the hilly road. " Improving Old Highways. Frequently old roads can be greatly improved at a very little added cost. Thoroughly drain by using tile and render more efficient the open ditches along the sides. Careful attention to the road surface , keeping it smooth and free from hollows , will result In very marked Improvement. Sand and gravel added to a clay road will often make It much bettor , and clay added to a sutul road frequently Is of great benefit. Filling hollows Is one of the most effective methods of Improving roads in a rou h country. The soil la easily dragged Into the hollows , and the grade Is thus materially reduced. Auto Chains Ruinous to Roads. Antl-sklddlng chains on automobiles arc tearing county roads to pieces , according to a county road supervisor in New Jersey , who threatens to In voke the law to cause the arrest of the users of the chains. According to the supervisor , use of the chains was condoned during the winter , when fro zen road were dangerous at turns , but ho claims that the practice has been continued into the spring until drastic measures must be taken to save the roads from destruction. Get Busy on the Road * Now. A considerable amount of money 1 annually expended on roods for which adequate return IB not received by rea son that the work is not done at the proper season. There Is a proper time for building new or rebuilding old earth roads just ns much as there Is a proper time for doing farm work , and that time In in the spring , as the ground settles after the frost has left It. Improved Roads Improve Schools. Good roads are greater incentives for progress in the rural community 'than ' any other factor. Without good 'ronilR ' It Is Impossible to Improve the public schools , to erect churches and to build up the farm by rotat. .1 , di versified and IntonRlflpd farming. The Russian government creates a whole now crop of anarchists by thfr abolishing of the Independence of Finland.
