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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1908)
tt 't' r "V - JIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 13, iy08. 9 it Sfe GOEKT IS MMG Chrislmas prcserils witii character-Long remembered kind i JO Electric Lnmpa Truly Artistic An ever welcome present ) -". X' ' ''' A present deeply appreciated COVER. KINGDOMS mm? Our letters are in great favor with the subjects oj the king. -a if M tT,' .... -! J". ... . .!" - . UV 1. '3$ rsfs Process" tette fill V Mm) 7f r v v Height to nhade, 12 inches. Ex-, treme. length. 22 inches, 16 inch Murano shade. Green and opal, art glass.' tt's Keasonssie As tns rrtea. I Ask about this It's a llg bargain. Height to shade 12 inches. Colo nial brass with 10 inch opal dec orated shade. Ileal present very low priced. j Time i dpcis not fado the boauty of tho conceptions in our stock Long association brings a fuller appreciation of their perfection In giving Christmas presents the cost of the article giren la secondary conskWut Ion- choice conies first. One article may involve an expenditure of only $5.00 while another, costing 160 will not receive, even as much appreciation, as the cheaper on. This is strange, but true. For this reason the Christmas problem demands your most thorough consideration. Useful articles ad mired and commended by friends of the recipient are the ones which place the. donor in the highest regard. Have this in mind when you make your selections. '" . ' t ' ' A man 18 best at his own" trade or vocation. The Jack of all trades" is master of nonethe reason is obvious. The fixture businesses ouf. business all our time Is given, earing for It, keeping Always abreast of the tiroes and pleading our cutomers. ' This Is the reason we are now in a position to offer you such help ful suKfiMons in choosing your ChrlBtmaa presents. ..The time is not too soon to make your selections, for' now Otfr stock affords the widest variety of choice and at this date cmr courteous trained salesmen will be pleased to offer you special at tion in showing our wares. Tou will not be nrged to bny e welcome you as a visitor. The Den, Desk, Library, Dining room, Drawing room; Recep tion hall. Newel Post, nook or corner Is beautified by an appro priate lamp bearing the a tamp of individuality Our display In cludes designs ranging in price from $6.00 to $160.00.' Our Christmas importations, now oh display, represent the -highest artistic achievement Ja practical light combinations and ' Include a wonderful assortment of unusual and novel forms with delicately colored shades to harmonise-) when the question of practicability arises, a suggestion for the home naturally presents itself. The sentiment of an evening lamp will make its donor ap preciated forever.. . The great care exercised In the selection of our Immense dis play of lamps, canopies, drop lights and odd lamps Is characterized by tho diHtinctlveness of each design every one is a realisation in metal of an artistic life thought, and the story is told but once there are no duplicates. It will be our pleasure to reserve any selection you choose and it will be delivered at your owa option. BurgesS'Granderi Co Wholesale and retail gas and electric .-j' . fixtures. ' 1511 Howard Street Next door to gas office If you will select a Xm&i gift Which will be admired, appreciated, remem bered and useful examine our stock. Burgess. Granden Co. Wholesale and retail gas And electrlo fixtures. 1511 Howard Street Next door to gas office. Open Evenings Until Christmas, T NECESSITY OF GOOD ROADS History, at Well at Erery-Day v0b ; " serration. Teach; Their Value.'. GREAT POWERS ROAD BUILDERS Economic Wiitt'la United States " by Knioi of Had Roads la So Large an to Be Alraoit Be yond Compotntloa. " (From a Btaff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec. U (Special.) Be cause the assertion cam by-able from France that the percentage of Improved roads in the United States was but Itt of the total mileage, or that approximately only 160.000 miles of the total mileage ot M60.000 has been In any. degree Improved, a wave of comment was ., created, and learned editors and students of economics wonderful why this nation waa so far behind the nations of the old world In thia xnrl Important of all clauses of pub llo work. ' When, during the sosslona of the Interna tional Good Roads congreaa at" Vaiia, ' Di rector Logan Waller Fage ot the efflce of public roada of the United Btatea Depart ment of Agriculture, quoted those far from encouraging figures, the correspondents Immediately seised upon them and aent them rushing under the Atlantlo to this aide; here to create discussion In various newspaper and niagaslne sanctums and by millions of readers. And there wran't anything new about It Tho offlclala of the office ot public roads In many bulletins, farmers' reports; . through the medium of public addresses, and In many other wuya, have taken de linquent state and county officials to task on Innumerable occasions, . because road building In the United States Is an In cident, rather than a great universal im proving function. There are scores of rea sons why the United States should lead the world. In good roads many of them are economic, while cne is sentimental. Good loads and National Greatness. It Is especially worthy of note at this time that from the very dawn of civiliza tion the nations which havo ruled the world have led all others In road building and road maintenance. If the links in this his toric chain are to'' bind the United States to - Egypt, aVrWnVaKhe-i' 'Aorn and France, a few hundred thousand miles ' of perfect highways must be laid without delay. , ' ' i Of the five first nation Just mentioned, each has In "turn held supremacy both as a world -power and as a- road builder, i In ancient Egypt Is found the first authentic record of a permanent road. '- StlsThtly to the east of the Greet Pyramid of Cheops at Glseh haa been discovered the remains of a stone causeway. It la about one mils In longth and archeokwrlets believe it to have been a portion of a road built from the Arabian mountains io the Bite of the Great Pyramid. Its purpose being to make easier the transporting of the material used In rearing that vast tomb. Inasmuch as historians date the construction of ' this pyramid to the fourth dynasty, there Is re-T son to believe that this road Was In per fect condition 4,000 years before Christ was born. ' " It was long been believed, principally be cauae of the writings of Herodotus, that King Cheops employed 100,009 men for a period of ten years on the greatest of the Egyptian roadS, the one which led from Memphis to the Pyramid, and which has been described as a superb boulevard, flanked on either side with temples, mauso. learns, statues, perfolaS and porticos, and having magnificent , hard.VsnWoth-Surfaced driveways. . ' With the downfall of Egypt and the rise of Babylon, that city f beauty reigned over by Bemlramaris, who caused to be built the wonderful hanging gardens, came another era of road building, for the Baby lonians reulized that the construction of roads and bridges waa absolutely essen tial to a military and commercial suprem acy. Splendid roada radiating from the groat city were laid' at least 2.000 years befbre Christ; reaching to Memphis, Suae, Eebatana and Sardla. The "great royal road," written of by Herodotus, extended from Suza to Surdls, a distance of S12 miles. At Intervals of from eighteen to twenty five miles, stations . were established at which carriers could be supplied with fresh horses. Inasmuch as the distance covered by these carriers was from sixty to 120 miles a day, the proof la convincing that that ancient road was as good as Is any In the United States today. t'arthaara and Route, After Babyton came Carthage, and the glory of Carthage was between 1234 B. C. and 835 B. C. Perfect roads made com- Tho proper coat for these cold, blustry days is one of our Military Collar Ulsters Single or Double Dreosted Worm ' Dressy In Appearance Snappy In Style RlOht In Rrlce 313.00 to 823. OO WOMEN'S SILK COATS and Heavy Weight Ulsters or Auto Ceats for Winter Driving J57.450 to $25.00 .... Step In and See Ttiem..'.. Omaha Rubber Go. - 1608 Harney Street jj lusit Around me Corner' muhlcatlon possible between every portion of tills great domain, and ts a large ex tent gave it the power to withstand for ten ' years the' onslaughts made by relent less Home before falling victim to the Roman edict "Carthage delenda est." When Carthage had been wiped outi Its conquerors became Its most ardent Imi tators In road building, and wlthlrt a' few decades had laid the moat remarkable sys tem of roads the world has ever known. The despotic sway of Rome over the then known civilised world was dye as much to this comprehensive network of atone surfaced highways aa to the might of its legions. Hills were cut through, ravtnea filled In and rock mountains leveled, both to aecure material and to avoid grades and circuitous routes. These great military thoroughfares, crossing the Alps, extended to Spain, Austria and the regions of the Danube. Africa and even Asia were in cluded In this great system. 60 massive waa the construction of the Roman roads' that the Appian Way, built by Appius Claudius, still lives, and 800 years after it waa laid down. It was In per fect condition. N6 such roads would be laid today. They were heavy, cumbersome, and though effective, not at all to be de sired. In fact, It' Is estimated that under present conditions a road such as Is the Apptan Way would cost at least $200,000 a mile to build. After the fall of Rome road building became a lost art In "Merry England" It Is true authorities, had passed laws that along certain highways "hedges In which wicked men might lurk" were or dered cut, but that was about all the con sideration given to the roads. France Taken Vp Task. Louis XIV awakened to road necessities, and demanded that the roads of France be bettered, and, under the administra tion of Colbert, the famous comptroller of France, 19,000 miles ot hard roads were con structed, this movement beginning In 165L A most brutal and unjust burden was placed upon the . peasantry of France to bring about this improvement, for it waa done under the feudal corvee, or forced labor system, the poor people simply being driven to the roada and made to do the work without pay. , ..- To one of the greatest men' of history, the first Napoleon, credit must really go t t-r the present wonderful system of French roads In fact, for the roads of civilisation, for to a great extent those of, Germany Krgland and other countries are copied after the French system. It was Na poleon's Idea that no nation could take rank as a great rrJlltary power without reads over which annlea could be quickly moved from point to point. With the.t in view, he built roada through the empire, the great one over the Blmploa pass, which waa begun In 100 and flnlnhed , In J, being atlll considered one of the greatest of all feata In road building. . It was at this time that Tresauget came to. the fora Future generations will give credit to Tresauget as the real originator of the mod ern rock surfaced highway. His first trea tise on broken stone roads brought superb resulta In that he set forth the marvelous system which maintains In Fiance today That system Involves daily reports by in spectors of every yard of national road throughout the country. This wh le sys tem Is under the supervision of an in spector general of bridges and highways, who Is responsible for every mile. lis army of assistants see to It that ditches are kept open, holes . and ruts are filled, sand and earth removed after rains, that the trees and bushes are trimmed, and that the surface of the road so maintained that a single horse may at any time cover eighteen miles ot road, dragging behind him with ease a weight which, a dosen yoke of oxen could not haul through many miles of the boggy quagmire which In the south and southwestern portions of our country are called public highways. Work for Americans. If America is to maintain rank as the Wading nation of the world, there is work for highway engineers,' and the time Is short' - " ' But It is not' only sontlment that should promote' the construction and the mainten ance of public highways throughout the length and breadth' ot this country; there are coltt dollar reasons.' . Poor roads Im pose an 'Unnecessary financial burden, not enly Upon those who most constantly use them, but upon the men and women who consume the products grown In the rural Sections and brought to cities and towns by farmers. No more convincing study can be had than that of the' economic waste placed upon the sh6ulders of the 85,000,000 people of this land from the almost eriminelly shameful condition or 2,000,000 miles of rad. Every pound of farm products brought from rural sections to thickly populated centers has placed upon It a fictitious value, because it costs the farmer more to transport ' it than it would coot him were the roads In passable condition. Everybody who thinks must concede the evident fact that If a farmer with two horsea can draw but 600 pounds to mar ket In five hours, he would save money If with one horse he conld 'haul 1,800 pounds In two hours. Were the reeds In good con dition he could do that and more. Any saving In hauling a ton of farm product would bring a benefit not alone to the farmer, but to the consumer, and if the product hauled each year was large. It is not hard to figure that the saving would be large. Figures have been assembled to prove that owing to the frightful condi tion of almost all American roads, it cost 26 cents a ton a mile to haul. The superb roads of the old countries of Europe make possible the hauling of farm products at 12 cents a ton a mile. Therefore, every ton hauled coeta the American farmer IS cents more per mile than the farmers of the old country are forced to pay. The average length of haul of -farm products In the United States Is 1.4 miles; thereor, were our roads aa good as those of France, the farmers' gain would be I.I times U cents, or approximately $1.21. What Bad Roads Cut. Let us see- what that amounts to In a year In hauling but a portion of the pro ducts which traverse the country roada In wanns. The United States Department of Agriculture, through Its office of roads, has collected the figures and they may be accepted as aproxlmately accurate. During the crop year of 1906-6. 86,487.000.000 pounds of farm products, consisting of barley, corn, cotton, flaxseed, hemp, hops, oats, beans, rice, tobacco, wheat and wool were hauled from the places where they originated to shipping points. This vaat weight did not. by any means, include all of the crops produced, the most notable exceptions being truck products and orchard products, the tonnage of those two amounting hlg-h In the mllllone. Neither did it Include any tlgures for forest or mine products, nor for those things which go In wagons from ths cities back to the country districts. Were all those included, one may easily see what a vaat annual aavlng would be made. As It la, however, of the figures quoted above at a saving of IS centa per ton a mile, the cash benefit to the farmers would be $08,u0,0uai Beyond "that, homever, the Interstate Commerce commission has assembled other freight figures, a most conservative esti mate and most liberal deductions from their figures tending to prove that 260,000.000 pounds ere annually hauled. By the same method of figuring as that adopted above the hauling of this would result in a saving of about $306,000,000 a year. It would appear that so vast a sum should not be annually thrown away, simply because those responsible for appropriations of money to construct roads cannot be brought to a realisation of their tremendous Im portance. The time f6r aa awakening Is hers, and the quicker the awakening occurs, the greater the benefit the farmer will enjoy. :lf rr-" THERE'S A REASON 1 hey re better than the average and they look like real typewriting. If 'you believe in boosting your business, send for the letter man. MANGUM & COMPANY LETTER FACTO RY ' lOO SOUTH 13tl- ST. Auto 'Phone A-1885. OMAHA in it HI .;.;'1K'"'1 .;'o'.:'.-: .1 ..a.Vtv SSfjjifc' rii'.'f-V m It Is aa ensr anaiLr j . through The Bee Want Ad. eolumna .'if iw ''V't SjVr'''- THE NATIONAL CORE EXPOSITION OMAHA, NEB. December 9-19, 1908 Do not mis the interesting and instructive features of tb Union Pacific exhibit of Cali fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Old Mexico product!. The Premium List Aggregates $50,000.00 To be divided among exhibitors from the differ ent States. One prize of $240 per cars, for ten ears, or $2,400 in all, of this class. Coma to Omaha via Union Pacific . ' EI.etrlo Block Signal Protection THE SAFE ROAD TO TRAVEL For beautiful Corn Exposition folder and further information inquire CITY TICKET OFFICE 1324 Farnam St. A8231. iff' ;-...v.f. WML Phows Bell Dong. 1828 and Ind OH E. L. IXMIAX. O. P. A., . Omaha, Neb. '.iityy.-y WORLD'S BEST HUNTING TRACT sanannnsnan. , Wanders ( the African Rearlon to Be Eitrd by the Rooaevelt .. Hnntln Fmrr . , - The great equatorial forest . Of South Afrloa, which the Roosevelt huntinf party will explore, Is estenslve enough to, cover the whole state of California. The trees are acacias, mahogany, teak, score of various palms, mimosas, rfottonwood, bays, ferns, climbers, runners,' rubber vines, eon yolvull ot such alee that they choke .to death the forest giants around which they ollng. There are rattans, canes, mosses, swampy glades full of lilies and orchids; there are the myriad Insect denlsens of the Wood, Including the gollath beetle and the tsetse fly; and the birds gulnaa, toucan, groeabeak, quail, heron, flamingo, crane, IblS. This forest, Which. Mr. Roosevelt will penetrate, shelters the ehlmpensee, highest of beasts In the animal world, and the pygmies, the lowest, of men; Its fauna feeds the elephant and trie giraffe, the largest of the beast kind, the nightingale. Sweetest ot song birds; the redtalled gray parrot, best of feathered talkers; the two horned viper, most venomous of serpen ts, and the python,' largest of land snakes. The gorilla la found only near the Atlan tic, In that part of Africa to which Mr. Roosevelt will not go. J. J. Reynard, an engineer of the Cape to Carlo telegraph construction staff, says that the lions are as . common as Jackals and their roaring around the hunter's camp at night la con stant. Mr. Reynard says he would rather travel by veldt than by river, because of the prevalence of crocodiles, the most dan gerous enemy of the traveller. Mr. Roosevelt will probably make aide trips along the route, such as to the base of'Mount Kilimanjaro for elephant shooting, within qasy distance of the Mombassa railway; to the headwaters of the Athl river In Kltkuyu for antelopes and other game of the plains; to the Tanganyika region for lions, where they have become a pest, especially near the mouth of the Lukuga, on the west shore; to the valley of the Bemllkl for the okapi. This valley lies between Lakes Albert and Edward Nyanra, and can be visited in the return trip from Tanganyika. The rifles, shotguns and pistols which the president will take with him would stock a email armory. Some of them have been picked out for him by Mr. Buloua, and others have been selected by the president iilmst if. Chief among the guns will be the death-dealUijg automatic Remington, t& callbre, Which van stop anything from a tiger to an elephant. It carries five car trlges In the magasine, which go In on a clip, and when fired the rifle automatic ally loads and cocks itself. The bullet mushrooms In the animal and crumbles any bone If may bit. Such a rifle fired with a soft-aoaed .bullet will penetrate ten inches of solid oak, or five-sixteenth of an Inch of steel armor plate, and goes through ordinary cast steel like cheese. New York World.- SAME NAME, SAME LIVES Remarkable Coiartdenee In the Ex perience of Two Ueorga W. Anthonys. Sharing the same name, the same city address, and In common many ' of the most, remarkable experiences of .. their Uvea, is the result of the discovery ot a strange series of coincMeivres made by George W Anthony of Burlington, N. 3., and Oeorge W. Anthony of Burlington, N. C. Despite the similarity in names and the fact that their lives have seem ingly run in parallel channels, the two men remained in ignorance of each other's existence until a short time ago. It was the mistake of a postal clerk that finally brought the two men to gether. Mistaking an "N. J." for an "N. C." in the state address, the man io the postofflce sent to the southern Anthony a letter that should have come to Bur lington, N. J. Explanation of thu mis take and the rectifying of the uaine brought out the facts of, the dual cogno mena A short time after this the men met at the home of Mr. Anthony in Naw Jersey. Recounting their experiences, It was discovered that while the New Jersey Anthony had been a drummer boy in the northern army during the civil war, his guest had filled a similar capacity in a southern regiment, and that their com mands had fared one another on more than one battlefield. At the aame time they had been mustered out and began the fight for a livelihood. The upward struggle for both was fought with much hardship, but both won, the man in the north to build up an immense retail trade and his southern naineaake to own a rich lumber trade. Then the two men found that even in their bereavements their dual fate had pursued them. Each had lost his wife about the same time and both were wid owers when they met. Now, to their mutual surprise, a new experience has been duplicated. Mr. An thony of New Jersey recently married for the second time. lie and his bride had scarcely returned from their wedding tour when he received a letter bearing the Information that his friend of dual name la North Carolina has also mar ried. The two men have been unable to dis cover the least trace of even a distant family connection. New York Timet. Can to Thwart Safe Blowers. A chemical company has devised a grenade or glass receptacle, filled with a chemical compound, aa a means of mak ing It, Impossible for safe blowers to rob a safe after breaking it open. It Is an In irffeuaiv looking article, about two inchas m diameter and five Inches long. Inside of the exterior tube are aeven smaller ones, each filled with a different chemical. When the door of the safe la blown or the safe is Jarred heavily the grenade explodes and ft air Is filled with the deadly fumes. It 1s f lelmed that these fumes, which so far as effect Is concerned, ate not unlike the gases front the deadly Chinese "stink pots," are powerful enough to make breath I rig Impossible and to force all persons rear the sate te retreat or be almost In stantly suffocated. The grenades are made with a lanting effect of from six to ten hours, depending upon the slse, and are placed juel buck ot the locking mechanism of il.u safe d-xirs. The Pathfinder. . ! All the world loves a bargain. Yovt can find bargains by watching the Want Ad, rages of The Bee. I POSITIVELY CUBE RUPTURE IM A rW DAYS. T'tt"eHl I do not use the dangerous "One Treatment" t PARAFFIN (WAX) INJECTION nor any other doctor's method.' I are the Inventor of the painless system c4 curing rupture, and tue only puyalrtan la this country who holds from both the United States and Cauadlan goveraments patent trade-mark lor a Kupture t'ure, which baa. restored to health thousands in the put twenty years. All others era lin1tor. product eurtt without pain or s mrgical e Mrartea 1 HthrrlKi yOMno or ttuoid. If auatlent doubts my ability to cure, just put the money In a bank aud pay when saUaiied. Ho other la will do this. I have a treatment for the cure of Rupture that is safe; It Is convenient to take, and no time lost. - a raw or my cttbed rirami Arnold Born. Norfolk, Neb.: Raymond Leonard, llolsteln, la.: Fred Johnson. Elk Point, S. U.; W. E. Andrews. Ponce. Neb.; iiiiK Wilier, Akron, la ; Ja. M, McMillan, Hoi k ltapida, la.; John M. Co. riloux City, la.; Anion Crosier Cherokee, la.; U l: I'iUiner. Kult Eke City. Utah; W. H. Nolle, (Postmaster) Holslsln, la.; W. II. Roeber. Wakttield, Neb.; CLrtS Arduser, Bi-lden, Neb. Whim taking my treatment patients must come to my office, and they caa return tbs same day. References: First National liana, Sioux City, la., and the I' H. National Bank, Omaha, Nab. For further Information call or writ to fr'ItAXK H. Wit AY, M. D aWosa aae Bee Blag, visa Mi ehtAXA. XU. b so-; , the s nre ' N'.w '.;iy, who la. s aa Ir II am Ji'.rts In f ft bl iackM so inns ere1 Li v 7 1 fees feres. Pi ftierj holr Sre-i lay. Jue'i kht jer in b w nth; lere! ha' Itly! bn- by he ht Bd ht ir. re n- y- st re tie sal !" in, E1' R I ( "'-asWej
