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i. r f IN--; -The Government nnd Good lioads. N a country as large as tnai iu wmcii wc Live, t . part of its producing regtony wlde l iv-nnrfited from -the markets -mrhfph thov serve; the matter of trans portation V one of vast importance. This applies particularly to our agri cultural products; 'for while a . great -jortioji both of our manufactured out put and of our farm growth must be inoved long distances by rail or water before reaching a market, practically all of"-thai 'latter must also be trans ported for greater or le? distances over the public highways. The ques tion of marketing these agricultural iprodticts, amounting in the United States to 1,000,000,000. annually, on terms that the dealer can afford to pay and the grower to accept, often reduces Ijtself to a question of cheap and quick -delivery in other words, to a question W economical transportation. I As far as the railways and the steam (ship lines are concerned, tbis problem Ihas been dealt with very intelligently khd satisfactorily. Skill and money fhavejbeen applied without stint to the f provision of enlarged means of con Iveyance, improved ways and increased power. These influences, under the stress of strong competition, bave re duced lens-distance freight rates to a 'reasonable level. V There is one phase of this transpor tation problem, however, - which has iionroaciied no satisfactory solution. - . J- X J. JJ -r.rVM T rV O I llllll funat is ine muutu ut ivu uu.. As hns already been said, while tue greater part' of our farm prouuets travel by steamsliip, caual or railway for a portion of the -Journey to mar- iet, virtually all of them are conveyed for some dis Lance over the public high ways. It is unfortunate that this is often the mcst expensive part of their journey. It has been shown by math ematical '-demonstration that it costs' more to move a bushel of wheat or a ton of hay ten miles over the average -'country roads of the United States than to transport the same burden C00 miles by railway or 200$ miles ty -Eteamship It lias happened .many -times in different parts of the country that farmers have let crops go to waste because the cost of hauling them to the nearest market or railway shipping fjoint over wretched and ill kept roads -amounted to more than could be real ized for them afterwards; whereas, if rgood roads on which heavy loads could I Isc hauled had been at hand, the same Vcropa -could -have baan - mavkete d at - a .small profit to the producer, while the economic gain resulting from their application to useful purposes would have bsen very considerable. Hon. Marlin 'Dcdge, in the FoiSum. IfcTT York Uehliul. New York's geed road building is at present far behind ithat of Massaehu xets, Connecticut or New Jersey; but under the Hibbie-Armstrong -law and a. legislative enactment providing for he use of convicts by the various coun ties which have applied for the benefits of the State law. there should be no I reason why the Empire State should te iu any other: than first place in .regard to its highways. It may be somej time before the fruits of the Buffalo convention are shown, but when they are they will he found 3good.' Xew York Tribune. Broad Tires Save Street. , 'An ordinance will soon be prepared -which will provide for the regulation of the width of tires on wagons used in the city for heavy hauling, CJrdi- IianCCS 6f this Irinrl OVn onfnfi1 in f 1'"" v.iilJiV,CU lil .many of the larger cities, and ir is cimi?a tuat oucn wear of street pave ment is saved. It is said that one rea son the asphalt streets of " St. Josinh wear out so quickly is that many1 of cue Heavy crays are equipped wit!) tires p narrow that they cut into1 the pavement. It is designed to regulate -Iietires.by thI weight of tho-wagon. American Asphalt Journal. -'.- . Pepplo Ttfnst CuiUl Thc-m. - :' '.The -International Cecil Roads Con I - Tenticn mace a very sensible recom lendation. at ib last session. It Was I sinply that th oQce of jroocl roads -Inquires of the .Agricultural' Depart ment be enlarged into a bureau, and - the annual. appropriations for its work ...toe increased from' 25,000 to $150,000. The amount suggested is none f too :reat for the Federal Govpmmont I -.expend in encouraging i good roads ; . wujuj, uui iu m very : little the Government caL do towards jgivlng .to ti-.: respective I States good highways, beyond teaching, through -experiment, the best way to construct -and mainlain them. The people themselves, if they ever liope to pve good roads, must take the niattfcr up and construct them at -their; owmespense, cither directly or y special taxation; Neither the State nor the National Government will or can render any special assistance. In the matter of good roads, Ohio mishes the finest and most complete example of any of the Commonwealths of the Union. ;.; Thirty years ago ' the Buckeye State was cursed by the worst roads that could possibly be found; anywhere; now she is blessed by the very best, and what is better, they are universal throughout the State. These v roads'. Were constructed through the adoption of a uniform road tax law which assessed the cost on lands themselves. During the time the roads were being built there was much kicking and "cussing" ; by the land owners, but the highways were built all the same, and after their comple tion no farmer would have surrendered his road and taken back the money he had paid in the shape of taxes. SUPPRESSING NEWS. How Editors Are Importuned to Keep Items Oat of tlie Paper. The practice of "keeping things out of the paper" makes It very difficult for a daily newspaper to do its duty and give all the news. There are in terested parties ready to throw them selves into the breach at every impor tant occurrence, and- importune the newspapers not to publish the facts. There is hardly a week , in the year when the newspapers of the city are not called upon to suppress some news item, and sometimes it happens several times In a week, says the Little Rock (Ark.). Democrat. Men will even ask and expect an item of news to be sup pressed when the entire community is already . talking about; It.,.- They will ask the editors and publishers not to mention a certain occurrence when, as a matter of fact, its publication would harm no one. If the paper declines to "leave out" the item the applicant becomes very indignant: if it yields, and a contem porary later publishes the news It never occurs to the gentleman that he has injured the legitimate business of a newspaper, and he ought to apolo give and do so no more. On the con trary, when a local newspaper "leaves out" an item, which appears later in an , out-of-town journal, the very men who ask for Its suppression are the first to say, "Yon must read such and such papers to get the news," Did It ever occur to the men who re quest a newspaper not to publish a certain item that it would be just as reasonable to ask a merchant not to make a certain sale? You are asking the newspaper to omit its most attrac- tive feature, and to become tedious and perhaps tiresome, merely for your ben efit. Possibly you may have business relations with the newspaper. That certainly gives yon no right to make exactions which amount to the same thing as if' some one demanded that y6u dispense with the most desirable part of your business. The newspapers get tired and sick of being Importuned to keep things out. The reporters get discouraged, the newspaper readers, hearing - of something which ought to have ap peared on time, make derogatory re marks at the apparent lack of enter prise manifested by the journal that has been worked and imposed upon. Growing Hybrid Frolt. ECTorts are being made to cross the grape-fruit with the orange, and al-, ready with some success. It is thought that some new and valuable fruits may be created in this way. ,A very satisfactory hybrid has ! been obtained between the Tangerine orange and the "pomelo," which is the proper horticul tural name of the grape-fruit. The grape-fruit so called because its large spherical fruits grow in grape like clusters of from three to eighteen, has only recently come into popu lcr favor. Fifteen years ago it was practically unknown as a commercial product, though Florida people consid ered it tonic and refreshing. For lack of market, great quantities of pomelos were left to rot annually in the Flow cry Peninsula. But Northern visitors in that part of the country learned to know and like the grape-fruit, and a demand was created by their desire for it on their return home. Fifteen years ago the first pomelos wei'e shipped to New York and Phila delphia, and were sold for fifty cents a barrel. But the taste for them grew and- better prices were; soon y realized. The great freeze o? 1891-5 reduced the crop to a large extent, end. the few pomelos sold that year brought enor mous prices, sometimes as much as from $15 to $20 a box. The ordinary price nowadays is. from $4 to $7 a box." Thousands of . the trees have been newly set out in Florida, and the pros pect is that the supply will keep pace with the demand which has been cre ated by the increasing appreciation of fruit consumers. If the experiments in crossing it with the orange prove as successful as is hoped, some interest ing, novelties in the fruit line may be expected. Philadelphia Saturday Even ing Post. EiCTel Tower as a Meteorological Station. The Eiffel Tower of Paris proves to be a meteorological station df unjque interest, owing to the height of the top most platform above the surrounding country. The great wind velocity is the most striking, feature of ; the rec ords. The ' normal velocity exceeds, eighteen miles an hour, which is more than three times as- great as ats a height of seventy feet, and rain gauges are practically useless, on the top plat form, on account of the force of the ' wind. Success. , FiCHTiNG WITH GIANTS. .- i . '- -. . , V- Major Austin's Expedition Along the Anglo-Abjgsiutan Frontier. Among j the latest joys of empire building n Africa are week, long fights with giant savages.. In an extremely interesting account of his expedition along the Anglo-Abyssinian frontier. Major Austin tells, among other things, of an encounter with the Turkhana, a tribe of giants inhabiting the shores of Lake Rudolph. ;' One night these tribesmen came upon some members of Major Austin's caravan and killed three. Soudenese soldiers. ; A -second attempt to, rush the camp was after some trouble beaten off, and when the expedition moved off these gigantic skirts. It took get clear tribesmen hung on to Its a month for the caravan to of their country, and uring thirty members of the expe that time dition died. ! . r The hostility of the Turkhana seems strange in the face of the entirelv dif ferent demeanor observed in them by the late Captain Wellby, whose useful life was cut short kn the. unending war. When through his gallant officer, passed the Turkhana country he found that the tribesmen fled at his approach, leaving their villages entire ly deserted. - . -", Penetrating into the bush the cap-' tain and his party saw several Turk hana men moving through the forest. They appeared, said the captain, to be filled jratheV:- with fear and' curios ity than with any Intention of hostil ity. : :-r ;v.;;v.. V: 'V' - These warriors, who moved about the bush in little groups, were men of enormous stature, many of them per fect giants in their build. They were magnificent specimens of savage man hood, and all were armed with spears of unusual length. ; " ' The most curious feature of their personal adornment was their fashion of dressiiig their hair. It fell in thick, carefully woven "masses right down to their waist, forming a sort of net, in which were primitive trinkets and other ornaments. I As for the Turkhana women, they were so deadly frightened when they saw Captain Wellby and his men, that it was plain they thought their last hour had come. 3ut by 'his kindliness and making some little present to them each time he encountered them, the captain eventually overcame their fears and by degrees the Turkhana women, susceptible like all their kind to the charms of the sons of Mars, lost the despairing look which had over spread saw the heir faces when they first white man. 4 Once, when the captain came upon a party of ITurkhanas, the savage giants sprang ,to their feet and gazed at him In profound astonishment, making no sign either of hostility or terror. Then, all of "a sudden, without any risible cause, they turned and fled, leaving everything behind them but their spears. ' . Somehow these gentle giants seem- to have overcome their fear of white men. Xtondon Star. . Camera Shots at Wild Animal. In an illustrated article in the World's Work President Roosevelt writes ot A. G. Wallihan's remarkable pictures of wild animals. He suggests that the! camera is, in a measure, re Xlacing the rifle in the woods. "It will be a real misfortune," he says, "if our wild animals disappear from mountain, plalh and forest, to be found only, if at. u In Sreat Same preserves. It Is to the interest of all of us to see that there is ample and real protection for our game as for our woodlands. A true democracy, really alive to its interests,' will Insist rpon such game preservation, fpr-it Is to the interest of our people as a whole. More and. more, as it becomes neces sary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle. It is an excellent thing to have a nation proficient in marksman ship, and it 4s highly undesirable that the rifle should be .wholly laid by. But the shot is, after all, only a part of the of the wilderness. The chief free life attractions lie in 1 the physical hardi hood f cij which the aife" calls, the sense of.' limitless -freedom which it brings, and the remotehsss and wild ; charm cud baanty of primitiTe nature , Kc.cjlect of Patent. Models .' "I have one criticism to make," sa!d a stranger who bad been praising Washington. "You do not treat the models of great, ingenious or otherwise interesting patents with consideration. Many of these are crowded, in" cases ih an Ill-lighted room; on tlie top floor, of the Patent Office, and visitors are admitted . only between the hours of j) and 2. Many other models are stored in the old city . postoQce building on G street. ; These ought to be brought together, grouped, properly displayed, .inbpied- nnd catalogued, v The Govern- odnt sliould create an inventors mu seum. A great dnai" more space is giv- in to ; collections ; or inaian rencs, binr?ri tomahawks and broken ar- hriTrr-bonrijs thntt to models of devices au aww - . - t , - 4 with which man has pulled himself up '."-- . - mt ' J a to the present level or civilization." Washington Star.1' . i - Siberian butter is now sent in large quantities to London and Hamburg, under the label of Danish butter. THE LAST MUSTANG HUNT: f Wild Horses Disappearlns from tho Foothills, of tho flockles. . f ; The mustang hunt ' in northeastern Arizona a few days ago was probably tho last to be held in the territory, and perhaps in all tho west, writes a. Phoe- aix correspondent. While once , the wild horses roamed In countless herds over the plains and among the foothilb 5f the Rocky mountains j they can , bo Jpund in tcyr localities now." V j Forty . years ago they were ; scarcely considered worth the trouble of catch ng. Later thousands rdre shipped to 'he east, where they wero known 1 as Indian ponies and were sold at prices ranging from $5 to ?30. About 10 years igo Col. Ed. Redmond held "a great -ound-up -f mustangs in eastern New -Mexico and western Texas, and gath ered in more than 6000 horses. Hq cleared $10,000 on. his round-up, and tried the same thing several times ; af terward in Utah. Texas and Wyoming, out never with the resihts so pront able. f',' .;! 'r; In early days so vast were the ranges" t the disposal of the cattle kings that the grazing of the wild horses never -naterially Interfered wi th the catxe. In the last! quarter " of a century the Trowth of the cattle business and the utilization of the public lands have done away, with the immense ranges and the cattle king days,) and the mus ang has become a nuisance. He used he limited range feed at the expense of the cattle men until he grew to be considered 'an outlaw and a thief, and then he. was shot I by whenever possible. the cowboys In many Instances mustangs mixed with the ranch herds and eventually became cow horses, their - stamina. speed and strength usua for deficiency, in size. A ly making sup few years ago a black stallion, the leader of a herd or wild horses in northern Arizona, was 3nally shot t after reuea edly showing his heels to the best horses in the country. On his flank was the brand of the Bar L ranch, a large establish ment owned by the Perrin Company. It was learned then, that three years before when a half-grown colt just from Kentucky he had escaped frpm the barn and joined the wild herd. He recovered from, his bullet - wound and for three years won races In Arizona, New Mexico and California, the com bination of - his good breeding and his early life with the wild herd giving him speed and stamina which sent aim to the front. He beat die best horses on the frontier. ; An arrangement has just been made whereby the Berlin gas street will;; be lighted and simultaneously by lamps in the automatically means of an electric attachment. The current will be switched on from the central sta tion, and a spark will ignite the gas, which will be turned" on by a special apparatus, j . . : . j;.- mm f T varieties ibtoiuuld A Mm jmw m "a. , a. m mw V B J mJW r S M m - aa w anything arc naving wj wr FM1 i any Otm of tue BIGGLE BOOKS, and the FARM JOURNAL BARS remainder i t 181000. 1901. tgoa and 1903) will be sent by mail TD any address lor A f OLfwK BILL. ' Sample o f FARM JOURNAL ana circular desaibinc.CIQQLE BOOKS free. 1 . witvEa ATKiNsow. 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No fire was found in "the meetlng-housa in olden time, and stoves were carried to church, as were tallow candles to the evening meetings. In 1737 the im portant vital question at a legal town meeting was, "Shall; men and their wives be seated together -in pewsr and the vote waa an emphatic No!" ; In 174, about the beginning of Jona than Edwards troubles In the parish, it was voted not "to pay the charge of bringing his daughter from Brook' field." In 1738 this appears on the town reeords; "Taking into cpnsid eration the difficulty Mr. Edwards hatb labood under this year and some tlma past with respect to his firewood, the town voted that those persons who have not this year brought him a load of wood might have liberty between this time and next Tuesday night to bring eac,h one his load of wood." If there was not a sufficiency of wood by that time, the town th&n voted, tb selectmen should see that the deficiency was met at the cost of the town. ' A. P. 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