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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14

over which the food supply Of the
world must be moved. The other
question is one OF the social and edu-
cational advantages that follow good
road construction.
Fortunately 1t is true that the same
highways that would give the largest
returns from an economic standpoint,
are the roads best suited to give the
highest advancement. Hence the need
Is not these great, broad, expensive
highways, extending hundreds OF miles
in any given direction, but network
OF good roads, nine to twelve feet
wide, covering the main highways OF
the country and centering in the mar
ket towns upon the railways. The
wagon roads are the veins of com
merce; the railways the arteries. The
largest public good will come from
such condition that there will be a
free and uninterrupted movement
upon both the highways and railways
throughout the year.
Among the economic advantages is
that 1t enables the farmer to keep in
close touch with the market and
make his deliveries when in his judg.
ment the best price can be realized.
There is no doubt that a large per-
centage-the major portion--of the
farm produce for the last so years in
the Mississippi valley has been sold
and moved with road conditions as
the determining factor. 1t is, "Hooray,
boys, we must get this grain to mar.
ket because the roads are good" and
not necessarily because the price is
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14
Il Seams PuzzIInu.

Recently in Pittsburg Mrs. Rather.
inc Maxon- Smith aumgardner, re.
puted to be the wealthiest woman In
Louisville, KY, embarked on the mat.
rimonial sea for the fourth time by
becoming the bride of Carl Neumeyer,
also of Louisville. The bride is said
to be very, close to eighty-thres
years Of age and the groom
somewhat over half Of that. At some
what the same time in Paris Mrs. Al
bert Clifford Barney, of Washington,
who owns up to sixty-one winters and
who is worth some 100000, married
Christian D. Hemmick, of Washington
who is twenty-six years Of age. There
are times when matrimony looks lik.
maternal love.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14

many Of them doing more harm than
good.
One enthusiast, who has been much
In evidence, is telling the people how
they can get good roads without
money. He might as well try to boost
himself over fence by pulling at his
boot straps.
The good roads question is a ire
mendously big one and must be han
died in a big way. No one can mas
ter the subject in short time. The
writer has spent Is years digging into
1t from every angle and he feels that
there is yet much to learn. Some good
roads enthusiasts have proposed the
building of great national highways
connecting all the capitals of the
states, or a great trans-continental
roadway from Boston TO San Francis
co, or from Chicago to the gulf Such
roads would be tremendously expen-
sive. and about the only thing that
they could be used for would be as
speedways for automobiles. These are
not the roads that the public needs.
In the building OF highways there
are two great questions involved. One
is the economic advantages TO be
gained from the transportation view
point, and this means good roads from
the farm home to the market town.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14

highways, If it is done by the state
aid plan.
Those who are Directing to the
building of good roads advance OBJ
jections that are found to be faIla-
ctous, upon little consideration. The
writer remembers one man who inter-
rupted him during an address, and re-
marked that in some parts OF the
country they were building hard roads
at cost Of from $4,000 to $4,000 a
mile, and then said that their town
ship had about ~ miles of highways
and proceeded to show that the ex-
pense would be at $4,000 a mile to
cover all the highways with this type
OF road. Upon little inquiry It was
disclosed that the roads in question
were brick roads. built upon a con-
crete foundation-an excellent road TO
be sure. and such as 1t may pay to
build where the traffic is very heavy
and there is large amount of tax
able property to pay the biIl-but
these are not the roads that 1t is usual.
ly practicable to build. No TOWNSHIP
needs anything like 72 miles. The
facts are that four-hfths of the trafio
passes over about one-fourth Of the
road mileage, and II has been found
the country over. at home and abroad,
that when from one-fourth to one-third
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14
CAMEL WATER-CART OF ALDEN

Aaen, the Arabian seaport which be-
lungs 70 Great Britain and which has
oeen called the Gibraltar of the East,
y situated on barren peninsula and
u !. exceedingly dry. Water has to be
distributed continually, and one OF the
suiioslties of the place is the water
cart which is drawn by camel. 1t
never fails to excite the risibilities of
ue many tourists who stop there on
lslr way to and from the Orient by
way Of the suez canal
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14

at its best. This hurrying OF product
to market swamps the railroad COM
panies and they are unable to move
the freight and enables the shrewd
dealers in the city to manipulate
prices, pushing them up or down, and
to reap a rich harvest out of the farm
er on the one hand and the consumer
on the other. Colossal fortunes have
been built up through the grain ex-
changes. The principal factor that
enables them to do this is bad and at
times impossible roads.
If good roads advocates will confine
their talk and recommendations to the
highways that will serve the people,
and such highways as the people can
afford to build, much greater progress
will be made.
In some instances good roads can be
built with gravel at hand at from $500
to $1,000 a mile. Where the gravel
must be shipped some distance the,
cost will be double. When crushed
stone is used and must be shipped
by train, the expense will be any
where from $4,000 to $4,000 a. mile.
Even at $4,000 mile 1t would pay
well to build good roads upon tha
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14
GOOD ROADS GOSPEL
DISCIPLES ARE THICK AS suMRLE
BEES IN A CLOVER
PATCH.
NOT ALL CALLED TO PREACH
Desire Is Strong, but Knowledge 10
LaekIng-Wonderfu Progress In
Campaign for Better highways
Cut Out All Fads.
BY HOWARD H. GROSS.

II one looks carefully over the press
clippings that come in upon the ques-
ton of good roads, he will be aston.
ished at several things.
First, the widespread interest that
is taken In the subject. Better high
ways are being discussed everywhere
in the shop, store, the school, at
the cross roads, womens clubs, grain
exchanges, boards of trade. railway
meetings, etc. The advocates of good
roads are as thick as humble bees in
a clover patch. All sorts of solutions
are offered, most of which are imprac.
ticable, and If undertaken would be
simply waste of time and money. It
reminds one Of the remark Of a philos-
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14
VAST SALT BEDS IN KANSAS

Instead of gas or oil. a company
prospecting in Lincoln county, Kan
sas, encountered salt at a depth oil
ETA feet Since then the prospect
hole has been put down to 700 feet.
and the drill is still in salt 1t is be-
Iieyed the bed is 200 feet thick. A
statistician has figured that there are
more than 10000, 900. 100000 barrels OF
salt in Kansas. The deposit as out
lined is $50 miles long and 40 miles
wide and covers an area OF about
5000 square miles, practically in the
center OF the state from the north
boundary to the south. The beds range
from 400 to 1000 feet below the sur
face.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14
An Uncertain step.

HE has about the strangest wall
have ever seen" Yes; you see
he was engaged to girl who wore
hobble gown and Just when he haI
got so he could keep step with her sh,
threw him down, and now he is en-
gagged to girl who wears a harem
skirt and he is trying to learn TO keep
step with her."-Houston Pns;.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14
DUCK WITH FOUR LEGS

In the poultry collection belonging
to Moses Derricott of Mahonoy City,
Pa, is a duck which has four legs
fully formed and equipped. Unfortu-
nately for the duck, the two extra feet
are on the left side, and keep it going
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-07-14

to the right. The duck is one of fam.
lily Matched out by hen six weeks ago,
and is apparently as healthy as its
quacking brothers and sisters.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
PARIS LOSES EXQUISITE.
Andre Fouquierss to Decorate Court Of
kapurthaIa.

Andre Fouquisrss to Decorate Court Of
kapurthaIa.
Paris, it is said, is to lose one Of her
chief ornaments. The modern Beau
Brummel Of France, the most exqui-
site Of twentieth century handles, the
spoiled arbiter of the Paris drawing
room and the country house, is about
to leave the scenes Of his triumphs. M.
Andre Fouquieres, to whom this made
quate description applies, has sue
cumbed to the Establishments of the
maharaja of Kapurthala.
Not long ago the maharaja robbed
Europe Of one Of her most beautiful
daughters in the person of a Spanish
dancer whom he placed high among
his wives. And now he is going to
take away one who in inventing &C.
centricities Of dress and above all in
the management Of cotillion defed
competition. The maharaja has said
to him, so rumor has it: =.
"You have nothing more to do In this
Partisan rabble of society that has lost
all respect for hierarchy and for deli
cacies Of tone. You are much too dis
tinguished and refined for France, and
I ask you to come with me to preside
over and organize the fetes that will
he given at the marriage Of my daugh.
ter"
And the invitation has been accepted
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
RAILWAYS IN SPAIN.
Their Methods Ar Not Those Of the
Strenuous Life,

Strenuous Life.
A Spanish railway seems an excel
lent place for rest cure. II remem-
ber," writes Mr.. S. L. Bensusan, when
going on a short journey in Andalusia,
the train that carried me stopped at a
short junction. While we were at
rest here, after some hours Of travel at
the rate of at least twelve miles an
hour, the driver uncoupled bis engine
and proceeded down the line with it in
the direction we were not to take.
"The passengers walked contentedly
up and down, smoked countless ciga-
rettes, ate oranges, resisted the impor-
tunities of beggars. At last I BEGAN .
uneasy and asked where the driv. :
had gone. Pedro has run down IL .
line on his engine to take birthday
gift to his mother, who lives over
there explained the station master;
he is indeed a good son and will not
trust his parcel to the post. Spain IS
full of thieves And when the good
son had come back from his mission
he restored the engine to its proper
position and we re-entered the train,
which went on its journey after three
quarters Of an hours delay.'-London
Graphic,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
The Monkey and the Book,

A story is told Of an eminent nat
uralist Il forget his name) who was
hoping to develop hesintelligence Of
monkey to whose education he was
devoting himself. One day he saw
with delight that the monkey was SIT
ting at the other end Of the room turn
ing over the leaves Of a valuable book
on entomology and looking at the
plates with apparent interest. But on
going nearer he saw, with dismay, that
the monkey was turning over the
plates in order that when he came to
a particularly large beetle or butterfly.
he might pick it out and eat it. As
the paper could not have had a nice
taste, think he may have been actu-
ated rather by the fun Of the thing
than by a mere depraved appetite.
Perhaps he was verifying the like
method Of learning among the philoso-
piers Of Laputa.-London Spectator.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
COLLEGIANS WILL FLY.
Harvard and Columbia Arrange New
Snort Competition.

The first intercollegiate aviation con-
test will be held next spring between
Harvard and Columbia at Belmont
park. The Harvard Aero club sent a
challenge for gliding contest to the
Columbia station of the aeronautical
reserve recently, and the Columbia
students have obtained the permission
Of the faculty committee on organiza-
ton to 60 ahead and arrange for the
contest.
It is expected that the Columbia club
will insist on motor driven contriv.
ances.
If this suggestion Is adopted the Co.
lumbia students will Immediately be-
gin work on a biplane. Philip w.
Wilcox. who built biplane at Colum-
bia a year ago. will have supervision
Of the construction Of the machine, but
all the work will be done by students.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
WONDERFUL SCHOOL RECORD
Peur Children Of One Family punetua
Fer Thirty.two Years.

Fsur Children Of One Family punetuaI
Fer Thirty.two Years.
Few families can boast Of the school
attendance record Of the four chill
dren Of J. r. Dannatt, assistant over
seer Of Nswchurch, Isle Of Wight, who
have been connected with the local
school for seventeen years.
They have attended for an agGregato
Of thiry-two years and one month
without missing q single attendance.
The record II 90 follows: Harry Dan.
matt, I've years and i've months; Char
He, ten years and i've months; Nellie,
seven years and ten months, and Ada,
eight years and I've months. The
school Is about two miles from the
fhmily's residence, and the distance
Travelled by the quartet In journeying
to and from school exceeds $4,000
miles,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
Ono Passenger, 81 Cents.

One Passenger, "a Gents.
For twenty passengers the cost
would amount to "a cents each per
trip, or, allowing for the average six
vacant seats each trip, the cost for the
fourteen passengers would be 49.4
cents, or less than one-fourth the low.
est fare Of the Pennsylvania railway
for the same trip. This would permit
owners Of automobile cars to charge
100 per cent profit and even then cut
the lowest price Of the railway in half.
For fifty tons Of freight, handled
by two engineers for sixteen hours,
4 fifty horsepower traction engine at
four miles per hour the figures would
be:
Cost Of fifty horsepower traction en-
CINE, 200: life Of same, calculated
at three years service, amounting
to, por diem.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 0O
Cost Of wagons capable Of moving
fifty tons. $2,aoo; four years life.
per diem. Observation-Disclosures. I0
Wages Of two engineers, working
eight hours each. 1T S.............. 600
Fuel, oil, ETC., for 10 hours. 40
Repairs on engine, estimated at $19
por annum. Observation-Disclosures. ~
Total for sixteen hours. $lAN
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
OPERA HOUSE FOR KAISER.
Finest and Most Luxurious In World
10 Planned,

Finest and Most Luxurious In World
10 Planned.
The German emperor, it 10 said, IL
seeking a site in Berlin for the erection
Of the finest opera house in the world.
It will be a luxurious building, and
eight of Germany's leading architects
are said to be at work upon its plans.
Three thousand persons will be &C.
commodated in the auditorium, while
the stage will be 100 feet in width and
ninety feet in depth For the use Of
the royal family there will be a box
capable Of seating eighty persons.
There will also be spacious dressing
and retiring rooms for the use Of royal
visitors.
The cost Of the whole scheme will b
very great, 80 great it IL reported, that
the actual sum has been withheld
from the German public.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
FORMULATING THEATER
FRANCES LATEST SCHEME.
Will Travel by Automobile and Seat
$500 Persons.

A perambulating theater fitted with
the latest scenic appliances and seat
ing 1900 persons will take the road in
France. AS in the days Of Moliere,
performances will be given wherever
there is favored spot, but instead Of
the chariots and horses there will be
a train of eight automobiles, draw
ing twenty-one cars.
The idea originated with Firmin &C.
mier, a we'll known Partisan theater
director, and it became public through
the fine arts report Of Deputy Paul
Goncourt. The following details Of
the scheme were announced:
"Local and provincial theaters usu.
ally are insufficient for fine dramatic
productions. Moreover, many COM
munities have no theaters. The whole
idea is based on decentralization and
the wish to carry culture to the prov
inces. l intend to give the classics
and the best modern plays When I
arrive at a town I shall erect q tent
with a stage, boxes, orchestra seats,
drops. wings. scenery-everything COM
plete, including central lighting and
heating plant. Thanks to new sys-
tenn, the lighting will be as good as in
the best theaters.
Especial new scenery Will be pre-.
pared for every play. There will be
twenty actors, directed by myself, and
I shall employ forty machinists. We
shall sell seats from 20 to 60 cents
apiece and will spare no pains to
make the productions perfect in every
way. We cannot travel fast-perhaps
only six miles an hour-but we shall
at least travel surely. We expect a
great success"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
Fame and The Editor,

Fame, SO difficult possession to OBJ
tain, lies oftener than one usually
thinks in the power Of the press.
Oscar Browning in his interesting
Memories Of Sixty Years" tells how
Fox, then editor Of the Monthly Re-
pository, settled the fate Of Robert
Browning's Pauline" when it first ap-
peared by the mere word "balderdash. ~,
The explanation given Is that q sin
gle line was required to complete the
page. and the editor, taking up the
first book on which he could lay his
hand and thinking it Insignificant and
pretentious, described it as have stat.
ed above
Oscar Browning declares that the
poet said that by this accident his
public recognition had been delayed
for twenty years."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10

Later Brookins covered the distance
from Chicago to Springfield. The am
bilious efforts to conduct race from
Chicago to New York and from st.
Louis to New York were abandoned.
although large purses were offered.
Neither did Walter Wellman fly
across the Atlantic in dirigible. That
was another case of too much wind,
although Wellman himself blamed it
on the eQuilibrator. His balloon Amer
lea started from Atlantic City in
fog, beat 1t up the coast to the neigh.
borhood Of Nantucket, then got to 60
ing south, and after travelling about $40
miles and being aloft seventy-two
hours the crew was picked up or,
rather, picked down to the north Of
Bermuda. Another notable balloon
voyage was that Of the America II.
in a flight from st. Louis to northern
Quebec, a distance Of 1856 miles,
breaking all records.
Considering the widespread activity
In aviation the death list was small,
yet at least four famous bird men gave
their lives to the sport. These were
Delagrange, tombstone, Rolls and Cha
vez. the last named being dashed to
death Just after his thrilling feat Of
crossing the Alps.
Many Sporting Records Upset.
In the world of sports the Philadel-
phia Athletics won from the Chicago
Cubs in the worlds baseball champion
ship. Barney Oldfield broke the worlds
automobile speed record. going mile
in 1913 seconds. Two boxing cham.
pionships were settled. One Of these
was for the lightweight belt, in which
event Wolgast defeated Battling Mel
eon, and the other was the dashing Of
the hopes of the white race when the
mighty Jeffries could not come back.
The advent Of Halley's comet was
not exactly a sporting event. In fact.
this eighty year visitor was anything
but q sport, since it lamentably failed
to live up to its opportunities. II 1t
had been on the job It might have
Knocked the earth halfway across the
solar system and 80 have prevented
the Democratic victory. Yet there AZ
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
NO CAUSE TO DOUBT.
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Strong Guarantee. :

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tive relief to all sufferers from consd-
patton. In every case where our rem
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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10

scientists who say that comets head
is as gaseous as a political platform
promise. while it's tail is as thin as the
average campaign speech.
A twin performance to Mr.. Halley's
false alarm was DR.. Cooks confession.
Either the flower garlanded doctor
Was tired Of hiding or he needed the
money for which. it is said, he sold
this latest of his literary masterpieces.
At any rate. he is not now certain
whether he reached the north pole,
but wants the world to forgive him
the purple SHOWS story, the wreath of
roses and the good American dollars
showered on him during his lecture
tour.
Cook Controversy Renewed.
In this connection it Is worthy Of
note that Professor Parker returned
from his Mount Mckinley expedition
without having climbed the mountain,
but bringing back photographs Of the
peak twenty miles away that Cook
scaled and on which he took his "a
mods pictures Of the "top of the CONT
nent."
Other notable miscellaneous happen.
ings of the year were Carnegie's ten
million dollar gift to peace, followed
by an American war scare the next
day; the census which showed that we
have nearly 100000 people in the
United States proper and over 100000
600 including the outlying possessions.
the pan-American congress, the con-
servation congress addressed by Taft
and Roosevelt and the labor strikes In
Philadelphia and New York.
There were the usual number of
fires, storms, eruptions. explosions,
wrecks and other horrors. Among the
most important disasters were the
flooding Of Paris and Tokyo, the twen-
ty million dollar fire in the white
City" at the Brussels exposition, the
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-01-10
Napoleon'a First Love.

The little French town Of Auxonne is
not associated in the popular mind
with Napoleon; but, as Miss Betham-
Edwards reminds us in Contemporaries
France" he spent some years Of his
cadetship there. I'm the saone he
twice narrowly escaped drowning, and
here, too, as narrowly, 80 the story
runs, marriage with bourgeoise maid
On called Manesca. Two ivory counters
bearing this romantic name in Napo-
Icons handwriting enrich the little mu-
ooum."