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conn try road were to be concentrated
npon a narrow traclr only wide
enough for a farmer’s wagon, great
Improvement in results would be
noted, for It Is of course mncb'cbesper
to lay the foundations, butld up the
body, and surface a road fourteen
feet wide than to put Into shape a
highway which, at Its narrowest point
the ambitious Americana hare extend
ed to forty feet This, in itself, is a
point which if intelligently adopted
would in many places solve the ques
tion of a practicable roadway upon
which in all kinds of weather and at
all times of the year a single team of
bones could baut a profitable load to
market
The English fsrme? me* a cart Up
on which a single horse draw* any
where from one to two tons of dead
weight The tires of the wheels ars
from four to eight tuchea In breadth,
thereby cutting no ruts and each past
ing vehicle adds to the solidity and 1
in Comparison With American Rural
Improvements They Convey Tho
Idea That We Think But Little Of
Posterity.
There Is an old story which will
bear telling again as It Illustrate* so
well the disadvantages to be over
come in a new country. It Is of an
American traveling In England who,
when out walking one day stopped In
front of an old English mansion to ad
mire it and Its surroundings. What
particularly Impressed him was the
magnificent sweep of velvet lawn
which extended without a flaw or
blemish from the hedge along the
roadway up to the very steps of tbs
bouse. An (fid gardener was at work
on tbs place and at that particular
time wa* pushing a lawn mower across
crimes. Of those taken Into custody
forty-one were arrested for counter
feiting the currency, fifty-two for mak
ing alterations In the currency, 344 for
Laughable, interesting and
___ Ilona Id the enrrency, 344 for
counterfeiting coin and the remainder
for various violations of the United
States statutes. Of the 632 alleged of
fenders, 392 were native Americans,
forty-two were Italians (some of whom
were, naturalized) and thirteen were
1 Austrians. The largest number of ar
rests Were made In Pennsylvania where
those apprehended numbered ninety-
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four. New York followed with seventy-
seven Arrests, Ohio with thirty-five.
California with twenty-nine, Missouri
with twenty-three and In the remalnlnf
instances every state and territory with
the exception of Alaska was represent
ed
As compared with last year there
was a decrease In the amount of count
erfeit currency seized by government
officers and an increase In the amount
of counterfeit coin confiscated. The
total face value of the notes seised was
$36,834, against $44,350 thib preceding
year, and of the spurious tiffin, $24,110
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your, lulu ur roe spurious com, fss,iiw
as against 319.419 the year before. The
number of plates for printing counter
feit bills captured by the government
was 1C5 and the number of dies and
molds for casting and stamping count*
erfelt coins waa 464. Nearly all this
stuff was seized by the Oorernment
before It bad been placed In circula
tion. Nine classes of counterfeit notes
were placed In circulation and of these,
In the opinion of the Treasury of
ficers only four were cleverly enough
executed to be called dangerous.
RAISINCt SMALL BILLS.
The feature of the work of makers
of false money this year was In raising
the denomination of bills Thera waa
rather a remarkable Increase In tbts
Illicit Industry and the raisers were
particularly busy In circulating these
altered obligations In Ohio,’ Indiana,
Illinois and other states of the middle
west It Is believed by the ofilcers of
the secret service that the leading of
fenders tn this division-of criminal
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were Issuing fraudulent obligations of
the Austro-Hungarian government
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ENGLISH COUNTRY ROAD AND BRIDGE, CROSSING RAILROAD TRACK.
the sward. The American hailed him It Is net due to tiny peculiar
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tho sod must be well laid. Tben yon
must roll It, and cut It and water it,
and keep on doing this until it's
right."
A CENTURY TO MARE A LAWN.
The American agreed with hta
that the process was simple, and then
aeked, "How long will I have to do
this before tbe lawn Is like tbat oner
Tbe old gardener again spoke doubt*
fully, bnt finally gave It as bis opinion
that If bl, directions were followed
tor anywhere from fifty to a hundred
year* tbe results would be all tbat
conld be desired.
This same Idea might also apply to
tbe roada and bridges throughout Eng
land, for much of tbelr excellence la
duo to tbe fact tbat tbelr foundation*
were laid scores of years ago and
generation after generation of work
ers bas been tinkering at them ever
since. In feet, the roada built by tbe
Romani noV serve ae the foundations
for some of the best known English
highways, and to tbe tooth of Lon
don. east and west through tbe bcautl-
fnt county of Surrey there la ■ road
now.greatly patronized by the ownem
of motor cars which In Its beginning
was the highway beaten hard by tho
sandaled feet of tbe early Britons at
they toiled to the east coast from
Wale* with their hack-breaking har
dens of tin. This same road was af-
ttrwardt Improved In Its texture and
grades because of its being tbe high
way (or the pttgrimo of western Eng
land en rente to Canterbury. It Tt
■tin abided In placea by the yew trees
tlonaf Association of Police Chiefs re
cently said: "It the police forces of the
country today adhered to the method!
and practices of ten years ago they
would not be prepared to contepd with
ERUPTION OF KUUIOL
(Continued from, preceding page.)
hausted. Tbe waves were then, Strange
to say, reflected back from their point
of convergence to retrace their steps
to Krakatoa. Starting from Central
America, they again described a series
of enlarging circles, until they em
braced the whole earth. Then, ad
vancing Into the opposite hemisphere,
they gradually contracted until they
had regained the Straits of Sunda,
from which they had set forth about
thirty-six hours previously. Here waa,
Indeed, a unique experience. The air
waves had twice gone from end to end
of the globe. Even then .the atmos
phere did not subside 101(11, after some
moro oscillations of gradually fading
intensity, at laat they became evanes
cent.
But, besides these phenomenal un
dulations, this mighty incident at
the criminal and disorderly classes.
It should not bb forgotten that In this
period those agenu of tbe people who
are chosen to combat crime must
t more
than ever before have a higher Intelli
gence, more accurate training, greater
courage, both moral and physical,.tn
order to cope with educated, clever,
unsuspected professionals who havo
UROCKWAV THE "Jt(NO or" COUNTER
FEITERS.
Becauao of the comparative Isolation
of Hawaii, Its large foreign population
and the amount of silver In circula
tion, It seems that the coining in
dustry has been active there. Chief
Wilkie of the Secret Service bat an
nounced that arrangements have bean
made for tbe establishment of a branch
of tbe service at Honolulu, "where In-
nitroglycerine; tbe taker who delight
ed tbe citizens with cheap gold rings
has given place to the "gentleman"
who sells cheap gold mines and three-
card monte has gone over tbe divide
and “bucket-shops" and “aure-thlnga"
prevail. Tbe charms of rapid life have
man vision. Then it was seen that
this wind circled round the earth In
the vicinity of-the equator and com
pleted its circuit In about tnirteen
dava .. -
produced embeailera, check-raisers and
It to a fact worth noting that the
King of COBUterfeltera to at large, but
dlcatlona hare pointed to the develop
ment of coining enterprises and it IS
hoped that the contemplated meatnrei
of suppression may be effective.”
Another reason why the past year
hat been a difficult one with criminals
to that there has.been an Increase of
cooperation between the-police depart-
jqjnt of tbe various cities, and gen
eral Improvement in criminal Identi
fication and police work. An Richard
Sylvester, major and superintendent of
tho police department of Washington,
D. C.. and president of tbe Interna-
auutiH oay uuiuiuk, no tc mo uuuui- V
tlons prevailing above the height of W
ten miles overhead. We were almost
altogether Ignorant of what the wind
might be at an altitude of; say, twenty
miles. Krakatoa drove Into those
winds prodigious quantities of dust
hundreds of cubic miles of air were
thus deprived of that Invisibility
which they had hitherto maintained.
With eyes full of astonishment, men
watched those vast volumes of Kraka
toa dust, start on a tremendous jour-
Is under surveillance of aecret service
men. This old and skillful operator
to Wm. E. Brockway, and be Uvea In
N. Y. He has done penance for his
offences against the statutes of the
United States, bnt though now old, yet
planted perhaps a thousand years ago
to fnrntsh bows - the sturdy British
archers.
ENGLISH ROADS VERY NARROW.
In tho first place tho English road
Is generally narrow, so narrow, in
so great to he aa a maker of counterfeit
money that the secret service men
never lose sight of him. Brodrway can
make money which any banker in the
hto ability to reach his market tn tbe
•hottest time at the minimum ex
pense and with the least motive power.
country would accept as genuine.
dcr at the performer.
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