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Show EXAMPLE OF GERMAN THRIFT. Stonea on the Roadway Made of Value to Property. Germans find that it pays to encourage encour-age peasants to fr.ee their fields ol tones; the property rises in value taxing value. The stones thrown into heaps by the roadside are purchased pur-chased by the district road repairing commission. Poor men, who otherwise other-wise would have to be supported by the almshouses, are hired to break the stones, and then are trained to the work of repairing the roadbed. The money to pay the men is made by auc-tloning auc-tloning off to the highest bidder the crop from fruit trees that were planted plant-ed on both sides of the highway when It was built, and which are nourished well by the manure that falls along the road and Is pushed at Internals by a road tender upon their roots. The purchaser of the crop sees to it that his fruit' is not stolen. The road commissioners have no bother aoout that. And, although the sale be by auction, it brings considerable. Every burgher knows how much because the sales of highway fruit crops are published pub-lished in the local newspapers. 1 |