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r a. 1 s 1 v L ft. ...T0 MYOWN. jit edwis j,. tumrfi trtir iqulrrel lies bid In bis hollow tree, Alt wrnppod In his long, soft tnll; i'Iio rnbblt la snugglod ns snug oan bo In bis borao'nonth tho old fonco mil; Tlio pnrtrldgo Is only n bunch of down Wboro thickest tbo nrohlng brush Thoy In tbo torcst nnd wo In tbo town, 11119b, my boney-boy, hush. trim flold-mouso curls In n volrct bnll Fnr under tbo dond swnmp grass; In bis hOlo by tbo tror.on watorfnll Tlio mink dronma oft ot tbo bass; And every chick ot tho ground nnd air la ouddled In bnvon deop Mo horo, In tbo glow ot tbo firelight fair, Bloop, toy honoy-boy, sleep, Tbo north wind romps with tho whirling ' snowi Bly Jack Frost nosos about; Rut wood nnd flold are nbod for no, Not even tho owl Is out. And hero, whore tho raotborkln'a broasc I) wnrm, And motherkln's arms nro tight, Safo from tho snow nnd tho frost nnd storm, Qood-nlght, honoy-boy, good-night. Saturday Evening Post. 03300000300000000000000000 8 A LAWYER'S STORY. JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ,OUTH is impa tiont nnd tho twelve wonry months Hint had crept by sinco una passed ray trying cxamina tiou and been admitted to tho bar pooraeil an con of time. I hirod a cozy littlo ofllco in a building filled with saoros ot prominent law firms. After ar ranging my well-stookod library, nnlloJ up n new sign among tho rest nud waitod for my clionts to nppenr, Jt soon bocatno a sad trial of pa tionco. Among tho many brilliant lights of tho day my own uamo passod un noticed. Day after day, and mouth after mouth. I altoudod tho courts or passed tho timo iu perusing celo brated trial casoi. Liko Micawbar, was waiting for something to turn up Tho small capital with which I bad started was dwindling away at an alarming paco and, us yot, I saw no prospective fee. Ono pleasant afternoon Stanley Ferris, n youug lawyor, who, liko my solf, was unwillingly idle, droppod in to sco mo, "What nows, Jack?" ho asked carelessly. "Sarao as usual," I replied, do spondontly. "I'vo a notion to pack off in the wilderness for n few wooks, Everybody is out of towu, nnd thoro is littlo prospeot of picking u,-. a feo until thoy return. ' My friond was about to reply, whou thcro carao n low tap at th door. "Como in," I thinking it soma said, carelessly, chauco acquaint unco. As tho door oponed my heart gave groat bound. I folt that ray long lookod-for oliont had arrived at last At a single trlauoo I took iu all tho details of ray visitor's oppearanoo, Hu was a iniddlo-aKcd mau, dressed in plain costume, and with u seoming ly good-natured face. Most man would havo sot him down at onco ns a jolly, opon-heartod Individual; but I did not. My constant atteudanoo at tho courts had taught mo much. Thoro was something undorlying his ojly suiilo and obsequious munner that mado mo distrust him. "Is this Mr. Burns?" ho asked, blandly. I bowed in tho affirmative and re quostod him to be aoatod. Stanloy left tho room at that moment, nud tho stranger coutinuod: "My namo is Brown, sir Martin Brown. I havo called upon you in a caso of cmergeucy." "Ia.what way can 1 bo of sorvice?" I asked. My friend, who is iu a dying con dition, wishos you to draw up a will at onco." I soizod my hat aud hurriedly fol lowed ray visitor. In tho elegantly furnished room of a hotol wo fouud the man. Owing to tho heavily darkened room, I could distinguish nothing of his features. Ho luy with his faoe turned toward tho wall, nnd in feeble tones diotatod tho terms of hU will, us I drew it up. I accomplished my task to his satis faction, nud placed tho docuniout bo- foro him to sign. As he did so I noticed a deop red scar running across tho back of his hand. Tho wholo of tho dying man's property an inimonso one. by tho way was left to his, dear friend. Martin Brown. Two of the servants had boon called in to witnoss tho signature, aud every thiug was performed nocordingto law, As I loft tho hotisotho smiliug Mr Brown handed mo mv fee. It was a bosaarly amount tho moro no from tho fuel that Mr. Brown was foon to become wealthy. Tho man's wily smile, too, whilo his frioud lay nt the noiut of death sickened me. and I was glad to hurry away. Ou my return mot Stanley, nud iu nuswer to his iu nuirius I related tho airoumstauoos. "A beggarly raiser," bo oxolaiincd, iudiKnantlv. "I'd novor bohovo it from his nppoarauco." It was nearly a week afterward that a vouuk adv. dressed in deep mourn ing, called upou me. This timo I had a caso in reality. Sho was not more than twenty, but her beautiful face boro the impress of deep grief. In a few words sho staled hor business, retaining: tho names until buo had heard in v opinion. Her story was aH follows: Threo weeks before her nuolo had loft homo in company with a mau ho called his frieud. Whilo in tho cityhohadbeou taken suddenly ill and died. Sho had reocived no information of tho faot until aftor hor relativo was buriod. Then camo the strangest part of the story, Two years before lior nnclo hart made a will making hor, bis only liv ing rolativo, his solo heiress, On her arrival in tho city, howovcr, she had been shown a will drawn up by hor undo on his doath-bod, iu which bo left bis cntiro uropcrty to his friend. Sho could couceiro of no reason for such a strango act, and, distrusting tho friend, bad sought out a .lawyer. Luckily sho was unacquainted with tho names of our distinguished law yers. My glaring gold sign bad boon tho first to catch hor eye, and so sho called upon me. "Tho caso cortainly looks suspt- cloui,"I remarkod. "I think I will bo ablo to make n fight iu your behalf. Now, will you kindly furnish mo with tho nnraes of thoso parties?" "My uncle, sir, was Andrew Thur- bcr. His friond calls blmsolf Martin Brown." Involuntarily my pon droppod from my surprised fingers. It was tho very will I bad drawn up myself. Hue turned vale as I related tbo cir cumstances and aroso to leave. "I 800 I havo made an' awkward mistako in calling upon you," sho said, sadly. Wait ono momom," J. ropnou, nuioklv. "This Marliu Brown is a total stranger to me. If lie bns been engaged in an aot of- villainy I shall not shield him." Wo outored into n oloso conversa tion, at the ond of which I said, lidontlv: oon "Leavo tuo caso to mo. if I fail it shall bo through no fault of mino." Sho accepted my offer with thanks and loft raotbinkinp; deoply. During tho interview I bad loarnod that tho doooasod had no scar upon his right hand. Now, cortain of vil lainy in tho affair, I sot to work dili gently to find it out. Working cautiously, I fonnd tlio man who had lain tho body out for burial. From him I lcarnod that ho had performed his task on tho morn ing of Juno 23, just tou hours boforo I was callod nnon to draw up tuo will Tho will had boon already offorod for nrobalo. so thero was no timo to bo lest. Androw Thnrber's body was disin tcrrcd and tho contents of tho stom ach analyzed. It was fouud to con tain poison. By some moans tho sly wretoh got wind of my movomonts nnd attemptod to fly. At that momont tho dotcotives seized him. Confronted by tho torri bio proofs, ho mado a fnll confession Boforo his trial camo off ho ouded his lifo by swallowing a quantity of the samo doadly poison with which ho had killod his victim. Miss Thurbor mot with no further obstacles iu regaining her rights. Somothiug still more important hap pened to me from my conneotiou with tho Case. I Vooed'and "Won tbo'uoau tiful girl for my wifo. As Stanley Ferris roninrkod afterward, I "gained fame and fortune with a rush." nil Scheme to Win n Girl. "Ho was n good follow," said ho "but young and without rauoh capital Tlio girl was a beauty aud lovod tho boy, but tho father obiootcd, and do mandod that tho boy show that ho was capablo of supporting n wifo. Thi was in St. Louis about ten years ago, and tho boy camo to mo with his troubles. " 'Never mind,' said I. "I'll fix it up all right. By tho way, bow much will you tako for your right log?' "Ho Iookod at mo as though I woro crazy, but made no answer. " Til trivo yon 810.000 for it,' said Will you take it?' " 'No. I won't,' said ho. 'What do you tako mo for?' "Well, I know tho girl's father; li was a merobant, nud 1 called to see him. Wo finally driftod arouud talking about this young fellow, and tho old man flared a littlo, stating thut ho wanted soino ono who could sun port a wifo to have hi daughter. " 'support a who,' said 1, in sur nriso: 'wiiv. no certainly can uo an that. On,ly a fow days ago ho rof use 810,000 for a piece of property.' " 'His own property?' nslcod tlio father. 'Cortainly,' said I. "'Who ofl'orod him tho monoy? asked ho. " I did, aud ho rofused it, I an swered. 'Uo olaimod it was worth more.' "Well, this mado a hit, aud no moro qno3tious wcro asked. Tho boy is doing well now, aud has n good family. I haven't spokon to tho father since." Wnshiugtou Times. A Curo lror Leproy- Two dozon specimens of tho plant known in Venezuela as tho tau tau havo been sent from Washington to Hawaii for tho purposo of making a tost of its ntlegod power ns a curo for leprosy. Tho plant will bo tested at tho loprosy hospitals thoro, whoro 1073 lepers will afford overy facility for a thorough trial. Surgeon Car michel, of tho Marino Hospital, has also sout half a dozon bottles of tho liquid preparation to Molakai, and this will bo used for immediate tests whilo plants will bo sot out nud culti vated, with the purposo of providing unlimited fresh matter for further uso. Wonderful storios nro current iu Ven ezuela about tho marvelous ourativo properties of tua tua when appliod to loprosy, and tho Government phy sioians attach considerable importanoo to tho ovidenco given them, It is proposod also to test it in tho island of Guau, that tiny spook of Faoifio land that oamo to us with our other Spauish war acquisitions. Irlili Ailvlce. "Never bo critioal upon tho ladies," was the raar.iui ot an old Irish peer, rcmarkablo for hishomago to tho box. "Tho only way thai n truo gontloman cvor will attempt to look at tho faults of a pretty woman is to shut his oyoa." Collier's Weekly. England is probably fully awaro of tho fact that thcro is nothing in the othics of war to provonl Russia from ittiug nGovorumont when its back is turnod. Ono-sidcd development of tho mind, carried to oxcess by tho impolling forco of n powerful current of norvo force, ofton leads to insanity. If, how ovcr, tho impolling forco is that which supplies tho modiocro mind, tho ro- suit is a boro or a mildly amusing ec centric. Tho moro murderous that weapons ot warfaro bocomo tho greater tho chances for poaco. Mako warfaro ono hundred per cont. moro horriblo than now is, mako it sure death to take tho field, aud nations will sottlo thoir diffloultios by arbitration. Every in- vontor of a rapid firing gun is a peace maker without intonding to bo. A report from Trebizoud declares thoro is much talk among tho Turks that the Armenians nro conspiring against tbom. This is just what hap pened in tho season preceding tho bloody massaoros of 1895. It is tho wolfs contention that tho lamb was muddying his wator. Tho fact that tho lamb was further down stream mado no difference; tho wolf bad not dined. Profosaor W. E. B. Du Bois, of At anla Univorsity, has begun an inves- igation into tho carcor of college brod negroes. Uo finds that thoro arc bo- twoen 1200 and 1500 nogroos who havo boon crraduatod from college and to oach of them ho intends to soud n sot of questions oovoring family lifo, scholastio lif o,oooupation sinco gradua tion, literary offorts, official positions and financial suoooss. Tho President of tho English Board of Agriculture, which, of course, is department of tho Qovcrnmont, has appointed a committoo of exports to decido what is milk, and to framo regulations to dotcrmino what do ficeucy in any of tho normal coustitu onts oi genuine milk or cream, or what addition of oxtranoous matter or proportion of wator in auy nainplo of milk, including condensed milk oream, shall raiso tho presumption that tho milk or croara is not genuine Tho South is again endeavoring to break tho record for cotton mill con structiou, and it our enorgotio neigh bors only koop at it thoro will bo lit tlo difficulty in filling tho . gap whioh now exists botweeu tho consumption and tho production of cotton fabrios, remarks tho Dry Goods Economist tiinco tho first of tho year twolvo now mills have boon projootod in South Carolina alono, ono mill in that Stato has doublod its capital and throo mills aro to bo orootod at any early dato Moanwhilo Now England toxtilo ma ohiuery plants aro working uight.nnd day to koop up with tho orders thoy havo rocoivod. It looks as if this sort )f a good thing woro in a fair why to be ovordono. A suit in chanoory rotating to an Irish ostato has just boon onded after lasting with varying dogroos of ex oitomont for ovor a contury. Iu 1707 a Dublin brewer namodBobort Smyth failed. The nssotn of the bankrupt woro insuflioioutto pay tho dobts. But four generations of tho creditors havo sinco boon litigatiug iu tho Court of Chancery, and it was rocontly discov erod that a small sum invested for ultimato distribution by order tho Court at tho boginning tho proceedings had compound ed until it was not ouly big enough to pay all tho original debts but most of tho law costs also. Thoro wcro liviug claimants for every cou tho insolvent brower owed when th final sottlomont was rocontly mado. Tho Nebraska law, pattornod aftor statutes in somo of tho Eastern States permitting tho closiug of small oully ing schools nud tho transportation of tho pnpsls nt tbo public oxpenso to largo and graded control sohool, i working won, from botu an economic and an educational standpoint, Oinah furnishes two good illustrations tho raouoy saviug. Ono school wbic has beon closod had boon conducted at an oxpenso of $85 n month. Traus portation of tho pupils iu this sohool costs $0.07 a month, tho stroot rail way companies furnishing tlokots at two-thirds of the rogular rates. Another sohool, now closed, has cost $100 month for tho education ot tho sovon teon pupils sont thoro, noarly $00 year for oaoh pupil, whilo tho annunl oxponso per ohild in tho largo school in tho city is from $10 to $10. In the opinion of tho suporiutondont tho chnngo is not only desirablo from tho standpoint of economy, but ho says it is also for tho good ot th pupils, as thoy reccivo moro attontlon than is possiblo whoro thoro is nocea sarlly too much bunching ot classes KOY KEE AS A DOY. a ChlneiTIU of Ids Cliltdliuod In ttie Old Country. (MB "Whon I was n boy," said Moy Koo, tea merchant, lauudryinnn nnd interpreter, at 21G North Dolnfaro etrcot, ' I wont to sohool In mynattvo villago ot Shin-King, cighty-sovon railos from Fckin. I was sovon years old whou I.startod to sohool and, of course, tho teaohor was a man. Now thoro aro woman teaching in China, Chinese women, but that is a now thing. Wo sat ou stools with dosks toforo us aud studiod aloud. At ton yoars old I could write vory well, nnd had to learn overy word of a long los son by heart. Tho teaohor had a stick, and somotimos, but not olten, ho would punish a boy, either by striking him on tho baud or ou tho soat ot his trousers. "Thero nro no bad boyi in China as thoro nro boro iu this oouutry. Tho boys aro rcspoctfnl nnd polite to all who aro older than tbomsolvos, and whilo thoy havo thoir plays aud their fan thoy do uot-thlnk itfuntohurt any one. You havo neon boys placo a pack age ou tuo sidowoik and wuou a per son stoops to pick it up you havo soon that paokogo (for thoro is a string tied to it, and n boy at tuo otuor end oi tho string) inovo away uudor a craok n tbo fouce. That is an old tncic iu China. "Tho bovs bore in America do not know what Ions sohool hours are. wont to sohool early iu tho morning, beforo tho birds began to slug. Alter that wo wont to breakfast and then to dinnor and. in tho cvoning to supper. Thoso woro loug, long days, tho boys hero would sny. bnt wo Chinese boys did not say nnything about it. Wo just sat on our stools nud sung out our lessons all nt tho samo timo as loud as wo could. "Vacation camo along in tho bar vest timo whou tho rico wasgathcrod. Then wo playod at Hying kites. Wo did not, as boys do horo, fly kites auy timo. No. thoro was n Benson for it, aud wo flow them at no other times. Tho boys iu China walk on stilts just as boys do here, and play at blind fold, hido and oeok and loap frog, but all in a different way from horo. "We had groat sport fighting boo lies. Wo would find thoso iu tho fields and train them to fight nud wo would lay wagors on whioh would win just as you do horo ou prizollgutors, "No neighborhood in Uhtna oan at ford to havo n bad boy in it. Sup poso a Chiuoso Now Year, when wo aro all shooting tiro crackors, somo ono would shoot a revolver. Thoro would bo great trouble Not only would tho ono who shot tho rovolvor bo punished, but his rolativos and neighbors aud tho magistrato of tho distriot would bo punished or ropri mandod, becauso iu China suoh things must not happen. A stranger could walk through my villago day or night with no ono to hurt him. Ho would bo safo all tbo timo. it is not so in this country. 'Wo hod great sport in snooting at sparrows with bow and arrow, aud no body ovor shot at persons, as somo boys do horo with aiiguus. Tho boys in unina laugu a groat ticai, nun laugh very loud somotimos, but thoy havo plonty of sport without hurting auy ono. "When I was nine yoars old my mothor diod and ray father gavo mo a stopmother. Whon I was twelve yenrs old ray unolo, a toa merobant in San Franclsoo, brought mo to 'this country. Twonty-oight yoars ago (I am now fifty-throo years old) 1 went baok to China and got a wifo. My father and my otepraothcr found a wifo for mo. I did not know hor. I did not boo hor until wo woro mar ried, but she is a good wifo aud camo to Amorioa with rao. Sho is tho only Chinawoman in Indianapolis; aud I think tho only ono iu Iudiana. I have boeu baok to China eighteen timoe, but I am a naturalized Amorioan citi zen, aud voto at elections." Iudiau apolis Nows. I4MTK0 or Hinnll llooki. fT "Tho day of big books has gono by," remarked a Now Orloans dealer tho othor oveaing, speaking of somo ro oout fino publications. "Up to a fow yoars ago all tho nrt-prints and hand somo limited editious of staudard works woro either folios or somothing almost as largo. Thoro h a boautiful set of Dickons, for instance, printed in '80. Tho illustrations alouo cost fully $50,000, nud it represented high water mark in tho mechanical oxool louco at that period. But look at tho sizo ot tho volumos. Thoy aro almost as big aud heavy as standard oyolo- piodinnl At present tho tondorioy is just tho othor way, and tho mnjority of tlio roally lino books that nro boing ptiuiisucu nro small aud light. 'J.o UBual cover measurement is from fivo by seven to six by eight iuohes, nud most ot tho standard novels nro com ing out iu that sizo. Ono roasou why big books havo gouo out ot favor may striko you at first blush as rather fool ish, but I'm assured ot its importauoo by publishers who havo mado tho trade a lifo-timo study, Tho big book can't bo read in bed. It's too heavy to bo hold when ono is iu a roolining posi tion, whilo tho small, compact vol umo can bo haudlod as easily as a magazine Tlio groat, raassivo folios of tho old timos mado nice ornamonts for the coutro-tnblo and camo iu handy for tbo younger ohildron to Hit on ut tablo, but to roally read thoin was a job for an athlete." Now Orleans Timos-Domoorat. Overtime Allnclininiit. To hold shallow-rimmed overshoes in placo a Missonriau has patented strap attachment, whioh is light onpugh not to bind tho foot, boing made of rubbor aud soourod to either sido of tho hoe!, tho contral part of tho strap boing fastonod to n hook insorted in the too of the ovorshoo, GOOD ROADS NOTES. Cn-Opcrntlon in Ilonif Improvement, ONE ot tho disadvantages un der which our farmers aro laboring is poor roads, says Goorgo O. Borck, ot Michi gan, Thin boing n sandy country, thoro is scarcely a timo during any part of tho year that onr roads aro good. Somothiug liko fivo years ago, about twonty-flvo farmors camo to gether nnd offered to haul marl ono day froo it tho township would allow them to tako tho marl from its bed. Tho township was willing, aud about twouty mon voluutoerod to shovol and lovol tho marl, and so tho first half milo was laid. That road proved suoh a suocoss that tho next year an other half mile was put down. This marl packed so hard aud mado suoh oxoollont bod for gravel that tho farm ers doualod 8225 and labor for about one-quarter milo of gravol. This bo- iug put ou in what vwas.al ways n wet placo it was spread about eight inches thick. Noxt year $250 was colleotod and about one-half milo was put down, spreading thin only about four inches. This year only $100 wasoollectod, but a quartor-milo-ntrip was put down, fluishiug tho milo ntartod fivo yenvn boforo. Besides thin about half j milo of marl was put down ready for gravol next fall. This method of making a road is a good ono, for if tho mnrl is onco packod down nnd if gravol is thou addod tho resulting roadbod is ns hard as 'macadam. Noxt year the town ship will try to ralso $000 for gravel if tho farmers will plodgo thoir labor toward getting it down, nnd now about a yoar boforo it is uoedod throo fourths of tho labor is promisod. This shows what farmors oan do if thoir town is too poor to mako good roads. This is tho sort of co-oporation that pays. Autoinoltllti Interdict). Tho first good roads mooting of tho Automobilo Club nt tho Waldorf-Astoria in New York City was n success. Tho lato spoakcrs woro Assomblymau J. A. Alias, Charles E. Sirams, Jr., and I. B. Potior. Old-timo workers for goodj'onds doolared tho moating ono of tho most notablo thoy ovor hod attoudod, not only becauso of tho union ot tho cyclists aud motorists, but on account of the speakers beiug tho most prominont authorities on tho subject aud thoir addrosses boing filled with valuablo statistics. As an oxam plo of how tho tax would bo folt by tho couutios, Stato Euginoor Bond said that if tho Stato appropriated 3000,000, with tho oonutios to mako up tho othor $500,000, as tho law pro vides, this would mean for Wostohos ter County ton eonts on every , $1000, worth of property, according to tho valuation ot 1891). Albany County would havo to pay $900o on this basis, which is loss than Wostohostor. A mile ot macadam road costs about $8000, and with $1,000,000 ono bun drod and twonty-flvo miles could bo built. This would bo n littlo moro thau two milos for oaoh county if it was distributed that way. Thus, for instance, Albany County for itr$9005 would get somowhat moro thau $10,000 worth of good roads. Moro thau thirty now Stato roads have been laid out by engineorn nud aro now waiting for tho funds to bo appropriated. Good I'oniU nnd llntl. Somo valuablo nnd suggostivo facts and figures aro furnishod by tho Chi cago Tribuuo on the subject of tho oost of bad roads. It says that Maur ioo E. Eldridgo, ot tho Dopartmeutof Agrioulturo, who has special ohargo of tho ofllco of Publio Road Inquiries, hns boon collecting data as to the coBt of hauling farm and othor prodnots ovor American roads. Tho conclusion whioh ho draws from tho replies to 10,000 lotters of inquiry sont to reli able farmors aud toaiustora iu tho Unitod States is that tho average cost of hauling ono tou a distance of ono milo is twenty-flvo contn. For tho samo amount of monoy a ton oan bo carried 200 miles by stoamor aud fifty milos by rail. Evidently horso power or mule power is expensive. But whilo it oostn thofnrmor of this coun try n quarter ot n dollar to team n ton ot produce ouo mile, it costs Europoau farmors only 5.8 cents. Tho latter havo hard, smooth nnd comparntivoly lovol roads, which can bo traveled iu all kinds of weather. It is impossible to Ugaro out the cott of tho bad roads bills whioh tho farmors pay yearly noodlessly nud without complaint. One road roformor says thoso bills foot up $250,000,000 nununlly. That is n moro guoss, but it may bo near tho truth. Whatever tho sura may bo, it falls on tho farmors exclu sively, aud thus cuts down thoir not roooipts from their crops. Campnlcn Tor (looil Itoadi, In its efforts to obtain good roads tho Automobilo Club of Amorioa has mado a good start. It is going about tho work iu n nystomatio way. To acquaint itsolt with tho needs of tho State aud tho nation by having loo tu res from men who havo mndo tho building of roads a lifoloug study is an oxoollont idea, Massaohusotts nnd Now Jorsoy havo oxpondod moro than $2,000,000 ou thoir highways during tho last fow yoars, whilo tho roads ot tho Empiro ntato uavo been to a largo oxtont nog looted; but this faot should ouly stir us to moro vigorous action. Tho club monborH are goiug to Albany fortillod Willi thoso tacts to urgo tho liogisla turo to do justioo to tho Stato by rank iug liboral appropriations for road making. Iu this thoy Hhould rooolvp tho hearty support ot tho farmors of Now York, who, nftor all, wlllroceivo tho groatostjjonollt from good high ways. Lot tho enterprising agriculturists combiuo with tho wideawake, pkntmro loving anlomobiliats and bioyclists, and wo shall soon havo a system of roads of whioh tho Bmpiro State may well be proud of, Now York Herald, Use tilt Alternative System. Tho county oomraisBionorn of Jack son County, uoorgia, uavo put into oporation tho alternative road system, and this body will begin in n-short whilo tho work of putting tho roads qf tho county in oxoollont condition. The tax rato to sccuro this improved system of roads will bo small, only $2 per thousand, and tho citizons of tho county aro willing to pay this small ad valorem tax. AMAZING WAR INVENTIONS. Hotr Ingenious Ainarlrnni WouM Come to tlio lleicue or the HrltUli. An ambitious inventor has offered tho British Govornmont, through Colonol Leo, tho military attacho of tho ombassy horo, writos tho Wash ington oorrespondont of tbo Chicago Rocord, an apparatus by which tho Boors may bo entirely dostroyod with out oudaugoring tho lives and tho limbs ot tho British noldiors. Tho plan ho has devised rosomblos qnito closely that of the "Yaukoo at King Arthur's Of nrl" ns described by Mark Twain iu his story of that titlo. A Connecticut Ynnkeo, having boon thrown back into tho rniddlo ages, visited tho court of King Arthur aud gavo to him tho bonelH of many nine- toouth century inventions, which pro- duood both amazomont and oonstorna- tiou among tho valorous but super stitious knights ot tho "Round Tablo." Among "othor thing, tho Yaukoo introduced eleotrioity into warfare, and arrangod wires so that whon tho onoray attacked tho castle tho rayBtoriouM current was turnod on nnd thoy all rccoivod n shock that paralyzod them and onablod tbom to bo mado prisoners without npilling blood. Tho proeoss nor; ofl'orod to tho British Government is similar in its arrangomout nud effect. Both tho process nud tho apparatus aro kopt secret, for foar tho Boers will discover i .... ami oountoraui tiiom, out tuo general priuoiplo is to givo tho outiro Boer array an oloolrio shook nnd thou rni in nud capturo thom beforo thoy re covor from it. Another 'suggestion" 'dfiWod 'to 'tho British ombassy by n Western inven tor in ovon moro novel. It consists of a coutrivanco Bimilar to tho littlo casltu ot brandy nnd wino whioh nro strapped upon tho backs ot tho dogs that nro sont out by tho monks ot St. Bernard for tho rescue ot travolcrs in tho paBsos of tho Alpj. Thin profound gonitis proposos that tho British com mandor soonro several thousand dogs, saddle tbom with thoso littlo contriv ances, filled with dynamite instead ot wino, nud sond thoin across into tho trouchea of tho Boers. . The Utter are known to bo fond of animals, particu larly dogs aud horses, and can natur ally bo expected to roooivo them cordially. Attachod to each kog of dynamite will Jjo n timo fuse, long ouough to enable tho dog to bcoomo fairly domesticated in tho Boer quarters beforo it oxplodos. Thoro is also nn arrangomout by which tho ohargo will bo exploded if any attempt is mado to rcmovo is from tho dog's baok, so that it it doos not work ono way it oan havo n sooond chanco. Tho inventor thinks that by tho saorifloo of a thousand dogn and a fow hundred pounds of dynamite tho Boors may bo overcome. WORDS OF WISDOM. A cruol story runs on wiieois, ami evory hand oils tho whocls ai thoy run. Ouida. Only ho who livos a lifo of his own can help tho Uvc3 ot othor men. Phillips. Brooks. Experionoo hoops a dear sohool, bub fools will loarn iu no othor, and soarcoly in that. Franklin, If a littlo knowledge is dangoroun, wb?ro is tho mau who has so much as to bo out of dangor? Huxloy. GhftrAotpr consists. a man stead ily pursuing thai things of whieu ho fools himself capablo. Gootho. Man's work in life is to turn him self from tho raw produot iuto u pioco of lluo nrt. Richard Whltoiug. It is tho peculiar fnoulty of fools to discern tho faults ot ofihors ut tho samo timo thoy forgot their own. Ciooro. Tho nffcctlon of old ago is ono of tho greatest consolations of humanity. I havo ofton thought what u melan choly world thiH would bo without ohildrou, aud what nn inhuman world without tho nged. Coleridge. Tho naa, as woll ns air, is n froo and common thing to nil; aud a particular nation cannot protend to havo tho right to tho exclusion ot all others, without violating tho rights of Naturo aud publio usage. Quoou Eliznboth. Silonoo is ono groat nrt of conversa tion, Ho is not n fool who knows when to hold bin tonguo; aud a per son may gain credit fnr souse, olo quouoo, wit, who moruly says nothing to losson tho opinion whioh othors linvo ot thoso qualities iu themsolvos. William Haztitt. In tlio Author' nan. "John," said tho poet's wifo, "the coal's out." "Well, this pooui horo has consid orablo fire iu it." "And tho gas man has taken out tho motor." "All right; tho fnll moon's ou onr sido; I'vo just finished nu odo to hor." "And we'll havo to exist ou cold crusts horonftor." "Not nt nil! I have just finished two columns of hot stuff." "Do bo sorionsl What aro wo tc livo on?" "Tho earth, my dear tho colld, substantial earth 1 Aud now, just b quiet whilo I feast on this soun?ti" AtlauU Constitution.