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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1901)
') i ! i P uncomplainingly he bore the moll Of hoitewif cw ml unremitting toil, Ami, be it miK throuRliout her length of d.r .... Her woronnlr reward wn itinled praue. Sl lirrtl a life ai lowly at the lotto. Yet Jt her -jitienl smile uiareled home An.l mntHer-lore that watched o'er trundle-bed. ,, Till r'txx th praW lniband oftea aid She made lit home-life nippy. Sn, when the friend had cronaed upoa her htvU Her tired handt.that he might belter ret, And noted th angelic tmile of pear i-lie wore At Ubor'a end and toil eeae. An emUph ! WJitk aer grre Ikty frsrred. And. while n deed of mwtrrusia w named, , , The line told all of wife and matter utrife , Thev writ hneath her name- "A Farm " er's Wife She mf hi home-life Hanmr. Knr Farrcll Greene, in Good Hmelee-to-. I Wy Mrs. Parker Was Worried, A WOMAN who Htm on the i-oii ih side relate " horrible experience that she hnd the other cloy with one of Uor huhaiid's debtors. Ihc debt had boon of Ions standing, and tltr man who owed the money had iK'cn paying It off In regular Install ment by mall, sometimes Inclosing a Itoatofiice order and sometimes n bill. The Lift time II bad been a bill and the letter ucor came, so he wrote to say that he would make n trip to Chicago and bring the money himself. The day appointed the woman's husband had to be out of town, and be asked her If she wouldn't for once forego the Joys of shopping and stay nt home and act a e.tshlor. and die agreed to do so In consideration of a reasonable com mbvlon on the payment "You can give him a receipt for It," said the man, whose name I Parker. "I'll All It ou before I go, and It won't le any trouble to you at all. Treat him nicely, although I needn't tell you to do that only he's an odd tort of genius and has peculiar little ways. Some of the people out at Waukegaa bare cot the Idwi that he Is n little out of hl head, but he Uu't, and I will My that there Isn't one man In a mil lion that would act as square as be has done Ask after his son In New York , and bow he Is getting along with his cornMiucklnc machine. That will pleae him. Well, goad bye; le sot to hutle." The Wankegan man arrived oa time. He was large. loose-Jolntcd and eld erlr. with a wild ere and a timid, hes itating manner. The fashion of his j help. Going down stair lie suddenly clothes was decidedly rural and be J came upon the servant who. In const wore heavy cowhide boot. As be ex-1 queace of his bootless condition, bad plained the object of his visit be fingered his long, wispy beard nerr ouly and seemed unwilling to look the lady In the face She invited him had heard of tho power that n calm, sternly look baa over the Insane. Blip looked nt him calmly and steadily, though her face, she felt, wna growing white with terror. The trouble was that he would not look nt her, but con tinued to wrestle with bin loot. At last an energetic wrench brought the boot off and the madman thrust his arm In It up to the elbow. Then he said: "By JInksr' and smiled In an Imbecile, self -reproachful sort Of way. "How .a your married son In New York!" Inquired Mrs. Farker. la a task of aspiration, malstcnlng bar parched lips with her tongue. "Him" replied tbc maniac. "Oh. he's all right leastways he was when I last heard from blm." lie bent down and tackled the ather boot, and Mrs. Parker ance more rose and tried to edge her way round the tattle to pass blm. lie stopped and looked up and the retreated to tho window and seated hersvlf. with an assumption of carelessness, on the sill. If the worst came to the worst she might throw hereof ant and risk the Injury that slio tuLiht stutnln from Uie broken glass and tha fall. It was not more than eight or ten feet to tba grouud. and anything would be pref erable to the horror of being In tb clutches of a madman. Then another thought came to her. Perhaps she could attract the atten tion of some passer-by and dumbly summon assistance. She looked quick ly out. A man was paslne a young man with a quite noticeable dark mus tache, fashionably attired and holding bis arms gracefully bowed out from his body. Mrs. Parker, who Is a good looking young woman, threw her whole anguished soul Into an Implor ing look and beckoned stealthily but Imperatively to him. Fie smirked en gagingly at her In return nnd raised his hat. hesitated, then smirked again, caressed his Httla mustache aud passed on. "There!" exclaimed the lunatic. Mrs. Parker started. He had got the other boot off. and, standing In bis stocklug feet, was groping lusldc of It as he had In the other. "Good Joke on me." he said. "I clean forgot which one I put it In, and I couldu't tell nothing by thrfceJ." Withdrawing bis hand be drew out a thlu. flat package, and then, moisten ing bis finger, separated from it a $10 bill, which he extended to Mrs. Par ker, who looked at it wopderingly for aa Instant and then dropped into a chair and began to sob hysterically. It appears tbat this is not the end. The man from Waukegan who bad made a safety-deposit vault of his boot tried for some minutes to soothe sod calm the agitated woman, but bis gen tle ministrations only seemed to make her worse. He stood and tugged helplessly at his berd and tben rushed fria the room in search cf ia. and after carefully robbing bis boots on the door mat be followed ber Into the sitting room, where he seated himself on the extreme edge of a chair and cared earnestly at a crayon portrait that hung over the bookcase. "Mr Parke.- told roe to tell yon bow wrry be w. that be couldn't be here to see yon." id the woman, with an nraclnc smile, as she seated herself opposite ber visitor. "Yes'sa." coughlnc behind his hand and rransterrinc his gate to the clock. "Rot be thought as far as the busi ness wa concerned Jbat I could attend to it jnst s well as be coald." There was aa emliarrassed silence. Mrs. Parker felt the contagloa of tbe man's nerronsness. She thought tbat be certainly was odd almost alarm ingly so. She caught his eye la tbe com- f its wanderlugs around the roam end noticed that be colored sllsbtly. She congbed and be coughed a rasping tcho. -He left me the receipt." she said, at last. "Yes'm."' Another sllenee. The man shuffled his feet unejis-fly and tbe woman began to f-el desperate. "It was too lud tbat your last remit tance was loc but Mr. Parker told me to say tbat he would giro you credit for half the amount, or all of It if you thought tbat be ought to." "That wouldn't be right." said the roan. "I don t want blm to Itwe any thing by accommodating roe. But you've got a pact of darned thieves here in Chicago a lot of rascals that nght to le bung. I would help bang them If 1 bad the chance.' lie spoke whh great veheroeuee and looked at ber angrily that she quailed and wondered if ber servant was within call. "A man's money ln't safe." be added. Tben in a gentler tone; "Have yon got a liooUseky "A bootjack?" "Oli. well; may le I can manage without, but they crnne off a trifle stiff." He prched the toe of one of his boots against tbe bed of the other and pushed with It: it slipped and his right heel grated bis left Instep, aud lit- uttered a cry of paiu. The woman started up from ber seat with an ex clamation of alarm, liut her eccentric visitor wa between ber and the door and she feared that be would Jump at her and strangle "her leforc she could reach It. She was, moreover, con stlous of tiuddeu weakness In her limbs. Perhaps, she thought, be wasn't really dangerous nnd she could humor blm. It would rooft likely ex cite nnd anger him if he should cry out. ne looked tip nnd said: "Excnw me," then took bis boot 3n bis band and pulled at it violently, Mrs. Parker not beard bis approach. Before be could explain bis mission she screamed and fell over against tbe gas stove in a dead futnt. and. as Parker says, there was a dickens of a time gener ally. Another thing, there is a young man wltb a slight, dark mustache wbo passes the bouse quite frequently and annoys Mrs. Parker by raising bis bat to ber and sometimes kissing bis band. Parker lias not caucbt blm as yet, but be is biding bis time, and has ex pressed his intention of breaking tbat young man's darned neck. As for the Wankegan man. be called at Parker's office for bis receipt, and hesitatingly inquired after Mrs. Par ker. "You'll excuse mc, Henry," be said, "but ain't she a well. Jnst a lit tle, you know " "Heyr said Tarfcer. The Waukccan man tapped his fore bead significantly with bis forefinger. Chicago Itccord. Xatnr Brides or the Klrh Tonus; Men. Three cases of marriage between tbe elite of -New York where tbe brides were several years tbc senior of their youthful mates may not betoken more than accident, but it looks as if a pr cedent bad leen inaugurated which in time might be made a fashion. Women jige so much faster than men that tbesc five years or less should be on the other side of tbe family. If tbe moneyed aristocracy of this country adepts a social custom it goes. "When wc were twenty-one" will read some day when be was twenty-one and sbe was twenty-seven, and the inequality. in spite of beauty doctors. In a decade will le too apparent for the lady's hap piness. Lady Randolph Churchill and her young husdiaml are not yet dis contented wltb their match, but Mrs Ijingtrj-, who wedded a comjiaratlvo juvenile, has already found her doll Is filled with nawdnst. However, mar riage is n lottery anyhow, and It is a question if rich young men are not safer with women older than them selves. Boston Herald. THE STORY OF WINOSOR. An JKngllsh CnatU Bine tha Mamtan Conqnrat. Those of us who have passed pleas nnt bourn wandering roundabout Windsor Castle are very TlTldly re minded of It by the sad ceremonies performed there recently. The history of Windsor Cnrtle i the history of Enctabd since the Nortnnn Conquest Edward the Csafessor grnntcd the site sf tbe castle and the tows to tbe Abbot sf Wcfltaslsster, but William tb Conqueror was so struck with the beaaty at toe surrsundlBg scenery and tb Importance sf tbe situation as a military poet tbat he "traded" with tbe Abbot for mat loads la Kcsex, and ersctcd a fortress, which Henry tbc First ealarjred. Court was first held ia the new pal ace la 111, after which It was often tbe sccfic sf rejral festlTlties. Btephea dsri&f his reign considered It only nnxt la tsapsctance as a strong hold ts tbe Tswer e I.sndon. IiAary II. held a parliament within Kit walls In 1170. whea, la addltioa to tbe Knfrtib Barons. King William of Best bind was present. Nothing lint the fear of treachery proTcntcd Windsor from being? antocU ated with Majroa Charts, Instead of the neighboring plain of Runnymede. where the meeting of the Barons and King John took place. CoutemMng factions alternately had possession of the castle during the reign of nonry III., and many altera tions were made during that period. Indeed, tbe only parts which remain exactly ns In the time of Henry III. are) the towers on the western wall, and even these have been refaced. While alterations were going on In 1852, some houses being pulled down In Thames street, a subterranean pas age. from tbe Garter tower to the bot tom of the ditch, with the masonry In good condition, was dlscoTered. Th magnitude of this Is appreciated by looking down the precipitous "Castle slopes" from tbe heights of the north terrace. This aoble promenade was added by Queea KlUabeth. Another "sally port" was discovered later on tbe south side, but is probably later than Henry HI. Windsor was tbe principal residence of tbe first and second Kdwards, and bexe Edward III. was born. Edward III., whs instituted the no ble Order of tbe Garter, rebuilt the enisle almost entirely, employing WH liass de Wykebata (Bishop of Winches ter) as saperiatendent of the works at a weekly salary of seven shillings. with t&ree more for bis clerk. He also rebuilt tbe chapel of St George. In 1?54. August X. Queen Mary and ber consort Pbilla II. of Spain, made their grand public entry Into Windsor, To Cnarlcs I. this castle was first a palace and then a prison. Charles IL, the "Merry Monarch." took tip bis residence here after tbe restoration, and made "alterations" ratber than Improvements. Tlla In terior changes are not criticised, how ever. Noble avenues of elm and beech trees, and park Improvements general ly marked tbe regimes of William III. and Queen Anne. George I., whs freqnently resided here, introduced the Coatinental cus tom of dining la public every Thurs day. George III. made it his chief resi dence. Mainly out of his own private parse he restored tbe north front renovated tbe Chapel Boyal and built tbe Itoyal Vault In 1823, whea George IV. took np his residence here, began tbe enormous expenditure that made tbe castle what it is to-day. Ills brother, the "Sailor King," wn Ham IV.. though very popular, re ceived little credit for the carrying oa oT this work. Bat the entire plan, made by Sir Jeffrey Wyattvllle. -la 1S24, was only completed in the reign of Victoria, who Is to rest here, where, with the Prince Consort she loved to live a beantifnl borne life so eMfferent from the hollow pomp and circumstance which dis tinguished that of most of ber prede cessors. Windsor Castle and Windsor town are on the best of terms, the latter lelng tbe dearest sleepiest, old place possible. The old-fashioned society Item nbont "a quiet wedding" may be regarded as entirely obselele. An Irish philosopher snys that there Is no blessing like health, especially when a fellow Is sick. Economists who are alarmed by the decrease of matrimony might remedy tbe matter by jrtttlng up a bill ts sub sidize married people. Fatersoa, N. J., should bow try is bring to the front Its reputation as a manufacturing town, which has of late beea ss much overshadowed. A Kansas editor apologizes for say In a bride appeared la her "shirt sleeves." "We wrote 'short sleeves,' " says tbe editor, "as plala as we know how." Rich mea ds not require curfew. Taey tee to It themselves that their children are not only carefully guard ed dnrlug tbe day, but safely locked up at night. . . . 5orrow and Joy follow closely npon the heels of each other. Witness the death of the aged Queen of England and the marriage of the young Queen of Holland. The Lancet pronounces the present underground steam trains in London "exceedingly dirty." All attempts at ventilation have fnlled, and the pro posed substitution of electric traction seems the only remedy. Poets and poeta sons appear to get no discount on their crimes In English courts. Oscar Wilde went to the tread mlU like any other felon, and Sir Ed win Arnold's son Julian has Just begun a ten-year sentence for embezzlement. The Chinese are forbidden by law ts use cow's milk. It will not be surpris ing to find China supplementing its boasts about gun powder and the art of printing wltb a claim that It was lh original disco Tercr of oUorsarsar-lne. ssisSEssssssa Eood Roads Bat vj ri ix SBtSft f The organization of a Parisian club for the purpose of marrying Its mem bers to American heiresses may be ac cepted as a French challenge to the young men of America to put forth their best efforts to keep tbe heiresses la the country. Prairie chickens in Kansas only a few years ago were looked upon aa a pest Now the farmers are encourag ing their propagation by keeping hunt ers off tbelr farms. The chickens are much more plentiful now than for several seasons back. There are over 100 towns in England and Wales that own and operate pub lic baths. They are patronized by all classes, and are said to give perfect satisfaction. Tbe examples o these towns might be profitably followed by every town In the United States. A Bhode Island statistician, after a careful investigation among bankers in foreign financial centres computes tbe amount tbe United States owed abroad a year ago as J3.330.000.000. Against this be sets, as owed ts the United States, $500,000,000. leaving a let in debtedness on the part o this country of ?2,S30,000,000. The annual charges against tbe United States he figures as $150,000,000, made up of an Interest account of $90,0u0.(00. travelers' credit $50,000,000, and loss by expatriation on tbe part of heiresses and wealthy gentlemen $10,000,000. mmmm&M System Im Road Bulletin. HE Goremor In his message wisely emphasizes the desir ability of system la rood btilldlag. He would have the old Stale roads reopened and others constructed, so that the Improved highways would form continuous HacR, traversing oeuaty after county thraughout the whole extent of the State. Such roads would, of course, csnaect tho principal cities and large (was of the various counties and cor respond somewhat to trunk lines of railroad, glTlng good traveling from town ts town and from county to county, and each would greatly con duce to the development of the corn mtiBitlea along Its route and to the foaadin of new oues. The Governor seems to think it appropriate that the State Itself should tnkc tbe Initiative lu the building of such roadt, because ihey will serTe general nnd not merely local interests, and it Is probably de sirable that they should be constructed first of all. Such ronds. however, will not, ns the Governor makes plain, answer the whole need. There must be a multi plicity of cross roads aud side road connecting different parts of the same towns and Tillages, and these nre no less important that the others. All the people do not lire on the main roads by any menus. Many a man will drive over a side road to the vil lage, or from one part of the town to another, abundrcd times for every sin gle time when he will drive to the next town or the next county on tbc main highway. It would be most Illogical and unjust to say that while Inter county and Intcrtown traffic shall bnvo good roads lntracounty and Intra town traffic shall continue to wallow In dost and mud. This latter system of local roads Is therefore as essential as the former. But unlike the for mer. It may properly, nnd Indeed should, be left to local InltlatlTe and di rection. We should haTe, then, two distinct yet connected and harmonious sys tems of roads. One would comprise such great highways as tbc old Al bany Post IUMd. along the eastern bank of the Hudson Itlver, and the Boston Post Road, skirting the Sound. The other would consist of Intersect ing roads, grldlroning each county and town. The State roads might well be made of extra width and be con structed of trap rock, which is proba bly the best road metal In the world, after the most approved plan of Tel ford and Macadam. There Is enough trap In the talus of the Palisades and in the quarries of Rockland County to build such roads from Montauk Point to Niagara Falls, nnd the dis tribution of it to -.early nil points would be cheap nnd easy. Granite, nowever, mtgnt also ue used, espe cially in combination with limestone. The local roads might largely be constructed of local material at much less cost and yet be practically as ser viceable as the others. Limestone, which is so widely distributed through out the State, makes an admirable road if properly used, some preferring It to trap or granite because It is soft er and therefore easier for tbe horses' hoofs. Some villages In Westchester County have provided themselves with capital roads by using the refuse chips and dust from the mnrble aud lime stone quarries of that region. Again, deposits of bowlders and gravel nre to be found in almost every county, and a road built of broken bowlders with a top-dressing of selected gravel comes pretty dose to tbe best standard. But, whatever the material, all the roads of both systems should be built according to well devised aud consist ent plans, so that we shall lie spared tbe sight, now too often visible, of a fine bit of road a mile or two long run ning "from nowhere to nowhere" or from a slough to a slough. New York Trlbuue. AMERICAN MULES EXALTED. Growing Internatlnnnl Itrenrnlllon of Their Merita ltxjrtel. One effect of tho Anglo-Ilocr war In South Africa ban been to exalt nnt only In market value, but also In f flclal consideration, tbc Anicjlcnn mule. There has been n coustnnt de mand for American mules for service In the military operation of the Eng lish. The distinction of the American mule has become international, and It need be no surprise, therefore, tuit In recent official publications In Washing ton the mule, no longer the snbject of slighting olBslal reference, should have a position of dignity nnd promi nence. Thus, recently, there has appeared a bulletin concerning the number of mules In large cities from which It ap pears that tlierc arc nov COO mules In New York City. 509 la Chicago, 213 In Boston nnd thlrty-scren In Detroit, these being the cities In which smiles nre least esteemed. In Philadelphia the number Is 1500, In Baltimore 1000, In Kansas City 2100. In St. Louis 2800. nnd lu New Orlenns ,'UOO. The former distinction of Memphis as the sreat mule city has been oblit erated In tbe march of progress of tho mule to belated distinction, and the to tal of Memphis Is exceeded by Louis ville, a city much further north, thn Industrial Interests of which nre not such as to make many calls for tho purchase of mules. The distinction of toe American mule as recognized officially does not stop short with mere enumeration, for there appears also n statement show ing "the number of mules per 100.000 Inhabitants In certain cities nnd groups of clttcs of tho United States." Thus It appears that there are 1195 mules to each 100.000 Inhabitants In New Or leons. and ninety-nine mules only to each 100,000 inhabitants In Washing ton, In which mules arc but poorly represented. In New York City It may be of In terest to the future historian to know on official authority, there nre seven mules for each 100.000 Inhabitants In tbe borough of Queens, eight In the borough of Brooklyn, twenty-two In the borough of Manhattan, twentjr-five In the borough of Richmond, nnd thirty-one In the borough of The Bronx. Why this disparity exists In the bor; ough of The Bronx there is no accom panying official explanation. New York Sun. TEuclUH Song Itltd Tor India. Tlarjcellng, tbe mountain sanitorlnm of Bengal, is getting tired of talking ot the tornado that wrecked the -station a couple of years ago. So tbe Improve ment committee have thought of some thlug -lt-e. Tbej declare themselves dissatisfied with the encoo, hitherto Darjeellng's almost sole feathered warbler, and are trying to import Eng lish song birds, nt a pound apiece, to plant in the woods, says a Calcutta correspondent It--Is a bad lookout for the songsters, as the woous are fnll of Himalayan ravens, nnd Himalayan ravens feed on young birds, Bnt the improvement committee nre sungulne. nnd the lieutenant-governor of Bengal Is alleged to bnvc made the suggestion, so iioliody protests. The ravens, by the wny, are said themselves to have been imported some yenrs ago by the Mah arajah ot Darbhauga ; row tit T Frelcht Cae In Dedr. To-day tbe freight car that has not a capacity of at least 00,000 pounds is considered rather out of date, and cars for handling heavy freights, such as ore and coal, are constructed with a capacity of 100,000 pounds. The size of the locomotives and the weight of tbe rail in tbe track has been corre spondlngly increased. Wben.tbe large capacity cars began to come Into use. a switchman on the Union Pacific road happened to see one of the old and small Union Pacific cars between two of the large and modern type, nnd he wrote on the car with chalk: "Oh little boxcar, don't you cry: you'll be a freight-bouse by and by." Another employe seeing one of the modern coal cars, with its unusually high sides. wrote on It: "snop: ro root. -i or National Magazine. Irish Humor About llrltUli Soldier. There roust have ten at least one interval in the Authors, Club's recent dinner to Captain Hedworth Iimbton of Ladysmlth fame when every one was In a thoroughly good buroor. Dr. Conan Boyle must have leen moder ately sure of it, too. else be would never have dared to tell to bis fellow Britishers there a story which he did. for its iwint hns lccn touched on once or twice dnrlng this wur with some neldlty. This was the story: An officer was giving his men a little lecture on the war and Its lessons and asked: "How do tbe Boers, flgbtT" "Behind the rocks, sir." a soldier re plied. "And bow do the English fight?" i "Behind the lrlh. sir." The Belgian bare Issue has been met by the Massachusetts Game and Fish Commissioners with tbe report that the National Secretary or Agricul ture's fears do not apply to Massachu setts at least Its flesh Is good to cat Its fur is good to wear. And Its body is good to shoot at Well irotected, tbe Belgian hare "can possibly be In creased sufficiently in our woods to partially supply tho demand for some thing to shoot at a demaud that must constantly increase with tbe growth of population and the recognition of necessity for healthful recreation." A Connecticut cat is charged with turning on tbe gas, wltb tbe result that a whole family nearly came to an un timely end. This is a .new crime to lay at the door of tbejnost unresjion aire and haughty of domesticated ani mals. A dog is a shamefaced thing, always ready to show penitence for bis sins. Hence tbe ease with which he obtains forgiveness. Terhnps it is owing to his contempt for contrition that the cat has been accused of trans gressions, from breaking choice china to raiding Ice boxes. This self-contained acquaintance, but not friend of man. has acted as the scapegoat for careless servants for Innumerable gen erations. Perhaps It is because he hnd such a good time in ancient Egypt that be is so "cbcaty" now A Important Matter. "Good roads" Is an important mat ter to be dealt with nt the present session of the legislature, but like most important matters it Is in danger of being complicated by too mauy con flicting plans. That heretofore pur sued of inducing comities nnd local authorities to do their share, with co operation from the State, is a good one to adhere to, aud it will be bettor to be a little slow In the good work than to run up debts and mortgage the fu ture. A bill Just Introduced proposes to Issue State bonds not exceeding $50,000,000, subject to approval bv n vote of the people, for the construction and improvement of highways. That would 6tart a new and prodigal policy, which It Is desirable to avoid. Tho vnlue of Improved roads is one tbat ac crues ns fast ns they nre constructed, and the people should lie induced to pay for them as they go along, or In cur only local and short time debts, nt most for sections that must lie coin pleted to lie ot use. The State help should be. rendered liberally, but Judb clonsly nnd without Imposing heavy obligations to bo met In the future. The work will hnve to bo gradual, and will take a long time nt best, but It will prow in appreciation ns It ad vances. New York Mall and Kvprcss, WORDS OF WISDOM. .. I ' Selfishness Insults love. Abiding achievement is greater than restless activity. We do not hnve to be blind in order to see eye to eye. Evil fasteus on us only because It finds affinity in us. A good man not only knsws how to live; he knows how to die. The adder on a jeweled tray Is as dangerous as its fellow In tbc dirt The approbation of self is seldom born of the approval of consciences. He that deals fairly with his neigh bor docs not have to flee from him. He who will not listen to the teach ings of failure shall never hear the voice of success. It Is hopeless consulting the compass of conscience when you lay tbe load stone of lust beside It The roots of n strong tree do not mnko much rustle, but they do the hanging on lu time of storm. Charity draws from nn cxhaustless fountaiu; the more it gives, the moro It has to give. Ram's Horn. KnclUbmrn unit tbe Q. Curiously enough the great mass of Englishmen knew little or nothing of the sovereign as tbelr ruler. They had only the vaguest Idea ot tbe part she took in the government of her realm and ber people; they knew prac tically nothing of the controlling and dominant force she exercised la inter national and domestic politics. But about this they cared nothing. It was sufilcleut for them to know" that she was a good woman, a woman whoso heart always wont out to ber people, who shared with them their joys as well as their sorrows, who was keenly Interested In everything that could make them better aud happier. And perhaps more than anything else was tho knowledge that she was a woman who had suffered much, whose heart hnd been sorely wrenched, nnd whoso spirit often tried, nnd yet through It all sho had remained serene, hopeful, al ways an oxnniple for right living, al ways an Inspiration to the weary and the mulcted. Perhaps that was tbe real secret of the devotion widen sho Insulrcd In Englishmen tho world over. AT Maurice Low, In Harper's Weekly. Ooiut KnniU, It may be well to add tbat tho good roads movement existed long before there was n bicycle or a league of American Wheelmen, but tho fanners of America owe much to the riders of the narrow track machine for having given tbe movement nn ndded Itupc tua. Denver Republican, Tbe girl with high marries an aeronaut Ideals seldom lMenvnitt For tin. Varanta. A gvntlcnmu Invited a certain lectm er to bis bouse to take tea. Immediately on being seated nt tho tnblo a little daughter of the liouso said to the guest abruptly: "Where Ik your wife" Tho lecturer, who bad recently sep arated front bis better half, was sur prised mid lumnyed at the question nnd stammered forth the truth: "I don't know." "Don't knowr repeated the child. "Why don't yon Knowr Fludltitf tlml the child persisted in ber lutorromtiliiita, despite the mild re proof of tho parentis In; decided to tnnUo, n olemt bvensi of tho matter and bnvo It over nl nme, so bo said with enlmness; "Woll, Wn ilolt'l UVe together. We think, ns eitnM nuvvo, we'd bettor not." Ho Milled it ui'onn ns thn child begun again, nbd rinktiM nn OAnspoenlvd look nt lict' piiivbts. Ul tho Utile, torment would not bo quieted until Mio eM'litlinod! "(Wt iiHieeH TlliMi why tWt .vow IlKhl II OUI, Urn sitlne n ruling nnd llmiUlM'dor ' "T"''tfW i'WWrWait.WKilaWiHWJwiwai