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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
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