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\ AS CHILDREN DO. ! Sometimes, when night is creeping down, I And all the world about is dim, ?? . - i . tana ne must go to oieepyiown, You lie down at the side of him ?&.nd whisper soothing little things ' In childish words, such as you frame [To tell the sound of beetle wings I And how the firefly gets it's flame. And soon the world grows darker yet And to the little fellow's eyes Strange, hidden dangers now beset The shadow places in the skies; But you speak low and comforting: And tell him none of them are there, That near him is not anything i But what is good and kind and fair. Then trembling come his little hands Out through the dark and find your face, 2Ls though by touch he understands > That he is in the safest place; [And so with fingers on your cheek He sighs contentedly to sleep? And you, you may not even speak < So very, very still you keep. Sometime you, as & little child, " Shall fare into an unknown night !A.nd shall yearn for the stara that smiled With all their soothing, drowsy light; !A.nd you, as little children do, , May grope out through the darks of space, l&jid sigh in peace to sleep, when you At last have touched your father's face, t?Wilbur D. Nesbit, in the Chicago Evening Post. vjk X?X?X?X?X?X?X?X?X?X ; MEASURE FOR MEASURE * y i By MARY F. HURLEY.1 x?X?X?X?X?X?X?X?X?X One glance at Benton's face told John Thornton that something unusual was about to happen, but, with characteristic caution, he waited for Fred to Introduce the subject. I "John, I wish you'd do me a favor," began Fred abruptly, "ana i promise faithfully not to impose on your good nature again. Aunt Sarah insists on my accompanying Miss Gordon and herself this evening, and, of course, that means that I can't take Marian to the theatre as I intended, unless?n "Unless by proxy," interposed {Thornton. i "Exactly, and if you'll only help me out to-night, John, I'll never ask such a thing of you again. You'll go?" ? "Well?yes," answered Thornton, reluctantly, "that is, if Marian submits to your arrangement. You know she was terribly 'put out' the other ' time, and made no effort .to conceal her displeasure." 1 "I must pleas? Aunt Sarah, John, 1 and you know why," retorted Fred, Irritably, "and you also know that phe disapproves of Marian." \ "She wouldn't if she knew her," 1 retorted Thornton, warmly. Then t .With assumed indifference, he said: < "Who is tnis Miss tioraon:. uepcribe her." "She's a New York girl,'but I can't i \ describe her, John. She's dazzling." i Thornton looked quizzically at i Benton, then said, seriously: < "I hope you're not falling a victim : to Miss Gordon's charms, Fred. You < know what a susceptible fellow you ] are. It woujd break Marian's heart if you should desert her." ] "I hope I'm not such a brute," j auickly retorted Fred, remembering i i pair of brown eyes, tender and ; Bright, that had for some time held < \ him a willing captive, and vowing to ] himself .that nothing would ever " make him false to Marian. Aloud 1 be said: "See you later, and lot you know what Marian says." After leaving Thornton's office, he 1 ?ent a hurried note of explanation to 1 Marian, then settled down to his ac- 1 sustomed work. Reaching home at 1 last after a tiresome day he found i Miss Gordon more fascinating than ] ?ver. The evening was an enchanted i i . une, and Fred found his aunt's guest wholly irresistible. ] As the days went by Marian re- ; reived fewer calls and more and more . apologies, until, at last, they ceased , to be necessary. Fred did not allow ( himself to think of his unmanly treat- ( ment of the girl who had been so V dear to him, and was blind to all future consequences. He also went less frequently to Thornton's office, for Thornton's evident disinclination to discuss Miss Gordon irritated him. One afternoon, arriving home earlier than usual, he found Miss Gordon at the piano, singing. Fascinated, he stood in the doorway and watcned ner, ana sue, catcnmg signi of him, nodded and smiled Invitingly. "Katherlne, sweetheart," he said, softly, going towards her. Instantly, the friendly smile vanished, and rising, she said in her coldest and haughtiest tone: "Did you speak to me, Mr. Benton?" Bewildered and intensely mortified, Fred left the room in a storm of indignant love. He resolved to return to Marian and to forget the tantalizing woman who had allured him from love, friend and business. t That evening found him waiting again in the little parlor where he >had so often waited before, and he 'hoped that Marian was as miserably .unhappy as himself. She was much longer than visual in coming, and ,-when she did come it was hard to believe that she was the same Marian. ,Tbe shy, trusting girl who used to jblush beneath his ardent gaze met Jhim to-night with a cold serenity more Bailing than reproach. She treated (him with such polite indifference that the eloquent speech he had prepared . was forgotten. As the clock on the mantel chimed the hour of 8, she asked him to excuse her, pleading an engagement. As she moved toward the door, Fred reached it first, and said: "Surely, we are not to part like this, Marian. Let us forget the past few weeks, dear. You know you love ice, and?" "I do not love you, Fred Benton," broke in Marian, emphatically. "'Since when, Marian?" "Since I found you unworthy of my love. I learned to love you and I have also learned?to despise you." "Is there no thought of the past sufficiently powerful to make you more kind?" "None, Fred," she answered, sadly. "Remember that there are wrongs a woman never has a memory tender enough to forgive. I could never again have the old confidence and the same trust in you." She put both hands into his for a moment, then quickly passed from the room. Fred Benton was extremely humiliated. Neither Katherine Gordon nor Marian Richards had shown a proper appreciation of his devotion. When he reached home Katherine In nnp nf hf>r radiant mnods. and. seemingly having forgotten her treatment of him a few short hours before, took him into the most flattering degree of ytimacy. For the next few weeks all went splendidjy, and Fred's hopes ran high. Day after day he resolved to put his fate to the test, and although his hope was almost confidence, still he hesitated. At last the desired opportunity arrived. Katherine was sitting before the open fire, gazing into the dancing flames as if she would read her future there. Inspired with a desperate courage, '< Fred eloquently pleaded his cause. As she listened, Katherine's face wore an incredulous smile, which gradually changed to a look of sorrow. "I'm sorry for you," she said in answer, "but I'm engaged to Mr. Thornton." 1 <J duuu xuuiiiiuui ULiaiuiw Fred in astonishment. "I didn't know that you knew each other." "We met at Marian Richards'," replied Katherine calmly. Fred looked at her in helpless bewilderment. , i "Marian was; and is, one of my dearest friends," explained Katherine. "When her family left New York, after her father's failure, I , was away, and from that time until I met her on the street here, shortly after my arrival, I had lost all trace of her. Since then I have been the confidant of her joy and also of her grief and disappointment. Knowing your treatment of her, it is hardly necessary to tell you that, even were I free .to do so, t would not care to occupy a similar position." "Is that all?" asked Fred bitterly. "No," replied Katherine, as she went towards the door. "Hereafter, I'd advise you to follow the golden rule in affairs of love as well as in affairs of business."?Boston Post.' Our Ideals. By HUGO MUNSTERBERG. If we are sincere, we ought not to 1 overlook the fact that the scholar, as such, has no position in public opinf/\r? wVi ioV* trv tllA of his achievement, and to the mental energy which he needed for it. The 1 foreigner feels at once this difference between the Americans and the Eu- ' ropeans. The other day we mourned the death of Simon Newcomb. There seems to be a general agreement that astronomy is the one science in which America has been in the first rank of the world, and that Newcomb was the greatest American astronomer. Yet his death did not bring the slightest ripple of excitement. The death of the manager of the professional baseball games inter- i ested the country by far more. Public opinion did not show the slightest < consciousness of an incomparable i loss at the hour when the nation's greatest scholar closed his eyes. And [f I compare it with that deep national mourning with which the whole Hlorman nntlnn srrifivprl nf- thft lnss of men like Helmholtz orvMommsen or Virchow, and many another, the contrast becomes most significant. , When the president of Harvard University closed his administrative ; svork, the old Harvard students and ; the whole country enthusiastically ] brought to him the highest thanks ( which he so fully deserved. But , when, the year before, William James j [eft Harvard, the most famous i 3cholar who has worked In this Har- \ yard generation, the event passed by ; like a routine matter. At the com- 1 mencement festivities every speaker 3poke of the departing administrative 1 officer, but no one thought of the ieparting scholar. And that exactly i expresses the general % feeling.?The ( Atlantic. ' i Peddler to Peach King. i Down in the State of Georgia they ( have peach orchards where one can ] walk a mile in a straight line and not i hpvrmri thp? end nf a. row nf neach trees. After the Civil War any one could go through the same country and see nothing ?but cornfields. Now more peaches are produced on the , Georgia soil than in any other portion ] of the United States, with the possible exception of California. This revolution in horticulture was broughtabout by a Connecticut Yankee. J. H. Hale \ as a boy began his start in life by j carrying fruit and truck in baskets to Hartford, Conn., and selling it. from house to house. He finally accumu- , lated enough money to plant a little orchard of his own in the suburbs of Hartford on ground that people said was unfit for any crop. Hale thought , differently, and when his orchard grew from an acre to over a hundred acres an3 his income from the peaches to thousands of dollars a year, they realized that they had | been mistaken.?Bookkeeper. Warning. "No, Alice," counsels the fond ( mamma, "you should not marry Mr. Leftover. If you do you will regret it." "Why, mamma? Because he is a widower?" "Not exactly. But he will not make a good husband." "Why, mamma! Everybody knows that while his wife was alive he was a shining model for all the other husbands in town. He never drank, smoked or swore: he never stayed out late at night; he never danced with any one but her?he was simply perfect." "I know, my child. And I want to tell you that a man who has been held down that way during his first marriage will know how to dodge such rules the second time."?Life. Too Near the Pole. "Omit, if you please, the first verse of the hymn," said the minister. The congregation looked surprised. "It mentions 'Greenland's icy mountains,' " explained the minister^ "We cannot afford to introduce into .thia peaceful gathering any subject likely to lead tu acrimonious debate."! [ ?Philadelphia Ledger. 1 i ? T " A Gold Digger. Lady Sybil Grey is the latest distinguished gold digger. She accompanied her father, Earl Grey, Governor-General of the Dominion, on his recent trip to the Canadian Arctic gold fields. Near Dawson City, the capital of the Klondike, she pegged out a claim for herself with all the prescribed legal formalities and christened it the Sybil. Her first panning out produced $20 worth of gold, which she considers a very promising start. During th^ long Arctic winter, Lady Sybil will work her claim by deputy, but she says she will return next summer to supervise operations and examine results in person.? Westminster Gazette. Wedding Invitations. They need not be answered, unless the recipient is an intimate friend.' Then a congratulatory note may be 3ent. An announcement demands no icyij-. The matter of wedding gifts is, of course, an unsettled question. There are a number of well-bred persons who do not respond .to an invitation with a gift, believing that it is poor taste to 3end gifts to those whom they scarcely know, but to whose wedding they may have been invited, for some reason of cour.tesy. An "at home" card inclosed in the invitation necessitates a call, within the time named, or, if one lives in a distant city, a card sent by post.? Indianapolis News. Mrs/Locke's Theory. If the theory propounded by Mrs. Clinton Locke is correct the cat is likely to play an important part among the remedial agencies of the future. She has developed the conviction that the care of a cat will exert a soothing and beneficial effect on lunatics. Mrs. Locke is president of the Beresford Cat Club and vice-president of the American Cat Association. She's an enthusiast on the cat ques* tibn. She has been studying the possibilities of tabby, and has come to th'e conclusion that a person whose wits S, o ) Apple Cake.?Place i "3 m ) round baking dish, pinchi k ? as to make a little ledge ~ tn J two some large apples, ca g ) them and arrange in a < "3 ^ ( overlapping the other. S " ) sugar and bake for thre ^ 3 { oven. When cold sift po are addled can be materially helped by taking care of a cat or two. In order to test her theory she h,as sent one of her finest animals?"a beautiful white female"?to an insane asylum in Pennsylvania.?Hartford Daily Times. Ignore Trouble. - . "We can't make sorrow and trouble non-existent by keeping them out of our conversation," said a physician. "At the same time, I believe that nerves are wrecked and the suicide records increased by this modern harping on neurasthenia, degeneracy,, corruption, social and political, tuberculosis, divorce and crime Things are talked about in the most outspoken way that it wasn't good form to mention once. All this makes the race wiser, no doubt, *hnd evils must be known and discussed or they'll never be removed, I suppose; but think of the physic effect of %11 this Verbal delving into dark places. Probably no one can measure the harm done by suggestion. I'd like to have the power to try, for one yea*, the plan of keeping all murders, suicides, divorces, etc., out of print and out d! (ifirvorBaHnn T'll u/nppr thprft wnnlfl be fewer murders, suicides, divorces the latter part of that year than the first part." Society Millinery. Miss Maude Converse, one of the society leaders of Washington, D. C., has opened a millinery establishment in the fashionable Northwest destrict. Miss Converse is a daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Converse, once chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Speaking of her venture, Miss Converse said: "I have been abroad several months studying Paris fashions, and all my life have been interested in the artistic designing of cldthes." Miss Converse said her shop would devote itself mostly to children's fine ciotnes, layeues, xea guwus, eveuiug gowns and trousseaux. She acknowledged that she had gained much of her notion to open the shop from t'ne successful venture of Lady Duff Gordon in London. After the death of their father, it was reported that, because of financial circumstances, Miss Olga Converse and Miss Maude Converse would go into business or on the stage.? Baltimore News. A Farmer's Enterprising Daughter. I am a farmer's daughter, twentysix years old, and have earned my own living for eight years. 'I am /-%?-? mv fofhar'a farm mcrht" CIUplUJ CU UU LUJ u J.U11U, w*3uu miles from town, and he pays me $2.25 a week. Out of this I have clothed myself, had a very good time and have laid up some money each year. The third year I bought with my savings seven head of good sheep, and let them out on shares. The next year I bought fifteen more; then I had twenty-two old ones. I kept my part of the increase, the ewe lambs. Tho wethers I would sell. I kept increasing my flock until I had thirty-three head; then I would cull out each year and sell the oldest ones. The wool and wether lambs from year to year helped to keep me in nice + V? An nv-trl anon/^incr mnnOV TV/7 V ^iuu11c3 u. 111a oyguutug uiuuu;, a'?. j wages I loaned at eight per cent. Each year I put in from one to twt? acres of potatoes, and these I culti 'j*. vate myself. It Is not hard work; it just gives one good outdoor exercise. Sometimes I go to other farms and cook during harvest, clearing $50, and again I spend a couple of weeks in the hop fields, which gives me a little change, and adds from $20 to $30 to my earnings. At .the end of eight years I had $700 in money, and-a fine mare worth more than $100. Last fall I leased a 360 acre farm for live years at a rental of $250 a year cash, and I bought 137 head of sheep, which I added to the thirty-three I already ' owned, and put them on the place. I have a man running the farm on shares. I will get one-third of all the grain and hky raised on seventy acres, but the sheep I will look after myself. At the end of five years I expect to have $2000 in my own right and to do very little work myself. I think any country girl who will save,like this in the beginning and strike out on independent lines can make a good, honest living, and not work all the time, either.?C. E. B., in Woman's Home Companion. Feminine Philosophy. No woman is a humorist, because all of thepi are.) A ki3S in time causeo ninety-nine? and then some. The use of complexion powder.i is never objectionable to the man who sells them. . , These are the days th?.t girls are crowding No. 6 feet into No. 3 ballroom slippers. ' Most girls are also,deciding these days what they don't Want for Christmas presents. It is easy enough for a woman to look pleasant If she has anything to look pleasant about. The favorite girl of the family is the one who can get the most money out of the rich uncle. No Thanksgiving dinner will be a complete supcess unless Nora, the hired girl, breaks a few dishes. It sometimes takes a woman a long time to discover that a cheap man is the deareet thing on earth. An extremely popular fashion with i thin layer of short pastry on a' ' ng up the edges with the fingers so around the cake. Peel and cut ,in refully taking out the cores, kllce JII uic aiuuuu >iuc yjaoLi j, uuu DIIUC prinkle with ground cinnamon and e-quarters of an hour in a stead? wdered sugar over the top. men would be one that would reduce the prices of things women wear. It is hard to tell which is tbe most sensitive, the girl who is getting too thin or the girl who is getting too fat. The old-fashioned woman has her inning when she exhibits ber preserves and needlework at the county fair. What's the use of women taking any interest in the Cuban troubles when that country furnishes us noth-v ing but tobacco??New Haven Register. elRGTTY ?| ?MWSSJik ' TO WEAR 4/W Large hats are the rule for evening wear. sieeves nave a aeciaeaiy iuner tendency. Silks are more prominent than for many oeasons. The waist line has been lowered but the tiniest bit. The cuirass gown has seen its best days and Is Qn the wane. . Contrasting facings are a feature of the latest winter hats. The daintiest new hatpins (ire headed with Irish crochet lace.' Tight fitting and stiffly boned basques are again imminent. Embroidery appears on many of the charming new stockings. Lace trimming on hats will be combined with much furry material. Eyelet embroidery has more or less taken the place of net for blouses. Small bows are replacing the large ones for tying the young girl's hair. Lynx, black fox and pointed fox are best in small furs for general wear. Glace gloves will be worn more than .the suede with evening costumes this season. Jet trimming upon frocks of sapphire hue is one of the many variations of the hour. The large hat is being restricted to dress occasions; small hats are in * sway for all ordinary wear. Skirts, while cut on broader lines, still retain more or lese the sheath effect. The silhoutee is almost exactly the same as it was last season. Coais are still semi-fitting, but the cut has changed. The backs are narrow and fiat and the skirt of the coat is almo&e as close-fitting as the dre3s over which it is worn. A very pretty finish for the simple felt hat is a band of wide soft satin ribbon looped at one side. The ends I whinh hane below the briin of the hat are finished with tassels. Orange, the exact shade of the fruit is one of the most fashionable colors. It is alluring in panne velvet for the long military cape, which. i3 getting in fashion every day. Ruffling for shirt waists will be worn much this fall. This in a measure is due to the low-cut coat. These rufflings, which are detachable, are made of tucked net. batiste or sheer linen. The fashion for bloomers for the small girl is an increasingly popular one and nowadays each frock is aocompanied by its nether garments made of the same material as tha frock itself. Hoboes En Route. By A. No. 1. One evening, after being driven out from under the "Overland Limited," we climbed into a box car loaded with lumber on a freight going East. We closed the door, and after pulling J some oI the lumber against it in such a fashion that the brakeman looking for a rake-off (a dollar tax levied on /'-. amps by train crews) couldn't open it, we laid ourselves upon the lumber. Soon- the train began to get under headway, and at each jolt of the trucks, up and. down, sideways and crossways, the lumber would follow suit, only a little harder, as before it had time to settle, after ! each jolt, the next one would send iti flying again into the air. Poor Bobby! This was h& first experience as a box-car tourist. He ' had often complained tij me after riding underneath the limited flyers about the sand, cinders and rocks that were hitting him, but this ride was a new experience, and he groaned: "Oh, A No. 1, I wish we could get out of this forsaken old rattlebox. Let's get off at tne next stop ana taice tne Overland." He kept on bothering me so much that I had to tell him that in the deserts passenger trains make "mighty few stops, and that we might have to wait a week or longer at a lone depot before we could catch another ride; and that coyote^ would make short work of us should they catch us after dark. Only by thus scaring him could I persuade him to wait until we reached the end of the division,. The very next day, after being driven off at a lone water tank, we were forced once more to take a freight car. We found this one loaded with large lump coal. Here poor Bobby suffered agony, because the coal, being packed solid to the floor, exactly responds to every jolt the springs, of the car make, and as this kind of a *oad reaches below the centre line, the top of the car tumbles from side to side, straining, creaking and groanihg. Bobby was groaning, too; it was too much for him. He' shouted to me, over the Infernal noises: "A No. 1, that lumber car yesterday Allowed us to He at least flat on our backs, but these miserable coal lumps won't even permit this, and the racket is making me deaf." "f But, poor boy, he didn't khow there Is a limit in tough box-car riding, and that very night we had a chance to try this limit. We had climbed into a box car loaded with rough, coated pig iron. It's a bad proposition to ride and worse when tne car is ovenoaaeu, aa una una surely was. The springs seemed to have been forgotten whfen the car was built, and poor Bobby's lamentations were an unmistakable measurement as to what is the limit of misery in' riding in box cars. He shouted to me over the jumping, thumping, racket-raising pigiron barsf "'Every bone in my body Is aching, my insides are all broken loose, my back is all twisted, I can't stand, sit up, or lie down to rest on these rough, jolting pig-iron bars. Don't you wish wo had that coal car to ride again instead of this one?"? From "Bcbby Lee," in The Bohemian Magazine. V 1 WO?D9 OP WISDOM. \ 1 TTH A good guesser always boasts of his intuition. If at first you.dod't succeed, blame It on your luck. Th'e best foundation for success in business is rocks. Don't worry, and you'll have noth ing to worry you. A girl's ideal is naturally shattered when he goeS broke. ^ you have any do.ubts about a strange bed look before you sleep. Of course the best thing with which to feather your nest is cash down. A married man can always get a little off his sentenc^ for bad behavior. Lots of politeness is wasted on people who are too slick to be taken in by it. Even when a woman feels she is worth her weight in gold she hates to get fat. , If wishes were horses there wouldn't be any room in the world for automobiles. Virtue, being its own reward, you can't very well blame a man if he is good for nothing. i uc icnu \1 >v uu >*aa wcigucu iu tuc balance and found wanting must have neglected to drop a cent in the slot. Some men can't even find fault without actingf as though they had discovered something to be proud of. When a fellow feels like .throwing himself down and worshiping a girl he should wait. She will probably throw him down herself.?From "The Musinges of a Gentle Cynic," in the New York Times. , Quail in Louisiana. Quail are increasing throughout the State. The quantities in Louisiana this year are said to be larger than in any other year as far back as the memory of those qualified to know extends. Officials and allies of the State Game Commission say the increase is one of the first fruits of the game, protection system. "EVanlr TW TVTillor nrosiriAnf fif thfl commission said: "There is no question but that the great increase in these birds is due to proper protec- | tion. Last March a closed season was declared, and from then until November the law was utrictly enforced. A3 a result an enormous number of these young fowls bred during March and April, and what is more extraor? dinary, a second setting was hatched during the fail along about September. Observers of the habits of our uative game will teatify that this is a unique occurrence."?New Orleans Times-Democrat. She Took a Pair. "How much are those shoes?" asked the lady who had the reputation of being a keen shopper! "Those shoes are not for sale," replied the salesman, who had some thing of a reputation, too. "We're giving them away with evjery pair of shoo laces at $3.50."?Judge. Roads, Wealth and Intelligence. It is estimated by statisticians in the Department of Agriculture that there are hauleH annually over the 2,151,000 mries of public roads in the United States, more than 250 million tons of freight an average of nine miles, at a cost of twenty-five cents per ton per mile, amounting to more than 550 millions of dollars. As the cost in some foreign countries,' where good roads are the rule, is estimated to be only from eight to twelve cents per mile, attention is naturally called ' to the element of absolute waste of [ energy and oubstance, without compensation. Take the waste as being one-half of the amount paid, and it amounts to over 280 millions of dollars, which would be saved by the existence of good roads. With our population of 80,000,000 people this loss amounts to $3.50 for every man, woman and child in the country every year, or a handicap to our citizenship of $100 per capita. It is further found that good roads appear to have a strong effect on the educational qualification of the people. In four States with a high-percentage of good roads (30.55 per cent.) the percentage of white illiteracy is only 0.34 of one per cent., while in four other States which have few good roads (1.51 per cent.) the percentage of white illiteracy is 4.76 per cent. It may be claimed that the relation of cause and effect may be an inverted one, but whether bad roads are the result of ignorance, or ignorance the result of bad roads, the fact remains that ^hey are closely allied. It is invariably the case, when a good road is constructed through any section of aericultural country, the farms begin to assume a finer and j better aspect. Buildings are painted, I fences renewed, better horses, vehi-1 cles and farm machinery are pro- | cured, and the farm houses and farms take on an atmosphere of j thrift and prosperity. Jt may not be j putting it too strongly ( to assert that | the means for this advancement j comes from the saving made in marketing the crop. A small farmer may have of crops'which he sells, thirty tons to take to market. His supplies may amount to six tons, making thir- I ty-stx tons in all for a/year. Atf the j average distance of nine miles at ; twenty-five cents per ton per mile, the . cost will be $81 for the marketing of the year.- It can be readily seen that when good roads are constructed, and a half of this amount saved, a good deal of paint can be spread and many elements of improvement put into operation. When this is done the social natures of the people begin to develoo and a broader and' a bet- ! Her intelligence result^?Good Roads Magazine. ' The Cost of Administration. T / . ' In the building of highways much attention must always be given to the economy of administration. 1 There is a tendency on the part of some newspapers throughout the ' country to criticise this department i of the work, but they rarely give suf-! flcient data for the formhlation of reliable statistics. A recent publication states that in a certain State a /'careful examina- J tion made from the orders issued for ! a period of one year, shows conclu- j sively that only sixty per cent, of the appropriation was actually expended on the roads, the other forty per cent, representing the administration and supervision." This-amount seems entirely out of proportion. Many prac-' tical road makers figure on a profit J of ten per cent, in contracting, and an amount equivalent to fifteen per ' cent, to cover the expense of engi- ' neering, supervision and all incidental ( expenses, including wear and tear on i plant, interest, insurance, taxes, etc, , i In work done under direct super- I - J ~S ?nn^o(il thd olft. ! Vision, lUSieau ui ujr v-uiin U.H., , ment of profit is, of course, eliminated, as are the othei; items of wear and tear on plant; and such incidental items as the salaries of the executive officer and the employes of the office, should be covered by ten per cent., at most, of" the appropriation. It seems to be the concensus of 1 opinion among engineers that the ( combined cost of engineering and ad- ; ministration in general work in the | construction of roads, should not exceed fifteen per cent.?Good Roads Magazine. Cats Watcning bxjhhu?s. Every afternoon just before twilight a row of cats of ail ages, stages, gauges, breeds, tribes and then a few other kinds thrown in to sort of even up the balance of things, can be seen in the yard next to St. Andrew's Church, at Eighth and Shipley streets. All of them are squeezed as close to j the wall of the church building as , they can get, and there they lie in | wait for sparrows which infest the i creeping vines that grow all over the wall of the church on the south side, j Every moment or so some luckless j sparrow alights too near the ground \ or chirps too loud, and some cat ior- j mediately makes a running jump up I the vine, and before the bird can ny from under the leaves it is cat food. Sometimes as many as .twenty cats can be seen in a row watching fo^ their evening meal of birds.?Wilmington News. Oxalic Acid Costly. A mo3t injurious thing which costs New Yorker3 a big lot of money is ! the sly use of oxalic acid in home | laundries by the visiting washer- > woman, who carries a small bag of oxalic acid in her hand grip or maybe under her apron. Two or three tablespoonfuls of this cleaning dope put . +,,K water mate into a lauuuiy iuu vi washing so easy that it i.? a sin to I take the money, but what it docs to clothes is a-plenty. Wise housekeepers try to watch for this trick, but it Chemicals used for laundering are deadly poisons.?New York Press. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Adams, of Norwich, N. Y., are parents of triplets, two boys and a girl, weighing less than eight pounds total. The father himself Is one of a triplet. ' "'-i Name to Fit tne Trace. Old newspapers give us many Instances of men's names fitting their callings. Thus we have Last, a shoemaker of Exeter, and Tredaway, who plied the same trade in Hammersmith. There was a Bristol schoolmaster named Rod. Dodge and Wynne, attorneys at law of Liverpool, must have been the butts of their fellow townsmen, while few, could have a more appropriate name than the Primitive Methodist preacher River Jordan.?-LondoA Chronicle. * ! T I Poor Animal. I "Little boy," asks the well-mean- I ing reformer, "is that your mamma I over yonder with the beautiful set of C furs?" , . "Yes, sir," answers the bright lad. "Well, do you know what poor animal is that has had to suffer in order that your mamma might have the furs with which she adorns, herself bo proudly?" "Yes, sir. My papa."?Chicago Evening Post. To Enjoy the full confidence of the Well-Informed of the World and the Commendation of the most eminent physicians it was essential that the component parts of 8y<up of ?4gB and Elixir of Senna should be known to and approved by them; there fore, the California Fig Syrup Co. published a full statement with every package. The perfect purity and uniformity of pro~ , duct, .which they demand in a laxative 1 remedy of an ethical character, are assured' by the Company's original method of manufacturo kncrren to the Company only. The figs of Cafifornia are used in the production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of | Senna to promote the pleasant taste, but ' the medicinal principles are obtained from plants known to act most beneficially. To get its beneficial effects always buy the genuine?manufactured by ti? Cali fomia Fig Syrup Co. only, ana zor saw by all leading druggists.. required, remember PALATAL CASTOR OIL I Looksjwnell*, taatesgood; children lick the spoon. 25c All druggists, or Palatai. Co., M Stone St.,New York. PATENTS ; . Authors' Wives. No fewer than twenty-fire out of sixty-eight .well known English authors wete not married at all. A number, including Milton, Bunyan, Sou they and Hafelltt, made sever&lmatrimonial ventures. Of the rest Shakespeare, Dryden, Addison, Coleridge, Carlyle, Ruskin and Dickens are the mbst notable of a long list of those who were unhappily married. s Why should, the projductlon of literature be apparently so incompatible with a happy domestic life? Are; literary men less capable than lawyers and plumbers of choosing con-,! genial mates ? The truth seems to be that' theft writer husband is at home so much of the time that he becomes as fan miliar an object there as the old; cane-bottomed chair. Two persons who can survive twenty-four hours of each other's society a day without* jars ^re happily married indeed.?Success Magazine. Blue and White in Greek Flag. The Greek flag is an unpretentious pfece of blazonry consisting oc^ nine - stripes of blue and white alternately, * I with a white cross on a blue ground' I in the top left hand corner. The navy I flag has a golden crown in the cen- I tre of the cross. \ jfi Blue and ^rhite are the national I colors of Bavaria, and were adopted I oy the Greeks as a delicate compll- I ment to the Pfince of Bavaria, who I accepted the throne of Greece when J that country had succeeded In wrest tag her independence from the Otto Ban Empire.?Dundee Advertiser. w Michael Idvorsky Pupin, known as | she inventor of wireless telephony and I who, according to report, received I $800,000 for an invention which Is I used in long distance telephoning, worked his way through Columbia I College. f . SECRET WORKER The Plan Upon Which Coffee Operates. Coffee Is such a secret worker that it is not suspected as the cause of sickness or disease, but there is a very sure way to find out the truth. A lady in Memphis gives an interesting experience her husband had with coffee. It seems that ho had been using it for some time and was an invalid. The physician in charge shrewdly suspected that coffee was the "Worm at the root of the tree," and ordered it discontinued with instructions to use Postum regularly in its place. The wife says: "We found that was the true remedy for his stomach and heart trouble, and we would have gladly paid a hundred times the amount of the doctor's charge when we found how wise his judgment was. "The uge of Postum Instead of coffee was begun about a year ago, and it has made my husband a strong, well man. He has gained thirty-rfVe "nuniii, thot timp nnd his stomach l'WUUUlJ ? and heart trouble have all disap- fl peared. "The first time I prepared It I did I not boil it long enough, and he said M there was something wrong with it.'fl Sure enough it did taute very flat, but^ the next morning I followed direc- R tions carefuliy, boiling It for fifteen I minutes, and he remarked 'this Is I better than any of the old coffee.' I "We use Postum regularly ana never tire of telling our friends of the benefit we have received from leaving off coffee." Look for the little book, "The = Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. H They are genuine, true, and full ol I human interest, B J