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_ The "ear had gloomily 1 For Willie Weeks, a po He waa beset with bill And bb had-very little "Thin cash," he said, wo Tve nothing: here hut < . Albright though struck "The rich Miss Goldroc But when he paid his c She lisped, but firmly a "Alas," said he, "then . His ?oui went where th They found his gloves ai Ana the coroner then u rv < ;;. "Johnnie, please take that squash ca the kitchen table over to Mrs. Bast's right away.' I toidi her yester day morning that I would send it over "by yoa/%Mrs. Walker said to her ?twelve-year-old soc, one pleasant spring forenoon. "May I "stop and play?" the boy asked. "Why, yes, for an hour," the moth er answered. ' Tho Walkers lived on the south side of the North Fork of the TJmpqua Klver, a mile from the Rasts, who lived ha*,f a mile up the river on the ?titer side of the stream. The Ump 4px Hows through the little com munity of Winchester, In Western ?Oregon, a large mountain stream, tamed throughout that region for the salmon and trout.fishing of its eddles and rapids. . So wide is the stream that the only means ol crossing ls by boat or a rail road or wagon, bridge three or four hnxtdred yards below the Hast bouse. Hardly a hundred yards below the bridge ?3 the^ power station for the electric light and water works, which supplies Ro3eburg, a town of four -thousand inhabitants, five miles dis tant. The power is generated by mo tots, the water for which is held back ky a twelve-foot dam. On the power station end of the dam a big -crib" stands to protect the motors and ether machinery*. As Johnnie walked by on his er rand, he looked with longing eyes to this crib, which was an especially sood place fer fishing. No one was there. : Mrs. Hast was glad to get the squash, but her son Charlie had gone Tip the Tiver with his father. John set first was disappointed, but he . thought he could spend the hour fish tag just .as well, and so said he did mot care much. "Wait a minute, John!" Mrs. Rast ?xt?almed, as he turned to go back. "Your sister Annie wanted something.' Wait until I get it" Sha brought'"back a small, dark red box for the sister and a piece of pie for the lad. "'."Kow., don't lose that," she said: mYon carry this in your hand all the Tray. Your sister wants it more than .argtfcgyg in the world." Vy*Ul right, ma'am," Johnnie an swered, dutif uUy. ^ . "Kow, don't yon lose that. If you .So, your sister will be the maddest girl yam,4?yer saw.1 she, repeated, as . the "hey .'jxassed tbrougb the gate. _ johnny looked at the red box' care ~fulry. On the back was ? jumble of rruemzs, suggesting some kind of medl rctne, as'nearly as he could tell. . "Must be for sister's throat,* he thnnght Prom the bridge, with th9 three spans ot nearly a hundred feet each, and one approach equally long, the river looked most enticing. The por tion above the dam was glassy, the bottom revealing every pebble and stone, except In the deeper parts. Be low the dam the,stream ran like a mill-race as far hs the lad could see, beyond-the railroad bridge, down to the bend, under a frowning moun tain. >. "My, but,I thought I saw a. salmon 1 3umr lust below the :dam ! " he mused 1 to himself. ' Then'he hurried cc. ?? "When he came-to the power house lie hesitated, then determined to go oat on .the crib to see who was fish ing-. No one 'was there. He looked round. A piece of flshline was tl ? d to an iron bolt. He stuck the red box with its precious contents into his left pocket- . -I ' The boy bad only two, and both vere in the front of his trousers, opening upward, not like the usual _ ?ide pockets. The-right one had a hole in it, and the left had been sewed up so hear to the mouth that the bax, when he stuck it In, barely slipped down half its length. When he had pushed it a little farther down, he palled the fish li ne up. It was of unusual quality, there being on the end an unbaited. double gat No. 5 hook. On the other side of the- crib, where the water c?m? out from the motors, was the best "chub hole" in the vicinity. Several small chunks of Balmon egg were scattered on top of the crib. The boy wound up the line, and baited th? hook v/Ith one of the chunks. He fixed the length that he seeded, and in a small loop about eight inches in diameter rolled vthe several extra feet of line roundv his arrist Then he slipped to thc edge of the structure, next to the chub hole, and gently dropped his bait,. the eggs, tate the water below. Before lt sank tar the carrent caught and carried the hook and line fifteen or twenty feet from the boy, near to where the small eorrent joined the main stream. /' He stood on the edge, barely bal ancing in his interest. There was a quick flash in the current from where lt joined the larger flood of the river. Johnnie felt an overpowering pull. Az ha fell toward the water, he ?rasped the red box with his left hand. The cold water made him shiver and gasp, but when he came to the surface he kicked out Instinctively to heep himself afloat He attempted to begun or man's * S?Ju . &t? ?'? . ''"*'??'< . ':: and dun ' V: ' Moir. n't pay my dues, _ mes and TUES. him, and he caid, _ ks I will- WED." ourt to her, aid, "No, THUB." I must die!" iey say souls FBI. id coat and hat, pon them SAT. . -Success Magazine. draw back his right arm so as to make a stroke. He could not. The flshline which he had wound round his wrist was drawn taut. He was moving; moving faster than the cur rent, toward fife main river." The lad kicked and.struggled, but the current and pull of the line were too strong for his efforts. Before many seconds he knew that he was in the main cur-, rent of the swift river, being towed and swept .along slightly faster than the current. The rate of movement kept him on top of the water, but the waves and spashes were constantly striking him in the face, making breathing difficult. As he was swept over the first bad riffle of the long series from the dam to -tho bend, he tried to reach his J wrist with his left hand. The red box'was still in his hand. ^The effort failed, for the arm was drawn too tight by whatever was pulling th9 wriggling ninety pounds of boy. As the lad gained his pres ence of mind he screamed, and kicked himself toward the shore. He made some headway, the fish at the other end of the line continuing to draw him faster than the current. The river, is spotted here and there by rocky reefs, which show their heads- above the surface. On one of these, a short distance ahead, there grew a clump of river willows which overhung the edge of the main cur rent. Seeing them, Johnnie struggled with his whole might toward the shore. He did not succeed in getting close, but yet near enough so that, as he floated along, he could reach but with his left hand to the two or three longest .branches and /could touch them. In his hand was the red box. He seemed to realize it for the first time, instinctively clutchiirr-it tighter,-and at the same time missing his chance to grasp the willows. Vhe big salmon, for such proved to be the fish that had caught the boy with his own line,'seemed to have felt the effort the boy had made to reach the willows, and as the fish does when brought almost within reach of the gaff, made a more vigorous effort to gain its freedom, and pulled all the harder and faster down the current. Before many seconds the" lad, half drowned, struck a rock with his foot. He attempted to get a foothold, but before he could put his weight on his feet he was carried once again into deep water by the current and the fish. All the time he was getting weaker. A cramp had seized his right arm, partly owing to the strain, and partly to the cold snow water. No help was in sight as far as he could see. His head was half-covered with water most of the time, and in the ripples of the stream it was rare that he caught a glance of the surface of the river more than thirty feet away from him. And the time he could stay on the surface was now only a question of minutes. Above the last long riffle before the whirlpool eddy the river stopped and' seemetTt? i ?s?tate t? take the last swift leap. Tau water'here was deep, but just where the rapid began tho bed rose close to the top, pf the water. Probably because of this the salmon stopped. The toy felt the line slacken and his own body begin to drift. .. "A short distance away was another of the rocky reefs, on which grew a huge clump of river willowB. He slowly swam toward it. In his weak ened condition, the. feat was all that he could do. But at last he reached the reef, still holding the red box in his left hand. As he drewjils arms up, he felt that he had reached the end of the slack in the line between him and the fish. However, he had a good hold on the bushes, and was slowly ^drawing his - body from the water. The fish was once again roused, and for a few brief seconds it seemed to the boy as if he could not hold to the bush. Then the fish apparently quit fighting. The boy crawled on to the narrow ledge and laid the red box to one side, and then with tis free hand tried to disengage his arm round which the line had tangled itself. He had barely touched the first knot when a sharp jerk interrupted his efforts. Th* fish gave another strong pull. I He braced himself as best he could on the ledge, and slowly, hand over hand, inch by inch, dragged up to the ledge the creature which had towed him for a quarter of. a mile After all, men ar journey thro By the "gr?y their hoo And those who ' strenuous st Are the ones \ goods." down, the river, lt was.n large salmon that'had taken the bait. So exhausted was the lad that lt is very doubtful if he could have taken the great chinook" from the river but fox some neighbors, who arrived in.their boat before the struggle was over. The salmon weighed slightly over thirty pounds. As Johnnie clambered into the skiff, he still held the red box for his sister, thinking: "I mustn't forget that." One of the men in the boat opened the box, and in it was some sweet-pea 3eed!-Youth's Companion. NPV5TRJ A new method of protecting safes, says Popular Mechanics, ls to arm them with a grenade which explodes when the safe is blown open and fills the air with deadly fumes, so that burglars cannot proceed with their WOrk' _; Glass in made iridescent by being exposed, in a red hot condition, to the fumes of salts of tin, barium and strontium. Red is produced by the stronda, blue by the baryta and blu ish white by the tin. In ancient glass, which is more opaque, Irides cence ls due to partial decay. Prof, Case, of'the zoological depart ment of the Ann Arbor University, has returned from an expedition to the desert regions of Texas with one of the most valuable collections of reptiles and amphibious fossil re mains in existence. He brought back with him over 900 pounds of the bones of antediluvian reptiles. An unexplained phenomenon of sea life has caused great loss to the sardine fishers and packers on the west coast of France. The French sardines have long been known every where for their superior quality, but the last season they seem to have de serted their favorite haunts, and most of the few caught have been too large for packing. ? Prof. Frederick Starr, of the Uni versity of Chicago, told a class in archeology several days ago that base ball was not a- modern game. He said that the mound builders were the original ball players, and that he had .discovered their diamonds and found a ball used by them. He said he had been able to trace their ball fields in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio. The production of oxygen and hy drogen on an Industrial scale by the iecompositlon of water with electroly tic apparatus in Germany has led to the suggestion that hydrogen, thus produced may find a wide field of em ployment as a lighting agent. It is now used for inflating military bal loons. For lighting purposes it is compressed in steel cylinders. With a proper burner it ls said to be a cheaper illuminant than actylene, the relative cost for equal illuminating power being 25 for hydrogen to 50 for acetylene. HOW BIRDS KILLED A SNAKE. Contest in Which Reptile Had Small Chance For His Life. Ed Neal and his sister, Miss Jessie Neal, of Alma, tell a strange story and vouch for the truth of lt. They had been spending the last monta with their father. Younger Neal, at their.old home In the country near,| Alma, and' one day last week they were out driving when they saw in the road In front of them a large snake of the kind known as coach whip. Stopping the horse in order to kill the snake they discovered that a pair of mockingbirds were flying at and striking the reptile with their beaks, first from one side of the road and then from the other. They watched the battle, as they call it, for some thing like half an hour, when the snake entirely ceased to attempt to avoid the angry onslaughts of the enraged songsters. Ed Neal got out of the buggy and going* to the scene of conflict found that the snake's head was almost sev ered from Its body. The neck just back of its head'was cut down to the skin cn its throat, and when he picked it up the head fell down limp. The snake was dead. It measured five and one-half feet and seemingly had just swallowed a half grown rabbit, which was in the stomach undigested. -Alma Correspondence Forest and Stream. The Wrong Charge. , "Officer," said the police magis trate, "what ls the charge against this man?" "Disorderly conduct, your Honor. He approached two chorus ladles to whom he had never been introduced and invited them to have a Thanks giving dinner at his expense." "That wasn't disorderly conduct It was reckless daring."-Judge. Why Not? Among the oddest personals ever inserted in the society column wa3 one that appeared in a paper pub lished in an Eastern town. It reads as follows: "Mrs. Coulter, being con fined to her bed by illness, will not be at home next Thursday, as usual." Harper's Weekly. -_-i_ e judged in their nigh life matter" under ds, 'win out" in this rife j vho "deliver the ?! O?R NE?r .I??TI (Ml Not a word!-'Tis eaJv your I ? trip to V -Cn i U. 5. Government Sj a Yee Assertion That Tills Amount Was Paid Out in libation Into the Uses to Which Such a S Says Country Will Be Astonished Washington, D. C. - The Senate Committee on Appropriations, which is carrying out the Senate's instruc tions to iui'estigate the operations of the Secret Service and other detective bodies employed under the Adminis tration, already has obtained suffi cient information to show that in the laBt year sums of money aggregating about $20,000,000 have been expend ed In secret investigation under the direction of the' President. This knowledge will bc used by the Senate committee's sub-committee of inquiry as the basis for a rigid examination into, the .uses to which such a vast amount of money has been put. Much of the money expended was not ap propriated specifically for making in vestigations of a secret character, but j was taken from lump sums placed at the,,disposal of the.Executive to meet) contingent expenses. The criticism of the lavish way in whieh -Government funds have been used for purposes of investigation is becoming very pronounced among Senators and Repr?sentatives, and they think lt is about time to call a halt. Where all the $20,000,000 was Bpent is a source of wonder at the Capitol. In spite of reports to the contrary It is denied that there is any real basis for the belief that m undertak ing to investigate the workings of the I Government's secret agencies the Sen- | ate and House are making a first step In the direction of causing trouble for the President. The purpose of these Inquiries, it is ?sserted, is to ascer tain and prevent further abuses by the Executive and not to place obsta cles in the way of the President in performing his legitimate constitu tional and legal functions. There is good reason to believe that the Senate investigation will result In an effort to define in unmistakable terms the relations between the Ex ?cutive and the legislative branches of the Government and to make clear that moneys appropriated by Con gress shall be used only for the pur poses for which they were specifically appropriated. "The enormous ramifications of the system of Federal espionage which has grown up largely under the Ad ministration, extending even to the domestic affairs of citizens," are shown by figures quoted by-Represen tative Tawney, of Minnesota, chair man of the House Committee on Ap propriations. During the last session of Congress the Administration, which is now complaining because $10,000 was taken off tho usual appropriation for the Secret Service division of thc Treasury Department, called for very large appropriations for other secret investigations, and these appropria tions were actually made by Congress. The several amounts reached the enormous total of $8,126,000. While it is only fair to say that a part of this Ir.^ge sum was not ex pended for investigations essentially secret in character an enormous amount was intended to further the secret police and investigation work of the Government; the rest was for various inspection work. Representative Tawney and other members of the House Committee on Appropriations declared that large Costs Santa Fe $2,000,000 to Re place Telegraph With 'Phones. Chicago.-The Atchison, Topeka and Santa . Fe Railroad announced that it would operate the entire maJu line from Chicago to the Pacific Coast by telephone instead^of by telegraph as now. Contracts have been let for thc In stallation of the telephone system be tween Kansas City and Emporia, Kan. As soon as this section is finished work will be begun between Kansas City and Chicago. The cost will be $2,000,000. Feminine Notes. Barnard undergraduates decided to give a Latin play. Mr3. Susan T. Mills, president of Mills College and the pioneer woman educator of California, has passed her eighty-third birthday A summons was issued for the pro moters of the Vimedia Company on the complaint of-a woman in New York City, who had invested $2?0(). Miss Ruby Abrams, who was re cently graduated at the head of loe art class in Cooper Institute, is deaf, and until a few years ago was also dumb. (>1\?L COSTUME. Joele Sam appropriately disguised lap ?ashiogtoo.) toon by Trigla, jn the New York Press. pends $20,000,000 tr For Secret Service .1908 Will Form the Basis ol a Rigid Iiwes um Has Been Pot-Representative Tairnej bj Wliat Committee Will Reyeal. sums ot money have been diverted for other purposes than those desig nated or Intended by the law. The investigation about to be begun by the House is intended to uncover as many of these abuses as possible. Speaker Cannon named Represen tatives Olmstead, /of Pennsylvania, chairman; Currier, of New Hamp shire; Young, of Michigan; Brantley, of Georgia, and Bowers, of Mh?si& sippi, as members of the special com mittee authorized by the Tawney res olution to investigate the various, branches of the Government Secret Service. Messrs. Brantley and Bow .ers are Democrats. Mr. Bowers ls ? member of the Appropriations Com mittee. As the result of the passage of sev eral laws in the last few years, with other reasons, the number of men em ployed to discover violations of stat utes has increased nearly twentyfold within a decade. According to Mr. Tawney, the number of these men on the Federal roll just prior to the Spanish War was less than 200; to day lt exceeds 3000, and the appro priations for their maintenance have jumped from a little over $1,000,000 to seven or eight times that amount. This is aside from other expenditures. Some of the large items contained in the current appropriation act. that is, those that were passed last winter, were shown by Mr. Tawney and Mr. Smith, another member of the Ap propriations Committee. They are as follows: For the detection of violations of the postal laws, $1,105,000. For the detection of violations of the internal revenue laws, $125,000. For the detection of frauds on the customs, $200,000. For the detection of counterfeiters, $115,000. For investigations hy the Bureau of Corporations, $175,000. For special agents and inspectors in the ?nforcement of the Interstate Commerce act, $450,000. For thc detection and prevention of depredationson publiclands, $500, 000. For the investigation of Anti-Trust law violations, $250,000. For special agents for the Pension Bureau. $3S0,0O0. For the enforcement of the Meat Inspection law Congress appropriated $3,000,000, the bulk of which is said to have been expended for inspection service's. Similarly a'large part of an appro priation of $826,000 for the enforce ment of the Pure Food act, it is as serted, is paid out for inspectors. A sum approaching $1,000.000 annual ly ls said to be expended for the en forcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws. All this is aside from appropria tions for the Collection of evidence in the ordinary, litigation which occu pies the time of the Department of Justice, including Lhe pay of United States marshals, special attorneys and experts of various kinds. It readily can be seen that with appropriations made in lump form, such as the fore going, lt ls difficult to segregate the amounts paid out for acturl work of detection of all kinds, and lt is this, among other thin?s, that the investi gation ls expected to disclose. Forty-two Kentucky Counties to Stamp Out Bad Men. Lexington, Ky.-A call has been Is sued from Jackson for a great mass meeting to be participated in by dele gates from forty-two counties in Eastern Kentucky to be held In Jack son early in May, at which thc gen eral situation will bc discussed and plans put forth for the stamping out of lawless cases, including fei.dism. illicit distilling of whisky and operat ing OL "blind tiger" saloons. Mass meetings will be held in each county to choose delegates. Halls of Congress. Senator Lodge discussed the Brownsville affair, defending the Ad ministration position. The President signed the act by which Congress appropriated IfSOO, 000 for relief work in Italy. Leaders in Congress proposed leg islation to provide for a monument and memorial to Lincoln, to cost $5, 000,000. The Perkins resolution, recom mending that thc President's remarks on the Secret Service be laid on the thule, was adopted by a vote of 211 to SJ?. MESSAGE President Vetoes a Bill and Tells Congress Why "GREAT WATfR POWERf TRUST" Snbmits Figures to TJluBtrate the Trust-Bill Does Not Protect the Public Interest. Washington, Special-The Presi dent in his message to the House Fri day vetoing the bill passed by Con gress granting water power privileges from the James river, Missouri, sub mits figures to illustrate the work ings of the "water power trust" He says: I return herewith with out my approval House bill 17707 to authorize William H. Standish to construct a dam across James river, Mo., and divert a portion of its waters through a tunnel into thc said river again to create electric power. My reasons for? not signing the hill are: The bill gives to the grantee a valuable privilege, which by its very nature is monopolistic, and does not contain the conditions essential to protect the public interest. My rea son for believ?ing that, the Federal government, in granting a license to dam a navigatable river, has tho power to impose any conditions it finds necessary to protect the pub lic, including a charge and a limita tion of the time, is that its consent is legally essential te an enterprise of this character. It follows that Congress can impose conditions upon its consent. Believing that the nat ional government has this power, 1 am convinced that its power ought to be exercised. The people of the country are threatened by a monop 3ly far more powerful, because in far ?loser touch with their domestic and industrial life, than anything known to our experience. To give away, j without conditions, this, one of the greatest of our resources, would be I an act of folly. The total water power now in use by power plants of the United States is estimated bv the Bureau of the j Census at 9,300,000 horse power. In formation collected by bureau corop rations shows 13 large concerns of which the General Electric Company and Westinghouse Electric and Man ufacturing Company, are. the most important, now hold water power in stallations and advantageous powei sites aggregating- 1,046,000 horse power, where control by these con cerns pratieally admitted. It is prob- j able those 13 concerns directly and indirectly control developed watei pewer equal to more than 33 pei J :ent. of the total. I The following amendment to au thorize this in national forests was inserted in last year's agricultural ippropriation bill: "And hereafter permits for power plants within national forests may he made, irrevocable, except for breach of condition, for such, term, not ex ceeding fifty years, as the Secretary J of Agriculture may by regulation prescribe, and land covered by such j permits issued in pursuance of au application filed before entry, loca tion, or application, subsequently approved jjnder the act of June ll, 1906, shalf in perpetuity remain sub ject to such permit and renewals thereof." I repeat the words with which I concluded my mossage vetoing the Rainy river bill: First. There should be a limited oi carefully guarded grant in the na ture of an option or opportunity af forded within reasonable time for de velopment of plans and for execution i)f the project. Second. Such a grant or concession should be accompanied in the act J .flaking the grant hy a provision ex pressly making it the duty of a des ignated official to annual the grant if the work is not begun or plans are not carried out in accordance with the authority granted. Third. It should also he the duty of some designated official to see io it that in approving the plans the miximum development of the navi gation and power is assured*, or at least that in making the plans these may not be so developed as ultimate ly to interfere with the beter utili zation of the water or complete de velopment of the power. Fourth. There should be a license fee or charge which, though small ar rational at the outset, can in the future be adjusted so as to secure a con?rol in the interest of the public. Fifth. Provision should be made fdr the termination of the grant or privilege at a definite time, leaving to future generations tv - power or authority to renew or extend the con cession in accordance with thc condi- J tions which may prevail at that time. Further reflection suggests a sixth condition, viz: Thc license should be forfeited ^ up on proof that the licensee has joined in any conspiracy or unlawful com binations in restraint of trade, as is j provided for grants of coal lands in Alaska by the act of May 28, 1903. I will sign no hill granting a priv ilege of this character which does J not contain the substance of these conditions. I esteem it my duty to use every endeavor to prevent this growing mo nopoly, the most threatening which has ever appeared, from being fast ened upon the people of this nation. THEODORE ROOSEVELH. The White House, Jan. 15, 1D09. Hains Acquitted, Flushing, Special.-The Thornton Hains jury, after deliberating since Thursday evening, nearly 24 hours, Friday afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty and Thornton JenMns Hains is now a free man. Hains was charged with the murder of William E. Annis, August 15th, at Bayside Yacht Club; A great crowd around the court house cheered as the jury, tired out, filed in. State Roads. Public sentiment favors the e tension of State aid for good roads, i fact, demands much larger approprii tions for the purpose. In this connection it -is well t recognize that method of constructlo, is quite as important as amount o total expenditure. The lesson taugh by New York emphasizes this fact In that State more than $15.000,00C of the public funds has been expended during recent years in building mai1* adamized roads, under supervision of thc State Engineer. Some of those roads, costing $5000 a mlle and^up-, ward, have been completely broken! down within four years. They need: to be resurfaced, in fact, virtually re constructed, at another cost of $4000 to $50010'a mile. It must be apparent that even wealthy States, like New York and Pennsylvania, cannot afford the con struction and upkeep of an extensive I system ol! roads on such a scale. They . I must have greater permanence, even *- j at the penalty of much larger initial cost On this principle the Pennsyl- ":< ?vania .-Department of Highways has decided to pave Greene County roads with brick. They will probably be j cheaper in the end thar plain mac- .;] adam. In other sections it has been * found necessary to use oil or tar binders to prevent rapid disintegra tion of macadam roads. Some of the Western States have found properly oiled earth roads much cheaper than macadam and more durable than macadam without binder, when kept in shape by Fps ter's split-log drag. In Pennsyjlvai stone is more abundant and costs less for transportation than in the prairie country. But tn urging the appro-v- ? priation of State money for road building it is well to recognize the fact that plain macadam is not ef ficient or economical unless regula tions can be applied to prevent the ; speeding of automobiles thereon.-* Pittsburg Dispatch. ?> Road of Sand and Sawdust. A road made from sand and saw dust is the latest style of roadmaking ^, designed by George W. Cooley, State " Highway Engineer. Last spring he made a section of road with clover and rye on a sand foundation. This , has been very successful. The road made from sand and sawdust is. at j Cambridge, in Isanti County. Four Inches of sawdust was raked on the sand road after being graded.' This was worked into the sand by passing teams, and as fast as ruts , were formed the sawdust was raked ? into the ruts, to be further mixed" with sand. This-is a new'"roadmak ing material, and if successful will - make an exceedingly profitable means of using the immense quantities t[ sawdust from the mills of the State.; '.' In those counties where there is nothing but sand in the roads good! roads, are impossible without the< ad- -~ * dition of other material. Mr. Cooley <| is now experimenting with various means of turning the sand into veg etable loam which can be worked to advantage. The idea is that the saw dust will rot and mixing with the sand will form a loam suitable for roads. V Such a small amount of money is appropriated by the State for the con struction of roads that- the experi ments have been on a limited scale and the construction of roads pro ceeds slowly. This State spends only one-tenth as much on State roads as does New York in relation to the value of the property.-St. Paul Pio* ueer Press. Modern Oiled Roads. It somewhat appears that our whole country is soon to be made, available .through' roads constructed by what some one has dubbed the petrolythic process, says the Los An geles (Cal.) Times. In riding over r; country road a few days ago a>chauf-?'. feur was heard to remark: "I have driven over all kinds of roads, but that sausage machine roller beats down the best surface I ever traveled, over." Judging by the mileage now under construction by this process, it would appear that the general pub- . Ile heartily indorses thc opinion of M ?ie driver quoted. *p ... Cost bf Good Roads. The commissioners , of Ch.csl.er County, Pennsylvania, recently re- - ceived bills from the Pennsylvania,^! State Highway Department for ira provements made on certain public*?? roads in various townships of the . J county, as follows: Westtown, $15,- .'. ?'. 008.31; Schuylkill, $2S,863; Valley, ? $11,996.33; Avondale borough, $7599.94. These amounts cover the Barn contract price, the extras, the inspec tion, the engineering and surveying, f etc. The State pays two-thirds of the expense, the county pays one-sixUi ^ and the township pays one-sixth. '-.j; The End of the Primrose Path. Stanford White lies in his grave, to which he came under -drctrrnstarir?a--.'. that make even hl3 own family re- i luctant to have his name rientioned. Harry Kendall Thaw is in an insane asylum. To get himself sent tL"rev j was his only alternative to going to ? the electric chair as a murderer. Ev- T elyn Nesbit Thaw is in a'sanatorium, M a physical and moral wreck, living on the charity of friends. <. The moral o? the tale is the old, old .20 one-as old as humanity it:self-and & yet one that never grows old, since *$ in every generation there are those ? who will not learn it-until too late. The lesson of It all is plain and clear l;j before us every day. But it needs ever to be reiterated and enforced f upon the minds of the young, and to . be taken to heart by young and old alike. It is-better to be decent, no i matter how pleasant it. may seem to tamper with indecency. The prim rose path leads down to hades, and the wages of sin is death.-Chicago - luter-Ocean. Of the SSS locomotives In Romania, 427 use petroleum for fuel.