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ROMANCE REALITY. By Miss Annie Edwards. CHAPTER L, Roses. GRANITE-RUILT Jersey farmhouse. Its walls bleached by the salt storms of a hundred win ters, its windows ease* menu** and lozenged after the fash ion of 1760; the date that, with two hearts entwined, figures In rudely cut characters above the central porch way. Overhead are balmiest summer airs, * sky with more blue in it than you (will see during a dozen ordinary Eng lish Junes,-and roses. Roses around the windows, above the door, along the eaves?roses every where. The penetrating odor of newly burned "vralc" strikes the sense, over powering even the luscious smelling garden lilies, the pinks, gillyflowers and brown lavender that stock tbs trim-kept borders. You may hear the crawl of the tide upon the sands; you may hear, if you listen long enough, the following love* song, chanted forth from some interior region of the house, : In a monotonous peasant voice?a voice possessing about as much pretention ! to cadence or expression as does the ; wild refrain Itself to meaning: Belle digucdi Belle diguedaine, Belle diguedon, Dondon?dondon! Other sound or sign of human exist ence is there none, and, indeed, the singer's voice before Ions grows silent. Hay cutting Is at Its height to-day. and Margot, the solitary woman ser vant of Fief-de-la -Heine, Is hurrying through her kitchen work to join the men and maidens in the field. The house dog takes his afternoon siesta on the porch. Floods of sunshine, ?olid, amber. Cupid-Uke, give to the scene 1 know not what dreamy flavor of Mariana in the South. Almost you might expect to hear the sharp cry of the cicala, almost believe that yonder ?weep of quivering sapphire were the Mediterranean or Adriatic, not the pro sale strip of British sea that separates Cherbourg from the Channel islands. "And this is all! For this we are ttorn, weep a little, and die." So muses Daphne Chester as she looks out at the world, her last pat of butter print ed, from the aldcr-sliapcd windows of tue cool, sweet dairy. ? "Haymaking this month, harvest the next, and then the second crop of hay; apple picking, cider making, turnips, mangels, plow ing for. the corn, potato planting, po tato digging, back to hay again! If one, were only as old as Aunt Ifosie! If one could only wake some blessed morning and llml that one had done everj'thlng?done thirty or forty more hay harvests and cider makings and potato diggings, say! If life were a little less long, or a little more varie gated. Why for twenty-four hours to pass without a tide, for Margot to sing a newer love song than 'Digue don'?nay, even for n single market day, to print the butter with another v>ame than Flcf-de-la-Relne would be something!" "Mamsey!" shrieks out a piping treble from the direction of the flower garden. "Viens, p'tite Mauian, Irte? Panlie taught liim, fast." Daphne leans forth lier face quickly tlirough the dairy window and beholds her small son I'anl prone in the mid dle ?f a centre bonier, his golden head scorching in the sun. his straw hat crushed to the earth beneath both brown, dimpled fists?alas! and one of the finest dove pinks in the garden Aunt Ilosie's special care and glory? crushed along with It! "Ah, Paulie, wicked boy that yon are!" cries Mrs. Chester, sternly?If the most excellent voice ever bestowed on woman could by possibility he stern, above all when it addresses the child. "Another pink broken?that ninkes three of Aunt Ilosie's best since din ner?and your hat torn to ribbons, a new hat last Whitsuntide! Wait till I come out! This time I shall punish you in good earnest, sir!" And, a moment later, behold her fly ing forth through the porch, then down the garden path, her white arms bare, her dainty apron hmig as an Improved sunshade over her head, to administer condign judgment and retribution upon her son. Daphne Is a fair, slenderly built girl ?f two-and-twenty. graceful after the manner that out-of-door living and un consciousness of effect are apt to beget, nnd with hair of as burnished a blonde as the curls of little I'anl. Her com plexion boasts the pink of a May morn ing, a pair of limpid hazel eyes give to tier countenance somewhat of the grace of Corregglo's Virgin Mother. 80 much for the surface coloring, the outward form. What Is the hidden, the moral want of Mrs. Chester's face? For that tnls wants exists a stranger can scarce l?e In her company a minute without discerning. No flaw is there of feat ure; the profile Is clear; the serious lips close well sbove a set of white and even teeth. "Notre pauvre demoiselle a la Ma ladle sans Maladle," say the country people of the district, hitting the nail straight home. "Notre demoiselle grew old before she was young. Her ac count with the world Is closed." Here Is the solution: "La Maladle sons Maladle." Dissect the yonng fsce curiously and you will find that what It lacks Is ex pectation. The blank, acquiescent look thai me piows Into faces of forty and fifty, and that we label resignation or despair, according to our creeds, twen ty-two years have sufficed, without a Mne, without a wrinkle, to trace hers. Daphne Chester expects nothing. Is forbidden even the natural joy of look ing forward to Paul's manhood. She grew old of heart before she was young; has had fatalist experience of men?of their love, of their truth-and would fain keep the child a baby for ever on her breast. "Me taught hi n Mamsey." repeats Paul, locking up, the triumphant glow of a Nimrod on his peach like, ruddy cheeks. "Sss what Paulie taught." And cautiously from beneath his flat* tened straw bat draws forth what tiro minutes ago was a butterfly, a man gled heap of legs, wings and gold powder, just enough of life animating sll for the creature to qulTer an Instant In Its conqueror's Iron grip, then be still. MOh, Paul! One more butterfly mur dered!" says Daphne In a voice grave ly proportioned to the helnousness of the child's crime. "He was so happy with bis friends among the flowers and did nobody any harm, and you have killed him! Paul will never be able to run races with the poor butterfly again." "Me till another." says Paul prompt ly. and. showing a row of tiny pearl white teeth as he shakes the corpse of the victim with disgust from his small fingers. "Vilsin butterfy?va!" Mrs. Chester snatches the child up trom the ground, looks reprovingly for a moment or two at his bold, brown, three-year-old face, then begins to smother him with kisses?the usual be ginning and ending of Paul's "punish ments." "Tell me, my sweet," she whispers, as she bears him in her strong, young arms toward the house, "think n long time first, and tell me how much love Taul lias got for Mamsy?" Without thinking a second. Paul mute ofT a scarcely appreciable fraction of space on one tiny finger. "And how much for the three old aunts, who nil want to see Paul a good boy?" For a moment Paul looks innocent ly up at the sky, as though he heard the question not; then he commences drumming a little, impromptu tune of his own composition upou his mother's shoulder. ? "What, no love for Aunt Hosle, when she makes you toffee on Saturday?" Paul's appreciation of Aunt Hosle's "toffee" making is measured, after due deliberation, by the length of one lmuil ?say, three inches and a half. "And for Maitre Andre, when he lets you rhle Lisette, at the (Irand Clmrrue?" The child stretches both arms wide. "Paul aime Maitre Andre beautoup. beautout!" he erfes eagerly. Paul's language, I must explain, is strictly composite, part broken English part patois French. "Beu plus qu* to 'p tlte Mainan." Daphne's bp trembles. She belongs to the class of women who want per petual expressions of love from the ob ject beloved, even though the objeet shall have only learned to lisp; and Paul, whose healthy heart is granite hard?Paul has already learned the de. lights of playing tyrant. "If I tell you a great, bljr secret? oh, ever so big. Paulie!?how many kisses will you give me. i wonder?" The child nestles his cheek coax ingly against his mother's. At three years of ago children are suflicienlly versed in philology to know that the word "secret" means u new pleasure for themselves. "To-morrow Jean Marie will bring Ihe hay home. Aunt llosie and 1 made cakes this morning, and there's a lit tle cake for Paul to ti?ke down in the Held, like the real haymakers." "All for mine own self?" "All for your own self, sir. and with Paul' 011 the top in currants. Now, liow many kisses?" He bugs her well nigh to strangula tion. bestows three or four noisy, care less kisses on her cheeks and neck; filially, a fresh butterfly, more painted than the last, catching his eye, strug gles down out of her embrace, and. waving his hat wildly above bis head, is off. Daphne watches the small, impetu ous figure until it is lost to sight' among the raspberry bushes and ea pallered pear trees that divide the domain oft flowers from the ampler kitchen garden. Then she turns away into the house, where her own name at this Instant is being lustily vocif erated from the landing at the llrst floor. "Daphne! Whnt in the world is Daphne blustering about?" The voice is old. quivering, yet pos sesses n certain gruff ring of majesty In Its tones. One would say. hearing it for the first time, that, during three or four score years of human life, that voice had been more used to command than to entreat. "Theodora! I wish to know If our nleco Daphne, with her usual heed lessness, has forgotten the pout bntr?' Upon this. n (loor on the opposite side ot tho passage to the kitchen opens, nnd n modlshl.v dressed lady appears upon the threshold. I use the word "modish" with pre meditation. Faded though Theodora Vanslttart's lavender silk may be, it has received readjustments* and re adjustments that bring up Its style to the level of M. Worth?I mean M. Worth as represented in the last num ber but three of the Petit. Courier des Dames. Her collars and cuffs would have been the newest thing out, not a twelvemonth ago lu Oxford street. Iler flaxen hair, plentiful still, though sixty winters have powdered It. is fashion mbly, almost girlishly, made the most of beneath a tiny Watteau cap of bice, rosebuds and ribbon. A tarnished blue and gold keepsake or annual, of a date coeval with Miss Theodora's own youth, is In her hand. "My dear Daphne! Is It possible thnt you have again forgotten the posthag? This Is a little too hard." Theodora Vnnslttart's tone barely savors of so plebian a quality as sour ness, yet It Is acidulated enough to carry reproach. "I have been performing my duty," those staccatoed, chilly accents seem to imply. "I, dressed in a lavender silk, a ia Megencp, with folded white hands, with a mind engaged in tlir pursuit of elegant literature, have, In the expectation of possible visitors, been keeping tip the appearance thai betlts our family's birth ?aud breed ing, while you " "J ajul Aunt ilosio have had as busy ? day ft I NMBbv' Mta Duk?, with tke tooadou tMMUff that (In real life) the Industrious Apprentice never offers to the Idle oaa "Fhret. there *?? the enrrant cahaa (or to morrow's hajrnaklnc-TM kaov Ant Hoele will never enffer any <M hot me to beat the en*, and them I had te 1 rint all the market butter by myself. ? i?oot could scarce atnge 'Dtguedon.* In her fever to get away from the house work to the hayfleld. eo I ** "I cannot, for dm life of me, under etand performing menial work for pleasure,** Interrupted Mlaa Theodora, with a downward turn of the eyelids upon her own dainty dreaa and uae less, delicate hands. M 'Superintend your domestic concerns as narrowly aa you will.' our poor papa used to tell us. *Glve your orders every morning to the housekeeper, and let her be re sponsible for their non-fulflUment But never. If you wish your servants to re spect you, step beyond the precincts of your drawing room.' Now. really -why should not .Margot compound the la borers' cakes and print the butter for the market as well as Henrletts snd yourself?" Daphne makes no reply. Faded re juvenated silks, useless hands, elegant literature, nnd mystic duties performed toward society In general have long ago Invested Miss Theodora, In the ej*es of the whole household, with the sacred halo of Irresponsibility. Little Paul himself, the very dogs and cats, seem to know that Theodora Yanslt tart Is not of the same work-a-day commonplace port of stuff as Aunt IIosl? nnd Daphne. "It Is futile to argue. I know Hen rietta's eccentricities do not. alas! de crease with age. But it does seem a little hard that others should be mad? to suffer for what I cannot but regard ns the very refinement of selfishness. Your poor grandpapa, child. Colonel George Vansittart. the sweetest tem pered. most forgiving of men, used to *ay that the one unbearable trial of our career as pilgrims was to be kept waiting for one's letters. Now, my dear Daphne, may I beg of you to put on your hat, take Paul as your com panion. and run up to Quernac with what haste you can? Margot is absent trom the kitelien, you tell me?for the sake. It must be assumed, of meeting her lover in the hayfleld?so I fear I must ask you to hurry back with as little delay as may be. In the event of visitors." Twelve ladles* perhaps, on a liberal average, arrive at Flefde-Ia-Reine dur ing a twelvemonth. A stray, open ended circular finds ;tn way thither occasionally. Miss Thco?!ora having. In an unguarded moment. addressed a London stockbroker, years ago, on the matter of investments and being for ever after treated as a speculative capitalist by the whole stockhroklng fraternity. Once a week the sisters got a "Cheltenham Looker-On," three r?r four days old. together with an antediluvian "Court Journal." Christ mas brings its modest, very modest, stock of tradesmen's bills. Yet so In eradicable is habit the (wo elder Miss Vanslttarts still look out for the post ns in those old, long d<>ad times of vouth and properlty. when the post man really used to bring them com munications of living flesh and blood interest?invitations to diuners or halls, letters of friendship, letters of love! Rain or slilne, ever much. Daphne Chester walks to the village shop at Qucrnee. where by arrangement the overworked country factor goes daily through the transparent fiction of de positing the Flef-de-la-Relne letter bag. "If the thermometer did not stand at eight, Paul would enjoy the walk. Aunt Theodora! As it Is'?with half guilty consciousness Daphne makes a suggestion that involves Theodorn Vansittart doing anything?"as It is, if you would not mind looking after the child a little ti'l I oome hack? lie will give you no trouble if you will let him stay in the garden. Paul Is al ways good when he is out of doors." "Paul is never good?out of doors or in." says Miss Ti.eodora, with Bis marck Ian decision. "But I am. of course, ready to keep watch over him in your absence, If you consider such watching necessary. When I was a child," ndds Theodora devoutly, "peo ple of education believed the world to he under a moral government. Par ents had fnltli In Providence." To be Continued. A London buyer has been In the Chicago market engaged In executing an order for artillery horses for the British (?overument. For these horses from $12.? to $150 per head is paid, and their weights run from 1200 to 1U00 pound*. LABOIC WOULD. Striking too msters at New Orleans, La., resumed work, an agreement hav ing been reached with the employ era. The Musicians' Union has demanded of the theatre managers In Washing* ton., D. C., the regular scale under threat of a strike. Labor loaders claim the last censns shows lT.iXMMKK) who support them selves by labor, of which 3,000,000 are organized union men. The Amalgamated Cloth TCxamlners' and Spongers' Union of Greater New York has been chartered as a Focal of the American Federation of Labor. There are few strikes among the cigarniakers. They meet in conven tion only once iu every eight years. All their questins are settled by ma jority vote. ItulTalo, N. Y., bricklayers and stone Masons' strike is beginning to affect carpenters, a number of whom have had to be laid oft on account of the delay in the mason work. Fall Itivcr (Mass.) Manufacturers' Association has set on foot a move ment for a general reduction of ten per cent. 011 colten textile operators. A fclmilar reduction was made last fall. A scrubwomen's union in St. Loui* Is reported uud.?r way of organisation. There Is one In Chicago, and Its mem bers are said to be well pleased with the benefits their association has brought them. At the first session of the Trades Union Congress, Leeds, Knglaud, a letter from the American Federation of Labor was read declaring that the universal solidarity of labor would bring about world peace. The wage scale for the low grade mines along the Allegheny Valley Itallroad In the Altoona district of the United Mino Workers will be sub mitted to a referendum vote of the IHHH) men employed In those mines. IN WOMANS REALM Vomm Mi HadMM. Medicine, not as a profession, bat rather as a diversion or a fad, seems to be growing among the feminine sec tion of the race. Several of the recent* 1 y engsged or married couples have brought to the public's attention the fact that the woman in each case was a graduate in medicine and had won the degree of M. D. Miss Mary Turu bull, of San Francisco, whose engage ment to George B. Murphy, of New York, was announced a few days since, several years ago took up the study of medicine and was graduated from the Cooper Medical School of San Fran cisco, with her doctor's degree. I>lda*t Pw himc. Apropos of the slang liablt among American women, this story is told of one of them. When Henry M. Stanley and Mrs. Stanley were last in this couutry. Mrs. Stanley, after a dinner party one even ing. spoke of the amount of slang used by American women, whereat one of the wotpen sitting near her said: "My dear Mrs. Stanley, you do us Injustice. American women do not use slang nearly as much as English women do. Why, If 1 should use a word of slang my husband would Jump on me with both feet." Mrs. Stanley apparently acquiesced, but she doubtless was scarcely con vinced. Watrratlon Laucheoni. Watermelon Joncheons are a popular diversion that' may be commended to those who wish, to give a simple al fresco entertainment. A pile of choice melons are gathered and cooled and in vitations sent-out for a gathering of the neighboring clans. Itugs, ham mocks and ramp and louuging chairs nre placed al>oqt in the shade, piles of plates and forks are set iu some conve nient place, \yhere every one can help himself, while the master of ceremo nies. with a long, sharp knife, carves melon after melon into big segments for the Jolly crowd. I-arge baskets ure placed near to receive the rinds, which pile up past belief to those who never participated hi a function of this sort. The Economical Bride. They were from up the State and ?were newly wed. Part of the bridal tour included a visit to the Aquarium. The lish hatchery exhibit interested the bride, who was of frugal disposi tion. After watching the embryo water denizens to various stages of de velopment sue said: "John, dear, you know we agreed to ralse^our own poultry to save expense. Don't you think it would be a good idea to do the same with llshes? Sup pose you see the man lu charge here aiid buy a dozen trout eggs. That will be enough far u ?Urt. and you can ask for directions for raising them. We might put a pan of water lu the incu bator with the eggs. It looks easy s.ntl I'm awfully fond of fish."?New York Press. The Smart Woman's Bathing Salt. "5D One swimming suit. One costume for surf bnthing. Two or more much trimmed suits for still wuter frolicking. One or two highly picturesque sun bath costumes. Half a dozen sunbonnets to match costumes. Ditto silk and rubber bathing caps. A dozen sashes, belts and neckties of shades to suit. Two dozen pairs of silk and open work hose. A choice collection of hose, in high and low effects, in colors to match each costume. Likewise gloves. The same beach umbrellas. At least two long bath coats to slip on over the scantier get-up. And once there was a time when a single blue flannel sailor suit, u big straw hat and a pair of black stock ings answered for tho whole collec tion listed above. A W?>1i women'* The bumble washwoman is not gen erally considerihI a fomenter of dis turbance of the peace save as a cause of profanity when she washes off the buttons on the uiulerlinen of the male sex?much less as a starter of strikes. Nevertheless, because of several wash women about three years ago a strike was instituted at Dayton, Ohio, which post that city and the hundreds of peo ple employed in a big cash reglcter company located therein over a half million of dollars. John II. Patterson, the president of the cash register com pany, furnished towels to his e v. ployes and also paid a number cf wo; :? ?n to wash tliem. Curiously enorgli It was these very employes who were bo ng supplied without cost to themselves >f these conveniences who rebelled at he washing?the washers being won ?n who belonged to no union. The re mit was a strike that lasted coiuo nonths. A Fmnou* Woman Painter* Frnulein Ureie Waldan, the flrct woman painter to receive an order rrom tho Gen inn Government, who iecorated the hall of tho German >ullding at the Paris Exposition with wall paintings, has again been commis <ioned to furnish paintings for tho St. I.ouis Exposition. Sh* Is contrihutiwg o hall of mines and metallurgy four ?irge paintings, two of them views of lie Krupp plant, the forging of a can ion gun and the flattening of plates for vonclads?certainly 110 everyday sub eets for a woman She made studies 1 or them on tho spot. The other two 1 >ainting4 present the celebrated mines 1 it Konlgshulte, iu Silesia, with smelt era In full activity. The *0*trust be tween the winter landscape (portrayed at ten degrees out of doors), the dark clouds of smoke and the red glow of the fire, is said to be admirably ren dered. Another painting by the same artist, destined for the hall of honor at the educational building, represents the famous Berlin thoroughfare "Unter den Linden," with the new library, as it will appear when finished. It is in tended to give an idea of modern Ger man architecture. ? Philadelphia In quirer. . To ClMn a Slimmer Oown. IIow many summer frocks does a woman give up because she is afraid of their fute in the laundry? She pic tures her roses turned into small an archistic flags, and her lace mitts shrunk into half hose, and her wool chiffon done into melancholy rags, for unscientific washing does these cruel tricks to pretty cloths. But there is one way of getting deli cate things clean without iujurlng their texture or losing their color, and that is by using borax water. Dip all fine printed lawns, chiffon and laces first into a pail of cold borax water, two tablespoonfuls to a bucket of wa ter; leave the lace and muslin im mersed for ten minutes, take the chif fon out almost immediately. Then rinse through borax suds having a shaving of castile soap. Never boll delicate fabrics. Last, rinse in two waters, first warm and then cold. Do not wring, but let them drip dry iu the wind, out in the sun. Just be fore they are quite dry take them from the lines and slap iu the hands a few minutes. Press muslins and chif fons on the wroug side, but pin lace onto a clean sheet that has been fas tened to the carpet; stretch it tight while pinulug and when dry it will look like new. Women's Strength. A young mother was boasting the other day of her bvby, U t first and naturally the most wonderful bab\ .11 the world. Among other things she told of her strength, and remarked that it was an inheritance from her self. She belonged to a family of strong bodies aiul healthy minds ol> tained through a free outdoor life in which walking, rowing and swimming played an important part. "But moth er is losing her strength," she re marked, and in further explanation I gleaned that in the pursuit of a hobby she had sacrificed a precious gift. She was devoted to painting and worked at it long after she had become conscious of extreme weariness. It will not be hard to guess the end. She will have to give it up when wear iness becomes chronic. It might be avoided by discretion; if she would rest when she first becomes conscious of a lack of freshness she might still be one of a strong family. But she is of the thin class driven by tlx* whip of duty and the fenr of not being able to turn every minute to account. A fig for that kind of duty. It Is a duty to rest, to enjoy yourself, just as much a duty as to work or sleep. I believe there are women who regard sleep as u bit un necessary and take as little of it as possible, but I do not belong to the number.?Boston Traveler. A net that is delicately ribbed with silk is novel. Such dainty parasols are covered with flowered tulle. A chocked skirt with a little black taffeta jacket is a good combination. A net gown flounced with cloth Is one of the fashionable incongruities. Most of Iho Eton Jackets are cut shorter than those worn in the winter. Blouses of embroidered batiste are much cmarter than ihosc of thin China silk. A new wrinkle in chiffon is a gauzy fatric wit'a patterns 01 tlined in drawn threads. Ready-made walking skirts of ci> hair co scarce last year, are now ts bo found ia abundance. Full top sleeves shirred t> the close tmdcrsleeve with a cap beading dis tinguish a nebby po:igoe coat. A closcly c ra'.?e:l bodice, ('.efnlrig the lines of waist r.ud bust, succeeds blouse c fee I? on t'.r.? ::cw?st gaw.is. This year's hip yoke is rliallower than last season's and generally formed of fine cordinr;s and shirrl'igs. I'oke bonnet, effects, tied with big bows under the cliir, are much In evi dence at s.nart afternoon gatherings. Trown Is a hot color, and only the woman to whom nothing else is be coming will wear it through the SUJU lilCV. Hnd I.??nio.l u Wl?ke<1 Woril# A father recently overheard lils young so i v.se a word ho did not ap prove, and calling the child to him, said: "My son. If you will promise ine never to csc that word again, I'll givo you a silver dime." The little fchow promised, and true to his word, re frained. About a week later lie went to his father and said: "Papa. I've learned a new word worth fifty cents. ?Philadelphia Press. fitting KplOpb. A good man's epitaph: "Ills life was the definition of unselfishness."?Chi* cago lUeord-Ucrald# our mnmom UNtvcftsmm tfc* Tw? GwmMm. Of the 37.692 students enrolled lm the German universities 3003 were for eigners, of whom 980 were ll'jaknt. i Female students to the number of 1314 .were enrolled. It is safe to say that fullj 10 per ceut. of tbostf attending German uni versities < re foreigners. Almost 1000 Russians, as nearly one-third of the foreign element, were matrleulated last winter. Next came the Au*triuns and Hungarians, numbering 601, or about 20 per cent. Switzerland fur nished 322 regulrr students, aud there were 324 Americans enjoying the same opportunities. United States Consul Pledrieh at Bremen notes that while the attend ance of Other foreign struents baa largely Increased, that of Americaua is almost stationary. Thus there were only seven more Americans enrolled last winter than there were four years ago. Durir.g *he nlnet.filth cenMirv Ger man universities led the vorld In eru dition and s< (entitle investigation, and their great professors attracted many students from all {tarts of the world in quest of higher education. "Hut times are altered." stys Corsul Died rich "Having myrelf been engaged in educational work as an American col lege professor for a good part of my manhood, 1 have naturally taken con siderable interest in the life ami work at the various institutions of learning in this country, and it is my impres sion that the facilities- for higher edu cation are Improving in the I" ill ted States much more rapidly than in Ger many. Despite all our imperfections oue cannot but admire the great up ward strides which the American sys tem of education, from the humble dis trict school up. has been making dur ing the last few decades. , "American educational institutions are the best equipped in the world. 1 know but one German university that can claim to be up to the times in this regard, and it stands third in the list of attendance. There is a steady progress all along the line of public instruction In the United States, and particularly In our higher class of universities."?New York World. WORDS OF WISDOM. A sour religion never improves with age. Love is always on the market, but never on sale. When faith prays it goes out to work for an answer. Self-conceit throws salt into the wounds of pride. A little practice proves more than a lot of polemics. The biggest brain is the one that can think most of others. A mosquito calls for more patience than a balky elephant. There is no way to save men except by suffering with them. Grace does not grow in a child's heart on a gloomy Sunday. No man holds a principle unless it is the principal thing lie holds. It's uo use talking about loving God when your children are afraid of you. Most men would rather be an electric sign for themselves than a light for the world. The grave danger of business is that a man shall place his soul on the counter. It is a good deal easier to talk about feel'iig good than it is to \v;ilk about doing good. l'ointcil l*Hr?Kr<i|>li*. An uinbr:>ilit isn't milch good until It is used up. All men have brain.-, but some haven't sense enough to use them. A man's idea of a heroine is a wo man who can suiter in silence. The l.ord hasn't time to help a man who is too lazy to help himself. When a girl is in love it takes but one other person to make a world. When a couple gets married she be stows her ham! and In- pm* Lis foot in 1 it. i A man always sympathizes with the under dog in a light?until he gets licked. Women love mirrors because they don't flatter and they love men because they do. The average man would be tick'ed half to death fur a chalice to pay a large inhcrilancc tax There are numerous alleged cures for drunkenness, but death is about the only one that cures to stay cured. It's as easy for some men to get un der a cloud of debt as it is difficult lor their creditors to see the silver lining. ?Chicago News. The Now Kpporlrr KcKiviird. A now reporter on on*- of the picture papers is out of :i job after his tirst assignment. 11 in instructions were to "get pictures of the ninn ami woman and an Interview with the baby," and three appeals at the house were unpro ductive of results. The fourth time lie rang the bell "the man" himself est me to the door and said things that drove the new reporter to the nearest tele phone. ( "I can't get anything at that house." he told the editor, "and the man says if I ring the bell again he'll break my nrck." ' lie did, ehV" enme tiie answer from the other end of the wire. ' Well, go right back and say he can't intimidate me with any such threat. Say I won't stand for it." The new reporter pondered over this until long after the last edition was on the streets. Then lie went home and wrote out his resignation. ?New York Sun. TTo?tn<1ft Put it Mob to Flight. The police of I.otivnn. Ilclgium. unable to disperse a violent mob of political demonstrators, last night let loose the great hounds wlil<h accom pany them on their nightly patrol. The dogo threw themselves upon the crowd, which Instantly s.-ntiered. Sev eral persons were badly bitt< n.?Lon don Daily Mall. ?>%< on I'.otti. An exchange says: "A poplar log struck him to earth, then fc|; on him, and crushed his life o n." And at last accounts a Coroner's Jury was filling on both the in :ri and the poplar lotf.? Atlanta L ji *iitu Jou? Canada Ahe*<l of Va. I r 1r subject for fro?|tLit coiumout on the partbf traveler* that the roa?l4>f Europe are far suprriono those of the United Statk: ami tliis result is generally attribute to the system of government ai?l nl supervision which prevails In tteaii all European nations. But It is n\ so generally known that our nearel neighbor. Canada, is also ahead of ul not only In the character of the roads but in the matter of road legislation., Hon. A. W. Campbell, Highway Com) missioner of Ontario, is an enthusiast, on the subject of good roads. ?n,i :,t\ the same time a very able and practi-] cal public official. He is quite well known to the go??d roads ppoplc of the United States, as he has attended and addressed a number of important ?*?n ventions in this country, li: a recent report he suys: "Good roads are essential to the full development of agriculture. In a coun 8!M>h as Ontario, dependent upon agriculture, this means that good roads are of very Kreat Importance to the towns niul cities as well. <;0od roads are not a benefit to any one class of the community. They are of universal value. This is a matter of which too narrow a view has been taken in On tario. If we must have canals nnd rail ways. then we must have good country roads. It has been taken for granted that if the country as a whole con structed canals and subsidized rail ways, the common roads could take care of themselves. But this has not been the case. "The broader aspect of the question has recently been given prominence by the decision of the Provincial Gov ernment to appropriate $1,000,000 for road improvement. This, for lack of a better name, has been termed gov ernment "aid" or "assistance." It is a recognition of the value of good roads to every citizen of the country, and a just effort on the part of the Govern ment to co-operate in procuring thciu. 1 he object of the present measure Is not so much to aid by the gratui tous distribution of money, but lias for its aim a nobler purpose. While it aims to encourage the doing of a work which is acknowledged by all as being an important and neccssary ser vice. Its prime object is to equalize and lighten the cost. The unfairness and injustice of the present system of tax ation for highway construction is so noticeable as to lie a matter of wonder ment that some step of this kind ha* not been ere tliis devised by Govern ment. or compelled by the people. "The Government is only exercising Its rightful function as a part of the administrative system in providing a portion of the cost of making roads ami distributing the money among the different municipalities entitled to it. This function can be performed by the Provincial (aovernmeiit only." | In Nova Scotia, nearly llftee:i years ; ntro. the Provincial iiorcrinuciit bcuau the appropriation of funds to improve the roads and the plan lias proven en tirely successful where the old system ! of depending os! the local communities j was a complete failure. Hven away out iu Itriti.-li foiuiunia ! there are many line voads which are | said to be "the delight of tourists." All I tiiese -are built olid lit'JJi up by !h?? j Government. Komi Malntfiinnrp, Without proper care the most expen sive road may go to ruin iu two or three years, and the initial expense of | constructing it be nearly losi. It \< of greatest importance, therefore, that all good roads should have daily care. They not only wear out, but wash out and freeze out. Water is the greatest road destroyer. It is necessary to the proper inaiu i Icnance of a road that it should "crown" or be higher in the middle ! than at the sides. If it is tint in the [ centre it ion becomes concave, and iis middle soon becomes a poo! or a mudhole it' on a level, or a water course 1 if on an incline. A hollow, rut. or puddle should ii"V cr be allowed to remain, but should bo evenly tilled and tamped with the same material of which the surface was originally constructed. A rake should be used freely, e.-pccially in re moving stones, lumps, or ridges, lints may he avoided by using wide tires on all wagons which carry heavy loads. If this is not always possible, the horses should be hitched so thai they will walk directly in front of the wheels. This can be ncrcomplishcil by making the double, or whilll*\ tree of Tmcli length that the ends may be in line Willi the wagon wheels. A horse will not walk in a rut unless compelled to do so. and, consequently, if all horses were hitched iu this way mi* would eventually disappear from 9lone roads. If stones are cracked on a road with a hammer a smooth surface is oul of the question. I'se stone chips lor re pairing Miotic roads, and ivni"inber that all foreign material and nr Ysh will ruin the best road, and I!:.-' i.'vm and mud will double the cost of main tenance. Ordinarily the chief work done by country people on highways is repair ing the damage resulting from neg lect. Why this negligence? The mlage. * A stlleh in time saves nine." can never be applied more appronvl afely to anything than to the mainten ance o? repair of all kinds of roads. Will Novcr Turn 1t:icU. The people of tills country will nev er turn back until every section ami nei/ liborliood enjoys t'io blessings of rural free innil delivery. Hut before tills eon be accomplished, a general Improvement of the roads is absolute ly necessary. There Is no escaping flits conclusion. Already bad roadH are proving the ninin obstacle to the establishment and nialnienance of ru ral ninll routes. If this Is true now, while the system is extending o^er those areas which have the best roads, how much more true will It be when we attempt to make the system uul? ?err