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SL 'ockets Are Coming In. A sure-to-be-welcomed-with-joy bit of information is that pockets are coin ing in again. It is not only that the winter coat will show more pockets than for many a long season, but ac tually that the tailor-made dress-skirt will be made with a big, roomy pocket. However, the dressmakers who have at least consented to make a skirt with a pocket are issuing notices to their patrons who order these skirts, to the effect that the pocket Is not to be used as a substitute for the generous "Peggy from Paris" bag or any of the other big wrist-bags which the shops are showing.-Woman's Home Companion. Great Beautiflers. Thoughtfulness for others and un seldshness are great beautitiers. For all perfection of skin and feature won't make up for an unlovely expression, and such an expression can come orly from a sweet nature, says Christine Terhune Herrick in the Philadelnhia North American. We are not all of us born with pretty faces-but we can all of us try to get both. And there is some satisfaction in working on one's disposition. You may not be able to alter the shape of your nose or to make large melting eyes at of a pair of optics that .are good for little except seeing. But if you cultivate an inter est in those about you, if you try to make the world happier for those with whom you are brought into associa tion, you will not fail before long to get a pleasing expression that will make the physical defects be forgotten, or to seem charms because they are part of a lovely and generous person ality. Try it! And, at the same time, keep up the care of the body! The Rights of Children. "We must interpret the laws for the protection of the young against cruelty, oppression and injustice." says Henry ran Dyke in Everybodys Magazine, "as evidence of the world's growing - sense of justice. Beginning with the Factory Act of 1833 and the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842 in England. there has been a steadily increasing effort to diminish and prevent the degradation :f the race by the enslavement of child hood to labor. Even the parents' right of control, says the modern world, must be held in harmony with the child's right to life and growth, mental. moral and physical. The law itself must recognize the injustice of dealing with young delinquents as if they were old and hardened criminals. No more herding of children ten and twelve years old in the common jail! Juvenile courts and probation officers, asylums and reformatories, an intelligent and systematic effort to reclaim the young life before it has fallen into hopeless bondage to crime; this is the spirit of civilized legislation to-day- In 1903 no less than ten of the Americanl States enacted spe'ial statutes with this end in view." i . Things to Teach Your Daughter. Tcach her that one hundred cents make a dollar. Teach her to say "no' and mean it; and to say "'yes" and stick to it. - ec her to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Teach her how to wear a simple mus lini dress and to wear it like a queen. Teach het to have a place for every * thing and to put everything la its place. Teach her to pay regard to the char acter of those she wvould associate with and not how much money they have. Teach 4ier that the more she lives within her income the more she will save and the farther away she wvill keep from privation when reverses come. Teach her that music is an elevating and delightful accomplishment and should not be neglected If there be money enough to give her instruction in it. Teach her a high sense of personal dignity, so that she may regard famil iarity of touch or speech as an unpar donable affront to her womanhood.-i The Dixie Home. The Uplifting Woman. The cheering up woman is a real en tity nowadays. Registered on the books of a certain woman's exchange, she dispenses her cheerfulness at so much an hour, and is in great demand. She reads to invalids, talks to them, sings or plays to them, as the case re (lu'res. She is a bright. hustling little body, with cheery ways and optimis tic temperament. She will come to you for live minutes or thirty. She will darn your stoc-kings or mend your ciothes. She will fix fiowers in vases and mk'- your r-oomn homlike. or talik to you about over thing or notig. Persondly she is jnst what you - would expect such1 a womlanl to be. She has~ a famuiiv of her own who rejoices in her optimristic view of life. but she use-s her talent also to keep the wolf fr-om the door. There was a time whien there was * plenty in the home. bt financial re -verses came. and with thetm the need of retrenehment. The husband fell ill and some one must turn breadwvinner. It fell unon the wife anid mother. To-day she- is supporting her family comfortably by acting as a cheering up woman, and her engagement book tes tities to the success of the experimnent and the demand which exists for her services.-Indianapolis News. Beautiful !telta and Girdles. The woman who has a dress allow alnce will this season put aside an un usually large proportion for belts and girdles. The belWs the thing. and just one step ahead of it is the girdle, which must really -ouint as the final hall mark on a modiste's best effort, says the Star. First, the belt of the moment is abso lutely round; no pointed effects are permissible Secondly, the belt must tone perfect i ly with either the blouse or the skirt, the only exception being the use of an f onion-brown leather belt witL a tailored i suit, which here and there shows a I touch of the same coloring. Thirdly, the girdle must be fitted 1 with the same care bestowed on a a princess gown or a basque bodice, and L the shape must harmonize with the 1 figure and its wearer. The very smart t waisted wcman must religiously avoid s the very high round girdle. Pointed s effects in the back are for her. For wear with tailored suits and i shirt waists, suede or leather beits are the correct thing. They come in I every shade shown in fashionable suit ings, and a deer-skin belt is one of the < fancies of the hour for the girl who likes mannish clothes. An extremely fetching effect in onion colored suede is finished with two : buckles, the one in the back a tride i larger than its companion in the front. r These are of gold, but exactly the i shape of a Napoleonic hat and studded i thickly with topaz. The color combina tion of onion-brown, gold and topaz is wonderfully harmonious. These large . buckles can be secured to follow the : curve of any figure; if the wearer hIts i a perfectly round and trim waist, the i curve of the buckle is horizontal. If there is a decided dip in the waist line -. at the back the curve will run ver- t tically. Many of the buckles on these y heavy leather belts look like armor i plate with eyelets such as may be o seen on harness, ana spikes for catches. e They come in silver, gun metal and c gold. The girl of more aelicate fancy does not use a large heavy buckle on her I broad belt, but has four or five very I small buckles with leather straps. t These are very effective, but they 1 must be laced and strapped with care, for the buckles must make a perfectly I straight line down the front. Bullet shaped buttons are also used to finish these broad leather belts. An extravagant leather belt shows chamois skin in the natural tone, slashed to stimulate raw edged broad cloth, and finished with gold buckles back and front. Another fancy in leather for the athletic girl demands s belts, turn-over collar and cuffs, all of leather, for wear with the mannish tailor suit. These may be stitched In b self-tone hemstitched or done in heavy a broderie Anglaise. The most delicate leather bel-s are those fntended for house wear with i the light colored cloths which will be so popular this winter. White suede, and at leist four tones of the plain colors; such as blue, heliotrope, pink, green, yellow, as well as Americani beauty red, appear in the plain stitched belt, finished with simple gold buckles. There is absolutely no reason why a girl may not have a belt exactly the ' same tone as her shirt waist or blouse. ] They are not good. however, with a i really dressy blouse, as they should I give a tailored touch to the costume. I Metallic belts will be much wvorn with tailored suits of all sorts. Gun 1 metal, silver, plain and oxidized, and I goid are employed. There is absolute- t ly no limit to the price. Imitation t metal may be bought cheaply enough I on bargain counters at department t stores. or miladi millionaire may go 1 into the jeweler's and expend the divi- I dend from a comfortable investmenti on a single belt with chatelaine or vanity bag attached.-New Haven Re; ister.t Ornaments Increasing in Favor For flat Buckles and similar ornaments are more favored than !;eemed likely to be the case at the beg:inning of the sea son: but they are o:ily prized when of a very handsome sort. Rhine pebbles and finely cut steel, mounted in enam eled metal and cut jet, have the lead. I have also remarked that one or two milliners are t'rying to revive a taste1 for gold galons, but go far I have only seen it applied to white or beige-col ored felts.-liillinery Trade Review. There is a great fancy for trimming the necks and shoulders of gowns with bands of velvet. These velvet strip pings go over- the shoulder and over the arm. A band of velvet also ex tends around the yoke. Perfectly plain black patent leather shopping ba'gs are taking tlle place of the bright colored and more showy ] fashion for a season. These are noti so large as those previously used, and i have plain gun metal or gold clasps. 1 One of the latest novelties in dress materials is a radium-colored silk. It 3 is pearly white, but it is so woven that it seems to give out rays faintly tinged with color. Silver bullion iace makes a fascinating trimming for a gown of ths silk. Bargain counter lengths of silk are i boons to the mothers of growing i daughters. Young girls dress simply: nowadays, but their gowns are as often made of silk as of cotton. Indeed, the vogue of silk is universal at present. and all ages appear in it. In Paris, at all the smart gatherings, f it is quickly to be noted that the new x empire green, a medium turquoise blue, a leather brown, or else the new parrot a red-a scarlet 1:aying not a tirace of < pink in it-are the very newest shades f with white; 'and most effective are z they in such conjunction. The Lonis XV. coats and also the Di rectoire, that are veritable reproduc. tions of those historic styles, are rather ~ old-looking for a miss under sixteen C years, but there are many modifica tions which adapt them to more youth ful wearers. The Norfolk Is ever with ns, and is as promising a candidate fr faor this seon as ever. REMARKABLE MAILt. CARRIfR. he Romantic Career of a Frontiersmau Who Carried Uncle Sam's Mail. Robert L. Athy, who has just been ppointed mail carrier between Camp on and Spradlin, Wolfe County, has he most remarkable record of any an in this part of .the country. His niusual record began at his birth, lben he weighed only two and one aIf pounds, and he could be put in coffee pot easily. He grew up, how ver, to medium size. Athy has been a mail carrier in dif erent sections of the mountains for early twelve years and in that time as made a great reputation as a unter, having killed several bears. a arge number of wildcats and almost thousand squirrels, besides a num er of rattlesnakes. Several tim'es in is career Athy has been compelled o leave his horse at the bank of some wolleu stream and to piace his mail ack in his teeth and swim across. In .I1 his twelve years of service the nail has never once been delay .d, )nce Athy narrowty escaped being illed by a landslide which swept own a mountainside and completely literated the road just in front of thy. Athy is also a preacher of the gos e. Each day at oney Zr two poinlts long the trail he tinds a crowd await ng him.: ind there he gives five or ten ni:nnte talks on the methods of getting a and staying in the straight and nar ow path. Manly have been convertei 'y his teachings. Athy :1lso acts as uess n.:er boy for that antire moun ,ill district. and when any one wants bundle brought from the store lic ever hesitates to ask Athy to brini; t for him. Athy states that he has been en aged to be married twenlty-eight lines and has never been 'in earnest" et. Athy has educated himself :mnd well read for a citizen of that part f the mountains. He is always wel! ressed and polite. and is undoubtedly ne of the most popuhltr of Uncle Sam iel's mail carriers. Athy is thirty-seven years old. Ir as ridden one horse all the time that e has been mail carrier, and it is es imarted that they have covered nearly 2.000 miles together.-Correspondence .f the Washington Star, Owingsvilie WORDS OF WISDOM. Patience gives a big push to any pur ose. From the lowest depths there is a atlh to tl loft;est height.--Carlyle. Blessed ::re they who know how to hine on one's gloom with .horir cheer. -enry W1ard Beecher. Little minds are tamlied am. subdued y misfortune: but great minds riso hove it.--Washingtoin Irving. Men who have little business arc reat talkers: the more one thinks the o: One speaks.--Montcs(1uiep. Education has its object, besides call ig forth the grea-est possible quanti of intellectual power. -to inspire the itensest love of truth.-John Stuart Greedy Cows. Severel weeks ago Fratnk Shults, a airymin of Babcock Hollow, neat Cath, missed a valuab'e cowv from hit .e'd. At first it was supposed the ani aal- had strayed fromi its p)asture. SC aquiry was made of wue neighbors, tut nothing could be. learned of the an1 mal. Mr. Shults, while loath to be eve it, finally embraced tne theory hat the animal had beeni stoleni during he night. Accordingly a watch was laced to detect, it possible, the '.den it of the thieves should the attempi e repeated. A week passed, and. as nc hieves appeared and no more cattl vere missed the wat( c. was aban toned. The very next day :mothe: aluable cow was missed. Shuits them ought it was time inere was "sme hing doing,'' so a double watch wit t and maintained for ;-month, but o more cattle disagneared. The mys ry of thp cows' disappearancee wax xplaied yesterday, when in drawing way a large strawstack mn the barn d the decomposed bodies of the att were discovered. The animalx ad tunneled under the stack while eeding, and becoming lodged undet he straw had sutfoca ted.-Rtochestei njon Advertiser. Why Caviar is Scarce. At the inexpensive buffet luncheon ounters dovntown caviar sandwichex ave disappeared from the help-your elf dishes. In some 'places they re cut to order, small fifteen centb nd large twenty cents. In a restau ant a portion of caviar with bread o: ost costs thirty cen,.s. This appliex olely to caviar madIe from the domes i sturgeon, of which thousands o; >onds are sold every year in New Jok city. The catch of sturgeon last sumimel n .e waters aroud Newv York wax sonshingly small. Fishermen did tot secure enough to fill advance or. Les. At Bayside, N. J., usually rolific scource of iupply, a company ff000 fishermen did not average si3 turgeoni a day for a month at a time. asst year the Bayside colony shipped Ipwardl of 500 kegs of caviar to Liver iool after filling domestic orders. Thli irice of caviar ex:eeds all records ti (eason. It is worth S118 a keg on the charf.-New York Press. That Subway Feelina. "The originality of some of your cX >ressions is very, very refreshing, aid John Morley, the visiting Englisil ttesmtn, in speaking of his observa ions. "As~ I was standing at one of lhe entrances to your new sub)way ir eew York, a man p)assed me wvho ap :trently had gone through the demnor lizing experience of being part of a ostling, energetic crowd. His com anion asked him. 'Well how do you eel now, after going through the tun "' feel as the porker must feel, nswered the man. pushing a few dents u of his hat. 'who has just been: orced through a sausage skin.' "-Har er's Weekly. Englsh Serntry Guards an Idox. In Pegu. Lower Burmah, may be een an Engl'sh sentry keeping guard v a Burmese idol. The Burmese eive the idol is asleep, and that then he awakens the end of the world rill come. The sentry's duty is to rvnt an'y one disturbing him.-St. ames' Gazette. A Bad Pitchfork. A farmer haI nearly completed threshing and the weather was threat ening. A pitchfork, loose in handle, which had been bou.ght for twenty-tivc cents under the price of a good one, was standing near. In the rush to finish, this fork was used to throw up a loose pile of grain in the straw, and fork and all went into the ma chine, causing delay till next day. The strawstack was ruined by a heavy rain, the machine was damaged. the men had to be called next day, a total loss of perhaps $50. the result of trying to save twenty-five cents. Fellow reader, can you get a lesson from this? asks Mr. R. A. Craig. in The Epitomist. It may be worth a life, a vast sum of money and much time and trouble also be saved if the lesson is well learned. Good Paint For Farm Buildings. Fourteen years ago we painted a granary built of rough hemlock and battened, with a paint that is to-day in fair condition. On account of its cheapness and lasting qualities. I would like to tell thc farmers how it was made. It was composed of one part of good linseed oil, mixed with one part of strong lye made from wood ashes and three parts cf water, thick ened with oxide of iron for the body and whiting for the trimming. The whiting did not last as~well as the oxide of iron. but locked well for si; or eight years and shows some yet. Of course the whole would be much improved by a new coat of paint, but the building to-day is in fairly good condition as compared with other ,arm buildings painted at the same and later times with expensive paints. Mrs. E. G. Feint, in The Epitomist. Fattening Chickens. .o fatten chickens quickly and keep them in good health, feed ground oats and barley meal alternately mixed with any kind of fat tried out. The feeditg troughs, which. must be kept constantly secured, should be placed before the birds at regular intervals, and when they have eaten sufficient It is better to remove them. placing a little gravel near the coop to assist digestion., Keeping the birds without food for !.om& hours after they are put up frequently induces them to take it more readily :Vterwards: but sufficient care Is seldom bestowed on the details of preparation and supply of food, hence complaints of the fowls deterior iting in the fattening pen are very com mon. Fattening must be completed in ten days unless a cramming machine is used. for after that period they be gin to lose weight. The L.est age for table birds is when they are from four to six months old. The coops should be three feet high, two feet wide and four feet long; this will admit of from six to eight birds, according to their size. The bottom and front should be .f slats three inches apart; a board outside the slats in front, six inches wide, will serve as a stand for the feed trough. The coop should be in a warm, well-ventilated outhouse, and if kept dark betwieen the times of feed ing, all the better. Sleep and warmth promote fattening.--The Epitomist. Bristlee. Hlogs will make no gains in the lot when the thermometer stands much below the freezing point, hence get the fat porkers to market before they eat up the profit that you niity realize now. The hogs should be dressed neatly and the carcass marred as little ars possible. Have the water at the scald ing point and put in a handful of asihes to help remove the hair. Store hogs should not be exposed in the autumn or eniriy winter. House them ear-ly. but let them out in the yards and fields on fine da'ys. Feed the pumpkins- and small r,ota toes cooked with bran and shorts. When scalding hogs, the bristles will come ofi' very readily if two or three handfuls of air-slaked lime is dusted over . the hog before putting on the boiling water. Try- it; it is a good deal better than r,esin. Keep wood ashes in a convenient place so the pigs can eat all they wish. Ashes furnish mineral matter-potash. lime, soda, ete.-which helps build up the bones. They have a good effect on the digestion and kill intestinal worms. If wood ashes are not plenti ful, give coal ashes. An old boar, or "stag," is too fierce ,a disciplinarian to be kept in the same lot with shoats; the pigs will soon learn deference for their elder, but pigs can't stand such culture and thrive. We know of a feeding lot where this is being tried.-Farm Journal. Soil Fertility. Unquestionably the most potent fac tor- in successful agriculture is soil fer !tility. Yet the soil's richness is rarely guarded with that care it demands. The restoring of worn soils and the maintaining of present fertility should be a study for all farmers. Without doubt the best means of en ~riching the soil is by- the use of barn yard manure. Few farmers make but a small portion 'of what they need. The best results, we believe, can be ob tained by the applicati.on of manure with a spreader on young clover the fall after seeding, at the rate of ten loads per acre. This stimulates a won derful growth in the plant: adds a great amount of humus, which cem mercial fertilizers do not supply, and which is sadly wanting in most clay soils. Manures should be spread as made, if possible without injury to the ground by passing of team over it. Summer made manure, if spread late In fall, has a double value to the young clover plant. It stimulates an early and vigorous spring growvth and forms a mtulc'h for winter protection. The common practice of letting win ter made manure accumulate, to be hauled on bare ground and turned der -ly into the soil, is a wastful one anC. should be discouraged. Every thi: that adds humus should be in corp :-ated with the soil. Clover haulm tran tIed straw ricks, all kinds of bed ding, leaves and stubble should bE plowed under. Dry straw will returt a proit if turned under on heavy soils -J. D. Burris, in Indiana Farmer. Result Alwa~ys the Same. timothe Vney,r who lives thret miles east of Le Sueur, Ind., and keeps about 200 hens. has been greatly troubled. as have most people who keep hens, by the persistent desire manifested by the fowls to set in sea son and out. on eggs, stones or door knobs, or anything else that comes handy: but he has got hold of a plan now which he quietly tried tis season with perfect success, and which he warrants will cure the worst cluck that ever vexed the heart of man of all desire to sit, and all in less than three hours. The cure consists of a cheap watch, with a loud and clear tick to it, inclosed in a case that is white and shaped like an egg. When a hen manifests a desire to set, place one of these bogus eggs under her sheltering breast and the egg does the rest. It ticks cheerfully away, and soon the hen begins to show signs of uneasiness and stirs the noisy egg around with her bill, thinking, per haps, that it is already time for it to hatch, and there is a chicken in it wanting to get out. She grows more and more nervous as the noise keeps up. and soon jumps off the nest to run around a while to cool off, but returns again to her self-imposed duty. It gets worse :and worse with her, and she wiggles about and cackles. ruffles her feathers and looks wild, until at last. wit:. a frenied squawk. she abandons the nest for good and all. That incu bating fever is broken up completely. Mr. Varney finds use for half a dozen of these noisy eggs, and claims that they pity for their cost ovet and over during the year uy keeping the hens at the business of laying and not permit ting them to waste the golden hours in useless iucubating.-IndianapolisNews. A Little Water Power. A friend of mine has a useful con trivance by which water is utilized as a power for light mechanical work, like pumping, stirring a vat of cream, scaring away birds, etc. It consists of a pole balanced upon a pivot, or bolt, to one end of which is suspended a weight and to the other a water bucket. This bucket has a large auger hole in its bottom, forming a rough valve, the stem of which projects an inch or two through the bottom. (See cut.) The motion is that of a walking /AL\/: li beam. First the weight draws up the bucket. Water running into the bucket fills it, and its weight carries it down, lifting the weighted end. When it strikes the ground, the valve Is forced up, letting the water out. Relieved of its weight the bucket rises, only to fill and descend again. The valve in the cut shows the loose plug with a head that completes the bucket valve. It has a pin, or sp'ke, through its lower end, so it can not rise too high and float away. It is held down by water until forced up from below. This little power is quickly constructed and is quite effective for light uses.-H. S., in the Farm Journal. Farmers Must Farm Better. IFarmers must farm better, put more of their lands into meadows and per manent pastures. grov mnore stock, make. save and apply more manare, plow less, cultivate better, grow larger crops of better quality, and prepare them to meet the demands of the mar ket: grow relatively less of the staple agricultural crops whose prices are fixed by the peons and serfs of the cheap lands of the world. Farmers should realize that it is more profitable to allow a part of their land to lie in permanent pastures than to grow crops and sell for less than cost. Mines are closed, and the wheels of factories cease to revolve when they cease to yield a profit. Why should not farmers act on the same principle? In the matter of cheajening of pro ductIon.~~Farmers must know their soil, their domestic animals; must read agricultural papers, study the experi mental bulletins published by Govern ment, State and agricultural colleges; must be close students of soils, domes tic animals, climatic conditions, and should have technical as well as prac tical knowledge. All the granges of the United Stafes should appoint eachJ member of their gr* iges 'to conduct a series of experiments, not for one year, but every yeas, of all crops, including orchard, garden, breeding and f.eeding of all domestic stock grown or kept by them, keeping a careful memoraIn dumi of everything affecting the same. an accurate account of time. labor and all expense. stating fully and accurate ly when, how and why each process wair done. F&rti lization. preparationi of soil. planting and all kind of seed, culture, amount and quality of crop, cost when harvested, local and general value when harvested. These memo randa will be equally valuable in ex perimenting with live stock. These re ports will furnish a fund of valuable knowledge that cannot be secured in any other way. When time will per mit they can be taken uip and consid ered by the grange. The sisters of the grang may and will suggest ways and means to improve home buildings, yards. lawns, planting of trees, shrubs and flowve-s. and also make sugges tions of labor-saving devices for th< home.-Mirror and Farmer. He Was WondIering. A Scotch doctor, who was atteniding a laird, had instructed ttue butler o1 the house in the art of taking and re cording his master's temperature witi a thermometer. On repairing to th< house one morning, he was met by thi butler. to whom he said: "Well, John I hope the laird's temperature is nol any higher to-day." The man looket puzzled for a moment, and then re plied: "Weel, I was just wonderin that mysel'. Ye see, he died at twa The Annual Mud Tax. A careful study of the road probler in detail reveals some important ant significant features. While good road stone is found in a very few places ir this country. good clays are found' it nearly every locality. "If these abundant clays." Mr. Dodge argues, "can be used economically to build good roads they will greatly as sist in meeting the important problen of how to construct our country roads "Again, as all loads are hauled ovet very narrow portions of roads througl wheel contact, railroad cars for ex ample, it follows that if such narron parts of our roads are cheaply con structed to properly resist the weigh1 and grind of the wagou-wheels. nev, and important results will be attained "At a cost of construction of s:1 $800 a mile, brick track roads for tht entire country would cost less th:u four times the $630,000,000 loss whicl it is estimated we are now sustaini!; each year on account of our bad roads "In other words, we are now payin for the ,pleasure of using our preseni deplorable roads an annual mud ta which in less than four years would build the finest and best roads in tht world throughout the entire country and which would effect a saving o: nearly $7 each year for every man woman and child in this country, tc say nothing of the pleasure, the satis faction and the moral benefits of driv ing over good hard roads every day of the year instead of through a seriet of mud holes or a cloud of dust. "To the rapid and economical ex tension of rural mail delivery only one obstacle worthy of consideratio; presents itself, but that obstacle is of such a nature as to greatly affeci its practicability and economy. Thih is the present condition of our country roads. "Without question, one of the firsl great movements toward the economi cal free rural delivery of the mails should be the construction of passable roads. This is already evident fron the fact that some of the mail deliv. ery routes hive had to be abandoned on account of bad roads. "The circumstance that over six mil. lion dollars was appropriated by om last Congress largely to be buried it our muddy roads in the delivery of our rural mails, while only the smual sum of $20,000 was last year devoted to meeting the road problem, indicate. the great need of education regardint the present necessity and demand fol vigorous and intelligent roac wor . "As much of these large appropria tions for rural mail delivery could be saved if we had good roads. it is ob vious that an amount equal to a con siderable portion of these sums could e spent to good advantage in educat ing the people in the wor.k of lmprov ing our country roads and thus forevet close a large drain on our national cash box. "In -view of these facts, could not million or more be spent to the besi possible advantage by the national goy einent in constructing a section 01 brick track road near each county s.ea throughout the country as an object les son in each county in the most ad vanced methods of road oonst,ruction'? Narrow TJirre Road-Eillers. The town of Plymouth has been Ii the list of towns that have improvei highways under State aid. We hav< bilt nearly two miles of macadan road. These sections were put in si: or seven years ago, and have provel satisfactory, and at the present tima are in good condition. This kind o0 road needs repairing by top dressins with three-fourth inch trap rock twic< a year, and when the roads commene to unravel or pick up they must hi repaired at once to prevent serious in jury to the roads. Cost of repairs should say $40 to $50 per mile pel year. We have also done several miles of grading and graveling during the last two years, greatly improving the highwayz thus treated. Our grave section would have done much bettel service If wide tk es had been on heav3 wagons; narrow tires on heavy wagon: are "road killers," and their use can ot but be most strongly condemned I fully believe the cost of repairing oui highways is thirty per cent. more b: reason of narrow and well worn tire: on 'heavy team wagons.-Eenry E Hinman, Chairman of Selectmen, Ter ryville, Conn., in 'ood Roads Maga zine. Nothing More Expensive. There is nothing more expensive t< the farmer or merchant or other busi ness man than impassable roads, whic) prevent the farmers from marketin, their products or from procuring thi articles they need in farming opera tions. The burden of the tax is heavy The Agricultural Department puts th cost of transporting goods in wagon oer Southern dirt roads at $3.05 pe ton, while in the Northeastern State it is but $1.89 -;er ton, a difference il favor o,f good roads of $1.16 r.ton. Th< weight of the average load in the Eas is 2216 pounds. whereas the weight o the average load tn the South is bu 17 pounds.-Good Roads Magazine. India:na in the Van. It is said that Indiana will be the first State to have complete rural ma. delivery, as a result of the law passet by the last Legislature under whic1 counties are required to keep in goot repair roads on which :u--a! mail route have been established.-Gcod Road Magazine. Quick Action. The leading miller of Eganville, Oat on the completion of a stretch of ston, road there instructed his drivers tha they were to increase their loads b, 300 pounds each, and that they wer to mak' an extra trip a day. How Nt to Sink. If every person knew that it is ims possible to sink If one keeps his arm under water and moves his legs asi he were going upstairs, and that on 1may keep this motion up for hours be fore fatigue ends it, there would b jfew casualties, Such is the fact. MCHISTIMAJNtIRI JANUARY TWENTY-NINTH. 'Heroes of Foreign Missions; What They Teach Us."-2 or. 11: 21-28. Scriptuit Verses.-Luke 10, 1, 17; Acts 13, 49-52; 16, 23-25; 20, 22-24; 23, 11; 2 Kings 6, 15-17; Ps. 31, 19, 20; 34, 7; John 15, 4, 5. Lesson Thoughts. The work of a foreign missionary not only leads him into great danger for his life but into great labors. Christian work in our own land, where the prevailing sentimet favors, is often discouraging and laborious, what must it be in a land where, the sentiment is strongly antagonistic? It is not always the daring, thrill ing deed that calls for heroism; per haps oftener it is the patient fidelity to humdrum duty. "The care of all the churches" Paul added as the cli max of his list of missionary hard ships. Selections. It matters not what difficulties and discouragements we may meet, if we are confident that we are doing God's will, we shall have songs instead o sighs and be ever overflowing with i the peace of God. When we want to describe over whelming odds, we say, "It was onp against a thousand." But often the missionary is one against teu. hous and or a hundred thousand. We would not think of sending a single solEer to hold a fort in an enemy's 6couty but often a single missionary hdds the fort in the midst of millions of heathen, all bitter enemies of the gos pci he is trying to teach, and keen in every way to thwart him. George L Mackay toiled for twenty three long years in the great island of Formosa. He visited village after vil lage where not a soul would listen to him. Still he kept on, because he be lieved that one with God is a majori ty. He declared that in all this work he never saw anything to discturage him. Whoever comes to preach tD - searchable riches of Christ heathen,. comes on a warfare wl re quires all prayer and suppicatiot to keep his armor bright.-Moffat. I was never left without hearing that promise, in all its consoluag., supporting power, coming up lrough the darkness and the anguish, "LA, I am with you alway!"-Patton. Asleep or awake, I am happy be yond the poor compass of language to tell!-Richard Williams, starve l to death in Pategonia. Men who live near to God, and are willing to suffer anything for Chist's sake without being proud of It, these are the men we waat.-Judson. RAM'S HORN BLASTS HE idle invite In-:itt. Tquty. Love lightens all labor. Faith cannot be forced. 5 Imm iauty makes The laggards leea * - The.finest fruits - must be touched bg frost. * Men who liir revelry get no revelations. You cannot lift the world until .Jyon love It. Eyes of love always see something toy praise. -* Real consecration is a quick cure for conceit. The long on tongue are often short on sympathy. Evil Imagination is a long stap to wards evil action. There is always hope for the man who honors his mother. God honors us for our service, not for our number of servants. Sharpers end by cutting a very poor figure. Substitution of the best Is the best cure for the bad. A creed is like aplate, tohold food but not to be eaten. Some people have family ressons for not fighting the devil. What is in a man is more potent than what is about him. NEWSY GLEAN%INGS If you belong to the German ar you cannot wear a monocle. Iowa provides a school teacher wheb only three pupils can be got together. Three tons of Epsom salts and I,00~, 000 pills were used in the hospitals df. London last year. The lumber output of the mills In the Minneapolis district .tione last year was 718,230,481 feet. It is officially stated that the een sumption of horsefiesii as food is in creasing rapidly In F*rance. A woman in Arkansas who wears a stuffed bird on her hat Is now liable to afine of from $25 to $0. The report is that Ru.ssia will spend $00,000000 in constructing a new navy, to be eompleted in ten years. Representative Tubbs hias introduced abill in the Legislature of Missouri making it a misdemeanor to "tip" a waiter. Munich now has a p?hee where steril ized milk is providd. at cost to all families whose annual income does not exceed $500. A Madrid restaurant !-per h'as sued a woman for a meal. Hie swears that* she ate and drank without ceasing from 8 p. mn. to 2 a. mn. A fish was on exhibit ion at Seattle, Wash., which is six feet long and is half animal and half vegetab)le, as a seed grew out of its body. INews has been received from Gens:un to the effect that the Japanese comn mander has informed the Magistrate at that place that ground for the con struction of a railway to Seoul has been already selected. IThe St. Petersburg 'Russ said the other day that before the battleship Petropavlovsk was destroyed at Port Arthur by a mine, it had been discov ered that many of her rivets were of wood instead of steeL. MeanIng of Letter "R." The letter "R" at the head of al prescriptions is derived from the Latin word recipe, the Imperative Smeaning "take." The little dart ovei the tail of the "R" is the symbol of Jove, of the Latin god Jupiter, and in -vests the writer with his authority by the power of Jupiter. Therefore the sign properly reads, "By Jupitez take this."