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THE CHIPMUNK. Here by this rock, beneath this moss, a hole Lead;? to his home, the den wherein he sleeps; Lulled by near noises of the cautious mole Tffnnelling his mine?like some ungainly Troll? Or by the ceaseless cricket there that keeps Tuning above him its monotonous lute; Or slower sounds of grass that creeps and creeps. And trees unrolling mighty root on root/ A Such is the music of his sleeping house. j Day hith another: 'tis a melody ' He trips to, made by the assembled flowers, And light an?l fragrance laughing 'mid the bower?, And ripeness busy with the acorn-tree, j Fuch strains, perhaps, as filled with mute | amaze? The silent music of Earth's ecstacy? The Satyr's soul. 1he Faun of classic days. ?Madison Cawein.in Harper's Magazine. TIE REMORSEFUL. TIBER. A Chinese Story ofWrongdo* ' :nj?: and Reparation. Yuan Ying was appointed magis>rate of a district far removed from his native home. This district had earned an unenviable notoriety for oeing infested with ferocious tigers. Before Yuan had been in office three months the inhabitants applied to their official parent to devise some means of relieving them from their trouble. Tli2 magistrate, who was a kindhearted man and anxious for the welfare oE his flock, at once brought the matter before the spirit whose speciil province it was to watch over the interests of the district and to keep its people from harm, by addressing to it the following appeal: r- "The Magistrate Ying has been in office in this district for almost three moaths. but owing to his want of ability he has been unable to advance the welfare of the people and to se, cure to them the blessings of peace and contentment. For tigers have been creatiug trouble within its boundaries, which is without doubt due to want of virtue on the part of the magistrate and cannot be regarded as in any way the fault of the guardian sp?m. me magistrate uas endeavored to find out in what respect he has failed in his duty, but . though he has searched his heart to discover his shortcomings he has not been able to find that he has in any way neglected his duty. He has administered justice with an even hand, and has done all in his power to relieve the sufferings of his people. But 4 if he has not violated his duty, if he has cot been guilty of oppression and extortion, how can the frequent raids of tigers be explained? Must the tiger hunters be tried for having been remiss in their exertions to extirpate the pest, or will the guardian *" * * w+rv/l Ktf **if if 4- V> en bpiriL, yruiupicu uj wt cxic outferings of the people, be pleased to drive awaythe tigers to their lairs in the mountains, thus preventing them from inflicting endless sorrow on the people? Such an act of beneficence will earn the undying gratitude of the magistrate. But if the presence of tigers in the district is really due to the incompetencc of the magistrate and to his oppressive administration, then let him be tried by the laws of the empire and be punished by the god3, without fear or favor." The earnestness of this appeal moved the guardian spirit, for a few days, afterward it had been issued many tigers were captured, every one v declaring this satisfactory result to be due to the beneficent action of the spirit. About this time there was an old widow, more *han sixty years of age, who had an only son,and who depended on his wood-cutting for her living. One day her son, who had as usual gone into the hills to cut wood, was seized by a tiger and devoured. His old mother, on bearing of the sad occurrence, va? overwhelmed with grief. Having, .owever, heard how kind and good the magistrate was she repaired to his presence, loudly weeping The magistrate, who was much affected and fer. deep sorrow for the poor old widow, at once issued a warrant and ordered his police to arrest the tiger which had been guilty of the enormity of eating the widow's son. The police naturally did not feel r uch pleased a*, undertaking such a dangerous arrest, which would probably result in their being eaten like the widow's son. But their chief was not an officer to be trifled with, and they did not dare to disobey his order. They immediately proceeded ^ to the mountains, and when they reached there they at once made a copy of the magistrate's warrant, which they burned as a sacrifice, praying at the same time to the spirit of the mountains. They had scarcely finished their offering and prayers when suddenly the roar of the tiger, wafted on the breeze, reached their ears. The roar almost frightened them out of their wits, and when the tiger itself suddenly appeared on the scene they felt sure their last moments were nigh. But they hu rriedly produced the magistrate's warrant, behind which they carefully screened themselves. The tiger up to that time had worn the most ferocious appearance, but no sooner did his flashing eyes behold the warrant than down went his ears and tail, and his whole demeanor changed from wild ferocity to tame submission. He seemed to realize at once that the majesty even of a tiger must yield to the majesty cf the law, and he quietly followed the police without making any show of resistance. Arrived at the magistrate's court the tiger at once knelt before the magistrate, who commenced to a ar the case, while the widow wept and abused the cause of her son's death. Leo" ing sternly at the tiger and pointing to the old widow, the magistrate thus addressed the foria3r: "This poor old widow depended for support on her son. He has been devoured by you. You beast of ill omen! On whom can she now rely for a livelihood? Even if you are condemned and put to death, how can that compensate the widow for her less?" Hearing this the tiger drooped his head aDd seemed to be thoroughly repentant. The magistrate, observing the change in the tiger's demeanor, continued: "As I now see you fully realize the enormity of your crime and are sincerely sorry for what you have donf* j 1 grant you pardon,, and decide this*. you shall henciforth act as the son of the old widow, whose wants, both as regards food and clothes, it will be your duty to supply." The tiger looked much relieved and i at once nodded a ready assent. He was then released and scampered off to the hills. The same evening he returned carrying in his mouth a deer, which he placed at the widow's door, after having scratched it with his j paw to give information ot his ar- j rival. The widow at once came out j to see vho was there, and beholding | the deer realized that it had been j brought for her by the tiger. She j sold the deer, and from the proceeds 1 of its sale she was able to live com- j fortably for some time. These attentions on the part of the tiger became quite regular and were faithfully carried on without interruption for more than ten years. J Then the widow died, much to the i grief of her officially appointed son, ! the tiger, who had found great pleasure in making the old age of the widow much more comfortable than it would have been had her own son been alive.?East of Asia Magazine. ; ROMANCE OF DESERTED DYEA. I The Once Famous Alaskan Town Now Has a Single Inhabitant. It has been just ten years since I George Carmack, a "squaw man," ' and his two Indian companions, j '"Shookum Jim" and "Tagish Char-lie," discovered gold on the rim o? what is now known as Bonanza Creek in the Yukon territory. There was but "one way to reach j the gold fieVis, and this was over- ! land from the head of the Lynn J Canal. On each ofi the two tongues of this canal and only a few miles I apart, the jwns of Dyea and Skag- | way sprang up and competed fer the trade of the treasure seekers. The name Skagway means "Home ; of the North Wind." It opened the White Horse route, shorter, but more dangerous, to the goal. Dyea, an Indian word, meaning to pack or to load, was the headquarters for the Chilkoot Pass. Tickets were sold from all points to Dyea, and as early as May 1, 1897, more than 1000 people v/ere in the little Indian town preparaing to pack over the mountains. Soon a steel cable tramway was built over the Chilkoot Pass, the main office of which was in Dyea. Then the tents gave way to sub"tonHdl frimo hllilHintrc T<yMTilferftllS O I Li UU1V ? ? V. ? I hotels, stores and banks opened for business, and the once Indian village j became a thriving city of 5000 people. Skagway also continued to grow, but, says Leslie's Wekly, from a different cause. The White Pass was a failure during the summer of 1897. Scarcely ten per cent, of the men who used it ever reached Lake Bennett. Hundreds gave up in despair and returned to their homes in the States, while many settled in Skagway and engaged in various business enterprises. ' Finally the railroad was projected built and is now being operated'from Skagway to White Horse?a distance of 112 miles. The fare is somewhat startling?$20 one way?the trip from the terminus of one steamship line on the Lynn Canal to the beginning of another just belpw the White Rapids is made in fewer hours than it tooK weeKS in ine aays 01 i auu 189S. This fixed the fate of Dyea. Its struggle against the city with the iron horse was b/ief. Thousands of dollars had been invested in land, buildings and merchandise; a few saw quickly the impending doom and sold out at a small loss, others lingered in the hope that something unforeseen might happen to turn the tide of fortune, only to be overwhelmec. in financial disaster. The end soon came, and Dyea, with its former streets dimly marked by indentations in the sand heaps, its warehouses still bearing names of merchants, hotels, banks and dwellings slowly yielding to the ravages of the elements and the vandalism of the Skagwayans, its wharves, once laden with produce of immense value, fallen to decay, is to-day absolutely deserted. Its name remains on the map, j#-.d is mentioned in the Alaska directory as "a discontinued post office with telenhone communications with Skag way." The "telephone communication" belongs to a man who has a homestead claim in the "suburbs" of the deserted city, and who raises a few vegetables for the Skagway market. / Bed-Rock Price. The proprietor of a Eoston hotel says that a week or two ago a dusty, tired-looking person from Nashua, N. H., presented himseir at the desk of the hotel, static; that he desired a room. "I've et my supper, an' shall be off before breakfast," said he, gravely, to the clerk; "no what would be your lowest price lor a room to sleep in?" "One dollar, if you leave at sis o clock x.o-morrow morning," was the reply. "Well?er?wouldn't half a dollar make it jest about right?" de- " nnnded the wayfarer, producing a battered lifty-ceut piece. "You see. I'm all excited up, travelin', an' 1 don't expect to sleep more'n half the time I'm in there."?Harper's Weekly. Poultry and Eggs in Norway. Poultry keeping for egg production is increasing fast in Norway and seems !ceiy to prove a rival to tne dairy Interests. A poultry experiment station is to be started looking toward improvement of breeds and cheapness of food. Norwegian poultry keepers expect to import the most of their grains dut they are. experimenting with food to be prepared from fish, a mater'al which is Yery a";undant and cheap - % Last of Florid* A GROUP OF SEMINOLE INDIANS \ Ho'.v One Tree Can Grow Within Another. I enclose herewith a singular proof of your opinion as expressed in the accompanying cutting concerning the, possibility of one tree growing inside another. My wife and I discovered this phenomenon while making a walking tour in Japan in 1895. As is usual with natural curiosities in Japan, there was a small shrine with stone Trunk said to be sixty-five Japanese feet In circumference and the trunk of the inner tree to be nine feet in circumference. The outer trunk is about thirty feet high, the outer tree was destroyed by the eruption of Osama Yama 130 years ago. The inner tree is about 110 years old. lanterns, and across the road a tea house -for pilgrims. The trees were so curious that we stopped and had a cup of tea and a gossip with tUe voluble old landlady, while I made the accompanying sketch from a point of view from which it would have been difficult to have obtained a photograph on account of bad light. I obtained a photograph from the old woman, and I wrote up t-he data she gave me on the back of the photograph. I do not remember now the difference between a Japanese foot and an.English foot, but it is very small, and to the eye the dimensions would correspond to English measure.?F. M. Barber, Commander U. S. N. rtd., late Naval Attache at Tokio, in the Scientific American. Automatic Gaff Hook. Among the novelties of the season that will assist the angler to keep what belongs to him is the Lion gaff, which an angler of Williauisport has devised and which seems to merit its name. Automatic Gaff Hook. The three parts or blades are so attached to the frame that when the centre one is touched by so much as the weight of a finger, the jaws close together with a snap and firmly hold the fish or frog or other captive. A Swinging; Rock. One of the most remarkable natural curiosities in South America is "la piedra hovediza" or swinging rock near the city of Tandil, Argentina. It Is twenty-one feet long and twenty-eight feet high and its weight is judged to be about 625 The | tons; yet it is so lightly poised on the rocky slope that it seems as if you were watching a stone rolling dovrn hill and resting tor a second PERTINENT' EPIGRAMS [ ! a by : GOVERNOR FOLK. cr I From the Address Delivered at Lake- p* side, Madison, Wis. If Adam lived through all these st centuries and received $ 175 a day? dc not ?175 a year?he would not be as si| rich as some of our experts of the a financial class. But the world is getting better every day. The people ar are correcting things as fast as they fo can. The people are going well. m a's Seminoles. mmmm ._. * mSbSS^9h VIIO INHABIT THE EVERGLADES Lawn Sprinkler. The advent of spring turns th thoughts of the amateur gardner t the ralce and the hoe and other gai den accessories. 'A recent inventio in the latter class is a lawn sprmKiei designed along practical lines. Mos lawn sprinklers eject a solid streai that often damages the delicat plants; this sprinkler by a uniqu arrangement, breaks the stream as i leaves the nozzle into a fine spraj The frame is a tubular standard ope at both ends and supported- on 01 namental legs. At the top is a ca shaped into a nozzle, the hose bein attached to the end of the standard the stream finding its way ou tnrough the nozzle. As the wate leaves the nozzle it strikes a disc supported by arms to the cap. O one side of the disc are a number o paddles, the force of the wate against the paddles turning the dis< Connecting with the disc is a bevelei ring extending around the sprinklei grooves in the disc corresponding t the bevels on the ring. As the dis is turned by the stream it travel fill Sprays the Flowers. around on the ring, carrying the uoj zle and cap with it. It will be read Ily apparent that the water, by coc tacting with the disc, will be broke into a fine spra?, causing no damag to the finest plants or flowers. Ugliest of Idols. Thia is a photograph of an Eaa African idol which, acccording t AftnnAi'on/viiito Uae f Itn ^ Jaf i nr V/UUUUIOOCUIO, uao I.UU piVSLAU utovwv tion of being the ugliest in existence Among the negro tribes the mor hideous the idol the more sacred i is. The image portrayed in the ac companying illustration i3 one of thi holiest and most valuable in all Afri ca and is credited with many miracu lous powers. upon a very small base. But whei you approach this swinging rock yoi are astonished by a new wonder: yoi can set the stone in motion by mere Iy pushing it with the hand. Ver; often the traveler is spared even thi troublo of pushing the stone, as th< wind will cause it to swing. Early in the last century the Ar gentine Republic was ruled by th< Dictator Rosa with unparalelled cru elty, for about twenty-five years. T< show his supreme power the tyran ordered that the 'stone be encirclec with ropes and many horses to b< harnessed to these ropes?but thi stone could not be moved one incl from its resting place?according t< tradition. Customers Shave Themselves. London barber shops now provid< accommodations for and welcome th< many men who prefer to shave them selves, among other things, keepinf their shaving utensils in order. Thej also teach the inexperienced whr want to learn how to shave them selves properly. , 4 / ' * 1U Some four years ago a prominent er citizen of St. Louis said he would fa like to die for his country; two weeks tb later he was haled into a court of justice for bribing an entire Legis- m lature. He had patriotism on his lips sa and treason in his heart; he wanted gi to die for his country and he would ev not live for his country.1 * ? of ISveryday living patriotism is more sn essential than war-time fighting pa- m triotism. ! of * * * } It is as important?more impor- fa ! tant?to fight to get good men into pi | omce as u is to oare one s Dreasi iu i ? bullets of the enemy ; and it requires le more courage, too, for the lawbreak- ar ers make muc'- noise. re * . * * A dozen lawbreakers make more noise than 400 lav-abiding citizens. is e * * * r3t 0 The lawless have not the strength re .. in politics chat they claim. i st n ' * " I 9i! The people of right thought and i st those who obey the laws and will vote j a for the enforcement of the law far th e outnumber those who graft or wink be a at grafting. ' th * * * ! th it I , r Some men think they are too good e? * to mix in politics. He who is too good to to take an active interest in pohtics is too good to be a citizen of America. ( ?1 p * * * or Every man is a kinj here. He has T' ! a part of the responsibility of 30ver- is ' eignty. He that is faithless in little ai is not to be trusted in larger things. fr " * * * ^ All laws should be enforced. . If ai any are bad they should be repealed. th That is the remedy. b< * * * ai The trust denounces the law-break- j* J ing pickpockct, but thinks it has a perfect right to violate the anti-com- 01 0 binatiou statutes. Sl 3 * * ? m The burglar abhors the trust lawbreaker, but thinks the law against " housebreaking is an interference with 31 his personal liberty. n< * * * ai The saloonkeeper thinks the law to . ** protect his cash drawer from the *)l thief a good law, but hates the law ^ requiring his saloon to close on Sun- d< day. u * ? r You can't pick out this law or that P' and say you will not enforce it. ei * * * tc The powers of evil, the law-break- a! era, will support a-candidate for pros- ecuting attorney, or sheriff, taking an E agreement from him that in'consider- *' ation of their support he will not en- w force laws that they do not like. That pi is embezzlement of power and bar- ^ tering of sacred trust. . ci * * * ti The time is about here when embezzlement of power will be held as 7X1 ' bad as embezzlement of money. 31 ? * 4 I- W Those who make money by non-enl~ forcement of law do not make their al case on the honest ground of their m e own private interest, but like the shrine maker of Ephesus.who praised the greatness of Diana, they place ?L their case or. other ground, and loud,t ly proclaim about threatened inter- ai n ference with the liberties o? the peo- s< ? ?le. v< ? $ * al 1 Liber.y to make law does not mean license to break laws. * * * Some of our great merchant princes have been found to be law- *c breakers by taking rebates from rail- je roads. They did rot think it was wrong. 1 * ? * i pc ej The public conscience is awakened. ly It has declared many things wrong ^ that were thought to be all right and honest. * * * th I have found the railroad pass to j-e be one of the most insidious forms of ar bribery. cr Wl The railroads are entitled to fair th treatment, but not to any special af privileges. They have no right to m send their professional lobbyists to ar debauch legislatures. ce * * * in You can't cure corruption by hid- ce t ing it. There is no secret remedy known for it. Drag it out into the e light of day and hit it?hit it hard. ? * * m Publicity is the best remedy for ci< civic corruption. es * * * th x The crusade against graft and spe- ve cial privilege does not mean a fight an against honest wealth. T1 _ * * de y Let men make as much money as ot a they can?but prohibit them from pe ~ making it dishonestly. wl * th Civic righteousness is growing. A wi s new standard is being set up. a s * * he The influence of the aggressive, M< t law-abiding citizen cannot be ovef- Ei j esumaitiu. ieii siucu win prevail rii a against a regiment of outlaws. wt 3 * * * tic We are learning that honesty is tu the best politics as well as the best policy. ? * ? There is work for each of us to do st2 3 right around where we live. The Er j right must always be fought for, tho je( wrong must be fought against. Show is r your colors. rr, r * * ?i ' lig ) The young man is advised to get ho right and stay right rather than to th< get rich and stay rich. rjB linn MUMMIES MADE TO ORDER. Man Has Been in the Business 29 fears?How the Fakes Are Made. Making mummies is the peculiar cupation of a man in Los Angeles, il. Mr. Fisher?this is the able aftsraan's name-exposes his whole ocess, from the beginning to the id, without making the least secrecy, tout it. He works in p. shop on the main reet of the city. In the show win>w are sample mummies; also a gn which reads: "Come in and see mummy made." He charges ten cents admission id does a good business. A writer r the Pa-.ific Monthly inspected the ummy plant and has described the dustry. He explains that Mr. Fish's present frankness is due to the ct that he is going to retire from e mummy trade. "After having hidden his art for ore than a quarter of a century," ys the visitor, "he has chosen to ve a practical lesson in it to whorer cares to learn it." The whole factory outfit consists a great rough table and one or two aaller ones, upon which several ummies are lying in different stages development. The first step taken*in the manucture is the preparation of a sime plank, the vertebral column, tiicb. gives a stay to head, body, gs and all, and to the end of which e nailed one lwo short boards presenting the ft Then a bag of sacking, correspondg in form to the shape of the body, placed around the plank and uffed with excelsior. The ribs are produced by means of bamboo raps. The arms and fingers const of several big and some small icks. All these things are attached to ie outside of the bag. The rough idy thus produced is covered with a an coat of plaster to the extent of e chest and abdomen, or wherever se ai:y part of the body is intended show. , On top of this plaster a coating of ue is putlind a fluffy tissue pasted 1, which is again covered with glue, tie body at this stage is of a yellow h color and in touch and appearlce resembles almcsi exactly a esh human carcass. The head is next placed in position id covered with glue and tissue in Le same way as the body. The eye)les are painted dark brown inside id covered with a piece or two of te same material, with a small slit i the middle, which gives a marvelusly good representation of the inken, dried out eyes of the real ;ummy. A few hairs are pasted on top of ie head, the teeth are made out of nail bits of horn, and the head and jck, with the exception of the face, re wrapped with several layers oi' lin, ragged cotton, held together brands. The whole body is treated kewise, leaving such spots as it is esirable to show the skin and bones nderneath. Then ?he ?or~i, which, has been irtly painted before tt: outer coving wa3 put on, is dyed once more, >gether with all the rags and bandies, and when perfectly dry presents ie exact appearance of the real old gy.ptian mummy. Finally, the body is strewn all over ith' gray dust,' or powder, which irtly fills all the holes. If there as the slightest ground for sceptism left bofore thii removes it enrely. The writer has seen hundreds of tummies, but even on closest injection he was not able to discover aything in the artificial product that as not exactly in accordance with :1 he ever observed in the original tummies. The very shape of the head, the cpression of the hollow eyes, the irivelled lips, the bit3 of skin and ano exposed; the wrappings and all, e such as exactly to resemble the snuine article. Standing in the ;ry workshop, se?ing them made, id hearing the maker's explanaons, it is hard to realize that those eird figures should be imitations. If the artist tells you that he has jen working in his line of business ir twenty-nine years, that he ha, arned his trade in a regular factory ng ago, and that he is able to turn it OU ( U1 Ul 1U U ULI LLl 1 Co vi U CLJf , JKJ 11 Will irhaps agree that even your keen re may have been deceived, especialif you will calculate what this one an alone has done in his line. Many more "genuine" articles sue from the same deft hands, but iey are of comparatively minor inrest; mermaids, "Alligator Boys" id similar remarkable and fabulous eatares are manufactured here, as ell as Indian war relics and curios at will astound thousands hereter. But, as the clever sculptor rearks, the world will be deceived, id a man would rather pay fifty nts to see one of these products a show or museum thau pay ten nts to see it made. rhe Curious Ways of Wild Bees. There are about'five thousand spe2S of the wild bees, all with inter ting ways of their own. Among em is a species whose females are ritable amazons, and carry more id better weapons than the males, lere are the "cuckoo" bees, who posit their eggs in the nests of hers, the progeny of both living aceably together until maturity, len they separate. Then there is e tailoring-bee, who cuts leaves th her scissors-like jaws, and fits 5nug lining of the leaf material into r cave-shaped nest. Dr. Henry Q. jCook, President of the American ltomological Society, describes in irper's a wild-bee hunt, during lich he made interesting observains of these ingenious little creares. A Free Country. A characteristic and striking inince of the broad-mindedness which lgland always shows to her sub;ts, whatever be their race or color, the fact that Mustafa Kamel Pacha ganizes in London in broad dayi-i. il. A ^ :e u ,IIL Lilt; luuvcuicui ucauucu, 11 ma pe3 are realized, to give Egypt to s Egyptians and to drive away the igiiah. officrr.la,?Geneva Journal* 1 I Good Roads and Liquor Traffl<j. ! ? I To the many schemes looking t(? 1 the financing of good roads proposl- -/I | tlons Governor Folk, of Missouri, has added a new one. He will ask the jJB next Legislature of his State to pass .1 a law taxing the retail liquor Inter- 1 ests for the benefit of the public highI ways. His plan is to have a direct ; j State tax of *200 levied on each. | dram shoi>, the fund to be used to lal 1 build two great highways across the , I St&ie, one from Kansas City to St. "'m Lomis and one from Iowa to the Ar? 1 kansas line. 1 While the details of Governor . j Folk's plan are not fully explained/ I enough is known to show that It Is an ' jr | interesting, though as yet douDtiui, 350 method of raising funds for gobd. roads. Various States have adopted -Kjg differing methods 0? getting the 338 money necessary to improve the existing highways or build new ones, and through them all the principal of -jf State aid has been the main feature,, jt though ^ith many varieties of appli-. m cation. We know of no instance . .4 where Governor Polk's idea has been applied. Existing methods of road improvement are the so-called "reward" syg-?, tem, introduced by Commissioner Earle, of Michigan; the systems under which improvements are carried : q out in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts; the convict labor, work of Georgia"^,and some other. M Southern States, qjjd' tbp' great bond '?3$ issue plan, through wbdch*-Neirt York's highways are to be brought to a high pitch of excellence. A caret at niuu/ ui iuc vanuuo m;buuuo ivmuv w-.. rc7^n the conclusion that the State bond is- ; 1 sue, as adopted by New York, affords :;1 the most feasible and hast expensive . M method of mating the highways what they should be. This doubtless could1 v?l be improved, ho-vever. For instance,'', in a few New York counties some oC' the county prisoners are made to /'"J work in getting out material for high- ; j way construction. This plan has so .1 far been successful, and there seem* ,$s|l no valid reason why it should not be JM extended to the State's prisoners. The J amount of competition with "free la- a bor" resulting would not be an appre- ' I ciable factor in the State's labor prob-/ I iems, and work in the open air, wltiiw|M good food and proper treatment,^ -'|M would improve many men in whom' the reformation supposed- to be.. wrought by imprisonment is in no. way apparent.?New York Tribune. u Good Driving Roads. c^9 The National Good Roads Association is still organizing subsidiary associations in every part of the country. Some States have at least one ':M in every county. In this way the pithlie is educated and a public sentiment created in favor of building and ..1 maintaining solid, smooth and enduring roadbeds for the wagon, the car" v ''ijl riage and the buggy. .jM The money value of good roads to ' ^1 the farma^sMnyjerfewjflp understood. "M The tai" lmt|o|||von "the Jarnjjjra of, Alabama Wy00J?5ads^ far" outrun*^r the taxes paid foanwfl other purposes. Poor roads are not only expensive in ^ I money, but they restrict the freedom ' (M of the people in their social and eda~v catlonal efforts. In every way thejr, 0 are a hindrance, a clog and a burden. ' 1 The good roads associations aim to I snow now gouu ruaua tau u? uuuw They hope to lead the people on t? 1 the building of good roads until the ? country becomes a network of them, ';3 and even then we will not be a bit -1 ahead of the Romans and Carthage-"- I nians. Other countries have poor roads, but we must go to backward I Russia or to misgoverned Turkey to I find roads poorer than the average I rural highway of the United States* Our rural roads remain as bottomless.-'JJ in stormy weather as they were at the outset, and this is why all should I join'a good roads association and / help on the movement which is now? - I j hopefully begun?which means much! '.M to the country both in money and I contentment.?Birmingham Age-Her- I aid. , Improved Method of Road Oiling. : During tne present season newi I methods of applying oily material to I roads have been tried in England, and . I one at Manchester ha3 proved most successful. A watering cart is used, with a receptacle for the oil. Water, and oil are introduced into a tank au- I tomatically in proportions that caa be regulated at will. Thus, for ex- s ample, five parts of oil and ninetyfive parts of water can pass into the r '< tank if desired, or two parts of oil v and ninety-eight of water. t c 'The oil and water-are subjected ia i the tank to the bating action of rapidly rotating'blades'driven from tbifr axle of the cart as it travels. The ,;Yf oil is, in this manner, diffused ant? *i mixed uniformly in a fine state ct subdivision with the water. This emulsion of oil and water is distributed in a fine spray from the rear of the cart.?The Motor Car. . , % Girls Are So Queer. "When are you going to be mar-* / ried, Hilda?" /* "Me? Why, what an absurd question! Haven't I always told you I hate the very sight of men?" "Yes, but I thought you were jok- i ing, and??" 3 "It's no joking matter. I am a bachelor girl and I am proud of it. I wouldn't be wedded to the best man on earth." ^ "How interesting! Do you remem- w ber that handsome J^ck Dashing?( Well, he told me he admired you more than any girl under the sun 8 and he would like to make you his H "And?and what did you say?" * "Why, I told him you were a bact- * e'.or girl, hated men and he might * as well leave town." H "What? How dare you interfere I with my love affairs! Why couldn't B j you tell. I?lm to call around? I shal* H j never speak to you again as long as I j I live."?Chicago News. I