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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
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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 [
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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.
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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
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* 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
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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
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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
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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
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ej
The public conscience is awakened. ly
It has declared many things wrong ^
that were thought to be all right and
honest.
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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
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Civic righteousness is growing. A wi
s new standard is being set up. a s
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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