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> i i i h i i i i 4 ~~ THE IMMORTALS. The singers of the world, ah, who are they'! Those who have pat away All hope of gain and rulcrship and place To go, despised, on the unending chase After high Beauty, following where she runs? Beauty in twilights, stars and moons and suns; Beauty in cea-wings flashed above gray capes : Beauty in dawns and midnights and cloudshapes; ? < ? -i - - j i.: lieauty m snowarucs, rioois. ana rusumg storms; Beauty in laughter and in living formsOnward, unresting, over crag and stream (Phasing the flying dream. Till the white equities of moon and star, Sowing their light afar. Lead on their feet to kingdoms waiting long. .Where, voung forever, dwell they glad with song. The poets of the earl h, they cannot perish. Their music men will cherish; Their songs build dawn a3 the large suns grow light. They are the morning-makers of our night, (ireat kings of melody forever hymning Beautv and love, with jocund eyes clear brimming. The races rise and rule and pass, but they. Immutable and glad, like strong gods, stayin cool, green places where the years are young; And hearts of lovers hold the strains they've sung. Deathless, though dead, they have (perpetual youth, t And Beauty kn:>w as Truth; I'riests of white hope they urge men's souls still on To tracts of fairer dawn; And it is always April where they wait, iiecure in morn that nevermore grows late. ?Charles J. O'Mallcy, in The Century. $ HER | |D5LEMMA| | Dearest Bettina: This must be a short letter, but I need your advice, and I need it quick. Please telegraph your answer. No, on second thought, that won't do. But write by return mail. I'm having a glorious time in the country, after all. My uncle has a beautiful home, with a regular park Tor a yard, and his big house has all the comforts and none of the discomforts of a steam-heated flat. Barbara Morgan and her husband are here, and little Cousin Isabel has a I boarding school chum visiting her. and Dr. Burt almost lives here while his wife's away, and last week Paul Herrick came out for a few days. It's a regular house party, you see, and everybody is crazy over horsehack riding. My uncle David hates > automobiles, and everytime one of his rich neighbors gets a new one he goes and buys another horse, zo there are mounts for us all. You might to have seen us last week, galloping over these country roads. Well, to get to the point. Uncle David went to town last Saturday and we promised him that a mounted escort of at least six should accompany his carriage when it came to the station to meet him that afternoon. It's about two miles from the house. Then a storm came up?a howling wind and rain?and Barbara was for backing out. She's so different from what she was before she got married! But Paul and I wanted to eo. so at last we started out?Bab and her husband, Isabel and Dr. Curt, and Paul and I. You ought to have seen us?all togged for the rain! I had on a coat and cap of my Cousin Jack's. But caps wouldn't stay on, so we put them into our pockets. Then Barbara's hair came down, completely? such hair, Betsy!?and every hairpin was lost. It was a terrible wind, of course, but I can't help thinking ' that Barbara made the most of it. She knew very well that she looked like an October magazine cover, with all that goldy-brown mass of hair flying. She made the conventional fuss? said she couldn't go another step and all that. Then Dr. Burt asked if she'd go provided Isabel and I would let down our hair, too. Well, Bab said she would. I do think a girl might be past such tricks after she's married?though, of course, as far as she knew?well, anyway, you can imagine how I felt, Betsy. Little Isabel naturally didn't mind. 3he shook out her short pigtails without a murmer. But I said "No." That was the signal for mischief. Paul didn't do anything?only hung back and looked worried ? but Dr, Burt and Mr. Morgan rode up alongside my pony, and the more I insisted that I wouldn't take down my hair, the more they insisted that J should. And such impertinent jokes! Dr. Burt kept asking me if there was anything l'd like to slip quietly intc his pocket. He said his wife wore one. and he knew all about it. Ther they all shouted except Paul. At last Mr Morsrnn hart th ; pfTrnn tery to begin pulling out my hairpins, and Dr. Burt was starting tc help him when I got on my dignity I told them \I could do it?rathei than disappoint Uncle David?it' Barbara insisted, but that I should do il myself. Then I ordered those twc married mea to ride ahead with theii own companions, and I did it in a way that made thim go! That lefi Paul with me, poor boy! He wa: trying so hard to look indifferent. Well, I put up both hands anc carefully extracted all the pins, hold ing the coil of hair right in the placf until the last instant. Then I said 'Ob, see Isabel's horse!" While Paul was looking at th( horse I let my hair drop over mj Iieit sii'juiucr, uiiu, ac ine same in stant, ran my hand swiftly down it: length into the wide pocket of th< coat I was wearing, where I left mj hairpins and?well, you know. It was the neatest thing! In th< wink of an eye, that unsuspecting Paul was looking at me again, anr there I was, calruly shaking out m? mane, and pinning the pocket shu with a hatpin. You know my hai doesn't look so sparse when its down Betsy. It's only when it's up that i needs the extra braid so much. It* rather short, to be sure, but it has ; kink and a fhiffiness that help. Anyway, both those married mei were perfectly crest fallen when the; glanced back. You'd think they hai 'oounted on seeing me baldheadei after iny topknot was down. But Paul looked perfectly happy. ( We rode like mad after that, not to miss the train, and our hair streamed out behind like the heroine's in a novel, and?well, if my 1 cheeks were half as red or my eyea half a shiny as Bab's and Isabel's were, I can't blame Paul very much for acting like a goose and calling me "gypsy queen" and such names. But, Betsy, from that hour things got serious. I put him off as long as I could, and then there came a time Now, I don't know what to do. For I can't help knowing that matters were precipitated by that episode of the hair. While I don't see any reason for telling my secrets to Mr. Morgan and Dr. Butt, Paul might think he had been deceived. You're the only one who knows, Betsy, and I'd never have told you if you hadn't had to go with me to match the color. You remember, yourself, that it wasn't a large one, but of course Paul couldn't be expected to discriminate about that. You see, I want to be strictly honorable and yet?oh. dear! Ought I tell him. and will it make a difference in his feelings if I do, and, if I don't, will it make a difference in his felings later? Another thing: I can't think it will come to this, but if I should have to choose between Paul and my switch, what in the world can I do? Your anxious Peggy.?Chicago Daily News.. A Tribute to the Egg. Iiy WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. We have crossed the Bospliorus and bade farewell to Asia, within whose borders we have spent about seven months. They have been wonderfully instructive months, and we have enjoyed the experiences through which we have passed, but we cannot sa.f that we have fallen in love with Asiatic food. We have been afraid of the vegetables; we have distrusted the water, unless it was Donea, ana we have sometimes been skeptical about the meat. The butter has not always looked inviting, and our fondness for cream has not been increased by the sigut of the goats driven from door to door and milked in the presence of the purchaser. The bread was not a rival of the Vienna bread, and the cooking has not been up to Western standards. But the hen? long life to her. She has been our constant friend. When all else ha9 failed we could fall back upon the boiled egg with a sense of security and a feeling of satisfaction. If I am not henceforth a poultry fancier in the technical sense of the term, I shr.ll return with an increased respect for the common, every-day barnyard fowl. There are many differences between the East and the West?differences in race characteristics, differences in costum:s, differences in ideals of life, of government, and of religion, but we all meet at the breakfast table?the egg, like "a touch of nature makes the whole world kin." Rap at the "Yellows." The University Magazine, published at Montreal, pays its respects to "The American Newspaper." ridiculing es pecially the stock highfalutin phrases that, like a journalese revival of eighteenth century tags, do duty for the simplest objects, and the sporting humor. The article concludes with prophecy: There are signs that the people are tired of the farce, and that soon the lights will be out and the audience gone home. All art passes through this stage. In the early days of the : vaudeville a negro and a flapstick were considered sufficient for an evening's entertainment. Towards the finish of the programme one got tired. But the average newspaper writer is the last man in the world to discern the hopeful end. The reporter of the baseball game continues his buffoonery every morning, repeating his jargon which was , already tiresome, when Kelly slid . and Casey went to the bat. The sporting editor yet "breezes" bis , horses, "works" them "on the flat," , or "lifts" them "over the timber." His pugilists are as of old time "gluttons for punishment," and their j "blows will not be denied." All sen' sible persons must yearn for the time when the "yellow metal" will have ; disappeared, wnen tne "iiery ele, ment" will be quenched, when the : "palatial hostelries" closed, when the . "speckled beauties" will have van ished with the other members of the I "finny tribe," and the "kings" ol cotton, lumber and wheat will have j gone with the "merchant princes" tc t their own place. i Where Charity Renins. The public-spirited lady met the littie boy on the street. Something about his appearance halted her. She > stared at him in her near-sighted way. The Lady ? "Little boy, haven') you any home?" t The Little Boy ? "Oh, yes'm; I'v< > got a nome. "And loving parents?" i "Yes'm." t "I'm afraid you do not know wha 3 love really is. Do your parents lool after your moral welfare?" I "Yes'm." "Are they bringing you up to be ? J good and helpful citizen?" "Yes'm." "Will you ask your mother t( - come and hear me talk on 'Whei ' Does a Mother's Duty to Her Chil - dren Begin?' next Saturday after 3 noon, at 3 o'clock, ai Lyceum Hall?' ? (Explosively): "What's the matte; f with you, ma? Don't you know me' i fm your little boy!"?Clevelant J 1'jHin Dealer. ij ? . I Sword of Kin? llclianzin. t I Rphnnxin Kinf nf Tlahnmov. Tin; r I presented his sword to the Frcncl , I Minister for the Colonics. The weap t j on was purchased years ago at ; s theatrical costumer's by .111 etplorer 1 who afterward gave it to JJehanzin. The King ordered the cour 1 armorer to make a sheath for it on y of empty sardine cans, and wore i :1 until quite recently.?London Even 1 ing Standard. ! HOW THE ARC DE TKIOMPHE, I r r '' Mrrble Snapper. It would hardly be etpected that there would any necessity of a machine to help the small boy to play, but such a device has been brought out by an inventor, and it is shown in the accompanying cut. It is a contrivance to nhoot marbles, and thus save the small boy's fingers from injury resulting from overwork. The device is of such size as to fit nicely in the hand, and it is comprised mainly of a pair of blades between which the marble is held. One of the blades is of flexible material, and upon the exertion of a certain amount of pressure the marble is shot from the device as if projected from a gun. It has been a sad handicap for the small boy that at the opening of the marble season he has not been able to play marbles more than four or five hours per day until his hands got in trim from practice, but with the use of the new toy such trainingis not at all necessary. He will be able to play marbles for the whole twenty-four hours if not interrupted b/ his thoughtless and inconsiderate parents, who insist that he go to bed for a spell.?Washington Star. HERE'S A WEATHER SHARP. High Meteorological Standing of the Green Tree Erog. Few animals have survived the at, Lacks made by science upon their eputation as weather prophets. The i green trog is a conspicuous exception. i He is, to be sure, a croaking i prophet, but plenty of people will pin v THIRTEEN OP THE NINETEEN WO THE FINNISH 1 A Basement Cold Frame. This frame is constructed just over tbe basement windows, and the temi perature can be regulated by opening U \ . . 1 nr closing the window as desired. It i?..o . ^.ir>n. fr?i.-r>r whifh ran bf> raised 1 ou war in days and lowered at night. ' ?Richmond Times-Dispatch. t * f. Round to Stop TI>on. t In a suit lately tried in a Maryland court, the plaintiff had testified tha'. his financial position had always been a good oi:e. The opposing counsel 'ARIS, LOOKS FROM A BALLOON. ?L'lllustration. tl;eir faith to him. Even so scientifl a journal as Symons' Meteorologica Magazine has a kind word to say o this little fellow. Here is a picture of the frog's lad der which is provided for this wea ther prophet in Germany and Switzer land. In many houses the frog i kept in a bottle half filled with wate and provided with a ladder, and th little fellow is carefully watched a to his behavior in uncertain condl tions of the atmqsphere. A numbe of weather maxims are based upo: his posture and activity. If he remains on one of the lowes steps of the ladder it is considered a sure sign that bad weather is com ing. If he emerges from the wate and rests upon the steps above it fin weather may be expected, and th higher he sits on the steps the fine the weather is sure to be. He is als supposed to give warning of ba< weather by croaking loudly befor a storm. The magazine says that there i really some reason to believe tha the green tree frog is somewhat es perienced as regards climatic condi tions and acts accordingly. In fin weather he skips about among th branches of the trees, when at libert catching flies. At the approach < winter he seeks the water and fine himself a bed in the mud until tt following spring calls him out to r sume his war on the flies. Now the frog on the ladder wit! out doubt watches the weather coi ditions keenly and rises to look 01 for flies when the circumstances see favorable. On the other hand, whe the weather is cold and damp he reminded of winter and instinctive retires to bury his sorrows in the ir aginary mud which he sees at tl bottom of his prison.?Philadelph Record. MEN RECENTLY ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT. ; . . ^ J . ' * ?L'lllustrazione. 1?L? L; ' ? U ^ ^"^r-n ftgfl mir> LOOK. i 1 I III 111 UU.UU LUl <~l UJOV.AU.U.... tion, and undertook to break do\ his testimony upon this point. "Have you ever been bankrupt asked the counsel. "I have not." "Now, be careful," admonished tl lawyer, with raised finger. "'Did yi ever stop payment?" "Yes." "Ah, I thought that we should g at the truth," observed counsel, wi an unpleasant smile. "When did tl suspension of payment occur?" ' When I had paid all I owed," w the naive reply of the plaintiff.?Si cess Magazine. A IHnn nf Prinfinnls. Not long ago. in a crowdcd subw train, Superintendent Maxwell, New York, arose and gave his seat Miss Blank, head of an East Si school. "I am sorry to have you get ui she said, smiling. "Don't mention it." replied 1 Maxwell politely. "I always stand I for my principals."?The Circle. L "BHITVGS I, pVORTH KFOWINGM i In parts of Northern Australia the i natives live chiefly on the rats which , swarm everywhere and on a diminutive Bpecies of dog hardly bigger than , a rat. j A beautiful Celtic cross, twenty j feet high, bas been erected at Rang- ( ihoua, Bay of Islands, where ninety- , three years ago Samuel Marsdeh, t.he "Apostle of New Zealand," landed i to hold the first Christian service in that section. Piedmont, Italy, produces about three times as many cocoons as any j othtr Italian province, and in proportion to its size is perhaps the most prolific silk-worm district of the world, the yield during 1906 amounting to 11,001,647 pounds, with a value of $3,956,583. A man named Constant was arrested in a Paris cafe the other day for insulting two Englishmen. In explanation he said: "I can not help it; whenever I see an Englishman I become so enraged that I could do anything to him." j A spire that was unique in church architecture has just been torn down at Providence, R. I., it being that of the Jefferson Street Baptist Church, which was entirely of brick even to , the apex, each brick being especially c fashioned for the place it occupied. .1 f Austria's fishing industry suffers from the handicap that the fishermen _ are nearly all in the clutches of _ usurers. They are compelled to borrow money when the catch is poor s and they are never able to get out of r debt again. e a Porfirio Diaz was inaugurated . President of Mexico December 1, r 1884, and, therefore, has been in a office twenty-three years. ,t The inhabitants of China have 4 awakened to the sense of the conr venience of having telephones. Many r lines are being projected. e e The present Lord Falmouth's r father, who twice won the Derby, 0 made only one bet during his racing 1 career. The amount at issue was e sixpence. Lord Falmouth won the bet, and had the coin set in brils Hants as a brooch for the wife of his ,t ) trainer. [- The electric chair for executions e is used only in the United States. e The Austrian Government gives her aged a pension of nearly $2.5 0 a week. The area of the Pacific is 70,000,^)00 square miles, that of the Atlantic, 25,000,000, and that of the Indian, 17,000,000. An ivy plant which established itself in a crevice of the tower of St. John the Baptist Church, at Yarborough, Lincolnshire, England, undermined the foundation and lifted ptones out of place until it cost over $3000 to make repairs. DISAPPEAKING PULP WOODS. A Danger, Grave and Impending, May Be Evaded by Undivided Action. The Toronto Globe has begun a campaign for the conservation of Canada's spruce forests, which are the source of a large part of the wood pulp used for paper making in this country. In its issue 01 juiy 21 the Globe says editorially: "The spruce supply of the United Q. States would be completely exhausted a in half a dozen years if the manu facturers and users of paper had to * depend on it alone. They are now s substituting large quantities of logs J from Canada at great expense and a are thus rapidly depleting our pulp , supplies. A certain amount of forest | is devastated every year by fire. Our own manufacturers consume a large ~~ amount of pulp that is made into paper for use in Canada, and a much larger amount for exportation to other countries. The supply at present available is enormous, but the consumption of paper is rapidly increasing. while the supply of wood if rapidly diminishing. It is only a question of *\me when these two movements will result in a very inconvenient if not disastrous scarcity." A few years ago there was general confidence in the ability of our northern border States to furnish all the pulp wood that this country would ever need. That notion has been exploded. Our invasion of Canada for the needed supply is causing grave apprehension in that country. Wisconsin paper mills are buying pulp wood in Quebec, 1200 miles cihmtinn is a little better ClY> CLJ ? X UV OibUMvaw ? ? .. in northern New York and northern New England, but even in those regions the end of our supply is immediately before us. Realizing this fact, a number of our large paper companies have bought extensive tracts in Canada and are busily cutting on them. One company owns yrr about 3000 square mile3 and another t owns about 2200 square miles. There are others with smaller holdings. The point of special importance is not so much the possibilities that " Canada inay impose an export duty 3U on pulp wood as the certainly thai unless proper steps are soon taken there must occur an exhaustion of spruce supply in Canada, as well as tfc j in this country. So far as this counts try is concerned, there is little if I anything that the Federal Governas raent can be asked, to do. The spruce IC- regions of Maine, New Hampshire, .Vermont, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are not a part of the national domain. The danger, grave ar?'? impending, ay > can be evaded only by State or by oi j undivided action, and only by the tc ; conservation of the existing forests de j and an extensive planting with a 1 * ' /-'omHo view to me remuw? miuic. *_<? ?uuu ),' has much larger powers of restriction and may exercise them. If she )r.! does, this country must, dance to tho up tune she pipes.?New York Sun. It Was Hot Corn. By EI> MOTS'. A fat colored lady, with a tin washjoiler standing in front of her on lie sidewalk at a Sixth avenue corler, had been howling to the heat- t jmbarrassed night and the public c generally that she was there in the t interest of hot corn and a market. I \ tall man, wearing a white high t !iat with a black band on It, stopped \ [n his sauntering up the avenue arad 1 remarked to the fat colored lady: i "Have you corn?" I "I shore have, suh," replied the < dealer in superheated maize. i "Is it hot?" inquired the tall man 1 ? A -'It- | in tne oreezy nai wnu me miumm i band. "Hot as b'ilin' soapsuds, suh!" ] said the custodian of the wash-boiler I and its contents. i "Do you happen to know," said ; the apparent customer, "whether it I is the early sweet of old Virginny?" i "Hones' to de Lawd, boss, I cain't i give mah wuhd fo' dat, suh," replied < the hot-corn matron; "but it b'iles 1 de ch'ices' kyine, an' gits pow'ful hot. suh." "Ah, yes," said the tall man. "But common, ord'nary North Car-liny corn will do that. Have you evidence that the epicurean raccoon has tested the quality and condition of the corn in the field where this was grown? Your raccoon knows what corn is best for man to eat. Has the 'coon been working in the field o' nights whence these ears you offer were plucked?" "Yo' shore done gone a heap deepuh, boss, dan I kin go in de dishin' up ob dis hyuh co'n, suh," said the fat colored lady. "But I knows J*- " 1. ?? ? ? 1 1,/xf ?? (lis iiyuu uu ii a in pun iui uuc. "Yes; I quite agree with you," said the critical person in the conspicuous hat, taking off the tile, wiping his forehead with his coat-sleeve, and stepping closer to the. boiler. "But I have a way of knowing whether it would be likely that the epicurean raccoon has approved of the field in which this corn was grown. I will let you in on the secret if you just pass me over a couple of those ears for testing. I think two ears will be enough." "Dem eahs, dey's a nickel apiece, suh," explained the colored lady. "Two eahs ft)' a dime, suh." "Yes," I know," said the tall man. "But, don't you see, if I find that the corn is the sweet, juicy, milky corn of old Virginny, which is the only kind the fastidious 'coon approves of, I will at once be warranted in bringing my friends around to enjoy it, and you will be compelled to have four boilers full here after this to supply the demand. Unless I know this by actual test, of course?" "Yo shore is monst'us kyine, suh," said the fat hot-corn saleslady, putting the cover back on the boiler; "but I reckon I doann' 'low no thievin', ring-tail 'coon ter tell me how ter b'ile co'n; Huh! I reckon I doan\ suh! Hot co'-o-o-n! Hot co'-o-o-n!" And the man in the white hat sauntered pensively on his way.?From Judge. High Pay Kills Efficiency. The example of performance by some very highly paid captains of American industry tends to disturb the economic theory that every man ought to be paid what he is worth to his employer. This question - has, become a serious one with the high organization and vast concentration of industry. The talent required for directing these huga social machines is rare. It can command its own price. Meanwhile the- service it can render is so Immediately lucrative that employers do not count their money in compensating it. These converging tendencies have gone so far that salaries of $100,000 a year are common and larger salaries are not unknown. Men like this are highly paid as an incident of their inheritance of industrial property. That is unjust, of course, but it is not an economic injury if they have sense enough not to meddle with affairs they are unfit for. The real harm is done when a man of extraordinary talent for affairs is suddenly lifted out of his natural environment and surrounded with the demoralizing influences of unaccustomed wealth. Such a man is in danger of losing not only his moral character, which concerns only himself, his family and friends, but his business efficiency, which is of value to the whole world. The striking examples of this in the successive presidents of the Steel Trust are repeated on a small scale all over the country. * The pay of these men of exceptional talent ought to be measured not by their earning power, but by their ability to spend rationally.? i Minneapolis Tribune. All Editors Want News. My friend, help the editor in his wild-eyed search for news. When friends come into see you, if you are not ashamed of it, tell him; when your wife gives a tea party, if you have recovered from the effects of the gossip, drop in with the news; when a baby arrives fill your pockets with cigars and call, if you go to a party steal 3ome of the good things and leave 'em with the item in ou^ I danctum. If your wife licks you come I in and let us see your scars and tender sympathy through the paper, [f your mother-in-law has died, don't " - 1 -nr Vi o t _ | be oasniux aouui n. iu onu. ... | ever makes you feel proud, sad, lone! some or glad submit it to our twentyfour carat wisdom and see our mat! ted locks, stand up on end with gratij tude, which will pour from every | pore like moisture from the dew-besprinkled earth. ? Tekma (Okla.) Times. Million Mistakes a Month. More than :i million pieces of mail matter were received at the dead tetter oflico at Washington during September, of which about twentylive per cent, were returned to their lenders, who had been thoughtful unough to place their own addresses *jn the envelopes or in the letters ihomselves. The remainder win huc?ssarily be destroyed. Incidentally, nore than $5000 in cash was found .n the missent missives.?Philadelphia Bulletin. , ft r ':'Wm nw??M? ??i???i ???? ff Good Roads, g Through Highways. During the past few years the tenlency to give more attention to ihe :onstruction of through good roads las been clearly apparent. Primarily,, ? t is known that good roads are an ibsolute necessity to everyone who vishes to get to the market place vithout waste Of time and energy, md roads have been built with that dea in mind. But with the progress )f the automobile and its use as a means of transportation, conditions aave changed, and the through road las become a necessity. In the State of Connecticut an appropriation was first made a year or two ago for the purpose ot extending the trunk lines, and it may be noted as an example of the tendency :oward the establishment of a through road system that that State at the last 3ession of her Legislature appropriated a much larger amount of money than ever to be used for this purpose. \ Not to be outdone by other States, Missouri has taken up the subject in earnest, and, although she has only recently become one of the State-aid States, she now proposes to build three through highways to connect St. Louis, and Kansas City. Three routes were proposed, but it was not expected that the State Board of Agriculture would endorse more than one. However, so much interest and enthusiasm was manifested, and so _ ; much rivalry became apparent, that at the meeting of the board last month,' the three routes were duly approved. Governor Folk Is authority for the assertion that these roads, beyond question, will be built. The different counties through which the roads will pass are to take action this month with, reference to providing for their share of tbte'financial end. In Pennsylvania and in New York, the question of through roads is a thoroughly live one, and there seems little doubt but that we may soon expect to see great highways built by State aid in co-operation with the various counties and townships. The State Highway Department of Mich- , igan, it is said, favors the project of building a road 135 miles in length from Detroit tr Saginaw and Bay City. ; rj The benefits of through roads to the various localities, such as are proposed and under way, cxn hardly be overestimated. With such roads traversing the States, the building of many branch roads cannot fail to be greatly stimulated.?Prom the Good Roads Magazine. A Foe of Good Boads. Is not the Charleston News and Courier perhaps hasty in condemning the people of Spartanburg County for voting down a good roads bond issue in part because of the automobile nuisance? There are communities where good roads do not pay. If land of low valuw and productivity is far from markets it may be not only impossible to raise money upon it for good roads, but actually not advisable as an investment. On the other hand, in the neighborhood of good markets and through fertile and valuable land good roads do pay many times their cost. ' A&? A vast number of regions where the question is really debatable lie between these extremes. Is it not natural that people living in such regions should hesitate to Improve their roads because, whplly aside ^rom the dust, annoyance and danger of automobile traffic and the brutal (disregard of public rights by many motorists, the automobile from a distance, which does not help pay the tax, will surely ruin the road by tearing out the binding material between the stcnes and grinding the road away with chains, spikes and other devices to prevent skidding? The antnmnhilp of nrnner size. iweight and speed ought, if properly used, to be the best friend of the good roads movement. The automobile as it is operated is becoming one of the worst enemies.?Editorial la the New York World. Oil on Roads. It is reported that the use of oil on the streets and highways of California, Kentucky and other States has met with great success. The California road men had a number of failures when they first began to use oil, but by dint of extended experiments with differing qualities of oil they hit upon the proper kinds for the various sorts of soil, and now the State has several hundred miles of oiled streets and public roads. A quality of oil that suits clay coil is not adapted to a sandy surface, and unless the mixture is of proper consistency it cracks and is ground into a disagreeable dust. This was notably, the case in and around Los Angeles, where the soil is light and sandy, but after repeated experiments the right combination was found, and now the streets and roads in the city and suburbs are in fine condition, dustless, firm and "springy." In Tacoma, Seattle and other towns in the Northwest successful results have been obtained, and a material saving in repair and watering expenses has been effected.?The. Motor Car. Shopkeeping Ethics. The ethics of shopkeeping are full of surprises for the unsuspectiug buyer. The language of cuslomary, trade descriptions alono is a neverending mystery, whereby machinemade goods masquerade r.s handmade, German goods as English and English as Parisian. It produces from time to time protracted legal discussions on such conundrums as Harris tweed.?Nottingham Guardian. Sunflower Sentiments. Fine writing by one ot the Hoxio Sentinel's correspondents: "Ah, this day closes cold and chilly; some different from those in the very mild August. Soon the grasses and leaves will have a covering ot i^y wiutc. Oh, then the joy to find the red, yellow and golden leaves fluttering down to their last resting placcs."?Kansas City Star. A3