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THERE IS NO FAILURE. There is no failure. Life itself's a sons? Of victory over death, and ages long Have told the story old of triumphs wrought Unending, iront the things once held for naught. . The battle's over: though defeated now. t_ a.. 1.1 JU coming iiiuu LIIC wuiiuiL: nuuu mum bowBefore the throne of Truth that's builded high Above the dust of those whose ashes lie All heedless of the glorious tight they won When death obscured the light of vict'ry's sun. There is no failure. Tf we could but see Beyond the battle line; if we could be AVhere battle-smoke does ne'er becloud the eye. Then we should know tbat where these prostrate lie Accoutered in habiliments of death. Sweet Freedom's radiant form has drawn new breath? The breath of life which they so nobly gave Shall swell anew above the lowly grave And give new life and hope to hearts that beat Like battle-drums that never sound retreat. There is no failure. God's immortal- plan Accounts no loss a lesson learned for man. Defeat is oft the discipline we need To save us from the wrong, or teaching heed To errors which would else more dearly cost? A lesson learned is ne'er a battle lost. Whene'er the cause is right, he not afraid; I Defeat is then but victory delayed? ' And e'en the greatest vict'ries of the world Are often won when battle-flaps are furled. ?Thomas Speed Mosby, in Success Magazine. I I A CLERICAL DIALOGUE, f ? The Cashier Reproaches the Dill Clerk w For His inconstancy. * "There was a new voice over the 'phone asking for you. Johnny," said the cashier gravely and with a shake of his head. "Another voice on the 'phone, another heart palpitating with fond expectancy, anotner vicuni to a young man's vanity, another?" "Another spell," interrupted the hill clerk. "Another relapse into dottiness. Why don't you go and see a specialist?" "I fear me that you are a butterfly." sighed the cashier. "The sad conclusion is borne upon me that you flit from flower to flower, sipping the sweetness of each." "Am I to blame if they won't let -me alone?"- asked the bill clerk plaintively. "If they will run after me, what can I do? I can't be rough and brutal with them; it's not my nature. I suppose I might spurn them when they come too thick; but, honest, I just hate to do it." "Don't tell me," said the cashier severely. "You're a flitter. A plain flitter." "Just so long as you don't call me a quitter," said the bill clerk. "I wouldn't try to make a heartless jest of it," said the cashier. "It's nothing to grin about. If I won the trusting affections of a sweet young girl I'd hang right to them until death pried me loose. That's the way I did, as a matter of fact. You ask the madam." "I will some time," said the bill clerk. "I'm rather curious to see what she will have to say about it. But, honest, do you think a fellow ought to stick to one girl? If he tied up to the first fairy he got a little foolish over he'd miss the right one, just as likely as not, and never know it. I've sat up with quite a few or 'em myself, and it seems to me that they get better all the time." "Lothario!" said the cashier. "Think of the wrecked and blighted young lives! Think of the rosy cheeks growing wan and pale over your fickleness!" "Anything to oblige," said the bill clerk. "I'll take a day off some time and think of 'em." "He hasn't even the curiosity to ask who ealled him up!" said the cashier. ."The fact that a trusting female is pining in his absence is nothing to him. Only one of many, I suppose." "That's the idea," said the bill clerk pleasantly. "I can't keep track -of 'em all. Another thing: I've lost a good deal of my curiosity since I've been around this shop. It\S like calling four aces with a pair of deuces." "You speak darkly and in riddles," said the cashier. "I can assure you, however, that the lady seemed anx ious. She was not satisfied with the explanation that you had gone to lunch. She wanted to know how long you had been gone and when you would be back. She informed me that she was about to start downtown and would probably look in." "Come off!" said the bill clerk, incredulously. "Also she inquired if Saturday was the pay day in this office and she wanted to know if I -wasn't your employer. I told her that I was and assured her that any confidence she might repose in me would ba held sacred. Johnny," the cashier demanded seriously, "why don't you pay the poor, hard-working woman what vnn mvp hpr? SVip ha5 tn n?v hpv grocer and her help and she can't afford to be boarding you right along on mere promises." "Do you mean to tell me that Mrs. Canford called up and made any such break as that?" said the bill clerk in some agitation. "You heard what I said, didn't you?" said the cashier. "Why don't you pay her?" "Because I're paid her already," said the bill clerk, triumphantly. ""I'm not only paid up, but I'm a week in advance. That was one time I fooled you." "Well, she's got a level head to make you pay in advance," said the cashier.?Chicago News. Fisherman Dodged Swordfish. ine nsmng scnooner uorcas was cruising off Georges Thursday when her lookout espied a big swordfish, The man in the cradle drove the iron and hooked the fish. James Wallace went in his dory tc get the fish. The swordfish saw him coming and charged directly at him, Wallace had just time to scramble to the stern when the fish struck the boat and the sword penetrated ths dory so that nearly two feet of the blade extended through the hole. The fish was rendered helpless, and Wallace knocked it on the head.?Boston Herald. | IiASSOIXG ZEBRAS, J Cowboy Metfiody < 11 Capturing tho Young to Train Ihem For Work. The Government of East Africa is I muoil pieasea wun r.ne mat ?count. ( j of its efforts to train zebras to do- j j mestic service. Great pains have i cj i been taken for two rears with the ed- | or i ucation of five spans of these ani- j of ! mals and they have finally been j ca ! brought to a state of perfect docility ; w | and are now making a good record in I wj i the draught service. | lo It is believed in East Africa that ; se j the practicability of making the ze- j tic 1 bra do the work of the horse and the j j ox has been demonstrated. If it | j were possible the Government would i i rapidly push the work of taming ze- \ | bras and breaking them to harness, j | but unfortunately men who have the I peculiar talent and liking for this , j work are few. and so zebra taming j! ' goes on slowly. A man named 3esser. in the Gerj man service, is a sort of genius in j this line. He has his own ideas as j to the best way to make a useful ser- J ! vant of the zebra, and the Govern- j ' | ment lets him follow his. bent. Besser does not agree with Mr. j ** -* 11 -1 c *M*AnAAi? 7ohrQ I von ocnpuenuun. iutr piun?i tamer of the colony, that the best way to catch them is to run the animals into a corral and keep them prisoners, gradually eliminating those that are least promising. Bes- j ser wants nothing to do with any of I ! the animals, excepting those he pro- I poses to tame, and these are the j foals a few weeks old. He is catch- j Ing them with a lasso in Western j cowboy fashion, and he is the only man in the big colony who seems to | be able to do it. It is not easy to do. Besser has | j a tough, fleet horse that served in ! the calvary during the Boer war and j has been trained to gallop at full speed over the plains with the bridle | on his neck, his direction guided by the swerving of his master's body to the right or left. This horse is the | zebra chaser. I col It is Besser's practice to get into toi the edge of some grove which herds ap of zebras are likely to approach while un , grazing, and from this cover he sud- en denly rushes on horseback. The If ! Deutscherstafrikanische Zeitung. telk 1 ing the story, says that the moth- frc ers will not abandon their foals, but an collecting around them urge them on ? as rapidly as possible and retreat with them in the centre. Now Besser's troubles begin. It is not easy to lasso one o? the young, because they are much smaller than any of the surrounding animals, and to aggravate the situation the lords of the herd, enraged by this attack on its weaker members and perhaps | emboldened by the sight of the big , horse, to whom they may inpute the j trouble without observing the ! strange animal astride him, come I I back to bite and kick the horse. He 1 naturally responds in kind, at some/ ! peril to his rider, who, intent upon I his game, was once unhorsed in this ' proceeding. Besser since that accident has j been ready to meet the emergency ! with a shot or two from his revolver, which scatters the males in wild flight. Sometimes he fails to capture a colt, but he is usually successful, and has now a fine herd of young zebras, whose training begin- from the day of their capture. He says it does not take very long | to win tneir enure connaence Dy firm but kind treatment, and the task grew easier when he was aljle to turn new animals among those whom he J had come to handle and fondle as J he might a dog. He succeeds evidently because he is a born animal trainer. They learn to feed from his hand or basket, and as their training advances he leads them by a halter, bits them, walks them around with harness on their backs and finally gives them little loads to pull. None ! of his herd is yet large enough for ! actual service. Besser is not only enthusiastic over the practicability of making the zebra a work animal but he is also sanguine that the crossing of zebras and I asses, now in the experimental stage, J will result in a work animal whose i usefulness will not be confined to i Africa. A Request of the Barber. j The other day a man walked into a i ' barber's shop, deposited upon a table ? i a uumber of articles which he took | from a sachel, and arranged them Qri j with artistic care. "This is pomade," j said the visitor. "I am well sup- ^a j plied," said the barber. "This is ; bear's grease." "I'm full up with co; j bear's grease." "Here is some fine *r< bay rum." "Don't doubt it, but I *ai make my own bay rum c.nd put on mi foreign labels. Nobody knows the difference." "Here is some patent *01 J cosmetic for the mustache." "I I . ..i. x-?_ or kuuw it lb iur uie niusiauiie, aisu iui I the whiskers, and ail that, but I'm j thoroughly stocked and reeking with *a I cosmetics at present." "Here are an j electric brushy duplex elliptic hair I dye, lavender filter and a patent, face ! powder." "I donit want any of lie 1 them." "I know you don't." "TheD Qt-i why do you ask me to buy them?" , ch "Did I say anything to ycu about ex j buying them?" "Come to think of i( ' ap you didn't." "I did not com-.; here to pi' j sell anything. I only wish to let you i know that I possess all the toilet arti cles that a gentleman has any busi- ar 1 ness with. Now, don't try tc: sell me j anything or praise up your wares. I | rii I am stocked, stocked, stocke-:!. Now ; i give me an easy shave without asking \ tu i me to buy anything."?The Argonaut j ar i wi | I A "Slick" Answer. ! j It was a wise young ma il who ' j paused before he answered this widow j vj< j who asked him to guess fcer age. ] "Ynn mnct linva Qnmo n ' rt shf* ! j said, with what was intendecl for an j arch sidewise glance. "I hav ? several ideas," he admitted, with i sniile. j v,': "The only trouble is that I iliositate j *h whether to make you ten years younger on account of your i >oks ot t(? ten years older on account cif yout S1 brains." Then, while the widow ^i smiled and blushed, he took li grace- w I 1...* 1,,.../. Til b? > l J.UI uui. apccuj icavc. HI teiitiiwu > Bits. er ti| Kobe is now the first port in the Pc Japanese empire. It has a population | of not far from 400,000, 1 New York City.?The coat that is osed svith four buttons is a favorite le, and is to be noted in a number variations, tiere is a moaei mat .n be made in cutaway effect pr ith straight fronts as liked, and Ith or without the points at the wer edge so that it really includes veral in the one. In the illustra>n it is made of broadcloth, with liar of velvet and trimming of but- r 19, but all suiting materials are propriate, and the seams at the der-arms can be closed for their tire length and the buttons omitted a plainer coat is wanted. The coat is made with fronts, sideints, backs, side-backs and underii gores. When the cutaway effect wanted the fronts and side-fronts a cut off on indicated lines, and for e pointed effect the backs and sidecks also are cut to give the requie shaping. There is a regulation at collar finishing the neck and the )nts are turned back to form the ?els. The sleeves are fall length, ide in two portions each. The quantity of material required r the medium size is seven yards enty-seven, four yards twenty-four three and three-quarter yards ty-two inches wide, with one-eighth rd of velvet. Streamers on Fans. Among the accessories that are w in the shops are the fans of exlisite empire shapes in silk and iffon or lace. Then there are less pensive ones of net, with dainty plique figures and a double or trig frill of lace across the top, and o long ribbon streamers floating Dm the handle. These streamers e quite a novelty, and may be purased separately, as well as the fan jgs. The former are in many fancy vices. Some are long ends of wide lie, tied with satin ribbon. Others e wide ribbons, slashed and edged ith fringe or lace. The fan rings e jeweled, or otherwise decorated, id are nothing more nor less than acelets, more ornamental than serceable. Trig Waist Line. The question of keeping the shirt list trig about the waistline is one at always is a iua.iiur ui coiiccrn 10 e particular dresser. A satisfacry way of bringing about the dered result is to wear a belt of webng, an inch or an inch and a half Lde, directly under the outer skirt tnd, fastening it with a buckle. This tables one to draw the band as ghtly as necessary, so there is no >sslbility of the waist itself slipping )Ove it. ' ' ; /;t Cretonne Belts. Among the novelties in belts Is one* of cretonne or stamped linen. The background is white or dull ecru, and on it are small flowers in bright colors. New Coats. In the new coat models the nar~. row shoulder is'the most pronounced feature. This is rather unfortunate, as the American figure never looks' well in narrow shoulders. Use of Ribbon. A wide black satin ribbon tied iA big loops at the back and edged at the top with a deep, full ruche of lace is the latest collar. It is usually accompanied by a jabot of the r* n ?v? rt lnnn nn V* r\ /->V^ rt f Uft 1 O A f a a i lie iatc as iuc 1 uuuc, ana tiic jauui j is long enough to fill In the front of the coat with which it is worn. Newes{ Outing Hats. If a woman sees a soft wide hat ib fawn or brown velour trimmed with a grouse wing and a ribbon, she must not buy it for herself, but take it home for husband or brother. This is the newest importation in outing hats for men. So far they have not been worn, but the shops are making every effort to sell them. * From the Ionian Isles. .Styles for evening frocks are so novel that no one takes to them a( first. They are so Grecian that ona must be educated to the Grecian modes in order to appreciate the drapings, which, to say the least, are . made to swing about the body lika sheets. Some of the dresses appea* to be composed of but one piece, wrapped around and around tha body. Tucked Guimpe. ' The tucked guimpe is unquestion- . ably a favorite one of the season, and i, is to be noted made from a great many pretty materials. This one can be trimmed with banding as illustrated or left plain as may be liked, and is adapted to the fashionable net, chiffon, crepe Ninon and all mai teriala that are thin enough to b<4 tucked successfully. It has the advantage of being snug fitting at the lower portion, so doing away with bulk at that point, and it allows a choice of long or three-quarter sleeves. In the illustration crepe Ninon is trimmed with effective band ing nnismng me necK auu me armholes. The guimpe is made with front and backs, all of which are fitted by means of darts. The upper portion, the sleeves and the collar all are tucked and the tucks in the- sleeves are slightly overlapped at the seams to secure the most becoming and satisfactory lines. The quantity of material required for the medium size is five and threequarter yards twenty-one, four and three-qnarter yards twenty four, y four and five-eighth yards thirty-two or three and one-eighth yards l'ortyfoirr inches wide when made with long sleeves; four and a half yards twenty-one, tour ana tnree-eignui yards twenty-four, three and threequarter yards thirty-two or two and five-eighth yards forty-four inches; < wide when made with three-quartei^ sleeves, two .yards o? "banding. T 5" 1 ' . riousehold Matters. ess aa on Chestnut Souffle. Boil a pint of shelled chestnuts in salted water until tender. Drain, remove skins and rub through a sieve. Cream together a half cupful of sugar and four tablespooniuls of butter. Add the chestnut paste, the beaten yolks of four eggs, half a cupful of breadcrumbs, one cupful or miiK ana the juice and grated rind of one lem- | on. Beat together thoroughly, then I fold in the stiffly beaten whites of | four eggs. Turn into a buttered mold and bake twenty minutes. Serve with cream and sugar.?Delineator. Seed Cakes. A simple rule for plain but excellent seed cakes calls for one cup of .butter and two cups of sugar beaten to a cream, two cupfuls of baking powder, sifted together three times, a pinch of salt, two tablespoonfuls of caraway seed and three tablespoonfuls -of sweet milk. More flour may be added if not quite stiff enough to' mil Turn out on a floured board and roll with a floured rolling pin until nearly as thin as a wafer. Cut into round or oblong cakes and bake in a rather quick oven. Some housekeepers prefer to add a couple of eggs to this recipe, which makes the cookies a little harder.?New York Telegram. Cream of Asparagus Soup. Cut the stalks of a bunch of asparagus into half-inch lengths and boil slowly for an hour in three cups of salted water. When the stalks are tender, drain through a collander, pressing and rubbing the asparagus that?all the juice may exude. Return the liquid to the fire, and keep it hot while you cook together in a saucepan a tablespoonful of butter and one of flour, and pour upon them a quart of milk. Stir until smooth and add the asparagus liquor slowly with a cupful of asparagus tips, already boiled tender. Have ready beaten the yolks of two eggs, pour the hot soup gradually upon these, stirring all the time; return to the fire for just half a minute, season to taste and serve.?Washington Star. Home Made Sausages. The meat should be chopped very fine. When ready for the seasoning put in just water enough to enable you to mix the ingredients equally. Be careful not to use more than is required. To twelve and a half pounds of meat put a gill of fine salt, a heaping gill of powdered sag(j>, and half a gill of ground pepper. Let the measure be exact. Take strbng cotton cloth, of such a size that, when filled, it will be as large around as a common half pint mug. Sew up only a quarter of a yard, then fill it .tight so far; then sew another quarter and fill it, and so on until you reach the end, then the end tie up. Dip the bag in strong salt and water and dry u hefnpA filUne- it. KeeD in a cold. dry place.?New York World. Baked Tomatoes. Take the centres out of a dozen large tomatoes, and put these centres to cook with two tablespoonfuls of butter, a slice of bacon chopped fine, salt, pepper, and two tablespoons of fine crumbs. Cook this slowly for twenty minutes, take up, and with it fill the tomatoes. Dust with bread crumbs and set in the oven to bake for half an hour. The delicacy of the tomatoes and their desirability as an accompaniment for the capon would be impaired if meat of any kind were used in the stuffing of these tomatoes. In fact, it is pretty safe to say .that the harmonies of dining are better preserved if tomatoes stuffed with any sort of chopped meat are served by .themselves, that is, in a course by themselves, and that it is almost always an injustice to any meat entree to serve at the same time tomatoes in ' - - O rxP wmcn meat ul ctuy uiuci own. m ui the same sort figures.?American Cultivator. HiNXS' FOR, THE MTOUSEkEEPERj Japanese or Chinese matting may be materially improved by going over , it with a cloth dipped in strong salt water. Some cooks prefer lard instead of butter for piecrust, not because it is 11 cheaper, but because they believe it i makes a much tenderer crust. I Use a mixture of whiting and ammonia instead of soapsuds, for clean- < ing windows. Smear them well with a cloth; then polish with a chamois. Copper is best cleaned with lemon 1 dipped in salt, ilinse, then polish 1 with a soft cloth. Clean the keys of the piano with a cloth moistened with alcohol. 5 Change the furniture occasionally. It will not only rest the eye, but will prove to be economical as well, because, otherwise, rugs and floor will become worn. The most convenient and effective method of keeping the refrigerator ' ( in good condition is occasionally to , burn in it a small disinfecting candle, J airing thoroughly afterward. I Wash gas or electric light shades in warm water, adding a few drops of ammonia. Don't neglect the burn ers. Remove the dust irom tnem with a piece of fine wire. You will be amazed at the increase of illumination. Any article of brass, etcapt Benares ware, can be cleaned in the fol- r lowing manner: Wash first with am monia water and soap, removing all [ : grease and giving a semi-polish. Rub t well with any good silver polish, wet | : with vinegar, and any suggcsliou of i tarnish will vanish. ; A small bag or uns:acked lime ? olaced inside the piano will keep the springs from rusting. Rust may be I removed from steel by rubbing well ; with sweet oil, allowing it to stand * for forty-eight hours. After this it ' should be sprinkled with finely powdered uuslacked lime, and rubbed. I..- I I. -1 The Legend of the Cigar Indian Ey CHARLES R. ANGELL. Alnno Vio sf-nnrl amidst a noisv. hurrying throng. His eyes were fixed in a sightless gaze toward the setting sun. His head was made of wood and his feathers were of painted tin. In one hand he carried a bundle of wooden cigars, while the wooden fingers of the other hand grasped a formidable looking tomahawk. A traveler stopped to gaze. "Why, it's nothing but a wooden Indian," he said. "Who gave you that steer?" asked the chief. The traveler's hair stood up. "Why, it's alive," he said, "and it speaks good English." "That's me," said the chief. "I might have talked Indian dialect, but it's so hard to think uy, since I have heard so much English as it is murdered by the rising generation, that I might as well talk to you so that you will understand." "But how came you here?" asked the traveler. "It's .quite a story," said the wooden chief, "but I'll tell it to you. If 1 cAmortnfi olco will fVilnlr If nn UUU t| cuiugvuv V/4WU niii v* and put it into musical comedy. It's a sad tale." A sawdust tear trickled slowly down the weather beaten face. "Come on with the tale," said the taraveler, as he took a seat on the wooden base of the cigar sign. "It was this way," began the chief. "Once I was a real live human being just like yourself. I played with the other pappooses and had a high old time. You read of Hiawatha, didn't you?" The stranger admitted It. "That's me," said . the chief, proudly. The traveler stared. "Yes," continued the chief, "I used to love Minnehaha, and I tell you I [ was the candy boy for awhile, but Longfellow didn't finish the tale he started to write about me. "It was all on account of Pau-PukKeewis?Pauk, we used to call him for short. . "Once Pauk-Pauk, who was a kind of wizard, was smoking a big pipe full of tobacco. He laid down the pipe and fell asleep. I took the pipe^ and filled it full of buffalo hair. Then Pauk smoked it. He didn't smoke it long. He quit. " 'That's rotten tobacco,' said Pauk. 'I'm going to quit smoking.' "He quit smoking and it was a long time before he found out that I had filled the pipe with buffalo hair. By that time he had been cured. He. longed for tobacco, but his stomach wouldn't stand for it. Then he said: " 'If I can't smoke, no one else shall.' "He worked the medicine gag and turned me into wood. The changing of my anatomy was a slow process and in some way the malady spread among the Indians, with the result that half of them were changed to wood. Then along came a lot of pale faces. Just before they took us away Pauk came around and said: " 'You fellows will be a warning to others.' "Pauk's idea didn't seem to work very well, however, and now we're going out of date. The only hope I see is in reforestation?" "But what became of Pauk?" asked the traveler. The Indian did not answer.? Michigan Tradesman. Birds Killed by Hail. "A singular feature of the storm o! last Sunday night on the East Side," said George Fix, of the State House force, "was the killing of birds by the hailstones. The area over which the fall of hail was heavy was not large, but the stones did pelt down in a way that threatened to break the slate in the roofs. "The English sparrows, as every on? knows, choose thick foliage trees as their roosting places, depending on the leaves to protect them from the rain. But the leaves, no matter how thick, were no protection from those heavy hailstones, and the sparrows were killed by the hundreds in the vicinity of Miller avenue and Bryden Road. "In front of the Evangelical Church there are a lot of thick covered maples, which have formed a choice rOosting place for the sparrows this summer. There they caught it thick and heavy, and the slaughter of the birds was fearful. Monday morning we counted 312 dead sparrows under those trees, and no doubt many that were killed were swept into the sewer by the storm water that ran through the streets. "Some suggested electricity as the cause, but there was no striking by I 1 -.1- X? 1 1- *. V. llglliuiug iu me vitiuiij, auu cue wires of telephone companies do not run through those trees. They must bave been hit by the hailstones, Knocked into thewaterand drowned." ?Columbus Dispatch. Testing His Voice. A voice suddenly floated up from Ihe airshaft in the Italian quarter. "It's a beggar singing for money,* | said a visitor there, half questioningly, half decisively. "Not at all," declared a native in- j Signantly. "It is' a fine singer. >Ie ' ;ings in this way for practice. He j loesn't sing for the pennies, but if j hey indicate their delight in his singng by throwing him a lot he knows ' is voice is srood cnoush for Italian ! lera, so he goes and applies for a I :aca on ,the stage."?New York } J:ess. Money For Suffragettes. Mrs. Russell Sage and other worn- I in of large m^aus have pledged $00,- j 100 to the cause of woman suffrage j :i the United States. The money is ! .) be paid in sums of 512.000 a year or the next five years. The annua! eceipts of the American Woman Suffrage Association has grown from ! 2 5 4 4 in 1S92 to $25,062 for 1907. In a Nutshell. "Big talker," declared the Indian i vho had been listening to a local i run did ate. "Heap scrap." "And what if he is noc elected?" ! "Swan heap."?Kansas City Jour- j '.al. ! Better Roads. Periodically there are grgat bursta of agitation iu Canadian and Amerl-J can papers for good roads that apW pears to have one centre of energy. \ The bicycle was the root of thia agitation. The novelty of spinning twenty miles on a Sunday morning tojattend divine worship became easier. (In mind) than walking one mile*1 In fact, worship was preferred at the) former distance. How true the fol? lowing words are: "All things worfc* together for good." Notwithstand-J ing the age of this proverb and its/ familiarity, teachers of ethics ^ndj metaphysics as a class denounced the/ bicycle as an Instrument of the devilJ There would probably never have) been such a thorough inspection olj rrkOfIa (an pallor! ^ not thfi InvenJ tor and manufacturers of that man-i motor hypnotized the public to be?i lieve its propulsion was easy workJ However, to many this work, self-im* posed, was a delight augmented byj ever-changing scenery and thrilling) experience of coasting steep hills.i As the writer recalls these scenes be-j fore him is- spread a perennial men-^ tal banquet. The animated fashionJ plate of the exchange sitting by thel dusty roadside clad in sweater and! skull cap, almost unrecognizable wltq dust and perspiration, trying hard to! mend a puctured tire, is very distinctj * Rapid transit is exhilarating, particu-J larly if it is done with comfort. Man's ' ingenuity for some time was taxed with this problem. Now we havetboi '' '?%! gasoline carriage that beyond doubt) has come to stay. Its sale depends! very much upon the condition of pnbJ lie highways and by-ways. The capl-J tal thkt Is behind these carriages aw lows no opportunity to slip whereby) their business can be improved.] Hence this continual agitation. Apart) from the interest this manufacture! may have, it is a pleasure to have good! substantial roadways, a credit to the " . community and pleasure and comfort! : ^ to the traveler either by motor, foot} H '% or quadruped. ; The furious driver of any vehicle on a public highway is liable, andf should be treated severely, particu* larly the one who depends upon steer*1 ing gear possibly unworkable. Ontario wants good roads ? the best roads. I. see California has organized ai ; best roads convention. They propose to build about twenty miles of the best roads each year until all the! main highways of the county of Santa/ : ;? Clara have been made first class ajH solutely. The expense of this con* struction can, it is declared, be metf by levying an annual tax of $1 pen $1000, and although it may be done in different districts of the county, all will form part of a pre-arranged v ' $ general plan. Both political parties in the United! States have conceded that the mainJ tenance of trunk roads ought-not to( be laid upon the adjacent proprietors^ as roads are through lines of comJ munication, and are really of nation-J al importance. If this idea and sys^ tem was adopted at once by Ontario*' many of the unemployed could be en- . -v ^ J i ? ???flrtno 1 wnplf* 111 pel uicvucixo aouuua* nv?<? creditable to the country. i According to all indications work! will be scarce this winter. The unemployed will suffer. Our Canadian! 'M winter will be new to many now withi us. Work as above outlined would be a boon to many. The British emi-| grant?the class we Canadians are of ?now seeking work and a home in our midst would appreciate it, and in some measure realize we are kinsmen that ne'er forget Auld Lang Syne.?? Lew Alexander, in the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator. ??? N Continuous Parkways. It is usually agreeable to foot passengers as well as to those who ride to have a certain amount of shade. For a good macadam road, shade is also desirable, as it prevents the drying of the surface and the formation1 of dust. The borders of our country, roads should, in fact, be continuous parkways containing in every district representative groups of all the native trees to be found in the locality.' There are country roads where rows of trees arj pleasing, but nsually irregular groups of trees with spaces between them of unequal extent will be found more satisfactory. Many ofl our native shrubs, such as hazel bushes, sumachs, elderberries, red-' branched dogwoodsyViburnums, wild roses, snow berried etc., will add ta the attractiveness of our road sides* and there should never be a time from April till October when some ofi our native flowers may not be found! in KTnnm ?Vrnm Address of D. Ward' King, the "Split-Log Drag Man," Before the American Civic Association. No Tax Equals It. No tat that could be levied for making and keeping up good roada will ever equal the te.x now paid fori had ones. Put that in your pipe and! smoke it, all you who are scared at' taxation for roads.?W. F. Massey. He Survived. During a snowstorm in the Highlands the express was held up for an' hour (? two. The guard, a cheery Scot with a pawky humor, passed' along the carriages trying iu uueei. up the passengers. An old gentleman angrily complained that if the train didn't go on he would "die of cold.""Tak my advice and na dae that," re- ^ plied the guard. "Mind you, w&' chairge a shillin' a mile for corpses.'* ?London News. Mexico's Forgotten Towns. The Geographical Commission appointed seven years ago to map the towns of Mexico has reported the discovery of 7679 towns which were no? officially Known to e.\isi auu ?cio subject to no Federal control. While some of these places range from 5000. co 15,000 population, most of them are presumably small villages.?New York World. * - I