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A MURDER Andrew Lang on t Countess From The London j The best true story of a mysterious ? murder is that of the Countess Goer- s litz (1847). It was published twen-. I ty years ago by Mr. Baring-Gould, but c is by the world forgot. Count Goer- e litz, was, in 1847, a man of forty-six. t He had married, at nineteen (1S20), li a very disagreeable heiress, who a "kept him short" and insulted his c poverty, but who had made a will in t his favor. On Sunday, June 13, 1S4 i, c the Count drove in his carriage, at t 3 p. m., to dine with the Grand Duke c of Hesse. In a manner rather d Homeric than modern he took some t sweets from the dessert for his wife and drove home to his house at half- t past 6. The footman, Stauff, reported t that the lady was at home. The s Count went upstairs, found a glass s door leading to her anteroom locked t (they had separate suites of rooms), I and retired to his own room till half- I past 7, when he took a walk till 8.45. v Returning, he asked Stauff to bid the a Countess join him at supper, but was z told that she had gone out. He did S not believe it, but looked for his wife e in her dressing room and bedroom, g but had no key to the locked ante- s room and drawing room. The re3t of the house he drew blank, but in r place of forcing the glass door of the J anteroom he sent out to make in- t quiries, to no avail. After some difficulty he found a locksmith's apprentice, who could not f ?pen the anteroom, but (about 10 t p. m., it seems) did notice a smell of c burning. At 10.30 they broke the s * A Aar / tha t glass UL LUB auici uuiu uwt \ _ Count's valet did that), and smoke t from a stove rushed out. The Count c did not force the door; he sent one I servant for a doctor and another for 5 a chimney sweep! Time passed, the a door laughed at locksmiths, but at C last the aprentice?of his own mo- fc tion?burst it open with a hammer, I for the Count would do nothing so t violent. Much black smoke rushed ? out. The bold apprentice, climbing ? to the anteroom window by a ladder, c broke it and pulled down the burning \ \ curtains. They now burst open the i drawing room door, found the room c on fire and the Countess lying dead d before her burning bureau. On one t of her feet was a shoe; the other was r later found in an adjoining boudoir, c The sofa was more or less burned, o the bell rope had been pulled down, c but nobody ever asked if the bell had t been heard. A corner seat in the r bureau had been burned; the fire was 1 )l TVrt l'Atrn Af fKo InoVoH very iuua.i. jl jlic rcj o uj. ?.uw iwuv? ! -doors were never found. a There were three explanatory hy- fc 1 potheses. 1. The Counsess had J ; caught fire at her bureau, perhaps a while sealing a letter. If so, she had c .sought repose on the burned sofa and t 'Corner seat. 2 (medical). It was a r -case of spontaneous combustion! 3.' t It was a murder. The, magistrates v preferred accidental burning; the c public fixed on the Count as the mur- ( derer; they always do. He had mo- c tives, opportunity and he had delayed ' the researches. He demanded new in- 1 quiries. but little came of them till in t August, 1848, .the corpse was ex- I humed c.nd examined. It was found c that the lady's skull had been frac- c tured, atad that she had also been I N .strangled. She had been murdered, r had been burned, and the chairs and f sofa had the marks of her blood i burned out of them. She had then \ been placed near her bureau and that had been set on fire. Black smoke ( had been seen rushing from the chimney at 8 on the fatal evening. Now, j the Count had left his house at half- past 7, and did not return till about j 9; there was evidence for these facts. ^ Consequently, if he did fracture his t wife's skull and strangle her before ( half-past 7, he certainly did not burn ? h r at 8.05?8.25, when the smoke ( was seen issuing black and dense } from the chimney?that is, unless he ( entered his house, unseen, about 8, ( and later went out and returned , again. It was improbable that he , would delegate the fire to an accom- j plice, so the Count's case was per- j ceptibly brighter. Now, who was in the house when ? the Count was absent, from half-past j 7 to a quarter to 9 that Sunday | night? The magistrates, true to their ( theory of accidental death, had ap- j parently made no inquiries in June, j 1847. But tne count s aemanas ior ( an inquiry in November, 1S47, had led to something?indeed, had very nearly led to the death of this noblemam On November 3, 1S47, there was to be an official inquiry by his t request, at his house, and among his domestics. At 3 o'clock on November 2, the cook was busy in her kitchen when Stauff came in and asked her to light fires in the upper j rooms. She declined, and went on with her work. Stauff suggested to 1 her that a plate needed washing, and 1 while she washed it he stirred the sauce in a pan. She turned her head, 1 i and observed Stauff pouring drops ' from a phial into the sauce. She questioned him, he denied the charge, and she pretended to be satisfied. When he left the kitchen she tasted ' + co nno onrl rliH rtrtt lilro if* m nro. IUC oauv^c UUU U1U 411/V i444V *?,, U1V( V over, it was of a strange color. She sent, for the family doctor who, on analysis, detected fifteen and one-half grains of verdigris, enough to poison a man. Stauff was then incarcerated, but only on a charge of intending to poison liia master. His idea was that if the Count died of poison, on the eve of the arrival of the official inquirer, the cynical public would infer that the death by verdigris was suicide, the nobleman being unable to lace research. The Due de Praslin (the mysterious Spectre of the Catacombs ia Hawthorne's "Transformation") poisoned himself after murdering the Duchess. The public, however, held that he had really escaped to the Catacombs, where he lodged and haunted Miriam?that is, his English governess, in whom, through a pretty girl, no guilt had been found. This, however, is a digression. 1 We have observed that the Count's position was sensibly improved when $ w MYSTERY, he Killing of the Goerlitz. Morning Post Jtauff was arrested for trying to poloa him. But to the Sherlock iolmeses of Germany the Count's ase probably looked blacker than iver. What more probable than that he Count was guilty, that Stauff :new damaging evidence against him, ind that the Count had induced the ook to put poison in the pot, and hen say that shs saw Stauff introluce the baneful drug? The Count ieing an aristocrat and Stauff "a man if the people" (as Homer says In his lisdainful way), .the people must cerainly have argued on these lines. It had come out as slowly as everyhing else in these distant days, that he jewels of the Countess had been tolen from her bureau. The Count ayi that, in his grief, he had never hought of noticing this circumstance, ^rhaps a son of the people might lave taken the jewels, but the Count ras no less likely to have done so is a blind, for who could suspect an ristocrat of a petty theft? Thus itauff and the Count were almost rijuai IdVUlllCS LKJi T vt viivu w* ;uilty, the intelligent public laying a hade of odds on the Count. Not for years were the inquiries uade that should have been made in une, 1847. It then came out that he cook was also the Countess' 'suivante," or "femme de chambre" ?she doubled the parts. On the atal day the Countess had gone into he kitchen at 2 p. m. and .told the ook and "femme de chambre" that he might take a holiday till 9 p. m. U 3.30 the Count's valet had seen he Countess in the laundry "hanging iut the clothes" for the mangle, i'rom 3.30 to 4.15 and from 4.30 to i.30 the Countess and Stauff were ilone in the house. At 6.30 the "ountess did not answer the Count's ;nock. She was probably murdered etween 4.30 and 5.30. She was turned while the Count was out, and Itauff was in between 7.30 and 8. Stauff was, at last, examined, and acounted for his time through the vhole day. From 8 to 9.30 he was n a restaurant, but here he was not orroborated. The Count might have lonp the rrime at 6.30. when he said hat he could not get into the anteoom, returned at S when Stauff went ?ut, lighted the fires and gone out igain, and returned a little before 9 'clock, when Stauff appears to have >een in the house, though perhaps he eturned a little later. The truth came out when Stauff's irother was found selling jewels and l lump of molten gold. The jewels lad belonged to the Countess. In .larch-April, 1849, Stauff was tried it last and found guilty on all the' ounts. He made a confession, trying o prove that his guilt was unpreoeditated. The Countess had found lim stealing her jewels, and to prerent her from calling out he had acidentally strangled her. When the ]ouat went out at 7.30, Stauff had lone all the burnings. These were 'attenuating circumstances," and in .872 he received a pardon on condiion that he settled in America, where ie is not known to have become one >f the most remarkable men of the :ountry. Had he not mads the ex>eriment with the poison the Count's nemory might still be under a cloud, or certainly nobody ever did more to nnlrp lilmsolf annpnr fiiilfv thnn that :ery stupid gentleman. Canada and Her Unproductive Areas. The annual report of the Canadian 3acific Railway for the year ending rune 30, 1909, presented at the anlual meeting on October 6, has an incresting statement in regard to their areatment and subsequent sale of iesert areas. The directors set apart ibout 995,000 acres, called the "western block." of which 353,000 are ir igable and over which canals and litches have been dug. Of this land, 39,963 acres have been sold at an lverage price of $24.71 an acre. The emaining sales of land, amounting :or the year to about 300,000 acres, arought only an average of $10.90 an icre. The experiment has been so successful in opening up a very large jody of land which would otherwise ae unproductive of traffic that the' iirectors are considering the advisalilitTr nf nvf r%v\ A \ r? rr tKn irrifrnfinn ere. :em to another block of about 1,000,-1 300 acres.?Daily Consular Reports. | THE INDIA Their Idea of It is the AA Which Th It is a common notion that the [ndian has no idea of home because le is always moving as the season ind the game may call him. There is ldded to this reason for the belief, :he fact that in the Indian languages ao word is found by which to render jur word "home." Mrs. Riggs writes io the American Missionary Association on this point: "It seems to me that the Indians Jo have some of the ideas of home, ro them as a nomadic people perhaps ao particular place was home, but the svhole country through which they roamed was home. "Some years ago I was traveling ivith an Indian woman. Her early home had been in Minnesota, but she iiad been among those who, after the outbreak of '62, had gone to eastern Dakota, and when I first went into the mission work she had come West to the Missouri River to help us in 3ur work there. '"On this journey, as we traveled nto Minnesota, one alter another of the landmarks were recognized by tier, and her reminiscences came quick and vivid. Here was Sleepy Eye, named by her grandfather, svhere they forded the river; there svas where they hunted for game; there where they gathered the wild rice. " 'Ah,' she said, 'Minnesota is a beautiful country?so different from Dakota!' ^brtpUpSipj Great Britain has 1500 kinds of apples. It is said that sunlight is a cure for influenza epidemics. i At last reports there were 61,158 postoffices in this country. The Turkish turban contains about twenty yards of material. Fast freight line service of this country.uses 32,000 cars. One town in Spain has one hunch- I w back to every thirteen inhabitants. j p t: The annual supply of water to w London, England, is 82,125,000,000 j th gallons. I n i b< The flour mills of Minneapolis ai grind 120,000,000 bushels of wheat _ every ye^r. I The Government Printing Office, in Washington, D. C., employs over 01 es 4uuu persons. I ' * | tr Each of the British Dreadnoughts i has a hospital with a capacity for Zl sixty patients. In the course of his aeronautical j ' experiments M. Bleriot has met with | fifty accidents. Of the Philippine Islands the one | which probably has the most produc- ! tlye soil is Mindanao. The act approving the admission of j the State of West Virginia as the j thirty-fifth State, to the Union, i passed Congress December 31, 1861, | to take effect June 30, 1863. Glass water pipes covered with asphalt have been in use for a- long time in some parts of Germany with j success. They give thorough protec- | tion against the entrance of gases and j acids. Los Angeles has a school in which j meals are served for one cent; that is, i to the pupils, and they get a big. ! m brimming bowl of a thick, delicious j soup, with two cold buns, all for their ; P? penny. The idea has also been used | e(5 in one of the schools at Ann Arbor-. ! Mich., with great success | ar jdc The new tariff bill introduced to i ^ most people the word quebracho, the extract used in tanning hides> In ! Paraguay and Argentina this is a ' large industry, there being thousands 1' of square miles of the quebracbC 01 tree. Such land is valued at from j $3000 a square league upward. Que- j bracho logs are also used for railway ties. There has just been unearthed j from the River Annan, near Lock- jerbie, a relic of early BrLtain in the i shape a canoe in a wonderfully good ' state of preservation. It is of a type ' known as dugouts, the material being the trunk of a black oak tree, about twelye feet long, rudely shaped and hollowed out.?London Standard. iVrimpn Hnrrect l~Vnnc Wpii Many hundreds of women assisted j in gathering the harvest around j Beatrice, Neb. They were lured to [ the fields by the offer of board and I $3 a day. A farmer went into \ Beatrice looking for farm hands. I Loungers in the town refused to j work, and the farmer had to face the j possibility of losing part of hie crop. | He went into a restaurant, and when : waiting to be served was struck-with [ the idea of bidding for the waitresses I as harvesters. He offered them $3 a ; day, and every waitress threw aside j her apron and went to the farm. They did such efficient work that ( other farmers sought women, and ! they drew school teachers, stenogra- : phers and college girls as well.?New | York Press. Lesson in Patience. * ! "Patience will accomplish any- j thing. You can even carry water in ! a sieve, if you wait long enough." "Tc fhnt Sav Vmor Inn? wmilrl . I have to wait to do that?" "Till it gets cold enough for the ; water to freeze."?Cleveland Leader, j ,NS' HOME. j I fhole Country Through !" Ley Roam. & af "Homesick longing was in her w voice. Minnesota was home to her, a even after all those years. p( "The children of a missionary faru- jz ily went away to school, and when m they came back for vacation, one af- B3 ter another spoke of how pleasant it \a was to be at home, or how sorry they q were for other boys and girls who did j not have such a home. The mother, ; who had been silent all this while as ' to her own feelings, finally gave word a to them, and told how she had longed -n for a better home for them. They were almost too much astonished to reply, but at last the little girl of the family went and put her arms round her mother, and said, 'Why, mother, you are home!' "I fancy something of this feeling was had by a little six-year-old Indian girl who came to Oaho School. ' She had said good-by to her parents ( without any show of emotion. Sbe was very fearless, very friendly with the teachers, very much interested in ! all the new things she saw, but as i the day wore away and the evening , came on, she came and stood by nie j as I sat sewing. I was the only one j who could talk Dakotah to her. I ? looked up at her and saw the tears ; welling up in her eyes, and I said, ( 'Whv. Maisie. what is the matter?' 1 "She answered, sobbing. 'I won't j see my mother for a long time!' "Poor little homesick soul! Moth- [ L er meant home to her." I s< 1 ] .?; The Old Manor I .,. ' I The old Manor Hall Is the pride < as built in 1682 by Frederick Phi hilipsburg. It was completed by tl he building remained in the possess hen because* of the toryism of the lird Lord of the Manor?it was conl ew York. It was used by private f; ;en the City Hall of Yonkers. The id is a perfect specimen of Colonial New Fire Escape. Possibly the Iowa woman who was ie of the joint inventors of the Are cape shown in the illustration once led to slide down the old-fashioned id primitive rope escape and real ed the crying need for an improve$ s M- JC g --y ; I / , ent. However that may be, she and' jr co-inventor have devised an aptratus which is very simple, and ~ -*- mu l? nt a ^uany enecuve.xuib Luiutiaio ui u um, which resembles a huge spool, id which is suspended from the win>w ledge, having a long straight ge for engagement with the wall, ound this drum one whole turn of cable is taken, one end of the cable -the end near the window?having seat attached. When the fire breaks it .the person in the room climbs out er the window ledge, thrusts one g over the seat, and, grasping the THE CHURCH MIL AN ATTACK BY BRIGA A T?nggln n prirrPRnnndRnt. writes le Monastery of Luganski, in the E lair, though the Russian press gave ord of comment, that among the des Cossack in uniform! Attracted by jssessed by the monks, the brigands ed attack on the monastery, which 1 onks, who have a plentiful supply o! illying out and engaging the enemy sting a good hour, took place, and raphic. Folding Sled. Scientific sledding promises to be fashionable pastime in this country the near future, just as it is in >1ne of the countries ot Europe, here national contests are held Hall, Yonkers. 3f the city of Yonkers. The front par llpse, the first Lord of the Manor o le addition of the back part in 1745 lion of the Phllipse family until 1779 Frederick Philipse of that day?th Iscated by an act of the Legislature o amilies until 1868. Since 1872 it ha old structure has had the best of car architecture. other end of the cable, lowers him self or herself gently to the ground The turn of the cable over the druE prevents the rope from slipping am letting the seat down except as th slack 1s paid out.?Washington Stai ? y For the Kitchen. A tiny box cabinet, supportei against the wall by brackets, a shown. There are three drawers. Th largest 2>ne is for the housewife' tools?hammer, screw driver, smal saw and tack puller, and numerou other small tools, which a housewif may require, also an assortment o nails, screws, tacks, etc. One smal drawer is for twine, thread and roll of linen and other emergency sup piles. The third drawer I use for groce^; bills, also for small change, which need when small articles are brough fn dnnr for which I must nay cash Above the cabinet hang3 pad and pen ell for memoranda, and a pair o shears for clipping strings of parcels Any housekeeper can realize the con venience of an article of this sort.? Miss L. E. Hennessey, in Epitomist. In order to construct the Manchea ter ship canal over 51,000,000 cubl yards had to be excavated. ITANT IN RUSSIA. NDS ON A MONASTERY. : "The recent attack by brigands 01 Ikaterinoslav district, was an excitinj few details beyond stating, without i id bandits were a rural policeman an< the great treasure and valuable ikon i in the dead of night made an organ las a very solitary position. The age< I arms, made a stout resistance, boldl; at close quarters. A veritable battle finally the Church triumphed."?Tb every year. These events attrac great attention, and the entrants ar not children, but men and women wh have given the sport a great deal o attention, practicing and training fo weeks in advance. This has jjive: an impetus to the sled business, an several new formo have been recentl introduced. One of the novelties i a folding sled, which can be readil carried under the arm when it is de sired to take tt rrom one point i another. The method of constructio is clearly shown in the cut, which pre sents a bottom view of the sled, wit the runners folded back on the unde side of the seat board. The runner are made , of steel rods, which ar clamped to the wooden top in a mar ner that permits them to be easil folded. When in upright positio the legs are held by adjustable brace; A notable feature of the design use in this construction is the clear oper ing between the runners, which offer no obstruction to the snow. Hindoos are displacing the Ja[ anese in some California orchards. USES OF THE EUCALYPTUS. They Range From Timber to Cough Drops?Only the Bark Wasted Now. Since the introduction of the euca1 lyptus into California from Australia Its friends have been trying to push its cultivation by making known the many uses to which it may be put. It is declared that eucalyptus wood is suited to all purposes for which hardwoods are used. Barring the countless other uses j to which it is adapted, as a means to l reimburse the forest supply aloae eucalyptus is invaluable to the country, it is asserted. Then the eucalyptus Is valuable in windbreaks for 1 orchards and dwellings, for land rei clamation, for conservation of water, improvement of climate and as natural antitoxins to malarial germs. The beauty of the grain, the color and the texture of eucalyptus, rivalling many species of oak, has led tp ' , its popularity as k furniture product. ' Offices and residences have been ? finished with the wood, and cabinet makers and wood workers throughout 3 the country have been led to make a 0 practical study of the eucalyptus wood as a finishing product. Much of the fuel consumed in Calil" fornia is eucalyptus wood, which re' tails at from $10 to $14 a California cord. For fuel the fastest growing 11 varieties are planted. Of the kinds ? planted for other purposes the weak' ling trees, limbs and 'waste are utilized as firewood. In house construction, mining tim1 ber, flooring and street paving eucas lyptus has assumed importance, and for miscellaneous uses, for posts, telee graph poles, railroad ties, piles, 3 bridge timber, wagon tongues, spokes, 1 handles for implements and tools, g logs ror corauroy roaas ana msuiaioi e pins the popularity of eucalyptus is growing. ' i [1 Eucalyptus blossoms yield profit to s the beekeepers. An oil is distilled K from the leaves and is used as a compound for many medicines. An exy tract from the leaves forms the t foundation for cough syrups. The t buds are used in making portieres and u souvenirs. Efforts are-being made to find a use for every portion of the eucalyptus tree?even for the bark, which so far is waste.?New York Sun. - \ Identified by Veins. The finger-print method of the Bertillon measurement system of identifying suspected criminals la ! probably to be supplanted'by photo- } graphed records of the back of the hand. Cases have been reported . where clever malefactors have de1 ceived police officials by scarring and i disfiguring th6 tip? of their fingers . and thereby rendering detection h-om . that source impossible. The network of veins on the back of the hand is different In every person, and by qaeans of these individual configurations infallible marks of c identification are furnished. Without danger of fatal injury it is impossible to mutilate these veins by branding or otherwise disfiguring the flesh of *he hand. By allowing the hand to hang loosely, or by stopping the circulation of the blood for a few moments with a ligature about the wrist, the veins will stand out prominently on the back of the hand and may be then clearly photographed and the picture preserved for future reference and indentlflcatlon.?Harper's Weekly. What's the Use? "I hate to be contradicted," she said! "Then I won't contradict you," he returned. "You don't love me," she asserted. "I don't," he admitted. "You're a hateful thing," she cried. "I am," he replied. "I believe you are trying to tease me," she said. "I am," he conceded. "And that you do love me?" "I do." For a moment she was silent "Well," she said at last, "I do hate a man who's weak enough to be led by a woman. He ought to have a mind of his own?and strength." He sighed. What else could he do??New York Times. % Why They Resigned. Former Commissioner of Immigration Robert Watchorn said recently of an immigrant: "He was a bad case. He was as ignorant of government as the two Polish policemen were. Two new policemen were once put on the Warsaw force. They did good work, they arrested a lot of people, then suddenly they resigned. " 'Why are you resigning?' the superintendent asked. "The older of the two men answered respectfully: 3 " 'We are going to start a ponce , station of our own, sir. Boris here j will make the arrests and I will do j the fining." "?Washington Star. S 7"""? t Joke on Appleton. * 3 ' They are telling a great joke on y Lysander John Appleton. Mr. Appleton writes a very poor hand, and reg cently wrote an angry letter to his wife's brother, asking him to pay what he owed him or be sued. The brother called in all the handwriting experts in his neighborhood, and thej deciphered the letter to be an invitaj tion to the brother and family tc come for an extended visit, and five of them arrived to-day.?Atchison J Globe. An Odd Little Byproduct. It was believed that every conceiv^ - - ? _ J i j t j aDie saving naa ueeu tumcu iu ' I disposition of byproducts of the packD ing house industry, tut not long ago } it was found that the hair in the ears j j. ' of steer is of a quality that permits J it to be used in the manufacture of j ,c "camel's hair" brushes. So now hair i * is removed from the ears of steers, j t to the end that art may flourish as j well as the packing house industry. | E ?New York Tribune. ^ Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, ! has appointed Professor liniily j ,e" Greene Blacli a member of the State [ f j Industrial Commission. Miss Blacli j is professor of economics at Wellesley j | College and president of the Women's j ).' League Union of kassachu| ^PttS I / : : ' V,' ..." Good Roads Li the South. It is a very exceptional neighbor- \' v hood in the South that does not need better roads, and it Is an equally exceptional community that cannot have better roads. While many sections cannot hope to have the best roads? macadam or gravel?for a long time to come, there Is no excuse for anj locality allowing its roads to remain positively and permanently bad. A good road is a (1) hard, (2) ' > smooth road, (3) free from heavy grades. Any road which answers to these requirements will insure easy , and quick traveling, and permit of V; the hauling of large loads?and that is all that is required of a road. Of , \ courfee, the best road is the hardest and smoothest one, the macadam road j. being superior to the gravel road; but remember that even the estrth road i j. i v-. j mvj. i- ai ili: - ' % ueeu nut ue uau. j his is we tiling we Wish this godd roads special to say to every man who reads it, "There I? a way for you to improve the T6ad ' V ; ^ over which you travel, and it will pay f .j you to do it. If we can only get our v readers to realize this fact we believe that they will not be content to longer waste the strength of thelt teams, , their own time, and their money by dragging, over rocks, pulling through deep sand, Jolting across ditches, splashing about in mudholes, and climbing steep hills. Every road ,<$ cannot be macadamized, or even grav- : ' /ftaaj eled; but many more could be than are. Few bond issues for good roads ' '%% in our territory have been bad invest- '.-I; ments, while the cases in which they would be good investments could he numbered by the hundreds. The tax / frjg the ordinary farmer would have to i pay to build and maintain stone roads, in any moderately settled community, is much smaller than the tax he now pays to bad roads In the in- v creased cost of his hauling. Over a large section of the south sand-clay roads could be built at a very small l;i:' cost, indeed, compared to what they would be worth to the communities through which they run. Thousands and thousands 01 mfles of earth roads could be redeemed from their chronic Btate of badness by the persistent use of the split-log road drag, and the ' cost of doing the work4 would be so small that no one would feel it And i < i-m everywhere that there Is a bad road it coujd be improved If the. men who | work it would simply remember that the surface of the road should always be kept smooth and free from obstructions,' and that the flsrt thing to '7-. dn with the -water that falls on a road is to get it off and away.?Raleigh , (N. 0.) Progressive Farmer. Doubly Interested. . " The farmer is in a double sense -i more deeply interested in good roads 'V . than anyone else. To him good roads ; ,M mean a great decrease in the. cost ot getting^ his produce to the market and getting his supplies back. They likewise mean a lessening of the lone- 'f llness of life. To the people of every town and city the building of good joads Is most as important as it is to the farmers. It means the betterment of every phase of life and a closer intermingling of the people of town and city; the lessening of wear and tear 1 on vehicles and the betterment of all <t the conditions under which business is carried on. And then the building of good highways inevitably adds 1 largely to the value of adjacent prop- > '/-i erty. It is not too much to say that *' - road-building is not an expense, but an investment, paying a larger profit to every community than anything else it can do. The building of good roads means an Increase in the value of farm products by the lessening of the cost of hauling. In this way it inevitably results in an increased , value to all p>operty adjacent, and the cost of roads is more than made up by this gain in prosperity. It is a , very false idea of many that the building of roads is an expense which . a community cannot afford. On the contrary, it is an investment which ' every well-settled and well-organized community can afford to make, for it returns the largest possible yield of profit, and a profit in which every man, woman and child shares. > $ Thorough Road Construction. The railroad companies have learned that there is economy in j , i heavy steel rails, in strong bridges and in large freight cars, and in like manner the farmers will learp that good roads reduce the cost of transportation by wagon. As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so the M.Liin.. rnoH 4o Ha avauaouuy uj. a v>a6uu tv>.? ~ termined by its steepest hill or its roughest place. A natural road, good in some places, may nevertheless make economic hauling impracticable because of difficult obstructions at one or two points. Hence arises the need of thorough road construction and maintenance.?Denver Republican. Credentials of a Cannibal. A real Fiji man came into Washington to attend the international ^ convention of the Seventh Day Adventists. according to the Philadelphia Record. He was armed with a club with which his former chief in the South Sea Islands used to beat the life out of American missionaries, and also with a big dish upon which \ the chief uied to serve up meat from these missionaries' bones. Club and dish were brought along as mute evidences of the conversion of the Fiji chief, who now heads the Seventh Day Adventists' Society in the South Sea Isles. Vague Associations. Said a teacher on the East Side: "Who was Robinson Crusoe?" "I know," said a little girl in the front row. "He was a great singer." "Next." "Oh, I know," chirped a little girl before "Next" had time to reply. "He was a monls.ey."?New York Times.