* "Whether tto better to aln
(f, and be Judged, or femsln virtuous
1b misery, and be condemned bj sus
picion?" Mi Maude Roosevelt, la Up*
plncott's.
??
For every 100,000 people in England
there are 150 medical men. In this
country thej are too numerous to
count, comments the Birmingham
(Ala.) Age-Herald.
Mo Power will officially admit that
St la kostlte to the American Republic,
bat at least two Continental Powers
.wiilil be delighted to hear that Amer
ica had neither army nor fleet, the Lon
fipectator declares.
"Of all the movements In the coun
try since I was an undergraduate."
?aid Jobn llorley. at Oxford the other
?day. "that which has raised women
In all the chances of life to something
like an equality with men strikes me
?as the most far-reaching.**
A notice of insolvency of the estate
?of Mary O'Brien, wet nurse, recently
appeared in an Australian newspaper.
The liabilities were stated to be ?74,
10s, 7d. the assets ?15, the deficiency
?59. 10s. id; and the cause of the de
ficiency. the decline in the birth rate.
There is a picture In the billiard
room of the London Army and Navy
dob which represents two skeletons
playing billiards while a crowd of oth
er skeletons look on. smoking cigars
and drinking from long tumblers. The
players evidently desire -cheerful sur
roundings.
The new city directory lor Chicago
bas been given to the public. Based on
the number of names, it gives Chicago
? population for 1904 of 2^241,000. The
directory of 1903 gave Chicago an esti
mated population of 2,231,000. The
new directory contains 657,000 names,
an Increase of 300(5 over the directory
of 1903.
The danger in building large aailing
ships, commercially speaking, is, first,
the difficulty of obtaining assurance of
M sufficient cargo, and, secondly, the
slim chances of finding a skillful crew.
Able seamen are very scarce. Steam
ships are manned nowadays by long
shoremen and stevedores, declares tho
fcew York Press.
Hky and potatoes will be cheaper this
year, but let us set a little comfort
from the consumer's point, says the
Massachusetts Ploughman. Some of
the poorer people who bad almost for
gotten the taste of a potato, will be
able to afford square meals again,
while many of the town and city
horses may also have a chance to pad
tbelr bony sides with good, substantial
rations.
There ought to be a good market for
'American horses in Germany, accord
ing to Consul-Genera 1 Worman, in
Munich. The Russian edict forbidding
the exportation of horses on account of
the war with Japan has affected sev
eral sections of Germany which have
depended upon importation of horses
from Russia. In 1003, 43,000 horses,
gained at $4,026,000, were imported
Into Germany from Russia. Ger
many has always been the largest
buyer of Russian horses, and if
the edict should continue long in
force United States horse breeders
ought to recover tbe market for
horses. In Bavaria horses are im
ported from Austria and Hungary,
particularly from Hungary. "I be
lieve," says Mr. Worman, "that if
United States horse breeders would
make a special effort to participate in
the races which usually take place
here In May and later, they would un
doubtedly make a market for their
horses, despite the close proximity of
Hungary. An average horse cannot
be bought here for less than $200. A
pair of horses which cost here from
91000 to $1500 would not sell in the
United Statfes for more than $350 or
$400."
For a long time much was spoken
and written about the superiority of
the little fsrm. When that was going
on it had much In it that was all right.
If tho way of farming Is to work tbo
land until It will no longer give
profitable yield, the i tho less land tho
better; but If the plan is to Improve tho
land year by year, so increasing lis
ability to produce, and with the man
agement as economical as if en a small
scale, then the larger tho farm the
better. It Is in farming as it Is in
manufacturing or commerce, a que*
tlon of ability and capital. ?ome of
the most successful fsrmcrs la the
United States to-day are tneu from
?city life who have had a business
tralnlqg. Thero must be a liking for
the calling, for any business, or the
best outcomo is not possible. It is
dangerous for a new epcrator to begin
-on a big scale. Tbe small farmer, who
Is fond and nsturally fitted for
farming, will almost Inevitably have
4>utrenchlngs and growth. Nowhere
does Individuality have outlet more
than It does In farming, and so it is
llie fact that some men will manage a
thousand-acre farm*as snugly and
as profitably as others would a farm
of forty acres. Men and capital go to
gether In this business as never before.
Tho small farm without tho capacity
' or tho capital to hHndlo it is not uioro
4c?lrablo than la tlio large one.
America and the Moros.
By Henry Bchuler Towni
T
HB sorernmeat of the Moro prorlace Is, la gtwl, ?IM
promote tbo natural development of th?e people. aai aok la
"Americanist" them, after the meaner of the American ladln
The conditions are altogether different, aad la this particular tbo
pcofclem Is ampler than was the Indian problem. The Indians
were an exceedingly sparse population, occupying a land which
the white race needed for the purpose of establishing homes. Vtor
centuries hosts of homeeeekers have been crowding into the lands held by a
tew Indians too primitive to really use the land over which they and their
ancestors had freely roamed. The manifest destiny of the red man has b#S?
and Is either assimilation with tho white race or with the sshes of bis an*
cestors. The fact that the changes he is called upon to make are contrary to
the laws of nature as revealed In the history of human development, that at
best he cannot be expected to become more than an Inferior Imitation white
man, may add a touch of pathos to his destiny, but cannot alter it. On the
Other hand, the peoples of this province are comparatively numerous, and their
lands are at present neither needed nor desired for homes by the white raoe.
White men are here -to make money, not to make homes. They are not likely
to become predominant In numbers for some centuries to come. They are sure
to be an Important, though transient, element lp (he population; but tlielr
Interests must be bound up In those of the lower peoples. The development
of tbese peoples can be best promoted with due and full regard for the laws of
nature as revested hi history.
The Moro peoples have attained the degree of civilization which fits them
for feudalism, and not for any of the more advanced forms of government
Cannot this snd some of the historically succeeding stages of development be
skipped? Answering this question with another, cannot my child- obtain release
from the laws of gravitation and lesrn to wslk without having developed the
atrength necessary to sustsin his natural weight, and without reference to
equilibrium? The lessons of feudslism are as essential to the future progress
of these peoples ss are weight and equilibrium to the act of walking. Feudalism
has its place In the economy of nsture, and In its place is good. Nature, as
revesled in history, calls upon the new government of the Moro province to
assume the feudal overlordship of these peoples, to teach them law and order
as between tribes, and. by influence as far as possible and- by force ss a last
resort, to ameliorate the government of tho tribes by the datos. Thus will the
Moro come to feel secure in person and in property, and he will consider It no
hardship to lay aside his arms and devote himself to pursuits of peace. This
'?eung ?' security will foster acquisitiveness, which in turn may be used as a
spur to Industry.?The Forum.
A Sun Theory,
How It Manases to Give Off Negative Electricity,
By E. E. Fournler d'Albe.
s
VANTE ARRHENIUS frames a theory of the process by virtue of
which the sun is able to give out a continuous supply of negative
electricity without its positive electrification being raised to such
I a high point as to retain the 'negative electrons In the sun. This
process necessitates some form of circulation or renewal of the
negative electricity la the sun, and the author makes such a cir
culation very plausible. We know that negative ions condense
?spore more easily man positive Ions. The gases In the atmosphere of the
sun are Ionized by the ultra-violet radiation. Therefore we have to suppose
that among the little drops formed by condensation In tiie sun's atmosphere,
fsr more are negatively charged than are positively charged. As these drops
are driven away by tho pressure of radiation, they charge with negative elec
tricity the atmosphere of celestlsl bodies, sucii as the earth, till the charge is
so great that discharges occur, and cathode rsys are formed, which csrry the
charge back to the universe. The author mskes an Interesting calculation of
the speed with which the drops will be driven from the sun, assuming that the
radistlon pressure is twice their weight.
A drop which partly reflects the light will arrive at the earth in about 46
hours. Now, according to Ellis, the lntervsl elapsing between the passage of
a sun spot across the meridian and the maximum of the consequent.magnetic
storm upon the earth is 42.5 hours. This agreement renders the base of the
calculation ressonably probable. The author then goea on to show that the
charge of the sun is sufficient to sttract and absorb negative electrons traveling
with observed velocities anywhere within 1.26 light-years of the sun. Since tlie
nearest stsr is four light-years away, and there are other stars about ten light
years off, not many electrons can traverse interstellar space without being
attracted by tsnme star or other. Thus the suns recover from space ss much
negative electricity as they lose. The electric charges of the suns are very
effective regulators. If the chsrge is quadrupled the mean distance of the
caught electrons is doubted, or. In other words, as ttiey are uniformly dissem
inated m space, their quantity Is quadrupled. Therefore, the supply of negative
electricity to the suns is proportional to their defect thereof.
battleship Versus Torpedo.
By Parle Benjamin.
A
IAIN ST submerged torpedoes, guns and armour do not protect. <
And so, even when we consider the actual fight of ships fit to lie
in the line?battleships against battleships?the torpedo instantly
obtrudes itself as a factor which must be dealt with. Are we i
to go on building these huge floating forts, with great superstruc
tures and enormously heavy armour and guns piled high Bp in
them, knowing a single explosion under w?tor m?v mh?? ?u*?
Infallibly to "turn turtle" and plunge to the bottom? Are we to go on building
tbem with bottoms weaker than the merchant ships, because hitherto we have
not believed in the dangers of torpedo attacks? These are vital questions.
They are not influenced by the truism that the fighting line must be com
posed of the best units, nor do they depend upon endless platitudes with the
command of the sea" as their pereptual refrain. Neither are the answers
to them anywhere discernible In what Nelson or Lord Howe did, or in the
dusty archives of libraries of naval annals. They belong to th* future and
not to the past, and the world .needs clear, practical brains for their solution,
and not those supersaturated with antiquated and obsolete traditions.
The most Immediate of all questions is whether there is any protection
obtainable by any method or means for the bottoms of battleships against
torpedoes. It Is widely believed, for example, that by devoting lesB weight
to superstructure and guns, and more to strengthening the framing and bot*
torn plates, a hull can be made which will resist such attacks. This would
probably involve the elimination of the intermediate battery and the re
striction of battleship guns to a few of the largest calibre?a result not lm.
practicable In view of the great celerity we have recently attained In work
ing these huge cannon. It also would probably require the giving up of some
speed, as well as of armored protection at the ends of the ship. This, at
least, Is one possibility meroly by way of suggestion. Is It not time we en
defc'ored to think of ways of defending battleships before proceeding to the
building, say, of 18,000-ton vessels at a cost of eight millions each, eslly de
structible by a few dollars' worth of gun-cotton??From "Battleships, Mines,
and Torpedoes," In the American Monthly Review of Reviews.
The Woman of the West.
By Henry Loomia Nelson.
T
HiE SOCIAL picture of the Middle West ab a whole, however, pre
sents the sexes occupying different intellectual and moral planes.
There the woman is indisputably the mistrcsB in all that makes
? for culture?culture in letters and in art; tho man is king in
his own active realm. Each is most deferential to the other
in that other's sphere. The books on the shelves, the pictures
on the wall, are of the woman's choice or selection. Tho man
?peak* of her literary or artistic tastes, usually of both combined, with the
reverence that la due to her superior intellectual and spiritual gifts and ac
quirements. She Is the hostess, and the host stands appropriately behind
her. She Is the Instructed and leads the intellectual movements of her town.
The book club, the Dante club, the entertainer of the lecturing traveling lion]
Is the woman. Often the clergyman assists, but she, through her influence
over the surrendered man, has selected her clergyman, and on her he must
count for the success of himself and of his work. She is indeed generous and
gracious, and welcomes with Joy every man who strays from business Into
the company of books and pictures, into homes which she ha* made. They
call their houses homes oftener than the East, and these homes bespeak the
finer taste of the woman. Her education Is likely to be more virile than that
of her Eastern sisters, beeause It Is acquired at schools and colleges where
co-education of the sexes is the rule. Her domination In the home and her
primacy In the higher life, as we are Inclined to call It, are seen not only In
the more obvious social affairs, but In the element of seriousness which
marks most life In this midway of the couutry.?Harper's Magazine.
We Will Be Represented.
The United States will be well rep
resented in Rome next December at
the Jubilee of tho dogma of the im
In the telegrams the other da? about
the recent fighting done In Atchln by
the Dutch troops, it was said that Atch
tnene women and children were killed.
In the Dutch House of Commons on
July 27 It was explained that the na
tives Always placed their women and
children In front of them and fired at
the Dutch from behind. The Dutch
never fired until they had given threo
warnings. "But." It was explained,
"there are SOO.OOO gnjous and Col. Von
Danton ha3 only a fow hundred sol
diers. So lie cannot Incur undue risks."
A French professor declares oysters
cannot transmit any disease to human
beings. J
maculate conception. Archbishop
Chapelle. Bishop McDcnnoll and Bloh
op Bolton ann'mucc their Intention to
be present.
Hugh Rellly, a Philadelphia police
man, Is on? of tho most valuable men
en the Quaker City force This Is bc
(auso of his intimate acqualntancs
with tho Chinese language, of which
lie has made a study. Rcilly, who is nn
Iiishman by birth, has arrested 300
Oriental lawbreakers In the ten year?
lie has been an officer. Many a time he
hns taken his life In his hands while
(basing slont-oyed criminals through
dark hallways In Chinatown, and on
8< veral occasions his uniforms has been
ripped to plrnee by knives in unseen
hands, but so far he has cscaped so
?*lou? injury.
A Bluestocking;
ROMANCE
REALITY.
By Miss Annie Edwards.
CHAPTER 1L
Continued.
Just for a Moment Daphne realises,
as she has not done these three years
past, that June means love; just for a
moment acknowledges that to speak
to a man younger than the parish rec
tor, more cultivated than a peasant
farmer. Is not absolutely and finally
disagreeable.
Sir John Severne Is quick to follow
up whatever infinlteslmaliy small
progress he may have made.
"As far as my present experience
goes, the Jersey lanes seem construct
ed on the fundamental principle of
leading back unwary strangers to the
point from which they start. The
Hampton Court maze 011 a larger scale.
Now, this path we are on? is there
the slightest chance of it landing me
anywhere if I~ follow It with persis
tence? I want to take a sketch at high
water of Quernec Bay." he goes on,
and by this time Daphuc's eyes are
ahyly giving him back glance for
glance. "A sketch of Quernec Into
which I can bring the coast of France,
and perhaps get one of those old Mar
tello towers for a foreground. You
could direct me, I am sure, to such a
spot?"
The question touches her at a vul
nerable point. On the lowliest plane, I
with the keenest sense of her short-1
comings. Daphne Is herself an artist?
derives the nearest approach to self
forgetfulness her life knows in watch
ing Nature's shapes and hues, and re
producing them in unnaturally soft,
minutely stippled water color draw
ings.
Her only teacher has been her
Aunt Theodora; and Miss Vanslt tart's
art notions date from her school
days. A period when young women
were wont, like Hood's Miss Prlscilla,
to rough cast with shell work, coat
with red and black seals, incrust with
blue alum, stick-over with colored wa
fers, or festoon with little rice paper
roses; and when wooly pencil drawings
executed on perforated cardboard,
held but a subordinate rank among
these sister arts.
And still, by some native Instinct.
Daphne feels as acutely as though she
had studied under a pre-Raphaellte
master at South Kensington what a
picture should be! How like the sharp
outlines, the vivid colors she sees in
woods and lanes, how unlike the hazy
counterfeits with which she and Miss
Theodora laboriously adorn th?? walls
oi Fief-de-la-Heine. She is too dissev
ered from the world and the world's
opinions for the handle to a name to
affect her. Sir John Severne might
be fifty times Sir John, and his title
yield him no preference in her mind
over any plain esquire. The thought
that he is ah artist does give him a
passport, for live minutes at least, to
her favor.
"If you keep to this path for a cou
ple of fields more It will bring you out
by the Petite Cucellette. After that,
you know Maitre Hamon's farm?"
"Maltre Hamon's farm? ? I am
ashamed to say I do not."
"Nor the But de la Hue that runs
alongside the Marais?"
Sir John Severne is forced again to
display his Ignorance.
"Well, of course, if you know noth
ing, not even the But fie la ltue, nor
the Marate, you had beRt turn Into the
high road. Follow It straight when
once you leave the fields, nnd a quar
ter of an hour's walking will bring
you to F!ef-dc-la-Bclne. A big gran
ite house," she adds, "desolate but for
the roses, with a sun-dial in front, and
a broken archway?and sea. and waste,
and heaps of half-dried seaweed clos
ing it on every side."
Daphne's face gets back to its usual
look of blank weariness as she speaks.
CHAPTEIt III.
Kisses.
But Daphne, without presage of evil,
is talking over her afternoon's adven
ture as she saunters with slow steps
homeward through the Inues, Aunt
ilosie her companion.
At a glance yen would, perhaps, not
discover the younger Miss Vanslttart's
gentle blood with tne same certainty
as you would ihoodora's. A modish
headdress, a lavender silk n la Be
gence, are powerful agents in deter
mining one's forecasts as to birth: and
Miss Theodora's line of profile, adven
titious aids apart, Is unquestlonably
one that betrays a score of foolish
transmitters more conspicuously than
her sister's.
But let Aunt Ilosie speak, come un
der the Influence of her eyes and stnlle,
and you feel yourself then and there
in the presence of something higher
than all gentility.
Poor Miss Theodora's airs and graces
can never fail of reminding you, half
pathetically, like the scent of long
dead flowers, that she has known bet
ter days in the past. Miss Ho/dc's
brave aud simple cheerfulness so en
nobles the present that you forget-there
could have been a better or a happh r
past to sink from.
How or why she was first called Ho
sle, in lieu of Henrietta, 110 man
knows. The country folk of the neigh
borhood. Methodists most of them, and
well posted in Hcrlptural nomenclature,
call her "Miss Ilosie" on all occasions
whsn they would show more than or
dinary respect. Sometimes, cn farm
business, or the like, she will even re
ceive a letter addressed to "Miss Ho
Dog Travels 70 Mile* to Old Home.
A remarkable Instance of a dop's
love of home Is reported from Crom
lrlgh, Dunblane, Perthshire. A collie
do* was Riven to Mr. Hunter of Her
riotsliall, Ber* Ickshlre, by his broth
er-ln law, Mr. Gllliolm of Cromlegh.
and was sent by train to the border
land. The animal worked among the
sheep for two days and then suddenly
disappeared. It afterward turned tip
at Its old home, having done the sev
enty mile Journey In forty hours.?
London Telegraph.
?anna." But simple "Aunt Hoaie**?
that is the name by which she is
known, sought after, beloved through
out the district.
Material for large charity the Miss
Vanalt tarts do not possess, neither in
Quernec Bay would almsgiving, as the
word la understood in prosperous Eng
land, be accepted. In this primitive
community the vice of improvidence is
not. Every man has his share in a
boat, his own tiny freehold, his right
of common; every woman clings, with
tne tenacity of a religious belief, to
her hoarded press of linen and her
half dozen tablespoons. But. wher
ever human hearts beat, exists work
in plenty for him whose mission is the
Samaritan's. In seasons of shipwreck
or of illness, when sons are lost at
sea, when little children arc left fath
erless?in every perennial sorrow of
our common lot, Aunt Hosie's is the
one needed presence, hers the best
consolation. Not a sick iierson but
rates her nursing powers higher than
the doctor's science?higher, it may be
sometimes feared, than the ghostly
ministrations of parson or of priest.
Not a dying pillow that her hand can
not smooth or a group of mourners
with whom her tears?iu these she is
rich?do not flow In sj-mpathy.
When Miss Theodora visits among
her neighbors, it is in a stiff, official
manner, with appropriate chapter and
verse, satisfactorily bringing back be
fore her consciousness the day when
ner lamented papa commanded forts
and garrisons and it was a duty for
his daughter to give moral succor to
such wives and children of soldiers as
were on the regulation. To enlarge
before suffering sinners upon the jus
tice of Providence and the retributive
nature of their own pains, is, with the
distribution pf wrath-dealing tracts,
Theodora's honest conception of doing
good. And as her spiritual encourage
ments are afforded either in English, of
which the Quernac fishing people un
derstand little, or in halting, graminar
learnt, "good French." of which they
understood nothing at all. it can scarce
l?e matter of wonder that the poor re
gard her visits like wet harvests of iu
fructuous springs, as some mysterious
caprice upon the part of Heaven, and
submit to rather than solicit their con
tinuance.
Aunt Hosie talks the Island patois?
the French of Froissart you wiil hear
a Jersey man call It?with volubility; a
burr of gooil North Country accent
clinging to her tongue, and rendering
the speech less musical than character
istic. She spends her life out of doors;
owning, and, with the help of Margot
and Margot's lover, farming an estate
of, I am ashamed to sny how few
acres; and is sun-tanned and wind
dried as a bit of autumn's vralc.
The simile sounds unflattering, but at
ibis seauuiiiid, Isolated point of exis
tence one Ik ho surrounded by vraic
thnt It Interpenetrates the thoughts
unawares; vraie strews the shores,
gardens, ileitis, sends its dense white
smoke through every cottage eidmney.
now fresh, now dried, now in ashes,
tills the air of the whole district with
its searching odor.
A clean cotton gown in summer, a
serge one in winter, a sun-bonnet
through every season of the year.
Such is Aunt Ilosie's dress. She weeds,
hoes, works in the' bay field, at the
vraic harvest, the cider press; and
with it all remains n lady, an extraor
dinarily contented one!
The two elder sisters, after a quar
ter of a century spent at Fief-de-la
Relne, still look back on Kath, Brigh
ton and Cheltenham with a sigh. Miss
Theodora, notably, who keeps up the
social credit of the house, and on oc
casion dlneR nt the houses of the abor
iglnal gentility, gets periodical fits of
low spirits, uncertain temper and con
comitant doctors' visits.
From all these afflictions Aunt Iiosie
is free. Her manner is a trifle abrupt,
like the sea wind, tlint asks no leave
bt'fore it salutes your cheek; her
speech wholesomely bitter, like the
simples culled from lior own old-fash
ioned herb garden; and for her
face "
"The bloom of uglluoss is past." she
will tell you, frankly. "I am a better
looking woman now than I was at
twenty-five, and mean to be a beauty
yet before I die."
Aud, little though she suspects it.
her homely features do possess a
charm, a loveliness such as many
washed-out cheeks and overperfect
profiles of a youuger generation can
not boast.
"As wine savors of the cask wherein
it Is kept," wrote a quaint author, "as
wine savors of the cask wherein it Is
kept, so the soul receives a tiucttire
from the body through which it
works."
The conceit returns ever to my mind
when I think of the brave, weather
freshened old face of Henrietta Van
slttart.
"To-dny seems fated to be one of
wild excitement. Aunt Hosie," says
Daphne, Just as the two arrive within
sight of Flef-de-la-Kelne. "Jean Marie
uud Margot have discovered, after five
years' waiting, thnt they have saved
up linen aud spoons enough to fall in
love, and I. I>aphne Chester, have
spoken, actually spoken, to a strang
er."
"Aye, mlstortui. * seldom comes
single," is Aunt Ilosie's answer. "Jean
j Mario and Vargot are a pair of fool*. J
Our Occupations.
A Census Bureau report on occupa
tions shows that In continental Unit
ed States the total number of per
sons engaged in gainful occupations
In 1900 was 29,073,2*1, which consti
tuted one-half the population, ten
years of age or over, and nearly two
fifths of the cntiro population. Of
these 4,833,030 wore women and 1,
750,178 wero children. ThoKd of for
eign blrtb aggregated 5,851,399, or
ane-flfth of the total number of gain
ful workers.
"And. wringing her hands, holding
tip her apron to her faee! What in the
heaven <*.!!? the daft-headed
unutc O f h
creature now? If scours and hyster
ics are to be the first effects of court
ship. what may we hope for later on?"
' "There is something wrong." ex
claims Daphne, her cheeks and lips,
blood-forsaken, turning to a livid
whiteness. "Something has hnppeucd
to the child. Faul, Paul, where are
you?"
And, scarcely conscious tlint her feet
touch solid earth, she rushes wildly
down the read, across the garden,
where Margot. ordinarily the most sto
lid of mortal beings, stands laughing,
crying, talking, all in a breath, and
with utterly incoherent volubility.
"Eh, rnon Dou, mon Dou! Le pauvre
p'tit babouin?ia grande marie?le
Mussleu Anglaz!"
These, or words like these, fall
vaguely on Daphne's senses.
She heeds them not. She pauses to
ask no questions. Her heart prophe
sies, answers all.
Onward toward the sea she hurries,
down the path where an hour before
Panlle, safe and happy," was chasing
butterflies in the sunshine, past the
tottering, fear-stricken figure of Miss
Theodore, onward toward the sea?1o
succor?oh. heaven, if succor be vain
?to perish with the child!
? ? ? ? ?
Rosy, unhurt. Paul at this moment
is being lifted by strong, familiar arms
from the "Wesley" to dry land. Not
In vain did Severne give his last halloa
before starting to the lwy's rescue.
From a cottage outside the garden of
Fief-de-la-Keine the shout was heard
by the nurse tender of a sick fisher's
wife, and help quickly summoned from
the nearest hay field, help that did not
arrive one minute too soon. To reach
little Paul by alternate wading and
swimming, was no easy feat; but Sev
erne, hardy, resolute and a practical
swimmer, accomplished it. To return,
with deepening tide, and with the add*
ed burden of a helpless, clinging clilld,
was a matter of wholly different com
plexion. Long before his rescuer
reached him, Paul's danger had become
imminent, every deepening wave wash
in, over the slippery, weed-covered
rocks, and rendering the child's slight
footing more Insecure. At the distance
of fifteen or twenty yards nearer shore,
however, lay another ridge, still well
above water, and thus far upon the
way to safety Severne with difficulty
bore Ills chnrge. Then came recogni
tion of the truth, then came a clearer
look into the face of death than Sir
John Severne, during his fiveand
twenty years of vigorous youth hud
ever gained before. To swim hack
with the child across such a sea as
this was. he knew, the next thing to
Impossible; to swim back alone?nay,
I will do the young fellow no Injus
tice. that temptation never even for a
passing moment assailed him!
"What were you doing, small boy,
alone, and at such a distance?" he
I asked, as Paul's bright, undaunted
face looked up at his.
"J'pequlous," answered Paul, not
without some sportsman's pride. "Via
man cabot!"
And. upon that, unclasped the An
| flcrs of his left hand and exhibited
I his prize?a Ash. two-thirds of an inch
In length, which, not even with the
| waters closing fast around him, that
resolute little brown fist had relin
qulshed.
To be Continued.
The total income of all American
farmers lust year was about $5,500.
<>00,000.
Fall In tore, indeed! As If two ouch
heads, put together, will not be a
hundred times thicker than thej were
a parti And at this season, too?all
the battest part of the year before us!
As to strangers, live-pound excursion
ists." says Aunt Hosle. decisively, "the
farther they keep themselves from
Flef-de-ls-Reine and from my carna
tions, the better I shall be able to ap
preciate their virtues."
"Five-pound excursionists! Human
creatures with cabbage sticks ?n their
hands, and pink-and-orauge cravats
round their throats! Aunt Ho
sle." cries Mrs. Chester, not without a
heightened color, "what would I have
done that 1 should be suspected of
such things? My stranger?was
.was "
"Don't trouble yourself to tell me.
child. I am most incurious in the mat
ter."
"But his name?at least I might have
told you that?Sir John Scverne. Not
a bad name in its way. is it?"
Aunt Hosle looks round searchingly
at the girl's face.
"I need hanlly ask if 'Sir John* had
a drawl, or if lie was good enough to
admire my niece Daphne, aiul depre
ciate existence generally through an
eyeglass?" she remarked. "In speak
ing of a fine gentleman of the present
day these things are understood."
"Sir John had no drawl, no eye
glass. ar.d. I am quite sure, uo admira
tion." says Daphne.
But again she blushes. In lives self
colored, unhurried as hers, people ean
afford themselves the luxury of a con
science. Daphne Chester owns one.
and It pricks her?young Severne's
last glance returning before her vis
ion and convicting her sharply of
falsehood.
"No drawl, ho eyeglass, no admira
tion. I wish you joy. my dear. You
have seen a paragon at last. Unfortu
nately, I never in my best days had
much belief in paragons, and I am too
old and too prejudiced to subscribe to
new creeds now."
"And as Sir John Severne will
doubtless go away by to-morrow
morning's boat, I shall have no means
of converting yon." sajs Daphne,
lightly. "See. who is that coming out
to meet us?" For they are now within
a stone's throw of the entrance to the
farm. "Margot, as I live. She must
have run home quickly by the Ma
rals "
Thoro arc fnmc 400,000 German set*
tlcru In Brazil, .most of whom. It Is
true, aro ?Brazilian subjects, but who
send their children to German schools
which arc maintained for tbe purpose
of training thtm In German habits
and a love of Germany, the Isondon
Times declarer. Emigration Is
ducted by three great colonizing as
soclations. and German merchants,
German bankers, and German ship
owners arc nil Interested In main
taining and developing German In
fluences in Urrzll.
A* Era of Itoad RulMloc.
That the llrst quarter of the twen
tleth century will be a great era of
road building lu this country uovr
seems probable. All (mtmhs who have
given serious thought to the question
are agreed on the following proposi
tions: That road building lu the United
States has been greatly neglected;
that we are far behind other civilized
nations In this respect; that the gen
eral improvement of the highwaya
throughout the country would do more
to promote the welfare and happiness
of the people than any other work
which could be undertaken, and that
the present Is an auspicious time for
Inaugurating a national good roads :
campaign.
The last of these propositions is in
some respects the most important be
cause on it rests the hope that some
thing is actually going to be doue. The *
last quarter of the nineteenth century
was the great era of railroad building,
but that has now passed into history.
Of course, we are still building rail
roads, and will coutinue to buiid them
for ages, but never agaiu on the euor
tnous scale of the past thirty years.
The necessity and the opportunity no
longer exist. The energy, the enthu
siasm. and the capital heretofore di
rected to the building of railroads
Is now seeking other channels, one of
which Is the building of Improved
highways.
Another reason for believing tliat
the time is ripe for a great popular
uprising for good roads arises from the
extension of the rural free mall deliv
ery. This Is rightly looked upon a a
one of the most beneficent develop
ments of modern civilization. In fact, f
the people have scarcely begun to re
alize the extent of Its benefits.
Proper Construction of Kaailn.
Broken stone roads may !e conven
iently divided into two classes - mac
adam and telford. The principal dif
ference between these two construc
tions is as to the propriety or necessi
ty of a paved foundation beneath the
coating of broken stone. Macadam
denied the advantage of this, while
Telford supported and iractieed it.
This pc'.nt will not he argued here, but
It Is suggested that good judgment
should be used In the selection of one
or the other of those systems. The
macadam system Is the best under
some conditions, while the telford is
more advantageous under others. The
latter system seems to have the advan
tage in swampy, wet places, or where
the soil is in strata varying in hard
ness. or where the foundation is lia
ble to get soft In spots. Under most
other circumstances experienced road
builders prefer the macadam construc
tion.
The earth foundation for either sys
tem is identical. It 'should have the
same slopes from centre to shies as
the finished road, with sutllcient shoul
dering to hold the stone in place .il tiie
sides.
Thr Wavi Knd Mrun*.
Thoughtful. progressive people :ire
earnestly discussing the ways and
means by which the highways of the
country may be improve<]. The great
est obstacle to progress along this line
appears to be that, under existing law*
ami conditions, no general movement
Is possible. Everything depends on
local effort ami local Initiative. What
is needed Is National legislation which
will stimulate action in all section*,
and co-ordinate local effort. At pres
ent those who have given the matter
most thought are In favor of a Nalional 1
aid law similar to the State aid laws
now In force in several States. .1u*t
what will be the solution of the prob
lem cannot now be foreseen, but this
much appears certain that the era of
road building on a large scale is dawn
ing. and something of importance is
going to be done in the immediate fu
ture.
Tlie Wr?hf?t Mnk,
As a chain Is no stronger than its
weakest link, just so the greatest load
which can be hauled over a road is the
load which can be hauled tip the
steepest hill on that road. The cost of
haulage is, therefore, necessarily in
creased in proportion to the grade, as
it costs one and one-half times as
much to haul over a road having a
live per cent, grade, and three times
as much over one having a ten per
cent, grade as 011 a level road. As a
perfectly level road can seldom be had.
it Is well to know the steepest allow
able grade. If the hill be one of great
length, it is best to have tho lowest
part steepest, upon which the horse is
capable of exerting his full strength,
and to make the slope more gentle
toward tho summit to correspond
with the continually decreasing
strength of the fatigued animal.
Orartea.
flood roads should wind around hills
Instead of running over them; and in
many cases this would not increase
their length, as it is no further around
some hills than over tht-ni. Moreover,
as a general rule, the horizontal length
of a road may be advantageously in
creased, to avoid an ascent, by at l<\ist
tweuty times the perpeudicHlar height
thus saved; for Instance, to escape a
hill 100 feet high it wouid be better for
the road to make such a circuit as
would Increase its length 2000 feet.
The reasons for this are manifold, the
principal one being that a horse can
pull only four-llfths as much on a
grade of two feet in ion, and gradual -
ly less as the grade Increases until
with a grade of ten feet in 100 he can
draw but one-fourth a.* much us ho
can on ? level road.
Tolincoo Anil.
It has been calculated that 8000 toil*
of tobacco ash Is annually wasted it*
England. It would make an invaluable,
fertilizer for poor soil, considering that
seventy-five per cent, consists of cal
cium and potassium suit*, and fifteen
per cent, of magnesium and sodium
salt*, including nearly live per cent.;
of the essential constituent to all plant*'
?phosphoric acJ?L ?"