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Is Love to be By H. B. Harrlott-Wataon. idmla* of lC*v Totk aad Newport wtttaf wAummw dik T farmer will Bit ? i? mv p? tow mad ?ffy'new drafl W^{ and bay mmm Tki eober vita oC the aob?r Maw Ingtwi Tka iwrinaa woau kaa perfected tka colt at pleaaare aa .aa Uvlac Mac la all tka kletery oC tka world. ? certain row aoi toad unites tka drab woaaa am kar farm aad tka balla of riftkMaaa. ^ >11M ItfOW ldhfc> cImwi of real Americanised wpa?a, whether "" "I* to typlcfcl Amrfcu'vontt It proverbially careless of the mate of her sace. We Itrqpecu see It every day tn the case of oar ..American visitors. The American woman la set on getting the heat 4heesa hr W money, or ter ttthor's mo%qr. It may be her> hasband's. She rides over maa roughshod, at to the are' of the woman'a revenge, and apparently she la getting It. Bat ka x Che remit It la achieved by a demoralisation of sex. even by a debanch of seg. The doctrine of the superiority of woman, or Its analogue, the dominance of woama. has resulted in a breach of the laws of maternity. * Brukrtt of ehlld Mrth follows, apd will follow, the passage of woman's rights and the higher ??mm' HNren On the threshold of this great and delicate question if oae stayed by the consciousness that the American woman has simed the first crest blow at the reign of Love. go far as the eye of msn can carry now. AneMcm civilization, by the overthrow of Love end Its potency, will have inaugurated a new era frsught with portentlous Issues. Having emerged from mere bsrberlsm Into sn age of sentiment, sre we to complete the cycle by pssilng Into a stage where considerations of personal nmbltlon. or vanity, or greed, or something material, rule tho sexual relations? We are. it would appear, on the threshold of the third era. in which Love is to be faded Into a sentiment so tbln that It would not be recognizable of our sturdy fathers. That stage of the cycle surely must spe'l decline, diminution ? ? ? death. Woman's taste has been perverted by her sopreclatlon of the gifts of man aa tributes to her besuty. A msn will tahe a thing to eat or wear or use some how, because, whether It la bad or good, he likes It. A woman's possessions era rather the fruit of her vanity tbsn her tsste. She acquires things not because she likes them or needs them, but becsuse they represent self mrteem, gratification, the humiliation of rivala. The Lesson of Life. ' By Agheai Repplier. T 18 to be lioptd that all American boys and girls read the Sunday newspaper*. How else csn they learn the rosily Important things of life, the things which It ia wise and well for them to ksow? Where else will they be told that little William Vincent Astor, aged thirteen, eats ostmeal every morning for his break fast. and meat and vegetables "In sparing quantities" for his dinner? That he has a tutor, a valet, a it room, a chauffeur and Hi special body goard" ? whatever that may be ? all engaged in looking after him. That there is an "automatic street-sprinkler" among hie toys. That hi* antomoblle cost twelve thousand dollars. That he is tall for kill ago, and that hU "chin is a special herltago from his father." How, save through a 8unday paper, are young Americans to know that little Margaret Carnegie, aged four, baa her own private kitchen, "which is said to excel that off soy other residence in the world." and that In it are prepared* "splendid hanqneta" for the Carnegie dolla? That she has ten rooms of her own. where as Willie As tor has only five, and that she believes her father to be "the rich ?551? Ox ?a&teklnd." she, too. has Inherited a chin is not mentioned. We can but hope that one may be found among her assets. Here la food for thought. Let every little American boy say solemnly to hfmself, when he eats his morning ostmeal: "Willie Astor eats oatmeal, too.'" Let every little American girl remember, when she gives her dolls a tea-party, that Margaret Carnegie's dolls sit down to "banquets," cooked In the moat aplendid kitchen in the world. Above sdl, let both boys and girls porter deeply over the sentence which describes young Astor'a tutor, groom oa(fval*t as "subjects of the embryonic monarch." It Is well that they should realise early In life that a rich little boy is an embryonic monarch whose tutor la his subject, not his master. Thus will our children preserve those Ideals and that acorn o( Ignoble things which make the greatness of a nation. Thus will wo foater that aturdy spirit of Independence which gave us national Uft, ttd those civic virtues which alone can save us from decay. ? Life. Stanley's Qualities as a Leader By A.J. Mounteney-Jcph?on. DO not intend to eulogise my old chief, tor eulogies are seldom convincing. He had many faults, and some of them even were grave ones, but tbey were, I tblnk, chiefly the faults of his qualities, and without those faults he would not probably have been possessed of some of the great qualities which made him so successful in almost everything tbat ho undertook. His faults were never of a mean or petty kind, and were easily forgiven I when one saw the true greatness and nobility of his nature beyond. That untiring energy and indomitable resolve to overcome all difficulties; that ap parently ruthless determination to sweep away all opposition; his seeming hardpees and callousness in working to achieve what he had undertaken, if ke felt that the end was a good one; the curiously hard and unsympathetic attitude he had toward failure of any kind, no matter how blameless the fail ure might be; all these and many others are not qualities that arc usuaHy found in gentle and amiable natures, and they do not as a rule attract sym pathy and affection. But they saved the whole expedition from annihilation many a time, they dragged us out of difficulties which would have overcome an ordinary man. they drew us through places where there seemed to bo only death before us. and they gained for him the absolute trust and- confidence of all those who followed him. In the early part of the expedition, we. Stanley's four officers. Captain 8talrs, Captain Nelson, Dr. Parke, and myself, did not entirely understand his character, and at first the things that he did seemed to us sometimes to be hard and unnecessary. But as the months went by, our estimate of his char acter changed, for we saw how absolutely right and necessary all that he had done had been, and we realized that sometime* it was very necessary to do hard things for the safety and preservation of an expedition like ours. Stanley has often been accused of cruelty, but I can only say that during the three years we four officers were with him in Africa we never once saw him do a cruel or wanton thing, or anything of which our consciences dlsap> proved. ? Scrlbner's. American Wisdom Unripe. By President William H. P. Kan rice, of Brown University. T HE American Nation la regarded by Impartial observers as agile rather than profound In intellect. Whatever the goal, we arrive there while other peoples are oonsldvrlng how to start. Yet we atlll stand outside the realm of ripened wisdom and assur ance and stable conviction. The men of our time fcave mobility and Ingenuity rather than poise and dignity; they are more nUn.ho.i tn . . . - WW vv/ VAjrvuiUiaiO than to princlpleii. preferring action to thought; and our generation, so full of life, and movement, appears at time* to be "bound nowbere under full sail." We are quick to respond and adapt truths which others have discovered. We hftvo marvelous Inventors, but few scientists of the first rank; excellent writers of school books, few authorities In education; admirable preacher*, f?w theologians whose voices are heard In Europe; skilful expositors of phil osophy. no thinkers who rank with those of lands where thought has time to brood and ripen before action begin*. Our age Is strenuous to the breaking solnt. The Rich Man of France. According to M. Neymarck, th? atatlstlclan, the number of French cltlsena possessing estates of a , realizable cash value exceeding l? 1,000,000 Is under 30, while those possessing estate* over ?600,000, but under ?2.000,000 In value, 1s about 100. Between 600 and 600 per* ?Ml possess fortunes averaging from ??00,000 to ?400,000. Some 4,00# persons In France possess for Mum of between ?100,000 and Odds and End*. Fort Morgan, the county neat of Morgan County, Col., In unique bo cause of the fact that it ban three churches and no saloons. From the excellence of Its Irrigation system the county also Is obtaining a reputation. H possessing 11 canals, aggregating 220 miles In length. The laterals and Held laterals are estimated at 1,600 miles. The county has storage reser voirs, with an aggregate capacity of 3,000,000,000 cubic feet of water, to cover 78,000 acre* on* foot deep. ?200,000. About 13,000 French ore "millionaires" as the word in tinder stood In France, nam?y, possessing over ?40,000 and up to ?90.000. Going lower down the scale, it la estimated that 262,000 Freochmea po??e?a a capital of between ?2.000 and ?4,000, and 1,548.000 hold be tween ?400 and ?1,900 each. ? Loop don Qlobo. Shoes were not made "right* and lefts" until th? year 1472. Sharps and Flats. If Gideon had stopped to paint hla pitchers the Ixml would have been looking for another general. There always will be dlfflcultlea about <lie Blhlo if you grasp It by the blade instead of by the handle. You may know what God thinks about a man's religion when you know what his children think. The pet-frct man has not been dis covered in our day; we are all too modest to reveal blm. ROMANCE REALITY. Br MissANHIe EdWXRBs: The one dread of her life Is a sjc ond lorer,- a second shipwreck, for Dhphae/ Ml dvHf the past two hours she has been keeping stealthy wstch over a certain pair of fig ures (happily unconscious of her scru tiny) as they stood together in the sunset on the beach, or loitered' through the soft gray shadows of the farm garden. "Flef-de-la-Relne Is no place for talk of wedding rings," s he continues, with a quick glance at Daphne's face. "AM long ss we confine our reveries to po tato crops and beifera we shall do well." "But Flef-de-la-Relne is not Eu rope," says the girl, in her subdued voice. "There are people In the world beside us? people for whom the word 'life' has still a meaning. Sir John Severne. for Instance. He haa been telling me about"? If the voice falters, she steadies it so promptly that even Aunt Hosie doeW not detect the weak ness? "about the lady he Is engaged to marry. A Miss Hsrdcastle." Theodora Vsnslttsrt looks round, with a Jump, from her backgammon. "Hardcastle! Well, I protest thip Is one of the most curious things imag inable. It did not occur to you, I sup pose, child, to inquire If she came of the DInorben family?" "I inquired nothing," Daphne an swers. a little wearily. "But if you sre curious in the matter. Aunt Theodora, you will have an opportunity of in vestigating it at first band. Mlaa Hard castle is coming over from London in a friend's yacht, it seems, before Sir John Severne leaves Jersey." "And I have no doubt will prove to be the daughter of my very oldest friend." cries poor Theodora, to whom the words "yacht" and "London" sound like delightful echoes from some higher state of existence. "I knew them in Dublin; wc were quartered there together? and a pair of the most | elegant creatures they were. Captaiu and the Honorable Mrs. Hardcastle ? or Harrington? Now I think of It. I believe the name must have been Har- , rlngton. At all events, these chance meetings are most charming ? unex pected flowers along life'* dusty way side! If novel writers were to set down half the romantic things that actually happen the critics might well call their situations overcolored." "I care not what romances go on In the world," says Aunt Hosie, rising and resting her hand kindly on Daphne's shoulder, "so long as we keep clear of them, ltomances are delight ful affairs. I have no doubt? to every one but the people who enact the prom inent parts." Daphne Is silent. \ CHAPTER VIII. Reality. Three days pass by. On the fourth comes h telegraphic message . inform ing Severne that his mistress has reached Guernsey. Elght-nnd-forty hours, perhaps less. Miss Hardcastlc and her friends will Klve to the smaller islands, and then? Sir John may look l'or their arrival in Jersey! The last day hat eouie, and, as usual, the lovers (I mean the people who under no possible circumstance# innst t-ver be lovers) are spending it together; the hour, four of the after noon; the scene, a shady spot upon the beach which hy common consent lias grown to be called Sir John's ntcller. Paul is enjoying his afternoon siesta tipon his mother's lap. Sir John lazi ly sketching in a group of weed-grown boulders for the foreground of a pic ture, already taken, of Daphne and her little son. Alas, if he works lazily, he is think tng hard; counting with miserly greed every look from the soft lucent hazel eyes, every smile from the sweet lips, that after to-day shall he as nothing to him! "Next to the performance of one's duty, the best thing Ik? one's well framed rest after duty." Thus speaks a pleasant, slightly drawling voice from the bank immediately above, so close to them that little Paul hears It through his dreams, and half awakens. "We have searched for the man it was our duly to search for. In vain. We give the man up. We sit down." Daphne peeps out cautiously be tween a crevice of rocks and grass, and discerns a lady and gentleman, young, well favored, and. as she Judges, newly married. "The question Is." says voice num ber two from the bank? just for a mo ment Sir John starts a little at the sound? "whether the llrst best thing would be, not to perform one's duty at all? It certainly was less dusty at sea than we have found it among these horrible lanes." "Rut among the lanes, my dear child, we have been alone." "Our position Is not honorable." whispers Daphne, rosy red. "I don't believe they are bride and bridegroom. They are lovers, poor things! We have no right to hear their conversation." Ami then falls to listening again n ith all her might. ??Resides, there Is something I have long wished to speak to you about, only I could never Hud au opportunity. I Intend to marry." The speaker Is a l>ored "airoclously good-looking fellow" of two or throe and thirty. His dress, the cut of his A Profitable Investment. Since the purchase, Alaska ha? yielded flftO.OOO.OOO woiMi of go!d. fum and fish, and the territory has purchased from the United States In the mer.ntlmc merchandise valued at $100 00ft. 000. The value of the Ala.-*kn fish fold In the flnp!e year 1!103 was $5,000,000, or more than tt?o purchase money i>n!d for the conn* trv. In that year we received from Alasl.n $10,228,00? In merchandise and $!.710.r,70 In gold.? riilladct pbla I c.lger. <?* *?? rylnf ? wkMbmna as a protection from the sua. tafd you to clan bin, at a glance, aa a Continental Eugllsb ?Ma. bat o*#*bat particular type It would be bari to eaj. "Marry!" Ml Jtlae It la the lady who speaks, with a disdainful little curl of the lip? a disdainful Inflection la the cMXMfcftiUy aietalUc tolce. "You have always said " "That It was bard to see of what use married meniaotald be in toe scheme of things. Well, we ore most of us queer studies, perhaps, from that point of view. I think you. my dear, nt all events, are not a. fitting person to de cry marriage.'* "I think wa came to a decision some time ago that there was one subject of which you and I would never speak until it waa forced upon us. My mar riage"? the clear voice falters a bit? "can have no connection. In the whole wide world, with you." "None. Possibly that Is the fact that has msde me think of opeulng a domestic bapplneaa account on my own behalf." There Is a little pause after this; then: "It would be asking too mbcb!" ex claims the glrl'a voice, petulantly: "it would be trenching on ground too deli cate for an outside observer, to Inquire the name of your Intended?" "I put much the same question to myself to-day." "To yourself? what absurdity!" "At breakfast; limiting my apecula tlons, for form'a sake, to the company present. Naturally, but for Jornlng ham I would have fixed on Lady Lydla.** "That goes without saying. You for get, perhaps, that Lady Lydla's great est charm Is? Mr. Jorninghnm." "Afterward, coming down, with a crash, from the Ideal to the actual and earnest. I thought? You need not look so scornful, my poor child. 1 am per fectly in earnest." "Scornful? I? How wonderful one's face must belle one at times!" "?That I could not do better than think of Agatha dc Mauley." "A widow." "I adore widows." (Under the shelter of the rock be neath, Mrs. Chester colors. Sir Jr'm Severue is looking singularly, unac countably ill at his ease.) "A woman who ban been already married." proceeds tbe voice masculine, with slow emphasis? "a woman who bas been once trained, however badly, in the way wherein she should go. must have gained some rudimentary knowl edge of the art of dining. If tbe first husband litis a temper, she has prob ably been drilled to putting on Iter bon net with dispatch. Two cardinal vir tues. This brings us to a question of the late Mr. de Mauley's temper.** "Do you know what I am thinking?" cries tbe girl, impatiently. "I am thinking that every month, every hour you live, you grow more and uiCre foolish." "I know It. At two-and-thirty years of age I am fool enough still to carry a heart about with me. somewhere." "A heart!" she repeats mockingly. "A heart that beats for Agatha de Mauley!" "Of course. If yon choose to say so." "A designing creature, old enough to be your grandmother, and fast, extrav agant enough? no! 1 should Ik* sorry to finish the comparison. Married to Agatha de Mauley, you would be in jail, both of you. in a fortnight. Now, if you were to turn your thoughts to Mattio Rivers " "Aged twenty-nine, emancipated to the extent of living alone in chambers, suspected by her enemies of the most advanced theology, and by her friends of the very heaviest flirtations, and at the present moment collecting mate rials for a three-volumn novel! It Is a curious fact." the speaker remarks, de liberately, like a man carefully ran sacking the storehouse of his thoughts, ?"a deuced curious fact? that all the new-looking people who go about the world In yachts should be accompanied by a writing woman in search of ma terials for a novel. I met with pre cisely the fame thing last autumn? somewhere n*i the Levant, was it?" "Cousin Friix. you may not be very deep in son1" subjects, not quite as deep as Fnnilein Schnapper. for In stance. Bui for generalizations, at once rapid ami profound. I don't know your equal." "Yes. If T had Clementina and a dictionary constantly at hand I believe I might pass muster in time." ? ? ? ? * ? , ? Sir John Scvcrne springs to his fret with an abruptness that sends his color-box. t<?>nclls and Daphne's por trait spinning! % ?????? - CHAI'TKR IX. j The Zeit-tJeist. "Have yon got any shade among the rocks there?" says Cousin l*'cl?x. glanc ing laxity down under the cilge of his umbrell;*. It Is a modest boast of Mr. Rrough ton's tlv no situation of life (and. un less hN friends malign him. be has been In ?? ;ne sufficiently complex ones) has ev- put him off his guard, ever upset 1..0 equilibrium of his finely bal anced conscience. The sudden apparition of Sir John flsverae, at the very inntant when he. Recently In a paper read before a technical society at Odessa Mr. I>orn erpevostl described ? way of killing the young of insects In the fields by electricity. A dynamo Is carried on a wagon, horse or automobile, and the current excites an Induction coll, giv ing a high tension discharge. One pole of the coll Is to the metal tires and tho other to metal brushes pass ing over tho ground. The discharge It to the grass, etc., Is the volt. The Catholic party of Ix>mbardy de cided to take part In the coming Ital ian election. Felix Bioafbtoo, Is marmriaf adt (obMmcm Into the car of. 8Ir Jobs 8sTsns*s promised wife, causes him so ?abursMm?t. A frldtfned Uttle cry from Bliss Ilurdcagtt. her gsilt strlckea ffcse. bring NPtnitb bemeto his moral per ceptions before he has had time to sur rey the material aspect of things through bis eyeicla**; aud on the mo ment. wltb the look, the voice of In nocence. be hits upon an appropriate coastnonplace. "If there Is any shade worth speak ing of yon shad be the mountain anil we Mahomet, otherwise **- ' ? ? . "We have been driving half over the (?land." cries Miss Hardcastle, actually betrayed into the Indiscretion of ex cusing herself. "At last I remembered the naofle of your friend's how Flef de-la-Relne? Is It not? And the people there directed us to the beach, and ? we hare been looking for you " "And have been unexpectedly suc cessful In onr search." says Cousin Felix, calmly? all tbls before young I Severne has uttered a word. 44 Allow me to offer you my nrui. Clementina, as the questiou of shade seems decided. The bank Is steep." At last, after a good many abortive starts, and forced halts, and unexpect ed avalanches of iand, the descent is accomplished. Miss Hardcastle quits Felix Brougli ton's arm. The lovers, divided during the lapse of three cruel years, stand face to face. They shake hands. Cousin Felix look ing on wltn the pleasantest? I had al most said the most fraternal? expres sion in the world. They don't And one syllable to say. Is this the beginning of the end? "Clementina forgets to Introduce me.'* remarka Mr. Broughtou, coming for ward with his little air of genial suav ity. a band outstretched. 44Or perhaps she thinks It Is a case in whlcb intro duction Is superfluous. How are you. Severne? Welcome back from India. Warm. Is it not?" "Very warm." repeats Sir John, la conically. and submitting to. rather than accepting, the proffered hand shake. "You arrived in Jersey this morning, 1 conclude. Clem? Miss Hard castle?" He had thought of her as Clemeutina during their three years of betrothal; as Clementina lins written her love letter* hopeful, despairing, ardent, gradually cooling, by the srore. Yet now that hope is so near fruitiou. now that they are to be -married in August, and stand under this June sun looking into each other's eyes, the familiar Christiau name refuses to leave his lips. (And during the last day or two he has searce been able to restrain himself from calling Mrs. Chester "Daphne.") "Yes," answers Cousin Felix, upon whom all the onerous burden of talk ing seems to fall, but with grace, "we ran over from the other island, Jersey? no, Guernsey-- help me, Clem entina. you know I can never remem ber which is which. At all events, we ran over from the other place this morning. Jorninghuin found out from some culpably interested pilot, no doubt, that the tides would suit for linger. and hurried us off in the very middle of our breakfast. Capital fel low. Jorninghaui; .von know him. Sev erne?" "I remember hearing I July L.vdia Jorningbam h:nl .1 husband." " Precisely, the very man. and an ex eellent fellow, too. in his quiet, unob trusive way. but crazed on the wore of fish. All!" n Midden animation brightening his bored voice as the face of a pretty woman, the face of Daphne, comes within range of his eyeglass, 'what have we here? sketching?'* Sir John Soverne's color-box. over turned. his pencils and sketeh book, lie 011 the wet sand. Daphne, with senses ostensibly fixed on the distant sea. sits, half in light, half in shade, beneath the rock: her yellow luiir glis tening in the sun. her girlish" tignre looking more girlish than its wont in the plain cot ion gown that forms so vtrong a contrast to the silk attire, the drawn back skirts, the fail-shaped train of Miss Hardcastle. Little Paul, rosy still from sleep, stands barefooted, finger 011 lip. intently watching the new. comers at his side. "We were Just? that Is. I was sketch ing in the. foreground." says Severne, betrayed in Ills turn into the weakness of an excuse. "One sees such wonder ful effects among these Jersey rocks." "Charming effects, in truth." re turns Cousin Felix, with an expressive glance in the direction of Daphne Clies ter. And then there was a full stop. Daphne, country taught Daphne, is the first to break the silence. She rises, hesitates for an Instant, then comes forward, a smile of genuine welcome round her lips, to Clementina. "Every one around Flef-dc-la-lteine will be glad to see you. Miss Hard castle. Sir John Severne has told yon no!? what makes us look upon him as an old and valued friend? Ah, then, you must hear our version of the story. Paul, come here. This Is my little son, who but " "For a certain high spring tide would never l ive taught me the mystery of cabot fishing,'' Interrupts Severne, quickly. "Do your best. Mrs. Chester. I know the excellence of your inten tions. but 'tis work thrown awav. You will not succeed ill getting Miss Hard* castle to look upon me in the light of a her*." To bo Continued. She? "It's really wonderful how this part of the world stilts old people! There's my grandfather, he's eighty nine next month.'* He? "Really! Al most a? wliat d'ye call it?? a nonentity, don't you know!"? Punch. O.ut of every J. OOt). 000 persons who are born In the same year 213,000 live for seventy years. 107.000 for eighty yearn, and 881 for ninety years. A man cannot preach straight truths when he is trying to dodge between his Master above and his master in the pews. Figures aro not the same things as facta. The river of peace may be fed by the rain of pain. God may forget us when the sun for gets to shine. Sunday's appetites often intetfere with Its aspirations. The largest results of any work are seen In tho wonker. Genuine love of one's work 1> the best form of genius. C? Tftlm u4 Imdrtl? ?. NE Interesting feature ?f educational work is the holding of conventions In coa section -wllta the hulld inf of object Ictton.lMdi. While the work Is In progress, a convention Is called and the people come from far and near to witness the work of road buUdiug and listen to instracttve addresses. Such a convention seldom adjourns without forming a permanent organization. Mainly in this way good roads asso ciations .have been formed in all sec tions, and by them tlie work of edu cation and ugltatiou has been carried on. At a groat Nntlonnl convention for] consideration of the road improvement rccstion. helil in Chicago, in Novem ber. the National (?ood Itoads As sociation was organised, ami It lias plnro grown until, with its affiliated State, district and local associations. It is without doubt the greatest or ganisation of the kind in existence. (But it is not the only National organ isation of this kind. The American Koadmakers, of which the Hon. James II. Macdonald, of Connecticut, is Presl dent, is organised in nearly every sec tion of the United States, and its re cent annual conventlou at Hartford. Coun., was attended by several hun dred delegates. In 1001, an international congress of persons interested in road improve ment was held at Buffalo, in connec tion with the Pan-American Exposi tion. All sections of the I'nited States and several foreign countries were rep resented. It would be impossible in this brief review of the good routls lnovement to even mention the mnn.v important conventions winch have been held since the great Chicag.) meeting of 1802. But no history of the movement would be complete without some ac count of the National convention held at St. Louis at the time the Louisiana Purchase Exposition wan dedicated. In the number of leading public men who attcuded and participated, this gathering far exceeded any of its predecessors. Addresses were deliv ered by President Roosevelt, Hon. A. C. Latimer. Colonel William J. Bryan, General Miles and by several Con gressmen and Governors of States, as well as many other men of National prominence. National Aid Movement Launched.? The most significant feature of the St. Louis meeting was the launching of the National aid pl:in. Colonel \V. P. Brow 11 low, of Tennessee, had given this plan prominence before the coun try by introducing a bill in the Fifty seventh Congress providing that the Government should co-operate with the States in the improvement of the roads, and pay one-half of the expense. ?From the first this proposition at tracted much favorable .attention, es pecially among the rural population. But the Idea was fairly launched on its National career by the convention at St. Louis. It was, in fact, the prin cipal theme of diseussion aiul the scn itnient for it was well-nigh unani mous. <Jood Roads in Congress.? The St. .Louis convention created u committee representing nil KprtionR of the country to go to Washington. lay it* demands before Congress, and argue in favor of the Nation's help in the work of improving the roads. Last January the Committee on Agriculture in hotli the Senate and Ilonse granted public hear ings to this committee; and the Sen ate has since issued a report of the hearing for distrnhution to the people. On the whole it must be said that the advocates of National aid made out a strong case, and the report contains a large amount of valuable informa tion. The Senate committee has since de cided by a vote of six to one to make a favorable report on tin* f.atimcr bili, wiih some amendments, and thU re ;a?ri v?Hl go before the Senate for fiction a i Hie next session. That public sentiment is generally favorable to ill" National aid proposi tion is shown i?y the fact t tin t it has been endorsed by the Legislatures of ?.ix States, by the National < J range. the 'i'rans-Mississippt Commercial Con gress, t lie American Mining Congress, and by State and local conventions and organizations of many kinds in all parts of i Iio country. State Aid. --No history of this move ment would be complete without some reference to the Slate aid plan. In fact the greatest actual accomplish nient of the movement Is that it has secured the adoption of this plan in ten States. The essential features of this plan are the creation of a State Highway Commission, nnd the co-oper ation of the State with the counties and towns in the work of road im provement. each bearing a fixed portion of the expense, though, no two States have a dop tod exactly the fame pian. All tho northeastern Slate* from Malno to Pennsylvania and Maryland havo adopted State aid, and tho result* se curod aro so satisfactory that tho popu larity of tho plan Increase* ovory yoar. In Now Jersey tho State pay* one third of tho cost of road Improvement, and tho Legislature now appropriates X'jrrfUXMt mutually. In Coiinootleut tho State pays two-third* of tho expense* and tho annual appropriation* aro ft22r?,000. MofsaohUKott* spend* nearly lialf a million a yoar, the State pay ing three-fourth* of the cost. In New York the State pay* ono-half the eo*t, oud the last Legislature ma<lo an ap propriation of fflOO.OOO Tor thl* pur pose. Pennsylvania'* last Legislature appropriated $U..~>00.000 as a State fund, to bo expended during six yoar*, tho State paying two-third* of tho oost of tho roads built. All tho other Statos In this part of tho oountry have adopt ed this plan in *01110 form. In tho*e Stato* tho sontimont for National aid I* stroncr. It being argued that the only Ideally perfeet and just *,v*tem of co oporatlon in road building is 0110 in which the Federal Government ontor* ?g an active factor. ? Ulgh Aitn.-Tbe good roads move Dent feu beta steadily gaining in fore# for a doxen years, and during tbe past two years It ban gained at a greatly, accelerated rate. The . aim of Su? friends and promoters 1m to make aa end of tbe uiiNclcutiflc plecc-meal meth ods of road work now in vogue In nearly all parts of the country, and to substitute therefor scientific methods* Intelligent supervision, and co-opera* tlou of Nation, State and local com munity In a uuited and co-ordiuata effort for the improvement of the roads throughout tbe whole couutry. This la a high aim, and the undertakiug is a: stupendous on*. Bat who will say that It Is too gr>at for th* America a people to accomplish? ? AN HISTORIC WATCH. Tim Fltf* Made I'or Kins Otuilr* lal 9UU Kaaalai. There is in the possession of WilTred Powell, who represents the Itritich em pire at this port, a timepiece that lohf off the livurs for England's ruyai uar? tyr. After his vietory over Charles IT. Oliver Cromwell wrote exultantly to Kugland's rarlhiment, telling how the eueiuy was beaten from hedge to hedge till lie was linaliy driven into Worcester. There were 7tHH? prison ers among the kim>IIs of that tight. The royal carriage in which the king had been carried was there, too, ami in that handsome carriage was the royal carriage watch, which also fell into the hands of the victorious Cromwell. This timepiece of royalty, whicla still ticks after a career of WJ year#, was made in HMO for King Charles I. by the royal watchmaker of that time. King Charles I., was beheaded two years l>efore his sou Charles II. was defeated on and escaped from the held of Worcester. It Is of the oldest watchmaking pat* tern, being made entirely by liuud, and costing in its day a good round sum of mouey. The ense is of solid sil ver, ornameuted in beautiful pierced filigree work, and there la an outer case of copper with a handsome leath er cover, silver studded. The royal watch runs thirty-six hours with one winding. Only one hand is used iu designating the time. There is a silver bell enclosed within the silver ease, on which the hours are struck. There is also an alarm at tachment. The watch is four and one half inches iu diameter, aud one and a half inches thick. Cromwell kept it as a personal pos session for years. But after the res toration it fell into the hands or Jos eph Kipling. Esq.. of Overstone House. Xorfh Hants, England, an ancestoi of Itudyard Kipling. Joseph Kipling was also an ancestor of the present ownei of the watch.? Philadelphia Telegraph, . WORDS OF WISnuM. Yon cannot use virtue for a varnisli. AVhatever soil* the soul must be sin A sons will outlive ail sermons is tlie memory. II. Giles. .lost not with the two-edj;etl sword of Cod's word.-- Fuller. Rulers always hate and suspect th< next in succession? Tacitus. The wonderful thins about a man it his power to become.? K. I. Bosworth. Kvil never tempted a man whom h? found judiciously employed.- Spurgeou Thou art poor indeed if thou art not stronger than thy poverty.? .famet Allen. When the service of the I.or.l secnii 1 hard. It is because we are but imper fectly performing it.- I*. Mer?vr. A man who docs not know how ff learn from his mistakes, takes the best schoolmaster out of his life. ? Iteecher. When one Is sad or on* ?? f sorts foi any cause whatever, there is no rem edy so infallible as trying j<? make somebody else happy. -.1 \V. Carney. Where there is no mother there ran be no ehild. Their duties an re.-inro cal: and if they arc badly fulfilled on one side, they will be neglect* :! on Hit other.? Rousseau. j Fortune* In llrokrn The waste from glass furnace* 1$ now made useful. Into a tire resist inn mold are placed fragments of glj?s of various colors, which are then raised to n high temperature. The coherent mass thus produced enn be dressed and cut into beautiful mottled hloekn and slabs, forming an artificial marble of decorative surface. Designs in re? lief can he obtained by pressure while the material is still plastic. From broken glass a "stained glass" win. dow can be made by tiring, without the ordinary slow process of ??lead ing." A prosaic soda water bottle in the final fulfilment of its destiny may dazzle the eyes as brilliant ??dia monds" or other "precious stones.'* Thus does the waste come to resemble the most precious commodity if prop erly handled and utilized. -New York Herald. , Tli? (irrut A nk'? Kgg. The great auk's egg which wa." put c.p for sale In London recently is said to be one of the finest of the seventy ?>r so of these eggs which are known 1<? exist. The egg was discovered ?i the London residence of the Honorable Kmmelluc Canning by ;.Ir. .!, K. Marl ing. the well known ornithologist, and it is interesting that another famous zoologist? Professor Newton, of Cam bridge?was instrumental In bringing to light a splendid set of ten -mistak enly labelled "penguins' egg**" in tin* Itoyal College of Surgeon < some thirty or more years ago. From the inodc?t price of $1 in IJMO the market figure of the egg of the great auk has mounted up to no less than $I,VM>. a similar amount being given not long ago for a stuffed specimen of this extinct binl. Kugrnlft'o Ooilclilldrrn. In requesting all his "valiant troop* and sen men in the Far Kimt" to r?*mi r?t thomfolvon ns sponsers for the Infant Czarevitch tlie O-nr is directly Invert ing Nupoleon III.'s celebration ??f iln> hlrth of his only sou niut heir. He tin* nounccd that he iithI tlint Kmpres;-. Kit gcnie would stand Kodfather and god mother to nil children born in Franc? on the same day as t li ? Prince Imper ial. Their Majesties thus became spon sor* to .'MHtO children, and made a chris tening present to cadi. To this Hay the ex-Kinprcs* maintained a personal interest in the contemporaries of hep ill-fated son, and in her will she liu* set aside n sum of mono* for her sur viving guikhildvcu. ....