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By WALTER BESANT. CHAPTER XVIIL 18 Continued **Hls name was Addison." tlpon this the young lady behaved In ? v^ry surprising manner indeed. For instead of saying "Oh!" or "Dear me*" ok "How rery interesting!" she covered ??r. face with her hand*, and Kath arine saw that she waa aylng IB tb. Why are you "I am crying, my dear-oh, my dear, jrbat am I crying for? It Is because you are getting better. Go on. dear I won't cry any more. Go on-Tom was fcia name, wasn't it? Poor Tom! Tom Addison, and he went out as war cor Twpondent, and waa killed by the ferab* at Suakim with an officer. Cap ita McLaughlin? but their bodies were ?ever recovered, were they? Poor Ton. ?!!? I"', r CnPtaln McLaughlin! W,,<, ,0Ted 0,em " honle * . "Do you know all about It?" ~My dear, it was in the papers, but aot your name. The world is never told more than a quarter of the truth. 4nr"e 0f the PnPers ?aid a word about Katharine Reglna.'* "^.e8' k? was killed, and then? oh! What did anything matter? in the middle of my trouble Mr. Emptfige ?amc home one day. and said his salary was cut down from three hundred a year to a hundred and fifty. Thev couldn't afford to keep me any longer. 80 I had to look for another place. There are thousands of girls-ladies looking for work everywhere. Oh It is a miserable world for them! Thou ?ands of girls? you can not imagine W.UI you go about looking for work' bow many there ar^-thousands break ing their hearts in trying to get work, ?nd some of them starving because they can not get any. I was one^-aud I had nothing left at all. and I spent ilKWa,klng U,) nud down the ?toners without a home, and on the ?econd night I lost my only friend in !e/0fir- Whe" you found me L!l ! lw,rned 111,11 the Em p tapes Had left Doughty street and gone awav ?I knew not where. And then I think I must have broken down." you"*"1 Uien 1 f?Und y0,,? OL' 1 f0l,nd J^n,LI'' PO,Dt the S,"tcr "PPenred ' tf!.? ?U'h rxc,tement, Miss Wil loughby, she said. "Hasn't there been enough talk for to-day ? Why. what" ' e\er Is the matter?" th? 3?U"K Indy in fact, and ?ot I ho patient, wlio was weeping . W. Sister. I will come again to morrow. Enough talk for to-day. My of ro 1 I!"8 "?r ?,her ,bnn tho h??d Wh,ch ,od n,p to you that day. oh. there are also manv happy women In the world!-oh? so many. Sec how miserable I was only W nmi "(nv ,,ow haPPy grateful! The clouds will roll ? way from you. too. 1 then roll Ing away; there Is nothing but blue onfv Z rShi,'<: ",,nvp- ,f -v'>? ???M in J 7\T"- SiSt(,r> 1 n,n <o?i* I talk too much always. I nin a nd /rv f K,iH* ,,,0, ,U'nr' 01,! k,ss n,p and tr> to love me always, becaus,. we have v S",n0 8wrrow nnd "'?v 0 - } es. Sister. I am coming-I ?m coming." Wh !H,rri:d? nwnv' bnt Katharine *ZL E k,MK "ml cry,nK n*"? outside the door. And she heanl ~whln"h i Wr tl10 SiPtor who 8n,d them Tinidi had no meaning, so flint 8i,,, ?O.0?K?. tlip .ire.?, fwnwC goinc to ret urn. nof bo to,d ???' until ?he i8 stronger. Hut let the poor man once ? ? <ho8e ,otter8 he told at This was very remarkable. Rut the day was full of strange things. Pres ieen. Ji!* f!Pcl'0,,,rv- wl?o generally keeps down stairs all day. and writes . ,rpInondous energy, getting w 1 iter s camp in no time, came Into the ward and made straight for Kath arine ? bed, and asked her If she was I?* '"* P,,n,,ur?r- A" "he asked the question her eyes filled, and she turned hastily awa.v. Then tho Sister came and placed the grapes hnndv for her and smoothed her pillows, and her eves bcraine humid, too-fancy an hospital wister, who sees so many sick people overy day. giving way to the least re ?em dance of a tear! The thing was completed by the visit of the senior Physician to the hospital, who went her rounds In the afternoon, and stood over 5f,.lvrm.e.W,lh eyeB wh,?h wore cer tainly misty. CHAPTER XTX. TlIP RTTATTEWIfO OF T1IF. CAKTT.K. The Holfra *nt nt broakfaat In the ifllnlrii; room of Ihelr Hussoll Square ?iouko. Thnl Is to sny, James Kolfe wan tnkinK brenkfaat, while bl* wife ?food at tjie window looking Inlp tb$ glllUCII, *.? rt.lil KM (mIW'K U'llllkH ?and sooty evergreens, regardless of the cold. ITor fare was charged wltli clou<l? wlricb betokened tbundor nnd lightning. "Harriet," Mid her husband, tnrnlnp round nnd looking nt b<*r. "what's 1b< good of It? W'lin I the devil is the goot ?of carrying on likn this'.'" ,Rho I'.inde no reply. "I suv.,, Harriet. grittnplness dopsn'* tieb?. Von may sulk ns niurh n? yo please, hilt you won't send Tow bacl 4o lSgyyt." "I can't bear It," she cried, starting up and walking about the room. "I won't bear it" "What will you do then, Harriet? You might as well declare that you won't have a toothache. Because, my dear, bad temper never yet cured a toothache or changed a man's luck." "Ob! you deceived me? you deed red me." ? ? "No, .Harriet, nd," he replied, cahnly, "I did not deceive you. Do sit down and have breakfast comfortably. No, my dear. Don't let us call things by bad names. I only kept back certaiu facta." "You told me nothing about the trust money." "I did not" "You deceived me? you have always deceived me," she repeated, wltlf daub ing eyes and a red spot on either cheek. "But it's the last time. You shall never have the chance of deceiving me again." "Just as ycu like, Harriet. How long Is the present rampage going to con tinue?" "You have always deceived me. from the beginning. Oh, what n fool I was to trust a -word you said! I m!glit have guessed what sort of a man you wore from your companions. And now you want me to help in robbing your cousin. Yea? iu robbing and stealing. Oh!" "Call It "what you like, Harriet." But he reddened. "I am not going out of this Job empty-handed, I promise you. Half of It ought to be mine by rights. And what with the jewels and the sil ver mugs, and the wine and the pic tures and my bill of costs and all"? he emphasized his conjunctions so as to Impress upon himself the power of arithmetic? "I intend to come pretty well out of it, Harriet." He added a few words of more vigorous English with reference to Harriet's temper. "Yes," she replied. "1 know you will get a few hundred pounds, and you will spend it all in drink and racing and betting and billiards, and where shall we be afterward? No, Jem, I am not going back to the old life. Don't think it. I shall go my own way." "You have always gone your own way, Harriet. But you are a fine woman, and I'm proud to own you." "Own me?" 13he was not the least mollified by the compliment to ber-Qp-v pearance. "You own me? I will show you how much >ou own me." "Proud to own you, my dear," he re peated. "A handsome creature, but the deuce and all in harness. Nasty tem pered, stubborn, hard in the mouth, bandy with her heels, skittish, and apt to shy. They're faults, Harriet, that take the value off the most perfect ani mal. And now shut up and have done with It. and don't worry me any more, or I may lese my temper, too, and that would be bad for you. Sit quiet, do what I tell you without calling it uply names, and I'll put you through." She made some kind of Inarticulate answer, and returned to the chair in the window, where site sat in silence. The door-bell rang loud and long. Harriet started in iter chair, turned red and pale in turn, and glanced ?quickly at her husband. lie paid no attonlion to a ring at the street door why should he?? and folded his paper ?;o as to pet at the sporting news. lint be .lumped to bis feet when Tom Addison appeared. "Tom, my dear boy!" lie seized Tom Addison's hand with effusion. "You are unexpected, but the earlier the bet ter. You can't come too early. He sides, this is your own house. Let me Introduce you to my wife, whom you have never seen before. Strange, Isn't it, between cousins?" He was winking rapidly with both eyes. "Harriet has been longing to make your acquaint nnee. and to tell you of the Joy and gratitude which she felt when you wore reported safe. Nothing ever af fected her with so much happiness." "That's a falsehood, James," said big wife, quietly. .Tames turned pale, and winked apuin with both eyes. "That is my husband's falsehood, .Mr. Addison," slip repeated. "I was not glad or grateful to hear it. I was very sorry, though I did not swear about It or use the awful language that James did. We were both horribly sorry, Mr. Addison. Nobody could be more sorry and miserable than wo were wnen tne news came. It was a most dreadful blow to us. It brought back upon us the ruin which your death bad averted. Don't be deceived. I did not want to make your acquaintance at all. And you hnve no worse* enemy In the world than my husband." "(Jo on, Hnrriet, go on. Make as much mischief as you can." "He deceived inc. He told me that your death wns the luckiest thing in 1 the world, because It gave us all the property. He never told me anythin# about the girl or the trust money, be cause he meant to keep It all to him self." "Oh!" Tom cried. "Walt a bit," said his cousin. "Let her run on." "He meant to keep It for himself, bccause he said that nobody knew of it but you and him, and lie should be a fool to part with It. He wns a thief from the day when you were killed." "I'll be even with you for this, Har I rlet," her husband murmured Hcb he (band ont who th? ifrt owner of that money was, Tom. XI | was your sweetheart, Katie. Qe never told me that, either. And when she came to his ofgee, poor and In misery, he never told her? though he knew that < all this money was hers? nor offered to help her, and let her go as she cam?t 1 starving and In rags." "What! Is this truer* "Wait s bit," Jem replied, huskily. j "Now that you have returned, be Is ' going to pretend to find out who ought to have the money, and to win your sonfldence by telling you.** "Harriet? you're a devil. 8he*s put out this morning, 'Tom. We've had a row. 8he doesn't know wbat she is saying. As for the trust, I told you | about It long ago. and you yourself told me that Miss Capel is the heiress.** Tom turned to Harriet. "Have you anything more to tell met You wrote to me that If I would call this morning your husband and you had many things of importance to com* municate. As for Katie's Inheritance^ [ know It already. Whether he knew before I told blm " .7 "He did know before yon told him. He told me about It before you came home." "Go on. Harriet. I suppose yon will come to an end, Rome time." said her husband, bitting down. "I sha n't In terrupt you any more." Harriet went out of the room and returned with a bag. which she placed upon the table. "There are your aunt's Jewels, Mr, Addison. My husband made me pack them up In a bag. He was .going to take them away and sell them. He said that you would never miss lhem. and that they were worth a pile of money." , Her bnsband said nothing, hut drummed upon the table with his nails. "lie has taken down half the pictures In the house, and Is going to cart them away. He says you won't miss tliem. You will. tliul them stacked aii ready in the hall." "Go on." said Tom. "Is there any more?" Harriet opened the doors of the side board, which wn? an old-fashioned thing, with a cupboard in the middle. It was full of Uncle Joseph's old silver ?his collection, worth any amount of money. "He has put all the old silver here, ready to be taken away. He was go ing to take It away this evening in a cab." Toin groaned. "Is there much more?" "No. There is your ul i s wine cel lar. We've been drinking the wine ever since we came, and he means to carry away all the rest. He says you will never know that there is a cellar full, and he will either drink It him self or sell it." "Go on, my angel," said her husband. "There is nothing more to tell, Mr. Addison. Now you know what kind of cousin you've got. L?et him deny It wtyo can." ?' t 1 "Why do you tell me all this?" asked Tom. "Because she's bad a quarrel with her husband," said Jem, who, as the lady's husband, ought to have known. "When she's In a rage she say* any thing." "I tell you all this partly to punish him for bis deceptions, and because I am not going to prison for his sake, nml because I am not going back to the old life. He deceived me when he took me from my stall and swore he was a rich man? he had no money left; and though he bad an office, there was no business. He deceived me again about this money; and at last he wants me 1n join him in stealing ami robbing. And that completes the Job. I am go ing to leave li i in. Mr. Addison. I shall put on my bonnet and go away at once, .lames," she said, with a bard laugh. "I have saved you from a crime. You ought to be thankful to me some day. Besides, you have got rid of me. Why. if you bad not taken me from my stall on pretense of being a rich man you might have been spared all this temptation. .Mr. Addison, I have told you the truth and the exact truth. I am truly sorry that the young lady has been kept out of her rights, and I am. oh! ever so sorry you ever came home again, ami I don't pretend to be glad. What a dreadful tiling It would be for the world If many dead men be came alive again! When James has got j^lenty of money and isn't worried he doesn't get drunk , and he stays at home and lays himself out to be a good husband to please bis wife. When he'# got no money he Is tempted to do wick ed things and carries on shameful. That's the chief reason why I am sorry you are alive. Now I've told you, I will leave you to settle with him by yourself." ?She turned to her husband as If loath to leave him and yet resolved. "Find another wife. Jem." she said "You can alwnys catch a shop girl by pretending to lie rich." Her husband growled, "(?ood by, then, .Tem," she said. "Yon will have nobody to keep but your self, unless you flml a wife. Living alone ought not to cost much. I slvonld think. Perhaps you will be able to keep honest-" ,??? He winked hard, nnd made as If he would speak, but no words came. Then she left the room with a little bow to Tom and as much dignity as she could assume. The two men were left alone. It was an embarrassing situation. These two men had met as friends a quarter of an hour before? one of them (Irmly trusted the other. And now? ? (To be continued.) Proper Vm of Cnrllng Iron*. The use of curling Irons that are too hot Is a great source of injury to the hair. They should be used only warm, and held in the hair until the moisture Is entirely dried out, then the process produces a lasting curl. A properly heated iron will also promote rapid growth', as the warmth acts upon th? hair as the sun does upon plant life. Late JVetoef't In "Brief ^ MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Mr. B. R. Jones, president of a Western gold mining company, was held up near his home in Allegheny, county, Md., but wounded one of the footpads, who fled. Secretary Metcalf has ordered *n official inquiry into the tire insurance companies who have failed to pay their losses in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The president has decided to stand by his order dismissing the battalion or negro troops. Virginia's wealth show:; an increas of $185,660,484 from 1900 to 1904; North Carolina, $150,090,098; West Virginia, $180,447,598, and the Dis trict of Columbia, $111,643,400. Capt. Lafayette M. Ponton dropped dead in the lobby of the National ho tel, Washington, D. C. The American Sugar Refining Com pany was found guilty of accepting a rebate of $26,000 from the New York Central Railroad. Fourteen Philadelphia icemen were p'.necd on trial charged with engaging :u a conspiracy to raise prices. The body of James Wilson, a sign or of the Declaration of Independ ence. was disinterred at Edenton, N. C., and is on the way to Philadelphia jvhere it will be reburied. Two new eases of yellow fever de veloped at Havannali last week, which makes seven cases now in the etiy and three in the interior of the island. A special to the Constitution from Charlotte, N. C., says: "The South errt Railway has let a contract to the Oliver Company, of Knoxville, Tenn., for double-tracking the main line of the road between Charlotte and At lanta. The work is to begin bv Jan. 1st." ~ President Roosevelt received an enthusiastic reception from the Porto Ricffus, to whom he promised citizen ship, Fi>e of fourteen ice dealers indict ed for conspiracy in Philadelphia, en tered pleas virtually admitting their guilt afld were fined. Three men were killed and 14 in jured in the collapse of a new build ing at Rochester, N. Y. Secretary Honapartc on board a new warship declared a L'l-inch gun ?'"the best possible advocate of arbi tration." : Hr.rry Kj Thaw's trial may be be gan December Jl. K. II. Harriinan's Southern Pacif ic Railway shows gross earnings for three months of $28,671,714, with a probate annual total of $120,000,000. .. A McKeesport, (Pa.), negress' home v. as blown up with dynamite. Bishop John T. Tigert, of the Meth odist church, south, died from blood .poisonitijr caused by a chicken bone lodging in his throat. Thirty-five Filipinos are stranded in Newport News. Tli f? joint committer' ?.f Congress >?? working on its report <?n the new code of United States laws. A Commerce Commission bulletin shows that the net earnings of rail ways in the United States increased nearly 07,000,000 last year. Eight persons were killed and five thrown overboard by a collision of the liners Kaiser Wilheim der Grosse and Orinoco. * President Rqpsevelt is on the way from Uorto Rico to Hampton Roads. Germany will adopt the turbine a* the standard engine in her navy. President Roosevelt's automobile pot stuck in the mud in Porto Rico and a team of oxen was used to pull the Vehicle out. King Georgo of Greece arrived in Rome to visit King Victor Emmanuel. Threescore lives have been lost and nearly a score of vessels destroyed on the St. Lawrence reefs this year The Trans-Mississippi Congress adopted two Bryan resolutions. Prominent educators gathered at the University of Virginia to discuss education reform in the South. Republican leaders fear that the discharge of the negro troops will cause a division of the colored vote. United States railroads last year Joseph Smith, President of the Mormon Church, pleaded guilty to vnl awful cohabitation and was fined l $:ioo. Though the bid of the American Banknote Co. was if! 7,000 a year cheaper. Postmaster-General Cortel you awarded the contract for print ing postage stamps to the Bureau of Kngraving and Pcinting. A stay of proceedings in the Bav Shore Railroad receivership case was granted. I A big merger of railroad, steamship and lumber interests in Virginia and North Carolina was announced in Norfolk. Walter E. Finney, a young man, was arrested in New York on the charge of having caused a number of tenement, house fires and is said to have confessed. PRESENT RATE 4 TIMES Madden Recommends Increase In Newspaper Postage. Washington, Special. ? Third Assis tant Postmaster General Edwin C. Madden made an exceedingly import ant and highly ' revolutionary recom mendation to the Postal Commission just before it adjourned Tuesday Bveniug. lie recommends that news papers, periodicals and all other printed matter sent through the mails be charged postage at the rate of 4 cents a pound. 'Publishers who appeared before the commission declared that if this sug gestion is adopted the proposed 4-cent r?le would be prohibited. Mr. Mad den recommends the consolidation of llie second and third class mail mat inr and that everything in these two classes bt charged the 4-cent rate. The second class now includes news papers and periodicals, which are cli. 1 cent for each four ounces when tnnllcd by persons other than the publishers and 1 cent lor each pound when mailed by publishers or ilews agents. One cent for each two ounces is the rate on third class mat ter, winch includes circulars, books, engravings, lithograph1;, photographs, blank checks, dee-Is. insurance poli cies, vroof with manuscript, visitinv card>, business carls and other print ed matter not in the nature of person al cores|?ondence. On all of these Mr. Madden favor-, a rite of 4 cents a pound. *'l psopose as a remedy for the ex isting bad state of affairs," dee lured Mr. Madden, "as t-? this el'iss of mat ter t lr.it the rate b?: rased to 4 cents a pound. This is about 1-4 cent an oif.-i or fraction t" ope address, or 1 cent for each four ounces or frac tion one address i:i other words, 4 ceu'-s a )K>und. "if it be decided to letaiu the pres*. ent late or fix a ra'v less than 4 cents a pound, the;? ni.Uiifest.y there must Oe some restrictions, ami the se cond class will be retained and not ir.cir'td with the thivd class. OVER $300,000 TO EMPLOYES. 275 Share in Division of Marshall Field Legacy. Chicago, Special. ? Distribution of more than $300,000 left by the will of the late Marshall Field to 27"> faith ful employes who had seen long ser vice in the great house which he es tablished was practically completed today. Mr. Field left $200,000 for em ployes i-o named and $100,000 in a lump Mini to be distributed among others who had been in the servic.j 25 to -11 years. The names of the beneficiaries it decided, should not be made public. After much discussion a pro-rata scheme of distribution was decided on, with length of service and actual necessities as influencing factors. The provision that no person men tioned elsewhere in the will should participate in the distribution <>( the $100,000 fund refers to a few em ployes to whom was left more tlia.i $200,000. Of the*!-, Arthur A. .lon.-v for years private secretary of Mr. Feld, revived $10(1,000. Mr. Jones kept at ^rork anil is now a trusted man in the management of the Field estate. .lames Simpson, who went to work for Mr. Field at the age of IS and at less than 30 years old is assistant general manager, received $.'>0,000. Edward Movers, who sits at nn an cient desk in the wholesale house, re ceived $10,000. A. II. I lawxhurst, for years insurance manager for the firm, also received $10,000, as did Chapin A. Day, a confidential clerk. K. M. Hitchcock, head of the whole Bale shipping room, received $.">,000, and Hichard Malier, a driver, was re memberod with $3,000. Six Lives Lost in Fire. St. Louis, Special. ? The Light hmjsc Hotel, a three-story structure, on the northwest corner of Ninth and Market streets, utilized as a Salva tion Army barracks, was damaged by fire on Wednesday, when probab ly something like .">00 homeless ine.i were lodged within it. Six persons lost their liven and probably 3f> were injured, some not being expected to live. Four were burned to death and two died from the upper windowsetaoisnhrdluetain jumping from the upper windows. Two of the dead men have been iden tified as follows: Oscar F. Davis, Quincy, III., died at hospital; (Icorge D. Nose, died at hospital. Wabash R. R. Increases Wages. At Springfield, I. II., the Wabash Hail road has granted increases fioni $112 t<> $120 | xT month to conductors, from $">?? . . C> 1 per mouth tc pas singer hrakemcn and 4 cents an hour to yardmen. The increase went ink effect December ) Band Was Disarmed. Washington, 1). C., Special. ? Sec retary Taft received the following dispatch from Clovernor Magoon ut Havanna under. Sunday's date: "A band from Cicnfuges was over hauled by a retachment of rural guards under command of Captain Landa. They were taken into custody and disarmed with difficulty, and arc now being brought to Cicnfuges. 'flic band was comj>osed of 80 men." . Improve the Roadsides. We have always been la favor of good roads. We have devoted quit* a little space in these columns la advocating them. The Good Roads Magazine contains some good advlco recommending the improving of the country roadside which we reprint la full for the benefit of our readers: Now that the work of road con* str^ctlon is In full progress it seems a proper time to consider what to do with the roadside. The advastages of setting out trees along the high way, the planting of shrubbery and flowers, and the elimination of fea tures which do not tend to make at tractive, have been frequently dwelt upon In these columns. In some of the States the question is looked upon as much a part of the system as the roadbed Itself, and laws have been passed providing for planting trees and cutting noxious weeds, while in others the subject does not appear to have been given the con sideration it deserves. Many farm ers believe that nothing but grass should be allowed to grow along the roadside. The reason for this is. no doubt, due partly to the fact of their conservatism in following In the foot steps of their ancestors, ami this pre vents them from looking at the sub ject in any other light than that It is the proper thing to do to lunko a clean sweep of everything lu the shape of trees and shrubbery. Among their arguments are, thul the trees cause drifting during the winter sea son, and their shade produces a dampness In summer which in unde sirable. The building of macadam roads has materially changed condi tions. Trees do make moisture, and that is what is wanted to preserve and prolong the life of the stone road. The highways of France are noted for the beautiful trees along their sides, and tho French road builders recognize their value In af fording shade and moisture, the lat ter being considered an essential ele ment In maintenance. Fruit treos and. walnut or other nut-bearing trees can be made to yield a profitable in come, as well as to furnish shade and add beauty to the landscape. Flow ers In the yard close to the road side are always attractive. How to beautify the roadside is certainly a/ matter that cannot be given too care ful consideration. Autos Must Pay l'or Duxt. The awful dust clouds thrown up by tho automobiles is proving a strong argument against the ma chines in many places. It is com plained that the clouds of dust set tling on the trees, vegetables and shrubbery along the roadsides, near the cities, does great damage by fill ing the pores In the leaves of tho plants and checking their growth. Kven grass suffers for the same rea son. All have noticed how tho dust from iin auto will shut out. the view of objects for some disiauco on eith er side the road, and for several min utes after it has passed, hut we have not. at nil thought of tho effect of such a cloud upon the vegetation upon which it falls. It must be very serious. Nurserymen in sections* most affected by the auto dust pest are demanding damages, and they will probably get them, for there is no question but what they are dam aged. and the source of I he daniai?o is unquestionably the auto. Then the question will arise: Shall tho auto be compelled to run so slowly as not to raise the dust, or shall tho roads be coated with crude oil, as in California? It will not do to slack en the auto's speed, for that Is all tho machine is good for. If they must he run slowly we may as well rido behind horses. But If the roads must be sprayed with oil to lay the dust who must pay tho expenses? Wo suggest that tho expense be put on the autos. It Is on their account that the roads need spraying and but for them there would be no complaint and no suits for damage. Further more the auto people are the ones who enjoy the sport. Let those who dance pay the tiddler. The ma chines can run away from their own dust, but they ought to pay for tho privilege of the kicking up such a mess of It to blind and annoy and damage! everybody else. ? Indiana Farmer. Tarred Itoadn In Kuglnnd. Consul Albert llalstead forwards an article from Dirmiugham, Kng laiul, regarding the hygienic value of tarred roads. Koad painting with tar is described as follows: "The road is first thoroughly cleaned by dry sweeping, then roughly distilled tar is poured over It and spread evenly, after which j a 1 Is thrown on and the road is immediately ready for traffic. A fortnight or three weeks later a sec ond coating Is applied and In a short time the road has the appearance of an asphalt street. It appears, also, that a short stretch of road In Heckenham was treated with tar oil. which Is poured over again until the pores of tho road exude tho preparation. This tar oil, however, dries up quickly, does not mako an oily and nasty mess In wet weather and Is said to be much cheaper than tho tar process, but it requires more frequent renewal. A comparatively small quantity of tho material Is available, and this Is a difficulty In the way of Its general adoption." M