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c^o*3*o*o*c*o*o*o?o*o*o*o ?^*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*I ?s ' 1 p Ey KOWAR ?& *3* Copyright. 1901, b "1 Don t know," said Biair. "Astothe motive," continued the detective. "that's pretty dear now. Miss Miller has told about her marriage. She hasn't named the man. but you know him." "Yes." said Blair: "1 know him." He took up a very little bottle from the table and began to turn it idly in bis hands. "Now, then," said Elmendorf. "let's > recapitulate. The murderer was a man who knew of that scar." "Anybody might have seen that," rejoined Blair. "He know what It was," continued Elmendorf. "He also was a man who 1 iat the first stance believed that wound \ which he Lad Inflicted to be fatal. We conclude that he was a doctor." "Very pretty." said Iilair. "The individual subsequently tried to poison Miss Miller," said the detective, "and his way of doing it also bears out the theory that he was one who had a knowledge of medicine, lie knew just what poison to employ, and he guesses! that there would be some sort of food substance in the room into which the poison could be put Now, besides being a doctor, what was he?" "A scoundrel. I should say," replied Blair. "He was a man who could go in and out of Mrs. Simmons* house when he pleased." said Elinendorf. "He was not one who depended upon any Imperfect catch of a door. Perhaps he bad lived in the house and had never given up his key. Anyhow it is certain ***? ***> f/\ eon \Hce XfflloT* fit H Ilia l U*T CIH IV OW ?% ^ o'clock in the morning, an hour when most men would not think they had a right to call, but one who claimed to be her husband might. He saw that letter sticking out from under the door. He stole it. and be said after reading it, 'If i. not mine, then r.o man's.' He was a i murderer in his heart, then." I "You mean to imply." said Blair, j I "that he had been accustomed to go in and out of that house without ringing the bell; that he was her husband, though she would not see him except I when be presented himself at her door to plead and to be sent away, with his heart on fire. Well, 1 think that may be true." "Undoubtedly." said Elmendorf, "but who was the man?" There was a rap at the door, and Blair said "Excuse me" quite conventionally as he crossed the room to open It He exchanged some words with a servant and for a few seconds stood outside. Lut his left hand was always visible upon the door, as Elmendorf carefully noted. When he returned to his seat, he set-down the very small bottle upon the table. "I had reasoned so far early In the case," continued Elmendorf. "and had even made an experiment with a person who 1 I had suspected. 1 cut my hand anu let him bandage it, though that proved not to be necessary, for the man acquitted himself instantly by saying that I had cut 'an artery' when there was plainly no arterial bleeding. k?^?o_s.ay nothing of the location of the inf Jury. So he surely wasn't a doctor." "You seem to be quite an educated man," said Blair dreamily. "Have you learned anything in this life that would help you lead another If you had one?" "Very little, I'm afraid," said Elmen- I dorf; "but let us proceed. I had proved that the man was a doctor, and then came the* Philadelphia story. You know what happened over there. The husband ran out for a doctor. That floored me at first, and I had to think it out." "I was afraid she was poisoned," said Blair calmly, "and dared not be alone with her if she should die." "You!" exclaimed Elraendorf, rising. "You! Well"?and he sat down again ?"It doesn't surprise me!" "Y'ou came bore to get me." responded Blair. "I knew it as soon as you ! sat down there. I had no chance, j though sb? promised to shield me in return for my clearing 5Iiss Maclane. | She'd have done it anyway, of course. I That she had already proved. She was | i ashamed, ashamed, deadly ashamed. J and sick to the soul of her for having ever loved me. Well, it's all over. If ,.nn L-nnir irhnt Imnnpnorf in Phlln/lnl , ,wu o.iw - " * pbia. it only remained for you to tiud the New York doctor. lie's in Europe, however: left a week or more ago. Ilis name is Osborne. Any more in ssssss?$?sss?s?s?ss?^af <>o 0% F*fV* f" I wk\ . J. a 1 iL]ji\i^J y? C?' fc? #? ': Oc D FIELDING c!? ? a ix *, c*<*0 y Charles W. Hooke. G/ :o^ 0404C*oo r*ofO>?$o*?<K>f o? *+0^0e0*e*C*0*Q?C^>t>0v3<K)*0 : His left hand teas always x%ls!ble upon the dour. I formation I can give you. Mr. Elmendorf? It's all up. 1 might as well talk." "Why didn't you run?" demanded 1 Elmendorf. "1 staid to play the game out." re' plied Iilair. "There was money in j view, and 1 love money, my friend: j also I love life. How absurd, but ; I do?now that it's over! Think of it! And there isn't a man in New York this minute as wretched as 1 am. Why, I'd just heard from the hospital, and 1 was sitting there on that couch, staring at the pillow she made for me, thinking of the endless stitches and the love ?Elmendorf, she told me that every one of them was sewed with love for ris\r>c timf- cfw.lr in mv m?rwl? lilt". u u%? uvco uiui " ? ? Why couldn't I be straight? Well, well. I'm done for?done for!" Elmendorf eyed the man curiously. His face was flushed as if with fever, and his words were thickly uttered and hurried, as with delirium. "You didn't get the money?" said Elmendorf. "Money!" echoed Blair. "For the first time in my life I forgot that there was such a thing. I read that letter, as you guessed, and I was crazed. I knew she was holding her secret, and would put him off for shame, aud because she treasured up something he had said that frightened her?about some woman who ran away to 66 married. Well, I went there that afternoon: I talked with her. raved at her aud then?well, you know what happened. I thought every one would know I did it. We had had more meetings in the last few weeks than you'd believe possible," be rambled on, "but then nobody cares what his neighbor does here in New York. Our whole romance passed without notice. I was on the balcony when Robinsou came." "Did you know that he returned?" asked Elmendorf. "Returned?" "He left his cane in the room, got outside the house, got in again because the lock hadn't caught and entered the room, thinking that he had heard an answer to his knock. There was the money right on the table, and nobody in sight, you and Miss Miller being on the balcony between the windows. lie needed money, and he took it, and I traced it. The man's at headquarters now. He tried to skip, but he was shadowed at the time, as 1 knew ; and he didn't." "I thought Neale got the money," said Blair, starting as if from a doze. "Robinson will be released." said Elmendorf. "There'll be no complaint This whole case win lie covereu up. "Covered tip?" echoed Blair, and be laughed. "I'll be covered up? in my grave, and. by . Eluiendorf, I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Can you understand that?" "Don't die. then." said Elmendorf; "there's no need of It. I shan't trouble you. I could make a lot of money by letting you alone, and I'm going to do It for nothing, or, to be exact. I'm going to do it for Elsie Miller. You'll go scot free, Blair, you black hearted, lying brute!" Blair suddenly rose to his feet He seemed to be impossibly tall as he stood there with raised shoulders and clinched hands, staring down at Elmendorf. "Do you mean to say that you have not come here to take me?" he demanded. "That's what I mean," said Elmen dorr. "iou caii ^ucic ^uu ^ivuow, and you'd better go as fast as you cau. for Alden may be bere at any moment. Perhaps you have observed certain physical peculiarities of Mr. Alden? 1 seem to hear your bones crack. Blair, in his hands." Blair gave utterance to a terrible oath. "Do you know what I bave done?" he cried in a voice that sent a chill to Elmendorf s heart "Look here.'" He lifted the small bottle and then dashed it down to shivers. "I'm done for! I've taken enough of that to kill three men. No electric chairs for me. And now?I might have lived! I might have gone abroad. 1 | could have had money?found a new life; but I'm a dead man." He had wrenched open the door of a locker upon the wall, but at the last words he turned to launch a frightful curse at Elmendorf. "I may still save myself." he babbled. and there was a rattling of bottles in the cupboard. "This is it Great heavens! There is hardly enough. Bring me that water." i."jtr\ pnmnlr Vint hi? JL4:iiJi uuui t ouuu u iv v\?u.j/V, speed did not equal Illair's impatience, and the latter sprang forward so that tliey came together. There was a tinkling of glass upon the floor. I>!air sprang back, his face dripping and ghastly red with the poison. "It's all i have!" he cried. "It's my last chance! And you?you did it!" With incredible strength and suddenness he seized a heavy paperweight from the table and aimed a fearful blow at Elmendorf. The detective reeled for an instant and then fell face downward upon the floor, where lie lay perfectly still. Iflair glanced at him once, then rushed to a mirror near the window and stared at his own livid face. "There may be time!" he gasped, one hand clutching his breast "If I can got to a drug store"? lie seized liis hat instinctively and rushed to the door, through which he passed into the hall. "Dr. Flair," said a remembered voice. | "I must speak with you. Come back I witli me. Where is Eluiendurf? Have ! you seen him?" j Frantic, he tried to shake off the j hand that was on his arm. but the hand , was or iron, llo babbled unintelligible ! words. "Doiscn!" cried Alden. "Who is poisouodCome hack here to the light." And he thrust Blair into the olliee, practically carrying the man at arm's length. Utterly insane with the fear of death. Blair struck at his captor vainly and screamed like a ehild^^ Elmendorf was struggling to hf?feet as they entered, and Alden uttered a cry at the sighf of him. "Did he do this?" he exclaimed, pointing at Blair, whom he had released. Elmendorf pressed his hand upon his hair, which was wet with blood. "Yes." he said hoarsely; "this?and the other!" Alden paused an instant, the strength of his body gathering for effort. Then be leaped forward and seemed to pass half through, half over, the body of Blair, as if it had been a ghost in garments. Turning, he saw Blair lying upon the floor, his limbs contort<.,1 t.t? a/v kaamimx uiiiii 1 .<tii l-n k!a j ili^J liice iH'aiiu^ lutr uuiuioiaaauiv i stamp of death. Elmendorf staggered forward and knelt beside the body. "We're going to keep her secret." he said. "Her name must not appear in this. We must see what the man has In his pockets and in the room. Some of these fellows make strange memoranda." "Brenda has told -me the story." said Alden. "It could not be concealed. In fact, I had got so much from the nurse you bribed that the remainder mattered little. And this man was her husband, this cowardly wretch, this assassin of women!" "He was also an inventer of women," said Elmendorf. "And I never knew a shrewder trick." "Do you mean that he lied about seeing one?" "There was no mysterious woman j in the case," replied Elmendorf. "It | was a pure fiction and worthy of its } author. He was clever, and for a thor' ougbgoing scoundrel? Hello! What's I Kle.V | IUIO He had drawn a sheet of paper from ! Blair's pocket, and after a glance at it J he handed it to Alden. who read that ! Arthur Gordon Blair and Joseph Neale, ; captain of police, were equal partners. CHAPTER XX. THE ONI.Y THING THAT MATTERS. ^FIE document appeared to I)OSSOSS the power /r W jt\L of a spell, for while <^1 I held it In his I ^SG hands he heard one J]| heavy blow upon the door, and then Xcale i strode into the room, j "What's this?" he demanded. "Elmendorf, didn't I tell you to let this man alone?" "I'll let him alone now, captain." said j Elmendorf. "You can bury him. And ! see that you bury everything else too. j This whole case Is on the quiet. I can ; steer things at headquarters with a lit! tie money. Mr. Alden. and Joe Neale must take care of the precinct. This ; Is a mysterious suicide, Neale; due 1 probably to financial trouble or ill ! health. It has no relation to the case j of Miss Miller." "Since when did I take orders from | you?" cried Neale. "Since I got hold of this." replied Elmendorf, showing the partnership j agreement. "I know the whole game, 1 Neale. and you can't stand It just j now." "That's off anyhow," said Neale. with deep bitterness. "Duncan Maclane was too smart. He has got the Holbein company's option himself, for the gent who was to have been his son-iulaw, of course." And he bowed grotesquely to Alden. "Maclane smelled a rat after he had given up to Blair," he continued, "and so he stepped in ahead of us. And now, Elmeudorf, I'm willing to call this thing a draw on your terms. I'll attend to matters here strictly on the quiet, and you take care of your own end of it as well as you can. Is it a go?" "it is." renlied the detective. "As soon as I got my head patched up I'll I go down to headquarters and get Robinson out or start things moving that way. And you. Mr. Alden?" "I am going back to St. Winifred's,'' was the reply. When Alden reached the hospital, he went at once to Kendall's room, from which place he sent word of his arrival. Both the doctor and Breida presently joined him. "I think the danger is all over," said Kendall, taking Alden's hand. "This last attack of faintness was to be expected; but I do not look for any recurrence. But how is it with you7 Something serious has happened?" Alden told them simply and directly just what had occurred. "She is free, then7" exclaimed Brenda. "Yes, and partly by my hand," he re plied. "Brenda. 1 am glad of it. 1 am glad to have been concerned in that man's death. 1 am more than half a savage. From the first instant, when I learned that Elsie had been struck down, 1 had scarcely more than one idea, one passion?the desire for vengeance. I wanted to kill with my own hands the man who had done this thing. All softer feelings were swallowed up in that one desire." "It produced a singular effect." said Kendall, with a shudder. "You mean that 1 seemed to bo guilty of this crime?" said Alden calmly "Well, there was murderJp my heart at the time, you see.^fcd 1 cannot blame any who misju^kd me. And 1 J< now, Brenda," he said, drawing hlui self up and clinching his white and del lcate hands that gave so little hint o their enormous strength, "1 am glat that I can go to her and tell her thn he is dead; that that dreadful night tnaie of the past need not hang ovei her; that all these horrors"? "My friend." said Brenda. cbeckin; him. "you wiil do nothing of the kind.' lie asked her in surprise what sin might mean. "You wiil utter no such violent sent! mcnts." she said. "Elsie believes her self a sinner. She looks upon that follj as if it were a terrible offense, and what Is much more important, she be lieves that you will so regard It. Sin thinks that you will look upon her as : girl disgraced by her own act ant saved by chance. The whole mattei has assumed a shape utterly monstrous In her eyes. Now. what will you dothank God In her presence that th< dreadful drama closed with your hands upon Blair's throat? Never, never You will ae very gentle always. Yoi will say to her in the beginning thai you love her dearly and that nothinj else matters in the least. You wll speak as little as possible of this tan gle of crime. It is not important. D< you comprehend? Love Is what mat ters. Throughout these first difflcul days and for all your life you will d< the same thing. You will help her t< forget that such men as Blair are ii the world; that she ever met one o them. It won't be a forbidden topic Oh. far from that: merely a matter no worth brooding over in a world full o sunshine and love." "Bren la," said he. "this is the flowe of wisdom. I think I might havi erred in a way that would have takei a long time to set right Can I see be now ?" "I think you can." said Ivendall"now." And with the last word he looke< at Brenda. Aldcn understood. "I shall be all you wish me to be.1 he said. So they went to Elsie's room, Aldei lingering until the way was prepare* for him. He entered smiling and hand some In the way of the days before He knelt down beside Elsie's bed an< -/ 'THmfa thlofl* bo r?rimnn rl In the gentlest way let her know tha her secret had come into his keepinj and that he had forgotten it again Then he told her that she was free but not with any words to picture th horror of the last scene. The man ha< died by his own hand, as it was bes he should. "But still this story, Clarence?thin! of it!" she said. "It is bound to b< told." "My child," said he gently, "if yoi are my wife and are received by ttv Maclanes and a few other peopl whom I know"? "Including the Kendalls," sai< Brenda. "Don't forget them." "Xo," said the doctor, "that wouldn' do at all. Why, a dozen years ago when the phrase 'the Four Hundred was first heard, an old dowager of m; tribe protested against it 'Four hun dred indeed!' cried she. 'Why, ther are more than 400 Kendalls!' S< there's the size of your clan, llttl girl." "So only love matters," said Alden still upon bis knees. "Is not tba true?" Elsie was silent for a moment Thei she suddenly opened tbe band tba Alden wasn't holding and showe< him something wbicb bad been claspe< In it. "Do you recognize it?" sbe said "I've kept it all the time." "My message that I sent the firs night you were here," he exclaimed taking it. "The mysterious message.*" sal< Brenda. "You may read it if you like." sale Aldcn, giving her the paper. "Elsie ii willing." "Walt!" cried Elsie. "You may reae It if you will give It to Dr. Kendal afterward." "That will be no more than ordinar: politeness," said Brenda, glancing a the paper; "only three words?'I lov< you.' " And she put the little missive Int< Kendall's hand. The arrangements of Captain Neal< and Detective Elmendorf aceomplishet a beautifully complete suppression o the news in the case, aud the latter re ceived t lie sincere thanks of Alden who spoke for all others concerned There might have been other consider ations than mere thanks; but, in tin detective's opinion, the time was no ripe for corruption. About a week later Alden was sur prised to meet Elmendorf in a car o the elevated road dressed in a patrol man's uniform. "Back to the ranks." said Elmendor gloomily "Neale's pull has tinally go me. The 'front office' expressed regret I don't know whv." I? * ? "Resign," said Aldeir. "I want you f with me. 'My deal has gone through in I great shape. I can put yoo In the way II of making money." "Nobody can do that." said Elmenr dorf. "I wasn't born for it." Alden did not reply in words, but he r fastened a grip on Elmendorf's arm | that couldn't have been loosened without a major surgical operation and led him out of the train despite his protests on the ground of duty. They went to Alden's office, and when they left it i "the force" had lost an excellent officer ! and really able detective. ! THE END. LA30R WORLD. Ball way clerks have organized a union at New Ilaveu, Conu. Teachers at Toledo, Ohio, have re ceived an increase in salaries. Ten per cent, of English trade union shipbuilders are out of work. At Canandaigita, N. Y., laborers are very scarce, in spite of oilers of ?2.50 n day. Briiish coal mining industries show increased employment of 1.5 per cent, aver that of a year ago. Glass trades have improved some' what in England, the men being better " ciupjoyeu mau a year ago. 5 Striking telephone linemen at Now 1 Orleans, La., have lost their strike, f the men accepting the terms offered. - It lias been announced by the printt ors at Portland, Me., that a nine-hour f ilay will go into effect on January 1. A number of Paris (France) theatre r and music hall managers have yielded e to the demands of the striking musii cians. r The new wage contract of the broommakers in Milwaukee, Wis., has been _ signed by all of the seven shops in which it was presented, j Retal clerks at Aberdeen. Wash., organized a union some time ago. The ? first step has been nu agitation for early closing, with every prospect of success. * 3 , Plasterers at Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn., will enforce a demand, made some time ago, for an eight-hour !* day. The demand will likely be ac^ ceded to. An increase in dock and riverside ! labor has recently been shown in London, England, but there are still 2000 less employed at present than at this time last year. Tennessee miners at Whitwell and Tracy City have signed a wage scale for the ensuing year. The coal diggers get no advance, but the day laborers get a uniform advance of thirteen per cent. PROMINENT. PEOPLE. King Edward is to visit i- rancc tins I winter The Duke of Portland is said to bo the tallest mau in England. The Shah of Persia is one of the finj ?st chess players in the world. The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the relebrated Wesleyau preacher, died suddenly in London Oeorge A. Henty. correspondent and author, died on hoard his yacht at Weymouth, England. During the past two years Henry C. Friek, of Piltsburg, has bought over $2,000,000 wortli of real estate, t Lord Kitchener visited the Nile dam j. af the Assouan reservoir the other day ! ind expressed great admiration for the work. * TaKh C ftoriwnt tlio nnrlrnif nn inter. . will soon leave London for tlio United States to paint a portrait of President 1 Roosevelt. The Sultan has made the Russian ? Emperof a present of two large porcee lain vases and a tea service made in his factory. a General Stewart, the new Conib mander-in-Chief of the G. A. It., is only e lifty-four. and enlisted as a drummer boy in the Federal Army 3 The German Emperor has confeired on the Earl of Lonsdale, whom he t visited while in England, the Order of ,t the Prussian Crown of the First Class I' Cardinal Vaughau, since the death of p his uncle, the Bishop of Plymouth, is, in order of consecration, the oldest c member of the Roman Hierarchy in Emrland. 0 * e Madame Melba has been singing to crowded and enthusiastic audiences in Melbourne. The whole proceeds of her ' concerts she devotes to charitable In1 stitution.*. At a recent audience the King of 1 Siam expressed to Commissioner Bart rett, of the St. Louis Exposition, his 1 great pleasure at the reception acj corded the Crown Prince in the United States. Under the Guillotine, t There is a story of a ghastly quarter , of an hour once passed by a young Parisian who wandered into the Cham1 ber of Horrors at a wax works show in London. Finding himself alone, he 1 was seized with an inspiration. What s a glorious thing to put his neck under the guillotine where had rested the 1 neck of Marie Antoinette! He la' 1 down, touched a spring and closed the collar, but how was he to release hiaiF self? If he touched the wrong spring 1 the fatal axe might descend. Unable 2 to speak a word of English, he yelled I lustily for help in French, anl before 5 j long a crowd of visitors led by an at I tendant came on the scene. The guide j was a bit of a linguist and saw an op b I portunity with himself as maste- c 1 ! the situation. He at once began s f practical lecture on the guillotine, in j terpreting his remarks with littlf asides in French to the indignant v'c | tim, asking him to scream louder o: " writhe more agonizingly. "How wcl.' he acts?" exclaimed the gratified oti 1 lookers. Finally the Parisian was -e leased and, answering the applaus; *' with maledictions, fled, leaving his ha{ behind him.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch M Scott entered the fair realm of Uttj erature at twenty-five. At thirty-four . j he was the most popular poet of the j day. _ ?1?111P W&& Farmer* and CoimI lloncV." THE advocates of good roads avill 11 nd plenty of arguments In th? recent report of tlie Industrial Commission on the marketing and distribution of farming products. This report shows the value of good country roads and the Immense saving that could be effected through them. It also furnishes arguments in favor of the construction of electric lines through the farming sections of the country, no:: only for the hauling of passengers, but for tbe hauling of freight. The report shows that the cost of hauling farm products over country roads is $900,000,000 a year, or more than the entire cost of operating all tbe railways in the United States. The total operating expenses of railroads is estimated at only $18,000,000 annually. The average haul to the nearest shipping station in the transportation of farm products is twelve miles, and the average cost is twenty-five cents a ton a mile, or $3 a ton for the twelve miles. By comparing this ton mile cost with the average ton mile revenue of the railroads in the country, which amounts to seven mills a mile, the immense opportunity for saving that would be effected through good roads may readily be seen. If farm products could be hauled to market at seven mills a ton mile, as is the case with railway traffic, the entire charge for transportation would be less than $26.000,000, as compared with the $900,000,000 it costs the farmers to haul their products over ordinary roads. The building of good roads and the construction of electric lines will mean an enormous saving to the farming classes. Some of the advocates of good roads believe that the two could be constructed jointly, as the cost would be proportionately less for the building of good wagon roads, which could also be used for electric railways. These m * * ???a j v. _ eiecmc railways cuuiu ue i-uuduulicu through those sections of the farming community which would offer the best possibilities in the way of freight and passenger traffic returns,, and wagon roads could be built connecting these with all sections of the country. The farmer who did not lire on the direct line of an electric railway could haul his freight to the nearest point, where .. it could be quickly transferred to an * electric train. That this possibility is fully realized by the builders of electric railways Is . shown by the rapid development that these lines are making as freight car riers. Throughout tne country xney are extending their lines Into new territory and standardizing equipment and roadbeds in order to provide for the hauling of the heaviest freight. It Is said by James J. Hill that trunk lines as at present constituted are capable of handling from three to Ave times the amount of traffic they now carry. To parallel existing lines would, there* fore, be impracticable and unprofitable.. Leaving out of consideration the almost insurmountable difficulties the new companies would encounter in attempting to secure suitable right of way with adequate terminals iu any of the larger cities, it is certain that no banking house would consider for a moment the underwriting of the securities of any proposed company paralleling existing lines. ' * Tlx* fipid of the electric railway is not in paralleling, but in supplementing, the steam railroad systems of the country. It has been pointed out in the Commercial that electric railways have materially lessened the number of passengers carried by steam railways, and that more and more of the short haul passenger business is going to the more cheaply constructed and more cheaply operated electric lines. This competition is welcomed by the steam railways. A cimilar situation exists in regard to freight traffic. The steam railroads of the nited States would welcome any addition to transportation facilities which would result in the centralizing of traffic at shipping points by a more economical method than the present cumbersome one of hauling it in wagons .over country roads. Electric railways can be made feeders for the steam railroads, and If built with due regard to the avoiding of competition they "will supplement and increase the traffic of the steam railways without in any way interfering with the earnings of the latter.?New York Commercial Advertiser. Should Set an Example. New Yorkers want good roads and good canals aplenty. The thoroughfares on land should be numerous and well constructed, firm and safe, strong and spacious, while the thoroughfares of the water should be broad and deep. The Empire State should set a magnificent example to every other commonwealth in its highways of travel and traffic, both on the solid earth and In the water channels, of trade. ? New York Tribune. Cost Twice as Great. It has been demonstrated that the cost of power in operating automobiles is twice as great in traveling over rough roads as over smooth ones. Still this is no reason why the improvement of the public highways should not be continued.?Kansas City Star. Poor Economy. Great loss has often been occasioned through temporary and unskilful fixing of roads and the erection of flimsy and Insufficient culverts and bridges. It is poor economy to erect anything bat permanent structures, built to last and stand the severest testa. ... i .::M