A MURDERAndrew Lang on

Countess

From The Londc

The best true story of a mysteriousmurder is that of the Countess GoerlJtz(1847). It was published twentyyears ago by Mr. Baring-Gould, butis by the world forgot. Count Goerlitz,was, in 1847, a man of forty-six.He had married, at nineteen ( 1820),a very disagreeable heiress, who

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poverty, but who had made a will in

his favor. On Sunday, June 13, 1S47,the Count drove in his carriage, at

3 p. m., to dine with the Grand Dukeof Hesse. In a manner ratherHomeric than modern he took some

sweets from the dessert for his wifeand drove home to his house at halfpast6. The footman, Stauff, reportedthat the lady was at home. TheCount went upstairs, found a glassdoor leading to her anteroom locked(they had separate suites of rooms),and retired to his own room till halfpast7, when he took a walk till 8.45.Returning, he asked Stauff to bid .theCountess join him at supper, but was

told that she had gone out. He didnot believe it, but looked for his wifein her dressing room and bedroom,but had no key to the locked anteroomand drawing room. The restof the house he drew blank, but inn'oco nf fnrrine the elass door of theanteroom he sent out to make inquiries,to no avail.

After some difficulty he found a

locksmith's apprentice, who could not

©pen the anteroom, but (about 10p. m., it seems) did notice a smell ofburning. At 10.30 they broke the

glass of the anteroom door (theCount's valet did that), and smokefrom a stove rushed out. The Countdid not force the door; he sent one

servant for a doctor and another fora, chimney sweep! Time passed, thedoor laughed at locksmiths, but atlast the aprentice.of his own motion.burstit open with a hammer,for the Count would do nothing so

violent. Much black smoke rushedout. The bold apprentice, climbingto the anteroom window by a ladder,broke it and pulled down the burningcurtains. They now burst open the

. Hranfino rnnm rionr. found the room

on fire and the Countess lying deadbefore her burning bureau. On one

ot her feet was a shoe; the other was

later found in an adjoining boudoir.The sofa was more or less burned,the bell rope had been pulled down,but nobody ever asked if the bell hadbeen heard. A corner seat in thebureau had been burned; the fire was

very "local." The keys of the locked'doors were never found.

There were three explanatory hypotheses.1. The Counsess had-caught fire at her bureau, perhapswhile sealing a letter. If so, she had;sought repose on the burned sofa andcorner seat. 2 (medical). It was a

case of spontaneous combustion! 3.'It was a murder. The. magistratespreferred accidental burning; thepublic fixed on the Count as the murderer;they always do. He had motives,opportunity and he had delayed-the researches. He demanded new inquiries,but little came of them till inAugust, 184S, .the corpse was ex'humed and examined. It was foundthat the lady's skull had been frac-tured, atod that she had also been

v strangled. She had been murdered,had been burned, and the chairs andsofa had the marks of her bloodburned out of them. She had thenbeen placed near her bureau and thathad been set on fire. Black smokehad been seen rushing from the chimneyat 8 on the fatal evening. Now,the Count had left his house at halfpast7, and did not return till about9; there was evidence for these facts.Consequently, if he did fracture hiswife's skull and strangle her beforehalf-past 7, he certainly did not burnh r at 8.05.8.25, when the smokewas seen issuing black and densefrom the chimney.that is, unless heentered his house, unseen, about 8,and later went out and returnedagain. It was improbable that hewould delegate the fire to an accomantha Pnnnt'c nv\ co XL'Q c Tier.

ceptibly brighter.Now, who was in the houss when

the Count was absent, from half-past7 to a quarter to 9 that Sundaynight? The magistrates, true to theirtheory of accidental death, had apparentlymade no inquiries in June,1847. But the Count's demands foran inquiry in November, 1847, hadled to something.indeed, had verynearly led to the death of this nobleman.On November 3, 1S47, therewas to be an official inquiry by hisrequest, at his house, and among hisdomestics. At 3 o'clock on November2. the cook was busy in herkitchen when StaufT came in andasked her to light fires In the upperrooms. She declined, and went on

with her work. Stauff suggested toher that a plate needed washing, andwhile she washed it he stirred thesauce in a pan. She turned her head,and observed Stauff pouring dropsfrom a phial into the sauce. Shequestioned him, he denied the charge,and she pretended to be satisfied.When he left the kitchen she tastedthe sauce and did not like it; moreover,it was of a strange color. Shesent for the family doctor who, on

analysis, detected fifteen and one-halfgrains of verdigris, enough to poisona man. Stauff was then incarcerated,but only on a charge of intending topoison hia master. His idea was

that if the Count died of poison, on

the eve of the arrival of the officialinquirer, the cynical public would infprthat the rlf^ath bv verdisris was

suicide, the nobleman being unable toface research. The Due de Praslin(the mysterious Spectre of the Catacombsin Hawthorne's "Transformation")poisoned himself after murderingthe Duchess. The public, however,held that he had really escapedto the Catacombs, where he lodgedand haunted Miriam.that is, hisEnglish governess, in whom, througha pretty girl, no guilt had been found.This, however, is a digression.We have observed that the Count's

position was sensibly improved when

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Stauff was arrested for trying to polsou him. But to the SherlociHolmeses of Germany the Count*case probably looked blacker tha:ever. What more probable than thathe Count was guilty, that Staulknew damaging evidence against himand that the Count had induced thcook to put poison in the pot, am

then say that she saw Stauff introduce the baneful drug? The Counbeing an aristocrat and Stauff "a mai

of the people" (as Homer says in hidisdainful way), the people must cer

tainly have argued on these lines.It had come out as slowly as every

thing else in these distant days, thathe jewels of the Countess had beeistolen from her bureau. The Counsai,d that, in his grief, he had neve

thought of noticing this circumstancePerhaps a son of the people mlghhave taken the jewels, but the Counwas no less likely to have done s

as a blind, for who could suspect a;

aristocrat of a petty theft? ThuStauff and the Count were almosequal favorites for the verdict o

guilty, the intelligent public layingshade of odds on the Count.

Not for years were the inquiriemade that should have been made i:June, 1847. It then came out thathe cook was also the CountesE"suivante," or "femme de chambre.she doubled the parts. On thfatal day the Countess had gone intthe kitchen at 2 p. m. and .told thcook and "femme de chambre" thashe might take a holiday till 9 p. re

At 3.30 the Count's valet had see;

the Countess in the laundry "hanginout the clothes" for the mangleFrom 3.30 to 4.15 and from 4.30 t5.30 the Countess and Stauff weralone in the house. At 6.30 thCountess did not answer the Count'knock. She was probably murdereibetween 4.30 and 5.30. She wa

burned while the Count was out, am

Stauff was in between 7.30 and £Stauff was, at last, examined, and ac

counted, for his time through thwhole day. From 8 to 9.30 he wa

in a restaurant, but here he was no

corroborated. The Count might havdone the crime at 6.30, when he sailthat he could not get into the anteroom, returned at S when Stauff wen

out, lighted the fires and gone ou

again, and returned a little beforeo'clock, when Stauff appears to havbeen in the house, though perhaps hreturned a little later.The truth came out when Stauff*

brother was found selling jewels, ama lump of molten gold. The jewelV* o A K /*vl rrr\A 4-/v + V» c\TUdU UUIUilgCU vu iuc VUUUlWiJ. Xi

March-April, 1849, Stauff was trie*at last and found guilty on all thcounts. He made a confession, tryimto prove that his guilt was unpremeditated. The Countess had foumhim stealing her jewels, and to prevent her from calling out he had accidentally strangled her. When thCount went out at 7.30, Stauff ha*done all the burnings. These wer

"attenuating circumstances," and i:1872 he received a pardon on condition that he settled in America, wherhe is not known to have become onof the most remarkable men of thcountry. Had he not made the ex

periment with the poison the Count*memory might still be under a cloudfor certainly nobody ever did more tmake himself appear guilty than thavery stupid gentleman.

Canuda and Her Unproductive AreasThe annual report of the Canadia

Pacific Railway for the year endinJune 30, 1909, presented at the annual meeting on October 6, has an inlerebiiiig SLaicwuiLi m regaru tu LUCI

tareatment and subsequent sale o

desert areas. The directors set aparabout 995,000 acres, called the "westem block," of which 353,000 are iirigable and over which canals an

ditches have been dug. Of this lane69,963 acres have been sold at a

average price of $24.71 an acre. Thremaining sales of land, amountinfor the year to about 300,000 acre:brought only an average of $10.96 a

acre. The experiment has been ssuccessful in opening up a very largbody of land which would otherwisbe unproductive of traffic that thdirectors are considering the advisibilitv of extending the irrigation system to another block of about 1,000000 acres..Daily Consular Reports.

THE INDITheir Idea of It is the 1

Which 1It is a common notion that th

Indian has no idea of home becaushe is always moving as the seaso

and the game may call him. There jadded to this reason for the beliethe fact that in the Indian languageno word is found by which to rendeour word "home." Mrs. Riggs writeto the American Missionary Associstion on this point:

"It seems to me that the Indiatdo have some of the ideas of hom<To them as a nomadic people perhafno particular place was home, but thwhole country through which theroamed was home."Some years ago I was travelin

with an Indian woman. Her earlhome had been in -Minnesota, out sn

had been among those who, after thoutbreak of '62, had gone to e^sterDakota, and when I first went intthe mission work she had come Weito the Missouri River to help us iour work there.

"On this journey, as we traveleinto Minnesota, one after another c

the landmarks were recognized Lher. and her reminiscences cam

quick and vivid. Here was SleepEye, named by her grandfathewhere they forded the river; theiwas where they hunted for gamethere where they gathered the wilrice.

" 'Ah,' she said, 'Minnesota isbeautiful country.so different fro]Dakota!'

Ifg®?' .(^.11\(u==^nas jGreat Britain has 1500 kinds of

apples.

[- It is said that sunlight is a cure forIt influenza epidemics.s ,

a At last reports there were G1.1D8t postoffices in this country.* 'Ii, The Turkish turban contains abouie twenty yards of material.i- Fast freight line service of thist country.uses 32,000 cars.ti

s One town in Spain has one hunch- <- back to every thirteen inhabitants. j

1The annual supply of water to T

t London, England, is 82,125,000,000 ta gallons. jt tr The flour mills of Minneapolis ai. grind 120,000,000 bushels of wheatt every year.

o The Government Printing Office, inq Washington, D. C., employs over

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s 4000 persons.®

.tf Each of the British Dreadnoughts ®

a has a hospital with a capacity forsixty patients.

n In the course of his aeronautical,t experiments M. Bleriot has met withi' fifty accidents.

e Of the Philippine Islands the one

o which probably has the most producetive soil is Mindanao.t

The act approving the admission ofn the State of West Virginia as the

g thirty-fifth State, to the Union,passed Congress December 31, 1861,

o to take effect June 30, 1863.e Ie Glass water pipes covered withs asphalt have been in use for a- longtj time in some parts of Germany withs success. They give thorough protecdtion against the entrance of gases andl# acids.

e Los Angeles has a school in whichs meals are served for one cent; that Is,

to the pupils, and they get a big, E® brimming bowl of a thick, delicious *

soup, with two cold buns, all for their E"

penny. The idea has also been used e

in one of the schools at Ann Arbor; d* Mich., with great success. j 8

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The new tariff bill introduced to tmost people the word quebracho, the

^s extract used in tanning hides* In^ Paraguay and Argentina this is a

g large industry, there being thousandsQ

n of square miles of the quebrachC^ tree. Such land is valued at from °

e $3000 a square league upward. Que-bracho logs are also used for railwayties.

dThere has juBt been unearthed

from the River Annan, near Lock- jeerbie, a relic of early BrLtain in thed shape a canoe in a wonderfully goode state of preservation. It is of a typen known as dugouts, the material be-

ing the trunk of a black oak tree,« about twelve feet long, rudely shapede and hollowed out..London Stand- }e ard.

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I iVomen Harvest Crops Wen.0 Many hundreds of women assistedt in gathering the harvest around

Beatrice, Neb. They were lured .tothe fields by the offer of board and

. $3 a day. A farmer went intoBeatrice looking for farm hands,Loungers in the town refused to

B tvr»T»lr onH tho formor Vi o rl + r\ fo onl~ possibility of losing part of his crop.l" He went into a restaurant, and whenr waiting to be served was struck with

the idea of bidding for the waitressesas harvesters. He offered them $3 a

day, and every waitress threw aside~

her apron and went to the farm.They did such efficient work that

' other farmers sought women, andn they drew school teachers, stenogra-e phers and college girls as well..New8 York Press.3,n %

0 Lesson in Patience.:e "Patience will accomplish any-;e thing. You can even carry water in,e- a sieve, if you wait long enough."l- "Is that so? Say, how long would>- I have to wait to do that?"

"Till it gets cold euough for thewater to freeze.".Cleveland Leader,

A.NS' HOME. !Whole Country Through ! *

'hey Roam. 1(3

e "Homesick longing was in her vie voice. Minnesota was home to her, En even after all those years. ris "The children of a missionary fam- jf, ily went away to school, and when t»s they came back for vacation, one af- E;r ter another spoke of how pleasant it \js was to be at home, or how sorry they (l- were for other boys and girls who did

not have such a home. The mother,is who had been silent all this while ass. to her own feelings, finally gave word a>s to them, and told how she had longed (ie for a better home for them. Theyy were almost too much astonished to

reply, but at last the little girl of theg family went and put her arms round,y her mother, and said, 'Why, mother,,e you are home!'ie "I fancy something of this feelingr» nroo Vi n A U*r o ^1/1 T.aj nao Jiau uj tx nine cai-uiu in-

;o dian girl who came to Oahe School.st She had said good-by to her parentsn without any show of emotion. She

was very fearless, very friendly withd the teachers, very much iuterested in)f all the new things she saw, but as

>y the day wore away and the eveningie came on, she came and stood by me

iy as I sat sewing. I was the only one

r, who could talk Dakotah to her. Ie looked up at her and saw the tears»; welling up in her eyes, and I said,d 'Why, Maisie, what is the matter?' j

"She answered, sobbing. 'I won'ta see my mother for a long time!'a "Poor little homesick soul! Moth- f I

er meant home to her." *i

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The Old Manor 1

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The old Manor Hall Is the pride of tvas built In 1682 by Frederick Philips5hilipsburg. It was completed by theThe building remaiaed in the possessionvhen because* of the toryism of the Fihird Lord of the Manor.it was confisci»Iew York. It was used by private famileen the City Hall of Yonkers. The oldmd is a perfect specimen of Colonial arc

New Fire Escape. otPossibly the Iowa woman who was se

ne of the joint inventors of the Arescape shown in the illustration once P1rled to slide down the old-fashioned le,nd primitive rope escape and realzedthe crying need for an improve-

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. ': Iaent. However that may be, she andLer co-inventor have devised an ap>aratuswhich is very simple andqually effective. This consists of a

Irum, which resembles a huge spool,nd which is suspended from the winlowledge, having a long straight clHco for fineraeement with the wall.

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ground this drum one whole turn of A1

cable Is taken, one end of the cable V

.the end near the window.having ^

seat attached. When the fire breaksut .the person in the room climbs outver the window ledge, thrusts one teeg over the seat, and, grasping the ya

THE CHURCH MILIT

AN ATTACK BY BRIGAND

A Russian correspondent writes:he Monastery of Luganski, in the Ekaiffair, though the Russian press gave £cvord of comment, that among the dead 1i Cossack in uniform! Attracted by thejossessed by the monks, the brigands inzed attack on the monastery, which hasnonks, who have a plentiful supply of ar

tallying out and engaging the enemy at

astlng a good hour, took place, and fingraphic.

Folding Sled. e\

Scientific sledding promises to be gii fashionable pastime in this country nc

n the near future, just as it is in h*t ... » at

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>oine of the countries o£ Europe,here national contests are held ai

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;he city of Yonkers. The front partie, the first Lord of the Manor ofaddition of the back part Hi 1745.i of the Phllips9 family until 1779,redbrick Philipse of that day.theited by an act of the Legislature ofHies until 1868. Since 1872 it has jstructure has had the best of care

hitecture.

:her end of the cable, lowers him-If or herself gently to the ground. 1tie turn of the cable over the drum (

events the rope from slipping and .

tting the seat down except as theack is paid out..Washington Star.

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Fop the Kitchen.A tiny box cabinet, supportedjalnst the wall by brackets, as

lown. 3

There are three drawers. Thergest &ne is for the housewife's 1

ols.hammer, screw driver, smallw and tack puller, and numerousher small tools, which a housewife 1

ay require, also an assortment oflils, screws, tacks, etc. One smallawer Is for twine, thread and rolls 1

linen and othei- emergency sup- 1

ies.The third drawer I use for grocerylis, also for small change, which Ijed when small articles are brought '

the door for which I must pay cash.

V..bove the cabinet hangs pad and penIfor memoranda, and a pair olears for clipping strings of parcels,ay housekeeper can realize the convenesof an article of this sort..iss L. E. Hennessey, in Epitomist.

In order to construct the Manchesrship canal over 51,000,000 cubicrds had to be excavated.

ANT IN RUSSIA.

|s ON A MONASTERY. j'The recent attack by brigands on

terinoslav district, was an exciting 5

iv details beyond stating, without a'

bandits were a rural policeman and '

s great treasure and valuable ikonsthe dead of night made an organavery solitary position. The agedms, made a stout resistance, boldly |close quarters. A veritable battle,ally the Church triumphed.".The '

rery year. These events attracieat attention, and the entrants are

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it children, but men and women whcive given the sport a great deal oitention, practicing and training foi *

eeks in advance. This has .liven J1 impetus to the sled business, andiveral new forms have been recentlytroduced. One of the novelties isfolding sled, which can be readilyirried under the arm wlxen it is deredto take it from one point tc !lother. The method of constructscieariy snown in me cut, wmcii pre-;nts a bottom view of the sled, witt '

ie runners folded back on the undei ]de of the seat board. The runners-e made,of steel rods, which are

amped to the wooden top in a mansrthat permits them to be easilj>lded. When in upright positione legs are held by adjustable bracesnotable feature of the design usedthis construction is the clear openigbetween the runners, which offers

3 obstruction to the snow. I,

Hindoos are displacing the Japlesein some California orchards. !

CSES OF THE EUCALYPTUS.

They Range From Timber to CoughDrops.Only the Bark Wasted Now.Since the introduction of the eucalyptusinto California from Australia

Its friends have been trying to pushIts cultivation by making known themany uses to which it may be put.It is declared that eucalyptus wood is3uited to all purposes for which hardwoodsare used.

Barring the countless other uses

to which it is adapted, as a means toreimburse the forest supply alcmeeucalyptus is invaluable to the country,it is asserted. Then the eucalyptusIs valuable in windbreaks fororchards and dwellings, for .land reclamation,for conservation of water,Improvement of climate and as naturalantitoxins to malarial germs.The beauty of the grain, the color

and the texture of eucalyptus, rivallingmany specie^ of oak, has led tpits popularity as k furniture product.Offices and residences have beenfinished with the wood, and cabinetmakers and wood workers throughoutthe country have been led to make ajractical study of the eucalyptus woodas a finishing product.Much of the fuel consumed in Californiais eucalyptus wood, which reballsat from $10 to $14 a California

cord. For fuel the fastest growingvarieties are planted. Of the kindsplanted for other purposes the weaklfwiKaon<4 /r*rncfa oi*a nfUU& LI CCO| 111UUO auu na0bg aivi uui[zedas firewood.

It house construction, mining timber,flooring and street paving eucalyptushas assumed importance, andfor miscellaneous uses, for posts, telegraphpoles, railroad ties, piles,aridge timber, wagon tongues, spokes,handles for implements and tools,logs for corduroy roads and insulatoipins the popularity of eucalyptus isgrowing. iEucalyptus blossoms yield profit to

the beekeepers. An oil is distilledfrom the leaves and is used as a compoundfor many medicines. An extractfrom the leaves forms thefoundation for cough syrups. Thejuds are used in making portieres and30uvenirs.

Efforts are-being made to find ause for every portion of the eucalyptustree.even for the bark, whichso far is waste..New York Sun.

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, Identified by Veins.The finger-print method of the

Bertillon measurement system ofIdentifying suspected criminals isprobably to be supplanted'by photographedrecords of the back of thehand. Cases have been reportedwhere clever malefactors have deceivedpolice officials by scarring andllsfiguring th6 tip? of their fingersind thereby rendering detection from:hat source impossible.ine neiworK 01 veins on tne ua.cn.

jf the hand is different in every person,and by means of these Individualconfigurations infallible marks ofidentification are furnished. With>utdanger of fatal injury it is impossibleto mutilate these veins bysranding or otherwise disfiguring:he flesh of *he hand. By allowing:he hand to hang loosely, or by stoppingthe circulation of the blood fori few moments with a ligature about:he wrist, tbe veins will stand outprominently on the back of the handind may be then clearly photographedand the picture preservedfor future reference andindentlfl:at!on..Harper'sWeekly.

What's the Use?"I hate to be contradicted," she

said'."Then I won't contradict you," he

returned."You don't love me," she asserted."I don't," he admitted."You're a hateful thing," she cried."I am," he replied."I believe you are trying to tease

[lit;, sue actiu.

"I am," he conceded."And that you do love me?""I do." ,For a moment she was silent"Well," she said at last, "I do

hate a man who's weak enough to beled by a woman. He ought to havei mind of his own.and strength."He sighed. What else could he

.to?.New York Times.

Why They Resigned.Former Commissioner of ImmigraJonRobert Watchorn said recently

if an immigrant:"He was a bad case. He was as ignorantof government as the two

Polish policemen were. Two new

policemen were once put on the Warsawforce. They did good work, theyirrested a lot of people, then sudlenlythey resigned.

" 'Why are you resigning?' the superintendentasked."The older of the two men answeredrespectfully:" 'We are going to start a police

station of our own, sir. Boris herewill make the arrests and I will do;he fining.' ".Washington Star.

7, Joke on Appleton. *

They are telling a great joke on

Lysander John Appleton. Mr. Appletonwrites a very poor hand, and recentlywrote an angry letter to hiswife's brother, asking him .to paywhat he owed him or be sued. TheDrother called in all the handwritingexports in his neighborhood, and thejleciphered the letter to be an invitationto the brother and family tccome for an extended vi3it, and fiveDf them arrived to-day..AtchisoaSlobe.

An Odd Little Byproduct.It was believed that every conceivablesaving had been effected in the

iisposition of byproducls of the packinghouse industry, tut not long agoIt was found that the hair in the ears

af steer is of a quality that permitsit to be used in the manufacture of'camel's hair" brushc^. So now hairIs removed from the ears of steers,n the end that art may flourish as

well as the packing house industry..New York Tribune.

Governor Guild, of Massachusetts,lias appointed Professor EmilyGreene Blach a member of the StateIndustrial Commission. Mi>s Blachis professor of economics at WellesleyCollege and president of the Women'sxiatk League Union of i.'assachu'PttS

Good Roads in the South.It is a very exceptional neighborhoodin the South that does not need

better roads, and it is an equally exceptionalcommunity that cannot havebetter roads, "While many eectionacannot hope to have the beat roads.macadam or gravel.for a long timeto come, there is no excuse for any «

locality allowing its roads to remainpositively and permanently bad.A good road is a (1) hard, (2) ' > %;

smooth road, (3) free from heavygrades. Any road 'which answers tothese requirements will insure easyand quick traveling, and permit ofthe hauling of large loads.and thatis all that is required of a road. Otcourse, the best road is the hardestand smoothest one, the macadam roadbeing superior to the gravel road; butremember that even the earth roadneed not be bad. This is the thing we

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Wish this godd roads special to say i,to every man who reads it, "There ifa way for you to improve the toad 1

over which you travel, and it will payyou to do it. If we can only get ourreaders to realize this fact we believethat they will not be content tolonger waste the strength of theirteams, .their own time, and theirmoney by dragging, over rocks' nnll-ing through deep sand, jolting across

ditches, splashing about In mudholes,and climbing steep hills. Every road i. V, :'?&cannot be macadamized, or even graveled;but many more could be thanare. Few bond issues for good roadsin our territory have been bad invest- 1;ments, while the cases in which theywould be good investments could benumbered by the hundreds. The taxthe ordinary farmer would have topay to build and maintain stone ^roads, in any moderately settled community,is much smaller than the taxhe now pays to bad roads in the increasedcost of his hauling. Over alarge section of the south sand-clayroads could be built at a very smallcost, indeed, compared to what theywould be worth to the communitiesthrough which they run. Thousandsand thousands of miles of earth roadscould be redeemed from their chronicstate of badness by the persistent useof the split-log road drag, and thecost ofi doing the work4 would be sosmall that no one would feel it Andeverywhere that there is a bad roadit coujtd be improved If the, men whowork it would simply remember thatthe surface of the road should alwaya >;De kept smootn and tree from od|etructions, and that the flsrt thing todo with the water that falls on a roadIs to get it off and away..Raleigh j(N. 0.) Progressive Farmer.'

\Doubly Interested. '. |j|

The'farmer is in a double sense 1more deeply interested in good roadsthan anyone else. To him good roadg Jmean a great decrease in the cost ot «; >getting, his produce to the market f;and getting his supplies back. Theylikewise mean a lessening Of the lonelinessof life. . -t

To the people of every town and V*city the building of good joads is al- /-,most as important as it is to thefarmers. It means the betterment ofevery phase of life and a closer'inter- *

mingling of the people of town andcity: the lessening of wear and tearPon vehicles and the betterment of all ;Vthe conditions under which businessis carried on. And then the buildingof good highways Inevitably adds '

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largely to the value of adjacent prop- \S * i ferty. It is not too much to say that '

road-building is not an expense, butan investment, paying a larger profit ;to every community than anythingelse it can do. The building of goodroads means an increase in the valueof farm products by the lessening ofthe cost of hauling. In this way itinevitably results in an increased >value to all property adjacent, andthe cost of roads is more than madeup by this gain in prosperity. It is a

very false idea of many that thebuilding of roads is an expense which .

a community cannot afford. On thecontrary, it is an investment whichevery well-settled and well-organized \ Mcommunity can afford to make, for Itreturns the largest possible yield ofprofit, and a profit in which every "

man, woman and child shares.; kJ/ -y.ih

Thorough Road Construction.The railroad companies have

learned that there is economy in i ,

heavy steel rails, in strong bridgesand in large freight cars, and in likemanner the farmers will learp thatgood roads reduce the cost of trans-

portatlon by wagon. As a cbaln is no

stronger than its weakest link, so the ; !availability of a wagon road is determinedby its steepest hill or its

roughest place. A natural road, goodin some places, may neverthelessmake economic hauling impracticablebecause of difficult obstructions at one

or two points. Hence arises the needof thorough road construction andmaintenance..Denver Republican.

Credentials of a Cannibal.A real Fiji man came into WashIington to attend the international v

convention of the Seventh Day Adventists,according to the Philadellphia Record. He was armed with a

club with which his former chiefin the South Sea Islands used to beattViQ Ufa rmf nf American missionaries,and also with a big dish upon which ,

the chief u~ed to serve up meat fromthese missionaries' bones. Club anddish were brought along as mute evijdences of the conversion of the Fiji

I chief, who now heads the SeventhDay Adventists' Society In the South

j Sea Isles.

Vague Associations.Said a teacher on the East Side:

"Who was Robinson Crusoe?""I know/' said a little girl in the

front row. "He was a great singer.""Next.""Oh, I know," chirped a little girl

before "Next" had time to reply. "Hewas a monkey.".New York Times.

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