OUTSIDE THE CATE.
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I'll not confer with Sorrow
Till to-morrow;
But Joy shall have her way
This very day.
\
Ho! eglantine and cresses
For her treases!
Let Care, the beggar, walt
Outside the gate,
Tears if you will--but after
Mirth and laughter;
Then, folded hands on breast
And endless rest.
T. B. Aldrich.
“AS the Angels. i
BY LENTE,
“There's simply no use in stopping
here any longer, Fred. We've exhaust-
ed the place
“Think so, old man? Now, I don't."
“Well, what is there to stay for?”
“Look there, Morris; the answer
visible.”
The “there” was a wide expanse of
field, stream, forest, lake and moun-
tain. The vantage ground was a grassy
hillside dotted with trees Under the
shade of the grandest maple reclined
the young men who had been undecid-
ed where to spend their vacation, and
had drifted to this spot on their wheels,
led by the glowing description of a
friend as to the charming scenery and
the quaint lovableness of the inhabit-
ants.
“They will take you into their hearts
as well as their homes,” he had said
“You will be asked to high tea, and if
there's a wedding you will be invited
as surely as if you were near of kin:
at a funeral, you will expected
mourn with those that mourn. It
a sweet, primitive place now. it will
be spoiled when the tourists find it.’
And so, caring they
went, as long as was away from city
sights and sounds, Fred White and
Morris Garth, one a writer, the other
a bank clerk, had come
nook among the hills in
try.
They found a boarding place
Quaker family, consisting of a widowed
mother, with a son and daughter. The
house was a fit habitation for the quiet,
gentle Friends. [It was t in large
garden, filled to profusion with old-
time, always-sweet blossoms There
were stately hollyhocks of gorgeous
hue, balm and sweet willl
pinks and bachelor's buttons, a
lilies. The front had a
metal knocker which, when
brought to the porch the
the house, who, whether to friend
stranger, would al
“Thee is very
The young tourists
invitation, stepped into
owy hall, fragrant with
and then were shown to
where all the belongings were
but spotiessly clean.
“Everything seems like Sunday
noon, Fred, even gentle
There seems to be a sort of sacred calm
about the house. I wonder if a
could have a smoke?
The supper, to which gat
with the family, was abundant
liclous. The son, who hurriedly
and disappeared, was a clerk in the one
store of the community: the daughter,
very childlike andl qualnt, said nothing
except the words necessary in serving
the meal, but her “Will thee
have some more berries?” or, “Hadn't
thee better try the sponge cake?”
seemed to be very persuasive,
After supper they all sat on the porch
through the long summer evening, and
were like old friends by bed-time. The
tired travellers were soon asleep, but
the simple country girl lay long awake,
thinking of the wonderful things she
had heard of the great outside world
and the people who lived in it.
The days went by without a break
in their monotony till Morrig Garth,
EMMA A.
is
be to
is
scarce where
ir
it
to the U
the up-coun-
with a
se a
uns, splice
afl
day
door heavy
struck
mistress of
or
WAVE say
welcome, walk in
, on accepting this
a shad-
pinks,
rooms
simple
1 ool
spice
upper
after-
our landlady
fellow
wn
de.
they de
and
ate
quiet,
gayer scenes; but his companion seem-
ed loth to move farther than a few
hours’ spin from the little hamlet.
One morning Garth received a letter
which, for him, decided the matter
“Awftully sorry to break up with you,
old man, but I've got a summons from
my brother, Ross. He's coming north
two weeks sooner than expected, and
I must meet him at once, 80 as not to
lose a day of his company. Won't you
come home with me?”
“Thank you, no.
without a thought of me. 1'll stop here
a day or two longer, and perhaps write
a bit,
two ideas that may be caught.”
“All right, old man; don’t let them
escape.
miss me any?
she is!”
She watched the young wheelman
ride away with tears in her gray eyes,
then, turning to Fred White, said.
naively:
“But thee is not going.
glad!”
“Why? Are you very lonely when no
one is here?”
“We didn’t use to be; we should be
now-—thy friend and thee have so kind-
ly talked to us, and let me have the
pretty magazines, and all. I have
learned so much from thee! Please tell
me some more of the world and its
ways.”
“I do not want to make you restless
and discontented, little one. The great
world is not as good a place for soul
and body as this.”
~ “But thee likes it better? Thee
would not like to stay here always,
would thee, just here?”
“No; my place is outside, in the whirl
and hurry. But I like this retreat
»
I am so
He might be pardoned for saying it.
The vine-wreathed porch, with the
low-paiuted floor, the mingled sounds |
of bird and bee and cleada on every
side, the easy rocker, and, more than
all, the little gray-eyed Quaker girl,
with blushes wavering over her sen-
sitive face, who sat opposite, eagerly
drinking in every word. No
he was lured on to tell her of all the
beautiful places where he had been:
of museums and picture galleries, of
{ concerts and operas, of oceans and riv-
{ers and ships, of palaces and jewels and
i silks.
| ‘And thee has seen
think I shall die if |
too!"
Oh, 1
it,
it all!
may not see
“Possibly when are
grown up.”
“Grown up? 1 do not
{ever be very large."
“Well, you have
life before vou at
knows what may happen; but
say will never any safer
happier than you are right hare.”
“Would thee like to go to our meet-
ing?” sald Mrs. Russell, the next Sab
bath morning. “It may be a s!lent
meeting; we can never tell But, may-
hap, thee would find it helpful.”
“Certainly I'll go. May [I ride
wheel?”
“Thee
tldn’t.
world
think?
with
“Thank you;
But why
than four
Gentle
ment,
You may you
think I
the of“ your
No «ne
let
most
any rate,
be
you or
my
fire
the
thee
wish
much
might, but I
It savors
for the lord's day, don't
There is room in the wagon
and thee is very welcome
I will come with ve
is wheel more’ worldly
wheels?”
Mrs. Russell thought
and said, with a smile
‘Really, friend, I cannot tell,
wagon does not appear unseem
at least, it does not attract so much
tention.”
It bade fair to be a silent meeting in.
save for the song and twitterings
in the The men sat on
one side of the white-walled room, én-
joying, the only wakeful hour
of absolute they had
week: the
wou too of
us,
ji]
one
a mo-
only a
Iv:
850 Hy
¥
ai-
deed
of birds trees gq
perhaps,
during the
summer's women sat
in long rows opposite, looking de.
mure and spotiess in their soft gray at-
tire, that it seemed to the eritical woild
ling who watched them that they could
have no si it com-
ings to bewall
The
rest
busy
80
ns to repent of, no short
silence was growing oppressive
when an old man rose slowly in his
nd with closed eves,
the rail in
After
and hands
f him
Of
place,
clasping
gan to speak.
few moments’
benediction, and all
shaking hands, feeling
trengthenad and comforted
I'm Friend Royce felt
upon to speak Mrs
it's
a
front
Hid
he had eo
silence emed t
Aroge,
straagely
glad
to-day,” said
on the home
thing
to the
sell, way
to be instructed by on
dom as he
and has
id thao 5
Did thee enjoy
0
King
eighty-two years old,
n the fa
in faith
tiveq
meeting, friend
“I was much
Russell
The young people sat
at night, watching a glowing sunset
If it is wicked to love gay and beau-
tiful said,
*
that
interested in it, Mrs
porch
the
the |
on
things,” Rachel “why does
the sky look like
“My dear child,
all beautiful things!
ai
iz right to love
Who says
it
is
wicked?”
“I've always wanted
like that palest bit of cloud
it would be sinful for me to wear it; it
is sinful for me to want one, or a bon-
net with flowers on it.”
‘Rachel is getting some vain no-
| tions,” said ber brother. “I feel some-
times that the Friends are too strict,
though I ought not to say it
The mother came out and sat in the
glowing fight. On her face was such
a look of full content and serenity that
the restless questioning died away, and
over them all settled the holy peace of
the Sabbath evening.
The following week there was ex fie.
ment in the little hamlet, It was caused
by a marriage; and not only the kin-
the near neighbors were hid-
den to it, as a matter of course
“Thee was specially mentioned,
| Friend White,” said Mrs. Russell, when
Fred declined going. “They are not
of our people, but they are very
thy. They would feel hurt if thee did
not come.”
dress,
thers
a pink,
Lut
{dred but
wor.
And so he walked with his hos; ess
and her daughter to the wedding, feel-
jing half amused, and half
with himself for being decidedly uer-
‘vous, The simple ceremony was soon
over, and the cake and currant wine
passed, and then in the smiling sun-
{ shine the bridal party rode away to
! their new home across the hills to the |
westward.
Rachel had been intently curious.
i service, and her cheeks were rose.-red.
{and her eyes almost black. But as she
| sat on the porch after tea she looked
{ unusually pale and weary. Here little
i hands were clasped, and she was waten-
{ing the fading light. At last she said
slowly:
“Will thee be married some
Friend White?”
Fred started at the unexpected ques-
tion.
“Why, 1 don’t know, child. Possibly
I may.”
“Marriage is a solemn thing, isn't
it2 And beautiful.”
“Solemn, certainly, and I hope heau-
tiful to those who engage in the vent-
ure, Do you ever expect to marry,
little one?”
“I cannot say. That is as the Lord
wills.”
“You will make a sweet wife for some
fortunate man in a few years. And I
will send you a beautiful wedding pres-
ent, with my best wishes.”
time,
A flush came and went, leaving her
Paler than before, and she sald quietly:
“In heaveu they neither marry nor
are given in marriage, but are as the
angels, That is best, after all, doesn’t
| thee think?"
‘Yes, for the dwellers in heaven,
we are on the earth;
thee the best of all it can supply!” he
sald, falling half unconsclously into the
sweet Quaker speech,
heart strangely stirred. |
Another and another week went
and Fred White still lingered among
jthe hills. He was not wasting hig ime
entirely, for he had written and sent off
two short storfes; but there was a chair
and desk waiting for him in the sanc- |
ftum of his brother-in-law, and Morris
Garth would chaff him unmercifully if!
he ever found out how long he had tur.
ried in the up-country.
Why he stayed he could not tell, un- |
lesg it was to keep a pair of gray, child.
like eyes from running over with hit-
ter tears; but he must break away
soon, he kept saving himself. Lit. |
tle Rachel would miss him: she had
{ few Interests in narrow life; but
{childish griefs quickly lighteged,
to
her
are
ghtful
leave
magazines she found so dell
“I really think I must
he said to Mrs. Russell.
They were sitting on the porch one |
afternoon, while Rachel was far down
the walk, gathering Hower
seeds
“We shall miss thee sorely
ed to agk thee something
think of my
trembled, but
if indeed in
what to say,
ed
soon,’
garden
I want-
What
Her
he could
prise he had know: |
on ‘I've biind-
could be
what's
who
does |
thee ache]? voice
before answer
his $ SU
she went
all I
endure
Newell,
she
seen
anse |
Hg
to
my
ldn’t
Friend
eyes
com
here
cou tO see
but was
has failed v
her
thinks ought
Does thee think th
my Rachel?”
“My Mrs
wan't complain
day, says ery
spring
pring She
since
to
not
we
she's
have a docior
wat she is fading avay
no! he
does
dear Russell,
de or even cough,
she?”
No,
Ba
no! She never
tired always of
little
oh
but late;
have noticed how she
sleep is much broken
But she
iI ma
ght
Lhiowever
her
Mrs
outgrow this
# 1
ang
if BO YOUung
On
She ou to have advice
She's taking a strengthenin
along for
wis Ie
been
medicine right
hoped she
had cl
Probatl
about wha
vit or
she anged sO mu
hasn
very indiscrest, and
en gra to
your daughter is
as strong
chel is
Hiw0)
Children oft wy fast, you
Erown
Oe
and when
she may be
Why Ra
twenty
R
a8 any
nearly
1880}
but I can’t ho
Or str
I know she is small pe
ME
penne
her to grow tailer Ouget
Her father and
shor
« § el all 4
Fasa “aii Jig
¥
were frail and fiash!
She's coming
Rachel came up
with her exertions
walk, fit
ished
ap-
she
the
and bright and h
py over exquisite blossoms
had found The mother's
as she looked critically at
SOME
spirits rose
her Friond
11 had been mistaken, and she her.
foolish disturb her
genial boarder with her forebodings.
For he did look disturbed He was
thinking of many things which Rachel,
in her child-like innocence had said;
of words he had spoken lightly, think
ing they fell on childish ears: but now
he feared they had sunk into a
man's heart. She was frail and ethe.
real looking, surely. The flush soon
died away from her delicate checks,
jand the sparkle out of her eyes and
her hands were such tiny hands! Poor!
{little Rachel Carew!
The parting came next day. [It was
a sad thing, but it had been more cruel |
to defer it. Fred White was nol so
Newe
self had been to
WO
pet
cry
would cry her eyes out and then
over it; now he feared she might
her heart out Yet he had really no
cause to reproach himself, unless it
might be for tarrying so long; and no!
comfort to give, but to promise to come
back next summer, and to write some- |
times and send her papers.
He looked back from his whee! at
the turn of the road, but Rachel was
now standing where he had left her at |
the end of the poreh, with quivering
j lips that could not steady themselves
to bid him good-by, and that he did not
dare to kiss; for she was not a child
! His heart was heavy as he rode over
{the hills and down through the valioys,
and it would not have been lighter had |
he seen the little Quaker maiden, when |
her storm had passed, lying like a
| wilted flower on the lounge in the lone. |
' ly, shadowy best room. Poor little Ra- |
| chel Carew! :
About five months later, among the |
letters placed one morning on Fred
White's desk, was one addressed in un-
familiar writing. Feeling a prescient
thrill, he opened it:
“Friend White—Dear Sir: 1 write a
line to say thee need not trouble to send
any books nor flowers no more for my
Rachel, for she has gone away. She
left us New Year day. It is the Lord's
will, but it has made us nigh heartibro-
kan. Thee has been kind, so kind!
She said to tell thee so, and to give
thee her dear love, with thanks for ail
thy remembrance,
“Faithfully thine,
“RUTH CAREW.”
In how few words can tragedies be
told!
The man laid his face down on the
letter, wetting it with sudden tears,
and said brokenly:
“Dear little Rachel! Blest little Ra-
chel! Far happler than to have re-
mained here, for now and forever she
is ‘as the angels.’ "Waverly Maga-
A REMARKABLE SWIMMER,
the English Channel.
8. McNally, the Boston cham-
long distance swimmer and life
will sall for England, and after
several weeks of hard training he will
swim across the English
Channel from Dover to Calais, a dis-
tance of twenty-one nautical miles, or
twenty-six statute miles. This swim
has been accomplished only two
persons, the late Captain Webb, who
lost his life in a foolhardy attempt
to swim the Niagara rapids, and Capt.
Paul Boyton, who crossed in an inflated
Hundreds of expert swim-
mers have unsuccessfully tried to make
passage across.-the Channel waters, but
this fact not seem to be at all
discouraging to MeN Nally. He is con-
fident that he can accomplish the trip,
and those of his friends
Peter
pion
saver,
to
by
does
who are
a swim
are equally confident that he will
McNally was born in
thirty-two vears ago, He has
an expert swimmer since early
and when only seven years
made a rescue from drowning.
continued his good work until to-
day he has a record of more than sixty
for which he has received the
honors from the
Society, including the society's
last year was sig-
the National Govern-
i awarding him a med-
al for exceptional acts of bravery. His
has been remark-
but his career
a long distance swimmer. His pow-
of in water appear
bugs
be the
ac
ties as
be successful.
loston
been
¥
of age
rescues,
Massachusetts
nane
gold medal,
honor
and he
ed
ment Congre
ally
nally by
career as a life saver
able, not more so than
as
the
ers endurance
almost limitless, while con-
weather favorable
be
tO
dition or unfavor-
able, seems to of no Importance
Last
trip
a dis-
whatever to this hardy
he
to Newbur
natatlor
made the
yport,
miles,
year, for
example
Haverhill
§TY
Foy 5
FOIn
on
and
ance of nautical
eighteen
iaiy 2, in 6 hours and 35 minutes
August 19 swam
sEan Pier, thirteen miles in the
sea, in 4 h and 57 mi
Boyton ed while
after
from Ne wport to
Ged §
Nurs
open ours nutes.
Paul fall at-
this
Captain
tempting
miles
covering 4
million
matched
time McNaily
abandoned it on account of the
COUrse
two New England
who
t the
and
gEporismen, Were
im it abou same
¥ dang rs encountered
Channel tri
8 the
hands
i to suffer
has
overcome
in
ost painful cramps every va-
that he {11 have
iE sons
ie mono!
Kind, and
sensitive
depressing
to those Or
it ia possible that
¥ . 1 v i 2 =
ne temporarily blind and
have to sw dar
light
long
of
im
he
in
may
iL Ness —even
day
number
the eyes
the salt seas striking
tinually is painful and almost unendur
He
before
has all these
igs and knows how 10 com-
them Ability endure great
physical pain is the chief secret of long
distance swimming, of
must know how utilize
strength the advantage Mc-
Nally a powerful swimmer, has a
splendid physique, lots of ambition, and
possesses all the other qualities geces-
sary to bring about a successful result
to this great trial to strength and
skill.-—New York Sun
able experienced
thir
bat to
Course one
one's
but
to
to beg
is
A Bloodhound’s Keen Scent.
A remarkable exhibition of the keen.
ness of scent of the bloodhound was
given at the little town of Bronson,
in Allen County, the other day. The
town recently appropriated $100 out
{f the city treasury for the purchase of
one of these animals, the purpose be-
ing the detection and capture of thieves
who were operating in the neighbor.
hood, and a test of the hound was con-
gidered desirable. At noon three men
started out on foot and walked four
miles into the country. Then they
horses, and by a circuitous
route returned to the town. 8ix hours
iater the hound was permitted to smell
a glove which had been worn by one
of the men, and the next instant with
a deep growl he caught up the trail
and followed it on the run. At one
along the rail with hardly any re-
duction of speed. Coming to the
place where the men had mounted he
tobk up the trail of the horses and
followed it into town, where, in a crowd”
the one whose glove had/ been given
him to smell. Kansas City Journal.
a HSH
. A Question of Speed.
An ancient resident of Willowby,
whose conduct in one of the battles of
the Civil War had brought him under
suspicion of cowardice, used to declare
“I didn’t run away and stay till "twas
all over, no such thing: I retreated in
good order, that was all.” One day a
military man heard the oft-repeated
explanation. “Well, my friend,” he said,
looking steadily at the hero of the re-
treat, “you say you retreated in good
order, but I should like to ask one
thing. About how fast did you go?”
“Well,” said the other man,
into telling the unadorned truth, “if
after the
would have
I'd been at home aud going
doctor, 1 reckon folks
THouEl: SOMINEY Wi Melty wisk:" 1
JACKELS KILL A LION,
They Pull Down a Desert King That is
Too Old to Fight Them Off,
pr Asia it is followed commonly at a |
respectful distance by half a dozen
jackals, which, not being strong
enough to pull down game for them-
selves and yet eager to taste blood, go
after the great still hunter of the des-
ert in the hope of getting the drippings
from its claws. The lion does
object to them, as one swing of his
unsheathed claws teaches the venture- |
some jackal a lesson that may be sur-
vived but never forgocien,
A large lion which had grown old
and weak, losing teeth and litheness
of limbs, as well as sharpness of vision,
in the shrubbery which grows up in the
southern parts and to the south of the
Desert of Sahara, betrayed its failing
strength one day last spring, and
stantly the near-by jackals, which had
been respectful, came forward the
run and gave Wilson James, an Amerl-
can hunter, a fine lion-baiting scene
The lion had sneaked toward herd
of antelopes which James was seeking
It happened that the lion got within
range before the man did, and leaped
wut at a medium sized buck, bearing it
the ground. The most astonishing
thing that the man had ever seen then
happened. The buck, sturdy three
year-old, in the prime of life
rolled over, and in spite of the
claws which the
of reach
made off as only
antelope can
{lifted its head
ng animal
ing
knoll half
on
a
I)
n
a
and vigor,
ana
got
JAWS
lon closed on it
to its feel, and
1-limbed
out leaped
a scared, lear
The lion rose to its feet
and hed
Jin
mile
Wal the fee
rades on a
Then
its com
h a away aown
¥ 1 “ore
Dead, and
went the lion's brute
io walk
the antelope
wal h had
8 before
started On ACTOS
The
on
which had been
jackals, been creep
was made
the
ir bel the leup
and had gat up to watch
n
started up the moment th
lion fail
bounds
of
and s;
and howling as
wounded Nine
open,
dear
the
a
als
ame
iH wl
Appeared
in
from all 4
more venlureson
hes]
the lion's
prime
dog. in its Pi
to come
ing
allow BE JA
the jackals
the big fellow
biting
ickled down
s
the
away before
James had heard
in tb
i the daytime
n JR
or wounds
InGEer
roars as those this lion gave
1d
he ever hear more §
f ¥
f tl
ips from any of the
ye
the howls of the
the
weakening.
The commotion h roused 1if
milés around. Jackals hurrying
attack from their daytime lairs cams
for a mouthful The screaming birds
and carrion eaters hovered above,
while all the cloven-hoofed animais
grew uneasy and ceased feeding
look in the direction whence the sounds
came
The end came suddenly. A jackal
which had made itself conspicuous by
its daring, and supposed by James to
have been the one that first leaped to
the lion's back, jumped as if to seize
the lion by the nose, but the lion was
too quick this time and sank his teeth
into the jackal’s neck. Then the pack
leaped forward all at once, and a mound
of jackals heaved over the lion
When the mound dissolved a few bones
were jeft to whiten the dry sunlight
jackals
down lion, which
ad
10
Roads Must Be Roads,
There appears to be a growing im-
pression that a road is a place of pas-
sage from one point to another, and
that if it is anything short of that, the
ones accountable for its condition may
be held responsible for the trouble that
may be occasioned by its faultiness.
Passengers injured In a railway ac-
cident, occasioned by a defective roac-
bed or an imperfect rail, are very sure
—————
caused by defective conditions of the
same have to be paid for by the coun-
ty. It is just.
Good roads are cheapest in the long
run. The reign of King Mud should
be cut short, Good Roads.
Fatal Age For Famous Folks.
Among men and women of genius
there seems to be strange fatality
with the age of fifty-six
Boome of the most renowned characters
of the world have died on reaching
that limit, including Dante, the Italian
poet; Hugh Capet, king of France:
Henry VIII, king of England; Henry
king of Germany; Paganini, Ital
violinist; Alexander Pope, English
George Bala, English orientalist:
Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome:
Frederick I, king of Prussia; John
Hancock, American statesman: Maria
empress of France: Philip Mas-
English dramatist: Saladin, the
sultan of Egypt: Robert Stephen
English engineer; Beiplo African
us, Roman general; Helvetius, French
philosopher and author; Henry 11. the
first of the Plantagenet line; the
Pliny, Roman naturalist and aut}
Julius « Charles Kingsley
Fish Juan Prim, Bpanish
statesman ; Henry Knox
general, Thos.
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Cleaning Cloves.
cleaned at home. Of
chamois skin gloves
them stones
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powder good
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hang
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preserved
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Remodeled British ironclads.
The Monarch third-
~ship in the British navy, built
has been
re-engined
commissioned
rated as FE
turret in
Eb os
1869. tt
thoroughly refitted and
of $500 000. and
last month a
lay, Cape of Good
of iron the
vard twenty-seven yoars
condition, and
in 1861, the
186%. Devastation,
1878; Sultan, 1871. and Thunderer of
1877. all which have either been re.
refitted or are now at the dock
being put in coudition to meet
requirements of that class
at a cost
was as
guardship in
Hope The
Chatham do
ago, is still
S80 are
hull, built at
Kk
in excellent
Bp
the Warrior
Northumberland,
built
of
cently
yards
present
ships
of
37,000,000 Pins Daily.
There is a pin factory in Birming-
ham, England, which turns out 27.000 -
000 pins a day. It is by all odds the
largest factory of its kind in the world,
all the others in England put togethe:
turning out but 19,000,060 pins a day.
The daily output of France is 20 -
000,000, and of other European coun-
erally.
Any one injured by a defective side-
dividual pay smartly for it.
The spirit of the law seems to he |
that a railroad must be a raliroad and
in a condition to properly carry on its
work in a business-like manner.
A sidewalk must be kept in a safe
condition for people to walk over it.
Now, what about a road in which
persons in vehicles must travel? Must
it be a real road? Oh, no! Most any
old thing will answer. It differs from
a sidewalk and a railroad. They have
to be what they pretend to be, but a
wagon road may be simply a streak of
mud or stones or anything elise. No
one appears to be responsible for the
condition of the public road. If any
it is the result of his own folly in pre-
suming to use a road for traveling pur-
poses.
But the times change and we are
changing with them. Folks are be.
ginning to apply the same rules to
Aseidents ou public roads and. bridges
rope of 86, 000000 a day. A statistician
answers the question, “What becomes
!
the population of Europe at 250,000,000,
every third person must lose a pin a
‘day to make up the figure.
To Head Off the Jail-Breaker.
A water tube jail is one of the latest
achievements of Yankee ingenuity. It
is no longer necessary to make the
prison bars so heavy and so hard that
cutting through them becomes very
difficult; but, imetead. they are made
would escape and quickly give warning
of the break.—Cassier's Magazine,