SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M, CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. XII. It cost $2,423,5*22 to feed the United States Army during the past fiscal year. Business worries are said to bo the cause of twelve per cent, of the cases of insanity. The farmers of lowa have ap parently enough money in banks to pay off all the farm mortgages in the State. Rev. Dr. Jenks, an Indiana preacher, Bays that he can give seventy reasons for believing that the world will "come to an end" within the next ten years. Out in Maine, where, according to the New York Recorder, "they are now catching herring to put up as Italian sardines," they lure the fish into the nets isc night by a blazing fire on a pole. New Zealand is the first of English colonies to give women equal political rights with men. A bill giving them such rights has just become law. It gives to all women, married or single, the same right to vote as is now pos sessed by men. The only other State in the world in which men an 1 women have the same political status is Wyoming, in this country. Electricity is gradually taking the place of oil for locomotive headlights, notes the St. Louis Republic. One St. Louis road—the A'audulia—has fourteen locomotives equipped with the new light and is adding to the number every week. The recent roar end collision of the Illinois Central road would probably not have occurred had the engine of the second section been provided with an electric light. The paper mill at Salinu, Kan., has made from sunflower stalks several tons of paper, which will be sent to experts in the East. The paper is re garded as superior to straw paper and marks a great departure in paper mak ing and sunflower raising industries. The mill is now buying sunflowers and proposes to make sunflower paper a specialty. On a recent evening the Salina Daily Repnbli'vii-.ran its entire edition on the sunflower paper. The theory that times of in business are peculiarly favorable to religious development, has some justi fication in experience, concludes the San Francisco Argonaut. But, on the other hand, there are more suicides in hard times than at any other. Sta tistics show that there has been a noticeable increase in suicides in New York City during the last month, the aggregate being thirty-four against twenty-two for the same period during the previous year. The statistics are suggestive, but hardly conclusive. The suicidal tendency is certainly growing; but it derives its stimulus rather from what may be called fixed conditions of our life than from tem porary aud exceptional incitements. The Nov. Youk World observes: We are apt to imagine that America is the land of progress and Asia the land of regress. This is doubtless true, as a rule, but every now anil then we are startled to lind that the Mongolians have idens also and sometimes act upon Ih'in. This statement is borne out by a recent report made to the Japanese (iovernnieut on the state of agriculture :n Unit country, aud advo cating, among other things, the es tablishment .ij agricultural insurance. Mutual insurance that is, "a fellow ship, the single member.* of which are all insured by that same fellowship" is also advocated. The report shows that the Japanese are wide awake. The recent disbanduieiit of several companies of Indians, who had been enlisted as soldiers in Uncle Sam's army, seems to have been due more to the difficulty of finding r« emits than to any real opposition umonp officer* to the employment of the roil man ill the ranks. The Indian himself docs not take kindlv to the restraints of discipline, mid mi sues the freedom of his roving life; hence, he will no longer elitist, but while he is in the (iovernmeut's service be appear" to discharge his duties a* w II MS call Ixi eipaclcd from him. lie do, s not like the routine of drill, and h> cannot bo li<lcd onto stand ill line of battle, but he make* a good scout and skirm isher in short, he h|h u'l the Weak nesses and virtues of lllf The m! ftrtftiiitt'iil id faivor t»f Ink iht. him tutu iht* retftiiiir hrins » till n u*» tl evef wiii, Uit; « i|>« riut« lit *)tlt htm util b*viii|{ *%• nkt'Utc*<l it in t||t) lull It in i'iii fi|»H t<» |.i»v hint 112t >r Mil guixl tif III* to it ii tin thai! to li||llt iitill, Mild, rttli If lit Mill nut Uki kllxllv to rulf* Uli l l r. MlllfctJiit**, hm I* iHI« |u l'«i*uii«t. « ittuft 11n UM« Uiu# by iub]|itiii| I*l*4**% if tw tt*«Ki ms%u iief •rtoitly WHEN NUTS ARE RIPE. "Mic frost king comes by stealth at night, •'aluting the leaves in colors bright. With magie wand, tn impish glee. •To breaths upon each shrub and tree; O'er hickory, walnut and the oak— . Ie sheds a variegated cloak, And as they ope' their sleepy eyes _ His breath comes thick from chilly skies. The morning sun, In mild reproof, Sweeps from the fences and the roof The crystal footsteps of that raid ; He smiles upon each leaf and blade, And welcomes to his genial rays The iriendship of a mystic h:i7,e. While voices through the hill nml dell Echo clear as silver bell. Glad, golden days ! O, mystic haze— Aud all the swelling symphonic? Of ringing shout and childish mirth— The brown nuts pattering to e.trth ; The scolding of a saucy jay. Ah. glories of an •■utumn day! Of earthly paradise a type— The frost-cro ,vned woods when nuts ar? ripe. —Good Housekeeping. EPHRAIM DODD'S NIECES. BY I'AUIJNE WESIJBY. UMBER TON 112 F~~\ lh n certain pity fill v til* (I f° r Mr. and Mrß - K P lirftim il'ti j youngerbroth : iJjXSIf er came from ' " WoR tern '• homo and took v'J'l up their abode the °' ( l Ephraim and Susan Dodd were honestly delighted with this sudden addition of their nieces to the family circle. Mrs. Dodd soon began to talk to her neighbors with complacency about the responsibility of bringing up girls, an<l when her back was turned her friends shook their heads, saying : "It's a shame! In their old age, too, when they were juot beginning to take a little comfort!" The girls wore tall, pretty, strong and vivacious. Their names were Martha aud Eyelina. Each had brown lmir, a delicately tinted face and large gray eyes that looked at people in a friendly, unabashed way. Martin was thirteen years old when elie ar rived—two years older than her sister —and before she hi><L passed her six teenth birthday Ephraim decided that, she must go away to a better school than Luruberton afforded. It was a sad day for the Dodds when a sranll leathern trunk bumped to the railway station behind one of Uncle Ephraim's ox teams. Ephraim, Evelina and her Aunt Susan clung to Martha with a frantic earnestness in saving good-by lyul then stared at one another tearfully when the train whirled weeping Martha and her belongings away from Lum berton. On the way back to the farm Mrs. Dodd and Evelina sat on a board placed across the cart railings, and Ephraim walked beside them, directing his oxen. After a while he spoke sol emnly. " 'Taint that I ain't got confidence ]in Marthy,"said he."l think she'll turn out fust-rate; but if there is any meanness in her nature, or any hidden dust in the corners of it, we'll ltnow it before long. She's started out on the | testin' time-t of her life." "Mercy," Mrs. Dodd exclaimed, ■ 1 dashing a tear from her eye, "how you j talk, Ephraim ! You make cold sliiv i ers run all over uie!" "I think she'll turn out fust-rate," | the old man repeated; "knit she aint ! been tested yet, an' now she's a-goin' to be. The city aint the country, an' their ways aint our ways." Evelina sat- rigidly erect and gazed at the oxen through a screen of tears, while the three, movingaloug autumn tinted country roadsides, went slowly home. There was great vacancy in tho farmhouse. They felt it everyday. Louring for Martha, they eagerly read and re-read the letters which she sent regularly once a week, written in an uncertain girlish hand abounding in little Mtrves. She told all about hei st tidies and her teachers and her frien Is, sometimes even specifying flit day's bill of fare, or the color id a j classmate's eyes. Ephraim read all the letter- slond ou Saturday evenings, pieoingthem to get her like a continued story, aud Mri. Dodd and Eveliua listened. It brought the writer very near to them. They always felt breathlessly inter | eh ted. Afu i Martha had returned ho ne for two v iMts, she wai allow i I to spend a loii); vacation with one of the school girls in her city h >me. Then the let ters, arriviugoftem i than before, too!: on brighter tints, aud gave glimpses of a luxurious town house viu-tlv dif ft nut from the 1>.,.| I iiomslead, with it wooden "wiliga" and air of humble thrift. Kphraiiu Dodd read the>i letters in a wri us, falter iu • vuica while Evelina mid her aunt listened ratliel all 1 lolls I "Mill- 111-, troubled thought- I lie faded (Mimfort of their old fitting < room somehow touched them with a wistful foreliodii Would it st ■mi dm*; to Martha' Miaht not iiei m<. -in r. ■ '.nil. g ten 'h her to th simple bt-meiifti o! I timb< rtou villa)?--? At >■ i esmu a letter li . -ril-l i„ in i * I wish you i'> »|d see what a elm in U>M UilliWill I tor lilt ha - 1 Th bed I Uv«rk< t I km » , a m." p.l."tde • n-t abil> ti 1,,. I • ,|h iHi ii I laal ilk* *piiio-»«. sbayiuii 06 a ley*. | 'otiau Tea tt ilt i <v«(v i wlt'i ml' LAPORTE, PA.., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1893. nigs. There are oceans of cushions everywhere. I never saw such a beau tiful room." When Evelina read the alluring par agraph, her heurt was filled with a sudden longing. She believed that Martha would surely cherish her home, in spite of its limitations, if the room where she slept could be made a lit tle less unlike that city boudoir. Now Evelina Dodd had an energetic mind and active hands. The follow ing noon she gently broached the sub ject of her meditations to her Uncle Ephraim and his wife. "I might kind of chirk ii up, and give it a sort of stylish look," she re marked, blushing. Ephraim Dood pondered some time before he answered. " 'Tain't that I don't think sire'll like us the way we are as well as ever," ho said, awkwardly. "But it's incase elio shouldn't; in that case it might be wiser to fix things up a little fancier, an' if yoi're mind to do it Eveleny, I'll helj) J\%." Mrs. Dodd had strong faith in Martha, yet possibilities loomed dis agreeably as she thought of her hus band's words, and she secretly worried in the midst of the sewiug and plan ning which began almost immediately. "I shouldn't care 'bout the house or ourselves," she confided to Ephraim, "so much as I would if Marthy hap pened to get to settin' herself up above Eveleny. I couldn't bear to see Eve leny's feelin's hurt." Mr. Dodd kept his thoughts to him self as he joined in the efforts which were gradually transforming one of the old-fashioned sleeping-rooms above stairs. Remarkable changes, indeed, were being made. It was well that Evelina possessed no knowledge of the havoc v.'orkad by her loving zeal. For the massive old-fashioned furniture of Martha's room could not be adapted well to modern taste in decoration. The plain mahogany bedstead was out of keeping with a fantastic spider-shaped object which Ephraim Dodd manufac tured in the woodshed, and awkwardly fastened into place above the bed. lie stood on a stop-ladder to do this,while Evelina and her aunt held the hammer and nails, cryin#;, "Oh, do be careful!" or, "Ephraim Dodd, you'll certainly break your neck!" The poor room, with its furniture of another era, really looked abused, but Martha Dodd's relatives glowed with satisfaction over their efforts. They were obliged to make their purchases at a country store whose supplies were not abundaut, yet in the end they felt that their labors were repaid. After the canopy's frame had been draped with blue .-kaim and white mosquito netting, Mrs. Dodd and Eve lina stooil aud admired it, from afar. They believed that Martha would bo pleased. Martha Dodd came back to Lumber ton in midsummer, a time which al ways found the place full of verdant beauty. She was carried to the farm in a shining buggy, recently pur chased. Her Aunt Susan and Evelina stood smiling in the yard, and show ered greetings upon her, before Eph raim could help her out of the car riage. Afterwurd, they sent her up stairs alone, in order to surprise her more completely. Martha closed the door and remained in the room for some time. She sat down on a sofa, and stared about her ia a bewildered manner. When she descended to the expectant group it the sitting-room her cheeks were flushed and she was smiling. "Whoever thought to do it?" she asked ; "who spoke of it first?" "Eveliny," Ephraim answered, red with pleasure. "Ah, 'twas lovely of you all," Mar tinl said, and she went over to Evelina and put her arms around her. VlTow did you manage it'.'" she questioned again. "Who made the canopy?" "Uncle Ephraim," replied the de lighted child ; and everyone laughed as Martha embraced her uncle affec tionately. He tried to get away, but she caught him and clung to him. Her face was radiant. "You've been ho kind !" she cried; "but, uncle, you needn't have done it, I liked it tlio way it was. Didn't you know 1 liked it?" A fortnight later Martha's friend, !>orothy Rnudle, accompanied by lier two winters. accepted invitations to spend ii fortnight at Miss Podd's home. <hi tho day of their arrival a county fair wus being held in the next town, and Mrs. l>odd watched »omo neigli bora' vehicles Hy pant tin- door with n good ileal of interest. "If 'twa'n't for company comiu'," sli• • said to the ({iris, "I might lmve •:.>ne myself. I aiut been to a fair for three years." IH Iter surprise Martha seized the t-tray idea almoot eagerly. The Kill talked t<> her uncle so earnestly about tlf niutt'T that In- resolved to take his wife slid Kvelina to the gaily decorated I', 'iuiuN and stay the entire J«v Thus th<* house thane.-d to be comparatively ► till •vheii four k' I 's ei.tered merrily ami rushed up tin* stairs to Martlet 1 > aid's "boudoir." "Why, what in the world!' Hertlia Itinllci e-'lai-neil woudertUtfly, a» .10u as nho ha I surveyed tlia room Two old |>i u|il'i ami a gill truielliiiK i>v«r the turnpike roa I were two far away to If i'l tie p. als of laiiKhtt-r tli it »'i blunly rang thrmi/h the house. "O Msrlha l> hi, »- hi one of th< rl», " It's 111 fnui.U t I ever a»v 111 sll my lit* "Who dill it! another asked, and •hvn th« latlu liter n^aiu, but only thre< yuU laughed. Mm I!IH ».»t a ii'illK soiau i|i|iNK lookliiii patchwork nusliMiln, aud viewcj tin 'III' 111l I'll - Ml' • y<«« Hi»v ht ikh ..II J I« Ilk. ' kit, « n , ';i ibutl| ( .in IM.II Vuti I VMb'JfVU to H %t mJ toll. «h# f")k* «<>«• Ii tuff i— ttt* checked herself and the girls looked at her. "Why did they do it?" Dorothy asked at last. Martha gazed out of the window be fore she answered. "They did it," she said, slowly, "because they love ine. I wrote about your room, and they hoped to make this something like it. My little sis ter Evelina—" she paused. The listeners drew nearer and stood around her in a little circle. "They did the best they knew how," she continued, "and I like my room as well as Dorothy's. The cano py is ugly, but when I wake and look up at it, I think how their love covers me night and day; so you sec it's a pleasure." "The rugs are funnier," Bertha re marked finally, in order to break the silence, and her sisters smiled, but they did not laugh again, in tho same way. They began to feel an interest in Evelina, and this increased through the happy days which marked their stay in Lumberton. Ephraim Dodd's generous heart warmed as Martha's city company bade him a reluctant good-by ou the station platform. The eldest Rundle girl shook his hand cordially. "Well," Mr. Dodd," said she, "we've had about the pleasuntest visit wo ever had. Aud when Martha comes to seo us again, we want Evelina to come, too." The old man blushed, and Martha uearly interrupted his stammering thanks. "I'll stay at home and let Evelina go," she explained. "We sha'n't leave Aunt Susan andUncleEpliraimalone." That evening, Ephraim unburdened liimsolf to Mrs. Dodd, a little remorse fully. "We needn't have felt no uneasiness 'bout Marthy," he declared. "She's turned out first rate; she'll stand any amount of testin', an' so will Eveliny," Mrs. Dodd laughed tremulously, as she extinguished the sitting-room lamps. "No," was the answer, "she aint goin' to hurt anybody's feelin's—Mar thy aint." —Youth's Companion. Parasol Ants. The Kew Bulletin says that the Gov ernment of Trinidad has passed an ordinance for the extermination of parasol ants, so far as its power ex tends. The pest has become unbear able. In fact, from the nature of things, wherever this ant is found, a growing civilization must wage war tu tlie deatli with it. For the creature strips trees of their leaves, which it neatly trims to th 1 size and shape of a three-penny bit ami carries to the nest. An army of aecodoma cephalotes at work is one of the strangest sights in tropical America. The column maybe followed for a mile, three or four inches in width, a serried mass of ants each carrying aloft upright as a flag its green disk. They will strip a largo tree of which they fancy the leaves in twenty-four hours. But nature has limited their ravages in the way which Darwin and Wallace teach us to re spect. Many species of trees are quite protected against them by peculiari ties which we cannot detect. Many inches in width, a serried mass of ants will not attack them if they have a choice. But the enterprising for eigner brings his useful fruits and plants from every quarter of the world, and establishes them in the domain of the aecodoma. Then there is joy un mixed. With unprotected fruit in abundance the ants multiply as they never could before. Ho the Trinidad authorities have made a law that tlie warden of any district may authorize a land owner who "suffers, or islikely to suffer," from their ravages, toenter any neighbor's ground and destroy the nests—if ho can, be it understood. And any one obstructing such proceed ings when duly authorized by the war den becomes liable to a tine of 850 or imprisonment for three months, with or without hard labor. An Elevator For Cats. Tt has been such an everyday con venience to be hoisted in an elevator ear at railroad speed, to the 'teenth floor of a high office building, that one regards it as a matter of course. It has remained for an East Weymouth (Mass.) couple, however, to apply the principle of the elevator to the feline economy of the household witli grati fying results. Mr. and Mrs. (J. live in upper apartments; therefore Mr. (1. hud to gi> down and upstairs every time their half grown kitten was put out of doors or let in. This became monotonous, so <>ue day Mr. G. placed the eat in a basket, tied a rope to the handle and lowered the cat, Paul-like, tu the ground. The cat evidently grasped the situation at once, for since that time she has rarely been let in or out of the door, but has made her perpendicular pilgrimage* with all the gravity of an old business man. Tho moot remarkable circumstance is that hln now tfets into the basket as it rests tui ilii- ground beneath the window mid mi'ws lustily until taken iu. If there were a net of electric button* fur her to push, "up once, down twice," idle wuilld probably learn thu combina tion As it is she is the cause of u mild little selisat lou iu the town, allil is s* proudly exhibited by her owner as would be the feliuu heroine of the lialad, which in ancient mini-, lulls dee tared to have returned. V * York Telegram. The Iti-ilisli Umpire, ItoiiKhlv speaking, the Hritikh em pifi ekti'lldik oil r olle colli I lie II t, ltHt peiiiusula*, i' l * l promontories, lihni lulus, joou rn«*r», and lO.JMXIO wUitds tin iiau empire nu no* »i alllt »• tins iti the tioman eiuptr<4 . .<* not p.ipuloin, the l'*l»lsu ttu (•it* ws* b< t »•> etlmtlv* , I Lit bullish •umpire «u bat tu j-o»«ilul. SCIENTIFIC AMI INDUSTRIAL. The distance from the farthest point of polar discovery to the pole itself is 460 miles. Powerful air brakes are now being constructed for use on freight trains of 160 cars. The long distance telephone has been putin operation between Norway and Sweden, and his Majesty at Christiania can commnnicate directly by word of mouth with his ministers at Stock holm. When you speak of bees, designate the kind referred to. There are 4500 species popularly known as "wild bees," 3200 being natives of the Amer icas. Britain has seventy species of bees and sixteen of wasps; of the latter there are 170 species known to entomologists. The valuo of vaccination against smallpox is shown by recent statistics from London hospitals, showing that whereas in the unvaccinated 23.8 per cent, died, and the remaining cases last 47.2 days, there were in the vac cinated cases no deaths at all, and 28.5 days was the average duration of the disease. It may be doubted, says an English writer, whether our measurement of ani malconrago lias yet been sufficiently extended, for there appear instances in which the acts of daring are prompted by a sense of obedience, of discipline, aud even of duty—something similar in kind to that which marks and dis tinguishes tho highest forms of cour age in man. An operation for appendicitis re vealed the fact that the disorder was due to the presence of tooth brush bristles. "Cheap tooth brushes," re marked the surgeon who hat" charge of the case, "are responsible for mauy obscure throat, stomach and intestinal ailments. The bristles are only glued on and come off by tho half dozen ■when wet and brought in contact with the teeth." A fire balloon is a recent invention for signaling by nighfc. Tho balloon is made of paper, is portable, and is inflated by burning spirits or even straw or wood. When ready to ascend u message string is appended. This is mado of combustible beads strung at intervals on a piece of quick match. Different combinations of large aud small beads are used to express the signals. Among other interesting matters with which the psychological labora tory is experimenting is tho subject of time—measurements of different men tal processes. The conclusions reached on the average time it requires us to make «onie of tho commonest judg ments were: Recognition of a_ray of light, .011 seconds; recognition of "or dinary sounds, .015 seconds; to local ize mentally when blindfolded any place on our body touched by another person, .021 seconds ; mental judgment of a distance when seen, .022 sec onds; recognition of the direction of loud sounds, .062 seconds; recogni tion of short English words, .214 sec onds; recognition of pictures of ob jects, .163 seconds; to answer such questions as "Who wrote 'Hamlet,'" .900 and over. Sufferers From "lilbbrriih Aphasia." The Edinburgh Medical Journal publishes an article which, among other things, discusses the question of the effects of brain changes on speech. A patient is mentioned who suffered from what is called "gibberish aphasia." This poor man kuew as well as anybody else exactly what was going on around him. He was per fectly sane ill all respects, and, if his tongue would have obeyed his under standing, all would have been well. But when he began to speak nothing whatever but absolute "gibberish" would come out of his mouth. The only coherent words he could utter, and those only at times and by acci dent, were "If you please, sir." Another patient, who also was sane, could not even read aloud correctly from a hook when the page was open before him. When asked, fur example, to read aloud the passage, "It shall be iu the power of the college to examine or not to examine any licentiate," he invariably read it thus: "An the be what in the touiothar of the throtho todoo to niajoruin." The patient re covered indue time and spoke like other people. A tjueer Electric Clock. T. F. Hudson, a convict ill tho Maryland Penitentiary, Lws construct ed a real horological oddity in the shape of an electric clock. The dial i.i a semi-circle of white marble with twelve marked at each corner, the other numerals for the hours being figured along the arc. It his one hour hand and two minute hands, tho last two set opposite to each other, and in such a manner that one is seen at noon and tho other at midnight, aud at uo other time. The seconds are marked ou a dial that turns from right to left, while the pointer or second hand is stationary. Hudson is a born genius, and nearly every room in th prison is adorned with a specimen of his ingenuity. St Louis Republic. Mmles! y Came With Age, (iounod, the couipoi er, stand* eion crated from the reproach of vanity, which, like affectation, lielotiga to the weak slid tin yoiiu." \,d and tai< n 1 restore equilibrium, and vanity i» su pcr»edt-ii by b -'itiniat.» pridi He one iU\ compared the pri _ress of modesty iii his Mini with tl simultaneous wlnt ciiiiik if In* hair "When I was v*r» young I used I" say *1 ' later on I set* • *1 aud Mo*a|t t'i ii 'llii/ntl h iii I I 1 Now I say 'M ioti " Tin master r< versed III! w i ltof Mcii,.* . ' Hum ble, when I ruunili'i illv»i .112 proud wliill I i!uUi}dlf lay If wllu utiltla 1 --Aru ouaut Terms—•s 1.00 in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months. VALUE OF GOOD liOADS. RESULTS OF AN INSUIRY DIRECT ED TO INDIANA FARMERS. Profit, in Dollars and Cents From Improved Highways, and Annual Loss Due to Poor Koads. ¥ANY persons are accustomed, when approached with a project for road improve ment, to put the matter off as they would a luxury "until better times." While they acknowledge that better public highways would be a very nice thing at certain seasons of the year it never seems to have dawned upon them that to improve the roads would be an investment, just like rais ing higher grade stock or using im proved and labor-saving machinery, which would soon pay for itself. Un fortunately this class of people has been in the majority both in town and country, where solid roads are most needed, and their want of progress has seriously clogged many an enterprise of valuo to the community. It has long been known in a general way that no better outlay of a few hun dred dollars could be made by the far mer or country merchant than in build ing rock or gravel roads, but attempts to reduce the practical value to dol lars and cents have seldom been made. A gentleman in Northern Indiana re cently undortook to find out what the farmers themsolves thought of the matter. In answer to his inquiries letters were received from farmers in forty counties of the State, some of which were provided with turnpike and some not. Some of them took a very pessimitic view of the road im provement, sand some were unduly elat ed over the possession of splendid high ways. The average was taken on the various propositions, however, just as the replies came in, and the result is extremely interesting. Tho farmers estimated that by rea son of the roads already improved their lands had increased iu value an aver age of $6.48 an acre, one enthusiast placing it at 100 percent. If all roads were improved the Increase was esti mated at $!) an acre. So tho increase of valuo alone on each section of land would amount to $5760, or enough to macadamize four miles, which is twice as much road as a section contains. That is one phase of the question. The annual loss due to poor roads was placed at 76 1-5 cents an acre, which is manifestly too low. Accepting it as correct, however, tho loss from poor roads in five years would amount to $2432 for each section, or enough to build two miles of good road at $1216 each, which is considerably more than the average cost per mile in Indiana. The actual money value of good roads, obtained by adding the loss for not having them to the gain if you did, is S6OOO for every 640 acres, and increases by nearly SSOO every year. These arc facts, ice-cold and not pos sible to contest. With good roads the farmer would make a great economy of time and force in transportation be tween farm and market; he would be able to take advantage of market fluc tuations in buying and selling; he could do the hauling of farm products and purchased commodities in the time of greatest leisure ; the wear and tear upon horses, harness and vehicles would be greatly reduced. The mar ket value of his farm would be greatly enhanced, so that, at the lowest esti mate, his 300 acres would Vie worth S2BBO more, while at least. $250 would be saved every year. These are the facts brought out by Mr. W. C. Latta in the journal known as Paving, and they are worthy the closest attention by farmer and townsman alike.—Kan sas City Times. A Fierce Bird Iroui the Sea. Captain Fausset of the British stenm shi Lord Landsdowne, from Ardroa s. Scotland, captured while at sea a moat peculiar Uird. It is still held captive on board, being penned up in the lower chart room. 11 is very tierce, and tho Captain's large dog is afraid to venture near the peculiar bird. Ever since its capture it has been feeding on raw meat, which is thrown in the window gratings. Early one morning when many hun dred miles from the shore, the bird was seen hovering about in the locality of the ship, and finally it landed ex haunted on tho foretopmast, where it was captured with some ditticillty l>_v tho boatswain. When brought to the deck its craw was found to lie empty, but it refused everything ottered until tho steward threw into the quarter* where it was confined a piece of eauned beef, which it ate. Upon becoming rested the bird became very tierce, ami the sailors were afraid togo near it. It is not known to what species the bird belongs. Its head resemble* somewhat that of an owl, but the bod* is like a chicken, only the wings are much larger and Appear more power fill. Captain Fausset believed the liird was driven off shore in one of the re cent galex. lie does not think it is a tea fowl. Pii....delphia I'rcw. The MMest Soldier in lite World. ItiixMa proudly claim* the oldest soldier, if not th< oldest citizen of any rank, in the known world Her claimant for this distinguished honor is Colollel (irtl/.ellko, nt I'ottuMa, near (hlrnwH, who, il he lives until I britary 7, will cell-brute lii» <>ii" hundred an I twentieth birtlult k Urn *.« u-ru»l the military service in the >. r I7h;», !0( v'ttars ago, i;n<l reeoivud from the lisllds Kmprex CatlJerilie 11. I It M gol< medal fir coUft|ilciioi|* l»ra*«f> st the a*»»ult 01 Tmuit it tin* t 1 ul whlcli the Hiji-.l uairtoi it. j iatl) vtry prmi l Imars, tin iu kwt 11-llull "fat elcuulluual Ullttjf at ttia assault of l'ao«iitb«i 11, 17—si Luiiti M»|>uUue NO. 9. THE OLD M I L.L. Deep in the shadow, down under the hill, Rtand the mossy planks of on old saw-mill. Leaning far over, as if to look At its fair companion, the rushing broolt; For there below in the turbulent stream Lie many a worm-eaten joist and beam. Neglected, forgottec, loft alone. Through its broken roof the breezes moan. And birds sing more softly their cheerful lays, Remembering other brighter days, When this tottering ruin was firm and strong-, And the mill wheel roared Its thunderous song. But the mill wheel lies in the brooklet's bod, And the water's rushing song Ins fled. So the trees growing near extend leafy arms To hide from the sight of tho prosperous farms And protect from the sun's bright, pitiless ray The poor old mill, so shattered and gray. —Alico I!. Leu, in Springllcld Republican. HUMOR OF THE DAY. On time —Wings. A fishing resort—Lying. Column articles—Vertebra?. Cut down in youth—Whiskers. A race for wealth—The Americans. Minds his business—Tho psycholo gist. Forcing the season—Shaking tho pepper-box. Usually out of season—Tho board ing-house pepper-boxes.—Elmira Ga zette. It is said that the bull is very liable to an attack of scarlet fever.—Lowell Courier. After the wedding the typewriter becomes a sewing machine.—New York Advertiser. We o|>ine that a sea dog feels most at home when he is on a bark. —Seneca Republican. "Man wants but little here below," but it seems somebody else has it.— Dallas News. Seems strange that when a lady wants to show her diamonds off she invariably puts them on.—Statesman. Tho long term convict isn't much of a believer in the theory that life is evolved from a cell.—Lowell Courier. After the train is captured, Aftor the robbers have gone, Then come a thousand suggestions Of how things should have been done. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. "What is your best reason for be lieving that she'll marry him?" "Her parents say that she shan't."—Chicago | News. Bessie—"That young Mr. Skimpley has over a million." Kitty (looking over him.)—" Well, he_ needs it!''—' Vogue. • ■ ' •••"'• What a lot of labor -would be saved if the sweeping glances we regd about would only take the dirt from carpets. —Buffalo Courier. Strange to say, many brokers are best pleased with the stock market when it is simply unbearable.—rßoston Commercial Bulletin. Teacher—"Now, Robbie, take four slices of cake from six slices', and what will there be left?" Robbie—"A lickin* for me."—lnter-Ocean. Professor X.(on finding a living bug in his textbook of zoolQgy)—"Ha, how did this thing get here among the mammals?"—Fliegende Blaetter. Tho prophet hath a curious way His wonders to perform ; For he predicts a sunny day - ' And straightway comes n, r —Kato Field's Washington. "Waiter, it is almost half ah hotlr since I ordered that turtle soups" ± Waiter —"Sorry, sir, but you know how slow turtles is."—Fliegende Blaet ter. Mamma—"Georgie, have you been a good boy to-day?" Georgie—"That's not for me to say. You would not have me boastful or egotistic, mamma." —Boston Transcript. Teacher—"Emma, what do you know of the orchid family?" Emma—"lf you please, madam, mamma has for bidden us to indulge in auy family gossip."—Fliegende Blatter. Mrs. Clinker —"I understand, Mrs. Yaulters, that your son is going up rapidly ill college." Mrs. Vaulters— "Yes, indeed. He's already broken the high jump record."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "What makes you look so unhappy?" "Toothache." "Allow me to congrat ulate you. ' "Why?" ''A man who at eighty can still have toothache is cortainly to be congratulated."—Flie gendo illnotter. Jiggers- "Young Just wed snys his wife is a very magnetic woman.' dag ger"—"You bot she is. He asked het to let him go downtown with me the otli.-r night and she showed both nega tive and positive qualities ill !iulf a minuts." Buffalo Courier. Yacht* Were AI warn I'leHsur* Vensei*. The term "yacht" is derived irotn the Danish word jut;lit, meaning a c'lase ; henco yachting i* the chasing >f ono vi snel »iter another and, ac cordingly, yachting and yacht racing ii v syuonyiiiou-i mpii'ssiiini. A yacht 11 iiinl ub ■\ »t ha* lieen ewmtialjy a |de'i lire craft. History iloea not tell lis where, w!ieu, or under wiiutcir- I'liMntauNH yacht* were lirM b"ilt, but it la certain they are of unciout <>r' 'i and w -re only own I In royal I r»oin and gi at million, -f.ouuon i tn - I'a •Mul'd to tile Inner ill l.nttilaii, \ t..»idou |ia|x-r »a>» that prolinldy v iy I w |i r»o»|t> 1.II"» that the Lord Mayor I* the onl\ n otbur than lie 'JfUi'll and the countable who < >•»- the |>a>t»ut'd t » the Tower of II ! 'l<» |H"<»MOI I H sent t<i tliti Mm* lb quarterly, aigitvd by It i M#i«tll It u a i ki> iT»I uI kit abOi«lit ClltiOM.
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