THE OLD OACUERREOTYPES. , BT JOB LIHCOLH. in tbtmill 1 1 found thsm, locked In tlm oailar chsst. 11)111 ,i,jtt IT - . " Linj ns , ' . uuai coats Rny with stripes, iKUarrnotynK). fcr the fiowomd (towns lla folded, wlileh n I the qnwir old Jnekots and tli walVci ''"ly to'l ol i worn-out fashion ttitw.) old u.ik " nlnt Httls folding esses fastened with tiny hook, I'Cm.lnKly to tmpt on tn lift up tlio latch nnd look, Sines or purple velvet, odd little frames of irold, -.fcllnfj tho laded faces brought from tlio dnys of old. ' knrlnii And grandma, taken vr o Ions bro, i. antlrnn's honnt a marvel, RrBndpii' Pollar a show; liter a tiny toddler, with Hons on her nnby hnn1s '"'lolmi Ut nono should notlflo in Rllttorlnn, glided band. J ills and nneles nnd consin, n stnrehy nnd stilt nrrny, er nn( lirldni, thon bloomlnc, but now no wrinkled (ind gray, a tbrouuh the misty Kinases they gam nt mo, slttlnn liarn " Bolus tho quaint old cases with u smile that lit bnlf n tear. d ill) smllo no more, llltlo pictures, for heartless It was, In truth, r. idro to the croel daylight these Rtiosts of i vanished youth. I ibnok tn your ondnr chamber, your gowns nnd yonr Invendnr. A rlrenin 'mid their bjgous grucos. of tho wondurful days thnt w.'re. ' . Saturday KvenliiB Tost. "nnaj wtn itemed 10 "i;ln't lot. (.n. That v " l and lo and bcho Almiry Smith if Mi: 1' L . . il:.. O- - t ,i I A"U sorry mr .uin.i ou v" lers," remarked Mr. Abijah i i jmith, "oyon if she is promlor Kihan in. I s'poso sho can't r 1 thonfrli. All the Sanderson 'I'tyay. rovorty nnd pride ain't .fellow, howover." n. trite as tho Gospel," re-mi- U. White, with whom Mrs. '' spending tho afternoon. ' m ssyiug only yestorday i'fHaudor must find it pretty x tag. But she's got bo intioh t she'd die before she'd have inspect she needed help. It's ! hut that way. Folks would tll; help !r if she'd let them." I. jtaud ! Don't attempt to give -..ding!" oried Mrs. Smith in hi. she'll treat you liko she til!- "'" wns that?" ""'(tho other day 1 happened to U'UU she was eHting iier din I wa awful upsnt, bnt I made Vt uotioe anything, though ke ne feel bad when X Htie "'I nothing on tho table but '" 'i few oiHOkors. A couplo of ',f, I run over again with a ,'f"ji'e I junt imido and I says to ljl: 'MisH Handera, I just if laluna; iu". 1 brought over one l,,jlard plOH for ynu to try. oodfe gave mo n new recipe.' er .:jit as nico us you please, t whs dreadful afraid she tl,Jtond I wan tickled to piooes, wan on behold, my iss San- 't ooruo over on Saturday e)eg;ntel rniaed cake you 1 '"5 The poor dear just made "j'it, though she inUBt havo 0 ;!woek to make up for it," 1 1,1 JV"iut, who had been nludying ,U is for tho next day, overheard intt iraation, aud it nutdo a deep iili-.Hi upon ' hor. "Poor Mihs U:t she sighed pityingly, "I Old help her." Jays Inter Addia paid Miss ' f'i visit. "Next Friday I ahall years old, and I'm going to !" irthday party after school," ler eagerly, "and I thought ''"'"( be ju'si lino if you would '"'loine of yonr elegant, cream i'.IVVJI need it lot of it, you ('iyour candy is so good every y.Jwaut. all they got. Will you , 'yiome?" ; :0Ui lindors 1'esilnied aud flushod. i Vt shrewd enough to guess ,yas tliiukiug of the expense je with the request involved, bay yon-will," she urgod. rj -Judys you can ooino over to m :Q in the morning nnd mako 1 iJ while she is doing her bak foiif kitchen is lots bigger thau iyjd everything is haudy. and liiif fl only oae mess to clea'i up." Iiudeia looked at her rather ":ily. "Did your mother plan I'ahe asked solemnly. 4, I thought of it myself," .hmj Addie. "Mother didn't in to ask you at liict, because m. would bo too muuhforyon." '"l: I like) it." answered Miss r,' ber suspicions vanishing. e over, thon, Fridny morn- bake yon all tho civudy you '"I ' , ) inlanders nep!, her word, and jaoie sweetmeats disappeared .throaUof the Goshon yonug w, ith remarkable rapidity. t day Ad'lie brought a littlo B19Sl,, - Mr. Albeit livaus, rW ' ' Ma"" t bo postofflne M,i.H ft- A- letter which Addie -.1 in ? ""ie-s rcaa thus fit, r ' nnMH ru cwcctmccc : ,i cause there oro mnny people who will pay a good price for pure, home-made candy, lie d like tweuty-nvo poundu to start on, to see if it takes as well as be expects, and he'll pay thirty cents a pound for it, and he sent the monoy for it. Ihore now ! concluded Addie, triumphantly, "ain't that nioe?" Miss Sanders gasped. The tears came to her yes, but her heart bounded with thankfulness. "Mercy on met I never heard of such a thing!" she incredulously exclaimed. "Don't folks in the city know how to mako croam candy?" "I a'poso they do," answered Ad die, "but not as good as yours. No body can make it like you, everybody says so. You'll mako the caudy for uncle, won't you?" "Why, yes, especially as he's paid for it already, ut it good price, too," returned Mtss Handors. "But does your mother kuow anything about this?" sho asked abruptly. "Why, no. She was over to Miss Smith's when father brought mo the letter, and Iran right overbore I lie minute I read it," answered Addio a trifle uneasily. The did ludy lookod much relievodat her reply. "Ithought perhaps it was your mother's doings, uud I couldn't be beholden," she said apologetically. "I'll ntnrt on tho candy the lirst thing in the morning." "And I'll come in nnd help you after school. I want to see how you'll got along." "Thank yoo, dearie. I hope I'll liavo good luek. I'm not used to making so much nt ouo time." Early next morning Miss Sanders went to work on tho candy. Hho watched her kettles anxiously, but luck favored her. Everything turned out just as it should, though all her pots aud pani were pressed into ser vice Addie, whon she called after school, found Miss Sanders flushed but happy over her "bountiful luck." Of course Addie tasted the caudy, and pro nounced it tho best sho hud ever euten Thou she set to work, under Miss Sanderw's direction, anil the candy was daintily wrappud, weighed aud packed. Miss Sanders was very happy over the rosult of her day's work. She hud labored like a Trojan, aud sho was thoroughly tired out. "I'll jnst bo ou needles and pius till I find out how the candy suits, and if yonr uncle will want any more," she remarked anxiously. lJut evtn Addio did not suspect bow eagerly tho old ludy prayed that Springfield folks would tind her caudy to their liking and she would be kept busy supplying tho demand. I'ow (losheu people had any idea how far along on the rood to tho poorhouso Miss Sunders really was. After tho cooking utonsils had boon washed nnd tho kitchen tidied, Addie went home with a light heart, uud wrote her uncle a letter which that gentleman cherished as a treasure. "Another letter from Uncle Albert!" announced Addio, rushing in upou Miss Sandors about two weeks later. "Good news in it, too!" "Tour fiico tells that," answered the old lady, beaming. "Hut what does be soy?" "Ho says the caudy sold twice as fast as ho expected, aud ha wants you to make 100 pounds this time, mid scud it as soou as you caul" was tho gleeful reply. "Land of mwy!" ejaculated Miss Sanders. "And he's going to ziund you a bar rel of sugar and n case of flavoring ex tracts, at tho wholesale rate," con tinued Addio, "and he'll tako tho price oil' what he'll owe you. lie says that will bo cheaper and better than buying in smull lots, for ho expects to havi, a demand for tho candy right along." "Did yoa over!'' agaiu exclaimed Miss Sanders. "Thirty dollurs' worth! What great candy eaters those city folks must be!" Miss Sunders was more thau busy after that. She hired n littlo girl to help her, and orders for tho candy, which Uncle Albert judiciously adver tised as "Cupid Creum Candy," con tinued to come do fast that she was obliged to make regular weekly ship ments, uud the den tind it still grow ing. The dread of tho poorhoiiHo pubsoiI away and Miss Sanders bcoame her own cheorful self. Addio is allowed to havo all tho cu.nly sho wants at any time, and she and Miss Sanders are the very host of frieuds. "I do beliove you had more to do with your Unole Albert ordering the candy thuu you over told me of," said Miss Sanders to Addio one day, "Now, didn't you?" Aud Addie blushed aud begun to talk about somothing else. St. Louis Clubo-Domocrat. the lowliest old hh poor as poor lis :.""---1 "ere !h.iiM, but Mb. '?' wore riot! oncujbut ust,y lU'tts left iuhI siio s got no l i t ,U t nuy h nK M,n cnu do. li',wJ ' ,J . ' 7" ' r UH"UV vo" over ,121 i f""'l0(f om. kheius.1.1 for " ,rt ;, 1 r,.'.k l,1UHt i"ts of M tell ... ;. .. t . huj mn nun 'v;Sn ' ,vi",y'elsoS? If I have urrt er Ban- ilicrsr it, eve lvt41ier leM hoartl" exclaimed .of I'.vh.h i Co., when he had ill, ltod.iig llns epistle. "That , fWays iU'akin,'raomo sohomo nlllJjt"er people." latw Addie pllt iu ,n ce befer Miw Suuders, her ; wiss K,i:i(i0.Si Bomotlii ;77::;.Bho"ined. I rfc; K '.r Ml8a in " "J uoiuidu very cr oomes my way." en niuf i, ..i.... , Tvoi . " :" vo" w" y" "r. Vo.'i lull n,,,,!.,,,,,. to i..,.. -if .,' ,. r.y..y"uM oarlovlii;r iiUmb, Amur.. , , ouc, ie- ,' l' 7y.l ?rnwlu(i a letter r' made for uuv ,., n "I -k V l;!; UU Unul iu' Spring- tel. 'MJovuJofooue aiif JU'-.u I a soma .,i . .. - uij oiriu- b'lter in from him. whether 'the person buiou,, old-fshioued .'HtajiiMt oxaetlywhut 'ftcd Addie, looking ' und nodding her vi ho saw bor mi vory wide in oiild bo willing to ' He says lieU sell o sreat deal, bc- r till' jfl till pi'th : ll IW'l'l HOW PLANTS ARE BRED. HYBRIDIZATION PROCESS NEITHER DIFFICULT NOR MYSTERIOUS. tVofcMor Oillowny Itesprltte Kxperl ineiits by the As-rlimttnral liepnrtinrnt t Wsnhlnnton Sdrklni si Mora N u trltluua Corn New Forma of Frnlt. The Wit or m "Best Man." A gallant "best man" oauie- to the rescue at a recent wedding, when the ring was uot forthcora.ng at the right time. lie drew from his lie the fleu der stickpin that had been adorning it, nnd, bending the wire into ring shapo, hauded the improvised wed ding ring to the distracted groom, -Vlien Woman Feel at Home, Lots of women never feel really at home unless they are away visiting 80iuowhere, New York Tress, urpHK I wt I be HE breeding of animals is well understood and has eon practiced for years, bnt you cannot say as mnoli of the breoding of plants," said I'rofeBsor B. T. Galloway, chief of the vegetable physiology division of the Agricultural Department at Wash ington. "It is true, nevertheless, that the breeding of plants has been car ried on with most satisfactory results, mostly by private parties, but with little attempt to determine the princi ples involved. The possibilities in the breeding of plants are just as great as in tho breeding of animals. We find all throngh natnro a constant effort on the part of the plant to im prove. There is a constant progres sive tendency in all organism, animal as well as vegetable, and in tho ques tion of breeding man only takes ad vantage of these oonditions and uses them to his own interest. The fact is that most of tho improved forms of plants we have to-day aro derived in a raoro or less spontaneous way, and havo linen propagated by people who hnvo discovered them and have taken advantage of the improvements. Na tnro has been made to do the work un assisted. As I say, most of our culti vated fruits and plauts at thu present time velQ developed by nature, and are there tore to bo put down as acci dents. "Emphasis should bo planed upon the fact that plants are not fixed en tities," continued Professor Galloway. "I am Awure that this is the general impression, but plants aro exceeding ly plastic! and can bo modeled witliiu certain limits to meet almost any de- sue. Looking at plants from that standpoint the wide Hold nnd possi bilities in developing new forms will bo seen. Tho proooss of hybridizing plants, as this is called, is neither difficult nor mysterious, it being sim ply necessary to understand the gen eral struoture of tho flower to bo used. Flowers havo soxunl organs, the stamen and pistil, tho former be ing tlio malo, arc nsually several iu uumber. The very numerouii small, yellow, powdery grains of pollen, which constitute the male fecundating nlomeuts, are born in sacks, and when tho portion of the flower which bears them, known as tho anther, matures it bursts and the pollen is exposed. A quantity of this pollen must be transferred cither by natural or arti ficial nioaus to the stigma of the fo niale organ in order to insure founda tion. The pistils, which are the fe male organs, occupy the center of the flower and are surrounded by tho Btamons. The upper portion of the pistil is usually somewhat swollen and more or loss rough. It is on this por tion of the pistil, known as the stig ma, that the pollen must full to pro duco fecundation. In tho majority of plants tho stamens and pistils arepro duced in the same flowor, as iu the orange, tomato and our common fruit trees, but in certain plauts they aro produced iu difTeront flowors on tho same plant, and in others on different plants, "Tho most important featnro in the work of crossing is to exclude from the stigma all pollen except that which it is desired to use. Iu the manipulation of orange (lowers ma ture buds neatly ready to opeu are se lected, and the tips carefully pried lpart until tho stamens are exposed. The pollen is then transferred to the pistil of tho flower selected, and a ma aila pnpor Back or a gauze bag placed trouud it to prevent foreign pollen jntering. The hybridizing process :au be carried as fur as the experi menter pleases. It consists of taking :he pollen from tho stameu and trans ferring it to tho pistil. Where the ;wo organs are found in the same Jowor it is necessary to destroy tho stamen before it matures to assure that pollen from it does not interfere with the experiment. We have also tarried on extensive experiments with pineapples, and have succeeded iu ;ottiug crosses with cortuin important rarieties iu order to develop forms for ivhiek there is a demand. It is possi ole to produce plants and fruits to uoet any demand. Wo aro now work ing to develop a pineapple that has jualities difTeront from anything we low have. "Those experiments I have referred to have beou on the scacoasts of the ;onutry. Aside from those we are 3orrying on extensive experiments in he iuterior in the crossing of whoat, ?orn and other cereals. This year we lid extensive work in Nebraska with ;orn. Wo havo beon trying to develop rarieties that will have greater food value than those now iu existence, and the food which the new varieties con tain to bo in different ratios from that which we now possess. There has been considerable talk of tho possibil ity and desirabiltity of increasing the uitrogenons contonts of corn. That is one of the things wanted. The ul trogeuons contents of corn are low compared with other cereals. If it can be lnoreasoil, even by a small percentuge, it will mako its food value tuueli greater. "The experiment isbeing conduotod something iu this way: Wo find that thero is a marked variation in the nitrogenous contents of oorn not only iu different varieties but in the dif ferent grains of tho same variety, on the same stalk but iu different ears. The nitrogen oouid be inoreasod by crossing two varieties having other characteristics and value with high uitrogonous contents, and by selection of be ears and grains obtain a variety with higher percentage of nitrogen. liyj selection and by crossing corn knqwu to possess high nitrogonous oonttents forms cau be developed that , if the experiment is carried far ugh, result iu materially inoreas the value of ooru. VTbere are male and female organs torn aud the plant is one of the iost in the world to oross, owing to fact that these organs of roproduo are separate and not in the same ver. The tassel at the top of i coiustalk ia the male organ that far nishes the pollen and the silk of tht ears in the female or can. This silk if hollow, and the pollen, falling by na tnre npon nor placed there in cross ing experiments, enters tho tilk tube; at the exposed end and proceed through to the cob, where feonnda tion produces the - grain. When crossing experiments are being con ducted the tassel is ent from tho stalk where the new earn is desired and the pollen from tho selected stalk if scattered npon the silk. It is ens tomary, however, to protect the oar, for otherwise pollen may bo bronght by the wind from adjoining rows ol corn or even from a distance and in terfere with the plan. We have jusl begun the corn experiments, and hope by breeding more varieties, among other things, to extend the northern corn bolt by producing hardior varie ties. "With wheat we have worked longer, but in much tho same way, our object being not only to increase tho variety, but to produce a hardy species that will resist diacasos and certain climatio conditions. We have worked to accomplish cortain objects. For instance, foreigners arc begin ning to realize that our wheat is vaIii a bio for macaroni, aud our own millers and bakors have discovered that wheat growu in certain sections is valuable for crackers. It is possible by studying the peculiarities of dif ferent wheat to determino that which is bust suited for ditTercut purposes, and so wo aro proceeding by cross breeding to improve tlicni. "The possibilities of plant breed ing," 'ntinuod Trofessor Galloway, "seem limitless. Tho extent to which improvements oan bo carried in bonudless. Heretofore, as I have stated, most of the work has beon conducted by individuals without any purpose of establishing principles. When plant breeding is bettor under stood it will be possiblo to bring deli nito forms ol vegetable life togotki and produce any rosult desired. A strnugo but trutt ful story is related by Professor .T. 11. Bailey, of Cornell, of a seed man in New York advertis ing iu his prospectus that he would furnish his customers during the next season a bran now boan with a pecu liar kind of pod. This nurseryman bad in bis own mind decidod what he wanted. It had uovor beou prodnced bofore. lie called to his assistant, an expert in plant breeding, aud, by draw ing, explained tho kind of bean ho desired. It was like a man calling a contractor, displaying his plans aud specifications and instructing him to procoed aud erect a honse. Yes, tho uursoryman bad bis bean, just what he wanted, and furnished his custom ers as bo promised. "If some of us plant breeders hail lived ouo hundred years ago we would have beon burned at the stake. There is a man in California who makes it n business to produce now forms of plants and fruits. Ho decides what he wants, breods to produoe the re sults desired, and when he obtains something possessing qualities that will recommend it ho disposes of n seedling to some nurseryman and then resumes his work for new results. The nursoryman having tho seedling possesses a monopoly of that particu lar variety and is permitted by the California exporimentor to disposo of it as ho pleases. CURIOUS FACTS. On a wager that be could put a col lar ou an ungovernable horse, o travel ing man deliberately killed the ani mal in Main street, St. Paul, Minn., the other day, and thon adjusted tho collar. Ho was arrested. Glass bricks aro gradually coming into use. Glass will soon be used for making statues for public places. It resists tho corroding effect of tho weather much better thau marble or granite. The Russian photographers have a strange way of punishing those who, having received their photographs, do not pay their bills. Thoy bang tho pictures of the delinquents upside down at the entrauco to their studios. Several weeks ago a calf was born on Roubou Uairs'sfarm, iu Thorncreolc Township, Ind., and instead of the regulation hair the quadruped was enveloped in a hue coat of black wool. The calf is n line one and is growing rapidly, nnd so is the wool on it, When it baas it is diflloult to tell whether the sound resembles that of lamb or a calf. The smallest inhabited island in tho world is that on whioh tho Eddystono lighthouse stanas. At low water it is thirty feet in diameter; at high water tho lighthouse, whose diameter at the base is 28 feet, completely covers it. It is inhabited by three persons. It lies nine milos off the Cornish const and fourteen miles southwest of Ply mouth Breakwater. A vory onrions case is recorded iu tho surgical history of the Civil War, in whioh three officers were hit just at the same time. One had his leg from the knee down carried away, but he rodo ton milos to the hospital. Another lost his little finger, and he became a raving maniac. Wbllo a third was shot through the body, and, though he did not shed a drop of blood ex ternally, dropped dead from the shock. There isauoldouurcb in Waukogan, Wis., which has no steeple, because of a oourt mandate forbidding such a construction. In 18G2 a severe storm swept over the towu, hurling the orig inal spire against tho houso next doot and wrecking it. The owner of the house got au injunction restraining the trustees of the oburoh from build ing auothor spire, aud this order has held for thirty-oight years. Confectionery For the Army. "Candy" has been addod to the ra tions of the American soldier. Fifty tons ot oonfeotiouery have been sent to the troops in tho Philippines, Cubs and Puerto llioo by one New York firm. The sweots preferred are ehoo olate oreams, eocoanut drops, lomon drops and aoidulated drops. These are sealed in one pound cans of as oval shape to fit the pockets of a sol dier's uniform. As we have bofore mentioned, the Germans have found that sugar improves the endurance ol soldiers, and issue ohooolate and othet sweets to the army. Jam ia also good for men in tlio field, London Globe, GOOD ROADS NOTES. Will Not Increase Taxatlna. IN her travels and missionary worl to promote the sentirnont for goo roads iu Illinois, Miss Ilarbei claims to have boon vorysuocos fill in enlisting tho co-operation o4 commercial bodies in different towns. Among farmers, however, sho line some difUoulty iu explaining that thr association bIio represented was working not for hard ronds but fo: good roads. Tho nvorugo farmer, sh found, easily became frightened at th proposal for hard ronds, for that raaket them think of macadam, which wonlc mean increased taxation. In a reccnf address Miss Harber said: "Our sole im nt present is to make good noff roads, which iu yoars to come will furnish foundations for good hare roads. As an association wo regaro1 our work as experimental and oduca tioual. Wo aim to have nt each of out conventions manufacturers and ma chines for constructing suinplo pieces ef road, that farmors may son in n practical demonstration bow n roai' should be built to bo of vnluo to the community. The object lessons show how a road should ho built no thai water will drain oil; how culverts should be constructed and arrangoJ in ordor propoily to fulfill their mis sion, and how really inexpensive it is to make good roads whon the work is done intelligently uud systematically. Wc no not intend to increaso taxa tion ouo penny, for wo know that tho 31,000,000 onuually expended by III t- nois is snfliciont to build good roadF throughout tho Stnto. But wo do ask that tho farmors will lot tho State do the work, according to uu approved system, and not work out their poll tax by pretonding to build good roads. Not that they do uot menu to do theit best so far us they kuow or hove the ability, but thoy havo not tho facili ties aud cannot do tho work as it should bo douo. Wo kuow that under tho proper system a good rural road can bo made for loss money than it now costs. Wo want, if possiblo, to see tho poll tax roduced to $1, bnt want the farmors to pay that dollar into the fStuto treasury, instead of working it out, ns is now tho case, and wo oxr.eot toconviuco him that it will bo to hie ad van (ago to do it." Tho State and Iutcrstato Good Roads Association, represented by Miss Har bor, ombracos twenty-two or moro States, und is tho outgrowth of a State convontion held in Missouri in 1897, at which 700 delegates wero presont. Miss Harbor and Mix men woro ap pointed a committou to travel over the country and organize county associa tions. At tho end of one year, when tho lirst interstato convention, at tended by 2500 delegates, was hold in St. Louis, soventy-two counties had been organized, aud as Miss Harber had organized sixty-six of tho total she wss unanimously chosen geuoral secretary uud orguuizor. The Movement In New York. Governor Roosevelt recoived at the Executive Chamber over a hundred delegate from various parts of tho Stute, who wero in Albany to attend thu Convention of Representatives ol County Boards of Supervisors to dis cuss highway improvement undor the proposed oporation of tho luws enacted for good roads. Tho party was mar iliallod into tho Governor's presonco by State Engineer Bond, who intro duced Mr. Joseph' L. Loo, of West .ihester. Speakiugfor his colloagues, Mr. IjCO said they wanted au uppro priation of 31,000,000 for good roads, and if tho Legislature refused to make inch an appropriation, he boliovod the party deserved to bo driven from powor. Ho Lclioved that tho Gov jruor would ospouso their causo, as ho always had the causo of everything just and right. .Tho Governor, iu reply, said he was ;!ud to moot so many onruest chain pious of the good roads movement, lie thought it uunccessary to assuro -,hem of his hearty sympathy with their cause. This Sttito must hnvo ood roads and wo must improvo our methods of eoiumuuioatiou, especially in the rural districts. Tho Governor mid that ho thought that, as a rule, tho members of tho Legislature would respect the wishes of those whom they represented wheu tho peoplo got thoso wishes properly formulated. Ho, thore fore, urged thorn to organize and mako the strength and sincerity of their purposes npparout. Whou this is .lone, tho Governor said, the difficulty Df getting appropriations would end. The Governor said he thought the .lolegatcs wero gottiug the movement iugood shnpo by suoh meetings us the sue thoy wore now holding hoio, and ho hoped the conveution would bear fruit iu practical results. The Good Rouds Couveution adopt ed a resolution that it was the sense of the convention that there should bo no nmendmeut of the Higbio-Arm-strong bill this your. The delegates decided to ask the Legislature for an appropriation of $1,000,000, whioh is considered the amount necessary to be paid by tho State for a propor inaug uration of the work. A proposition iu favor of tho employment of convicts ou tho roads was approved, A Home Example. Otto Doruer, Chairman of the L. A. W, Highway Improvement Commit tee,wbo is oonsidored one of tho boat informed good roads mon in this country, says: "We are not obliged to go to Europe for illustrations of good roads, for we have, fortunately, a few localities in our own country which furnish suoh examples, Mecklenburg County, N. C, not long ago bogau the construction ot a systom of mac adam rouds. It was customary there to load up two bales ot eottou on a wagon to bo hauled by a mule team The mules could draw this load all right. After a rain, wheu the roade were soft, the load was too much foi eveu a pair of tough mules. When the country had built a few roads il was found that tho same mules wort able to haul as muoh as twolvo bales, or six tons, in place of their formei load, which amounted to only a single ton. And moro the improved roade made it possible to haul this load in wet aud dry weather alike, for, boina properly built of stone, they were fil for nse immediately after a beavj lain." There are 10,000 miles of railway now iu operation or. under construe tion in Africa, BABY RAN THE LOCOMOTIVE. A Three-Vear-Old'a Trl Atone en 1 Knlne Itunnlna Wild. "I can rnn an engine like papa," said little three-year-old Fred Evans as he was lifted down from the loco motive of the St. John's motor line at Albina, Oregon, n few days ago. Ho bad mounted the engine at Ht. Johns, pulled opeu the throttle and remained ou the seat alone on a mad l ido of sevon mi'os. The yonug en gineer is the son of W. B. Evnns, of St. Johns, an engineer ou the motor lino. He had often been on the en gine, and his father had explained to hi in how the lever is pulled and the whnolo Btnrtod moving. The ongine lies over an honr at St. Johns, just by the water tank, and dining this time, while Mr. Evans was at home at lunch, little Fred wnlkod dowu to the engine, mounted tho Beat and openod the throttle wide. Tbo machine was full of coal and water, and won ready for tho road, Soverul people saw tho boy start, bnt no one was near enough to catch the engine. Tho news wns at onoo told to .Mr. Evans, and he ronolied the track jnst in time to see the loeomo tivc, with his boy on bourd, disappear around a curve. The father was wild with grief and fear, and the boy' mother was almost prostrated. The news spread like wild lire, nnd tho wbolo town turned out, Excito mont wns intense, women and chil dren cried and men ottered suggos. tions. Master Mechnnio Miohael F. Brady was at that end of the lino and nt once began to telephone to stations along tho line. Portsmouth and Peninsular wore notified, and men at these points tried to board the engine ns it dashed by, but' its speed was too great. Mr. Brady also notified tho olllco nt Albina, and a party of meu ran out the line northward to meet the wild engine. In coming up the long grade toward Albina, tho steam had diod down a- littlo, bnt the regis ter still showed tielity ponuds. John Woods, a motormau ou the City and Suburban Railway, wns the first man to meot the engine He caught tho hand rail and swung up, bnt iu doing so he was dragged sixty or soventy flvo feet, ne at once turned olT tho steam, and tho ongine slowed down and stopped. It was theu yonug Fred raado the remark concorniug his ability as nn engine-driver. The boy wns not scared at all, bnt seemed rather proud of his fent. Whou the engiue first dashed out of St. Johns he wns frightened, and as lie came throngh Portsmouth like a shot out a gnu lie was yelling lustily for "mama." After coming several miles, however, ho again becumo brave aud held his position on tho seat with composure, witn his hand ou the lover, like a veteran. Tho engine was stopped in front of tho home of Dr. Davis, on Commercial street, nnd wns quickly run buck to St. Johns by Mr. Woods with tho boy Fred still on board. Mr. Woods said his success iu boarding the engiue was u surprise to him, as well as every oue else, us its speed was still consider able The eugiuo had made tho ruu from St. Johns to Albina in less thau half un hour. In the meantime the news of the rescue bod been sont by telephone to tho frightoned parents, and for the remainder of tho day thero was great joy iu all St. Johns, r.nicleucy of Japnni'so Scrrutiln. Japanese servants aro moro nnd more in demand every year in New York City, ns their offieienoy has been proved and they aro lookod upou as moro capable than any other kiud of domestic help. Thore is ouo serious objection to them which cannot al ways bo overcome. They lavish their politeness und courtesy on tho mascu line members of tho household iu which they aro employed aud cauuot bo induced to trout tho woiuou with respect. One gentleman who hnd a Jnpnuoso butler said the other day that ho was compelled to part with him solely becuuso ho could not in dnoo him to say good morning to his wilo. "He wiih always obsequiously polite to mo," suid his former em ployer, "aud greater respect could not have boon demanded, but it was impossible to mako him realize thut it wus his duty to treat tho women of my household iu tho Banie way. I ex postulated with him on this grouud and told him that in this country it was moro important to bo polite to women thau to meu. That made no impression, und after ho bad repeat edly rofused to give my wife nny more thau a sullen nod after greeting me effusively, I was compelled to pnrt with him. His explanation when he left was ingenious. Ho told mo he was very sorry ho could uot got ulong and addod thut it would boa very dif ficult mutter for mo over to find a but ler any moro polite to tho women, ns the training of n lifetime was not to bo overcome is n few years, aud all Japanese would probably uot junt as ho had dono when tho timo enme to soy good morn ing to tho misticssof tho house." Sew York Sun. I'liluted I'uraei-aplts. It you aio in doubt about it, don't do it. In the world's great drama tho ocean plays tho principul role. A samplo room is dangerous wheu too many samples aro taken. Tho uiau who bus nothing to do but clip coupons cuts quite a figure. Every man bus been, is, or will be handsouio in the eyes of some womau. The opinions of a child may bo of no value, but they are at least houost. A girl is invariably iu love when she refers to thu twilight as the gloam ing. The womau who paints her cheeks and the man who dyes his whiskers fool only one person. A bachelor says that widows weep not because of the loss of a husbaud, but because of the laok of one. Probably no person living ever saw a picture of Cupid that looked as though the little fellow bud good com mon sense. Figures may not lie; bnt wheu a girl looks like 160 pounds and only pulls the scales down at 116, there is something wrong somewhere. Chi cago News, War's Million or Victims. Au army officer estimates that iu the century just closing no fewer than 30,000,000 men have been killed iu war ia civilised countries. Isms Sctsita's Gaanrry. A remarkBble scene was rewntlf witnessed on Imnrd the battleship I)p vastntlon at Malta. About 10 o'clock on that night the Inhabitants, m well as the officers and men of the ships In hnrbor. were startled by tbf firing of two gun within about a minute of pnch otber. The unusual clrcnmstnnce led to Immediate Inquiries being mnd, and It was found Hint a yonng seaman who had only recently joined tire De vastation from the cruiser Venus bnd developed symptoms of Insanity, nnd, forcing opon the 0 pounder uingnzlnr, possessed himself of two thiirges, which, fortunately, proved to be blank ones, made his vrny to the deck anil fired a chnrgo from one of the 0 poundcr guns on the port side of the ship. He then loaded the gun a second time and discharged It Jnst as several oiflcers and uipn rushed up and seized him. It wns at once seen that he wns suffering from nientnl derangement, and the mcdlrnl officer of tho atrip ordered his removal to the Royal Naval Hospital, where he remains under trentmcnt. That the poor fellow only succeeded In removing blank charges from tho uingnglne was ao exceedingly fortunate circumstance, for It so hap pened that the gun from which ho fired them was trained dlroclly on the cruiser Venus, wlillo a number of bouses on shore were In the Imme diate background. Und the cbargos. therefore, been full Instead of blank. It Is easy to Imnglne that nn appalling disaster might hnvo bud to be record ed. Ixmiloii News. An interesting effect of the employ ment of women in ninny new spheres of labor which bns been seen during tho lust twenty years is the remarkable extension which has . been caused in the working period of a woman's I f e. Every day the term of woman's ac tivity is being lengthened, and instead of retiring from renuons work at thirty-five, which was the limit form erly fixed of the ordinary woman's business career, tbo woman of to-day nt t lint ago is only approaching th plenitude of ber powers. C. E. Ool lett, in regard to the domestio bear ing of tins change In the status of women, snys: "Formerly ot the ftge of eighteen the young person wns ex pected to relieve her invalid mother of household enres nnd brighten her aged fnihcr's declining years. But mothers in 1000 refuse to become de crepit nnd take to tho sofa merely be cause their daughters are grown np. The new mother may bo .considerably over thirty-five, bordering on fifty perhaps, but she neither feels aged, nor looks it, and is rather inclined to look beyond her home for fall scope for her powers whon tltos set fret from maternal cares. Mental activity gives freshness and interest to life, und to be fresh and interested is to be young." Miss Collett insists thut it is because girls have been taught to use their brains, and women have been encouraged to keep them in re pair, that this old utureotyperi con ception of the necessary failure of woman's power after thirty-fivo years of age hin become absurd. Many of our newspapers contfnuo to talk about the National City "bank robbery." This is very strange. Sec retary Gage has fully explained that there wasn't anything but a "convent ence." The bank didn't need n "jim my" to oreak Into the United States treasury. No woman can muke a man weak who cannot first make him think fc Is strong-. MARKETS. rAI.TIMIllIS. fillAIV T.T' ITOUi-Ilnllo. lest Tut. y- 4 Ttl IHi.'li firiiilo I'.xlru t 00 WHEAT No. 2Iii'(l " '' ( (1I(.N..N. 2 Whito :'J 41) (tills Nnut hern 4 retm... ail1,' l.'YK Nn. 2 fil 6.1 II AY 1 'Ik.ii Tlm.itliv.. J"iO mini io.nl to I'rlmn It W J5IM VI II WV- live In car Ids.. MOD Wlicnt Itln.-ks VM MOO Ont Blocks II UU l' 60 . rANN I-1) (iimns. TOMATOES-Stud. No. a 19 f No. 2 f,:, PICAS standards 1 10 i Seconds St) ('MIX Dry 1'itclt sn Moist 7( iiittrs. CITY RTKER8 il 0 It'., t'lly.Cn,v it) li; inriioi.s and vixrTAiH.ss. roTATOKS-Biirhunlis. . M In ONIONS M 4,1 riinvtsiiixs, nor, nionrrTs-thk ( v i t'lcnr i Halites 7 7' .' Iliuns JOJj 111 Mess Pork, nor hur 12 7,' I,A III) -Crude 4 Dit ri-lliied 7 IHTTI-.n-I lim ( rmy.... 2fl 27 ruder I'lit'i. If in t'ruiiniury Holla 2tl K7 riir.r.HK, CIirF.sr.-N. Y. Fancy.. I I J.I-, N. Y. Fluls IJI'f JM'j k-klin Clu'esu 1 t to os. EOf.H Mnto 13 1 North fiiroliiiii iJ I I L1VS roOLTRt CIIK'Kr.NS II ' '. Dueks, per lt 11 li lnnAeco. TOBACCO Mil. Iuh'r'.. 151 IM Sound coimiiou H U 4M) Mlddllui' :)1 701 Fancy 10JJ 110J I.1VU kTOfl(. PF.F.F Beat lloevos 4 2D 70 fjllF.KI 4 i5 lloK h ub asu hitim. Ml'SKIIAT ID Jt lllli-eooii 41) 4-i lied l'OX :HI bkinik llliiek. Ml 0nmiui 'i VI Mink Nl Oiler tuo Kw volts' FLOrrt Soutlieru 3 85 4) 4 20 WllfcAT No. ailed 7u 77 ltYfc Western M IV, t'OHN No. li 41 4'i OATH No. 8 W UU bUTTEK Stale 18 24 EOOH Hluta 13 l.H-,' ClifcKBK-Htate 12( 13 rDiLAPitrniA. Fr.OUIt Bonthern 8 S3 WHKAT No. 2 lied 7S COllN No. S 3D OATS No. 11 31 HUTTKIl Htata U4 Jtaua-J'tuina ft 11 74 40 33 27 Wit f aanaaaai .Hbihswsi
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers