TO MY OWN.
(If ' ABtK,
UApcA In long. soft tall;
1 1. KniiKKlurt a ""lid "n bo
(imn 'nntli tho old fence rail;
riixn I' I"1? n '"I""'' "f down
"(M.aoit thii nrelilnff brimb
fnr".t and we In the town,
v h"ii"V-boy, limb.
ml
W,ji'i i-" n velvet ball
,, ler tli (lend swamp Rrnfw;
m iiv t.io fconm waterfull
' 'JV rfr-imin oft of the baas;
'' y chick id tho ground and air
- Ll li li.o dop
h Hie rIow of tho firelight fnlr,
' y honey-boy sleep.
I'iwiml rompi with the whirling
.?Krnt none about;
I riinri field are iibnd for no,
,i the owl t out.
' where tin mothcrklu breast Is
t .ntbin' nrm nro tlRht.
I. Slm snow and tho front and itorm,
. It'll!, bo?K'jr-liiy. Bood-nlght.
j S-itnrilii V 1'vonlnn Pott,
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OUTII is impa
tient uuil the
twelve woary
months that had
crept by since I
had passod my
trying examina
tion and been
ndmitted to the
bar peemed an
limo. I , uirea a oozy nmo
t building tilled with scores
"Ijiaeut law firms. After ar
' toy well-stocked library, I
t a new sign among the rest
i-' til for my client to appear,
i became a sad trial of pa-
" (be ruaay brilliant lights ot
'''my own name passed un-
M
Ira
3
ftor day, aud month after
V ..1A 1.1 .!.. ...Id ....
lJ..tho lima iu perusing cole
n jlftl OB909, Like Mioawbar, 1
1-lng for something to turn up.
11 capital with which I had
r"wan dwindling away at an
f pace ond, as yet, I saw no
' ve fee. '
pleasant ! afternoon Stanley
'young lawyer, who, like my
H 'unwillingly idle, dropped iu
u;. UOWS,
I 7-
as usual," I replied, ile
!'ily. "I'vo a notion to pack
M-l wilderness for a few weeks.
"' fly is outi ol town, nud thero
" jrospeok of picking u,-. a fee
'.'jr return,"
n;iend was about to reply,
a a low tup at tho
.Tack'.'-' ho asked,
i
Jib in,
uvejf it so mo
4
Maid,
chituco
carelessly,
uciiuaint-
door oponed mv honrt eavo a
fond. 1 1 felt that my long
'Ifjir cliont had arrived at last.
J j'o glance 1 took in all tho
ul' St my visitor's appearance.
:. middla-aged man, dressed
jostnnie, and with u seeming-
tnatnred.. face. Most men
"iva set him down at onco as a
J', tu-htiartod individual; bnt I
My c-instaut atteudnnco at
; tflH liKil. taught mo much.
0: Its something underlying his
tl: il a'.ul ; obsoquions inuuner
i i e me d intrust him.
i.-his Mi. JJurnsV" ho asked,
) I
d in tho iifiirmalivo and re
"f'Jjim t.j bo seatod. Stanley
'Wom at that moment, aud the
" (Rontinuad:
b'baiuo in Jlrowu, sir Marliu
iwj bavo called upou you iu a
lnncrgen-jy."
,'iat way can 1 bo oE servioo?"
ici.rcn('. wno ifl iu a dying oon
(, lsheB you to draw up a will
.id roy Iin nud hurriedly fol
lrly visitor. Tn tho olegantly
i v
I room of a hotel wo found
ti tlitt heavilv darkened
ould distiiiguish nothiug of
res, ao lay with hm faee
ward t e wall, and in feeble
lated t j terms of lii.4 will
it p. ;
. tjnphaheil uy task to his satis-
fad plaesd the document bo
to eigij. As he did tn T
de
op reu Bear runninot across
nliJof blahand. Tho whole of
nrf man's property an immouso
Jlio way-was loft to bis dear
'Portia Jlrowu,
kv4 ilie corvants had boon culled
Itit-HB the signature and overv-
V"'l rmed oocordiuR to law.
uouse tho smiling Mr.
laildml
IU ll ..I l.k.l - .
"'I " iee. ii Was a
i'""""""1 '-the more so from
airtuat Mv.H'.rown was soou to
,weat,y. The man's wily
K'70. Wb.l,, hi frieml y Rt t
jdenla mokuuod mo. and I was
injury away. On my return I
Ik-ley, a,,.!. lu nnswor to bis in
fri fc.iu. ,k tho ciroumstanoes.
!'ly miner," h exclaimed.
'l'y "I'd never believe it
--I aPiivaneo."
) nearly , wei)k afterw,ra
)Udy, urBsed in d(J0 mou
J i opo.i mo. This U,no I bad
l -euu y.; HUo was no). m
fw .t,hc,r ,uantiful fce
i..p csl0f deep grief. In a
,',I;1h , hB s,atod her business,
E tun uamos until Bho bad
c.yopiu, ,u,
wf'oiy una as follows: Throe
FroW nnolo had left home
'"TyJJ, X amau uoallod his
"OS tula ,n , ;t
U""VV '"and died. She bad
lormatiou 0f the fact
"- i'Utivo was bnriod.
' 1 strangest part of the
fore hor nude had
''8 W, his only liy.
uuiress.
1 '1 the city, however,
ew" a will drawn up
'0 uin deatb-bod, in
4 fintiiA i
i i'luperiy 10
ue of uo roasou for
kl-t. and, distrusting
ought out a lawyer.
"naoqnainted with
r distinguish., iow.
K Bold sign had been
her eye, and no she
si
V
un":
id
ii"f
i
"The case certainly looks anspi
cious," I remarked. "I think I will be
able to make a fight in your behalf.
Now, will you kindly famish mo witb
the names of theso parties?"
"My nnole, sir, was Andrew Thnr
ber. His friend calls himself Martiu
Browu."
Involuntarily my pen dropped from
my nurprisod fingers. It was the very
will I had drawn up myself.
She turned pale as I related tho cir
cumstanoos aud arose to leave.
"I see I have rnado an awkward
mistako in calling upou you," she
said, sadly.
"Wait one moment," I replied,
quickly. "This Martin Brown is s
total alrnngor to me. If he has been
engaged in an act of villainy I shall
not shield him."
We entered into n close conversa
tion, nt tho end of which I said, cou
fidontly:
"Lenvo tho caso to me. If I fail il
shall be through no fault of mine."
She accepted my offer with tbankf
and loft me, tbiuking doeply.
During the interview I had loarnod
that the deceased had no scar npon
his right band. Now, certain of vil
lainy in tho affair, I sot to work dili
gently to find it out.
Working cautiously, I found tho
man who had lain the body out for
burial. From him I learned that bo
had performed his task on the morn
ing of June 23, just ten hours before
I was called npon to draw up tho will.
The will had been already offered for
probate, so there was no time to bo
lost.
Andrew Thurber's body was disin
terred and tbo contents of the stom
aoh analyzed. It was found to con
tain poison.
By some moans tho sly wretoh got
wind of my movements and attempted
to fly. At that moment the detective?
seized him. Confronted by the terri
ble proofs, he made a full confession.
Before his trial came off be ended
bis life by swallowing a quantity ol
the same deadly poisou witb which he
had killed bis victim.
Miss Thnrbor mot with uo furtbet
obstacles in rcgaiuiug her lights.
Something still more important hap
pened to mo from my connection with
tbo caso. I wooed and won tint beau
tiful girl for my wife. As Stanley
Ferris remarkod afterward, I "gainod
fame and fortuno with a rush."
II in Nrhomo to Win n Oirt.
"IIo was a good fellow," said be,
"but young and without much capital.
Tho girl was a beauty and loved tbo
boy, hut the father objected, aud de
manded that tho boy show that he was
capable of supporting u wife. This
was in St. Louis about ten years ago,
and tbo boy carao to mo with bis
troubles.
"'Sever mind,' said I. 'I'll fix it
up all right. By the way, bow much
will you tako for your right log?'
"Ho looked at mo as though I wore
crazy, bnt made no answer.
"I'll give you $10,000 for it,' said
I. 'Will vou take it?'
" 'No, I won't,' said he. 'What do
yon tako mo for?'
"Well, 1 Know the girl's father; be
was a merchant, and I called to sou
him. AVo Dually drifted around to
talking about this young follow, nud
the old man flared a little, stilting that
be wauted somo ouu who could sup
port a wife to have bis daughter.
'"Support a wife,' said I, in sur
prise; 'why, he certainly oan do nil
that. , (inly a few days ago be refused
$10,000 for a pioco of property.'
His own property? asked tho
father. 'Certainly,' said I.
"'Who offered him tho money?'
aeked ho.
" 'I did, and he rofused it,' I au
Bwerod. 'Ho claimed it was worth
more.'
"Woll, this mado a hit, aud no
more questions were asked. The boy
is doiuj well now, and has a good
family. I haven't spoken to the father
since." Washiugtou Times.
A NowHljoy Hftrintin.
He was working his way through a
crowded cur, oflcriug his papers iu
every direction in a way that showed
him woll used to tho business aud of
a temperament not easily daunted.
The train started while he was mak
ing chango, and tho conductor, pass
ing him, laughed.
"Caught this time, Joe!" be said.
"You'll have to run to Fourteenth
street."
"Don't o.ire, "'laughed Joe, in ro
tarn. " cau sell all tbo way back
agihi."
Awhile haired old gentleman seemed
interested iu tho boy, and questioned
him concerning his way of living aud
his oarnings. There was a younger
brother to be supported, it seemed.
"Jimmy" was lame, nud "oouldu't
earn much hissolf."
"Ah, I see! That makes it hard
you could do bettor aloue."
The shabby little figure was erect iu
a moment, nud the denial was prompt
aud somewhat iudignaut.
"No, I couldn't! Jim's somebody
to go homo to he's lots of help.
What would bo the good in bavin'
look if nobody was glad, or of gittiu'
things if thero was nobody to divide
withy"
"Fourteenth street!" callod the con
ductor, aud as tho newsboy plunged
out into tho gathering dusk the old
gentleman remarked, to uobody iu
particular: "I've beard many a worse
sermon than that." Forward.
Sciontltlo Jail lli-oaklng.
Throe prisoners effected their escape
from the county jail at Huutsville by
making a holo through a sandstone
wall. Tho men are nil white. Their
names nre Lee Chandler, charged witb
grand larceny; John MoMuun, burg
lary; Jake B. Levins, grand luroeny.
The prisoners were in the same cell
on the ground floor of the old jail.
They evidently bad an accomplice on
the outside who furnished them with
a eord or more of stove wood, Tho
three men burned a, lire against the
sandstone wall, and while it was very
hot dashed cold water agaiust it. This
ornmbled the saudstone to sand and
soon made a bole big euougb for a
yearling calf to walk through. New
Orleans Times-Demoorat,
Iiiah Advice.
"Never bo critical upon the ladies,"
was the maxim of au old Irish peer,
remarkablti for his homage to the sex.
"The only ay thai a true gentleman
ever will atUuipt to look at the faults
of a prutty woman is to shot hit eyes."
Collier' Weakly.
TERRIBLE BOER RIFLES.
BRITISH SERGEANTS GRAPHIC NAR.
RATIVE Or BULLER'S FIRST ROUT.
I he NlRhl Before the Battle The Flrftt
ftlietl end the Horror That followed
the Second All Ir Under the Boers'
FlreTerrora of Tlilrat.
Cy EROEANT ALFRED MILLS,
of the First Battalion of Royal
lC3 Dnblin Fusiliers, who were in
the rout of Oeneral Buller'e
forces at Tngola River on Deoeraber
15, writes to his parents of Ottawa,
Canada, giving soma details of that
battle. Ho says:
"My Dear Mother I have beeu in
ray first battle and how i am going to
describe tho horrors of it to you I
don't know. The night before the
battle we were all served out with ex
tra ammnuition so that each man
could go into action with 150 ronuds.
At the same time our commanding of
ficer told us the Irish Brigade were
to attempt to cross Tugela River in
tbe morning and would try to turn
the enemy's loft Hank. Ho asked me
to tell the men to keep up the honor
ol the old regiment. Revoille was
sounded at 2.30 that moruing, and
shortly after our brigade was on the
march toward the Boer position,
which was ou very high hills on tbo
other side ot tho Tugela. The river
is about thirty to fifty yards v ide and
tbe Boers bad it one mass of barbed
wiro entanglements. The Irish Brig
ade advanced to with 1500 yards of
the river in quarter column and
baited, but shortly after were ordered
to advance another 500 paces. All tho
commandiugjoflicers wanted to extend
their battalions, but Oeneral Hart
wouldn't have it, nndso, much against
their will, we started to advnuco again
in quarter column.
"Thero was a square burnt patch iu
front of us. After we had gouo a lit
tle way, and when we came near it,
tho first Boer shell burst right iu the
centre of it. This did not do any
barm, as it was only intended to find
the range. Tho next shell, however,
carao a few seconds Inter, aud before
we had time to extend, burst right in
the middle of my company and
knocked over two whole sections. I
was ou tho rigbt of the company. Sec
tions two and three got tho shell. I
escaped. I looked around after it
burst and was almost overcome with
horror when I saw two of my com
rades with their heads blown clean
off, aud tbe remainder of two sections
lying on the ground mangled. As
soon as tho offoct of the shot was neeu
by the onemy, their riflo fire com
menced. They had all the nnt hills
marked white to give them the rnngo
and as we were ou n broad opon plain
our mou began to drop- fast.
"Although bullets, sboll, shrapnel,
case shot and machino explosive bul
lets were flying arouud us, wo still
kept advancing. Tho wbolo battalion
was extended in tiring lino by this
time with our three companies of the
first battalion iu tho most exposed posi
tion. The)Boors bad burnt all the grass
in fropt of their position, so the bltck
ground would show up our khaki uui
fonns. We kept making short rushes
of about one hundred yards each,
flriug a few volleys from timoto tirao,
until we arrived within n couple of
hundred yards of the enomy. We
could not very well advauoa much
further on account of the rivor being
between us and the enemy. It was at
this short vango where a great many
of our boys fell. Lying ou tho bare
ground they could be easily seen by
tho Boors.
"I managed to got behind a small
tuft of grass and by Bhoving ray head
well into tbe grouud when the Boor
fire became too hot I was not hit, but
with all my scheming thero wore thou
sands of ballots that almost came with
in range of my retreat. As balls be
gan to rain tbioker some went between
my legs, somo under my arms as I lay
fuoe down, aud more just missed my
head by an inoh or two. Once I put
out my hand and got a bullet botwoen
my fingers. Another time, without
realizing what marks they were for the
Boor aim, I bad crawled behind one
of tho ant heaps when a mau of the
Enniskillon Fusiliers shouted. 'For
God's sake, get away from that ant
heap!' I crept oil'. A momont later
a shrapuel shell struak tho heap and
blew it to atoms, killing aud wounding
seven or eight meu who hud crawled
up bohiud it. I fired 140 rounds, but
hadn't tho satisfaction of seeing any
of my shots take effect, as the Boers
were completely uuder cover iu thoir
trcuches.
"To add to tho horror of the battle,
'twas n burning hot day. The sweat
poured out of us like rain. Tho thirst
was harder to endure than the enemy's
fire. I lost my water bottle iu the
durk before going out in tho morning,
uud was so thirsty when my mouth
was filled with dust I could not spit
it out. My only thought was where
I would get tho bullet whou it came.
I was certain I could not possibly got
baok without being bit. One young
fellow of the Euuiskillou Fusiliers,
who was lying besido ine, got so
thirsty that he raised himself up from
the ground to drink, saying to ine, 'I
can't stuud this, chum; I must havo a
drink.' He had tho driuk, lay down
again, and was - instantly shot dead.
As he rolled over he cried: 'Oh! Oh!
Mothorl Mothor!' and died with tho
words on his lips.
"Before I sow that young fellow die
aud hoard bis last words, I was as
cool as if I were only on a field day at
Aldershot; but when his last mourn
ful ory readied my ears it made me
think of you and all at home, aud it
was with a heavy heart that I went on
fighting till we got the order to retire.
Yhilo we were lying so near tho eu
ouiy, wo didn't oare a bit for the rillo
bullots which do thoir work clean and
neat; but what did terrify us was tho
shrapnel, oase shot and explosive bul
lets which were on our flanks. Every
few seconds one of these would go
screeching over our backs, so close
wo would involuntarily fool our bodies
to soo if we were wouuded, and every
timo on looking to right or left we
would see fellows writhing in awful
agony from the effects ot those whiz
zing shots. Tho battle lasted from 5
a. ni. till 3 or 4 p. in. Most of the
infantry bad retired by noon. I did
not hear the order to retire and was a
good half hour lying with a dozen
Coiiuaught Rangers and Fusiliers in
the firing line before we noticed the
whole army on the right had retired.
I then gave the order to fall baok, al-
thongh I thought it certain death to
stand np. Of as all, only fonr gotott
of range without being wounded ot
killed.
"All the horrible sights I had seeu
up to this were liotbing compared to
what I observed as I retired. Every
two or threo paces I would have to
step over some poor fellow, cither
killed or frightfully mangled. About
fonr hundred yards from the river I
found one man of my own section,
named Dowling, and gave him a drink
out of his own bottle. Seeing the
terrible wound he had I tried to carry
him off the field. I called a sergeant
of the sooond battalion, who was near,
to give me a hand. He has since been
mentioned in papers for it, but I bavt
not, though I sat half au hour under
heavy lire with tho woundod man till
I got help to carry him off.
"Shortly after I left Dowling in safe
hands a forty-five-pound shell hit
right tinder my feet. As good luck
wonld have it, the thiug didu't burst
nntil it was well under ground. Tho
shock flung me ten yards away, not
hurting roe in the least. Had it buret
a second sooner, it would have blown
mo to atoms. Somo officers were so
astonished to see me come out alive,
they gave a cheer whou they saw ni
unhurt. After that experience, I got
safely back, and almost drowned my
self when I came to water, I was ti
thirsty. I had at onoe to act as color
sergeant for C company. All theif
sergeants were killed but oue, aud ho
was woundod."
MEDICINE IN NEW YORK IN 1800.
Ir. Cnrner Describe! Uualnt Itoinodlcf
and IdoBf a Century Alio.
At the last meeting of tho New York
Historical Society Dr. Sydney H. Car
ney, Jr., iead a pupor ou "Tho Now
York Medical Profession in 1800."
There wore ninety-four phyoiciaun
in New York. in 1800. "Thoy all usod,"
Dr. Carnoy said, "that ritaff of modi
cat propriety, a gold-headed cano."
These canes formerly had within tho
heads aromatio vinegar, whi:h had its
usos. "Small clothes," said Dr. Car
ney, "were rapidly disappearing, nud
pantaloons wero coveriug a multitudo
of shins." Thero wero five medical
schools in the United Statos in 1800,
at Columbia Collogo, at Philadelphia,
Cambridgo, Dartmouth aud Lexing
ton, Ky. The chair of chemistry in
cluded study of tbo natural bodies,
scioutifio medicine, rational aud ex
perimental agrieulturo aud other
thiugs. "No doubt tbe rational and
experimental agriculture instruction
was duly appreciated by young medi
cal meu goiug to practice iu tho coun
try," said tho doctor. In 1708 sixteou
doctors hero had lost their livos try
ing to mitigato the sufferings caused
by tbe plague. The pay of doctors at
Bellovno was then tweuty shillings a
day. Tbe hospital was throo miles
out of town.
Tho propagation of disease by speci
fic germs was not thcu a fact accepted
by all. Tho yollow f over was brought
hero from tho West Indies thon as
now, and conditions here favored its
spread. Yet a Philadelphia doctor
writiug to one of hit Now York broth
ers said: "Yellow fever, so long as
the laws of nature endure, cannot bo
imported, but is tho outgrowth of ex
isting conditions."
Thoro bus boon somo speculation
among the curious as to tho prevalence
of gripes nt bodtiino among Now
Yorkers of a hundred years ago. The
roinedy for this compluiut prescribed
by tho physicians was nutmeg and
brandy and tho yolk ot au egg to bo
taken before going to bed. For
opoploxy, salt and cold water wero to
be used, whereupon tho patient was
"immodiatoly to como to himself." A
toothache remedy uflicaoious always
with ono excoptiou iu tho practice of
one pbysioiuu was to cuush a lady bug
betweeu tho thumb aud forefiugor aud
thon to vub tho finger on tho gum and
tooth. Freshly crushed bugs wore rec
ommended. For tbo bite of a mad dog
the prescription was au ouuco ot tho
juwboue of the dog, some 6olt's tonguo
aud a scruplo of verdigris, that taken
from tho coppers of Goorgo I. nud
George IT. being prof err od, of which
compound a tcaspoonful n day was to
be taken. If that failed to cure 180
graius of verdigris and halt an ounce
of calomel wore to bo giveu in oto
dose by a physician in person. If
this still failed four graius of pure
opium were giveu to thopatient. This
last was a secret remedy so successful
that early in the century the State
Legislature bought tho secret for
$1000.
For a visit tho foo c'uargod was SI,
for a visit aud a dose $1.25. Pills
wore twolve conts. Doctors got $1 a
milo for going out of town. It cost
$'i to get oue to Brooklyn aud $10 to
havo one visit Staten Island. For
bleeeing a churgo of from $1 to $5 was
made.
Tadpoles figured iu the regimou ot
that day to such au exteut that it is
said the people ot Vermout in a sea
son of soaroity almost fattened on
them. And oue of Now York's famouu
physicians spent a part of his time iu
the study of tho alimeutary qualities
of these tid-bits. New York Suu.
Contraband or War.
Mauy old stories are told with re
gard to the difficulties in detesting
contraband' of war, but thero is an
other sido to the questiou. During
the Franco-Prussian War a lady iu a
carriage wax stopped cn hor way
through tho Prussian lines. A search
was instituted to see whether she had
been playing the spy or had suspicions
papers. Nothing was found until the
Prussians came to a certain black
box, which tho lady positively re
fused to give up or allow to be
openod. She was told that she must.
She refused, abused the soldiers as
oowards and soreamod loudly. Eventu
ally the box was opened by foroe in
spite of her resistance, and then it
was found to be full of toilet acces
sories contraband of the tournament
of flirtation. She was passed on with
apologies and smiles.
The Space Horiea ITie.
By abolishing horses travel in oiliei
will not bo as congested owing to the
saving in room now oooupiod by the
horse. There are approximately 200,.
000 horsos used iu New York City
alone, and a horso increases the length
of a wagon by nine feet. Taking the
average width ocoupied by a horse
and shafts aa two feet, it is seen that
200,000 bones oocnpy about 3600
.square feet.
l()ioifjioior)ioioioi5
GOOD ROADS NOTES f
Co. Operation In Road Improvement.
ONE of the disadvantages tin
der which our farmers are
laboring is poor roads, says
Georgo C. Borck. of Michi
gan. This being a sandy country,
there is scarcely a timo during any
part of tho year that onr roads are
good. Something like five years ago,
about twenty-five farmers camo to
gether and offered to haul marl oue
day free it the township would allow
them to take the marl from its bed.
Tbo township was willing, aud about
twenty inon voluntoored to shovol
and level the marl, aud so tho first
half milo was laid. That road proved
such a succoss that tho next year an
other half mile was put down. This
marl packed so hard and made such
excellent bed for gravel that tho farm
ers donated 9225 and labor for about
ono-quarter mile of gravel. This be
ing putu in what was always a wet
placo it was spread about eight inches
thick. Next year $250 was collected
and aboutone-half mile was put down,
spreading this only about four inchos.
This year only $100 was collected, but
a quarter-milo-strip was put down,
finishing tho milo started five years
before. Besides this abont half
a mile of marl was put down ready
for gravel next fall.
This method of making a road is a
good one, for if tho marl is once
packed down and if gravel is then
added the resulting roadbed is as hard
an macadam. Next year the town
ship will try to raise $000 for gravel
if the farmers will pledge their labor
toward getting it down, and now about
a year boforo it is noodod three
fourths of tho labor is promised. This
shows what farmers cau do it their
town is too poer to make good roads.
This is tho sort ot co-oporation that
rays.
AutoinolilllnU Interested.
The first good roads meeting of the
Automobile Club at tho Waldorf-Astoria
iu New York City was a success,
Tho late speakors were Assemblyman
J. A. Allds, Charles E. Simms, Jr.,
aud I. B. Potter. Old-timo workers
for good roads doclarcd the mooting
oue of the most notable they ever had
attouded, not ouly because of the
union of the cyclists and motorists,
but on account of tho speakers being
the most prominent authorities ou tbo
subject and their addresses being filled
with valuable statistics. As an exam
ple of how tho tax would be felt by
tho counties, State Eugiueer Bond
said that if tho State appropriated
$500,001), with the counties to make
np the other $500,000, as tho law pro
vides, this would meau for WetoheM
tor County ton conts ou every $1000
worth of property, according to tho
valuation of 18'J!I. Albauy County
would havo to pay $JI)f5 on this basis,
which is less than Wcstohestor. A
mile of macadum road costs about
JSOOO, nud with $1,000,000 ouo hun
dred and twenty-live miles could bo
built. This would bo a little more
thau two miles for each couuty if it
was distributed that way. Thus, for
instance, Albany County for its $0005
would get somewhat more than $10,000
worth of good roads. More thau thirty
now State roads have beeu laid out by
eugiuoers aud are now waitiug for tho
funds to be appropriated.
tiood itoaila anil Hail.
Somo vuluable aud suggostivo facts
and figures aro furnished by tho Chi
cago Tribune on tho subjoct ot tho
cost of bad roads. It says that Maur
ice E. Eldridge, of tho Department of
Agrieulturo, who has special chargo of
the office of Public Road Inquiries,
has been collecting data as to the cost
of hauling farm and othor products
over American roads. Tho conclusion
which ho draws from tho replies to
10,000 letters of inquiry sent to reli
able farmers uud teamsters in tho
United States is that tho average cost
of hauling ouo ton u distance of ono
mile is twenty-flve conts. For tho
sumo amount of money a tou can bo
carried 200 miles by steamer aud fifty
milos by rail. Evidently horso power
or mulo powor is expensive But
whilo it costs tho farmer of this coun
try a quarter of a dollar to team a tou
or produce ono milo, it costs European
farmers ouly 5.8 cents. The latter
have bard, smooth and comparatively
level roads, which ouu bo traveled iu
all kinds ot we athor. It is impossible
to figure out the cost of the bad roads
bills which the farmers puy yearly
needlessly and without couiplaiut.
Ono roud reformer says tuoso biilii
foot up $250,000,000 annually.
That is a mere guess, but it may bo
near tho truth. Whatever tho sum
may be, it falls ou tho farmors exclu
sively, aud thus cuts down their net
receipts from thoir crops,
Cumpalffil For Hood Roada.
In its efforts to obtain good roads
(he Automobile Club of America has
made a good start. It is goiug about
tho work in a systematic way. To
acquaint itself with tho needs of tho
State and tho nation by haviug lec
tures from meu who have made tho
buildiug of roada a lifelong study, is
an excellent idea.
Massachusetts and New Jersoy have
oxpondod more than $2,000,00(1 on
their highways during tbe bist few
years, while tho roads of the Empiro
State have been to a large exteut neg
looted; bnt this fact whould only stir
us to more vigorous action. The club
meubers are goiug to Albauy fortified
with these facts to urgo tho Legisla
ture to do justico to tbo State by mak
ing liberal appropriations for road
making. Iu this they should reoeive
tbe hearty support ot the farmers f
New York, who, ufter atl, will receive
the greatost.bouefit from good high
ways. Let the enterprising agriculturists
combine with the wideawako, pleasure
loving automobilists aud bicyclists,
and we shall soon have a system ol
roads of which tho Empiro State may
well be proud of. New York Herald,
Vae the Alternative System,
The couuty commissioners of Jaok
son County, Georgia, havo put into
operation the alternative road system,
aud this body will begiu in a short
while tho work ot pntting the roads
of tho couuty in exocllent condition.
The tax rate to secure this improved
system ot roada will be small, only $2
per thousand, and the oitizous ot the
oonnty aro willing to pay this small
ad valorem tax.
MOY KEE AS A BOY.
A Chinese Talks of Ills Childhood In the
Old Country.
"When I was a boy," said Moy
Kec, tea merchant, laundrymau and
interpreter, at 216 North Delafare
street, "I went to school in roy native
village of Shin-King, oighty-seven
milos from Pekin. I was seven years
old when I started to school and, of
course, the teacher was a man. Now
thero are women teaohing in China,
Chinese women, but that is a new
thiug. We sat on stools with desks
before us and studied aloud. At ten
years old I could write very well, and
had to learu every word of a long les
son by heart. The teacher bad a
stick, and sometimes, but not often,
ho would punish a boy, cither by
striking him on tbe hand or on the
scat of his trousers.
"Thero aro no bad boys in China
as thero are here in this country. The
boys are respectful and polite to all
who are older than themselves, - and
while they havo their plays and their
fun they do not think it fun to hurt
nuy one.
"You have seeu boys place a pack
ago ou the sidewalk and when a per
son stoops to pick it np you have seen
that package (for there in a string tied
to it, and a boy at the other end of
the string) move away nndor a crack
in the fence. That is an old trick iu
China.
"The boys here iu America do not
know what long school hours are. I
went to school early in the morning,
before the birdB began to sing. After
that we went to breakfast and then to
dinner and in tbe evening to supper.
Those were long, long days, the boys
here would say, but we Chinese boys
did not say anything about it. We
just sat on onr stools and suug out
onr lessons all at tho samo time as
loud as we could.
"Vacation came along iu the har
vest time when the rioe was gathered
Then we played at flying kites. We
did not, as boys do here, fly kitos any
time. No, there was a season for it,
and we flew them at no other times.
The boys in China walk on stilts just
as boys do here, and play at bund
fold, hide aud seek aud leap frog, but
all in a different way from here.
"Wo bad great sport fighting bee
ties. Wo would find these iu the
fields aud train them to fight and we
would lay wagers ou which would win
just as you do here ou prizefighters.
"No neighborhood in China can af
ford to have a bad boy iu it. Sup
pose a Chinese New Year, whou we
are all shooting fire crackers, some
oue would shoot a revolver. There
would bo great trouble. Not only
would the ono who shot the revolver
bo punished, but his relatives uud
neighbors uud the magistrato of tho
district would be punished or repri
manded, bocauso in Chmu suob
things must not happen. A stranger
could walk through my village day or
night with no ouo to hurt him. He
would be safe all tho time. It is not
so iu this country.
"Wo had great sport iu nhootin? at
sparrows with bow and arrow, aud no
body ever shot al persons, as some
boys do he'e with airguus, Tho boys
in China lutiglt u great dual, aud
laugh very loud sometimes, but they
have plenty of sport without hurting
r.ny one.
"When I was niuo years old my
mother died and my father gave me a
stepmother. Whou I was twelve
years old my uucle, a tea merchant in
San Francisco, brought mo to this
country. Twenty-eight years ago (I
am now fifty-throe years old) i went
back to China aud got a wife. My
father and my stepmother found a
wifo for mo. I did not know ber. I
did not see her until we were mar
ried, but she is a good wife nud cumu
to America with me. She is tho only
Chinawoman in Indianapolis, uud
think the ouly ouo in Indiana. I have
boon baok to Chinajeighteeu time?,
but I am a naturalized Amerioau citi
zen, and vote at elections." Indian
apolis Now a.
LarKO or Mmall lloolis.
"The duy of big books has gouo by,'
remarked a New Orleans dealer the
other eveaing, speaking of some re
cent Uno publications. "Up to a few
years ago all the art-prints aud band
some limitod editions of standard
works were either folios or something
almost as largo. There a a beautiful
sot of Dickens, for iustauce, printed
in '80. The illustrations aloue cost
fully $50,000, aud it represented high
water mark iu the mechanical excel
lence at that period. But look at the
size of the volumes. Thoy aro almost
as big aud heavy as standard cyclo
pedias! At present tho tendency is
just tho other way, aud tho majority
ot the really fiuo books that aro beiug
published aro small and light. The
usual cover measurement is from five
by seven to six by eight inches, and
most of the standard novels are com
ing out iu that size. Oue reason why
big books have gouo out of favor may
strike you at first blush as rather fool
ish, but I'm assured ot its importance
by publishers who have made tbe trade
a life-time study. The big book can't,
be read iu bed. It's too heavy to bo
held wueu ono is iu a reoliniug posi
tion, while tho small, compact vol
ume can bo handled as easily as a
magazine. Tho groat, massivo folio i
of the old times mado nico ornamcnte
for the centre-table and came iu handy
for the younger ohildrou to sit on a',
table, but to really read thorn was a
job for an athlete." New Orleans
Times-Demoorat.
A Cure For Leprosy.
Two dozeu specimens of the plaut
kuowu in Venezuela as the tau tail
have beeu sunt from Washiugtou to
Hawaii for tho purpose of making a
tost ot its alleged power ns a cure for
leprosy. Tho plant will bo tested at
the leprosy hospitals there, where
1073 lepers will afford every facility
tor a thorough trial. Surgeon Car
miobel, of the Marino Hospital, ha
also sent half a dozeu bottles ot the
liquid preparation to Molakai, and
this will bo used for immediate tests
while plants will be set out aud culti
vated, with tho purpose ot providiug
unlimited fresh matter for further use.
Wonderful stories are current iu Ven
ezuela about tho marvelous ourativo
properties of tua tua whou applied to
leprosy, au 1 the Government phy
sicians attach considerable iiuportauoa
to the evuionoo giveu them. It is
proposed also to test it iu tho island
of Guau, that tiny speck of Paoifio
laud that oame to us with our othor
Upuuiuh war acquisitions.
LIKE MOLTEN SILVER.
QUEER SIGHTS OFTEN WIT
NESSED ON OCEANS.
Bering Sea Fheephoraeeenee Rarpaasee
All Other Like Phenomena In Ur.ll
laner Beea From the Meek of she
Revenae Caller M. Calioen. V
"I have very often heard of the won
derful phosphorescence of southern
seas," remarked a traveler from the
north, "and I have seen some pretty
fair samples of It In the Atlantic be
tween New York and English porta,
but I did not know that It prevailed to
any extent In northern 'waters until
during the past summer. In August
last I was on board the revenue cutter
MeCulloch, In the Boring sea, about 63
degrees north latitude, bound' north,
when one night about 10 o'clock I hap
pened to go on deck, and I was almost
frightened by the sight of tbe sea.
The wind was blowing sharp, enough
to raise the whlteraps, and the whole
sea looked as If It were lighted from It
depths by a million arc lights throw
ing the whitest rays upward and tinder
the flying foam. The hollows of the
waves were dark, but every crest thai
broke showered and sparkled as If It
were filled with light. From tbe sides
of the ship great rolls of broken white
light fell nway, and she left a broad
pathway of silvery foam as far back aa
the eye could reacb. But about this
hour there was a most striking display.
Here It was as if tbo ship were plow
ing through a sea of white light, and
as the water was thrown back from
her prow It fell In glittering piles of
light upon tbe dark surface beyond,
and was driven far down below, light
ing the depths kb if all the electricity
of the ocean were shooting Its sparkles
through the waves and turning Itself
Into innumerable Incandescenta that
flashed a second and then shut out for
ever. I stood on the forecastle deck
looking down Into the brllliunt white
turmoil of the waters until I began to
feel ns If we were afloat upon somo sil
ver seu, and a really uncanny feeling
took possession of me. The white ship
was lighted by the phosphorescence of
the waters, so that as high up as the
'.eck there was a pule, weird white,
that made one feel as If the 'Flying
Dutchman' were abroad upon the sea
aud had Just passed us. The masts
towered In nshy gray above the decks,
and every rope and line stood out
distinctly in the light, but caBt no
shadows. It was all as ghostly as If
we had gone up against the real thing,
and It was a positive relief to get back
Into the wardroom, where there was
something more human. I don't know
how long It lasted, hut when I went
to bed at 11 o'clock I could still see the
silver shining through the air porthole
In my stateroom." Washington Star.
I.ony Distance ltlillnf.
New York Tribune: "As Is natural,
many stories ar afloat at this time,"
said George Lamborn, of London, who
has lived at Pretoria for several years,
"to account for the extraordinary man
ner In which the British have been
outflanked and overcome by the Boers.
I have repeatedly seen statements that
this was partly on account of the su
perior stamina and endurance of tbo
horses which tho Boers rode, whlcb
could cover 80 to 100 miles a day ana'
keep it up for several days. That is
all tommy rot; the Boor horse is a.
good animal, but he Is of flesh and
bone, and not of steel and iron, as such
endurance as that would imply. Tho
greatest record ride la tho Transvaal1
was tho one made by Schmidt at the
time of tbe JamcBon raid, who, in a
single night, rodo from Pretoria to a.
point near Krugcrdorp, on tbe Mafe
klng border, and return. The distance
was about 90 miles, and ho covered It
on the same horse, although 1' do
ing ho killed tbo animal.
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