e- r BY fcfd'.adrop on tU. rose k .tar that Tr nuuuw h. fflndofsfi thro Jtrnfli" "- a " . ii-u oipi on uraror. i'drorevitr. '""A-i. it hue wrought. " ". ... n.a nn forever. annul ii'1" ' Kvarandforavar. FOREVER. lyKITTC KOHM, Kvery link In friendship's chala Footed another link nKaln; Evry throb that lore linn coat. Mada a uneven and was not lost, F.Tery look and every tone wa. Has ii aeed in memory sown. All that lives ffona on forever, Forever and forever. Hit, O aoiil, there's no fnrswell Whuro souls onoe togethnr dwell; Have no fears O beatttig heart, There Is no suah word as part. Hands that meet and olosnly clasp, Shall forever feel the grasp. All that Uvea goes on forever, Forever and forevsr. New York Independent. k GOIN TELLER'S ATONEMENT. h?l ii T was quite re markable thai any oneonuldbe vexed at Thornton he was such a thor oughly congenial fellow, lint vexed at hiia t certainly it regarding hitu through .wreath that drifted np jn our after-dinner cigars. It Weir his having refused me L 1 1 desired of him that, ao 9,ir my resentment, but the isi ot'iiis exuuse that 1 tools Lilly to heart. Had he coil Ljelf with pleading tempor jrisl destitution, it had been fcilieient aud entirely aliovo ! But when my companion appended his declara- iVruntoy with tho statement ii that same evening ittil- HS' in the payment or his coutrihntion to a foreigu v fund it was too much, straight lip, .loo. Fact is. Joins thut sort of thiug'for steady now," tbat I looked incredulous, ".My iuteroat m foroigu simple obligation, quite to my own mental equau- Jo the spiritual welfare of the Busmen, my donations are to a single country." lite in tho humor to hear luruton's stories. Wliero iited another ol my friend's Jis, settled myself comfort e big stuHed chair I had A'eil aud Kiauiously ob'orved: il, old chap; I'm listening." peued aomewhoro about nix ," began Thorntou. "I was lie employed na coiu-teller ted Mutes sub-treasury in a tern. city. The duties of ton brought mo in oontact leol every nationality. onular of all our cosinopol- Uire was the Chinese con- Hardly a week passed with r more of those Celestials lin appearance before my iliougu intensely ignorant juntas methods, they wore u is time wont by their lr igeon English, coupled with trate tendency toward de i, moused in myself aud as cordial dislike for tho raoe. business was invariably the of specie for i;old certifi K'li they were accustomed lend away to China or take ; upon leaving tho States for reatia. In negotiating ine for those certificates t it rule to turn over their 1 piper rolls of miscellaneous md denominations, uprovokiug part of it was ! ud every one of the rogues "k MutitiouH values upon jus packages, with theresult wuutiug tho money the ag "uld invariably fall short of jmueir figures represented. ions on my part were nor- ignoreil. and lbs decnritinii ?ted withexasperatingregu f'oally, having endured the J Ior over a year, I deter file heroic measures in nnlar le it. "'d I in sheer desperation '-t assistaut, one day. 'this lMHCSS tins l!',anil has got to stop. The l-'olilUl Unit l, i.,a t 1, ....... .... . W. I ""jit will hear things from ,ae his (lueiie curl ut the 11 fug to wait. The very IU18 i walked a dapper lit- linn ..-...' T"..iiryiug a sack of coin. ;? my window, the celestial 1'" '"ids on the conuter. f o clitificnte," he said in his ant a t ... ' .viW ; j j t preliminary survey of r'N. 'llow much you got, , lmi''-l fl'ty dollah, VK John T !.,..!- . t ... . , . Ba t " "ttln skeptically, as I I sack to the oommiting I ,QS emptied the oouteuts the canvas recep V " "-'hair, which stood i,;,, J""1'1- Pi'oceede.l """ As usual, the 1' Jo eoi riispoud with the , ? ,t"l0,nt- 'rl' "mount - snort. Hurriedly ''oert,0,ite j ,floonlAne ". I tuvn,l !. thV,!tt,ye',0w ooundreir iw ' ,or yu tal1 " hi, 11 ",m ,ust wT? unit ": ,k8 1 Vhrust the . tbe window guards ,,C11 t hank, protesting n(;t!''ee ihle hun'td Linn..,... . fn " .'ueatee; iihtoa light -ctohe. r0'lr lif-ii T 1 j.. ' mjuiueu, Td onl. 1. ... Ipertiii 7- ,lK""8ut trie . - ""-mieut was his in , ent so frtl. M to rc. Lin,.. ; 01 1118 canvas 11 1 "e,!t10' Possibly over. mWuvg"IJ Pie- The in- ii,- ' M ,l"vailing, ;' eal,lalion on my , f taa cirenmstances ur thai; nsuatly cnvofnl 41 i:oiivi,.ii luu my 01 iff. inal oonclusioua were eorrectbad any thing but a mollifying effect on my temper, and turnine again to the Chinaman, I berated him roundly, and finally ordered the porter to eject him. The last I saw of him he was tearfully relating his hapless veuture to an unsympathetic policeman. I dropped into my big chair o in dulge iu a launch over the affair, but iu the midst of my hilarity I all at once became aware that some hard substance was prossiug against my right hip, nud reaching down I found wedgud between tho cushion and scroll work of the chair aroll of silver coins. With a sickening certainty tho truth Hashed upon me. It was the China man's missing money, which I had ourelessly thrown, together with the canvas sack, into the chair scat, where, partially bidden by the upholstering it hail until now wholly escaped my notice. "For a moment T was quite over whelmed by tho awkwarduess of the situation, I rccallod all too vividly the helpless celestial's ofl'orts to convince me that his claims were accurate, aud my heart smote me as I pictured his opinion regarding my motives for sub jecting him to the disgraceful treat ment he had received. Thou a wild impulse dominated me to overtake the poor fellow and restore bis money into his bauds. I thrust tho package of coin iuto my pocket, caught up my hat and hurriodly left the treasury. "I think the world never seemed so large or so densoly populated as when I got out iuto the streot. Though I followed the same direction which I had observed the Chinamau to take, I knew that with his ten minutes' start there was little chance of immediately overhauling him. My chief hope lay in finding him in the . wretched little slum familiarly known as 'Dope' Al ley, where the major portion of tho local Chinese col'.ny lived. While I hurried along I strove to recall his name as I had written it in the certifi cate. The first part thereof I felt sure was 'Ah,' but whether it were Ah Sing, Ah Foy or Ah Sum I could not for tho life of me have told. "Iu this bewildered state of uuud I found the Chinese quarter. A solemn faced Mongol, whose . corpulent anatomy entirely filled the doorway of a dingy, evil-smelling den, was the only visible inhabitant of the district, so I went up and spoke to him. " 'I say, John, yon kuow China man, him first name "Ah?" ' "At my question the Celestial's erstwhile stolid countenance relaxed iuto an expausive grin, aud he chuckled gleefully for a full minute before an swering my query, whereupon ho said : " 'Oh, yes, I savy heap Chinaman fusnem Ah. Pullee near all Chinamen catohee that nera. My noni,' he added, by way of example, 'him Ah Fat.' " 'But the Chiuaman I wrnt,' I explnined, 'he buy certificate to-day scikI China. You savy him?' " 'Catchee clitificate thlee huu'ed fl'ty dollah?' inquired the Celestial astutely. " 'Yes, yes! he's tho chap,' I eagerly rejoined. 'Do you know whore he is?' " 'Oh, yes; he go China!' " '(tone to China! Why, man, he buy certificate ouly hall hour ago.' " 'I savy,' was tho comfortless as surance, 'fie go China bull' ten seoon' ago.' '.' 'Ten seconds ago!' I echoed, gaz ing wildly dowu the street. 'Which way him gotis?' " 'IV wiiy to lnilload, pa' may go ste'mboat.' " 'Yes, but which one railroad?' I persisted desperately. " 'No savy him. One lailload two luilloud, alto soui Chinee.' My hopes of overtaking the wronged Celestial were rapidly dissipated. Oua chauce ouly of returning his mouey to him now seemed open to me. " 'See here, Fat,' said I confiden tially, depositing a coin in his yellow palm, by way of holding his interest. 'You tall me all you know 'bout this Cniua boy, will yon?' "lie scrutinized the coin critically for a moment as if to satisfy himself as to its genuineness, then thrusting it into some hiddeu pocket within the folds of his baggy pantaloons, be ran his little eyes suspiciously over me and asked: " 'Whalla niatta China boy? You detective, like catchee fu' get China u?' " 'So, no; not that!' I protested aversely. 'I China boy's friend got money belong him like pay him savy?' " 'Wy you no pay 'fo' him gone?' was the still skeptical rejoinder. "Whereupon I told him the story of the certificate, explaining tbat f wished to send the amouut in my possession to the owner's address in China. The suggestion, however, elioited co enthusiasm from Ah Fat. " 'No ean do,' he declared with con vincing brevity. 'Cut why not,' I persisted. 'You know China boy's name and where he's gone, don't you?' " 'Oh, yes; him nein Ah 8in, au' he go China. But China not sent like Melioan town. China alle sent big coiiutlee.' "I accepted this latter statement as incontrovertible and went back to the treasury. What to do with that $10 was tho most difficult problem I ever wrestled with. "Finally au idea struck me. I would put another $11) with that of the Chinaman's and take the eutire subtreasury force out to dinner. It was the only way I oould oouceive whereby to rid myself of that beastly roll of Bilver. "So I gave thejdiuuer. but every dnih tin tin board seemed branded with the accusatory legend 'Ah Sin.' "That night I had a dream. 1 thonght I had been oast among many tribes, whose manners and religions were alike perplexing and diverse, but uone were so vile as the Chtistian. He it was who had reviled me without cause and robbed me of my earnings. And when I bad returned to my own land aud found that the Christian wai seeking to sow the seeds of his rolig. ion among my poop'le I was wroth in my heart, and made vow that while I lived my hand should be raised against him and my voice against bii teachings. "Early the next day I communicated with a foreigu missionary association and pledged myself to pay each quar tor throughout the remainder of my life an interest of ten per cent, pet month on that 810 deficit, the amount to be applied aololy to Chinese mis sions. Therein lies my one hope ol some day reachiug my unintentional victim and of convincing him that all Christians are not like the one he may have mistaken for an example of the creed." St Louis Globe-Democrat. SUED FOR A SHOCK. An Amitiing Can That lies ,luit Ms.lt WaatilnKtan Laugh. There was a funny case tried iu the Washington courts recently. A butcher of the name of Nealon had an electric fan iu his stall at the market to cool the atmosphere aud drive away the flics. It was manipulated by smalt.thumbsorew beneath the conn tor, and -rhen Nealon discovered that ho could chnrge his body with elec tricity by placing bis hand or his foot against the thumbscrew he indulged i:i practical jokes upon such of bis customers as lie thought were amiable enough to endure them. When some handsome young girl or jolly house wife would pick up a leg of lamb or a ronnt of beef to examiue it Nealon would place his hands upon it, close the circuit, and sho would receive au electric shock. Nobody was hurt 01 badly frightened aud Nealon made a good deal of inn fur his customers. One day, however, a man of the name of William Schultz, who has no sense of humor and hates practical jokes, picked up a picco of corned beef from the counter of Nicholas Anth, who had the adjoining stall. Mr. Auth bad left his place iu charge of Neigh bor Nenlon for a few moments while he wont to do an errand. When he returned Mr. Schultz, who was one of his regular customers, was dancing around like a wild man and crying for vengeance. II seems that Nealon, with his hunger for fun, had takon hold of the chunk of corned beef which Schultz had picked off Mr. Audi's counter aud had given the nervous man a shock from which he claims to have sull'erod both in body ami mind. The butcher tried to soothe him, but he would not, bo con soled, and weut straightway to a law yer aud brought suit for $10,000 dam ages against Mr. Auth. The case was triod this week, but the jury found for the defendant ou the ground that Mr. Auth had nothing whatever to do with the case. While it was his corned beef it was Nealon's eleotrioity, and the latter was responsible tfor what ever damago Air. Schultz had suffered. Schultz had suedthe wrong man. Chicago ltecord. Klend-LIke Alrocltjr. On July 20, 17C4, there was por putrated about ten miles from Cham bersburg, Fenn., what Parkmau, the great historian of Colonial t.mes, pronounces "au outrage unmatched in fleud-like atrocity, through all the aunals of the war." It was the mas sacre of Enoch Brown, a kind-heurtod exemplary Christian schoolmaster, and ten pupils, eight boys and two girls. There were eleven children iu the sohool, but one boy esoaped death, although horribly butohered. On the above date, duriug the Pontiac war, the ohildreu, under the care of the teach or, were pursuing their studies in the little log cabin, when suddenly from the pine forest, emerged a number of Indians, who foil upon the master aud his pupils. The teacher offered bis life and scalp in a spirit of self-saorificiug devotion if tho ravages would ouly spare the lives of the little ones under his charge and care. The school house was located on a ravine, near a spring. Dowu this raviue the' savages fled, after having committed their fiendish work aud, coming to tho Conococheugue Creek, they traveled along its bed to conceal their tracks as far us tho mountain, aud made their escape eastward to their village iu Ohio. Philadelphia l'ress. 9 tluuie-Mailit Windmills. Farmers iu many dry districts are now getting very good service from homo-made wiudmills. A good mill of this type can be built for $5, and many of such mills will irrigate ten acres of orchard. A smaller form of the same mill is made for mounting ou abandoned towers or upon build ings, the larger mills being set upon the ground and securely anchored there. Wind guards or cut-offs, of boards or planking are built all around the sails, which are raised and low ered by pulley and rope. The sails are made of old coffee sacks or any tough texture that happens to be available. A mill in Nebraska, the sails of which are thirteen feet loug and uiue feet wide, successfully irri gates a five-acre garden. The reser voir supplied by this mill is 160 feet loug by four feet wide aud two or three feet deep. The speed of the mill is regulated by its being raised or lowered within the wind guards. Ou some farms these windmills are built one north and south and the other east aud west, so as to insure service whatever the directiou of the wind may be. In Nebraska, where the mills are very numerous, the pre vailing wind is north aud south. Chicago Record. KiitfUali "1" Is Hainan. Iu the opinion .of oue Fi enchmau, F.uglish orthography furnishes a cine to "the superiority of the Anglo Saxon." He is successful, the French man says, because he is selfish,, aud a proof of his soltishuess is that he writes of himself with a capital I. Frenchmen and Germans are content with Hie small letter. The Spaniard uses a Biuall y iu yo, but houors the person ha addresses with a capitul. The Japaucse have uo word for I at all. tWOWNKIND WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. their Opportunity In the Poataae Stamp Business. Women appear as particularly adapted to the identification and classification of postage stamps, noo essary in the stamp dealer's business, and are to be found in tho employ of leading dealers. They also some times do business as philatelists on their own account. Girls are largely preferred as clerks by dealers of ex perience, as they are said to be more trustworthy than boys, who will sometimes steal stamps when nothing else would tempt them. Possibly the collecting mania or instinct is stronger with boys than with girls. For most boys collect stamps as they have the mumps or the measles, but the girl collector is more rare, al though not by any means entirely un known. The girl who enters upon employ ment with a stamp dealer without any knowledge of stamps is first instructed by nor employer in the identification of the more commou varieties, but when stamps are purchased by him in bulk, as is often the case, the first thing to be done is to sort them and to gather togolher all of those belong ing to the Argentiue Republic, Aus tria, the Azores, and the other A countries, Those of B countries are placed by themselves, and so on through the rest of tho alphabet, un til this classification is finished. With experience the girl's knowledge, of courso, increases, and from the iden tification of such stamps as thoso of Baden, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, aud others, upon which the name of the country of issuance appears in English, she passes at last to famili arity with and comprehension of such stamps as those of Afghanistan, Al wur, Bulgaria, Cashmere, Corea, Russia, Turkey and others printed in strange characters. When once tho certain knowledge of the stamp's point of origin has bocome fixed in the girl's mind, there then arises the perplexiug questions of roulettes and their variations, perforates or imper forates, water marks, grills, inverts, surcharges, errors, essays, trial or experimental stamps, measurements iu millimetres, the perforation gauge and a host of other itoms that are dear to the hearts of collectors. The stamp business is well adapted for women. There is always a chance of finding overlooked rare stamps in purchased collections, or among old and enstatvay letters, frequently ofi'erod to dealers. Several stamps among tho Unitod States issues are individually worth a thousand dol lars, while a cortaiu one of the British Guiuna stamps of the face value of one cent has a cataloguo price of $1, 500. Novcltiea In lireia. Tho high corselet of satin, velvet or ponue promises to bo a popular dress accessory throughout the summer. Panne is the favorite material, aud it iu fastened with hiuidsomo buttons of pasto or of art-noureau. Embroidered effects in silli, iu com bination with open-work puttorus, are steadily gaining in favor. The ma terial most used is satiu or crepe, and tho open work is filled in with tulle, either plain or figured, and bordorod or surrounded with embroidered ef fect. JA1I styles of embroidery are seeu, with a slight preference for chenille. It is no louger an open queatiou as to who's got the button. Every smartly gowned woman can auswer the puzzle. Satiu buttons of small size, covered with a spidery net work, are used iu great quantities. Some costumes require as many as six do.o'n to trim them, according to the mode. Paste, metal and enamel buttons are also used ou many uew costumes. Draped berthes, narrow Veuise lace yokes, pieces at the tops of decollete bodices, accordion-pleated fronts of diaphanous fabrics, Greek draperies brought from the right shoulder to the waist mid terminating in long scarf ends, fichus of lace or chilfon, are all iu favor for evening dresses. A novelty is cauvas veiling. It is usually plain, but one variety is striped witu tine, white cords half nu inch apart. Composer of tha Huer National Anthem. The national anthem of the Boers was writteu by au old lady who is at preseut living a peaceful, obscure life iu Holland. She is Miss Catherine Felecia Van Rees, aud was born in Holland, at Zutpheu, iu 1831. JgShe is au exccltont musician, and in her youth she composed several operettas, which were performed by the Choral Society, Utrecht. At oue of those performances she made the acquaint ance of Mr. Burgers, a member of the society, who was at that time studying theology iu the Univorsity of Utrecht. Iu 1M7.1 Burgers, who in the meantime bad beou President of the South Afri can Republic, went back to Europe and renewed the acquaintance of his old frioud, Miss Van Rees. One day lie begged hor to write a national hymn for the Transvaal, and within a few hours she wrote both words aud musio for what is now the Boers' national hymn. The burghers were so pleased with the composition that the Volksraad of Pretoria officially ac cepted the work, and sent Miss Van Rees a letter of thauks aud congratu lations. The hymn is very popular among the Boers, and it is said that the British soldiers iu South Afrioa have heard it so often that many of them now sing and whistle it, Chi cago Times-Herald. Summer Bat. Pink aud blue bats with short chif fon capes to match are among the lat est noveltios. They are shown iu different shades of color, of tulle. chilfon, and even fanoy straw, and are all on the picturesque order, and suitable ouly for midsummer. Many of the hats are without trimming of flowers or feathers, while others again are heavily trimmed with arti ficial fruit a late aud very popular fashion. A pale green hat of this sort is in the toque shapo trimmed with bunches of purple and green grapes, aud the cape desigued to be woru villi it is au absurd atl'air iu sroou chiffon tied with purple ribbons. These fashions are decidedly con spicuous, and bound to be short lived, but as they are among the novel ties of the season call for comment. Iu contrast to them are the hats mada of light fancy straw and chilfon com bined, aud three or four small buds While on the subject of bats there must be iuoluded the poke bonnet of small size iu fine straw that has white ribbon around the crown, and white ribbon strings. The ' brim inside is faoed with chiffon caught dowu with one small bunch of flowers. Harper's Bazar. The Hl tit the Waist. It will be a relief to some girls with athletio proclivities to know the ex treme limit which they may attain in waist size without being considered "out of fashion." For there is s "fashion iu waists" as in everything else. Years ago, before girls were allowed to engage in open-air recreatious, a tiny, slim waist was considered corroct and children at an early age began to wear corsets which were laced tightly. A girl of seventeen or eighteen would endure agonies in order to re duce her waist. It is now considered very bourgeois to lace tightly, and the waist of a full-grows girl should not be smaller than twenty-Tout inches. The proper measurement for the chest of a girl whose waist is of that size is thirty-eight inches. Thus it will be seen that the modern beauty must bo solid aud nearly ap proach tho proportions of the Ucroio age. The proseut nge is an athletic one, and as long as girls continue healthful exercises lawu tennis, rowing, rid ing, bicyoling, fencing and vaulting bright eyes, good complexion and firm, well-knit aud muscular figures will be found. For the Utile font af Tweed. The jauuty little tweed and friezo coats worn by the athletio woman, who walks and driven a great deal iu tho country at this season, are con sidered smartest when they have re vers faced with pique woven iu faintly colored lines. A coat of blue twoed has a simulated bolero carried out iu stitchiugs aud held with old silver buttons. A short coat of scarlet bog pardon bnntiu' pink has the revera faced with striped pique, the ground of which is oreamy white, the stripes pale pink, blue and amber. Women us Knrceoua. That for womon women surgeons are the best, and that nature has especially adapted them for the work by bestowing on thorn poouliar gifts and qualities, is tho opinion of Sir Thomas Smith. "Their small bauds, deftness aud dextrous use of the needle aud thread," he says, "are no small ndvautages, now that surgery in becoming more constructive." ETI0MWG5 TO WAH WW Sleeves are larger at tho top, and are trimmed with tucks or lace iuscr tions. Organdies on which tho desigu is painted ou the under sido are the prettiest examples of pastel colorings. Black not, well covered with appli cations of black taffeta, makes a very protty short cape, finished with frills of lace and chilfou. This sort of gar ment is made iu oreani tints as well, aud also iu gray arid beige. Fancy lace ueckwear is rcceiviug some new development every day. A long lace scarf to carry severul times around the neck and tie iu a large bow iu frout is oue of the popular styles. Loug wraps of lace arc the proper summer covering for dress occasions. These are made long in the back aud sloping up to tho waist, or a little be low in front, and there coming to gothor all tho way to the throat. Embroidery in chiffon and other thin materials is a groat feature of the new trimmings. Open embroidery, laco beads, gold aud silver thread and silk are all otnployed and variously combiued in these pretty novelties. An entirely new idea is the use of voluminous scarfs of tulle, carried twice around the neck and tied in a large bow at the buck. This undoubt edly may be accepted us a precursor of tho ribbon tied at tho back, so popular a few years ago. The silky effect added to the great variety of mulls, batistes, canvas fab rics, zephyrs, organdies, aud other summer fabrics tenders them moro than ever desirable aud attractive. Many of the cottou materials thns treated, either iu plaiu or fancy pat terns, have all the lustrous and dainty elfcct of an India silk or satiu foulard. Some effective new waists that are just iu are of a heavy coarse linen, though iu delicate shades, and are trimmed with heavy embroidered liueu iu colors. It is evidently Russian peasant work, it is very similar ut any rate, is stylish, aud will be durable. The embroidery is in tin) form of in sertions tbut are put iu lengthwise in the bodice, around the aleeves, and to outline yokes. N-vnr Admit Jlwfont. Never admit defeat or poverty, though you seem to be down aud have uot a cent. Stoutly assort your divino right to be,a man, to hold your head up aud look tho world iu I lie face; step bravely to the frout, what ever opposes, and the world will make way for you. No oue will insist on your rights, while you yourself doubt that you possess the qualities requis ite for success. Never allow yourself to he a traitor to your owu cause by uuderminiug your self-confidence. There never was a time boforo when persisteut, original forco was so much in demand as now. The namby-pamby, nerveless 111 u it has little show in the hustling world to-day. Iu tho twentieth ceutury a man must either push or be pushed. Every oue admires the man who can assert his rights, aud has tho power to douiuud aud take them if denied him. No one can respect the man who slinks iu the rear and apologizes for being in tho world. Negative virtues are of no nse iu winning one's way. It is the positive man, the man with original energy aud push that fumes to the frout. Succeau. GOOD ROADS N0TE3L Tha Money Valna of Good Koaila. j I fUE report of the Maryland I Geological Survey for 180!) JJ announces that the people ol C that State have expended oyer 0,000,000 in the last ten years on their common roads; most of the money has been wastod iu continual repairing. Many of the roads have no natural drainage. They are bad roads a part or all of the time. The Survey hat made a careful estimate showing thai it costs the poople of Maryland 000,000 a year more to do their haul ing over poor highways than it would cost if they were turned into first-rate roads. This estimate supplements the in formation collected by the Department of Agriculture iu 1H05, when it re ceived data from over twelve hundred oounties from all over the oonntry and found tbat the average oostof hauling a ton load one mile was twenty-five cents, while the average cost in six European countries that possess im proved highways was almost exaotly one-third as much. More than one faotor enters into the cost of hauling, but the main ; reason why our farmers pay three times as much per mile as European farmers pay is that they can haul, on au average, only ouetonovet poor dirt ;roade, while the European rariner hauls from three to four tous at a load over lino highways. No oue knows the total mileage of our eommon roads, but their length iu New York State is estimated at 1'2U, 000 miles. The more importaut high ways of Massachusetts have a mileugo of i!0,500 miles. All students of high way improvement agree that tho con dition of most of the common roads iu America is about that of the English roads, early iu this century, wheu they were so bad aud toll rates so high that the question of improvement was forced upon the British public Eng land had no railroads then, and if it had not been for the wonderful de velopment of our railroads tho ques tion of highway improvement would have come to tho front long ago in this country. Tho people, however, are more and more impressed every year with tho fact that road improvement is uecessary to reduce tho cost of haul ing, 'to muke roads fit for pleasure driving, and to save the enormous waste of labor now expended on bad roads. When we fully understand that there is 110 economical way to obtaiu Rood roads except by building tho best, our practical aducatiou will have mado a loug step. This lesson baa not yet beeu learned thoroughly. Many of our so-called good roads are uot the best and, there fore, are uot economical. Tho meu who built thum would have done bet ter work and spout uo more mouey if Ihoy nail profited by the experience of England nud Franco. Maryland has gone about the work of road improvement in n way that promises oxcclleut results. The Slato bus recoguizod the fact that gejlogical considerations are a most important factor iu good road-making. In 18SIS tho General Assembly passed a bill for the annual expenditure of $10,000 by the Geological Survey in the inves tigation of road construction in the SUte. The first published result is this comprehensive roport on the dis tribution of the rock material roquired for good road-makiug, on the failure of the "improved" rouds to moet tho ueeds of modem trafllo, chielly owing to the fact that they were built with out competent engineering super vision and without cure as to grades aud drainage, and on many other praa tioal matters. The report will help to place road improvement iu Maryland on au intelligent basis. It should likewise promote tho cause of good roads throughout the country. New York Sun. Free Konila I' or Itallliuoi-e. With a view to keeping the public rouds leading out of Baltimore free from tolls the Uuited Railways Com pany has made a free deed of gift to Baltimore City and Baltimore County of those portions of the Baltimore and York turnpike, tho Baltimore and Hartford turnpike, aud tho Bclair turnpike which lie within tho limits of the city aud county. The compafiy oflicials say they arc in the railway, not the turnpike busi ness, nud that their object is to build up aud develop the city and surrouud ing country, acting upon the theory that such development is certain to benefit the ruil way company. To se cure proper development, they claim all roads entering the city should be froe. Thu York Road turnpike is thirty miles long, the Ilartl'crd eiglitoen miles, and the Belair Road nine miles. Two mites of each of the former roads aud one milo of the latter lie within the city limits. On the York Road iu the city limits the company bus spent 910,0110 grading aud macadamizing. The Hartford Road cost the company originally 830,000, and ou it the com pany has spent $HD00 in improvements. The Retail' Road cost tho company SM.OOO. Hiahwajr Work by Cnnvlcla. Acoordiug to the report of the In dustrial Commission, the State ol New York leads the Uuiou iu the en lightened recoguitiou of the moral as well as the econoiuio value of high way work by oouvicts. California aud North Carolina are also doiiifi well. Roadmakiug does uot interfere with conducting other forms of labot ou State acoouut also. There are some mouths of every year wheu work ou the highways is impracticable iu 1 Northern climate, and days here aud there even in the mild season wheu rain prevents. This leaves a con aiderable aggregate of time to be de voted to indoor labor, such as making olothing and other prison supplies line iu which overproduction, followed by long periods of euforced, idleness, is the rule wheu indoor labor is the ouly dependence. A Herlona uoatloli. Wheu a Government official, iu structed to investigate the eeuiiouiical side of tho question, reports there is an aunnal loss of $."00,OOD,000 to the country because of bad roads, it cer tainly appears the matter is worthy of the serious attention of the political parties aud Congress. AN IMMENSE SPAN. Tha Largaat Arched Brldi-ee la lh Worl4. The largest arched bridges on ths continent of Europe, which span thai Khlne, represent a type of bridge which, aJthough very popular on th continent for large spans, has not found much application in Great Brit ain, although It orlglaated In the cast Iron arch of the Coalbrookedale brldg of 1779, over the 8evern, which ha a span of 103 feot. Up to 1S99 tba Dom Luis bridge over the Douro, with Us arched span of 6ti." faet, was the largest bridge of the kind In the world. The Bonn mild steel bridge, with Its one arch of tit feet span, and tho Dusseldorf bridge, with two arena of 594 feet t Inches span, now rank first In Europe. But the Niagara audi Clifton bridge of 1898 surpasses them all with Its span of 840 feet. Tha Rhine, according to Engineering, ha but, few bridges, considering Its great length. At Bonn the river is 450 yard wide, and although the town has CO. 000 inhabitants, and Poppelsdorf, ad joining, 22,000 Inhabitants, there is no bridge. Railway lines run along bo'Ji banks; but up till recently there was no bridge on the reach betweta Co blenU and Cologne, a distance of S.V miles, and the cross traffic dnpendad upon ferries, and further upon a rail way traject, two miles above Bonn.eou slstliig of three ferryboats, each carry ing 200 tons, worked by engines anl cables. Caesar's much disputed wood en. bridge Is now supposed to have been, not at Bonn, but considerably higher up the river, near Welsscn thurm, where Important Roman forti fications have recently bean discover ed. The ferryboets and tha pontoon bridges of the seventeenth and eigh teenth centuries, when Bonn was stllf the residence of the sovereign arch bishops of Cologne, suffered much dur ing the roccnt wars. The French rev olutionary army of 1795 requisition.? J all the ships of the district and placed' a bridge over them, over which thnt army crossed the Rhine to return at ; few days later and to destroy their work. if there is auy person whom you dislike, that is tlto oue of whon. yoi should uever speak. WOMEN WEAR TROUSERS. And Mini Wear Shirts ta He Re- peeled In China There is everything In the point of view, says Youths' Companion. In China It is considered very unwoman ly for a woman not to wear trousers, and highly indecorous for a man not to have skirts to his coat. It Is no wonder that the Chinese look askance at tho ordinary American or European who comes among them. To the Chi nese, says the author of "Intimate Chi na," it seems very unfitting for a lady to go out unattended by a woman, and for a woman to stand firmly on her feet and walk on them like a man la shocking. Thus there are great diffi culties for the traveler to get over. The garment that seems most essential to the Chinese womun Is a pair of trousers, and she thinks It highly im proper for a woman to Indicate by a belt that she possesses a waist. "Do you really cat with your waist girt In like that?" she asks of a foreign wom an. A man's dress, as we know it, is a still greater scandal In China; anil to the Chinese the only explanation of It Is that the poor fellow has not cloth enough to cover himself properly. Nevertheless, nearly t-very foreigner, after spending much time among Ori entals, admits that the dress he hai grown accustomed to at home Is leak ing In grace and elegance. 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