A
RLY
Costly Coats of Sable.
. The Empress of Russia possesses
one of the most beautiful sable coats
in existence; it is made from the
most splendid sables procurable and
is valued at anything between £50,-
000 ana £80,000. Queen Maud of
Norway is another queen consort
who is lucky enough to possess mag-
nificent sables and the coat composed
of this beautiful pelt which was so
greatly admired during her recent
visit to England is said to be worth
between £30,000 and £40,000.—New
York Commercial.
Necklace of Eyes.
s.iCurtis, the wife of a Chicago
t, possesses a grewsome
e, which was exhibited at the
World's Fair. The necklace is com-
posed of three rows of human eyes
in a perfect state of preservation,
polished and mounted in gold. The
eyes were obtained from Peru, where
the de and are buried in a sitting posi-
tion, and the hot, dry air acts more
ff otive than any embalming fluid
in preserving them. A mummy can
there be obtained for a sovereign,
and the eyes alone are much cheaper.
Polished and mounted as they are
in this necklace, they make a very
striking ornament. Mrs. Curtis only
wore the necklace once, and it was
much admired until her friends were
informed that they were petrified
human eyes and not gems that were
set in it, when the admiration turned
ty repulsion.—Tit-Bits,
Mme. Melba’s Beginning.
During the years immediately pre-
ceding my first and, for me, my most
memorable visit to Europe, the late
Marquis of Normanby was Governor
of Victoria. At that time I was re-
garded in Melbourne as a very good
amateur pianist, much in request for
private parties, at which I always
played, and on very rare occasions
also sang. At one of these functions,
given at Government house, I. gave
some songs between the pianoforte
selections, and the Marchioness of
Normanby, in thanking me, said:
“Child, some day you will give up the
piano-for singing, and then you will
become famous.” That was the sim-
ple comment that set me seriously
thinking of a career as a singer. I
had always felt that I would become
a professional in musiec—pianist, or-
ganist, violinist, perhaps, but some-
thing in music, at any rate; but from
that moment I knew in an irresistible
way that I was to be a singer.—From
Nellie Melba's “The Gift of Song,” in
The Century,
ll eth.
The Unwelcome Woman.
She is always so sorry the paper
hanger cheated her hostess by not
hanging the new paper correctly or
she knows of wonderful bargains in
rugs where her hostess could have
got much handsomer ones than she
now has at half the price.
She insists upon coming out to
the kitchen if she finds her hostess
usy and a greater nuisance never
xists. = She runs‘ in to stay a few
inutes and she stays hours, watch-
Ing her hostess blunder through
kakemaking or gives advice while the
bread needs attention.
‘When the cake or bread is a flat
failure, she gees to some other cor-
ner of the house to hinder some other
work.
She enters into an arzimated con-
versation with the seamstress, who
fs hired by the day, utterly uncon-
gcious of the time she is wasting on
gll sides.
It is her firm belief that she is a
welcome guest wherever she goes be-
cause she is no trouble to entertain.
~—New Haven Register.
Domestic Servants.
There are 4,823,630 women in this
ountry, sixteen years and over, ac-
ording to the census of 1900, who
earn their daily bread. The number
has. doukled in twenty years, and
pnly nine occupations are now ex-
pmpt from woman’s presence. Less
han a quarter of these women are
n domestic service... This means
hat the “servant girl problemi” con-
erns at first hand a population of
bnly about a million women.
The number of families in this
ountry, according to the census of
900, cannot be more than 16,531,-
26, that figure including all mar-
ied women as well as 2,717,839
pidows. It follows that only about
ne family in fifteen can keep a do-
hestic servant. The servant girl
roblem concerns, then, only a small
action of the population. It has
ssumed a factitious importance be-
Ruse the women who write voice
pther their own grievances than the
briaral experience of their sex.
Most wage earners in this coun-
cannot support two women. That
a practical obstacle to polygamy,
well as to the juniversality of the
rvant girl prop em. Only a small
oportion of en can ever be em-
oyers. The same is true of women.
st as it the destiny of most
en to egrh their bread directly by
eir haps or wits, so it is the des-
By of most women to manage their
olds in person, with only oc-
Pnal assistance.—New York Mail.
Broken Friendships.
[Forgiveness breeds sweetness in
B heart, and lack of it colors every
ble characteristic, for one cannot
entertain bitterness and resentment
without affecting one’s entire life.
By haughtiness, isolation and
tardy forgiveness some of life's
sweetest pleasures are denied those
indescribable moments of reconcilia-
tion.
There are certain forms of wrong
that can, however, never be fully
atoned for, but’ Aristotle says that
“friends whose friendship has been
broken off should net entirely for-
get’ their former intercourse, and
that just as we- hold that we ought
to serve friends before strangers,
so also have former friends some
claims upon us on the ground of
past friendship, unless extraordinary
depravity were the cause of our part-
ing.”
If we cannot, when necessary,
sacrifice or even humiliate ourselves
to forgive and regain love, it is difli-
cult to see. where possible affection
ever existed. The renewal of a
pleasant intercourse, prompted by
a generous forgiveness; hrings incal-
culable joy.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
“Don’t Kiss Babies.”
“Don’t kiss the babies” was the
slogan of the several hundred mem-
bers of woman's ciubs from all parts
of the country who met to form the
Woman's Auxiliary to the Anti-Tu-
berculosis League Atlantic City,
NJ.
Male scoffers at
tempted to pass a resolution that
kissing be cut out altogether as a
dangerous mode of spreading disease
germs, but were voted down by the
younger women in the organization.
Franklin Dye, Secretary of the
New Jersey State Board of Agricul-
ture, who was there to tell of the
State's work in killing off diseased
milch cows, started the ball rolling
by demanding that the “Don’t kiss
the baby’ sign be hung in every
household. This, he said, would bar
out aunties, cousins and callers from
planting kisses on the mouths of the
little darlings. ‘All the work of the
State in getting pure milk will be
thrown away,” he said, ‘‘if tubercu-
losis is to: be spread by allowing the
youngsters to be hugged and kissed.”
Secpetary Dye received applause,
but when Dr..J. S. Perth, a Western
delegate with a wealth of whiskers,
offered a resolution that the society
commit itself to a movement to sup-
press kissing at all ages, he was
received with cold silence.
“Kissing is dangerous at all times,
and I know a whole family that has
been wiped out by disease first com-
municated by osculation,” he said.
After the defeat of the anti-kiss-
ing measure, Dr. Perth proposed that
sweethearts carry a special brand of
porte germicide for use when
kissing, but this was also received
coldly,
nt
at
Le meeting at-
Even the sailor hat has the droop
brim.
The black stockings which have
colored embroidery are meant for
wear with black satin slippers.
The black stockings embroidered
with white are newer and are con-
sidered more desirable.
The newer embroidered linen belts
have a good deal of color introduced
into them by way of tte handiwork.
The butterfly is the much-used mo-
tive of the hour and has quite put
the peacock feather out of commis-
sion.
Black, snuff-brown and hunter’s-
green, in the order given, are the
fashionable colors in Paris for rid-
ing habits.
The newest jet trimmings mingle
dull and bright beads and sequins
in bold, raised designs and the bugle
again plays a leading part among
them.
Whether your frock is of linen or
gingham, if you are very smart you
will wear with it bag, belt and para-
sol to match, each neatly decofated
with braiding.
As spectacular a style as has come
to light in many a day is that of
making little French shaped coatd
of cretonne, bordering them with
pleatings of taffeta.
Velvet collar and cuffs seem to be
the correct finish for all linen suit
coats. Black is the favorite for white
and light-blue suits, but a soft rich
brown is used on the suit of natural
color.
In spite of the very great popular-
ity of black openwork stockings dur-
ing two years past they are still
sufficiently in fashion’s favor to be
included among the fashions for the
season.
Black and prune striped voile over
a foundation of prune colored satin
with an interlining of old rose
mousseline forms one of the softest
and most unusual combinations for
a handsome afternoon gown, wouk
with great success at a recent Paris
reception. SRA,
es mm eg ty. 3
As evidence of the decline in tip-
pling in England it is stated that the
number. of public houses in 1881
was 96,727, and in 1904 the number
was 91,502.
A SERMON
BY THE REV~
[RAV HENDERGN
Subject: "The Claims of Authority.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the
Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
Hamburg avenue . and Weirfield
street, on the above theme, the pas-
tor, Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson,
took as his text Ex. 20:12, “Honor
Thy Father and Thy Mother.” He
said:
The. recognition by society and the
individual of the authority of par-
entage is at the centre of all the
theory of social government. The
agreement of society that parents
may and should control the youth of
their offspring is the foundation upon
which our system of social authority
is reared. The individual recogni-
tion of the ruling right of parents is
expressed in. a larger sense in this
Republic in the submission of the
minority to the decree of the majori-
ty. .The command speaks the truth
when it enjoins honor to parents as
the sure means unto long life. Small
success would we enjoy did we not
pay some heed to the mandates of
our elders. Little power would the
law of city, State or Nation exert
over ourtlives were the fundamental
ideas of obedience eliminated from
family life. The individual and that
Nation which has a poor sense of the
JARY: > for obedience is sure to meet an
death. The ‘man who won't
from the past will not live long
truct “his descendants. The
within whose boundaries the
recognition of the rights of the law
has fallen into disrepute will soon
totter, fall and be dashed to pieces.
The text calls to our minds three
things: First, that children should
honor those who are over them by
birth. Secondly, that parents should
be worthy of honor from their chil-
dren Lastly, that, broadly speak-
ing, the principle of obedience—that
is to say, respect for law—must be
manifested in all our civic life.
‘Honor thy father and thy moth-
er,” says the commandment. In
urging ‘he need for honor it implies
that obedience, respect and deference
be yielded to those who are above us
in birth.
The man who doesn't honor a good
father and mother is not much of a
man. The first law of family life is
that we should give honor to those
who have given us life and that meed
of love which ‘we enjoy at their
hands. The man who works loving-
ly and long for the welfare of his
children, the woman who strives with
motherly affection to make her home
the pleasant harbor ct her children,
both are entitled+to "and--should re-
ceive the homnor:of their children.
Honor implies obedience. The
vouth who obeys the wise mandates
of a good parent can never fail or
fall. The parents who speak out of
the fund of a true experience can
teach any youth the way to the hap-
piest life, and their words should be
law.
Honor implies respect. It is not
dignified to belittle the place and dig-
nity of a good parent. The youth
who essays to speak with dogmatic
assurance upon the full range of
human problems pronounces him-
self a fool at the start. The disre-
spectful youth who disdains wise
counsel and claims to know it all
will ere long find out that his an-
cestors can tell him at least one or
two things of which he is ignorant.
Honor implies deference. A youth
who is to be the true being that -e
all should be must learn first to
vield primacy in all departments in
life to ripe years full of wisdom and
noble experience. The man who
pushes his way into places where re-
serve should, very properly, be
shown will sooner or later find that
cheek doesn’t « ‘aw checks, but rath-
er rebuffs.
We must, in our youth, yield
honor, respect, obedience and defer-
ence to those who lead us worthily
in the home. He who would lead
must lzarn to obey. He who would
gain honor must grant honor. The
man who wish 1 the respect of other
men must first of all be respectful.
A little yielding of the point or place
to age does no man any harm. Def-
erence is delightful either in young
or old.
It isn’t at all necessary for me to
point to our youth the wrecks upon
the shores of life who are. monu-
ments to dishonorable actions in the
home. The gutters and the jails are
all too full of men and women who
refused to honor, to obey, to respect
—or to listen.
On the other hand, the command-
ment forces en ethical duty on the
parent. Many times men become
criminals because of parental mis-
management and lack of wise, sound
and pure leadership in -the home.
Honor be to whom honor is due.
The man or the woman who demands
honor from a child must be honor-
able—that is to say, worthy of honor.
Parents must be respectable before
they shall merit or gain their chil-
dren’s respect.
Obedierce is the due of that man who
doesn’t contravene the moral law or
the laws of common sense—and the
due of him alone.. Age deserves def-
erence not on the basis of years so
much as on the basis of wisdom.
Parents are many times more re-
sponsible for the lack of honor that
children show them than are the
children themselves. Honor in many
minds begins and stops with obe-
dience. Many parents seem to think
that the subjection of the individual-
ity of a child to their whim and will
is the sum and total of obedience.
Obedience consists in becoming as
much like themselves as possible—
some parents seem to think. Chil-
dren cannot be held dpwn in that
matter. Freedom must be allowed
for the exercise of individuality and
personal preference and bent. Obe-
dience. must be given aud required
only when a moral principle is at
stake or the best interests of a child
make it necessary that parental au-
thority be enforced. But the unrea-
sonable exercise of undue authority
which many people exhibit in their
home life is pitiful—and the more
than
SO because the consequences are quite
sure. The whole of honor is not
bound up in obedience. Obedience
should not stifle individuality. Chile
dren have rights to wise leadership
and unceasing parental love. Many
times they receive silly government
and no love—and whom shall wa
blame for the consequences?
The wise parent will realize that
as we grow older our ideas chan: :
and our perceptive powers strength-
en. Guidance for a boy of four will
hardly ever be the sort of advice the
youth of fourteen will need. You
may be the apotheosis of wisdom to
your child of five and the finest par-
ent ever-to a child of six without
the power of analytical comparison
and keen perception—and most of
us if we are not too unwise in handl-
ing our children are—but beware
when your youth of sixteen has seen
the habits of better and wiser men
you. Then must you watch
out: “For if you do not grow with
and adjust yourself to the changing
point of view and the increased vis-
ion of your child you soon will find
vou cre fast losing his respect. Give
a child wise guidance! Study not
how to make him & replica, a repro-
duction of yourself; but to lead him
to be a distinct personality, possessed
of strong individuality, molding by
his own actions his being into the
stature of the Son of God!
Some one has said: “Who is to
blame for the pitiable mite which
children give in recurn for a.parents’
flood of love?’ I do not know; but
of this 1 am sure: if parents would
cease to feel that they own their
children: in . common: with their
horses, their estates and their cat-
tle; if they would not, as many do
in varying degrees, treat their chil-
dren as their proverty, the return
of love would be far more adequate
than it is.”
We know how true
yet 1 fear that many of
know how to handle our
dren. A good child asks not for
more pocket money, or Tmewer
clothes, or a more sumptuous sup-
ply at the table—but for a: richer
love. It is useless to try- to hold
children with gifts. Children should
be taught to yield honor through
parental love. A man who attempts
to bind his children to him with ma-
terial possessions must surely fail.
But the father and the mother—be
they ever so unlearned and be they
ever so poor—who give their wisest
experience and richest love to the
cultivation of the personalities of
their children will find that a bond
that neither time nor eternity can
sever holds their children to their
sides. And if that won’t-—nothing
else will. Love is the touchstone
of life, the law ard the measure of
values. Love is the force that draws
soul to soul. The home that is ruled
by love will be the seat of honor.
For it is the abode of everything
that is honorable, respectable, worthy
of obedience and deference.
But. to-earry the principle
its broadest application we must
glance for a moment at the duty. of
honor and obedience to law, civil and
moral. Here, as with the individual,
the law must be worthy of honor,
The civil law to-day is not so highly
respected as it should be. From
all parts of our country we read of
lynchings, riots and miniature. civil
wars all due to disrespect for law.
And yet the laws are largely at fault
—and the enforcers of the law with
them. When-—-a murderer, guilty be-
fore men and God of heinous sin,
may use the law to cheat the law,
and prevent the execution of jus-
tice; when one man may buy off the
law that sends another citizen to
jail; when those who are sworn to
enforce the law neglect their duty;
we cannot say that individuals are
entirely to blame for lack of defer-
ence to the law. The laws should be
wise, sane, quick to act, equal in
meting justice to all offenders. Thus
only can it retain the respect of the
governed. And we on our part are
not to turn to ‘wild justice’ when
the laws are not to our taste, but
rather to the ballot box, there to see
to it that good laws and the right
men are set up over us to rule.
But all honor for law is bound up
with our early ideas and teachings,
and in the home should be found the
source of respect for law.
that is: And
us do not
own chil-
into
Forgetfulness and Forgiveness.
An old man lay on his dying bed.
Beside him were three of his sons.
The father had taken each of his
boys by the hand, and had spoken his
last words of loving advice and fare-
well. When he had finished, one of
the boys leaned over the dying man
and, with much emotion, asked for-
giveness for any harsh words spoken
in the past. With a look of "unut-
terable love, the father replied: ‘Oh,
my boy,
When the prodigal (you and I) re-
turns and confesses his sin, he finds
that his Father has forgotten it all
long ago. While the confession is
still on the penitent’'s lips, he is re-
stored to sonship.
A Little at a Time.
How often do we sigh for opportu-
nities of doing good, whilst we neg-
lect the openings of providence in lit-
tle things, which would frequently
lead to the accomplishment of most
important usefulness!
Dr. Johnson used to say, “He who
waits to do a great deal of good at
once will never do any.” Good is
done by degrees. However small in
proportion the benefits which follow
individual attempts to do good, a
great deal may thus be accomplished
by perseverance, even in the midst of
discouragementsand disappointments.
—Crabb.
The Invisible Force.
God hates the sin but loves the sin-
ner—Iloves him that is, as a man, not
in his character of a sinner. God
loves humanity in spite of, not be-
cause of its wrongdoing. He would,
if possible, love the wrongdoer out of
his sin, love him into decency, sanity,
righteousness. The love of God is
not a mere empty sentiment, but is
an invisible force which makes for
holiness, and ultimately for happi-
ness.—Ram’s Horn.
EE Rh bai
In the Inner Sanctuary.
None but a wholly consecrated soul
can come into the most holy place
of communion with God in the in-
ner sanctuary.—Hannah Whitall
Smith.
I forgot it all long-ago!’
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR JULY 14 BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: The Ten Commandments—
Duties Toward God, Ex. 20:1-
11—Golden Text: Dent. 6:5—
Memory Verses, 1-11.
This lesson and its successor deal
with the ten commandments. Of all
Old Testament writings these are
perhaps the best known. There are
nc words in all the Old Testament
more important than these. They
should be written large upon the
walls of every building in the land.
Especially large and lasting upon the
walls of the public buildings. They
should be the guide for the guidance
of the life of humanity in so far as
they meet the moral necessities of
the times. For the ten command-
ments are eternal. They are not
only the word of God but the testi-
mony of the ripest and best human
experience of the ages. They are
valuable because they are God's law,
because they are simple, because they
have been found efficient in the past
and particularly applicable and
necessary in our own day and age.
The first commandment is to be
found in verses 1-3. It is a .call of
God to undivided loyalty. There
cannot be right relationship between
man and God unless man stands
ready to yield fealty to God to the
exclusion of every other fact and
force in life. Originally and specific-
ally it was a call to the undivided
loyalty of the: Israelite to the one
true Jehovah as opposed to the mul-
titude of deities that infested the ec-
clesiastical and theological world of
that age. But in its wider signifi-
cance it is a call to the service of the
one true God over against the seduc-
tions of the pleasures and the sins
and the engrossing cares of the life
temporal. For many a man makes
money a God, or position, or power,
or intellect, or pleasure.
The second command is included
in verses 4-6. Given in the midst of
an’ idolatrous age this command was
especially appropriate. For idolatry
had destroyed the finer spiritual fac-
ulties of the nations that practiced it,
lowered their conceptions of the ma-
jesty and spirituality of Jehovah and
debased their religious life. The
principle underlying this command is
valid to-day. There is great danger
in any attempt te portray the invisi-
ble and omnipotent God. In the very
nature of the case it is an impossi-
bility adequately to convey, however
skillful we may be, any really com-
prehensive idea of the glory and per-
sonality of God. For God is divine.
Humanity and the works of human-
ity are finite and partial. And any
attempt to convey to the mind and
heart and soul, by means of purely
finite and temporal agencies, a true
conception of the infinite. and eternal
is hopeless and quite dangerous. Its
hopelessness is inherent in its very
impossibility. Its danger lies in the
human proneness to elevate the visi-
ble to a place of prime importance.
The third commandment is in
verse 7. And it is a good command.
It is as timely to-day as it was when
God thundered it into the souls of
Israel. The language of the times is
; in many ways a grossviolation of this
command. The vocabulary of the
streets is so positively indecent that
one cannot walk the thoroughfares
of any village or city in this land
without having one’s finer sensibili-
ties shocked. The amount of godless
talk that is prevalent in this country
is > positively awful. And it is not
only unrighteous to use the name of
God in vain, but it is also unmanly,
indecent and disgusting. Every
small boy and growing youth should
carly lear this truth if none other
that bad language is simply a con-
fession of a fundamental inability
to talk the language of civilized and
decent men. The idea that it is man-
ly and an evidence of maturity to
curse and swear and be generally
profane is totally erroneous. A man’s
culture and refinement are shown not
by the amount of bad language that
he uses, but by the amount he doesn’t
use. There is no excuse for bad lan-
guage. It is simply a dirty habit.
The fourth commandment may be
read in verses 9-11. It is a plea and
demand for the dedication of one-
seventh of one’s time to the particu-
lar purpose of religious and physical
refreshment. . The writer personally
has no preference for any particular
day as a rest day. For he conceives
that the important thing to-day is-to
so remedy conditions in this country
that men shall be able to have one
day a week far spiritual and physical
refreshment. He is perfectly willing
to allow individual liberty of prefer--
ence and conscience full sway when
it comes to the consideration of what
day in the week shall be used as the
rest day. He is, however, puritani-
cally narrow on the proposition that
we must so adjust present industrial
conditions in America that men may
be able, one and all, to secure one
day a week for the special culture of
their souls and the best refreshment
of their bodies.
The fourth commandment contains
another adjuration that might well:
be pondered by some of the lazy loaf-
ers of young men who waste their
time hanging around hotel and sa-
loon corners instead of doing some-
thing for the betterment of the "ond
and themselves. It says ‘‘six day
shalt thou labor.” And no man ig
really entitled to any consideration!
at the hands of society unless he has
in some fashion measured up to this
command. No man really appre-
ciates the rest day who has not lab-
ored over against it. And no man
has any business to live on society
without rendering some sort of re
turn for the living.
New Temperance Movement.
The National Temperance Society
of New York City is inaugurating a
new movement among the Sunday
schools of the land which promises
to be of great and far-reaching im-
portance. The new ‘movement is
called the “Youth's Temperance Al-
liange of America.”” Rev. Dr. Alex-
ander Allison, the new general secre-
tary of the National Temperance So-
ciety, is the author of the plan. He
has given much time and thought ta
this matter during the last three
years, and he believes this movement
will have a large part in the final
solution of the temperance question
Dustless Highways.
Dustless roads would be a great
blessing to all communities. Some
genius eventually will solve the probe
lem of preventing dust from rising
on roadways; meanwhile much ape
parently is being accomplished toe
ward that and in several foreign
countries.
The European method .of road
treatment to prevent dust is inter-
esting to all municipalities. It ap-
pears that abroad there is the same
complaint concerning dusty streets
on account of automobiles and mo-
tor wagons that there is in America.
On the macadam roads in England
the automobiles not - only cause
clouds of dust, but loosen the mae
cadam by suction, while heavy ene
gines and motor wagons crush and
destroy the surface smoothness of
the roads. The result has been to
increase heavily the expense of road
maintenance and to exercise the in-
genuity of county surveyors in de-
vising = means of suppressing dust
and constructing roads @ suited to
modern traffic conditions.
The Nottingham county
it is claimed, after experimenting
for many years, believes - he has
solved the problems of both dust and
durability. This official is said to
have first tried tar washing, a pro-
cess. now much talked ' about for
roads, but found it only a tempo-
rary palliative. The tar was chiefly
absorbed by the. joints of the pav-
ing and only partially adhered. to
the material, and after a few
months a dust resulted which he
considered worse than ordinary soil
dust. He next tried tarring slag,
granite and limestone by the road-
side, but the heating of the material
to a point necessary to make the tar
adhere made it brittle and not suit-
able for heavy traffic, and the pro-
cess was, besides, very slow and a
public nuisance.
Determined to succeed, if possible,
the experimenter then removed his
apparatus to an iron foundry and
tried hot slag taken from the fur=
nace, the first attempt of the kind,
it is said. The experiment worked
to a charm, and with the mixture of
a toughening adjunct a water-proof
road material was created. - This
process has been patented. Not
only is the former work of heat-
ing dispensed with, but the material
is not brittle, and being uniformly,
hot to the centre it sucks in the tar.
The process of artificial heating
leaves the centre of the material
relatively cold, and the reverse ef.
fect ensues, the tar being in a degree
rejected.
This
surveyor,
preparation is styled ‘tare
mac.” It is applied to a road with
out any digging or grading beyond:
mere leveling. Two layers are used,
the lower two and a quarter and
the upper one and three-quarters
inches thick. Steam rolling reduces
the thickness to three inches. A
five-mile section of road between
Nottingham and Radecliffe—a no-
toriously low bad gravel road—was
used to test the preparation. This
stretch of road is now said to be
one of the finest in England—smooth
as asphalt, mudless in wet weather,
in dry weather dustless, with ordi-
nary traffic, and nearly so with the
swift passage of automobiles. A
“tarmac’’ road is not asserted to be
better than asphalt for general use,
but it is claimed not to be slippery
like asphalt when wet, and is said
to cost much’ less to lay—barely a
sixth as much, according to local ex-
perience.
This road was made in parts at
different times. One section has been
down for five years and other sec-
tions for two or three years. The
traffic over the road is unusually
great, particularly in automobiles,
traction engines and the like, but
seemingly without any injurious ef-
fect, for no repairs have been need-
ed. No rolling is required to keep
the road in condition. The cost of
the five miles of ‘‘tarmac’ was $7300
per mile. The cost of maintaining
the road before tarmac was used was
$1460 per mile a year. This tarmac
road is expected to last about ten
years without expense for repairs.
In Germany success is reported
also with the ‘‘goudronnage’’ treat-
ment of roads to prevent dust. In
this case ‘‘goudronite,” being a
preparation of tar, petroleum and
sand, is applied to the roadbed much
after the manner of ‘‘tarmac.”’—
Boston Globe.
So se —————
Men Are Brutes.
Some men are born bad; others
are made so. The latter was the case
with Mr. H. Enpek. How would you
like, dear reader, to have your break-
fast snatched away from you before
you had eaten two mouthfuls; to
have your cup of tea emptied over
your head, and to be told that you
were a low, vulgar, -ill-tempered,
cruel and blustering bully?
Yet that is what befell Mr. Enpek
the other morning. Hungry and sore,
he left the house and jumped on the
car.
In cgme a sour-visaged woman.
Three seconds later she was in the
midst of a violent altercation with
the conductor about her fare. Sud-
denly, her eyes flashing fire, she
looked round the car.
“Is there a man here,” she shout-
ed, “who will stand by and see a lady,
insulted thus?”
Mr. Enpek, whose finer self had
been spoiled, jumped to his feet.
“Yes, madam,” he cried, eagesly, “I=
will! "—Life. x :
In Copenhagen Oniveraas: a Tos
fessor is said to chloreform plants.
After several days they bud in great
‘profusion.