A MURDERAndrew Lang on t

Countess

From The London

j The best true story of a mysterious £murder is that of the Countess Goer- s

litz (1847). It was published twen-. I

ty years ago by Mr. Baring-Gould, but c

is by the world forgot. Count Goer- e

litz, was, in 1847, a man of forty-six. t

He had married, at nineteen (1S20), lia very disagreeable heiress, who a

"kept him short" and insulted his c

poverty, but who had made a will in this favor. On Sunday, June 13, 1S4 i, c

the Count drove in his carriage, at t3 p. m., to dine with the Grand Duke c

of Hesse. In a manner rather dHomeric than modern he took some t

sweets from the dessert for his wifeand drove home to his house at half- t

past 6. The footman, Stauff, reported t

that the lady was at home. The s

Count went upstairs, found a glass s

door leading to her anteroom locked t

(they had separate suites of rooms), I

and retired to his own room till half- I

past 7, when he took a walk till 8.45. v

Returning, he asked Stauff to bid the a

Countess join him at supper, but was z

told that she had gone out. He did Snot believe it, but looked for his wife e

in her dressing room and bedroom, gbut had no key to the locked ante- s

room and drawing room. The re3tof the house he drew blank, but in r

place of forcing the glass door of the J

anteroom he sent out to make in- t

quiries, to no avail.After some difficulty he found a

locksmith'sapprentice, who could not f

©pen the anteroom, but (about 10 t

p. m., it seems) did notice a smell of c

burning. At 10.30 they broke the s* A Aar / tha t

glass UL LUB auici uuiu uwt \

Count's valet did that), and smoke t

from a stove rushed out. The Count c

did not force the door; he sent one I

servant for a doctor and another for 5

a chimney sweep! Time passed, the a

door laughed at locksmiths, but at Clast the aprentice.of his own mo- fc

tion.burst it open with a hammer, I

for the Count would do nothing so tviolent. Much black smoke rushed £

out. The bold apprentice, climbing £to the anteroom window by a ladder, c

broke it and pulled down the burning \

curtains. They now burst open the i

drawing room door, found the room c

on fire and the Countess lying dead d

before her burning bureau. On one t

of her feet was a shoe; the other was r

later found in an adjoining boudoir, c

The sofa was more or less burned, o

the bell rope had been pulled down, c

but nobody ever asked if the bell had tbeen heard. A corner seat in the r

bureau had been burned; the fire was1 )l TVrt l'Atrn Af fKo InoVoH

very iuua.i. jl jlic rcj o uj. «.uw iwuv»

-doors were never found. a

There were three explanatory hy- fc

potheses. 1. The Counsess had J

caught fire at her bureau, perhaps a

while sealing a letter. If so, she had c

.sought repose on the burned sofa and t

'Corner seat. 2 (medical). It was a r

-case of spontaneous combustion! 3.' tIt was a murder. The, magistrates v

preferred accidental burning; the c

public fixed on the Count as the mur- (derer; they always do. He had mo- c

tives, opportunity and he had delayed '

the researches. He demanded new in- 1

quiries. but little came of them till in t

August, 1848, .the corpse was ex- Ihumed c.nd examined. It was found c

that the lady's skull had been frac- c

tured, atad that she had also been IN .strangled. She had been murdered, r

had been burned, and the chairs and fsofa had the marks of her blood i

burned out of them. She had then \

been placed near her bureau and thathad been set on fire. Black smoke (had been seen rushing from the chimneyat 8 on the fatal evening. Now, jthe Count had left his house at half-

past7, and did not return till about j9; there was evidence for these facts. ^Consequently, if he did fracture his twife's skull and strangle her before (half-past 7, he certainly did not burn £h r at 8.05.8.25, when the smoke (was seen issuing black and dense }from the chimney.that is, unless he (entered his house, unseen, about 8, (and later went out and returned ,

again. It was improbable that he ,would delegate the fire to an accom- jplice, so the Count's case was per- jceptibly brighter.

Now, who was in the house when £the Count was absent, from half-past j7 to a quarter to 9 that Sunday |night? The magistrates, true to their (theory of accidental death, had ap- jparently made no inquiries in June, j1847. But tne count s aemanas ior

an inquiry in November, 1S47, hadled to something.indeed, had verynearly led to the death of this noblemamOn November 3, 1S47, therewas to be an official inquiry by his t

request, at his house, and among hisdomestics. At 3 o'clock on November2, the cook was busy in herkitchen when Stauff came in andasked her to light fires in the upper jrooms. She declined, and went on

with her work. Stauff suggested to 1

her that a plate needed washing, and 1

while she washed it he stirred thesauce in a pan. She turned her head, 1

and observed Stauff pouring drops '

from a phial into the sauce. Shequestioned him, he denied the charge,and she pretended to be satisfied.When he left the kitchen she tasted '

+ co nno onrl rliH rtrtt lilro if* m nro.IUC oauv^c UUU U1U 411/V i444V *«,, U1V( V

over, it was of a strange color. Shesent, for the family doctor who, on

analysis, detected fifteen and one-halfgrains of verdigris, enough to poisona man. Stauff was then incarcerated,but only on a charge of intending topoison liia master. His idea was

that if the Count died of poison, on

the eve of the arrival of the officialinquirer, the cynical public would inferthat the death by verdigris was

suicide, the nobleman being unable tolace research. The Due de Praslin(the mysterious Spectre of the Catacombsia Hawthorne's "Transformation")poisoned himself after murderingthe Duchess. The public, however,held that he had really escapedto the Catacombs, where he lodgedand haunted Miriam.that is, hisEnglish governess, in whom, througha pretty girl, no guilt had been found.This, however, is a digression.We have observed that the Count's

position was sensibly improved when

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MYSTERY,he Killing of theGoerlitz.

Morning Post

Jtauff was arrested for trying to poloahim. But to the Sherlockiolmeses of Germany the Count'sase probably looked blacker thaniver. What more probable than thathe Count was guilty, that Stauff:new damaging evidence against him,ind that the Count had induced theook to put poison in the pot, andhen say that shs saw Stauff introlucethe baneful drug? The Countieing an aristocrat and Stauff "a man

if the people" (as Homer says In hislisdainful way), .the people must cerainlyhave argued on these lines.

It had come out as slowly as everyhingelse in these distant days, thathe jewels of the Countess had beentolen from her bureau. The Countayi that, in his grief, he had never

hought of noticing this circumstance,^rhaps a son of the people mightlave taken the jewels, but the Countras no less likely to have done so

is a blind, for who could suspect an

ristocrat of a petty theft? Thusitauff and the Count were almostrijuai IdVUlllCS LKJi T vt viivu w*

;uilty, the intelligent public laying a

hade of odds on the Count.Not for years were the inquiries

uade that should have been made inune, 1847. It then came out thathe cook was also the Countess''suivante," or "femme de chambre".she doubled the parts. On theatal day the Countess had gone intohe kitchen at 2 p. m. and .told theook and "femme de chambre" thathe might take a holiday till 9 p. m.

U 3.30 the Count's valet had seen

he Countess in the laundry "hangingiut the clothes" for the mangle,i'rom 3.30 to 4.15 and from 4.30 toi.30 the Countess and Stauff were

ilone in the house. At 6.30 the"ountess did not answer the Count's;nock. She was probably murderedetween 4.30 and 5.30. She was

turned while the Count was out, andItauff was in between 7.30 and 8.Stauff was, at last, examined, and acounted-for his time through thevhole day. From 8 to 9.30 he was

n a restaurant, but here he was notorroborated. The Count might havelonp the rrime at 6.30. when he saidhat he could not get into the anteoom,returned at S when Stauff went»ut, lighted the fires and gone outigain, and returned a little before 9'clock, when Stauff appears to have>een in the house, though perhaps heeturned a little later.The truth came out when Stauff's

irother was found selling jewels andlump of molten gold. The jewels

lad belonged to the Countess. In.larch-April, 1849, Stauff was triedit last and found guilty on all the'ounts. He made a confession, tryingo prove that his guilt was unpreoeditated.The Countess had foundlim stealing her jewels, and to prerenther from calling out he had acidentallystrangled her. When the]ouat went out at 7.30, Stauff hadlone all the burnings. These were

'attenuating circumstances," and in.872 he received a pardon on condiionthat he settled in America, whereie is not known to have become one

>f the most remarkable men of the:ountry. Had he not mads the ex>erimentwith the poison the Count'snemory might still be under a cloud,or certainly nobody ever did more tonnlrp lilmsolf annpnr fiiilfv thnn that

:ery stupid gentleman.

Canada and Her Unproductive Areas.The annual report of the Canadian

3acific Railway for the year endingrune 30, 1909, presented at the anlualmeeting on October 6, has an increstingstatement in regard to theirareatment and subsequent sale ofiesert areas. The directors set apartibout 995,000 acres, called the "westernblock." of which 353,000 are ir

igableand over which canals andlitches have been dug. Of this land,39,963 acres have been sold at an

lverage price of $24.71 an acre. Theemaining sales of land, amounting:or the year to about 300,000 acres,arought only an average of $10.90 an

icre. The experiment has been so

successful in opening up a very largejody of land which would otherwiseae unproductive of traffic that the'iirectors are considering the advisalilitTrnf nvf r%v\ A \ r» rr tKn irrifrnfinn ere.

:em to another block of about 1,000,-1300 acres..Daily Consular Reports. |

THE INDIATheir Idea of It is the AA

Which ThIt is a common notion that the

[ndian has no idea of home becausele is always moving as the seasonind the game may call him. There isldded to this reason for the belief,:he fact that in the Indian languagesao word is found by which to renderjur word "home." Mrs. Riggs writesio the American Missionary Associationon this point:

"It seems to me that the IndiansJo have some of the ideas of home,ro them as a nomadic people perhapsao particular place was home, but thesvhole country through which theyroamed was home."Some years ago I was traveling

ivith an Indian woman. Her earlyhome had been in Minnesota, but sheiiad been among those who, after theoutbreak of '62, had gone to easternDakota, and when I first went intothe mission work she had come Westto the Missouri River to help us in3ur work there.

'"On this journey, as we travelednto Minnesota, one alter another ofthe landmarks were recognized bytier, and her reminiscences came

quick and vivid. Here was SleepyEye, named by her grandfather,svhere they forded the river; theresvas where they hunted for game;there where they gathered the wildrice.

" 'Ah,' she said, 'Minnesota is a

beautiful country.so different fromDakota!'

^brtpUpSipjGreat Britain has 1500 kinds of

apples.

It is said that sunlight is a cure forinfluenza epidemics.

At last reports there were 61,158postoffices in this country.

The Turkish turban contains abouttwenty yards of material.

Fast freight line service of thiscountry.uses 32,000 cars.

One town in Spain has one hunch- I wback to every thirteen inhabitants. p

t:The annual supply of water to w

London, England, is 82,125,000,000 thgallons. I n

b<The flour mills of Minneapolis ai

grind 120,000,000 bushels of wheat_

every ye^r.I

The Government Printing Office, inWashington, D. C., employs over

01es

4uuu persons. I ' * | tr

Each of the British Dreadnoughtshas a hospital with a capacity for Zl

sixty patients.

In the course of his aeronautical '

experiments M. Bleriot has met with |fifty accidents.

Of the Philippine Islands the one

which probably has the most produc-tlye soil is Mindanao.

The act approving the admission ofthe State of West Virginia as thethirty-fifth State, to the Union,passed Congress December 31, 1861,to take effect June 30, 1863.

Glass water pipes covered withasphalt have been in use for a- longtime in some parts of Germany withsuccess. They give thorough protec-tion against the entrance of gases andacids.

Los Angeles has a school in whichmeals are served for one cent; that is,to the pupils, and they get a big. m

brimming bowl of a thick, delicioussoup, with two cold buns, all for their P£penny. The idea has also been used e(5in one of the schools at Ann Arbor-.Mich., with great success | ar

jdcThe new tariff bill introduced to ^

most people the word quebracho, theextract used in tanning hides> InParaguay and Argentina this is a

large industry, there being thousands 1'

of square miles of the quebracbC 01

tree. Such land is valued at from$3000 a square league upward. Que-bracho logs are also used for railwayties.

There has just been unearthedfrom the River Annan, near Lock- jerbie,a relic of early BrLtain in theshape a canoe in a wonderfully goodstate of preservation. It is of a typeknown as dugouts, the material beingthe trunk of a black oak tree,about twelye feet long, rudely shapedand hollowed out..London Standard.

iVrimpn Hnrrect l~Vnnc Wpii

Many hundreds of women assisted jin gathering the harvest aroundBeatrice, Neb. They were lured tothe fields by the offer of board and$3 a day. A farmer went intoBeatrice looking for farm hands.Loungers in the town refused towork, and the farmer had to face thepossibility of losing part of hie crop.He went into a restaurant, and whenwaiting to be served was struck-withthe idea of bidding for the waitressesas harvesters. He offered them $3 a

day, and every waitress threw asideher apron and went to the farm.They did such efficient work that (other farmers sought women, andthey drew school teachers, stenogra-phers and college girls as well..NewYork Press.

Lesson in Patience. *!

"Patience will accomplish any-thing. You can even carry water ina sieve, if you wait long enough."

"Tc fhnt Sav Vmor Inn? wmilrl

I have to wait to do that?""Till it gets cold enough for the

water to freeze.".Cleveland Leader,

,NS' HOME. jfhole Country Through !"Ley Roam. &

af"Homesick longing was in her w

voice. Minnesota was home to her, aeven after all those years. p("The children of a missionary faru- jzily went away to school, and when mthey came back for vacation, one af- B3ter another spoke of how pleasant it \awas to be at home, or how sorry they qwere for other boys and girls who did jnot have such a home. The mother,who had been silent all this while asto her own feelings, finally gave word ato them, and told how she had longed -nfor a better home for them. Theywere almost too much astonished toreply, but at last the little girl of thefamily went and put her arms roundher mother, and said, 'Why, mother,you are home!'

"I fancy something of this feelingwas had by a little six-year-old Indiangirl who came to Oaho School.She had said good-by to her parentswithout any show of emotion. Sbewas very fearless, very friendly withthe teachers, very much interested inall the new things she saw, but as ithe day wore away and the evening ,

came on, she came and stood by nieas I sat sewing. I was the only one

who could talk Dakotah to her. I £looked up at her and saw the tearswelling up in her eyes, and I said, ('Whv. Maisie. what is the matter?'

"She answered, sobbing. 'I won't jsee my mother for a long time!'

"Poor little homesick soul! Moth- [ Ler meant home to her." I s<

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The Old Manor

I .,. I

The old Manor Hall Is the pride <

as built in 1682 by Frederick Phihilipsburg. It was completed by tlhe building remained in the possesshen because* of the toryism of thelird Lord of the Manor.it was conlew York. It was used by private f;;en the City Hall of Yonkers. Theid is a perfect specimen of Colonial

New Fire Escape.Possibly the Iowa woman who was

ie of the joint inventors of the Arecape shown in the illustration onceled to slide down the old-fashionedid primitive rope escape and real-ed the crying need for an improve$

s

M- JCg --y

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ent. However that may be, she and'jr co-inventor have devised an aptratuswhich is very simple, and

~ -*- mu l. nt a^uany enecuve.xuib Luiutiaio ui u

um, which resembles a huge spool,id which is suspended from the win>wledge, having a long straightge for engagement with the wall,ound this drum one whole turn ofcable is taken, one end of the cable-the end near the window.havingseat attached. When the fire breaksit .the person in the room climbs outer the window ledge, thrusts one

g over the seat, and, grasping the

THE CHURCH MIL

AN ATTACK BY BRIGA

A T?nggln n prirrPRnnndRnt. writesle Monastery of Luganski, in the Elair, though the Russian press gaveord of comment, that among the desCossack in uniform! Attracted byjssessed by the monks, the brigandsed attack on the monastery, which 1

onks, who have a plentiful supply o!

illying out and engaging the enemysting a good hour, took place, andraphic.

Folding Sled.Scientific sledding promises to befashionable pastime in this countrythe near future, just as it is in

>1ne of the countries ot Europe,here national contests are held

Hall, Yonkers.

3f the city of Yonkers. The front parllpse, the first Lord of the Manor o

le addition of the back part in 1745lion of the Phllipse family until 1779Frederick Philipse of that day.th

Iscated by an act of the Legislature o

amilies until 1868. Since 1872 it haold structure has had the best of car

architecture.

other end of the cable, lowers himself or herself gently to the groundThe turn of the cable over the druEprevents the rope from slipping am

letting the seat down except as thslack 1s paid out..Washington Stai

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For the Kitchen.A tiny box cabinet, supportei

against the wall by brackets, a

shown.There are three drawers. Th

largest 2>ne is for the housewife'tools.hammer, screw driver, smalsaw and tack puller, and numerou

other small tools, which a housewifmay require, also an assortment o

nails, screws, tacks, etc. One smaldrawer is for twine, thread and rollof linen and other emergency suppiles.The third drawer I use for groce^;

bills, also for small change, whichneed when small articles are broughfn dnnr for which I must nay cash

Above the cabinet hang3 pad and penell for memoranda, and a pair o

shears for clipping strings of parcelsAny housekeeper can realize the con

venience of an article of this sort..Miss L. E. Hennessey, in Epitomist.

In order to construct the Mancheater ship canal over 51,000,000 cublyards had to be excavated.

ITANT IN RUSSIA.

NDS ON A MONASTERY.

"The recent attack by brigands 01

Ikaterinoslav district, was an excitinjfew details beyond stating, without

id bandits were a rural policeman an<

the great treasure and valuable ikonin the dead of night made an organ

las a very solitary position. The age<I arms, made a stout resistance, boldl;at close quarters. A veritable battlefinally the Church triumphed.".Tb

every year. These events attracgreat attention, and the entrants ar

not children, but men and women whhave given the sport a great deal o

attention, practicing and training foweeks in advance. This has jjive:an impetus to the sled business, an

several new formo have been recentlintroduced. One of the novelties ia folding sled, which can be readilcarried under the arm when it is desired to take tt rrom one point i

another. The method of constructiois clearly shown in the cut, which presents a bottom view of the sled, witthe runners folded back on the undeside of the seat board. The runner

are made of steel rods, which ar

clamped to the wooden top in a mar

ner that permits them to be easilfolded. When in upright positiothe legs are held by adjustable brace;A notable feature of the design use

in this construction is the clear opering between the runners, which offerno obstruction to the snow.

Hindoos are displacing the Ja[anese in some California orchards.

USES OF THE EUCALYPTUS.

They Range From Timber to CoughDrops.Only the Bark Wasted Now.Since the introduction of the euca1lyptus into California from Australia

Its friends have been trying to pushits cultivation by making known themany uses to which it may be put.It is declared that eucalyptus wood issuited to all purposes for which hardwoodsare used.

Barring the countless other usesto which it is adapted, as a means to l

reimburse the forest supply aloaeeucalyptus is invaluable to the country,it is asserted. Then the eucalyptusIs valuable in windbreaks for

1 orchards and dwellings, for land reiclamation, for conservation of water,improvement of climate and as naturalantitoxins to malarial germs.

The beauty of the grain, the colorand the texture of eucalyptus, rivallingmany species of oak, has led tp

' its popularity as k furniture product.' Offices and residences have been® finished with the wood, and cabinet

makers and wood workers throughout3 the country have been led to make a0 practical study of the eucalyptus wood

as a finishing product.Much of the fuel consumed in Calil"fornia is eucalyptus wood, which re'tails at from $10 to $14 a California

cord. For fuel the fastest growing11 varieties are planted. Of the kinds® planted for other purposes the weak'

ling trees, limbs and 'waste are utilizedas firewood.In house construction, mining tim1ber, flooring and street paving eucaslyptus has assumed importance, and

for miscellaneous uses, for posts, teleegraph poles, railroad ties, piles,3 bridge timber, wagon tongues, spokes,1 handles for implements and tools,g logs ror corauroy roaas ana msuiaioi

e pins the popularity of eucalyptus isgrowing. '

i[1 Eucalyptus blossoms yield profit tos the beekeepers. An oil is distilledK from the leaves and is used as a compoundfor many medicines. An exytract from the leaves forms thet foundation for cough syrups. Thet buds are used in making portieres andu souvenirs.

Efforts are-being made to find a

use for every portion of the eucalyptustree.even for the bark, whichso far is waste..New York Sun.

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Identified by Veins.The finger-print method of the

Bertillon measurement system ofidentifying suspected criminals laprobably to be supplanted'by photo- }graphed records of the back of thehand. Cases have been reported

. where clever malefactors have de1ceived police officials by scarring anddisfiguring th6 tip? of their fingers

. and thereby rendering detection h-om

. that source impossible.The network of veins on the back

of the hand is different In every person,and by qaeans of these individualconfigurations infallible marks of

c identification are furnished. Withoutdanger of fatal injury it is impossibleto mutilate these veins bybranding or otherwise disfiguringthe flesh of *he hand. By allowingthe hand to hang loosely, or by stoppingthe circulation of the blood fora few moments with a ligature aboutthe wrist, the veins will stand outprominently on the back of the handand may be then clearly photographedand the picture preservedfor future reference andindentlflcatlon..Harper'sWeekly.

What's the Use?"I hate to be contradicted," she

said!"Then I won't contradict you," he

returned."You don't love me," she asserted."I don't," he admitted."You're a hateful thing," she cried."I am," he replied."I believe you are trying to tease

me," she said."I am," he conceded."And that you do love me?""I do."For a moment she was silent"Well," she said at last, "I do

hate a man who's weak enough to beled by a woman. He ought to havea mind of his own.and strength."He sighed. What else could he

do?.New York Times.%

Why They Resigned.Former Commissioner of ImmigrationRobert Watchorn said recently

of an immigrant:"He was a bad case. He was as ignorantof government as the two

Polish policemen were. Two new

policemen were once put on the Warsawforce. They did good work, theyarrested a lot of people, then suddenlythey resigned.

" 'Why are you resigning?' the superintendentasked."The older of the two men answeredrespectfully:

3" 'We are going to start a ponce

, station of our own, sir. Boris here

j will make the arrests and I will do

j the fining." ".Washington Star.

S 7""".t Joke on Appleton. *

3 They are telling a great joke on

y Lysander John Appleton. Mr. Appletonwrites a very poor hand, and regcently wrote an angry letter to hiswife's brother, asking him to paywhat he owed him or be sued. Thebrother called in all the handwritingexperts in his neighborhood, and thejdeciphered the letter to be an invitajtion to the brother and family tccome for an extended visit, and fiveof them arrived to-day..Atchison

J Globe.

An Odd Little Byproduct.It was believed that every conceiv^- - J i j

t j aDie saving naa ueeu tumcu iu

disposition of byproducts of the packDing house industry, tut not long ago

}it was found that the hair in the ears j

j. ' of steer is of a quality that permits Jit to be used in the manufacture of

,c "camel's hair" brushes. So now hair*

is removed from the ears of steers, jt

to the end that art may flourish as

well as the packing house industry. |E.New York Tribune.

^ Governor Guild, of Massachusetts,has appointed Professor liniily j

,e" Greene Blacli a member of the Statef

j Industrial Commission. Miss Blacliis professor of economics at Wellesley jCollege and president of the Women's

).' League Union of kassachu|^PttS I

/ : :V,' ..."

Good Roads Li the South.It is a very exceptional neighbor- \' v

hood in the South that does not needbetter roads, and it Is an equally exceptionalcommunity that cannot havebetter roads. While many sectionscannot hope to have the best roads.macadam or gravel.for a long timeto come, there Is no excuse for anjlocality allowing its roads to remainpositively and permanently bad.A good road is a (1) hard, (2) ' >

smooth road, (3) free from heavygrades. Any road which answers tothese requirements will insure easy ,

and quick traveling, and permit of V;the hauling of large loads.and thatis all that is required of a road. Of , \courfee, the best road is the hardestand smoothest one, the macadam road j.being superior to the gravel road; butremember that even the estrth road

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ueeu nut ue uau. j his is we tiling we

Wish this godd roads special to sayto every man who reads it, "There I«a way for you to improve the T6ad ' V ; ^over which you travel, and it will pay f .j

you to do it. If we can only get our vreaders to realize this fact we believethat they will not be content tolonger waste the strength of theltteams, , their own time, and theirmoney by dragging, over rocks, pullingthrough deep sand, Jolting acrossditches, splashing about in mudholes,and climbing steep hills. Every road ,<$cannot be macadamized, or even grav- /ftaajeled; but many more could be thanare. Few bond issues for good roads '%%in our territory have been bad invest- '.-I;ments, while the cases in which theywould be good investments could henumbered by the hundreds. The tax / frjgthe ordinary farmer would have to i

pay to build and maintain stoneroads, in any moderately settled community,is much smaller than the taxhe now pays to bad roads In the in- vcreased cost of his hauling. Over alarge section of the south sand-clayroads could be built at a very small l;i:'cost, indeed, compared to what theywould be worth to the communitiesthrough which they run. Thousandsand thousands 01 mfles of earth roadscould be redeemed from their chronicBtate of badness by the persistent useof the split-log road drag, and the

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cost of doing the work4 would be sosmall that no one would feel it And i-meverywhere that there Is a bad roadit coujd be improved If the. men who |work it would simply remember thatthe surface of the road should alwaysbe kept smooth and free from obstructions,'and that the flsrt thing to '7-.dn with the -water that falls on a roadis to get it off and away..Raleigh(N. 0.) Progressive Farmer.

Doubly Interested. "

The farmer is in a double sense -imore deeply interested in good roads 'Vthan anyone else. To him good roads ; ,Mmean a great decrease in the. cost otgetting^ his produce to the marketand getting his supplies back. Theylikewise mean a lessening of the lone- 'fllness of life.To the people of every town and

city the building of good joads Ismost as important as it is to thefarmers. It means the betterment ofevery phase of life and a closer interminglingof the people of town andcity; the lessening of wear and tear1

on vehicles and the betterment of all <t

the conditions under which businessis carried on. And then the buildingof good highways inevitably addslargely to the value of adjacent prop- > '/-ierty. It is not too much to say that *'

road-building is not an expense, butan investment, paying a larger profitto every community than anythingelse it can do. The building of goodroads means an Increase in the valueof farm products by the lessening ofthe cost of hauling. In this way itinevitably results in an increased ,

value to all p>operty adjacent, andthe cost of roads is more than madeup by this gain in prosperity. It is a

very false idea of many that thebuilding of roads is an expense which .

a community cannot afford. On thecontrary, it is an investment which '

every well-settled and well-organizedcommunity can afford to make, for itreturns the largest possible yield ofprofit, and a profit in which everyman, woman and child shares.

> $Thorough Road Construction.

Therailroad companies havelearned that there is economy in j iheavy steel rails, in strong bridgesand in large freight cars, and in likemanner the farmers will learp thatgood roads reduce the cost of transportationby wagon. As a chain is nostronger than its weakest link, so the

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termined by its steepest hill or its

roughest place. A natural road, goodin some places, may neverthelessmake economic hauling impracticablebecause of difficult obstructions at one

or two points. Hence arises the need

of thorough road construction andmaintenance..Denver Republican.

Credentials of a Cannibal.A real Fiji man came into Washingtonto attend the international ^

convention of the Seventh Day Adventists.according to the PhiladelphiaRecord. He was armed with a

club with which his former chiefin the South Sea Islands used to beat

the life out of American missionaries,and also with a big dish upon which \

the chief uied to serve up meat fromthese missionaries' bones. Club and

dish were brought along as mute evidencesof the conversion of the Fijichief, who now heads the SeventhDay Adventists' Society in the SouthSea Isles.

Vague Associations.Said a teacher on the East Side:

"Who was Robinson Crusoe?""I know," said a little girl in the

front row. "He was a great singer.""Next.""Oh, I know," chirped a little girl

before "Next" had time to reply. "Hewas a monls.ey.".New York Times.