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Every Package of Schillings Best tea is a sample. Your money back if you don't like it. 603 ABOUT MINES AND MINING. Alaska Gold in Relation to Affecting Prices. "What effect will the new gold yield have upon prices?" is a question which is being debated by statesmen and financiers. The North American Re view treats the subject at length and draws the deduction that even though the Alaska yield is enormous it will not affect prices to any noticeable de gree. It reasons that there are too many avenues open to the use of gold its monetary use, use among the arts and the foreign demand for it to ever change prices. The article gays: With a gold production for 1897 esti mated at $240,000,000, it is evident that the new aoldfields will have to prove exceptionally productive in or dei to add a great percentage to the world's annual supply of gold. If they should yield $00,000,000 per year, carrying the total annual production to $300,000,0000, they would still bo adding only 25 per cent to the previous annual increase. The effect of new supplies of the precious metals is great ly restricted by the fact that the addi tions have to bo set against the whole mass already in existence. An addi tion of 25 per cent to the annual pro duction of wheat or corn, or even of more permanent industrial products, like iron or copper, would have a marked effect upon prices. Gold is un doubtedly influenceed, like all other articles, by the law of supply and de mand, but the supply in any one year is only a small addition to the amount already in the market. All the gold of the world used as coin or bullion in monetary exchanges is constantly in the world's money market, capable of being purchased by commodt.iies di rectly or by slight premiums in rates of exchange. It has been shown that the visible stock of monetary gold existing in the world today is about $4,860,000,000. Reasons will soon be given for thinking that another sum of $1,000,000,000 is concealed in private hoards. The mathematical elements of the problem, therefore, are: An aggregate gold pro duction within historic times of $9, 000,000,000; a visible supply of gold in use as money of $4,360,000,000; and a possible annual increase of the sup ply from $240,000,000 in 1897 to $300, 000,000 in future years. The second question what portion oi the new gold will be devoted to monetary uses suggests the interest ing inquiry, what has become of the difference between the whole amount of gold produced and the amount now visible in coin and bullion? The amount to be accounted for is $4,800, 000,000 and represents more than half of the gold which has been produced since 1492. There are three channels through which this difference has been absorbed, which may be briefly treated thus: Abrasion, the arts and the foreign trade. Americans the Rest. It is complained that the British have made no money out of mining in this country. They should not send b"Ver TE3 proverbial" younger son, and luxurious mine managers, who "dress for dinner" in remote mining camps and have French chefs, and violinists to soothe them (luring the hour of di gestion. Americans are mining to bet ter advantage here; they are mostly plain, practical men, and when they buy a mine they send one set of experts to check up another, and then pay a price for the property, and no more. Mexico City Herald. Brought in Samples. ) Mr. Cole, of the Copper creek m in- ing district, Skamania county, Wash- ' ington, has brought to Messrs. Colfelt and Sebecki, of Portland, samples of ore from the 20-foot level of the Yel- low Bird shaft, which assayed 15 per cent copper and $13 in gold. Mr. Se becki and Mr. Colfelt expect to take the machinery for a smelter on the ground just as soon as the trail can be put in shape. There are a number of promising properties in Copper creek district in which Portland parties are interested. State Mining ICoards. State mining boards, Mr. Batchelder of Portland, believes, would be of great assistance to the mining inter ests of Oregon and Washington. Like others, Mr. Batchelder realizes that the mineral districts have been sadly neglected. With the character of ore, the fuel, the timber, transportation, the grades of ore for fluxing each other, and the mild climate, Oregon and Washington, he says, should be the greatest mineral-producers in the West. State boards could be of advantage in many ways. For one thing, they cou'd constitute themselves a fountain head of reliable information, by keep ing in touch with all the districts, where capitalists, strangers and people at home could draw from for investing, etc. ABOUT IKEEGULAEITY. A Chat With Miss Marie Johnson. The balance wheel of a woman's life Is menstruation. Irregularity lays the foundation of many diseases, and is in itself a symp tom of disease. It is of the greatest importance that regularity be accom plished as soon as possible after the flow is an established fact. Lydia E. Pink- ham's vegetable Compound is the greatest regulator known to medicine. "My health be came so poor that I had to leave school. I was tired all the time, and had dread ful pains in my side and back and head. I was also troubled with irregularity of menses, and lost so much flesh that my friends became alarmed. " My mother, who from experience is a firm believer in the Pinkham reme dies, thought perhaps they might bene fit me. I followed the advice Mrs. Pinkham gave me, and used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills and am now as well as I ever was Miss Mti P. Joiexsos, Cen tralis Pa. 11 CURES WHRfc ALL ELSE FAILS. " H St Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use S"g &3 In time. Sold, by druKKlsts. r5l Human Magnets. Experiments made recently by scien tific men in Erance have developed a curious and altogether unexpected fact, namely, thatscertain persons possess a, magnetic polarity that is, they are found to act after the manner of mag nets, having, in foot, north .and south poles. In such a case, the individual on being completely undressed and placed near a sensitive galvanometer, will, when turned on a vertical axis, cause a deflection first in one direction and then in the other, just as a magnet will do. It is not assumed that all persons psosess this polarity, but in the case of Professor. Murani, an Italian, upon wham the experiment was tried, the phenomenon was un mistakably exhibited, it being found that his beast corresponded to a north pole and his back to a south pole. AN ALL AROUND FRIEND. We need not talk about the weather when we come to discuss the cause of so many aches and pains which afllict mankind. JIuch of these afflictions is from heritage of infirmity of the nerves, muscles and joints of the human body. Many pains and aches, it is true, are brought on by exposure to cold or by sudden chill, but as to a general condition to which we may be subject there should be a remedy which in a general way is curative for all. This is one reason why St. Jacobs Oil is so pop ular. It cures aches and pains in all forms, and they are wise who keep it steadily on hand to be used in emergencies at any time in the cure of the most acute attacks. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The chemical name of Epsom salts is sulphate of magnesia. By starting for the Klondike now you will get there in the spring, when the thermometer is only 30 degrees be low zero. If China could load her cannon with the characters she puts on tea boxes, no enemy on earth could withstand the fusilade. A Kentucky young man who had the measles kissed his sweetheart and she caught 'em. Now she is suing him for damages. It is understood that Actor Corbett is providing for next season by study ing "Hamlet," "King Lear" and "Oedipus at Colonos. " Chinese brides of high station fre quently do not see their husbands until the red veils are lifted at the marriage ceremony. To improve her complexion, a young lady in Worcester, England, was in the habit of eating about two wax candles every week. Very satisfactory trials have been re cently made of a life boat made of pumice stone, which it was found would remain afloat with a load, even when full of water. Dr. Herbert A. Parkin, of Chicago, has hypnotized his fox tenier, Esau, so that the dog receives and carries out instructions written on a slip of paper, folded and laid on his nose. Electro magnets capable of picking up a load not exceeding five tons are used by the Illinois Steel Company to transfer steel beams or plates from one part of the shop to the other. Measurements have shown the thick ness of the human hair to vary from the two-hundred-and-liftieth to the six hundredth part of an inch. Blonde hair is the finest, and red hair the coarsest. What is probably the most venerable piece of furniture in existence is now in the British Museum. It is the throne of Queen Hatsti, who reigned in the Nile valley some 1,600 years be fore Christ. A f ." "I J ,7 T Una n nnt a la.uim ui unimuu, ,.u. toau wnicn lonows mm arounu , ie Pce. When the farmer sent the toad as a gift to a friend m Washington, the toad walked back to Herndon, a dis- tance OI lu PEAKY THE EXPLOREH ON BAKING POWDEUS. Those going to the Klondike must remember that a reliable baking pow der is an absolute necessity. If, after a long and expensivo trip and the great cost of transportation, the baking pow der proves inferior or has lost its strength, the miner will be practically helpless. It is no time or place to ex periment. What is required is a. bak ing powder that has actually stood the test of the arctic climate. Tlje well known explorer, Lieut. Peary, U. S. N., says of Cleveland's baking powder, which he used on his Arctic Expeditions: "Cleveland's stood the tests of use in those high latitudes and severe tem peratures perfectly and gave entire sat isfaction. Mrs. Peary considers that there is no better baking powder made than Cleveland's. I shall take it again on my next expedition." A Woman's Daily Taper. There has just been launched in Paris a daily paper devoted solely to the interests of the fair sex. It is pro duced entirely by women, and not only are the editors, the managers and the staff of reporters women, but the type is set by female compositors, and it is reported that even the printers' devils are feminine members of the genus "gamin." The name of the paper is La Fronde. Used as a noun this means the implement of ancient warfare with which David slew Goliath, while to the verb "fro nder" the translation to sling, to censure, to blame, to criticise and to oppose all equally apply, and, judging from the first number, are singularly appropriate, since it is full of abuse of everything that can possibly be Con strued as the handiwork of man. Mme. Severine, whose writings have won for her a world-wide reputation, is editor-in-chief, and the enterprise is said to be backed by plenty ol money. Keeping Dickens Birthday. The birthday of Dickens was cele brated in London by some ceremonies organized by Mr. Edwin Drew, and it is of interest to note that had the no velist lived he would have been 86 years of age. The grave in Westmin ster Abbey was visited by Mr. and Mrs. Drew and a party of friends, and a wreath was deposited upon it. Seeing many strangers near Mr. Drew began a little speech, but it was nipped in the bud by a verger being, of course, technically, perniciously near the legal offense of "brawling." Taking the wreath with them, Mr. Drew's party proceeded to an evening entertainment in St. James' hall, when various reci tations, songs, speeches and so forth, more or less connected with Dickens, formed the programme of the evening. The weight of a man's brain has, it is said, nothing to do with his mental power. It is a question of climate, not of intelligence. The colder the climate, the greater the size of the brain. A REPRIEVE, if-plIEN-Good-by." . I ":o An revoir." The girl, Ada d'Arenville, giggled, the handsom's doors closed with a bans and with a muttered direction rto the driver' Dick Fenwick turned on his heel and re-entered the restaurant where n,e. and Miss d'Arenville had dined together for the last time prior lo Mr. Fenwick's marriage not with Miss d'Arenville of the Alcazar, it may bo said. The power which some men exercise over women, and women of different classes, Is wonderful. Fenwick's popu larity with the actress had as its basis her fear of him ,and also his treatment of her, at one time caressing and at an other violent, which, to her mind, ar gued that he was a man amongst men, her experience of men previous to Fen wick being continual compliance on their part to her win, which she had found monotonous. With his fiancee Fenwick, who was marrying her solely for the almost boundless wealth her father had ieft her, proceeded on very different lines; he earned her respect by firmness cloaked with kindness; her love for she thought she lover1 the man who was ready to give her a title to play with by a chivalrous allection which he most cleverly assumed, with a particularly upright and modest bearing which cap tivated the good hearts of the two worthy maiden aunts who were the girl's sole guardians. Luckily for Sir Dick, a considerable tract of Great Britain separated the remnants of his estate from the ancient high-wall-suiTounded mansion where dwelt Miss Mabel Lane and her de voted relatives. Luckily, because there were certain tales about tales which did not redouna to his credit, and these might have got to the ears of the esti mable ladies chiefly concerned in the hero of them. Only once did he allow the cloven hoof to show itself before his wedding, and that wao when a tearful aunt in formed him that, owing to the uutimely Illness of their oldest friend, the vicar of the parish, the marriage would have to be put off for a few days. "Just to think," said Miss Pauline, "just to think that, after all the trouble the dear vicar put himself to In post poning the day of his resignation in or der to marry Mabel, whom he chris tened as a child, he should be too ill to do so." It was a small village, and the time was too short to allow of extraneous clerical aid being obtained immediate ly, and for a moment Fenwick thought the marriage would indeed have to be deferred. "But surely there is some other cler gyman in the neighborhood?" he asked, angrily. "Another clergyman," said the star tled Miss Sophia, "and the dear vicar christened Mabel as a child impossi ble." "Is there or is there not another cler gyman?" demanded the bridegroom, sternly. "There Is, indeed, a young curate in the village, sent In advance by the new vicar," said Miss Sophia In a plaintive voice, "but we do not know him, Rich ard; indeed, he has only been with us a few hours, and his years are too few, had he been here at the time, for him to have assisted In the christening of our " "O, hang the christening, it's a wed ding we want him for now; the banns aave been published in both parishes, ad what dllferenee does it make whether we are married by a curate or a bishop, as long as we are married and I intend we shall be," replied Fen wick, with asperity. "Dick, dear " expostulated Miss Lane. "My dear, I feel very upset about this Idea of postponement. I may be super stitious I cannot help that but I feel that unless we are married to-day something untimely will happen to pro vent our being married at all."' In his pocket Sir Richard had a very awkward letter, in which threats of ex posure were held over his head by an individual who was "tired of the ever lasting delays in the settlement of my account. If there is justice to be ob tained In England I shall Instruct my solicitors, Messrs. Moses, Halg & Ben ty, to proceed," etc., etc. It was not like Sir Richard to be thwarted by a couple of old ladles, and the wedding was performed at the ap pointed time by the curate, whose years were not sufficient had he been there at the time to have assisted at the christening of Miss Lane. The wedding performed, Fenwick breathed again, and, once in the train, he indulged in a fairly big dose of bran dy, or would have done so had not an affectionate gesture of his wife caused the flask to fall from his hand, and elic ited from his lips such a term of black guardly opprobrium that the blood left the bride's face, leaving her pallid and trembling. "Look here," said he, savagely, "let's understand each other. Do you know why I married you?" And he told her. "Do you know whom I love, whose little finger is worth a thousand times more than your whole body?" He told her that also. Then he told her not to interfere with him unless she wished her life to be an earthly hell. "I Intend to be master," he said, the veins standing out on his forehead with passion ill suppressed. "Look here, I hate dogs." He opened the window and, taking the tiny terrier which lay curled upon the girl's lap, dropped it from the flying train. "You understand!" he sneered. When they changed trains Fenwick met upon the platform a boon compan ion of his pre-d'Arenville days, whom he Induced to travel in the same car riage with himself and his wife to their destination. Lady Fenwick cringed, but dare sny nothing, uot eveu when' her husband said, "Will see you later," when they parted, seeing only in that insult a small reprieve from his society. When their silent dinner was dis patched Sir Richard turned to his wife and said, "I am going out; you can amuse yourself in the drawing-room, reading the fashions in year-old ladies' papers, or," he whispered, "in letting the tears gu&h forth from those some thinged silly eyes of yours." And he went forth to join his friend cf the journey, and In the fullness very fullness of time returned to the hotel, where he was informed that a eentlemnn wished to see him. t thish hourl" he hlccoushea. eve !a he?' The gentleman who wished to se-i Sir Richard was ushered into the room. In appearance he was strictly profession al, but his somewhat stern expression was tempered by a look which men as sume wrhen they have some exceeding ly unpleasant duty to perform. "Sir Richard Fenwick," he began. "O, geralong," said the gentleman ad dressed. "You will be surprised to hear, Sir Richard, that Lady Fenwick is no long er In this hotel " Fenwick's intoxication seemed to vanish by enchantment, and he glared at his visitor, who continued to explain, " she is, indeed, with my wife, and in perfect safety." "And who the deuce " began Fen wick. "I am the head of the firm of Hughie, Acres & Doubleeheek, London agents of Messrs. Courtly & Stock, legal advis ers of fTie Misses Lane." "By what authority have you had the impertinence to take my wife out of my charge?" asked the outraged husband. "As a man of law you must know that " "I am quite aware of the position In which I stand," placidly continued the lawyer, "and my justification is coir talned in these telegrams from the lady's guardians authorizing me to act as 1 tmnn nt. l nave also bad several communications wTith the police." "The police " gasped Sir Richard. "Calm yourself, my good sir; no harm is done, and everything will arrange It self for the best. It appears that for some time the police have been looking for a certain Frank Fenton, a well-educated young man, whose career marks him as a criminal of the highest abil ity." "I never heard of the name," asserted Sir Richard, loftily. "No; for professional uses he general ly found it convenient to adopt other names and other guises. For Instance, during the last few months this in genious youth has posed as a brick layer, an actor, a soldier, a lawyer, a liftman, and a curate. He Is, In fact, the very curate who married you this morning. The Impostor was arrested on his way to the station with a bag containing the gold plate belonging to the church and all moneys for alms and from collections that he could lay his hands on. The criminal being a lay man, and unauthorized to perform the wedding ceremony, your marriage is therefore illegal you are, in fact, not married; but, of course, the marriage can be performed Immediately a duly licensed clergyman can be obtained to nerform it at Heston cum-Wold that is." he added, with a dry smile, "if both parties are still willing." Dick Fenwick's reply is not written. Pi?k-Me-Up. THE MELUNGEONS. Peculiar People Who Live in East Ten nessee Legend of History. It Is not generally known that in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee there lives a class of peculiar looking people whose origin is wrapped in mystery, and who are called by the whites Me lungeons. They resent this appella tion, and proudly declare that they are Portuguese. The legend of their his tory, which they carefully preserve, is this: A great many years ago these moun tains were settled by a society of Por tuguese adventurers, men and women. who came from the shore of Virginia that they might be freed from the re straints and drawbacks imposed upon them by any form of government. They made theyselves friendly with the In dians, and freed as they were from ev ery kind of social government, they up rooted all conventional form3 of so ciety, and lived in a kind of delightful Utopia of their own creation, trampling upon the marriage relation, despising all forms of religion, and subsisting up on corn the only possible product of the soil and the game of the great for ests.' They Intermixed with the Indians and subsequently with the negroes, and thus formed the present race of Melungeons. They are tall, straight, well-formed people, of a dark copper color, but with Circassian features. They were privi leged voters in the old slave days and accredited citizens. They are brave, but quarrelsome, and are hospitable to strangers. They have . no preachers among them, and are almost without any knowledge of a Supreme Being. They marry by established forms, but husband and wife can separate at pleasure without meeting with any re proach or disgrace from their friends. They have but little association with their neighbors, and are in every re spect, save that they are under the jurisdiction of the State government, a separate and distinct people. Promoted for Gallantry. Hon. Theodore Roosevelt writes an article entitled "The Roll of Honor of the New York Police," for the Century. Mr. Roosevelt says: Early in our term we promoted a pa trolman to the grade of roundsman for activity in catching a burglar under rather peculiar circumstances. I hap pened to note his getting a burglar one week. Apparently he had fallen Into the habit, for he got another the next week. In the latter case the burglar escaped from the house soon after midnight, and ran away towards Park avenue, with the policeman in hot chase. The New York Central Rail road runs under Park avenue, and there are a succession of openings in the top of the tunnel. Finding that the policeman was gaining on him, the bur glar took a desperate chance, and leap ed down one of these openings, at the risk of breaking his neck. Now the burglar was running for his liberty, and it was the part of wisdom for him to imperil life or limb; but the police man was merely doing his duty, and nobody could have blamed him for not taking the Jump. However, he jump ed; and in this particular case the hand cf the Lord was heavy upon the un righteous. The burglar had the breath knocked out of him, and the "cop" didn't. When his victim could walk the officer trotted him around to the station-house, and a week afterward he himself was promoted, it appearing, upon careful investigation, that he was sober, trustworthy, and strictly atten tive to his duty. When a woman has been in society. and turned out, she is as disagreeable as the man who has once been up in the world. PERILS OF SEA GUNNERY. The Mate's Agility and Quick Witted ness Save the Ship. An officer of the United States Navy relates the following as illustrating some of the perils of gunnery at sea: "I am glad to see you again, and all the more so, because, without knowing It, I came very near going up Into the air in small bits on this last squadron cruise. We were at heavy gun prac tice at sea, and but for the quickness of a gunner's mate would never have re turned. As you probably know, the heaw guns In the turrets are -fired by electricity, the gun being discharged simply by pressing a button. The offi cer in command of the forward turret on our ship during rapid-firing practice was just about to press the button to fire one of our big guns, when a gun ner's mate was seen to grab at some thing on the wall of the turret and then fall In a heap on the floor. The officer pressed the button, but the gun was not discharged. When the mate came to he was asked what had happened, and he Informed the officer that the breech of the gun had not been locked and that what he grabbed at on the wall was the wires forming the electric firing cir cuit. When he saw that the officer was prepared to fire the gun and at the same time observed that the breech of the gun was not locked, the only thing that occurred to him to prevent the gun being discharged was to destroy the cir cuit, which he did promptly and effec tively. When all this occurred there was a charge of 250 pounds of powder in the gun, another charge of the same size in the turret ready to be served, and the.passageway leading to the pow der magazine was wide open. But for the quickness of the gunner's mate the gun would have been discharged, the breech block would have blown out in side the turret, the gases from the burning powder would probably have ignited the charge lying in the turret, this explosion would have ignited the powder in the magazine, and the chances are that the whole ship, crew and all would have gone up in the air. A thought that has occurred to me is this: Suppose the accident had occur red, what do you imagine the verdict of a board of inquiry as to the cause of the loss of the ship would have been? Since this experience the department has adopted electrical means to prevent the discharge of any of the large guns until the breech is locked." Wonderful Snake Charming. A well-known magician tells this story "One morning 1 was sitting in my room writing letters. There was no furniture in the room except a few chairs, a table and the cot bed on which I had slept and which had a single sheet thrown over it. There were no curtains or drapery anywhere about. Suddenly a snake charmer appeared in the doorway and remarked, cheerfully, 'Heap plenty big snake in room, sahib! Heap plenty big snake.' "I told him to go away; that I had no time to waste on him, and besides, that I did not believe there was a snake in the whole house. But he declared ear nestly that there was 'heap plenty big snake,' and I finally told him to come in and drive them out. He advanced two or three places into the room, put a pipe to his lips and began to play. The sheet of the bed rose in the air. The native twitched it off and. behold there was a great cobra coiled up with his head in the air. The charmer's eyes were fixed upon the cobra, and the music became soft and slow. From the bed the serpent descended and slowly followed the man, who was backing toward the door. Just out side the charmer stopped, and the snake coiled himself on the threshold, his head high in the air, hissing angrily, while his tongue darted in and out, full of menace. He was just ready to strike when another native who had remain ed outside stepped forward and, in a flash, cut off the monster's head with a sharp 3word. I went out and saw the writhing, bleeding, headless ser pent on the ground." The Way It Was Spelled. A lady who buys provisions regular ly of a dealer in Boston was a little puz zled over one of the items in her month ly bill. The Item was as follows: "To lb. psalmon, 90 cents." It suddenly occurred to the lady that she had purchased three pounds of salmon on the date given, and the meaning of the mysteriously spelled word was apparent to her. Greatly amused, and feeling well enough acquainted with the provision dealer to tell him of the little laugh she had enjoyed at his expense, she said, when she went to pay the bill: 'Mr. Blank, I had quite a laugh over the way some one In your establish ment spells 'salmon.' " When the item had been pointed out to him, Mr. Blank said, in a tone or contempt for such ignorance: "That's tne work of a new bookkeeper have. I'm ashamed to have such bills sent out, and I shall have to speak to him about it. He is a good book keeper, but he's got to learn to spell If he stays in my employ. Let me correct the bill." Taking a pen, Mr. Blank drew several lines across the word and wrote above It: "Sammon." "There, ma'am," he said, complacent ly, handing back the bill. 1 II teach that bookkeeper how to spell 'salmon' when he comes In, or tell him to find a new place." Tit-Bits. Convenient. In the commune of Monceau-sur-Olse, not far from Paris, a little village of only two hundred and fifty Inhabitants, the streets are lighted by electricity, electric lights are found in the church, in all the houses, and even in the sta bles; and the farm buildings in the neighborhood of the village are illu minated In the same manner. More than this, the commune possesses a large threshing machine driven by elec tric power and capable of threshing nine hundred sheaves of grain per hour; besides turnip-cutters, crushers, sor ters, pumps, and other agricultural ma chinery, all set In motion by electricity. The power Is derived from a water fall, and by combining their Interests the Inhabitants of the commune have made science illuminate their streets and houses at night and drive their ma chines by day more cheaply than these things could be done by the old meth ods. The Whirligig of Time. Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow,' And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. Its fleece is still as white as snow, But Mary's lamb has grown, And now she'd rather walk three miles Than face that tymb alone. Truth. Whisky or Water. It Is said that when whisky is used Instead of water in making glue the mixture will remain unaltered for years, will remain perfectly liquid and is ready for use without heating. Talk isn't cheap when you hire a law yer to do it for you. Improvement Inspires Improvement. Indiana has a new road law and a Jackson County resident writes the In diana Farmer that it Is working won ders in the way of Improving the ap pearance of the roads and the country in general. It offers an inducement and an incentive to the average farmer to Improve the other side of the fence. There Is here and there a farmer that won't undertake the other side because there is no pay in it, but many farmers, seeing the beauty, and profit and good looks, are making a clean sweep, mov ing the old fence entire, and fixing to farm to the road limits, or are replacing fences of better quality, where they desire to retain fences. My suggestions are first that there should be some movement by which the road supervi sors and the land owners might or could work in harmony together, and work down unsightly high banks, and at the same time protect the water drainage of both the road and field. Second, that in the cases where there are steep cuts on hills, where roads have been worn down very narrow, that the township should furnish suffi cient tile or drainage to admit of tear ing down of the banks and widening the roadbed, and thus enable the farm er to smooth up his border, or hill side. Some such arrangement would add greatly to the appearance of our coun try roads and benefit greatly the travel- lnSPUbUC- Good Roads Legislation. The details of road laws would neces sarily vary with the resources, geologi cal formation- and actual needs of the several States, but where anything is done in this direction the necessity for intelligent expert control should be a first consideration, so that what is done may be in the direction at least of per manent and substantial improvement. By the lack of system and Intelligent supervision in the past we have wasted many millions on our country roads with little or no lasting result. We have now an abundance of train ed men ready to tell us what we can and should do in road construction. We must have these roads in time, and if our legislators will cast aside old usage and a dread of the results of ig norance and prejudice on the part of their constituents and earnestly work for the general good of the whole com munity, we will at least make a speedy and intelligent beginning In the good work. The further and proper develop ment will follow in the natural course so soon as we have enough of better roads to teach the masses the true pub lic value of the improvement. Engi neering News. ' : s Clean Roads. . -On the principle that the greater al always includes the less, good roads naturally imply a clean as well as a smooth and durable surface. But some times the only step that can be taken toward better roads is to first keep the poor ones clean, and a bad road that is clean is not quite so bad as one that is not, and more or less covered with refus:. In New York, for a year or two, the streets, poor as they are for the most part, have been kept remarka bly clean, and since this happened it is said that the demand for rubber over shoes has materially decreased there. In towns and in the country, if live stock were kept off the highways and properly confined, the roads would be much cleaner, the farmer could do away with nearly all his expensive fencing, and traveling would be far more agreeable. L. A. W. Bulletin. Education of Marie Antoinette. Miss Anna L. Bickness contributes to the Century an article on "Marie An toinette as Dauphine," which contains much new matter drawn from the state papers at Vienna. Miss Bicknell says: Marie-Antoinette-Josephe-Jeanne, of Hapsburg-Lorraiue, Archduchess of Austria and future queen of France, was born on Nov. 2 (feast of All Souls), 1755 the day after tue terrible catas trophe at Lisbon, when that city was nearly destroyed by an earthquake. Maria Theresa's daughter was taught the correct pronunciation of French by two actors of the Theatre Franca.s, while the French Abbe de Vermond was appointed to direct her education, which, however, was unhappily very incomplete. The writers who glorify the maternal care and vigilance of Maria Theresa are contradicted by he most trustworthy witnesses, the truth seeming to be that the great Empress, engrossed by her political cares, left her children far too completely to the discretion of governesses and subordin ates, who were neither very capable, nor, perhaps, very conscientious. Drawings were shown to the Empress as the work of Marie-Antoinette which the latter afterwards declared she had never touched, and this "make-believe" system seems to have been carried on throughout. The Abbe de Vermond di rected only her French studies; but al though a good and well-meaning man, the results which he obtained were far from creditable to his efforts. He does not seem to have had the art either of interesting her in any serious pursuit, or of acquiring proper control over her mind and character. Her handwriting even, as proved by autographs, was utterly unformed and childish at the t'me of her arrival at the court of France, and her spelling was defective. The Origin of a Tennyson Poem. Tennyson's poem of "St. Telemachus" originated thus: Lord Tennyson, one day when Dean Farrar was talking with him, asked him to suggest the subject of a poem. After thinking a moment he suggested the story of St. Telemachus leaping down into the am phitheater, and, by his self-devoted martyrdom, putting an end forever to the hideous butcheries of the gladiator ial games, a scene which Dean Farrar has described in his "Gathering Clouds," and which Is the subject of the famous picture, "The Gladiators.". To his surprise, Tennyson had never heard the story, and was much struck with it. He asked the dean to send him, when he returned, all the authori ties on the subject. That was easily done, for it rests on the single authori ty of the Greek ecclesiastical historian, Theodoret. The dean sent him the pas sage In the original Greek, and he cloth ed it in the magnificent poem, which may be read In almost his latest vol ume, "The Death of Oenone, and Other Poems." The Bookman. A Fine Scheme. Landlord Do you experience any I trouble In renting the rooms on the thirteenth floor? Agent of the Building Not a bit. You see In dealing with the tenants on that floor I always refer to the base ment as the first story. Exact Size. highly Illustrated catalogue, ICru.t 0.2c SALESLADIES and SALESMEN wanted, $15 per week and expenses. No experience necessary. OUR GUARANTEE : If goods are not satisfactory, money will be refunded, or new photos furnished. Estimates furnished from one dozen to one million. L. P. DAVIS & CO. Dept. E, CHICAGO, ILL. 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