a- J. R. MARKLEY, R. R HAYS W. F. D. JONES. J. R. M (INCORPORATED.) * W. Address : 'Elie onlv set of Abstracts in tlie County r IL LA M OO k, O R E W F. D. J ones , Manager, Tillamook, Oregon. SOCIETY nitSECTORY. G. A. R —Meet* first and third Wednesday of each month at 1 i* M iti <». A. R Hall. U. N. D rew , A djutant . F.S bvb BAMC e , C ommanded . FAIR AND RACES, ” ” ewe, (five) kids, 0.—Hogs. SHEEP AM) TARIFFS. 50 WOOL GROWING HAS NOT DECLINED Boar, 50 BECAUSE OF DUTIES ON WOOL. Sow, C omplete . 75 Litter of pigs 1802, 1 00 The Number of Slieep In the United State, Heaviest hog, A. F. fk A. M.—Meet* fir»t Saturday night of To be Held on the 6th 7th him ! «th of Hep­ C lash IV.—C iik K kns . lias Always Increased When the Duties each month in I. O. O. F. Hall H. V. V. tember—Liberal I’urweH and Preminin* J ohnoon , W. M. B. L amp , S ec ’ y . Were Adequately Protective and De­ For li e liest, CHAPTER—Me*-ta first Saturday. 1 P. m . ol 50 creased When They Wero Nut So. Trio Black Spanish, each month in I. O. O. F Hall. J. E- S ibley , 1. Running race, free for nil, (KM) 50 II. I*., A. I’. W ilson , S ec ’ y . ” Brown Leghorn, The report of the majority of the com­ yards and repeat; purse, $50. 50 mittee on ways and means in favor of A. O. IT. W.—Meets every Monday night at 7 ’’ White ” P M. in G. A. R Hall, <’ N. D rew , M. W. A. 2. Trotting race, for three-year-olds; 50 free wool, which was submitted to the n Plymouth Rocks, W. S everance , R ecorder . mile and repeat; purse, <25. 50 honse of representatives on Feb. 29, is ” Langshans, HOOK A LADDER CO. - Meetson first Tues »lay night of each month in City Hall. A. P. 50 about as able an exposition of tho Free- 3. Trotting race, gentleman ’ s bng-y ” Wyandotte*, W ilson , P resident . C. N. D rew , C hief . U. 50 trade side of the question as might have horse, mile and repeat; entrance $5 to H. F rkah , S ec ’ y . ” Huff Cochins, 2 50 been cxpect^sk With the parts of this make purse. Association w ill add buggy Display of blooded chickens, 50 report which rehearse the well worn robe for first horse and whip for last Pair of turkeys, Price List—Job Printing, horse. Horses to have been owned 5 argument that free wool and lower ” n geese, J ob P rinting at L bim than P ortland P rices . 50 duties on woolen goods will give cheaper three months in Tillamook county, anil ” ” ducks, Pekin*, Now is the time to order Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Envelopes, Cards, Etc. 50 clothing to the masses we shall not now to be driven bv owners. ” ” ” any breed. The prir.es given are for the best quality of C lass V.—G rains and G rass . concern ourselves; but the statement i - a I’ER AND STOCK, though we furnish clu apfi 2 nd day . grades for less money. No trouble about writ­ 1 For tlie best, that the protective duties levied on for­ 4. Pony race, 14 bands or under, 44(1 ing with pen and Ink on our stationery, aud the 25 eign wools have caused a decline in printing is done in the best style of the art. Bushel oats, yards and repeat; purse, $20. 23 sheep raising, as evidenced by the num­ Ihoo ^50 Vsoo 'ftf I fXXJ ” wheat, 5. Running race for all two-year-olds, Business Cards fi so #4 50 n >5 25 ber of Bheep in the United States at pres­ n barley, a a.5 5 00 *4 mile and repeat; purse, $25. Bill iluaiK • .50 3 00 25 ent, is 60 glaring a misrepresentation Letter Ifeads 3 00 5 on Peck timothy, 1 50 a 25 Note Heads a 00 I 40 -3 75 4 50 (>. Running race, free for all, H mile 25 that it should not be suffered to stand ” red-top, a 00 4 90 Statement.** I 40 •» 7.5 . .4 00 and repeat; purse, $75. 2 50 Envelopes 6%.. XX i 50 25 long uncorrected. Tho mere fact that n orchard grass, a 50 . .0 00 ” Large XX 4 25 7. Best display of lady equestrianship » 25 the number of sheep in certain sections a 00 Hhow Tickets... .. I 50 n beans, 3 50 2 75 HtUIlS with a 00 Dance ” i 1 50 Sheaf above grasses, or grains, 2 50 of the country was less in 1891 than it a 00 Fosters, Binall S 75 3 50 purse, (7. 50. I 50 4 00 ” Medium 2 OO .5 00 3 00 2 50 was in 1888 is taken by these “reformers” 20 lbs honey, 3 rd DAY. . IO 00 5 00 6 50 ” Large 8 50 as proof that Protection has injured our Cinmlar Letter 5 25 , C lass VI — V euetabi . es . 2 SO 3 25 I 75 8. Baseball game; *10 to winni wool growing industry, and without giv­ Shipping Tags I 00 4 50 3 75 1 75 For the best, ing any other figures or other proof they Visiting CardM ¿octs. V50 or 75Cta. '#100. club. 50 mako the broad assertion that sheep Two pumpkins, "Bought ol ” Statements on pencil paper, tablet race, free for all, 1 mil ». Trotting form, 25 Vs»« ‘»r Li 00 <¿‘1000. 50 raising has declined in all states east of ” sipiashes, Placards, "Posltivelv no credit," etc., |i 'fdox. and rt peat; purse, 50. 50 tho Mississippi river, and has increased Four heads cabbage, or less: yts. each for all over. Large size 1 1 50 10. Running race, free for all, 61 ’f*.hRystuni of the purse. Lamp mat, 25 considering tho length of tho period, is graveled street*, with a deep covering of good 25 not a remarkable increase. Until I860, Watch case, A dmission F ee :—25ets |wr day; child­ then, tho ministry of wool growing had gravel, which in obtain'd In the eity limits. 25 Pin cushion, CITY HALL.—A neat substantial structure, ren from 8 to 15 years, I5cts not prospered greatly. In 186”, how­ 25 ever, a strongly Protective duty was Lady’s collar, ’ PREMIUM LIST. containing city offices, council chamber, city Jail and rooms lor Eire Company. There is a Tidy, worsted or cotton, 25 levied on foreign wools, and tho effect C lass I.—IloRSt s. good lire bell in the tower, and the building Pillow b I uiuh , 25 1 of this duty was wonderful; it so stimu­ presents a good architectural appearance. A.—Draft Horses. lated the raising of sheep that in 1884 25' Edging, TELEGRAPH. The Tillamook 8c Bay City For the best. 2.". tho numlier of sheep was 60,626,620, an Infant's Skirt, Telegraph line eoiinects with the Western Stallion, 3 years old or upward, $5 (Ml Union at Forest (Irove, and will l»e extended on 25 : increase of over 140 per cent, more than Apron, » » »» that from 1810 to I860. In the latter 2 this end to Nehalem and Clatsop. 1 Crochet work, greatest variety, 1 00' » » »» >> >> part of tho ve w 1883 tho duty oil wool 1 TOWN8ITE The location of the city la re­ 1 Lady ’ s Skirt, i oo markably beautiful, and is just sloping enough and its manufactures was greatly re­ stallion which has Medal to 25 1 Ironed (»arment, to secure good seweruge and drainage. An ex duced, tho effect of which reduction cellenl aysteni of water-works can be put in nt lieen entered, showing five best Pati li-work, quilt, 2 00 soon liecamo apparent; for since 1884 reasonable cost, also. The townsite is I iid off colts of any age. 1 Ou' (the duty was reduced so late in 1883 Crazy quilt, regularly,and with wide streets. For tho beat, Display of fancy needle work, 1 00 that tbo effect of the change could not BUILDINGS.—There are many costly and 2 be seen on the number of sheep in 1884) Span of draft mares, C1, ah S X.—W orks of A rt , beautiful dwelling houses In the city, and many and until 1890 tho numlier of sheep ’’ " ” horses. 2 Kiibstniitial business houses. The school house For the best, •> steadily declined. In that year the pros­ is a credit to the city. Walking team, draft horses, Oil painting, on canvas in pect of increased Protection l y the Mc­ HU8INES8. The city has four wharves, a saw llorse Colt, bv side of dam. fr m», 1 00 Kinley bill gave a new impetus to wool mill, three blackamitli shops, two livery stables, Brood Mare, Jyears or upward, 1 Oil painting on wood, 75 growing, as was evidenced by tho in­ three g<»od hotels, several wood working shops, >> >» .j ” ” ” 1 Inu hardware stores, a jewelry store, a book Water color in frame, 75 crease of almost 2,000,000 in the number H »» ] n »» >» store, a sh 1 0 store, a newspaper, machinist s shop, teal estate C lam XL—M ihceii . ankocs . “reformers" in the elections of 1890 agents, lawers, doctors, ret., ecl. 1 Mare of any age, Dairy, household manufactures, made caused many wool growers to fear that FAIR GROUNDS.—The Tillamook Fall A muhi C.—Trotting Bred Horses. the new duties, the wisdom of which had ntion lias fin«" grounds, an excellent half mile 1 by exliibitor For the best, track, gram! stand, pagoda, pavilion, ect. Is en already proved, would be abolished. For the best,- 9 CHURCHES -The Catholics, tbe Methodists Stallion of any age, live ltrs fresh butter, 3 50 Within tho past year tho growing favor Christians, M. K. Church South, and other de­ Mare with whioli tho McKinley bill is regard­ ” ” new cheese, 50 ed has become so evident that confidence nominations are well represented here 1 Horse or nuire 3 year old, SOCIKTIHS.—The O9 >> j .> „ 1 EDUCATION.—The school employs four Yeast biscuit. 50 increaso of more than 1,500,000 sheep teachers. Private schools are often conducted Colt by side of dam, Assortment cake, 5 kinds, 1 00 over the number in 1891. Two or three church institutions are in embryo, N o TK. Stallions or mares exhib­ When it is seen, therefore, that sheep and good Indnceineuts are held out for a college Exhibit of preserved fruits, in Literary societies and reading circles are ited as thoroughbreds must ls> ac- raising prospered greatly under the hi h quart and half-gallon jars, 2 00 coiii|sinied by affidavit of owners, maintained protective duties from 1868 to 1884, Exhibit of canned fruit in MAIL FAC!LlTItff There are daily maiK showing that they are such while it decliued under tlie lower duties quart and half-gallon jars. 2 OO from 1884 to 1890, the dishonesty of from the R. P. R. station at North Yamhill, also Stallions exhibited in the trotting to Bay City and points on the . Bay, and tri Exhibit of jellies in jelly cups, 1 IX) merely comparing the two years 1868 weekly mails from tins place to many other class, must be ticconipanied by Hag carpet, 50 and 1891 is very evident. Again, if it (sdigree sworn to by owner. points in the county. Pair woolen socks, »0 were true that the indflstrv had thriven ADVANTAGE«-—Tillamook City!«the county Cl. rss II.—CATTI.K. " ” Blockings, 50 only in the western states, where its seat and commercial metropolis of Tillamook For tho ls*st, County. It holds the key to the farming re Display millinery, 1 00 prosperity cannot be attributed to the tariff, why is it that tho whole uurnber gion and to trade on the Bay, and is backed by Bull, Roan or Rod Durham, 1 00 Exhibit cabinet work, 2 00 of sheep in the United States (in all sec­ magnificent resource* in the way of lumbering, Cow, ’’ ” r.o Display of printing, Medal dnli ytng, Ashing, ect. tions) has always increased when tho 99 Polled bull, 1 oo ” ’’ photographs. TANSIIIRTATION.-Steamers ply between duties wore adequately protective, and ’* Cow, 50 this place and Astoria and Portland; also be Prettiest baby, 1 year old or has diminished when they wero not bo ? tween the Iwy and Ran Francisco. The Jersey bull, 1 00 under, Silver Medal This proves pretty conclusively, wo strainers have << mh I accommodatloos for pas ” cow, full bkrod or graded, 50 think, that whenever wool growing has G e -'R of C ohn , A. P. WtisoN sengcra, and carry Oright ul cheap rates •» 50 declined tho cause of the decline has not lhl',1 of any kind or breed. There is a daily stage between this place and President, Secretary. been that there was a duty on foreign Cow for butter, Diploma. North Yamhill (on the S P R. R ) in th» Musi« Lewons wools, but that tbe duty on those wools summer, and new stage mutSs will soon be N ote . Tests for butter to be de­ opened. A railroad is sure to come in the near On piano or organ. Terms to suit the was not high enough to le protective. cided by *ctual production of buttrr future. Why cannot the advocates of fne wool - time», $S |«r quarter. Now is the time be honest? They should confess that HOAMliOF TRADM Which will answer all during fair week, made under di­ to educate your children in music at a their pur]>oso is to benefit the manufac­ questions regarding the country and assist set | rection of the Superintendent. tlets to And suitable homes For tlie best, small cost. M rs . D. C. B owers . 8-t I turer at the expense of tbe farmer Argu­ Beef Steer, anv age, ments like the one we l ave iu:swi red 1 50 Quirk Tron*i|H*rtntl<»n. will not deceive tho people, nor will 1 00 The Steamer Elmore sails from Astoria demagogy stnngthcn the Free-trade I M 50 to Tilhitmsik hay ou Monday and Tliura- cause with them. Ileef animal, an y age. either sex 50 day mornings, on arrival of the Union Frire-trade Extortioner*. •» 00 Pacific steamer leaving Portland on Sun- Yoke of work cattle, It is under Free-trade that 1 ig pr Sts .day and Wedneaday nlghta at 11:39. Trained yoke of yearlings or re made. Tho Brown Bayley's Steel Through tickets can be had at l p under, broken by Ury 15 years rorks, an English concern, dot land a older under, 1 50 ticket oftice, 2M Washington St., corner dividend of Viper cent, tbe ol/.er day. Third. Sails from Tillamook bav Tue». low the American Uvbdet.i ■ wonid C lass III S id i f. Go its and lIoGJI. Will make regular trip«, the weather perm j »lays and 1 ridava G o » h I pH»*Renger ac- ave if it wero paid by an Au .man Ing. from A.—Sheep. commodiitions and through freight rates. uanufacturiug firm. TILLAMOOK ro A8TOHIA anm PORTLAND Foe tbe Is'St, For Freight rate® er Paasagr. apple to »» low as l>y any other line This is bv It Protect« Moot *n,l Not Shoddy. Burk. 50 *11 odd* the quickest way to get from P. SCHRADER. Master. Census returns show that di ri:- ,' tho Ewe, 50 Tillamook to Portland, and enables our ist ten year» the constnnpt ion iff wool Five ewe«. 2 50 merchant» to Itlegraph fix» goods and A meneau mill- mere i- 1 . . t l.'ii>:>n< Ta1' itr. iliznure I. O, O. F.—Meets every Tiiewlay Might at 7:3o p. m . in I. (>. O. F Hall. F. S everance , N. G. W m , O lben , R k < S ec ' y . THE ST" AUGUSTA. PROGRAMME AND PREMIUM FEMININE FANCIES. Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins is Senator Gor- tian’« cousin. .Mrs .Mackay ts the fortunate possessor of a string of flawless diamonds two yards In length. Mrs Bob Ingersoll is a tall brunette, with ’ of ebony lilackness. flue features anil a pretty mouth. Duly Tennyson preserves with religious care every pipe her husband smokes and every oaken stick he carries. The wife of Lieutenant II. D. Borup, of the L’uited States legation in Paris, Is one of the very few ladies who can claim to have made the ascent of .Mout Blanc. Nellie Arthur, daughter of the ex-presi dent, has a well rouuiled figure, sparkling brown eyes, dark, sleek hair roiled back front a low brow, a sweet smile and a pretty, girlish manner Oneof therichest young women In Plilla delphials -Miss Estelle Pardee, who is en gaged to be married to a minister. She is one of the four ilaughters of Mr Calvin C Pardee, n coal dealer, who Is worth about $14.000.000 Ethel Chase Sprague Is a daring eques­ trian. and visits the stable of her horse frequently to direct how be shall be cared for She learned to ride ou a Shetland pony when only live years old. and haa ever since been familiar with horses. In 1884, while suffering from brain fever. .Miss Asenath Philpott, of Gainesville, Tex,, had her head shaved. Ou her recovery a new and generous growth of hair com meuced. anti now she is the proud owner of tresses which are ten feet seven inches long .Miss Aparico, a pretty Cuban girl and tlie sister of .Mme.de Barrios, was one of the is’lles of Richfield Springs the past summer She is a daring rider, a good musician, and her beauty is of the regula lion Spanish type of attractiveness. She is, in fact, a very apparition of loveliness. .Mrs Ixigan still dresses in the most som her black Tlie only time she has omitted it was at a White House dinner, when she appeared ill a hl vender faille, a very becoin ing cost mix' She still w ears her mourn ing veil and widow's cap. and at iier throat is a big. old fashioned brooch containing a picture of General Ixigan. THE JEWEL CASKET. Tiny silver mounted pretty novelties hourglasses aro Bristles set In silver standards are In tended ss penwipers. Champagne bottles, gobi seal. In silver are used as perfume bottles. Hings of repouse silver In which a dia­ mond is sunk are intended for men. Graduated tleur delis of white enamel make the pendants of a pretty necklace. z\ charming necklace is of graded pieces of pale pink coral set between diamonds. Topaz rings are considered especially lie- coming to the hand But to lie elegant, topaz requires tlie aeeompanimeut of Hue diamonds. Queen chains made of 2-inch links of flue gold connected by coral, pearls or onyx seem to Imitate the long chains that are now worn lu Paris. Fob chains and chatelaines imitate the woven wire souvenir chai ns that come from .Venice. These consist of squares of plati num and gold alternating A bracelet of blue enamel has the shape of a plain band bordered by a straight row of liny diamonds The fastenitig is a but ton in a gold iKiuiid buttonhole. Seals In onyx, gray, wine colored or In the rich tints of some of the varieties, are cut In lacesof different types placed back to back. Another style is an Arab head with hood hanging back. A spider legged silver crab over three inches broad and over an inch high, with single rows of diamonds on Ids outer curves, is designed ns a brooch for some one of eccentric aud independent tastes. A heart surmounted by a crown is a pop ular setting for a ring The heart is al ways a colored stone, ruby, emerald or sapphire, surrounded by small diamonds detiuing the required shape. The crown has diamond poiuts.—Jewelers' Circular. POWDER AND BALL. Gunpowder was first made by a monk at Cologne iu 1330. Good results of the persistent trainingof German cavalry horses iu swimming Lave begun to appear The hirgest gun ever made by Krupp f.e the property of the Russian government. Jt Is made of cast steel and has a barrel 40 feet long, with n bore of inches. It costs 11.500 to fire a single shot from tbe Kun Tbe Belgian military authorities have discovered that various songs used in the army nre^Hot quite proper, and several poets and composers have been applied to to supply the army with some unobjection able songs in French and Flemish to take their places. The 12 inch breech loading, steel hooped, steel lined, cast iron mortar was officially treteil nt Sandy Hook It waa a big sue- ci-.is. A Steel shell weighing 62814 pounds wan sent whizzing through a »olid steel armor plate four indies thick, completely demolishing it. Our army, small ns it In, eats 25,000 pounds of meat a day, nn equal amount of vegetables and «1.001» pounds of Hour. The da>s of hard lack and salt pork have long since ¡s-uwed away, anil an ordinary mesa table IS spread with very appetizing edi­ bles u iwailay* SNAP SHOTS. Tbe Chinese do not permit their women to lie photographed. Tbe latest fad is to have yourself and all of your family photographed on ¡ourcupa and saucers The young sons of Senor Don Miguel Suarei Guauea, Spanish minister to the United States, have cameras, of which they make free u«e. The photographers of the country want a separate building at the exposition adapted to a in agui fl cent photographic ex­ hibit collected from the whole world. Dry plate photography Is about ten years old, and most of the processes In this delightful art science have therefore been accomplished within the past decade. The amateur photographer is shown things by the camera which he nevei dreamed of before, and Is led by It into the secret haunts of nature of whose existence even he was previously ignorant. A complete photographic outfit can be purchased from any reliable dealer for from flu to IliXX and the necessary instruo I.-, a < tu Lcu.-taiued In one Ir—nn when FRENCH AND AMERICAN There I" » Vnst Difference ROADS. Between Them—Improvements. In France, where they have the best roads of any country in tho world, the highways are divided into sevoral classos, but all of them aro supervised by tlie national government, which maintains a bureau of roads and bridges and sup­ ports a school for the education of the engineers and inspectors who are em­ ployed in tho bureau. This method of building and main­ taining roads in France was started by the first Napoleon, who appears to have been the earliest European statesman who clearly saw the great economic ad­ vantage of proper highways, and who at the same time had the power to carry out what ho wished. The effect of these good roads in France has been wonder­ ful. They have brought all the various parts of tho country nearer together, they have made country life less lone­ some and they have reduced the cost of transportation of country produce to a minimum. France ie the only country in Europe whore the agricultural classes uro not dissatisfied, and where they do not feel that they have a harder time than those who labor in other fields. In America a sentiment was once worked up as to the necessity for good common roads. This was diverted by tho birth of the railroad, which has now been developed to a greater extent than elsewhere in tho world. But the ne­ cessity for good common roads is not a whit less because we have plenty of rail­ roads, and tho movement for the better­ ment of tho ordinary country highways is now very much alive in all parts of tho country. It was started by the League of American Wheelmen, tho bicycle riders, and this association has been very nctivo in its efforts to secure legislation in favor of good road build­ ing. Tho country peoplo liavo sometimes misunderstood tlia efforts of the wheel­ men, aud have pretended to think that the only persons who would be benefited would be tho bicyclo riders, whose sport does not seem to the rural mind to cut much of a liguro in the economy of the countryside. Such a contention as this is as wise as it would be to maintain that cellar doors wero made for children to slide down and that gates wero hung for little girls and boys to swing upon. These sports­ men were selfish, of course, in starting this movement, but if it bo kept up until there bo something dono to make our roads worthy of our country, they will have accomplished so beneficial a work that wo will bo nblo to thank them right heartily without looking at all into the motives which first inspired them. Tho common roads of a country aro at onco tho means and tho measure of its civilization, and no American lias any light to feel proud when lio thinks of tho muddy and dusty ways which servo as our interior methods of com­ munication. — John Gilmer Speed In Christian Union. BALMY SPRING. Got my clrcst protector out, my My thick chinchilla ul»ter, my true; “« Give mo a quinine capsule, my droools. to cheer, Aud don’t foruet my rubber boou.ti»i spring Is here. See ths undcrtaltar uud obttJa anpscUire. Ask tbo railroad ageut ii u0’U T”1* freight; Buy a rosewood casket audhavstk.,« near, * Tor I must walk abroad todar-are spring is here. " Then go to the marble yard aud choowife some stone, ® IBro an elecutloulst to teach you howtos Have six horses to the hearse, ten t01cJ the rear, For I must go down town today-ud h; spring is hero. Lay me on a sunny slope, where him, the trig’s; Don’t put shells around my grave, therN tho prota-r cheese; Give my fond farewell to all my friends i comrades dear. And tell them to remain Indoors when ui spring is here. —New York EvenlnjS* >11» Great Desire. The young son of a prominent« got into sonio mischief the other i which drew upon him the severe n niand, both theoretical and applied, his parents. When a visitor called h in the afternoon tho boy was still i ing over his punishment. “And what are you going to be. you grow up, my littlo man?” asked guest, noticing the child’s gloom wishing to coax him into good h "1 suppose you mean to be a ti actor like your papa?" “Naw, I don't,” said tho little I sullenly. “A manager, then?” “Naw, nor a manager neither," “Well, what will you be." coni tho visitor smilingly, “a inerchsM banker?” "Naw,” said the boy atiglUjr. you wan’t to know what 1'11 bevi grow up. Well. 1 mean to be* —New York Press. liogUD. Several prominent literary ma Paris recently conceived tbe Ida making investigations among the I gars on the boulevards by disgw themselves as members of the beg fraternity and soliciting alius. ’ succeeded beyond their utmost ex, tations, both in discovering fraud cases of counterfeit cripples and bi men. and by the liberal fees whichi thems.'lves received. A good story is told of a numbs these bogus beggars calling upon the d’Aumale, with appeals for relief, tot one of whom tho duke gave five ft« At l:u.t, however, a genuine beggtr peared, to whom the duke said: "lb relieved about twenty niendicasti letters to-day. and 1 recognized them in spite of their rags; but 1 don't kl Tho Roads of Illinois. you: y.ni mimt be a bogus literary* At a convention of tho Illinois Per­ Gst outl"—Argonaut. manent Roads association held in Spring- Cold recently, Secretary P. Howard had Expert Knowledge. something to say about tlie money the 6tato lias expended on internal improve­ ments. This included $56,200,0(X) in­ tended as aids to transportation. “But still,” lio said, “tlio shameful fact stares us in tho face that there are not 6,(XX) miles of passable farm roads in t’.ie en­ tire state. There are 10’3 counties in tho state, divided into 1,700 townships. There are three highway commissioners at $1.50 per day each to the township, an average of two road supervisors to each township at $1.25 per day, which five annnally expend $100 per road dis­ trict for tools. “This gives ns for tho machinery of She—1 suppose the burning of Mr the law alone tho astonishing figures of Wiggins’ picture gallery is an irrrp»' $8 ,0,000 per annum. Now, mind you, at the lowest average, each of these 1,700 loss. He—Almost. Nothing can » townships expends $1,000 per annum for tools, roads and bridges. So here we placed except tno old family portm have a law under which $1,700,000 is an­ Life. nnally dumjied into the capacious maw An Abuwil Wife- cf our rich, fertile, fructifying mud; a Married Dau; liter—Oh, dear, •• law which costs nearly one-half us much time as 1 do have with that busba to enforce it as the original sum appro­ mine! 1 don’t have a minute« , priated, and still there are now 6,000 when he's in the house. He»» miles of permanent roads in the state calling me to help do something ori- outside of what few miles have been Mother—What does be want no* built by cities. Daughter—Ho wants me to “Now multiply this $2.550,000 by tlie way up stairs just to thread »neeu» number of years the agricultural, busi­ him, so he can mend his cloth»-" ness and professional interests of the York Weekly. state have endured this law, and you will agree with me that during the i»ast A Matter of Wage* fifteen years the taxpayers of the state “I observe, James,” said t*1* have been robbed of money enough to employer, “that you say have built them a first class stone, ‘neether.’ Are you not aware u* gravel or macadam road—east and west, is not our pronunciation of north and south—through every town­ “It doesn't seem to me, f'Rr ship in the state.” boy from New York des?0 “that you ought to expect »» How Good Rond* Would Save. ‘eyether’ and ‘nyther’ on a salari' r The draft on a good gravel road, ac- teen dollars a month. ChWH cording to Professor Sanborn, compared _____ ■ with even a good dry dirt road, showed une. a difference of over 4,000 pounds load Hantllcspp««*. for the same force, or 119 per cent, more Father—How can you of net load could be carried on the this young man when he has gravel road than on the dirt road, while ing so far to show tlrat he c*« the draft was lessened more than one- you? ♦ rem«« half. If this difference between a good Daughter—But yon must _ gravel road aud a good dry road is so father, that he has l>een emp great, how great should be the difference best part of his life in »«* between a good road and one of mud, own neckties.—Clothier and i»— on which the wagon wheels siuk nearly to the hula, bringing np great loads of A Reinarkabl« sh®‘', sticky mud at every revolution, the Head Gainekeei*r—Killed reader can estimate for himself, as it is today with one Irall- only a matter of observation anil com­ Gent—Impossible! .u SB panion. Nor is this all. In addition to Gamekeeper—The honest trn producing the power, the horse raises a the first one through the be**• large share of mud with Iris fwt and ond died through fright *»“ must use extra exertion to proia-l lug went an