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SLEEP AFTEH EATING. fs lt Beneficial, or Does lt Retard Diges tion. Results of Experiments. Advocates of the after-dinner nap. have a powerful, and to them convinc ing, argument, in the fact that most animals sleep immediately after eating. Yet the propriety of such a habit among human beings bids fair to be an open question for some time to come. One authority has recently added his mite to the collection o' statistics upon this interesting subject by mak ing a series of experiments upon two persons of normal digestive abilities. The stomachs of these two persons were emptied a few hours after meals, ? some of which had been followed by sleep and others not, and the contents, analyzed. The? normal stomach acts upon its contents by churning them about, and in this manner ?abjecting every parti cle to the action of the digestive fluids. The above mentioned investigator found, as the result of his experiment, that the constant effect of sleep is to weaken the churning movements of the stomach, while the acid quality of the digestive juices is at the same time increased. On the other hand, he found-what is quite as interesting-that simple re pose in a horizontal position stimu lated the motions of the stomach wlth ' out increasing the acidity of its juices. The conclusion reached by this ex perimenter was that while a recumbent position after eating is not to be re garded as harmful, one should be cau tious about sleeping directly after a meal. Especially should this caution be observed in cases where there ls an overacidity of the digestive fluids. When all is said, however, the above experiment proves little more than that in such matters each person Is a law unto himself; that the after-dinner nap differs in no respect from other habits, which can be indulged in with impunity by some, while they work havoc with the health and happiness of others. Rest after eating is cer tainly beneficial, both from a rational *>nd a physiological standpoint. Whether sleep can be advantageously indulged in is a question that must be determined by the Individual himself by careful experiment. Malaria In Central Asia. Great ravages are being caused by the dreaded malaria among the popu lation of Tashkend, Central Asia, es pecially in the Aclatic quarter of the town, the inhabitants of which are said to be dying like flies. It seems a worse malady even than the cholera because a visitation of the latter ls of a limited duration, and after having destroyed-its quota of victims, passes away^ leaving the survivors with un impaired constitutions. Malaria, how ever, has been prevalent for the last four years, and while causing a heavy mortality estimated at several thou . sands leaves the survivors heavily physically exhausted, broken in health .and incapacitated for work. It is al most impossible to cope with the di sease. At Merv, for example, the most stringent and radical measures have been taken to stamp out the malady, but without success, and it has been found necessary to transfer the Rus sian garrison of that town to Krasno vodsk, in order to preserve it from complete destruction. Resisting Temptation. The young man, as he passes through life, advances through a long line of tempters ranged on either, side -ol-him;- -aad thc-inevit^te-^ct-ot yielding, is degradation in a greater or less degree. Contact with -them tends to draw away from him some: . portion of the divine element with which nis nature ls charged; ano his only mode of resisting them Is to utter and act out his "No"' manfully and resolutely. He must decide at once; not waiting to deliberate and balan?a reasons; for youth, like "the woman who deliberates," is lost. Temptation will come to try the young man's strength; and once yielded to, tho power to resist grows weaker and weaker. Yield once, and a portion of virtue has gone. Resist manfully, and the first decision will give strength for life; repeated, it will become a habit. It is good habits which insinuate them selves into the thousand inconsiderable acts of life, that really constitute by far the greater part of man's moral conduct-Ram's Horn. Reputations Made in a Day Are precious scarce. Time tries the worth of a man or medicine. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a forty-five years' growth, and like those hardy lichens that garnish the crevices of Alaska's rocks, it flourishes perennially and its reputation has as Arm a base as the rocks themselves. No medicine is more high ly regarded as a remedy for fever and ague, bilious remittent, constipation, liver and kid ney disorders, nervousness and rheumatism. Some people are like nails. They have to be thumped on the head to make them go strnignt _ Chew Star Tobacco-The Best. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. The newer a man's watch the oftener he has to consult it. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased port?vu of tho ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that isby constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can be taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten aro caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle I have found Piso's Cure for Consumption an unfailing medicine.-F. R. L?TZ, 1?05 Scott St, Covington, Hy., Oct 1, 1894. Rheumatism -Caused Croat Suffsring-A Y/o'.l Man Slnco Taking Hood's. ' "I was afflicted with rheumatism and have been a great sufferer with this dis ease and also with stomach and heart troubles, but thanks to Hood's Sarsapa rilla I 3m now a well man. My wlfo has been cured of kidney disoaso by Hood's Sarsaparilla." Aro. ScnnEixza/317 West 69th Street, Now York, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Istho best-in fact tho Ono True Blood Purlfler Hood's Pills cure all liver llb. 25 cents. ft are Property. Repre ' sent Wealth. Can be Sold. Are Assignable. INVENT improvements in tools, implements, household articles, etc. Write F. H. APPLE MAN, Patent Lawyer, Warder Bldg., Wash lngtoa. D.C. Ifree circular and adTlce. Low fees. OPIUM, MORPHINE, WHISKEY, CO ca-n:-. Tobacco and Snuff-Oippinc Habits permanently cured by HARMLESS HOME TREATMENT. My book, oontalnlcg full Infor mation. maUed free. DR. J. C. HOFFMAN. Boom 4 Isabella Building, Chicago, III. BA ? Business College, Lo ilsviiio. Ky. JL \ SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES. ? ** w. BooK-KEErrxo, SHORTHAND AND TSLSQBAPHT. Beautiful Catalogue Free. io F l SO 'S ' CUR ? TOR N UURES WHERE ALL ELSE rAILS. " I Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, uso in time. Sold 07 drucpriats. (f* . .CO N S U M PT IO N O?B BUDGET OF HUMOR LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Patter, Patter-A Palpable Distinction-A Good Thing-The Criterion-The New Addition - Daring tho Honeymoon His Stirring Appeal-Tho Reason, Rte. The frost has picked the burry locks that held the forest's yield, And posing in their velvet nooks the fruit age is revealed, And now I hear, as winds do sweep the chestnut's swaying top, The patter of the nuts os on tho fallen leaves they drop. Another gusti and now, the burnished nug gets raining down. I feel youth's thrilling ecstasy from feet to very crown, And eke its trepidation, as I hear, to blight my glee. The patter of the farmer's feet as he comes after me. -Richmond Dispatch. A Palpable Distinction. "Miss Highstopper is not a very courteous young woman." . "No; but aren't her society manners exquisite ?"-Judge. Tho Criterion. The Professor-"Is he so very clev er?" The Bicycliste-"Wonderfully so! He can mend any old kind of punc ture." Tho Reason. Teacher-"Who knows why Colum bus spent so many years in going from one European Court to another?" Pupil-"Ho was looking for an angel." The New Addition. "Owing to tho recent increase in my family, I have had to tuke a new house." "Boy or girl?" "Son-in-law." A Good Thli.g. Hewitt-"How is that hair restor er?" Jowett-"Great. My wife can't pull my hair out fast enough to keep up with it."-New York Journal. What Saved Him. The policeman collared the scorcher. "Here!" he exclaimed, "you bloody Hello, you ride the same make of wheel I do. You'd better pump up that front tire a little, it's too soft." Kot Quite. Son-"Papa, what is a countess?' Father-"A countess, my boy, is the wife of a count." Son (after a little thinking)-"Then is a governess the wife of a Gover nor?" _ Daring the Honeymoon. Mabel (in her new riding habit) "Do you think I look pretty in this habit, Tom?" Tom-"My dear, you have a habit of looking pretty at all times."-Chi cago News. Consider the Poor mother. Mrs. Bigg-"Bennie disturbed me 1 so that I couldn't take my nap this afternoon." . Mr. Bigg-"Pretty noisy, was he?" Mrs. Bigg-"No; he was so quiet that I just knew he was sick." Judge. Nows From Klondike. Collins, tho Crook-"Here's an ac count 'f a feller wot took eighty ounces of gold out 'n\one pooket, in Alasky. " Petey, the Piokpooket-'.'I sh'u'd fink de fe.Ver he touched would 've missei all dat weight out 'f hie His^arawing^w. "The eyes of ifier world," said-the orator, "are upon you. Humanity After which, he presented! tne name of his candidate for the nomination for village constable, and everybody breathed again.-Pack. The Light That Failed. "And, in spite of all the light that has been brought into your lives, you still burn missionaries?" Tho savage was palpably confused. "Yes," he answered, sadly; "I must confess that civilization doesn't seem to have made our cooks appreciably better." A Safe Steed. Mrs. Timidity-"You are sure this horse is perfectly safo-there is no danger of his running away?" Liveryman-"No, indeed, ma'am! Why, we call him 'Lord Nelson.' " Mrs. Timidity-"That is a very funny name for a horse. Why do you call him so?" Liveryman-"Because 'he would rather die than run.' "-Judge. Power of "Words. The King of Dahomey knit his brows and was at no pains to conceal his anxiety. "Think you the amazons will obey when we give them the word?" he de manded. "Possibly, if you make it tho last word," answered the chief of staff who had not dwelt with women all these years for nothing.-New York Jour nal Horses Were Not Fed. A boy out of breath rushed into the office of Woodruff M. Vance, agent of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at Morristown, Penn., and informed him that there was a car load of horses at the freight station of the D., L. and W. Railroad which had not been fed or watered for three days. Would the agent investigate the case? Hastily putting on his coat Mr. Vance left the office, full of indignation at the act aud sympathy for the suffering animals. On his way he met Senator John B. Vreeland and J. Frank Lind say, editor of the Chronicle, to each; of whom he related the story, and induced them to accompany him on the humane mission. Arriving at their destination they marched up to Superintendent Carr und denounced him in n severe manner for the shame ful treatment of the horses. Mr. Carr was thunderstruck with amazement. "What do you mean?" ho finally gasped. "Whr,t do you mean? Why, how could you let that car load of horses stand three days without water or food? Show thom to us and let ns minister to their needs." A light dawned upon Mr. Carr. "Come with me," he said. Ho led the men into the freight yard and without a word pointed out a lot of inanimate wooden horses which an enterprising caron ssel proprietor had shipped in. Tho victims are now look ing for tho joker who sent the boy to Mr. Vance.-Philadelphia Press. Neither Would Alo^e. Some time ago the Grand Junction Canal at Berkhampstead, England, upon which large quantities of perish able freight are conveyed to the Lon don markets, was blocked for twenty six hours beeaus'e two boats got into the lock at the same time, and neither one would back out. More than fifty boats were blocked before the canal anlkoritiesN?ompelled one of ?^^ap tains to givoXin, ^ >- '?j??k^PLV V ? COODIIOADS NOTES. Weight of Boilers. In many sections of the countr rollers used in laying down new adam, andj in repairing, are eni 'too light. They only snccee 'smoothing the surface through th !of clay or other "binding matei ?The weight of the roller on the 5ng surface, in order to get the Vesults, should be, per square inc ! oast equal? to the expected weight ?sanare inch, under the wheels o heaviest loads. Clean Roads. On the principle that the greati ways includes the less, good i naturally imply a clean as well smooth and durable surface, sometimes' the only step that ca taken toward better roads is to keep the poor ones clean, and a road that is clean js not quite so as one that is not, and more or covered with refuse. In New 3 for a year or two, the streets, poe they are for the most part, have 1 kept remarkably clean, and since happened it is said that the den for rubber overshoes has mater 'decreased there. In towns and ir country, if live stock were kept of highways and properly confined, roads would be much cleaner, farmer could do away with nearl; his expensive fencing, and trave would be far more agreeable. Highway Drainage. There is one fault frequently ( xnitted in the use of the road mach 'there is on insufficient escape allo for water. Those who operate Imachines objeot to being bothere< bars, or the fao-ealled "thank j marms." So these are not being in their places as they should be. If there is a short sag to be fil it can probably be done from mat? at the sides by using drag sorap then dress up with a road machine if the soil is a stiff clay or muck, 1 on gravel, rock, shale or sand, if t are available. If not, the emba ment should be raised to an e: height to give a quiok drainage. The worst feature in the worki"ja the roads is that they are made gutters of the county. The ditoh on tue upper side of road gathers all the water from fields above the road and carry it the foot of the hill; the ditch on lower side gathers all the water ct ing from the road, and between two our road systems arp being wasl out. Drainage can and should be prc ded to get .the water outside of ro?,d limits at short intervals. Wa is a poor road material. Keep it fr getting on the roads where possil -Kenyon (Mich.) Leader. Froflt In Oood Hoad Taxes. The hill tax is produced by mun: roads in straight lines over hills ii mountains with grades of ten to teen feet in one hundred, instead following valleys, skirting hills a making gradual winding aseen .o. kei ing as close as possible to a ?our ] cent, grade. The square corner tax is comm on tho prairies and in level dis trie It consists in traveling, for instan seven miles north, and then sev miles east to reach a point that is I ten miles northeast in a straight Iii In such a case forty per cent, ef * actual distance is added. T' age distance added in f tween any tw country is t.? i^c The mud tax ia du? to _D w roads insufficiently drained, and ge orally "repaired" by having the so stones and earth from the gutte -^rownjpn them on.cejwyeaf-ivnen?o; taxes are being worked out. The fence tax arises from the tim material and expense of erecting ai maintaining unnecessary fences. Tho snowdrift tax follows on tl heels of the fence tax, fences servil as obstructions to cause the formath of drifts. Tho waste land tax comes from tl loss of good, unused land left on tl roadside outside the fences. The wagon wheel tax is caused 1 the use of vehicles having narro tires, with rear wheels following : the track of the front pair, and therel always tending to cut up the road su face. The good roads tax is the profit ai cruing to the farmers and all othi persons using tho roads from the r moval of tho above self-imposed taxe -L. A. W. _ Items. Prosperity travels on good roads. Good roads are highway morality. Bad roads mean dreary isolation fe months every year. California has passed a law requii ing the use of wide tires after Januar 1, 1900. The citizens of Orleans, Ind., hav just voted $16, OOO for the constructio of thirty miles of gravel roads. Thirty-six miles of turnpike roac thoroughly drained, are to be cor structed at once in Felton, Minn. Eoad repairing is all right, but : should be preceded by road building "Repairing" a mud hole will neve make a road of it. Rural postal delivery is popular an is likely to come, but it will depen for its efficiency and extension on bet ter roads than now exist in most part of the country. The Merchants' Exchange of Oal land, Cal., has decided to take hoi with a will and help the Street Com mission in its labor of getting goo roads for that city. Three years ago the death rate i: New York City was twenty-six pe thousand. Since the streets have bee; kept clean it has fallen, and for th first six months of the present year i was under twenty per thousand. The Founder of New York. In a letter sent by the mayor o New York some -time ago in answe: to a request from Vienna, Austria, fo: the name of the founder of the city the following statement is made: "All authorities agree that Pete: Minuit, concerning whose nationality there is a difference of opinion, arrive' in New Netherlands on the Sea Gull Skipper Tienpont commanding, oi May 4, 1623. He was a director o ,the newly formed and powerful Dutcl India Company. There is also no dif terence of opinion that it was the re doubtable Peter who purchasec Manhattan Island from the Indiani and founded in the same year. 1G23 New Amsterdam. New Amsterdan afterward became New York. If th? city ever erects a monument ir memory of ' its founder, Peter Minuii will como in for that honor. A Stamp That Represents 85000. Of the 250 United States stamps which have been issued, the values have ranged from one cent to $5000. Five dollars is the highest value among postage stamps, but newspapei stamps reach the hundred dollar mark, Iwhile a revenue stamp may represenl $5000, i A NOTED INDIAN SLAYER. A MONTANA MAN HAS MADE FORTY REDSKINS BITE THE DUST. Ho Killed Seven in a Singlo Combat and ! Five In Another-li?tes AU Indians j Because a Favorite Brother Was Slain hy Them-Wiry Lewis Wctzel's Career. "Lewis Wetzel, who lived in tho western part of Virginia, became not ed as an Indian fighter previous to and during the Revolutionary "War," remarked an old-timer, who was in a reminiscent mood yesterday. "He was a large, wiry, athletic man, who became an Indian hunter because In dians had killed all his nearest kindred in their raids into tho settlements of western Virginia. He possessed a frame, that it seemed impossible to tire, and he was considered the best shot with a rifle in all that country. He killed Indians out of pure revenge, and he not only killed them when on the warpath, but whenever he could engage with them. Ho could load L;s rifle running, and, therefore, .was a dangerous antagonist. Ho was one of the few men of the West who could fire at the edge of a knife and cut the bullet in two every timo at a distance of ten yards, He enjoyed his prowess, and when in tho settlements he was a companionable man, but hunting In dians he was morose and disagreeable, and much preferred to be alone. It is said that he even killed Indian women and children, and it is well known that he killed Indians who were am bassadors to the whites on peaceful errands. If he ever saw an Indian that he did not kill it has not been re corded. In tho upper Ohio River country his name has been handed down from father to sou, and many exploits have been told of him which never appeared iu print. There is a oounty in West Virginia named after him, and romances have been written whose heroes have his character. "Montana has a man now living whose career has been something like that of Wetzel. He has not probably killed as many Indians, but that has not been his fault. He is said to havo slain at least forty redskins, aud he has not been particular what tribe they belonged to or where they were. He has taken as great risks in killing In dians as Wetzel ever did. The reason of his hatred for the whole Indian race was tho killing of a favorite brother in a family of seven or eight boys by Piegans. He was a good shot, and used a Winchester rifle instead of the old muzzle-loading Hint-lock rifle that Wetzel carried. Ho is David Wareham, of Fergus County. "I have heard accounts of but two of the^battles, but no doubt a history of others would be just as interesting. He encountered five bucks, evidently on tho warpath, or a horse stealing ex pedition. He had not his gun with him, but he went home, which was not far off, and returned -with it. He sought a good spot aud began firing. The Indians made fight,but he dropped them so fast that two started to run . away, but he was too swift for the~ even, and every one was killed. "Another time he and apilgri camping out, and in the ni' dians stole both thp; followed the T1 " did not pf cre^ ,*/und . ?amp. War ^> a pet, and whinnied i, scented its master. The In . did not awake, and both horses ..ere taken away. They could not ? get . their own saddles, but got .ywo old Indian saddles, as be- < ing better than riding bareback. Then they stampeded ^ ths Indian. . yrj?seaj^ad^o^Ji#nLta^ Benton. Passing a narrow canon, Wareham told his companion to hurry along with tho horses as fast as ho could and he would wait for the In dians, seven in number, whom they had seen coming afar off, He con cealed himself as well as he could and awaited their coming. When the bat tle was over the seven Indians had be come good Indians, and Wareham had not a single scratch. After resting his horse he overtook his companion, who was nearly scared tj death and almost worn out with the old saddle. They rested, not fearing any danger, and rode leisurely into Fort Benton, where they sold their stock and remained until they had recruited. Itis related that neither wa: able to sit down for a week after arriving in the town. "Wareham, even to this day, when he sees an Indian, fires up, gnashes his teeth, and regrets that he has not his gun with him. He has never killed any women or children, but those who know him best are certain that few Tidians have ever met him on the t-^113 aQd ?ono away alive. He is no;? in the vigor of life, between forty-five and fifty yecrs old, and is regarded by all his neighbors as ono of the State's best citizens. But he can't conceal, and doesn't try to con ceal, his extreme hatred of all In dians."-Helena (Montana) Indepen dent. It is rumored, according to the Westminster Gazette, that before long glass umbrellas will be in general use -ihat is, umbrellas covered with the new spun glass cloth. These, of course, will afford no protection from the rays of the sun, but they will pos sess one obvious advantage, namely, that they can be held in front of the face when meeting the wind and rain, and at the same time the user will be able to see that he does not run into unoffending individuals or lamp posts. But what say the lovers-the seaside holiday lovers-who are to be seen on every beach round the coast, with their backs to the cliff or a handy boat, an unfurled old-style umbrella' in front of them, leaving nothing to the gaze of the inquisitivo save tho soles of their four shoes? Surely they will, revolt against the innova tion. A Frenchman, M. Cachot, has solved the problem of using the web of the spider, by turning it into the finest silk of a beautiful and fairy fineness. He has contrived a delicate little machine, containing a number''of tiny bobbins which aro made to revolve continuously by light running gear. The end of the web is caught while it is still attached to the spider, and the little machine is set in motion. The spider does not seem to mind hav ing his web pulled off, and the move ment is continued until he has com pletely surrendered his shining struc ture. It is then released, put aside and fed until it has recuperated its powers, and a fresh spider is attached ! to the gear. M. Cachot is advertising j for spiders. A West Afric: king has just had an , umbrella mad? for him twenty-one j feet in diameter. When he use this ' umbrella, whioh opena and ?doses in j the usual way, itis fixed in the ?round, and thero is room underneath it for j the king and thirty guests to take I dinner,--Plu^adelpMft-Ia^tiirvr. Glass Umbrellas. Finer Than Silk. Chanco for a IU ?gu. ; GOOD ROADS NOTES. Good Boads and Population. The drift of population is from the country to town and from town to city. Great cities are a danger to civiliza tion. Nothing will equalize the con ditions of town and country so well as easy communication between them. This is possible only through roads that are good all the year round. Road Instruction In Schools. Competent instruction in road-build ing and the economics of transporta tion has been urged upon our colleges and higher institutions of learning, and is provided by some of them; but why not begin farther back and teach something of the economic value of good highways in the public Bchools? Every pupil can understand something of the fundamental principles involved, because of his practical acquaintance with the subject. In a few years tho influence of a vast number would be -thrown naturally on the side of per manent highways, and the Good Roads problem would be solved. Then, too, this instruction would make easier other instruction now so sadly needed on economic subjects.-L. A. W. Bul letin. Efllclency of Wide Tires. The importance of wide tires for ve hicles is not sufficiently realized. They save expensive stone roads from being worn into ruts, out up and ruined, and .they improve dirt roads by wearing them down to a smooth surface. Experiments show that a loaded wagon with two-inch tires will soon form bad and deep ruts in a dirt road, while the samo load on a wagon with four or five-inch tires will roll a compact surface. The power required to haul the load in the latter case is reduced by one-half. In Michigan one-quarter of the as sessed highway taxes are remitted to those who use wagons with tires of three and one-half inches or over for loads of 800 pounds and upwards. In Providence, E. L, the following widths of tires are required by ordin ance: FOR FOUn-WHEELED VEHICLES. Width of Weight inclad- Tires ing Wagon. must be Iii to 2 tons.2 Inches 2 " 3 " ._.3 ?' 3 "5 .4 " 6 " 6 " ;.6tf '? 6ormore" .8 " FOB TWO-WHEELED VEHICLES. 1 to two toDS. s Inches 2 or moro tons.4 " Effects of Good Itonds In New Jersey. Pennsylvania pays a tribute to a 3ister State through the columns of the Philadelphia Press, when ? savs that New Jersey "in SOUK surpasses all its sisters ? civilization. It was the still the foremost in the movement. It has road law, and is lng section sand ar** hard ' ? . Huad rn- . ^ower with es, and makes .nd inviting as ; . .. tau?a?' doon have universal free .ne toll roads that still exist ", southern and western portions oi the State are to bo done away with. The last Legislature passed a law providing for the appraisement and condemnation of toll turnpikes and their conversion into free roads. Sihco the good roads of New Jersey ?have oo'me to form such a network it ?.has be?n interesting to note howmany ^*flnl,eouutiiyi-lwtelB- havo?o?a?te4 Fe, new road houses built, and way iside booths erected, while farmers and 'others have opened then* houses to dispense refreshments to wheelmen and other tourists. Travel has im mensely increased in districts that were formerly well-nigh deserted, and considerable money has been spent by travelers in localities where it was a boon to the inhabitants. Smooth Surface and Trafile. The increase of efficiency in vehicles having a smooth surface on which to travel is ,yory great. Perfect rails are a necessity for the steam eugine, and a smooth road-bed is essential if a high speed is to be obtained. The motor car riage, which has already become an es tablished fact abroad, depends for its efficiency on good road surface. The bicyclo gains enormously in ease of propulsion, in speed, and in adapta bility to new fields of usefulness by having good roads. About these three there is no dispute, but it seems neces sary to prove by argument, illustration and statistics that carriages, wagons, trucks, carts and all other vehicles, are equally benefited by a smooth travelling surface. The steel ball in a bicycle is worth less unless it has a perfect surface on which to ruu. A well lubricated axle is an essential,but will not ensure easy propulsion if road-bed is rough and stony. The efficiency of every horse drawn vohiclo is more than doubled on good roads as compared with our average highways; the strength and vi tality "of the horse aro conserved, wear and tear on vehicles reduced, and time saved when often it is ready money. The load that can be drawn must be regulated by the worst or steepest portion of the road. When grain was to be shipped to the starving in India, delay was caused by the condition of the roads being so bad that the farm ers could not reach tho railroads promptly. All classes feet the benefits, which are mutual between rural and urban residents. Tho saving in time and money to the farmer is not surpassed by the improvement he secures in social and educational advantages, due to uniformly easy means of inter communication for himself and family with neighbors, school and church. The merchants in towns and cities which aro good road centres get in creased trade, and the people have new avenues for recreation opened to them. The pleasures and possibilities of the tourist are indefinitely in creased. Let all classes pull together and make our highways tho basis of renewed prosperity, better understand ing, and closer relationship between nil classes.-L. A. W. Bulletin. Cat Forages For Itscif. 'Squire Meltons, of Sunbury, Penn., whose cat caught twenty-eight chip munks, one snake and a rabbit during the last Season, was regarded as the winner in its class until the record of the cat belonging to M. E. Bitenbouse, of Briar Creek, vas recorded. This sprightly cat one day recently caught a quail for breakfast, a red squirrel for dinner and a frog for sup per, and during the year killed numer ous minks and skunk?, and is one of the best rat-catchers in the county. New York Press. A Fouv-Mllllon-DoHnr Craft. ' The French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc is estimated to have cost about $4,000, 000, of which perhaps $2,000,000 was tor auxiliary fittings, such as armor, gun mountings and meehan ?gp. tor pedo gear aud special fitting, WORDS OF WISDOM. Cares are comforts; such, by heaven designed, he that has none must make them-or be wretched.-Young. A beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good woman pleases the heart; one is a jewel, the other a treasure.-Na pole?n I. Brooding over trouble is like sur rounding one's self" with a fog; it magnifies all the objects seen through it. Occupation of tie mind prevents this. The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. -J. R. Lowell. The heaviest words in our language are the two briefest ones, yes and no. One stands for the surrender of will, the other for denial; one for gratification, the other for character.' -Theodore T. Munger. Silence is, in truth, tho attribute of God, and those who seek Him from that side invariably learn that medita tion is not the dream, but the reality of life; not its illusion, but its truth; not its weakness, but its strength. James Martineau. J Tho new dignity that comes to hu man life by regarding it in its true re lation to the divine is a significant factor in its transformation. It lifts it from selfishness to service, from the passivity of desiring to be helped to the noble activity of desiring to help.-Lilian "Whiting. These glimpses into the inner re gions of a great soul do one good. Contact of this k:.nd strengthens, re stores, refreshes. Courage returns as we gazo. When wo seo what has been, we doubt no more that it can bo again. At tho sight of a man we; too, say to ourselves, let us also be men. -Amiel's Journal. If you wish to be miserable you1 must think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you; will be as wretched as you choose. Charles Kingsley. Take up your duty, whatever you can do to make the world more bright and good. Do whatever you can to help every struggling soul, to add strength to any staggering- cause-the poor, sick man who is by you; the poor, wronged man whom you with your influence can vindicate; the poor boy in your shop that you may set with new hopo upon tho road of life Ahat is already begiuning to look dark. . him. You know your duty. No .;. ^ver looked for it and did not find hillips Brooks. Tho IiUrst Cotton Mill. Jeveral different towns in tho United otates claim tho unique distinction of having erected the first American cot ton mill, but from the best information that can bo obtained it seems that the credit properly belongs to the town of Beverly, Mass. The circumstances leading up to this discovery may bo of interest to our readers. Some two or three years ago Mayor Bantoul of Salem, Mass., was invited to Pawtucket, E. L, to at tend the centennial exercises held at that place in commemoration of the opening of the famous Slater mill. In sending out invitations to this centen nial event the owners of the mill claimed it to be the first establishment of its kind ever erected in the United States. For some feasop Mayor Kan- ' toni was unable to be present at the exercises, but being deeply interested in historical researches, he decided at his leisure to investigate the claims of the Pawtucket mill owners. This in vestigation led to the discovery that the old cotton mili at Beverly, Mass., which was burned down in 1838, had been in operation for several years prior to, the establishment of the mill at Pawtucket, aud that no less a wit ness than General Washington himself could be cited in confirmation of the fact. It seems that General Wash ington, while on a tour of the New England states in 1789, made a visit to the old Beverly cotton mill, and was so impressed with the novelty of tho spectacle that he devoted several pages of his diary to its description. This old diary is still to bo found among General Washington's papers. As the researches of Mayor Bantoul seemed to settle the matter beyond all controversy, the residents of Beverly, Mass., have recently caused a hand some tablet to be erected on the site of the old mill, commemorating the es tablishment of the first enterprise of its kind ever inaugurated in the United States.-Atlanta Constitution. A Loper Hero of Molokai. We all know Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its popula tion of sorrowful exiles, who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles; and wo know that the thing which he knew beforehand would happen, did happen-that bo became a leper himself, and died of that horrible disease. There was still another case of self-sacrifice, it ap pears. I asked after "Billy" Bags-, dale, interpreter to the parliament in my time, a half white. He was a brilliant young fellow and very popu lar. As an interpreter he would have been hard to match anywhere. He; used to stand up in the parliament and turn the English speeches into' Hawaiian and the Hawaiian speeches into English with a readiness and o volubility that was astonishing. I asked after him, and was told that his prosperous career was cut short in a sudden and unexpected way, just as he was about to marry a beautiful half-cast girl. He discovered by some nearly invisible sign about' his skin that the poison of leprosy was in him. Tho secret was his own, and might be kept concealed for years, but ho would not be treacherous to the girl that loved him; he would not marry her to a doom Uko his. And so he put his affairs in order and went around to all his friends and bade thom good-bye, and sailed in the leper ship to Molokai. There he died tho loathsome and lingering death that all lepers die. And one great pity of it all is that these poor sufferers are innocent. The leprosy does not come of sius which they committed, but of sins committed by their ancestors, who escaped tho curse of leprosy!-From Mark Twain's "Following the Equator." Bicycle Roadside Marriages. Mr. Stephen S. Pagenhardt and Miss Mary Lamont McKinnon left Lonacon ing on their wheels, presumably for Westernport, Allegany county. About /the samo timo Rev. C. Forrest Moore, i Messrs. Lee Pagenhardt and James 1 Woodward loft \Vesternport on their bicycles, The two parties met and ! dismounted, and Mr. Stephen Pagen I hardt .-iud Miss McKinnon were mar I ried by the roadside.-Baltimore Sun. WEEDING RAILWAYS. Odd Method Adopted to Get .lid of the Troublesome Growth. In the Southwest the railroads have a large item of expense which finds no place on* the books of Eastern com panies, this being for the removal of weeds which grow rank and luxuriant ly between the tracks, seriously im peding rapid running, being crushed under the wheels and making the tracks greasy and slippery. Various methods have been proposed and tried to destroy these weeds, but that finally adopted by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road is to burn them by means of an oil,Came. This burner destroys the vegetation between the rails and over a space of twenty-four to thirty inches outside of them. The outfit consists of a car made of iron, of iron shields suspended ?under the car and between the trucks, an oil-tank car having a capacity o? 4,500 gallons and a similar oil tank of SOO gallons capacity, strong enough to withstand a pressure of seventy pounds tb the square inch. This tank ?3 filled from the tank car and air pres sure is supplied for forcing the oil to the burners. The car, which is sixty five feet long, is strengthened by con necting trusses at the sides and has a 'cab sheathed with corrugated iron at one end. The car ls intended to be pulled over the road by a locomotive. The shield beneath the car Is thirty two feet long, with aprons at each side to retain the heat and to prevent side winds carrying the flame to one side of the shield. The forward truck is protected by an auxiliary shield fas tened to the bottom of the lower arch bars. When the fire is started the shield is lowered to within three or four inches of the rail, and the aprons then slide on the ground. When cross ing bridges the shields are lifted clear of the rails twelve to fifteen inches by means\ of air pressure from a supply acting through a train of chains and pulleys. The oil supply is also cut off in crossing bridges, and the moment the oil valves are closed the flame is extinguished, and it is^ as readily re newed when the oil valves are again opened. The oil is directed against the inclined under surface of the shield, which retains sufficient heat to ignite the oil, even after it has been shut off for half an hour. In crossing small culverts and cattle guards the closing of the valve is unnecessary, as the lift ing of the shield will carry the flame high enough to prevent any firing of the timbers. The compressed air for forcing the oil through the burners and for lifting the shield is supplied by two Westing house air pumps, these being sufficient to maintain an air pressure of seventy pounds with four burners in use. The amount of oil required fur each burner is about eight gallons per niile. A light crude oil is preferred. Only a few minutes are required to get an effective heat after reaching the place whero the work is to t>o done, and after the first few minutes no difficulty is ex perienced from the oil dropping on the rails and making them greasy' A gang of four men follow close to the car to put out all ties fired, but it is the in tention soon to use steam jets from the locomotive in extinguishing fired ties. The speed with which the car travels depends upon the kind of vege tation to be scorched. Early in the season, when weeds are tender and not over five or six inches high, a speed of four miles an hour is practi cable, whereas if the track ls thickly covered and matted with heavy, coarse grass the speed must be reduced to two miles and a half an hour. Only -thenight bladoc of grass are consumed, the greater part being scorched, and while many stalks appear quite green after the flame passes over them, in a few days they, too, wilt and die. One curious and unexplained fact which has also been observed in con nection with forest fires is that a new kind of vegetation appears after each burning. The cost oT operating the car for a day of twelve hours is $50, so that covering thirty miles a day the average cost per mile is ?1.0G. It is claimed the oil consumed is a compara tively small item in the total charge, the transfer from one part of the road to another and the use of a locomotive bringing it up to the sum named. Railroad Gazette. Five Important Facts. An inch of rainfall is equal to 14, 000,000 gallons per square mile. The average weight of an American man is 14H pounds; of an Amer-can woman, 12?i pounds. The falls of Niagara carry down 10, 000,000 cubic feet of water per min ute, equal to about 3,000,000 horse-, power. Gold can be beaten 1,200 times thinner than printing paper. One oui?ce will cover 146 square feet. The big trees (redwood) of Calave ras grove, California, are 92 in num ber, ten being ever 30 feet in diame ter. They range in height from 150 to 237 feet and in age from 1,000 to 3,500 years. If It Only Helped a Little It would be worth 50 cents. Ono hour's free dom from tho terrible irritating Itch of tetter is worth more than a whole box of Tetterine costs. 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