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Show I f 'OP 'LOVE. ular morning, "however, she rang the' bell for breakfast to be cleared while little things are those the hundred and thirty sovereigra were jhat hold our happiness! still lying glistening In the sun upou A smile, a glance, a rose the table, Dropped from her hair or dress i ; A word, a look, a touch Daniel answered the summons as much. so These are so much, usual and began to clear away. As he did so his eye fell on the money An air we cans forget, and he gave a little, quick, sharp A sunsets gold that gleams, 'tt ' A spray of mignonette. Mrs. Trapaud heard It aud gasp. Will fill the soul with dream turned to look at him. Jfore than all history says. '"Sr Yes." she said, Its a lot of money. Or romance of old days. Isnt It, Daniel? One hundred and thirFor of the human heart. The bay mare and ber foal ty pounds. ; is i'. Not brains, memory fetched It." These things it make a part Daniel murmured some reply, and Of its own entity; The jovs, the naina wnereof on removing the breakfast went Are th vecy food of love. things, Mrs. Trapaud rose, folded her S&Anrday Evening Tost. napkin leisurely, and gathering up the gold pieces, crossed to the fireplace . and put them In a tidy heap on the Then she walked Into K? mantelpiece. Kx the that opened out of conservatory K? the room to see bow her pointsettia K$ was coming on. Suddenly her pulses stopped and ber heart stood still to rv She heard a voice distinctly listen. In a weird, mad whisper speaking fj "l;V.Vv;C.vvuAv.iv.u.u.u.v.u.i.u from the breakfast room behind. "THE1 FOOD 5 ( . . ,rrrrT-re'rf-rrrerr- 5 rf IS Salvation vrrrJVCrv'rvrrwerri tvas iu high good feather; her bay mare auii foal bad fetched oue O lYl hundred and thirty golden JJ HAsovereigns between them. Moreover, she bad only given eighty guinea s for the mare. Who will be astonished, therefore, that she found the news of her bargaiu quite an agreeable adjunct to her breakfast that MS. TRAPAUD i Je - naming? Mrs. Trapand was a woman of tome humor; when her husband died he met a friend a man also of some tumor who knew as all the world knew, and as Mrs. Trepaud had never pretended to hide, that the marriage had been the reverse to happy. lie looked at her weeds with a comprebending smile. "Got your divorce at last?" he snld. I "Yes, and lu the higher courts, too," I XROWT'A Hi the ! v rls-V- F "THE TAUMS. "Making NMrc lUpId Tro- Thaut Is the Yopulntlon. Remark, is made, somewhat complaining, tone, that, 'while forty years ago the farmers oxvned fifty-fivper t)f the wealfh'of this country, now they own onty tiveuty-ono per cent The Idea seems to be that they Agriculture in' e c-- -- ara thus unjustly dealt xvith,. and are sacrificed to manufacturing and commercial interest. AVe cannot see that the point Is well made. Upon the face of the case, it Is natural and Inevitable that as a country of varied Industries groxvs In wealth the proportion of xvealth represented by agriculture will decline. That does not mean that the actual amount of such xvealth declines. It means simply that other great industries are being developed. There was a time when practically all the xvealth of this country xvas agricultural. As soon ns men started factories and built ships those enterprises represented a part of the countrys xvealth. and so the percentage of agricultural wealth declined, although the netunl Maffe a man rich for life," It snld, amount of agricultural xvealth greatand repented tbe phrase like a litany. ly Increased. The question Is mt. therefore, whnt File turned. Daniel was standing near the mantel- proportion of the xvealth of the nation piece. his face white ns death, great Is held by farmers, but rather whether drops of sweat standing out upon his the actual amount of wealth held by brow. Ills fingers twitched nervous- them Is Increasing at an appropriate ratio. To take the period of forty ly. his eyeballs were painfully distended. Covetousness, avarlee, greed, were years already referred to. It Is to be writ large nnon Ills countenance, ne observed that in it the population of the United Ftates has increased by 140 looked horrible. Instinctively Mr. shrank back among tbe greenery per cent. At the same time the number of farms has increased by 185 perto watch. "Make n man rich for life!" reiterat- cent., the value of farm property. Ined Daniel with a curious slhllant cluding buildings, has increased by 100 sound. "Make a man rich for life-r- ich per cent., and the value of farm implefor life!" AYith one swift look In ments and machinery has Increased the cllrecMon of the conservatory, he by 200 per cent. The first complete s put out his hand, and with stealthy report of the total value of farm prod-rotIn so reckwe was can made 1870, touch noiselessly took the gold. You in that value for only could have heard a pin drop. Mrs. on the Increase ' thirty years. In that time the Increase Tranand stenped quickly forward. "Daniel, wliat are you doing? ' Tut was 112 per cent. Tra-nau- d replied. that money down. Mrs. Trepaud was always equal to She snoke sharply peremptorily. any occasion. Daniel turned. An ngly look came over When Trepaud died his widow car- his face: he was dangerous. ried on the work of his life; she conIt down this minute," she snld. Put Not so tinued to breed his horses. Make a man rich for life. he mutfrom any tered. backing to the door. much, be it understood, touching sympathy with the dear departed as from a sound conviction that It was In her to make the thing pay. And she did. It was a strange household composed j of antiquated serving men and women who had been begotten and born on We estate, and in whom the last expiring breath of feudalism lingered s thongh dying hard. Trepaud left no heir, and these farm and stable hands, these domestic serving maids, verj Mrs. Trepniuls children. She dosed and physicked them when they required It. she rubbed their backs when the rheumatism got Importunate; she scolded, she praised, rewarded and blamed and they loved her. ' But as In' every household there Is one black sheep, so in this patriarchal family there was one strangellng. Daniel he had no other name had not been born and bred on the estate; he had not even first seen light In the village; no. not within ten leagues of It the gossips said. lie came from practically nowherp, It was so very far sway. On winter nights, whpn the evenings were long and dull, the younger ones for age was n mere matter of comparison In the 'Lhennud household would coax old Mrs. Gond- heart to tell again the story of how Daniel first rnme to the hall. "It were n wild, bieak night. Jest sleh a one ns this," the old housekeeper wonld hegln. And the wind were howling In the ehimhley, we knows," would interpolate an Irresponsible voire. Will ye niver learn to honld per longne, then, and not Interrupt the story?" a chorus of voices would protest, and then, Mrs. Goodhcnrf. having dnty allowed herself to be apnensed, the story wonld drag out Its slow, existence punctuated with oh s" and "ah s" and "there nows" that had become sanctified by custom Into sort of rite. But the render who does Hot know whnt three hundred and days spent on a midland horse farm situated a good twenty miles from anywhere on the map ran bo like wonll hardly appreciate the art with which Daniels history was told, so we will offer a brief and more modern sketch that shall slate the plain matter In a nutshell. One Christmas eve a quarter of a eentnry ago the hospitable glare of a fire that not only could roast an ox, hnt was actually doing no. attracted a tittle ragged follow, who was tramping along the high road Jn search of a flight's lodging. One of the keepers found Mm In the fir plantation and dragged him after him till they stood In the glare of the firelight before The. hand, hi wife, and the assembled household. Questioned, the little fellow said his nnme wn Daniel; he was foundling and had been put out to servlee with a drunken carpenter, from whom he had run away. He had got as far north ns this In a barge long the ennnls and had worked at whatever rame to his hand for all the food and lodging that rhnrlty bad lint Mven 1dm. Trapand liked the lads ace and trok him Into his service. He was honest and Industrious, he had by slow degrees, and now for seven years he had been butler at tbe ball. Ibinlol took g pathetic pleasure In hearing Ms own story recited; It made him feel kind of hero: but there was Iwsyi the ever present ache at his heart that he Imuglit Ms proud position at the cost of love and fear. He was never qnlfe one of them, hnt a hlng apart a man who does not know his own surname must ever be. AD Daniel, are you mad? Put It down at once. I say. the morn now and bell. With a qnlck movement Daniel rpached out to the sideboard and seized a knife; In his other fist he still clutched the gold. "I see," she sahl. quietly. Then we have been housing n thief and a murFhe had her hand was on the derer for years." ' The knife dropped from Ms hand. A violent trembling shook him in every limb, the wild, weird look died out of his eyes, and he stood for a moment gazing dazedly at the money In his clenched palm. "Daniel, put it down. He crossed to the mantelpiece as thongh In a dream and put the money back where he had found It In the spirit of a little child. Then he stood there silent, his head bowed upon bis brpnst. "It Is the first time I have ever known yon drunk. Daniel." said Mrs. Trepaud, slowly. Fhe laid great stress upon the word. "Do not ever let me see you drunk again, or I will have to dismiss yon. Now you may go. He turned and walked slowly to the door, ne had bis back to her. but she conhl see bis shoulders heave. Presently be turned again, bis face still bowed noon bis breast. God bless Vo. mistress. be sold, brokenlv and went out. Winifred Dolan, In the Tattler. A Itrrrwnl Hii.'isml's Visit, Mr. Nicholson, formerly of Iota, who has removed to Baldwin, w litre he completed an extemfixe and very cosily residence, has built an ornate vault in the yard in conspicuous proximity to the bouse. In it are the remains of his wife. Mr. Nicholson has a nervous dread of commercial glnmls, and fears the remains limy be stolen, lie has taken Intinite pains to provide the vault with every safeguard to frustrate any evil design. Among other precaunt be hus connected Us ex cry part with au electric n!nrui In turn connects with an which system, annunciator In the residence, so that the Inmates xx ill he apprised of any felonious attempt. The above fact werp related to the Republic by Miss Anna visWight man. xxlio xvas au Interested Sunday. But Miss itor at ltn Id Wlghtman has not related nil of the Mr- - Nicholstory. A few years ago son built a charming bmne at loin, xvliich "'as especially planned to suit the fastes of Ids xvife. whom he adored. Not long aflerxvnrd Mr. Nicholson died. Her loss xxa Irreparable to the disconsolate husband. Hr conceived mem-orr- . a nulquc method of honoring her Interest a great taken bad Fhe In Baldxvln tnlvcrslty: U xvnsoxxlng to this fail that tbe Institution was benefited 1o the extent of a donation of d f o.A,4 KN) by the millionaire. He in the memory her to perpetuate little toxvn of which she xvas so worm dupll-ontn friend by building there of the loin home she had lovingly In planned. This has been done ofevery this It Is said one room detail. command to a situated so house, ned exclusively view of the vault, that he devotea and Mr. Nicholson, by careful watch a to long nightly vigils of the cherished repository. Ottawa (Kan.) Republic, xul-uern- tion con-elude- 1 M 1111 lrsns recent report to tba French In Academy of Science on bis experi- e mental researches on dream. N. relaremarked that there Is nature th nd tbe sleep tion between Mrs, Trapand was habitually careful of the sleeper drcsiua. In light sleep lxut money, never leaving carelessly the dreams are based Uon event ocbout nay sums, however small. 8b curring Immediately before the net flever distrustful any of her people, but of falling asleep, hut In profound he knew the value of the axiom g sleep dresms have no reference to reth open door. On this partic cent occurrence. Vaa-chid- These figures Indicate, therefore, that Is making more rapid progIs the population of the country. In number of farms. In value of farms, In value of Implements and machinery and in value of total products, this Is. in proportion to Its populay tion. a greater farming country than It was forty years ago. In that fact there should be ample encouragement for farmers. If other Industries have grown still more rapidly, that Is no ground for complaint by the farmers. On the contrary, it would have been bad for the farmers If these other industries hnd not been developed to make markets for agricultural produce. If. after that consideration, farmers still think manufacturers have an undue advantage over them, the remedy is ingthelr own hands. If they will make the same use of the powers of combination and of scientific application that other Industrialists have, they will have no ground for complaint of being outstripped. New York Tribune. agriculture ress than to-da- ly A Sensntlun, But Wo Suicide, A man xxlio says his name Is Horace Wingate tried to commit suicide in highly spectacular way near Joplin the other day, if the reports are trustlie wanted simultaneously worthy. to kill himself and give the newspapers a sensation, lie got some kerosene, a rope and a boat from a farmer named Ilawley, who lives ou Turkey Creek. The farmer's curiosity was ex. c'ted and he slipped into the woods to see whnt the stranger xxns going to do xvith liis miscellaneous lot of stuff. Wingate paddled the boat to a picturesque place xx hero a weeping xv'.Iloxv bung over the xv.itor. Then the farmer saw him lie the end of Ms rope to a branch and tbe thr around Li neck. Having done this. AYlngate poured oil oxer bl clothes, lighted a match and Instantly he xxns a mass of ilame. Then lie pulled a pistol and fired at Ills head. The bullet which was to have ended Ills life saved It. It cut the rope with which he meant to hang himself xxbeii lie jumped from the boat, and be plunged kerplunk Into tbe water, xxbich extinguished the flames. Farmer Hnxxloy, seeing lioxv to the creek. tilings xx ere, Jumped In and toxved Wingate to lioro. Wingate Is glad now lie Is alive, but he is awfully sorry he didnt glvo the nexvspnpers that sensation. Kama City Journal. tin-li- ed fh First Hunting Beg, It Is, by t Im ay, a curious thing that the seller should not liuvv been used xxith the gun till long after the xx pointer' utility in this way xvas recognized. Tbe sKirtMiuan of Edward 111.' time who tonight pheasants and partridges in net depended for assist-unclu finding Ids game ou u dog of some sort which was taught to "alt or "set;" but not until lliu middle of the eighteenth century or thereabouts a the setter much used xvltli the gun. The pointer, on the other hand, xx imported from Spain somewhere about tlie beginning of the eighteenth century, at the time when progressive gunnel were beginning to reullze that they could shoot birds flying; ami the Spanish pointer, or dmilde nosed pointer os he l called by old writers, became the gun dog at nnee. Colonel Thomas Thornton, of Thornton Royal, who devoted Ills life to field sorta, was the man xxlio remodeled the ancestor of the modern oIntcr. He considered the dog of Ids duy too aloxv, and by crossing the Fpnulsh pointer with the foxhound, obtained greater speed and stamina, but at omo lou of noo and docility. Outing. XV Tl. Chili rt.U I Soma day ago an rnormoua fish, feet lung, was caught in the thirty-sivicinity of IVttnng, near Tuigku, China. It was cut up and sold In the surrounding villages. Th fih was probably poisonous, a .Too Inhabitant who had eaten of it are dead and many oth. Courier. a. era am tiUlu Antxverp has been making wonderful progress as a great centre of commerce. It Is now ahead of Hamburg in tonnage, and ranks third among tbe harbors of the world. New York Is n close second to London, and there Is ample reason to believe that lu a fexv years at most the American metropolis will surpass the English In that clement of greatness. RURAL I good ROADS.1 O A National Mrs nr Ner.tnl. At the recent session of tbe National Grange Mr. AY. Fierpont White, of t'Uca, N. Y., connected xvith the good road movement, spoke ns follow up- Cotton export sales continue record breakers. For the first nine months of 1903 they ran $177,000,000, against for the corresponding $1 03,000, is Ki 0 nine mouths of 1002, and only ISOS. The high price for for this year is shown by the fact that tbe $177,000,000 cauio back to the country from the cxportntlou of 1,8,10.000,000 pounds of cotton, xxhereas In 1SJ8 we hnd to send a xvay over 2,000,000,000 pounds to bring us back the $122,000,-00$122,-000,00- 0. The reasons xvliich make it impossible for the locomotive to compete successfully xvith the trolley in oue or another iorm lu intramural tratilc and a suburban service will gradually narrow the sphere of its usefulness, and it requires no great stretch of the imagination to predict that it will ultimately disappear altogether, propbesizes the New York Times. This will be gradual, no doubt, but it seems to be inevitable. Its last useful function will be In drawing trains over long stretches of country furnishing little traffic but separating populous and Important Tbe locomotive has persections. formed a service of incalculable value in tbe world for something over a century, and may last well Into Its second century of life, but with all its modern refinements it Is at best a crude and wasteful device, and neither crudity nor wastefulness has a permanent place in the economics of modern in- dustrial organization. duxvn of a day of a has never been such prosperity measured out to this land. Looking ahead is always more rational than looking backward, and for a farmer it Just noxv more attractive. AAe are In a very good position for more comAYe the subject: "In the past ten years the nation has expended the sum of $tT 0CK),000 for ou In those days of automobiles and rapid transit street cars the poor pedestrian seems to occupy the position of a standing joke, comments the I,os Angeles Times, lie Is make ridiculous by bis efforts to get out of the xvay, and ts even lunghed at xvlieti lie Is run over. Yet the rights of the pedestrian are paramount to all others, it being Ills oxvn fault if lie doe not usuert them. are at the 1 AA'e have the manding progress. world's market, we have the transportation, and vxe are developing the wit to solve new problems. AYe shall introduce on the farm more economic habit as well os more enterprise and skill; xve shall concentrate sufficient lubor of an educated sort to keep production equal to the enormously inThe oue greatest creasing demand. lesson is to make our brands unimpeachable and our xxord as good as our bond. A wise citizen of the greatest republic that the xxorid has seen "The xxord Yankee has said truly: must cense to mean sharpness and stand for unblemished honor. Tact, Lonor and Industry ore the trinity of human thrift. American ngrUulture will not be able to dispense xxith uuy ono of the three. The Literary Digest report two new that can lie accomplished by electricity. It appeal that a Munich tnglnecr 1ms discovered that if a cur reut of electricity i sent through the ground it will drive out all the worms that are hiding In the aud insect earth. If the current Is strong it will kill them. The discovery was made by accident. The engineer, Hugo xxa allowing the electric curto run Into tin- - ground, when he rent scores of worm coming hurry-scurr- y noticed out of the earth, as if they were bclug chined. On looking more closely at (he ground lie noticed that hundreds of smaller worm and Insects were running for their live nxvny front tbe deadly current. The other discovery wn made also by it lierman, an electrician of Darmstadt. Impossible as It may seem, be has enececded in transforming air lido fertilizing material. By men us of a targe electric "sparking machine" lie mixes the nitrogen from th air with a substance made of lime and curium. So It 1 now possible to end an electric current through tb oil and free th root of plants from the worm, snail, beetles and other insect that nre Injurious to tbe plant. It U also s'slble to feed plants, vegetable, grain, Me., with food that la obtained from the air. Both the miracles are accomplished by tbe aam power that cause the lightning, which h always been th farmer' terror. Tbe electric current, w tdeh uifed to he known to the farmer only an eno-mt now used to free hi land may from insect pests and to enrich the soil. xxuuders Ilel-berge- r, river and harbor improvements. AAtiat has the nation done in the past ten years to aid the farmer In getting Ids produce to the shipping centres? Nothing. Is there any reason why the nation should not aid tbe fanner in cheapening rond transportation to the consumer? No. "AYliy has not the farmer had this aid before? Because he has not Intelligently asked for It through a representative body such ns the National Grange. "Gentlemen, the Federal Government Is spending $1 M.ono.noo a year In pensions, ns It ought, to those xx lio defended the nation. It Is spending millions of dollar n year In great public Improvements, such ns postortiees and court houses, nil of xvhlch money Is soent In cities and not lu the country. The ration, by a protective tariff, has built up a manufacturing Interest In tills country that lias crented wealth In cities, wealth In the nation and drawn fnrnt labor away from the farms to the cities: and It Is time that the National Grange should Intelligent. Iv support a national measure asking for national aid In the Interest of cheapening transportation front the farm to the slilnplng centres, Just ns It honors and aids the veteran, and the manufacturer, the railroad and the steamship shipper. You gentlemen here are representatives of the most Important Interests In the nation; your occupation lies at the foundation of the success of this great republic. In the Industry of agriculture nre encaged 33 000 000 of people of the United Stntes, and you provide food for the entire 80 000.000, and have a surplus product to send to foreign nations of exnorts which range In vnlue from 700,000,000 to $1.100 000,000 annually, and with these Interests at the very foundation of the nation Is It not proper that yon should Intelligently advocate the cheapening of transportn-tlo- n of your farm roads with nntional aid? "I ask your aid In behalf of the Brownlow bill. Introduced In Congress Inst year and defeated; to be Introduced again this year and we hope passed, ns It Is drafted on lines of sound policy based on the best experience of States wltlch have granted State aid. The $20,000,000 sought to be appropriated by this 1111 will call for an appropriation of $20,000,000 more on account of tbe States and tbe counties using the money, making a total expenditure of $10,000,000, capable of building 3000 miles of Mgbway In the nation. This oonntry has not yet developed a Mr. McAdam or a Mr. Telford. Rond building la an art acquired by experience only, and too much money easily possessed by an earnest, energetic, honest but Inexperienced rond builder, will not bring you the best results." DELIVERY A BENEFIT. Fear Thnt the CMtf Dully Will flnjfc plant th Country 1nper Fame of our good friends of the Eastern Michigan Press Club are wax-in- g pessimistic, says the Detroit Free Press, about the consequences of rural free delivery. They fear that tbe city dally xv III grow in circulation at the expense of It rural rival, and that eventually the country editors lot will b ns unhappy as that of the policeman In Mr. Gilberts ballad. Within our day and generation many 'nnoxations were to ruin the country editor, and yet he increase In wealth and power. AVe can remember when, for the most part, lie lived precariously, and soiled Ida only pair of trouser In making Id oxvn roller. To day he likely to he one of th most prosperous persons In his community. HI trousers are crensed, and ho not obliged to pntroulze one of the places xxliere they crease them while you wait, either. Ills children are sent to the university, the daughters have a piano and stylish gowns, and the family Is not exppeted to kqep fat by taking the cod liver oil received In exchange for advertising. Iu fart, there are not a few metro polltnn newspaper men xxlio envy the rural editor his Independence, hla free, dom from the more mercenary cares, and hla general happiness and good fortune. , And xv suspect that he will continue to harvest Ids share of the good things. The rural free delivery tray enable the metropolitan daily newspaper te Invade Ids field, but It cannot compete with him In recording the more personal affairs of the locality, and les and less will It attempt to do ao. The groat dally cannot he a local newspaper for every community in wldcli It circulates. It can only keep the public Informed ns to the greater affairs of the xxorid In general. Every community must depend on Its loent paper for repor's of those more Inti-mnevents wldelt It always read xx ith Hie greatest rag mess. As the population Increases there will be more of this local nexv to print, and a corresponding Increase In the demand for the paper. This circulation xx lll bring more advertising, and the rural editor Is likely to find that he bn lost nothing In pocket or In prestlg by the competition of the city dally, AA'e cannot compete with It In reporting the great event of the world, tbe more Important history of the nations from day to day; but the demand for whnt a simple, pastoral people call "nome news" Is not likely to pas away, be there a hundred rural route where there Is now one. The rural editor must adjust himself to altered conditions, but once adjust- ' ed his status Is likely to prove seenrw Besides, society cannot spare him. No 1 1 te WORDS OF WISDOM; A man is sometimes known by th thlrgs he might have done but didn't ne who Is skilled In art does not con. tlnue In slipper making. Turkish Fro-ver- Tn lb f'Milb. We have called attention several times recently to tbe good work done In the matter of better In roads, especially In Ouachita and NatA better feeling chitoches parishes. has been aroused throughout the State, and xve may look for a continued Improvement from year to year; that Is, the more mile of good roads constrin the more dearly their vnlue will be Too often the man who pnshes himself along In the world shove othert aside. Opinions should be formed with great caution and changed with still greater caution. A man Is beginning to lose confidence In Ida theories when he I unwilling to listen to arguments against them. Gratitude Is the fairest blossom which springs front the soul; and th heart of man knoxveth noue more fragrant. llosea Ballou, Give a man such a heart aa the Son, of God describes in the Bcautltndes, nnd a whole universe of sorrow cannof rob him of his blessedness. C. II. Spur Keen. goon. . ; Find your purpose nnd fling yonr life out to it, and, the lortler your purpose Is, the more sure you will be to make the world richer with every eurlcbment of yourself. Phillips Brooks, AYe become heavenly minded by living to make others bnppy. If It is th( sint nnd work of your life to be alblessing to others, you are living K. Sears. II. life. ready the heavenly It la no small commendation to manage a little well; ho Is a good wagoner that can turn In a narrow room. To live well In abundance Is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little than how to make It more j Joseph Halt. A quiet home; vine of our own planting; a fexv book full of the Inspiration of genius; a few friend worthy of being loved, and able to love us in turnj a hundred Innocent pleasures that bring uo pain or remorse; a devotion to the right that will never swerve; a simple religion empty of alt bigotry, full of trust aud hop and love aud to aucb a philosophy this world will give np U tho empty Joy It ha. David Swing, 2 , J Famous Trees, General Brlstitu has a chapter on fatuous tree of tho world which is full of curious Information.' Tbe African bHbhnh I known to reach tbe age of 54KK) year. At Chapultepec, Mexico, Is a large cypres under which Cortea nnd hla troops rested. In the garden of Femlraml, at Babylon, is a wlllox supposed to hnve been there when tb Hi la Queen was alive. The Neustadt linden Worlil, rrlah rHl diocese lu xv as 800 Is world the Tlie largest year eld when It wo wrecked (1st of Bishop AYarren, of tbe Meth- In 1832. En gin ml hnt oaks 3000 year It extends old. A walnut tree In Balaklava, 120(1 odist Episcopal Church. from the Afghanistan border and the years old, Is owned by five famine Illmalayaa, through and Including In- xxlio gather from It annually aboul dia, Burma It, the Malay I'enlttsula, too.otsi nuts. Tho AVadsworth oak nl ( etieseo, N. Y., la 600 year old and Borneo, and the Ihlllpplnc. twenty-sevefeet In circumference t Railway Employ, the has. The administration of the Swedish divided tote Plate railways has ordered that all the The German Empire passenger guards bo tntight English 143 Chamber of Commerce district and German at the expense of the Each Chamber of Commerce tan non-trof Its oxvn finance and la comFlat, this being one of the several nethod adopted to attract tourists pelled by law to appoint an all Asd o Scandinavia, experienced man a Secretary, The chief difficulty In the South In The Imilfflng road Js lle expense. Southern counties have not the money to spend ou expensive roads, however much they may be desired, as they have so many other heavy burdens on their hands, lu the maintenance of the schools, levees, etc. If they are to do much lu the way of road building it must lie done cheaply. South Carolina has been experimenting in ibis matter, and we learn from the Charleston New and Courier that it Is doing splendid work lu building good road at stnnll cost. Some of the fact and figure given by the South Carolina paper are most encouraging, shoxving that good road can be constructed at a cost far below what w y have believed possible. Thus, In road eight miles long County was constructed at a cost of only $350, It Is the rlinln gang being used. claimed tlmt this road Is tbe cheapest evrr constructed In the United Stntes, and this claim will not lie disputed. Th Newberry rond has been gravelled from six to twelve Inches thick. In Sumter County, where there Is no gravel, good clay and sand road nre being constructed at a cost of fsoo a utile, including the material and all other expenses except th maintenance of the convict employed, Jf we can do In Louisiana anyxvbere near a well a South Carolina la doing In this matter, there la no reason why any portion of Louisiana should be without good highway. New Time Democrat. Nexv-berr- Or-lea- n n Ll(ltle 1 ol , |