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A Inigo-don 10/:- 0bt-l-lu lath-n! M‘ That It lather vulonm lor Unreasonable. nemddhqeotlfi'eme. Embark, lunch-eta and lint York, which progidethat the whole commonwealth ahall hear Ii-om one- qnarter to‘ threefourths o! the ex-w pew of all highway improvement andw that the rest shall lie borne by the treeholdere in equal proportion and the countlm in which the work in done, have proved very successful and popular, so that now these states are noted to: the many miles of excellent highways they possess. Other states maywell follow the example. ' ll, now, a similar plan for national aid. in road building were propooed. it should stand a good chance “being adopted. Suppose, for instance, a hill were introduced in congreao providing that the general government bear one-quarter of the amount expended by each state or territory in building city streets and country highway: that conform to specifications ups pmved by e. government'commiseion and that are built according to the recommendation and approval of state and territorial highway commissions. Such a measure would. very likely, be enacted into a law, after the usual amount of opposition from contrary interests that is always manifested to- wards bills involving the approprlar tion of large amounts of public fund; The 0110: of the government to stand one-quarter of the cost of high- way improvement in every city and, state would be a powerful stimuluo to every community to improve its streets and wagon hands. In order to obtain the 25 per cent. from the government it would be necemry to: ‘each state or territory to have a high- way commission whose duties it mold be to determine which roads should be improved, where new ones should be built and perhaps actually to do be built and perhaps actually to do the work with hired gangs of men or to let eontractsto local construe- tors. This would cystemltize the work end open a. way to have the most important roads improved first end nll the work done on a defi'nite plan. The remaining three-quarters of the cost could be divided accord- ing to the low of each state among the counties and the abutting‘lnnd owners on thew-code improved. A gene tral bureau to be established in Wish; ington. or the present hurt-en of. mod inquiry, .ehonld' be requiredfto‘ em up land-rd specifications dot 'the construction of roads from all the diflerent kinds of paving material: in order that when the roads are built they will he really good one: that wil not he in constant need at repair and so that the state: cannot demand from the government any money for the system of “working out” road taxel on theoommondirt roads. If every one of our 50 state: ind territories did $2,000,000 worth of road building and repairing annually, un- der such a law, the gavernment would have to pay only 325000000 of thiq which is not an excessive amount coin- pared with the my millions annual- ly expended by tho governmgnt upon river and harbor Mprovemenu uni canal work. _ . The government experts have car fully ,ectimn-ted from statistic. gath- ered ‘trom :11 parts of the wunt-ry that the firming; mining, mumble- turlng and commercial W o! the United State- surhin In mud loss due to bod roads, in'the my. mentionedflbove, of not: less than $600,000,000 annually. Spending 8100.9 000,000 3 year on "road building md , , ,,_A._.... vwv,v,,- repaifing, it would take the country six y'ears'to'opond an amount eqdal to one year’s losses, and, summing flu. with the repairs on existing roads and the eonsbrud‘tion of new one- every miie of new road cost $5,000, we should have 20,000 miles of new madam road of the best kind in the eountry each year, or 120,000 miles in the '13 years. equal to an evens. of 2,400 miles for each state and territory. which would have reduced the‘lossel eo’ much that the paving would have paid the whole cost of the work. Al coon u we have built an evange at one mile of. first-clan' road for every. :4 miles of bad road now exo. fitting, we will annually lave enough from the losses ebove_meutloned to equal the government dd of 825,000.- 000 given to the mm; and as soon 7-- -1 --.. 1.-.! mad- states "flu: “'l"""â€"B , , _ _ cover up the eyes of the idols, in order that the dcities may not be dead“! at the sight of the We: Whfle plmc'rlc'm.~ ROAD PLAN. ”peel ’I'llelr ll!“- rewiring u temple, Vut A source of amazement law , inentd politician; is the agility J'vi'i'a Wm Great Britain obtain: .thc‘h"ney :9 entry on the South African MW. Even our severest critics Muwle‘flg’e‘ that in no other country cqiild the many million: already voted Emu been obtained so readily. This is all the more wonderful to them when they remember that in the sense they understand it. En mind has no war chestto {all back upox . The ex- planation is simple enongh. ".ngland. being the richest country in 9 world. her credit stand: high. and e is able a... “a... want Inms at 5 m0! : nt'. no to raise vast sums at a mo: tice, nygthe London Daily E5 The case is difl‘erentian-w 1. they hue something like 1% worth otgold and £50,,400000 silver ready for war time. T .52: Hungarian bank possesses mi 000,000 for u like purpose, Q ..-- _-_.v_, Hungarian bank panama I}? 111; £30,. 000,000 for u like purpose. ‘g I518 Ger- mnny clings to the oldâ€"fashé‘med 33'» ten: of maintaining an actual filial- chelt, containing £8.000§000, at thg'tortreu of Spandau, , It isf‘also utinifted that Russia has ready at least £7? \ Financially, Europe *is pré’pu'éd for the day that pessimistic prrgimets my is‘drawing nighâ€"the dly wiper: .wild war shall run riot throughout the east- ern hemisphere. There is at I. met '£ 155;- 000,000‘waiting for the time when the war clouds shall gather. and '2': 3% great _war it}; tolerably certain i "would all 'ybe spent. 5 a CROWDING .INTO nun mumm- “gnu-gnaw" lup- uny nun: Hon-ken“ {by tho People. g ; serious cancérn to thev gown-mnentn From )tafietiu. recently Hated it is learned that in 1801 3641)” «at. of the populntion lived in townshf 1.600 in- habitants Ind upward, whexgens in 1891 . \ '4‘: ug-......... _... 7,,“ , a 54 per cent. of the populatim inhabited. towns exqéeding 4,000 in ]-':\pulqtion. The rural population in 1,391 ' 11 31,577.- 000 acres wu ,qnly 5,534,000 }; ”sons out at tutu-population. of 29.; 3.525. It will be seen {tomatheae lahfi figurel, says a. London exchang'e. ting" ass that one-fifth of the whole people}- ‘ve in the country and are engaged in 5 n! occu- pations. IordAvebury.in co xme’nung “4L- nu a-_ r'v-v-w â€"~~ 7 7 - upon the” figures, ascribe-E the de- crepaefof rural.populat$on to ,fle mum of theeountry schbohto {avg ‘ intern: in country life and objects. 'f here have been other cause: ut work. however. The great. development in the pleasures n.- Al- Iâ€" and recreations .of town lifr, the in- creased intent in politics. a ’1' ricultura! depteuion, mi table Iabér wagefiuld last, but perha not lens. the' local tyranny of squir d parso ._ have con- tribut‘eg! to this salt. It A perhaps yet tobaseen wh er thed- \ elopme’nt of local govern en: will I: r e the de- sirable eflept of making c ‘ntry life more interesting and tolern " e. One-ple- Arc Packed in This Sflnpe hi Lel- .Spnea‘ and The: > 0:59! Livy-tut“ Hay as well a cotton in p days in cylindrical bales. round hay bale being 18 inc etc: and 36 inch'en in lemg fink picked at the .‘preu which it would be put up i use would weigh about mifi'ounds; as packed for export such a. Elle Would contain about 275 pounds}? There. in put up for army use a. bale . the» same diameter, but only, 18 inchc‘jin length, which cont-ain- npproxixflntely 140 popnd! effigy. - 1 5 . v ,n 13.41; _‘ tit: o! hay is got into let: 1. ‘ 1: half the space that it Would occupy . ‘ a square bale; and there are- assertu' fitm- itother advantages, including freec’om from mold, preservation oi tho swcetngsn or the hay andgreatly redu zed combus- tibility. ‘ ' , r1}; the qylixidrical bale 1%.!“ quan- ‘ - - n‘ a .4 LA”- Thousands of tons of ‘b drical bah- have been shi American tr y in the ’and large qua ities of i' used by the Bri is]: army Were Written In lanai”: {tau and 'Wcre Alive-cad to awn/u. n-d Minter. i Latte-re from Peary1 the mtic exâ€" plorer, for his wife and to her, who died recently, were receiv» the other day. They were accompa fed by oth- er: from Dr. Dedrickl his aurgeon, for In. Dedrick, and from Samuel Warm- beth, the members of the Stein putty, who in remaining fora second‘yen'r at Ctpe Sabine, for his wife in Maiden. Mn... and his mother, in Bus-inn Pound. None of the letjwt dentin: vâ€"rv ~_v.,. , Man... and his méthevr; ‘n Russian Polmd. None of the M1 ~t donning any new. The one from’ ' ‘ my in dat- ed Much I, 1900, and is {to ‘Cape d’Ur- ville, Grinn‘ell Land. It‘s: 4: that di- visions of his party had stag?" ad for Fort Conger. The latest 10rd gem Fury, fitted Much 31. which but ready been published, reported that !. e divisions 1nd all grind at Fort Cénu' (er. Accord: , 2 .6 II- In European 1' gill-HOD 1..“ :1. lot '11-” ‘2;' sum. 2 LETTER not PEAR! HAY IN ROUND 3;; igu- in diam- “. Such a if! “under domestic ‘ ounds; as E ale Would “ There is i on; name ,where :‘000,000 53mm. of CITIES; v in cylin- )ed to the Jilippinen. have been isdmh Af- have con-‘ ~ perhaps elopme’nt e the de- ntry hie THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS LETTER. 11;; to lotion received the dividon'. In- tended to pus): nnflhwnrd min Fort Conger. , Beau-try m m A Ihepherd of New South Wale. he- tried dentistry, for meep with, greet success, , He had a valuable runwhlch found {rent dimcuny. in Insulating its food owing to the 10. of teeth. Artiflchl teeth were {nut-ted which enabled the animal to mastic.“ it. fodder. , whole the p: Prince Girl-t1.- VIotor PM Hot Plo- I'm on I‘ll Bell. 0! 3010! Blood. The {rend-on .of Queen Victor-ind Prince Chrlotien Victor. who died at fever in South Attic: a few weeks ago? was o soldier born. who owed nothing lo rank, but obtained his audience in recognition of his military ebilliy. He knew everything about Tommy Atkine, from the enlisting lees down ‘0 the cent ' extortion. whieh' he labbred to a ' 3h. In his room at Winchesiex might be found neoriy double the num- ber of book: on tactics and drill usually found in an oflicer'e quartere.,and the majority were well thumbed. But he was no prig. He enjoyed every hour of his life. except that he was much hampered by insufficient private means. and his brother officer: and his he!) simply idolized him, “yo 3 London paper. --‘ -_.. . .. .-n4 He once told Lord Wolteley that the only advantage he ever derived from his royal run]: was that it always got him accepted 'when he volunteered f r active service. in the last ten years e served in pix campaignsâ€"e me ree- ordâ€"and he constantly obtained de- eerved- recognition for valor. Somehow, mmmanding officers never felt .haln- .‘pered when they had him under theix command, an was too often" the case when a royal prince insisted on seeing \ bit- of fighting. ‘Prince Christian Vic- tor was simply the smartest other In the king‘s royal rifles and a rattling (stat! officer. A: eon, n brother. as ou- cer, at: sport-man. u on Englishman be we- honorable and honored. Al Octave Which mun tee- 0-! Own all lla- leve- I'm '7 f Intel-vale. ' Prob; Stump and Neeeen. of the Berlin university. have concluded come interestingtexperimente regarding the peculiaritiesnof Siemeee music. my} the Scientific American. The Siamese musical octave differs from our own; in the fact that it comprise. seven equal intervals. Thenunds. though perfectly harmonious, are nomewhet curious. While the Siemeee court troupe ‘wu at the ecological garden- in Berlinthele two protector- ‘de-. cided to record theee musical tones in their natural sound to such ekactia tude that the faintest variations might' be clearly defined. ‘In the earlier experiments the ordinary pho- nograph was employed. but we. proved to be unsatisfactory. owing to the unplemnt constant reaping re- production. which always accompany phonognphic reproduction and which in thin oeee destroyed the distinct» ne‘ of the munde. A telephonograph wee then employed and the result. were all thet could be desired. By means of tail eppantul the sound. tre I0 clear 3nd the grain-dons no faithfully recorded that it is I dim- cult matter to distinguish between ch. actual recital by the troupe sad it. telephonqgra'phic reproduction. Ielm_lli‘h. on the ”not. Even the wutern cowboy bu come under the spell of the electric power. end a ranch in Lower California and Mexico in to utilize a local water pow- er for the generation of electricity, for lighting, hmesting. pumping. etc. The chief innovation will be the 95°. of searchlighb on tthe mountain". overlooking the reach to prevent cat- tle raids. The opentor of each light. will be sultnbly ”med with long range w‘eeponp and provided with . signal code by which he can flash in- to: 'on to the other watchers. A tel one system. embracing all pol~ tionl of the 16,000 acrel, will be an- other convenient method of raising Ill lie Bud Beo- Lilu [or ‘I‘we-ly Yes!- 131 I!“ l-de a I.-. {or “A business mutter took me out west last full," laid the well-known lt- torney, who no In a reminiscent mood. relates the Detroit Free Pun. “Ind A___ 2A.. .‘l-“u ._ wvw-.. I took edvuatege of the opportunity to make a trip into the mounine for a week's hunting. I hired In old men to act as a guide end do the cooking. and I enjoyed. myself to the utmost. The mountains Were full of big me. but the state had lately passed 3 luv [inhibiting the killing of deer. which we: portioning-1y egg-voting. u we QUEER SIAXESE HUSIC. A VALUABLE REPUTATION. WAS A BORN FIGHTER. mm: All to ”In Poor. some Swisvaineyardc nearly the a barn“. wan left last month to poor of the neighborhood. Ill-sell. wm' continually 63m; use. it“ Now I m a nape“ of the “- leu I an replied on tho ”flu-- and I found It hard work to recruit frbm shooting at the (lee an mt-i ed them-elm u 1! they knew tint “fl were free (rod Juicer. M dentin-1 ward the Inn our men an out. and 13 told the old mun that we would have to hue some Ire-h men even that“ to kill a deer. He tweed with no. and it wasn’t ten minutes luer that I dger‘ sprang up ahead of III. I wufi't pre- pared for him. but the guide It“. ad I A- LA. JI- l"'"“ -v. â€"V_._ V be made I cle'nn ”min inch to ill db- gmt. That Wu the Int deg: 1‘“ we saw. and we returned without Pam broken the luv. But no loo-ether) we arrived It the point when we in! started from than the old men won- tuned for killing t deer. um! I took it upon fay-elf to defend him. .3 1h" him to be innocent. I bok the M in his ' behllf. and thinking it but to make u clean bunt 61 the M ter. l‘ndmltted thlt he had chat at a deer. but missed Mn. Then I put the old nun on the chad 1o oom- ruboraie my testimony. “'i'ou aim". 1min} M It. the den-7‘ said I. when the old In: took the stand. “ “that's what!’ he answered. “‘And you missed him?’ I conun- ued. hfm. b'ge'el" "@111“?on the wind out o! my.“- and I collapsed. the result being tint the oh! man was fined 825. "A'iter'ihe-tml I took him was Ind naked him what he meant by a“ “ring to a lie and convicting him. at". “ ‘See hyu," he answered. 'I‘vo bin Iyin‘ {or 20 yen-I nbout never Invin' mined n deer thet I 01101. a, In' ya don‘t think met I would ruin .1 rep- mums calms INDUSTRY. nation for 325 do ye Aoeonling m the report of Hon. 8. W. Mathew; mu induptrhl ud labor comminloner. the Plus Tn. cute I: the clumpion Int-um «nah; community of the country 09d 1. third Ole Iii-Ind and kvo-Iy-flvo I..- torlu 'l'hnl Ply ”.de 3 Year In Wagon. on the 11.: of mm thud-la «not com. In fact, Heine in the only state engaged in the induatry of pub ting up amall herrlng and other unit'- able nah ae aardlnea. There'are about 115 canning factoriee “within in hor- den. the valne of which in about 81.214300. and give employment .‘e 15.000 operatives. The annual dl wages paid in mm waa about. 31.41am 000: to the lax-mere for corn, $331,000. and the value 0! the entire output of all the factories wee 85.306369 dur- ing the year, quotea the New "York Sun. Om-‘umo act-ea were planted to "we! corn in 1899. The canning of clams. blueberries uppleu. boa-I. squash. pumpkin and small fruit. aeeme to be on the lncreaae. accord- ing to Mr. Mathewl’ re and he don not nee any good re why the 'lndnstry ahould not increa- largely in the packing of the. arti- elee. He alao aaya that it appears to he generally conceded that the corn. \lppieu and berrlee of Maine are an- 'perlor in quality to Le aune product- ln other atatee. owing. doubtlen. to climatic oondltlona. In every kind 0! canning men. women and children are paid remuneratlve wagee. .I‘ the canning factor-lee give to many poor families their only opportunity tor earning money. viability at . law Kind 0! Cloth to De Inn-lacuna by III]. In ‘l-‘lud. ~ If the plum at oertnin Engllnh copl- tulisu do not mlmrry It will be possible are long for the ooononlcnl parent to put-chant a unit of cloths which my be pol-ed along anon; hla sons for the fifth of n century. In)“ the Chi Chronicle. xm. on m being bull in England for the man- 1ncture~oi thl- kind of long-wearing mnterinl. ch can be turned out in um nny color wanted. milk 0! gettlng n unit of clothes tllnt will but for 10 yum; “not will out only a' third more than a an“. coda now, and that will be absolutely wann- proo! without appearing to be no. Bevolutionlne l: rathepau overworked word, but u. an thia ease exactly. Instead of duging: “Papa’a panta will noon M Johnnie.” the retrain will run: “Johnnie anon will wear pa’n panta." for when pa once begin. to wear than extremely useful article- belore Johnnie baa got out of urea-ea he may continue to wear than for the next 20 ”are. and by that time John- nie will hue grown up to we... The same with little Katy and her noth- cr‘a akim luataad of cutting down the garment for the (It! the noth- e'r wurwear than for a mien at aoaud alumna-am» ha daughter, _ ’- onno- Ito-tho 00.... Eight million glib” of rock on an pumped each year from Index: the In. 01 the Puma one... ‘. dm!‘ he shouted. 'I killed LAST TWENTY YEARS. Somtor Us”. at Islamic-y. -' he: Map" .34 Cantor “m' 91 Loni-inn. .- “HI! “1! W mining in the M" n, A- n.- spout landed with the pom-it tot winch he at last- ym. The hoe. he thinks. I. n good “keno-I. but he 01!th the «Nat bu put o Inn'- heal on s boy‘s would“ " - ,_ L--_ - For any (an than an ww- .. funny m n W W m or three. In the present home John Allen. of mull-inf. enjoy! no honor. hula; heid the position (or about a doses yew. mo predw m'”8\moct" 00:. And Chan) M will wobbly In )5: am. Sen-[or Town. of mum I? pared in Wfiiuflon one swoo- rooenuy with his neck naked 43 5“:an “Who! in the matter?" in- blool working out or“ ingrown; a- cco- of senator!“ dignity.” ' . wuâ€" .. â€"-V, Senator mic. who in c generil my hu'himherto been looked upon u 3:! exemplar of “mull-proper in nude attire. horrified his’ colleague. the other afternoon by appearing among than venting c high int-ad u abort coatâ€"n combination II (o be pend-dbl. only on the dde of New York. .u‘." It. 1. not general, In“. perhaps. that Senator Pefllgfew. d South Dar mbunmvbohs‘been fighting WRIIHIQBOOM fiehnMdfl you: at age. who joined noun m n!- nnteen lot lorries in the Mod. They wet-(Mun Into W kr- Htory 1nd there (“normed um! the Dun-h govern-cut [add their pun-(e home. ' I The are. of ten culture in 1361. at the end of 199 wan over 516,700 ages. .The bone- of u ”once nub-kel- 900- Iu-iurll 80 pol-(h. Thole of I woman In prom 0‘:de “that. ' Gout is mdy known among the working clone- of Inland. Their in. munhy is thought ”be due 16 this {not um :helr {oedema-Mal» Wul'uuls v- munity is thought “be due to the {not that their food condu- law at p (MI. I . Km tank In the truly is not new to women of royalty. but it hin- tereetln; to leer- that 5 women he beennkedtothennkolgencdbt person-l eervioe and merit. 011% éunpeign in the Philippine- Gen. won a commission in the revolutionary army. orgnlugl 3- (one at 2,000 men and led than in e number of action: cumin-t the Spaniards. Joseph 6. Lung hypnoum'by who phone. “to friend. doubted his ability Ind celled for e “Donut-85013..“ was given in the pm of “I hull-3 physician. who-e dignity compels ih to withhold his name.” More subject- were at a receiver Ohm file-ow. He first of all got them unda‘ can“ and then ordered his subjects to fit poiiticel npeechee. to danceiml to do various other team. They obeyed 5h. When he woke then up they W Qhat they land lelt nothing at.“ iron: their experiences when laugh-l hypnotized-then before in the wool WI]. WHA'I THE WORKERS TELL US. “a “gamble. u-e canned. In 1890 the when! production of the mud ame- mud to on... 000,000“! In 1890 to "76.000.000- The Ana-bu red m wood k .W was m «plow! in WM 10' strefl pub. purposel. The n.- export the be“ and hill-- est priced “we! in the world, ad for Iheh' “I me buy chap mm: from the Mad 8:“ Boston b the headquarters at m copper-mining hushed of the Unit“ sum, and make. I tidy profit on n. The Bunion copper will“ pull $38,383,100 In dividend: in 1900. The pulpy nu- ullod begun. whichhlmd‘mthecuumhu been cruhed and queued 1117 of in nochulne matter. And my wuburnedondmfldotunld~ unecJ-nowmdtormn-lh' lure 0! paper. A recent European I‘ve-(Souls. pmtornnldnccflloldm Themethodbbmdo-gbeneth-ot zinc chloride on nation. by which momma-mum are pmduced. Mathias when planed In “tunnelllndhuw munmwmmm 50‘3““ . oonntrrrn-Roonl can. thine has 118 tutor!“ in which fit Papa: "on By. III-w. SORTS. am In: hoop at Ken we”: Sup it. 1061 culcu (MI Lu m FIRST} J mum m1 ' The 'rh-p. hXI‘ ML}