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until the sand can no longer be driven
in between the broken stone. Drains
are laid, as they are for macadam
roads, before the sub-pavement, is
built.
A simple experiment, which can be
made with any wheel, will show why
q smooth, hard-surfaced, road makes
hauling easy for horse. On such
road the roadway is tangent to the
circumference of the wheel. The wheel
stands on the immediate point OF con-
tact, and there is no obstacle over
which the wheel must be lifted. On
a sandy or loose. soft earth road the
wheel sinks into the roadway. 10
draw the wheel forward the earth be-
fore it's track must be displaced or
passed over, 30 that a horse, in addl.
tion to the force it must exert to draw
the load, must use extra force to over
come the obstacle in the path OF the
wheel.
In Mecklenburg County. North
Carolina, the systematic improvement
of roads has made progress for nearly
fifteen years. The general plan
adopted was to start at the city limits
of the county seat and to grade and
macadam all public roads from this
point out toward the township and
county limits. These roads have q
width of forty feet for the first two
miles from the city limits and beyond
this point width of thirty-six feet.
The average cost of these roads, IN.
cluding the macadamizing and grad
| ing, is about $4,000 mile. The eff
cheney of the roads is shown by the IL
lustration, copied from photograph.
| The wagon loaded with twelve bales
of cotton weighs 5000 pounds, and
each of the other three wagons is
loaded with cord of wood.
Much of the road building in this
county is done by ccnvicts. The aV-
erage number of convicts employed IS
about eighty, and the average cost OF
this labor per convict, including food,
clothing, medical attention md guards,
is from twenty to twenty-five cents q
day.
The rate of taxation in the county
is eighteen cents on S1OO worth OF
property. In addition each township
levies tex varying from seven to III.
teen cents on each 500 worth OF
property. The law requires all able
bodied citizens along the public roads
to labor four days OF eacn year on the
public roads or to pay fifty cents n
day in lieu thereof.
This class of labor is used indepen'
dent OF the convict labor, principally
in the work of grading or in the gen.
eral repairs OF those roads or portions
of them upon which the convict force
is not engaged.
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hos In q bad humor. Come with me,
MARGARET. He will want to see you, and
besides your presence may be as oil
upon the troubled waters"
Alice hurried off,. whi!o Margaret
waited to get her hat and gloves. when
she reached the head of tho stairs she
heard the Colonel's high-pitched voice,
evidently answering some proposltlon
from Alice.
Miss, I'll not be dictated to. Tll-
Bless NV soul! if there isn't Margaret.
When did you get here, child? Just
nowP Well, we'll! I'm SO pestered and
bothered. l can hardly see you. Come
here and let me have a good look at
At this invitation Margaret came down
the steps, and the old gentleman. despite
her blushing remonstrance, took her face
between his hands and kissed her on
each cheek.
so you've been away, and come back
as pale as ever" he added, holding her
from him and looking at her earnestly.
Il believe we could have done better for
you here. I'm glad to see you, child,
mighty glad. Missed you like the devil:
By the way, hear you We got that
young scamp with you. doubt II ne
had one foot off the train before some OF
these confounded tattling women pub
lished it to the neighborhood. II were
the husband Of some Of them. I'd
or shoot 'em. What are you SiSglinS an.
Alice? Nothing? Well, have more sense.
Come. over and take dinner with US,
Margaret. No company, you know.
Only yourself and Brian, if you choose
to bring him. I want to see the boy. I
suppose he's grown out Of my recogni-
ton.
The old gentleman disappeared in the
library as he made this last remark, and
Margaret turned to Alice with q smile.
Il must be going" she said. i've left
my cousin, you know, and must not be
inhospitable. Please come over soon,
Alice. Miss Hilton sent her love and o
special invitation. :"
Alice stood on the porch for some min
utes after Margaret was gone.
If I should turn prophecies" she
said, half aloud, would cay" She
did not complete her sentence, but,
smiling to herself, went into the house.
[To BE CONTINUED.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SECTION OF MACADAM ROAD.
.ough, wedge.shaped stones driven in

rough, wedge-shaped STONES arlVen III
solid.
Originally the Telford foundation
was ''convexed" by laying the largest
stones to form the crown in the center
of the roadway and then grading down
to the cutters with smaller stones, but
this practice is no longer followed, for
the earth is graded to form the crown
as 1t is done in a macadam road.
The earth foundation is we'll rolled
and then the sub-pavement is laid o..
with the long side Of the stone set
transversely. Between these stones
stone chips are packed firmly and then
broken stone is placed over the sub.
pavement in two layers. the first layer
being rolled and packed before the
second is laid on.
This layer of broken stone forms
the intermediate course, for the sur
face is made of stone broken in smaller
pieces and packed under light roller.
Sand is swept over the surface and an
other rolling with a heavier roller
completes the pavement. The sand is
moistened and the rolling is continued
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SECTION OF TELFoRD ROAD.

The macadam road has the earth
graded and rollen for its foundation.
The principles laid down by Macadam
were as follows: 1t is the natural soil
which really supports the weight OF trav-
ell; while it is preserved in dry state
1t will carry any weight without sink
ing. This native soil must previously
be made quite dry and covering as
much impenetrsble to lain as possible
must then be placed over it to pre-
serve it in that dry state. That the
thickness of a road should only be reg
ulated by the quantity Of material
necessary to form such impervious
covering and never by any reference
to its own power of carrying weight.
These principles, modified in some
respects, govern the making OF mac
adam roadway to-day. The natural
earth foundation is graded SO that the
curve of the foundation will be par
allel to the curve of the surface OF the
roadway when completed. The earth
foundation is rolled and rerolled un-
der heavy roller until the Garth IS
firm, compact and even.
On both sides of the roadway exca-
vations are made for the drains. In
the bottom of the ditch thus made
tlling is laid, covered with hay, straw
or some such tiltering material, and
over it IS laid broken stone IN such a
manner that water will easily find its
way down to the tile.
Sometimes, instead of tlling, bundles
of rods or straight limbs OF trees.
bound together fagot fashion. are laid
in the bottom of the drains inst OF
tiles. This is O cheaper construction,
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FARMERS. ROADS"
A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE TO
TILLERS OF THE SOIL.
United States Department of Agrl-
culture Takes 1t Up-Macadam
and Telford Systems-AIodel
North Carolina Roads.
0THE United States Department
of Agriculture has taken up
tho rnnffa, Of nfnrnna ars'

THF United States Department
' > of Agriculture has taken up
the matter of farmers
roads," AYERS the Chicago
Record, and Roy Stone, an engineer
of the department., believes that farm
ers can build good roads without i'm
poverishing themselves. On this SUBJ
ject Engineer Stone says:
"In the first place the road that will
best suit the needs of the farmer must
not be too costly; in the second place
it must be of the very best kind, for
the farmer should be able to do his
heavy hauling over it when his fields
are too wet to work and his teams are
free. The road that would seem to
fill the farmers need, all things con-
sidered, is solid, well-bedded stone
road, 80 narrow as to be only single
track, but having an earth track along
side.
"a fine, dry, smooth dirt track is
the perfection of roads,. it is easy on
the horses feet and legs, easy on the
vehicle and free from noise and jar.
It holds snow better than gravel or
stone and requires less snow to make
sleighing, and where such road has
a stone road alongside to take the
travel in wet weather it will suffer
hardly any appreciable wear.
"The stone road, on the other hand,
wears by the grinding of the wheels
and the chipping of the horses calks
in dry weather more than in wet. If
il can be saved this wear for an aver
age of aix months in each year, SO
much will be clear gain.
"The questions raised regarding this
method of construction are: Can the
functions of the earth and stone sec.
tions of the road be kept even SO as
not to have Jog in passing from one
to the other, and can the meeting and
passing Of loaded teams be provided
for?"
Mr.. Stone cited the condition of the
Canandaigua IN. ~ roads as evidence
that there is no sign of division be-
tween the earth and stone, and added
that those who use these roads say that
no difficulty is found in The passing
of teams, since practically no two
teams ever turn oqt at exactly the
same spot, and no rutting of the earth
road occurs.
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The Bees Swarmed on the Hen.

Uncle Ieham was whitewashing at
our place the other day, says letter
from Woodbine, Miss, to the Phila'
delphia Times. when swarm OF bees
in full wing CHANGED to rervade the
atm osphere. Now, bees are much
dearer to the heart of Uncle lsham
than whitewashing, though b whitewash-
ing is his profession, 30 I was not sur
prised when the old man dropped his
brush head and ears in the bucket,
Strengthened his crooked back and
hobbled rapidly up to the door.
"Gimme de dinner bell, mistis," he
said excitedly.
"Wnat is it?" asked.
"Bees," he whispered, and I got the
bell. knew the old mans weakness.
Besides, it is not uninteresting to see
e swarm of bees hived-from q per-
fectly safe distance, understand. The
bees showed some signs of making q
raid on q honeysuckle vine that was
in full bloom on my trellis, but the
queen seemed dainty about making q
landing. She buzzed and whirled and
shifted with fthe swarm at her heels
till the air was black with bees, but
resolutely in the midst, with his bell
ringing, stood Uncle Isham alone and
unprotected, yet with his face to the
foe. couldn't tell whether the swarm
was moving with the old man or he
was moving with the swarm, the bees
were 80 thick about him, but the
group kept up continual migration
till at last the door of my little poul-
try yard was reached. A heavily
blossomed rosebush grew just beside
the gate, ard upon this at length the
queen seemed to have made up her
mind to light. She made dive down.
ward. the swarm following, when, just
at that critical moment, a hen from
the poultry yard, with a loud cackle,
flew from her nest into the very midst
of the swarm.
"Drat dat ole fool hem" heard
Uncle 1sham say, and I thought the
game was ended.
What those bees and that hen really
thought it was impossible to state
with accuracy, but they evidently
seemed to think that some mutually
reacting kind of cyclone business
had been let loose in their midst. For
I moment or two there appeared to be
Just a conglomerate mixture OF bees
and hen in midair, and, hy and by,
when they came down, they were lit
orally all there and altogether. The
queen, who had no doubt been knocked
''perfectly silly" was comfortably es.
tablished on the hens back, while the
whole swarm clung around her. The
poor hen was bedecked from tip to
beck, and could not move feather.
Uncle Isham, very much surprised
1T the TURN of affairs, got box and
soon had the swarm safely hi7ed, much
TO the poor hens relief.
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A Feline Fireman.

There's remarkable cat in this city
called "Tootsy." She is the only irel
cat in the land. Tootsy is a member,
of Engine Company No. 27, and all the
firemen love her. She was born on the
Fourth of July, has been in the cat
show, rides on the engine, sitting on,
the drivers seat, and loves the smell
of smoke as much as she does dinner
of live mouse. Nothing could induce
the men of No. 27 to part with their
pet. Tootsy knows an alarm OF tire,
even if she hears the gong strike when
she's a block away. When Tootsy
dies there will be sorrow Of the genu-
inc kind in the engine house OF No.
27.-New York Record.
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His Imperative Duty.

A lady, en- route to the last Queens
drawing.room, in London, found her.
self blocked in line of carriages con-
tanning people who had not the entree
to which she herself was entitled.
Much annoyed, she leaned out OF the
carriage window and said to a police
man on duty there, in imperious tones:
"Perhaps you don't know that l am
the wife of cabinet minister?" II
couldn't let you pass, ma'am," ne
calmly replied, "even if you were the
wife of Presbyterian minister. Ar
ronaut
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Where Water is Scarce.

Water is 40 scarce in South Africa
that it is dealt out by the gallon, the
allowance to each person working for
the mining companies ranging from
one to one and half gallons per day.
This limits the drinker of tea and col
fee to one cup, while if stronger stlm'
ulants are indulged in they are swai-
lowed without. Washing is luxury,
clothing being submitted to the action
of sunshine and air. with good shak-
ing, alter the manner OF carpets, to
Get rid of the dust.
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This house would cost about $29e6

This house would cost about $9ae6
not including the heating apparatus,
range and mantels-built within 1o0
miles of New York City, although inI
many sections Of the country the cost
should be much less, where labor or
materials are cheaper.
Radiators should be placed as near
the windows as possible, and in all
rooms but the kitchen, including the
bathroom and lower hall. A fair es'
innate for the apparatus completed
set, would be about $3.50. /
copyrighted 1850 ,'
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FireprOof Paper.

An iuhabltant of Berlin is RESPONSE
BILE for the invention of fireproof pa
per. A considerable quantity OF as
bestos fiber OF the best quality, with
several other ingredients, is mixed
with the ordinary wood pulp, with the
addition of some lime water and bor-
ax. Paper thus produced will resist
the direct influence O.; flame and can
be placed even in white heat with
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long and thought he was some pump
kins.' Nevertheless, he was fraud, 81
snare and delusion. He strutted aboutl
with the self complacent air of a pea;
cock, Notwithstanding that he must|
have been aware of the fact that his
tail was composed Of plumes begged,
borrowed or stolen from the csudal ap.i
pendages of other roosters. That tail
certainly was marvel of ingenuity:
The feathers were so cleverly Joined
one to another as to defy detection;
except on the minutest of scrutiny.
Yet the owner of the bird could take
off and put on that wonderful tail
whenever it pleased him to do so."-l
Pniladelphia Press.
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stories, band under eavee, gables, DOR
mors and roofs, shingles.
Interior Finish: Two coat plaster,
hard white finish. Flooring and trim
in hall, oak; elsewhere, n. G. pine.
Oak staircase. Kitchen walls vain
scoted. All interior woodwork grain
filed and finished with hard oil varnish.
Colors: All clapboards, fawn
brown. Trim, including water.table,
corner boards, cornices, etc., white.
Outside doors and ceiling, oiled.
Shingles on side walls left natural for
weather stain. Shingled roofs stained
o deep red.
Accommodations Cellar under rear
half of house with inside and outside
entrance. Portiere openings connect
hall, parlor, sitting-room and dining.
room. Open freplaces in hall and
dinlng-room. Hat and coat closet in
hall. Buffers pantry, containing
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The Largest Dam.
innpunlt,

The largest damned body of water,
in the world will be secured by the
building OF n dam at Cloquet, Mlnn.,
on the St. LOUIS River, 900 feet long
and eighty feet high, by which bach
water will be extended sixty miles,
Current Literature.
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Great Botanic Garden.

The botanic gardens OF the Jardir
des Plantes, Paris, includes abou
seventy acres. The plants are al
labeled with red lnbeis, medicinal
green for alimentary; yellow. for or
namental purposes; blue, for art, and
black, for poisonous r'ants.-Currenl
I Literature.
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A FEATHERED CURIOSITY.
It Is a Rooster With a Sixteen Feet
Long Tail.

The Japanese are fun-loving peoj
pie and they are as full of tricks OF
various kinds as an American school,
boy. A writer who recently returned
from Japan tells of a queer rooster bel
saw on the Mikado's Island. 'The
only thing in the shape OF live, phy-I
sical freak that ever came under my|
observation was a common, everyday
sort of barndoor rooster" he says.
THAT rooster had tail sixteen feetl
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STEAM.HEATING.
Recent Advance in This System OF
Warming Residences.

With its many early imperfections
steam-heating was slow in coming into
favor, and there are to-day many
worthy persons who hold a rooted
aversion to it, based upon unhappy
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dresser, connects kitchen and dining
room. Portable range and sink IN
kitchen. Bathroom in second story,
with full plumbing. Attic unfinished,
except for storage purposes.
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HAVERFOgDS GOING ABROAD.
First College Cricket Team to Go ito
England.


Philadelphia, June 1.-THE Haverford
college cricket eleven sail for Liverpool
on Saturday, June 19, to play a series Of
matches with the leading public
schools" and universities Of England.
They are the first of our college cricket
teams to venture beyond our own bord-
ers, and their progress abroad will be
watched with interest by players on
both sides Of the Atlantic.
BY decisive victories over strong
teams from Harvard university and the
University Of Pennsylvania the Haver-
fordians have retained the champion
ship Of the Intercollegiate cricket asso-
| citation and in their other games they
have proved themselves a match for
the best Philadelphia clubs in their
spring or early summer form. On the
other hand their schedule includes
matches with the very pick of the Eng
lish schools. Mr. c. w. Alcock, editor
of Cricket. and secretary Of the m. c.
c." kindly undertook the arrangement
of the teams fixtures. and has succeed
| ed in securing the following excellent
schedule:
June 20, 30. Cheltenham college; July
/. 2, Winchester college; July 4, Rugby
school; July 6, Haileybury college; July
I, Marlborough college; July 8, 3, NJ. c.
c., at Lords; July 16. II. Repton school;
July Is. Harrow school; July %. Char
terhouse school; July %, Eton college;
July "A, 25. Clifton college; July n, 2S,
Malvern college; July 81, August l, Cap
tain Leveson-Gower's Oxford university
elevn; August 8, 4, Cambridge Univer-
sity Long Vacation Eleven.
The Haverfords go abroad entirely at
their own charges, asking for neither
gate-money nor social attentions, and
cordial letters received from Lord Har-
ris, Lord Hawke, the head master of
Eton college and many others assure
them Of cordial welcome in England
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FINE PITCHING GAME.
Gray and Brown Bore the Brnnt Il
the Contest.

Pitcher Gray came to town late
Wednesday which was early enough,
and too early for the Coal Barons. Gray
Is a Baltimore cast-Off, and Sir Richard
Brown Is Baltimore farmer and the
two met in a pitching tilt at Athletic
Park yesterday afternoon.
Gray espoused the cause of the BisOns,
which was most unfortunate, as Sir
Richard was himself again and might
have won in canter if some less
worthy gentleman than the cast-off
Gray had been opposed to him. Sir
Richard might have made things little
more interesting anyhow IL his support
had been what it ought have been, and
If your grandfather Samuel Wise hadn't
got frlsky and smashed out two triplets
and a single, the said smashes taking
place in the innings when the BsOns
scored.
It was a beautiful pitchers battle in
which Gray had a little the best end of
1t. He was hit for two less bases than
Brown but gave one more base on balls
and hit two batsmen. The strlke-outs
were even.
A LITTLE SLOW FIELDING.
OF Scranton's four errors. that of
Griffin and one Of Hutchinson's were
all that counted in the run-getting.
Hutchinson's chief offense was his fail
ure to successfully act the middle man
in three attempts to make double plays,
SO Manager McDermott thought and
he took Hutchinson out after the
seventh. sending Ward over from first
and putting Outcalt at the first station.
Umpire Doescher, and the roastings
he received. were not the least of the
features Of the game. The jolly Dutch
man will never in Scranton be accused
OF being a home umpire. At the plate
and on the bases. the crowd thought he
gave the Barons the worst Of II and
didn't hesitate to proclaim their dis
approval in loud and unmeasured terms.
The one or two mistakes that Doescher
has made have served to bias the judg-
ment Of the cranks, and yesterday they
laced him in sound fashion on all close
decisions that were against the Barons
" seemed undeserved.
Gremminger has made himself a
spotted man. not painted or leopard
spotted, though he may bear some
black and blue marks before the season
ends. During the game he performed
an act which stamps him as big, hulk.
ing. brutal, dirty player. When he rar
full tilt into Ward on Wednesday and
knocked the latter out of the game
Gremminger was given the benefit Of q
doubt and the occurrence was put dowr
as accidental. But yesterday at the
plate and when there was no occasion
FOR 1t. he plunged his big shoulder into
Berger's chest and sent the catcher
sprawling. 1t was nearly minute be.
fore Berger got his breathing appara.
tus in working order. Tricks of tn,
game are excusable. but the low-down
heastly and brutal act of Gremminger's
yesterday stamps him as an individual
who should not be tolerated on the dia
mond. 1t is dollars to pack OF cigar
cites that he has used his shoulder
twice too often.
BARONS SCORED FIRST.
: The first run Of the game was scored
by the Barons in the third. Up to ther
the only semblance of hit was bunt
hv Eap gan in the cacopl Tn tho *b; ~
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Percentage Record.
Today's Eastern League Games.

Buffalo at Scranton.
Toronto at Wilkes-Barre.
Rochester at Providence.
Syracuse at Springfield.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

The three leaders and the three tail
ers lost yesterday. which serves to send
all the six middle division clubs up In
their percentages. 1t equalizes the race
at the expense Of New York. st. Louis
and the Colonies, who are SO far behind
that they are forgotten. The Phillies
won their first game Of the week by
defeating Louisville. At Baltimore
your uncle Anson made four hits at
Baltimore. the last one made in the
eleventh inning. winning the game for
his team. The Clevelands were checked
in their winning streak at Brooklyn.
Daub and Jones were the heroes of the
day. At New York with two out in the
seventh Seymour became ratified by the
Pirates coaching, and seven runs We're
piled up. Killen was batted very hard,
but his support was perfect. Cincin-
natl was never in the running.