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SOWING THE SEED.
How to Make the Good Roads Agita-
ton Yield Permanent and Sat-
iSfactOry Results.

A dozen years ago, when the good
roads agitation was started, and the
early workers began to SOW the seed
that they hoped would bring forth
fruit hundredfold, they had the eN-
perience that always falls to the lot
of the sower-some seed fell upon good
ground; some fell where there was lit
tie depth of earth; some fell among
thorns, and others by the wayside.
1t was not expected that all seed
could be sown on good land, nor that
all which should be sown would spring
up to bear fruit. In such an undertake
ing it was more than ever necessary
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BUTTER IN BOXES.
Puttin: Up Dairy Products in Attrac-
tive Packages Is a Very Profit
able Investment.

An attractive package often sells
even inferior goods. while an at
tractive package and superior goods
make a combination that is simply ir-
resistible! Successful shippers Of
many kinds of farm products have
found out the truth of this and are
profiting by it. Of two articles of
equal merit the public viii always
buy the more attractive goods. There
are two reasons for putting up butter
in the form shown in the cut One is
that in this shape it is exceedingly at
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intervening Sunday. Again she failed
to appear, but only for day, and the
remainder of the week she was in her
accustomed place.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
passed with no glimpse of her. In the
late afternoon Of that last day, a man
who could be known for a doctor half
mile away, made long call upon the
head of the firm. They conversed very
seriously for a few minutes, and then
drifted to general themes and laughed
and pulled their cigars as if nothing
were wrong. That fixed my estimate Of
the gray-haired young man at very
low point in the scale.
There was no sign of her during the
week. On Monday l saw unusual sights
III the office across the way. First the
old bookkeeper came in, and while he
had the Office to himself he sat in her
chair; and l saw him shed tears. Then
the young man with the corn-colored
hair appeared, and upon my word I
was afraid to see him stand by the open
window, with such a look upon his
face, lest he should cast himself down
to the bottom of the gulf.
A little later the three clerks, the
gray-haired man, and an elderly per-
son whom I took to be the second men,
Der Of the firm, just arrived from
abroad-for I had heard a rumor that
one OF them had been in Europe nearly
year-assembled in conference on a
plane of equality which only mutual
deep sorrow could have justified. After
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tractive, and the other is that such
package is most conveniently carried
home by the purchaser without the
risk of melting the butter by the
warmth of the hand in holding the
package.
The prints are made in the fiat, four
square form, and are wrapped in
parchment paper. Each pound print
is then slipped into the paper box, the
flap closed and the butter is ready
for the customer. On the outside of
the box, in dainty. celored lettering,
should be the name of The dairy farm
producing the goods, with the head Of
a mi]d-eyed Jersey or Guernsey COW,
OF a bit of clover, to suggestively or
nament the package. y reputation for
the butter one makes can thus be es-
tablished. Such boxes cost about half
a cent each. all printed, when bought
by the housand.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
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The Panton1itne in the
Window Opposite.
By Willis Emery.
Copyright, 1898,

y ETWEEN her and me there was a
great gulf, a chasm with precipi-
1Ous walls of stone. We were so near
together that could see the color Of
her eyes when the light shone fairly,
but between us was the gulf, and in the
bottom Of it a roaring river.
In the morning the river ran south
ward; at noon it was full of conflict
ing tides that FLASHED and surged; in
the late afternoon it ran mostly north
ward toward Printing House square
river~of humanity, and the gulf was
the canyon of Nassau street, in New
Y orl city. H. -. h p r.
She was on the western bank and
on the eastern, a hundred and fifty
feet above the bed Of the stream.
Crossing was easy, but l could not go,
because | had no errand. How could
invade the office of Stought on & Bland
and say: ''Gentlemen, have come to
tell your secretary that l admire her.
I did not think it fitting even to ask
what name she bore of such acquaint
ances as might lave been able to an
swer. | would not have known what
firm employed her, but that I could
read the gilt la'!ers on the glass door
of their office when there was light be-
hind it in the hail. 1t was hard to
make them out, for of course they read
backward to me, being glued upon the
other side of the door, but looked
across SO often that [ should have
made them out at last had they been
Chinese characters.
She used to wear neat and tasteful
clothes, and her hair was always Just
right. Her desk and the typewriting
table were never in disorder, and from
that inferred that she had been we'll
brought up, conviction REINFORCED
by my observation of her bearing
toward all who spoke with her Busy
from morning till night, she never
seemed to be hurried or worried, and it
seemed to me she never had unfinished
work to put aside at the close of the
day.
AS spring advanced her window and
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tPcople Come from a Long Distance to
Use It)
to follow the example which nature
sets, and SOW with Wanton bounty, in
order that here and there some might
take root. In natures economy, pro-
vision to guard against loss and pre-
vent failure is made with a lavish
hand, and thousands Of blossoms and
seeds are blown hither and thither to
every one that rests in good soil and
terminates.
1t was thus with the doctrine of bet
ter roads. When that gospel began
to be preached il fell upon a few will
ing ears: some received it with JOY and
protited by it. Many more who heard
it were needless and Indifferent; they
listened, were interested for the mo-
ment, and then forgot it all. Then
there were many more who would not
hear, or who, hearing, would not I'M
derstand. Lastly, there were those
who rebelled at the doctrine, who an
tagonized it, who controverted it, and
who sought in every way o refute it.
Nevertheless, the gospel of good
4CCuS CoI " i)1 SttCllCO Will
unremitting zeal until everyone had
heard or had the opportunity to hear
it. Into many sections of the country
it penetrated slowly, and the recep-
tivity Of mind of those who heard it
varied widely. The majority aroused
themselves but slowly 20 a realizat ton
of its truths. 1t was Line upon line,
nyACnnt 1,rpnnnf hA 1it&1o
and there a little'--the same truth
repeated and reiterated in a thousand
ways.
At first a consideration of the OBJ
jects and advantages of permanent
highways is relied upon to arouse in
terest and show what can be gained
by institutiny a course of improve-
ments. This part of the subject may
be handled in a thousand ways, and be
repeated DER and DER. 1t is a pre-
liminary and all-important step.
When interest is aroused. an investiga-
tiOn of the conditions that actually
obtain reveals much that is surpris-
ing, and the character of improve
ments that should be made then sug-
gests itself. Then follows a COMPARE
son Of methods of construction and
systems of care and repair, together
with the cost Of the same and, finally,
an examination of the ways and
means" Or the most Just and equitable
manner of apportion!ng the expense.
The work is all new to our country,
and experience elsewhere can only
serve as a partial guide-to a large
extent we must work out the problem
for ourselves. This requires time and
patience and no little experiment. 1t
needs courage and determination, and,
as the work moves on step by step, it
must continue that persistent agitation
of every phase of the subject by which
alone it's Importance can be brought
home to everyone.-L A. w. Bulletin.
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frequently got snubbed for his atten-
tions. He was Il tall and handsome
youth with corn-colored hair that
rolled back from his forehead in a
wave which he had the good sense not
to spoil with a comb and brush.
There was also a square-shouldered
fellow who bristled with energy. He
seemed to be employed in outside
work, and it was only in the early
hours that he had chance to talk
with her. She treated him with sut1i-
cient cordially to cause jealous feel
ings on my side Of the cany on-for it
pleased me to fancy myself in love with
her.
Lastly, there was the old bookkeep-
er, who must have lived somewhere in
the country, for he brought her such
flowers as the florists do not sell and
laid them on her desk before she came
down.. He would be alone in the office
then, and he did not know that was
watching him from across the chasm.
I have seen him spend 20 minutes in
arranging half a dozen wild flowers
and then dodge quietly away at the
sound of a step in the hall. In all my
days at the window I never saw him ad-
dress her till she had first spoken to
him.
There was a day in June when she
did not come to the office. A tribute
of blossoms awaited her, and I could
read anxiety in the old bookkeeper's
back where he stood by his desk on the
far side of the room as the. minutes
passed on beyond the usual time of
her,appcarance. When the gray-haired
young man came in his first glance was
DIRECTED toward the desk, of which the
lid was closed for the first time atfhat
hour in many months. ~ a.
Immediately messenger boy came
in with telegram, and when the head
OF the firm had. read it he looked
toward the closed desk again, so I
knew what must be in the dispatch.
The bookkeeper was Watching over his
shoulder, and by and by he pluclled up
courage to ask timid question of his
employer. The answer made him look
very grave.
Whatever the news NAV have been
he communicated it TO the light-haired
youth and the square-shouldered fell
low, in the latter edge of the luncheon
hour, before the chief had returned.
They took it very hard, and the young
Ell of them stood by the window after
wards, when he should have been at
work, and he looked the picture of
grief.
Yet the girl was on hand at the usual
hour next morning, and was the re-
cipient of cordial greetings, though she
had TO ask the bool1keeper for his. In
the afternoon, when she stood by the
open window for a few minutes, I
thought she looked quite i'll, and worse
than that, she seemed apprehensive.
The blight of melancholy was on her.
I fancied her as one of those unfor-
Inmates who in youth are told that there
will be no maturity; that the seeds Of
death are planted and must grow.
Three days later she was absent
again. Then I saw her on three sue
cessive days, leaving out of account an
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A SONG OF HEROES.

They sing about the admirals; likewise the
commodores
An the men that take their orders up
on deck,
An the lads that feed the big gun while
it rears It's head and roars
A-pinin' for to see another wreck.
You'd think they'd gone clean through the
list and never skipped thing,
With their Jolly tars,' "hooray," and
'yo-heave-ho!"
But there's none as tunes string
While he lifts is voice to sing
OF the Jackies WOts a-stokin down be-
Oh, it's here's to him a-fghtin
Where the shot kicks up spray.
It's glorious and eXctin
When ne rushes to the fray,
But there ought to be some snatches
On the way it strs your soul
When they batten down the matches
While you shovel in the coal.
We don't go much on uniforms. In all
that heat and dirt,
With flames a-reachin' out to eat the air,
It's just a waste of etiquette to wear a
wooden shirt;
You never have your picture taken there
It's no use to deny it.; in your throat there
comes a lump,
AS you think of home and wonder where
you'll go
While your heart begins to thump
Like the wheels that clang and thump
Round the Jackies wot's a-stokin down
below
Oh it's here to him a-ightin'
And takin' steady aim;
If he's hurt there's some delight IN
Thinkin' he can do the same
By the first un' that he catches
But we don't know watts the goal
When they batten down the matches
While We shovel in the coal.
It's a glorious consolation in the toilin' and
the thirst
O.wipe the WetnesS from our broWS ana
think
That we Re handsomely provided for, IN
case we meet the worst, =:
-, With million dollar coffin when we sink.
: Our hearts is in, the fghtin' tops we're
- N-ishin we>was there :. = =
A-G0in' of Our duty by':the:foe,: :: -
But EACH must take hts share -. -.
And they couldn't 'hardly spare '--~
The Jackies wotvs a-stokin'; down below.
So here's: to them that's tghtini;; J..
Here's TO, the pilot, too; =:
We trust 'em to be rg>htin
Any job they're out to do: ~
!: Maybe we're to meet our Matches
Butit'S allpast our control @'.-.-
When they batten. down the matches r.
While we shovel in the coal. =. >. :
1t amt the bloomin' admirals; it amt the
commoGores
That the Spaniards is a wishin' for to-
day,
Nor vet the lads that handle ammunition
out O. doors,
Where YOU stand little chance to set
away.
They've had fighters in their families and
the cubs'll fight again,
But they answered up most cautious-lil1e
and slow
When it comes to askin' men
To be huGdled in the pen
To be Jackes Wot's a-StOkin' down below,
Says they: 'Well do your tiShtin'
But that locker amt our size
Where you wedge the men SO tight in
Fur them DagOeS realize
What uncertainty attaches
To the felerS in hole
When they batten down the matches
While we shovel in the COAL.
Washington Star.
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awhile the two clerks came back,
bringing some large pasteboard boxes,
which contained flowers, for though
that my view did rot command, l
got a glimpse of white blossoms and
green leaves.
I think those men were all sincere,
but not one of them-not even the old
bookkeeper-felt a grief that matched
mine. Nothing just like that has ever
come into my life. Perhaps l should
have found nothing sympathetic or at
tractive in that woman if l had met
her face to face, but when that meet
ing, on this side of the grave, had be-
come impossible: l pictured her in
speech and in heart and soul as all
that her sweet face had promised
Ilonged to share with those who had
known her the privilege of expressing
my sorrow at her early death; indeed,
I resolved to do so, even at the risk of
committing an improperly. There
fore, when saw the pasteboard boxes
dispatched in the custody of the mes
senger boys, I FASTENED to intercept
them on the street. It was easy enough
to read the address upon the boxes;
but there was no name-only street
and number in Brooklyn.
That was sufficient, however, I
FASTENED to a florists, and gave or
ders for such tokens as seemed to be
appropriate.
Even SO late as September l had by
no means forgotten her or the Incl
dents connected with that time of
strange and fanciful sorrow. 1t was
on the fifth day Of that month when
a man Of familiar aspect, yet certain
ly not an acquaintance, walked into
my office. He. came s lowly up to me,
and laid two cards upon my desk. One
was my own, and the other bore the
inscription:
JOHN NJ. DOUGLAS, NJ. D.
The name was not familiar, but the
mani imselfl had certainly seen. All,
to be sure! He was the doctor who had
come to the office across the way, when
the end was drawing near.
''That's my card, and the other one
is yours, isn't it ?" said he
[ nodded. p. H. -..
"1ou sent it with some flowers to
S11 De Vaux street, Brooklyn, on June
%, didn't you?"
"Yes,' l replied, ''they were for her"
And [ glanced across the way.
"Well, you probably have some ra-
tional explanation of it, said he, ''but
hang me if I know why you should
have sent that CARLOAD of funeral en-
blems to her on the occasion of her
wedding. If you wished to intimate
that marriage with me was equivalent
TO death, it was bad joke, sir; and if
you don't, then what in thunder did
won mean? I've carried that puzzle
with me 1900 miles this summer, on
our wedding journey, and now by
Lucifer you've got to tell me the an
swer!"
1 don't want to go any further with
this story. 1t has come to a point
where the recollections aroused are
really too painful.
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Economical Road Building.

In Amador county, CAL, they are
building a stretch of macadam road
by day labor, and figure the cost to
be S2,777 per mile instead of $4,000 as
asked for in the bids received. The
members of the bureau of highways
give their services
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Trxl4b in II Few Words.

Next to good schools, upon good
roads depend the future welfare and
prosperity OF our New England coun-
try towns.--P Times.
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
Raising the Stars and Stripes Over
the Palace in Santiago.

The FIVE minutes Of tense waiting was
ended, and as the grand old cathedral
chimes pealed forth the hour of noon,
Capt. McKittriek slowly hauled the flag
to the, masthead while the band played
1.-THE Stal=Spangled Banner" and the Of
icers uncovered, and the troops present
ed. and Santiago de Cuba became an
American city. As the flag floated over
the palace the batteries in the trenches
doomed the national salute, and band
after band along the line took up the
grand anthem. Then the men in the
trenches yelled as only American soldiers
can. yell: All along that full ten miles
of trenches the men gave vent to pent-
up enthusiasm.
Not so in Santiago. We did not cheer.
We did not feel like it,, for victory has
almost the sadness that might imagine
defeat would have, and when the band
followed with ='Stars and Stripes For
ever" there was feeling of sadness,
for all about us were pinched, wan faces
of the hungry citizens, and the sorfowful
faces of the defeated officers, who COW
ner % to 1T their foe. There % eS'1 could not tube be
too much said in praise of the manner
in which the enemy's officers treated It's
on the very day when our flag replaced
theirs, and no one would knowingly criti-
else the action of continuing the Spanish
officials in power, or keeping the Guard
de Civil. their famous regiment, on duty
in the city. They were ready to do all
in their power, to make our dnv perfect,
and yet I saw many strong, brave
Spaniard brush away 4 tear as their ban
ner gave way to ours. The scene was in
tense in the extreme, vet no one felt like
exultin3. That evening, at sunset, I
heard vespers chanted in the old cathe.
,dral, and heard an old priest pray for
the success of the arms of SPUN, but
the sun set with the American flag float
the Surrender" by j. r.. J. Archibald,
in Scribner's s. -, s. = q !. =
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
Plays for Boys and Girls.

During what l have called later child
hood-from Z TO II III girls=we have tie
height of the doll plays, elaborate house.
keeping arrangements. Two of our chill
dren are now in this stage. They have
secured all of the broken dishes, bits of
tin, and other things that can be used for
housekeeping, and in old boxes, in imag-
mary houses, or whatever is available,
are going through with these elementary
housekeeping arrangements. At about 10
the interest in dolls seems to wane, but
taking it's place there is an interest in
babies. 1t is a common thing to see girls
babies to wheel them around in baby car
riages, to play with them. to swing them.
Every one of our babies has been bor-
rowed by neighbors' children of about
this age. Boys do not borrow our babies;
it is distinctly feminine instinct to play
with babies. Boys want knives, to whit
t!e, all sorts sol Of plays with strings, flying
old, cut" ali elementary baseball game,
swimming and rowing. Boys delight in
the use of tools during this period, and
in building all sorts of things; making
little STREAMS and dams, paddle wheels
and boats, simple machinery of all kinds.
Many games are now played: "duck on
the rock "black man," 'blindman's
JUL. crOklnOle, crOQuet, le1pffOS,
simple feats of all kinds, turning somer-
saults,. rolling over backward, marbles,
mnmbie "nmsa & the the peg" .pEis9ners base,
''tonch wood.'' Girls play some of these
games; hunt the handkerchief, many
games in which the circle is used, one in
dividual running inside or outside, hide
and go seek. These games are almost
exclusively individualistic and competi-
tive, forming strong contract to the
plays of early childhood. The distinc-
ton between girls and boys in the plays
of this period is marked. Boys play
games III which composition is more in
tense, muscular co-0rdihations more ac-
curate, and the constructive work more
definite and logical.
During early adolescence-from IL to II
is pre-eminently the group period; base
ball, hare-and-hounds, hockey, lacrosse,
basketball, all sorts of tournaments. It
seems to be the age for the formation Of
gangs, Boys love to play, Indian, they
times act It. The predatory instinct de-
velops early in this period. Most boys
steal apples or watermelons, or something
of the kint, not because they want them,
but because of an inherent demand. It is
4 special period for the love of outdoor
life; camping out appeals to the boy
strongly; to build fires. He now enjoys
fishing. He is possessed with a great de-
sire to hunt, to fight Indians, and to dis
cover the north pole. Adventure of all
kinds fascinates him.-Dr Luther Gulick
in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly.
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11
FARM AND GARDEN.

GO1denr0d. II.
i know a field, a sunny field, =.52
& Rnt not In sunny France; Il I'D:
And there IL neither xlint of shield g
. Nor Kleam Of penn0ned lance;
Nor does the wind toss knightiy plunes,
@ Nor stlken tents unfold, * 80 s. s.
And eyt In Autumn 1t becomes Il q
The Field OF the Cloth OF Gold.
For when the haze OF Summer days
HAs melted from the skies, :s. Is +.
And we. without reprO0f, may gaze
lIp Into heayen's eyes, - -. e ~
"A host their plnii1es and banners shake
In j0ust with bfeeHes bold, r.. /. g.
And R1llehfUd' = bright chaMtots make
The Field Of the Cloth Of Gold.
The butterflies with blasehed WINS
Are lietAlas ftF tbs hght; D..
Aid mAily Il lovely iady dlhEs ~
Her tUkeh tb hPf knight: ~ -
Aud 30; amid thslt gdrgeOns. suite;
With poMp and Wealtli liitbld;
Summer aid Autumn rbyally ineet
On the Field Of the Cloth OF Gold.
Martha Hartford In St. Nicholas.
The Virginia enterprise., 1898-11-11

Csoodby. Elo. Z he hlnrted out, shooting
his hand ~ me as II II were d gun. Il
really felt as y ! We're taking hold Of a
5bay0net point. ,SS5 .'s
8 Must YOU go?'' said, sweetly.
seems I must 'and his tone was
bitter, which seemed rather cool, consid-
ering how he'd treated me-
I'm 90 glad you're home" said, pleas
antly. will send you an invitation.
want to have all my loving relatives about
me. Uncle Edward would adore sou IL
you'd 50 one better, and relieve him by
giving me away. = sss .s5s%
Then know Cousin George said some.
thing wicked. I won't repeat IT.. Then
he strobe out and slammed the door. And
! stood still and laughed to myself, for
I'd scored one that time at any rate. And
he deserved It, for man shouldn't be 30
changeable. III. !, ..Ss ri. Il. : 4.= .
E -
I don't believe It was anger after all.
/ helieye It WIS pure enjoyment: H.. ,.s= #
That's So Ike d WoiiaH; to mistake the
core oE 4 think and fealise it when she's
wastea hefself. :s..%s<< y ~.
i
Poor old Ge6tgc! I've been thinking it
over. I don't think I'll send him the in
vitation, after all.-Sketch. .:7 Il