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! CHAPTER XVIII (Continued.)
It was a difficult task to keep Robert
on his feet until the sidewalk was reach
ed. The exertion of descending the 6tairs
rendered him more limp than ever; but
now the little breeze stirring fanned his
hot face and he perceptibly straightened
up, though his mind was in a chaos and
he knew nothing of where he was.
At this moment a young man rapidly
approached from the south.
''Why, Bob! Bob!" he exclaimed. "I
never saw you ia this condition before.
It will never do for you to go home. Come.
Mother and sister have retired. You shall
accompany me."
"I I don't know you. I I'm hie all
right."
"Don't know me! Why, Bob, I am
Lawrence Terry. I am just from a meet
ing of the bank directors. It i3 nearly
twelve o'clock; there are hardly any peo
ple on the street come!"
"He is pretty full," said the man who
was yet sustaining him.
"Pray where did you encounter him,
sir?"
.. "Oh, he was up stairs trying his luck.
I was afraid he would fall and helped him
down."
"Come, Robert!" And Terry clasped
his other arm.
i "G'way from me. I don't know you."
: "Best to humor him, Mr. Terry. I will
help you to a hotel with him. Perhaps
you may then get him home."
One on each side of Robert, the three
men staggered along staggered for the
reason that Robert's reeling pulled and
pushed them from side to side.
Crossing the mouth of an alley between
Monrce and Madison streets, Robert ap
parently made a .tremendous lurch, and
the three men disappeared within the dark
alley.
The cashier, who was o"n the Inside of
the walk, stumbled and fell, and Robert
went down nearly on top of him.
One of the three did not fall, and two
minutes later was back in the gambling
rooms inquiring if he had dropped a silk
handkerchief on the floor.
"Yes," said the dealer, as he handed it
to him. "The porter picked it up. What
did you do with Kellogg?"
"Oh, the man I assisted down stairs?
Is that his name? I left him quarreling
with a man on the street some one nam
ed Terry, who wanted to take him home.
Said he'd been to some directors' meeting.
He seemed to know the young fellow all
right, but Robert, as he called him, didn't
want to go with him. He was crazy
drunk."
; "Well, you left him in safe hands. Law
rence Terry is the cashier of his father's
bank. He will probably take him to his
own home, or put him to bed in a hotel."
"You say his father is a banker?"
: "Yes, the president of the Great West
ern Bank. Oh, the young man is all right.
He takes his nip now and then, but I
cever saw him drunk before. Something
unusual must have started him."
; "I noticed that Terry remarked that it
would never do for him to go home in that
condition."
"Best not, I should judge. Bob is all
right. It is only one of the occurrences
of a lifetime. But there goes a patrol
wagon after some drunk. Hear the bell!
Perhaps they are pulling the gambling
houses. It's twelve o'clock. Everybody
cash in! Take the back stairway, gentle
men." In a minute's time there was a scramble
by that way of exit.
Almost at the moment the gentleman
who had accompanied Robert to the street
,was inquiring for his handkerchief, a po
lice ofBcer, rounding the block, was pass
ing the alley.
. A groan fell on his ears.
He stepped forward and flashed his
dark lantern.
"Good God!" he exclaimed, as he blew
his whistle and ran to the corner patrol
box. "There has been murder done,
sure."
j Four officers were on the scene in a less
number of minutes, and the patrol wagon
with a physician quickly arrived. .
"Here is Inspector Hunt now," said one
of the officers.
"Hey what is this?"
Flat on his back in the stone-pared
alley, lay Lawrence Terry, a dirk blade
buried in his breast, and the hand of a
man lying partly on top of him yet clutch
ing the haft of the blade.
"Heavens!" exclaimed the inspector, as
two Tfcurly policemen removed to one side
the uppermost man, after releasing his
hold of the dirk haft.
"God help us!" exclaimed the physician.
"I recognize this man. "He is Lawrence
Terry, the cashier of the Great Western
Bank. He is yet alive. There may be
hope. Quick! My bag from the wagon!"
: "Here it is, doctor."
! "This dirk must be withdrawn, even if
his life goes with it. How it clings! It
has passed the ribs. Here, take it, in
sector. You will want it. Quick! Now,
then, if I can stanch this blood! Bring
the stretcher. Easy now, easy! We wili
convey him directly home. I will accom
pany the wagon. Is that assassin in
jured?" "No," replied one of the officers. "But
he's dead drunk, or seems to be."
"Look out for him, inspector. No time
to lose in this case," said the doctor as be
leaped into the wagon and gave the signal
to start.
But one body remained in the alley.
"Let me get a look at the assassin's
face." said Inspector Hunt,
f "By the powers! That man is Robert
Kellogg. He is the son of the president
of the Great Western Bank. Of all the
incomprehensible murders I ever heard
of, this leads them!" A banker's son,
drunk and crazy, murders the cashier of
his father's bank. Has that other wag
on arrived?"
"I hear the bell. It is coming now, In
spector." "Well, well! Mr. Kellogg, Robert 1" The
officer was shaking the stupefied form
with considerable energy; but Robert,
now totally unconscious, was beyond
speaking. Only ro&E eminateU lf?m
hjg lips,
i
"Take him to the station and summon
Dr. Wright. Sullivan, you go over and
tell hi3 father to come to my office at
once. Don't tell him hold on! Hold on,
let him sleep until morning. The young
man is dead drunk. Evidently uncon
scious that he has committed murder. I
will drive by the banker's before his
morning papers are delivered. That is
the best plan."
As the officers were lifting the body
into the wagon, a revolver fell from the
young man's hip pocket.
"Well, well!" exclaimed the inspector.
"A revolver and a dirk! Doubly armed.
I have heard that Terry was to marry this
young man's eldest sister. Perhaps he
objected and took this way to prevent the
union. Move on,, men, move on!"
The inspector was soon the only one left
in the vicinity of the alley.
"A horrible crime!" he exclaimed. "How
came they here at this time of night. I
wonder were they up playing the bank?
Young Kellogg might be that way inclin
ed occasionally, but I hardly think Terry
was. I will run up."
"Closed as tight as a drum. Lights out
and no noise. Abe generally closes at
twelve sharp. They were hardly here.
"This blow will about kill the old man,"
mused the officer as he made his way to
headouarters. "Terrv is dond this
time. Being drunk will not save the boy's
. neck. It's a plum case. I have the re
volver and dirk. The ireat Western is
decidedly in hard lines."
Here the inspector entered his office and
closed the door.
CHAPTER XIX.
At seven o'clock on the morning of the
21st, Inspector Hunt rang the doorbell at
the Kellogg residence.
Julia, the house maid, answered the
summons.
"Show me into the library, Julia," said
the official, "and inform Mr. Kellogg that
Inspector Hunt must see him at once."
"He already in de lib'ry," said Julia as
she led the way.
"Oh, you, inspector? You are here
early. You bring news!"
"Very sad news," the inspector said, as
he closed the door and dropped into a
chair. "Very sad news, and I deeply
regret that I am the bearer of it."
"Speak it out, inspector!" exclaimed
Mr. Kellogg, who saw that the officer
hesitated. "Has the bank burned down?"
"Worse than that," was the reply; "far
worse. At five minutes to twelve last
night, Lawrence Terry, the cashier of
your bank, was found in an alley between
Monroe and Madison streets with a dirk
blade buried in his bosom."
"Heavens! This is, indeed, terrible
news that you bring me! He was dead?"
"No, he lay in the alley unconscious
when found, and was taken home as
quickly as possible, accompanied by Dr.
Keyes of our medical staff. I supposed he
would die before reaching home, but he
survived the trip. I am just from his bed
side." "Then he yet lives?'
"He does, and his physicians hope to
pull him through. A daguerreotype in his
breast pocket diverted the course of the
blade. His ribs swerved it more. But it
was a close call. He nearly bled to death.
He is now conscious, but prohibited from
speaking."
"Poor boy, I must go to him at once!
My daughter's portrait saved his life.
He was doubtless on his way home from
a meeting of cur board of directors. It
was nearly twelve when Ave adjourned,
Was the wretch captured who attempted
his life?"
"He is a prisoner in the station."
"Oh, I am glad to hear that. I was not
aware that the young man had an enemy.
Oh, it was probably another robbery case.
Where did you capture the fiend?"
"He was found lying partly on the body
of his victim. His hand yet clutched the
hilt of the bloody blade, that was buried
in Terry's bosom."
"Horrible! Too horrible! Let me sum
mon my carriage and notify Robert and
Earl." And the banker arose to his feet.
"Not yet," 6aid the officer, who was
now perspiring freely and dreaded to
speak further. "Wait. Your son is not
in the house."
"Ah, is he already at Terry's side? I
knew not that he had left the house."
"He was not at home last night."
"Oh, that accounts for it. He had not
returned when the crime was committed,
and hearing of it, repaired there at once.
I am very glad, but "
"I have a hard task before me," thought
the inspectorfbut I cannot delay."
"Remember' he said, "Terry will re
cover; there has been no murder done."
"Tbat should not mitigate the punish
ment of the assassin," observed the bank
er. "The intent to do murder was there."
"Oh, Lord!" thought the officer. "I
wish I had deputed some one of my men
to do this business."
"I you know I informed you that the
man who attempted the life of the cashier
was found drunk, partly lying on his vic
tim's body, with the dirk hilt clasped in
his hand."
"Yes; the wretch!"
"He was unconscious as well as Terry.
Dead drunk. Had been crazy drunk, prob
ably. He yet lies, or did an hour ago, in
a drunken stupor at the station. He may
be unconscious that he has committed a
crime. In fact. I am certain he is."
"He should swing for it. Even if Terry
lives, he should get twenty years."
"This young man "
"Young man! Assassin, you mean.
Well?"
"Mr. Kellogg, I would rather be kicked
out of your house than go further. But
but the young man whose hand clasped
the dirk hilt and who lay unconscious on
the form of your cashier was "
"Who? Did you recognize him? Speak,
man, speak! I cannot understand your
delay. Name the assassin of Lawrence
Terry."
"God help you, I will! Robert Kellogg
your son!"
With a groan of anguish the stricken
father sank again in his chair.
"No, no, it is impossible! Unsay those
words, Hunt, if you are a man!"
"Would to God I could, sir; but they
are too true."
"True!" cried the old man, springing to
his feet. "They are false! My boy an
assassin a murderer! Never! There is
some terrible mystery herel"
"But, my dear sir, we "
"Oh, I doubt not, Hunt, that it now ap
pears so to you. The circumstances con
vinced you; but there are no assassins in
my family. I never knew the boy to get
drunk before. Rejoicing over the improv
ed, condition of hj sister, wfco hfts been
at death's door, led to it. Ho, Thomas!
Thomas, I say!
"Yes, 6ir, I am here."
"My carriage at once. Ah, Elinor, dear,
I hoped to leave the house without at
tracting your attention. Another blow
a terrible blow, has befallen my family."
"Dear, dear Stephen!"
The widow's face was very pale as she
cast one arm about the banker's form.
"Lawrence Terry was assaulted on the
street last night. A dirk blade was buried
in his bosom. He lies at home apparent
ly near death."
"Not not dead, Stephen! Not dead?"
"No, dear, not dead. His physicians
hope to save his life. My daughter's da
guerreotype diverted the blade aimed at
his heart. Thank God, the dear girls are
not at home."
"Not dead?"
"Bless you, no, dear. But Robert, my
boy my boy is in a felon's cell, charged
with the murder."
"Impossible!" exclaimed the widow,
trembling in every limb.
"He was found lying partly on the body
with the dirk hilt yet clutched in his hand.
The blade was yet in the bosom of Ter
ry." "A dirk! My God!" and the madam
dropped limp into a chair.
"The boy was unconscious drunk he
was used by Terry's assailant to shield his
own neck from the halter. Some wine
for Mrs. Kellogg, Julia. Earl! Earl! Ah,
here you are. Write a notice, 'This Bank
Closed for the Day,' and post it on the
door of the Great Western."
"Your carriage is at the gate," observ
ed the officer.
"Yes; well, we will go."
"Where first?" asked Hunt.
"To my boy! Terry has attention."
The banker kissed the white lips of his
intended, and hurriedly left the house, fol
lowed by the officer.
"Of all the egregious blunders that ever
occurred! That wretch "
"Mother!"
"Oh, I thought you were also gone.
Earl."
"What is all this about?" "
"Why, Lawrence Terry was found on
the street last night with a dirk blade
buried In his breast. Robert Kellogg was
found drunk by his side with one hand
clutching the hilt of the dirk. He is lock
ed up in the station charged with having
committed the crime. That is all I know
about it."
"Well, that is the strangest thing I ever
heard of," remarked Earl. "Why, it's
incomprehensible. Some one aside from
Robert sheathed that dirk in Terry's
bosom."
"Oh, you can't tell," said the widow.
"He was drunk."
"Will Terry die, mother?"
"Hew should I know, Earl? If he does
you will become cashier of the bank."
"And Robert?"
"Robert? Oh, well, he may be hung.
But Terry is not dead yet."
"Do you believe Robert to have been his
assailant?"
"Who else could have been? He was
apprehended under the conditions as I
have 6tated. You were surely in the
house and asleep. Come, drink a cup of
coffee and hurry" away. Return and. in
form me of what you learn."
(To be continued,")
A Yanng Inventor.
The power loom was the Invention of
a farmer's boy, who had never seen or
heard of such a thing. He fashioned
one with his pen-knife, and when he
got it all done he showed it with great
enthusiasm to his father, who at once
kicked it all to pieces, saying he would
have no boy about him who would
spend his time on such foolish things.
The boy was sent to a blacksmith to
learn a trade, and his master took a
lively interest in him. He made a loom
of what was left of the one his father
had broken up and showed it to his
master. The blacksmith saw he had
no common boy 'as an apprentice and
that the invention was a valuable one.
He had a loom constructed under the
supervision of the boy. It worked to
their perfect satisfaction, and the
blacksmith furnished the means to
manufacture the loom, and the boy re
ceived half the profits.
In about a year the blacksmith wrote
to the boy's father that he should visit
him and bring with him a wealthy gen
tleman who was the Inventor of the
celebrated power loom,
You may be able to judge of the
astonishment at the old home when his
son was presented to him as the in
ventor, who tpld him that the loom was
the same as the model that he had
kicked to pieces the previous year.
One Day's Fighting im Thirty.
With an army in the field hardly one
day in thirty is given to fighting. The
other twenty-nine days of waiting must
be lived through in order that every
thing may be In readiness for the one
day of work. It is not the one day of
fighting which turns the hair of an offi
cer gray, but the twenty-nine days of
anxiety for his men, the supply of their
food and clothing and the maintenance
of health and good spirits among them.
Men do not fight well in battle on emp
ty stomachs, and yet the ordinary sol
dier rarely takes care of the provisions
which are Issued to him for forced
marches. He eats them all at once or
throws them away on account of their
weight, and at the end of a long day's
march he is hungry, with nothing to
appease his hunger. Then comes the
trouble. He does not reason. He
grumbles and expects to be supplied
with more.
A Friend in Meed.
A stranger, walking along a country
road, met an Irishman, who was hold
ing a ram by the horns, and the follow
ing conversation took place:
"Will you hold thisram," said the
Irishman, "while I climb over and open
the gate from the other side?"
"Certainly," said the obliging stran
ger, as1 he seized the ram by the horns.
"Thanks," said the Irishman, when
he got to the other side, 'the vicious
brute attacked me about an hour ago,
and we have struggled ever since. As
long as you stand before him holding
his horns, he can't hurt you. Fare
well, I hope you will be as lucky In get
ting away as I have been."
I Seventeen miles a day is the average
WOMAN'S
WORLD
LACE IS FASHIONABLE.
lis Yog; ne Suggests a Means of Liveli
hood For Some Women.
Lace is so fashionable this year, so
much more so than it has been, that
everybody ought to know how to look
after it, and the care required is by
no means so easy a task as might be
supposed. To begin with, the look
of age adds greatly to its beauty, but
beyond a certain point lace can look
too yellow, and also can look not only
old, but dirty, and care must be taken
to avoid this. Lace should be put
away in soft blue tissue-paper. It is
thought that blue tissue-paper keeps
it from turning, and the most valuable
lace is always laid away in blue paper.
The lavish use of lace has suggested
a means of livelihood for some gentle
women who had learned the art of
lace-mending, and they are now mak
idg an income by repairing and clean
ing laces. In the first place, valuable
lace cannot be intrusted to any one.
The woman who has to clean it must
have learned how to clean lace, and
also how to make lace, for again and
again a stitch or two will be dropped
or broken, and the pattern must be
made perfect. This can only be done
by the most skilled fingers. The
cleaning of lace is a long process, and
even the lace barbes and the lace
bows now commonly worn have to go
through a long performance before
they are made possible. An old-fashioned
receipt for cleaning laco (a very
good one, too) comes from England.
The directions read that a good lather
of soap should be made, in which the
lace shall be put and left to stand for
a short time; then put the lace into a
second water and allow it to stand,
and so on, until all traces of the soap
are removed and the water is absolute
ly clear once more. The lace is then
taken and pressed between the hands
never rubbed or squeezed. After
this it is put in flannel, and the flan
nel squeezed together hard with the
palms of the band. The lace is then
stretched on another flannel cloth and
put to dry in the sun, great care being
taken that the edges are all pulled out,
so that each little loop shows to the
best advantage. It is easily seen th it
such a process will take a long time,
but all these efforts are well worth
while, for the lace looks like new if it
is thoroughly well done.
Laces should not be left to lie loose
in a drawer among ribbons and the
hundred and one odds and ends, but
every woman, and every child too,
should have a box where all her bits
of lace should be placed. There should
be several layers of blue tissue-paper,
in which the lace should be carefully
rolled. There should be, too, some
delicate sachet-powder put into the
box; if possible, a bit of the scented
flannel that the Parisian dressmakers
use so much. This flannel, as is well
known, retains its perfume longer than
anything else, but it is so very ex
pensive that it is beyond the reach of
most people, so it is well to have
sachet that can be renewed. For this
purpose nothing is better than equal
parts of heliotrope or violet with orris
root. This can be put in a sachet-bag
underneath two or three layers of tissue-paper,
so that no foreign sub
stance shall come near the lace itself.
Lace should never be put away fold
ed, but should be rolled on rolls of
blue tissue-paper. Harper's Bazar.
The College Woman In Her Home.
"Another means by which a wom
an's success and happiness are se
cured at home is in making herself
felt as the mistress of the household,"
writes Kathariue Eoich, of "The College-Bred
Woman in Her Home," in
the Ladies' Home Journal. "She
must bo the one to arrange hours of
work, and not the servants. She
must be the one to regulate the habits
of the children, and not they them
selves. It is for her to set the stand
ard of the home life. Her position
requires firmness, aud every member
of the family should recognize and
yield to her authority in her own do
main. Let her assume with courage
and dignity the authority which be
longs to har, so that everyone shall
feel she is equal to it, while at the
same time she welcomes counsel and
suggestion from others. There are
women who are too ignorant or indif
ferent to guide their homes success
fully, and women too weak to meet
the responsibility, women who are in
terror of their servants, or slaves to
the whims of children or husbands.
It is not so that happy homes are
made. ' Just as a man directs the
work of his subordinates and keeps
the control of all his business in his own
hands, sc the woman who has a home
to guide must be ready to assume and
control the affairs of her household.
Observation and experience go to
show that as the years bring added re
sponsibility, and also added comforts
to the woman at home, she finds her
restlessness growing less and her
satisfaction growing deeper. The
college recedes to its proper place as
the academy of life, and the wife and
mother realizes that heart and
mind are filled to the utmost. Her
great auxiety becomes rather to use
all the opportunities open to her
than to wish for others. She finds
herself absorbed in her work without
the feeling that she has been thwarted
in her most serious ambitions."
. . - - Monograms on Gloves.
The two latest fancies of our fair
English cousins, writes a smart
American woman in London, is the
embroidering of monograms on gloves
and writing in white ink. Gloves
made to order ' with monograms are
t devoid of stitching on" the back, and
ii. . - i
me monogram 10 euioroiaerea in me
center. Those which are purchased
from, Btoo'fc and. then embroidered
have the monogram set between the
thumb seam and first row of stitch
ing, and others have it placed on the
wrist below the stitching. It is almost
too soon to tell whether this new
fancy is to be popular. It is certainly
very striking, and is open to the seri
ous objection that it has a tendency
to make the hand-look larger than
the ordinary glove. A glove of suede in
the new bluet shade, with a white
monogram in the middle of the back,
is really to the conservative taste more
striking than pretty.
The use of a delicate white ink to
correspond with a white crest or
monogram is an exceedingly refined
innovation. It may be used with
very delicate tints, but is, of course,
most telling on paper of some deep
shade. Deep Russian blue or sultan
red show 3 to great advantage under
white ink. The very prettiest, how
ever, are the wedgewood effects in a
variety of shades of blue, the blue
gray being the most effective. The
monograms and crests used with
wedgewood blue papers are of the
tiniest, to carry out the wedgewood
effect in its entirety. Of course noth
ing but pure white wax must be used
with this combination. Brooklyn
Eagle.
The New Silk Petticoat.
The very latest petticoat may bo a
forerunner of the bustle. It iia bil
lowy creation with a deep ruffle,
through the bottom of which a fine
reed is run. At the back the lower
half of the skirt hangs in folds. There
are six folds, and through each one a
reed is run, which makes the skirt
stand out at the bottom with a stiff
ness almost aggressive. At the waist
line, however, the skirt is very flat.
Women of fashion in buying silk pet
ticoats these days order a shorter silk
skirt to match, as well as a corset.
Brocade is the silk most in favor, and
both the skirt and the corset are em
broidered exquisitely with th.3 owner's
monogram. Lace flounces trim tho
skirt, and a tiny frill of the same pat
tern of lace finishes the corset at the
top.
The Handkerchief Press.
The handkerchief gown, for which
some dressmakers prophesied a season
of popularity, has not made mueli of a
stir as yet, for the reason that four
fifths of the dresses are composed of
such ethereal fabrics that anything
with even a hint of solidity about it
looks heavy and ungraceful. Never
theless these pretty bordered squares
are worn by many smartly dressed
women. Farple-mauve, with borders
of sulphur or saffron, subdued by faint
checks of gray and black, is a smart
combination. The tunic is especially
pretty with a handkerchief dress,
whether the points are in front and
back or at the sides. In dark bine,
bordered with pale blue, it is very ef
fective. Languor Not Koinanltc,
One by one old poetic idols are be
ing shattered by the utilitarian and
practical fin-de-siecle woman doctor.
The latest iconoclast is responsible for
the asseveration that what is so poeti
cal in poetry and the old novels about
the whiteness of the skiu means some
thing not so poetical. It is due, she
says, to the languor of the muscular
tissues throughout the body, and the
slowness and languor that was so of
ten characterized as a charming femi
nine attribute is associated with indi
gestion, and is therefore thoroughly
unromantic.
Fashion's Fads and Fancies.
Narrow black velvet ribbon is usel
to trim colored pique gowns.
Braids finished with a short fringe
are among the new dress trimmings.
Gray kid shoes with stockings to
match are worn with light gowns in
place of the white ones bo long popu
lar. v
This season steel and silver bid fair
to take iu a great meas.iro the place
of the gold and colored adornment so
much in vogue of late.
It is said by those who kuow that
gray is the result of the black and
white craze. Everything white it
veiled or trimmed with black lace, and
vice versa.
Chiffon ties have stayed longer and
taken a stronger hold thau many
prophesied. As a finishing touch tc
the costume, these fluffy scraps, with
their elaborate ends, are invaluable.
The taffeta silk coat and skirt, tailot
made, i3 a very stylish costume foi
general usefulness, and when wort
with a white chiffon or lace vest, e
sailor knot of lace, aud laco falling
over tho hands, the effect is charming.
White is the invariable combination,
notwithstanding that gray will com
bine with auy andvery color. Mousse
line de soie, lace, chiffon, npplique?
of silk and satin, lace braid, white
cord aud narrow ribbon nre all used
separately and 'together as the style
requires..
Lace is still so prodigally used ou
countless other materials that it is an
agreeable variety to see it omitted ou
sheer cotton gowns; hence we see
some of the newest India muslin?,
batistes and dimities with only em
broidered yokes and bands and flounces
of the dress fabric and no laces.
The universal adoption of ths rib
bon stock collar has been the meaai
of bringing in many new ribbons.
Velvet ribbon . will begin a reigu in
the fall. In fact, everylhiug that cau
be made of velvet will be. Capes,
tuuics, dresses, coats, cloaks, hats,
shirts everything will be velvet, and
velvet meaus furs as well.
The smart bandanna silk handker
chief arranged in a four-in-hand neck
tie stands at the head of : the list, bul
a rising novelty is the automobile ol
black satin, powdered with crimson
sparks and drawn at the neck in o
four-in-hand knot and at the burst in
a sailor's knot. Then its two long
esds nre f eoured, in to wearer's belt
GOOD KOADS NOTES,
Great Road Projected.
The good roads movement in Con
necticut has developed a gigantic
echeme. It is to construct an avenue
one hundred feet wide the entiro
length of the State, from east to west.
This avenue is to be laid out in fou.
roadways, two for carriages, hors .
and horseless, and two for bicycles.
The avenue is to be built in a lin j
as nearly straight as possible, and it
will be put through with the idea of
avoiding the cities of the State. The
right of way would thus be easier to
obtain. By avoiding the cities it is
not meant that the avenue would not
be constructed within two or, three
miles of a city's limits.
The route of the proposed roadway
is from a point a short distance north
of Greenwich to one in the northeast
ern part of the State. In construct
ing it grades are to eliminated as far
as possible.
This scheme has been approved by
a large number of the members of tho
State Legislature, who are greatly in
terested in the good roads movement.
These legislators have had engineers
estimate the cost of such a road. The
engineers place the cost at $10,000,
000. Their plan calls for four separ
ate bridges over the Connecticut
River, one for each division of the
road. The driveways are to be mac
adam and the wheelways of broken
stone.
The men who have framed this gi
gantic scheme propose to present their
plans to the next Legislature. Their
idea is to fence in the road and make
it a toll road. If the State will not
take up the scheme the men who have
framed the plan propose to ask for a
charter and form a syndicate.
It is said that a similar plan has
been mapped out in Massachusetts for
continuing the road to Boston and
thus connecting New York and Boston
by one grand highway. It has been
proposed to use the old Boston post
road from the New York State line
into New York.
The whole scheme is one of the
results of horseless carriages. The
men who worked out the idea believe
that the horseless carriage will re
quire such a road. The scheme by
some is regarded as chimerical, but
many good roads advocates believe
that some day this great roadway will
become a reality.
Draining Sandy Roads.
In a paper on good roads, read re
cently before the Alabama Industrial
and Scientific Society, .Mr. H. Hard
ing says: "Any soil composed of
clay, mixed with sand or gravel, can
be rolled to a good surface that, with
wide tires, can be maintained. Pare
clay should be given a coating of
sand or sandy material, for though it
might give a good wheel track, the
horse track would be tramped into
mud in wet weather,- unless g.ven
some protective coating. A sand-bed
should be given a top dressing of
clay and then rolled. If, in any case,
the clay cannot be conveniently ap
plied, the road should not be ditched.
It should rather be depressed to re
tain moisture, for moist sand offers a
firmer bed to a wheel than dry sand."
All the suggestions offered are good,
but the last one is calculated to pro
voke some bitter reflections and re
grets in the minds of most of the
country road supervisors in this part
of the country. They have been care
fully ditching and draining the sandy
roads all these years.
Road Improvement In Virginia.
Prince Edward County, Virginia,
has decided that wood roads are no
longer advisable, and will build the
first rock road in this section of the
State this summer a road of seven
miles, connecting Farmville, one of
the largest tobacco markets in the
State, with Hampden Sidney College,
one of the four oldest colleges in
America.
It has been decided that this road
shall be the pioneer in the construc
tion of a system of roads that will em
brace the whole county and that shall
be built in the very near fulure.
There will be some hundred miles of
road, and the topography of the
county is such that no farm will be
more than two miles from a good road
when the system is completed,,
" Don't Use Narrow Tires.
The roads of this country, generally
speaking, are certainly very bad, and
the chief reason is the use of narrow
tires, which cannot be too strongly
condemned. They cut .and grind the
road as well as plow aud upheave it.
Wide tires, on the contrary, are a ben
efit rather thau an injury to the roads,
as they act as rollers and help keep
the road smooth and with a hard sur
face. Some farmers claim that the wide
tires increase the draft required to
move the load, but if wide tires were
used this objection would be over
ruled, as the draft upon horses in
moving a load is regulated to a very
large extent by the number of ruts
and mud caused by the narrow tires.
Antl-Knt A;ittli:i Itetn.
As loapf a narrow tires cut,
The road wl 1 hold full inauy a rut.
Motor-cairiage3 aud mud won't
agree worth a cent.
A good road is to be choseu rather
than great distances.
. During dry weather is the time to
prepare the roads for wet weather.
Fix the road when it should be
fixed. Don't wait until it must be
fixed.
Bear in mind how the roads were
last spring and fix them before an
other spring comes.
Newton W. has lowered the Michi
gan one-mile road wagon record from
2.23J to 2.21 flat. He was hitched to
6 3QQ-poM bljf.ttfed, wagon, -
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. i
i , To Clean Ostrich Feathers.
-The best way io clean ostrich featb-
white soap in four pints of hot water.
Beat the water into a foam and dip in
the feathers-, one at a time. Hub gent
ly with the hands under water. Dip
instantly into clean hot water and
shake in the sun.
Fresh Air In the Boom.
To establish a current of air is tho
indispensable thing in ventilation.
To do this lower the window several
inches from the top and raise it the
same distance from the bottom. A
direct fan-like movement cf air that
will quickly drive out foul odors is the
result. If you wish to avoid the di
rect draught of air from the lower part
of the window, plaoe a board six
inches wide across the opening. The
air will then pass up between the board
and the window. It is well, in case
there are infants or sick persons in
the room and it is necessary to shield
them from direct draught, to partly
close the lower opening of the window
with pillows or cushions. New York
Journal.
To Exterminate Roaches.
If one is so unfortunate as to live in
a locality where these pests are liable
to develop, the greatest watchfulness
and care are necessary. Do not keep
garbage, particles of wet food or wet
cloths about the kitchen, closets or
cellar. It is particularly important
that no garbage should be left in the
kitchen over night, and that the sink
should be left clean and dry. Should
these pests be discovered use roach
powder, which will not drive them
away, but will exterminate them. To
get rid of bed-bugs prepare the fol
lowing wash: Put into a quart bottle
half an ounce of corrosive sublimate,
half ounce of powdered camphor,
half a pint of wood alcohol and half a
pint of turpentine. Apply this with a
brush. The bottle should bo plainly
marked and also labeled "Poison."
Ladies' Home Journal,
Fruits Replace Flowerg.
Very pretty is the new fashion of
fruit dinners, which replace purely
flower dinners during the warm sea
son. It is a mixture which at onoe
delights the heart and opens the appe
tite, for it is to be noted that nothing
gives an appetite like a clean, grace
ful and well laid table.
Fruits, then, replace flowers as deco
rations for the table, and for this pur
pose are used, not fruit bought by the
pound but fruit on its branches.
These branches are entwined in the
hanging lamps, forming a sort of
cradle whence hang fresh currants,
shining cherries, plums with the bloom
on them, golden apricots, etc. On the
table, in little flat dishes shaped like
leaves, are arranged cherries, currants
and other fruit in season. These cut
glass dishes are made in a very prac
tical form,with a second compartment
in which are placed powdered sugar
and a little spoon. There may be four
or six of them, of fairly large size, or
else little ones may be chosen, in
which case there should be one to each
guest.
New and ingenions ideas for laying
the table are being continually intro
duced. Thus beside the plates are
placed small crescent shaped plates
for salad, and sometimes delicate little
silver knives and forks, used only for
this purpose as in the case of fish
knives are added. The Mode Fran
caise.
A Few Simple Remedies.
Things which one should have ready
at hand in case of need are, first and
foremost, essence of cinnamon. When
exposed in a sick room it will kill the
bacilli whioh are floating around. A
decoction of cinnamon is recommend
ed as a drink to be taken freely in lo
calities where malaria or fevers pre
vail, for cinnamon has the power to
destroy all infectious microbes.
Peppermint is an old friend, but
if vn thin nncnnnt to Via nnnhhftd.
Nothing is better for a bee sting jjhan
the application of a drop of pepper
mint. In case one is near the premises or
apartments where there is diphtheria,
the simplest yet effectual xbOdl 'of
fumigating is to drop a little sulphur
on a hot stove or on a few hot coals
carried through the rooms. In this
way the spread of the disease may be
stopped.
A disinfectant to use in different
parts of the house, which will sweeten
the whole place, may be made for ten
cents or less. Take one pound of
common copperas and eight ounces of
crude carbolic acid and dissolve in one
gallon of water. Use frequently.
A little carbolic acid added to the
water in which burns, bruises and outs
are washed greatly lessens the sore
ness. After applying iodine to the skin,
if it smarts too intensely to be borne,
it is well to know that it can be washed
off with ammonia.
Recipes.
Potato and Pepper Salad Boil four
potatoes until .tender; the potatoes
should be peeled; cut a green pepper
in half; remove the seeds and chop it.,
fine; pour over a quarter of a cupful
of vinegar, in which is added one-half
of a tcaspoonful cf sugar and two
tablespoonful of water; then pour
over all two tablespoonsful of oil or
melted butter.
Eico Blocks To one cup of rice
add three cups boiling'water, one tea
spoon salt, and boil till soft and water
evaporated. Spread on ' shallow pan
in layers of one and one-half inches
thick. When cold cut in square
blocks, dip in egg and cracker crumbs
and fry in deep fat. Do this in the
morning and just before serving put
the blocks in oven a few moments,
sprinkle lightly with grated lemou
rind aud pile ou a pretty plate .