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kt V- 18 kit iD nmiffionMiiEB 99'mt, iHit wttl Jty be iWppotntAd. How a Good Strong Man Can Build in a He Is Rich Enough. A Fm Mfani- Detail! to Be Attended Steam Boiler Oomei In Haasaohnietta Ii Doing Towards Oood Boads- Oitiaaead Towns Wliioli Are ThemselTea of the Berrloes. ittAtt Itt Boston who wldily ftnown amonff blcydlsta And his imtns Is Andrew O. McOArrett.

Mr. McOerrstt Is ifO ardent a photographer as he Is a dllat. Ha oiMsa remarlied to the wrltsr: that la aeeessary to naice good photographs Is a strong light and common spread It over your Telford, with plenty of sand under It, to fill the points In your underpinning. The broken stone is called macadam, and you should spread It evenly all over your street, and then roU ft. To do thia you would best buy one of the ordinary steam street rollers, Last year the Legislature for the building of Btate hWdiwiiyo on the plan rebemmonded In the part of this article.

These were to be built under the direction of the Sion and aocording to tdano and ttona furnished by it. The could only decide where roada wera built In nMgmnae to petitions, which inlgnt be presented by the oftleers of any Selectmen of a town, for inebinee. Tho road bolMMng hy the State was intended only as an oducatlonal matter at llrst, with the Idea that when the towns saw how good roads could be made, they would go ahead and build roada thetr own hooka." The appropriation and announoemontof Ti mm HisTi An Interview With the Diplomat at His Swampscott House. the commission of how good roads were te had were made in the latter of June, and the dommlselon announced that any town wishing to have road work done during that seasou muet have their petitions died by Aug. 1, with and pro- dle of the road ap it looked befofe Improvement.

DUTIES OF COlutlllSSIOK. It should be stated that the commtselon never went Into the actual labor of making roada itself beyond having an engineer of the board on hand all the time to see that the speddeationt are carried out. to direct the towna and show them how best the work may be done. By Aug. 1, there were elghty-dve petltlona for State highways died with the commission.

They came from oltlee, towne and counties all ever the State. The plans sent In were rather crudo, as no regular form had been adopted, and, as a consequence, the oemmlsslon was obliged, in many places, to make a rcau- lar mirvcy of the roads calculated to be built with Its own miglneers. Then the oommiselon fumiehed the towns with plans, Bpeofdmttlons, and then made contracts, as provided by the law, with the themselves to do the werk, without taking or giving any The reason for tbls was to give the towns experience in road building. This was the educational part of the plan. In case the town did not contraot with the commission In this way, the commission was authorised to let the work out to contractors In the usual way, with bonda Up to now, however, the towns havs made their contracts in every case.

Last ysar the commission contracted with thirty- seven different munclpaMtles for a seotien of road. In each ease being somewhere near a mile In length. The work on the Hil Home, His WifSi His Personal Appearanoe He Thinks About the Ouban Question and the Ohimoes for America Will Take a Hand in It. IS Jobs 0. tilt fotkl (Htnadifts Telli of tke Woodi.

IS Mi HI MSTM. YOU PUT POINTED END UP. sense." After pondering on this epigram, writer went back and asked If a camera might not be of some use In the prooese. "For," quoth he, never had a but P.ve been loafing around for years In a strong light and 1 have heaps of common sense, but the combinatimi made me aqy pictures." "Ah'," responded Mr. McOarrett, "If you had the common sense demanded by my premtoes you would not have asked the question." So the same thing applies to getting enjoyment.

Thmo are three things needed- fair weather, good roads, and common sMise. Anybody lacking the last may atdi a bicycle would not contribute, and they win receive the above reply by re- tprn The then, tntb common Miid 4 the weather may be left to Old Pcob, and only thing left tp wish fop Now. we Are proud, and justly so. of our "sandpapered" Massachusetts roads, the term is in reality nothing more tbaii a glittering generality. For, the piafes In this State where rqhds that have t.wo-foot ruts cut their entire length are far greater in number than the places where the sandpapering has already been done.

So the pleasure seeker must go out and make himself a road. The would best be begun early, for. It will be an job, even if only a stretch be attempt- might get the neighbors to join In, as In snow shovelling time. Each man makes mad as tar as his ptop- 0tiy extends, and thus a continuous stretch results. Everybody what we have to start with, or what we may have to start slough ot the consistency of mOr- tar, rich in and rutted beyond place where horses resign life, where sink to their hubs, where pedestrians roll up their trousers or lift thelf sklrti, according to which they be- in short, a bad road.

This is not a "fancy picture," evolved from a Post inner conmioueness. a thing that looks like the choo- ohoo engine you played with at the tender age of 3. and which costs a number of roller, not the ohoo-choo!) But the road must cost something, you know; if it everybody would have one. While rolling the macadam, you would best send the teams away for loads of finer cracked stone, slse of walnuts, which you will need for the next layer. Spread this like the first one, and put the choo- choo acroM it again.

You will have done very swift work Indeed If you have got along far enough by dinner time to eat while the rolling of this second layer Is going on Ind the roads was begun at the earlieet possible moment, but in many cases the season closed so early that nothing was done iintll this spring. A few sections were comfileted 14st fall, though they were not accepted by the commission, The was entirely, and the State hae some forty mUes qf the ttneet roads In the wotM to Show for it. Of couree, the office expenses oome out of the This year the Legislature set aside $400,000, and' is enabled to get the work under way much earlier than last year. Opt of thla appropriation the Legislature sets aside ISO.OOO for the ex saiarlea of the commission. The'rest of the appropriation Is already praotlcallv spent, it beliig now decided where cent of it shall go.

The com- mlsalon work In about twen- new places, the plan being to make roads wherever possible. In fact, the whrk this year' will in every Instance be simply an extension of last work. For Instance, there is now nnder construction a State road which will eventually eonnect Boston with Rhode Island; It leads through Dedham, Morwood, Walpole, Norfolk, Wrentham, North Attleboro Attleboro. Another road will run from Boston down Cape Cod, by way of Hlngham. Scltuate, Marshfield, Dux- was a handsome, dark-eyed young man who opened the screen door for me at the Spanish but be asked ms to wait for a moment before he did so.

That was the "red tape" of It, for he went and informed Signor de Lome that reporter and a woman wished to see him. was ushered into a square hall, with the stairs rising in the graceful, easy war We associate with luxury at one Bide. A tall, "grandfather's on the landing and there was a palm somewhere. The stairs were hard Wood and bare, and the minister was not as still as the old poem warns us to be the night before Christmas, when he descended them. Thla be did not do for oome time, however, he was buoy at soipe important affairs with his secretaries.

In the meantime 1 was ehown through the general sitting room into the reception room, which, through folding doors, opened out of It. It was a pleasant room, almost too neat to be pretty, and with an air of business and eager attention about It. The folding doors alio closed on me, and here I sat in solemn loneliness while my errand was presented up stairs to de I was Just beginning to think that life was a vast and dreary waste, and I had risked the horrors of slow (In coming) electrics and the cheerful soot of the narrow gauge road for nothing, when the folding doors creaked, squeaked and were shoved back and a beautiful woman entered. She waa so very pretty In fact that quite Involuntarily I thought that the same Idea could be worked up for a stage entrance. The audience would be quite on the qui vive to know what was cominug by the time the doers finally opened.

I have already been incredulous of the wild stories of the wonderful Spanish beauties and thought it was a good hit in the imagination, and still more to make the story interesting. But now have changed my mind. Signora de Lome IB typically Spanish and untyplcally pretty. She would be just as pretty If she Were not Spanish. No, I take that back.

It Is the addition of Southern brilliancy and stately languor, the touch of foreignness that gives the last note to her beauty. And yet perhaps even that had not ulte the fascination of her speech, her alow, soft voice, her lingering vowels and tenderly-treated consonants. We all of us admire our own rich, fine language: I loved It when the Signora de Lome spoge it. It was as If it had been dressed in velvet. But have you been waiting impatiently for the Spanish minister? I was In no hurry, I assure you, for his wife and had a cosy lltUe chat.

Two young men came In, too-aWs 1 thlnlT'they of course, aids to the conversation. They all spoke English so perfectly that I had no ofiportunlty to expose the smallness of my knowledgs of Spanish or the limitations of my French. So when they asked me if I were not French or Spanish I could not lay the question as a compliment at the door of my accent in those WItfc Feet mmo SewteSee Strtklwg SJ msb SlieMlwg Wild ftaplSe-Starvlwg Wltk the IwdiMM Maskflwt Marly His ISeas mm Art. to languages. We went Into the sitting room while we waited, and the ebe had left ait her writing table and 1 had a chance, to study lier WhUe jte talked.

She is toll, with large, rounded figure of her nation. Her hair and eyes are Her hair la very abundant and la worn brushed softly back without the part the reet of us wear. Its heavy waves are as glossy as saun. When I say her eyes are Spanish ones you know I describe them any better Jtnit a. rtqxroductlon of a faithful photograph of a fact, made by that efficient self-appointed and -worker for good roads, Mr.

Sterling Elliott. ti is easUy seen that Is not a good road, and man who would build a road of this Kind has hot received a very good education In rdad-bulldlng. He should read the Poet. aimple-rthie making a road, though a little, manual labor Is required. You must first procure.

a lot of broken, pointed chunks of rock of the kind called "Telford." Theas must be gotten in sufficient to cover the rOad entirely. When enough TelfOrd has been heaped up on the sidewalk in front of your house, you must go to work and shovel away the old road entirely. Dig It out and throw It away, for you will find It quite usriesa. Excavate to a MACADAM ON TELFORD. teams are away for the sand or gravel which you will use for surface dressing.

If, however, you should get two layers down before dinner, the worst of your 'work Is done. When the teams come back after dinner, spread out the gravel or sand evenly as before, dismiss the cart, drivers with a small fee, and start the choo choc. You yourself should take the garden hose and keep your good road wet while It Is being rolled. Roll it long, backward and forward; and at aunact, if your neighbors have been as diligent as you have, may gird on your common aenae. mount your bicycle and apeed to the farthest limits of the new good road.

If the neighbors have not completed their sections, you can tise trick riding on your own beautiful stretch. WHAT THE STATE IS ABOUT. The great and good Legislature of this bury, Plymouth, Yarmouth. Denifio, Brewster and Truro. The popularity of Btate roads may be seen when It is stated that 205 rities and towns out of the SM In the State have sent In peUtions for sections.

begin to quote Lord Byron, and perhaps you cars for Lord Byron. She was dressed (I could when I eaw how stylishly) in 4 of tan cloth and her waist blue silk. Its color set oft admirably the colorless skin, and sleeves unotlffened and one eaw the shape of her rounded aim elgnora has been but a few weeks at Swampscotit. where they went the summer, for they from Washington at about Bndeavorers were A CHAT WITH THE MINISTER 8 WIFE. She said she liked Boston and liked Its people: but then she hw been for She sold It seemed qulto "Your American cities, she said, are in such a hurry, but when 1 Boston I felt at once at home.

Oh. yes, you have fogs and the wind, but also WIFE. Up Weerly morsine llglit. Swoeplnt. dnsUne, "Mttiof OlliWK aU the strlogs.

Bewlsf bttttoos, tTUiB strisgs. Telline Bridest wbst to to. Mondine rips in fboo. Ronnine cp down tbo stslr, Trine toby, in bis ehsir, Cattine meat and spreadine bread. Blritlnc out mocb per bead.

Eatlne as sbe can, bjr cbanto, oirine bnibasd klndlp Ute- Smart woman. wife. Dan oomto borne at fall of nlebt, Horae so cbeerfal, neat and brtgbt. Children meet him at the door, Pull him In and look blip Wlto asks bow woii has enw? Busy times With us at home! Supper done, Dan reads at Happr Das. hnt one to plesso.

ChUnMo must bo put to bed. All tbeir little prsyers are isid. liltUe shoes are risced la rows, Bedclotbos tuokod e'w little toss. ust nolsjr. wesrine ed womsn, wife.

elsewhere one flnde the same. Perhaps the streets are narrow, not so fine as those of Washington, but I like them almost as much as the people, and that is very much. We knew some before we came, and peimie have been very kind. like also Washington. It la cheerful and gay.

and the world goes very fast in season. But now it la too warm to dance and everyone Is The signora laughed when she It, but I fancied she was really annoyed when she told me that they had come to Swampscott to be quiet and rest, but no, the newspapers, the reporters had found them out just as In Washington. At this point her two children came In beautiful little fellows, who as alike as two peas. They were dressed In blue and white sailor suits, and their big hats were stuck on the back of their dark, closely-cut little heads. If all Spanish children are as pretty as these two little boys artists must be In Paradise over them.

The house Is by no means a magnificent one (as It was rented ready furnished for the summer), and the rooms all connect conveniently, so It was not long before we heard the voices up stairs grow louder from the opening of a door. There was some animated Instruction In sonorous Spanish in the upper hall and then I'the eehlor began to descend the stairs. From my seat I had a good view Of him as he came, down, and this Is how he looked. A Ml, big man, slightly bald, slightly embtoipolnt, dark-haired, dark- bearded, serious, dignified, a trifle annoyed, of a probable 40 He was dressed in dark trousers and a loose neglige coat and veit of thin material, but hlB linen Was as immaculate as an She esoorted me back Into the reception room and then we had quite a conversation. He Is a rapid, enthusiastic talker, and uses beautiful EngHsh.

there, however, just a suspicion of a lisp, slurring of the and Oh, yss, had it. It was the effect of using pure Castilian Spanish, with its lisped c's and Signor de Lome has a rich and flexible voice and he gesticulates with shapely Southern hands as he talks. What did he say? Ah. must I tell you all that? I asked questions, of course, and answered, In a few muoments branched oft and then I sat back and Ustened. "What do you think," I asked chances of success In a rebellion do you think she will win?" The Spanish face darkened.

la Impossible. No one who understands the country, the people, the climate and the circumstances can doubt for a moment that she will falL It is hopeless; nothilfg but defeat is in store for those senseless Insurgents. Perhaps now they may do a little, may have faint hope that they may gain a foothold, but it cannot last. No hope can last when one has not enough to eat. Then the rainy season comes on and what can they do? Only wait for It to be over, for military operations are practically Impossible then.

They have no generals. Spain, If it become neoessary, will send over some of her best ones. They have no koeses. arms, foiwge, leadera- nothihg. They cannot help but "Now about the United States; is tiicely she will, minister he said.

would not considered as either policy or international cour tesy. Some fear- the States might go over, of course, but It would not be likely to be anything more than that." He spoke of the pecularltles of the Cuban nature, and of the dlfterence between that and the Spanish. The latter Is more reserved and cold, the former ex citable and irascible. Of its worst traits its treachery, lU Irresponsibility, he said not a word. But he particularly decried their lack of leaders.

"Things haphasard do not often succeed," he said. When I rose he bowed me wit with true Spanish courtesy, assuring me In amiable fibbing that I not disturbed him calling when he wise busy with his sec taries. As the screen door clicked after mo and I glanced down to the corner to see that I had missed a car, I caught behind me some words In Spanish to the eftect that Cuba had better keep quiet and not talk so much. But I thought to myself: "Oh, I know, it would make an interesting 'That is John C. Miles, the noted Canadian artist.

I wonder what brings him he he Boston," said the Man-Who-Knows- ffom'Mr. NMS, kir MHEHSiitm who resided In St. John. After a while I came to Boeton and entered the Lowell Institute. studying under HolHagkWorth, Burdick, Norton and Mlimore.

Four years of this and I broke away from schools and went to nature herself. That la how I succeeded. I have Uved a happy eut- of-door life, and am a very young man today in spite of the atrenlts of gray la my beard." 'But you mutt have become member of academtto and all I ventured. TRUNK FULL OF MEDALS. "Well, I can use four or five letters after my name.

If you mean that," he replied, with a light laugh, "and I have a trunk lead of big medals somewhere amoiur my I eoooped nine et them in one exhibition. I have exhibited in the London International BxhlblUon and at the International In Antwerp, besides In all the Mg American exhlMtlons. In that way my pictures have become scattered all over the country. They are owned In San Francisco, Savannah, Washington and New Orleans, aa well as in New York and Boston and Canadian VIEW ON THE NIPISIQUIT RlVER. N.

B. 'of Everybody, as we strolled into the theatre just as the curtain went up. He pointed to a box where sat a pleasant-faced man, with flowing tie knotted loosely about an odd golden hoop. By the way In which he adjusted his eyeglasses and gased steadily at the stage he seemed to be Indorsing the artistic properties of the very pretty scene before him. It rose correspondingly In my eyes.

If such a noted artist approved It, it must be good. But from time to time I had to look at this quiet figure In the box, not far from my seat. I saw a middle-aged man of slim build and of medium height, whose brown beard was cut In English fashion. Oray has begun to show Just a bit in both beard and half, but he looks still a young man. In spite of his 66 years.

STUWlED FROM NATURE. The Man-Who-Knew-Everybody Introduced me to Mr. Miles as he was leaving the box, and we drifted Into a neighboring hotel for a little supper. I had wondered If Mr. paintings of wild scenes were from life studies, and I hastened to ask him the question point blank.

Have you ever been In the woods?" 1 asked him. He smiled quietly and said he had. I never studied of a master more than three or four years In all my life. That was long ago. Since then I have been going to nature, and have let her teach me.

We have no great galleries In Canada, and we have to work out ourselves. "Yes, I can handle a rifle ahd a paddle as well as a brush. I have camped with cities. Some of them hang In private collections across the water. Perhaps tha tWo pictures of which I am most proud are the llfe-slse portfalt of Bishop Ingals, in the Trinity Church collection, and a study of a fishing station on the Bay of Fundy.

1 like to paint striking figure subjects If 1 can find them, but, of dourse, I turn my brush to all kinds of things, genre, landscato, marine ahd still life. I do a good deal of portrait work, my last thing being a large picture of W. P. Doyle, the Canadian poet. Bishop Sweeney, Joseph Lawrqnce, the historian; Isaac Burpee, member of Parliament; all have sat In my studio." Theh the talk drifted on wild life again, and Mr.

Miles spoke earnestly of a possible trip Ihto the Interior of Africa, where no brush haq ever worked. It may be that In years to come the adventurous Canadian artist may become still more famous as a painter of African scenes. An Ex-Artiliery Offiosr of the Amy trunooMalnl, the wentor Will Oom- mit Bnioide, He It THE BICYCLE AMBUUNCE. The Lfcteat Idea Adopted by the Hoe- pitaUfof Berlin. Bicycles long since being Instruments of Every day brings forth some useful application of the steel oteed.

'The military authorities of Prance and the United SUtes have admitted Its value foi certain purposes. Tricycles have already made their appearance on the atreets of New York rapid and easily-propelled deyver? locipede ambulance is attached to every one of the stations, and experience proves it to be far superior to the ordinary horse ambulance heretofore need. Its construction is as follows: A Utter without shafts, supported by three wheels with rubber tires, one In front and two behind, the whole being propelled and driven by bycyclista foie and aft. Tlie occupant of the first directs the vehicle and rings the bell to warn other wheelmen and vehicles. The man aft foUows 3utt The machine moves very ind up to date not a single accident has 'teen recorded.

The Utter has a detach- ible cover of white duck, with windows it the sides. It is weU ventUated and at Den retto oa end tells ssleep, 8ce tlM wosmn sofUjr Baby resti et lest, poer denr, Not a word ber haart to cbaar. Mendlag barimi fnU to gtockinga. sblrta aad littm i Ttred and traary tous, Mde wftb dartiac. toly paln "Xarar mlnd; jmu i frook.

away. Bririitnasa Baddenad woman, wife. AND depth of three feet or so below the point where you intend to have the surface ot our new road. This gives you a sort of subway trsnch, very shallow and wide In comparison with its length, and tn this you must place your Telford, with sdl the pointed ends up. Put your rocks close together, as it you were laying pavement.

By the time you have completed this part of wo the work, you will prMiably he ready for breakfast, even though It be suil earljr. While fm are at hreakfket, the Telford may settle a IRtle, and save you aome aggravating break-dowm when jrour read ts finished. After breakfast you wiU probably find the teams yqu will have ordered the night before waiting outside with a lot mere atone. Title stone Is brMten up to aibout tM klae of eggi. and you our Oommonwealth of aome years ago-ln MS, in faob-was brought to see that good roads were desirable, and that all our roade were not at that time good.

Aecordltigly, a law waa passed creating a temporary "highway which was to report In on what oouki be done toward road betterment in Maseachueetts. Oovernor Rus- aell appointed Mr. PeHclna, a lawyer: Mr. MoCUntook, engineer, and Shaler, a on this tMuporary oommlasiom whioii reported in Frtiruary, to such good effect that it was Immediately made permanent, Mr. Perkins being appointed for three years, Professor Shaler for two years and Mr.

Mc- Cltntock for one year. Thus one member of the commission goes out of office every year. So far, the incumbents have bean reappointed; Mr. Perkins is the next one Upstaln, tOMing to and flro, Fever bolto tbe wosmb low; CtalltoeB wander, free to play where they win. today.

When Bridget mltecn, amioos, eroaa and old; screws are king one daer, patient face, -hands, so that knaw hands, so weak wwmrn uwh' iw joat What to dst Ktver kBowidg rato tor Daria Taanatt Woods. THE BICYCLE AMBULANCE CORPS OF BERLIN-ONE OP THE LATEST USES TO WHICH THE WHEEL HAS BEEN PUT. AT THE OKLAHOMA SOIREE DAN- 8ANTE. "Ladies gentlemen," said the orator, mounting the barrel, one two tenderfeert frum figs'. the comsnlttse that we all ehow to the WllUq boy act we feel Uke it by not our hats." fergit the guns.

whispered a man in a red shirt, who stood nsar. gentlemen." the orator concluded, any on us gits gay wants to plug the dudes blmeby, 1 motion we all check our guns In the cloak the floor manager hla side course." carts. Another year or two may find the bulk of the delivery of dry goods, groceries, provisions and ail light merchandise done In the cities by means of tricycles. There are twenty patterns of Uiese vehicles on the market now. The very latest development of the cycle, idea is an ambulance for luw in cities, which is the invention of Dr.

Hoenis of Berlin. The doctor styles hla machine a velocipede, oa account of its eoftneea and moae of locomotion. It has been adopted by the great hospitals and also by the sanitary commissioners of the German capital. The latter superintend In every part of the city where vlctlnts of accidents receive preliminary trgat- meht At the kaiids of phyMeliaks. A vo- kills me If my mabhlna no works alia rights!" This was the rashly suicidal threat recently made by Michele Patrono, an ex-artlllery officer of the Italian army, who came to.

this country about twelve months ago and has since been striving to perfect a mysterious machine, of his own Invention, which Is designed simultaneously to solve the abstruse mechanical problem of peiretual motion and to provide a- motive by means of which shlpi may be propelled ffom shore to shore of the broad Atlantic Inside ot two days. Captain Batrono Is as vivacious as He Is of medium height, middle age. pre- 'possesiing appearance and soldierly bearing, and wears a bristling military moustache. -His education Is excellent, and the Rallan government Is said to have derived material benefit from his Inven- JOHN C. MILES, The noted Canadian artist.

night Is lit by electricity. If the person transported wanto to attract the atten tlon of the blcyoMats, he rings an-electric betk The litter can be taken the wheele and carried Into ijhOijlOTge or to the spot where the waits It. Although the opposed to the bicycle In the army, he is very favorably inclined towards the velocipede ambulance, proved an immense suc- oess, Mpeclally as it can be taken to places whirii would not admit the passage of a wagon. Jtt the fall neaneuvres the ambulance velocipede will be tried. The ambulance physician usually rides on the wheel behind, the leader beiim an athletlo young mam capable of bearing the burden of tke transport.

ths Indians oh the Tobique and Nlpislgult rivers, and have been through some pretty tough times with them. I well remember the time when I was camped with four Indian guides at Mud Lake, the headwaters of the Tobique River. water in the river waa so low that we had to shove our canoes. After a while the grub gave out, and we could find no game. The only thing we had left was tea.

We Uved on tea for the last two days. We sent one of the Indian runners across the water-shed on what We thought was a short cut for the settlements, was bitterly cold. Ice was forming rapid ly, and the winds howled down from the mountains. The first day after the Indian went we managed to shoot a couple of ducks, but they did not go far among four ravenous men. After that we lived on muskrats and tea.

The guide came back after several days. He brought tub of butter and a pair of boots, both of which be stole. I know now how he reasoned, but I vividly recollect our feelings when We saw that tub of frosen butter. We were camped In a white birch woods. In a small canvas tent, and Mttle lean-to.

That night, after we had made a square meal of butter and tea, we gtl crawled up by the fire and went to sleep. We used to make our fire of logs eight feet long. It made a big glare over the lee and snow. could not get to sleep. Thinking how much I would enjoy a big juicy steak kept me awake.

"About midnight I long howls In the distance. I. reaching for my rifle and wondering wolves were good to eat. The howls came nearer, beihg moonlight, I could see a great dis tance over the snow. At least, I spied the figure of a man out among the birches stopped and the man came for ward.

He was one of the wardens who weib stationed in the woods to keep oft Indian poacnera Our Indian had told him of our plight, and he had come a-searchlng for us. He had howled for an answer, but had finally located tu by our fire. "He brought a lot of bread and sugar, and we sat there in the freezing moonlight. eating bread and sugar. I bave had lots of midnight lunches since, but none that I enjoyed more.

OF NEW ENGLAND ANCESTRY. "No, I am not so much an Englishman as I am afl American," Mr. Miles continued, as he lighted a cigar In a way that bespoke outdoor life and high winds. "I am of old New England stock. My grandfather used to live right in this city, down in the then fashionable North End.

He was a royalist, of which we are nil very proud. When Washington marched Into Boston, my grandfather and his family away to Halifax in the royal ships. He afterwards settled in St. John, N. B.

I was bom there In 1840. "Oh, yes; 1 went through the geniua' stage. I used to have to do some lively nmnlng to escape the Irate cane of my old great-uncle, whose likeness I used to draw on fences with a bit of charcoal. This 'early is all rot. It Is bard work that makes success.

"1 took my flMlMtssons in painting KRPETIUI MOniM. tions and scientific attainments while he was enlisted in Its military service. SOon after arriving here Ckmtain Patrono lought to obtain the aid of several local Italian-Aihericans In the fonfiaticm of a large stodc company for the, development and promotion of his aiflbitidus scheme. When he explained his wondeitul device to some whose aid he Invoked he was of the unhappy fate bf DarfUs Qreefl'aqWl his pioneer flying machine and of the Keeley motor and other kindred occult contrivances. One well-known wholesale merchant to whom Captain Patrono applied for aid ehceurdgemeat, having Vespectfully declined to aid In i prtoe, afterward sal captain' remtoda me 6i Rrofessor Queer- epeck, one of tho curious creations of Dickens In 'The Mudfog The professor, you know, 'carried a model of a portable railway, neatly mounted In a green case, for the waistcoat and claimed that by 'attaching this instrument to his boots any bank or publlo office clerk could transport himself from his place of residence to his place of business at the easy rate miles an Profeesoy invention was a dead failure.

You may draw your own inference from my simile. Captain Patrono finally succeeded in con- strucflfaig a working model, consisting of a hollow wheel of Iron or steel about five feet in circumference, and provided with some inner mechanism Which hath not seen," save his own. In exhibiting this model to those whCMM aid sought Captain Patrono openly poured a quantity of quicksilver through an Into the wheel. The aperture Was then tightly, closed and the quicksilver became Invlsl ble, but the wheel began to revolve, and continued to revolve till the spectators became wearied of watching It. Captain Patrono declared that the wheel would continue to revolve perpetually uiless stopped by interference with k.

He ex plained that an that was necessary was to drop the quicksilver "Into the slot," as dt were, and the Invisible internal mechanism would "do the The spectators withdrew with expressions of satisfaction. Captain Patrono Is now superlntendtog the construction on a large scale of one of his perpetual motion wheels at No. 27 Market street, Newark. He has guaran teed that it shall lift sixty tons, dead weight. It is in' connection with this test that Captain Patrono made his threat of suicide In case of failure.

While, as one of his fellow countrymen flippantly remarked, "his taklng-off wotUd make mo less maccaronl-eater In this country la more humane to hope that, even it his enigmatical enterprise should meet tldth direst mishap, the gallant captain may find it "better to be eaten to death by a rust thsn to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. that makes 'JK ANOTHER OLO POPULAR EXCURSION TO ORCHARD KAON. Tuesday, Aug. A toe date announced for the next grand excurtoOn to Old Orchard Beach by epeclal train leaving Boston, Union station, at a. returning, leave the beach at i JSO p.

giving over six hours at one of the flneet beaches on the Atlantic coast. Round trip tickets, II50, are now on sale at the Boston Maine railroad city ticket office, 214 Washington street. Boston. Tickets should be secured early, as the number to be and many were disappointed on toe date of the last excursion. owing to toe supply being exhausted in advance.

AN INDORSEMENT. "Is Bunkins as good as asked one business man. guess ha replied the other. "His word Isn't good for ington Star. 1.