Unused Advantages In Missouri

In 1880 or 1881 the board of curators of the Missouri State uni veraity passod a resolution providing that an y counly surveyor and ex-offlcio roads and bridge commissioner who feit not fuily preparad for his posilion migbt take the engineering course in the university free of tuition. That the generosity of the board is not taken advantage of, says a St. Louis correspondent, ia evidence of the iudifference of the people at large toward the iinproTeinent of highways. The ground of this indiilcreuce is siuiply ignorance of the adrantages of improved roads. Wlien the taxpaying citizenscan see the profiLableness of the investinent, Missouri wil], as in other things, move to the front in the development of her internal comnierce. To keep well built roadg in good repair, under intelligent supervisión and single authority, is not costly. A poor road is costly under all