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Show C' vi--r w .rJ-- v ,Wf vU.' JWw ,' Vi-- ,vrr ,ar ,M4 ,Vir .A-- M NfcV Mer Glove H H lug with an old man, but I will call Itene, and lei him decide a bat we shall do." d) not do that. Rer.e Uh, no. pU: r know. You r.uM i.iwr. dale ii' 4n mi c 1 n.j n.omj; It almost 1 "m to him alrind), c.iu siy It t pa; it is b r hiii that I hive surd th.llik told that nil tie e I .li . and f-.-e bo-Io- n GOOD POULTRY foil THE WORLD'S lVRinrERS' son Rilddet.ly and w.iii !o Mood H Willi H M. a to old officer tindepitunl i ni the woman ln'.'le I. i n. C)is filled lir liars, he win sure. J I!? tui i 4 c In I M6 1 I t f.i ph C v-' ,v (A ,v rA . ! I n.trji b''JMurd l.rtu rn .rr ." r irt.prt J -- belli A. rfJwV H -a 0T mZBTJ&OC Captain Rodary was taking bit dally walk along the Marne. In fpito f hla seventy jcars he still cart.cd himself erect anti hardly leaned on the cane which he carried tuiro he had Iain down the sword. At the bridge ho was balled ly a flfLerman whom he Lad known for aevcral Aliow me to coreratulato you. Caphas lapsed hi tain. that your n pi examination with honor. 1 thank you, lauh The captain continued his walk, lest In thought. Without knowirg It the tnan had touched a tender spot. The jc-ar- hud Indeed Reno Dublm-sopassed Lis on. i, Inatlon ntieid of all, and thereby galnoj the r.gl.t to enter Ecole Poi) technique in Tarls, and the old Captain was justly proud of him. but thcro were other things which people did rot know. To give the man an education the sacrifices, Captain had made and now he did not Know wherefrom to get the money to pay for him while at the Ecole Polytechnique. The young man was really not his nephew at all. but only his waru. There are In life people who lose and people who find. young feat E.gbteen yeara before, while the Captain was stationed at Vincennes, he had found a baby boy on his doorstep one morning, as be was leaving his bouse. Three months before he had lost his only child, a little girl of three years, and so be and his wife decided to Veep the boy and gave out .that t ,be was their nephew. Then came the time when the Captain was pensioned, bis wife died, and the education and maintenance of Rene cost quite a little money, especially as his nurse, Juliette, had remained In the house. The budget was painfully small a pension of 2,500 francs a year and 800 francs from the Legion of Honor His wifes dowry had all gone to pay for the education of the boy. And now he would have to go to Paris to study, and that would ,ean 60 francs for his equipment and 1,00 J francs a year for tuition and board. Where was all that money to come from? Fno with his child. fill's :td. lave iU-r- ilsr W-- C Phe st.h wife to register tsid r.ot l!!o jour faro for if you !.-slats.!, you nf. i re I. urd Ho ire-tn- t las American. tie i ist " nr)hd. , t or Yt a an ).in tlivra, S. U. lwi(.r -- to fctf. U. l: leit i 1 When they came In the baby, who was evidently hungry, was jelling at the top of Its vo.ee. IIo was on the point of going to the Intelligence office for a nurse when the doorbell rang. A jjuur and unusually pretty g.il of twenty stood blushing on the eioerstep. I beg your prr'on. I am afraid I have made a mistake." WLat do you w.sh? I was tcld that somebody In th:3 hou e war ted a nurse. "We do, Indeed," tbo Captain r . n LONELINESS CF THE PRAIRIES. i e f- y.-- co-i.- - (Tvii-zitlu- i s.m-plirit- Trackless, Treeless Watte Without Water or Human Habitation. I bail alir.i rt as somi ho set ndrlft nn as to he In a an ail ta. nt in mid-ec- t droj pi d dow n on the vast ra.rle m ar State line, said the Kansas-Cidorata mnu win Is familiar with the West. Ouo cannot rvalue the loneliness of the plains until he has cleaned them. There are very few human habitations, comratatlvely little of the land Is under cultivation, and water is. a scarce and precious commodity. In every direction noth Ing meets the gaze of the eye except a trackless, trie less waste which Is bounded only by a lowering sky. Prairio does aro t he chief dcn'zens of this region, and as the train whirls past they perch themselves on tlielr hind legs and sit bolt upright as motionless as a stHtue. There are a few houses, hut they are at wide Intervals. The one single advantage that a lonely pedestrian has In that region is that by following the railroad track sufficiently far he will reach a town some day; but walking at this season under the burning prairio sun and In a waterless country Is by no means We-ter- th( The b tier for an Not ouo In t w ill utary on the It Ha hud eo.umi 1 tl" on K;i''d jit phi .tie ( f enr j o' nt- ni ii t at of rx outiig, t the ealril hjit fm mu flowing on the American tat.u.i.aioi il.o pa Up people! Ja (! at otir bones are ti o nrtl-fif- i nt fia.ii.hilim tie Nut.l Ain'ea.) i! and co"vi niion.'tl that tlo y m u t oiu-the) jitr. 111 eruupreplied m t ul Ftai d ki f.tr - :n iia'ure ns th are. to the i did not uce floe We to the woods ior a pul of tho rod r I e i to i ' to DM-t It in v.i ud. harba-r.uns- . wiio tir;e I: can e we are good bud, fct i ! r.i1- ih'.n Mu, Mil that is not an Imare good Ftili.tii lijsically. Alll' and lie.i.ihy sub- proved larhar! m is a burb-let e aro nt overuo will bo got nd of. Our homes are too jects; III Lilt, moot of ll.c.n ;rs. What ve complex; our titles loo tur from the ana doiihp need Is iumo rational ultinf.ou to the .roves; our lives too far itom Half our foi lal life U artful common m i so !ua of htailh. No amount of book learning Is ard soulies.. it t.atui ally and earliy false-hoonorth much ftlihout the fouiidat.on of props Into Intempi ranco and of The of most e good rltHomJilp part the und at pai good health, and us are living ti.ese days good health is to help toward a cltar-- Mum-clearer-hearteWho shall home. H bound to be tho exception instead of tbe rule. You can Cud half a dozen dream the Ideal? Who shall dare U) scholar to one person who gives any live the real? Tho Independent thought to the preservation of his PLEA FOR EQUAL JUSTICE. health. Tho average person goes on tbe principle of abusing hi health A few weeks ago a young Ontario and relying on medicine to fix him forecommitted suirlde In Montreal as to girl In a way of Instead living up. the final result of her deception by stall sickness. The Beacon. a rnan who had dlsap; eared. A few das ago, another young woman was THE CONSTANCY OF BIRDS. art rtted for catit-lnthe death cf her reluctance of birds Infant child, but no mention was made The to appear In public at the moulting of the fathe r. Surely It Is time that season lends a humorous side to the our civilization outgrew tbe monstrous situation. Individuals which In other doctrine; "Stone the woman and let Andays are fearless ard confiding, even the man go free. The doctrine of accusto who other the male now scamper dispersed inviting acquaintance, cover as If urged by sense of common ers of a woman by Inviting blm who was without tin to "cast the first decorum. A pair of song sparrows from my observation a futt as Etone. Is more Just. In such cases, their legs cun carry them, with that CEpec.aliy In the latter of the two If mentioned above, our machinery of peculiar sidewise trot of theirs, as conscious of possible arrest by the juMiiG should track down the male police If caught att'red in so scanty criminal as relentlessly as any other garments. 1 respect these sparrows cowardly scoundrel, and he should at and towhees by reason of their con- least stand In the dock beside the girl jugal fealty, not one of them having who Is very apt to have been his vicappeared in tho divorce courts of Cali- tim. A man who sends a girl out fornia. They mate for life, and re- penniless Into tho world, encumbered main constant through thick and thin with an Infant child, la certainly an cf vesture, through the better and the accessory before any act of violence worse of the years changes. So far she may commiL This poor girl said as I know, neither leaves the other to that, she got rid of her infant because look after household affairs alone. "it kept her back in trying to get Neither takes a pleasure trip to the work. Under such circumstances, it Is shore or the mountains or back east; impossible for the man who should no, nor does either frequent the soc al have supported both her and tbe inclubs of such gregarious birds as the fant to escape blood guiltiness; and and the robins and the the law should recognize this fact waxwTng mountain blues. Elizabeth Grinnell Montreal Herald. In Sunset Magazine. PRIVATE AUTO RACE TRACKS. VALUE OF ROUTINE WORK. If trials of speed between automoRoutine is a blessed thing when biles are to be held in tbe future, as something happens to reduce the undoubtedly they will be, one radical moral driving power which keeps us change should be made in the progoing the couraee, purpose and good vision for them. They should be perIf cheer that give life present Joy as mitted only on a private track. well as meaning. It Is good In mo- none of the courses already dedicated ments of depression or weariness that to horse races can be utilized suitthere Is a rath marked out ahead able grounds should be recured elseeach day which men follow because It where and carefully inclosed. Peris there; that there is time which cus- haps it might be deemed expedient tom has set for them to get up, to to erect a grand stand for spectators eat,. to work, to rest, to read, go to and exact admission fees, but that is It cannot be bed again. They move along the a minor consideration. grooves of habit and get all the bene- recognized too soon that public sentifit of their inheritance and their ex- ment will not and should cot sanction perience. The general may quit the tho continued use of public highways field for a time if he chooses; the for this purpose when a sreed exceedarmy has its marching plan and ing the legal limit Is intended. New knows what is expected of it. New York Tribune. 1 ed. hack In tie or, char tt 'diing Tie old t, .i tain wen over to her. bent do An and h!stj . MS h. Ivlu.u.xj J.r r, J!cp rt' Tvt t u le ad s on 7 n pleasant "It Is positively tiresome to the eye to ride across the prairies In a comfortable riillmnn ear surrounded by all the luxuries of life. This being true. It must be next to appalling to have to tramp over this region without food or water, except what one begs at the way stations along the route. I have never been able to see anything picturesque or Inviting about the wide stretching plains. Birmingham News. J In now-famo- cs-ca- well-dresse- e fr h & y t, ltiforu.uUon pub! WHY SOME oo o.iiu: Hi Ho ouM bo refiiur'i lumber quired to liti id ,i If rough bifird and Lktluiii are l.n-- fur Ii e wiiil-iPlea sit di i.t tine for po-,- ; i. Isa-:- . .le I er. tic. I would i.l e to haw the roof i ho fca.i.e as lie n It s. Tl a sthuo i.i use will late two or i:.r i.iju, Ui.ti.i :our feet fall In- - i ii .'i - i (or t! t r "f? Would a liu.--i 11. 1) p; let I be 1.1 A) ecoui'h Wuj'd ii run loai's tfii'ly t!.s liitll thick-m-iisi- Ii:? li-- r l.f lil.d IWO (if l - ur? Hi e To mistr-ua poultry houro as describe I above, the amount of material required would ho as follow a: Two 4 by 4 lit. by HI left; two :eat films 4 by 4 In. by 12 Let; two ranliings 2 by 4 In. by 14 Joet; 18 es 2 by 4 In. by Id feet; H) batter. 1 by 2 in. by 1G Net. and 600 feet tough lumber. The 4 by scantling should be placed on Monei or poets fur foundation. The studding for the frqnt of t i; ';r the house should be cut 7 feet long, which, when Mood on Bill and allowance made for sill ami plate, would lake 1C fi et of lumber cut la half to board up the front of tho houe with- out wa-t- ni w u HI e. The fttuliling throughout C Inches be piared about 2 feet apart Tl c plates can be made of two 2 by 4 in. scantlings placed on top of each other. Tl.e studding for the back should he cut 3 feet long, allowing a beard to be cut In four pieces. Providing 10 Inch lumber is used. It will rcqtt re about 50 battons 16 feet long. These should he cut In lengths corresponding with tho length of the lumber. There should be two rows of plates between front and back plated as a Eurport for the roof. It would oe well to place a couple of supports under In roofing the house each. lumber will be necessary, with a small lumber cau bo sewaste, unless cured. The cost of material described will be. about $20. To this will need to be added, say, $5 for nails, sash, glass and other small items, making a total cost of material about $25. Four feet slant in the roof will be quite sufficient. A house of these dimensions will comfortably house from hens. twenty to twenty-fivTo paper and board inside cf studding on the west, north and cast sides would not add greatly to the cost If this is not done, it would be well to box In the roosting quarters and use the drop curtain, as stated. I think three loads of gravel and two of sand would fill as high as the sill, which Is all that would be required. 16-fo- IS-fo- e Devica for a Kicking Cow. A simple device to prevent a cow from kicking while being milked Is represented in the accompanying Ulus- tration. It is made of a hardwood of stick e ther half or three-quarter- s BOYS FAIL. Some of the very greatest failures in life in America in recent years have been failures of men whose lives and careers are blazoned abroad as those of great, successful men. Their sons are noted for their worthless- ness. as degenerate sons of worthy sires, mere idle "sports and voluptuaries, wretched beings who sometimes attain a cheap and ephemeral notoriety for some monkeylike folly and dissipation. These young men are unfitted to make a living for themselves, and they are unfitted to spend the money which their fathers piled up with infinite pains and labors. In these cases it is extremely doubtful if the worthless sons are to be blamed; the fathers, the great, successful men, are primarily at fault because, though they made money and a name, they did not give any time or pains or thought at all to the most important work in the world, which is the rearing of honorable and useful men. There is no sanctuary of virtue like heme, and unhappy will be the annals of the land where the beauty, affection and strength of the home are sacrificed for any other interest. Philadelphia Ledger. Following on a very important case state all Paris is worked up over a question that has been aroused by a legal suit to determine not only the actual but the relative worth of the services of a physician. As a matter of fact, physicians as a rule, charge according to the ability of the patient to pay, and in many cases this means nothing. Life seems very joyous to us all especially when it seems to be fading from our slgnt We may be seeking a better land and believe in its approach, but most of us pre It willing to try this for awhile. seems, on the whole, that beyond the customary average of the fees charged by physicians there ought to be some arrangement in writing, so that those who have not preserved life may not set up its claim which is a based on shadowy conditions. Inquirer. in this Pnila-delphi- f ll.d I m l l Millaa Would tie Itu-ileai r.bt d be warm fur wider f a Cttaas ru:(.i n H luetrid la front of tLe rouut at uirl.t? U.nrti ry well-know- Warfare. That offer of ihe mikado to allow the noncombatants to leave Port Arthur Is one of those amenities of which warfare between civilized powers furn!shes many examples. The duke of Wellington was a stickler for etiquette In this connection. It Is on record how, after giving Junot "a good beating, he sent to Inhave sinned, you have quire concerning his health, the friendsuffered. ly message being accompanied with a plied. The girl was evidently strong present of vegetables, which were said and healthy, though she was unusual- to be scarce In Junots camp. The ly pale. She told of how she hap- great duke was especially punctilious pened to be looking for a position and in any manner affecting the comfort was engaged on the spot by tbe Cap- or convenience of women and children. tain, who had cot heard one word of Soult, during the pelnsular war, hearwhat she said. ing that there were many wounded They had never regretted engaging English In an adjacent village, seat her. No mother could have loved forwith to their assistance; and all the Rene higher than she did. times Charles Napier was a prisoner And now, because of tbe miserable he was treated as an honored guest, question of money, he would have to particularly by Baron Clouet, Neys send her away. But it was for Renes When, after ' three sake and tbe sacrifice must be made. months uncertainty, the British govHe went to tbe window and called. ernment sent to ascertain what had York Mail. Juliette! become of Napier, Ney, learning for When the Captain entered his den, SOCIETY AND LIFE. Monsieur le Captain. the first time that his gallant opponent the window of which orened into the He asked her to come in and sit had a blird and widowed mother, garden, he heard the voice of Rene down, and with a voice trembling Just said: What we call society is very narLet him go and tell her himand Juliette outside. a little he said: row. But life is very broad. It Inself that he is alive. Oh, Monsieur Rene, you do not "Juliette, I have something to tell cludes "the whole world of Gods know how proud 1 am of you and how which may hurt you feelings, cheerful, fallible men and women. It Last Convict. Australian happy that you are to study In the as it hurts me to say it.your 1 am forced The last of the old time convicts Is not only the famous people and the great city. to ask jou to leave us. people who are worth My dear old Juliette! transported from Great Britain to AusShe turned deadly pale. , "What tralia is every one who has It meeting. I am only afraid that you will bedied. has just His name was 1 The come so proud that when you come have done to deserve this. Monsieur Frederick Clarke. He was born In something to communicate. Yorkshire in 1829 and was sent to scholar has something to say to me if back von will have no more thought le Captain? Jul ette, you ought to know tbqt Tasmania under a ten sentence he he alive. But I would hear also the for your old nurse. have done nothing to displease In 1847. Between then years you on You and his death traveler, the manufacturer, the solShame you, Julfette. one is know that I will always love you just me, but .there are times when he received sentences amounting In dier, the good workman, the quiet obforced to do unpleasant things bess much as I do now. the years and server, the unspoiled child, the skillful aggregate to eighty-fivThe Captains brow darkened when cause it is necessary. It will cost seven months for bushranging, bank housewife. I knew an old German womuch money to send Rene to Paris man, living in a tenement who said, he heard these words. He had Just and other offenses. and keep him there ar.d I must econo- robbing My heart is a little garden, and God mize. I shall be perfectly frank with Is planting flowers there. Diminishing Scale. j ou I have not the money and do not II faut cultlver son jardin yes, an open hearth know where to get it. Shall I sel! the Grandma had hut not only that. One should learn Fquipped with crane and spit. house where we have all been so And there she turned her banquets out also to enjoy the neighbors gardeu, For kings and princes fit. happy or shall I pledge my pension V however small; the roses straggling Juliette's face brightened. . "Oh. Mother had a cookstove big over the fence, the scent of lilacs 'to your wi'h, satisly Captain, how you scared me. I could And Stella feeds the inner man drifting across the road. not think that I should have to leave Upon a chafing dish. The real simplicity is not outward your house, the orly house 1 have And so we think, if this keeps up, but inward. It consists in singleness s me-What should I have done? I am too to hatch, A toothsome of aim, clearness of vis!on, directness ion jet to come old to take a new posit. on. but row The genera. n b V .! of purpose, openness of mind, cheerWill cook upon a match. when I know that it is only for mv McLandburgh Wilson. of taste and fulness of spirt, sinee-it- v wages, I am happy again. T do not affection, gentle candor of speech and Admiral. Germanys-Firs- t want any wages, and you know low loyalty to the best that we know. I little it costs to keep me here. Germany has just celebrated the have seen it in a hut. I have seen it RuThe Captain listened, deeply mcved. centenary of her "first admiral, a in It is the bright ornament palace. she continued, "1 dolph Erommy, who was born Sept Oh, Captain, and badge of the best scholars in the could never bear to part from jou and 4, 1804, and organized the German school of life. Henry Van Dyke, In Rene, whom I have nursed and seen navy during the first German-DanisMagazine. grow up. I love him as if he were my campaign in the 40s. The German Harpers own son. I have five thousand francs navy came into beirg with nine steamCONVALESCENTS. FOR CARING in the bank which I have saved out ers, one sailing frigate, the Deutschn twenty-seveand I gunboats. of my wages and beg you to take it. land, In looking out for the healing of "That I could never do, Juliette. patients authorities have been too apt New Sport for Children. You are still a young woman, and the to spend money and use the most sc. Ryde, Isle of Wieht, has a new sport day may come when you will many His daily walk. entific appliances on the buildings In a for children. own shallow home and teec regatta and have your without consulting the needs of confrom the mayor's office, where he had tne money, and 1 might not e able to water, where drowning was impossiModern medicine takes made up his mind that to save the return it right away. ble, the children race in skiffs, canoes, valescents. wages which he was paying the nurse Juliette looked up, and in a voice small craft fitted with paddles and la into account not only the body but also the soul and the intimate conneche would have to let her go and then trembling with emotion, said: tubs, and have great fun. tion between these. Cheerfulness is borrow the neces-aimoney either by "You need never give it back to and a part of the treatment of y Famous Castle to Be Hotel. pledging his pension or by mortgaging me. My family, ruy home, is the boy his house. Gov. Gessler's castle, near Kuss-nach- recovery from ailments is not assured that I have nursed at my bosom, at on the lake of Lucerne, f'.mous when patients can leave their cots. But who would lend him the mon- whose bed I have sat night after nignt Treatment of convalescents is a part ey? He had few acquaintances in the when he was sick, and you. Captain, in the history of William Te.i's extown, and the very idea of asking who have always been so good to me ploits, has been sold to a company, of the physicians scheme, it is recoganybody for a loan made him blush. and your dear wife, who now sleeps which will convert the ancient strong- nized that views from a window of a And still that would be easier than beneath the sod! My life could not hold into a modern hotel. Hospital looking on blank walls or on to discharge Juliette, who had now repay you for what you have done for dispiriting surroundings affect recov-srbeen in his house for eighteen years. me. Hopefulness is repressed; gloom in Belgium. Exposition Is encouraged. Brooklyn Ehgle His thoughts went back to the day You exaggerate, Juliette; it is i Belgium, Is to have an interLiege, (he came. He had just returned who must be thankful to you for stay- - national exposition next year. Etiquette v IIi-s- l:u folio, i MAKE HOME LESS ARTIFICIAL. HEALTH FIRST. Two ty and Twcntyf.vo Hens. It. 1 ti.ilij.-- o jus a draslrg ct hi uto Lit li I would l.ke to build. fep--BES- T L- - hud e ! j (! 00,' It He jour did i.ot ait u uM H ei'J I 0E5IGN. Meant to Accommodate Between 1 H HOUSE an inch square and 14 to 16 Inches long, into which is fastened a hook made of heavy wire or a light rod, with a proper curve to fasten on the outside of the cows hind leg, with hooks passing half way round. A strip is split half way up and each of the two ends fastened well toward the outer end of the stick, as shown. The whole end is passed around the cow s leg and fastened to a buckle, which is attached to the stick at the center. If properly adjusted this holds tho cows leg so stiff and rigid that it is impossible for her to kick. The ends of hock wires fastened to the stick may bi- threaded for a nut at that end. The u tper hook is larger than the lower, to conform to the size of the leg at ihe two points. This outfit can be mac e at very slght expense. It can be almost instantly adjusted to the cow s leg. Growing Horse Radish. W. W. R. Please describe the method of p anting and cultivating horse radish. How much should one acre grew? The culture of horse radish is very simple. Pieces of rocts about four or five inches long are placed in holes made with a sharp stick, the pieces being set about two inches below the surface of the ground. The roots may be 'set ten or twelve inches apart in tows from two to three feet apart, depending on method of cultivation. As to yield, so much depends on condition of soil and care in cultivation that it wot Id be difficult to give an estimate: but with rich, mellow soil, it is usually a very profitable crop. It is a wise woman who can smile pleasure at a compliment and then forgrt it. with |