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Show GRI CULTURE jmwoRE as they passed out of sight, this modern Jacob and Rachael, and presently she arose and went to the house. Thret night she sent a telegram to Percy Vka Slack. It consisted of but one wo4: Good JVaiure. Come." A Th, First Dinner. ..litr is favorite virtue, 5heJ peW ered quite the best and smartest Gioves are worn larger than they t0 were, a fashion esn?clally adapted to out warm weather, but also practical for dln- -' the heavier kinds.-Har- per's Bazar. and mrried wife 18 wont she sends litions for her first real " Still, a certain hpr own mixes with her Batter how well used she r" been in her girlhood to din- It is not until one responsible that one :L bow many are theand minute how be considered, ar. the directions to be insured. The !Uccess is to be be absolutely outlines she may - with and have a pretty fair acquaintance with the mys- . intrica-i5fthe and of table laying, nicely considered menu; but young and fairly inexperiencinstallthe newly and lrlor maid, the begins to indorse him of the sage who pronounced 7one child or ignorant person minutes more than jask in five answer. could twlse men r iated when : last fitly they rati lot poti Dltft tab Costumes. Smart New Hi Pretty Blouse of Simple Design. During the holiday season the every day usefulness of the blouse and skirt costume is more than ever realized, for there Is a sense of wellbeing and comfort in thise style of dress which is not to be gainsaid. It also offers such unlimited scope for many variations of toilette, and in this way appeals to us more particularly when our desires do not coincide with the limitations of a dress basket. The pretty blouse sketched Is of printed muslin, trimmed with lace and tucked. The design is a very charming one, and Is becoming to any gowns, in damask, are Tidth smart little corslets, and than the models which the modernizing of them tifc empire ier :e bi practical IJering them t'sle of the for street newest gowns combine and the modern style, so Lneed as to produce a most har-,2,- 1 effect. This is particularly I1 ot the new redingotes designed ' underdresfes. over light redingotes ' are hacks of such the front sug-1- 2 while in form, lre Last modernized Louis XVI. was remarkable for the number J7ousselines ornamented with hand This year, and paanted designs. at present, delicately just rtly silks trimmed with fine lace anted The bo-Ire the novelty of novelties. them, and a in lace accompanies the completes and tulle hat worn be thole. Writing Paper. a most clever I have just learned I or of perfuming .one's writing paper, woman lihifh every fashionable I note to have suggest a delicate frag-lucThe same method. 1 find, is excellent for handkerchiefs and veils, j even gloves, p.t the same time I preserving them admirably. A thick I Hotting pad Is all that is required, all I the blotting paper of which has been I I carefully moistened with one's favor-to dry. Taen lte perfume and allowed I ne'e letter paper, one's veils, band- are slipped la kerchiefs, and gloves J from which is between the pages, I transmitted a most delicate odor. It i sot necessary to have a large pad, is to preserve the fragrance it should he kept in an air tight box, and one I uy even use several of the small njuare pad6, one for each article, and figure. The collarless blouse Is Indeed this season, with a square cut lace yoke stopping short at the throat line. A lace collar should be worn, finished at the top by a narrow piping of the same material as the blouse Itself. Narrow turnover muslin collars, with a dainty stock cravat, look well for wear with morning blouses. Perfumed filch fit in any box. The Newest Jewelry. The newest jewelry is essentially artistic 'both in design and in the exquisite shadings ot gold which are the most sought-afte- r effects of the moment. Flowers are popular motifs and lend their graceful forms and lovely hues with artistic adaptability to brooches and buckles. The blossom itself frequently forms the center, the stem and leaves being twisted round to give tfa outline. Sometimes the stalk forms the greater part of the design, with a cluster of the chosen flowers lilies of the valley, sweet pea, hyacinth, s at one clematis or side. Beautiful heads, or complete female figures, often strarge and weird designs, appear in many of the larger ornaments. forget-me-not- New Afternoon Tea Fad. A new idea for 5 oclock tea is to drop three or four whole cloves Into each cup just before pouring In the hot tea, and leaving them there for a moment that the essential oil may be extracted. The tea may be served with the cloves in it, or, if one is fastidious about its appearance, the one cup may be poured into another ce. The effect over white silk under-draper- y through the silver strainer, and the Black cloves removed. Sliced lemon Is to Is most delightful. lice hats and roses to match, or, a be used with this tea, and the mingwreath of raspberries with loliage, ling of the flavors is really delicious. ire a charming harmony, and as this color has not been A Pretty Fashion. hi.ckneyed it car-rie- e a decided eclat. Geranium red Sashes are coming back to us, and hats and parasols add great possibilit- they were such a pretty fashion that ies to the pongee, biscuit and white no one will fail to make them welCasino gowns, making them more come, says The Woman at Home. ought after than ever. The latest editions are those tied at the back with a, full bow and short Ice Cream wessertf ends. This gives the idea of the Here is a recipe for something that small coat-tai- l basque. Some women is nice to serve wun ice cream: Begi care for the basque, which is the white of one egg, very light, then anything but youthful. teat in half a cup of powdered sugar, next add one cup chopped 'peanuts. Spread this on buU:red thin crackers nd put in the oven long enough to brown slightly. This will make twelve Raspberry Red. One of the new fancies are raspberry reds in pale tones, in dotted iwlss and bati .te and are considered wear. extremely smart tor forenoon They are almost invariably trimmed with black laces marked over with white floss and just a little gold thread, and are transparently Inset it long lines upon' the skirt and bodi- or A fifteen. 'hafjt. In the new frivols of fashion there may be noted thesi things: Street coats with three little capes. The little lace cap, very clqse on the shoulders. I ace dresses with silk linings and silk underslips of all colors. The oeef eater hat with straps of stitched cloth on the crown. The Cleopatra hat brim, turned up and embroidered on the outside. Street sleeves elth capes at the shoulder and capos at the hand. The very low necked evening sleeves. gown with three caps for the the from come that scarfs Wide sides of the hat and tie under the chin. The skirt trimmed with three of the flounces, each a third a depth de. The sleeves bow with are finished at the frills of the material, head-b- y drapery of the same knotted 00 me outside. Chic Parisian. ' The Gioves of 1302. are shorter than they were, general wear. The ones with two Glove uttons, ar.d ngth fer the even the long sleeves, and with preference in favor of the wash udmore expensive to start, but, their name implies, capable of be-- 5 constantly kept clean. There are, ear with elbow sleeves, which continue in favor, long gloves .of or 8uede In all the light color. 8 preferrPd- - sthougli with a lirt Jray own or a very light tan It is ad f this season to have the wm.! f th Bame shade. To wear r owns or for the ordinary atroL gown, a heavy tan kid Is consid . one-butto- n Fears in turning fifty square miles of black morass into the most tive farm .in the middle west producis now building a railroad for his own use, says the New York World. Already the crops marketed from this farm annually are worth more than $300,-00This model farmer is B. J. Gifford, and his big farm is the old Kankakee swamp in the center of Jasper county, Indiana. Gifford began active life as a lawyer. By completing the construction of an abandoued railroad he got a financial start, and at once went to work to develop his black-soi- l hobby. He bought, at ridiculously low figures, 10,000 acres of swamp lauds in Ford and Champaign counJes, 1111 nois. He dredged and drained them, sold them for $100 an acre, and, in 1890, bought the first 5,000 acie3 ol the Kankakee swamp. He be expects fore long to own 55,000 acres. When Gifford offered $5 for acre of the water and black ooze,every the owner lost no time in selling, and congratulated themselves that they had found a sucker at last. Since then the value of every one of those 5,000 acres has been raised from $5 to a point where the owner has refused offers of $100, and some of $125, because It is worth more to him In working out his extensive scheme. He now has the very heart of Jasper county, Indiana, extending from the Kankakee river itself, nineteen miles south an aggregate of 32,000 acres all in sne tract. He has 200 miles of great canal ways. From the scrub oak Island Vi the morass Gifford has cut timber enough for the framework of 160 farm houses and outbuildings, 160 barns for these tenement homesteads, eight district school buildings, a great store barns and granaries, and a good percentage of the ties used in his railroad construction, besides unlimited fuel. Gradually the cultivated area has Increased. Last year it was acres. This year it will probably run to 20,00u acres. Germs of Potato Scab. Bulletin 85 of the Vermont Station The scab fungus like most says: other fungi appears capable of very rapid development and reproduction under favoring conditions; but, on the other hand. It is very sensitive In regard to its environment The germs may occur in abundance In the soil or ca the seed potatoes, and yet lead to little scab on the crop if soil conditions do not favor; whereas, under favoring conditions, a comparatively few germs on the seed or In the soil may cause great damage. Presence of germs. In the absence of the germs there can be no scab. This is settled beyond question. Bol-leof the North Dakota experiment station states positively as a result ot his experiments that neither clay, the blackest muck, nor any other germ-fresoil that he tried led to scab. On the other hand the development of scab spots was visible within from three to ten days after the germs were applied to the surface of young tubers. These germs do not originate spontaneously. The evidence indicates that the fungus is not a native to our soil. It probably was brought here along with the potatoes in the early days of their culture. Whatever the original source of the scab fungus, there is no doubt that its Introduction and further spread in our fields at the present time is largely by means of contaminated seed potatoes. It may be carried occasionally on beets or other roots, or with manure, or on tools; but these agencies are probably of minor importance. Our experience in potatoes experimentally growing during four seasons on a recently cleared wood lot where no other crop has ever been grown has shown that in such virgin soil the scab on the crop comes from scabby seed. Trials at the New Jersey station proved that when scabby potatoes were spaded into the soil in the autumn there was a large increase in the amount of scab in the crop the following year. two-stor- y half-doze- n 18,-00- 0 y e Rejects the Starvation Remedy. In a paper read at the last meeting China Record of the American-PolanAssociation, held at Cedar Rapids, la., Mr. H. L. Sweet said, relative to the effect of judicious diet on fecundity. There Is no hard and fast rule to be laid down regarding the treatment of the brood sow. The method to be pursued is to be determined largely by the condition of the animal herself. When I purchased Lady Louise in the fall of 1900. I suppose very few of the I reedera who were gathered around the sale ring at that time believed that she would prove a breeder, and, in fact, I think she is the only one of that litter of fine sows sold at breedr1 I that time who actually brought her home, and so far from starving her fed her all she cared to eat, the ration consisted of ground oats, middlings' and skimmed milk. She was allowed to run in a lot and provided with a bed in one of the houses used by so many breeders. She was bred about December 1, and the latter part of March farrowed nine healthy, active pigs, one of which was accidentally killed when a few days old. The rest lived to be six months old. when one was kilted by accident The sow was resold to Mr. Winn, and It Is fresh in the minds of all of you how readily she was refitted for show, and how successfully. I believe thoroughly that this sow could not have been successfully fitted the second time had she been subjected to the starvation treatment as a method beof reducing her flesh, and I also were stronger young her that lieve and more vigorous as a result of her liberal feeding. d Crepe de Chine Waict. Full, gathered, blouse of pastel lilac crepe de chine, trimmed wi h motifs oflrish lace, of which the yoke is also A Reclaimer of Swamps. The remarkable roan who has spent deThe gowni of point desprit with with narrow trimmed rufues lightful uo velvet. Flounces of black Insertion with on bands of green ribbon trimming te upper part. The sleeve that Is tight In the In the lower upper parts, but so baggy droop. a shaped pillow that it makes The military hat turned up at the to a sides and back, but pulled down trimmed either In front, sharp Point or untrimmed. are set at each Big rosettes tna. side of the hat from which the scarfs are hung that are brought under the chin and tied in a bow. ribThe Mother Hubbard hat has a a bon tied around the crown. It has are there and brim, loose, flappy autumn leaves upon It. Hats made very elerant with droopfeather put on at ing uiack ostrich each side with the most classic reguthe middle of the larity, and meeting round pin. front under a big di A Possible Combine of Fruit Handlers A Chicago patter, devoted to the commission trade, is urging the merchants on South Water street to form a solid and complete organization. It says that at the present time there are four distinct organizations there, the Butter and Kgg board, National League cl Commission Merchants, the Wholesale Produce Merchants association and the Fruit and Vegetable Shippers association. It is now desired to combine all of these and also all other Interests on the street This would give a most powerful organization. The question with the common producer snd consumers Is a very lively one. No matter how small a sum the producer gets for his fruit and vegetables, the consumer pays a handsome price for them. Production is thus not encouraged. Today, as it Is organized, the South Water street Is getting a big part of the profits made on fruit If the organization be made more perfect, R ithout doubt a still larger profit will be made by the South Water street merchant This Is & very desirable thing from the standpoint of the South Water street merchant, but is It so desirable from the standpoint of the fruit grower and the fruit consumer? It simply looks as if the fruit business would have to pay a still greater percentage of toll to the South Water street dealers. If this thing keeps on, the fruit growers and the fruit consumers will be compelled to organize In their own protection. Steady Prices Wanted. There is a great deal of dispute aq to what the apple outlook Is. A convention of apple shippers held some time ago in New York state put the outlook as good and predicted a large crop to be handled. Immediately apple growers east and west attacked the report on the outlook and declared that the high figures had been sent out to influence the market at the beginning, so that professional apple buyers might get hold of all tho apples possible before the true state of things should be found out ly the apple growers. In answer the huyers declare that their figures were correct and that there has been no attempt to Influence the market prices. n Certainly what we all want is a that will give steady prices. That condition can only be brought about by an honest statement as to the crop. The constant fluctuation of prices demoralizes both the procurers and the purenasers fruit The retail buyer even will hesitate to buy if he thinks the market may go lower, and the seller hesitates to sell hoping the market may go higher. When the prices are stable and are sure to remain about the same throughout the season both the buyers and the sellers are anxious to do business, realizing that there Is no money in stagnation. com-dltlo- The Cranberry Crop. From reports received from various sources It seems likely that the cranberry crop will be somewhat less than it was last year. One forecast says that Masachuetts, which last year shipped 240,000 barrels of cranberries, will this year ship only about 190,000. New Jersey, which last year sent out over 100.000 barrels, will this year have but about half that amount to sell. Wisconsin is fortunate In the possession of a crop of about 50,000 barrels, which Is 10,000 barrels more than she had last year. It is probable that prices will be good, and that the eaters of turkey and cranberry sauce will pay a high price for their sauce this year, as they have been doing for a number of years. The fact Is, the cranberry is yearly growing In favor, and the supply hardly keeps pace with that demand. It is not an easy matter to develop new bogs, though opportunities exist on every hand. Cranberry growing requires a good deal of brain force expenditure and a very great expenditure of muscle. Then too, the business has not yet been x educed to a science, and we have yet to find out just how to fight some of the Insect pest Suits for Lost Orchards. that two orchardlsts of Illinois have brought suit against the state to recover damages for orchards lost by the treatment given them to destroy the San Jose scale. The treatment was effective la destroying the scale, but it also destroyed the trees. It is reported that the work was done under the direction of the State Horticultural society. We are not in possession of the details of the case. Probably it will be difficult to make the state responsible for the orchards, even if they were killed by the treatment No case of this kind has been settled In the courts so tar as we know. Farmers Review. It Is reported Look After the Hand Separators. thing is a success unless looked after. It is no argument against hand separators to say that unless they are taken care of they will In a year or so become unserviceable. One man urges against them that he has known people that did not wash their separators more than once a week, and that in the meantime the separators were a point of multiplication for all kinds of ferments and perhaps disease germs that got Into them. But no agent of a hand separator would want to sell a hand separator it he supposed the buyer would use so little intelligence In Its care ant handling. We are in a state of ch.oos as regards our dairy matters, and It is only slowly that we are working into a condition of order. But we do not believe that the hand separator Is at all the cause of aint There is somethin in the wotther that makes people quick to see An ciitlcise a thing that isn't what it ought to me. An' when folks tots overheated an disposed to raise the I cheek my disposition to mix in, 'cause w hat's the use? My lack of energy. I must confess, is somethin sad. But, to tell tho honest truth. I'm most too lazy to get mad. Philander Johnson, in the Washington Star. -e, Two Love Stories. BY JOSEPH GREGORY. (Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) My Lady yawned politely behind her Iu ftm and looked distinctly tired. her eyes was a gleam of interest as she glanced at the earnest face of the handsome young man before her but it was only a gleam, and an instant later took form as an expression of utter boredom. I dont doubt that you mean it all, Percy, she said, that is now, but how how about next week or next year? Margery, burst in the young man with blazing eyes, I Yes, I know all about it, she Interrupted, with a smile oh, such a worn You forget that I and glassy smile. have had several seasons of it, and I have seen a good deal of other peoples affairs, besides what I have experienced myself. It is dreadfully serious for the moment, and it does seem that one would really do something desperate if one cant have ones way. But if one cant, then one goes ones way, and pretty soon the balls and the dinners and the yachting parties and the golf links and all that sort of thing make one forget and and dont you see, thats all there is to it until the next affair comes along, and then theres another little drama which threatens to become a tragedy. And if one does get ones way, forsooth, why, then theres a grand wedding and a great show and a trip abroad and In a little while the happy twain are pursuing their divers ways in society and at the club, or in much the some old rut, only the little spark of romance they both thought was ahead Is now behind, and the prosy old world is prosier and more hopeless and unendurable than ever. No, Percy, I like you immensely, but don't lets spoil such good fellowship as ours to Its our go chasing a misfortune to have been born into an age and a set where romance is a tradition and love a memory. Lets make the best of it. And she laughed a merry little laugh, albeit the merriment was tinged with a suggestion of harshness if anything which fell from the full, red lips of My Lady could be described as' harsh. The youth flushed to the ears at this speech, and when My Lady had concluded he broke in passionately, with hands clenched, jaw set, head thrown back and eyes blazing: Its a lie its all a mendacious lie this talk that people of our class people who are born with good blood in their veins and who for edu have the opportunities cation and culture and development have no hearts! You are deluding yourself, but you cannot delude me. I love you yes, I love you as much as though I was an Impossible clerk and you a factory girl, and I always will love you. You will make your choice now for love and happiness or for the old life, with its hollowness, as you have pointed out so well. But if you choose against love you will always know that you were once face to face with honest love and Margery I want you always to remember that my love will never change, and so long as I breathe I will come to you at the slightest sign you may make. My Lady looked at the flushed and earnest young face before her with a Bemixture of admiration and pity. lieve me, Percy, she said, seriously, I appreciate the honor you have done me and I appreciate your earnestness No good dls-trde- r. Room for Capons. T. Greiner: Capons stand crowding. While there is a limit to the number of laying hens that one can keep profit, there is practically no It's all very well to strike tooutbefora with to the number of capons. You limit happen unless you yourself, as many as you have room can keep ball player. for. They will do Just as well when In 4 flock of a hundred as when there Actions of most men everlastingly are only a dozen. They are hardy and of good their out knock the stuffing remarkably exempt from disease. intentions. Is there such a thing as paralysis of the will? to quarrel ef my fellow man gits gay. trouble an a gittln An eomes In the way. Though when the earth is simmerin an steamin' in the sun, I kind o fol that trouble would be jes the same as fun. Jly ttelln's Is uncertain an my dispositions bad; But, to lull the honest truth. I'm moot loo lazy to git mad. I change of scene at least, on a farm consisting of wooded hills and prairies. The house was not btftlt for summer boarders and was a rough affair suited to the most imperative needs of the hardy yoemen who were trying to conquer the wilderness. They could not understand why she wanted to stay there when she could have all the luxuries of civilization at her command for the asking, but the price she offered was so princely that they were glad to give her the best they had and ask no questions. And she partially forgot her ennui watchtolling these plodding, ing pioneers in their ceaseless toil and half-cleare- d hard-workin- g Always a close observer and always analytical, My Lady became intensely There were tears In My Ladys eyes. interested in the life about her. True it was hard and benumbing; true it was narrow and discouraging; true It seemed hopeless and pitiful, but they were so brave and uncomplaining that she marveled. It was a mere struggle for the most obvious elements of existence coarsest of food, and sparsest; the barest roof over their heads; the most scanty raiment and their eyes were ever set on the time when the farm would be paid for; that was the goal, the end, the haven. After that they thought no more. All would be easy then. And in the midst of all the poverty and the waiting and the toll, a thread of romance ran. Her practiced eye saw it at once. John, the sturdy blueeyed son of the owner of the next clearing, eyed with longing glances Mary, the buxom daughter of the house where My Lady occupied the best of the poor apartments. And My Lady was not long in observing that Mary flushed under his covetous gaze and ever and anon made him a sign. One day My Lady In a shady nook looking out over the fields and up Into the monotonous sky and trying to read betimes, when the sound of voices In the adjoining field aroused her. It was John and Mary. They had met as he was taking the horses in after a hard day at the plow and Mary was on the way home from driving the cows to a new pasture. Mary, he said earnestly looking into her face, you look so tired, girl. I am, John, she replied wearily. It is a bit harder this summer because of the lady at the house. It makes more work, hut she pays so much that dad is goin to make two payments this fall instead of one, he thinks. You are workin hard yourself, John, Yes, drat It, both o us workin out our lives and no nearer to a home o' our own than three years ago. Im tired o it, Mary, that I am. Cant we go way and set up fer ourselves. We kin git along somehow and therell be the love to kinder keep us contented like even if the work is jlst as hard. No, John, she replied looking him full in the eye. My folks cant spare me tol the mortgage Is lifted. Well jlst have to wait But . bein as we love each other we kin wait patiently, cant we John. Oh, I suppose so, replied John complalnlngly, but Im powerful tired o Its a He a mendacious He!" and honesty; but it cannot be. I would do you a great Injustice if I accepted the offer you make me. I could give only husks. God knows I am tired ot it aU, but I see no way but to go on and endure it as best I may. If I have encouraged you In any way to believe it could be different pray forgive me. I have always like you the more because of your splendid earnestness and enthusiasm. But, believe me, I have had the most experience, and you will live to thank your lucky stars that I send you away. My Lady really was tired of it all, and she proved It effectually by deserting the fashionable resorts at the very height of the season and fleeing Into the far west, where she found a waiten." LESSON FROM THE BEES. Habit of Industrious Insects a Pointer to Humanity. Dont stir up a oeehive unless you know it is a rich one," said an apiarist, to a visitor at his bee farm. I think that I would leave them was the repi. alone altogether, They have too angry a buzz about them to win my confidence. "You are not used to them, thats For example, all, said the beeman. these hives are full of hony, and if 1 puff a little smoke into the doors, so as to sort of suffcate the sentries, I can topple a hive over, handle the bees like so many beans, dean the honeycombs and carry them off. The bees And to prove his won't harm me. words the speaker performer his experiment, and came back to his friend with a smile and several heavy combs of honey. If those hives had been nearly empty, said the apiarist, I would have been lucky to have escaped with my life. The tenants ot a poor hive sting to kill. "That's strange, said the visitor. I should think that they would defend their hoaras with especial Jealousy, and the more they have the hotter they would fight The reason is, 6aid the beeman, that when alarmed the bees fly to their storehouse and gorge themselves. When full of honey a bee cant bend its body and sting." Whicn should be a lesson to us, said the other. Dont get too full. LAST WORDS OF WEBSTER. Neighbor Explains Significance of Phrase, I Still Live. Concerning last words, A. H. McRae of New York has this to say of I knew an old lady who Webster: was a neighbor and intimate friend of the Websters In Washington. She explained to me th meaning of his last words I still live.' Webster, as all the world knows, was a hard drinker. Liquor caused his death. In his last days he was kept alive by brandy, which he constantly craved. The day he died his physician called on him early in the morning and found him very low and, as he thought, unconscious. Turning to the nurse, he said: If he is alive at 8 oclock give him another drink of brandy. The family gathered at the bedside to see him ureathe his last A clock in the room struck 8. For a moment he remained silent; then, as no one offered to help him, he said, rousing up and opening his ox eyes, I still live. The nurse, recollecting the doctors Instructions, hastened to give Mm another drink, which proved to be his last, as he relapsed Into a quiet stupor and died within an hour. The old lady did not have a very high opinion of Webster from a moral standpoint, knowing that the Immortal words, I still live, were uttered for the purpose of getting a final drink. Sam Jones to Reporters. prominent Baltimore physician tells in the Baltimore Sun the following anecdote about Sam Jones, the Georgia evangelist: When several years ago Mr. Jones was at Emory Grove camp, the newspaper reports of his sermons caused him to complain. At the last service he looked down at the reporters, who sat at a table just in front of the pulpit and said: And I want to tell you fellows that I like you a lot, In spite of your manifold faults. You boys dont treat me right, though. You take my sermons and pick out a piece here, a piece there and a piece somewhere else; then you string the pieces together, and naturally they read funny. Now, suppose I reported the Bible in that way! A man asks me what the Bible tells him to do. I read in ons place, And Judas went out and hanged himself. I turn over and read, Go thou, and do likewise. And in another place I find, And do it quickly. Now, you see, boys, that sort of thing wont do; it ain't fair. A A Sailors Summons. Something white came up last night, It was the mist, I wist, or rain; It wheeled about, flashed In and out. And beckoned 'gainst the window pane; It was a bird, no doubt no doubt. And will not come again. And somehing beat with slow retreat. l. And heavy swell, the old And shrill and clear and piercing sweet. I thought I heard the boatswain's call. The sails were set, and yet, and yet. It may have been no boat at all. v sea-wal- a sail should leap But If From out the dark and driving rain, Tou must not hold me back nor weep. For I must sail a trackless msln To And and have, to hold and ke9p. What I have sought so long in vain. I need no chart of sea nor sand, Nor any blazing beacon star. My prow against wild waves shall, stand Until It cuts the blessed bar. And I run up the shining strand Where my lost youth and Mary are. Flavla Rosser In August NationaL .'What Is Woman? Then do not waste much time In country schools, and all through August the coaching and driving parties In Maine passing over the country roads have come across quaint little school houses tucked away in picturesque nooks, and, seen Inside, the scholars hard at work under the direction of some pretty country school marm. It was at one of these little school houses that the teacher was endeavoring to show the general understanding of the little ones to a party of visitors. Now, Thomas, she said to one of the youngest boyB, apropos of a lesson upon farm life, what are the domesThomas hesitated, tic animals? thinking seriously, and then answered slowly, but with the air of authority of one who knows that he is in the If ye want yer promise back, John, ye can have it rejoined the girl quickly. John dropped his reins and stepped forward with bowed head and eyes on the ground. Fergive me, Mary, he said humbly. I didnt mean nothin like that Ye know at I'll wait fer you 'a long as I live. There aint no other woman Im only a man and git impatient Yer & woman an an angel. Fergive me an let me wait fer you, wIH ye? But it is goln' to be so many years, replied the girl, and I am gettln older aU the time. Mebby you ought to take up with some girl who is more free like before half yer Ufe is gone. There aint no other girl," exright: I claimed the man passionately. Cats, dogs, sheep and women. want you and nobody else and Ill wait And the visitors thought that he or doom fer ye. An I was not till the crack very far wrong. wont pester ye no more, but when you are ready make the least bit of a sign Trust or no trust, we dont allow and Ill come to ye. outsiders In the Smokers Brother hood until they call them tobies InThere were tears In My Lady'f eyes stead of stogies. |