NEXT YEAR'S PRICES. “Where are you going, my pretty maid ?" “To the jeweler's shop, kind sir,” she said; “To the jeweler’s shop to buy a chop And a gram of steak with which to top The mid-day meal of a grain of bread And a whole half-turnip, kind sir," she said. —Gerrard Harris, in Puck. A ——————————— NOT UNDERSTANDING. They are so dear to us, these they who go, Along the way with us-—-we love them so. And yet how often on some weary day, The little fault has caused us to forget How great is love—and so in haste wesay Impatient, unkind words that weary day— Not understanding that perhaps they, too, Have borne all they could bear the long day through. For though so near to them, yet do we see What burdens may be theirs ? That there may be Some hidden pain—some heartache borne so long— Some bitter sense of failure or of wrong : And if they sometimes hurt us as we go Along the way—may we not love them so “That we may try more near to understand “The true heart motive—and to hold the hand More tenderly of some dearone? for,O, They are so dear to us—we love them so. ~Grace G.Crowell “UNTO DEATH.” : i H 2 question. “I have come,” shesaid, “from the road- side, yonder, where I sought to share the el you gave me with another, who vas asi) but ere l reached her she was so I gave it to a child, that, forsaken, alone, sat crying.” Then with a sob that shook her she seized my hands, entreating me to listen. “Oh Missahib, there is a heavy sorrow resting on me and I cannot die until I tell of it to someone.” Silently I bowed my head consenting. moon brighter now, and clear- ly could I see each feature of that wasted face: her eyes told tales of sadness, bnt her thin, parched lips were still, until she sighed and said: "Tis Kismet. [I dare not curse the Gods, but woe is me that | have lived to see this day!” She paused; then, gathering strength, began to speak again: “It was when this moon was like .an old man’s silver hair, following close upon the sinking of the sun that I left: my village, Missahib, for nothing could be found within it that one might think of eating. All the village folk had gone a day or two before me, for I had lingered, hoping that my “man” would come again and bring the ‘chapaties’ he had promis- ed soon toget me, when he ieft to seek the great bridge they are building some- where, far away, where by working they may earn one meal a day. He may have died before he joined the workmen, or at joy of having food again he may have g to think of me. Who can tell? | it g i z 5 passes on the lage of shrine,where I left the morsel that I had with a prom- mighty Shiva that I would my first wheatcake with another if 1 i i E® to be I my curse, traveled on, only eating herbs I found clutched of one who did not was dead, had died that stretched its a forest round. Two traveled on. After that] t, for the each bone in g 5% : vultures walking round I scarcely heard the crying for the food their parents pe i g malin p i : i z li thr save me. Praying thus a prayer . I scarcely saw the corpses | | §E58 | - : ine EELS FE es cs— . gEa% iH Hi EE Hit f1gd 838 Baik | fig s : g =» isk3 HH E ig ] i i Ei% 5 53 § g LE I | g 2 said it 2 : ; i on gi ai Hi EE EE i fie § E §® | g 7 I : : : 2 : 8 ————————————————————— § or the da 3 8 was to save your mother, Gods will some day Ilet her go. and know some day bless me for the pious deed. That was a month—’ Here suddenly she ceased her speaking, looked with eyes so wildly wide at a low, dark form that hid and crouched along'the roadway, a form that crouched but for a | moment, then glided with no sound to | the sand-pile, seized her son, darted back into the bushes and the grass. “With a look of wondering agony she saw it all and sat transfixed, like the image of the great God sitting in our temple, looking, staring in the way her son had gone, but moving neither hand nor foot. So she sat, tilla cry of pain falling from her dear one's lips came from over an ever-widening distance. Then she screamed one piercing scream, rushed with leaping strength into the network of the leaves and grass, cared not if ‘twas man or beast that she thus sought to meet. “And I—what did I do? What can a mother do but follow close ui the foot- tracks that her heart-sick child has made? So I followed, ever caliing softly—‘Mina, Mina, Mina." But Mina soon had far outstripped me, and I could no longer see her well beloved form. So I wandered here and there, here and there, ever call- ing softly, ‘Mina, Mina, Mina." Back and forth, then on and on I groped and stum- bled, still more softly calling—‘Mina, i y 3 i 8 g 2 i would not move, so I dropped upon my | hands and knees, hoping that in some | way I might crawl from out that noise- | less gloom. | "To the left and to the right had | pushed the clumps of grass till my hands | were cut and Heading, ai my heart was ! crouching in me at t that the | roadside never would be It was , when the moon had grown blood red and large on approaching to the earth, that I aside a thicker and a i clump, and saw—ah, Missahib, still I shudder! Yes, I saw Mina dead, with her arms ou in one hand a tinier hand all torn and rent! Oh, the awful look upon her face! Oh, the sickening feeling at my heart. With FE te 3 iii Hi 2 i : > if : i : g 2 : it : i : z 5 F i BE 3 i 57 | 1s 3 g fis il fii: ® 78 BEE § 88 it e} { Fx 5 & g fe: gs F g 5 ! £4 2 88 EF g : g n i Rg : iz es i i g ; | 248 i — B. ; 0a i 43 g i g.2 fies the parcel of sewing mother had sent, I gave Maritza two ich were left in a dish on the them was big : “One orange is for you,” I said, "and ay.Carry 8 to Louka. Which im time she would have it rude for a little child to answer a voice loud enough to be but this time she waited an good manners required. e orange over and over,and other. After a little more urg- me, she whispered: “This one." the big one. Curious to 3 5 mn 3¥38 HH 2 Sg* 2 : —" - was of the struggle which reached | made her so long in deciding, 1 said: “But why don't you give Louka the small orange? He is a a if Maritza dug her little stockinged toes into the carpet and twisted her apron hem before she answered. “Js not Anna waiting for me at the te?" she said. “Anna and I will eat orange together. Mine has twelve i and the other only eleven. Anna g ot like to take six pieces if I had ou cannot see through the orange tza, to tell how many pieces How is it you know?" | asked. Maritza told me the orange se- this is it: at the stem-end of an see the scar where it from the stem is like a little spokes going out from the t spaces between Il find that there are as there will be when you open it ; Mari tza did, how orange has. bt: every orange has , just as every a which hold its seeds; but will find it is not so. Why not? Well, do not know. But, perhaps, away back in the history of the orange, when itis a flower, or perhaps when it is only a bud, something may happen which hurts some of the cells or makes some of them out- the rest. Then the number of cells s mixed; and, no matter how big and plump and juicy the o becomes, it as no more sections than it had when it was a little green button, just beginning to be an orange. 3 g BP i 5 iE: ia Ex : g E : £ 1 PERTH i i u i Be to find out its secret before you open it. ~—( Little Folks.) A Shower of Manna. Some time ago there was forwarded to Paris for analysis from Asiatic Turkey a men of an edible substance that fell uring a copious shower of rain in the vicinity of Mardin and Diarbekir. It was stated that the substance in falling had been plentifully sprinkled over a consid- erable area of country. The inhabitants came out and eagerly gathered up the substance and with it made excellent bread. The “manny” was floury, palatable and nutritious. The Parisian chemists stated that the sample of the manna sent them was in the form of small globules about the size of millet seeds, and that the mass, yel- lowish on the outside, was ectly white within. It was pronoun to be a vege- table substance of the lichen family, sci- entifically known as Lecanora esculenta. This lichen is frequently found in the most arid mountains of the desert of Tar- tary, where the soil is calcareous and gypseous and grows on the ground amid the pebbles, from which it is to be distin- ished only by the closest scrutiny. nsiderable quantities of lichen are found also in the desert of Turkestan and in other parts of western Asia. Parrot, the traveler, brought home a quantity of this substance as long ago as 1828. It had fallen in a shower in Persia and was said to have covered the ground to a depth of several inches. Cattle ate it eagerly, and the inhabitants gathered it in quantities. It is regarded as likely that this lichen, abundant in the country where itfell, had been drawn up by a waterspout—not an infrequent phenomenon there—and, after being carried by a va wind at a high altitude had fallen to the earth aan in a rain shower.—Harper's Week- Ly. : to seeing the little steel sewing needle in everyday use that we its presence as a matter course, quite as if it grew on a tree like fy ; used, but not always in their present skins of animals needles are held rigid and then broken apart with comparative ease between the The needles are next hardened and by being subjected to red heat, After this they must be scoured and polished by fHictip combined with soft soap, oi emery . Washing, Sp On ee en ta. there seems to be no end to the polishing and the | a long while before an- | and finishing processes—but when the | work is pn. completed the needles are | as near perfection as modern machinery and human skill can make them. Yet we buy them for four cents a | paper, at the rate of about six for one | cent—[ Selected. | | fhe Ancient Story of the “Bloody Hand of Ulster.” | Tbe emblem of the Ulster steamship | Mue Is u buge red hand. from the wrist of which is flowing drops of | bluvd. Ap official of one of the ves- ! sels of the line gave this explanation | of the queer device: | wt was in the early days of Ireland, ! when Jumes 1. was king and when | Ireland was divided into four prov- { inves, that the king of Ulster died. | He lind two sons, who were devoted | to each other aud who at the time of | their father's death were on the isle of | Auron. Scotland. In those days the | eldest son did not always succeed the | father on the throne. | *“T'hey were brave lads, these two i i | sons of the old king. and upon learn "jug of the death of their father each | planned to race across the channel and i be the first to place his bund upon the . soll of Autrimy und thus become king of all the north, | “With eight men each they started | off from Mulleantry. On nearing the | shores of the ixles the youngest prince, whose name was : brother was in a fair way to become | king, drew his sword. placed his left | hand on the side of the boat and cut it | off aut the wrist. | "Quickly seizing the dripping hand, | he threw it on shore und thus won the | crown. Since that time. it is told, the | bloody hand of Ulster has led to vie- | tory on many a hard fought fleld as | emblem on the shields of the young | king and his followers. Ulster's name, | whether in trade or war or sport or | on a steamship line, is known by this | sign.”"—Philadelphia North American. Saved by His Wit. | Lord Justice Fitzgibbon, at the time . when he was one of the justices of ap- | peals of Ireland. was holding assizes The next time vou eat an orange, try | ip Tipperary county when a man was brought before him on indictment for | murder. The case wis proved that the ' victim came to his death by being bit with a stick in the hands of the de- | fendant, but the doctor testified that ' be bad what they called in medical | parlance a “paper skull.” The case looked dark for the prison- ! er, however, and the jury returned a | verdict of guilty. As the man was | brought before the court for sentence ! it wus noticed that his lordship had his ! black cap in bis band. ! “Have you anything to say why sen- | tence shouid not be pronounced upon | you?" demanded Lord Fitzgibbon. ‘he mun looked for a moment and then sald. “No. your lordship. | have | pothing to say. but 1 should like to | ask one question.” | “What i= that, my man?’ said Fitz. | gibbon. | "1 should like to know what a man | with u head like that was doing in Pipperury | ‘he hiack wap was put away and a | prison sentence imposed. : Morr. There is one very interesting fact connected with meteurs that have struck the enrth. Hundreds of them ! have been examined und found to cou- | tain animal remains—that is. the very | lowest forms of life. This indicates | that they are parts of a world that | burst into fragments long, long ago | What a thought—a world broken up and scattered through space! Maybe we had another wmoou once, but that broke into pieces and these are the t pieces, and maybe they ure parts of the planet that ouce revolved between | Mars and Jupiter. Over 500 of the | larger pieces of this planet have beeu discovered and catalogued. One of | these flew away Inside of Mars’ orbit Why may not mauy of the smaller pleces and these solid meteors be they? | Tt 1s probably so.—Columbus Journal. ry | The Way to Float. This is the advice of an old swifhmer to these who cannot swim: “Any hu- i safety in tolerably still water. When you first find yourself in deep water you have on'y to consider yourself an empty pitcher. Let your mouth aud nose and not the top of your heav. head be the highest part of you and you are safe. But thrust up one of your bony bands and down you gu. turning up ibe handle tips over the pitcher.” There are reason and logic in this. Dense. One day the teacher asked her class to write an essay on London, abou! which they had just been reading When examining their papers later she was surprised to read the following: “The people of London are noted for their stupidity.” “Where did you get that from?" ask. ed she of Maggie Jones. “Please, miss, it's all in the book. It says ‘the population of London is very dense.’ “—Loudon Answers. — ————— Props. “My dear brother.” said the clerica: Jooking man, “are you doing anythin to keep your brother from falling” “Why. yes.” was the reply. “I'm in terested in a courern that manuf: tures lampposts!”—Boston Courier. TREE oe mom, Neill. seelng that his | { | water, but they are coming one by one. FARM KOTES. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN | | DAILY THOUGHT. | of ne ounce,0f Sted Will spw 150 feet A dearth of words a woman need not fear; The earliest and quickest turnips are gt ti 8 tas: ined to 1egre—so hear. | best for spring growing. conversation; i : A .. | —Overcrowding will result in rough Thadshowsior wgies Youlbgith Polke and wise } and 1y-flavered roots. i ==Rutabagas should be sown three or A trained nurse gave to a mother what four weeks earlier than other turnips. she called her "five P's," for keeping chil- | . —Early turnips are sometimes bunched dren well. Here they are: . Pure milk, pure air, plenty of sleep, Bite belts, fy topped 2nd p clothing and perfect cleanliness. | few rules cover most of the ne-| ~—It is better to drill turnip seed than cessities in hygienic child-rearing. to broadcast it, as by the former method The importance of pure milk cannot the seed is more deeply sown. be over-estimated. Except for infants, | cows’ milk should answer every n i but mothers should know where it comes ! spring are very apt os tough and . from and how it is cared. for after it, stringy. horic acid cause is a clency enters the house. The best milk is quick- Phos . ly contaminated if left without a cover in | Turnips, if left in the ground, will pro- a hot place. { duce early greens in spring, and so will The strongest children are those who the stocks of cabbage if they are left live most in the open 2ir. Naps in day- with their roots in the , time can be taken in a sheltered ir. Well wrapped, a child does not take cold, | even in cold weather. At night every window should be open wide. See that enough bed clothing is supplied, or colds may result. Plenty of sleep is essential. Babies| —Lewis Palm, should be put to bed by 6 o'clock each t from evening and sleep through until the next called the A nap during the day this coughiy. | native morning at 7. should be given. y | ot ai Ske are amenable osucit | theugh 3 little smaller. rules, but ul trai into: __ better sleeping habits. | rat 38 England Te Rg her cxcheanng, | {0_Organize campaigns eeps a child warm wi t ov | Less bundling is thought ag puss. In one subi! village ' formerly. Wool should be worn next the skin for the first two years, but it should . be light weight. {| —The quince is easily pt | Perfect cleanliness isa matter of dainti- cuttings, and the : ness as well as hygi Nothing is more | the best, ripens ' shocking than a dingy infant or child. | quality. Cuttings sho — : moist sand in a The Tidy Girl.—Never puts her clothes ' the ground until away unbrushed. | —Tomatoes are Never neglects to put trees into her cess in all types of | boots, if she owns them; if not, she uses loams are considered tissue paper, stuffed into the toes, as a most varieties such | substitute. . smoother fruit. Clay soils, Never sits about the house in a walk- = favorable to large yields, if ing dress. is not a consideration the ts may ever forgets to pull out and straighten entirely satisfactory. es them off. : . up her veils leaving them on her t. o 8s g & 3 2 g 55d 2 | i | i ? 8 2 : 3 38 g | : g gloves when she —Reports from many parts of Penn- sylvania and other States in the Union . tell that the late frosts have done great | Keeps any jewelry she may elect to damage to fruit. To what extent we | wear immaculately clean. , cannot tell, but we would advise all who _ Fastens her collar straight in the back | have fruit this year to husband their instead of having it gaping in sections, or | crops carefully from now until finally dis- | the pins set in at all sorts of angles to! posed of, as we anticipate a strong mark- each other. et for all fruits the coming autumn and — . winter. It is not news to wf that every other —According to Roberts, the following thing in Paris is called A It makes ' is the yearly value of fertilizing constitu- little difference whether it is a dance, a ents in solids and liquids voided by farm dinner, a hotel, a hoodlum, a gown or a | animals during a year: Horse, $24.06; ring. The name Apacke is the last thing | cow, $32.25; v5 Ry $2.29; pig, $3.06. Ac- in popularity and the French are making ' cording to the same authority, valueing the most of it. | nitrogen at 15 cents, phosphoric acid at There is some talk of gowns for the! 7 cents and potash at 4.5 cents per pound, autumn which are lavishly trimmed with | the following is the average value per fringe, made up of a narrow skirt and a | ton of farm yard manure : Horse, $2.49; hunting skirt; to precede this there is a | cow, $2.43; sheep, $4.25; pig, $3.20. hat called the Apache, which is warrior- | _jf necessary to rear a lamb by hand, Tike, fo ay ye least. " | a New York State farmer says he finds ose who are tempted to jeer at all | she jamb the best judge of amount of the present fashions will readily give t0 | ilk required, and feeds at first nearly it the qualities of savagery and crudity; | 4) jt pe drink, which is about one quar- and yet it is dashing. | ter of a pint every three hours, the last fe ™ feed coming at 9 p. m. After the grass In a measureit is not a startling change | starts the feeds are gradually reduced to from the Pocahontas trimmings that we | one-half pint three times a day. The wore on our hats two seasons ago. These i milk fed in this way will yield larger consisted of upright Leathers in Jitfetent | profit than if sold to the cheese factory. colors spread acsoss the front and side o — ils i i seeds . the hat. In some of the Apache turbans, a po the ine exactly he same kind of trimming is| of carbon. Put the infested material in a used, only the Apache effect is ! tight box, bin or pail, put on top of the FOMmIREnt aroum the head and not on a | peas a shallow saucer, and pour into this m of a hat. 2 : some of the chemical, then close the con. One of the models which is being ex- | tainer tightly, and leave closed for 24 to ploited in Paris is almost a facsimile of | 36 hours. gas given off is heavier an Indian chieftain’s headdress. The | than air, and permeates the contents of feathers are about eight inches long in | the container. Do not bring lighted pipe the form of quills at the base, curling | or any other light near the bisulphide, as into soft fendtils at the top. “They sand it is highly inflammable. ose together in an even ban ngai _ i grow little lower at the back than the front. | ies Pennsylvania ma EE kaoarie These surround an extra high turban | during the growing season. He uses a of chiffon or tulle draped into 2a mound | small two ounce atomizer sold at drug shape, and there is a slight brim, say | stores. It reduces the kerosene to av about an inch in depth, which forms a | fine spray or mist and does not Rey base for the feathers. | or cover the foliage and fruit. It is This is a startling hat, but as it is turn- | claimed that by spraying in this way, and ed out by a great house it will Jrobably using great care, pests as plant and be worn by those who can set fash- | tree lice, grape hoppers and the like, are jons. There is no longer any doubt that | killed without injury to the trees or we are to wear hats that exceedin height | plants. This fruit grower carries the at- anything that has been attempted for centuries. 1 i omizer with him and applies the kero- sene mist whenever he notices insect While the first hat is more definitely Indian and has more of the atmosphere than any other model, it is also true that some of the other turbans are more - lar because they are not so daring. is a high crowned turban made of Bape shot thro with metal and trimmed across the front with an immense bunch ! of plumes. are vari-colored, extra thick and mount fully ten inches in the air. The head of all these hats is small. It is ight that counts; and the more it looks like an Indian head- dress the more startlingly stylish it is. So far these Apache turbans have not been frequently seen on this side of the 5 is SOW, the little pigs to learn whole buckwheat i well on it and welcome it | notonous diet. i: gst Fowls like it for a long time continuously. for home consumption, a and nitrogen source deserves a ch > = 3k There is no use in saying that our wom- en are too sensible to wear them, because 3 Statement like his bac nea Mockery w one remem e a ane hat, | weed destroyer the Merry Widow and the peach basket. ! fertilizer, but a | gs 3 853 i 8 Ha gge ill i 5 ge i 3578 5s it 8g £% ged fof Bids : : E g &g ; ! i E I : i: rr g i £1 : :
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