Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar sunning: Around it still the shumachs grow, And blackberry vines are running. Within, the master’s desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; ‘The warning floor, the battered seats, The jackknife’s carved initial. The charcoal frescoes on its wall; Its door’s worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing! Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting; Lit up its western window-panes, And low eaves’ icy fretting. It touched the tangled golden curls, And brown eyes full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy Her childish favor singled: His cap pulled low upon a face Where pride and shame were mingled. Pushing with restless feet the snow To right and left, he lingered; As restlessly her tiny hands The blue-checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes; he felt ‘The soft hand's light caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing. “I'm sorry that I spelled the word: I hate to go above you, Because’ —the brown eyes lower fell— “Because, you see, | love you!" Still memory to a gray haired man That sweet child-face is showing. Dear girl! the grasses on her grave Have forty years been growing! He lives to learn, in life's hard school, How few who pass above him Lament their triumph and his loss, Like her—because they love him. ~ Whittier. A WAR DOG HERO. In a small Ohio town a freckled-face lad, accompanied by a tawny-coated mon- grel listened to the martial music of a newly organized volunteer regiment which was tc march to the front a few days later. Inspired by the music and the tramp of many marching feet, the En, that he would like to go with the soldiers and do something for his country. When he ted him- self to the recruiting cer he was looked over with some disfavor. “Too small, my lad,” was the verdict. A crest fallen face made the officer give him a second glance. Then he asked: “Can you play the drum? We aeed drummer boys.” Without replying, Carl picked up a drum and played with such fervor and animation that the sergeant’s face beamed with smiles. “Here, you'll do,” he said. dog is that?” “Mine, sir, and he wants to enlist too.” There was a laugh from several officers and recruits, and one of the former said aloud, “Enlist a dog, eh?” Carl turned holtly around and replied: “Don't you enlist horses? Then why not a “But whose This little conversation did not result in anything favorable to the new drum- mer boy and his dog. He was accepted, but his dog was refused. At first the boy was for with-drawing, not caring to be separated from his but reason finally prevailed, and two days later there was an affectionate farewell between Carl and his canine friend. “I'll come back soon, he whis- pered, with tears trickling down his cheeks. “You must be a good dog and stay home with—with the others.” Carl went with his regiment by train, and for a few days the excitement of the travel made him forge i the train was exasperal made only a few miles an hour. Then they were ordered to go into cam Jemforarly near the border of their own te. ” = : dusty, and tired, pat- down in front of the tents, looking pleadingly into the eyes of the soldiers. A was not an unusual sight in the much at- there was | soldiers jumped out of the way, and a cry of "Mad dog!” fell from white lips; but it was not at sim as they were soon convinced, m into the arms of Carl. Be ph using the small drummer boy in the distance, own comfort. ? | ment claimed him, and he made friends | with all; but for him there was really | only one master. At night time he curled | up at the feet of the little drummer boy, bravery in saving the lives of two good men on the field of bottle.— Youth's World. TO THE WAYS OF THE WILD | and was content. B i the many marches and heavy yimid Doe Fimés There Is Some Good : ti and Sport followed the for- g | gh ng Carl andl BpoR Are it After All in the White Bipeds of the City. { 1862. Finally were swept toward | | the front at Vicksburg. In the awful suc- | cession of battles which seemed to follow , The heart of a deer, a poor, timid, ‘each other in bewildering rapidity, the | pretty little doe, must have been near | ' two managed to keep together without | to bursting with gratitude a few either being injured. Carl kept close to | days ago. Somewhere up among the his colonel, and Sport was always at his | ;ines in the moonlight she must sure- |B ome Souay, moist : day ie | ly have found a way, dumb brute | cue) craselive. Out of he cmerge like | of the antlered tribe how good after . phantoms. The Ohio boys their | all are the white bipeds of the city | ground nobly and retu shot for shot; | when the hunting season is over. but numbers overwhelmed them. A Out of the maelstrom of queer death-dealing cross-fire cut their ranks in | gights and scenes of snorting, puffing ‘two. Men fell on all sides. Carl saw a! ,ongters that ran on wheels and ut- | bewildering mass of gray surge toward in ‘him. He heard the rattle of small arms, | tered terrifying metallic sounds 3 of hailstones | Which she found herself she was trans- | like the contituous volley : ported back to her native environ- | falling on atin roof. Then Something | lee i p— . hit him: in the | and another pick him in the sho experienced a blinding sensation. For a shook and cowered and looked as long time the little drummer boy was un- | though she were gazing upon the end conscious. The battle 3 a from her great liquid eyes. They took him, aud then swept away Fi 53" | her back to the mountains, loosened How long Carl lay unconscious he could | their hold upon the soft neck and said | not vt when his eyes opened all | to her: “Go, little girl.” . was quiet and peaceful. heavy odor | She hesitated a minute, then, realiz- | of smoke and dust filled his . | | tried to get up, but fell back with | thing beyond all beiief, she sprang from groan. He was lying in a thick clump of | the tonneau of the motor car and woods, and the shade of Sha folinge Was | in three bounds was out of sight. grateful to im. When ho Whatever caused the animal to stray an # heard Jodh nea drawn up in | (0t0 the city from some one of the a not a dozen feet from him. With | nearby canyons no one knows.—Los great difficulty he crawled toward him. A | Angeles Times. at the face startled Carl. It was | gl in the battle, with the' ood Rowing profusely from 4 wound in| PROFESSOR WAS THE LIMIT n spite ol LL, Which Goes to Show That Wives bl the chest. his own injuries, Carl tried to stanch the blood, but his Should Be Careful About Overbur- dening Husband's Mind. feeble efforts seemed without avail. Yet he knew that the unconscious man was i bleeding to death. | | In his anxiety to stem the ebbing life { of his colonel the boy forgot his own { wounds. He tried to raise his voice to | aterace steno, bo he yas weal: and usky, an great e! appea deserted. The two were lying away from the dead in a thicket by themselves. The depressing silence of the place confirmed the boy's fears that the wounded had al- ready been gathered up, and that the colonel and he had been overlooked in the h of the work. The distant boom of guns had Srows so faint that they scarcely made an impression on the atmosphere. Carl's mind went back to the scene through which he had lived, and thoughts of his dog came to him. Where was sport? Had he, too, been shot and killed? In the struggle the two had been - rated. The minutes Sragged on wearily. The boy's own pain made him feveri His mind wandered, and he called feebly for Sport. Then while his head nodded and his hand tried to stop the pain in his leg a vision of a dog racing across the field flashed before him. He seemed to see Sport pursued by soldiers. Were they going to kill him? He tried to raise him- self on his elbow and shout, but he fell back exhausted; but Sport came to him and licked his hand and placed a cold nose against his hot head. He heard some of the men speak. Their words m—— The people didn't merely look at Professor Branefog—they stared. He knew he was absent minded at times, and he wondered whether he had rub- bed his face with boot polish instead whether he had forgotten to change his dressing gown for his frock coat. But a kind policeman put things right, “Are you aware, sir, that you are carrying a joint of beef in your arms?” he asked. “Goodness, me!" said the professor. “I knew something was wrong. My wife told me to put her Sunday hat on the bed, to place this joint in the oven, and to take the baby and the dog out for a walk.” “You've not put the baby in the oven, surely,” said the law's guardian. “I put something in it,” said Brane- fog; “but I don't know whether it was the baby or the dog.” With bated breath they hurried to the professor's house. Here, on the bed lay the baby and the dog, but it was just as bad for Branefog. It was his wife's Sunday hat that was in the made his dream seem real. oven! “It is our little drummer boy,” t , said. “We knew Spor: would find him.” i Then called , "And here's the Doctor Defends Meat Eaters. {olonal foto ro, alive. Come, boys, In his recently published work Dr. a » Robert Hutchinson observes that ene ry no more. He passed off ergy is not to be confused with mus. cular stgength. A grass fed cart horse is strong; a corn fed hunter is ener- getic. Energy is a property of the nervous system; strength of the mus- cles. Muscles give us the power to do work; the nervous system gives us the initiative to start it. Muscles do their work upon carbohydrates (starch foods), which are the charac- teristic nutritive constituents of vege- table foods; the brain appears to re- quire nitrogen, which can only be at- tained in a concentrated form from animal sources. If proteid food, there- fore, be regarded as a nervous food, a diet rich in it will make for intel. lectual capacity and bodily energy, “Was Sport hurt?” were his first words, when he could Shek. “Yes, my boy he was shot in the leg; but he's recovering,” was the qu answer. " Ly colonel—did he die?” mur- mured boy. “No, he was picked up in time—thanks to Sport.” .| and it is not without reason that the and all of his weariness and hunger de- or G2 nok hens theo mel], gay. ote energetic races of the world serted him. a . favorite of his regiment related the circumstances | have been meat eaters. with the men of his t, and when V more srging Io the nerves than actual fighti ere were many white faces around, and hands trembled as they held close to his head, but a glance at him. was alert trem but with his face toward the battle. a bullet w of hard march and ‘some little skirmishing. The . ment was rapidiy being drilled to endure the rigorsof a hard campaign. The The Actor in China. If she new regime in China suc- ceeds in abolishing class distinction in civil administration it will have ac- complished a difficult task. Hitherto three classes of the population have been esteemed by the Chinese "low- est of the low,” these being actors, barbers and chiropodists. These and their children are barred from becom- ing Mandarins. Their grandsons, ac- cording to the letter of the law, are permitted to hold government posts, but this permission has seldom been granted. Some years ago a grandson of Cheng Chang Keng, the most famous Pekin actor of his day, was appointed one of the secretaries of the Chinese legation in Berlin. The ap- pointment aroused a storm of protest among official circles in China, and but for the support of the empress dowager would have been revoked. Locking Up the Stable. The chancellor of the exchequer was putting up the iron shutters while the first Lord of the Admiralty stowed away the show case. “There's no use takin’ chances,” says the chancellor. “Britannia’s shop must be protected at all ’azards.” “Right you are,” remarked the ad- miralty chap. “W'y, them stone- throwin’ lydies busted enough window glass on their last suffrin’ rampyge to buiid a battleship an’ arf a dozen col- liers.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. i F one of the regiment. Years afterward, when the threads of the " though she is, to tell her companions | He stumbled and | Poor, little trembling creature. She | nostrils. He | ing what to her was doubtless some- | of cold cream after he had shaved, or | B.T CF A SCOTCH FPUZZIL! | liceman on Sunday Leaves | Question Unsettled. When is a policeman not a police- man? This is a question that has se- riously agitated the Scotch players ! appearing in “Bunty” at the Comedy | theater, New York, since they re- | ceived a letter from & distinguished ! resident Scotchman. In the letter he objected to the use of the word “po- | iceman” in “Bunty,” and suggested that “bailiff” or “sheriff” be used in- | stead. “Policemen,” he insisted, would never be heard in Scotland. Scotch policemen, in certain com- | munities, do not work on the Sabbath. There is no such thing as a Sunday ! policeman in Scotland, but upon any extraordinary occasion, the Scotch | Players contend, any self-respecting poilceman, if called upon, would do his duty. I Will Jaxone, who plays the part of | the policeman, insists that, although ! he has had no personal experience | with Scotch policemen. he has had a | soclal acquaintance with many of i them. and that the word “policeman” i is the only description of these men | he has ever heard. Also Graham | Moffat, the author, has also used the | word “policeman” in the actors’ lines. | “When we were Loys we all had a good deal to do with a policeman,” says George Ingleton, the stage man- ager. However, the point made by the writer of the letter is not settled, be- | cause a Scotch policeman is not a po- | iceman on Sunday. | THE MAN IN A PINK SHIRT Plays Stiff Game of Poker, Hunts a Good Deal and Is Familiar Figure at Ball Game. The telegraphic story of the events which threw the fat into the fire in Ilexico and started the war over again, mentions a man in a pink shirt 2s the one who led the attack on Juarez. Having touched the spark to the powder magazine just as the | belligerents were shaking hands for | peace and reformation, the man in the pink shirt passes out of the tele- i graphic narrative and out of the his- tory of Mexico. Unless this man in the pink shirt is an exception, those who live in a | country town know him well. The | pink shirt itself was bought at a | racket store for 69 cents. The man plays a stiff poker game, hunts a good deal without reference to the game laws, and is a familiar figure at ball ; games, country fairs and foot races i where betting is tolerated. | Wagering money on the outcome of | & ball game is too slow for him. He | bets on whether the next throw of the | Pitcher will be a ball or a strike; whether the batter misses or breaks i his bat; whether the catcher running ! for a foul gets or is cut on the barbed ! wire fence. i It is disturbing to know that a man | in a pink skirt could overrule the gen- | eral of an army and scatter death and i destruction as at Juarez; doubly dis. i turbing to believe that he could | change the destinies of a nation. Her Luncheon Bag. While calling on a business friend . about the lunch hour yesterday I was ! greatly surprised to see his fair sten- ographer eating and drinking from what had the appearance of being an ordinary hand bag. Invited to inspect the article in question, however, I was amazed at the clever manner in which the “buffet” bag was arranged. It con- tained specially made places for sand- wiches and ple, besides a flask-like ar- rangement with a screw top for the coffee. To cap the climax, salt and pepper shakers were set in the sides “It's a little idea of my own,” ex- plained the young woman. “I had the bag, that looks just like an ordinary hand bag when you carry it on the street, made from my own drawings.” -—Boston Post. The Man That Does Things. “It is not the critic who counts— not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again be- cause there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actu- ally strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worth cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of . high achievement and who at the worst, Af he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” —Roosevelt. Milk for Flesh Reduction. The simplest article containing com- plete nourishment is milk, That is Dr. Mitchell's cure for obesity, but he puts his patients to bed while he gives it to them. An amount of milk sufficient for the nourishment of a healthy, ac- tive person presents digestive difficul- ties for many. It is not the simple liquid diet it seems, but presents a solid mass of curds in the stomach. Lime water makes it more digestible. In the form of buttermilk, it is easier to digest and makes a very effective reduction diet. It is wise to take with it a little gluten bread wich butter, since the fat have been removed from the milk.—Harper's Bazar. — i i | plays an important part in sleeve decora- a | for the sun-plaited and accordion-plaited FOR ARD ABOUT WOMEN DAILY THOUGHT. FARM NOTES. —— —Teach the colt to draw loads by de- Along all our pathways sweet flowers are | FOC. blossoming. if we will only stop to pluck them | —About ten weeks after shearing dip and smell their fragrance. In every meadow birds the lambs. are warbling, calling to their mates and soaring — er tt 5 into the blue, if we only stop our grumbling long Ho oR D.S0WE over that have proved to enough to hear them.— Minot J. Savage. D. D. | Keep the ewes in the stable on dry | — An unusual variety of sleeves is noted A feed for a day or two. in the new gowns. Sleeves of great ful-| Many a bunch of : i romising feeders ness are gathered into small armholes, | go to the country a S ret brag and at the elbow gathered again into I of ey haf Sarva a loose, wide cuffs, from which hang deep : : lace flounces. Laid close and flat at the _ — The point of keeping the cows clean | has been proven to be a saving in feed top, the fulness of a new sleeve drops : into wide, loose folds at the elbows; be. | as well as an increase in milk. ow, it is wrinkled into a wide, tight band | __ i and finished with double fill of fin | into ery good brocder SRD be termed lace. {| Lay it down flat on the back, which Other sleeves are extremely full and | makes the floor. Remove the sloping are gathered into small armholes. i i “Wi '-$ length is shirred on the inside. 10 fit the | hroged Tr Ue 0ld-Window:sashes, bend of the arm, and the fulness falls | Divide the rest of the box into three away fom the back of the arm. | compartments. Tack an old blanket to long Moyenage sleeve on a gown | hang loosely from the top or ceiling, and of changeable taffeta has a high shoul- | gjash blanket slips, fringe fashion, across der puff of mousseline de soie match- | the middle entrance, for the chicks to ing in color the bertha trimming on! push through. Leave an entrance the corsage. Even prettier than this is a ' pus glass A a Dance sles long, tight sleeve of much wrinkled | To furnish artificial warmth, have a mousseline de soie, that emerges from | jarge tin lamp with a funnel-shaped under the long armhole of a silk corsage. | chimne ; i ! i v placed outside, and a long tin The etiges o the armholes are finished | tube run the entire length ot the brooder with a bias band and trimmed with but- | inside. This will convey the necessary tons and mock buttonholes. It wili be | warmth, seen from these descriptions that lace! Bore several inch-holes for ventilation, nd have one of the boards in the back tion, and in a manner quite novel; many | joose, so the brood i . years have passed since these extremely | od. Be broder can easily. be clear wide lace flounces have been in fashion. | —Farmers who had a plentiful supply : | of pork for market during the past year Skirts are the chief bone of contention | reaped prices that were second only to this year and show many pleasing varia- | those realized by the poultrymen. In tions from the old mode. An old-fashioned | fact, more than one farm now, on ac- skirt, presented as an extreme novelty, | count of the tempting figures, has turned has the back breadth covered, from belt | its forces to the production of pigs and to hem, with a series of softly falling | posluy on a large scale, and experience puffs of graduated widths. The front of proved that it is a very good combi- the skirt is slightly draped. Of the same nation. period is the overskirt of another dress, Some years ago a writer, in giving his made entirely of puffings separated by petsonal recollections of early breeders of slightly puckered bands of velvet ribbon. land China hogs, said that some of It drops low in the middle of the back | them were driven by circumstances to and front and is dra on each side. the large use of bran and middlings in Marquisette and voiles are used fealling young stock, and even at that early day were compelled to compound a ration very similar to that which 50 years experience at the experimental stations indicates as the best feed for growing animals. In those early days there was considerable prejudice among buyers against the skim milk pig. Large use of timothy, clover and blue grass was then made in swine growing by the veteran breeders, and to a suggestion made to one of them, on seeing his herd ina tmimothy meadow, that it was bad forthe meadow, the reply came: "Yes, but it is a mighty good thing for the pigs.” Now all this goes to show that there is very little that is absolutely new, and that on the points above ra nobody could give any better advice now than always used to adorn this seam. the practice of the old-timers suggests. Worth uses quantities of tassels for | The only difference between now and skirts and sleeve trimming. He shows | then appears to be that what was good his dislike of the crude colors of the sea- | in the methods of those days was some- son by softening them with lace and | what in the nature of trade secrets, gauze. { whereas they now are or may be the _ An odd but pleasing fancy, noted on a | common property of all swine growers. little dress of dark blue taffeta, was a! —The Gray Toulouse geese derive their name from Toulouse France, where they are extensively bred They are classed as the Christmas go in this country, from the fact that they are later in maturing than the other varieties, and come in about at the right time for the holiday trade. They are fairly good layers. The Toulouse is more compact in shape than other geese. The head is rather large and short, and the neck is carried lup and is of medium length. The back is broad and of a moderate length, curving slightly from the neck to the tail. e breast is broad and deep. The body is moderate in length, broad and ve and compact; and, when the bird is in good condition, the belly almost touches the ground. skirts that slender women gladiy wel- come. Other plaited skirts are laid in two-inch plaits stitched on the edges to within a short distance of the bottom, then left free. Sometimes these skirts are hung from a small, round yoke. A satisfactory way of increased fulness in a tailored skirt without add- ing to the bulk is a seam in the middle of the back. It is laid flat, stitch- ed on the edge to simulate a fold, and trimmed with buttons. A straight seam, placed anywhere on a skirt—at one side of the back or the front, or inthe middle of either—is seen in the majority of short skirts, and but- tons, in any one of myriad styles, are Years ago it was considered that rheu” matism was a disease belonging to mid- dle life and old age rather to child- hood, though acute rheumatism, or rheu- matic fever, was known, of course, to children. Now. however, it is widely recognized that St. Vitus's dance, tonsilitis, pleurisy and pneumonia are often true manifesta- tions of rheumatism. Children especially liable to rheumatism are those who are nervous and highly strung, and their Symptons are often in- correctly attributed to their nervousness. | “tra wings are large, strong, and fold Acute rheumatism in children is not as snug! nst the sides, the tail is short, a rule so severe as in the case of adults, ae ighs and shanks stout. is some complaint of pain and stiffness in the limbs and these are fre- quently treated somewhat lightly as pains.” In all but the m t cases is mi less swelg of joints than there would be in an adult, and, though there is some fever, the temperature never reaches the high de- gress CONNOR in attacks of rheumatic ever among grown poole, Children of a rheumatic tendency are The color of the plumage is dull gray; the head 34 if gray, Ae neck bi X, gray, ng to a ter gray as it ap- proaches the back; the er of dark gray, while the breast islight gray. y and becomes white §ERT the aggregate millions of dol- wholesale establishments here, and more women becoming conspicuous in 4 At A i US J Aral following suggesti made Thomas ln Mate heavy drain upon the the by diversified t ng ae of work the farm. More economical Biethods of feeding. The Dee. = all arms, of machinery requiring power. Among these methods the sub- stitution of brood mares for dhe geldin most comm employed will commen itself as the ot desirable. It is demon- ar line for promotion to the post of In some lines of goods peculiarly fem- inine the woman buyer is better than the Saw buyer, other lines and in taking chances the man is far . As a rule the man’s ideas of proportion are better, he makes better forecasts. “Good gment, the ability to forecast what will be used, is even more neces- than good taste and nice eye for . If a buyer always consulted his own taste in buying goods he could cause the Joss of of dollars for an employes in one year.” e proprietor of a retail store explains the woman buyer's success differently. he works harder, is willing to work har- Ser than the average man buyer and days more attention to details, he be- peves. the horse the expense of upkeep is con- tinuous. However, during the next cade the horse must be kept in the collar and his cost must be reduced, as said be- fore, by keeping more brood mares at work and in the second place by pro- ducing large crops, so that for a expenditure of labor there are increased returns.
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