poem describes the meaning of their ac- tions as fellows: These glowing nuts are emblems true Of what in human life we view, I have shut my little sister in from life and light (For a rose, for aribbon, for a wreath across my hair), Ihave made her restless feet still until the night, Locked from sweets of summer and from wild spring air: Twho ranged the meadow-lands, free from sun to sun, Free to sing and pull the buds and watch the far wings fly, Thavebound my sister, till her playing-time is done— Oh, my little sister, was it I >~was it]? I have robbed my sister of her day of maiden. hood (For a robe, for a feather, for a trinket’s rest: less spark), Shut from love till dusk shall fall, how shall she know good, How shall she pass scathless through the sin. lit dark? I who could be innocent, I who could be gay. I who could have love and mirth beforethe light went by, I have put my sister in her mating-time away— Sister, my young sister—was it I?—was it I? I have robbed my sister of the lips against her 5 E i ZER33F ll breast table, and have four unshaded candles Fara sola; for She Weaviea of my children's | in pewter candlesticks. Serve the food in lace wn), heavy kitchen china or tin dishes, and have napkins. The cen be a huge cabbage. At the end of Feet that pace beside the loom, hands that can not rest: I who took no heed of her, starved and labor worn, I against whose placid heart my sleepy gold- heads lie, Round my path they cry to me, little souls un. born— God of Life—Creator! It was I! It was I! =| Margaret Widdemer, in McClure’s Magazine. BFE8E = Quaint Hallowe’en Customs. After searching with desperate in. tensity for new ways of celebrating the ever-recurring holidays, it is sometimes both a relief and a novelty to go back to the oldest of old ways. At no time is there a better opportunity for this than on All-hallow Eve. No new customs can be as quaint and full of old-world mean- ing as those of the English, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh peasants, dating back to the days of the Druids. Instead of search- ing for new ways of dressing and acting much overworked parts of witches, spirits, and hobgoblins, let us become the “countra lads and lasses,” even to the extent of dressing in peasant costumes, and test our fate in the good old ways. The invitations, written in crude char- acters on brown paper, may be worded SE. i H Swalhe, The one falling off first is un- t At each plate there may be a small candle in a tin holder, the holder con- cealed by a tiny tissue-paper cabbage. Before each person bowl filled with water Spon which rire sailing two boats made of English wal- nut shells, with paper sails attached to toothpick masts. Each give names to his or her two boats, and watch the fate of the two during the supper. as follows (a patched-up adaptation of | A fitting ending to the evening, just parts of Burns’ poems on Hallowe'en): | before allowing e fire to go out, would be an old-fashioned country dance. This Some merry, friendly countra folks, Together will convene, To burn their nuts, an’ pou their stocks, An’ hand their Hallowe'en. The auld guid wife's well-hoarded-nuts . Will all round be divided, An’ mony lads’ and lasses fates Will that night be decided, Nut-crack Night, From ten to twelve o'clock. 3 Ocean Avenue. Hallowe'en was frequently called Nut- crack Night, Jocause Suis Hire 80 im- portant a part in ng of fortunes. Make the furnishings of the rooms as simple and mitive as possible. Re- move bric-a-brac and cover handsome ticularly appropriate for a barn. Not a Soloist. The late Theodore Thomas was re- hearsing the Chicago orchestra on the stage of the Auditorium theater. He was disturbed by the whistling of Ale bert Burridge, the well known scene painter. whe was at work in the loft above the stage. A few minutes later Mr. Thomas’ librarian appeared on the “bridge” where Mr. Burridge. merrily whistling, was at work. “Mr. Thomas’ compliments,” said the librarian, “and he requests me to state that If Mr. Burridge wishes to whistle be will be glad to discontinue his re- hearsal.” To which Mr. Burridge replied suave ly, "Mr Burridge's compliments to Mr. Thomas, and please Inform Mr Thomas that if Mr. Burridge cannot .| whistle with the orchestra he won't whistle at all.” Rocking Chair Signs, tion the house behind her is In. If she sways back and forth with a floppy, comfortable motion. plumping both feet down In a relaxed sort of way, then everything about the house 18 absolutely clean and neat. Bw if she rocks In little nervous jerks. tap ping ber feet down at short and irregu- lar intervals. it signifies that there are unmade beds behind ber and stacks of unwashed dishes and dusty floors.— Atchison (lobe. They All Wear Twos. Manager of Shoe Store—I've tried my best to attract the women to this place and they simply won't come Salesman — No wonder! Your sign queers the trade. Manager (beatedly) —What's wrong with the sign? Sales- man—It reads. “The Big Shoe Store.” -Lippincott’s. Sandwich Man Is Old. The walking advertisement known as a “sandwich man” Is by vo means a modern idea. In 1846 a procession of men dressed to represent straw cov- ered wine bottles used to parade the streets of Florence, Italy, being hired by the wine merchants there. Temporarily Handicapped. Mr. Doughleigh—I met that French nobleman. Count de Brie, today. Dot. ty Doughleigh—Really. Is he a bril- lant conversationalist? Mr. Dough- leigh— Well, no, not at present. He has rheumatism in his shoulders.—Judge. il ths § i 2 fi : : = : i i 3 23 : sefs I : : 5 i i g g g g§ of i g gE H! § g g i ssf 5 I i i: ; iF z i t di dl & fs 2 ] £ g g fs i § : 5d i 8.3 is 4 i: $F is fg Placing the Blame. Mr. Enagg—It may be true, as you Say, you were too young to marry me. Mrs. Enagg—Don't try to shift the blame; you were too old for me.—Chi- cago News. The eventless time is the time, but we do not realize thst till we have" the exciting experiences os. EE —— ~—=For high class Job Work come to the WATCHMAN Office. 73 ; there may be a tin noses stick out; bodies in two or three | is homely Hallowe'en party would be par- . | seems and yet I must confess I enjoy it; having to talk unless I wish to do so, | once the city and its dwellers will have a ing. Iam going down into the city on Friday night to see the little lights with which I am told it will all be lighted. You will also see the people gambling in open doorways, for this is once that even the British army allows its natives li- i cense to gamble openly. Could you ever | think of a whole people gambling. 1 sup- pose they do things like that in Spain or Mexico but to me it seems absurd. To begin this curious week I have in- vited my hostesses of a few weeks ago to take tea with me tomorrow afternoon, andl am not just sure what they will ed by our hands and their caste will pre- vent their taking anything that is prepar- ed away from home. 1 will tell you of paper on it so if I say nothing about it | you can imagine the worst. know I am still practicing medicine—and by all odds it is the most fascinating study one can find. As I have told you ally, really cold—not this French impor- tation—go over to the hospital at seven grown folks with woolen hoods drawn | clear over their heads so that only their woolen jackets, then absolute nudity be- low, at least so far as the babies go, and Q | mighty near that as to the others, you ' should hear me rail, for all have colds, | and bads ones at that; they sputter and cough until you can’t hear yourself think. | Is there any earthly sense in such a form of protection—feet and legs bare, cold, ' and thin while their bodies look like bar- rels,—with consumption stalking openly | on every side. These people die quick- | ly, their resistance seems to be of the | The | smallest, so that a cough means a warn- ' ing not to be overlooked, and yet they ! will not unwrap their heads but swathe them the more and never, no never put | on a pair of socks or pajamas if they { must go to bed with pneumonia. I tell you Iam reviving my temper; .the other night two of the younger nurses becoming jealous of each other i i started in to have a regular hair pulling | match. Their voices soared higher and { higher and I was called upon to save | such hair as still remained in place. As | ‘nC 'T had already spent an hour giving these | two a piece of my mind in rather strong , language I decided that, as Miss Mc- | Lean had prayed with them, others had | coaxed and shamed them, it was my | place to use the rod, hoping it would | prove more potent than my tongue. As { I was about to start for the train I had | but picked up a big stick and started on 'a run for the “scene of war” which I heard long before reaching, and without saying a word started to lay on. I guess it did hurt a bit but this much I will say, all is now quiet and at least from this form of trouble I am free for this time. I hate myself when I strike a human be- ‘ing and I have had hard work not to beg their pardons for being so brutal. To go back to my Sunday walk, of which I spoke last week, I saw a native plowing; two oxen were hitched to a na- tive plow of a single prong and it turned the earth up just as though you pulled a straight stick along. Walking behind the plowman came a woman with a ves- sel of grain on her head and she dropped a handfull of seed into this furrow just as he went along; no raking nor smooth- ing down, the hard clods just left as they were. The patch covered a space of perhaps one-half the size of our front lawn at home; of course there was plen- ty more space but there was an old stump on one side and a fair sized rock on another and it would be too much trouble to remove these and so be able Three days alone, how queer it all 1 f i | glad that it should be so, for at least this the eat, if anything, since it must be prepar- | cho that after the event is over; perhaps it | are kept at work will be so flat I will not want to waste | farms making these boxes and scarring i i i 1 Another bit of shop talk just to let you | in the spring, it oozes out in | i | f i { 1 : | f On 2 Turpentine Farm. world in its shipments of turpentine and resin. A third part of the turpen- tine produced in the United States is . made in South Carolina alone. A turpentine farm consists of thous- ands and thousands of tne long-leafed pine trees. They are not large trees, but they grow perfectly straight and so tall that they sometimes reach the height of fifty feet before their branches begin. One of these forests is a pretty sight, and there is so little underbrush that The size of a turpentine farm is deter- mined by the number of the boxes. Ten thousand five hundred boxes make what is called a Now, I will tell you what is meant by a box. If you walk through one of these ine forests, you will see that every tree as one or two places upon it scarred places a deep hole has been cut into which the white sap oozes and is held. These holes are called boxes. Every fall and winter gangs of men on these turpentine the trees. Generally two men work to- guthes; Su on each aide of the tree, ond they chop in turn. moves ox White gr Yok 20d Funa into the xes, where it soon hardens, forming a gum about as thick as molasses candy. Once in two or three days men go drops on the cut places before, it is only cold here at nights, so | along with teams and clean out the box- that when I, Ty to snow and re. | ©: emptying the contents into barrels. When full, these barrels are taken to the $urpentine distillery. It takes about eight barrels of gum to make two barrels o'clock and find the babies and the of turpentine, and what remains will be n. These distilleries are built in the and are queer looking affairs. It enough to tell when you are ap. ching one by the smell of the resin. e odor comes from the gum as it is being boiled to get out the turpentine. Great kettles are set in the brick furnac- es in which hot fires are kept. The gum, mixed with water, is placed in these ket- tles. As the mixture melts, the turpen- tine in it rises up in a vapor and goes off into pipes kept cool by having streams of spring water flowing over them. The F vapor condenses in the pipes turns to a liquid again, and at the end flows out in a stream of clear white turpentine. This is barreled and shipped to the markets. resin, which has been left in the kettles by the boiling, is also put into barrels, where it soon hardens, and is then ready for sale.—Clinton Montague, in Advance. A Brief History of the Sweat-Shop. In the June Woman's Home Compan- ion a contributor writes about the great work that the National Consumers’ op: “In the last twenty-five years, since there has been such a great tide of Euro- pean immigration into our large Stles, tenement have grown more more crowded, and with the increasing has come a p te in- crease in rents. The manufacturer, cast- ing about for a means of reducing the cost of production, found all about his | market factory women who, unable to go out to work, were to take work in at home. Sometimes earned only money and were sa with low pay, these old women and little chileren, widows and invalids; sometimes they were so poor that were thankful to even the oat they which hgh in facturer, setting rates at the least de- mand of these led i work here... .. . older brother the advantage of knowledge, | but I can do something for you. Exert t f! Improve your opportunities! | ! Learn! The next May he took rme to Exeter to the Phillips Exeter ! Academy, and placed me | tion of its excellent preceptor, Dr. Ben i min Abbot.” During his nine months’ course at the : Academy Yous Webster lodged and : pot only does this breed | boarded with r Clifford, whose | residence at the corner of Water and i i i under the tui- | i Ja | of obtaining Clifford streets is still standing. In the | | room which he occupied still remains his | study table, which is simply a leaf sup- ported from the wall. e house is in | its main portion the oldest building in | Exeter, dating back to 1658. { That young Webster made | his opportunities at the | tested by the oft-repeated fact | the close of his first quarter he | use of ' among y is at- | disinterested that at | is it reasonable to expect good was trans- | from improper and indifferent breedi | ferred from the foot to the head of his a og | birds are to be the breed of turkey, viz: Whether the r reared with the purpose of making a profit with them or whether they are only for home consumption. If the former, he selects the Bronze variety. He says for profit it is purely a question a birds of the heaviest possi- ble weight when they are from six to nine months old. He further says that t : produce heavy weight, but quality of flesh is also ob- tained. —Much has been written from time to time regarding scrub cows, or dairy ani- mals that fail to return a t to their owners. But with all this well timed criticism, is it not a fact that we have us as many scrub, or careless, caretakers as dairies? And results eeding? | class, much to the chagrin of certain de- In my judgment the average dairy cow | of ; to the class He always loved the old school, and | especially the honored schoolmaster, Dr. Abbot, whom he thus addressed at the | Academy reunion in 1838 when present. , ing him Wich a silver cap. is who ! ou see arou , Sir, pu| w ! have been a you. e have | come today to offer you the together tributes of our hearts. We have all been | the | here, sir, at different years; we have all, sir, been called up to your chair to be ex- member, sir, when we were brought here by our parents. We remember weil the wis looks wih which you Justived us. Yougoverned us, sir, a and even temper, but you governed us with that kindness which won our hearts. We have here, sir, formed a little Republic, we have had a public opinion, but, sir, there never was yet an Exeter boy who could obtain respect or countenance by setting himself up against your will.” —Christian Advocate. ——Mrs. Russell Sage has bought Marsh Island, La, for $150,000 and will make it a refuge for birds. Control will be placed either in the hands of the government, the State of Louis- iana, or an association organized for the Pe Island is the most important winter feedi ground for wild ducks itin winter for food and shelter when more streams and lakes are under ice. Millions o birds have been | slaughtered there. With the cessation of this wholesale killing American wild fowl will increase enormously in number, say. lay. of Mrs. Sage’s which line with the interest animals in the past. She has been inter- ested in the feeding of the Central Park squirrels, the gs2 i g i :