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
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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
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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
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. 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
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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
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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
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more “sinned against than sinning,”
is by far the most respon-
ili unsatisfact:
and unprofitable condition. Whoeeor
Po find a dairyman who is bigger than
his herd you will also find expansion and
improvement from year to year, but on
the other hand, if the herd is bigger
than the man, they will surely drop to
his level, and guiclty.
It is safe to sas, it's the “man behind
cows.”—B. W. Putnam.
~Saving Potato Seed.—Experiments
have demonstrated that the yield of po-
tatoes can be increasd greatly by saving
the seed direct from the field at digging
time, yet this is very seldom practiced on
the farm. It takes some extra time to
harvest the crop when this method is
practiced, but the results will be profit-
able and pay one well for the extra time
and labor required.
A potato the same as any other vege-
table has a tendency to reproduce stock
like that from which it was produced.
The potatoes from a vine having several
large tubers will have a tendency to re-
produce vines that will yield about the
same number and kind of tubers as the
parent vine. Potatoes from a vine pro-
ducing only two or three tubers will in.
herit the same tendency, and when re-
planted the resulting vines will yield a
relatively small number of tubers.
In selecting the seed at digging time,
the idea is to save the potatoes from the
vines yielding the largest number of
tubers, not the biggest tubers but the
ost. The size is a result of variety,
richness of soil and cultivation. When a
heavy yielding vine is thrown out, the
potatoes from this can be placed to one
side and picked up at a second picking.
They should be kept by themselves in a
well-ventilated cellar 3 bin until needed
sible for the
lan Some growers would just as
Plate: the small ones oa
will not plant them at all. Those who
oats, but is more i
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Raising Pigs Without Skim Milk—While
was | good skim milk stands at the head of
the list of feeds for
essential as lon
weaning time, when used to supplement
the usual feed of grain. While many
farmers have skim milk are many
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