THE LITTLE DOG ANGEL.
But he sits alone at the gates. i
“For I know that my master will come,” idols must have guessed
says he,
“And when he comes he will call for cranium, with piglike
| enormous and
And his master, for on the earth below, tremendous nose,
immense
ter waits
Outside, in the dark and cold, !
For the hand of death to open the gates
That lead to those courts
The little dog angel's eager
Will comfort his soul in the shivering
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—Author unknown Oak walking sticks
horses’ or stags’
dark.
of gold,
bark
PEARLS.
Father Brilling’s nati
sweet-tempered and doc
came willi
which they
at the top of their lungs.
men were modest and wore Mother
ves were
ile. They |
ly to the little church
built for him,
sang the responses and the hymns w
and |
The wo-
Hubbards. The men wore trousers
(on Sundays, shirts and
and even the children wore some-
thing.
The natives neither quarreled
stole. They traded like
Even the dogs and cats were kind baby; but he looked
to each other. They often could be With joyous roguishness at all
trousers),
them by.
great whittler
hed never tackled
let alone the two
group.
know precisely what
and
| daylight hours of
' moved one last
side of a dear little
{and perceived at once
nothing more that he could do.
nor A general keyhole shape furnished |
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the pearls that are off
off-color. Let them sail
‘these and their swallowed disappoint-
ment. There would be enough prof-
village to make up for
the trouble of diving, and all of the
was worthy pearls would have been set
‘aside to the illimitable profit of sery-
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take away with them the seed
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inadequate growth
promoting value, but they e-
‘ment each other to some extent.
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feast took her into the moun-
tains, he climbing ahead, and was
gone for a whole week.
Father Brilling went with them;
because in the Dpiiness giving the
quick services of a priest are some- nga] town and country use and,
times needed. ‘There are sharks to ir 1,,;t one suit is to be i Meloy a
complicate matters, and the giant ,46] of this kind should be select-
cod, and the savage barracuda. And oq jn preference to ether the clas-
there are depths even more danger- gi. tailor-made or the more elaborate
ous, for when a diver, tempted bya f,rred model.
clutch of fine shell, struggling down-
ward even an extra half fathom, he _ what
comes to the surface paralyzed, and hour of the
either dies then and there, or re-
mains a helpless cripple on the hands
of his family.
Sul tnat season there were nc
casualties. Ald In other ways it
Was all oud Scason, ana would have
been a fauure but for ine great ting
Rainoa made on the last auy of the
diving ana mn the very .ast oyster
that ne opened.
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—Be sure and wear a dust mask
or a damp cloth over the face when
treating wheat with copper carbon-
ate dust. Treat seed wheat out-
Yodts and work on the windward
:
Such a suit
can be worn through the season for
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—Sash greenhouses meet a real
need for Pennsylvania vegetable
growers who are nct located in the
intensive production areas. The
type of sash house which has met
with general approval is 10 by 18
feet in size and is heated by a coal
or gas stove or by a small hot water
system, according to State College
specialists.
i; the most fashionable
day for dinner? Be-
tween half past six and half past
coven in the country, an hour later
:n the city.
Is it necessary for a man to rise
when another man enters the room?
Not unless the newcomer is elderly
or distinguished.
Who precedes when ascending or
descending stairs, the man or the
woman? The woman always pre-
ris, and
aped and
away with
—Litter for the brooder house
should be light in weight so that the
droppings will be kept covered. In
1 addition, this type of litter makes
a reputa- a broadly flared and pleated skirt. Was opened for diving, and closed, ‘i Shouts of trium.h brougnt {nge% Poth ascending and descend- Sikauing. the brooder novse au Gasier
bargains. These were both, and designedly, and the collection of which everyboay on the run. . fie | ; .
hungry. too big for her. She resembled a Father Brilling kept hidden under nSre Were Old men present, men when passing a plate for a Sec-| _mne source of baby chicks is
and child dressed
and hair waved
peak. She looked downward at her Year after year came and went,
straight out and the ancestral burial caves in the
the mountains were neglected, and the
gods of wood and stone had to
as grown-up.
back from a widow's
seen sleeping together in little mass- world. |
es. There was neither a rich man
in the village nor a poor
one. |
For this state of affairs Father
Brilling thanked nature a great deal
and himself very little,
natives were now, so they
thirty years ago when h
come among them.
Christianity to a people
As the
had been
e had first
whom
workshop in which he
papa
ghost. Tuture looked as if he had and d
seen one. He could not
could only
jerk his thumb in the!
direction of the house in which he Sto! w
To preach lived and increased his tribe, and the lost art.
worked to EE ea ay missionaries had
the Golden Rule has worked smooth- Support them.
ly for centuries is perhaps
pertinence.
s0.
culty and in the face
be
He had a fine eye for
and pattern. When he
seen the golden natives in
and-white loin cloths he had
them the most beautiful
the world.
He sometimes tho
He often doubted if he had ever er Brilling to precede him,
oy a Sincere convert to the Chris-
color,
That beauty
an im-|
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had
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he had
willfully destroyed for the peace of |
his own soul.
Once a month the entire popula- Christian man and
tion of the village, with the exception that you are?
Chinese
of Wing Loo, the
store-
ve
But as a mechanic and doctor he the vise in which
had been of real help tothem. And But he
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Father
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“Are you telling me that you did
“How should I,
Her | the high altar of the little church
became important.
old
ing ng but the
as rapidly
failed Father
ed. Arguments upon
t stood back and gladly allowed Fath- taken the place of laughter and the
inhabitants of
Queen”)
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tions.
spiay
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were very much alike.
keeper and his family, and Father Seen a white wahine, set about carv- not wish to travel any
Brilling himself, vanished into the ing one?”
mountains and did not reappear un-
til the afternoon of the third day.
Once a month the chief told him you?
of shrimps and oranges and Should another carver, there
fei, but Father Brilling suspected no other carver in the island at all? to a skeptcial and reserved young
a story
that the chief had his to
cheek.
ngue in his
all. And how in the world should
And if not you, how, then,
“Be on you and |
It was true the excursion I'l be down on mine.”
always brought back plenty of They knelt among the yellow shav- which Father Brill had some dif-
shrimps and oranges and great bur- ings and bowed their heads before ficulty returning sui
dens of the banana-like fei, but such the image.
things are in the mountains.
Father Brilling strongly imagined “be giving 3
that the monthly disappearance had haps better it would
to do with ancestral funeral caves, Who,
with hideous idols of
wood
“And now,” said
thanks to God, or
be to Jesus,
being himself a ter, has
stone, pagan rites, and orgies of Which we are down upon our knees
eating and drinking.
In his youth he had attempted to
accompany one of these
on ayou.
But it had moved too fast for him was the
and his heart had failed,
ly his heart was almost a perfect Now uttered is
organ, but physically it was not up reasonable to sup,
expeditions
Spiri
‘and young
bei been translated by his experiences in-
From an unusuall
Christian
He asked disquieting questions, to
“I alone of all
on our side?”
Wg to have been on
,made a miracle before the of side, hoa.”
and Erage “It is true that I have returned
. And the ancient and
He delicate art of dancing without mov-
lling had succeed-
could now definitely be
numbered among the Christian na-
of Father Brilling’
s young
were tly drafted to serve
i ‘edge
y one of these young men |
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good quality. In
New York and San Francisco there
canoe. When I come back-she is Was no wine except for the rich.
Otherwise, these two American cities
But in San
not carve her yourself--the devout Francisco a smile had a certain
famous carver value. In New York it had none.
i Yes, he had seen Notre Dame and
who have never and the great churches. No, he did
more. He
was going to look the village girls
“I had never thought of that at over and pick out a wife.
loud-singing
the companions
Father Brilling, who fought in the war have return-
ed. Is it true, then, that God was
e
important. Hatcheries that special-
ize in well-bred, strong, healthy,
vigorous chicks may charge a little
more for their chicks but they will
prove cheaper than poor ones.
who had traveled as tar as Fiji and ond hel
Tahiti, Rarontonga, and the Tua- the k
motus, but not one of them had Yes:
ever seen such a pearl.
It was enormous, fine-grained and
without blemish,
, is it correct to leave
e and fork on the plate?
under no circumstances should
used silver be placed on the table
| cover.
It was perfectly Ts it impolite for a man to read
Tuture, ordinarily the calmest and get along as best as could with. “Pherical, as you could tell by roll- his paper at breakfast? No, je Mai
most ge, of natives, was out worship or sac . There !DB it about in the cardboard cover When callers arrive in succession, aE etable a tie Fou, be
badly rattled. A tu u is a were no longer any orgies of eating of a shoe box. No billiard ball ever which should leave first? The first
rolled more truly.
over as great a part of the growing
velous orient, a
This may
accomplished by planting varieties
It was of mar- to arrive,
living white with What is season as le. be
the correct way of inrto-
and the Pinkish lights. At the mere sight du a man to a woman? The will different
oes ‘of it men gloated, and Father Bril- man is invariabl ted | which mature at rent times,
i resented to the
Omi « % 1g phought: dip ' woman. The ony exceptions are and by making succession plantings.
a or that one I when a woman is introduced ab
would give up all the others. If President of the United States tos _—EWes and lambs need good feed
our Virgin had that one to wear,
her fame would go forth into all the Should toothpicks be used at din-
South Seas, like light itself.” ner? Never in the -
Aloud, and when the excitement ers. Proseyce Or oil
to
had somewhat died down, he said: Js it considered good form
“And what will you be doing with shake hands with gloves on? It is
the great pearl, Raihoa, you being not correct to remove the be-
the happy married man and the fore offering the hand, as ne-
fortunate diver?” tates an awkard pause. Just
“At the war,” said Raihoa, friend e hands and forget the glove.
of the sky, “I learned that God was should i :
because ow A a hn, rater to Mis Es Sud ovis of tie Soriad
and care. The ewe should have
plenty of good clean corn sialge, and.
as soon as the lambs are old enough
‘to eat grain they should get a grain
mixture,
had | , or to a reigning sovereign.
(“Weeping
—One authority has stated that
worms have very iittle chance of ob-
| taining a foothold in chickens that
have a gizzard well filled with in-
soluble grit. This authority claims
of their
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wine had &
-—The production of capons is a
good practice for poultry owners, as
capons usually bring higher prices
than other classes of poultry.
Surplus cockerels should be capon-
ized (1) when cockerels cannot be
sold to good advantage as broilers,
(2) when a supply of fresh killed
chicken is desired later, (3) cock-
‘erels are sometimes caponized when
natural means are used for brooding
because most capons (Leghorns
such excepted) will brood chickens
yi nggbonlok ny of cockerels is si
The cocke: m-
ple and easy and losses in slips and
‘birds that may be killed should be
‘very small, 2 to 5 per cent, though,
on both sides, both sides wife when among nun-intimates? As that s
said so. I therefore sought knowl- Mrs." are and damaged so mich by
concerning matters which I - a gizzard full of grinding material
was better able to understand, and The leafy vegetables are of that no worm infestation results.
I learned that money is a valauble cial value in furnishing indigestible At any rate, it wouldn't hurt to ses
! material which serves as an intes- that the young growing stock is
Cyn!" said Father Brilling. ““And | tinal regulator and promotes elimi- given plenty of coarse, insoluble grit
will you be selling lie great peur, | nation, And this problem of in- and pure, fresh water.
then, to the pearl buyers, they being tes hygiene is especially im- —
the sharp, avaricious men?” now when so many of our _ The practice of cooping one
“How much is it worth?” foods are highly refined and contain | male bird in a pen of, say, twenty
"More than ever they will give.” fowls, and letting the alternate bird
“But in francs? are all so completely digestible run with the flock day and day
On the Rue de la Paix in Paris— leave little residues in the gnout, is better perhaps than allow-
king's ransom. ,, colon hence are constipating. ing the two birds to run together.
‘There are only a few kings left” As the first Step: Jowever, in the 1t has been found, however, that the
said Raihoa; ‘some think it was for improvement of dren's diet, the cooping of the male in the ex-
that we fought, dining room wars must cease. They cites it so much that, instead of
“That pearl,” said Father Brilling, are quite as fruitless as any Other resting and gaining strength, the
“is worth all the pearls that have wars. If a child 1s properly man- opposite effect is noted. The “rest-
been fished out of this lagoon in aged it will eventually acquire the ing" bird should be cooped out of
thirty years. ,, dietary habits and s normal tO gight of the pen. It will feed better.
“I would exchange the great pearl,” adults. It will appreciate the flavors
said Raihoa, “for all those lesser of everything it should eat. And
pearls which you have gathered in a this ideal condition can never be
secret place under the high altar. It reached through force, but only
would be easier, far easier, to sell the through tact and diplomacy.
lesser pearls, and the great pearl —
would far better ornament the little __n a sugar shaker, keep a mix-
virgin of pua wood.” ture of sugar, well
e paused, and with great naivette cinnamon
Raihoa had
.
“What is actually doesn't matter,”
said Father Brilling. “It is what we
believe that counts.” hc
| “That is true,” said Raihoa. “And --Chees is a very valuable and in-
I shall always remember it. So if expensive food.
your many pearls are worth more or bacteria which destroys other harm-
less than my one pearl js no matter, ful bacteria in the
Ee Io a escaliop.
your
dust,” . Neverthel my heart is We two being sa of course, this depends upon condi-
ne knelt, and Father Brille pe ve iy y And so the exchange was made. ed dishes, by grating it over salad tions such as light, age, whether or
But what “What is the talk that I hear The collected pearls became com- or soups, by spreading it in sand- not the cockerels have been starved
praying words ‘about you and the fifth daughter of munity property and were sold to the wiches, or simply by serving it plain. before the operation, the experience
tual- Tuture had learned by heart and Tuture?” pearl buyers, and in time the village Cheese wafers may be by grat- of the operator, Etc.
t unknown. It is ‘“We are to be married, wh n the had its waterworks, with a brass fau- ing cheese over crackers and plac- Though the increases in Size on
that the belief Chinese woman who sews very cet in every dooryard, and an engine ing them in an oven until the cheese weight of a capon over a cock
is considerable it is not as great as
gods was beautifull ad her some for making ice, ‘melts. Do you know the delicious-
hh on oT iA 4 4 sad, | Which he pe Lave ah as if dresses.” y Ms made Just below the little Virgin's throat, ness of cheese toast? Scour your is sometimes Slalimed 204 considerea,
not Be for heights y they gypped him. “I often see you in conversation where her dregs met, a hole was rev- fry-pan clean and put a little butter x = abot oa th nd Sveves yor
re er Bn sy irc a ey co alae” Och: X16 ue PEER ops 2 8
month he wondered what his little gin r joyous and fol- : ‘quiet and e while that of a
was Sus. | entire population | “Miracles,” Raihoa. soaked into the pua wood, the pearl the bread, first on one side and then qui
A iced Syd 2 un- | the vag win ne exception +4 “Miracles,” exclaimed Father Bril- was pressed ute, the hole, and the on De. Other, in the Sho Jutter, sochure) i agye assessive soand {und
: thin man Chinese : nis ling, and he flushed. “What mira- wood, drying , clasped watching it carefully urning h
an Ei gh I EL ULES COL 08 NE wy it nity 2400: Scr fet Bh | Sm ie ER
’ 1 ‘to and into his little church and “Do m y r, p -_
Hed 3 Jude, Sd Fa 3 ttered a placed the miraculous carving upon at the {me of the miracle of the day, a thing of wonder and beauty. For an edging plant along the or ingse. Jarget breeds 2a
little about the deserted aE: ‘the altar. | Virgin, there was in the village only any a pearl buyer has lain awake border the sweet alyssum has no varieties are most desirable. ow-
jaws of the workbench vise discov-
ered a fine block of pua wood,
obviously was being shaped
said
“He being a pillar in the mind
obscene wooden idol.
“Shame on him!”
nto
church, and her loudest singer.”
In habit the pua resembles
Considering, then, the
quality and color of the
pua wood in conjunction
of Beautifully) stmsynsd
gouges, Fa Brilling
victim of temptation.
the |
all uring
with a rack
chisels and
became a
For all the ture. Are'you minded to
‘lous’ Tuture, and
| them
| mountains, honest Tuture?”
He did not feel that he had done yourself and the Chinese? Nothing
upon the credu- ever happens, Holy Father, that
these Chinese know.
you being at work in the shop
carpenter, the little
Raihoa, IT had
wrong in imposit
other villagers.
Sitice his stories of the true mira-
cles of Christ had failed to convince
them, it was fair enough to convince |
by a false miracle. The
was to get them con-
! ey would be of this
h a iter acath
escaped the fires of hell.
“When are going
main
““And what would I be going to
the mountains for, Holy Father?”
“Some of the others do be going.”
“They will not be gone away
long. ! they will be com-
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of pua wood in vise,
do not
often,
of Tuture the
children of
33 through the
been |
whe my
my face and
at
the true
ing caves are, and
ee and the |
when I found m
wood and
tempted
thwarted artist and as
Print Raihoa, without inspiration,
which is the same as to say with-
out a miracle, T d
chad ‘48 There 1 Proce
cdarve. HOW manv dre knowing the Rue de Rivoli for eighteen depre- [in rosé. pifik, blue, mauve and scar-
what is ¥hown to you and the Chi- ciated francs.—Hearst's Internation- let. Being hardy, it seeds
nese ?"
pregation nodded to
“That
went a into the
LA he a SN En
jas apie
a thwarted |
ever, because the Asiatics and Giants
are slow growing and late develop-
ing birds belonging to the medium
classes, the Plymouth Rocks,
Rhode Island Reds and Wyandottes
make the best capons. Because of
their smaller size it usually does uch
pay to caponize Leghorns or cock-
erels of the lighter breeds.
Because the best market and de-
| Christmas and Easter and because it
takes about 10 months to grow and
finish a capon properly, cockerels
— should be caponized in June,
miracle?” It flowers are wanted in the and August.
“It is so believed.” crevice of the flag walk, one of the After information as to the time
| “But is it so?” | prettiest little plants to use is the to caponize cockerels is given ac-
alone | hat is actually so doesn't mat- violet cress or Ionopsidium acaule. cording to age or size, but it is more
keen ter. It is what people believe that | It spreads freel” and has sky-blue desirable that the stage of develop-
| star-shaped flowers. | ment be taken into consideration be-
: — ‘cause some cockerels develop much
~—Another hardy annual for use in
i faster than others of the same lot.
acle.” front of shrubbery is the delphinum, Because of the limited time and
| But he does not tell her that it is or larkspur. It is also suitable as | space they cannot be given here, but
have |a miracle of human Sontivig a cut an is graceful and gitrac, | Seton 21 lo ot hi Shtre-
bou on’ a' } ’ feedi y
ad tne Tue. 8a Rivoli for elgh oe or A [mtr mav he obtalled from Farmers
itself RuMetin 840. “Capons and Capon-
izing.”
at night scheming ungodly schemes superior. For borders it is one of
to get hold of that pearl. But the Vir- the finest, [growing nine to 10 inches
And gin is jealously guarded. She has giv. | and blooming constantly from
en the village fame, waterworks and | y spring until frost, if the seed
an engine for making ice. And the pods are kept cut. The small white
are fragrant.
village is grateful. | flowers
friend of the sky, is the
great man of the village, and a pillar | —Celosia plumosa is an excellent
in the church, He believes that church | plant for the garden which may be
is an excellent thing for the women used as a cut flower or grown as a
and children, and not a bad thing for pot plant, Being a hardy annual it
the men. | has to be sown but ofice. There are
Sometimes his wife asks him ques- three shades—yellow, crimson and
tions that are difficult to answer. scarlet.
“Was the Virgin actually made in
peeped in
faith, and
is true; for capons comes between
July
a
the
both | counts.”
a “Is the great pearl a miracle?”
| “Yes, that is also a kind of mir-
{al Cosmopolitan. (regularly.