PHANTOM, How 1s it, where'er I turn I meet Nothing but phantoms in the street? Yaces all seamed by sorrow and care; Eyes that no longer can shed a tear; Lips that forever are sealed to prayer: Types of the millions betrayed and deceived. Spectres of aims achieved, In a hurrying throng They are pushing along; Men with the famished face; men with the furtive eye; Nothing but ghouls with shrusken souls, with shufling gait go by. that were never And I shrink from their hungry, pity- ing glance, As their steadily swelling columns ad- vance. And I ask: What the cost of the lives that are lost— The feafful cost of the lives that are lost? D phantoms, with colorless face, O spectres with lustreless eye, What word have ye For one like me, As your ghostly ranks pass by? "Tis the ever sad story of the lives unlived; The shame for the unsung song; Tis the pity for the strong—the strong made weak, Crushed by the weak who are strong. This was their only reply. ‘And this was the lesson [ read them: 1.0! the world is filled with dead men, ‘All the world is filled with dead men; Dead men-—waiting to die. —(George M. Greenwood, ton Transcript. A Psychological Problem, in the Bos- / “There is one more must visit before I return to Los ‘Angeles, and that is Vernon. I do not know why it is, but I feel as if I could not go away without making a flying visit there. Uncle and aunt are old and will not care very much about seeing me. And yet [ feel irresistibly drawn there. If time could draw back ten years; if those who are gone could return; if I knew that Mabel Curtis was watching for my coming, and that she would smile a welcome to me, then I could understand this feverish longing to go to that dreary town. But—time will not roll and Mabel is gone forever. A visit to Vernon will be but to revive all the old pain, and will have more of terness than sweetness in cannot stay away.” The speaker was Claude and the person addressed was | He was a fine il thirty years of age, aud pearance of a suc man. years previous to the time opens, he hgd gone to California, and by prudent inve prudent sales had accumulated a little fortune during the “boom” period in Los Angeles. How slow the train ran! they never reach Vernon? Ah, was Holbrook. Only five miles more! His pulses were bounding, his heart out-traveled the train. ‘“Yernon!” Claude caught up his grip and stepped out of the rear end of the car to the depot platform, where no one waited to meet him, The station agent was busy at the upper end of the platform, the loungers back, looking the ap Ten story essful our quite Would here Jow passengers were being greeted by sheir friends. He only was alone, and fusk was falling. He stood at the lower end of the platform and looked about him. The town consisted mainly of two long rows of houses facing each other from opposite sides of the railroad tracks. Lights were beginning to gleam from the windows, but none of them were for him. He gazed across at the old house on a side street, under the locust trees. There was no light in the windows and the place gloomy and deserted, him, and he wished he had not come He turned hastily away, and started along the track toward his uncle's home, but his steps lagged. It was with a feeling of relief that he turned in at his uncle's gate, of his life and fortunes in the far West. Old times were talked over, old friends recalled. This one had died, that one had moved away, such and such ones were married. “Had he heard that Mabel Curtis had married after they moved West?” Ah! knowledge about with him since he had read the announcement in a paper five years previous? He did not tell them so. Why should he? Nor did he tell them that he had merely come back to torture himself by looking on the old familiar places, and dreaming over the old sweet dream for a few brief days. Why did he think so much about her? Was it only because the familiar scenes brought back old memories so forcibly? He remembered an argument which they had held in the olden times over a verse from Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy which they had read to gether, “Mind acts on mind the’ bodies be far distant.” He had held that it was only a verse evolved from the poet's fancy. She claimed that the pubtle magnetic currents of the mind reached out to its kindred mind, and drew thought to itself, no matter how great the distance. All her arguments tame back to him now. “it 1 could only know where you are,” he thought, “whether your thoughts are with me in these days, whether your mind is dwelling on the same subjects that engross mine, then I wonld know to A certainty whether you are right or no” The next day he spent with lus uncle and aunt. In the evening twi- light he went to visit the deserted old house under the locusts on he side happy hours, there all day, but he had purposely waited until the hour when he been accustomed to go to meet Mabel, As he went slowly along he remember Mabel along, and it was not till he the familiar gate and lifted the latch, raised his head and looked about him, Some one was giting on the steps, and at the click the latch sprang to her feet in a startled way. “I beg your pardon,” he said, lifting his hat. “I thought this house vacant, and was so absorbed in own thoughts that I did not that any one was here.” “Claude!” exclaimed the the steps, him. “Mabel!” he cried, “Mabel! can it be true that I have found you here?” of my woman on Suddenly he recovered self, and releasing her he said, “I beg Mrs. hastings. 1 was and so surprised to find you here that not forgive me?’ “Mrs. Hastings!” she sald, looking into his face in a puzzled way. “I not understand you. I am Mabel Cur Have 1 mistaken you? Are you do In a moment his arms were abou! Have I found Oh, it has all been a wretched mistake! Tell me, sweet. heart, that I need never lose you again. Do not send me away. I could not bear it now.” She laid her head against his shoul- der with a little sigh of content. “Nor could I bear to have you go.” was all she said Then they sat place on the steps strange meeting. “You have not told me yet ‘Mrs. Hastings," “Is it true? again, my Mabel? you their old their in consider down 10 why you she said d me r from a book y of paper, nd in marriage noti Mabel Father was bridesmaid; head that bride that was my ried her and | entered one think 1} And you have carried that all these years? Oh, Claude!™ The tears were shining in she raised to hig, and he felt called kiss them away “1 shall never dear,” he murmured in will married in take our wedding trip out in Los Augeles Do not and he eagerly my cousin mar but it never my any would was the the eyes to lose again, “We and you her ear be here Vernon Ma- her say no, bel,’ bend for “1 have had And a it will “Home!” she repeated. no home for three years Lyme with you-—oh, Claude, happiness beyond words!” He drew her nearer to him, and his heart leaped up in sympathy for the sorrow that thrilled in her voice “You have not to.d me of your trou Mabel,” sald, gently No. 1 forgot it all in seeing you Three years ago my parents both I came East to the where | graduated and obtained a position teacher of the My summers or visiting This summer, al: these years, 1 felt an un- longing to come back here and visit the old home. be 4 6 died college as delsarte culture there been spent at the in the homes of for the first have friends, time in it off, and so last night I came.” “l.ast night!” he cried. “On evening train south?” “Yea,” she replied. “l was on the same train and we Did you the see me get off 7” “No,” she answered, “Mrs. Andrews was expecting me and met me at the train. So I did not look abvut.” “How did you happen to come here tonight, then?” he still questioned. seem nearer to me. I did not see you until you entered the gate, because I was 80 utterly carried away by the sad memories of all that 1 had lost since I last sat here. How did it all happen, Claude? What brought us both here at the same time? Was it the ‘action of mind on mind'?” and she looked at him with the arch smile he so well remembered. “You have won the argument, and I have won you. So by all the rules of logic and law the case is mine, and I have come off the victor,” he replied ardently. “I can consent to defeat under such logic as that,” she replied merrily. And so the Psychological Problem was solved in a manner highly satis factory to beth disputants.-—Waverly Magazine. A Mountain of Loadstune. The fiction of the mysterious lode. stone mountain which drew the nails out of ships that approached near enough has a certain foundation in fact, only the fact has suffered by ex. pansion. On the coast of Norway near ly three-quarters of a mile in length The sand is mixed with particles of lodestone and when a ship comes ir the vicinity the compass becomes ir and the vessel entangled ip a kind of whirlpool and thrown ashore by Royalties of Long Ago. The nephew of the late six Richare his ring is sect a minlature musica on a spring being touched soft tune--—-wierd and sad, ar the troublous past. century back, says Tit Bits, this loyal follower of the possession a which box that, echo of belonged to a thrown into prison, was wont to find solace in the music of this ingenious trinket, It played its last tune for him while at the scaffold’s foot awaited cution, from which hour it remained unaccountably silent until its present he exe in its mechanism a clot of blood that On this being removed the powers of the musical Still more traced, would ring habitually novelist, Mr curious, could it be be the history worn that Rider Haggard. signet-ring, and centuries cireled the finger of Ramesses Great, the Pharaoh of the Oppression Another ring. that of Queen Talia, 2 beautiful and unscrupulous of Egypt, was famous was unfortunately broken as was alighting from a cab, and it is now relegated to a cabinet of curios In the imperial Russian cabinet ring of by It back en by the however, it formerly worn writer. One day. its owner is a CAMO Greek workmanship which in guarded at the Abbey des-Pres as the espousal ring of the Virgin Mary, the two figures thereon being regarded life portraits of herself and When, In 179s the abbey this ring vanished, nitimately in the collection of General in g St of as Jos sinh was destroyed appearing agalp Hydrow, who sold it Govern ment the o wl after modern ian knowl edge had ruthlessly shattered the le gend of Many roy its origin alties possess rings which d with THERA. Czar the ced to meet at din. fell forthwith » with her and asked her for the as a memento of their first maet- She consented, and until] the day Nicholas the gift, finger when it small, round future randfather of + young princess Wore then. suspended death mn his {00 and wamas Nis nec Another European potentate in the m of the Emper ‘illisem owns of which the history, it may be lost in the depths of the ages. the far off days of the Crusades it has been in of the Hohenzollern family was a famous Moslem warrior, was slain in single combat by me of the Emperor's ancestors. It imple in design and of no great in- value, being a plain gold band with a i in place of the or ription from a Ying aid Since the possession when it taken fren who re which, on the Koran ROCHAMBEAU'S OPEN HAND, The Debt Our Nation Owes to a Fa mous Frenchman, Americans are too apt to for- get the from this the aid given to our the only the individual the Marquis de of to ny great debt tion to France for during war. It was not gervices of men aque yg Ors like Duportail, nor the invaluable aid the seasoned veterans under Count de Rochambeau, and the powerful fleet Count de Grasse, in addition to this France furnished the sinews of war, from the want of which the cause of liberty had suffered more than from the want of men, Even after the arrival of the French troops in Philadelphia, when the com- bined armies were preparing to march to the ald of Lafayette, Washington found that the men of the Northern regiments were dissatisfied and pro tested against being moved to the South. A large part of the troops had not received any pay for a long time, and had occasionally given evidence of great discontent. The service upon which they were going was disagrees able, and the douceur of a little hard money would have the effect, Washing. ton thought, of putting them in the proper temper. In this emergency he was accom. modated by the Count de Rochambeau with a loan of $20,000, which, being distributed among the different regl ments, and otherwise used for the re. Hef of the distresses of the American soldiers, had the desired effect. The pecuniary pressure was rellev- ed by the arrival in Boston of Colonel John Laurence from his mission to France, bringing with him two and a half million of livres in cash, being part of a subsidy of six million livres granted by the French King. A SUMMER CROP, String beans can be obtained dur. ing the entire summer by planting once a month for successive supplies, The seed germinates quickly in warm weather, and the plants grow rapidly. for plekling, SELECTING GOOD SEED, to farmers, hence they should select i good seed. When plants are misging in the hills or rows the appearance of the fleld is not atiractive. It iz better and cheaper to buy selected seed than to perform the labor of re- planting that which would be un- necessary, and which could be pre. vented by making a propor begin ning. The fallure to properly pre- pare the ground, too little care given the covering of the seeds and econo mizing in the use of seeds are also canses of loss, FEEDING A DAIRY HERD. I have a years { which 1 silo I have filled for two with a pea vine ensilage have paid $2 per what 1 have bought. All it has t me Is hauling the overplus fre { factory. 1 for for cost the twice ton ym commence feeding a day. After milking 1 feed eight ten pounds After they { this | give them coarse fodder, what they will clean I gradually in. crease the mess of ensllage to twenty {or twenty-five pounds per feeding i | glve them all they will clean up after {they get used to it, with hay or stalks at noon My experience has been two years’ feeding with good results When 1 change from ensilage to hay or corn stalks, 1 find the flow ] de. | creases to extent the best results the grain or eat per Cow. st up of some get in feeding pea ensilage, rations should be two. thirds wheat bran, onethir meal I find my health and fine flow Ange gluten good large milk.—Frank Lawyer, in Or Judd Farmer COWS jition f of But ream mill inferior and KSeDINE or =ome« the maker that jose to something following ghoul carefully been discovered through years There are why cheese ind experiment many ome out ‘ream milk 1s cheese of this fue to lack of acid aot curing heese has such a being kept a short marked 2 10 geo reasons does not satisfact when good Of character is frequen ry il of tly to used flavor in the cheese or in the sirong rooms trade such after that it od time The temperature down that heavily the & better remedy of the regulated, and This latter is to hastiness in making is made every other is used curing rooms | n preventing generally When the fay too much ittempt to hurry the trouble Another somes fr raps and weeds are owH Many of the { *rg refuse to accept milk | who articles the The 1.0t have the rich, lean flavor that the market demands, ind sometimes the same trouble is ex serienced when made from dirty milk The cowy flavor of miic will be no in the cheese, Clean milk sails and pans, and clean cows and | milkers are necessary for the manufac. tre of the best grade cheese One | sannot make fancy cheese from poor milk. Try ever so hard he will fail, {and the best system of curing will not | make up for the lack of fine milk at he start Pastincas, poor flavor or ome undesirable quality will develop from poor milk cheese —~E. 8. Warren: on, in American Cultivator. aridity acigity due cheese ff 2 and the starter work causes the difficulty in cheese making where turnips, the m using milk fed beat freely to mak- from farmers cheese feed these to COWER cheese does ticeable STARTING THE DAIRY CALF. The practice of turning quite young mives to pasture and not continuing heir feed of milk and meal is not to ye commended, as it seems to be im- possible for the young things to se- sure from the grass, no matter how 'Mauriantly it grows, sufficient nutri. ¢ Hon for the needs of good animal de. _relopment. It jsn’t enough that the {alf lives and is actually free irom ‘the go-backs.” bu. if It is worth mising at all, it is worth keeping growing. Its right to be raised for the dairy must be determined by its gnown heredity; it must at least have y good dam and a supposedly good sire. it fs dificult to tell what a cow will develop into before she is four sr five years old, and as the expense of labor and feed for an animal from tall to mature cow is considerable, it foes not pay to waste time and posai- bilities by fooling with animals that {0 not have the recommendation of a good inheritance to start with. It fol- lows, therefore, that, having a worthy if, we should see that it is not ban. keep allve by its own industry and sndurance, while it fights filgs and heat and bumps storms. large | gestive apparatus, | couraged asd developed as the | grows, an impossible proposition un i bulky food to produce stomach disten i sell, or being supplemented other source, those elements that com | pletely supply animal needs, It is true that good pasture | does supply all these elements in » | balanced and perfect form for the ma ture animal that has the gather tne grass, but has not the strength of jaw and teeth graze all the needs. The grazing calf that may, in fact, often does, rest merely from exhaustion and not repletion. The pasture for the young things to food It ter,” near the barn, where cornmeal and bran or gluten and hay and odds and ends of solling crops can regula ly and convenlently be supplied them. in this pasture, or easy of access for the animals, must be a constant supply {of pure water. I am aware that such | young animals is many farmers as “fussiness,” but I regard it only as business attention valuable property, and without it certainly the man who withholds it has no legitimate assurance of success in raising calves. —W, F. McSarrar in New York Tribune Farmer care of the characterized by to LARGE BUTTER RECORDS. When such as Mary Anne St. Lambert's and Princess [I their records as butter producers among the Jerseys one of the chief reasons given for doubting the correct. ness of the records was that the fat in the milk could not have been ob tained from the fat in food It was therefore supposed that some mis take must have been made by those having charge of the tests. later it was decided that kind of chemical process occurring within the body of the animal the protein of the foods was i into fat Such epted as COWS the by some converte has never and now the Station a theory final, ment been fog New York rent almz that iments p rove ithe food as well be CRN nydrates ring the 20 but with a marked 3 * 34 : 3 1 i days throughout the entire time foods made to free Vas fat as the hay, corn meal and oats by chem ical treatment, in order to good test With food pounds of fat (less than six the cow made nearly 63 milk fat and gained in flesh words, there was much fat in the from which the The cow could not have milk fat from the food, nor stored fat on the boay, in welght containing only pounds) pounds over mii milk as in Was secured from as she gained the food, as only enough in her body the record was kept, fo fess than half fat formed ing the same time, allowing the high- est possible rate for fat from protein The conclusion therefore, that part of the milk ame from the starch, sugar similar bodiea in the food consumed Experiments made with cows by changing the rations so as to test with a large supply {the fat being but httle, and then {ing an abundance of fat in the foods and protein, starchy foods, also being tested, the™ests confirmed as a i general law that the starchy matter { contributed to the fat in milk. The rations, though differing greatly, showed great uniformity in digesti- bility, the cows ueing about the same proportion of the dry matter fed in each case. The test, with other diges- tion trials of mixed rations, proves that the feeder will not be far wrong who assumes that 70 per cent. of the dry matter is digestible in rations made up of silage and containing a good proportion of high-class grains. Diminishing the proportion of protein in the ration appeared to make the whole ration less digestible, The fact was demonstrated that fat cannot be fed into the milk; that is, the milk will not be made richer in butter fat because of the food con sumed containing an abundance of fat. In studies of milk production it has been found in general that a ration with a moderately narrow ratio, and containing from two and one-quarter to two and one-half pounds of protein daily, has given the best results. It is evident that a portion of this pro- tein is not used directly in maintain. ing the animal or in milk formation. The cows seemed to make up for a de- crease in protein, not by ceasing to produce their normal flow of milk, but by checking the break<down of protein in other portions of their bodies. Any Animal, even one at rest, requires a certain amount of protein in the food, for maintenance, for repairing the tis sues, and the cow algo requires a cer tain quantity with which to fori the milk solids.— Philadelphia Record T—— When a vessel is sinking it takes more than a barber to razor, the protein of protein was decomposed while of the ess THE 1902 MODEL, Zhe humps herself and husties And vigor to her muscles, loves to shirk no notion Yet easier tasks she And seems to have And locomotion. ~-New York legs for Press. NOT TUMULTUOUSBLY EAGER. Employer- work for small Boy Post. Are you willing to wages”? Not very willing, sir.—Boston NO SURPRISE TO HER. He—It seems strange | should be hadn't met, Oh, it often happens that way. Life weeks ago she ~-Brooklyn we MAKES IT GOOD. “That makes mighty good money.” “Indeed?” “Sure; he works in Baltimore News fellow the mint.” — THE CURIOUS tubba~—1 why watching me so? Perhaps she's trying to are staring at her.— Press PAIR. Yrs wonder that wonan Mr Rubba find out why Philadelphia Keeps you HER FINANCE. “I heard a terrible kitchen last night, Bridget didn’t break anything?” “Sure Oi did, mum. Me finance, the wuz there, and 1 wuz after "Yonkers the hope noise in you policeman, Lreakin Statesman. th ingagemint REASSURING The Mus Teacher proving daily in his Johnny's Mother We didn’t improving or ised to Johnny is violin-playing {gratified }- know whether we were jus more it Judge. INE SURPRISE USION have decided to spend va- Newport.” Why, man lusion.’ my cation at “At Newport! i thought wanted be secluded all to be recog- happen y -Baltimore Ww port set THE FIOUR WAS TOUGH Mrs. Youngbride-—['ve come to com- plain of that flour you sent me. Grocer—What was the matter with it? Mrs. Youngbride-—It was tough. I made a ple with it and it was as much as my husband could do to cut it— Philadelphia Press. ART AND § “Are you not sometimes downcast for money?” Mr. Stormington as downcast as I am “Yes.” Barnes; answered “but not getting the money. Washington SELF. SACRIFICING of th know eof,” “Mr. Gumstick is one seif-sacrificing men | “In what way? “He takes chances on becoming ut- teriy demoralized in order to find out what books he ought to prevent other people from reading." -—Washington Star. ALL THE SAME. Mrs. Minks—1I did write, Mrs. Winks—Then | suppose you gave the letter to your husband to post, and he is still carrying it around in his pocket. Mrs. Minks- ter myself Mrs. Winks—Ah, then, it is In my husband's pocket. — Buffalo Express. No; 1 posted the let- Deacon Jones-——I know of three brothers in a neighboring town that would afford excellent material for a sermon on the theme of brotherly love. Deacon Brown.—1'll make a note of it. Tell me more about them, deacon. + Deacon Jones-—-Weil, John, the Yidest, is a physician; Thomas, the second brother, is an undertaker, and William, the youngest, is 8 marble cutter Chicago News. FATHERLY FINESSE. Father—1 forbid you to allow that sap-headed Squilidiggs to enter the house again! Daughter—But I love him! Father--1 shall disinherit you! 1 shall shoot him! I shall Daughter-—Boo-hoo-oo! { Later.) Father-8ay, wife, be sure you dou ble Gwendoline’s allowance today and give it to her early. I think she is going to elope with young Squilidiggs tonight! —8an Francisco Bulletin. Running up bills is not exercise that does the the sort of good. #*
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