THE SHELL. Silence-—a deeper sea-—— Now sunders thee, Save from the primal topo — Thy mother's moan. Within her waves hadst thon No voice as now; A life of exile long Hath taught thee song. -John B. Tabb, in Scribner's zine, An Exchange. Cupid’s Accounting For a Lost Purse. “1 hate everything in the wold” asserted the girl, sweepingly and de- flantly, “everything and everybody ex- cept of course, you, Aunt Hester.” “Kitty, dear don't talk so wickedly,” replied a voice so feeble and tirad, though sweet, that there was no need to be told Aunt Hester was ill “It's quite true,” repeated Kitty, ‘1 do hate everything. [ hate never hav ing any money and Mving in thes, two poky little rooms, and not being alle | to take you abroad, which the doctor says would very likely make vou well | again, and having to slave day after | day teaching those horrid children who never seem to learn anything I loathe it all! [ can't help not being patient like you, Auntie, and if it is wicked to hate things, why then I must be wicked.” The girl stopped, completely out of breath, and the elder woman sighed but said nothing. She knew how hard the poverty of their lives was to the pretty girl of eighteen who had youth's natural desire for pleasure and pretty | things. She understood how irksome it was to Kitty to teach three dull children for five hours daily the munificent sum of £14 a year, which money, with addition of g very | small annuity was all they had to live on. She knew, 100. better than her niece doctor, that so far as she was cond ed, it would over even the visit to Switzerland advised, so impossible to obta make very much difference materially lengthen the days Kitty would be left to fight tl of life alone, “Omly £50,” she went “I have worked it all out. F: we could both go to Lausanne 3. You know that pension wher Lizzie stayed; they would take the of us for £3 a week: that nlenty for the journey less than heaps of dress! | } i unfair. Why ing and others so much?” She made for Park, was walking along deserted paths against a stone patiently away stone struck her to find she was picked it up and was nearly nes curiously Worked monogram, “A. in ane corner “It is so light in it," she ed it. A shilling into her hand, and of folded paper, five notes for each. one near. eyes grew ity, i it sic faiot as the temp unfolded its to her. Here was the exact sum need ed to restore Aunt {ester to health there was no name in the purse clew to the owner surely, since come to her at that moment wh £0 much been sent by would be only right for her to keen it. Thus she reasoned, knowing the weakness of her arguments, realizing, but refusing to consider, that she con templated committing a theft after the theft lies would be ne for if Aunt Hester had the idea how the money was obtained, | she would certainly refuse to « i touch if and would tnsist on making every effort to find its owner If Miss Ormond had not been most simple-minded and unsuspectt of women she would never have b lieved that Mrs. Harper, the by-no means rich mother of her niece's | pupils, would give her a present of £60, for this was the very fechie lie by which Kitty accounted for her pos- session of the money. Miss Ormond was anxious to write and thank the | lady, but Kitty averred that Mrs. Har | per had made a condition she should | receive no thanks for her gift, and Miss Ormond, into whose guileless mind so shadow of suspicion entered, | obeyed, though a little unwillingly. | “Such a magnificent, such a princely | gift,” she kept on murmuring gently, | “it seems so rude and ungrateful for me not to thank her, but of course we must do as she wishes, [I hope, Kitty, you sald how deeply grateful we both are.” A week later and the dingy lodgings were left and aunt and nlece started for Switzerland. Aunt Hester bore the journey very well, and they were soon installed in a comfortable pen. sion overlooking the azure waters of Lake Leman, on the other side of which in snow-clad majesty the peak. ed Alps keeps guard. Then suddenly one day vhen they had been in Lausanne for six weeks, and Kitty congratulated herself that her aunt was so much better she had not sinned in vain, the end came. Aunt Hester returned from a walk, feit tired, and went to lle down. In two hours the suave little Bwiass doctor wag assuring the almost frantic Kitty that nothing could have saved Miss Or AMuaga- fo1 the of hers, better even than soon be wou ue S40 the r it Can said herself, a: and f to four then jJank of There swam penn SOs ‘ England was Do had 'n she have needed £50, it must Providence, Surely {t And faintost vena the 3 oF ie mond. “If all your famous London doctors had been here, Mademoiselle, they could have done nothing, Her heart failed suddenly I sympathize much with you.” Mrs. Allen, the lady with w! om she lived, was so sorry for the lonely girl that she always asked her to join any little entertainment that took place, Kitty never accepted these kindly meant invitations. She was so un- thing of the kind. One evening, how- ever, she relented. A small musical party was to be given and one of the pupils, a girl of whom Kitty had be come very fond, begged her to accept “My brother, who is staying at Lau. now, coming,” sald “He sings splendidly, is she proudly. told to to play his. | would implore darling all you you You the evening Do, there's a needn't down stairs perfect!” For Janie there was no in the world compare with her eldest brother fit to one drawing room that evening she was almost sorry she had given in. There was no help for it then, however, and she bowed gracefully to the tall, dark young man who was immediately in troduced to h by his enthusiastic sister, “Miss Ormond is going to play your accompaniments, Arthur” said impetuously, “She plays beautifully, have told her your wonderful singing.” The man smiled. “Tam afrald my t much.” he said. “She is my singing that she expects to be equally enthusiastic!’ During the evening he sister why Miss Ormond unhappy. and id him Ormond had her aunt Lausanne her health er she ' $ git avout In fis $ Bik ii ’ asked iooked she ti that brought therel how hoping and she denly The You Y " You : } a and it and ex mean? wg $ A 3 WIRE vou wanted, served quietly ahill as wall: purs Was and A gold in one «¢ she cried ‘Arthur purse Oh, | ver green K Was oruer.” King! go! worked with black, “AK Was your me go, let He held her firicly “My dariing, the me incomvarison I am me money is with what ness at the end And for Bive me some “I have nothing hardly anything. | able to save £10, you must hate me!” “I don’t want money, can give me the only world that I want, aod that is Bho looked at bim in wondarment “Yourself,” he finished, and she sald no more~—New York News, This Snake Tried to Stop a Train. A monster rattlesnake was run over and killed by a railroad engine near Lufkin, Texas. The engineer saw the snake 100 yards before he struck it and says it struck at the engine. It measured six and one-half fest from tip to tip. to give, at bave only Oh, Arthur, been how Yon the os Kitty thing in Consumptives in Germany, There are In the German empire 226,000 persons afflicted with pulmon ary consumption and other forms of tuberculous diseases. Charity is the cream of the milk of human kinuness, ————" mini A WASHINGTON EDUCATION, Effect Upon the Country Lad of a Gov- ernment “Job.” In the country towns throughout the States and Territories, a government Job in Washington, be the term ever 80 brief {8 the goal of more than one youthful ambition, aud in the eyes of most small town folk the chief end, use and purpose u Representative or a Senator 4s secure as many “snaps” of this sort as he can. for those who elected him. Thus it is that in all of the departments of the govern- | ment located In this city, there are | some several thousands of young men ‘and young women from the country {districts and small towns who are serving the government in ca pacity, from a laborer to doorkeeper, They are them, for six months, dur- ing which they learn more prac- tical experience and observation than they would, in double the same period {in any college or Even at the worst, the from a small town who has government in his home at the service more Ii} formed, of better ol to every here, some of and others for four years, from university Young man served the returns to term of better in Washington end eral mi more refined manners, and address tha he left, It is in this way the capital Coes more toward the 1 @ and fitting do than a distinct gain all around, and educating YOUung mands all people and of mode the SHOWING DOGS Breeders Make Their Worst Mistakes, nm why any 3 seis O00 How Amateur woman not One ROUOrs women exhibitors lack of judg dog is concern them, or they well-known ken the puppy has a pedigree to be neces puppy is 2 ice is thought the old yw, where awaits Case to a big she ww otherwise vhich, in her lieves to be her un nine canine mare} plain “CC.” Where gets tearful at fax suds about ninety AAT owner » must be supported by indi in to win on the unbiased and trained the judge are looking for qual ich must present if an ani ! t to win, Ino the jJudze's mind is ia picture of the ideal perfect dog, as orth by the adopted standard for that particular breed, and only animals rath closely approaching that tra to sos consideration. Few green owners rightly understand this scor ing, and fewer can inirly judge their own dogs, because they are so fond of the animals as to be blind to what may be blaring imperfections order be ous ye! Dogs by Women, by Moeran, in Outing. Misa Lillian C A Newspaper Slot Machine. A. D. Smith, of Springfield, 11. le the inventor of a newspaper slot ma chine which can be regulated to hold ten or more papers. It shows, by a dial, how many papers have been 201A ww Burcees, Many a boy who gave promise of developing into a pood fellow has grown up to be a respectable, useful member of the community. Any doctor wid tell you that a lin gering iliness only comes to the peo pe who have money, CARE OF PIGS, Pigs when fed ground barley, oats, rye and shorts mixed will grow right eight months 200 to about weigh from market when and will TO PREVENT BLOATING | | RESTOCKING WINTER DAIRY Will is pay to purchaze good milch COWS at present high stocking the dairy? Every dairyman is confident that the price next winter is bound to be higher than for years past. The high prices which ruled last spring, and to some extent all summer, means ihat the storage companies have not put away their usual amount of butter for winter con- sumption, Likewise the big cream- ter more sparingly than high winter an- All usual in prices long as they His method of prevention is cattle know ent the They of in the field, and let where they are then take a taste i8 no further of his neighbors have adopted the same plan will tne salt, trouble Some We remember there a case of in hearing an old doctor say that was no better remedy for ligestion, when it was accompanied by stomach, than ommon in a inex which would condemn it th in the i teaspoonful of salt glass of water. [It peneive many simple and TO STRATIFY Remove Wm box and wire nett fine leaf mold, » goed OF this Then mix heir this ytnpared leather wasned « RVing the oiling Farmers more quantitios A% a this Ava cont acid, per cen acid, prey ent sum of tho other tw: The aval be ceneidored in which the plants have been given like per able is all that is usually for it used Ww buying, in bo endily At least that is what taught. out recent investi have shown that the unavail Or more properiy, insoluble phos id may be used to a greater extent by various plants, As 1 have beon uzed on cereals, and as the insoluble phos no benefit can by or less to amply provided with good milch cows and an abundance of the right winter will make a =#=sful season Of course a good many were Induced part with thelr milch last because the high prices and the but the discreet, intelligent dairyman rather holds reases his herd at such for that the products prove more profitable than animals, Next fall miich cows suitable only for summer dairy ing ent lower cost Buc COWS spring of they could obtain relative cost of feeding them: and times he realizes ulliry will in time selling the will sell ten to twenty p than to not making the st spr It will la too much winter them when adequate returns they are jut nter dairy cow will able gold min: All the past Ex however, that part of it may wneat and tur by some crops a large Ltipin:s, bucl some of thow reports as The Co-aell inaninble crops are yet conflicting. the phosphoric tion says that, while the young clover seemed to profit decidedly by ft. As very little work has been done along this line, it is not safs to accept any report as final. As the insoluble phos phoric acid can be wought for about onethird as much as the soluble. it will be seen that for some crops the use of raw phosphoric rock and other sources of the inacluble form might be highly profitable. @xcept for those nitely proved to bo able to utilize the insoluble, it is the wise plan to regard only the soluble, or avaiable form of the phosphoric acid when buying fer: tilisers BE. B. Miller, in The Zpitom- ROoOd from $35 has been quietly pruchasing ' mich $50 per winter COWE, pay ng to head ing quietly laying them throug h lage, plenty and Eran Of Clover xed fro and a m variety of in proportion solids that he and expected in ocured Cream miik cportion nay ip to hp the all the t the pur than b 5 fore YInan can of y is not fully To estim BEAT Meh mi within grade as its qu control 1% 8 100 in its Compo each can be of while the characteristic of affects the product. Milk through the agency as at tho portion of ti} mili he is moit valuable in market is really not as vaiuable as the caseine #0 far as the f the consumption of miik A quart of skim milk contains a larger proportion of the nutritive than an equal quart of cream, as -ream Is almost entirely beat-producing and fatform while the elements of growth, ni and mineral matter, are con The produ shiim-milk takes gilion, COW watered the cow as well ee 6 + RS pump Cream which object is concern clemency irogen tion of ome quart of tha than many times th The real sams quan richest milk JF tity of cream consumers gauge the quality hy the proportion of ercam, which is the least expensive article ian the milk 1nere ia probably no known method of protection other than to endeavor to patronize thos: who keep cholee stock, for it is to the kind of cow that one must look for the quality of the milk.—Philadelphia Record. A AANA An Excessive Rate. In Moscow a money lender, the owner of several houses and stables was sentenced recently to four months’ imprisonment for lending money at the epormous rate of 183 per cent.—Boston Globe, Americans spend swout four mil lian dollars a year in Paris. So saye the Potit Parisien DETECTING SPURIOUS LINEN. If you are buying handkerchiefs, you may make sure of taeir being linen ir not be a very simple process, Mois if the fabric is several sec the threads it wets through at linen, but If it is onde will elapse are saturate, once, cotton before THE PARLOR BET While the parlor wet is hopelessly of date if one were going to make new purchases, vet if one has such a et it can be much changed and made really attractive by altering and vary ing their covering. Have a decided yet harmonious difference in both col stuff of the various pieces, from ti wall and intro duce some plants and jardinfers and see what a modernizing metamorphosis has ou oring and #et them out ie taken place A BEDROOM built great With a 24 cushions, it is a ounging valance SEAT A seat le of a cor inw the an convenience in 8 bed- roomy seat, say number of comfortabie hung with 2 80 the front Very con- mags ner is a room wide, about inches, and a very piace, while if front il drop, if in made or all wood is A venient stowing plac: for books, et Zines hoes, TLE THE ong ipremacy the the prot pi FLOOR hard noor estaniished for rug» and sanita housework, the carpet at the energy and watchfulness struggle with fact, After a and bare become of iem in favor and easier *» bare floor, like to be kept clean the polished, i8 if the pulp newspapers the ams Det 1o ith a id 8 experi handles knees that And | reafter the when that it wasnt ways d drawer to 1 Chicago RECIPES 1 Meal Pufls gether one and one-half meal, one and one-half cupfuls teaspoonful of salt and sugar; deat the yolks of to of Mito the dry mixture; the whites of the two teaspoonfuls of bak» in buttered gem pans, filling them two thirds full; bake twenty-five m in a quick oven Cream of Rice With Compote Pears k half a cup of rice in thre: cupfuls of milk When tender add the yolks of eggs beaten with a cur of sugar and a cup «of milk. Add Sift 8 w cupfuls of Cream Corn corn flour, one them one cupful n stiff f bakit iiutes olf five te this haif a package of gelatine soften ed in cold water. Turn into a basip let stirrin- carsfully as it beging to stiffen. Then fold in a pint of whipped cream and flavor with va nila or sherry wine Turn into # harden. Serve with compote of pears.for a garnish Crabapple Pickle "ut out the blos end, but leave the apple whole and add half the weight ir cool, he) weigh Boil the applies unt they are ten them Cool and they Hin. der and th'n are ready for use Rice Snow Balls — Vash very thor oughly two teacupfuls of rice and boi’ it in one teacupful ef water and one of milk with a little salt. If the rice is not tender when the milk and water are absorbed, add a little more milk and water. When the rice is render flavor with vanilla, rorm it into balls or mold it into a compact form witt little cups. Placa those rice balls round ths inside of a deep dish, fill the dish with a rich, soft ¢nstard and serve either hot or cold. The custard and balls shou’ ba flavored with the same. The Abllity to Argue. . Though some people have plenty of ability to argue, it doesn't necessarily follow that they have the power te convince ~<Now York News, let
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