——————— A. ——————————" oon cs———
TO MY OLD HAT,
And thou nas clasped marble
brow,
And daily sunk still deeper down
ntil thy hrim doth hide me now
From lofty sneer and worldly frown.
Thou once wert black—who now art
brown,
But what care I for aught of that?
Thou art thy owner's rightful crown,
My trusty friend-—my ancient hat!
my
And 1!
To
buy
the
another tile,
scoffer’'s quizzing
must
catch
glance,
With modern crown of pattern vile,
Distorted brim—just born of France.
{t will not fit me well, perchance;
E'en you were years before you sat
in ease my heauty to enhance,
My trusty friend—my ancient hat!
And I must hold it on with care;
Unwilling tend its painful g
Must watch it with affrighted
I.est greedy hands procure its
The winds will thy usur
Some ruthless wheel
fiat,
seen
ORE
glare,
loss.
LOSS,
will crush it
U've thee 'neath the carts that
CTroRs,
My trusty friend—my ancient hat!
I ENVOI
Too much this
I glve the» to the
thea another year,
ancient hat!
—Jondon Sketch,
POLLY ATKINS.
Mr. Drake
man, and his
1ew-fashioned
“I do
keeping with your sox, Polly As a
your face and ~you
girl—with 3
might bs the belle of the county. Why,
then, must you needs turn yourself
nto a bad imitation
“You are too
thing father.”
ful tones. ‘““The woman
will take her place beside man in the
raserve forces of the See
if she won't. And how proud I shall
feal to know that this, my }
fort, has done somethin
bringing about the fulfiims
grand ideal,” she added,
enthusiasm.
The Ladies’
Polly Drake's
which she had
up with more than
Some thirty girls in the nzighi
bad already induced
enroll as
they used to meet eve
rifle range which
lowed them to lay
for drill and targe
On the whole they
selves in such manner
distinctly proud of her cor
was now anxious to
before some military
sommendation (she
serve as a ]
incredulous fs
>f the sham fight.
A day or two afterward the ‘squire
said to his daughter
“By the way, Polly,
come and
your sham fi
“That's
“Our
Polly's fa
“Oh. well, you needn't be unco
fortable abot
Polly He's
fair ago
Ah me!
Before
U'll wear
My trusty friend
haunting fear
cat
my
old-fashidned
Polly was a
was an
daughter
girl
dress more in
wish you'd
figure
any-
resent-
future
ori
empire
iumble ef-
toward
that
ardent
of
Rifle C
very atest
conceived
was Miss
pet hobby,
and tal
usual
orps
aven
been
themselves
exg
was
Hen er
eye
Hen
ce
I've got
a4 man
to officiate
as umpire
old
m-
again,
long
ear
another girl.”
‘Il was afraid
his life. He
Next evening Major Merilees duly
arrived. He as a iI handsome
man, of about thirty-elighi, of
ly bearing } ant
pers, Findisn iimself alone
Polly in the di recom bef
ha ai once took the
to set her at her ease.
“let us both entirely forget
occasion of our last meeting,”
paid. “That is dead and buried.
gow meet as comrades—as
workers in a great national
i can’t tell you how pleased |
Miss Drake, with the scheme
have taken up. If properly worked,
your Ladies’ Rifle Corps may be the
germ of the greatest revolution in
matters military that the present age
has seen.”
dia
soldier
man
ore din
ner, opportunity
the
he
We
fellow
am,
Major Merilees You, as an expert
est walght.
best to pooh-pooh ue atl along.
“But why, Miss Drake?”
“Oh, because he is still
the old fossilized
ott of place on the field of battle”
“1 can't for the life of me, sec that,
Battle are won nowadays by straight
shooting, and women can shoot qiite
as straight as men.”
Next day Major Merileegs and Polly
rode over the ground where the sham
fight was to take place, Tho
favorable positions for a defending
force, and he proceeded to examine
them in detail, At length he mude
his selection. It was a long ridge,
flanked on ona side by a wooded hill,
and approached from the front by a
level oxpanse of grass fields.
“Of course,” said the major, "as we
are dealing with such small numbers,
both the attack and the dafence must
bo of a skeleton character, My idea
is that this ridge should be occupied
in imagination, by a defending fore»,
and that you with say a third of your
company, should be posted In that
wi 4 there, to cover the right flank,
Pow
but that yon should carefully keap
{ your presence secret from the attack-
| ing force until the last moment so
| that you can enfilade them as th:y
| advanca up the slope, The other
| two-thirds of your company will forin
the attacking force. They will ad-
| vance against your right, in line with
| an imaginary brigade extended along
| the wholz length of the position. n
course, they must not be apprised be-
| wood Indeed, the success or {allure
i of the whole defense will depend upon
your concealing this from them until
| they are delivering thelr attack,
| 1 make myself clear?”
I think it is a
plan,” Polly with enthusiasm.
Next morning arrived. The La-
cies’ Corps paraded, thirty strong, on
the lawn Drakeworth Hall Ten
of them told off under the com-
mand of Captain Pally, to form the
defending force, they marched
ake up their position. The
twonty, under Polly's lieu
Miss Amy Mcintosh, then
fell out for abour an hour, at the
end of which time, having reassem-
bled, and having recieved their gener-
al instructions from Major Merik
thoy to the field of
tions As socn &s thoy
off
“Quita,
splendid
cried
at
wers
and
away to
remaining
tenant, a
TA
fairly
horss
wlio away
op
were
the
MY from
ninence from
to watch and eriticl
10 was
maneuvers.
Capt. Polly, with ner
of ten dauntless damsel
skeleton force
had reached
hill to the
Heras they
and
occupied the wooded
f 1
1ained, iying
talking only In
attacking
the latter, wh
» malin
faces
spers until
in sight
0 extended in skir-
began to fire.
Th» perpetual crack, crack of
bines (which of
blank cartrie
exciting effec
their
whi
Soon
came
mishing or open
y
crack
were loaded,
an
ige) had
t the
upon
wood who began
their
r8 in the
and finger weapons
said Captain
, Steady!’
in a voice that trembled with
Polly
eagerness
As
who had wn advancing
attacking force,
at a smart
with a d
sugG-
watching
sie
d t meet
them
distinctly
geal
en-
Mcintosh
gate and
an indig-
jon with
of
ho-that
cried poor
Among
whom
ir feet and
hats
ut
of
ir cowboy
r heads und repeatedly
exclamation
“ne
¢
na
was
Ars word,
unendurable
and fled in
the hill
be it said to her credit,
Dros
precipitate conf: n down
Their captain,
was the last woman to leave her
she did not run as
She merely walked fast
an hour--casting her
lances «te over her
left
post
Moreover the
others did
five miles
Hervous g
right and shoulder,
At this point Major Meriless came
gallantly up te Polly
“What has happened?” he inquired,
rnately
tion?”
“Wasps
“Wasps?” Inquired the major, with
a puzzled look
“It was
war—wasps, you know,
to abandon our--their in the
wood
almost on top of a wasp’'s nest.
post
And,
gtand that, could you?”
“No, to be sure,” replied the major,
sympathetically.
“But, 1
leon’
say, please Major Meri.
and forehead. —"You-—-you--won't tell
Dad about this, will you? He's
prejudiced. He'll never
not keep steady
under a storm of shells and bullets,
Of course, the two things are not in
the least parallal I shouldn't mind
shells and bullets one bit. But wasps
—that might craw! up your sleeve, or
down your neck, or sting you on the
nose and make it swell up the size
of a potato--it's another thing alto-
gether, fsn't it?”
“Quits another thing,’ admitted Ma
jor Merilees,
“Ah! you're a man of sense. But
father is not lika that, He would
never understand. He would be sure
to make no end of stupid jokes about
it. 8a yon'll prowliee not to tell him
per
won't you
“All right,
Migs Drake,”
lees,
He didn’t. Tha
that at Drakeworth
months later, when
awar: that she had
of an artful little
her father and he
renounced the
and retired into di
ly Merilees.~—Lonlon
I won't ive you away
answered Major Meri
squire himself did
church some twe
Miss Drake-un
besn the victim
onapiracy between
gallant admirer—
Polly Atkins
life as Pol
Tatler
role of
mestic
MEN WHO MAKE DYNAMITE,
due Anxiety Displayed.
Dover and Farmingdale, N, J.
and the men who work in them seem
well content with their dangerous oc
cupation. They wear rubber-soled
shoes, and their tools are
with rubber or are made of wood, so
as to avold the possibility of friction
and consequent accident.
As a further gaieguard, the varfous
in which *he deadly explosive
mixed or manipulated are lined
with lead and a mishap is of rare oc-
currence Nevertheless, these mep
that the fabrication of dynamite
utes a work of danger and many
of them when they
This trouble
in.
victim is
3 and tremors
heard in the
he {8 obliged to give
work of »
covered
utensils
is
know
constit
devel in ‘nerves’
at the business
wears off quickly, or,
are new
as in
some
stances, not at ail, and the
ed with nervous chiil
never a loud noise is
factory
up his po
more congenia
The men are paid from $2 to $2.26
per day, and the labor is not particu
larly heavy, n are the hours as long
ag those ¢ r workmen. No smoR
ing Is allowed in the moment they
enter the factory until they leave, and
sition and seek
nature,
only men of quiet habits are engaged
of go
exist between
A spirit i
to
when
comradeship seems
the workers, and
offers itself they
talk to each other in the most friendly
way. But woe betide one of their num
ber who earns for himself the
sobriquet of “Butter Fingers,” a
term to Indiv whe
allow to slip their
hands floor sure
to earn the enmity com
panions. This | that
sometimes a sli as is
en a smail
opportunity
th
iduals
from
He Is
of his
fact
tho
8 due to the
ght jar, such
caused by y dropping of ev
sub | precipitate an accident
culprit wh
than
gracefully
stance
and the h Care
lesaness
} evinces suc
as well
8 frozen
more ounce May
before i
fellows
rs are a very in
Many of
» dynamite works
¥
telligent body of them
HIKE NT iy
men
FER od) a
POSEESS a comprehensive knowledge
and tell visitors to
factory all
ent which they
direction of scientists
workmen, a mid
Alfred Nob
of dynamite, as a relative
does not know about explo
He talks
pglveering
10 has made
of the
of chemistry, can
destructive
the
handle
about
under the
those ile
One of
aged Swede, claims
inventor
What he
gives is not worth knowing
of the p
i
the
~y srt fav f
roperties of
with the fluency of one
shaustive stud
subject
v
he says that he devotes
spare moment to experimental physics
Why 1
every
1 1
a man of his type should elect to
in the
a prob
jut
factory
workman is
can solve
job in the nitro
and he talks en
thusiastically of u «sults achieved
inven
in the
minin
srk’s rapid transit
pres
travel
glycerine department,
ive's
but
the
varfare,
i stich as
of New Yi
1d system, which will
much to facilitate
nationalities work
New Jersey fac
of
it
eiement of danger in
daily labors, they ansewered in
negative and a few of the more
communicative workers expressed the
that thers more chance
of being killed in New York by a cable
car or automobile than by an explo
sion at their post ct duty. —New York
Times.
various
» in
when
countries
these
representatives
were asked
Was
Ants’ Sense of Smell,
it is by smell that ants distingulsh
it is by smell that they
his fact was
v proved some tims
Natural
¢ne another
pretty conclusive
fzo at the Academy of
Sciences,
An official there collecied some war
ring ants in a glass jar They
fought on the inside the jar just as
before. He dropped in among them
a pellet of paper saturated with co
logne, and the effect was instantan-
eons. The combatants parted, re
fect harmony. The cologne odor kil
ed every other smell and hence the
ants were not aware of the presnce
of any other ensmies.
In another experimert two boxed
were used, boxes communicating by
means of a glass tube, In the first
among them, as Lefore cologne was
dropped. Again the cologne restored
harmony. But some of the ants trav.
eled through the glass tube to the sec
ond box, and hers, if they were un
friendly tribes, they resumed their
fight instantly, for here the odor of
the cologne was noc perceptible.
These fighting an's were now put in
the open air, and ‘heir battle continu
ed, but when there was laid among
thom a feather dipped in perfume they
ceased to fight at once. Philadelphia
Record,
It is reported (hat large sales o.
nlanoe are now made to Indians,
Household
VENTILATING SICKROOM.,
the house. Many an amateur nurse for
gets that the sick require pure alr
quite as much as the well, and 80 neg
necessary or available,
hangings and stuffed pleces of furni
ture that are not absolutely necessary
should be banished from the sickroom
tient cold, place an extra blanket or
over the bed, draw the sheet
over the patient's head and face, and
overlet
room for a few minutes, This will effec.
tually dislodge any layers of foul air
that may have collected, Continuous
ventilation should be maintained both
day and night by means of an open
window in an adjoining room, the door
between being kept open—New York
Tribune
Under the of Child Training
in the Delineator, are a number of val
head
gable suggestions for keeping the air
of the Among them are
the following:
house pure
floors and
carpets
ail
The use of stained
in preferend to
A daily ing
room
Shaking
of doors
Removal
of clothing a
Dally airing ar casional beating
blankets
feather
of
matiresses
Open war against the dust-
t all seasons
inspection of plumbing
uncovered
in the
and no
water
iiture
"er
1iHE soiled
Opening discard-
ing weathe
Plenty
HOW TO CLEAN WALL PAPER
removed from
by rubbing gently with soft
Pack the crumbs light
ball and work with »
If the very obr
(+h
ih
Grease spots can be
wall paper
slain is
a paste of potters
dry, and re
tain disappears
th a cle
% ald
a eal a
‘gt .
room vs OG
COFFEE
lack coating
» and
Throw
soda in the pot,
it stand
CREAKING SHOES
remedy r creaking
1 quantity
becomes
ill protect
if the soles
they will not
treatment
walking
FOR FLOUR BARREL
i at
n a rack to
to pass un
ecting
least
vale
gro
LE OG Tr
Yosh
Wh
bread in slices
thick:
a biscuit cut
with a knife
sOme
cut the
{ists
season
with cayenne pep
per and mustard; fry the bread in a
tittle hot butter; when brown on both
remove sprinkle with
cheese
Cream
sides
cheese ig melted; serve hot.
Mock Terrapin.—Scald half a calf’s
liver after slicing; fry the slices, then
ly and add one teaspoon of mixed mus
boiled eggs chopped, one tablespoon of
butter and one cupful of water; let
simmer five minutes: season. Veal may
be prepared in the same manner
Baked Cabbage Cook one smail
fine: when cool add two beaten eggs
one tablespoon of butter, salt and pep
brown remove and serve hot
Rice Crumpets.—Beat three eggs un
butter: stir in one cupful of cold
boiled rice, one cup of corn flour, hali
a cup of wheat flour, half a teaspoon of
ealt and three level teaspoonfuls of
baking powder; bake in large crumpet
rings on top of stove or in greased
gem pans in a quick oven twenty mine
utes,
Protest From Novelists’ Victims,
The Anglo-Indian ig usually depicted
by the modern novelist as a being
whose unfortunate addiction to cur
ries and short pegs has induced a
temperament far from sunny, and,
though some kind-hearted souls have
endeavored to correct this sweeping
condemnation, so widely is this lit
erary verdict accepted as just that
the “peppery” colonel has come to be
regarded as the true and only type
of latter-day India.~The Allahabad
Pioneer.
{
To Make Lily from a Candle.
Here {8 something that will be sure
You will be sur
construct a spray of lilies of the val
ley out of a spermaceti candle and a
few pleces of wire,
Get six or eight pleces of very fine
wire and bend each of them into a
hook. Now hold a lighted spermaceti
candle over a glass of water and let
half a dozen drops of the wax fall into
the water. Each drop, as soon as it
touches the water, will be transformed
into a little floating white cup.
These cups will have exactly the
size and shape of the little bell lowers
of the lily of the valley, and they may
be made large or small, according to
the distance at which you hold the
from the water,
Now take one of the little wires and
Making Wax Flowers.
the straight end of it, and while
run it through the center
the wax This should
the still in the
WArm
ne of
do
me while
Cups
cup is
Water,
Then push
hooked end of
the cup down to the
the wire, from which it
hang just like the bell flower of
ily Having thus plerced six or
of the cups, twist the wire to
the smaller cups above the
larger ones below, and put the spray
thue in a small vase in
which are green paper leaves
The effect will be far more delicate
beautiful than one would think,
the wax cups will have the white
»2%, the transparency and the pretty
wdentations of the real flowers.
will
the
ight
gether
completed
1d
y
To Test Your Lungs.
One can test the strength of
lungs by putting a paper bag
any weleht Blow gently and
ily and will tumble
his
under
stead
the object over
A Local Tornado.
ous rallwaj 1d
india In
an
and
and overturned by =»
Rampore
al mm
abEGiutely
accident is re
which a
engine,
train
pas
CATS was
tornado
Het he phenomenor
3 ¢ nothing was
noticed at the station just left by the
train, and except for the
a few native huts there
have been no other
Some thirteen persons
the accident
thirteen
three
near
Was cal, sin
upsetting of
appears
damage
were
to
done
Killed in
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