THE HIGHWAYS
When Nature held our woods in fee,
The fawn, new-born, and eve ry glade
Did her sweet citizens disclose.
Then were her highways beautiful;
thrown
Bhe sowed fresh life, and many a bud
Did for those deaths atone,
Now all her artless plans are mocked.
Through every byway, road and lage
We incessanty apd
But not build aga
toil spoil,
do n,
wearler still
stark the road-
And tired
Where
sides
eyes grow
stripped aad
It
God's pity that their robes of green
Man to them
Clinton
should deny!
the
Dangerfleld in
Ly
T00 RIGH
T0 AFFORD IT.
3!
a .
“I don’t
more, father.” Mr.
eyes in surprise to the face
born, a lad about fifteen
And a bright, intelligent
ig
it was a litt
to school
raised
of his first-
any
Wi
Mis
want to go
Palmer
now by
to
le clouded
of dublousaness as
taken
6
&
how
words would be
“Why don’t you
any more?”
“Well, sir, I'm
and—I don’t see any use
“Think enough,
don't any more?”
want to
you koow that you
need
» boy colored a
iock and tone
know as much as George
and he left i
He says
to learn
iitile
at that quliz-
Lyman
t1 months
ago.
drudge away at sch
has got plenty of money
Mr. turned
face a ook of grave
“Did Georg L;
ter? His fz
I thought
“You are
ain't
eage
“q
be seen.”
“Mr
everybody
“That
Palmer
says that
remains to |
you bave
that you
any
“Yes,
i “You
“Oh, thank you,
ter, his face bri
“Wait
as the
tory to
open dos
thin }
nothing to thank
haps, my good |
ing it as the best
it was my
thorough
homely
can lead a h
cannot make him i
I have by no means oh
fon as to
I consent leaving
cause If you feel as you
it will be only time and m
away. But I want
clearly one thing:
go te school yon
work. I can’t afford to have you idle.”
Walter's untenance underwent a
very pert eptible
“Do you mean that I mast
day's work like Dan Baker
Jake?”
“1 mean that you
daily em
ness which will g
hours’ work, aa sur
“Why, father, Goorg
Bromley don't have to work:
SAY don't mean to
George told ma that heard his
fatter say that you were the richest
man in the county
“I might be the
counties, and yet not enough
to afford to my Mr
Palmer smiled as he saw Walter's nuz
zled look. “This is a hard thing for
you to understand, my son:
might talk to you from this time anti!
more
nessa
more 0 ¥
education
but
true
Orage
the value
to your
you
that
will
change
it at
Sam
£0 0
and
must have
trade or
me
+1 virion t
pioymen
they
thov
Hey
man in two
be rich
boy
have idle.”
to you, Tomorrow is Baturday, and
you know I always take you
where that day. This time it
Ame
ghall
mate of mine is liviag.
and the place where he lives
I con say.”
of well-matehel, nettlesome
hard road. Plainfleld was fifteen
miles distant, and the way thither
through such a beautiful country, and
80 entirely new to Walter, that he had
forgotten all about what his father
had said the day before, until the
carriage stopped in front of a gloomy
stone bullding.
“Are you going to stop here, father?
What, it looks like a prison!”
“It Is a prison,” sald Mr. Palmer
who had been unusually grave and
slident during their ride, as Walter
remembered afterwards,
“But I thought you were going to
see an old schoolmate of yours?”
“Here is where he lives.”
Walter folowed his father silently
up the steps which led to the heavy,
I massive door of the main entrance,
“Did you ever think any one of your
might find
placed as this?
id Mr.
whose
| schoolmates
sOme such or that ev
ou might?’ ga
pulled the bell
harshly
reigned around
Hefore Walter
I door sw
fi]
Mimer, 28 he
1
cangor i
the
could reply heavy
and they were ush-
wardens office. He was
man, with a ’
enance; but
Mr. Palmer,
hacl
ing DAcK,
arad int the
bearded Ble
Fe)
1010
i on Wal
{ att
I came to Inquir
1 fore
$
is
w
r friends
urg-
and
they
to
of strangers
who had helpe money
vahia nite
vavie [ol
in
ing
Xtravagance,
found that
spend
money work, but
must turned my att
to the various wava of getting money
without work.
ing.”
me to ever)
eft as
there wag
BOM
no
as
more
honest
by
have; so l
and
whis-
and
some what cheered
by Mr. Palmer's
words of encouragement
sympathy, Jackson returned to
dreary task.
The warden now took them around
through the various workshops, cells,
et cetera, kindly explaining to Walter
all that he did not understand.
When they visited the workshop,
Walter saw Jackson, aitting there
among the rows of busy, silent men,
not one of whom dared to lift his
eyes as they passed by.
“How many of these men,” inquired
Mr. Palorer, as they returned to the
office, “have ever been trained to any
useful trade or business?”
“Not one in ten”
The spirited bays, in their glitter
ing harness, were champing their bits
and tossing thelr beads impatienily
outr.ide the high walls; and Walter
exparienced a feeling uf relief as he
fourd himself once more out in the
pure, aweet ald and bright sunshine.
his heart
strengthened
“How dreadful it must be to have
|
to live in such a place as that!” he
sald, as reaching an eminence he gave
backward at the building
80 grim aad solitary in
glance
looked
distance,
It Is thi
son Miz
LADDIY]
3 dreadful
men
where
and
that is
the
nec sity
erable as
there,
to be ordarly
ae aro
they
industri
of
my
are
ged
are obl
ugh only through the fear
than if they w
pid
follow, strainedy
their and
re
Then
CARTOONS 3,000 YEARS OLD.
War Caric
Pericd 1,000
atu
res Dating Back to a
Years Before Christ.
rprisis to find it to be
id. has been suggest
ed that there are only five humorous
st n oth are
would if the ideas
we also strictly lim.
ited, and that the cartoonists of the
days of the Pharachs had much the
same jdeas as those who to-day are
dealing with modern warfare and
modern political situations.—London
Chronicle.
Fob Pocket Handkerchiefs.
An importing house on White strogt
has Introduced a novelty handker
chief adapted to fit the fob pocket. It
is a composition of silk and linen and
retails from half a dollar upward.
Heretofore men's handkerchiefs have
been made of comparatively bulky
fabrie and for midsummer wear espd.
cially tend to make pockets bulge,
This silky fibre 'kerchief may be read.
ily compressed into small compass
and wrinkles or creases do not shew
to asy extent.
A favorite design for lanterns used
in the processions to celebrate the
Japanese victories is one having on its
four sides the Rising Sun, the Union
sack, the Itallan flag, and the Stars
and Stripes
3.000 years
rs
all
seem as
ries, up which
based, It
for cartoons
re
a"
LADY
Lady Aberdeen
Governor
ABERDEEN AN LL.D.
wif
General
'h
of Canads
during
acknowl
ma
herself mu beloved
In
her Que
Kingston
ary degree
president
if Women.
TO WASH SILK RIBBONS
Silk ribt i 1 |
made
bit
BOan
aj
they w
wrong side gu
P
Ca car:fu
ately
A ht
inen
Thus
Warm
manner,
CHILD'S MOUTH.
child is of suMiclent age to
the mouth
with a
around
ind a smooth stick
taken that the
mouth
in boiled
water aad used gently
THE
I the
18h should
al
the
be carefully washed
little
sorbent cotton wrapped
little finger or aro
cotton
moistened luke-warm
and repeated
times a day especially
after feeding, a fresh piece of cotton
occasion Waak-
earliest te:
teeth can be
with a moistened cloth morning and
Later a small toothbrush
th are
be preferred.
and receding of the gums.
stant watching will prevent it. A
such as a match stick,
dered pumice stone, should be rubbed
upon the spots until they are removed.
Great care, however, must be taken
to avoid injuring the gums with the
stick.
When the child is older it should
be taught to use the tooth-brush and
powder twice daily, and each night
draw wax floss between the teeth.
American Queen,
THE ADMIRED WIFE,
Elderly people—particularly elderly
women--Save an exasperating way of
talking as if housewifely akill were
the one thing above all others which
& man admires in a ®oman,” sald a
i
i
i
1
the
of
woman
scheme
¥
other day. “In their
a happy home It seems
the glorified kitchenmald who plays
supreme and reinforced by
the German Emperor and his exalta
tion of
they are fond of tracing marital
¢ity wherey
ie
¥
the role,
the cleaning, cooking woman,
OMe the
part
finds expre
S338 populag nd turned
uffs suggestion are
ing great vog as a sieeve finish
bird Waves a
majority of the handsomest directoire
r Parisien it
ably ®a pled here in the tumn
The coaching parasols are
very heavy ilk in plain color, with
ceedingly long wooden hand
ing the silk in for and
big bow of silk like the cover
The indications are that
called mulberry will popu
lar colorings in the autumn and that
the warm browns and reseda greens
will renew their last season's success
One of the latest innovations in
ombre or shaded effects isshown in the
shaded sashes, which are of faintest
hue about the waist, but gradually
deepen to a dark shade of the same
color at the ends
“Cretes” are one of the latest de
velopments of 1830 trimmings. They
are merely narrow scalloped frills of
silk shirred and set on upside down,
80 that they stand up like exagger
ated headings.
The high<crowned hat
fiably found pronounced
France, and the fad will doubtless
reach us later, although American
women have not, so far, taken kindly
to the innovation.
The extremely high corselet, much
like a bodice without sleeves or shoul
der straps, has been launched by cer
tain Parisian autocrats, and is worn
with a full chemisette and sleeves of
embroidered musiin or batiste,
upon
hats wo b will prob
ado au
of
ex:
¢8 match
with a
iow
tied
the anew
be
has unde
favor in
8ir Norman Lockyer has been elect
ed president of a new society for the
popularizing of science called the Brit
Lab faleace Guild,
AND ONIONS,
reese
TOR Ba
i
r and
green
f cabbage,
twenty-five
ish, halt
{white), one
onions
one pint horse-ra
mustard seed
seed, one 1
teacupful! ground black
fomat fucum-
abbage amall and
pack in salt for night. In
the morning drain the salt off, and lay
them in vinegar and water for a day
two, then drain them again. Boll
the spices in half a gallon of vinegar,
with three pounds brown sugar. and
pour it over while hot Repeat this
for three days, then mix five ounces
mustard and half a pint of the
salad Add two quartz more of
vinegar when the pickle 1s cold. This
is good to eat In two months.
Chocolate Ice Cream. —One quar
ter square of chocolate, one table
spoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful
of bolling water, one-third cupful of
thin cream, a few grains of salt and
two drops of vanilla. Melt chocolate
in small saucepan placed over hot
water, add sugar and bolling water
gradually, stirring constantly. Pour
on slowly the cream, add salt asd
vanilla, then freeze,
Raspberry lIce~Three tablespoons
ful of sugar, one cupful of raspber
ries, omethird cupful f water, one
teaspoonful of lemon juice. Sprinkle
raspberries with sugar, cover and let
stand one hour; then mash and
squeeze through cheesecloth to ex
press as much julce as possible. Add
lemon juice and freeze. Strawberry
loe is made In the same way as rasp.
berry ice, the quantity of sugar de
pending upon the acidity of the fruit
a
ounce
pound
celery +3 Yh
half
Cut
ounce t
meric
pepper
bers, onions and
the Os
them one
Or
best
nil
A new seed potato, called the Pearl,
is being sold In England at the rate of
$25,440 a ton.