TWO SCHOOLS,
I pat my heart to school
In the world where men grow wise
“Go out,” I said, “and learn the rule;
Come back when you win the
prize.”
My heart came back again.
“And where is the prize?”
“The rule was false, and
was pain,
And the teacher's name was Pride
I eried.
the prize
I put my heart to school
In the woods where wild birds sing
In the flelds where flowers spring,
Where brooks run cool and clear,
And the near
“Go out,” 1 said
But
blue of heaven bends
“you are culy a fool,
perhaps they can teach
here,
why d
heart, and where
answer with
a sOng,
find
“And
My
The
O YOu stay
came
this ho
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idfalher used
ia L oO
can tiger.
1 ve
I suppose
I him
lot's soe
Ho
about my age
teen and
thing depends
tough t
I tell
works, as
then ne
mes:
you.
gether
Was
hoeing i
clearings. Ah! that w
ous Summer. He was somewhere
Lake Champlain But the
dragged by, and cold weather
on
"We
to pass
could, when
of November
over ask If
of Brindle, the
bright Indian Summer
had turned her out t¢
she hadn't come up as wsual. and
was nowhere in sight. It was already
dusk, but taking the old gun we start
ed together, and hunted both clear
ings well over. Brindle was certain
ly not in the cleared land.
“Have to glve her up
Johnny,” said I. “But I'll go with
you in the morning. She's lost In the
woods, or hedged up
among windfalls. We heard
rathe
ff in the
On
weoeoks
came
were gotiing
Winter
night
Johnny
the we
first
]as £ ng
one about the
came
to we had seen
It had
day,
COW, been
and
0 browse
the lu
along saw a bear digging groundnuts
under a rook. Although these were
common enough sounds and sights
in those days, still we didn't care
to go off into the forest after dark.
“It snowed during the night, sev.
eral Inches. But Johnny was over
early, Brindle hadn't come In. He
had Lrought his gun and takem Gud
along (Gud was Johnny's dog), and
we now wtarted off for a thorough
fiunt in the woods.
“How queer everything looked that
I
i
i
morning—so thick aad white and
ghostly! The snow had lodged upon
all the trees, especially the ever
greens, bending down the branches,
and every stump and bush was
wreathed In blinding white. As
cows used frequently to follow up the
valley to northward, we entered it and
on to where {t out upon
the Sachem’s Pond, at the foot of the
Great Crag, which rises right up from
the water's edge some two hundred
feet, a sheer precipice, naked and
rocky, with just a footway between
the pond which very
there. About the pond and
the trees mostly low
This
tents
the
kept opens
is
taf
Crag are black
like white
infinite
with
not yet frozen water
multitudes,
the ground
made evervthing
strange that, although we
there hefore,
“new
times been
at we
But
it
a fox bark
at
Brindle,
the pond
heard
then
him
itmons
don appalling
and
moments of ood
Then
caught
staring
danger our
and
ing our up unused
from the fear
am
1 looking up
glaring
mouth of its
ledge to
up
we still
was
fine turned to run
ful place
us
heheld
fu when another wild sere
rooted to the path, an
we the catamount
from the
running
where
down at
and
us
den, along the
the point
“Frightened as
had sense enough to know that it
of to run. From
it had sprung
we were,
no use his
his tall
watch a couple of mice. For
As long as we Kept
remained watching
the moment we started, he would rise
poise himself to spring
the least
he would
but
move
ment, If we ran,
It
spring Instantly, and unless fatally
wounded make short work of us.
“*Oh, what can we do!’ whispered
Johnny, as we shrank, shivered there
beneath those savage eyes, which
never for a moment left ua.
“We had but one hope, If we did.
n't move, he might go back to eat
Gub, In his den.
“But no, he liked the looks of us
too well for that. One or both of us
he was bound to have, and like all
oat creatures, he loved te watch his
prey. ‘1 don’t know how long we
stood there, but it seemed hours, and
grew desperate and falrly reck-
in our terror,
ve
less
“1 am going
muttered Johnny at
ing to think so too.
d our rusty old
well ohiarged
to fire—may as well’
last. 1 was com
Slowly we rals-
fiint-shat, They
with buck-shot-
y off. The pan-
movement,
were
seeing the
up. but we pulled the trig
They both went off, There was
pain or rage. We
the but
beheld
ther growled,
ind started
RB
a loud
sprang
lancing
geream of
away
over
gtrugeling
down path,
E our shoulders,
}
and clinging to a low-
h he had jumped
ledge above
did him!* ex.
sing In our
wiateh
there
and
after
y
him
er rock, upon whi
fallen the
“ ‘He
from
hit!
d4 Johnny,
fight
or
is we hit
and pau
we turned to
y+ long ti he clung
and
ime
falling back,
Shriek
up
could see
down over the
+ ow
vas a fear
DELICATE FLOWERS AS FOODS.
Made Into Salads, Jellies, Curries—
Cloves and Capers.
the plant
ium
fond
rhododendron
Anglo-Europeans
Yet pois
to the
aud it has been
was the
th boos
nasturt
are
tise them making jelly
onous perties are ascribed
this genus,
that the R ponticum
from whose flowers the
Pontus gathered honey which
produced the extPmordinary symp
of poisoning described as hav.
ing attacked the Greek soldiers in the
retreat Ten Thousand
flower clusters of cauli-
which form themselves into a
cluster or head, varying from
to eight or more inches across,
become the edible portion of one of
the greatest of vegetable delicacies.
In this it differs greatly from all oth-
er members of the cabbage family,
whose leaves and stalks are used for
culinary purposes,
The flower buds
81 fess
BOC ie
said
the
toms
famous of the
The
flower,
firm
the
of the Capparis
walls in southern Europh, are com-
monly known as caper. These are
chiefly imported from Cleily, though
the plant is largely cultivated In
some parts of France. The cloves of
commerce are the unegpanded buds
of Caryophyllus aromaticus, a small
evergreen, naflve of the Moluccas,
but cultivated In many’ parts of the
East and West Indies.
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The most liferesting thing &bout a
Russian crulser's stopping a British
a Russian cruiser left, thinks the New
York World.
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MENT
mermaids’
were
At a walls
of the
shaded
Erasses
Was
carnival, the
of
dado
the
tints
rooms i
green with a of
while
shell
and
dream
MOSSes were
MOoEses,
of sea Sea
fast
@
ened on flimsy lace
curtains,
Hanging
dozeng of
suspended
bon. Other
tened with
aeaq
rom the chandellers were
he
1¢48 In
ca-green
v
i
i
of tiny pairs,
rib-
fas
8( aiiop
Arrow
groups of i
of
by In
were
loops
draperies.
The rambling studio wa
fancy articles which
sale There
loned {1
irom
shirring of
to
for
handsome
ribbon
pin balls which
ing
a little
A
Jewel cases
wipers
books
cughion of
of small
There
of chamois skin
belween pair
shell
with shell
Several
ilzed a
made
a
pairs
COVErs
LOOKS,
Hanapoll News,
Such gowns
pense Mi acco
worn th
he w
needs be made uj and
iery and
les of embrol
the whole effect tory and
the gown so
think It
other direction and
the principle one of the
Tea gowns are indeseri
tive, and ie I
winter can be made of heavier fabric
and more trimmed, they
are not more
than are those for summer,
lace and embroidery must
used, and the amount that
usqy is almost incalculable
loose coat fitted In at the
with straight front
a0
wa nfil wy (ye
sein that mo
best to economize nn some
M
to have
wardrobe
bably attrac
wh those intended for
elaborately
expensive nor
needs be
can be
is the effect given
a blush
dress for
As the great
tributed
pretty AOmMe moth
f
pile of dresses
needy that cold winter
one woman burst
in 1
th
into
folds of
lace and
one
he
face
Ors
Tacoma
nother
Cal
ran
onterey
farms a Texas
in area
nas V
Another
-
aq
Another
sey and clears $1,500 a
frogs
Year
models. The gown itself ig made
as the case may be, so that the coat
opens over a front of the lace,
THE EXTRA STITCHES.
Two young girls were engaged In
stitching flannel dresses for the poor
of the parish.
“Now we have completed our gar.
ments, our work is finished for this
season at least,” sald one of the two
girls, with a sigh of relief,
“No, no; walt a moment; just a
few moments more,” replied the oth.
er; and going Into an inner room.
she returned with some skeing of
crimson silk, and a few knots of rib.
bon and Ince
“Why, what are you doing?” asked
her companion with surprise, as the
deft fingers swiftly fashioned a dain.
ty edging of crimson silk, frilled in
the goft lace at neck and sleeves, and
fastened on the bright ribbons here
and there.
“These extra stitches take Just a
Another
digger.
Anothor
cracker
who | a capable grave
who is
Boston
2 professional nut
Traveler
REAL ELIXIR OF LIFE
real elixir of
fountain from
perennial
an effort,
it fa all
"i
n 3
the
real
waters
it
Contentme
life. It is
which flow
Sometimes
effort
the
the of
Coste
BAY
tremendous 10
it much better off for thus
looking at the sunny side of the world
than the person who harbors a griew
ance against all mankind and walks
through the world burdened with the
somber thoughts of his disappoint.
ments, The discontented perhaps
never stop to think how much worse
off they could be; that no matter how
few their pleasures there are those
in the world who have fewer or none
at all That, given health and
strength and the full possession of
the senses, they are advantaged and
blessed in the race of existence In
dianapolis News,
is
Boston reports that a fisherman
found a valuable diamond ring In a
founder. One must have some =x-
cpse for fishing for flounders,
ASH SB ANS
Horse ambulances are still a “ery.
ing need” in London.
A Tomato
tomatoes
keeping
{toes i
ana
h from
3
with well
which haze been mixed a
3 a pinch of
i red pepp }
oil. Bake
baking dix]
two-thirds
Cook in
the rice is qui
of the tomatoes
th a
of olive
deep
3
oil
Rerve hot w
in which they were bak
Rich Sago Pudding
ipe for the favorite
of the
we HOTS
pudding
last
of a
generation
after the
Sunday dinner customary in
Soak six heaping teaspoon
of sweet milk
for five hours. Then add a quart of
boiling milk. Cook till soft. Beat
the yolks of six eggs in a pudding
dish with a teacup of sugar and a lit.
tle nutmeg. Then when the sago is
soft stir it Into the egps and sugar.
Bake twenty minutes. After the pud:
ding has been set away to cool beat
up the whites of the six eggs until
they are a stiff froth and fold into
them three tablespoonfuls of sugar.
Spread this meringue over the top of
the pudding and brown it in the oven.
A little jelly is sometimes spread over
the pudding before adding the mer
ingue.
simple