“Neglect and Dust” A master mirror én a silent room Became the sleeping spot of damp and dust; No face looked in it mystic depths to bloom With smiles, rebel rust Destroyed its truthful speech Then unto all and each That came within its react It gave a blighting lie; The young seemed bleared of eye, And grim and sadly worn; The old beheld their torn And withered brows and gave Themselves to dark despair, Thinking that soon the grave Would have them as its share, And thus the mirror told its blighting Mes, And filled its patrons with a deep disgust: It took thelr them Serving its Dust, . M. MacDonald in Sunday and soon neglect and happy sighs, tyrant lords, Neglect and —p IN HiS OWN COUNTRY = ERGs Seas ese ases 525250525252 5% It was of the on the and to tick the bedtime The usual wooden long past household the with an rressive ten.” off the seconds phasis in which there w bordering on disapproval. lng fire had burned itself bed of sile even the had wing, and which em- as somethin stove long since the Mo a monoton thin A poOT sparse gray to an exclam ly, of “It g out.” one nado!" “A his ith the lamp- shade “pg viction ocon- erated, with kind that'll nado!” he reit ‘One of the an’ bust like enough, 'H onroof a I tell vou,” he went on to be any zephyr a mite if it was worse th that blow we had in the 1 : I'm goin’ to write the paper tomorrow and give ‘em warnin’. Mrs. Bently did not pressed by the threatened calamity deed, her smile, she husband, was m wy hen was it in'?" she asked Diow down trees in barn or two ‘ft ain't goin shouldn't wonder ' seem duly im- in- to her than skeptical said it as ed sre vou iri and twenty-sixth,” he replied. “Pass me the almanac.” demanded; and when he had done her bidding. she slid the spectacles to the ridge of her nose and si ad the pages “You ought com ng jJast she not to have your that time." “The third Thursday month comes the ei that's the day the sewing<ircle meets here. Then the twenty-third, which comes a Tuesday, the day that Mis’ Bragg is goin’ to have her day party. You couldn't have picked ont a more unhandy for torna does Seems to if I were you 1 sho put it off till the last of the month.” Harrison his rocki women be along she in the ghteenth, on igh an’ of is time ne, wuld smote on arm of “Ain't that just } in scorn. “I You talk Bent ly ng-chair 7" he burst out, so foolish, Sophy. hand and turned ‘em loose any I was a mind to. I hain’t got anythin’ to do with makin’ of it. fs to warn folks that it's comin’ it is, , Just as | say.” ask him from what source his knowledge of the impending disas- ter, nor by what deductions he able approximate the time Precedent cases had taught her the futility of course She returned the almanac, none too gently, to its place among its predecessors, and putting her el bows oan the table TO0 he to of AYE appearance veyed her prophet husband in a da- ious silence, “Of course,” she remarked, “most of the foiks won't pay attention to it, even it does come out (n the paper; but then there'll be oth- ows that'll be just fools enough to. Folks like 'liAza Crowell, now, aot stir out of the house {f they heard a tornado was predicted. 1 want v good full gatherin’ when the sew. ing-<circle meets here, an’ | guess Mis’ Bragg wouldn't ever forgive you the knew you were the cause of keep. in' any one away from her party, Since you know it's comin’, why can't at last, be, instead of keepin’ timid folks all wrought up for eight days?” The forecaster sniffed scornfully, “I should think I was doin’ my part if I came within eight days of it,” he declared, row it down a by.” “The best say nothing advised, tartly. turn out like predicted the June.” day or two by and ‘an do is to Mrs. Bently “More's likely that killin’ frost twentieth day thing yon about it.” you At this open skepticism her husband bristled. “Well, there was a frost that night out in Illinois, anyway,” he sald in self-defense, “And maybe that's where olin’ to he!" your tor- snapped his spouse as she to be followed ently husband, bearing in his arms his pile of treasured almanacs “It's all right, mother,” he the next morning, warming his hands at fire, while Mrs. Bently preparing breakfast that's ain't with plans a dream last night, sittin’ here in sudden some of the clouds that 1 And ‘when they got up over- -<cricky, how it begun to blow! limbs came off the as {if were lopped and the lila flat, and one end of the stove in. Seemed as if I was readin’ a newspaper, an’ 1 look ed at the headin’ to see just what day of the month it was, I saw it was Then [ looked at my noticed it was just three, somehow kitchen clock in’ six vou See, pres as he the kit- bustled “That goin' to mite, I Seemed stood chen comin’ interfere had a was your as if and 1 +} y Kitchen, the up come blackest ever saw, in the west elms they + bushes blowed an’ though the was I've got it That tornado is some time be Sn now, due tweor here on the n three “Well, an’ as well come said Mrs “I hain’t heard tell yund the tenth, nobody out Jently, with a grim of any goin ‘son re 80 pe 5 son kh Ui MIUC breakfast soon's will you?" he ur yt You want to writin’ what send goin’ 30 I can go for "or MADOTS time the plow the said Her husband intendin’ to” coughed unea admitted I know was he I guess n hen this tornado’s Ww, 80 long as hs pADErs man can soe the somethin’ to his f was Mrs, Owes “No dout retort Breakfast the desk an old of They all Bently's acld he hetlook in the front he over, room, and drew out a newspaper clip. began the to tin box yeilowed pings in manner: ‘Uncle March not fall the wint comes the front wit and so forth He read them over one afte ing from them, api Necessary inspiration, OF and with his his nose and his now nouncement,” er, drawi 3 the f sD led low on les pul out he he. heavy waxed ; Absorb gave no back the one cheek, gan to write laboriously in a The morning hed on sturdily ed in his selfdr npose d + heed to the jond and the kitchen which f Noon wa transferring the pen scrate tap; door sound of voices in slowed s approaching, and the work his dire compe to when shed the of forecast he door from ths kitchen was pa and Mrs room, to sink heavily the desk “1 wouldn't write any if 1 she 8 . with Harrison blotted his ot line and looked at her over the top of his spe tacles with a scowl. “I've got it most done, anyway,” said he. “What's the Dinner ready?” ‘tain’t dinner, sald his on over to invite She's to lently into a c ent ered open hair were you,” finality “No, wife you and me to her weddin’, be married the tenth! The prophet squirmed chair. In silence be wife's Jace. Mrs unflinchingly. “Now look here, go askin’ me to put it uneasily In studied his mother, off again,” he you'll have she I ghould hamed, you, to n Annie's with my croakin’s about some. didn’t know anythin’ about. You know what Mis’ Evans is anythin’ tornado comin’ make Annie put it off, in this world that'll bring luck than puttin’ off a wed- “1 don't but what to,” said f Were if 1 weddin’ eon on the tenth, she'll Harrison got angrily to his feet, He the desk, tore it into small bits and “Thunder an’ lightnin'!” he explod. ed. "What's the use of a man tryin’ to do anythin’ when he's got a woman naggin'of him every minute? Letthe if it's a mind to. Let it rip things all to pleces an’ blow down chimbleys an’ kill folks, It's more important, 1 s'pose, that Annie Evans should get married than that I sha'n't it I hope say a word about you're satisfied!” It was shortly after five on the af ternoon of the tenth that heavy black clouds, copper-colored along their up per edge, began poking their ugly heads above the western horizon, An. nie Evans's wedding was over; the bride and groom had departed station. ward in the old but much-decorated depot carriage, and the many guests were trailing homeward along the dusty white road. Harrison Bently and his wife turned in at their gate, and as they did so a warning rattle of thunder came from the clouds, which were now mounting the sky at race-horse speed. “Mebbe that's your tornado comin’, sniffed Mrs. Bently. Her husband did not reply at once, ba had been some- the feast. He endured it in disgruntled Now, first time that day, a sardonic smile curved his thin old lps. “P'r'aps | way, after all,” ger. Now afternoon of a specter at grimly for the silence. the last, far remarked, wa'nt so out he at black wine heavy blackendng heav- that casting an eve at the ens. “1 hain't color ght the If there a tornado, ed me the don’t intend ever to Mrs, Bently indulged chug FUSS th aan § seen any clouds of the "81 and you's © time blow, cheat. it: } ou!” an ironic in’ more Wee 18 out predictin’ of roralve in tain’'t noth thunder. she front door. all the hower," observed, as s} opened the “You flax winders are A louder peal of thunder shook purling gusts of wind caught and down drops round an’ shut, wil in you?” the sent it the of rain atte eddies of dust road ; fall began to Then the vagrant with a staccato re broke in earne gtorm long at rememb red in were It that Tre: ira buildings unroofed, Was a section uprooted, chimneys blown and windows were driven | . cosnbined foree of - Mra. Bently, wind and the Even ho ordinarily a inder i i i rsa $rgalf i pe ise] it rally six o'cle lifted and the Was ' fi } 1 round depot bexira sadly iraggle { ppoait and the groom leaned the old i gate-post “3d s i i been somethin’ of a blow &% The sro’ fr” gs heen a washout down tran most Aa won't be a in’ » I good at predictin ght 'a line, 1 mor: should runnin’ ut a ser gy. nan as Uncle Harrison, mig give us some wamin' of this” The old man yk his head siow Tm done with prophesyin’.” said he There's for a prog phot anyway.” sho no honor hiz own country, Youth's Companion My Preumatic Snake. Last in company with an em! nent authority on automobiles, I went Pimlico road for a drive in a new touring car. On the way we found 2 an ophidian reptile with body, imbricated scales, ne and a remarkable dilated fitted with a tongue, at of which were two fil companion, pot oh year, ont snake, elon. gated mouth. th termination My snages, who has that exhausted; high Inte sail own this ments ed was many declared hoop It dead, in fact, and in tomobile WAS with sSHaxKe arly much rolling, our au go fond of us we could look hin quiver. About roadhouse we rman and punctured a far out of town getting nes it it became mercy we took ov. he snake the in t eve without a four beyond the into a lot of glass t There we were, a mighty slim chance of any others means than the Our snake, which in the meantime had recovered his health evidently appreciated the difficulty fc&# while we had the wheel jacked up n examination he glided up to us, take a long breath fill him self with wind, and naively ied him around our wheel making an miles tire with Sant: he ral’ Uy trolley to col Baltimore in time for lunch.-—-H E Warner in New York Sun. Warden and the Liar. A Colorado man who is visiting in told H. 1. Woods thie story: The game warden of Colorado was walking out in the mountaing the other day when he met a hunter with his gun. The officer suggestoa that that ought to be a good country for hunting, “It certainly 18,” sald the hunter proudly. “lI killed one of the finest bucks yesterday I ever saw, and he It was the season when deer may not be shot without subjecting the hunter to a heavy fine “Well, that is a fine one,” said the warden, “and do you know who yon are talking to?” Being assured that he did not the officer sald: “Why, I am the chief game warden of Colorado.” The hunter was only taken back a moment, when he sald: “And do you know who you are talk ing to?" The warden did not know, “Well, sir” sald the hunter, appar. ently much relleved, “you are talking to the biggest liar In the whole State of Colorado."-Kansas City Star. > 3 OR A iE ol TO SKIN POTATOES. A piece of rough sacking will quick. ly and easily rub off the peel of new potatoes or carrots with much less labor and time than scraping. CUTTING THIN GOODS. Lay the sheets of paper all This prevents out place, goods between two thio and cut out paper and material pulling of TO KiL.L. ANTS 1all black or red ants | d by a little attention. is one of the best things. it with dry white -the must be slightly that sugar will adhere The will to the cells the in )¥ed In hot water Sn she may be ban A sponge Sprinkle sponge the BC sugar- moist 80 ants sponge after the and by and the gponge re Of in sugar large numbers can eRe again and until all «1 and sugared to the closet for more A ZINCTUB over a recent want every womual ied bath tub to 8 hare The water +d ours that ord} to 3 no polish aleam strainoe? the white poong sugar sour) beat till beat in the yund it Potato stuffing may th i tis ceae Two poon onion minced tablespon stiff, then grad Pile pour the steamed applies centre of a dish, and ard. fing for P be used for better for ducks and cups mashed potato, 1 fuice or two teaspoons cream table pep soft cust ~Potato any fowl Stu oultry n oug! © teas onion, 1-2 cup butter, 1 and finely or milk, 1 f£o0n cl sey per spped parsley, salt Many like two to above quantits exes, about Mix and beat yolks of well Chocolate Cream Ple- any laver cake; cream, slightly sweeten pinch of salt, whip till very thick, flavor with vanilla; take one layer of split and spread all the cream between: put on top and frost, thinly, with plain white frosting the whole cake: let that harden, then melt un sweetened chocolate and spread over all. Orange Cream Pie—The grated rind of one orange und julce enough te make one cupful, a little lemon juice, three-fourths of a cup of sugar; sim mer down to a thisk syrup, strain ana coel: use with cream He sure and always allow it to stand so water or liquid can settle at the bottom before applying to cake; flavor cake with orange. Make cake ne take a jar of and add » for cake, Valuable Elderberry Patch. Elderberries are being cultivated by the Pennsylvania Railroad on ground worth £00,000 an acre. Alongside the approaches to the Union Depot is a long stretch of ground that the company could not keep green, because of smoke and soot. Finally, elder cuttings were planted, they thrived, and now are in fine blossom. The ground is among the most val uable along Liberty avenue, a sale across the street last week being at the rate of $00,000 an acre Pittsburg Dispatch to The Philadelphia North American, 299% 9% 9% NNN Jno. F. 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