An Old Road.
Io days that were—no matter when—
"T'was not a weed-grown palindrome.
At either end fj dreamy glen,
But led, like other roads, to Rome,
Its dust was ridged by many wheels
That rolled to market, church and
fair;
But now, a wave of grass conceals
The road that leads not anywhere,
The ohipmunk haunts its tumbled
walls
Where roses walt
kiss,
And honeysuckle droops and falls
Entwined with ropes of clematis.
the wild-bee's
And here the nesting meadow lark
Hath built; and wisps of malden-
hair
Q’er-veil the
mark
The road that leads
grooves that faintly
not anywhere.
Because it
Of sullen
year,
ts twilight owns a softer star-
A silence lingers here.
bere the grinding jar
wheels from year 0
Sweeter
And worn by toll and stress
As truant urchins let ua fare,
Like our dear pathway, purposeless—
The road that leads mot anywhere,
~ Arthur Guiterman, in the New York
Times.
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S RIDA
Treed by a
Snowslide
BY JOHN H, HAMLIN.
4
PEP INDE PEPNPWNPWPN PY PEIN
It was a ry afternoon in
Nevada mountains, and the campers
lolled at their ease hammocks
swung beneath the when
Anne, the energetic ad at
.the flap of the girls’ text and sug-
gested a trip to Rock Lake, there was
no burst of enthusiasm from the lazy
ones,
“It's
sultr the
in
3 x
pines. So
one, Appear
just cloudy
fishing. Won't
éntreated Anne,
strap of a fish-basket
ders.
At these words Elliott Noxon's
ed head appeaged above
a hammock “Besides,”
Anne, “the climb to Rock
give one a fine appetite
Noxon, the every-hungry
back with a sigh, “Oh, it's too hot to
be strenuous, Aone, apd I'm famish
ed right now, Let's wait till
ing.”
But the girl
ed out a fiyrod from
leaning against a tree
forth for the lake.
ter, followed close
Rock Lake lay about a
the camp The
it crossed a mount
border of which
huge fir- and
tents of the
the far side of
in massive,
up
scul basin,
Lake shimmered a
Arne was no novice at
ing, neither was she an
fisherman. When she
bluff that hid from view
tttered a little cry of delight at
scene below. The surface
was rippled just enough
breeze to make the
fhe waters in most
The girl lost no time in gaining
the shores, and in the excitement of
casting her flies to the “gamy” trout
she was totally unconscious of all alse
But Rags the dog, who had chosen
to act as her guardian, suddenly
up a longdrawn howl.
Heavy black clouds were
over the mountains. Rumblings
thunder were cach moment growling
more distinet.
Anne paused in her fishing long
enough to scan the approaching storm
clouds. They looked ominous lndeed.
but the trout were rising to the flies
80 beautifully that she could not re
alist another cast. A fine lusty trout
feapad for fly before it touched
the water; for ten minutes Anne stub.
bornly played him. Rags's frequent
howlings hardly interrupted the girl's
tussie with the fish. By the time she
safely landed the two-pound trout,
the dog lost all patience. He caught
the edge of the girl's short skirt in
bis teeth and gave it a sharp tug
"O Ragsie, isn't it a beauty?”
Rags's response was a more vigor
ous pull at her skirt.
“Yes, Rags, 1 am satisfied now.
We shall run for camp this very in-
stant.”
A clap of thunder punctuated this
remark. Anne realized that she would
have to hurry to escape a severe
_ Mtenching. (She hastily wound up
her line, slipped the reel in the pock-
et of her jacket, and as she unjointed
her flyrod a warm drop of rain fell
upon her hand.
“O dear me, Rags, why didn't 1
obey your warning long aged We
shall have to take the short cot to
camp.”
The short cut was down a deep
gorge that cleft the western wall of
the mountain. Although it was mid-
summer, the altitude was so great
that the gorge was choked with a
buge drift of smow, which complete
iy filled the upper portion and termi
mated in a wall of dripping fce half.
way down he canon.
It was a quick but dangerous de-
scent. The campers had used (t but
omcé before, only to find the way
enough
for good
some n
one I
usted the
Not ar ahonl
nin
JNO
a $
as 1)
hh a
SUE a
about
tousi-
the edge of
continued
Lake will
for supper.”
one sank
even-
shook her head, pick-
the assortment
BL
ry
SEL.
trunk, and
“Rags,” the
at her heels
mile from
leading to
mn
site
ain meadow the
trees, snuggled
party Frou
bluff rose
volcanic terraces;
toward the summit,
pine
camping
this meadow
high
crudely
ptured
like
mou
inexper
topl pn 5
fenced
ihe
the lake she
the
of the
the sl
over
by
flies skim
alluring fashion
Bm
ro
liing
the
Frond by the louger trail preferable.
tb A flash of lightning decided Anne's
course, She scrambled through a
tangle of manzanitas, climbed up a
rocky gully to the mountainous rim
encircling Rock lake, and followed
a faint trail that took her streight to
the glacler-like mass of snow that
dipped downward at an astonishing
angle, Rags ran ahead of her whin-
ing pitifully at every “thundercilap.
The rain came dJown in big warm
gplashes. The heart of the storm
was roaring across the lake and hurry-
ing on its drenching way hard after
the fleeing girl
A blazing glare of lightning, fol-
lowed by a terrific report of thund-
er, frightened Anne so that she broke
into a run down the hard-packed
snow. She seemed to be flying along
with fearful velocity, and alarmed lest
she should lose entire control of her-
self, she dug her heels in the crust
—Jost her balance in so doing, and
fell backward upon the snow, She
sat up and was about to regain her
feet, when she discovered that the
canon's sheer walls were sliding up-
{ hilll
The sight
{ closed her
| matural
| neath her
the
made her dizzy. She
to shut out the un-
spectacle, only to feel be
an undulating movement of
Show p
eves
ack
Then it dawned upon Anne that the
huge drift of had been started
i from its bed by the storm. She open
i od her eyes and screamed with ter
ror as another thunderbolt crashed
overhead. It seemed to rock the very
! mountainside and give fpesh impetus
the avalanche,
Anne staggered to her feet im-
{i pelled by a wild desire to seek safely
| in flight. She took but half a dozen
when the careening mass up
her, rolling her over and over in
the rumpled, broken drifts. She was
almost smothered, terribly frightened
—anid when she felt herself dashed
against &he projecting limbs of a
tree and wedged roughly among the
thick she nearly lost cone
sciousness But with flerce tenacity
she clung to the bending, crackling
i boughs while the avalanche boomed
with a roar that drowned even
peals of thunder
The in the top of which
she had lodged, stood near the
side of the nd luckily escaped
full the snowslide. But
vastige a branch, save the
topmios! cluster, was sheared off
by the grinditog mass of snow, ice
and debris
Anne was too badly scared to notice
this: too dazed to move a muscle.
She had miraculously escaped awful
from crushing avalanche,
he was being assured
she was,
SLOW
| to
steps
Sev
branches,
f past
the
pinedree,
been
ROOTES {
of
of
Lae force
every
the
far from
of her
high above bed of the canon
The storm, too furiously
in the devastated path of the snow.
slide wind swayed and rocked
i the towering pine A long branch
{that had been by the ava
lanche was torn from the tree trunk
and hurled far down the ravine
The rain fell in sheets, soaking poor
| Anne to the skin. Through it all she
{ kept her arms about the Tree
trunk. The thunder grew less heavy
lier elevated position Anne saw
gafety. perched as
ae
folk TW od
te
sae
missed
i wked
| the black
r- | the camping
she fargo!
ing of the
For a moment
plight in think
danger of her companions;
i ben she shivered with cold as a blast
| of wind gave the big pine a farewell
twist,
i The
i flere
penetrated a rift
{ to the horizon
grounds
her own
storm had spent ita short,
The rays of the sun
in the clouds. Close
was this rift. but the
| Welcome sunshine was none the less
comforting to the cold, marooned girl
| At camp they were greatly worried
when the stormclouds broke over
| Rock Lake he dull roar of the
snowslide caused a panic among the
women. It sent the men post-haste
find Anne
When they had gone half-way across
the meadow, they saw Rags, wet,
bruised and running on three legs. He
was coming over the shortcut route
i and yelping at every limping step.
The men were sick at heart, Round.
ing the shoulder of the mountain, they
cut off their view of the gorge, they
say a mass of snow, earth and up-
rooted trees scattered over the moun
tainside
“Do you suppose she started home
that way? asked Tom Sanders,
“I=1 hope not, Why, oh, why did
not I go with her!” moaned Elliott
Noxon,
A faint halloo seemed to echo this
plaint. It was repeated with more
emphasis,
In a verf! few moments Anne's
whereabouts were discovered by the
astonished searchers,
“Well of all things, Anne! Do
tell us how you ever got up in that
tree!” shouted Ellott Noxon.
“Oh, 1 can tell you that, Biliott”
came the somewhat hysterical reply,
“if you will first tell me how 1 pm
aver to get down!”
It did appear to be a dificult prob.
lem to solve. The pine’s big, smooth
bole soared up sixty feet, with never
a branch for a foothold, The poor
of the canon was a ragged bed of
boulders. A fall from the tree meant
death,
“If we could got a rope up to you,
Anne—" suggested Biliott.!
“If? Why, we must!” asserted Tom
Sanders,
“0 boys, I have it!" cried the girl,
with sudden cheerfulness,
From the pocket of her fishing jack.
et she produced her reel, with its
one hundred and fifty feet of olled
silk line. She fished a lead sinker
Low, af the same pocket. attached it
areer,
to
to the line and then began carefully
unreeling,
“Run for the picket-ropes,
body!” shouted Elliott Noxon,
Anne superintended. the details of
her own rescue with exceeding calm-
ness, She drew up the spliced picket.
ropes hand over hand, and knotted
an end securely round the tree. She
made the descent according to the
most approved gymnastic methods.
The moment she felt the touch of
arms uplifted to steady her and solid
ground beneath her feet she indulged
in a good cry. But then she sald she
was entitled to at least that bit of
feminine comfort, and the boys
thought 80, too.~—Youth's Companion,
some.
CANVAS GLOVES AND MITTENS,
Some Eight Million Pairs Made Last
Yedr in This Country.
For an infant industry the mann
facture of canvas gloves and mittens
appears to be doing very well. It
i8 ag yet scarcely fifteen years old
and it did not fairly get into its stride
unti: about five vears ago, bit there
were turned out in this country last
year such goods to the number all
told of 80,000 000 pairs.
What started the first canvas glove
and mitten ory to be a
moot que probable that
the first likely a
pair of mittens, was made by some
farmer's wife for her husband's use,
and that utility commended
them other farmers’ wives made the
same sort mittens gloves for
their husbands until use be
came more or leas common in a neigh-
borhood or distriot, then some
body began making for sale.
Now there canvas gloves and
mitten factories scattered throughout
the United States. There is one east
ern concern 18s that has
fourteen States
east of the Mississippi includ.
ing one in this State, and canvas
gloves and mittens are worn all over
the country, and they are now export
od to various foreign countries,
Canvas gloves and mittens are made
for women as well as for men and
they are produced in great variety,
in various styles, and of course in
various sizes and in canvas of various
thicknesses and in colors white, gray,
brown and striped. and some have
attached to them leather palm pads
and thumb pieces, and some have
attached woven woolen wristlets and
there are canvas miltens that are
woolen lined, Canvas gloves and mit.
tong are made In two bundrad or more
varieties,
They are
fact
stion. It is
pair, and
appears
this most
as their
of or
their
and
them
are
i } Hs ir
in the Dusly
various
River,
factories In
worn by [ronhiandlers,
who perhaps buy those faced with
leather or use with them separate
leather palm pieces. They are worn
by motormen and cab drivers and aw
tomobile drivers and truckmen, and
by farmers and gardeners and bY la
borers by men engaged in various
kinds of work, and in homes they are
used in tending the furnace
Canvas gloves and mittens sel] at
prices ranging from 10 cents to
cants a pair, with a fow styies run
ning ap to 35 cents, Those without
leather trimmings can be washed, but
they are more likely to be worn til
they are thrown away. The raliroad
engineer, for instance, who fanciad
canvas: gloves might buy canvas
gauntiets by the dozen palrs at a cost
of 25 cents a pair and put on a fresh
pair every week: the laborer at
work or another might buy a pair of
canvas gloves for 10 cents and wear
them till they worn oul--New
York Sun,
No Mistake,
A New York produce
which prides
orders correctly, received a
from a New Jersey customer
cently saying:
“Gentlemen
we over knew
take in
He
Fe
one
are
commission
on filling
iot-
re-
house,
all
ter
itself
this is the flrs: Time
you to make a mis
our order You are well
try eges,
poor for our trade.
do with them?”
The fair fame of the house for nev.
er makiog an error seemed (0 be at
stake, but the bright mind of the
Junior partner found a way out of it
He wrote:
“Gentlemen: We afe sorry to hear
that our last shipment did not suit
you, There was, however, no mis
take on our part. We
up your original order
reads as follows: ‘Rush fifty crates
eggs. We want them bad. "Phila
delphia Ledger,
Eighty Years Old; Never Votea.
All sorts of men are noted for all
sorts of things, and here is a man
in Rockland, Mass, just deceased,
who was famous for having abstained
throughout his eighty years of life
from castiog a ballot. As a boy he
listened to political wrangles between
the Democrats and Whigs and became
80 disgusted with polities that he
vowed he would never go near the
polls. What a text for a sermon on
the duties of citizenship! Yet there
are thousands of men who are irrl
tated by the evils of politics and who
would rather keep aloof than mix in
and help eliminate them. It is so
easy to deplore the wickedness of
politicians and to assume the holier
than-thou attitude; it is not so easy
to come out like a man and take a
stad against the politicians, To de
fy bosses and machines in public re
quires stamina. Providence (R. 1)
Journal,
The last you sent are too
What shall we
and find it
For the completion of the Damascus
Wert Teasar ante oh rt)
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A bedroom door closed to another
apartment may be converted into a
wardrobe by nalling a shelf above the
lintel of the door and putting hookh
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door beneath. Hang cretonne curtaing
from the shell to
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ro wash a chamois make a latner
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shake out,
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wise 3
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PARIS.
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Pain
Kitchen
EOTYOR }
baking things on, and
is low enough
ing board. In
baking po
pin, eto
outside patch
1 lots
shelf to lay
the cabinet
a mix
apices
rolling
handy ariicle
steps. It
fron brack
if
can be used as
can be kept
biscuit
This is a very
and a great many
fastened 10 the with
eis Boston Post
nis
wider cutter,
gaves
wall
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These made lke apple dumplings
juice of the fruit are delicious. An
old time method ig to make a thick
batter
eges, two teaspoonfuls of butter,
tablespoonful of sugar, two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder sifted with the
flour, one cupfu! of water and one
cupful of stoned cherries. Drop the
mixture by the tablespoonful into boil
ing salted water. Only a few at a
time can go in, as the water must
not stop boiling. Cover Llosely and
cook 12 minutes without uncovering
Take from the water and serve at
once on hot plates. To make the
sauce, cream together a cupful of
powdered sugar and a tablespoonfu?
of butter. Add gradually one beaten
egg and a half cupful of cherry juice
beating constantly —New York Tele
gram,
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raising chopped, 1 12 cups rhubard
chopped, 1 small cup sugar, 1 table
spoon flour mixed with sugar, 12 tea
spoon salt (rolled cracker can be
used instead of flour if preferred).
Bake in two crusts,
.
The Hat.
The modern bat (with brim) can
be traced back to the Roman “pota:
sus,” which seems to have been worn
only when on a journey. Hats with
brims were also used, though not ex
tensively, among the ancient Greeks
It was not until after the Norman
Conguest that hats begas to be used
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‘AW sewage into the streams of the
wountry, will be made a nat
f President Roosevelt acts upon
suggestion of Edward Hatch, Jr,
New York, made
© the Executive
Mr. Hatch is chairman of the New
York Merchants’ Association Pollu-
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2 vigorous campaign against the de
flement State and of the
Hudson River and New
particular, by existing and proposed
systems drainage—two of which
latter, the Bronx Valley and the Pas
salc Valley wers,
New York, New Jersey
wonld eventualls 660,000,
gallons of New York
Harbor every hours.
Arguing for Go afd ir
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cates, the of the letter says ip
part
“The Governn is doing nothing
save the 35.004 lives
of
ina
iB
of waters,
of
rung se the one iv
the other in
discharge
filth
fwent
Gon into
y-four
YVé mime; 31
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States in almost incaleula
snd suffering, even when
Mot result-—this disease
seen continually epidemic in Pitts
ty-four years, and which
disease,
the
as physicians agree
diluted
ent the
w hic
of
sewage,
} O00 cases
Giseass h eve
the
ble expense
death does
“It is proposed,
the peopl
and Great Britain. There
‘ivers from becoming open sewers.
»enditure would be unnecessary
jumped into
ment, direct or Indirect, such streams
8 the Mississippi, the Hudson, the
Delaware, the Ohio, the Connecticut
and the Susquehanna, subject to the
jurisdiction of no one State, are so
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“1 have carefully figured it out
and find that if all the eattle we sii}
{to market each year were one cow
the would browse on the tropical veg
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tail waa switching fcicles off the
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by the aid of the higher branches of
mathematics | have made a careful
computation which shows that if all
the hogs we slaughter annaally were
one hog, thd animal could dig the
Panama Canal in two roots and a
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