Forgotten, What care 1 for the voice, Though all jolee? Why should I love the Hit, Or notice where his nest is built? The pale-faced night, the pink-cheek- ed dawn fook on my life but to be gone. wood's glad the world—but me—re- wild bird's Here is the “lovers where Wm A month ago, but years to me, Beneath a rosy, dimpling sky, Btrolled oft together, he and L And I was all his world—ah! me, The days I never more may see! Walk,” I know each shrub and flower here; each one is dear. beneath that tree, love to me, my silken hair, wondrous fine and yr hig dear sake He rested there, And, whispering Smoothed tenderly And said ‘twas fair. sweet But now, those ress A head of He looks And sees a They siroll I am a dog! hands with fond ca- golden wimples into her smiling eyes of the skies. here-—and They pass me by. press. pleture I? together No more such lite For master love may hless my —Leslie’'s Monthly, Billy Boarder Beoioasssrasestesss: ooss ; on the whittling He been listen conversation tween h fath and it was quite evident that things were “going to the dogs.” The had failed miserably, the interest on th mortgage would be due in two wonths, and even with the ter Emma earneg nery, could Ye lars. But what all had mark: volce jectedly. crops money fy tha 1 In the crn Can- . Wy 108 met by had hurt yrat of Bitty we been mother's the perhaps m themselves, “It's a turning away: meant they would ve to leave old, rocky, ter all, they He was daily can of and having drove off on his and melancholy thought. His aunt lived : ile nd away.- in l village. at the 1 hind a lage was a hi and in summer interesting thing in it was his aunt's hoass, for she ‘took in” boarders. At the even- ing hour, when Billy arrived with the milk, these well-dressed city people would usually be sitting on the piazza or under the trees, or perhaps play- ing croquet on Mrs. Snyder's bit of lawn, On this evening them wistfully, so inhumanly free from all the cares and worries of this world. He carried the milk into the kit chen. His aunt was on the back porch, turning the crank of an ice- cream freezer. “Billy,” minutes to and I'N cream.” » had which, af- carry Aunt Sue, horse, he frownin his the a errand, still with unproductive Pembridge whose own of a was ot and the sting forest ant remote, oh brs bain gai inere +: rv “wh ide meet Billy looked at she said, gpare? “have you five give you some of the lce- i ws oan v “Would I be glad: of a fortune?” she answered. Billy did mot wish to rouse his mother's hopes, He determinad to proceed on his own responsibility, By picking blackberries, whi*h he sold to his aunt, he earned enough money to insert one advertisement in a Boston newspaper. * Then he cast his bait out into the great, rich world, and waited anxiously for a nibble, On the second day after Billy had taken this step, two clerks in a Bos- ton drygoods store sat down to sup- per in thelr boarding-house and spread out a newspaper between them. “Look here, Dalton, how's this?” sald one of them, pointing with his fingar at an advertisement, which ran as follows: Bearders Wanted. Little Hawk Mountain. Fine scenery, trout swimming in the lake, mavhe a shot at a bear No ham- mocks or croquet, and just plain coun- try living, but mother's a first-rate cook. Five dollars a week. W. Al len, Pembridge, Maine, Dalton broke out laughing. that delicious? He calls his ‘mother!’ 1 vote we. go there. “It looks we want,” said the other man, Cornish, “and with vacation only ten away, we'd better make up our minds now. This Allen is honest, atvaicht forward BIraigniion Farmhouse on brooks, “Isn't wife " like what days — RT evidently an who i ta & it. "We load some bucksh hells for that must up a get it and few = bear,” ton. When Bill that Mr. opened a letter and read Dalton Mr. on OMmAas and Corni two rooms 10 én two weeks, and would + on August 31st he was tremu- with success. He mother with how POT his word ; en he saw up, first with : n we he an hour, felt so happy that he had something. the week before geeraed to be a new spirit 1" famille face gur- then sudde and and split wood for because he break to During the thirty first there of energy in the Billy's fresh » rooms aer i her with coverings. “I'm ba ote gee guests recom. that our gi a if the rest of us a few things, to give us mendati have with ing his time “They're going tonight.” she milk into her pans, of extra work, but I don't complain.” “How did you get 'em, Aunt Sue?” Billy asked, langpidly. "Advertised. Can't without advertising, nowadays.” “They have to have croquet and hammocks and ice-cream, don’t they, Aunt Sue?” “My folks do. was not to have explained, valuable, a pouring “It makes land! they lots pay. get anything My sakes, they wan! the earth! But there's always a profit on it if you manage right,” she added, cheerfully On the way home Billy's thoughts centered upon summer boarders. If there were only some way of persuad- ‘ing them to come to his mother's house! There were two spare rooms, decently furnished and every one said his mother was a “natural-born” cook. But what attractions could he offer in place of such impossible luxuries as his aunt wag able to afford? Noth- ing except the great, overtowering mountain, with its trout brooks and its one traditional bear—which many professed to have seen and at which a few had shot, When Bllly reached home, he sald to his mother: “MH you had boarders, mother, how much would you charge them?" ” “That depends,” she answered, with. ot much Interest. “Aunt Sue gets from seven to ten dollars a week. If folks would put up with what we could give them, I'd be glad to get five dollars. With the garden-truck I could save half of that” : “Would you like to take boarders, mother?” The boy tried to make his question ‘seém as casual ms possible og displayed a renewed itivating the garden, from about, rooting it di a wd spirit Al a to Mr. Dalton, announce had reserved two rooms his friend. srnoon of the last day of at the station with and wagon, %o the guest, When the train stopped two young men alighted. Billy sauntered forward, with a broad, em- barrassed smile on hig freckled face. “Hello, son!” sald one of the young men to him. “Can you direct us to Mr. W. Allen's house?” “I'm W. Allen,” sald Billy. me take your things.” Dalton stared down at the small boy, who strove to relieve him of his valise, “Well, well!” exclaimed the young man. “And the gentleman with whom I've corresponded? “Yes, gald Billy, still tugging the “Won't you Jet me 2 50 he wrote formal inttnr he e, for him On the aft he and was the horse meet old “Tet you're sir” nt valise, “1 guess we're better able to lug them than you are” Cornish remark: “You lead the way and we'll And that was what Billy did In defatigably for the next twa weeks The young men had taken a faney to him, and insisted that he should ac company them on al] their excursions. le guided them to all the trout brooks, where their success wag be yond anything that they had dream they took him swimming with them in the lake. Two days they beat the mountain slopes in search of the bear; but a traditional bear that one still roams the forests of Little Hawk. The young men joked Billy a good deal about the bear, but on the last day of their vacation, when they had strolled to the hilltop for a last view of the distant lake, Cornish sald fo Dalton: “The little fellow a gun, at ours? bear." Dalton laughed. “There's a village boy who offers a muzzleloader for five dollars,” he sald. That afternoon they sought out the village boy and secured the gun, and in the evening, just before leav. ing for their train, Cornish gave it to Billy, with an elaborate presenta: tion epeech. “But you oughtn’t to give it to me!” eried the boy. 1 haven't done a thing for you; it's all been fun for me.” “Never mind,” =ald Dalton, “Al we ask Is that when he come back fo stay with you next summer, you have a bearskin to show us.” : The Allens’ “summer season” did not close for three weeks longer, On ought to have Did you see how he looked Maybe he could kill the ton sent a friend of theirs with his two young sons, i The upshot of it all was that with the returns from Billy's boarders and the money that Bmma earned at the canning factory, where she had had more work than usual, the Allens tided over thelr hard times. Anl now even Aunt Sue's boardinghouse 19 no more prosperous and no better supplied with eroquet and hammocks, and offers ice-cream to Its guests no more frequently than the estab lishment which advertises under the name of W. Allen—Youth's Compan fon. THE STRENGTH CF AN EAGLE Weight the Bird Could Carry In Flight—His Strong Claws. While I cannot give any positive proof of how much a bald eagle can carry, I should suppose that he could Carry much in propor tion weight a hawk or a horned owl. 1 have the recorded weight of a male bald eagle weighing nine and one-quarter pounds and 2 female weighing twelve pounds, A horned ow] will from four to five pounds, and 1 several times known one off a large house « large one could being will it at least as to his as Heh have tO Carry ne WAS a at yery and the owner told me he hear the cat ¢ry as hn Ww carried off. Now, any one wh weigh a large house cat will find O to we igh oft and hawk a id weigh hawk one of had car cken over a quarter of a My belief Ig th if a hawk ed owl more than » 1! » chicken han The twice marsh hawk weakest hawks, but he our this chi Can Carry weight (and 1 know posi an that eagle Oe: an required, do i {ov} propo to his ight {eo} 5 eighteen tion id be to nounde pounas. wi wou Carry when with an eagle. shot through a rifle lay its upended a long ~oad skid and pped it on him. Before it reached stretched vp and caught it in his and held ft the length of his him I walked on the skid and stood above him and he easily held me and the skid, which I should judge igh more twenty pounds. I pains to hed the game day and Put a ick in of a wounded eagle and let hi a small with t er | man r than 1 ever was to take the stick from him. From Forest and Stream. ball, on him he claws ' CES up above up 3 we would than {ook ¥ he wele weighed 118 the claw pounds, at f 1 ETASD tree he ot} nd a must be stronger JAPAN GETS A NEW ISLAND it Wag Previously Unknown and It Bids Fair to Be Wealth Producing. The Japanese report the discovery of a previously unknown island about 280 miles east Formosa. The discovery somewhat surprising at late date. The Jananese flag has raised over '*. and the name Nishigawa has been given to the isk and. i A Japanese agent, Mr. Nishihata is very enthusiastic over the discov ery. He says it has great natural wealth, i He found In the waters between the surrounding flat reef and the shores of the island several kinds of salable shelis and mother of pear! in abund- | ance. There are also inexhaustible ' supplies of commorcial coral; and | better still he found cnarmous quan | titles of calcium phosphate on the reofs, that will afford the pest of arid ficial fertilizer, and he thinks the supply is sufficient to keep miners busy for fifty or sixty years As his vessel approached the ial | and Mr Nisii'bata saw a cloud of birds hovering over it, #94 he founl later that they of a species which thd Japanese call osadorl | These birds aboanl there In great numbers ani ars counted among the | valuable resources of the island as | there iz a good market for their plum: age in Europe, particularly In France. | Trade in these feathers has already | begun, and they are the first of the island's resources to be shipped tn Europe, The flora is tropical, bnt the island | seems to be fairly healthful. No rep © tiles or venomous insects can be | found, and the only quadruped that the island seems to possess Is a variety of rat about the size of a | rabbit. This addition of a few score of square miles to the known lanl | surface of the earth bids fair to add ' a little to the world’s wealth—New York Sun. of is this been wore ession. Aesop In "Little Italy” A school teacher in the Italian quar : ter of an American oity told her children the story of the fox and the grapes. Tony was especially delight od with the story, and eagerly sought his chum, Joe, who was in another | class, By good luck, the teacher over beard Tony's version. In his excited, broken English he | told the fable much as it Is written until he came to the end. This | his rendering of the olimax: “De olda fox he say, “De grape no | good, anyhow; allan sour! 1 guess i go getta de banan'’. "Youth's Com: panion. Argentina 13 sald to be the only | country in the world whose Congress i appropriates $12,000 a year to ald the National Council of ¥ COMMERCIAL COLONY Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reports. York, == Wheat — Receipts, Bales, 1, New 05,800; exports, 646,678. 600,000. Spot steady. No. 2 red, 1.091% elevator; No. 2 red, 1.09% f. 0. b. afloat; No. 1 Northern Du- luth, 1.133% f. o. b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, 1.09% f. o. b. afloat. Corn——Receipts, 9,675. Sales, 80,- 000, Spot easy; No. 1, 71% nomi- nal elevator, and 72% nominal f. b. afloat to arrive; No. 2, T8ec. spot. Oats — Receipts, 63,000. Spot steady; mixed, 26432 pounds, 2@ 521%: natural white, 26 @ 32 pounds, BOG 51%; clipped white, 34@42 pounds, H3@ bY. Poultry—Alive easy; spring chick- ens, 12: fowls, 11; turkeys, 12; dressed, irregular; Western thickens, 15 @ fowls, spring turkeys, 12@ 17. Butter—Firm; receipts, creamery, specials, 283%; 28% 29; thirds firsts, held, firsts to specials, 243% ¢ State dairy, common to the 20@ 27% : Western imitation cream- sry, firsts, 20% @ 21. Eggs State, 10460 14; 20; B,054; fo £3 07. 20 Gp 2 to 10,008, wear-by selected ys, fancy, @w4s; do., fair to and mixed, to choice, 82145; “we Philadelphia, = Wheat sontract grade, November, 1.023% ee, choice, brown fancy, 364 88; fair 5; Western firsts, 324 do., o oh BECO GG 421 wd % al. is, Steady; 1.02 @ Corn—8teady: No. for local trade, 70@ 73c. Oats No. aral, Butter rreamery, 291% 2 new yellow, Easler; 2 white, nat- Hac extra Western 4c.; do., near-by prints, + good demand: Penn. New , 13%¢c.; York, full treams, chol do., fair to good, 12% & Poultry fowls, 12% 13 10; ducks, firm and higher; old roosters, 94 chickens, 3%; oo 12@1 spring 11 Potatoes per bu, 7 % T2675; do., fair to good, 68 Baltimore. —Flou rm and changed; receipts, bbl ports, 12,218 bbls un- is ox Wheat 1.01% @1.0 Western, 1 1.01 @¢1.011 © 1.023% @G 98%; ports, grade, Corn - s + 16 G81 January, 753 bush.; corn, 76 Firm; No. 3 white, 1% @52; Oats 653 le ho receipts, bush. Rye—Firm; No. 2 Western export, B2@ 82%: receipts, 3,731 bush Hay-—-Firmer; No. 1 timothy 50; No. clover mixed, 11.50, Butter—Steady; fancy Imitation 22@ 23; fancy creamery, 20@ 30; fancy ladle, 20@Q 21; store-packed, 17@ 18. Eggs—8teady; 29@G 230. Cheese-—Quiet; new, large, 13%; new, flats, 13%; new, small, 14. ut - Live Sloe New York.—Beeves— Receipts, 1. 244; seven cars on sale; no trading; 7 to 10%c¢c. per pound for native sides; Texas beef at 53% to Te. Calves—Receipts, 162 steady: common to good veals, 5.0( to 8.50 per 100 pounds; barn yard calves, 3.50. Hogs— Receipts, 1,755. firm: State pigs sold at 100 pounds, Sheep and Lambs-—Receipts, 6, 443; market steady. Sheep, 2.50 to 4.25: culls, 2.00 to 2.25; yearlings 4.50 to 5.00; lambs, 5.50 to 6.50; culls, 4.00. Chicago. = Cattle — Receipts esti 5,000; market 10 to 20c higher. Steers, 4.009 7.50; cows 3.0095.00; heifers, 2.506 4.680; bulls, 2.50@4.50; calves, kK 3.00@ 7.856; stockers and feeders, 2.50@ Feeling 5.560 pm Hogs Receipts estimated 23,000; market Sc. higher; heavy shipping, 5.309 6.35; about choles butch- ing, 5.854 6.35; pigs, 4.26@ 5.50; Sheep-——Recelpts estimated, 000; market 10 to 15c. sheep, 4.40@5.00; lambs, 6.50; yearlings, 3.85@ 5.25. THIS AND THAT vondon imports 1,000,000 pounds 12, 4.750 The trolley lines of the country Properly used, a government bul- Sarah P. Morrison has entered the The maximum load of a Georgia mule is fixed by law at 2,500 pounds, Cumminton, Mass, is 13 miles from any means of transportation except a country road. Wesley Yankee, of Kansas City, Mo., and his descendants cast 23 votes for Bryan Tuesday. The phonograph has been intro. duced Into a nickel-in