AN ATTIC LAY.
«Close the shutters, Willie's dead!
Weep, as we, his kin, do.
Foolish child, he poked his head
From the attic window;
‘Something straightway struck his
eye
"T'was an airship sailing by.
Thus poor Willie lost his head,
0 we'll draw the curtain;
Tears of sorrow let us shed
Life 1s so uncertain.
Moral: If you'd safe remain,
Shun the swooping aeroplane.
~-J. Adair Strawson, in the New
York Times.
ky are sTasTe ser er ere Tere sve rT vie
i The Truth-
Teller
1 By FRANCES HARMER
DADE ADLADED ED EDEN ED AD ANd
The fell heavily still, but a
certain mildness in the air made the
boys who wanted good skating shake
their heads
“The Twenty-second
in the winter,” said John Warton,
frowning. “This sort of thing's un-
seasonable.”
His companions laughed. John was
very popular, and any word of his
which had a merry sound was hailed
as a witticism by his partial list
eners.
That is, by most of them. One boy,
with a dark, pale face, not given
overmuch to smiies at any time, was
frigid enough now. He had a much
sadder home, a much harder life,
than either of the two boys, who,
ltke himself, were competing for
“Brickworth Prize and Scholarship,”
—both John Warton and Walter
Winton, the alternate heads, with
himself, of the head class in the high
school. The goal of all their efforts
was that bequest of the late
Brickworth, which, every four years,
sent to Harvard the most promising
of the high school graduates,
one hundred dollars towards
equipment
TOTO %
PIRI,
SHOW
ought to be
the glory of it.
to do. Walter Winton, a pleasant,
ed more than any one in the school,
wished to win it to please a widowed
but not poverty-stricken mother
himself, Robert Gordon, passionately
gtrove for it, to escape from his un-
ele's guardianship.
orphan, and found his father's broth-
er and his house a stern substitute
for home and parents.
a harsh
called his nephew, been more
ideal lad, the boy might have been
happy enough. His uncle desired to
see him take an interest in his own
grocery business, and, after that, in
games and sports
Robert's scholarly
a perpetual annoyance to the
old man, who had won many trophies
from football and other matches be-
fore age had stiffened his limbs.
“Well,” said John Warton, when
the laugh about
“if it doesn’t {reeze,
have our hockey match to-morrow
how ean we fitly celebrate the Twen-
ty-second?”
“A paper chase)”
Walter Winton shook his head
“Paper
less in the rain™ his
was protest.
Mills and back
best part of the day.”
Other projects were named, only to
be flouted The ten-mile walk car
ried the day.
“But,” cried John, In his clear,
commanding tones—"if it freezes, —
and it may,—the hockey match, re.
member!”
He turned away, followed by a loud
chorus of agreement. Only Robert
was silent He was glad that the
walk could not claim him, as the
hockey match would. He could light
the coal oil stove in his attic, and
spend the day with his beloved
books. The examination was to be
held on the 28th of February, and
the long day meant much to a slow
student.
“Well,” demanded his uncle, as the
uncongenial pair met at supper,
“what are you going to do to-mor-
row—George Washington's Birthday?
Hockey match, I suppose. [ think
I'l get over to it! See If you've
fmproved.”
“They are talking of a paper
chase,” answered Robert. “But gave
that up for a walk to Dinckly Mills.”
“No match?” sald the old man,
disappointed.
“It's thawing,” replied his nephew,
with an uneasy sense of evasion
“They didn’t think the jee would be
safe.”
“Safe enough, unless it's a quick
thaw,” the old man roge. “Lads are
different from what 1 was. Nothing
would have made me wonder if the
fee would hold. I'd have been on
fit"
Robert rose, ako, and ran up to
his attic. He was soon Immersed in
the mathematical problems which he
found so diffienlt, and on which so
much depended. He was gure of him-
self on all other points, but gebmetry
caused him much anxiety,
He went to bed late. Once in the
night, he awoke, to pull up the slip
ping coverlet, and was aware of a
sharp tingle of frost in the air. Alas
*
for his hopes of a day with his
books! The sky was blue and clear,
the ground hard with a black frost!
ly Mills will wish they'd waited, and
had their match,” sald uncle over
the steaming porridge. “As pretty a
day for ice hockey as any one could
wish.”
Robert's heart bounded. He had ex-
pected sharp orders to be off in time
for the match. His uncle's mistake
gave him the chance he so bitterly
needed. He could stay at home, and
puzzle out those triangles and rec
tangles which perplexed his dreamy
mind.
“They
gratulating
uttering an
have sunshine
He rose, nervously anxious to es-
cape further conversation, and made
his way to the attic. What his stern
old uncle might do-—-when
he found out that hockey match
really taken he hardly
cared. What the would say,
when they had to weaker
substitute for himself, hardly
cared. This day's “grind” at geom-
too much to him.
meant perhaps freedom,~a life
among books, escape from the gro-
cery business—Iit meant happiness.
That his departure would leave lone-
ly an old man who had, after all,
brought him up; that he might be
showing little gratitude for many
benefits, did not once enter his mind.
The match was set for two in the
afternoon Robert worked steadily
till nearly noon, and then came to
what John would have called a
stumper,—a problem that baffled ev-
ery effort to understand It! And
the principal had already reviewed
it, he could hope for no more help!
Suddenly he remembered an old
book of explanations which hag help-
ed him in the earlier stages of his
geometrical studies. It might have
some notes upon this problem. With
feverish haste he began to turn ©
a box of out-grown text-books, searc h.
ing, searching!
He never did find the one he want
ed. But, seeing a cover somewhat
resembling that of the volo in
he opened it. It was just
an old reader, of the grammar school
stage of his education, and it open.
ed at a picture of lttle George Wash-
like walking,” he sald, con-
himself that he was
untruth. “It's nice
for that.”
to
say--—or
the
place,
boys
on a
he
put
me
ground between them.
remembered, as he look-
words of the teacher, spoken
axe lay on the
£00,
the
“Yes,” he geemed
“yes, we've a jot
again to hear,
to be thankful for.
Father of his Country was a
great man: there never was a great.
And remember, boys, he was a
Truth-teller!’
The book fell box.
back into the
sky.
“Bob,” called out his uncle's voice
from the foot of the stairs,
sure the boys won't have that match,
take the cars to Philadelphia,
have a chat with your aunt
But I'd rather see that match;
they won't have it, eh?”
Robert hesitated. One word from
and he might be left in peace,
quiet of the empty
“if you're
with his geometry
“He was a truth-teller!” He seem-
ed again to hear the words
“Hob,” called out the impatient
The boy went to the stairs.
“They'll have the match, uncle,” he
sald, "if the is firm.”
He lost the alarship. But—
he win?—Christian Regis.
fre
8c
ter.
——
Memorial to Southern Women,
Miss Belle Kinney of Nashville has
completed, with apparent success, a
design for a monument fitted to be
ern women, who, equally with the
men of the Confederacy, suffered for
the “lost cause.” The first design for
sculptor, depicted the Southern wom-
amazon carrying a sword
in one hand and the banner of the
Confederacy in the other. This was
to all truth con-
sentiment of the
Southland. The Southern woman was
the exact reverse of an amazon in
every attribute, physical or mental
save that of indomitable courage to
bear the sufferings inflicted upon her
through the conditions of war. Miss
pugnant to the
Sun.
Moose and Engine Test Strength.
ing, the 11:15 express was not re
sponsible for breaking the
with the engine,
noble beast's death.
As It did not fall from the fender
the train was stopped and the beau
tiful but much damaged carcass was
lifted off the line to be claimed later
on by the game warden. It Is sup
posed that the flies drive the ani
ma's out into the open.—8t John Sun.
——
resulting
Which Was Which?
Besgsle—Oh, Mabel! | am in an
awful dilemma! I've quarrelled with
Harry and he wants me to send his
ring back,
Mabel—That's too bad,
Besg'e-—But that isn the point
I've forrzotien which is his ring. Kane
sas City Journal
HOT ONIONS AND PNEUMONIA.
Hot onions, according to a French
physician, are sald to be a sure cure
for pneumonia. The remedy i8 a8
follows: Take six or ten onions, acs
cording to size, and chop fine; put
in a large pan over a fire, then add
the same quantity of rye meal and
vinegar enough to make a thick paste,
In the meantime stir it thoroughly,
Then put in a cotton bag, large
spough to cover the lungs, and ap
ply to the chest as hot as patient can
bear. In about ten minutes apply an:
pther and thus continue by
ng the poultices, and in a few hours
the patient will be danger
This simple remedy has never failed
to cure this too often fatal malady.
Usually three or four applications
will be sufficient.-—Indiana Farmer,
out of
A KITCHEN MEMORANDUM.
useful article in the kit
child's slate, on which
ordered from
A
shen {8 a small
to write artic
the butcher or the grocer as fast as
they run short—also any orders for
the maid if she happens to be absent
from the kitchen. It can be plainly
seen and there is no danger of its
being overlooked-—as is case
when one depends on paper and pen
oo § |
most
sles to be
the
USE FOR LINGERIE.
A good way to use up old lingerie
walsts is to convert them into sleeve
less guimpe yokes, fitting snugly be
low the bust, which can easily be ar
ranged by seams in the lower .part
So many of the foulard and cotton
frocks call for detachable yokes that
this is a welcome solution, and at
the same time disposes of a walst
would otherwise be discarded.
are cut off about three inches
the walstiine, and a hem put
enough to carry & Narrow
with a button at one end and
a loop at the other, which serves to
hold the yoke or chemisette down in
place.—New York Tribune,
The;
sboye
In wide
elastic,
sA VEGETABLE LOCKER
The housekeeper who has once
known the convenience of a vegetable
locker in the cellar will deprive her
sol! of other necessit'es rather than
not have one installed in any house
where she may live,
Such a locker can be made of
heavy wire mesh, about an inch and
a half spaces. For the averagesized
family it should measure eight feet
long and four feet wide and extend
frosn the floor of the cellar to cell
ing
At one end should be a door two
feet wide provided with a spring lock.
Ingide, running around the side and
end, are two shelves of the wire
netting: the first four feet high, the
second from 18 inches to two feet
above it
Underneath is ample space for bas
kets garden tools and other utensils
that are better locked away from dis
honest ashmen and mischievous chil
dren. On one of the shelves can go
boxes and crates of vegetables, jars
of presarves and canned goods. Any
of these latter that should be kept
dark can be wrapped in paper, or a
box with a hinged door can be pro-
vided for them.
In arranging such a vegetable lock:
er it ia wel to put it near a window,
which may be kept open to give a
good circulation of air.—Boston Post
RECIPES
Apple Taploca—Cook half a ecupful
pear! tapioca in belling water until
transparent; add half teaspoonful
salt and grated rind one lemon. Core
and pare twelve apples; fill cavities
with sugar and juice of one lemon;
cover with tapioca; bake until ap
ples are tender, adding one heaping
teaspoonful butter before taking from
oven.
Stewed Lima Peans—Throw
Deans into boiling unsalted water;
boll thirty minutes; drain. Slip each
bean out of its hall the same as you
woatld slip an sihmond from its skin.
Put them back into a saucepan with
sufficient bolling water to cover.
Simmer gently fiftsen minutes; sea
son with salt, pspper and butter,
Serve
Clam Chowder—Select the best
quality of Long Island clams,
the
od and examined so as to remove any
bits of shell The clams are then
cut into small pieces and cooked In
their juice, to which has been added
sa't pork, potatoes and onions cut
inte dios; parsiey, thyme and day
leaves are also used for flavoring.
of gix eggs in a basin, boll half a
stirring all the time. Return the cus
tard to the saucepan and cook the
eggs over the fire without allowing
the mixture to boil. Add four ounces
sugar, strain Into a basis and set
aside to get cold. Add half a pint
of cream and essence of vanilla to’
tarte. Freeze and meld as required.
Mother's Pot Roast Stew-—Take
meat left from pot roast and ent in
small pieces, add left over gravy to
Hquid from cooking roast in, add po
tatoes cut In enbes, earrot, onion, to.
matoes and meat, and when dump’
lings are cooked in separate dish,
add just Sefore serving.
Fruit Cake—One cup butter, 1 of
brown sugar, 1.2 pint molasses, 2
eggs, 1 cup sour milk, 1 teaspoon sods,’
1 pound of flour, 1 pound currants,
1 12 pounds raisins. Wiavor to
taste. This has been thoroughly
tosted and is a great favorite.
i
COMMERCIAL
Weekly Review of Trade and
Market Reports.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review
of trade savs:
“While there are a few bad or
ancertain spots in the business sit
uation, they are not sufficient to
change the generally cheerful and,
in some respects, brilliant outlook.
The movement in iron and steel is
80 tremendous, reaching at some
resulting In
paid for prompt
anly doubt cast upon it
delivery that
The
the
expanding
confirm these
trade is
eloquent statistics
building
figures,
unsatisfactory
rapidly
The
foreign
imports, but it should
pe overlooked that the former is the
result in part of the more rapid ad-
vance in prices here than abroad,
while the big impor testify to the
spending of our
18
capacity
people.”
Bradstreet's says:
of favorable
for staple
“Trade continues
portions, demands
noteworthy features,
there i8 a tone of conservatism
many reports. Shipments are heavy
and in many instances buyers are re-
questing prompt deliveries. Business
on spring accounts is also of good
volume. Retail trade is getting into
better shape at many centers, Com-
modity prices, both for raw materials
and edibles, are generally very firm
“Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with Sep-
tember 23 were 171, against 198 last
week, 267 in the like week of 1908,
166 in 1907, 165 in 1906 and 185 In
1805."
pro-
lines
though
in
Wholesale Markets.
New York—Wheat—8pot
No. 2 red, 110% nominal,
tor; No. 2 red, nominal, f. o. b. afloat;
No. 1 Northern Duluth, 1.08%,
nominal, f. 0. b. afloat; No. 2 hard
winter, 1.12%, nominal, ff. o. b
afloat.
Corn-—8pot quiet; No. 2, 78¢c
ed and 7%c. delivery; No. 2, 65%,
f. o. b. afloat winter shipments
Oats—S8pot steady; mixed, 41%
© 42¢.; natural, clipped,
43@ 45
Butter—8teady.
pPEEs.; process,
factory, 22% @ 24;
ery, 24% 026%.
Cheese—steady and unc
receipts, 2.500 boxes
Eggs—Weaker; Western
firsts, 26@ 27¢c.; firsts,
seconds, 20@ 22
Philadelphia «— Wheat
contract grade, September,
108c.
Corn—Dull.
yellow for local
€any;
eleva
ank-
42Q@ 45,
R034
Western
creams
“ syd
receipls,
5" on
hanged ;
extra
4 par
24% Q 25
lower;
trade, 76% @ 77c.
Oats—Quiet, but firm; No. 2
white natural 44% @ 45¢.
Butter—Firm; prints lec
extra Western creamery,
nearby prints, 34.
Eggs—Firm; good demand
syivania and other near
free cases, 27c¢. at mark;
rent receipts, in returnable
25 at mark; Western firsts, free
cases, 27 at mark: do.. current re.
ceipts, free cases, 23@ 26 at mark.
Live Poultry—8teady; fowls, 15%
fF 16%ec.; old roosters, 11% @ 12;
spring chickens, 16@ 17; ducks, old,
13@ 14; do. spring, 14@ 15
Baltimore—W heat The market
for Western opened easier; spot,
108% e.; October, 1.07% : December,
1.07% Spot was in some demand,
and the price hardened as the day
progressed, but the other positions
were easy At the midday call spot
was 108% c¢c. and October, 1.074 @
1.07% Sales-—two cars No. 2 red,
track, Canton, 110¢c.; 2 cars No. 2
red, track, Canton, 1.093%; car
steamer No. 2 red, spot, 1.01
Settling prices were: No. 2
Western, 111%e¢.; contract spot,
1.08%: No. 3 red, 1.05; steamer No
2 red, 1.01; steamer No. 2 red West.
ern, 1.02%
Corn-—Western
year, 64@64%c.;
63%
Hay--We quote per ton:
timothy, large bales, $18; do.
bales, $18; No. 2 timothy, as to lo
cation, $16.50@ 17: No. 3 timothy,
$1450@ 15.50; choice clover mixed,
$16.60; No. 1 clover mixed, $16@
16.50; No. 2 clover mixed, $14@ 15;
No. 1 clover, $15.50@ 16; No. 2
clover, $14@ 15.
Oats—8tock in elevators, 704,400
bushels; shipments from elevators,
$.784 bushels. The quotations for
new oals on spot were: White,
2, as to weight, 43% @
44c.; do, No. 8, 42@ 43¢.; do, No.
4, 30% @40c.; do., mixed, No, 2,
42@ 42%o0.; do, No. 3, 40% @4lc.
1% ec.
higher;
s2c.; do.
Penn-
by firsts,
do., cur.
CABeS,
red
opened
January,
easier;
63% ©
No, 1
small
31@32¢.; imitation,
do., pound, per pound,
blocks, two-pound, per nd, 53
dairy prints, Maryland,
and Virginia,
18@ 20¢.; Virginia and West
Virginia, store packed, per pound,
21¢.; Ohlo, store packed, per pound,
21ec.; nearby rolls, per pound, 2le¢.;
West Virginia rolls, per pound, 210;
Ohio rolls, per pound, 21e.
Eggs ~~ Maryland, Pennsylvania
and nearby firsts, per dozen, 27c.;
Eastern Shore, Maryland and Vir.
ginla, per dozen, 27¢.; Western firsts,
per dozen, 27¢.; West Virginia, per
dozen, 27¢.; North Carolina, per
dozen, 26c.
Cheese-—We quote, Jobbing lots,
per 1b, TR @17%e. Ke
Live Stock.
Chi ttle — Market steady.
Steers, $5.60@ 8.50; cows, $3.50@
5.25: heifers, $3. 5006; bulls, $3@
4.85; calves, $309; stockers and
feedors, $8.76 @ 6.50.
Hogs ~- Market O6@ 10e. higher.
Choice heavy, $8. 40@ 8.562%: butch.
ers’, $8,360 8.60; light mixed, $7.50
8.10; ‘choice light, $8. 100% 3
packing, $7.76@8. ® LON 3°
6.75; bulk of sales, § ne
Sheep-—Market Bay Sheep,
lambs, gi, 25; yeasitugs
h 33e¢.;
21@ 32%.
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START OF HIS FORTUNE
Wealthiest Farmer on Record
is David Rankin, of Tarkio, Mis-
souri,
A tax inventory just taken of the
personal and real property of David
Rankin, of Tarkio, Mo., shows him to
ye the wealthiest farmer on record in
the United States To those who
thinks that a farmer's life is a tho
yne financially Mr. Rankin affords an
sxeellent example to the contrary.
Mr. Rankin's farm comprises 206.
610 acres. He owns 12,000 fatten
ing hogs, 9000 cattle, 800 horses and
nas on his land more than 100 cot-
tages, In which the employes of the
big farm are housed. It requires to
farm the vast estate machinery to the
value of $500,000,
The prospérous farmer is a self-
made man. Forty vears ago he was
a struggling Hits farmer. He dis-
covered that nd on one side of a
state line was selling for $20 an acre,
while he might buy any amount on
the other side of the line for less than
a third of that amount
Real estate men told him that a
railroad would never go near the
land, but Mr. "Rankin refused to heed
their admonitions, and sold his farm
in Illinois, buying all the land he
could in the neighborhood of this
city, with the return
“J.0ts of men have more land than
I," says Mr. Rankin, “but they use it |
for cattle ranges only. Mine is a |
farm.”
Mr. Rankin neither raises cattle
nor furnishes range. He buys the
raw steers from the plains and fat-
tens them until they are worth twice
what he paid for the “feeders,” as |
they are called. He never selis the
thousands of bushels of grain he
raises, his contention being that by
feeding it to cattle he gets larger re-
turn from it
ray
VENTRILOQUISM IN NATURE.
While pioneering in South Brazil,
Mr. Withers was struck by the low
and plaintive ery of some creature
calling in the night, He was at first
impressed with the idea that it was
the ery of a child, but the tones soon |
convinced him that this could not be
the case.
I had never heard, he says, a more |
pure and liquid musical sound than |
this was. The pleasing effect upon |
learning by what animal it was pro-
soon another from a more distant
Curious to see this musical frog, 1 |
whence the sound was proceeding,
other place some yards distant.
I followed, and still the sound
moved and nowhere could I discover
wheneoe it eame, 1 searched for near
I¥ a quarter of an hour, without being
able to fix the spot and then I gave
up in despair.
The fact is, this frog is recognized
to be a ventriloquist of no common
order. 1 have many a time since
heard him erying 18 broad daylight;
and the power of ventriloguism is no
doubt given him as a protection
against the numerous cranes and
other enemies that would otherwise
be guided by the sound and soon ren
der the species extinet.—Christian
Regiater,
———————————_———————. — 3
‘A CALL FOR POTATOES.
Small Doy-"Gimme a pound of
potatoer.” Grocer——"We sell pota-
toes by the measure; not by weig
Small Boy--"All right; give me a
~Phlladelphia Record. .
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in ail kinde of
Granite, Dont ail 0 got dny prios.
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