FOURTH, MABEL ON THE “You light two erackers thus,” she sald, “That’s yours, and I'll take this, And now, if yours should go oft flrst, Why, you can claim a Kiss, We watch the powder quickly burn, Fizz, bang! Oh, happy sight! I fold the maiden in my arms And take what's mine by right, Alas! It seems so easy thus To win what mafhy men Will envy later on in life, For Mabel's only ter —Tom Masson. A FRESH AIR FOURTIL BY TOM P. MORGAN, Lour of the hottest day thus far the season that a small boy 2 hottest of | pre- | sented hiwself at | the office of # (ER Secretary of the | Fresh Air Fund Society. He seemed | weak, as if ill from the intense heat, ‘Got a chance for asked, timidly. “No, my boy,” answered the Secre- tary. ‘‘No one wants boys ye ." The lad made noanswer. His weak, dragging footsteps carried him out of the building and down the hot street for a few blocks, Then he staggered a few steps, threw up his hands weak- ly, wavered ily and fell A : v N\ me. sir?” he | me, sir: 1 blind heap on the pavement. “Another sunstroke, liceman who picked h Next day another Becretary’s office with the “Any chance for me, sir ?"’ " imu the Secretary answered that nobody | wanted boys yet. This boy limped in and out on a eruteh, for one of his legs hung withered and useless, bu his limb was brisk despite the heat and his evident weariness, But he stopped when out of hearing, and one hand slipped fartively up and dashed 8 tear or two away. Upon the following afternoon a tall, angular man came striding briskly into the office. The Secretary looked up from his writing, then greeted him politely. “Paul Hallett, I reckon?” the new-comer. “That 1s my name, Ido for you? I—wl remember you, h id voice. **And I am truly glad to see you again, old friend.” Mz. Joplin in his well known pep- per-and-salt snit, did not look partien larly prosperous, the Secretary was afraid that he had been obliged to save and hoard in order to make this journey back East from Colorado, to visit old But he was very glad to see him, and Le talking over old times when he was interrupt ed by the entrance of the lame boy who had come the day before and gone | away disappointed with a whistle on his lips and tears in his eyes. To-day his face seemed to look a little older and thinner But he hopped in briskly on his crutch. ““Giot a chance for me yet, sir?" Le asked, “Yes, my lad,” swered. n boy. and BCENCH, was the Secretary an- “I have just one chance for You can spend your Fourth of July week in the conntry, What is your name?” As he spoke he held out a ecard, “Hi!” The boy fairly snatched the card and hopped out of the room with a smoothered whoop. “That boy has a happy week before him," said the Secretary. ‘I wish it were in my power to make many more such little fellows happy in the same way," “What's this business, asked Mr. Joplin, “I see through it.” Mr. Hallett briefly explained the so- elety. the children of the very poor, who could never hope to escape for even a day from the exhausting heat of the stifling city unless helped. Kind people living out in the cool country sent in their nwwmes signifying their anyhow?" don't exactly the | | go! | sun-up. willingness to entertain a girl or boy for n week. The society paid for the transportation of the children to and from the country. “It's a good Mr. Joplin. “But very few of these kind people want boys nowadays,” continued Mr, Hallett. “The little chaps are in- clined to be riotous. Nearly every one has asked for girls of late. The boys do a good deal of mischief, and behave, I presume, like wild Indians,” “Or, jest simply like boys?" sug gested Mr. Joplin, And then little Knucks, the lame boy, returned. He hopped in and laid the card on the desk. “Here is the ticket back again, sir,” he said. I don’t need it. notion,” commented I'm not going.” He 4'T was during the | was outside of the door by this time. Mr. Joplin's tall form arose sud- denly from his chair, He took a few long steps and placed his big hand on the lad’'s shoulder. “Here!” he said, the little chap back “Come back here!” “I'm not goin’ to the morrow,” the lad persisted. I'm busy!" “Sit down there fairly propelling into the room. country to- “Lemme i commanded Mr, Joplin. “Now, when Knucks had received the precious ticket entitling him to the country week he had flown home- ward as fast as his crutch would car- ry him. Little Jimmy Patton, the sun-stricken lad, lay on the brisk lit- tle cripple’s bed. He looked up weakly as his friend hopped into the room. “I've got it, Jim!" Knucks cried, rot a ticket for one, lighted up and 1 looked at 1t. Lat some other boy nse it; | faced, skimpy little fellows—but every face ashine with engerness. While Mr. Hallett had been issuing the invitations the giver of the pot- latch had been equally busy. He had strode hither and thither, made pur. | chases and sent telegrams, Presently all was ready. Across the ferry they were bundled into the cars, and a variety of boxes of all | sizes were thrust into the express car | and away they went. It was still early in the forenooz | when they reached their destination — | a pretty green bowered country vil {lage that Mr. Hallet had recom- | mended-—and there was a brass band at the depot to meet them, “We're here, fellers!” cried Mr. Joplin to his boys. “This is the | place. It's out in the open air, an’ to-day's the Fourth of July. Yell all |you want to. The band will now | play!” | The musicians headed the proces- | sion of whooping lads to a pleasant grove just outside the town, The boys who eouldn’t run, walked, and those who couldn't walk rode in a long wagon on top of the boxes that had | come from the city. In the coolest, shadiest spot in the grove a long, long table was set, al- most staggering under its load licious eatables. *‘The first thing,” said Mr. Joplin's big voice, ‘‘is to eat. Some of us didu't much break{aft as we wanted, an’ mebby some of us didn’t have any at all. So, eat now, fellers, an’ talk later on.” All those urchins fell upon that long table like many ravenous wolves, And then in a moment Jimmy whispered something to Kuucks, and Knucks hopped over to where Mr, Hallett was and whispe red to him: of de- have as almost As “You'll get well now, cried Knucks, ‘‘An’'Jim, yor ' Olt rember everything you do an’ see an’ | hear fer ter tell me.” The sick boy held o he “I ain't goin’, Kuucky,” he said ‘“You are the one that got the ticket; you are to go.” Mr. [aliett was a keen questioner, and it was not long till he had the whole story “Course I wouldn't listen to him,’ said Koncks in telling it. *““Bat it's no use, he says I got ticket an’ I've got to go on it.” “Well, why don’t you?” Hallett “Me?” The boy's tone but he looked worried and more than he would tell. “Me go Who'd take care of him whilst His voice shook and he started to hop from the room. ‘‘Keep your ticket,” hie Je rked. “Sit down there again," Joplin, “Here, little feller, you ean go to the country Knucks had sat down, and for ¢ ment Le stared at the man in the per and salt suit “There's only one tered, finally. “Hang tickets!" cried Mr. Joplin. “You fellers are goin’ with me, To- morrow's the Fourth of July—1'll give a potiateh! f—git along with you; tell the other little feller that both of you are goin’ to the country with me to-morrow. Say, hold on! sick boys you know of ? Invite "em all.” “John,” iuterrupted the Secretary. the Mr WAR de fiant, troubled J said Mr b ticket,” he fal- “Invite 'em all,” said Mr. Joplin, | talking him down. ave a crowd when you give a pot latch. Git along with you. Hold on! Better let Mr. Secretary do the in- vitin’. But yon an'the other little chap be on hand here at this office by Don't forget!” Knucks glanced at the Seoretary in. | quiringly and got a reassuring nod. | heat, Ite beneficiaries were among | | i i He flew for home ns fast as he could possibly go, wholly unmindful of the and told the glorious news, Jim immediately sat up in bed, de- claring that he felt well. ‘But, what's a potlateh ?” he asked, presently. “I donno," answered Knunoks. it's something good.” “But Next morning » mob of children | stood collected at the door of the Fresh Air Society before the sun rose, They were all boys. Sueh a crowd of weaklings as they were -white all day long yner of rad it R ETE an afford ’ rity brea y pepper and salt and awkward! “T asked Mr. Hallett to a Bped ch, but he & 3 ) d I haven't much This is the 1 It's the proper thing y Declaration of Independ- J f July, but the Independence going to have here is that we're do jest exactly as we please We're goin’ to yell as much an’ as lond as we please. There are two big boxes of firecrackers. over there, an' we're goin’ to help ourselves to all we want an’ shoot till they're all gone. We're goin’ to eat again at an’ again at an’ ot. 18 ; going to 6 o'el WK, keep a't have goo time or After dinn will be grab a spoon barrels of red a; be knocked in pr fill our pockets an’ Lats we heads an’ we' This is takes ticket, | Any more | “You've got to| I tiateh, understand, an’ ay all he wants an’ does what he please it. Fall into the brook if you want to, or eat yourselves sick, | or break your arms; it's all right. A doctor with the rest of the pot- latch if we need him, We" “Oh, John, that not the way to talk to them,” interrupted Mr. Hal- lett. “I'd like to kaow why it ain't?” answered Mr. Joplin ““A potlateh that ain't a free piteh-in ain't no potlateh at all Well, then, I'll make this condition: No boy shall take ad- vantage of auy smaller boy—il he loes I'l thrash him “So will we,” yelled “I think I onght to mething to what Mr. Joplin bh #1 Mr. Hallett “In the first place, I presume you are puzzled to know what a potlateh really is. 1 was my self till Mr. Joplin Away wat West, among certain tribes of In- lians, when a savage aspires to stand high among fellows he saves up blankets and all sorts of desirable ar- till he has as great a store of them as p Then he invites his tribe to a feast and gives away all the imulation It makes him a beggar for a long time, but he has won the esteem Of his tribe as long as he lives Mr. Joplin bas given you a potiateh of happiness, and I think he has won more than the giver of any Indian potlateh ever won." “Hurrah! Yes, { the boys. The day was one long day of unal- loyed happiness, hey ate, shot fire- crackers and swung and raced and | chased, and the band played every everyl with Foes 1s the b add » said,” OYS, ve ke "1 ex} Inined. nr ticles AC sir-ee ™ whooped | time it was requested, During the afternoon Mr. Joplin arranged with various families in the village to take care of such boys ae needed more than a day of the coun try air as long as they might require it; and the next week Kuuoks and Jimmy found that it was all settled that they should live in the country for a year at Mr. Joplin's expense. At night, after the fireworks had | been shot off and it was time to begin {the march for the train, the boys cheered for Mr, Joplin till they could have been heard nearly a mile, and when they stopped Mr, Joplin said. | *Thank ye, fellers!"-New York Pross, ; cc —— In time of war France puts 870 oat of every 1000 of A Pops ation in the field; Germany, 810; Russia, 210, : ! PRIZE STEERS TOO FAT, The chief fanlt with the prize steers nt the fat stock shows is that they are wastefully fat, and often seriously Incking in lean meat. This is partie- true of the LJ ecinl York World ularly INSECTS INJURING WOOL. insects that will the « another and wool eating beetle If the is dirty there are flies that will depos- it eggs in it, and these wall injure it. It is to be considered that flesh and wool are of almost the BAINEG COMPOKI tion and iracter. and as much oil and gres in it beetles the y 1" Will danny e There several damage fre wool, One mon hair wool wool-eating mot, ch yOL [IAS brown houses 18 VOTY easy apartment o sulphide of closing the rec I where un tl this New York Times WAY, A LOR tf BOCA 0 ¢y ban ciear of t may belo them, or i much quicker and larger tha: varieties, that poor brought up very quickly by in fact, In great obvious Rural New Yorker class of Peas, says land less than four un to all speaking this “These belong t renovating in stead of making the soil po they make it richer. and not only =c, bat they also furnish protein for eattl food. The sigus of the times indicate that this class of crops is to play a leading part in the farming of the fu tare,” I'o grow for hay they are most val uable, as they yield au immense quan- tity of feed of the best quality, and produce the crop in so short a time For ensilage Wonderful peas are unsurpassed, being much more nutri. tious than green corn and other crops used for that pnrpose, They ware desirable to grow for cooking for food, as they will yield a supply of shelled peas for the table for several weeks, —~Colman's Raral | World, value 1s of the class ealled crops Zrer HOW TO KEEF BUTTER, Most farmers do not make dairying aspecialty. Itis only ona of the var jous industries from which they de. rive their incomes. The profits from three or four cows do not warrant the outlay for a complete equipment of i maoder ni beef breeds, | they ‘ \ | for fowls | TOONS implements. The average farmer and his wife must make the ruost of pantries, pans and other dairy | applinnce sat hand, Consumers have learned that butter rapidly deterior- | ates if « xposed to the air, hence small packuges are called for, Butter is never good as when used within one week m the time it leaves the churn, It possesses then a delicate aroma and a peculiar, indescribable flavor, which | soon passes away and is never present | { thereafter; but butter properly 1 be kept sweet and in good order nthe. The surplus butter may | marketed 1a wi ' re remuneratl nter y Take 6% InADY r goblets as | into | cold | salt. Put " 1 th me quantity of clear water. Drop into each tumbler a tea- spoonful of salt from one of the sev. eral samples and note the immediate results There will be a scum, sedi- r miuky vor, varying with The sample nsecticides be heavily dosed with lime the season to produce much effect, fi Fowls must have a variety of food if y are to d Breakfast is good, but you couldn't live on it. Neither can a hen live one kind of food and do well. When yon corner well on Any mow your lawn leave a uncut so that you can clip a | little fresh grass for the hens every day. 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