DESTINY. I see a star in the ullent sky; And Its oold oyo seems to play Like the eye of Fate, InscrutaDla, Mysterious tflway. Year nrter year, age after age. O'er the dark earth ft has gbono With the pale, cold gleam of a struck out From the midst of a soulless stono. Year after year, age after asje, Till the long years moments seem; Love, Hope, Ambition have looked up And caught but a chilling gleam; J?or the eye of Fate and the soulless star Molt not at a mortal's pain, Kdr pity feel, nor loosen yet One link of the binding chain. —Lowell O. lleese In Bau Froncisoo Bulletin. I A CASE WHERE j I SILENCE IS GOLDEN. I The man was watering the front yard grass with a hose. He was in Ills shirt sleeves and smoked a cigar. He looked comfortable. A cadaver ous, middle-aged man came along, leaned against the iron fence and mopped his forehead. "Giving it a drink, eh?" said he to the man with the hose. "Yes," said the latter, good natured ly. "Wetting her down a bit." "Neat little bit of lawn that," said the man outside the fence. "Uh-huh," said the man with the hose. "Jollied the landlord into resod ding it this spring. Then, after that, I wheedled him —or my wife did, for I never met the old duck—lnto scatter ing clover seed all over it so that I've got it in pretty good shape now." "Must have an easy landlord," com mented the man leaning on tho iron fence. "Easy?" said the man with the hose, 6hifting his cigar to the other side of his face. "Well, say, that old gazabo Is just pie, that's what he is—pie. Only way I can account for the easi ness of that man is that he's looney, or that he's so rich that he don't know where to blow himself first." "Go 'way," said the man outside. "Surest thing, you know," said the man in his shirt sleeves. "I've only been living in that house about seven months, and if that old lunatic hasn't spent $350 in repairs since I've been here he hasn't spent a cent." "Well, I swan," said the man out side. "Fact," said the man with the hose. "And the beauty of it is I only pay $45 a month for the house, whereas the folks all up and down the block, living In exactly the same kind of houses, have to cough up their little $55 as reg ularly as the moon gets around." • "Did you ever," said the man out- Bide the fence, taking a bandanna out of his hat and mopping his forehead. "That's right," said the man with the hose. "I first moved in here —let s Bee;, yes, it was on the third of Decem ber. Knew I had a bargain in the house in just the shape It was then, but I believe in getting ail I can in this life, and so I sent my wife down to the old idiot's office to make some demands for repairs. First she tackled him for an entirely new furnace, and blamed if he didn't come right to the fro»t from the jump, and inside of 10 days ; had a furnace plant in this shack that's just a picture. Kept us so hot during the cold weather that it like to drove us out of doors." "Well, well," said the cadaverous man. "Uh-huh," said the man in his shirt Sleeves, biting off the end of a fresh cigar. "Then that having been so easy, I told my wife that she might as well hit the old codger up for gas logs both up stairs and down. She hit him up. Was it easy? Well, it was just like drinking chocolate Ice cream Boda on a hot night, that's all," and the man with the hose smiled very broad ly. "Then," he went on,"I got kind of grouchy with the porcelain bath tub. The bathtub was all right, but f v d seen some better ones in a plumb er's window down town and I thought that I might as well have my wife ask for one of the best in the market. Got it hands down, and if there's a prettier porcelain tub within eight blocks of here, then I don't know it, that's all." "Must be a bully landlord, that," said the man leaning against the iron fence. "Yes, or clean out of his mind," said the fortunate tenant. "Then —" "John," came a feminine voice from the second story window. "Wait a minute, I'm busy," said the Bhlrt-sleeved man.in reply to the fem inine voice. "Then seeing that the old chap was of the sort that just loves to hurl his money at the little birdies, I sent the wife down to sound him early in the spring, on the subject of a complete repainting inside. Say, in 6ide of four days after she tackled him durned if the painters weren't at work ftnd I'll bet they used 40 diflerent kinds of tints that my wife picked out. Ever hear the like of that?" "I'm sure I never did," said the man Outside. "Oh, John, just run up here a min ute; I want to see you," came the fem inine voice from tho upper regions. "Can't now, my dear; haven't fin ished watering the grass yet," said the man in his shirt sleevea "I was going Jo ask the pin headed old landlord to let us have a new baby grand piano," bo went on, addressing the man out- Bide, "but I didn't want to be arrested for fraudulent practices, so I let him bfl light the next whack. Had my wife feo down and strike him for a gas frange for the kitchen. Well, sir, he bent one up that couldn't have stood him one penny less'n S4O; enough room In it to bake for a brigade of cavalry, Vlmoet" I "Well, I wonder," putin the cadav erous man outside. "John," came the voice from above, "it's as little as you could do to drop that hose and come up here just for a second." "Be up shortly," replied the man on the lawn. "Don't know what I'll ask the old chap for next," he went on, addressing the man outside, "but I guess I'll nail him for a couple of hun dred of dollars wherewith togo down to the seashore for a week or so with my family." And the man with the hose laughed uproariously. "Good," said the man outside. "Well, I guess I'll be goln," and he walked off down the street The man with the hose was still chuckling when his wife appeared at the front door. "Such a bright, entertaining person you are, to be sure," sne said to her husband. "Huh?" he inquired. "I say, I've such a brilliant individ ual for a husband," said his wife. "Say, what are you talking about?" he demanded. "Oh, nothing," she answered, cheer fully, "except that the old gentleman you've been telling your business to for the last half hour —that's why I was calling you, to shut you up—is our landlord, and if you don't get notice of an increase in rent inside of 24 hours I'm not a prophet nor a prophetess' sister, that's all." —Waverley Maga zine, MARRY OR NOT. A Hoally and Truly Modern Novel of the Sublimely Soulful Sort. She stood on the threshold. Geoffrey D'Odenreid was sitting, or rather crouching, before a lire wlioso .iots illuminated his tall, bent figure. A covert coat was thrown across his shoulders; he held it together about his throat with one hand. There wa< something imposing in his attitude and his solitariness. The room vas dark except for the fitful flicker of the fire, and for a radiant moon which hung in the window pane, flooding the apartment from floor to ceiling. It drew strange traceries of cold light and weird shadow upon the floor and the yellow do mask furniture. At the sound of her footstep he turned; he looked dazed a moment. She noticed that he was deathly pale. He sprang to his feet, jerking the coat from his shoulders. It fell to '.ie floor. She hesitated and wavered a mo ment 911 the threshold. "Ah," he murmured, "I thought you would come to me, queen of my soul." "Yes," she said, as if not heeding his words, "I have come." "You see,' he continued, "it was useless for me to continue to strug gle. From the first I knew that I was yours. You see, I needs must feel that the worship I give to you has for an hour, at least, made our souls one. 1 sometimes think you must have seen it all on that first night. I knew that my soul had found its master In a tenderness illimitable. Ah, from the first I saw you as you are—angel and goddess. There is no act of self-re prosslon, no act of self-immolation man may not commit for you—no fond and foolish thing one has read of, but has scarce believed. You bring enchanting, elevating thought; why, you fill with joy the whole horizon of the world. Until I met you I did not live —I slept. But now I am awake. Yet I love you, you see, and would like to whisper it in your little ear. But I would noi dare. All I would dare is to fall at your feet so—looking up—maybe you would be kind. I might catch the murmur of your low voice, listen to its music, and see love f.hape himself on your sweet lip. You .saw It, did you not, darling, the very first time? You know that never be fore had I caught sight even of love's fluttering garment. Why, it must have been so plain to your deep heart. If you doubted It, it would have been calumny—not to me, but to yourself, >our loveliness. You knew from that hour that all else, all else, all others— do you dear? —were chaff borne on the winds, froth lashed away to nothing ness on the first breaker of a fathom less sea." Hertha Detracourt Le Moyamensing stood motionless, clasping and un clasping her hands. In her whiteness she looked like a vision from some other world. Only on her face a strange glow was growing, growing up from her mouth, irradiating her low, broad, moon-touched forehead. "Jeff," she said, slowly, calling him i<o (Imr diminutive she always cave to him when he fell into one of his talking spells, "If you mean business, cheese that lingo and giv3 me plain English; but if you are just doing a language stunt, keep moving —you're hitting it up to beat the band."—Washington Star. Her Faltli Was Shattered. "Oh. Henry," wailed Beatrice Fitz muggles. "Oh, Henry, to think that you have shattered my faith in you. Go. You are a fallen idol for me." "But, Beatrice," pleaded Henry Big glesworth, "do not spurn me in this manner. Even though my feet be of clay, yet my—" "No, Henry," Interrupted the fair young girl, while the light of a firm resolution illumined her countenance. "No, Henry, I cannot be merciful. Not only are your feet of clay, but hence forth you name is Mud." And Henry strode wrathfully out in to the night, which happened to be on duty at the time. —Baltimore Ameri can. This year there have been planted 1,200 acres of cantaloupes In Pecos Valley, N. M., with an estimated yield of something less than one carload to , tho acre. IBR Give a Variety of l'ontl, Variety of food gives more rapid growth to young stock and increases the flow of milk of the dams. All kinds of stock are more thrifty when they are not confined to one or two articles. Milking Twice a Day. The advisability of milking cows on dairy farms more than twice a day has been questioned. Tests made at the New Jersey station seem to indicate that the objection Is well founded. The third milking will not pay as a regular farm practice. Under special conditions it might be desirable. The Temperature for Cream. From 57 to 60 degrees is the temper ature for cream when it goes into the churn, but the condition of the cream and the manner of churning will in fluence the quality of the butter. Use a thermometer when churning, as fre quently when the butter does not come the fault may be due to too high or too low temperature. Applns a» Food Tor Stock. The fallen apples should be utilized for the pigs or disposed of in some manner, in order to destroy as many insects as possible. It is claimed that where cows are allowed in the apple orchard they fall off in milk flow. Ex perienced dairymen assert that the loss of milk is due to the cows ranging from one tree to another to secure the apples that fall daily instead of eating grass. ■ Apples, if given as a portion of the ration, will increase the milk flow, but too many apples will not prove beneficial. Apple trees should not be in a regular pasture, as thoy do not thrive in such loca tions, nor should the orchard be given over to cattle, the sheep and hogs be ing more serviceable in consuming tlio fallen fruit. Cattle may be allowed in the orchard, however, after the ap ples are harvested or before thoy be gin to fall. Immenitc I'se of Corn HnrvcHter*. The most satisfactory way of har vesting the fodder crop is of course with a corn binder. After the lower leaves and the husks have turned color but while the tops are still green is the proper time to cut corn. The cro has then fully matured, and while the kernels remain a little soft they harden just as well in the shock as if iue corn was left stapding. Corn harvesters work so satisfactori ly and their price is so reasonable that every farmer who raises corn should own one, unless he can arrange for the use of a neighbor's machine. There will be probably 50,000 corn binders sold this year by three or four largo harvester manufacturers —about onc tliird as many as the yearly output cl grain binders. These, with the ma chines already In use, will harvest a very large share of the corn crop of the country. Rather than lose the val uable fedder crop, which will be need ed so badly this winter, a farmer who does not own a corn binder and can not buy one this year should arrange with his neighbor to use his machine at night. Machines that have been run day and night in tills manner have cut several hundred acre's in a season.— Farm, Garden and Fireside. Catherine: In tli« Onion Crop. When the onions "go down" all at once, that Is the joy of the market gardener. He has no doubt in his mind then as to when it will be best to pull them. As soon as the leaves crisp he is at. them with his curved blautv. hoe, unless the ground is either very strong or weedy, throwing three or four rows into one. If the crop Is pulled by the scoop hoe the on ions are scattered evenly over the bed, which favors drying. Eventually all are drawn with wooden toothed rakes into wfndrows, which makes it Easier to load them. How long they shall remain out dry ing musw be largely a matter of judg ment on the part of the grower, with three points as his guide. The buibs must be well hardened, especially close to the stem, before they can be safely housed, else they will be likely to sprout They should not be kept out so long as to have the outer skin very generally peel off around the roots. If possible they should not be exposed to a frost sufficiently severe to freeze the surface of the ground. Onions are very hardy and a large proportion of the crop will stand quite a freeze without serious injury, but the re mainder will show the effects of the frost by softening on the frozen side, which forecasts early rotting. When, by reason of an unpropitious season, insufficient manuring, too late planting or general neglect, the crop has a lot of late ripenng bulbs, or even scullions, don't sacrifice the good on ions for the poor ones, but pull the en tire crop at the usual time, separating :he mature and immature into different rows. The»«e late bulbs will do as well out of ground as in, the object being to ripen them down. The most profit able way of handling them is to market early, taking the best price they will bring. If the onion bed Is very weedy at time of pulling, remove by hand the weeds from a section of three rows and take them away in handbarrow. Put the bulbs from the adjoining six rows into that and scrape tlje weeds up from the ground they occupied by a stout scraper attached to a cultivator, the teeth of the same having been re moved. Thescraper I use is about 2 1-3 feet wide, made by a local blacksmith from stout iron. After scraping the weeds aro raked up in piles and carted off before the seed shells out. I gath er the onions, potatoes and corn in bags of about two bushels capacity, putting about one bushel in each to make convenient handling.—J. i'. H. Gregory, In New England Homes:ead. Tim Kail Potting. Adapt your selection of plants to the surroundings that you can give them. If your windows are very sunny se lect plants that require a great deal of sunlight If the room will have to be kept at a temperature of 70 degrees all the time, select plants that will grow in that temperature. Many will not. Do not select a plant for winter blooming about which you know ab solutely nothing, because it looks so pretty in the catalogue. You must be guided by your own judgment in many things in the cul tivation of plants, and careful obser vation and interested study of the in dividual plants will often make your own judgment your best guide. Disappointment is in store for the amateur who takes up plants in full bloom and pots them for the window garden in expectation of having them keep right on blooming all winter. This they will not do. Choose young plants ready for their first budding, or those that have had a rest through the sum mer, with every opportunity for sturdy root growth. Do not delay in sending your or der for bulbs intended for inside blooming. They can be depended upon for winter flowers where other plants would rail to bloom, but they must be potted early if we are to secure tlowers for the holidays. A potting soil of common garden soil with a slight mixture of sand and fer tilizer is suitable for almost any plant you will want to cultivate in your win dow garden. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and pa''k the sqil well about the roots of the plants In planning the window garden do not forget to supply some sort of greens fo? bouquet making. The smi lax is always the standby, but many other delicate leaved plants may be transplanted from the garden before freezing weather. A collection of carnations should be fotind in every window garden; if thry have been raised from seeds or cut tings started early in the spring, with all the buds pinched off during the summer they will be ready to bloom throughout the winter. In purchas ing different varieties this fall, ready for immediate blooming, select bushy plants anu increase by layering.—Phil adelphia Record. Hatching nml f>o<lin«* Young: CliJolc*. The natural method of allowing the hen to sit on her eggs and hatch out her small family is bost for small yards it is never difficult to secure a broody hen at this time of the year. Short legged fowls make the best sit ters. When they show a disposition to sit, do not discourage it, but test thern for a day or two on a nest of glass eggs to find out whether they mean business. If you have a healthy flock of fowls, select the best, unless you prefer to obtain your eggs from an other source and keep the eggs from these hens. Place the sitting hen in a dark, quiet spot, where she will not be disturbed. Thirteen eggs are enough for a sit ting. Mark each egg, so that if any eggs are laid in the nest they can be easily detected and removed. In 10 days the eggs should be tested, which is done in the dark. Hold the eggs in front of a lamp, one by one, with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, while the left shade the large base. If the egg is fertile the air chamber is opaque while the rest of the egg is dark and heavy looking, the two portions being divided by a clear dark line. If the eggs are light and opaque throughout like fresh laid, there is no use returning them to the nest. Sometimes more than half the eggs turn out bad, and then if several hens have been set at the same time, the good eggs can be bunched, thus economizing the stock of hens. Sitting hens should have a daily run in the open air and a chance to feed and take a dust bath. When the chicks are breaking through the shells do not take them away from the hen, as it only makes her uneasy. The natural warmth of her b&dy is better for them than artificial heat. Chicks will do without food for the first 24 hours, but when they do begin to feed they should be fed constantly. At first their food should be bread crumbs dry or soaked in milk, and the yolk of hard boiled egg. Afterward give grain, wheat, groats, canary seed, a little hemp 3eed, bits of cooked meat and sparingly of green stuff. Feed every two hours for the first two weeks, then gradually extend the time until the meals are given three or four times a day. When the chicks are a week old they should be allowed to run about in the open air. Keep the old hen confined in a coop. Do not let the chicks out too early In the morn ing, even when a month old, as the wet grass is bad for them. By Septem ber the chickens hatched early ought to lay. If it is desired to fatten spring chickens for market they should be confined in small coops when two months old and fed on moist food. They will put on flesh rapidly and get plump and tempting looking when trussed up ready for market.—William A. Stimpson, in American Agricultur ist According to the director of the geo graphical survey of Canada there aro in that country 1,520,000 square miles of unexplored lands, out of a total of <>.450.257 square miles. Mrs. Emma E. Felch, Treasurer Fond du Lac, Wis., Social Economic Club, Tells How She was Cured of Irregular and Pain ful Menstruation by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "Dear Mrs. Pinkram: I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for 'irregular and painful menstruation, and was entirely cured after using two bottles. I can truly say it is a boon to suffering women, and I would recommend all suffering from the above troubles to try a few bottles and be cured. Very thank fully yours, EMMA E. FELCH, Division St., Fond du Lac, Wis." SSOOO FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrho;a, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gono" and " want-to-ue-left-alone " feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. No other medicine for fejnnle ills in the world has received such widespread and unqualified endorsement. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. Good for fSact Teeth Not Bad for Good Teeth. Sozodont - • " - Jse. pet Sozodont Tooth Powder » 25c. J? Large Liquid and Powder • 75c. W® Ail stores or by mail for the price. Sample for the postage, MYSTICAL ODD NUMBERS. Tlirfe, Seven nnd Nine nave Many Pe culiarities to Their Credit. Tlirec, seven and nine appear to havt been the favorite numbers all the world over. The ancients had three fateH, three furies and three graces; Neptune's trident had three prongs Jupiter's thunderbolt three forks and Cerberus three heads. We have three estates of the realm, a man who ac cepts a bill has three days' grace and three persons congregated together may make a riot. Shakespeare was well aware that he must have neither more nor less than three witches in "Macbeth," and that the brindle cat must mew thrice, and our popular folk lore Insists upon three merry men, three blind mice and three wise men ol Gotham. Three meals a day Is the usual scale of feeding. Of a more mystical character than three is the figure seven, or, at any rate, it has a larger number of re ligious applications. Noah had seven days' warning of the coming of the flood, and when it came he took fowls by sevens and clean beasts by sevens into the ark; the ark touched oc Mount Ararat in the seventh month and after seven days a dove was sen' out, followed seven days afterward b> another. In Pharaoh's dream ther« were seven fat and seven lean kine which Joseph Interpreted to mear seven years of plenty and seven years of famine. At the destruction of Je richo seven priests bore seven trum pets seven days, and on the seventt day they walked round the city sevet times, after which the walls fell. Ir tho apocalypse almost everything is seven, except the number of beasts There arc seven churches, seven gol den candlesticks, seven lamps befort seven spirits, the book with seven seals, the lamb with seven horns anc seven eyes, seven angels with sever seals, seven kings, seven thunders seven thousand slain, the dragon wltt seven heads and seven crowns, sever angels bring seven plagues, and ther< are seven vials of wrath. In merely secular matters seven oc curs frequently enough. We hav< seven wonders of the world, sever champions of Christendom, sever sleepers, seven wise men, seven plan ets, seveo deadly sins, seven ages ol man, and our ordinary leases are madf for seven or a multiple of seven years . But however mystically significant three and seven may be, they cannot lay claim to any such peculiarities as are the property of the figure nine That the ancients had nine muses nine rivers in the infernal regions, a hydra with nine heads and nine gods for Lars Porsena to swear by, or that In modern times nine tailors to make a man, or that possession is nine points of the law, are facts that pale into In significance after one has sat down with pencil and paper to investigate some of the special peculiarities of the figure nine. For instance, if you mul tiply nine by nny other ntiinSei will find that the figures compi the product when added together always amount to nine. IN A HASHEESH DEN. German's Visit ton liesort Where Men Smoke Their Reasons Away. A German physician describes his first visit to a den of hasheesh smo kers in Cairo, Egypt, hasheesh being a species of hemp prized in the east for its intoxicating properties. The German's guide was a donkey boy. who could speak German. In a dark and dirty alley they came to a lighted doorway. Entering they passed through a room filled with men play ing dominoes to the smoking-room. "Here," said the explorer, "we were welcomed like old acquaintances. The aromatic odor and the smokers were in a very happy mood. On the walls were Arabic inscriptions and pictures of European beauties. In one corner was a stone bearing a mass of glowing coals. "A man cut up some tobacco, an other filled a clay pipe bowl with it, a third bit off little pieces of brown hasheesh and laid them down on the tobacco, a fourth added some glowing coals and attached the bowl to a narghilch or water pipe, which he then handed to his neighbor. The pipe passed from mouth to mouth, each man taking a few whiffs and expelling the smoke from nose to mouth." The German physician declined the proffered smoke and ordered coffee. All the smokers talked and laughed incessantly. Most of them were young or middle-aged men. Sudden ly an elderly man rose to his feet and stood staring at the floor, with a vacu ous smile. He was | hasheesh wreck, an imbecile. "He is a philosopher," said one of the others, and a general laujrh followed. Montnna Said to be Sliding. Is Montana creeping into Idaho and Wyoming? There is some evidence on the affirmative side of the question, but not enough to cause alarm in any of the three states. Still, for several years It has been known that there ia some trouble with Montana's founda tions. which are slipping, and leaving evidence of the fact on the surface of tho ground. Railway companies have found qu'.te plain and strange twists in the align ment of their roads, and civil engi neers have found "bench marks" changing their elevations in a confus ing manner. Quite recently these rea sonably suspected movements have be come apparent, and left large cracks in the earth at several points in the city of Butte, extending for a number of feet, and being in extreme eases 12 inches wide. The effect of this is not • only to throw railways out of line, but to cause much more serious damage to eas nipes and water ran ins.
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