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.
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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."
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Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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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.