; THE PATH TO THft PASTfRE. The narrow path that we lined to tread Led it might (way from the farmyard Kite, 'A ntl down the Ian to the pasture lot. .Where for, our coming t lie cow would tvnit. Between it bordera of grnaa and weeda It bora the nrinta of our reatlesa feet. That stepped so blithe through, the early down. Or lagged along in I lie pulsing heat. Above our henda curved it roof of blue, Where oft we aaw the ghont of the moon On drifting by with the aim tipped cloud That nailed away to tho port of noon. From nodding thixtlo and mullein atalk The meadow larks through the au:mer eang, And from the atubble of hnrvent fields The bob white'a call through the still ness rang. O little path of the long ngn, I've wandered far from your beaten duat. And atiimbled oft in my journeya wide. And lout 'no key to my childiah truat: Jin, now and li en in my waking dream i atand once more bv the paature wull. And hear again from the harvest tielda The cheerful aound of the bob white'a call. Adella Waaher, in the New York Sun. I III RUNAWAY:!? OAR By Cera S. Day. "Hey, Billy! let r.m have a ride?" cried a boyish voice, and Billy pulled tip lila handsome roan mount to speak to his friend, rto came running down the dusty country voad very hastily to meet him. "I'm afraid I can't, Hal," Billy an swered regretfully, sorry that he could not oblige his friend In this re quest. "I've just had him down to the blacksmith shop at the cross roads, and must get home and feed him and rub him down before the doctor comes in with the machine. He wnts to drive tho horse this af ternoon, out somewhere where he can't go In the uutoniobile, on ac count of the bad, sandy roads." Hal was stroking the smooth side of the fine horse while Billy talked. Now he looked up aud persisted In Ills request. "But I won't hinder you. Just take me up behind, for a ride, and I'll walk back," he said. Billy saw that he would have to be quite frank with Hal. "No. Doc tor Barnes raid, when I first went to help around the stable, that I should never let uny one else ride Arrow. So you see I really can't. I'd like to let you have a ride, but I must Set him home as soon as I can, now. Good-bye," and Billy was off at a trot, while Hal stood at the gate and watched horse and rider until they were out of sight. Billy was thinking deeply as he rode along. The subject was one that often occupied hie thoughts, when ho had tho horse out for exercise, or was busy with his work about the stables at the doctor's home. "Too bad that Hal can't have my place at the doctor's, and I have what I want. I think '.his is a mixed up old world anyway. We get the things we don't care a snap about, and the things -ve'd give our heads for, al most, don't come our. way." "Get along, Arrow, old follow, I can't wait for you to eat grass to-day," and he urged tho horse into a trot. Some times Billy had time to let him crop a particular fine bunch of grass, and Arrow remembered it. Into the village street they turned from the country road lu a few min utes, and trotted down the long, straight fioroughfare. He rode past the post-office and general store, with Its porch decoration of Idlers; paBt the pretty notion store windows, and thj town hall; and on toward the doctor's home, at the extreme other end of the street. But they did not get home without an interruption. As they went on down the street, and past several houses, Billy saw ahead the familiar automobile of his employer standing In front of a nouse. ''Wonder who is sick at Harris'?" he thought, and glanced again at the car as he neared It. "Hello, doctor has Myrtle out with him," he addei as he saw the golden head of the doctor's little girl over the back of the seat. Myrtle saw him nt the same In stant, turning r.rouud at tha sound of hoofs in the ctreet. She Bmiled and waved her chubby hand as he passed, and hi waved back, for they wero very good friends. Almost as soon as he had gone past the car this happened. He heard it start and looked back, expecting to see the doctor in his seat, with his hand on the lever; but he saw instead Myrtle, grasping it with chubby lin gers, laughing mischievously, her curls tossed back and her face alight with daring. Bill gave one gasp, and pulled the roan around so suddenly that be wheeled on two feet. Even as he did so, the big car gained headway, and the child in it, realizing some thing of her danger, but ignorant how to avert it, or stop the car, screamed helplessly, "Oh, Billy, come, make It stop, quick!" Even as she spoke the machine passed the boy and horse, running so smoothly and swiftly that be paled at the danger before the child. The thought came: "If he bad made me chauffeur, instead of stable boy, as i wanted him to do, this would not havo happened." For only the day before, the man who had held that position the place Billy wanted with ull his machinery-loving heart had ueen discharged for drunkenness. TV. . i , ... . . uun tum me piau. yuicit as a flash he urtod the roan after the ma cblue. kicking his feet free of the stir rups as he nearsd the automobile. The car ran faster and faster what he was going to try, must be done quickly. And then the doctor rams out Just In time to see what Billy was going to do, aad to stand breathless while his child lu the big car. and his sta ble boy on the splendid roan horse ran the race ihat was the talk c tb village for mouths afterward. When Billy was abreast of the cat and it took good work on the part of both horse and rider to achieve that he called to the terror-stricken little offender: "Get over on one side quick make room for me -I'm going to Jump." And as she crept away to tho other side, he leaped from the back of the running horse -and foil all In heap but In the car. It was but the work of a moment to gather himself up and reverse the lever. The next moment he had the steering wheel In his hand, and had the car turned, and then ran back to where a wildly excited group stood and waited, with the frantic father. Arrow slackened his speed gradually, and when he quite understood that his rider had suddenly disappeared, he stopped and cropped an especially fine bunch of grass with supreme in difference to races or runaway cars. "I would like to do something to show you how I appreciate your act, and the courage and quickness of thought that It showed," said the doctor to Billy In a talk that was ex ceedingly uncomfortable, and yet pleasant, to that praise-shunning young man. And at that, Billy's eyes suddenly brightened, and -he spoke: ' "If you would let me run the ma chine for you. instead of getting an other man, as you said you were going to do " he began. "I know all about it, sir. I've studied It up, every spare minute since I've been here. I thought if I ever got a chance to run one l'7e always been crazy over machinery, ;Ir, and " And then the doctor put a few ques tions that settled the metier. "Yov. shall run it for me from this day, until you get something better," the doctor raid quietly. "And, if you care to study machinery if you have any desire to make an expert of yourself I have a brother In that line of business, and T think wc can arrange to IO you learn all you want about wheels r.nd things." Then rll at once Billy realized that this Is not such a mixed up old world, after all; aud that if n fellow Is faith ful in what he has to do, and what com-- ti him, even suddenly and un expectedly, there may be chances for him to get what he -vants with alt his heart that tuo things he "would give his head for," as he had put it, were, after all, some of them, apt to come his way. Young People's Paner. DON'T CTT VOIR SLEEP SHOUT. British Scientists Frown On the Wellington llule. The papers read In the physiologi cal section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science dis cussing sleep and rest wero all op posed to the old Idea that mankind should be content with short slum ber. The Duke of Wellington's dic tum of sit hours for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool went by the board. Francis Dyke Acland urged the necessity for plenty of sleep for the young as necessary to their bodily and mental development. He said that most of a boy's growth was done In bed. He quoted a letter from the head master of a large school, where the breakfast hour hud been changed from 7 to 8 o'clock, ns saying that the whole school was brighter and doing belter work. Dr. Gotch said that tho healthiest sleep was dreamless. He mentioned Lord Kitchener's faculty of being able to go Into dreamless sleep at any moment. Professor Lewis said that the nor mal sleep of a laboring man during tho first half hour was very deep and then grew shallower. Professor Meyers related his own experience with a German doctor. He arranged to be awakened afjer a half hour to see what his mental con dition was. He set himself several problems in arithmetic. The next day he was awakened after an hour's sleep, and so on. Increasing his time for sleep by an hour a day until he got six hours. He found his ability In connection with arithmetic as great after an hour's sleep as after six hours. When, however, he came to try another test this one com pletely broke down. In trying to test his memory he found it grew in proportion te the number of hours of sleep he took. Bootjacks Among tin- Sunflowers. It is popularly supposed that tho bootjack has disappeared from the common articles of household use as completely as the candle snuffers and tho warming pan. But this Is not true In some parts of Kansas. In Smith County they are numerous. Why they should still continue in ex istence in the vicinity of Smith Centre while at Mankato not one is to be found is explained by the prevalence of the old fashioned custom of wear ing boots at the former place. Many bootjacks may be found hanging be hind the kitchen stove in the farnv houses in that vicinity. The oldest one was made in Wisconsin in 1851, and is owned aud used by G. W. Sage, of Smith County. Smith Centre Pio neer. Sorrows of the Rich. The man who made $15,000,000 in a few years looked downcast. "What's thj matter?" his friend asked. "Why are you unbappyf You ought lo be thoroughly satisfied. You made a splendid fortune, you are still in t. e prime or '.lie and the workmen have just put the finishing touches on your fine palace. What more do you want?" , 'That's Just it," the d;sconsolate one replied "Instead of -loving into my palace now and enjoying life I've got to spend five or six rears hunting through European ijuk-shops for dingy picture- with which to decorate my walls." Chicago Record-Herald. Bhortest Name For Street. The thoroougbfare which can boast the shortest name of any In London is D Mews, In the locality of Regent's Park. It is the only surviving "al phabet" street 1. e., streets whose names were simply a letter of the alphabet. Some years ago nearly every letter In the alphabet gave Its name to a thoroughfare, but V Mews is the only one which has not bad lu nam lengthened. Tit-Bits. CANNING CORN. Maine's Interesting Industry, Wher8 $ Everything Is Done in Haste. X All up and down the State of Maine the canned corn Industry Is an ephemeral season of feverish activi ty, lasting not over a fortnight, upon which the whole outcome of the year's industry depends. During tho last weeks of August freight cars full of tin cans are shunt ed into the shops; the yards have been carefully cleaned and every thing Is prepared for the Impending hustle, In which, perhaps, 1,000,000 Cans must be filled, scaled and made ready for. market. The "buyer" all this time Is mak ing his dally rounds In a light wagon, visiting alt the corn raisers within twenty miles, seeing that the con tracts, signed a year before, are being carried out and ascertaining Just when each grower's crop will be ready for the mill. No man must bring in his corn until it is called for; no man dares delay It (for greater weight) after the order has gone forth. The system is perfection and insures a steady and ample supply for the two weeks of canning time just enough for the machinery to take care of, no more, no leBs. Without it the corn might He a day or two in the shop yard and spoil, for green corn is a highly perishable commod ity. When everything is absolutely ready the foreman gives the word. Instantly the most amazing activity ensues. Every man, woman and child who can possibly get away from other occupations is requisitioned by tue shop; school Is delayed until can ning time is over; every other busi ness is subordinated to the pressing task of getting the corn into the cans before the frost strikes it. In side the mill the complex machines begin to hum, outside, the yard fills up with women and children, waiting for the corn to come. The first load is acclaimed with cheers as it lumbers In behind a yoke of red oxen; no sooner is it dumped than the swarm of workers burrows into it like so many bees, stripping and tearing off the husks; in five min utes the first lot of heaping bushel baskets, piled high with sweet green corn, Is being wheeled away to the "cutters." Another and another load comes; tho game Is on. Nothing in our prosaic American life could be more picturesque, more suggestive of the free, open air labor of southern Europe than this yard full of people, in all manner of parti colored dress, kneeling and sitting around the heaps of corn, stripping away for dear life. The incentive is five cents for every bushel of husked corn quite enough to make the pov erty bitten ruralitoa "dig in" for all they are worth. Many a new suit of clothes, many a Sunday bonnet come out of these bushel baskets. Meanwhile, as the ox teams, drays and wagons of every description are hauling in the corn, and the chatter ing, competing townsfolk are busking away like mad, the stripped corn is hauled away on trucks to the first machines, tho "cutters," clever de vices which whip off every kernel in a twinkling and toss the cobs out Into the yard again through a chute. The ears of corn running through these machines make you think of a proces sion of rats scampering into their holes; they whisk along almost faster than the eye can follow. One "cut ter," fed by a boy, does the work that formerly required ten or a dozen men armed with corn knives. The meaty kernels, running with white juice, are poured down into vats,, from these machines, whenco they are conveyed to a big rotating sieve which Borts out bits of cob, refuse and the like, letting only the clean and perfect corn pass through. This corn is all. caught In another vat, called the "mixer," where it is Is thoroughly incorporated by ma Honey in It. Wrhen the Salvation Army first came to America, twenty-five years ago, says the author of "The Prophet of the Poor," Is found a ready advo cate of its methods in the Rev. Thomas K. Eeecher. Mr. Beecher had Just uad a lesson, in parable form, from a certain "Brother" An derson, which he never forgot. Brother Anderson was at that time the pastor of a colored congregation which was noted for the noise and en thusiasm of its services. Incident n'.ly the old man wielded a whitewash-brush, but he was known as an exhorter of no mean ability. One day he persuaded Mr. Beecher to ad dress bis congregation. The occasion seemed a good ono for reproving the congregation for their uproarious methods, and Mr. Beeper did so. "Let all things be done decently and in order," he con cluded. Then Brother Anderson rose to speak. , , "I love Brudder Beecher; I love to hear him preach dls after noon," he said. "He's our good trlen'. And he say dat some folks goes up to glory noisy 'a' shouting, aud some goes still like,, 'a it they's ashamed of what's in 'em.' And te say we better be more like dat still kind, and de .white folks'U like us more. He say de boys and de yels staa' in de do'way and laugh at us, and mock at us 'cause o' de wav we goes or. "Yas, I see r!e boys and gels Stan' all las' winter roun' de door, an' vnder de windows, an' laff; and dey peep In and laff. But I 'member what I saw las' summer among de bees. "Some of do hives was nice an' clean an' still, like 'spcctable meet ings, and de odders was a bustin' wld honey. De bees kep' a-goln' And a comla' in d clover; and dey Job' kep' on a-nilln' de hive till de honey was a-flowln' like de Ian' o' Canaan. An' I saw all roun' de hives was ants an' worms an' black bugs, rV dey kep' on de outside. Dey wa'n' bees, pey couldn' make de honey for darselves. Dey eouldn'd fly to de clover an' to de honeysuckle. Dey jes' hung roun' de hive and lib on de drlppln's. "So de boys an' gels hang roun' fur. Come lu-i-w 11 show ygu how Processes of a Business That Is Al most Wholly Done by Machinery. chinery with a decoction of water, sugar and starch. When the mixing Is complete buck etfuls of the compound are carried to the steam-cooker; here the first cook ing takes place at a temperature of ISO degrees. On both sides of this cooker long chutes descend from the upper story, and down these chutes fall tin cans, dropping into place be neath nozzles which automatically discharge precisely a canful of corn. These nozzles fill fifty-six cans a min ute almost one every second, you notice which is a great deal faster than a dozen skilled workmen could do. As the cans are filled with the steaming, fragrant mixture, au end less chain conveys them on to a re volving steel table, where they are roughly hustled and made to "move on" until they fall Into a regular line and pass through the automatic "counter," a turnstile affair which registers the exact number of cans filled every day. Without pausing a second, the cans travel along a belt which carries them under the "wiper," a buzzing brush, much like a stroet-sweper in a small scale; this device instantly cleans oft any stray kernels which may have ad hered to the outside, and passes the cans to an operator who very deftly places the little round "solderated" covers In position. Just as they leave the operator's hands, each can receives a good brushing with muri atic acid from a nest of whirling brushes, for all the world like muci lage brushes. This acid prepares the covers for tho automatic soldering process. , The soldering machine receives twelve cans at once, solders them si multaneously with circular irons, and delivers them out on to another belt before you half understand how it is accomplished. Its capacity is 42,000 cans a day. Each can cover is pro vided with its own solder, the irons of the machine, heated by gasoline flame and well dipped in salammon iac, whirl down with a spiral motion; presto! the thing is done. Nothing now remains but to seal up the little air holes in the middle of the covers. This detail is attended to by a couple of men who drop solder on the centre of each top as the cans pass by. Leaving these men, the cans are collected in great trays, each holding ninety-four cans. Five trays are piled together, and the whole mass, containing 470 cans In all, Is dragged off to the "retorts," whore a very high temperature is maintained by steam. Into the retorts go the cans on the double quick; the doors are jacked on and the steam admitted. Here the corn receives its final cooking; and when, with a great rush and hiss ing of steam, the doors are thrown open again. It is ready for market and table. Other workmen now wheel the corn away to a large platform where thousands of cans are piled; a hose is squirted over the new arrivals to cool them, and they are then ready for labeling and shipment. The whole process has consumed less than an hour, from the time of delivery In the yard until the finished product lies cooked, sealed and cooled on the ship ping platform. The rapidity and entire precision of the manufacture are miraculous. Hardly twice does a human hand touch the work It is a triumph of machinery, pure and simple. There are, la the whole range of mechan ics, very few processes excelling this for quickness and automatic perfec tion. When one considers that In tho very brief corn season a single shop turns out from 300.000 to 500,000 cans, the rapidity of the work be comes apparent. New England Gro cer. de gospel bees do. Come in an' we'll lead you to de clover. "You won't come in? Well, den, poor things, den stan' roun' de out side an' have de drlppln's. We's got honey in dls hive." "As he spoke," said Mr. Beecher, "I seemed to see my own sermon shrinking and fading away." Workmen und Their Tools. The monotony of labor union meet ings was broken the other night when a spirited young fellow blurted out: "You chaps can talk the year round about wages and hours, but mighty few of you know how to keep your tools In order and get the best out of them. I'll bet there ain't a dozen men here to-night who don't abuse their tools. You let 'em rust out, throw 'em away and buy new ones." There was a general roove nt nt In the room. An old man said be had used a saw for twenty years. A tailor declared one pair of shears lasted him eighteen years. A car penter's drawing knife was fifteen years old. Old Jimmy, of Washing ton Market, used a carving knife twelve years. Joo Ochstel bad a hatchet for twenty-two years. A box maker used a pocketknlfe nineteen years. A cabinetmaker bad a plain bit that wore out a dozen stocks, etc. The experience meeting turned out to be highly Interesting. New York Press. Tho Oldest Bridegroom. Blr Robert Turing, Bart., who was married at St. . George's, Hauover Square, recently, though he will be seventy-nine lu a few days, la not the oldest titled bridegroom of recent years. The late Marquis of Donegall married when be was past his eigh tieth year, and lived to see a son and heir born to blm. The bride of a tew days ago married her first busband in 1886, and has been a widow since 1895. Second marriages bavo been made before in the Parnell family, to which she beloC-i. Her grandfather, the third Lord Congleton, Is survived by his second wife, while the third wife of the second Lord Congleton also survives. There are thus three Ladles Congleton living. Westmin ster Gazette, How to Renew Furs. Furs that have become flat and oily looking about the neck may be made frrsh and like new by rubbing the fur the wrong way with hot bran. Furs that have been wet should never be hung In front of a stove or an open Ore to dry. Telephones at the Theatre. To enable young married women, If they become anxious, to telephone home and inquire as to the condi tion of their children, telephones are fitted in vry private box at the Coli seum. It Is a common thing at the opera and many West End theatres to see a queue of ladles waiting their turn at the telephone between the arts, says London Opinion, just "to hnve a word with nurse." When to Shun White Shoes. The weakness for white sho.?s shown among certain classes is to be deplored. The material is cheap, the feet they adorn usually large or Is it that white makes even small feet look tremendous? They soil so easi ly, and In any event should be worn with white costumes. In any event, cheap white shoes should never be worn. Black shoes for street wear are always safe. The various browns do well for some occasions, but black always looks well and the feet look smaller in It. Broderle Anglaise. t Ono generally Bees broderle An glalse worked In floral patterns, or, ut auy rate, In "fancy" designs; for a change In It la much prettier in a severe style, and a charming blouse of saffron taffeta embroidered in a design somewhat like the convention al wreath of bays, stretched out r raight! A very fine piece of Valen ciennes was embroidered thus, and tho broderle worked on lace was most effective; this blouse had chiffon bre telles edged with tiny frills, and the embroidery was done in colored silk atch. ITnnd-Puinted Huts. There Beems to be no stopping In the universal race for novelty. The latest craze Is for hats hand-painted with the designs of the flowers with which they are trimmed. Large Leg horn hats in white and black have their brims painted with long trails of pink or white rose3 and trimmed with clusters of the flowers and big bows. A very dainty toque also fash ionable is of pale mauve crinoline straw, trimmed with lilac and orna mented with painted sprays of the same blossoms, which are half hid den In the folds of the straw. Loa don Opinion. tJloves Will Jo Deep in Pockets. It will be enough to scare any father to learn how expensive his wife's and daughter's winter clothes are going to be. The Icily calm importer of Paris frockB makes no apologies for her announcement that never in her long experience have French models been so dear, while some of the accessories of dress, such as gloves and plumes, prove a ton weight on the man who has to pay for them. A fashionable woman's glove will be increased unpleasantly, as the bright shades that will be worn this year are costly. "Last season we could count on one hand our customers who de manded colored gloves," says the purveyor of modes, "but this winter the pale grays and fawns are consid ered insignificant. Already we have demands for claret, grass-green, royal purple and electric blue gloves." Sweet Faces. The most expressive face is not the one which writhes or agonizes with every sorrowful feeling, or twists and squirms with every amus ing situation; it is rather the one which retains a calm exterior while the strongest emotions of the soul play upon It with their lights and shadows. The face should be the smooth curtain on which the heart exhibits its various pictures without disturbing it, not the stage which re quires tho shifting of scenery for every act. The reason why so many beautiful faces are to be found in a convent is In a great measure due to the dally habit of composing the features in long hours of meditation und prayer. Unmarred by contend ing emotions, the features are grad ually moulded into harmonious out lines. To sum up on this point train your features to composure, and avoid all grimacing habits, says Woman's World. Because good humor is an obliging quality, many women think they must always be In a laugh or a broad smile In order to be charming. This is a grievous mis take. Tight Hose Harmful. Worse even tbau narrow toes is the habit that many women have of buying hose too small for their feet aud wearing them constantly. It is needless to say that binding flesh in tight stockings is one of the most harmful forms of lacing, be cause It- restricts circulation. And when that Is impaired the individual becomes a prey to all sorts of ail ments, which, by the way, riot only manifest themselves in corns and cal louses, but by affecting the general health. Stockings too large, the other ex treme, are also bad, but the 111 effects they cause are not to be compared with the wearing of tight hose. When they are too long and wrinkle over the lustep and under the arch of the foot they cause Callous places and the folds of the material pressing Into the flesh frequently irritate the skin, be cause of the constant friction of rub bing upon and down with every step taken. The Ideal stockings have broad toes, so that the feet can lie straight in them. They should lit close to the flesh, not snugly enough to be un comfortable, but Just shape them selves nicely to the feet. Once such hosiery Is put on no other kind will ever be purchased again. The seams are, of course, small and soft and If possible get the styles that have them on the outside of the foot instead of down the centre, where. If the threads are drawn a trifle tight they often chafe the flesh. New Haven Register. Tho Birdcage Coiffure. Women who have returned recent ly from Paris are introducing a new French evening costume that outdoes In altitude anything seen since the powdered wig of Colonial days. The framework of the new ar rangement is a cage-like wire affair, patterned after a high skull cap. This is placed just in the centre of the head and the tresses are arranged over It to give the effect of a tower ing mass of "crowning glory." The hair first is waved, then sepa rated to hang In even quantities on all sides of the head. When the "cage" has been adjusted the wavy locks are drawn up loosely over it and arranged in a graceful knot at the summit. . If the hair is too scanty for Wi treatment, the ends are tucked in on top and pinned, and a group of arti ficial curls is fastened above. A fillet is usually drawn around the new coiffure at a point about on a line with the lower edge of the cage. Sometimes this is a double string of pearls, or again it Is a sim ple fold of tulle with a large artificial rose caught to it at either side of the head. Tact and Patience. To say "no" to a child is often much easier and quicker than to ex plain the situation and help the child to say no to himself. But the latter is the better way. It requires tact, patience and persistence, and, above all, prayer. When the child has been made to understand why he should or should not do a certain thing, then comes a supreme moment of testing. Will he choose the right course, or will he decide for the wrong? The mother must not interfere, and she can do nothing but wait, lifting her heart in a silent, pleading prayer for the Holy Spirit to direct her little one. And, for her comfort, she may be assured that lie who promised His Spirit to those who ask, will not fail to answer. Do not let us make the mistake of thinking that little things are Insignificant. The smallest decision that a child makes is large to him, and every one goes to ward forming that strange power which we call habit and which will be so large a kactor in his later life. It is only by trifling and oft-repeated lessons that the child learns to gov ern himself, but the mother who helps her little one to such self-mas tery is giving him the key to vlstory, for "he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." Clara E. Hamilton. For Those Who Worry. The worrying temperament often makes its habitat with one whose oc cupation lies within home walls, whose life is monotonous, and out look circumscribed. The frame inures Itself to priva tion, to work, when it does not inter fere too much with eating and sleep ing, but the system never accustoms Itself, healthily, to worry. It is a perpetual tease upon the nerves, and never remits its rasping, wearing power. It is generally true that an anx ious tendency to take care rather seriously outruns its right propor tions, becomes a giant, and gains mas tery over its victim. To "tie it well and let it go," to do one's duty, then trust in the good ness that rules the universe,, and of which each Individual is a parjt, is a nobler, healthier role than to fret and fret. If Anxious was a divinity, to be propitiated by anxious thoughts, and offerings to his skeleton partner, Black Care, then worry might be worth while, but not when it hinders usefulness and encourages croaking. Where care stimulates activity it is beneficial, but the moment it goes beyond that It checks good work. Think how much humanity suffers on account ot the things that never happen. Think how worrying takes away peace of mind, nerve, unfits for the battle of life, the sweeping and lunging toward things outward and great in our lives. Winnow your own individual life. See bow the things about which you were worrying and twUtlng never came near you, and happiness came around the corner undreamed of, un expected. Experience does not seem to heln the votary ot Care. Though troubles can be shown to be year In and out, mainly or the Imagination, he still goes submerged and water-logged by fear of anxiety. The condition ot worrying ig nursed, and the victim of the cheer destroying habit feels as uneasy with out some fret as an old friar would without bis hair-cloth. When fidgeting as to how ends ere going to meet, Just recall the fact that they generally do meet, some way. No one has a right to convert the future into an outlying storm-ground and draw in upon himself and others Us chills and blasts. Fear secretes acids, affects that su perb engine, the heart, but confidence and trust are sweet Juices to the con stitution and nature. A. Day Robin son, In Health. Kangaroos readily leap from sixty to seventy foet. The greatest record ed lsap of horse li thirty-seven feet. SLEEP. Up apoke a languid sybarite Who hail all things to plwme, And told of "lumber lie enjoyed ( On flowery be:!a of eaae. A toiler mined hia honest voice v To tell of alnep aerene Enfolding him. when work was done, L'pon hia pallet mean. And then in praise of outdoor couch Spoke one of frypay birth. And aaid the aweeteat reat was found L'pon the breaat of earth. At thia the Hummer gueat arose, A aide all other awept. And iHiaated that at hia resnrt 'Neath hlanketa he had alept. -MVLandburgh Wilaon, in the New York bun. "You entertain a great deal more than you did formerly, I notice.' "Yes, Indeed. This is the first really hospitable cook we ever had." Life. "Papa, what Is a 'gentleman ot the old school?" ' "One. my son, who Insists on having Brlght's disease when he can abundantly afford ap pendicitis." Puck. Hubbubs "Are you ever bothered with tramps out here?" Subbubs "No; I have a sign on the gate read ing: 'We are vegetarians, but our dog isn't.' " Philadelphia Press. "Yes," sighed Mrs. Lapsllng, "So phrony suffers terrible from ncural agy. The only relief Bhe ever gets is when she has an epidemic inserted in her arm." Chicago Tribuns. Thee ice nu'.natcw W ho charge ao hii;li Can't take their ioe long When they die. Denver Poat. Bertha "I say, father, you are still growing?'' Father "No, my dear. Why?" Bertha (puzzled) "Why because the top of your head is coming through jour hair." The Bystander. Fat Squire "But I tell you, sir, this road is private, and you shall not pass except over my prostrate body!" Cyclist "All right, guv' nor, I'll go back. I've done enough hill climbing already!" Punch. Tommy "I wish our school wat a Government offlca In Washington." Mamma "What on earth do you wish that for, Tommy?" "Tommy "Because then us fellers could spell any old way." Baltimore American. Bank Teller "I have no doubt you are Blllyur.3, the ice magnate, but you r.yj3t be Identified. Can't yoa bring in some friend to " Blll- yuns "I have no friends." Bank Teller "It's all right. You're Identi fied." Life. Two henna with but a aingle thought, Till liio ia done; But how much better if two mouths Could cut an one. .Milwaukee Sentinel. Never hit a man when he has got you down. Philadelphia Record. Bacon "She says she Is twenty eight years old." Egbert "Well, she looks as if she would say she was about that old." Yonkers Statesman. "Let me see," said the Boston ocu list, "it's your right eye that troubles you, Is it not?" "Oh, no!" replied the lady; "It Is quite true that my right eye causes me some annoyance, but I am bothered more by my 'alter ego.' " Philadelphia Ledger. Wife "Weren't you awfully frightened', dear, when you made your first political speech the other night?" Candidate "Yes; but I got through safely." Wife "Safely?" Candidate "Yes, before anybody yelled for me to sit down." Detroit Free Press. ' "The road to knowledge, nowa days," said the first old schoolmas ter, "is top swift and too easy. It's a regular railroad." "Yes," agreed the other old pedagogue, "and it's a railroad with fewer switches than are necessary." Philadelphia Public Ledger. Elastic Wheels. For years inventors have hiu trying to devise a wheel with springs between the hub and rim, thus im parting to a vehicle the comfort now derived from pneumatic tires. The Tribune Farmer has described one or two of these devices in the past. As yet none of them have been intro duced to actual use, but they may need only some trifling improvement to render them perfectly satisfactory. Wheels ot that sort with solid rub ber tires would last longer than do hollow rubber tires. They should enable the owner of an automobile to save money. According to David Beecroft, a writer for "The Techni cal Worlc Magazine," a first class lire for a motor car wheel thirty-six incbeB In diameter, it the tire itself has a five-inch diameter, will cost $67.60 per wheel, or $270 for a set ot four. This covert the cost only ot the casings or outer portions, to which must be added the expense ot the air chambers, amounting to S15 each or $60 tor a complete set, thus Increasing the entire cost to $330. Besides this high Initial expense is the trouble due to puncturnng, which robs the sport of much ot its pleas ure; more Important still Is the dan ger ot the car upsetting it traveling at a high rate of speed when a Ure punctures. Alcohol-Engines. Trofessor EUhu Thomson says that experiment has proved that alcohol, provided it can be made cheap enough, is entirely suitable as a fue. for internal combUBtlon engines. AN though the beating value ot alcohol is much less thau that ot gasoline, yet a gallon ot alcohol will develop substantially the same power as a gallon ot gasolino, because of the greater efficiency ot operation. Lest heat It thrown.' off in waste gases from the alcohol, and a mixture of alcohol vapor with air stuuds a much higher compression without prema ture explosion than does a mixture ot gasolene and air. In fact, Protes tor Thomson says, the efficiency, or the ratio ot the conversion o'. boat units into power, is probably higher la the alcohol-englue than in engines operated with any other combustible. Youth's Companion.
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