THE VACANT HOUSE. Down over the door of the bluebird'! box A curtain of lace U drawn; Ho ned of bolta or of Iron locki Though the little blue tenants are gone. For the curtain swings out In the au i tumn air. And a thoughtful old spider bas fas tened It there. They came with the robin to herald tb j rprlng. ! And a rlttht royal welcome they had; Their gay llttlo chirrup would bubble and ring t ThoiiKh the weather-vane's temper were bad; :And often they'd sit fur a minute or ! n.ore Up where the spider has curtained the door. And then they wire carrying timbers of Ftraw i From the stack that was out In the shed : Both busily working with hummer and sa w. And feathers fur filling their bed. And now through the branches I see them no mure. And th! thoughtful old spider has cur tained the dour. I saw a red squirrel out calling to-day. Itun up on the branches to peck. Hut the shades were all drawn, and he hurried away With n nut hidden hack In his cheek; And I hope thut the tenants, when win ter Is o' r. Will thank the old spider who curtained the door. Florence Josephine Itoyce, In Youth's Companion. THE CORAL FISH'S n CHARM, mmi Iy Marie St. Felix. ' i l" ST when 1 fell i JV liobliv. or llililiv fell love with ill love with in e, we we never aide to agree. J'.obbv helil Hint it was in those days w.'ien lie :i!ianlly saved all his pennies lo lni sMared caraway seeds for iny enjoyment --and as it took four pennies to lmy an uun-i'. lie ;'s sure it proved his devotion! r.nt if IMs u;;s I rue, :i 1.14 si.il I. ! ,, much more must lie haw- mloreil ii:al little f reekle-iinsed tiling, I'linT Fair fax, vtliom lie proii!cil with ireaiu fJikes, at live pei,iiies apiece, 1 lit- fol lowing e. ipler. No. certainly, it wasn't then lie tru'y in love with nie, ami as for mv own ;-.i art-- it was set on the c:, raw ay seei! ! 1 I ll.ink it was when ISoli in the Voti-h . i !n';:i-sliip. which wo:- i carry him ::i;n.:-.ii for two years, tli.il I lirt awol.e to iiis wonderful value. Two yeai . .i:!nii:t Coh looked very bleak. 1 rcineiiilii r i!i.-1 :net !y the 1 1 1 1 11 1 misery I felt li"ti lie came In le!l li'e g l-iiye, I lilt the rarlii slippiny from under my feet ami the chill of the nowhere, 1 1 1 1 : 1 i 1 , enveloping me. (crlaiiily i cared for him then, though I 1!' 1 not rcalie how dearly, for J'. 1!) had been like a brother me all my life; hut I i-i 'mc, d T no brother could Vic Kilf so dear! And, of eoursCjit was because roilUvnrutf that i. begged i;.' : ' . the tish Ihiif liifirning. " Now 11k1 ii.sfl was a seemingly in animate object of , arved coral that !ob ,y wore at one end of his watch chain; but it was -i fiy'i of nuiaiiii qualili 'S, and I'.obb; :i i..1 1 often hi aril its hc:.i. 1 ;i: Wjs couii:ecd that it was alive! It had been ' resented to him at hi- christen ing Iv an eccentric old (Englishwo man who hail lived most of her life in l'.oiul :y. win-re I'.ob happened to be born. I think it was Hob's I'-mu-bay boyhood that was responsible for his belief In many things the New Kngland mind cannot enter into; but no amount of New Kngland edu cation seemed to knock the eastern element out of Hob, and this bit of blood-red coral carved into n wee fish, with a liny gold ring in its mouth, was more than u mere charm to him. "Iiil-.ird it well," the old lady had said. ;is she strung it on n ribbon nnd tied it around his little neck; "don't let it swim nway; if it swims from thee, be sure harm is near." R'hy Hob loved and cherised it; cried If it was taken off his neck, and cut two rows of pearly teeth upon it. Win 'i he grew into knickers, and be ciin " the proud possessor of a sil ver s ad li. the fish was added to the eha is and when' the watch of silver was- : laced by one of gold, the coral f til. '' i-.iti'.l place; but while attached to end of the new chain, it was nov 1 neked away in his waistcoat poe . instead of dangling on view. I t shall 1 bring "you?" he ask' ... ihe day before sailing. "i ' loves, ami a tortoise shell fan v 1 fine hindkerchicfs," I lau !: "that's the usual thing. (. . just so I won't forget yoi v ' could leave me the fish!" ' .-!,!" ira-pcd Hob. -Oh. Doll! Yo' . 'alVng!" t all. I never had a coral tisl . 'I think I'd like one." " ot 1 couldn't give that up, lo' v'.'hy. I've had it ever since I v .'iby. you know." "' reins' a man. now. you should put ... - childish things." "' :'s;.fs all very well, but I should be ' : 1 chap nt sea without a com pas .i ist. so long :is that little fish ettiv- 1 y me T know- there's nothing to dread. It always warns me, you know, if anything horrible is to hop per." V'- I'p curled derisively. "What rot'" 1 ejaculnted, politely. "You don ' rca'ly believe it, I!ob!" "i'nt it's true, Boll," said Bob, ear nestly. "Ton my honor, it's true! The ni,:ht before father died it fell off th-sr." "It!! where?" i "".'el!, aot very far. It was in my jioc'Ki'.fnll r'ght, but it had fallen off the Jiii!'." ."'liiu Uuli woa wuru out; of course". "Jfot a bit of It! Perfectly pooL It cam ott again when the baby died." -In your pocket?" I jeered. Xo, it skipped on to the floor that time. The baby Mas very low, but the doctor hadn't given up hoje. I thought of the coral and put my hand in my pocket to make sure it was there. 1 tell you I felt comfort- ed when I found It, for sure, and pulled it out, just to be surer pulled the chain, you know, and off went me nsii, nying over the tloor. I knew there wasn't any hope then." "You jerked it off, somehow, in pullinjr it out of your pocket," said I. "IVrhnps. Anyway, it came off, nnd the baby died." "Has it ever fallen since?" ".No those were the only two deaths in our family, nnd, so far, it has only warned me of death." "l-'verythintr goes in threes. It must fall ngain." "It will," said Hob. gravely. prove it, you shall keep the fish, fot- "Now look here," I said, seriously; ever only please take me, too!" "you simply mustn't believe in it . They were very beautiful days that like that. It's awfully odd, of course, followed. Days as exejuisite as para to have a snip of coral cutting up disc; as short as delight. Days that such caiii rs, but it's a mere coin- fairly toppled over each other in eiilencc. you know." j their cruel flight. And I never knew "Call it what ymi like," said Dob, "''nt tluv were numbered. I let "it doesn't alter the facts. When- "'em go without a good-by glance, ever I'm on the threshhold of a sor- tliii t I did not value every beau- row, mv little coral is sure to give,1''"' hour that had passed, but what ine warning; so I can't part with it, was yesterday what were a week of you see." .'yesterdays, when a new day had "Hut I can't see that it does you come-a glorious new day made for any good to know something hideous 1 H' nd me, and a world of new days is'tii.ont lo lumpen. Isn't it bad ! ,0'ff "Her. enoinrii to meet disaster when you must? 'Think what a fret you'd be in if it came oil' while you are away you'd be worried sick. You can just leave it with me. Hob. 1 won't let it swim away--ami I'll give it hack when you come home." Hut Hob wouldn't give in. vet. What possible use could it be to me j - ! didn't b "Hove in it. and didn't ' care for it. while he cared for it more than anything he hud then it might be unlucky to lend il and what the deuce did I want it for, anyhow! , '!. i f course. I wasn't going to . ': that I wanted ii just because he eared more for it than anything cl.-e- because it seemed a part i f himself --been use I wanted something he hud kept itlwnys near him: but. I vv;:cil vi ry eloipient, and, at last, I won! "If I die over there." be said, as he slipped the little coral on my chain, "you'll be the tirst to know it. Do!1. 'The f;,h will leave its link." "Or if you your toe." I 1 "I d.'f ' ' trivia' t!-'. upstairs, nl- -i 11b 1. ll bothers lid. Side if I am about nuly- -living, must hav e an end, 1 1 1 i, lli i e em iless t o .e me. to lie sure, but oi,h I hardly be called nor did thev appear I he !: lei uiiii 1 1 : 'helming frequency; in v. is luekv to get a line a .. 1 .or. iics.i self. musi . ! I'.ut Hobby had si lot to do 'tKuu-ltc h'tt "r", I renii:idd -my 'There were the sketches he send to the 1'otch Scholarship committee; and the traveling about !u mv what the great architects of the world had done; models to make and curios to gather; oh, I was sure Hob was busy enough! He wrote from I'oinpeii, where he spent a fort night, then nothing more was heard from lii in for u month; he had been buried at the National museum tit Naples, he explained, reveling in the beautiful bronzes, paintings anil architectural fragments dug up from I'ompeii. Next he was in Home, where he passed his days in the Fo rum measuring and drawing some of the existing remains, or else nt the Capitoline or Tabularium, where fragments nre stored before being sent to the museums. After the mu seums came his study of the Pan theon, and then I got n thick letter, which I welcomed with glee; but it was all about palaces of the 10th cen tury; the l'arnese by Michel Angclo Huoiinrrotti, nnd the l'arnesina, and puluzzo Massini by Haldassurc Peruz zi! T'lorenee, Venice, Pisn, Milan, he seemed to skim through speedily. "The modern renaissance work in these cities is of little value," he wrote, loftily; and next wrote from Athens, where he was absorbed in ruins, and wrote me learnedly 011 J Just by the window it luy. A blood fho beauties he discovered on 'the red blot upon the dark green car Acropolis the Krectheum, the Par-'pet. A bit of blood red coral, carved thction and the Propylaeum! Then like fish but no little gold link in a year had gone by, and he was in .its mouth. I put my hand tip to my Paris, and wrote that his heart was set on getting permission to make measurements of the Itibliothee, Ste. lienevieve by La Hrouste, the Libraire of the Keo!e des Heaux Arts, and the Kcole de Medecin. Certainly Hob's letters were dull to distrac 1 ion ! Hut there came a day when a let ter arrived with the postmark Lon don; ho would be home in a fort-, night; and the letter never men tioned a building, or n tapestry, or a model, or a drawing; plainly, Hob had seen nothing in London but iweeds! lie should sail that very morning, he told me, but that it seemed foolish to neglect getting a few more pairs of trousers from a ripping good tailor off Piccadilly, who made them for a song. "And my coral?" he nsked, the moment he hnd greeted me, "Safe and sound," said I "but a most uninteresting beast never came off the link once." "But I didn't die;" laughed Bob. "Of course, if I'd known you were so anxious to witness its prize stunt" "You would bar committed sul dde tax nj boaefltt Haa gallant of c youl" .... C "BJ aol Vnoiittog-- . , - v "Sot knowing yon were a goosr, you did a few prize stunts, yourself, I understand. They tell me Acker- nian & Rosa are going to take you into partnership!" "liujly, isn't it?" (floated Bob "and rpeaking of partnerships, Doll, why don't we go into partnership on the coral? As Mrs. Kobert TarbelL 1 shouldn't mind your wearing It a Lit!" The.hot red blood rushed maddening- l.vlntomycheeks. My heart was throb- bin? furiously. "Is this is this a uro- posal?" I gasped, Itoh leaned over and took my hands 'In his. "Oh, my dear little sweet heart," he said, eagerly "don't you k.jov how I love you! Don't you knew I love you better than anything in the world?" "lletter than the coral?" I tw-ked doubtingly. "A thousand times better than any coral ever built," he declared. 'To 1 was nappy nappy nie me little lark that tlics in the sky, knowing nothing of the arrow speeding toward it. We were to be married in June. A rood month is dune; the davs nre J the longest; the sun shines the I brighti t; Ihe skies nre the bluest. Then, Isn't .lime full of song-birds ami roses; What could lie gayer than dune? It was two weeks before my wed ding day that mamma and I ran over to New Yolk for a few last odds ami ends I needed for my trousseau. We went for a day, an 1 the day lengthened into a week, with one de lay end another; but nt lust till our errands were done, nnd we were ready tn return home the day fol low in;.'. 1 had heard from Hob that day. Tie had a beastly cold, and was bark ing like a dog, he wrote me, but felt sure these good .lime days would put a more til very voice in his throat by the lime of my return. Somehow. I 1 Id not sleep that ni-ht. That is. 1 fell asleep when I fi r-t retired, but woke at two o'clock, and could not sh ep any more. My eyes M'l uii'd propped open with siiel.s. --I couldn't clie e them to save rue. I got up itinl ml by the window, awhile, watching Ihe twinkling lights of the city; the silvery Diana, alone on her tower; n policeman strolling leisurely along his beat. And I thought of I'.ob; and of all the dear future when we should be long wholly to each other, and how I bp- live for him every minute of evt. y day. ' " And 1 took the little coral fish that hung about my neck and kissed it because Hob loved it, and whnt Hob loved was dear. And then a very strange thing hap pened. The little fish trembled in my hand. I cannot expect you to believe it 1 wouldn't believe it my self, though quite distinctly I felt its tiny body shiver in my hand. Yet, when I looked at it closely, it luy (jiiite still. I'.ut if the fish hnd not shivered, I was shivering now, and hurried back to bed. "All nerves!" I told myself. "Gone to pieces, got pnresis," I quoted savagely. "The next thing I'll fancy I see the chairs walking around." And then the clock struck four. Hy and by I slept, and woke in the bright daylight, but somehow I felt only hnlf uwake. When mamma came to ask me into her room for break fast, it was on exertion to answer, and after she had gone I still luy staring at a, gold humming bird on the wall paper, balancing itself on a golden trellis, over which gold honeysuckles grew. And then, nil nt once, my heart stood still. What was it! What had happened! Why this undefinable horror! I looked around, wondering- Iv nnd then I knew! throat. The chain was there. A gold link hung from it. But the fish lay nlone by the window, where I had sat staring into the night. The telegram came soon after. Ho had died at four that morning. I'neumonhi, coupled with somo dif ficulty of the heart, it said. June is good, did I say? June is brazen. Why should skies be blue, nnd the sun be bright, when the world is full of woe? The rosea? Hah! They suftbeuto me! Ledger Monthly. A Generation Ago coffee could only be bought in bulk. The 20th century way is the LION COFFEE way sealed pack ages, always clean, fresh and retaining its rich flavor. STRONG POST LIFTER. Irraiitanl That Dora Away with tbe Hard Work larldratal la HenatlaaT I'oalw. The difficulty in removing x fence posts from old position is largely overcome by using the arrangement shown in the accompanying illustra tion. It consists timply of two mower wheels, an iron a.le, a long beam. of almost any si.e and a chain, liaise the outer end of this bcum to THE POST LIFTER. a'perpendiciilur position, pushing the apparatus up ugaiust a post. Place the chain about the post and fasten it. Hy depressing the upright beam, the post is lifted out of the ground. This device is especially udvant:igeous when the posts are large at the lower end. Two persons can remote posts very rapidly. One should manipulate the apparatus, pushing it up against the post, the other placing the chain about nnd removing the post when it is out of the ground. American Agricult urist. THE IDEAL Fa"rM HOUSE. It la Snrrnnii licit li) Trpiw on the Ont alilr and I.utp nf I lie Iteaiitif ul Dwell Ithiti. The most successful farmers pav some attention to the beautifying of the farm home. The man that take.! no interest iu the surroundings of his habitation will usually be found ;u be the man who has not cutcrpris;- enough to succeed in his general farming operations. 'Trees well placed are an immense addition to the home and not only increu.-.e its desirableness to the occupants, but make it more valuable in the market. What is more dreary tlinii a farm house in a bare spot with no touches of nature near it? 'The children i:i that house will get out into Ihe great world as soon as possible after get ting big enough to do so. Hcnuty N a power everywhere, and no less in the farm surroundings than else where. Let it have sway on tile farm, l'hnit trees, perennial shrubs and llowcrs, and make permanent places for annual (lowers. Above all and in addition to all have a nice- lawn. It will cost money and labor, out it, will be-worth all that--it cotsrr-brrfJsrj These things will make the boys and girls love the farm and keep them from leaving it. If forced out into the world they will often come back to the old home beloved because of the beautiful things that exist there. Farmers' Keview. The Treatment af It on p. I'revcntion is better than cure. Dampness, had air, tilth and drafts are the common causes. The disease will spread through the drinking wa ter, hence sick fowls should be shut away from the healthy ones. The symptoms of roup nre bad breath, swollen head, mucous discharges and ennker in the throat, l'tr a little bromide of potassium in the drink ing water and gargle the throats of the sick fowls with kerosene; ' hold the fowl by the lower part of the neck so it cannot swallow, fill the throat with kerosene, let it run out of the mouth after n moment, then wash the nostrilH and inject into them a few drops of the keroseno. Farm and Home. An Inntrartlre Comparlnon. It is jonictimcs asserted that cnttl and sheep require the tame amount of feed per thousand pounds of live weight. This statement Keems not to be well founded. In tome experi ments nt the Iowa station the cuttle consumed 10.0 pounds of dry matter per thousand pound of live weight, against an average of 29.07 by the sheep. Both sheep and cattle were on full feed. The iheep made a daily gain of 3.73 pounds per thousand pounds of live weight, nnd the cattle 2.14. In sum ming tip this comparison we Ami that while the sheep ate 4S per cent, more than the cattle they also gained nearly 75 per cent more. rrof. C. F. Curtus, in Hural World. Locate the Mnnnfavlurcr. Forty-five grocers, charged w ith sell ing impure vinegar, t-pices and sirups, in violation of the Illinois pure food law, ore being prosecuted by the state pure food commission at Kockford. The prosecutions should not end with the dealers who sell the goods alone. Few grocers mix or manufacture the goods they sell to the public. The in vestigations should proceed far enough, to locate the criminal manu facturers of the adulterated or im pure foods, and such should be driven, out of business and kept out of busi ness by increased vigilance on the part of inspectors. Chicago Daily Sun. ! Do not neglect getting the poultry, Louse in order any longer. A warm house is better than extra feed to bring winter eggs. Early and late i a good rule In feeding poultry. . .1 - . FURNITURE re iu nel of Furniture, Jarx.'t, MntllitcK, Kug9, Oilcloth, Lii.o!eiini,I Law t itrtaiiir, Window SliatW, Picture?,' ami riclure Frames, . give us a call. We can ilt yiui in Style and in Prices; Our htocfc new ami tijt-to-dutc. It is no trouble to show gixnU ami quote pric. KEl'AIKIXG neatly ami promptly done. Lewistown Furniture Co,, No. 1 2. 1 4 Valley St. Felix Block Kuw lie Felt About It- "I wish I could give up work and take a long rest." "You'd do it if you could, would you?" "Well, I'm not sure I'd doit t Iconld, but it's one of those things you'd like to do when you can't." UrooUyn Life. In the Air. "Is she married?" "Partially." "What do you mean by that?"' "She gut a divorce and her husband took an appeal. One court says she's married and one snjs she isn't." i. V. Sun. A trnuire Reeml5ance. George (readirg) "The women work hard, lint the men are usually i;Jle. When a mtiu no longer pleases a woman she turn him out and gets an other husband. The wnmrn show no line for the men; if they should be demonstrative the whole tribe would despise them." Jack What under the sua are you reading? ieorge A book; nboiit Abyssinia. .lack Cood Lord; thought it was an essay on society! Town Topics. II. v n noiirilini; Knnnr 0 111 nr. .r.i? whi n the ml.-trifs ccnuth for my a.li Pray that in wrath I may nut be ton r.ish ; Ar.d, sir.ee tlio turkiy lung the buanJ has graced. Urge her. for heaven's sake, to sto the hai-h! JuJge. TinMNc; i.o.ss ivro gxiz. Customer I. think you should begin to charge me half price, Shears; there's sso little to cut now. Shea th Other way on, sir, I funcy. We ought to charge double. Look at thu trouble I have to find it. Punch- Our Dcljanurncy. The wind will sweep with bitter chill; The stiiiw will sweep across the hill; The clouds will swtep across the sky; But pavemtr.tp tlia ui.swept will lie. A Urateful Wire. Husband You and the girls pass your summers in Europe and your winters in Florida, and all this comes of my making so much money. Wife You're a dear boy! Why, if we were poor, think of it, we would have to stay at home with you! X. Y. Herald. Qaeaflona of Conarlenrc. A. Why didn't you congratulate Lorimer on his marriage? II. I couldn't conscientiously do that; I don't know his wife. A. Well, then, you might ' have wished her joy. 11. I couldn't reasonably do that; I do know, Lorimer. Tit-llits. DR. FENNER'S KIDNEY 4 Backache All dlseaies of Kidneys, CURE oiaaaer, urinary organs. AIhd Rheumatism, Back ache, HeartDliease. Gravel Dropsy, Female Troubles. Don't become dlsaouraced. Them Is cure for you. If ueueaHury write Dr. Kenner. He has spent m life time curing Just such cases as yours. All consultations Free. "A (travel lodged In my bladder. After oslnga few bottles of lr. Former's Kidney and Backache Cure I passed a gravel half an large as a marble. Tbe medicine prevented further formations. I was cured. W.T.OAKES, Orrlx.Va." Druggists. 80c.. tl. Ask forOook Book Free. UlTllCn UPC Pure Cure. Circular, li 1:1 MM M- vniiiug wnnwk Fenner, Fredonla.N.Y Notice I Special Goat Sa!e At the NKW STORK We have ilcciiktl to nitiki (luotion on all Lmlies CoaN (lie lioliilay-H, so us to UmIv a liunee to buy a lu.i , cont before Cliristinas at :i i. price. Thin sale will o;o h,;,, lo-da). will surprise n:;r customers when they It:;'.': prices. llemeniU'r. every coal i- 1 vm 1 on 1 tint' lUII' I Milt ''I'ud new- ami the st les are hrauf; III'. ypecinl liarjiaius in l'ctl III: Comlot tales, Umlerwear, :m. Goods. Come in and m . trouble to fhow gootK A specially grand lot n' lite make select ions from. U. F. Clemmer, 4 Ki Market 8UNfUI!Y, I'A. Three doors cast of the Market llmis. Do you need any furniture? ! If so, don't fail to come tonur store and get our prices. t We can suit you in j j m w auu ii iktS) from the cheap est to the better grade. is Hard wood, golden oak lini-li Only $12.50 Mattresses - $1.90 Bedsprlngs - $1.25 Good "Wlaito y namolBods XAitlx Springs 8S.OO ( halm, Rockera, Couchea, Siilr boardi, Fancy and chrap Kx tension Table, Baby CarrtiiKii and Go-carts. M. HARTMAN FURN1TEREC0. nminbaric, ' f ., .1 , She wh$ not ouu ot these trouble making' women. It lact, kIu- had tin erentest contempt Tor people ul feiuu. isiie suiu so i.orseif. "Anil l I,. onnl... ,.f Inn." said, iu telling a friend of n call d nau made. Win. li.l ..1.- ..o ".uv ,11,1 diic mi . "Oh, I'd rather not tell '" lljr' There's 110 use making tsoiililf. Know. " Cliirngo Pot. ....in.. .1, ,....." - He Everything; has a small begin ning, you know. Kl.o Vno t .... ACS, X BUjFjIIJBt; BUi "A woman begins by iiii'S w steady company for a small im " his hair." "What has thai to do with it?" " "And after muvi iuge she pets !' fuls of it withotit even tukinj- -Yonkers Statesman. Caa Th. Be Troef 6on What is te meaning ' "single" woman, ded? I've neTerhrt"1 of a "double" one. " y' Father A single womnn, myH one that has only a single we -a single ambition, a single desire. Son And that is? .'.' Father To get nlarried-Jl,, Sloper. . HUTU HE
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