r r THE WOOD. en your doors. 0 ancient Wood. rom' Core and her vexing brood o you 1 11 v. and sore forspent Fvieltl me now to vonr intent. )h. take me in and en. nit me boon Io lav aside inv ntnff and shoon. I 'rom worldly soilure wash me t-li jjjn, ind bouse me .in your lion I el green! line wide vour doors. 0 friendly Wood! (And bid me welcome to your good, Spread forth on hospitable board The cheer vour centuries have stored. Give me to drink the healing balm luf your prolound, primeval calm, rDI..:.L ....l .....1 .utuin r j iciiinu mj aiuii. nun uuu ,i"ihi, ily .(altering will and wearied brain! Open your t'.ooni, O dreaming Wood! I fain would take your mind and mood, Till Nature's unnamed song 1 hear, tine croons when there i no one near, '., Beneath your roof 0 let me dream - ij Till on my sight null visions gleam V As jocund Nymph and Faun beheld In primal, golden days of eld! The Congiegationaliet. 1VA4 Wf 1 Faillj on Trial, k j w HAT Is it makes you so glum, old man?" The speaker was a young man of twenty-eight mid the man addressed was nliont the sitnie atre. There (was, however, u striking contrast be tween the two. The first was the less interesting of Ihc two, his square fare, firm Jaw and solidly built frame seemed to proclaim him mi admiriible specimen of the average man, so full of common sense as to have no room for ideals. Ilis companion was, on the contrary, a noticeable mail. A man, It eotild be seen, filled with quixotic notions, a poetical nml highly strung temperament, llio chief visible sign of which was the finely formed nose and sensitive nostril. The friends, for sncli they were, walked slowly along the Thames embankment In full enjoyment of a surprisingly mild morning in March. When tliey reached Cleopa tra's Needle, Martin Atock ui.tde the remark with which our record o a remarkable episode opens. His com panion, Richard Lyon, replied some what gloomily, "Because I have lost - all fnitli in womanhood." IJis friend, surprised, exclaimed, "By ,Joic! What n loss." - "It Is n loss, a very great loss," said Lyon with emphasis, and added as he grasped Atock's arm: "I did not tell you I am engaged to be married. "Married! Ey Gad, you surprise me. " Nfit knowing the lady, I suppose 1 can't congratulate you, and knowing you so well, with your poetic fads and fancies, I'm afraid I can't congratulate her! That's the situation, I fancy. Bcrlously, dear boy, I'm delighted. But are you sorry that you're about to be tied up? Is that what's the matter? !ind where docs the loss of faltli 'in womanhood come in 5" "Let us take one of the seats In the garden for n moment, and perhaps When I tell you the facts you can help me." They seated themselves, and Lyon; tapping the sole of his boot with his tick as he rested one leg on the other, said slowly: "I am, as I told you, engaged to be HiaiTftd." "And I have congratulated you on Ibe fact," said Atock. "I hope you'll b.e very happy." "Yes; but I've got myself into a hor- frld mess, In this way. I have been engaged now three months, and the day before yesterday I wrote a long letter to my fiancee." , "Well, that was not a very wrong thing to do." . - '.'Will you 1'sten? I wrote to her as one N does 1o the girl one hopes to make one's wife. Naturally I used ' very strong terms of endearment, and. I am worried to death bj the fact that writing In my office, as I did, in a hurry I put my letter Into an envelope (addressed to a girl I have only seen once and never said more than 'It's a fine day' to." "Well, there's nothing criminal In all this. The recipient may smile or laugh t you, but if she's n lady she'll re turn the letter, without a word, and by and by you'll both forget all about it." "What worries nie, Martin, is this: I wrote, as I told you, in a very strong .strain. I let my feelings run away 'With me, and I even had the temerity to ask my wife-to-be to come alone to my rooms at 7.30 to-night and promised to take her to the theatre." "Yes; well, you think you've given the show away, so to speak, to a stranger. Is that it:" "No," said Lyon shortly. "I did not mention my fiancee's name at all, so the person to whom the letter is ad tressed cannot be identified " "Then what in Heaven's nfline are you groaning about?" cried Atock, in terrupting. "Can't yon see that there is some thing worse than what I have yet told yon?" "Dear old chap, tell me what it is," said Atock. fully won at Inst to view the matter in a serious light. "The tragedy lies here," said Lyon. I write and ask a lady to come to my rooms alone. The letter is addressed with, of course, the 'most honorable Intention to my fiancee, but it reaches the hands of a lady who is an utter stranger to me!" "Yes," said Atock, keeping a very serious face with an almost superhu man Effort, "and the tragedy?" "The tragedy is that she has accepted my invitation! She is coming to-night, she writes me. and even adds that she does not mind whether we go to the theatre or not." "Well," said ,Atock, "that is awk ward, I must admit. You're in a fceaetlj fix. ill UU you! I have It. Ton did not say you'd be alone. I'll bi there with you. That will settle thi matter, eh, my boy?" "If It could have been so easily set tled I wouldn't have bother you about It," said Lyon with marked vexation, "I told you I wrote a very stong letter, an Impassioned love letter, In fact, and I said over and over again whnt de light It would be to me to see her I mean my fiancee alone for five min utes, for her old cat of an aunt never gives her a moment's peace." "But, by the way, you,don't mind let ting me know the name of the girl" "Let you know! Certainly not. I wouldn't reveal It for worlds." "I mean dear boy, the name of the girl you nre to marry." "Oh, I don't mind telling her name to you, of course. You've met her Bessie Biddulph." There was another pause and then Atock cried: "I have It! Why not get Bessie I mean Miss Blddulph to meet the lady." "Really, you're getting to be Idiotic," shouted Lyon. "A nice time I'd have explaining how the whole thing hap pened! I'd have to admit that my let ter to Miss Blddulph went astray, and there's nothing lu the letter to prove to whom it- was addressed! It com mences, 'My Darling Girl '" "Oh, Miss Blddulph knows you'vs only got one!" laughed Atock. "Hang it nil, can't you have sense?" said Richard, thoroughly irritated. Seeing that his friend was .truly per plexed, AtcM-k began again: "It is worrying, but where, to revert to my original question, does your gloominess and loss of faith In woman hood come lu, and Is there anything very, very Incriminating In the con tents of your letter?" "Nothing incriminating, but how can one have any faith in woman if you can invite an almost unknown girl ot undoubted social position and blnme less antecedents lu the manner I have told yon, and, discover to your horror that such a proposal is accepted with alacrity? If one girl does such a thing, why not all? "I mean to meet the girl," he went on savagely. "I've gained a lot by telling you about my worry, haven't I? I shall meet her and tell her it Is all a mistake. I don't want to compromise her or myself. I might have called upon her; perhaps I'd better wire, hut on the whole I think I shall see her though I've no respect for the brazen baggage." "She's not a brazen baggage," said Atock, with sudden warmth. "How in Heaven's name do you know?" cried Lyon. "I never men tioned her name." "No, you did not," said Martin, "but I think you should be just to the poor girl; you're a very fascinating fellow, you know, old chap, quite a lady-killer, yon know!' "Well, thank Heaven, I'm not an ex asperating idiot. Thank Heaven, I've got Ideals and live up to them. Thank Uenven I've reverence left for true womanhood, though that reverence hag been rudely shaken by this this dis graceful parallelogram In petticoats as I believe O'Connell called a particular ly offensive piece of womanhood. Thank Heaven " "Thank Heaven that you've got a friend who can help you out of the mess your high-flown ideas have got you into." said Atock. "I happen to know the lady you nre speaking so dis respectfully about." "Yon do?" cried Richard. "Who 5s she, then for I shall not tell you, even If you're right?" "Her name is Ada Beatrice rurser," said Martin solemnly. Lyon gasped. . "She is a lady, for whom I have ft profound respect," continued Atock. "I was with her when your letter ar rived." "AjhI yon respect a 'lady' who can accept such an invitation as Was mine." asked Richard. "Certainly I can,"' calmly replied Atock. "You're not the only one en gaged to be married, my boy. I am engaged to Miss rurser." "Then what on earth is the meaning of her conduct?" asked Lyon. "Simply this: I dined- with the Tur gors on Tuesday. Ada's father has consented to her marrying me. She received your letter in the envelope which you had addressed to her in re ply to the questions on English liter ature which I had asked her to put to you under pretext of being a soul thirsting for knowledge. I know you are fond of being consulted as a kind of watchdog of knowledge. Cf course, she could make neither head of tail of your letter, and I I made her write and accept ycfur invitation, which ap pointment, of course, she never in tended to keep; and I well, I called to see you this morning just to see the effect her letter had had on you. Of course, I did not know then that you were engaged to be married! So your faith in womanhood is still intact!" "One's faith is, I suppose, stronger after such tests," said Richard, grave ly; but he added, with a smile, "in future no moreaimblguously addressed letters for me!" New Haven Register. Reware the Gaaollne Torch. In these days of the gasoline torch, a not infrequeut method of removing paint, indoors and out, is by burning. It Is the quickest aud In many cases the most effective method, particularly where paint is several layers thick. But before allowing this process con sult the agent of the insurance com pany carrying the risk of your house. Some companies forbid this method of removing paint and others will allow it by special permit. While with prop er care the risk is not great, there is always the possible element of danger due to carelessness. As a rule the danger is greater inside than out. Never allow the use of the torch until you know that your insurance fully protects you in the event resulting damage. Good Housekeeping. New York City. The Eton jacket is a well deserved favorite for the young girls as well as for their elders, and is exceedingly jaunty and chick. Here Is one of the latest and best develop- ments thereof that Is suited to cloth, to silk and to linen, and that is as simple as It Is fashionable. In this case old rose veiling is trimmed with silk banding and Is'held by buttons of white silk covered with crochet work executed in silk the shade of the veil ing. The seams that extend to the shoulder at front and back provide most becoming and satisfactory lines to the figure, while the long, flat collar at the neck is n favorite of the spring. The Eton Is made with fronts, side fronts, back and side-backs, the seams being concealed by the trimming. The collar is joined to the neck and the closing Is made with" buttons and but tonholes. The sleeves nre moderately full and can be finished below the el bows with the flare puffs or extended to the wrists as liked. The quantity of material required for the medium size (sixteen years) is three and one-half yards twenty-seven, one aud thrcefouftli yards forty-four or one and five-eighth yards lifty-two Inches wide, with six yards of band ing. ' The Tnlle Bow. I think I may safely predict the re vival of the tulle bow, not that it has ever entirely pone out of fashion, al though it has had a comparative rest, writes Niinnotte, In the New York Mall. When crisply made or beauti fully tied,' It is n most dciightfullly dainty finish to either a tnior made or afternoon toilet. But unless absolutely fresh, it spells ruin. Other bow ef fects, I think, nre generally stiff and, therefore, unbecoming. A year or two ago there was a craze for glace bows In all sorts of coloring, but unless re lieved by a white collar, thej were un compromisingly hard and unbecom ing. t'rettj Orlire 1'rt Iconta. A petticoat of ochre-colored taffeta, perforated and embroidered, is one of the smartest for wear with dark cloth street gowns. ' Klnnae Waist. The fancy blouse grows more popu lar with each Incoming season and this year the variety Is quite unprece dented. Lingerie materials of all sorts are shown made up In combination with lace and embroidery; thin silk and the light weight wools are similar ly treated, and there Is altogether a most fascinating opportunity offered for the Indulgence In extremely pretty waists at moderate cost, if one be clpvcr and willing to do a little of the work herself. This one Is among the prettiest and the newest that have ap peared and can be made over the blouse lining or left quite unllned as material may render desirable. In ths Illustration It Is made of white pongee, combined with baby Irish lace and piping of palest blue 'taffeta. The trimming portion Is shaped to give a yoke effect that Is always becoming and there Is a fitted belt.whlch makes one of the latest decrees of fashion, and when liked these last can be oi contrasting material. Elbow sleeves rusks nntnlile fen tines of the season. but, nevertheless, there nre many women who prefer the long ones, and the model Is so designed as to allow a choice. The waist eonslRts of the lining, the front, the back, chemisette and trim mine portion. The chemisette Is at tached to Ihe waist and the two are arranged -over the lining. The trim ming portion Is finished at all its edges and arranged over the waist after the sleeves are in place. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is four and three fourth yards twenty-one, four yards twenty-seven or two and one-half yards forty-four Inches wide, with one and one-eighth yards eighteen inches wide for the chemisette and cuffs; or four yards twenty-one, three and one-fourth yards twenty-seven or two yards forty four inches wide, with three-fourth yard twenty-one Inches wide for the belt and trimming portions If two ma terials are used. Tm-Tonril Kommrr Sllki. Next to the burlap, weaves in nnnn. larity 'come the two-toned summer silks wntcn show fine hairline stripes in combination with brocaded figures oi large dots. 1m 1 Farm Topics t SHEEP REQUIRE SHELTER. Sheep are usually more exposed In the fields than other animals. During cold storms they require shelter. In an experiment made It was found that twenty sheep tinder shelter gained 273 pounds more than unsheltered sheep, and on less food, during one winter. NUMBEMM) TREES AND PLANTS. To find the number of trees or plants on an acre, multiply the distance In feet between (lie rows by the distance trees arc apart in the rows; the pro duct will be the number of square feet for each tree, which divided Into the number of square feet In an acre (l.'J.fiiHI) will give the number of trees to the acre. KILL! NO LICK ON CATTLE. Most farmers know bow troublesome the Hen are tn 'stuck; and particularly on cows, but the modern .ilea of fumi gating the animal has many objec tions. 'There lu no doubt but that it cai. he thnrcughly and safely done If one has the proper stalls and the other proper appliances, but to attempt to carry out this plan In the average stall would result in failure: the stock would be smothered or (lit lumlga!!ug fumes would escape. TO IHICKKN GRASS. Where it Is desired Io thicken grass, or Increase the variety in lawns or door-yard", mm h may be done by sim ply sowing seed. The sprouting will be favored by the shade of the grass, and the growth of the young plants by a frequent clipping so that by late summer, or before a jo'id sod will be established. The principle Is that cut ting pii'venls shading the young grass mill supplies It with sun and air, thus giving it an equal chance with the old grass, if the ground is rich enough, as It generally is in lawns and dooryards. SPECIALIZING WITH CATTLE. If a beef breed of cattle is preferred make heef production a specialty, and do not look upon cows of such breeds to be perfect as prudiicer of milk and butter. There may be a few good but ter cows among the beef-producing breeds, but where a certain article is desired it ihonld be the prime object. If milk and butter are to be specialties the breeds should be those that excel in those product. Too many good points cannot be had in cows. 'Each cow will excel in one line only, and should be rnnilc to do duty where the most profitable. THE BARN LANTERN. Lanlerns'nre undoubtedly the safest things to use in the barn and if they are hung as suggested several weeks ago and protected as indicated here there will be little or no danger from fire. Take a piece of inch board and from it cut a circle twelve inches in diameter; then buy a piece of galvan ized wire netting fifteen inches wide aud four feet longt then a piece of bright new till eighteen inches square, i hook with a Bat end. so it can be screwed .0 the wall. Then lulld a shelf fii'trcn indies wide and twenty Inches long. Nail the shelf In a con venient location in the barn, then m the wall back of '.he shelf nail the piece of tin which acts as a reflector is well as protects the wall. Fasten tho hook on the wall above the tin. Then make a cylinder by nail ing the wire to the edge of the clrcu ,ar piece of board, lacing the ends of ihe wire together with stout twine. Set (his ou the shelf and slip the lantern Inside of it. hanging ;he bale of the lantern on the hook. The wire cylin Ser protects the lantern yet does not !hnt off much light, and by having the hook curved there will be little dan ger of the lantern falling even under quite a bard blow. The illustration shows all of the details of constrn-t-ing litis arrangement. Indianapolis News. THE LATE CHICKEN PAYS. While it is generally understood that the pullet to lay the eggs in winter must be hatched oar.'y in the spring ind that such stock is profitable, it is not always possible for this sort of work to be done on the farm because of the pressure of other .work. On the other hand, later in the season there is more time, nnl it really pays for the fanner to devote some of that time to hatching chicks in May and June, and in some sccti-ms as late as July. Such late hatched chickj rarely die from cold or dampness, they will pick up the bulk of their living from the range after they are a month old, and In the f.ili, cariy or laie. can be sold at a much better price than they would have brought if tlipy Lad boon Latched earlier and fold in uiidfuu.mer. There is certainly an opportunity f."r fanners to make mduoy lu this work if they will give it a little thought and atten tion, for they can do it much more cheaply tiiau any ouce else. Indian apolis Ne'ys. . We areito make men better where 12 I IWIhWwf4 Ths White Paint of the White Rons. Ths White House at Washington, which has been the "King's Palace" of the American People since It was first occupied by President Madison In I80lt, has recently undergone a thor ough course of remodelling, renovation mil repair. Every American citizen li . )wner of an undivided eighty or tighty-flve millionth part of the White iiouse, as wen as or mo ruier runiic Buildings and Monuments lu the Cap- ' Itol City. An Item in the renovation Of '-he remodeled While House was repainting. Every visitor In Washing ton knows why the White House Is so tailed because ic is lltc-nlly a "white bouse." The exterior paint must there fore be white. Now while the pure white surfaces and simple lines of the White House, set In the midst of green lawns and beautilul trees, produce I very satisfying effect of dignified simplicity, white paint from a practical point of view, Is about the most nn satisfactory l.lnd of paint that could have been selected by the original de signers. First, ber-inieo any white puint Is easily discolored by smoke and dust, and, second,, 'iceaiise ordinary white paint llself gradually turns gray -or brownish yellow from exposure. But white the White House Is, and white It must remain or it would no longer be the "White House." So the renovators, mnkinj,- the best of a dis couraging situation, sought for the best kind of white paint procurable. The average citizen If asked to guess what kind of paint they finally decided on would probably answer 'white lead and oil," but he would guoM wrongly. The paint t elected as the best obtain able, was ready-mixed paint, such as can be bought In any well-furnished Tillage store, such as is used by more than half of the eighty or eighty-five million owners cf the While House on their own homes. That one brand of mixed paint was used in.itcad of an other li a mere iicci.b ntiil detail there are fifty or a liiinurnd brands on the market mat might have neon se lected lu other circumstances, and, In fact, a different brand was -ised in painting the Capitol. Every property owner, therefore, who paints his house wli.'t a high, grade :"a(ly-mlxed paint Is following the example set by the Government Authorities at Washington, who used ready-mixed paint, beceuse they could Bnd nothing else as good. Cigaret Law Upheld. A decision was rendered by tho Indiana supreme court that nullifies a part of the antl-rlgnrct law of that state. The court holds the stale ha no power to prevent the smoking (it a cigarette, or the bringing of the things Into the state. It can prohibit their sale In a retail way. linn's Thin? We offer One Hundred Iiolhirs Reward for any oann ot (.'nlnrrh that cannot tie cured by Hull's Catarrh (,'ure. . F. J. Chi.nkt Co.. Toledo. O. We, the the undersign, hice known F. J. Cheney for the lie-t 15 years, and believe hi in perfectly honoraMe in nil holiness transac tion mid lliiiin -inlly nhle to carry out any ohligfltlons rnn'le hy their firm. Wist A Trcax, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Wamiixo. Kiksax A Marvin, Wholesale lruggfsts, Toledo, O. Hull's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act ing directly upon the blood inl mucous sur faces of the system. 'Jestimoniuls sent free. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by nil llriiia-ists. 'Jake Hull s Family Fills for constipation. Joke on the Potter. An English manufacturer of pottery Is the subject of a joke told In the Liverpool Post. While on a conti nental tour he purchased a Sevre vase for some hundreds of pounds and brought It home most carefijlls Thinking that the foreman ot hi5 works might gather a hint from the design, he called that gentleman in and showed him his treasure. "How do you like It?" he asked. The fore man took the vase in his hand, turn ed It over and returned it with the brief reply. "I don't think that I can learn much from it." "Why not?" asked the manufacturer. "I Jon't like telling you, sir." "Come out with it." "Well, I designed that vase myself. It is a foreign Imita tion C our own work and is worth. 5 at the outside." Gold Found in a Graveyard. i A gravedigger working in the hill side cemetery has uncovered a four foot vein and assays show that It car ries values of $ 1 00 a ton In gold. The hole was immediately filled, and George W. Oliver, of the undertak ing firm of Perkins, Oilver & Gulling, with an associate, staked off a claim. This is not the first time that th presence of gold has been suspected In the hillside cemetery. Highly min eralized qum-tz has frequently been uncovered in the place, but the val ues have never run so high In gold, and It is likely that the active opera tions of the miner will soon Invade the "silent halls of death." Reno (Nev.) Times. REPAIRING BRAIN. A Certain War V.j Food. Every minister, lawyer. Journalist physician, author or business man is forced under pressure f modern con ditions to the active and sometimes over-active use of the brain. Analysis of the excreta thrown ont by the pores shows that brain work breifks down the phosphate of potash, separating it from its heavier compan ion, albumen, and plain common sense teaches that this elemental principle must be introduced into the body anew each day, if we would replace the loss and rebuild the brain tissue. We know that the pucjpbate of pot ash, as presented in certain field grains, has an affinity for albumen and that Is the only way gray matter in the brain can be built. It will not an swer to take the crude phosphate of potash of the drug shop, for nature re jects It The elemental mineral must be presented through food directly from Nature's laboratory. These facts have been made nse ot In the manufacture of Grape-Nuts, and any brain worker can prove the value of the proper selection of food by mak ing free nse of Grape-Nuts for ten days or two weeks. Sold by grocers everywhere (and in immense quanti ties). Manufactured by the Postvmj Co, Battle Creek, UicJU. they ar, 1
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