THE FORCE. f. toe, could own a mansion grand, Own acres rich of fertile land 'And win a pretty maiden's band With Jones' luck. I, too, could shake the money mart, Move amiss by consummate art, Tbe rise and fall of ampires chart With Jones' luck. I, too, could have the power I crave, , I, too, could harness wind and wave 'And make the elements my slave With Jones' luck. In fact, the theory is sound, Not Love nor Science will be found The force that makes the world go round It's Jones' luck. McLandburgh Wilson. S3 A KNIGHT OF HERE-AND-NOW By ELLA 8. WATSON. 3i THE teacher had just got to the breathing part of the story when the scboolbouse clock stood et 3.20, and Ralph slipped from the room. He listened, though, for one more sentence as he buckled on Ills paper bag In the entry. " 'There be woeful dangers In the Woods,' said the knight, 'and through the wood there be four-score paths. One is the rath of Exact-Right. The stones are sharp, and the way is steep t the outset. The plain paths are many: Just-as-Good Road, What's-tbe-Harm Walk, Almost-Right Course, Everybody-Does-It, Highway, and many more. " 'But which shall I take?' asked the boy, impatiently. The knight smiled wistfully. 'I may not tell yon. Only this may I say: The thorns that tangle i the Path of Exact-Right bear one white rose. If one go by that path, he may plucfc the rose and wear it be neath his breaBtplate, and Its perfume (Will give joy, and the joy will be the 'most when the thorns tear most sore ly.' " "Zoo-o-o-h!" sounded the shrill trac tion car's whistle, and Ralph had to dash to the "stop" to catch the bundle of dailies as the conductor tossed It out. That night Ralph's mother was rest ing after a hard day at the wash-tub, but she was not too tired to see that Ralph was a little glum. "Whatever's doing at school the last half an hour I miss, and that's always the nicest part of the day!" Mrs. Breen laid a water-creased hand for an instant on the little walnut stained fist. "Mamma's brave helper boy!" she said, tenderly. She had never read many books, but from all language her mother-wisdom bad unconsciously selected the only words that could overcome the boy's mood. "Teacher was reading another of those Here-and-Now-Knight stories, and he told the story as far as he had heard it "It's so provoking not to know how It came out," he added, ruefully. "The boy took the thorn path," said Ralph's mother. "How.d'yoo know? Did you ever read it?" "No, but I know! He wouldn't mind the thorns; he would want the white roge." Ralph swung along the streets of the iiiue country village, ueuvenng am papers, and then stood on the corner to sell his extra copies. "Papers! P-a-pers! C'lumbus even ing papers!" "Here, boy!" Ralph darted across the street. Big ger people than he moved fast when Mr. Ferdinand Rochet spoke. Mr. Ferdinand Rochet was the presi dent of the new milk condenser con cern. It was fit and proper that every one show great deference to Mr. Ferdi nand Rocbet. More than that, the great rush at the factory was at morn ing and night, when the milk came in. If Ralph could get work there, as oth ers did, Just for those hours, he could earn money so mamma wouldn't have to take in washing; he wouldn't have to leave school, either. And mamma must give up washing; the doctor had told her so. A fellow can think of a good many . things while be is crossing the road. "Give me a Scrambler," ordered the great man. "Give me all the Scram- V. X 1 1, viirio juu uoic, uuu net; ueiv, uuy, jruu can bring fifty copies down to the office every night till election." Ralph's head whirled. Fifty copies! Earn as much extra in two nights ns mother made by a whole day's wash ing! But "I'm sorry!" (Oh, could anyone guess how sorry?) "I'm sorry, but I don't sell the Scrambler." "No?" queried Mr. Rochet, In sur prise. "Well, don't forget to order it sent to-morrow." Ralph was usually speechless from bashfuiness In the presence of grown ups, and big people were bashful when Mr. Ferdinand Rocbet fastened his keen eyes on them, but Ralph faced the sharp look without a quiver, and said, simply, "I don't sell the Scram bler, and I'm never going to." As it was, he scurried back to his own corner, and tried to look as if he didn't care, but he couldn't call papers while they stood there, Mr. Rochet They were waiting for the car. As usual, it was late. Mr. Rocbet took out memorandum book and began to figure. Dorothy slipped acrosu to Unlnli's wimpr. "Why don't you carry the Scram tler?" she asked. "It prints saloon advertisements, and It tells folks to vote for saloon people, end, and" be broke off miserably, re membering that her father had desired the paper. "Papa says he'll get a paper route started for Harley Griffith. He'll carry the Scrambler. Would that drlvi you out of business?" Barph nodded and turned his back. Dorothy understood. She had seen the tears coming. Ralph mechanically counted out change to such buyers as asked for a paper, but his head reeled and his mind was in confusion. "If the pnpei has to be sold here, anyhow, I might as well do it as anybody. Harley don't need the money. I was going to get the washing machine and new clothes and wall pnper and the baby's picture taken. Fear he'd die, and us not have any!" A dozen times he half started to the other corner to say he had changed his mind, but as many times he paused. "All I could do wouldn't help tem perance any," he argued. He was only a boy, but he knew something of the power of the saloon. His own father had lost his place because of his work for temperance, and in hunting through one city after another, forced at last to walk, the exposure brought on a fatal pneumonia. "It's no use to fight the saloon; it's1 too big," he said. Then he clenched his fist and said, "My father died rather than give up, and I guess his boy won't be a quitter!" The Olarion, the paper Ralph carried, had the following statement two days later: "Mr. F. N. Rochet, the Scram bler's candidate for Congress, has with drawn from the race. He practically admits that he wasn't equal to the dirty work required by his backers." But the announcement, startling as it was to political circles, made no im pression on Ralph. What did reach his attention was a note from his teacher. "Dear Ralph," it read, "my uncle, Mr. Rochet, and Dorothy have been telling me something of you, and putting It with some things I know, I have drawn my own conclusions. My uncle is writing you a business proposition, which, I think, you will do well to accept. Never drop the white rose." Sunday-School Herald. Making Dolt Hansel. In nearly all the advanced schools other than strictly public ones the manual training begins with dolls and dolls' houses. In a large private school in New York an expert Sloyd instruc tor, a Swedish woman, of university training, is paid a large salary to su pervise the construction of a wonderful dolls' house, which is being built by a class of little gials and boys, says the New York Post. The children built the bouse, designed and made the wall paper, and put it on the walls. They are making the furniture, piece by piece. Including curtains, pictures, bed linen and draperies, and will eventually make, if not the dolls, at least all their clothes. Boys and girls work together, and do pretty much the same kind of work. No distinction is made between masculine and feminine tasks, Such a dolls' house, made in the Normal School, at New Plotz, N. Y., was ex hibited in the Educational Building at the St. Louis Exposition, and attracted a great deal of attention. There is no reason why similar houses should not be made at home, and it ought to be worth any mother's while to devote a little intelligent study to this form of manual training. The Coming smokeless City. Smoke Inspector Krause's dream of a time when there will be practically no smoke is not unlikely to be fulfilled. Many things ore pointing that way. Smoke is caused by imperfect com bustion. All of it is waste, and the elimination of waste is one of the chief aims of every business and manufac turing concern. Smoke-preventing de vices are being improved, and it Is reasonable to assume that they will yet meet oil requirements. Another force antagonistic to smoke is electricity. Its use in the form of power transmitted by wire from big generating stations is becoming more common every day. The same princi ple is being applied to the heating of buildings in the cities. The number of chimneys is becoming proportionotely less and the smoke from them is di minishing. The decrease In their rela tive number enables the smoke inspec tors to perform their duties more thor oughly. In view of the progress that is being made, "smokeless Cleveland," at least, Is more than a dream. It is a strong probability. Cleveland Lender. Snake In Cyclone Cellar. If there is any place where a West ern man wants to feel free from in trusion, it is in his cyclone cellar. The Kansas City Journal relates bow the family of John Moore, in Northern Comanche County, went to their place of refuge from a tornado the other night only to find they had got into a cave barefooted with a rattlesnake. The interior of the cave was in com plete darkness when the Inmates were startled by hearing the unmistakable sound made by a rattler. Mr. Moore hastily struck a match and by its faint glimmer saw the snake in the at titude of striking. The match went out and the family began to scream. Another match was lighted, and the snake was still visible, and rattling1 furiously. Then Mr. Moore made i flying leap for the steps, jumping over the snake, opened the door, and se cured a pitchfork. Then, while his wife held a match he killed the rattlerj Tiniest of Sleigh Bells. The smallest of bells of the sleigh bell type is made of gold and designed to be attached to the collar of a cat or tieij by a silken cord around the neck of a kitten. It is scarcely bigger than u large pea, but is of perfect sleigh bell style in every detail. These tiny sleigh bells for cats or kittens cost $5. Destroys Goods ralssly Labeled. Brazil imposes a fine and the de struction of such goods as bear a false indication of origin. New York City. "Pony" Jackets and Etons appear to be the only rivals for favor this season, and both are be ing shown In very nearly endless va riety. Here is one of the newest and prettiest of the jackets that is made with a narrow vest and flat collar and which is as dainty and becoming as well as can be.. As shown it Is made of gray voile with trimming of French crochet, collar and cuffs of Burllng ham sacking a shade darker than the material, but it is appropriate for all the suitings of the season and also makes a very satisfactory separate Misses' Etoo Jacket. wrap of broadrfoth, taffeta or any other suitable jnaterial. 'The seams that extend to Bhoulders are always becoming In addition to allowing of effective trimming and the little vest makes a great many combinations pos sible. Oriental embroideries are well liked for this feature or the material Itself can be used, either embroidered or braided in some simple design. The coat is made with fronts and side fronts, backs and side backs. The vest is separate and attached to the fronts, extending not quite for full length, while the neck Is finished with the flat collar. The sleeves are both novel and graceful and ore laid In box pleats each at their lower edges where they are finished with the roll-over cuffs that always are becoming. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is two and one half yards twenty-seven, one and three-quarter yards forty-four or one and three-eighth yards fifty-two inches with, with five-eighth yard of silk for vest and collar and nine yards of braid to make as illustrated. Odd Color Combination. This odd but attractive color com bination is noted in Harper's Bazar: Old green, blue and copper-colored changeable silk prlncesse skirt with which is worn a blouse of white mousseline and lace and a bolero of black velvet bands over white satin. Economical Petticoat. Those whose pocketbooks will not permit frequent renewal of silk petti coats may content themselves with a good mohair with a silk flounce. Breakfast Jacket. Breakfast Jackets are In demand at all seasons of the year, but especially so with the coming of warm weather. This year they are to be worn both with odd skirts and also with those to match such simple materials as lawn, dimity and the like being used for the purpose. Illustrated is an ex ceedingly attractive, graceful and alto gether desirable model that allows of several variations, so becoming available both for the dressy Jacket and for the plain one designed for pro saic service. In the illustration It is made of white lawn with trimming of embroidery and beading threaded with ribbon, the washable being the most desirable sort It, however, will be found appropriate for all materials used for Jackets of the sort, and when the V-shaped neck and elbow sleeves are used, frills can be of the material or lace quite as well as of the em broidery. The beading at the waist line confines It at that point but is not obligatory, as the Jacket can be left loose if better liked. The jacket consists of the fronts and the bock. The back Is plain, but the fronts are tucked at the shoulders. Whether the sleeves are in elbow or three-quarter length, they are gathered at their lower edges and fluisbed with straight bands, the frills being at tached to these when desired. The frill at the neck is shaped and fa'.!s in graceful lines. When high neck Is used a turn-over collar makes the finish. , The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and one half yards twenty-seven, two and three-quarter yards thirty-six or one and seven-eighth yards forty-four inches wide with four and one-quartet yards of embroidery ten Inches wide and two and one-half yards of band ing to make as mustratea. About Buttons. Beautiful buttons lu artificial stones set In metal rims are exceedingly handsome for certain garments. These are usually rimmed with rhiuestones, and the mauves and yellows, topaz and amethysts are especially good. Mauy are in Japanese effects. Old Lace for Hat. If you have any bits of fine old lace, carry them to the milliner and have them made Into an evening hat Farm Topics; rrrMrw'rrrM'rw FARMING A BUSINESS. Always bear in mind that farming is a business and the man who hopes to make a real success of it must be a good business man as well as a good business manager. There Is a great deal of buying and selling; oftentimes a great deal of labor to be employed; many small financial leaks tbat must be looked foi and stopped as soon as possible. All such things as these, as well as many more that could be men tioned, require the unabated attention of a good wide-awake business man. BEST BREED OF CHICKENS. There are many wordy wars concern ing which is the best breed of chickens. Those who favor Plymouth Rocks are Inclined to think theirs is the only good chicken. Those who favor the Wyandottes are Just as positive that their favorites are the only good chicken. Go it is with Leghorns and others in the numerous chicken family. Good results can be got with any of them, though each is better suited for come special purpose than any other. By avoiding the scrub one will have the right kind of chicken for general purposes. CORN GROWN MARKER.. Herewith is a drawing of marker showing roller for tongue and roller for gauge which is a great improve ment on corn ground markers. C. L. Jackson, Rockbridge, Ohio, In The Epitomist. . ' t SPRAY FOR GRAPES. 1. Spray before buds break In the spring with copper sulphate. 2. Spray Just before blossoming with Paris green Bordeaux. 3. Spray after fruit has set .with Paria green Bordeaux. 4. Continue spraying every ten days up to July 1 with Bordeaux mixture. 5. Spray three times from the first of July to the middle of August with ammonlcal solution of copper carbon ate. This last solution will not dis color the fruit for market. These sprayings. If carried out, will be sufficient to hold in check the flee beetles, leaf rooters, caterpillars, birds, eye rot, black rot, downy mildew, powdery mildew and ripe rot. WHEN TO SOW CLOVER SEED. Clover seed on grain is sown as soon as it can be done. It will be an ad vantage to go over the grain field with a smoothing harrow, which will not only benefit the grain but prepare the ground somewhat for the seed. Do not try to seed by using the hand, but sow with a seed sower, a wheelbarrow sower being excellent. If the .wheat plants have been loosened by frost, sow the clover seed and run the roller over the land. The weather conditions must, of course, influence the matter. Many farmers sow clover seed on the snow, allowing rains and melting snow to carry the seed down; but there .will occur a large loss of seed, which will be eaten by the birds, some will freeze and become worthless, portions Will not be covered by earth and the catch will largely depend upon spring conditions. THE DAIRY CALF. The milk should be measured every time with a clean tin cup, and the calf fed from a clean pall, which should be washed and scalded after each feeding Just as thoroughly aB are the milking pails. The calves are best kept in small pens by themselves, so that they will not get into the habit of sucking each other. Have the little manger In the pen wide enough so that an ordinary bucket containing the meal of milk ran be set into it. Have partitions placed in the manger, and when the calf has fed remove 'the pail, and throw Into the manger a small amount of oats and bran, which It will begin to chew aa soon as it has taken the milk. Apparently just after drinking milk a calf wants some occupation, and if not placed in a pen of Its own or tied out of reach of another calf, each will amuse itself by sucking its neighbor's cars. Massachusetts Ploughman. ORDINARY MORTALITY. It la not easy to lay down precise figures as to the rate of ordinary year ly mortality to be expected among fowls. It differs in the different breeds, the more southern races being of course less able to withstand our northern winters, and being, as we have ob served, more sensitive to sudden changes of weather at all seasons of the year, and especially to damp spells. Perhaps we may expect a mortality of from four to six per cent, or even a little more, If the fowls are a part of them three or four years old. If It rises much above this in well-ac climatized breeds, and not during the prevalence of any particular epidemic, then all the sanitary conditions of the flock ought to be csreinlly Inquired in to, and a fiilp given to the diges tive organs by a change, if possible to some more palatable and easily digested diet than they have been ueenstomed to. Never doctor poultry until yon have exhausted all the means of this sort that you can think of. Of course we are now talking about working in the dark, supposing that you do not know whal the com plaint is, and are not referring to plain ly-marked diseases, such as roup, etc, HABITS OF THE HOUSE FLY. areM Is is, M. A Vans Wfewsw B4 Quae, Wnttnar Be Goes. ' the common bouse fly (Mnaea Do. itnestlca) Is a creature of such secretive tublts, . that although from the very earliest times be has been with ns, ami fha most ancient writers have men Ooned and described him, still very little was known of his origin and fchjtory. (t remained for the eminent Boston biologist, Dr. A. S. Packard, In 1878; to moke known his origin, habits and transformations from the egg through, the larva state with its two changss to the pupa state, then to the perfect BJ. I Near the first of August the female1 lays about 120 eggs of a dull gray color, selecting fresh horse mannre In which to deposit her eggs, and so se cretes them that they are rarely seen: It takes only twenty-four hours foe them to hatch Into the first form ot larva, a white worm one-quarter ot sn inch In length and one-tenth In di ameter. They feed on the decaylnf matter of their environment, and two changes or casting ot skins occur be fore they turn Into the pupa state; this change comes very suddenly. The en tire period from the egg to the pupa state is from three to four days. It moist food Is wanting when In this condition they will sat each other and thus decrease their number. Heat and humidity greatly assist their develop ment, as upon careful computation each pound of manure around stables and outhouses develops under favora ble conditions over on thousand flies. It Is no wonder that where these con ditions exist, we have such a veritable harvest of the fly peit. In the pupa state when the fly Is about to emerge, the end of the pupa case splits off, making a hole through which the fly pnshes a portion of Us head; bat here it seems to encounter a difficulty; the pupa case Is too stiff and bard to pass through, but nature comes to its assistance, and a sort of bladder like substance forms behind the head, which swells out apparently filled witb air; It acts as a means of pushing away, the pupa case and releases the fly. , When the fly first emerges it runs around with Its wings soft, small and baggy; It is pale and the colors ar not set; its head rapidly expands snd the bladder formation passes away within a few hours the wings grow and harden, it Is now a perfect fly. The whole time from the depositing of the egg to the perfect fly Is not oven ten days In duration. Many persons who observe small files In mtdsummee suppose they are the young, but suctt Is not the case, they are flies that are Imperfectly nourished In the larvae; and pnpae states, and do not attain' full size, In fact, they are the dwarfs of their race. The male fly differs from the female in the front of the head between the eyes, being at least one-third narrower, though Instze the female Is rather smaller. ' 'y In the pupa state they are often fed upon by the larvae of some of the beetles, notably tbat of the carpet beetle, whose pupa, the dreaded buf falo "moth," will attack the young fly In the pupa case and eating It pos sess the case for itself. Adult flies, like most other creatures, have parasites of minute size that prey; upon them; these can often be seen as presenting small red specks over the body of the fly. Another enemy In the form of a fun gus often attacks the fly In the early autumn. This makes its appearance! as a white swelling and the white) pores of the disease can be seen pene trating the body of the fly, which It Anally distends and ruptures. The fly hibernates in winter, but wltM bis usual secretive habit, it Is very dif ficult to find him In his winter quar ters. With the first chill of autumn the flies feeling tbe cold, seek tem porary warmth in houses, and cluster ing together form bunches In the cor ners of walls and other places. They are then sluggish and not so active as In the warm weather. However, they do not make a permanent stay Indoors but on the first mild, sunny day, seek the windows to get out and find thels permanent winter hiding place; many) prefer to make their homes in the roots of grass on lawns where they hide) themselves so effectually that the Ice and snow of winter does not destroy, them in their hibernating state. If id the first warm days of spring when thai snow Is gone and the grass on the lawns becomes dry and warm, long be fore the yellow dandelion shows Its head, a close observer may see num bers of flies crawling up on the grass to get the welcome sunshine, their wings standing out stiff and useless; but they soon acquire the power of flight In the warm rays of the sun. A) great many days, however, elapse be fore they appear In the homes of men, where they are such, unwelcome vis itors. In recent years, the medical profes sion have demonstrated that while the1 fly Itself does not propagate disease. It Is one of tbe most Industrious carriers of disease germs which by contact ad here to his feet, hairy legs and body, distributing them to innocent victims. If every house-keeper could know all these Interesting facts . which have never before been brought to their at tention, they would realize the Im portance of securing the very best fly exterminator. Whelps or Cuba. Infant lions and bears are now gen erally spoken of as "cubs," but In former times the word, "whelps" would have been used. Every edition of the English Bible from Wyclif's time to 1611 gives "whelps" for the young of the lion or bear. A "cub" meant originally, in English, only a ypung fox. But by. Shakes pe:srea time It was possible' to talk ot the "young suckling cubs" of a she bear, and Waller even applied "cub" to a young whale, now known-aa a "c&U." V
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