f THI TRH1IRLIXG IIEART. f lift my head and wnllc my ways Before the world without a tear, And bravely unto those 1 meet 1 smiie a message of good eheer; I give my ling to lmigh nnd song, And someaow pet me through each day; But oh, the tremble in my heart Since she has gone away! Her feet had known the stinging thorns, Her eyes the blistering tenrs; Sent weio her shoulders with the weight And sorrow of the years; ffbe lines were deep upon her brow, Her hair was thin and pray; land oh, the tremble in my heart Since alio bos gone away! I m not sorry, I am glad; I would not have her here npnin; God gave her strength life's bitter cup Unto the bitterest dreg to ilrnin. I will not have less strength than she, I proudly tread my stony way; But oh, the tremble in my heart Since she has gone away! Ella Iligginson. The lately acquired suit case ac tually belonging to Parkin Jones was lying on Us glossy, bright, yellow Side, just as it had been dropped, with the more familiar scuffed family valise, between the dining table and the wall, In defiance of all rules of order. Parkin Jones' new derby hat reposed on the table cloth. Par kin Jones himself was pinned In the faded Morris chair with the comfort ably broken springs byyoung P'arkln and Lauretta, who vere crumpling all shape out of bis smart new suit. Baby Jones was gnawing at the ex tended tip of his patent-leather shoe, ' unregarded by his fond mother, who, flushed with the glow of the reckless ly flaring gas log, sat at Jones' feet with one plump hand on an unoccu pied part of his knee. "You looked so grand coming along we hardly knew you," said Mrs. Jones, with a loving little pat on the burdened knee. Jones smiled complacently. "Pret ty swell guy, ain't I?" he said. "Ouch! How many new teeth has that infant accumulated since I've been gone? Quit it, you skee zicks! What makes him so fond of shoes, I wonder." "It's the blacking," explnlned young Jones. 'It's got sweet in it. I tasted it." 'I knowded you, papa," said Lau retta, burrowing into his shoulder with her curly head. "I knowded you dess ve moment I saw you." "Did you, sweetness?" asked Jones bugging her. "Well, tell mo what's been happening, mother." "There's three new puppies over at " began the boy. "Hush!" said his mother, raising a warning finger. "Let your papa talk. My! nobody can get a word In edgeways. You've got to tell first, father. Teir us all about every thing." ( 'Tell us!" begged the chorus. "Can't you wait?" aBked Jones. Aren't you going to give me time to get my breath?" "No!" was the shouted reply. "Very well, then," Bald Jones. "I started last Monday week, went away, away off to Pittsburg and got safely back home five minutes ago. Now tell me about the puppies, son." "There's three of them , " t "'Des as cute!" added Lauretta. r "Children!" said Mrs. Jones. "Wait now. We'll hear all about the puppies later on. I want to hear what your magnificent father has been doing with himself. I have my suspicions." Jones pinched her cheek. "Tell me, dear, did everything go all right?" "Smooth as velvet," replied Jones. There wasn't any work to it hard ly. It was just a pleasure jaunt regular junket the whole time. Pri vate car going down." "What!" ejaculated Mrs. flones. "That's what I'm telling you. Why, what do you think? Do you suppose that the great and only Bur merly was going to travel like ordi nary mortals in just a common ordi nary Pullman? Well, I guess not. I hardly think he would have re Quested Parkin -Jones, esquire, to give him the pleasure of his company If he hadn't been prepared to do the thing in the style to which the Hon orable Parkin Jones has been accus tomed." Jones chuckled at this joke and Jlrs. Jones joined heartily. The chil dren went into shouts of laughter, whereat Jones and Mrs. Jones laughed the more. "Private car," resumed Jones; "private cook, private porter and Burmerly's own private vallay." "Was he nice to you?" asked Mrs. Tones, rather anxiously. "The vallay? Well, yes, consid ering bis position. He unbended nulte a little." "Goose! I mean Mr. Burmerly." "Treated me like a prince. I . iadn't any idea he could be so nice. He's all right, for all that hang-you- don t-care-to-presume way he's cot Once or twice he was almost jolly. ixes. It was 'anything you want, touch the button,' and the meals we got on that trip! Whew! Game, fish, teaks three inches thick, and say! I never knew tbere were such steaks. And I ate right with his Imperial xutm." I should think you did!" said Mrs. Jones, with a Cash in her pretty oark eyes. "The idea!" "I didn't know but he'd give me at handout on the rear platform, Said Jones, jocularly. "And I met All manner of magnates." "I'm so glad you got that suit, BBvmured Mrs. Jones "It did happen pretty well, dldnt It? Made me feel good, too. Two hours to get ready wasn't much no tice, eh?" 'I .should think not. Then you think he liked " "I know he did. As I say, there wasn't much work to do, take it all round; but once or twice I had to hustle. The old gentleman's a fiend for setting a pace, but when we got through he gave quite a successful Imitation of 'a, smile. 'We cleaned that -up in pretty good shape,' he says. 'Jones, how long have you been with us?' And when I told hire he says, 'Hah!' and looked thought ful. Another time he said: 'I don't seem to miss Itldgely at all.' " "Really?" "Honest. And when we met Gib- buns at Hookerburg, he Introduced me as if I had been an old friend of his and began to talk business right away. Glbbuns raised hl3 eyebrows and sort of looked at me and Bur merly said, 'You can talk before Mr. Jones.' You see I'm Burmerly's con. fldentlal man." "You ought to have said, 'Yes, I'm paid well to be trusted $25 a week.' " "I know that's what I should have said," said Jones, smiling. "But I have a foolish streak once In a while; I Just kept my head closed. But 1 have what is known as a hunch." 'Papa," said Jones, Junior, 'those puppies " "Parkin!" said his mother. "We stopped at the Glbbuns man sion palace in Clydale automoblled out there, and It you had seen my room! Such a magnificence! Rugs so thick and soft it was like walking on I don't know what. Furniture! Gorgeous bathroom with silver fau cets and pier glasses. Servants and flunkies and table cloths with lace edges and china that scared me to death. Man came up to know if he could help me dress. Oh, maybe I wasn't treated well! I saw Ridgely'B wife. Style!" "What did she wear?" asked Mrs. Jones, looking down at her own bar gain silk waist. "Don't ask me," replied Jones. "Suppose some day we had all those things," mused Mrs. Jones. "If Mr. Burmerly has taken such a fancy to you he'll give you something bet ter now, and then What a beau tiful time you must have had!" "The darnedest, most uncomforta ble time I ever had In my life," said Jones. "Here, I want my old coat and slippers my old slippers. Get off me, you scaramauches. Mother, what have you got the cloth laid for? You don't mean to say you are going to feed me! What's for supper?" "I suppose after all the lovely things you've been " "What's, for supper?" reiterated Jones, embracing her. "It's It's Irish stew," faltered Mrs. Jones. Jones took his hat from the table, threw it in the air and dexteriously caught it. "Hooray!" he cried, "I thought of it, but I hardly dared hope for it. Now I'll have a square meal at last. Children, leave my legs alone. Let's all go out to the kitchen and help mother. There's no place like home. Irish utew." Chicago News. THE HAWK AND THE SQUIRREL. A Contest in the Wilds of California Related. Driving down the gentle slopes ot Sonoma Mountain the mountain is 2340 feet high we observed a very large hawk the largest of the hawks, a large brown-spotted fellow. perhaps rightly an eagle perched on the fence by the roadside. As we approached, he flew quartering to ward us, dove down at the foot of si rocky hill and arose in the air carry ing a full-grown gray ground squir rel in his talons. This squirrel IS nearly the size of the timber gray squirrel of the east, and looks very much like it, except that it usually has several light-colored bars on Its sides,, and old specimens are of a lighter earthy gray. It lives In holes in the ground, usually in dry,' rocky places. . The hawk flew about fifty yards, when the squirrel reached up and bit htm on the leg. This squirrel has a very tough hide, sharp,' strong teeth, and Is a fighter from away back. The hawk at once released his talons, buf the squirrel hung on with his teeth quite a lime time and then dropped to the ground and started for hli rocky home. The bawk flew down 100 yards further and alighted on the fence. The squirrel was Injured somewhat, but made very good tima back. The hawk waited until he was within a few yards of home when he darted for him again and arose with htm. This last flight of the hawk showed with what wonderful velocity the great bird could pass through tha air. .The hawk had flown only two or three rods when the squirrel bit him again, and he dropped it. The poor squirrel was now badly used up, but he did his best to get under cover. The hawk again perched on the fence. The squirrel had reached within a few feet ot its burrow when the hawk started for him again. This time he seized the now well nigh helpless squirrel securely with both feet and sat down on his tail the hawk's tall stretched out his legs to their fullest extent and stretched his head and neck away back out of danger, and so held his victim until his struggles were over, and then he flew up on an old tree to enjoy bis dinner; and the show was over. California, in Forest and Stream. From the bawksblll turtle of the Caribbean Sea comes tha. tortoise shell of commerce. for. . 'vrsf Sell Toor Cows. The figures of really representa tive herds must mean something to tho thoughtful farmer. The herd of low production and the individual cows that do not return the owner a net profit of $12 or $15 per year scarcely Justify this investment of money, time' and labor In keeping thorn. A study of these herds shows, that the economical thing to do Is to sell tha poor cows to the butcher as fn3t as they can be replaced with bet ter producers. The latter can be ac complished either by more judicious buying or by raising the heifer calves of hlgh-produclug mothers mated to a pure-bred Hire having a line of such mothers In his ancestry. This is not so difficult to do when once tho dairyman sets his Btandard of a cow, determines definitely what kind of a cow he will buy or produce, and goes after that cow Instead of taking something else that may be cheaper or easier to get. The great est practical difficulty is In discover ing what cows are poor and how poor they are. This is quite easily done In Just one way by weighing and testing the milk of each cow often enough throughout the milking period to. get a fair estimate of her worth. Scales and a Babcock test cost but a few dollars and their use may eaBlly lead to an Improvement of the herd that will add hundreds to the profit annually. Should not every dairyman ask (and answer) the question, "On which Bide of the profit line and how far from it is my herd and every individual in it?" Indianapolis News. ITnme-Mnde Cow Stanchion. F. G. Semple, 'a Canadian farmer, furnishes Farm and Fireside with his plan ot making cow stanchions. He rays he has Used both chains and the old stationary stanchion,, but has come to consider his plan superior to either of them. The figure at the right in the illustration shows the stanchion closed. The one at the left represents the stanchion as it ap pears when open. The two sides are made ot hard wood four feet long, one and a quar ter Inches thick and two and a halt inches wide. The end pieces are ot hardwood, and are one foot long and three and a quarter Inches square. They are mortised to receive the side pieces, as shown in the sketch at bot tom of illustration. The sides are fixed to the ends with bolts, which being loose enough so it is movable. When the side falls, as shown on the figure on the righthand side, the clevis raises and when the side comes back into position again the clevis falls as shown in the lefthand figure and holds It securely. Mr. Semple rays this stanchion, including mate rial, labor, etc., should cost from sixty to seventy-five cents each. Thinking of an Orchard? Numerous apple orchards are planted from which no adequate re turns are made tor the amount of work performed. Oftentimes the trees are purchased from some peri patetic and irresponsible tree peddler The trees are planted according to the best methods, but a failure to protect them against rabbits or other vermin causes the destruction of probably a fourth of the number the first winter after they are planted. The following summer the land may be planted in some crop requir ing clean cultivation, as potatoes, to bacco, cabbage or tomatoes, and in the plowing of these crops it often happens that more- pains are taken to protect a cabbage or tobacco plant than a fruit tree. The result Is thatmany are skinned by the singletree or trace chains and Irretrievably damaged. If such a tree should survive. It will never prove healthy -or prolific In the yield of apples. After the trees are large enough to be in full bearing, no efforts are made to protect them by spraying against the numerous insect enemies. The bark ot the tree cracks, and these cracks soon encircle the tree and the tree dies. An orchard, to be profita ble, requires the greatest of care. The land must be fertilized from time to time. Weeds, brushes and briars must bs kept down. Tits trees i Plan of Making Cow Stanchion. must be watched carefully, and any appearance of disease must be ar rested bv nroner remedies. Unless the orchard receives careful atten tion, it will prove a waste of time and a cumberer ot the land. Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Yankee Milk rail. While cities are demanding a bet ter quality of milk and health officers are doing their best to make the farmer sit up and take notice, my method ot obtaining the slmon pure article may be of interest. Dust proof ceilings and walls, whitewashed in teriors, clipped cows, white duck suits, etc., are all well enough, but farmers are few who will pay any at tention to such rules. The combination of the Hoard stall (plans for which appeared in the Tribune Farmer not long ago) and the covered milk pall produce the de sired result for me. The first essen tial Is a clean cow. Tho Hoard stall will take care of the cow she couldn't get dirty If she would. Our ' STRAINNO) -CLOTH - The Yankee Milk Tail. cows come out of the barn in the spring as clean as they are when on pasture. Make no mistake about the stall; this stall Is the ideal method for tying up cows. Next in importance is the covered pall. Mine is made after my own ideas, and looks something like an ordinary milk pall turned upside down small end up. The top 19 seven Inches In diameter. A shallow pan two Inches deep fits tight in the top and is fastened there. A few holes one-slxtesnth ot an inch in diameter in the bottom of the pan near the centre let the milk run through into the pail. The spout of the pall has a tight fitting cover. One or two thicknesses of strainer cloth are slipped under the pan before it is fastened in place, and the re sult is a dust and dirt proof pall. There Is no patent on this pail. To work this combination I pro ceed about as follows: I take my pall and stool and sit down by the cow, tie her tail, milk out the fore milk, wipe her side3 and udder with a cloth, and proceed to milk Into the shallow pan. The milk strikes the bottom of the pan, runs through the holes In the pan, through the strainer cloth and into the pall, where it is practically sealed from outside condi tions. It comes in contact with the air of the barn only while It is pass ing from the teat to the pan a dis tance of perhaps six Inches. I have received many helps from the Tribune Farmer, and hope this will point the way for cleaner milk for others. L. R. Hall, in the New York Tribune Farmer. . Farm Notes. Whatever may be said for or against the practice of dehorning, breeding the horns off is the better way. Tho farmer should take active in terest In the condition of the roads of his town. Their excellence In creases the value ot the farm. The entomologists of the Depart ment of Agriculture have found that the common red ant and the larvae of a wasp fly are the best parasites for the boll weevil. Probably not half the farmers give lime in any form to their fowls. Those who do not can hardly expect the fowls to be particularly generous to them in the supply of eggs, or In thickness ot shell on those they do furnish. .Wherever sheep feed new sweet grasses flourish and weeds are de stroyed. For this reason farmers should raise more of them, It for no other. But there are several other and equally good reasons why every farm should have its flock of these useful animals. When feeding meat to hens do not use the fatty parts. The object In feeding meat to hens is to supply them with nitrogen and albumea and not fat, as the grain contains all the tat and starch they require and In a cheap form. It the fat is fed it does not assist in any way to provide ma terial for eggs, but rather retards than assists laying. ft & 4 SCIENCE fi Gold beaten out Into a leaf 1-200,. 000 of an inch In thickness becomct translucent, r.nd the light rays pene trating it give it a greenish huo. The Prince of Monaco Is again afloat on science bent. This time he has sailed for Spltzbergen to prose cute his Investigations as to the cur rents of the upper nlr. Glass bathtubs are being made In Germany and are said to have ad vantages over the metal and enamel, the principal one being that they are much cheaper. They are made in solid piece, and one can be turned out complete In about five minutes. Carbon dloxld is a colorless gas. It can be dissolved in cold water. It possesses a pungent smell and an acid taste. If you inhale it you die In a very short time from asphyxiation. Yet your lungs exhale it continually as long as life lasts. It is a product of respiration. Physicians use It carefully to cure whooping cough, asthma and hiccoughs. Surgeons use it as a local anaesthetic. In solution as In soda water It is an excellent refrigerant and stomachic. It cools and tones the system. Cut glass makers explain why It is that there are frequent reports of cut glass suddenly breaking or crum bling on a table, shelf or sideboard in homes and elsewhere although the glass was not in use. Thoy assert that whenever the tone of any cut glass article comes into contact with its responsive chord the life of the glass will go with the tone by which it is affected, and the glass collapses or crumbles. It Is on record a famous opera singer could break cut glassware by reaching high C in her singing. Although the production of crude petroleum In America Is making en ormous strides every year, the bulk of this comes from new territories which yield heavy oils containing little or no spirit. In fact, the fields which have in the past supplied the world with petroleum spirit and the high-class illuminating oils are, it is said, failing, so much so that the cen tre ot production Is no longer in the Eastern States, but lies equally be tween the Gulf States and California. Recent work In the mid-continental fields shows, however, that there is a prospect of the supply of high-grade oils being increased. Engineering. POSSIBILITIES OF THE TKOLLEY. Strategy Proposed For the Conquest of the Suburban Trafllc. Transportation by trolley has gone through three stages, and will in due time enter upon a fourth. The first ot these was the intra-urban trafllc, in which passengers were carried from place to place within the same city. The second stage was that ot suburban traffic, which became neces sary with the growth of outlying dis tricts adjacent to the cities in which the lines had been laid. The third stage was the inter-urban traffic, be gun originally to connect nearby cit ies, such as Minneapolis and St. Paul, and gradually extending further and further until cities of the first rank, such as New York and Eoston, were connected by continuous lines. Pro jects are now 'under way to unite many more of the larger cities north of the Potomac and Ohio in a net work ot trolley connections. More progress has been made in the Cen tral West in this phase of develop ment than anywhere else In the coun try, with the possible exception of New England. The fourth stage might be de scribed as that of tho trunk line. Within the last few days an an nouncement has been m-de of a pro posed air line electric route between New York and Chicago, reduced to a distance of 742 miles, the run to be made in ten hours. The Pennsyl vania Railroad line between Chicago and New York is 912 miles. The electric air line route would thus cut off 170 miles, or 18.6 per cent, of the steam road distance. Assuming that an electric trunk line between Chicago and New York Is. financially and othewise practica ble, and this is open to question, the strategic value of such a project Is such as possibly to have a far reach ing effect on the whole trunk line situation. If electric lines could eventually parallel tho trunk lines to the Atlantic and Gulf seaports their Influence on the railroad situa tion might not stop with passenger traffic. They would begin to tell sooner or later on freight conditions. They would not simpl7 figure as feed ers ot the railroads, as they are now generally doing, but possibly reduce the ton mile rate of freight to a new low basis of cost. The average rev enue per ton mile for the year end ing June 30, 1903, was 0.762 cent, and for 1904, 0.780 cent. This Is the lowest average cost of any rail road system In the world, but cannot be accepted as finality. The probable effect of electric line construction on railway -rates would not only be found to Influence through freights, but might be still more marked In its effect upon local freight rates. This Is doubtless a far look ahead, but the development of electric power bas been so rapid and marvelous that Its possible future growth becomes a subject ot fascinating lstsrest. The Wall Street Journal. KIDNEY TROUBL1? 3 Buffered Two YtartIMltved in Thru. Month. I 4 7 mi tf MR. C. B. FIZER, Mt. Sterling, Ky writes: "lhavn mtTered with ktdney an bladder trouble for ten yearn pant. "Last March I commenced using I'cruna and continued for three months. I have not used it since, nor have I felt a pain. "I believe that I am well and I there fore ;ive my highest commendation to th curative qualities of Penina." Pe-ru-na For Kidney Trouble. Mrs. Geo. H. Siniser, Grant, Ontario, Can., writes: "I had not been well for about fon rears. had kldneu trouble, and. In fact, felt badly nearly all the time. "This summer I got so very bad I thought I would try i'eruna, so I wrote to von and began at once to take I'eruna and Manalin. "I took only two bottles of Pernna and one of Manalin, and now I feel better than I have for some time. I feel that Peruna and Manalin cured Die and made a different woman of me al together. I bless the day I picked up th little book and read of your Feruna. It in the bustnemi of the ktdMua ( remove from the blood all polmnoua materials. They must be active all tha time, else the system suffers. There are times when they need a little assistance. Peruna is exactly this sort of a remedy. It has saved many people from disaster by rendering the kidneys service at a tima ;hen they were not able to bear their own "ten. Alcohol From Sawdust Samples of alcohol made from saw dust have been sent to the Depart ment of Agriculture from one of tha big sawmills, where the work is be ing done on a commercial scale; that Is to say, a distilling plant has been Installed, which is turning out sev eral barrels of alcohol daily, though no figures are available as to the ac tual cost of manufacture compared with wood alcohol or that from grain. The interesting point about the saw dust alcohhol Is that it Is a wood al cohol, having none of the properties of that fluid, but is an ethyl alcohol that cannot te told from that made from grain. The difference is that the sawdust has been treated with an acid, transforming it into dex troee.and Is then distilled In the regu lar way. - If the work can be dona at a profit, and the Indications from the work of the company point to this being a fact, It will not only make a valuable by-product out the sawdust that has heretofore been an intolerable nuisance to the faw. mills, but it will open up a way- to make alcohol profitable from straw, cane, cornstalks and almost any other vegetable refuse. Kansas City Jour limm: a. ii 7f3M . '4 1 I XJX It i nal. vwf Why Alligators Are Scarce. Alligators are scarce and the chil dren of the wealthy are largely re sponsible for it. The demand for young saurian a has greatly Increased since it has become a fad to carry them stuffed as playthings. It Is not unusual on pleasant days to see chil dren, accompanied by nurse maids, carrying a young alligator by the tail. The mouths of the creatures are wide open, and they are made as. realistic as the art ot the taxider mist can render them. Most of tha stuffed pets are from a foot to 19 Inches long. Their appearance, es pecially when they are taken to tha enclosure where real alligators bask In the sun, at first fills the beholden with wonder and dismay. New Yorj Times. If You Read This It will be to learn that the leading cal writers and teachers of all the schools of practice recommend. strongest terms possible, each and ingredient entering, into the com of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov for the cure of weak stomach, dyspepsl catarrh of stomach, "liver coraplai torpid liver, or biliousness, chronic bowel affections, and all catarrhal diseases of whatever region, name or nature. It ! also a specific remody for all such chronic or long standing enses of catarrhal affec tions and their resultants, as bronchial, throat and lung disease (except consump tion) accompanied with severe coughs. I is not so good for acute colds and couchs, but for lingering, or chronic cases it Is especially efficacious in producing per fect cures. It contains Black Cherry bark. Golden Seal root, Bloodroot, Stone rootJ Mandrake root and Queen's root all of which are highly praised as remedies for all the above mentioned affections by such eminent medical writers and teachers a Vrnt. Ttarthnlnw. of AlefTerson VftL CaU r POsV lege: Prof. Harejet the Univ. of Pa.j I Prof. Finley-fimngwood, M. D., of Hen- 1 nett Med. tpltege. Chicago; Prof. John 1 Kin?. M. IT of Cincinnati ; Prof. Jobs 1 M. ScuddenTM. D., of Cincinnati ; Pro I Edwin f?na& M. D., of Hahnemann ) Med. Cafwatf. Chicago, and scores ot f . U . ; ' .. Amin, I. thai aAUA 1 ' schfd"fl practice. OoldenMedirjj Discovery " tre only m-CiciiY 'n.r s.tie., Kni.. OrilJUISts fr like r,i;r;tow. Inl. hjany Burn iri77'"-'.iw;.;t .r-'ny" jvnrS thr.n any pp.-r,:,.-.- ..f ""''j-iTrT t.'.-; I is Lhe btt Dossibfe guaranty of i lii1 l.liil I 7. StU UUuliVltl VI Ik A glance at this Dumished tor how that "Golden Medical 4, contains no poi.nnor.s. harm formingdruzs nnd no alcohol r-a tpinlo..AfinMl plvmrina Instead. Glvcerine is enlirolln tionablo and besides is a most u,fj in tne euro 01 an sicir.acn u w chial, throat and lung alTertk'RI is tha highest medicil auihnt use in all such caws. Tuo'Di' Acnncentratrd fflvcerle extract medicinal roots and is safe sr7 A booklet of extracts froiri medical authorities, endorsing' dlents mailed free nn reqnost) VI. ti. V . ncrce, liuutio, a. merits. ill ftovery- riii It babit--wJ VicaPy it my i of I ;en J iw- H f (A