LOVE LCD THE
Lov Km tlm way n-lth roren nnd thft minmitno in nmr.
And hr lilting longi wre blmlml wltn im tfrtt;in in nlr.
One by on aim tlrnptu'il htr bnucumu. ji "m in- i unit ih-w iirop. nt my fcot-
Thmwlnif Imckwtinl Hnillm nnri lnuwiini, him : i r til'nt to Kt'.'ft,
Anl th way grow vctt to wntii!M, mr ti ! t o:-nv to r
Whn oho lad the way with rout nml tne iI!,mi.:i ;n nr huir.
, Ipv lf1 th wny with rwo, nml tin rtmf, whisp'rniK n;ii:
"With our potaln vm will imtnt hr li mil rhm-k n iiMri.in fii;
We will kM'p lu-r like tht Illy, kn fior hart tin putv uiM wmi
Ab th ilew mnt iluwn irtn ln-iivn through tin muuimv ir thn nlctit."
And hr rhwkH, thry round t hi color or tin hl-wmi. ri'h nnd rnir.
And the tlow dnm round lu-r liruil uus day lovo u d too wuy v: tn rnrft.
Jx)v led tho wny with roun, nnil h l:M thorn nt ny Tnot
Till br nrnm were empty, (ntu'iv. with tin unto ttir mi to gret.
The Mnnpom took thn blunhfii thnt w r" m.rrnrMt tn h.-r turo,
And It'ft hi-r with th wintrm-PH oi my m tnir pu'
Iove led tin wny wUh iohvh nml ti:. wnv wuh Jwi-t wrt fnori
Bo lovo mimt al"op wi rusea nitvp with wmio ons on Iut UmtHt;
win i'. orintii, m Aiiifvnimeo Hontmci.
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By HILDA
"Wlmt a whopper!" said Jay, nl
most before t.'xo door closed behind
Mrs. Waldcn. "llavo I lived lo m:e
my slater a double-dyed deceiver?"
"Nonsense!" sr.lit Marlon, sharply.
"It wasn't n v.liop.pcr at nil."
"You wild J'O'.i would l)t di'llhtod d)
wash dlslu'o for Mrs. Waldcn, and, If
thnt Isn't a wIhimm.t, I don't know
onp." pprirfstcd Jay.
"I mild I Rlioald l)t didl.i.lili'd to
hdp Iut, nnd I will," r.ald Marlon.
"Mrs. Vnldtn was lovely whi n main
ma was sliik. I do despise to wash
dlshon, Imt I'm plad to help."
"Wll," observed Aunt Mary, "I
should think. Million, you woiild learn
to coiHiJcr your dlallke. The youns
people of tn-day are not bmusilit u;
rlKht."
"That was what Aunt Margaret ad
vlRed," tald Marlon, wllh a wry fac.
"but I only pot Into inorp troubl). I
learned to wasli dishes so well that n:y
reputation spread, and I am i:i demand
among or.r friends now when It comes
to Inking raro of flno china ut re
ceptions nnd j-ai'tles."
"If your mother had made yon wash
dishes when you wero little, you
wouldn't feel that way now."
"Aunt Mary, I have washed iin!ies
since I had to stand on a Rtocl to
reach the pan. I lined to brrnk the
plates until my wlno mother took tho
price out of my allowance. If I ever
keep house, I k1ip.11 serve tho meals
' on paprr plntta and buy prepared
tlilnps In tin cans."
" Hb that hath a thousand frl-nds
hath not one friend to Bpnre,-
But ho that hath or.o enemy shall
moet him every where,' "
quoted Jay wlt-h broad grin. "You'll
have to fall In love with dluh-wnsh-lE.
Sis, If you ever expect to free
yourself from It."
"Thnt expresses my fate exactly,"
sighed Mnrlon, "but I never shall learn
to like the Job. There's one thing
about teaching, and that Is there's no
"kitchen work connected with It. I
wouldn't have Mrs. AVolden know how
I feel for the world, but I am often
tempted to Binnsh her exquisite cups
because they are too precious for tho
hired girl to touch."
"Better tako my advlcf." said Jay,
comfortably; but his sister shook her
head and ran to Mint up a gingham
apron.
"You may be glad you know how to
do housework," was Aunt Mary's part
Ins; warning, as she set out for Mrs.
Walton's. "I hope you will be able
to fit yoirself for teaching; but, If you
don't, a good cooking school pays
and you do cook very well for a
rlrt."
"We're Rolng to have a picnic next
week, aMrlon, nnd you must be Bure
to come," said Cecil White, a butter
fly of a girl who had ben asked to
help ponr tho tea, and certainly looliod
' like a fairy In her lovely snowy frcck,
as Fhe hovered about Marlon In her
big apron with hands red from dish
water. "We. are to go to View Point
before the season opens, and spend
the day. We are to take easily pra
parcd things, for the picnic Is to be
very Informal. Don't forget. It's
IMiXt Tuesday."
I'll go If there's to be no' dish
washing," muttered Marion, looking af
ter Cecil with something like eavy.
"Picnics are n lot of Uctner."
But this one proved the excfptir.n
to the rule, for the boys of the
crowd Ecnerously bo.ight cold chicken,
donphnuts, pickles, cake, ice-cream,
and all the ether good things from Mrs.
Winsate, who sold home-made dain
ties; and for ence the girls planned
to have a fine time without trouble.
"Just opening tho hotel?" said Jay
la surprtae, as they ncared the huge
frame structure ln the grove. "I sup
posed the season opened earlier."
"Let' be thankful It doesn't," said
cue of tho girls. "We can have the
whole lovely place to ourselvos for
once."
"And enough boats for once," said
Max Lanning. "Suppose we fish first
before this June sun gets too warm."
All were agreed, end Max soon
brought the big row boat around to the
tiny landing. "If you girls are as
- noisy as this all morning, yeu'U have
to go la boats by yourselves," declared
Max. ungallantly.
How it hapened no one knew ex
actly, but the rotten edge of the land
ing crumbled away a little just as
Max was helping Marlon into the
boat, and both were thrown into the
water.' The girls shrieked wildly,
but the boys dragged them out befora
they suffered anything more than a
bath in the shining water.
"Come right up to the hotel," said
Mrs. Walden, the chaperon, briskly.
"We must find some clothes until
these dry- We have great ressoa to
be thankful that it was no worse."
Marlon bad often read of beautiful
Bcrotnea rescue from, watery graves;
WAY WITH ROSSS.
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an I, when she saw herself In a mirror
hF.h felt that any olio who could bo
beautiful nnd dripping wet deserved
mM tho praise of story wrlt-ra. Her
new dress was ruined, her shoes
squeaked wllh watur, ami her hat al
lowed red and green streams to give
her the appearance of an Indian. Max
was being helped Into dry garments
by liU friends, and In less than half
an hour the two young peoplo inaiK)
their appearance none the worse for
th.lr bath.
"You f;Ton," said Miirlrm, half vexed
and half launhlng. "You don't need
to let us spoil tho picnic. No, indeed!
I wouldn't thlulc of going out In these
clothes," nnd she looked at tho cali
co wrapper provided by n woman In
the hotel kitchen. It was largo
enough for two girls of her size, and
tho carpet Bllppers w?re enormous.
"I'll Htielt to tho kitchen, thunk you,
until my clothes urn dry."
"Yos, net out r,f here," said Max,
amid tho merry laughter at his ap
pearance. Ills trousers were turned
up six Inches, though he was no dwarf,
and his long arms protruded from
tiii sleeves. "Do yon hear? We're
tired of fiirni.'ihlng amusement for the
crowd. fr"uy, don't forget us at din-n.'r-timo
if the clothes a'aould bo dry.
Do you hoar?"
"I'll put your fhoes nt the ed?;e of
the bake even," snld the woman In
tho kitchen, kindly. "They'll dry
sooner." 'She waddled away with tho
soaked shoes, nnd amid much laughter
the "washing" was spreml on the
grnes to dry. The woman also sst
on some ironf, so that at tho first
possible moment the garments could
be assisted in tho drying process.
' Isn't this dreadful?" said Max, af
ter they had forlornly wstched tho
laughing crowd troop off. "How on
earth are we to put. In the lime?"
"I'm going to help Mrs. Trent with
these dishes," said Marlon, rolling back
her wrapper sleeves. "Not that I lovo
dish-washing, but I like Idleness in a
place like this still loss. Better tako
a towel and dry them, Max. It will
help pass the time. I think until tho
end of my days I shall be Indebted to
some cno and be trying to repay by
washin; dishes."
'Something smells fearful," said
Max later, taking his sixth towel. "I
wond-J? what on earth It can be?"
"Open tho doors wider," said Marlon,
"This is horrible!"
"Your shoes!" said Mrs. Trent, com
ing in. "Who shut thnt oven door?"
A cloud of smokj rolled out as she
jerked the oven door open, and drag
ged out the remains of the shoes.
"It's a wonder you didn't smell the
leather."
In spite of their troubles Max and
Marion laughed till they cried. Marlon
looked down at her carpet slippers,
and Max took note of his number tens,
and then they shrieked again. "We're
doomed to stick to tho kitchen all
day," they eaid, finally, and fell to
dish-washing. The dozens and dozens
of dishes unwashed since the Beason
before, dusty, sooty, and fly-specked,
were reduced to orderly piles of shin
ins ware, which Mrs. Trent thankfully
returned to tho cupboards she hastily
cleaned.
"This Is something like," said tho
manager, pausing in one of his flying
trips a:)out the hotel. "WUore did
you ensago these helpers, Mrs. Trent?
I'll put them on tlio fcrco at five dol
lars n week If t'aey keep on working
like this."
Ia spite of the f.attering offer tho
carpet slippers and number ter.3
thankfully climbed into the carriage
fur tho homeward journey. Mrs. Trent
was profuse In thanking them for
tueir aid, and It was a very jolly
party that arrived home just ut uusk.
"I have such good news for you,
Marlon," said Mrs. Morton, tho in
stant her daughter entered. "Mr.
Randolph want3 you to be companion
to an old aunt of his at thirty dollars
a month. And that isn't the best of
it," as Marlon's eyes shone. "She
lives in a college town,, and is willing
you should take as many studies as
you can manage when you are not
with her. Mr. Randolph says she is
peculiar, but very kind-hearted, and
you will have no troubld in getting
along." .
"Any dish-washing In the Job?" In
quired Jay.
,"Of course not. Marion is to read
to the old lady and drive out with her
when she cares to go. five hours a
day will cover the necessary work.
You will. have a good home, and plenty
of timo for study, Mr. Randolph says."
So to Petersburg Marlon went, and
found Mrs. Randolph apparently de
lighted to see her. "I da enjoy young
girls," she said, kissing Marlon hear
tily. "We will have good times to
gether, my dear.
Marlon was surprised to find the
bouse almost barren ut feminine
touches In the way of pillows, fancy
work, anil pictures. The rooms were
furnished In the plainest furniture,
guiltless of anything that could catch
dust. DlnnM- ui served bloii uftr
her arrival, nnd sho.wus much afraid
her hostess wuuld discover that her
pluta was wet and not over clean.
However, r'.Ms. Randolph clmtl'id and
laughed as she urjed the young Ritl
to eut, and the meal passed off pleas
antly. -"I suppoie you will flnl the house
rnth'T huru," Bald Mrs. Randolph, "but
you will soon learu to like livlug in
this sliiiplo way. My mother v.i a
groat housekeeper. I u:iod to doaplse
housework, und nuulo up my mind
that, if I ever had a home, tho work
should be simplified as much tu possi
ble. I have no draperies, and our
food is plain and wholesome. I want
to show you some labor savers In Uie
kitchen my own Inventions for light
ening the diitlus of my inulds."
llehind Mrs. Randolph's back the
jolly cook nuulo a face ut the eluhonite
ruck that was the prldo of tlm mis
tress, und Marlon found herself sym
pathizing with the poor womun who
must use such a device. "You simply
unango the dirty dishes in this rack,
soak thorn well, and then rinse wlt.li
hot water," explained Mrs. Randolph;
and Marlon no longer wondered ut
tho appeurnnco of her pinto nt dinner.
"Thla saves all tho work of wlpiuij
ami washing tho dishes. Wo haven't
hud a Uish-towol In tho housd for
years."
"As often ns you can, sneak Into my
kitchen, nnd you'll get n clean bite,"
f:altl tho cook ono day, when Mrs. Ran
dolph was out calling. "I Imko pies
utter she's safely In bed nights, and
keep my own dishes clean; but you
ran t learn her nothing, it gives me
cold chills to muss with them cold,
clammy thing-.?. Give me a good, big
dish-rag nnd plenty of hot water, 1
say."
"It's a good place, nnd I'm getting
along well in my studies, but I can't
stand tho endless round of canned
meats r.nd vegetables," sighed Marlon.
"I should bo giad to wash tho dishes
myself, if she'd only let me. I am
starved for some good roast beef and
gravy."
"No roast beef" said the cook, posi
tively. "Tho roaster Is hard to rlnae,
und that means drudgery. If she'd
only come down with the rhcumatlz
we'd get along all right, or, If you
could persnado her that opening cans
la drudgery, b!io might have fresh
inenta."
At the end of a year Marlon had a
good' position offered her In a homo
school. The family noticed that she
seemed to enjoy helping. To a ques
tion about her ancient enemy from
Jay, Marlon gave u reply that aston
ished the family.
"Hate dish-washing? I dearly love
It. If you had eaten oft dirty dishes
for a whole year, It would cure you of
ever saying a word about drudgery,
wouldn't It? My one enemy no longer
meets me everywhere, for It Is now
my friend." Christian Register.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The oldest member of ths New York
Stock exchange Is William Alexander
Smith, elected December 17, 1S44.
If New York city should receive no
more water in its reservoirs It3 pres
ent supply, at the usual rule uf con
sumption, would last 15 weeks.
In ono day recently, 3720 dozen esgs
were shipped from tho small town of
Brooks, Mo. Poultry Is a paying In
dustry In that section of the state.
The population of the world, a? giv
en in the latest estimate, is 1,400,050,
C00. It Is a logical inference that tho
present population of the eatth ex
ceeds that of any former period.
The first legislative body of Eng
lishmen In America, of a representa
tive character, met at Jamestown, Va.,
on tho 13th day of July, 1C19, in a lit
tle old wooden church 50 by 2) feet.
It is a matter of wonder to many
persons why all of the ne:esearies of
of life excepting tho ono item of rent
are cheaper on Manhattan Island thnn
any place within 200 miles of it. The
highest prices on tho island are the
upper west side.
An orange tree will bpar fruit till
130 years old, and there are recorded
instances cf orange trees bearing when
500 years old. In Malta and Naples
15,000 oranges have been picked from
a single tree, and one in the Sandwich
islands was estimated to bear 20,000.
The Dutch discovered the Island of
Manhattan in 1609. The first Dutch
name of the region discovered was
New Netherlands, and of the settle
ment, New Amsterdam. The New Neth
erlands was finally surrendered to the
English tn lCG-i, taking the name of
New York.
The idea of the census is almost as
old as history itself. King Amusls oT
Egypt took a census of his people 500
years before Christ. The Athenian
Solon established a census for the pur
pose of facilitating taxation. We learn
that about 443 B. C. Servius Julius took
a census of Rome. During the chaos
of the Dark Ages the census dropped
into oblivion, but was revived again
about the beginning of tb 18th cen
tury. Opulent Tims Onion.
The onion harvest to almost over.
A great pile of onions has been con
verted Into a big pile of dollars. The
oaion orop of the Nueoes valley this
season wtU turn loose nearly 100,000
1 CtuUw CoWlla Record.
GARDEN, FARM and CROPS
FOR THE
UP -
AGRICULTURIST
Let the Hogs Root.
That Is what the hogs have the stout
nose for. However IT you feed plenty
uf suit, ashes and charcoal, they won't
root bo much. Even small pieces of
coal and coal ashes will be union by
the hogs when they am shut up In
close quarters.
Selection of Birds.
Don't innko a mistake In thn selec
tion of birds for next winter's layers.
Many farmers sell their largest, ear
liest hatched birds to hucksters be
cause they are In good demnnd and will
bring htm a good price. Keep tho
earliest hutched, best developed birds
for your ei:g producers und breeders.
All that aro left are the late hatched
pullets mid cockerels that go unde
veloped Into winter quarters. Breed
ing from Bitch birds will degenerate
uny Hock of fowls If you persist In
such methods long enough. To have
early winter layers the birds must grow
to fertility. The early hatched healthy
cdilck makes the good winter layer. In
diana Farmer.
Intensive Culture.
Tho question is often asked If in
tensive culture us applied to small
tratrts of land or In different lines of
gardening can bo applied to large an as
ns well. We have nver seen uny
reason why it could not be If the same
amount of energy and painstaking was
carried out in every detail. Wo know
of a gardener who guvo Intensive
culture to a piece of ground twenty
feet sqeare In onions ami he produced
over live bushels. At this rate It
would be nearly 3000 bushels to the
acra. Possibly this could not be cur
ried out In the snmo ratio to the ucre,
but It shows what can be done when
the pro)cr conditions nre carrlud out.
We know of strawberries being grown
at the rate of 2!0 bushels per ai re, but
we see no reason why this Is not pos
sible. Intensive culture means feedlm;
the plants to their utmost limit and
getting everything out of the soil pos
sible. The Twentieth Century Farm
er. Cause of Soft-Shelled Eggo.
Poultry writers, since the tlmo the
Shanghai rooster first Invaded llostou.
have been repeatedly telling us that
soft-shelled egss were caused by an
Insufficiency of lime in the food con
sumed by tho hens. Such, however,
Is not the casa. The soft-shelled egg
is a case of arrested development, due
to nervous Interfertnce with the func
tions of the oviduct. The laying of
Incompletely developed eggs corre
sponds to abortion in mammals, und
can likewise be brought about by ex
treme mental disturbance.
In exp ImentB conducted at the Kan
sas Experiment station the writer was
able to cause the production of soft
Bhelled eggs by continued excltemeut
of confined hens. It was also shown,
says the Scientific American that the
hen's system on an orulnary diet con
tains enough calcium carbunuto for the
formation of about five or six eg's. If
lima was withheld from the food, the
hen after having laid this number cf
eggs, will stop laying. When lime was
given In limited quantities the hen
laid apparently normal eggs, but only
as frequently as the lime furnished
would supply shell material. Cureful
weighings proved that eggs thus pro
duced, though apparently normal, were
actually thinner shelled than nor
mal eggs from the Bunie hen. Rut lit
tle is known about the process and con
trol of egg farmatlou, and further
study should yield facts of both scien
tific Interest, and practical bearing.
Cherries a Paying Crop.
The old notion of planting cherry
trce3 In the fence corners only nnd
leaving them to shift for themselves is
exploded. Cherries are a profitable
crop, and It will pay to givo them the
best of treatment.
Scarcity of labor for harvesting our
fruit in Ontario makes it unwise to
plant too freely of nny one. kind. The
wisest plan is to plant bo as to have
a constant succession, and thiis employ
a certain cumber of hands with socio
degree of regularity the season
through. In cooking cherries I would
plant about equally of the following
three kinds to cover the whole cherry
season, viz.: Dyeuouse, which is ear
lier than the Richmond and ripens
about the middle of June; the Mont
morency, the great mnln crop pie
cherry, coming in about the first week
In July, and the English Morello, rip
ening about the middle of July. The
latter is not so much la favor as
the other two; still it is an excellent
cooking cherry, and prolongs the ship
ping season about a week. This will
give a month of cherry picking, and
will occupy a gang of pickers from the
close of strawberry season until rasp
berries are well upon us.
Tho picking of the cherry crop is
the great bugbear In the way of grow
ing It on a large scale;. and yet a full
orop of cherries is as easily and as
quickly gathered as the same number
of quarts of strawberries, barring, of
course, the climbing. The usual cost
of picking cherries ' is fifteen cents
an eleven quart basket, when the crop
Is an average one; if not, about twenty
cents. L. Wolve.-ton, In the American
Cultivator.
SUGGESTIONS pfigp
TO - DATE & (
Sheep as Money Makers. ,
At a meeting of the Illinois Uv
Stock iireeders' Association, Mr. Jauub
Zlegler, a prominent sheep ljieedur and
feeder, ald;
If live stock of nny kind pays for
raisin' und feeding In Illinois ami sis
ter states, sheep do, for they give as
good returns', mid, In general, better,
lor the amount of food consumed than
any other.
I am convinced that It pays better In
a period of years to feed jnir gruln to
good slock and hc!I it In a finished
product than lo sell It in a raw state,
especially If tho fertilizer 1.1 consid
ered of value, and which value cannot
bo Ig.iored In the success of good and
profitable farming thnt no ono doubts.
Sheep ure on the ilec re.iDH, wlillu rat
tle and hogs tire on the Increase In
Rplte of the unmm! Increase in mut
ton re)!!3'.!!ji'th)ii over that of beef atld
pork. '
I find ti nt lilieep havo natural ad
va.nta;:cs that cattle and hogs do not
pusses:) und offer muse sources of prof
it than either of the others.
1. They nrrt proline nnd raise their
young on the mo.it Inexpensive food,
wllh the leant care.
2. Tlinlr tlesh costs the least to pro
duce and brings more on the market
Han tiny other; besides, It la a most
healthful food fcr man.
.1. They grow annually from six to
ten percent of their normal live weight
In wool, which sella for tnoio than
three times as much as the Hiwh of nay
animal, nnd furnishes a splendid cover
for the 1 ody In the winter, as well as
give.-i employment lo thousands of
Rlclll'-d lahnreis to convert It Into fab
ric for tho itso of man.
4. They return more nnd better fer
tility to enrich the Boll e:id distribute
the name mure evenly than liny other
animal. They help keep the land free
of weeds and convert the sumo Into a
valuable commodity. They are the
most easily manng?d animals and d i
not tramp arid tear up the field and
lots like others, and ono - can turn
then Into fi.'lds to pick tip waste where
othar nnlmals could not be tolerated,
nnd thus save ii viut otherwise) actual
loss; nnd they can be retained In en
closures that will not hold either of
tho others. Tbcy thrive and fatten on
pasture without uny grain, but do not
thrive In a pasture without grass.
Sheep give, on nn average more pounds
of meat per bushel of grain than either
hogs or cattle.
For example: The la3t flock I
raised and fattened was seventy-one;
yearling wethers and six ewes from 2
to ti years old 'in all,, seventy-seven
lioad. Their average weight when I
commenced feeding on December 15,
was 131 pounds, nnd In March, when
shipped, wa.i l'ja pounds. They made
a gain of thirty-four pounds per head
In seventy-seven days. They were fdd
three bushels of corn per day und what
clover huy thoy wanted, and occasion
ally a feed of oat straw or cornfoddor
Instead. You see in aeventy-Beven
days they ate 231 bushels of corn, and
gained 2018 pounds, an average gain
of 11 1-3 pounds per bushel.
My cnttle have never done that on
dry feed, and not often on grasa and
corn.
Farm Notes.
Dcn't syoll a mellow field by start
ing the cultivators at once after a
heavy rain. Give the ground time to
dry oft a little.
If tho corn pasture Is short, place
out with sweet corn. A choice bit of
food at milking time will icduce a bet
ter flow of milk.
If yoit put hogs In yards where the
fences are poor, don't be surprised If
you have a job chasing them three
or four time3 a day.
Hogs will do well on rape nny time
cfttr the plant is ci'ht or nine Inches
I1I5I1. By turning In at th!3 stage tho
begs seldom show any bad effects.
Properly fed and cared for, there are
no better winter layers than the Light
Brahma puiletB or yearling hens. They
lay a large ezs of a rich brown col
or. Pure watar Is as essential to the
dairy cow ns to man, and if she ia
forced to drink Impure water, the qual
ity and quantity of milk avenge the
injustice.
Make frlend3 with the young heifers,
especially those from the best cows of
the herd. In a few years they will
be milking cows, and it docs not pay
to have to tame them with the milking
stool.
It la not the shoes that injure the
horses, but the way they are put on.
The selling qualities of a pair of
draft horses are greatly added to by
previous careful drilling, training to
work.
The Great African Railroad.
The Cape-to-Cairo railroad now ex
tends northward from Ca;town, a dis
tance of 2100 miles, a regular train
service being operated over the road.
While Jt has not yet begun to stow
any profits, traffic is Increasing, some
3000 tons of zinc ore alone being han
dled monthly. It is stated that during
the current year large amounts of roil
ing stock and equipment will be or
dered, as also will a great deal of
building material for the extension of
the line northward. 2v"ew Ycrs
"VorlO.
The Bright Side.
Iljr TOM P. MORGAN.
"After all, the fife of the horny
handed son of toll has Its . recom
penses," a bit grimly remarked th
honest but eminently astute agricul
turist.' "It is true that us angular
agriculturists are cartooned in lbs
comic papers, lampooned, and occa
sionally bubooned on tho stage, and
nre frequency run over by automo
biles, nnd the poets slng-ho, slng-hey,
and a rondelay, without any special
provocation as far as t can see,
about us, and we are kept pretty
busy horning oft agents uf various
kinds and being everlastingly licked
for our impudence In the best maga
zines by cleaued-llmhed young col
lego men with pale, dissipated faces,
and are considerably kicked by the
lowing klne, stung by the busy bee,
and are forever losing our wallets
and our equilibrium every time we
get as far as seven miles from home;
but still, 1 admire to say that I be
lieve wo are about as well off as the
city men, who, according to what I
read In the papers, suffer from the
socdal nmbltlons of their women
folks, tho slings nnd arrows of them
they olect'lo olllce, tho wile of ad
venturesses, blots and nil such as
that on their escutcheons, nnd tho '
tliouoind nnd one fads, follies and
fobbU'i tjint nfllltt people who feel
thnt they must keep up appearances,
and a lifelong warfure with first
mortgage bonds, second mortgage
bonds. Improvement bondi, refund
ing bonds, blanket mortgage bonds,
common stock, preferred stock,
treasury stock, watered stock, the
old Knickerbocker Btock, consoli
dated first, second and third mort
gage bonds, nnl Incidentally, In a
good many cases, the Balling bonds
of wedlock.
"I believe I'll stick to tha old farm
for a spell yet. It ain't near as
picturesque ns the city, but It also
lacks quits a good deal of being as
strenuous." From Puck.
WORDS or WISDOM.
Loilc Is the geometry of tho Intelli
gence. Logic Is essential to thought.
Hut thought Is no mora the product
of login than n landscape Is the pro
duct of geometry. Victor Hugo.
Evil Is somehow a Btepping-stonn to
nil our good. Heroism, piety, tender
ness, have been born out of pain. Tht
expectation of a herenfier gives hope
that no individual moral germ I lost,
and wo see that tho crowning victory
of life Is the persister.ca of man's
good against the evil. George S.
Merrlam.
V,'l:nt is love? I think the gnulnn
article is wife, unsoIMsh Interest in
other people's welfare, Interest In
other lives than my own: it Is to be
happy In their happiness. If I have
but little happiness of my own, this
Is ono way to borrow some by belnj
glad In the gladness of others.
Charles G. Ames.
Build your social Intercourse on the
things that are real In all our lives,
not on the commonplaces. Make the
law of your balng a law of sympathy,
not one of repulsion; and, so sure as
the daylight Is stronger than the
night, you will find that life becomes
larger and swoeter for you continual
ly. Henry Wilder Foote.
Conventionalities are hard to dsal
with, and that Is because they are not
all wrong. In fact, it is only reali
ties which pas3 into conventionalities.
Conventionalities are not created as
such. The history I this. Realities
are seen to bo so good that everyone
is expected to oppress more or less of
them In his life. It is only the insin
cerity with which that is doao that
makes them mischievous. It i3 not
the saying "I go. Sir," that is wrong,
but tho not going. Archbishop Ben
son. What Is not serious Is science
ensering at tho infinite, p.iopla have
como to tho point of wanting to sea
everything nnd toucii everything, liiti
idolaters. Wo havo already noted
this singular coinsicliica. Induction
and in'.uiticn aro hold in suspicion.
Induction, tho great or?an of lo-jic;
intuition, the great organ o! con
science. To admit t!'c visible and the
palpable alone is tho condition of ob
servation. This W elimination and
nothing clso. And who knows? It
may be eliiuir.aUoa of reality. Vic
tor Hugo.
The Needy Spot.
A sense of humor i3 a sa ving graci .
In a schoolmaster. Used wisely it is
a far more effective weapon of disci
pline than the ferule. Dr. Dawey,
principal of the old high school of
Rochester, N. Y., counted it among
his other excellent attributes, and
Jenny M. Parker, in her book on the
city, quotes several instances of its
Scacy.
A boy In Dr. Dewey's room had ar
ranged a complicated mechanism by
which the lid of his desk could be
held open, exposing a mirror. Ons
day the lad, behind the shield of thi
cover, was elaborately brushing hU
hair and admiring Its effect la the
glass.
Smoother and more carefully h;
plastered down his shining locks, ut
terly oblivious to the rest of the
world. Unbeknown to him Dr. Dewey
had stolen quietly up behind his chair
and was gazing at the process wKh
great amusement. Suddenly he re-.
marked:
"Smith. It's the Inside of your head
that needs brushing."
Smith jumped a foot or two from.
his seat and the deik ltd ram a rtaarn
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