TUB BALLAD OF THE BETHELL, Homeward bound was tha Bcthell, out from tha Midland Sea. Part the Strait of Gibraltar into the west ailed ahe. laaao Freemnn, the master, thought of his cargo anld, (Thought of the wares of Europe laden safe in tne noici, Prayed for a peaceful passage, yet if fight he must- Letters of marque he carried, and a ecore ot guns outtnrust Their menace to French and Spaniards, who never would need to know That six of the guns were wooden for the Bethell still should go Safe overseas to Boston, with riches Drought trom lar To owners that dared the uttermost, do spite tving George's War. v The tun swung low to the westward, lost were the hills of Spain, iWhcii far through the golden sun-track a ail rose out of tne main. Slowly it grew to a vessel, blocking the Bethell'a path, Like a beast of prey that waited far the glutting of its wrath ; And through the waning daylight a sea schooled eye could tell Twaa the flag of Spain that lifted and sank on the long ground-swell. Bo great a foe for the Bethell, so small and all unfit! Never such need had Freeman to summon his Yankee wit. All hands below!" he shouted. "Search every man his chest; .With your Sahba'-day hats and jackets let staves and oars he dressed! Then range them along the gunwale good scarecrows breed goou fear! Hake sure that nil your lanterns are trimmed and burning clear; String them aloft in the rigging; then lieave the guns welt out, Quakers' and all step lively!" "Aye, aye!" came the answering shout. Thus did the peaceful Bcthell put on a fighting gumc, Thus through the gathering darkness she loomed for twire her size, As under the flag of England to the Span iard close she drew, Brave with her lights and cannon, proud of her mighty crew. So they hove to and parleyed, ehouting across in the night, Clear sounded Freeman's trumpet; "Yield while ye may or fight! iWliat should the Spaniard answer, with a British sloop of war Full-armed, full-manned, as he thought her, monstrous of hull and spar. Rolling there in the darkness, ready to fire and board? Bitter the cry came back: "I yield take ye my ship and eword! " iWith the cheer that rang from the Bethell a laughing note was blent. 'And the Spanish master, bewildered, won dering what it meant. iWondered no more when, captive, on Free man's deck he stood, And looked on the paltry cannon, six of them hewn from wood. And the YanRee crew redoubled by a muslcv of empty clothes. Then what a torrent of fury, what a flood of Spanish oaths! For his guns were six and twenty, and his crew a hundred and ten To the BethelPi puny complement of seven and thirty men; And the Jesus Maria and Joseph, the ship he had brought so far. Bound from Havana to Cadiz, lost without cratch or scar, ,Was a register ship deep-laden with chests of silver and gold, Doubloons and dollars by thousands, for naught to a trickster sold! But vain the wrath jf the prisoners, manacled nil by morn; For pleading they got but laughter, for cursing but looks of scorn, '' "Till they made Fayal, where the Spaniards, -fummg but now set free. Saw captor and captive westward fade over the rounding sea. And the folk of Boston marveled when seamen swart and strong, --- Armed to the teeth like pirates, bore the treasure along Through winding streets to the mansion where an oaken cellar door Swung shut with the owner's blessing on the sea and its golden store. And pieces of eight, of goodly weight, should have lined the captain's kit For the bloodless fight he had won that - night all by his Yankee wit. w -M. A .DeWolfe Howe, in Youth's Com- panion. n n BETH'S PREMIUM. Not aMadt-Up Story-It EvaryBIt Happened. Elizabeth Price in 8t. "Nicholas. L.J L.J It wag very hot to ait still and sew. The needle would get sticky In spite Of all the little emery strawberry could give It, and Beth's fingers had never felt so clumsy and uncomfort able. It only May and Billy would play a little further off It would help some, but there they were In plain sight, under the very shadiest maple, With all the games Beth lffced best. It was an apron she was making White cambric with wee cunning pockets and bretelles that were to come quite up to her shoulders and narrow, delicate tatting over-handed very bit of the way around only the belt. It wasn't at all like the aprons little girls wear nowadays, but It was stylish then, and very pretty. Beth had made It, every stitch seams and facing that had to be hemmed down o carefully, and It was all done ex cept a part of the tatting. But oh! tfcve had been such a lot of that yards and yards It seemed to Beth, as she glanced longingly out once more at the shade, and May, and Billy, and the games. When you are only eight years old there are things that seem more interesting than over-handing. Mamma, busy at her own sewing, neard a long-drawn sigh and looked up to smile comfortingly. "I think you'll be through by E o'clock, Bethy," she said. "You know we must send It off to-night so as to have It entered on time. You've done beautifully, dear, and you de serve a premium whether you get It or not." Beth smiled back and de cided that, after all, it wasn't so dreadfully hot, and 5 o'clock wasn't very far away. "Do you think I'll get it, mamma?" she asked for the twentieth time. "I don't know. dear. ' If mnmm was Judge, you surely would, but they saven i invitea me to award any prizes. You mustn't count on It too bum, ior you may do disappointed, but your time has not been wasted even If you get nothing but the pretty apron, and the pleasure of knowing that you made It yourself, and very neatly." "What Is this talk I hear of pre miums and mysteries?" demanded Uncle Ed, coming In from the porch. "It's the county fair, Uncle Ed- next week and they have offered $5 to the beBt sewing under fourteen years old, and I'm trying to get It," explained Beth, excitedly. "Which you surely ought to do, for I can testify that your sewing Is con siderably less than fourteen years of age," declared the roguish uncle. But Beth was too full of her subject to heed teasing. Uncle Ed had been away for a month, and it was such a comfort to find somebody who hadn't heard the matter discussed over and again. "I'm only eight, Uncle Ed, but I've been most as careful as fourteen, don't you think?" and the needle roughened forefinger pointed to the tidy hem. Uncle Ed hunted for his eyeglasses "because I can't see them at all without," he declared. "Of all the ridiculously small stitches why, Beth, I'll be surprised If those near sighted judges don't think you've glued that petticoat together." "It's an apron, Uncle Ed," ex plained the small seamstress, patient ly. "It's very Important, because if I get the money It's to go Into the bank to help my education, so I can be a teacher, and mamma won't have to work." "I see. And It you don't get It you'll have to be an Ignoramus all your life. I should think it IS Impor tant!" And then May and Billy clamored at the window, and Beth set the last careful stitch, and the clock struck 6. The county fair began as usual; Just as If Beth's apron were not a part of it. It was too far- away for mamma and the children to attend, but Uncle Ed went on the last day, and he was to bring back word ot the result. Beth was certain she should not sleep a wink until he came, no matter how late that was, but mam ma insisted on her going to bed as usual, and the next thing she knew it was broad daylight. Uncle Ed was down In the dining room, but he didn't say much just looked over his eyeglasses and talked about pre mium pigs and mowing machines and pretended he hadn't heard a word about aprons. Bethy crept away by herself. She understood she hadn't gotten any premium, and Uncle Ed didn't like to tell her. Well, If she couldn't ever be educated she'd have to be a dressmaker like mamma, and sew, no matter how hot it was. - And then breakfast was ready, and Uncle Ed called her to come quick before he starved. She slipped quietly into her chair and slowly lifted her plate to release an edge of the napkin, and there, un der it, folded neatly, lay her very own cambric apron with a blue rib bon pinned fast, and across it a smooth, gray-green, fascinating $5 bill. - And this Isn't a made-up story at all, for it every bit happened. Rings Around the Sun and Moon. Among the popular notions regard ing the weather" there are' several which seem to have a good founda tion. One ot them la that a ring around the sun or moon will be fol lowed In a day or two by a heavy storm. Such a ring is usually formed in a layer of cloud so thin as not en tirely to hide the luminary which is encircled, and the cloud is always at a great elevation. It Is apt to be composed of Ice particles, but, any how, the sheet proceeds from the up per part of a distant storm area, and Is swept eastward by one of the high er currents of air. . An observer of the United States Weather Bureau, writing from Columbia, Mo., notices a difference In the consequences ot rings of small diameter and those of greater diameter. The storm usu ally follows the former, It it occurs at all, In from twelve to eighteen hours. In the other case it is liable to be de layed from thirty to thirty-six hours. When a ring Is first observed, he says, the storm often Is 800 or 1000 miles away. Sometimes In its east ward movement it will press to the north or the south ot the observer, and hence It Is not a perfectly trust worthy sign, but great confidence in It Is felt by this particular scientist. Entertainment In "Esperanto, Everything was done in Esperanto the songs, admirably rendered by a local choir; the secretary's state ment, the presidential address, the speeches by delegates ot various na tionalities, and to all the miscellane ous audience everything was perfectly Intelligible. The Mayor ot Cam bridge, a local business man, whose life, I imagine, has not been given to linguistic studies, made, a speech in Esperanto; the Mayoress, with an ac cent less sternly British, followed him; the secretary ot the congress, whose working days are passed in Capel Court, spoke Esperanto as it he had never spoken anything else; Colonel Pollen, the vice-president, delivered his remarks in Esperanto of a son orous elocutionary quality. We sang "God Save the King" "Gardu' la regon Dl' " In Esperanto; to-morrow we shall assist at a representa tion of "Boks kal Coks," and anothet day we are to have a reading ot "Bardell kontrau Pickwick." From an "account of the Esperanto Congress In the Standard. Ihe Pilgrim Congregational Chnrch, near London, founded In KX6, is the oldest of the denomina tion in the empire, and it was from if that the London contingent ot th men ot the Mayflower was recruited. Bargaining With Dearth. Hy Clifford Howar3. O one of us Is so poor or so unworthy that he Is not ready to bar gain wllh death. Let the spectre name his price, and we give up our loves and our tobacco with equal promptness. He may have our fortunes rnd our homes, our pride and our achievements and as pirations yea, oven our our prayers. Let him wilderness; we will And beasts of tha Cc!d. Hotter, even, a browsing Nebuchadnezzar tnan a mourner Ing HercuU'3 - "" t , u It is needles.1 to tell us that Death Is an arch grafter. We know wan whom we are dealing. And we know, too, that he grins In his sleeve at our eagerness to delay tho Inevitable. What to him are ten more years, or fifty years or fifty centuries? Had Sargon, the mighty ruler of the Babylonion world, secured a respite of five thousand years, he would even so have been In his gravi. for more than a century when Richard of England led the Cru saders to the walls ot Jerusalem. Could Carnegie purchase a supplemental de eade for a hundred million or an added century for a billion dollars, what would It profit him or the wdrld In the year 3000? And old legend tells us that when Methuselah was live hundred years old an nngel came to hlrn and ad vised him to build a house, Instead ot living In the open air as he had been doing up to that lime The patriarch asked how much longer he had to live. "About five hundred years," answered the angel. "Than," said Methusela. "It is no tworth while to build a house." By this token Methuselah proved himself a pessimist. To Azrael a thou, and years may be as yesterday, but It Is not for us to follow the example of our antediluvian forefather and view existence through the eyes of death. Every moment added to our earthly tenure is regarded as that much gain. Tbe monk Hlldeshelm, listening to God In the melody of a bird for a space of threi minutes, found that In those three minutes three hundred years had flown. And so to each of us life means always the possibility of Joy and revel etlon unmeasured by time or space. Therefore, let us bargain with Death. True be will claim us at last, but we shall have had the better ot the bargain. Preventing the Destruction Of Public Property By C H, Forbes-Lln'laay. T not gMiorally known, but Is none the less a fact, that to Gilford PInchot more than to any other man Is due the present forest preserve policy of the administration; a policy designed to con serve what must prove to be one of the most Important factors in the future prosperity of the nation. Its Inception is Just in time to save the none too extensive forest areas of the country m from the grasping land sharks who recklessly denuded tne mid dle West and had planned to extend their destructive operations to the Pacific Coast. Of course these Interests have fought and abused PInchot and the principles which he represents, but with a better understanding of the ques tions involved, the powerful force of public opinion is rapidly ranging upon Ms side. The opponents ot the administration's policy respecting coal and forest lands are lining up their forces for a desperate fight at the next session ot Congress. The first step in the campaign was the convention held In Denver last June for the purpose of publicly denouncing that policy; but although the members had been selected for their supposed anti-administration sentiment, the attempt was abortive. It Is to be hoped that the congressional cabal will be confronted by an overwhelming expression of the people's determination to support the course ot honesty and wisdom. No enterprise in President Roose velt's administration has been of greater moment to the country at large than this movement to prevent the spoliation of the public property. Some Idea of tho magnitude of the matter may be gathered from the statement that the annual value of ou.' forest output is $1,000,000,000 and we are consuming yearly nearly four lmes as much lumber as we grow. From The World Today. IS? Impulse In Our Government By 8. P. Orth. HE government of a vast every clime and every altitude, busied with every pursuit known to civilization, Composed of every race born into the family of man; the'government of a mighty republic, wherein every man has a vote and Is eligible to office, can at best be but a govern ment by humnn nature In the raw. There are twelve million vntora In America. Manv of them are illiterate, few ot them are m learned, most of them are patriotic, all of theffl share In the government Upon thesa millions of freemen play the ambitions of party leaders, the cun ning of politicians, the selfishness of private Interests, and the Instincts ef the civilized animal man. When these facts are passed in review, we cannot be surprised that Impulse bears so leading a part in our government. The vote ot the ignorant, impulsive, prejudiced man counts for as much as that ot the sage. And there are only a few sages. The average voter Is amendable U all tho outward and inward Impulses that unite to make the current of public sentiment. Our government is just as sound as the common sense ot all the people, and Just as weak as the prejudices and Impulses of the masses. From The Aalantlc. Need of An Appalachian Forest Reserve By William, L,. Hall, of the United States Forest Service. HHE States east of the Mississippi are estimated to contain now but A I 900,000,000,000 feet of lumber. The States have reserved about 2,600, J I 000 acres. All the resf is tinder private ownership, which system nas resuitea in tne reaucuon ok me vuuuunumi iiib&i uum w.oi ing the entire area to its present condition. Over most of the re gion fires still burn without hinderance. The forest Is being used faster than ever before. As an Index of the changed situation In the timber supply In the Eastern States In ten years, note the rise In prices ot our leading woods. Whatever side the timber situation in the Eastern States Is viewed from, one U forced Irresistibly to the conclusion that remedial measures must be taken, and that quickly, or we shall be In the midst of a timber famine. The only remedy yet proposed which at all meets the situation Is for the Fed eral government to undertake the establishment of national forests In the Appal achian Mountains. Although the Appalachians bear large quantities ot pine, spruce and hemlock, they are essentially a hardwood region, and they are the only hardwood region we shall have In the future. There is no question but that with the right management the Appalachian Mountains would produce perma nently all the hardwood timber required In the United States. 0 0 How To Abolish By Dr. Frederick Massachusetts HE nnlv wav to eradicate T I seed. Cleanliness, good and sufficient food, plenty of air, ample I I water supplies, public parks, playgrounds and bath-houses these are auODg U1B IU1UH qwuliii, mo uj&ivuis u& nuiHuvo Uiuai uo looked after, and there must be all needed enactments in the in terest of the public health. Nowhere will co-operation, enriched by public spirit, yield a richer harvest than In striving along broad lines to prevent tuberculosis. Our work for the immediate future seems to lie In the direction ot generalizing and systematizing. An Immense service can be rendered by arousing the Interest of private and incorporated employers of labor. Mill owners and managers, as a class, are Intelligent and humane, and their attention should be called to this matter by their physicians. The result would be a saving, not a loss, to the employers, while the benefit to the indi vidual workers would be great If the world In medicine is "work," the word In the tuberculosis fight is "education." Lady Ernestine Hunt, eldest daught er ot the Marquis of Allesbury, owns and operates a horse ranch at Calgary, Alberta, on a stretch of land nearly 40,000 acres In extent- Trimming Ideas - Lfe numberless. Tiny ball drops, tassels and pendants ot all descriptions are shown on the new models. eyes and ears If he will but smile upon so command, and we will abide In the comfort In busKs; we win lie uown wim republic, covering an area that embraces Consumption C. Shattuck, of the Medical Society. tuberculosis Is to totally eradicate Its Since the opium act came into force Chinese tradesmen In Shanghai and other large cities have been mak ing big money by selling alleged cures for the opium habit The coal consumption a head Is greater in England than of any other country. . High Roosts. Boosts that are too high are often very Injurious to hens, and especially If your hens belong to one of the large, heavy breeds. When the birds jump off these high roosts they gen erally strike the floor quite heavily, and it oftentimes results In the dis ease known as "bumble-foot," which is at times quite hard to cure and, to say the least, is very unsightly. Have the perches anywhere from three to tour feet from the ground. Do not let the young chickens roost until their bones have hardened, for it you should you are liable to find that you have some chickens with de formed breast bones and such will have to be sold at a sacrifice In the market. Sack Holder. Nobody but a person who has tried It knows the difficulties encountered in filling a sack with potatoes, grain, old paper or similar articles. Gener ally two persons are required to per form the operation, one to hold the bag open while the other throws in the contents. It will readily be seen that a scheme which will obviate the necessity of employing a second per son would be ot Immense advantage, both In saving time and labor. A simple device of this nature has re cently been patented by a Minnesota man, and is shown in the accompany ing illustration. The sack or bag holder comprises a suitable platform, on which are mounted Inclined stand ards, by whichthe bag Is braced. At the top Is a lever which Is hinged to one of the uprights. At the end of the lever are two rings, one fitting within the other, the bag being clamped within them. A spring at the rear serves to hold the lever sup porting the rings, thus supporting the bag in an upright position. Feed Green Bone to Chicks. Green bone (freshly cut and very fine) may be fed to young chicks at all ages and stages of growth, but not too liberally. It serves as grit and Is digestible, which Is not the case with flint and other grit. If too much Is given at a meal the chick will be overtaxed and bowel disease will re sult. About a tablespoonful of the bone to twenty-five chicks once a day Is sufficient for them when a wppIt old, the quantity to be gradually ln- creasea as tbe chicks grow. One point to observe Is that all of the green bone must be eaten so as not to allow even the smallest portion to remain, or It may decompose and prove injurious. The Composition of Eggs. If the poultry keeper knows the composition of eggs he will better understand how to feed to furnish the DrODer food elementa naaAaA tn produce them. Scientists have found, aiter many analyses, that eggs con tain about fifty ner cent, water, sev enteen per cent, protein and thirty- tnree per cent, carbohydrates. There Is only about twice as much carbohydrates as nrotein. whiln in most grain there are from six to ten times as much. Wheat bran, which is considered very rich in protein, contains more than three times as much carbohydrates as protein. Wheat contains nearly seven times as much: oats, five time: pnrn. nlno times, and barley, eight times. Oil meai, on tbe other hand, contains nearly as much protein as carbohy drates; gluten meal, one and one third times as much carbohydrates as protein; cottonseed meal, twice as much: cow's milk, nearlv a much- dried blood, fifty-two times as much; meat meal, nearly thirty times as much. When It Is desired to make a ration of any of the grains for tbe produc tion of eggs, It can be seen that It is necessary to mix with anv nf them some ot the concentrated feeds, which contain a great deal of protein. Thus, II wheat Is fed, meat meal should be taken Into the ration. If corn Is made the bulk of the grain ration, a liberal amount ot dried blood should also be ted. SInee water makes up a half of the composition of eggs, it is essential that the laying hens have an abundance of clean water at all times ot the day. Colman's Rural World. How to Make Good Butter. In the first place, have the milk clean and separate while warm. Set. the cream In a clean place free from odors to cool. - Keep cans clean in which the cream is kept Never add warm water to the cold as it will cause it to sour. Stir well whenever fresh cream is added. Keep it sweet until twenty-four hours before churning. Second: To heat the cream, set the cans in hot water, stirring constantly until the cream is seventy degrees Fahrenheit, adding about one cup ol buttermilk (as a starter) to each can. Keep the cream at seventy de grees until It getsthtck; stlrfrequent ly, then set away to cool until ready to churn. When ready to churn have cream about sixty-two degrees In win ter and fifty-seven degrees in sum mer. Scald the churn, then rinse with cold water. Strain In the cream through a perforated dipper. Churn nntll tbe butter Is formed In grains about the size of wheat. Then put in two quarts of cold water to separate, give a tew quick turns, let stand for a short time, then let off the butter milk through the perforated dipper; this will keep the particles of butter from mixing with the butter-milk. Now add as much water as there was cream, having heated It to about sixty degrees. Turn fifteen or six teen times to wash the butter. Let It stand In the water until the butter worker Is ready, as It is to be scalded and cooled before using. Now drain off the water, lift out the butter care fully with the butter spade Into the tub, then weigh and spread on butter worker. Now sift on one ounce of salt to each pound of butter. Mix well with the butter spade, leave to dissolve for a few minutes, then nreai down with a lever until the brine goes all through. In using the lever press gently, avoiding a sliding or chopping motion. Work until It breaks like red hot Iron, then press it into a block or lump the lenrth of three pound prints and the depth ot one. Use parchment paper which has been well soaked In water. Set the print on paper, wrap It np neatly and set in a cool place. The butter- worker used Is a triangular sloping table with a lever attached. The Epltomlst. Handling Young Stock. As soon as the chicks weigh a pound or a pound and a half, tha mother should be taken away If she has not already deserted her brood and commenced laying. This is a critical time In the young chick's life, as the youngsters aro likely to run from coop to coop Just at dusk searching for the warmth of the mother hen. Some prefer to move them to larger coops than those in which they have been raised thus far, but us ually It will be found more satisfac tory to leave them In the "chick coops" until they are well wean or! from the mother hens. Be careful to keen them from crowding together In a few coops. This crowding Is often the cause of weaK ana almost worthless chicks. If the chicks have not been num. Ined after they are all settled for tha night, go from coop to coop and make a careiui examination to be sure that there are not too many In one house. If a house Is found with a large num ber in it, run your hand In among them and note the high temperature. You will then understand whv thin crowding Is so dangerous. Also no nce tne tendency for the chicks to crowd together in the coops that are fed first in the morning. To prevent this, change the order of feeding, so that they cannot tell which will be the first to be fed at the beeinntne nf each day. Be careful also that thev do not sleep on the ground, as this will cause them to sweat. The ground Is moist and cool, while their bodies are warm. This causes (he feathers to become saturated with mnistiira. Then when they go out in the early morning they are readily chilled, thus making; them unhealthy. Tha mnlaf damp atmosphere la also unhealthful for them to breathe during the night J. Q. Halfln, In The Cultivator. Corn Facts. The Purdue Experiment Station has found after a number ot experi ments covering several years that: TV 1 .l.u. i i a vcbi iciub ui i-uro uave ueeu produced by planting in the first third of May. Late planted corn has matured in twenty days' less time, as a rule, than the early planted. Thick planting has produced higher average yields of both corn and stalks than thin planting. In very dry seasons thick planting has produced less grain, but gener ally a greater total yield ot grain and stalks than thin planting. Plowing eight Inches deep has pro duced slightly greater yields ot corn than either shallower or deeper plow ing. Cultivation two inches daep has produced a little greater yield of cord than either shallower or deeper culti vation. Rotation of crops has proven an excellent means of sustaining yields ot grain and ot conserving soil fer- -tlllty. A liberal application ot fresh horse manure has not been fully exhausted by a dozen successive crops of corn. Fresh horse manure has produced an aggregate increase In yield of corn of about 120 bushels per acre in twelve years. Heavy dressings of manure and commercial fertilizers have not made profitable returns In yield of corn in dry seasons. Different varieties of corn show a very wide range in proportion of stalk and ear, which makes it easy tor the stockman to select a var rlety that will produce a large or small percentage ot grain. Co-operative tests of varieties of corn indicate the nndesirablllty ot letting set) trosa remote localities.
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