MR. FOLIIEE'S CHOICE. By MAUD SHIELDS. Martin Folinbeo lay dying. The light of a crimson and sold sunset flooded his room. At his bedside tood his faithful attendant, John, friend and servant for over thirty years, a shrewd, hard-headed man like his master. "John," said the dying man, "I nm what is called a self-made man; I've worked hard all my life to amass money and to what end? That it may pass Into the hands of a fool! I have striven to live honestly, to do right as far as lay in me, and my re ward Is to have bred an only son who Is a fool." Here he paused for want of breath and the servant did not contradict him. "Promise me that you will never leave him, John, or he will fall among thieves." "As long as I live I will bide with Master Lancelot," John said, sol emnly. , Martin Folinbce groaned. ' "His mother couldn't even give him a man's name," he said, irritably. "Lancelot! A son of mlno Lancelot! " The light faded in the west, and the old shipowner's spirit passed with It through tho golden gates. ' John pondered on these things as he counted the forks. The scene had changed to Lancelot Folinbee's flat In the Oriental, where John had taken up his residence as butler-valet to the young man who, rightly or wrongly, had been pronounced a fool by the person most capable of judg ing. 1 Mrs. Lomax, called familiarly Daisy" very familiarly, John thought and her companion, Miss .Winter, had been of the party. Now, Mrs. Lomax was a prepossessing widow of some thirty years, and Widows on the undoubted authority of the immortal Mr. Weller are dangerous; one of them being, on the same authority, equal to five-and-twenty "ord'nary women in p'lnt o' comin' over you." John had never heard of Mr. Weller, but he regarded widows or Mrs. Lomax in particu-lar--from a similar standpoint. To Miss Winter he had no objection; she Was a quiet-looking girl of some three or four and twenty years, who dressed becomingly John had his own Ideas on the propriety of decol lete gowns such as Mrs. Lomax af fected but there was a look some times In the girl's eyes that discon certed him so clear and blue and childliko one minute, and the next brimming over with the very spirit of mirth. Mrs. Lomax had adopted Mr. Folinbee that is to Bay, she had pitchforked him into her set the set that is called "smart" In return for which she allowed him to pay for luncheons, dinners, theatre seats In numerable, sat on the box seat of his drag, invited her friends to parties on his launch, called him Lance, and allowed him to call her Daisy some times. A ring roused John from his meditations, and told him his master wished to rise. At breakfast Mr. Follnbee opened his letters, and John, passing from sideboard to table, had ample time to study the contents of ne; It was a jeweler's bill for a dia mond star. "When are we going to Ashcroft, Mr. Lancelot?" he Inquired. Ashcroft was the parental roof-tree a gloomy mansion in a well-wooded park; and Mr. Folinbee knew that when John suggested an adjournment thither there was thunder In the air. "I shall run down presently for a flay or two," he replied, absently. "Yes give me a poached egg. I er fc dare say things want seeing to." "Dootless the folks'd be glad to see their master a bit more than they do," John said, severely. "D'you think they'd like to Bee a mistress?" Mr. Follnbee asked, cas ually, with a very slight click in his throat. John laid the knife and fork down with the air of a man who knows the worst and is armed. "I don't think they'd take kindly to yon woman," he said. "Meaning ?" "Ye ken who I mean right weel; the old master 'ud turn in his grave, I do believe, if yon Mrs. Lomax was mistress of Ashcroft." ' "I think you're becoming too free, don't you know?" Mr. Folinboe said. "It's time some one spoke to ye; ye've ueighter kith nor kin to advise nor blame, an' I promised tho old master I'd look after ye'." "He didn't say I was to remain a bachelor all my life, did he?" "The man wasna a fule; I hope me aelf time'Il see ye the father of as bonny a family o' bairns as ever man . had, but I'm not thinkin' yon wom an's the mother for them." "You think I might marry, then?" "I think 'tis your duty, when the right woman comes along, but not before." Mr. Folinboe inspected his food carefully, with the assistance of his eyeglass, and the conversation lagged. Mrs. Lomax rented a 111 tie house on the seashore, a charming cotlnge, covered with roses nnd a vine, with a picturesque garden radiant now In its summer beauty, a velvet, smooth lawn sloping to the river, with one great, spreading cedar tree in the middle, and two or three charmingly sheltered eummer houses where one mlBht indulge in a siesta or a confi dential chat-without fear of Inter - ruptiou. ' One such was close to the beach, a sort of miniature pagoda, With carved lattice windows. It was a hot afternoon In mid-June. Mr. Lomax, In a diaphonous tea gown, lay on tho sofa In her drcssiug room, In tho shade afforded by tho sun blinds, fanning herBelf. "You're not going out, surely, Isa bel?" she asked, as that young wom an looked in upon her. . "I'm going to look for a shady spot to read In." "It's very irritating to people who have to gasp for every breath." "You shouldn't gasp; lie still and breathe naturally. People lose half the things life has to give by striving after them; It is better to take things quietly." "If you are going to talk like that I shall want to throw something at you," Mrs. Lomax said. Isabel laughed, a quiet, low ripple of sheer amusement. Then she went Into the garden and across the lawn to the pagoda. A boat was moored to tho steps under the sheltering trees, and the odor of a cigarette mingled with the scent of tho roses. In no way disturbed by these phenom ena, Isabel ran lightly up the steps, and beheld Mr. Folinbee stretched at full length In a wicker chair, his coat off and his shlrt-sleevs turned up. "Ey George! isn't it hot?" he said, springing to his feet with more agil ity than his friends would have placed to his credit. "It was foolish to come; you might Get a Biinstroke." "I always try to keep appoint ments." "Appointments?" "I asked if you would be in the pagoda this afternoon, and you said" "Possibly." "Your lips did, I know; your eyes said 'Yes.' " . "Then they should have had more self-respect." Sho sat down on the steps, the water lap-lapping at her feet, and the sun's piercing rays glancing through tho leafy network overhead and mak ing a gold and copper patchwork of her hair. "You might say you've pleased to see me," he said. "I can truthfully say that, for I want to talk to you." "There Is nothing I like better than hearing you I came on purpose, and and I want to talk, too." "Then you must wait until I've had my say." "May I sit beside you and finish my cigarette?" taking tho permis sion as granted. "Mr. Folinbee something of my history you know, that I am penni less and " "That part doesn't matter a bit." "But you don't know that when my mother died, five years ago, Mrs. Lomax offered me a home uncondi tionally." "I wish I had had the chance." He knew, none better, that Mrs. Lomax never repented of the bar gain; Isabel was maid, dressmaker, secretary, companion, all combined, at a remuneration no other woman would have accepted. "She and my mother were distant cousins so that it was all the more creditable on her part, because no one likes to have poor relations about the place." "Rats!" said Mr. Folinbee, calmly. "Whore?" "Xever mind, dear go on." "So I invited you here to-day " "You admit it?" "Yes to say that you must never come again." "Oh! You could have said that on a postal card." "You must know, Mr. Folinbee, that people think you are going to marry Mrs. Lomax?" "There are more lunatics at large than locked up." "You have given her presents." "I admit the accusation." "Then you arc not going to marry her?" "Not whil3 tho present law exists. My dear," with a quick change of tone, flingins the cigarette away, "I am going to marry you yoa know It." "Why have yon not told Mrs. Lo max so all along?" "Eecause she would have shown mo the door, and we should have had to meet at the Art Gallery, or In the park. Think of it!" "She must be told now." Iln a week or two; It's too hot to day, and she might send me away Without any tea. Besides, I want to ba near you." Thcu their eyes met, and he kissed her. A sharp ring summoned John to the front door of th9 Follnbee flat. Mrs.. Lomax stood outside. "Is1 Mr. Follnbee at home?" sho asked., - "No, ma'am. He went to Ashcroft this morning." "Suddenly?" "The business manager wrote for him." A telegraph boy came whistling noisily up the stairs and thrust a telegram into John's band. "Any answer?" ho demanded. "Maybe," said John. "This is from him." It was and ran thus: "Ashcroft. Ssnd clothing; ami go ing to Newport for a month. Wa3 married to Miss Winter this morning. Will write further instructions. "FOLINBEE." John gave Mrs. Lomax the tele gram with a trembling hand. "There is no answer," he said. The boy cluttered down stairs again, leaving John and Mrs. Lomax staring at each other. John's voice broke the silence. "He lanot such a fool as I took him for!" he tN3. New York Weekly. Triangular Alliance. Pigs, orchard and clover make a tri angular alliance with a benefit to all three, except ihat tho clover is a sacii flce to the thrift of the pigs and the trees. The clover keeps the soil light and mellow. The hogs thrive on the green fodder, and upon the insects and wormy fruit. American Cultivator. Hens In Clover. If the hens forage on a clover field It will be all they mny need while the weather is warm, although a feeding at night will do no harm 11 they are lay ing. White clover Is better than red because it Is shorter and can be more easil eaten, but any klud of grass may be utilized. Farmers 'Home Journal. Milk for Hoes. If you want to raise hogs, dairy cows will furnish skim milk for rapid ond cheap development. If you want to get good returns lrom poultry, slilm milk, will prcbably have a still great er value. If you want to raisa a fam ily of healthy children, clean milk from healthy cews will be a great aid. If you want to Improve the soil, the mr.n ure from well-fed dairy cows' will do It quickly and the improvement will be of long duration. Progressive Farmer. Beets for Cows. What Is the most profitable beet to raise for Btock feeding? Da the larger sorts contain the required mllk-produc- ing quality? What I most desire is a large ylelder. and also a profitable beet for milk. Have raised a few crops of tho Tankard, but my crop this year appears to contain several varieties. D. Z. Bellinger. The mangel Is the most profitable beet for stock raising, and the ovoid varieties are generally preferable to the long ones. Some dairymen who force their cows for largo yields prefer a table beet, but it ' is much more expensive to raise. Coun try Gentleman. Breed and Age for Egga. As regards egg production of differ ent breeds, it was found at the Ontario experiment station, that thirteen Ply mouth Rock hens laid COS egrs, the average cost per dozen being 6.02 cents, and during the same time an equal number of Audaluslans laid 835 eggs, the cost per dozen being 5.34 cents. In general hens over two years old, Director W. R. Graham points out, are seldom good layers. "Leghorns, Mln orcas, etc., are sometimes good dur ing their third and four years; but, generally speaking, the Rocks and such fowl are of little or no use &? layers after the second year, being much in clined to become excessively fat. "For summer egg production the lighter Breeds or late-hatched pulle!s of the heavier breeds are best. Do not expect a hen that has laid well nil winter to lay exceptionally well dur ing the summer." Ameilcuu Cultiva tor. Ice Evaporates. An Inquirer asks If ice evaporates, and whether plants under thin sheets of Ice can be protected by it temporar ily. In answer, plants may be project ed by Ice If they happen to be in prop er position, the most common form being in snow. Ice and snow evaporate slowly at all temperatures. They evap orate most rapidly when nearly up to the freezing point, and with the wind blowing strongly over them. The lc?s the wind, tho slower the evcpo:allon; and as the temperature falls, the less Is evaporated. The experiment may be easily tried during continuous cold weather, by pouring water on the face of a horizontal board where it will freeze, and then olsorvlr.g the time re quired for it to disappear undar the various conditions of co'.d. wind and time. It often happens that crops ars planted in windy places, and become covered with a coat of snow. The wind evapotate3 the snow before the owner Is aware, and winter-killing Is the re sult. Country Gentleman. Fill the Wallow. The gcrra-ladencd hog wallow is growing In disfavor every year. Many people used to contend that it was nat ural for tho hog to seen the filthy wal low and that such places should be provided for tlm to satisfy this inclin ation. It was claimed that the primi tive hog was a lover of filth and that the present day animal cannot forget his first love. While the animal may have many of the desires of the prim itive hog, he is a very different creat ure. The present day hog is the re sult of- much careful breeding till ho is very uullke the primitive hog. He haB become accustomed to different conditions nnd-if he Is exposed to con ditions like those to which the primi tive hog was accustomed, he will to come infected with diseas?. The dis ease ladcnedjvallow is or.o of the ex poourea he lif unable to withstand. It is useless for tho farmer to make nn attempt to fight disease when the wal low in which the animal spends half his time is filled with the germs of every known disease. Fill up tit wal low. Farmers' Homo Jqurcal. Llrjht and Heavy Oato. The weight of oata per bushel varies from thirty pounds to fifty, End even fifty-five pounds in some of tha west ern irrigated states. The offic of ex periment stations notes an experiment on three pairs of Percheron horses which were fed light and heavy oat The practical results of this experi ment seem to Indicate that pound for pound, the light oats have nearly the same feeding value as the heavy oats. Although the heavy oats contain a higher percentage of protein and car bohydrates, and a less percentage of fibre than the oats, it seems probable that the relative proportions of these constituents are such that they are more easily nnd thoroughly digested. It should be remembered that although the two grades are practically equal, pound for pound, they are not equal, quart for quart, and that In feeding by measure, as is usual, allowance should be made, for heavy oats and a less portion given. Since oats are bought nnd sold by weight Instead of measure, there seems to be no gain made in buy ing heavy oats at nu advanced price over light onts. American Cultivator. Buying a Hor68. If you want to buy a horse take no man's word for its soundness and value, but tri:st your own eyes and Judgment. Don't buy a horse in har ness. Unhitch him nnd take everything off but the halter and lead him around. If he has any falling you can see It. Let him go away by himself and if he walks right into anything you will know he Is blind. No matter how clear and bright hi3 eyes are he is wholly sightless. Take hl'.n by the head nnd make him move backward.. Some horses show their weakness or other tricks in that way when they don't in any other. Notwithstanding the closest examina tion you can make of a strange horse you are liable to be deceived. Even ex perts are deceived sometimes after the most careful and thorough tests. A horse may look ever so nice and go to a great, pace and yet have fits. No man can tell of the existence of this ailmen until something happens to develop It. Or he may have a weak back. Give him the whip and off he goes for a mile or two, then suddenly he stops. After a rest he starts again but soon stops and for the time being is unable to move. Such a horse and there are many such fixed up for sale, is worth no more than the value of his hide. Epltomist. Farm Notes. Breed the best ewes to the best rams. Sheep are always improving or they are deteriorating. The way to keep ideal Bhecp Is by trying to improve them. Stationary troughs and racks are not desirable in tue sheep stable. An uneven lot of good sheep are bet ter than an uneven lot of poor ones. In fattening sheep especially, punct uality In feeding should be strictly ob served. Ewes will produce larger and better lambs If In a thrifty condition at time of mating. At weaning, if possible, the ewes should be placed in a field out of hear ing of the lambs. It is well to place the ewes on short pasture for a week or more; after the lambs are weaned. If a radical change in the rations is made'too suddenly, growth of both bedy and fleece is liable to suffer a check. From "Sheep Notes" in tho Farmers' Home Journal. CROKER'3 JOKE ON ENGLISH. Corrows $25,0j3 as a Poor Irish Farmer Under the Land Act. Richard Croker was recognized ns a "poor Irish tenant farmer" by tho Irish Land Commission, and thereby hanrs a ta'.o showing tho old Tam many boss btlll possesses all his finan cial shrewdness and persuasive abil ity in argument. Where a lawyer failed Croker succeeded not once, but twice in having the commission change It3 mind, and because of his fine work ho becomes a borrower from the British exchequer under exceptionally favorable terms. . Croker offeied $31,500 for a farm to Lord Carysfort, and after much nego tiation tho offer was accepted. Then Croker sent his lawyer before the Land Commission to argue that under the Irish Land act of 1903 It should advance the money to buy the farm. The commission would not be moved, and Croker himself appeared before it and answered tho old question of New York days, "Where did you get it?" by saying, "I have not got it." Croker looked grieved and exclaimed: "You gentlemen are treating me unfairly. You think I am the million aire I am reported to be. I tell you I am not a millionaire. I am as much entitled to the benefits of this act as any other tenant in Ireland." Tho commissioners pondered Crok cr's plea, aud offered to advance $15, CSO, but Croker returned again to the attack, nnd to Euch good effect that he rccicved the full grant of $15,000 under tho law. Jut what this means In a busiiiosl way may be gathered from tho fact tho $23,000 will be re rai l, with 3 12 percent interest in di minishing Installments extending over f.Z years and not only that, but the annual repayment will be 30 per cent less than tho annual rnt Croker was paying to Lord Carysfort for the farm. Dublin correspondence cf th ! New York Press. .AFFAIR TEST FOR WATER. There is no better or simpler way of testing suspected water than the following: i Fill a clean pint bottle nearly full of the water to be tested and dissolve In it hnlf a teaspoonful of loaf or granulated sugar. Cork the bottle and keep In a warm place two days. If the water becomes cloudy or milky within that time it is unfit for do mestic use. New Haven Register. TO TEST HEAT. To judge of the heat of ah oven try the oven every ten minutes with a piece of white paper. If too hot the paper will blaze up or blacken; when the paper becomes dark brown rather darker than ordinary meat pie crust the oven is fit for small pas try. When light brown the color of nice pastry it is ready for tarts. When the paper turns dark yellow you can bake bread, large meat pies or pound cake, while -if It is Just tinged the oven is fit for sponge cake and for meringues. New Haven Reg ister, RIBBON CAKE. Four eggs, two cups sugar, one half cup butter, three-fourths cup milk, one-half teaspoon soda, one tea spoon cream tartar, three cups flour; reserve a third of this mixture and bake the remainder in two small sheets of the same size; add to the re served mixture a cupful each of cur rants and raisins, two tablespoons of molasses, one teaspoon each of all klnd3 of spices; bak9 In tho same size of tins as the other sheets; put the layers together with frosting or jelly, placing the fruit sheet between the others. New Haven Register. TO LIGHTEN A NORTH ROOM. No one wants a gloomy room, but what to do with one facing north is often a difficult problem. Some people do without curtains to allow all the light possible to come into the room, but it is not so much light that one needs as sunshine, and when this cannot bo had, one must make it, or, rather, get the effect of It. Try having It papered with a soft yellow paper. A good plan is to have a light yellow on the walls as far as tho picture molding, and a lighter shade, almost a cream, above this and on the ceiling. "Then yellow silk sash curtains, pulled back, tend to make a room appear sunny, says Home Chat. Brass can make a wonderful dif ference to a dreary room. A large jardiniere, with a plant In It, placed In a dark corner, will lighten up the corner marvellously. Brass fireirons, too, will glvo a cheery reflection, even candlesticks help, and little trays and bowls, be they ever so small. The importance of brass In a sunless room cannot be too strongly emphasized. Mirrors brighten it up, and so do some pictures, with well polished glasses and glided frames. I- EPICUREANS: Ess Salad Cut hard boiled eggs fa halves, mash the yolk, mix with mayonnaise, and heap tho halves; cut the edges in points. Stand on a bed of lettuce cr watercress, and sur round with cheese balls. 'Peche Melba Get large halved canned peaches; drain and wipe dry; make plain vanilla ice cream; fill each half in pyramid form, and to; with a candied cherry. Fifteen-Minute Biscuit Sift three times two cups flour with four tea spoons baking powder and pinch of salt; work in with tips of fingers two and one-half tablcspoonfuls butter; add quickly one-halt cup milk, bare ly mixing through with blade of knife. Drop spoonfuls on buttered pan, a little apart, and bake in hot oven twelve or fifteen "minutes. Blanc" Mange Three ounces of Isinglass, one .pint of milk, one tea spoonful of almond flavoring, one and one-half cupfuls of cream, one-quarter pound of Jordan almonds, one half cupful of sugar, two tablcspoon fuls of noyea. Cover the Isinglass with the milk,' stand it aside for fifteen minutes, then heat In a dou ble boiler until thoroughly dissolved. Add the almonds, blanched and chopped very fine, and the sugar; take from tho fire and add the cream. Strain; add tho noyea, turn at once into a mold and stand aside to hard en. Serve with plain or whipped cream. ' Apple Cobbler Take about ten apples, peel and slice in quarters, put on stove to stow a little with a piece of butter the size of a walnut and a little water to prevent burning; also add one-half cup of sugar; take off stove and put In a deep pudding pan and Una top with a layer of pastry rolled out to tho thickness of one half Inch; put in oven and cook till a nice brown, and servo with a hard sauco made thus: One cup pulverized sugar, one-half cup of butter, one teaspoonful vanilla extract; beat al together until nice and light; when serving cobbler place a tablespoonful on each piece. POISON IN FOODS Preservatives Used Are the Cause of Many Diseases, Washington. Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, of the department of agriculture, report ed to the house committee on agri culture, the results of exhaustive ex periments conducted by tho bureau to determine the poisonous effect on the) human system of such drugs as bo rax, benzoic acid, benzoate of soda, sulphate of copper, sulphur, dioxide, formaldehyde and salycilllc acid, whe'i contained In food stuffs. Dr. Wiley said that the expulsion of these and kindred drugs from the body Is performed almost entirely by the kidneys, and that be is satisfied the term of American life would be lengthened If the use of such drugs In foods were wholly discontinued. He said be was convinced that kid ney disease, so prevalent among Americans, is partly the result of con stant Introduction Into the system of such preservative substances as ben zoate of soda, carried in foods. TUIIE FOOD No Food Commissioner, of any Slate has ever nttneked the absolute purity of Grape-Nuts. Every analysis undertaken shows this food to be made strictly of Wheat and Barley, treated by our processes to partially transform the starch parts Into a form of Sugar, and there fore much easier to digest. Our claim that It Is a "Food for Brain nnd Nerve Centres" is based upon the fact that certain parts of Wheat and Barley (which we use) contain Nature's brain- and nerve building ingredients, viz., Phosphate of Potnsli, and the way we prepare the food makes It easy to digest and assimilate. Dr. Geo. W. Carey In his book on "The Blochemlc System of Medicine" says: "When the medical profession fully understands the nature and range of the phosphate of potassium, Insane asylums will no longer be needed. "The gray matter of the brain Is controlled entirely by the inorganlo cell-salt, potassium phosphate. "This salt unites with albumen, and by the addition of oxygen creates nerve-fluid, or tho gray matter of the brain. "Of course, there is a trace of other salts and other organic matter In nerve-fluid, but potassium phosphate Is the chief factor, and has the power within itself to attract, by Its own law of affinity, all things needed to manufacture the elixir of life. There fore, when nervous symptoms arise, due to the fact that the nerve-fluid has been exhausted from any cause, the phosphate of potassium is the only true remedy, because nothing else can possibly supply the de ficiency. "The Ills arising from too rapidly consuming the gray matter of the brain cannot be overestimated. "Phosphate of Potash, Is to ray mind, the most wonderful curative agent ever discovered by man, and the blessings It has already conferred on the race are many. But 'what shall the harvest be' when physicians everywhere fully understand the part this wonderful salt plays In tho pro cesses of life? It will do as much as can be done through physiology to make a heaven on earth. "Let the overworked business man take It and go home good-tempered. Let the weary wife, nerves unstrung from attending to sick children or en tertaining company, take it and note how quickly the equilibrium will be restored and calm and reason assert her throne. No 'provlngs' are re quired here. We find this potassium salt largely predominates in nerve fluid, and that a deficiency produces well-defined symptoms. The begin ning and end of the matter Is to sup ply the lacking principle, and in molecular form, exactly as nature furnishes It in vegetables, fniits 'miij grain. To supply deficiencies lum , the only law of curs." Please observe that Phosphate ot Potash Is not properly of the drug shop variety but is best prepared by "Old Mother Nature" and stored in the grains ready for use by mankind. Those who have been helped to better health by the uss of Grape-Nuts are legion. "There's a Reason." BRAIN POWER Increased by Troper Feeding. A lady writer who not only has done good literary work, but reared a family, found in Grape-Nuts tho Ideal food for brain work and to de velop healthy children. She writes: ' "I nm nn pnt il iisipfltin nrnrlntmpp nf Grape-Nuts as a regular diet. 1 for merly had no appetite in the mornlns and for S yenr3 while nursing my four children, had insufficient nourishment for them. "Unabla to ejit breakfast I felt faint later, and would go to the -pantry and eat cold chors, eausage, cookies, doughnuts or anything I happened to find. Being a writer, at times my head felt heavy afid my brain asleep. ' "When I read of Grape-Nuts I be gan eating it every morning, also gave it to the children, including my 10 months old baby, who soon grew as fat as a little pif, good natured and contented. "I wrote evenings and feeling tho need of sustained brain power, b:otan eating a small saucer cf Craps-Nuts with milk, instead of my usual indi gestible hot pudding, pie, or cake for dessert at night. "I grew plump, nerves strong, an! when I wrote my brain was uctive and clear; indeed, the dull head paiu. never returned." i , POSTUM CEREAL CO.. Ltd., ' Settle Creek, Mich.
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