WATCH YOURSELF GO' BY. Just stand aside and crutch yourself Think of yourself as "be," instead of "l". Note, closely as in other men you note. The bag-kneed trousers and the seedy coat. Pick flaws; find fault; forget the man is you And strive to make your estimate ring true. Confront yourself and look you in the eye Just stand aside and watch yourself go by. Interpret all your motives just as though You looked on one whose aims you did not know. jet undisguised contempt surge through you when You see you shirk, O commonest of men! Despise your cowardice; condemn whate'er You note of falseness in you anywhere. Defend not one defect that shames your eye Just stand aside and watch yourself go by. 'And then, with eyes unveiled to what yon loathe To sins that with sweet charity you'd clothe Back to your self-walled tenement you'll go With tolerance for all who dwell below. The faults of others then will dwarf and shrink, Love's chain grow stronger by one mighty link When you, with "he," as substitute for "I," Have stood aside and watched yourself go by. Strickland W. Gillilan, in Success Magazine. WITH THREE KEGS OF POWDER. i By C. A. Just across the west,, field of the Old squire's farm in Maine, at a dis tance of less than half a mile, lived our nearest neighbors, the Edwardses. Thomas Edwards was a genial, kindly farmer, always ready to assist every one about him. He would put oft his own work, even necessary work, at any time to help us. It was much the same with his Wife, "Aunt Anna," as we called her, a rosy, cheery soul, who in one way or another was constantly doing grandmother and our girls a good turn. And as for Kate and Tom, the children, they were well-nigh as near and dear to us as members of our own family. We attended school together, and nearly all our play days and good times were shared with them. But although they worked hard, were economical, and appeared to plan pretty well, the Edwardses did not get on well in the world. There .was a mortgage on their farm which constantly worried them all. Every year they planned zealously to lift that mortgage, but for more than twenty years never succeeded in pay ing more than the interest money, and about every second year they missed doing that on time. Young as they were at the time of which I am now writing, Kate and Tom appeared to be quite as much disturbed about, that mortgage as their parents.- About twice a year Mr. Edwards was accustomed to call and talk over his affairs with the old squire, in whose judgment he placed much confidence. And Kate, who was her father's favorite, usually came with him. One of the plans for raising money during the season of 1S6S, was for them to do less farming and embark In lumbering up on Wild Brook, in What we knew ns the "great woods," about forty-five miles to the north of the farm. Throughout the ensu ing fall and winter they gave all their energies to this scheme. As a result, they got nearly seven hundred thousand feet of spruce and pine lumber fnto Wild Brook, to be floated down to the Androscoggin River, and so on, to mill and market, with the spring freshet. But here, as in many other things, 111 fortune followed them. There was less snow than usual that winter, and less water In the brook. They got their entire "drive" of lumber hung up in a bad "Jam," at a tortuous, ledgy place in the channel of the stream, and failed to get It out. There It remained all the following Bummer. A vast mass of logs, piled helter-skelter, was jammed among rocks in the bed of the now nearly dry brook. , I At Edwards' solicitation, the old Bquire, who had much experience In such matters, went up to view the situation, and advised his neighbor to blast out the obstructing rocks and logs with gunpowder, and to do It during September, while the water was low. A keg of powder was secured ac cordingly, and six river-men were en gaged to assist In the operations. With the powder and crew, our hard working neighbor and his son re paired to the scene of their unsuccess ful venture, and set to work. The task, however, proved difficult They fired four or five blasts, and, In fact, used up all their powder, without ac complishing much. And after they had been up there nearly a week, Tom came home in haste one night to procure more powder three kegs more, at least. Gunpowder was very dear at that time; and in carrying forward his lumbering operations the season before, Mr. Edwards had strained his credit somewhat. At the village hardware store, where Tom went to get the powder the next day, the storekeeper asked for cash In payment. In consequence of this 'demand, Tom came home without the powder. Meanwhile he had somewhere been exposed to the mumps, and that night fell 111 of the disease, so very 111, in deed, that Aunt Anna was not a little alarmed; He had taken cold, per haps, t And there were Mr. Edwards and his crew of men up at Wild Brook, lying idle, waiting for the powder. Nor could he be reached by letter or telegraph, and so apprised , of the cause of the delay. Moreover as we surmised later the family was too proud to apply to us for a Joan, or even' to let us know that crefilt had been refused them. By noon the next day Tom's con dition had become so serious that Aunt Anna was obliged to send Kate STEPHENS, to the village, seven miles distant, to summon a doctor. She hitched up and set off alone. Kate had also another errand in view. Unknown to any one but her mother, she had accumulated during the last two years a little deposit at the village savings-bank thirty-six dollars In all. For various reasons the two had kept this a secret. What ever happened, they had not intend ed to draw out this money. But when Kate went for the doctor that afternoon she took her little bank book, and after seeing the physician on his way to attend Tom, she drew out her thirty-six dollars, bought and paid for the three kegs of powder, and drove home with them. She had resolved to get the powder through to her father, and do it herself. When she came home It was too late to start for the lumber-camp that night; but four o'clock the next morning saw her on her way there with the horse and buckboard, and the three twenty-five-pound kegs of powder In the box under the seat. The road to Wild Brook was a mere trail, with only a few scattered clear ings In the forest. It was a long drive What Will Women "What will women do when they rule?" asked the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger recently. Answers came from all over the world. Here are a few: "They" rule already and always have, so I can't understand your question." Lady Alma Tadema. "Nonsensical things." Mme. Suzanne Despres, Paris tra gedienne. "They will retain their gocd and bad qualities ns men rulers have done, do and always will." Mme. Sarah Bernhardt. "They will not differ much from the best men rulers. I don't believe in the superiority of either sex. The world is for both. They must sway its destinies together." Lady Henry. Somerset. "They will have undisputed power to aid my life work of supplying gowns to needy actresses." Mme. Yvette Guilbert. "I would destroy all but a few schools and create a genera tion of minds free from traditions of modern wretchedness. Until there is a new humanity reform can be but superficial." Mme. Ellen Key, Scandinavian writer on marriage and maternity. "We would restlessly seek office, but would 'not spend for tunes sending warships to the Pacific to terrify our neighbors. We would strengthen industry, make the church more popular than the theatre, enforce total abstinence, and open all schools to women." Belva Lockwood, twice Women's Rights candidate for President of the United States. ISWWSW.'ASWAV.SSVSW.V.S,.VASSW.V.V.VAV.SV. for a girl alone, which only necessity justified. Kate knew the way, how ever; she had been there with her father twice the autumn before, and was in no fear of getting lost. Their horse, old Ben, was afraid of noth ing; the only difficulty was to urge him along. But by starting early, Kate hoped to reach the lumber-camp that evening. Danger impended, however, dan ger which neither Kate nor her mother had anticipated. There had been little or no rain for five or six weeks. The fields and pastures, and even the woodland, had become very dry. For a number of days the sky had been so smoky that the sun set and rose red as blood; yet so far as we knew, there were no near-by for est fires. The smoke grew thicker, however, as Kate journeyed northward that day; she could smell burning pine. And at the clearing of a settler, named Day, where she arrived at about noon, the settler's wife told her that the sky had looked very red the night before up in the direc tion of Wild Brook. Kate drove on, however. She was bent on getting the powder to her father. But by the time she reached Clear Pond, six miles farther, the spruce woods on both sides of the trail were full of smoke; and just above the pond she perceived fire off in the woods to the west of the road. Now for the first time serious mis givings beset her. Gunpowder is dangerous freight to carry through burning woods. All the flre which she could see was off to the left of her route, however; and in hopes that this was the only forest fire in that quarter, she determined to go on, and put old Ben, who was panting a little, at his best pace again. .The wind was northerly, and the smoke drove southward through the woods. ' It became worse as she ap proached the ford of Otter Brook, eleven miles below Wild Brook; and from the top of the hill beyond the ford she saw fire ajaln, and this time ahead and far round to east ward. At a distance of a mile vast clouds of dense smoke were rolling upward, with here and there a red gleam of flame. The roar of the flre, too, was distinctly audible now, with the occasional crash of falling trees. It was an alarming spectacle. For some moments Kate gazed on It In silent apprehension, ' marking the spread of the fire on each hand. Fear fell on her suddenly. Convinced now that she had been over-venturesome in coming past the fire at Clear Pond, she turned old Ben on the narraw trail, recrossed the now nearly dry brook, and drove back as fast as possible, her idea being to return to Day's clearing. She had proceeded but a mile or two, however, when she came where fire had nearly reached the road in several places. The whole forest to westward appeared to be burning. Whipping Ben into a clumsy gallop, she drove close by the blazing brush wood for some distance, hoping every moment to get past the worst of it. Smoke, heat and sparks drifted across the road, and soon she came to where the dry bushes were afire on both sides. Terror lest some flying spark might penetrate to the powder under the seat goaded her to desperation. She plied the lash as hard as she could. A spark set the horse's flying mane afire, and another Ignited the ribbon and flower-wreath of her hat; but tearing the hat off, she threw It away and drove on. Fortunately for her, she was now near Clear Pond. The little sheet of water to the west of the road had divided the conflagration, which swept past It on both sides. But where the trail skirted the east shore of the pond there was still a small tract of woods on which the flre had not yet encroached. Here, on the lee side of the water, the panting old horse stopped short. Leaving both horse and buckboard there for the time being, the distressed girl ran on ahead for several hundred yards, to see If the woods were afire on the road beyond the pond. To her consternation she soon dis covered that the fire had passed the pond to the southward, and was rag ing fiercely in the thick growth through which the trail led. More slowly, too, the flames seemed to be working back and spreading over the small tract which the pond had for the time, protected. Owing to the long drought, in fact, the woods and bushes were like tinder everywhere. Even the little tract where she stood would soon be burned over. The situation was one that might well have appalled stouter hearts than Do When They Role? those usually possessed by girls of fifteen. Yet through it all Kate be haved with remarkable coolness, and never lost much of her self-possession. Mounting a large rock beside the trail, she looked hastily about her, and although half-blinded by smoke, decided that the pond Itself was her last chance of safety. The water was now very low, and out a little distance from the shore was a small, muddy islet, on which grew a few bunches of bog-bush. If she could drive. Ben across to that little islet, she felt p.etty sure the fire would not reach them. Running back to the buckboard, she found a place where the horse might be driven off the trail Into the pond. But a fresh difficulty now presented Itself. The water and soft mud between the shore and the islet proved too deep to get the buck board across without submerging it. For an Instant Kate was disheartened. She unhitched in haste, being minded at first to leave the buckboard there and ride the horse across. Yet the explosion of the powder, when the fire reached It, might prove fatal both to the horse and herself on the islet. This, too, flashed Into her mind, and she had wild thoughts of tumbling the kegs Into the water. But that powder stood to Kate for all her savings at the bank. More over, her father needed it. Even In those moments of peril she was ex tremely loath to sacrifice It. On the bare shore where the water had re ceded she hastily scooped a hole with the watering bucket, and one by one rolled the kegs into it. The fire was coming close, but she dipped the horse-blanket in the bond, wrung It as dry as she could, and spread it over the kegs. Then using the bucket again, she hastily covered blanket and kegs over with damp sand and mud to a depth of six Inches or more all this amid blinding smoke, with the fire working nearer every minute. Nor did she abandon the buck board to be burned, but turning it with a great exertion of her strength, backed It as far out In the pond as she could, till the water rose over the seat. The flre was now crackling and roaring all along the shore. Clam bering on Ben's back, Kate urged him Into the water, and although he floun dered up to his sides, succeeded In getting him across to the islet. On that little muddy island Kate Edwards remained, supperless, all that night, alone with the horse, and a deer and a hedgehog that swam over from the other side. Toward midnight the smoke settled so low over the pond that she was much op pressed for breath. The spectacle of the flaming forests at night was a terrible one to the girl, sitting there alone. At dawn the conflagration had burned itself out to a considerable extent, and Ben having lain down in the bush, Kate herself fell asleep there. A shout of "Thomas! Tom! Are you over there?" waked her sud denly. It was her father. At their lumber-camp on Wild Brook Mr. Edwards had seen the smoke of the fire the afternoon be fore, and being apprehensive lest Tom, on his way up with the pow der, had been Btopped by it, he had set off very early that morning, and was picking his way down the still smoking trail. As he was passing Clear Pond, Mr. Edwards caught sight of Ben out on the island; for by this time the horse had got up and was hungrily cropping the bog bushes. Dread lest the boy had perished In the flre took sudden possession of him. The sight of the buckboard standing almost submerged in - the water added to the anxiety with which he shouted his son's name. To his astonishment it was Kate, Instead of Tom, who sprang up to re ply, and her first words were, "O father. Is that you? But don't go near that little pile of sand there! All that powder is under it!" There was so much fire still smol dering all about that they did not dare unearth the powder for two days. But thanks to the care with which Kate had burled it, all three kegs were found in good condition, and later contributed their might to blast out the "jam" in Wild Brook. From Youth's Companion. T1FJO NDU5TFI A healthy adult breathes from fourteen to twenty-four times a min ute. The rate of the pulso is four times that of the respiration. A German not long ago invented a horseshoe of paper, prepared by saturating with oil, turpentine and other ingredients. Thin layers of such paper are glued to the hoof till the requisite thickness is attained. The shoes thus made are said to be durable and Impenetrable by moist ure. London Globe. It is predicted that ten or fifteen years hence scientifically cultivated rubber will be crowding the "wild" rubber of the Congo and the Latin Americas In- the world's markets. The new rifle bullet developed by Brig.-Gen. William Crozler, chief of ordnance, is said to be one of the most important recent achievements of that department. The head of the bullet has been modified, and a pow der produced which gives the rifle an accurate life of some 4500 rounds. At the outset of the experiments the accuracy of the rifle was destroyed after but 1000 rounds. The blind now have a wat'ch on which the hours are indicated by movable buttons on relief upon the dial. The wearer finds the time by passing his hand over the dial and finds the button indicating the hour depressed. A strong minute hand shows the minutes. The power of the operation of a new steel plant will be electricity. This will be nearly all provided by utilizing gases for generating it. The blooming plant will be operated by steam power. An abstraction of water, and of albuminoid and chemical substances, at the immediate expense of the cere bral blood, takes place in the act of shedding tears. This produces the effect of a slight local loss of blood, dulling the nerve centres to pain for some Instants and bringing relief to the weeper. This Is the way In which tears come to the aid of the suffer ing soul. The reason why the stomach and Intestines do not digest themselves was once thought by Weinland, a German experimenter, to be that they defend themselves by anti-enzymes, or anti-ferments. Dr. Nandor Klug, of Budapest, now reports these anti ferments not to be found, but that the mucin present in the inner half of the gastric mucous membrane re sists the digestive action of the tryp sin and the gastric juice. The di gestive organs, therefore, protect themselves by the mucin they secrete. Philosopher's Praise of Poverty. . Oh, . poverty thou art a severe teacher! But at thy noble school I have received more precious lessons, I have learned . more great truths than I shall ever find In the sphere of wealth. Rousseau. A High Pile Driver. A pile driver at New Orleans is 108 feet high, supposed to be the highest ever built. SCI EN THE POPULARITY OF BACON. Prof. 'Snyder, of the Minnesota Sta tion, gives the following reasons why bacon has become go popular and de sirable. In reference to tests made at the station, he says It was cut in thin slices and baked or broiled In the oven until crisp and brown. All ithe fat which wa3 cooked out was saved and eaten with bread and other foods which made up th4 KJally fare. On an average about ninety-four per cent, of the protein and nlnety-slx per cent, of the fat of the ration containing bacon were digested, and about eighty-eight per cent, of the energy was available. Calculated values for bacon alons showed over ninety per cent, protein and .4 and .6 pound digestible fat, which Is about two-thirds as imuch as is found in butter. "Lean bacon," says the professor, "contains about twice as much di gestible fat as other meats, making it at the same ttm, and even at a higher price per pound, a cheaper food than other meats. Bacon fat Is easily digestible, and when com bined with other foods it appears to exert a favorable mechanical action upon digestion." As the value of bacon becomes more generally appreciated those breeds which will produce the great est proportion of this meat when compared with whole weight of car cass will become more popular. It will then be a common thing to find Tamworths and Yorkshtrses on ev ery farm, esp?clalry outside the "corn belt." The Durocs are not far behind these In bacon production, though In some localities they par take of the characteristics of the lard hogs. For the benefit of those who still wish to be loyal to the old breeds it may be said that feeding so a3 to develop bone and muscle, that Is feed ing plentifully of food containing abundant protein, like the differenc legutiies, mixed wheat bran and shorts, tankage, etc., will tend to develop a growthy animal with long and deep , body, that will mako a fine qua'.!:? of bacon. It this method of feeding Is cnrrled on for a few years and a wise selection of breeding animals he made, It will not be a difficult mat'er to partly eliminate the char acteristics of a breed whose staple diet has been corn, and In place of the !ard hog we shall And the ous prodticting bacon. POULTRY NOTES. It Is not always the fat hen "that becomes broody. The scratching hen gives her chicks much exercise. Pullets hatched now will come in for late summer layers. Give the whole wheat to the hen and soft feed to the chicks. Drive the young under shelter during sudden showers of rain. Try a camphor ball for lice. Place one In each nest as you set the hen. Whole corn, grit and fresh water are the be3t fare for the sitting hen. Th9 fact that the hen Is laying Is no sign that she wants to leave her young. Keep food constantly before the Bitting hen so she can help herself at will. Thirteen eggs in early spring and fifteen during late spring and summer are large enough sittings. Whitewash the Interior of your coops and sprinkle carbolated lime on the floor. This disinfection drives away lice. A few raw egg9 mixed with the food about once a week will check any ten dency to looseness of the bowels. Covered runs are a protection from hawks, cats or dogs. They should be moved to fresh plots of grass each week. Brahmas and Cocsins are good hatchers, but their clumsiness breaks a good many eggs and kills quite a number of chloks. Bowel trouble that carries off many chicks when one or two weeks old may be often corrected by taking away their drinking water and g'.v dng scaled milk instead. Scatter the floor of the pen wii! straw cut in lengths not over an inr'i so that the hen can teach her youug how to exercise for 'the grain. ONE BREED BEST. Whether your stock 13 Jersey, Hot eteln, Guernsey, Brown Swiss, or any other class of cattle, stick to your text, end once having made up your mind what you want, keep on In that line with a pure bred bull, and you will have a uniform herd of some kind, and as a general proposition a better grade of milkers than to Jump from one breed to another each suc ceeding season. You get a reputatiou In a short time of having a herd of Jerseys, Holsteln, Swiss, or some other 'breed of cattle, even if you nev er bad a pure bred female on the place, providing you have a sire of the same breed for two or three succeeding generations. . Even with the greatest care that 'San bo used in selecting calves there will be disappointments. Occasionally a calf that you expected the great est things from proves a disappoint ment The best sires are often sacrl ifioed before their real worth Is known. On several occasions we would have given many times what comparatively good bull could be nought for If we could get back some animal that had been sent to the butcher before his real worth as a breeder was known. Of course this is an unfortunate condition that only time and close observation on the part of the breeder can obviate. W. E. Jones, before Ilstaols Dairymen'! Association. CORN AND OOB MEAL. In careful feeding tests it has been found that 100 pounds of corn and cob meal, when ground fine, is equal to 100 pounds of corn meal In fat tening hogs. This shows the value of the cobs in the feeding problem when ground. While the nutrition in cobs is not equal In per cent, of their weight in a bushel of corn, the difference ds made up in the greater economy of digestion when ground! and fed with the corn. In othe words, the ground cob with the cot aids in digestion and enables tl hog to assimilate the nutrition in the: grain meal the better. This has been shown by repeated experiments la hog feeding. In these times of high priced corn, when we come to con sider the weight of cobs In a bushel' of ear corn, the matter becomes an Interesting one to hog feeders, espec ially so if they have their feed mills with power to run the.m, aside from which there is very little expense. Rural Life. FOR THE INDIVIDUAL DAIRYMAN Every Individual dairyman appoints himself an Investigation and executive committee of one to discover He things that make for an unhealthful quality of milk," and tien set about to ad Just his conditions to the point where he Is able to produce a first class article. The condition of market milk, es pecially that shipped over long dis tances, has grown to be so Insuf ferable that the consumers rebel against It. Under no circumstances should anything be added to milk to prevent it souring. Such doings violate the laws of both God and man. The chemicals which are used for this purpose are slow poisons. Cleanliness and cold are the only preservatives needed. Keep healthy catfs. Promptly re move suspected animals. In particu lar, add no cows to the herd unless It I3 certain that they are free from ister, , HOLSTEIN-JERSEY CROSS. A dairyman, Salamanca, N. Y., wan's to know what we think of the Holstein-Jersey cros8 for a good milk and butter cow. We will say frankly that -we be- i.t-.t? ii nisuiu ud auuuk luc 1111,31. luur l3h thing a man could think of. Why cro3s the breeds, and thereby obliter ate those blood lines thait have beea developed through years of continu ous breeding. You have nothing to gain. The most valuable quality of the male prepotency Is lost. The offspring of such a cross will be an unknown quantity. If you want a cow that comes nearer ito vour Ideal: a cow mat gives more miiK tnan tn Jersey and richer milk than the Hoi stein, why not sell your Jerseys and Holstelns and buy Guernseys. Don't mix the breeds. J. D. W.. WellsvlUe. N. Y. Rural Life. FAVORS FEEDING WHOLE GRAIN. Among all our experimenters and Investigators, we have probably no more practical one than Dr. Voorhees, of New Jersey. He says: "Nature re f has provided in the whole grain goo-. proportions of the pure nutrients, n ually associated with the crude flbf in such a way as to make it a dlt flcult matter to cause injury even from careless methods) of feeding, while the manufacture, on the othen hand, removes more or less of one! of these nutrients." Rural Life. VENTILATION OF STABLE. u your giaDie is veniuatea oniy from above, you are drawing off the warm air, which means loss to the cows In comfort, and loss of the purest air. Foul air must be drawn off on a level with the stable floor, for bad air Is much heavier than good air. When the cows lie down and the ventilation is poor, they breathe foul air. It has its effect on the cows as well as on ithe product. A COW SHED. Have you an open shed facing the sunshine for your bws to rui under in the warm part' of the day? It not wouldn't it be a good plan to build one as soon as you can? The stock will take lofs of comfort In It. CLEAN MILK. ' You will need to take extra pains to have your milk clean and trg from odors now. But you can un It by taking care to wipe the udders off clean, and by bed-ding the cows, and currying them every day. Don't miss any of these things. Japanese Jokes. Guest Do you know that ellow of Sayahia Is telling all kinds of to defame your character? Host -If he is telling lies I care, but it he'd "begin to tt) I'll "throttle him. Guest Oh, you will, eh? Statistics say that the four a corsot manufacturers in this coil turn out 200,000,000 of these gann a year. V
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