FOETRV.
I am ths reality of things that aecm;
Tb great trannmuter, melting losa to gain,
Languor to lore, and fining joy from pain.
I am the waking, who am called the
! dream;
Iam the tun, all light reflect! my gleam;
am the altar-fire within the fane;
am the force of the refreshing rain;
am the sea to which flows every atrenm.
am the utmost height there is to climb;
I am the truth, mirrored in fancy's glass;
I am stability, all else will pass;
I am eternity, encircling time;
Kill me, none may; conquer me, nothing
can
I am God's soul, fused in the soul of man.
i Ella Heath, in the Saturday Review.
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Ithe children!
CAME HOME,
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Jl Er FRAXCES GREE'Nm
In the mellow sunshine of a late
September afternoon, two men ' sat
under the wide, spreading boughs of
an ancient apple-tree on the Gray
farm. One felt them anachronisms
In these homely surroundings they
did not "belong," as did the bees
humming lazily over the hollyhocks
that grew In pink and white ranks
beside the low stone wall, and the
white hen with a belated brood of
fluffy chicks scratching in the soft
loam of the garden. Long shadows
were drooping down the hills, and
the corn, brown and dry, in a near
by field, rustled in the breeze that
crept among the stalks. Behind the
wood-shed sat the hired man, 111 at
ease in his Sunday suit, aimlessly
whittling a piece of pine and furtive
ly watching the pair under the tree
who seldom spoke, yet their eyes
met often,' questioning, Bad. Each
was experiencing a soul's agony of
regret, and words seemed seared
upon their hearts "To late." A
hush, a Btlllness unusual brooded
over the place. . Three children,
round-eyed, afraid, peered between
'the pickets of the yard fence. They
had come a mile out of their way
from school just to go by the house
where old man Gray lay dead.
"That's where ho Is!" whispered
one, pointing a finger. A window
was partly raised in a front room,
the curtain swaying, swaying, In the
draft. The trio passed on, glancing
fearfully behind as they crept under
a fence to "cut 'cross lots."
Inside, the farmhouse was spick
nd span; the work was all laid by.
Two neighbors women kindly
souls, sat In the decorously darkened
Bitting-room; eipressions appropriate
to assume in a house of sorrow were
In each face. They spoke at Inter
vals, In hushed tones, as. if fearful
Bf disturbing the quiet peace of the
sleeper In the parlor. .
In her bedroom, Martha Gray sat
beside the four-poster, absently
stroking with a knotted, toll-worn
hand the blue-and-white checked
rounterpane. Many thoughtsand those
odd weavlngs of past and present hap
penings that we term fancies, most of
them irrelevant, flashed, quicksilver
wise, through her brain. A woman
of few words, yet Abram had always
understood and now there was no
one. "Some folks live to be over
ninety I'm just beginning my sev
enties I .wonder, now, what the text
had better be. He liked the Apocry
pha, but It's not printed these days
In Bibles maybe not so orthodox as
the rest " She walked to a
email square stand where, on a cro
cheted mat, lay a sheep-skin-bound
volume handed down In the Gray
family through many generations.
She opened it at the first page. Aw
ful pictures of Moses on the 'Mount,
and the Deluge met her eye; turning
the yellow leaves she paused at the
book of Esdras and began to read
loud.
"And therefore be thou not enrinna
how the ungodly shall be punished,!
ana wnen, out inquire how the right
eous shall be saved. This present
life is not the end where much glory
doth abide. Remember thy children
that sleep, which are departed from
the shadow of the world, and that
there Is promised us an everlasting
hope, and the faces of them shall
shine above the stars. For unto you
is paradise opened and rest is al
lowed." Tea, Abram ever loved the grand
phraslngs of the Apocrypha. Her
eyes wandered . to the window.
Through It she could see her two
sons beneath the apple-tree; study
ing them with a puzzled frown, she
said: "The children have all come
home." How oddly she had greeted
them, as, one by one, the stage left
them at the gate where they had
swung In childhood and later had
passed through into a world beyond
her ken. "I do not know thorn very
well " She even felt ill at ease
with the beautiful creature her baby
fluttering back to the old threshold
from life in a gay Southern city.
Could it be possible she had once
been rocked to Bleep in the hooded
wooden cradle, now dusty and draped
with cobwebs In a far corner of the
attic this queenly .woman In her
shimmering gowns? , Why, a little
pink-sprigged calico frock, one of the
first shgrt clothes of babyhood, was
In the brass-nailed trunk near the
cradle. Could she ever have worn
that? Odd how one's mind harks
back so far. It just happened they
had not found time to come back be
fore Abram knew why of course
he knew, though they had ever avoid
ed that subject. Each had dwelt upon
it silently, but each had understood
And that other one, whose fame was
world-wide as a settlement worker;
her keen eyes had bewildered the
email person she called mother and
old folks grow queer with years,
though she remembered well two
little lads in brown jeans going down
the sunny road to the scuoolhouse In
the valley, remembered so well that
those handsome men under the apple
tree seemed really strange and on
of them . was quite gray about the
temples. He had wandered in every
country on the globe, and It had
taken years; but his writings were
wonderful, so she was told.- The
other Wall street knew him well.
Forgotten? Oh, no, there was a
room upstairB filled with remem
brances sent to the old folks by these
busy worldlngs.
"My! my!" she said, letting the
fringe of the counterpane Blip through
her fingers, "we did try that marble
figure, Clytle by name if I rightly
remember that came all-the way
from Italy, in every room in the
house, but Abram allowed nothing
fitted to it."
Some one walked across the floor
In the room overhead. "She's tall,"
fretted the little mother, "and used
to grand, high rooms. I hope she
doesn't forget how the ceilings slope
Abram liked the paper on the girl's
room always said the roses climb
ing round was so cheerful. Well, he
understands, I guess."
Martha Gray unfolded a primly
creased handkerchief and flecked a
bit of down from a pillow. "Abram
mebbe thought I never knowed, but
I did wo was both just pretending;
we both knowed. He told itxwhen
he was flighty Just his rambling and
the clock a-ticking and me a-list'n-ing
I can hear him yet. 'Oh, If
they'd Just come home Just come
home all together once.' "
With the coming of darkness, a
chill crept into the old farmhouse;
the "watchers" were glad of a blazu
upon the hearth and talked quietly
beside the lire, speaking often of the
man who had been neighbor for over
seventy years.
"Odd, ain't It now, how relatives
get home for funerals?"
"Nigh onto ten years since the last
one was here, but then they lived
quite a piece off."
"Ever notice how Abram always
set to one end of the church pew and
Marthy to the other, Just at If a row
of little heads was between?"
The clock was telling its longest
story when Martha Gray tiptoed soft
ly across the entry and Into the fore
room, shading a candle with her
hand. She walked to the corner
where her husband lay In his wedding
suit that suit so carefully kept
through all the years from moth and
dust. An aloofness, the majesty or
a great calm, had settled upon his
one-time genial countenance.
"Abram!" sha whispered, "I guess
you'll understand, now that your face
Is 'shining above the stars far from
the shadow of the world.' The chil
dren are all at home I (don't seem
to know them so very well but
they're here, Abram, all at home. The
children have all come home."
From The Delineator.
SIMPLIFIED MEN'S COSTUMES.
When Use of Towdcr and of Snnff
Boxes Died Out.
The French revolution had Its
effect upon the fashions of 1800, as
well as upon matters of more weighty
Import, the tendency being greatly
to simplify costume. Young men In
England adopted the short coat, light
waistcoat and pantaloons inaugurated
in Paris by a certain set who affected
to despise the old court fashions.
The use of powder, made more ex
pensive by taxation, quite died out
and short hair became universal.
Trousers and Welington boots, at
first worn only by the military, were
adopted by civjllajis about 1814, and
the dandy of the early Victorian era
wore his tightly strapped down. He
also prided himself on his starched
collar, which had gone out of favor
under George IV., who preferred a
black silk kerchief or stock.
The snuff box vanished and the
characteristic ornament of the age
was the bunch of seals hanging from
the watch chain. Various modifica
tions took place from time to time
during Queen Victoria's long reign,
ut the form of men's dress practi
cally remained unaltered.
The knlckerbocker and tweed suit
of the country gentleman are of com
paratively modern date, as well as
the wideawake and' cloth cap. Eng
lish Illustrated Magaeine.
ricking Chickens.
"Did yoa ever pick a chicken?"
asked the poultryman. "The easiest
way is to souse him into scalding'
water until the feathers slip out by a
gentle rubbing with the hand. But
this Is an extremely dirty habit, for
the feathers are filled with dust and
vermin, and a filthy odor penetrates
the skin, rendering it often positively
unfit for the table. As for myself, I
prefer to have my chickens skinned,
throwing away the entire cutis with
the feathers. This is thoroughly hy
gienic. People, however, as a rule
like the skin on, and It Is the duty of
the poulterer to please his custom
ers." New York Press.
The rower of Music.
"I suppose to educate your daugh
ter in music costs a great deal of
money?"
"Yes, but she's brought it all back
to me."
Indeed!"
"Yes; I'd been trying to buy out
my next neighbor at half price for
years, and ould never bring him to
terms until she came home and began
playing."
MEDICAL PROFESSION IN CHAOS, HE SAYS
Dr. Lewis Predicts Disaster Unless the Calling is Re
adjusted False Idols Hold Sway Dominant Features
in Profession Now Pessimism and Intolerance and
Money Lust is a Menace. ' -:- -:-
.
Dr. Edwin H. Lewis, of New York
City, read a paper at the recent an
nual meeting of the American Med
ical Editors' Association, on "The
Spirit of 1908 fn Medical Affairs," in
.which he declared that the profession
Is undergoing an epoch-making revo
lution. The future, he says, holds
two prospects: disaster In the shape
of the decline of medical prestige, or
a general readjustment of the med
ical situation. Pessimism and Intol
erance, he asserts, have been the
dominant fer.tures of medicine In the
last five years.
- Dr. Lewis' paper, which appears
In American Medicine, follows In
part:
"Is there anything the matter with
the medical profession? Are we drift
ing awny from first principles and in
the multiplicity of new discoveries,
new ideas .and changing viewpoints
losing Bny part of our usefulness as
medical men? There can be no ques
tion that the msdical profession Is
undergoing a great and epoch-making
revolution. Idols are being
thrown down, old and apparently well
established beliefs nre being ques
tioned and controverted, and, ns al
ways happens when a revolution is
under full headway, chaos seems to
reign.
Qunckery a Menace. '
"The future holds two prospects.
On the one hand Is disaster, the sac
rifice of years of study and Investi
gation as well as of centuries of
faithful, unflagging devotion to the
needs of humanity. Such a disaster
means the decline of medical prestige
and an era of charlantry and quack
ery such ns the world has never seen.
On the other hand is a general read
justment of the medical situation, the
revision and classification of present
day knowledge and a truer recogni
tion of certain fundamental facts on
which the successful practice of med
icine has always depended and al
ways will depend. If this latter takes
place the medical profession will come
to Its own, and with the restoration
of confidence and an appreciation on
the part of the laity of what scien
tific medicine really has done and can
do there will be no limits to which
our profession can go for the. benefit
of mankind.
"The present chaotic situation does
not call for the raucous cry of the
alarmist nor warrant the gloomy
prognostications of the pessimist.
But with all the earnestness at my
command I want to Insist that It Is
time to take account of stock, to get
our scientific, ethical and commercial
bearings and set out for the future
with confidence, trust and steadfast
purpose.
Money Lust in the Profession.
"For the past five years the dom
inant features of modern medicine
have been doubt, pessimism and In
tolerance. With tactless zeal the
medical profession has done Its laun
dry work In the full gaze of an ever
critical and not over-friendly public.
Quarrels with our tools and with each
other have been the order of the day.
Criticism, suspicion and accusation
have been rife, and on every hand
have sprung up commercial tenden
cies that have lowered the dignity
and efficiency of our profession.
"The thirst for money, power and
position has possessed us, and under
the spell of these dangerous intox
icants too many of us have lost night
of the true nature and obligations of
Silvering Mirrors.
Up to 1840 mirrors were silvered
exclusively by means of an amalgam,
a process most ' destructive to the
workmen employed. An Important
step was effected by an English chem
stt, Drayton, who conceived the idea
of coating mirrors with a thin layer
of silver, obtained by reducing an am
moniac selutlon of nitrate of silver
by means of highly oxldizable essen
tial oils. This process was subse
quently modified by several chemists,
but only became really practical when
M. Pettijean substituted tartaric acid
for the reducing agents formerly
employed. The glass to be silvered is
placed upon a horizontal cast iron
table heated to 104 degrees Fahren
heit. The surface is well cleaned,
and solutions of silver and tartaric
acid, suitably diluted, are poured
upon It. The liquid, in consequence
of a well known effect of capillarity,
does not flow over the edges, forming
a layer a fraction of an inch in thick
ness. In twenty minutes the silver
begins to be deposited on the glass,
aud In an hour and a quarter the pro
cess is complete. The liquid is
poured off the glass, which is washed
with distilled water, dried and cov
ered with a varnish to preserve the
silver, from friction. Mr w York Tri
bune. Dry-Picked.
Our poultr)man said: "Phllt.del
phla has for many years had the rail
on dry-picked chickens, turkeys,
ducks, and. In fact, all poultry and
much game. Now, so-called Phila
delphia dry-picked is no 'better than
any other dry-picked, but I believe
the Quaker City was the first place in
America to adopt the Moorish method
and make it a specialty. You know,
of course, that .the Moors are the
ttreatest chicken eaters on earth, rlth
the possible exception of the Chinese,
and they would not think of touching
a scalded fowl." New York Press.
our calling. With a stupidity that Is
Incomprehensible we have rushed to
sit at the feet of every new prophet,
no matter how questionable his teach
ing, and have foolishly forsaken the
time-proved logic of the old. Thus,
In many Instances, established facts
have been discarded for phantom the
ories though temporarily, let us
hope. The worship of the laboratory
fetich has caused us to sadly neglect
clinical and bedside observation, and
the glamor and fascination of surgery
have blinded us to the possibilities
of hygiene, diet and Intelligent medi
cation. In fact, the regular medical
men of this country have been sowing
the wind and only now are beginning
to reap the whirlwind. One has only
to pause and note the fearful incre
ment of new 'pathies,' new healing
cults, church clinics, and so on, and
to realize the remarkable decrease
of medical prestige and medical in
comes, to understand that the price
w'e must pay. for our pessimism, In
ternal discord, intolerance and pro
fessional commercialism will not be
small. This Is the gloomy side of the
picture. v
Earnest Men a Saving Grace.
"But while the profession as a
whole has gone far afield, thank God
there have been plenty of those who
have labored wisely and well. They
have scorned to worship at every new
shrine and with sublime disregard for
personal gain have nobly done their
part to elevate and perfect the science
of medicine. Thanks to these men,
some Individually known to fame,
but more 'unheralded and unsung,'
the triumphs of sanitary science and
medical progress are among the
grandest of civilization. So that to
day, in spite of widespread skepti
cism, Intolerance and pessimism, the
practice of medicine holds greater and
more wonderful possibilities for the
benefit of humanity than ever be
fore. "I believe that I can see a growing
tendency on the part of the average
medical man to realize that while he
does not and cannot know everything,
he certainly knows much, and by the
Intelligent useof whathe can and does
know he can accomplish a great, deal
more than the quack and charlatan
In the relief of the sick and the pre
vention of disease.
"This is to me the spirit of 1908,
in medical affairs, the spirit of hope
ful service, or, In other words, mak
ing, the most of ourselves, through
appreciating our possibilities and rec
ognizing our limitations. Whole
truths are always desirable, but half
truths are better than none at all. -
"In conclusion I seek to emphasize
one thought. The strife, discussion
and controversies of the day cannot
change one iota the fact that every
honest medical man wants to accom
plish the greatest possible good lh the
best possible way. Many men have
many minds. Opinions of necessity
will differ. But the man who believes
differently than we do may be as near
to the truth as we ourselves, and we
certainly have no right to question
his honesty.
"The new spirit of 1908, with its
keynote hopeful service in behalf of
humanity Is Incompatible with In
tolerance and narrowness. As physi
cians, and especially medical journal
lata, we cannot afford to neglect a sin
gle effort that will aid in bringing
the medical profession a little nearer
to the goal of truth, accuracy and
above all, usefulness."
Mountain Sickness.
Every Alpine climber notes his ex
perience In the rarefied air of a high
altitude. All accounts of mountain
sickness agree. In every case there
are the same symptoms, . differing
more or less in degrees. The head
aches, the heart palpitates, the nose
bleeds. Some vomit violently, all
gasp for breath. Every exertion
seems more severe at great heights,
and the symptoms of the sickness
are sometimes mistaken for those of
fatigue.
Doctor Workman, who has been
climbing In the Himalayas, has made
a study of mountain sickness. He ex
perienced a cor.ctant gasping for
breath which interfered with sleep.
With one of his porters the symptoms
of high altitude illness were so
marked as to give warning of another
danger besides that of discomfort.
At the height of twenty-one thousand
feet the man collapsed, and was help
less. He lost all sensation in his
hands, and when his mittens were re
moved, his fingers were found to be
white, stiff and on the point of be
coming frost bitten. This experience
shows the interruption of circulation,
the balance of which is lost in the re
moval of the ordinary air pressure.
Youth's Companion.
Commanding Sleep.
There is a well-authenticated case
of a man who had power to control
at will the action of the heart. He
could stop Its pulsations whenever be
pieased, and might have lived to a
good old age had he not been over
vain of bis accomplishment. In the
same way men of exceptionally vig
orous natures may have the gangli
onic nerves of the brain within the
iron grip of the will, being able to
turn on or off the blood-supply to the1
brain t Ihelr pleasure, and thus In
ducing sleep or wakefulness as they
may determine.
Raising Turkeys,
- The farmers of the United States
generally could profitably Increase
the number of turkeys they produce.
This class of' poultry always sells
well, and anyone who can give tur
keys a good range can make a profit
from them if he handles them cor
rectly. The excessive death rate during
the first few weeks of the poult's ex
istence Is the leading drawback to
turkey raising, but most of the
trouble which is so common at this
stage can be avoided by careful and
judicious management.
Be sure that the young do not
get chilled while hatching or shortly
afterwards, ' and hate their coops
made perfectVy tight and free from
drafts and dampness. Locate them
in a well drained spot where the sun
shines unobstructedly for the greater
part of the day, until the arrival of
sultry summer weather. This mat
ter of freedom from dampness is
very essential.
Keep tho poults confined to the
coop or to a covered run on damp,
chilly mornings until all the dew
has disappeared from the grass and
weecft.. Aside from such times, the
.youngsters may be allowed entire
liberty after they are five or six
days old. The mother turkey should
be restricted, for a time at least,
within limited range by means of a
string or some other convenient
method of this kind.
Vermin are frequent source of
trouble and loss with poults and tur
keys. This Is a matter deserving of
more attention than it usually re
ceives, as lice are generally numer
ous on turkey fowls. One of the
best things that can be done Is to
gtve the setting hen a thorough dust
ing with a reliable brand of louse
powder two or three days before the
eggs commence to hatch; this not
only frees the hen from the vermin
but prevents the poults from con
tracting the vermin from their moth-
THE AMERICAN
The Figures on the Lines Are
er as soon as they are hatched.
Watch the fowls carefully from time
to time throughout the summer for
Indications of the presence of ver
min, and give them treatment for
same frequently.
Bread crumbs or bread and milk
make one of the best poult feeds for
the first few days. After the first
few meals an egg, hard boiled and
chopped fine, may be added by way
of variety. Also, commence feeding
oatmeal and cracked corn or wheat,
and green cut bone or meat In some
form. Feed often and a little at a
time for the first few weeks.- Fre
quent and careful feeding is very
Important. A supply of good grit for
grinding the food, should be con
stantly accessible to the poults from
the beginning.
Feeding the Herd.
Now, a word about feed. This is a
subject to which you will have to
give special and careful attention.
You must not only look to the needs
of your cattle, but you must endeav
or to get their rations as nearly as
possible from products of your own
farm. Economy is one of your
watchwords. But you must make it
a study and it will take you several
years, says a writer in Holstein
Friesian Register. Look first to the
needs of your cows, and next to the
cost of the feed. Your heifer calves
should be fed sweet skim-milk for
about six months, and you can mix
with it a little corn meal and oil
meal, or these can be fed separately.
After six months, if on good pasture,
they will require no feed; but as
fall comes on they should not be al
lowed to run down and becomo poor
before winter feeding is begun. This
feed should consist of bran, shorts,
oil meal, etc., with fodder, hay and
. m i 1 .1 -
Straw lur rougnage. x wuum iscu i
no corn. A few weeks before your
heifer Is due with her first calf you
should begin feeding her a mixture
of food rich in protein. Do not over
feed her, but gradually increase the
feed until by the time she dros her
calf she will be getting about all she
wants to' eat. You will find that she
has made a very large udder and
will start off with a large flow of
milk. For a few days after calving,
feed lightly, gradually increasing,
and yoa will find her responding
wull to your attention. There is no
danger from milk fever with the first
calf; but from then on, and especi
ally with the third and fourth calves,
you cannot feed so heavily before
calving, neither will she require lt;
for by this time the habit of mllk
glvlng will have been well formed.
Good Milkers.
High-grade cows are not any too
plentiful and prices for such stock
are high. Young milch cows that
will yield from ' thirty-five to fifty'
pounds of milk per day are worth as
many dollars. Farmers and breeders
have recognized the demand for fine
stock ottihls class and during the
past year many excellent animal's
have been selected and kept for
raising. Much of course depends
upon this selection; the cows for both
milk and butter are greatly im
proved by careful selection and feed
ing. The feeding is Important. If
an animal Is stinted and starved and
chilled during a period of Its growth,
it will never fully regain what It has
lost, no matter what good treatment
It subsequently receives. Successful
breeders recognize this fully and ,
nprnrlda fn. tha wlnta, n - .1 n n n
l'.v..iu v luu niuLi, auu mg pcil
tlcularly careful to keep their young
stock vigorous, healthy and growing
through all the trying portions of
the year. This midway treatment,
before stock begins to produce, is
often as important a matter as selec
tion. Pure breeds are not, of course,
necessary to success. It is not pos
sible for every farmer to have pure
breeds. He may be a number of
years breeding up his herd to a satis
factory high grade standard. Good,
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minting y-J a ui cycij uiccu, oiiu UL
no particular breed, possess certain
qualities in common which guide the
farmer In the selection of dairy stock.
According to the late Professor Al
vord, of the Department of Agricul
ture, they have generally neat, well
balanced heads, light fore and heavy
hind quarters, mild, gentle eyes, slop.
CARRIAGE HORSE.
the Ideal Measurements' in Inches.
ing shoulders, rather than upright,
large udders, good-sized teats, with
well developed milk veins and mel
low skin and soft, glossy coat.
The milk of young cows is gen
erally richer than that of old ones.
The most profitable age of the milker
Is supposed to be from four to nine
years. Yet for many years after
that cows may be splendid milkers
and highly profitable, but their milk
becomes relatively somewhat poorer,
and the animals eat more, especially
during the winter. As animals grow
older, having once become lean, they
are more difficult to fatten.
Farm Toultry.
In speaking to the farmers ot
Greenfield, Mass., not long ago, Pro
fessor W. P. Brooks, of the State
Agricultural College, considered
poultry keeping from the standpoint
of the farmer. New England he be
lieved to be one of the best sections
for poultry keeping, because of the
markets and the quality of the soil.
Less than one-fifth of the poultry
products used in Massachusetts are
now raised in that State.
A sheltered location on sandy soil
was recommended for the poultry
buildings. Glass fronts were to be
avoided, a better plan being to leave
the south side of the house entirely
open. Hens in such houses are more
hardy and will lay better than those
In coops with glass fronts. The
front should be protected by cur
tains in severe weather. Experience
at the college has proved corn to be
a better egg producer than wheat
and is less expensive. Animal food
IS OL great luiyui luui-e, uiurts bu iuau
vegetable matter. Rye was found
to be a great egg producing food,
but usually is too high in cost.
Changing the Mood. .
When General Leonard Wood was
a small boy be was called up in the
grammar class. The teacher said:
"Leonard, give me a sentence, and
we'll see it we can change it to the
Imperative mood."
"The horse draws the cart," said
Leonard.
"Very good. Now change the sen
tenco to an imperative."
"Get up!" said yonnj Wood.