7 SONNET. , (From the Danish of Kai Holberg.) Woulclat have bell of deep and perfect sound, So perfect that the metal melta in air And is all music? Seek thou, then, with care The fairest virgin in thy land around." . So Chinese priests of making gongs expound, Thnt all their folk may hasten, glad, to prayer, "When thou hast found the woman pure and fair. Id the hot metal then must she be drowned." To me, a poet, came a maiden bright, Who looked not back, who would become a part Of all my music, die that she might give My song new harmonics; in the fierce light And flaming of the furnace of my heart Her girlhood perished that my aongg might lire! Maurice Franeii Egan, in the New York Time, Waiting For Farquar. f By CHARLES i "What! A night like this?" The .voice was bluff and good natured, but the words, and the way they were apoken, seemed to reflect the least JMt upon the good judgment of the younger lad opposite. "Why, man, there has n't been an hour in the last three days that a sensible skipper .would think of putting out In, least ways with a loaded boat. This winds lip the season, my thinking." "I told Farquar I'd be on the watch for him," the other said. " 'Taln't noways likely he'll come now that's a fact." His purpose faltered a little, (With his own rising doubts, and the brilliantly lighted hall uptown looked (wonderfully attractive to his fancy's ye. "I guess I'd better hold on down Jiere, though. It wouldn't be any Joke to He outside all night such .weather as this, and, besides, I've promised." "Just as you like, of course," the young man replied carelessly. "Hope you'll get your job." The light laugn expressed Indulgence with childish .whim. "I shall have to be moving on. S'long!" David Ellison found himself stand ing alone on the slippery pier, watch ing his companion's retreating figure, frhere wasn't anything heroic In the Eltuatlon, so far as he could gee, and Brand Tatlock's parting words and Incredulous laugh had left him feel ing vaguely discontented and uncom fortable. Why should a fellow be everlastingly tied up to his work, es pecially when there wasn't any work In sight, as Brand had said, nor even ft prospect of there being any? A sudden veering of the wind drove a dash of wet snow In David's face, and he brushed it away with an Im patient gesture, pulling his cap lower over his forehead. Of course, there wasn't a light schooner on the lake to-night, and wouldn't be for months, perhaps. David Ellison had been In charge of the dingy little tug. Josephine, ever since his father's death, some eighteen months before. The legal formalities were easily complied with, for David knew the port and the boat as a bright pupil In the day echool knows his spelling book, and old Peter McHarg stayed by the en gine. David was looking longingly through plate glass windows at young men perched on high stools, or bent over desks in counting rooms, or darting about alertly behind screens of steel network In banks and offices. That was a kind of life David dreamed of, while the puffing, busy little tug towed numberless small craft inside the stone piers at Luray. Luray wasn't much of with the larger lake ports, but a good deal of lumber was shipped In there from the numer ous "landings" which formed a semi circle around the lower end of. the lake. Luray was pretty near the cen tre of the curve, and had a railway terminus. Most of the lumber came down In small schoonners, and this made business for tugs like the Jo sephine. One couldn't trust the wind Inside the stone piers. There wasn't a better pilot on the lake than John Ellison In his lifetime, but the Josephine had a paying pat ronage when David took up the work. That was why he did it. It would never do to take chances on a new venture when there was a widowed mother to be looked after, and Dan nie half through his high school course, and Mary needed at home, while mother was In such poor health. David dreamed, but his dreams didn't Interfere with his faithful manage . ment of the Josephine, and the men who had known John Ellison said David was a "chip of the old block." David took that as a compliment, and held his patronage by doing his best. The season was practically over now. Winter was In the air and in the sullen, heaving swells of the lake. Most of the cargoes were In, and pru dent skippers realized that there might be a sudden change of weather almost any time, after the schooners' keels went tripping their way through the first scum of thin ice. "Jud" Farquar was not prudent. It was the last thing of which his best friend or his bitterest enemy would think of accusing him. He had a sturdy, rugged will of his own, which hurled defiance in the face of winter winds. If they happened to come too eagerly to suit his "rather leisurely move ments. After the last boat had un loaded, qnd put about, after the last car had rattled away to the main line, freighted with odorous remind ers of the Michigan forests, the An dalusia, snub-nosed and stanch, with her rigging Ice-coated, like the rig ging of an Arctic whaler, might be expected to appear at any moment. Once, may years before, skipper still laughed at the memory between iwhiffs of their black pipes the An dalusia had "frozen In," despite "Jud" Farjuar's toasts, and h bad f T. WHITE. stumped the whole fifty miles back to his lumber camps and mills, on foot, sturdily refusing the aid of steam cars and wagons. It was Farquar, or rather the chance of his late coming, which had kept the Josephine at the pier these last two days, her fires banked, and McHarg within easy hailing distance. The fine weather had "broke for good," wiseacres declared, squinting up at the leaden sky, and burying their chins in coat collars or mufflers against the chilly southwest wind, which carried with it an occasional "spit" of qold rain or a flurry of snow flakes. Still It would be like Farquar to put out with the Andalusia in such bitter weather. David went down Into the tiny cab in and lighted a lamp, as soon as he had watched Brand Tatlock out of sight. He told himself that he would brush his hair, put on his best suit, and follow his whilom companion to Mechanics' Hall, where the entertain ment was to be held. He made no movement to carry out this threat, however, for, though David was de cidedly "out of sorts," he had not, at heart, receded from the position taken, when he refused Brand's in vitation. The entertainment would be a pleasant break In the monotony, and he felt a little sore at being "tied up," but there wasn't a doubt that the Josephine was the place for him, until he heard definitely from Far quar. That might be early the next morning. It certainly couldn't be later than the next afternoon, when Farquar was holding his promise to watch out for the Andalusia. Far quar must know that "watching out" was anything but agreeable business In this kind of weather. Most fellows wouldn't wait a minute beyond a reasonable time, David assured him self, letting his discontent make him momentarily boastful. Hadn't Brand Tatlock laughed at the Idea? And Brand had been on board a Kanawah schooner almost from the day he could handle a rope, a manly, clean, trustworthy fellow he was, too. David perched on the edge of his bunk, and picked up a three-days-old newspaper, running his eye Idly down the columns of the wrinkled sheet. His secret grumbling was a mere es cape valve for bis feelings, evidently, for ho showed no signs of leaving his post. It was a folly in which David seldom indulged, but it's what one does, not what one's talks about do ing, which really counts. He listened now to McHarg'g heavy boots clump ing down the six steps of the companion-way. "Wa-altln" up for Farquar, eh, la-ad?" the engineer shouted In jo cosely. His voice was heavy, like his shoes, and he flattened his vowels after the fashion of a Cornlshman. "He'll ha-arly put In the nolght. The wind's rolsln' a-and shlftin' a bit fro" the sou-west. It'll be blawin' dead offshore 'fore maernin', I'm thinkln'." "I'll keep watch till midnight or later," David replied, without looking up. McHarg'g Jesting tone nettled him. Why must everybody treat his waiting for Farquar in the light of a Joke? There wasn't any Joke about It, that was sure. "Look after the fires, and turn In, when ever you get ready." David divided his, time between the snug cabin and the comfortless pier. The former wag much more to his lik ing, but he found himself growing drowsy now and then in the close at mosphere, and, besides, it was nec essary to keep an occasional eye out for signals from the offing. For lack of something better to do, he amused himself by smiling at the improbabil ity of seeing any. The wind was blowing a gale now, and the air was thickening with damp snow. f god $an.t Don't contradict people, even if you're sure you are right. Don't bo Inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friend. Don't underrate anything beca'use you don't possess it. Don't bellevo that everybody else in the world is hap- pier than you. Don't concludo that you hsvo never had any oppor tunities in life. Don't believe all the evils you hear. Dou't be rude to your inferiors in social position. Don't repeat a gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. Don't Jeer at anybody's religious belief. Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. Few care whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Learn to attend to your owa business a very important point. Do not try to be anything else but a gentleman, or a gentlewoman, and that means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is governed by the Golden Itule: "Do unto others as you would be done by," Chris tian World. I i It wag late, and David must have fallen Into a drowse. He came up with a bound, flashing an alarmed glance at the little nickel clock over bis bunk's head. It was 'long past midnight, and he rushed on deck, without putting on his heavy Jacket. He had the shamed sense of having slept at his post, and it seemed to htm at the instant that Farquar must be Just outside the piers, sig naling frantically for the Josephine. Strangely enough, the fancy and the reality blended almost as soon as his feet struck the wet planks. .A flare shot up out of the snow-misted dark ness, and David only paused to note the direction of the wind before he dashed down tho companlonway, shouting to Jacobs and McHarg. "The wind'll be dead against 'er In an hour," he warned, counseling haste. "Start the engine the minute it'll move 'er. If the Andalusia's driven out a night like this, she's done for. We'll have the wind with us till we come up with 'er." "It's reesky, la'ad," McHarg growled under ills beard. "A fool head taot Farquar has to bo abra-ad the nolght. Who'd ever 'a' dr'amed ov It." But David was out of hear ing. The Josephine was under motion at last, wheeling sullenly from her moorings. It seemed hours to David, though, fortunately, the fires were well alive, and the start was only a matter of minutes. The tug forged ahead briskly, as she fell In with the wind, her lights cutting a narrow furrow through the black night. An other flare flamed up, and another, as though the Andalusia was grow ing impatient of her plight, as Indeed she was. She seemed to have shifted her position; possibly David surmised drifting before the wind toward the open lake. He had a boyish impulse to plunge through the glass front of the pilot house, and drag the Joseph ine faster, faster than the grunting engine wag carrying her along. He must not be too late he, the fellow who had waited for Farquar these two days, and slept at his post like a land lubber at the last critical mo ment, David was not too late, but It was a close shave. Once, the Josephine, caught up a huddle of rollers at the stern, threatened to transfix the An dalusia amidships. Once, the Anda lusia darted away like a wild thing, straight for the open water, but the gust lulled to let the tug come up, and heave her cable; then, the stout cable parted, between a mighty puff of wind offshore and the strain of starting the tow, and David held what little breath he had left until a second cable was made fast. It was a hard pull after that, the engine below grunting and snorting and hissing, like a black giant in pain; the Josephine splitting the big rollers into thin spray on her weath er bow; and the new cable straining and creaking, as though Its first ser vice might be its last; but it was over In due time,- as the hardest things are sure to be, and the few skippers in port pointed wondering fingers at the Andalusia next morning, as she lay at her moorings, a veritable ice ship, coated from stem to stern with the frozen spray, like an old veteran bearing the scars of battle. "So you waited for Farquar, eh?" that eccentric individual Inquired later the same day, when David came on board the Andalusia, by appoint ment, to collect his fee for the "tow." "Wal, young man, if you hadn't, I reckon nobody 'ud 'a' had the trou ble o' waltin' for Farquar any more. I ain't what you might call reel timid" the stubby chin wrinkled grotesquely at the suggestion "but I don't mind ownln' 'at my back hair begun to curl some little." "Bad night," David admitted laco nically. It appeared a small thing, now It was all over. "Yes, I did hold back a day or two, though I didn't much expect you'd put out after the weather broke. No" refusing a proffered roll of bills "just the usu al charge. We have to take the bit ter with the sweet." "Jud" Farquar was eyeing the young face before him thoughtfully, as his money disappeared from sight In the depths of David's wallet. He wag rather an undersized man, with sharp, restless, beady eyes, and a lip and chin which indexed his obstinate self-will. "We're short a man down below," he began tentatively, jerking a stub by thumb In the general direction of his last night's adventure, "One o' them big concerns swallered 'lm up a month ago, slick an' clean, like as Jonah did the whale." The remark' able comparison, apparently, gave him courage to make the plunge, for he went on briskly: "Bookkeeper we called Simmons, though, 'twa'n't all fo ge oOii. boot. He checked sales, f'r In stance, and put my letters into shape for sendln'. Don't s'pose you'd cars to pen up under a root with such a job's that, providln' a man would make It wuth your while?" "Indeed I should like nothing bet ter," David responded promptly. Wasn't It almost exactly what he had dreamed of ever since his school days? "I could give it a trial, any how, while there isn't much doing on the lake. I can't thank you enough, Mr. Farquar." "Oh, that's nothln'." David's out spoken gratitude appeared to embar rass Mr. Farquar. He chuckled soft ly to himself a moment, then added: "It Jus' Btruck me 'at I'd like to try a fellow onct who'd l'arned afore hand how to wait for Farquar." Christian Union Herald. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY New vanadium' steel handsaws, which will cut Iron pipe, are capable of being rolled into spirals, regaining their original forms without injury when released. Professor Trevor Klncatd, of the department of soology, University of Washington, will leave Seattle about April, 1910, for Simferopol, Crimea, Russia, where be will undertake for the United States Bureau of Ento mology, the collection and shipment of parasites of the gypsy moth. Although in most of the mines in Japan the various operations are car ried out by the ordinary labor of men and cattle, It seems from a report ou the mining industry in Hokkaido that at three coal mines and at one gold and silver mine, electrical machinery Is employed. In all, nine "electrical engines" are employed in the coal mines, and one "electrical engine" in a gold and silver mine. The nature of their work Is not stated, but It would appear to partahe mainly of the trans port of ore. Panfillo Garza Garcia is at the head of a company to harness Popocatepetl, the great volcano near Mexico City, and furniBh all the power for tho national capital. He proposes sinking two wells into the side of tho volcano until he reaches the boiling point in the earth. Then with nitroglycerine exploded at the bottom he proposes to make an opening between the two. He would .then run cold water down one well and he says steam would come up out of the other. He would harness this to an engine and the job would be done. A standing puzzle is the almost universal tendency of men and women of all races to use the right hand in preference to the left. Examination of skeletons has shown, by the differ ences of bone development, that this tendency is of very ancient origin. It Is often ascribed to the fact that the left hemisphere of the brain which controls the right side of the body possesses, In normal persons, a su perior development. But those who think that the preference for the right hand is an acquired habit, al though one of immensely long stand ing, suggest that perhaps the left cerebral hemisphere has become bet ter developed as the result of the overuse of the right limbs. At any rate, a society has been founded in London for the cultivation of ambi dexterity, and it will be for the phyBt ologists of the future to determine whether education in the use of the left hand can affect the development of the right side of the brain. Women Who Vote. There are four States where wom en have the same, political rights as men. They are Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. The right to vote on some or all school questions is granted to women in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, In dlana, Idaho, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming and Wisconsin. In Great Britain equal suffrage pre vails In all matters excepting elec tions to Parliament. Full suffrage is granted women in Australia, New Zealand, the Isle of Man, Finland and Norway.' Golden West Magazine. The Crown of Great Britain. The present ci;own of Great Britain was constructed in 1808, with jewels taken from old crowns and others furnished by command of the Queen. It contains four large pear shaped pearls, 273 small pearls, 147 table diamonds, 1273 rose diamonds, 1303 brilliant diamonds, 5 rubies, 11 emer alds and 17 sapphires. Home Notes. His Littlo Kick. "In this matter of quick think ing," said the baseball umpire, "all the bouquets go to the players; and yet we fellows have to think as quick as they do, if not a little quicker. If a player works his thinker too slow all he gets is an error. If I do it I get a pop bottle." Chicago Tribune. A sash Is the engagement present of the Japanese lover. telepiione popular With the Indians. Red Men Fond of Long Distance Talks With Any One Who Hap. pens at the Other End. The Indians are great on using the telephone. They have but little or no use for tbe local boards, their calls being over the long distance. They do not put In a call for the Individual. They do not ask for White Eagle at Canton or Flying Cloud at Darling ton. The call Is for "Any Cheyenne." The same Is true as to the Arapahoes. Any member of the tribe serves, says the Dallas News. An Indian puts in a call for any member of his tribe at Canton, Dar lington, Colony, Lawton or any point. It Is "up to" the manager to go out on the street and pick up an Indian. Any one will do, so he is of the tribe asked for. He Is put up to tbe tele phone and the talk proceeds. The talk being in Indian, no 'one knows what it is about. It an Indian, say In Clinton, wants to reach one of big people, say forty miles from Canton, or any other giv en point, he calls for one of his tribes men, tells him the message he desires delivered, and it is his business to de liver it, even though it requires a night trip and In a storm. A little Indian baby died near Clinton last year, and Its mother de sired that her relatives attend the funeral services. They lived out on the prairie northwest from Canton. The telephone was used and a mem ber of the tribe directed to deliver the message to the mother's relatives. It was delivered by a courier across the prairies and canyons, and the rel atives came in over the Orient next day. Last summer a call came to Clin ton for a Kiowa that was a poser for the manager. However, he found upon inquiry among the Cheyennes that there wag one who had lived among the Kiowas and spoke the dialect. He was put up to the tele phone and received the talk. WISE WORDS. The limelight does not make the hero. Pride is the fear of what folks will think; honor the fear of our own hearts. Wheat is often the best cure for weeds. We may not determine our circum stances, but we do determine our vital environment. No man can preach far beyond his real self. It is always easier, and often safer, to preach on old saints than on mod ern sinners. When a man gets beyond the pangs of conscience, there is not much left in him to punish. No man receives more than be be lieves. ' The ills that follow our lust we usually charge up to our luck. The most ridiculous coward in the world Is the man who fears ridicule. The saddest thing about the life that ministers to no one is that it never knows what it has missed. It's never wise to trust the man who trusts no one. Imaginary Ills quickly come to con stitute something more substantial than an imaginary hindrance. From "Sentence Sermons," in the Chicago Tribune. Mexico as a Cattle Country. "Mexico is fast becoming tbe great cattle country of the American conti nent, and Northern Mexico is the ideal cattle country of Mexico," said O. B. McDermott, of Nacozarl, who was in Houston yesterday. "As the farmers and sheepmen have forced the cattle men of tbe great Southwest of the United States to move their ranges, they are naturally seeking the most favorable localities, and Northern Mexico seems to appeal more forcibly to them than any other section. Cat tle are being moved rapidly into Mex ico from the United States, and the cattlemen of Mexico are now paying more attention to their herds than formerly, with the result that an ex cellent quality of beef Is being built up In the republic." Houston Post. He Knew Greek. Editor George H. Moses, of the Concord Monitor, the new Minister to Greece, called around at Senator Lodge's office the other day. The Senator is a leading member of For eign Relations, and Is a good man for a Minister Plenipotentiary to know. "Oh, you are the Greek scholar Jimmy Reynolds hag been telling me about," interposed the Senator as Editor Moses was introducing him self. "I feel that I know you well al ready." "Yes," responded the new Minis ter to Greece, "Jimmy is showing real appreciation for past favors. I used to translate hi3 Greek for him at Dartmouth." Boston Herald. Helps the Bottle Trade. The extension ' of prohibition throughout the United States has caused a largely Increased demand for "soda pop," as indicated by the great demand for bottles. Two big factories of the Alton glass works have been working since last fall night and day manufacturing soda pop bottles. Tho prohibition wave has also caused a big increase in or ders for all klnd3 of large bottles. Alton Correspondence St. Louis Globe Democrat. Muslin Is being made from the fiber of the banana tree. WHY PEOPLE SUFFER, Too often the kidneys are the cans and the sufferer is not aware of it. Blck kidneys bring headache and side pains, lameness and stiffness, dizzi ness, headaches, tired feeling, urin ary troubles. Doan'e Kidney Pills cui the cause. Mrs. Virginia 8pitser, Buena Vista, Vs., says: "For thirty years I suffered everything but death with my kidneys. 1 cannot describe my sufferings from terrible bearing down pains, dizzy spells, headaches and periods of par tial blindness. The urine was full ot sediment I was in the hospital three weeks. Doan's Kidney Pills were quick to bring relief and soon mad me well and strong again." Remember the name Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents box. Fostcr-MIlburn Co., Buffalo, N. T. 30 He Did It. "I refused Jim and he swore he'd do something desperate." "Goodness! Why, ho proposed to me yesterday." "The dear boy! So he kept hla word, after all." Cleveland Leader. FRIEND SAID TO USE CUTICURA After Specialist Failed to Cure He Intense Itching Eczema Had Been Tortured and DlHflgured Was Soon Cured of Dread Humor. "I contracted eczema and suffered in tensely for about ten months. At times I thought I would scratch myself to pieces. My face and arms were covered with large red patches, ao that I waa ashamed to go eut. I was advised to go to a doctor who waa a specialist in akin diseases, but I re ceived very little relief. I tried every known remedy, with the same result. I thought I would never get better until friend of mine told me to try the Cuticura Remedies. So I tried them, and after four or five applications of Cuticura Ointment I was relieved of my unbearable itching. I uaed two acta of the Cuticura Remedies, nd I am completely cured. Misa Barbara Krai, Ilighlandtown, Md., Jan. 9, 1908." Potter Drug ft Chem. Corp., Sole Props, of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. Governor Brown's Gourd. Plain Joe Brown of Georgia, who 3 governor of that commonwealth, succeeds the eminent Hoke Smith, evi dently is of a purpose to be our great est simple life executive. This is made apparent not only by the fact that hJ went Into office in a homespun suit of brown but by the further fact that the glass drinking vessels of an effete civ ilization have been taken away from the executive water bottle and a gourd has been hung up for the thirsty. There is merit In the gourd. When it floated gently on top the cool con tents of the water bucket or hung be side the well or spring it was an in vitation to the parched and weary. Tin and water have no natural affiliations. A metal cup is a makeshift of a gen eration which cannot be supplied with the gourd or which does not know its advantages. Glass can be tolerated, but Gov. Brown showed his apprecia tion of the finer things in life when he hung the gourd up by the water cooler. Chicago Tribune. Paying Pecan Trees. A stranger coming to Tallahassee Is surprised at the great number of pe can trees found In the yards, gardens and on the streets. They are every where, and thousands upon thousands spring up every season, where the nuts are washed by the rain or drop ped by the birds which feast upon them. If these trees had been budded with merchantable varieties when young they would now be producing thousands of bushels of the finest nuts annually, but of even these inferior varieties Tallahassee sells hundreds of dollars worth each year. Tallahas see Bulletin. HOME TESTING A Suro and Easy Test on Coffee. To decide the all important ques tion of coffee, whether or not it is really the hidden cause of physical alls and approaching fixed disease, one should make a test of 10 days by leaving off coffee entirely and using well-made Postum. If relief follows you may know to a certainty that coffee has been your vicious enemy. Of course you can take It back to your heart again, If you like to keep sick. A lady says: "I had suffered with stomach trouble, nervousness and terrible sick headaches ever since I was a little child, for my people were always great coffee drinkers and let us children have all we wanted. I got so I thought I could not live without coffee, but I would not ac knowledge that it caused my suffer ing. "Then I read so many articles about Postum that I decided to give It a fair trial. I had not used it two weeks In place of coffee until I began to feel like a different person. The headaches and nervousness dlsapr peared, and whereas I used to be sick two or three days out of a week while drinking coffee I am now well an strong and sturdy seven days a week, thanks to Postum. "I had been using Postum three months and had never been sick a day when I thought I would experi ment and see if it really was coffee that caused the trouble, so I began to drink coffee again, and Inside of a week I had a sick spell. I was so ill I was soon convinced that coffee was the cause of all my misery, and- I went back to Postum, with the result that I was soon well and strong again and determined to stick to Postum and leave coffee alone In the future." Read the little book, "Tbe ltoaa to Wellvllle." In pkgs. "There's a Rea- . ion." v.vpr read the above letter? A J new ono appears from time to time., They are genutuc, true, ana imi ok banian Interest.