THE OLD TEAPOT.
I hav a little tennot near my hand;
"i'ls pink nnd white a pretty pattern,
too
Trim spout, surved handle, and a narrow
bund
Of dull, worn gold In places quite
worn through.
A little maid with funny, frlRhtened face,
A pnrnsol tin-tilted o'er her head,
b runnlnK on It suili a foolish race
Now why could she not sit or stand In
stead? Ah, now I pee the sequel to the tale!
A lover pink and white In haste pur
flues; His steps are wide and yet they always
ennnot catch the maid In pointed
shoe)
Now tell me why It was In Grandma's
time
They painted teapots and the cups to
match
With Rlrls and girls, of every race and
ell me,
Bo very frightened nnd so hard to
catch?
1 Lurnna W. Sheldon, In the New York
Times.
THE UNDYING PAST
' She was the prettiest of maids, in
the daintiest of sunbonnets; but his
yea were fixed on the little white gate.
He approached it with reverential
' steps. It was here they hud met, li.
was here they had parted. That surn
.,,iner of '88, never had there been such
another summer. He felt himself sen
ile, prehistoric. Involuntarily his
boulders bowed, his lace grew creas-
ed with wrinkles.
It was cot until he raised his eyes
and gaw himself obsened by the lady
that he regained his youth. .
.1 Though startled, he lost nothing of
. fals customary grace.
"I cra"e your pardon," he murmur
r ed, doffing a hat which disclosed no
frizzled locks.
She granted it with a gracious bow,
end then, as he still lingered raised
Inquiring, almost protesting eye
i brows.
' Was she hot a woman would she
not sympathize with his pilgrimage!
He resolved to confide m her.
"I am revisiting," he said according
ly, "the scenees of my boyhood."
"Indeed," said she. "It was some
' time ago?"
"Twenty years," he Bighed, "by the
calendar; my memory, yesterday."
"You see," he explained dlffuseness
. was not one of his failings "she was
my first love.''
"How romantic. Do you remember
' her name?"
. "I shall never forget It Her name
be groped In the recesses of his mem
ory "her name was Mabel."1
"Mabel," echoed the young lady,
- her lips between her teeth.
"It was here" he laid his hand af
fectionately upon the gate "we first
met."
"It's wet," she warned him.
He withdrew his hand hastily.
"It had JuBt been painted," he men
tioned as a strange coincidence, "on
that unforgettable day. She had on a
white frock, but I wore a red blazer;
,went to bed without tea that night.
JLl IUW UUlt; It BLIUUK 1MB us n uuru-
hip, but now to feel again the di
vine thrill, I would gladly suffer such
martyrdom."
i "Twenty years," he mused. "Time
is a ciftious whirligig. Everything Is
.(one, but the old gate remains."
. .., :She shook a regretful head.
. ,. "It's a third I remember; it, was put
up yesterday."
"At any rate," he consoled himself,
after a momentary pause, "It's where
The girl hesitated and glanced' at a
Spot some yards lower down, but being
: linwllllng, perhaps, to shatter another
Illusion her her peace.
. "1 feel," mentioned the young man,
"as though I were again seven."
.."Was It exactly 20 years ago?"
' "This very month," he assured her.
' " "You were not then born."
She admitted the fact.'
"'"""And you came," she suggested "to
' "visit her shrine?"
.-:Her tomb," he corrected. "My lit
.(tte sweetheart slumbers beneath the
ods of 20t years. Her only monument
, Is doubtless a stout matron, and, her
' epitaph 'Mrs. Somebody.' And yet I
am probably her only mourner.' "
: ' '"Your constancy is remarkable,"
'"'"'It is -so easy," he murmured,' ;''to
fce-constant-to a memory. 'It's not un
til one's ideal materializes, that the
train comes." ,'
.... "She may. not he stout," remarked
jtiiB girl, . seeking to cheer, him, , "After
.,20 years. . ." ., .
, "It was hereditary," he said sadly
'The fear 'haunted me even then." '
He glanced at the house. "" '
, "That was her wlndowV 'he indlcat
:' ' ' '"
'"Oh," said the girl, "oh, really." '
- "Every, morning I would 'come- rfnd
whistle, beneath It, and sb wbftld- pull
i- down, at me. We would, goout, togeth
er and, awaken the larks to emulation
' if taught' 'her to cycle.."'. '.' ."
""' ''Td cycfe," half protested his listen-
ar; "20 years ago!" ! ' -"' '
''"-It -wits" early in trie mbrnlng-wihe
J reminded her, half repronehfiJBy; "and
...rfira saw no harm in it,., 'The. bicycle
' W ffivtpli. taller than we,,were, which
- A n,Ai,fiHnn .llffinilt o t. .1 I i u m nil Tl t
' lag less difficult, perhaps, but even
" more dangerous."
'"You were on a holiday!"" '
' "A month. How we wept at part
inghere, at this self-same' gate, or
rather, what was the gate then. I
broke a sixpence in half, I remember,
(or a keepsake." He smiled remin
Ueently and glanced at his hand. "1
hare the tear still."
"And to think that you should be
living here."
The girl gazed at him with' puckered
brows and tjta which hinted at se
cret amusement.
"Bomebody must live here," she re
marked. .
"Well, yes," he admitted; "one can
not expect a constancy of a house."
The remark drew a sootuful smile
to her lips.
"Had you found her here you would
have been sorry."
"You think so? You have seen her,
she is much changed?"
"Shtt Is my sister," said the girl
calmly.
The young man gazed at the distant
trees in silence for a moment; when
his eyes came back to her, she saw
they were full of strange wonder.
"Her sister," he repeated, and his
voice had taken on a new tone; "and
she "
"She has not forgotten you" she said
gravely. Her voice shook a little as
she added, "and she is not married."
"She Is?" His questioning glance
traveled to the house.
The girl shook her bead and her
eyes sought his as they would read
his most secret thoughts.
"She returns tomorrow; If you still
oale to meet her, you may come
and have tea with us. If not I shall
say nothing of this meeting."
"Thank you," he said quietly; "I
shall be here."
But she, us his footsteps died away
down the road, shook her head doubt
fully. As a footstep sounded on the gravel
path a girl looked up with a start.
"You?" she cried almost in dismay.
"You didn't expect me?"
seemed to bear out her statement, or.
If visitors had beeu expected, but
sparse provision had been made for
them.
"Your sister has not arrived?"
She nodded assent end her eyes
sought the tip of a restless shoe.
"I'm so sorry" she murmured, after
a slight pause.
He smiled consolingly. "After 20
years," he said cheerfully, "another
day "
"I don't mean that," she hesitated
and flushed. "I I haven't a sister."
Her eyes now met his bravely.
"But"
"I know. I told a lie." Her voice
was firm, thought the effort was ap
parentthe tone of a sinner who
awaits punishment, white-faced, but
unshrinking. "I thought you were
telling a story. Don't interrupt please,
I said the girl wag my sister to fright
en you. I never dreamed you would
come this afternoon.
Her white hand quivered as It lax
on the table, and she bent her head
before him.
"I thought you made up the story
as an excuse to speak to me."
The young man's Hps twitched.
"Don't reproach yourself" he said
softly; "I did." P. Harris Deans
In the Sketch.
SQUEEZING WATER FROM PEAT.
One of the Difficulties to Be Overcome
with Heat.
The work of preparing peat for fuel
has attracted much attenton in for
eign countries, as well as in America.
The old-fashioned way, drying in air,
takes several weeks, and sometimes
two or three months. At a meeting of
steel and iron workers in England
not long ago a paper on thij sub
ject was read by a certain Dr. Eken
berg. He said that for a long time It
had been impossible to squeeze the
water out by pressure. He added that
It had been found the trouble was
caused by a slimy substance "hydro
cellulose," he called It produced by
the plants of which peat consists. Dr.
Bkenberg went on to say that a tem
perature of 300 degrees Fahrenheit
would convert this substance Into
something else and remove the difficul
ty. When It has been ascertained that
it was the presence of hydrocelluiose
which prevented the water being
pressed out, the doctor continued,
there was comparatively little difficulty
in devising a treatment by which the
separation of water could be technical
ly effected. It was found that by In
creasing the amount of heat employed
to destroy the hydrocelluiose other
changes also took place. The percent
age of carbon in the peat gradually in
creased with the rise of temperature
and a portion of the components com
bined to form water. The difference
between this process and the ordinary
dry charring In retorts was the pres
ence of fluid water and such treatment
was described as "wet carbonizing."
The decrease in weight during wet car
bonization through the formation of
water was not to be regarded as an
actual loss, as it Implied concentra
tion, and there was an increase of the
calorific value. A point of great prac
tical importance was that young and
mature peat alike yielded a product
of about the same heating value.
No light was thrown on the cost of
this or the other processes.-in use,, nor
was . there , any indication which i of
them. Js the least expensive;, Still, the
explanation gi.ven of the .cause, of
the difficulty formerly experienced and
of the way it has ' been overcome is
certainly Interesting.' ' ' '
: Statute' Grandson. ' . . i
"Joslah tjulncy, the prominent Bos
ton politician, was' walking hear the
city hall, when he heard' a laborer
accost another thus: "That's . Joslah
Qulacy." "An' who's Joslah, Qulncy?"
the other asked. "I never see such ig
norance," rejoined the other.. "He's
the grandson of the statute you see
in the yard." . , ' ,.
Higher speed on the main lines hat
been ordered by the management of
the German railroads, so that Instead
of 90 kilometers, or 55.92 miles an
hour. It will be 100 kilometers, or
62.13 miles, an hour.
The Greatest
Influence in My Life
Zy General Melson A Miles
0I1E Influences that affect one's life may be innumerable. The
lights and shadows along the pathway of life affect us for
the moment and leave their lasting Impressions upon the
memory. The lights inspire and elevate; the shadows
alarm, restrain and protect us. In the same way our pres
ence and influence affect the lives of others either for good
or evil. Far superior aud transcending all other Influences
has been the beneficent presence of those true aud pure
spirits who have accompanied me on this Journey of life.
A father who was the soul of honor, whose integrity was as sacred as
life, and who was one of the truest patriots I have ever known. He had the
courage of his convictions, frank and mauly In expressing his opinions and
Judgment of men and affairs; as brave as a Hon yet as kind hearted and ten
der as a child.- He loathed a hypocrite. Intrigue and deception were foreign
to his nature. His ideas of truth and duty were inspiring and ennobling. A
sainted mother whose blessed Influence from the time she first taught me to
lisp a prayer was the true light and guide of my life. The tenderest affection,
the gentlest admonition, the deepest love, the sweet melody of her sacred
musio touched and forever impressed the better chords of heart and soul,
and their Influence was ever present as a true lueplrlng and cherished mem
ory. The splendid Influence of a noble brother who was the highest type of
American character and citizenship; also the refining Influence of two de
voted sisters who were the light and joy of a happy home.
Last, but not least, and embodying all the good Influences of those above
mentioned, was the companion of my life, who made life with all its struggles,
Its conflicts. Its adventures, and achievements as far as possible a romance
and a success. To these influences I would attribute whatever there is of my
life that is commendable and satisfactory. The Circle Magazine.
Are Tubercle Bacilli ?
t v v - - -
T- '
rrienas, jyot roes
By Charles E.
T Is about time, as it seems to me, for us to restore the peo
ple to their wits, from which the bacteriologists and germ
theorists have frightened them by means of scare tales
concerning the alleged danger from "germs." When sol
diers go into battle it Is manifestly Important for them to
kno.w friends from foes. Instances have been known In
! i i
which squads of the same army, In the dark or In the smoke
J of battle, have fired Into each other, causing a bloody sac
rifice and at risk even of utter rout by the enemy. That
the same sort of thing may occur that it has, In fact, occurred in war
against disease is susceptible of proof; and I would cite the experience of
three eminent physicians, after quoting the remarks of Professor Jacobl that
"it may be possible that we can learn how to poison and exterminate the so
called germs, but in so doing we may kill the patient!"
The experience of Drs. Bab!. Perron and Glmono (Lancet, April 30, 1893)
Is of great significance In bearing out Professor Jacobi's dictum: "When
dealing with tuberculosis of the lungs, the microscope having revealed the
presence of the Koch bacillus, but the patient Is without fever, night sweats,
or yellowish green sputa, the results from experiments with .serum from
donkeys were Bomewhat amazing as well as disastrous. Treated with the
serum, their general health seemed to improve (poison stimulation, says the
present writer), and the number of Koch bacilli decreased in notable pro
portions. In two cases the last sputa examined showed that the bacilli had
entirely disappeared;, but with the disappearance of the specific bacillus of
tuberculosis hectic fever set In, and one patient died In eight days and the
other in ten, with the symptoms of septic poisoning."
Man Incompetent
, He Cannot Support His Daughters and
Forces Them to Work
Ey Benjamin
N my opinion It is adding insult to Injury for women to be
X
told, as by BishopfDoane, that they have "elbowed" their
way Into the Industrial world, and by obtaining work have
deprived men of it. As truly might It be Bald that the 400
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M.
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:
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unfortunate Englishmen and women elbowed their way into
the Black Hole at Calcutta. They were driven In; and the
little, girls (for statistics show that 92 percent of female
workers start before attaining the age of 16) are equally
driven frcm home and school Into Industrial and commercial
life.
Far from being able to protect and support their females, men have un
mistakably shown thnt they cannot protect themselves. They have allowed
themselves to be robbed and despoiled of everything beyond a mere living.
The report of the United States Bureau of Labor shows that the average
wage of odult male labor during 1907 (the latest figures available) was 10.08
per week.
No one who realizes how small Is the purchasing power of this sum in
the human necessities of shelter, food, and clothing can reasonably deny my
contention that the average man has shown himself unable to protect him
self as head of a family. He is therefore compelled tq drive his children out
at the earliest possible moment to make their own meagre living.
And the worst of the whole matter Is he Is satisfied with himself. In
stead of realizing that he Is economically (and spiritually, too) "poor and
blind and miserable and naked" he Is puffed up with a sense of his import
ance as a voter an importance which he refuses to share with his women
kind. : ,
The Senior
k
(Senator Fradlev. of Kentucky Froth the
':" Congressional Record) . .
OW, Mr;, PfsldeiiS,' I
N I nave tried to be as moaesi as I touiq. i Know mat a juu
lor Senator stands mighty little chance in this body. When
asau
me and said i . "Be careful, Senator; remember you are noth
ing but a Junior. - Keep quiet. If you venture, these senior
Senators will take you in out of the wet" I have beard my
mother talk about the bogy man and all that sort of thing,
but I will tell you honestly that I have been alarmed ever
since I have been In Washington,' and what I stand In dread of Is the presence
of the senior Senators in. tttla body.
There are a great many dangerous things in this world. Automobiles are
dangerous things; they are liable to run over you and kill you. Electric cars
are dangerous things; they are liable to run over you and kill you. But there
is nothing on this earth that can compare in point of danger with a senior
Senator when he stands properly on hie tilts. N
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Page, M. D.
1
Macmahon
Senator On
do not want to tallt i.nybody to death.
aTHE FARMERS HOME AND'ACRES t
Pure and Fresh Water.
Be careful to have their water sup
ply pure and fresh. Keeping the,
chicks on a plank floor for a few
weeks after hatching Is another good
precaution. If this Is not practicable,
at least keep them off of damp or
grape-worm Infested euil. Farnneiis'
Home Journal.
Mash For Qeese.
In making a mash food for the
young geese, take ground oats and
run It through a sieve so as to re
move as much of the chaff as possi
ble. Mix this with equal parts of
bran and corn meal, and moisten It
with scalded milk; mix Into a dry
mash and feed this to your young
goslings. Never feed young grow
ing geese whole corn or whole grain
of any kind if you wish to grow them
most profitably. Always feed them
on ground meals, mixed either with
soanding milk or water. Farmers'
Home Journal.
Rations For Ducklings.
Mix about five percent of coarse
sand and the same amount of beef
scrap In the feed after the ducklings
are four days old. For the first four
days soaked bread and cracker dust,
mixed with enough meal so it will
hot be sloppy will be found all right.
At age of one week feed four meas
ures of bran, three of middlings, and
three of fresh cut clover or rye. With
the beef scrap and sand added and
your coops kept clean, the ducklings
will grow like weeds. Farmers' Home
Journal.
Poultry Profits.
The cost of food required to pro
duce a pound of beef, pork or chick
en does not differ greatly, although
chicken sells for twelve or twenty
cents a pound by the carcas, while
other meats sell at from four ta eight
cents. This difference Is further In
creased on the farm from the fact
that poultry picks up a good deal of
material that would otherwise go to
waste, as well as numerous insects
that should be destroyed so that much
of their food should not really be fig
ured as expense at all.
But there is a greater risk of loss
In raising chickens and the cost of
labor per pound of finished product is
more than with sheep or hogs. Then
you must credit eggs produced, which
complicates the problem until you get
a headache. The net returns, accord
ing to capital invested and cost of
malntalnance, however, leaves a
greater profit from poultry than any
other farm livestock. If a fanner
would keep close account of the in
come from his poultry, including the
amount of eggs and butter consumed
at home, he would be surprised at the
returns. Epltomlst.
Artlstle Farm Homes.
One good, comfortable farm home
Id the neighborhood! Is sure to lead to
others. The example is a good one.
The Improvement of the farm home
cannot help but have a good effect
upon a neighborhood. We believe it
Is a stimulus to emulation on the
part of the neighbors, so that they
will vie with each other In the beau
tifying of their home. Friendly riv
alry of this kind gives a rural district
a desirable reputation. Why not you.
dear reader, commence this work of
making your home beautiful, laying it
out more artistically, planting it
tastefully, and It will surprise you
how many imitators you will have.
We all try to be as good as our neigh
bors, and generally some one has to
be the starter. Why should not you
bo the leader In this work of beauti
fying homes on the farm?
It coBts very little to lay out a lawn,
plant trees and shrubs and have a
few flowers and climbing vines by the
house, and the effect is very pleasing.
The enjoyment we get as we go along
Is worth more than the monejr we
make. A pleasant setting for a farm
house adds more comfort and solid
enjoyment than the same amount ot
money laid out in handsome furniture
or a stylish rig to drive. Epltomlst.
Smut. In Seed Wheat.
The following from a bulletin of the
Michigan Experiment Station may be
timely where farmers find smut in
their seed wheat. -It says:
"Clean off a space ten feet square
or larger on the barn floor, sweeping
It thoroughly to .remove all spores of
smut. Mix the contents of a pound
bottle of formalin .with water, In the
proportion of one pound of formalin to
60 gallons of wafer, whlcli Is enough
tor 35 bushels Of Wheat. TVl nnl m.(r
the formalin' and water until ready J
to use mem. Thoroughly wet-the
floor with the solution; then spread
on a layer of seed: wheat, which has
been previously iwell cleaned in
fanning mill. With a sprinkling 'pot
bo over me layer or wheat wetting
It thoroughly, shoveling and sprink
ling until every kernal is wet on all
sides. Add more wheat and sprinkle
as before. The weat may lay in a
pile for a day, but no looser, for fear
of spoiling. Put the wheat Into clean
begs that have been treated with for
malin, and be careful not to stir up
the dirt on the barn floor while the
wheat is exposed. For drilling the
wheat may be dried on canvass in
ilia sun, but It should be sowed
promptly after being dried."
Formalin can be bad at most drug
stores, but if not the station say:
' "If formalin is not available, cor
rosive sublimate may be used, using
Cne pound to 50 gallons of water.
Great care should be taken to pre
vent live stock having) access to the
solution or to the wheat, as the drug
Is a deadly poison, and do not allow
the mixture to come in contact with
any metal."
Pekln Ducks.
As I am a great lover ot the Impe
rial duck with its beautiful snow-like
feathete, black eyes, and orange col
ored bill, I will give a few words in
their favor. I would not think of liv
ing on a farm without a few of them
at least.
First I believe in having pure bred
stock, I prefer the young duck and
the oldor drake, as the young ducks
begin laying earlier In February and
produce a greater number of eggs.
One year we had ten that averaged
twenty eggs in September, after a
heavy laying term In the spring. By
securing them In a pen at night, for
a few times, they will learn to go
there alone, and since they lay about
daybreak you are sure of the eggs.
I use twelve eggs for a setting and
often have a 100 percent batch, and
there Is no prettier sight in the poul
try business to me than a nice gang
ot Pekln ducklings.
They should be fed four times a
day, say at six, ten, two and six
o'clock, their feed consisting of bran
and meal, about equal parts, with a
Email amount of some good poultry
food occasionally. Above all things
they must have sand mixed with their
food, to aid In digestion; say about
n handful to the quart of food.
Some finely cut grass, lettuce or on
ion tops,, mixed with the feed Is a
splendid addition.
When quite young they should not
be allowed too much water, unless It
can be so arranged as not to admit
their bodies, since they are weak, If
they get entirely Immersed, but af
ter they begin to feather tbey should
be allowed enough water to bathe in.
or four feet in length, one foot wide
We use wooden troughs about three
and four inches deep. If their nos
trils get closed with Mrt they will
soon pass away.
We live within a stone's throw of
a nice stream, but since naughty tur
tles abound our ducks are not al
lowed the run of the creek, except
those we Intend to keep for breeders,
which when about full feathered are
then let go to the creek, as It makes
them stronger and helps to develop
muscle. There is money in raising
ducks, but they must be put on the
market early. Two years ago we
marketed over 200; the first 15 we
put on the market In June; they were
between nine and ten weeks old and
averaged three and three-fourths
pounds at 15 cents. The next 26
weighed 99 pounds at 12 1-2 cents.
By the time our next were ready the
market was a little off, so our profits
were not so much. They are a bet
ter paying proposition than the chick
en since they are easier raised, and
lice and other troubles are not so
numerous. I neglected to say after
the duck Is four or five weeks old we
begln feeding crushed corn, slightly
moistened Mrs. Clara Shanks, in the
Indiana Farmer.
Farm Notes.
Breeding for size Is assisted by
pood, senible feeding more than most
farmer realize.
There are times when we would
like to ;ivo up the struggle and lot
the weeds have full swing.
For plant lice on cucumber and
melon vlws nothing la better than to
bacco wator, made from refuse to
bacco stems. It Is both fertilizer and
insecticide.
Every breeder of noultrv who h
not already got pure-bred stock should
make a start in the right direction
within the next month by buying eggs
for hatching.
Hens, turn their eggs twice every
Hair Th In la . .
people mako a mistake. Incubator
eggs should be handled Just like the
hen would handle them.
COWS Will llva . nut In h
m vui?
both night and day, but a good stable
with a liberal feed in the manger
every cold night and every stormy
day Will' be' appreciated.
If yoii areworklng for eggs be care
ful to select the most vigorous birds
for winter., layers. Market all the
rest as broilers. Weaklings are no
account as egS producers. '
We can not say too much In favor
of the standard brands of prepared'
chick feed. ' They save time, make
stronger chicks', and in every way are
more satisfactory than home-prepared
foods. Above all, they are certain In
results.
A rule with a good many dairymen,
especially those living near large cit
ies, when milk Is especially profi
table, is to pay no attention to the
beet value of a cow. Their Idea Is
that dairy rows are not Intended to
produce beef, that they can get
enough milk from a good dairy cow
so that thj value ot the carcass Is
no coo aiders l.'on to them whatever.