LACS BEO. lhaae miracle I know' To make my heart delight Dawn with her rose aglow Down-stepping from the night; Dusk with her stars and shadoi 'And moon, a lily white! ban. Bn me myateriea unfold My happiness to bring kVntumn with magic gold; Bummer with aong and wing; . Winter with death; and then the breath 'And blossom face of Spring! OK joy it is to live, To know, to hear, to see! God has so much to give And gives to gladden me Music and mirth and love on Earth, And Heaven yet to be! Frank Dempster Sherman, in the Cen tury. Leaving Sister 1 Stella hurried through the errand which had taken her to the kitchen, and as she regained the hall leading to the front of the house, her face lost the pained look It had worn while she had been giving instruc tions to the cook. For the last two years Stella never went to the rear of the house if It were possible to rold doing so. From childhood days she had spent long, happy hours in the spacious yard of the Tolbert home and since the encroachment of the city had walled them in on one side and at the rear, she had been heartbroken. Then fine old mansions had been razed to make room for long rows of brick houses intolerable In the mo notony of their architecture. Each had its tiny lawn in front, Its six foot grass plot at ona side and an other plot in the rear, but the back yards blossomed only with the Mon day wash, and the great trees had been cut down because the front lawns were far too small to accom modate the sturdy oaks and the tall lms. Across the street from the Tolbert tiouse was a public park and on the Other street side It vas a corner lot was another old-fashioned house, part of the Bain estate In litigation, which Beemed to Insure the perman . ancy of the landmark. On the other sides the brick mon strosities reared their ugly roofs. Stella had shut up the rooms on that aide and in the rear or had screened the view with stained glass windows. From the windows of the rooms the used she could see the trees and the sort of houses to which she was accustomed, and only when necessity demanded did she venture Into those rooms from which an unobstructed view of the unlovely back yards could be had. Stella's hatred of ths march of the City and Its encroachment upon Cas- tleton was fierce and unreasoning, but Bhe had the Tolbert stubborn ness and neither her brother Bert nor Frank Fleming could move her determination to hold out against the new order of things. The building up of Castleton had vastly Increased the value of all prop erty and the taxes were growing heavier each year, but this was an added offense, not a reason for ac cepting her brother's suggestion that the sell the old mansion and purchase a home further out in the country, beyond the limits of the city's prob able expansion. The home had been left to Stella as her father's business had been left to Bert. He shared the home with her and Stella lived In dread of the day when he should marry and move away, but she was stubborn In her refusal to find another home. "I won't be driven out by these . horrible new people," she had de clared. "The home is still pleasant enough If I live on the open side, and I won't let the real estate men tave the victory." That had become her war cry and even when Fleming had urged her to share the new home he had purchased come five miles further out in a care fully restricted section she had de clared that when they were married be must live in the old home. Only Fleming's tactful silence at this crisis prevented a broken engagement. Stella, the kitchen safely behind her, ensconsed herself In her favorite corner of the parlor as far as pos sible from the sight of the hated, semi-detached rows. The soft closing of the front door roused her and she called to know who had entered. At the sound of her brother's voice she ran quickly into the hall. His early appearance augured some evil. "What has gone wrong, Bert?" she asked breathlessly. "Nothing's wrong," he declared, trying to force his voice into natural tones. "Everything's right, In fact. I had a -chance to leave the office early and I came out; that's all." "It isn't all," Insisted Stella. "What Is It, Bert?" Bert tried to laugh, but the effort was not entirely successful. Stella followed him Into the library, with ber hand pressed against her heart to still Its rapid beating. Once In the comfortable room Bert sank Into his favorite chair and drew bis sister down upon his knee. "I hate to give you pain, dear," he began softly. "It Is only the knowl . edge that I am wounding you which puts me 111 at ease. The fact Is that 'Beth promised me last night that she would marry me in June. Frank is coming out this evening to dinner, and I wanted to slip home and tell you so that you could get over It before be came." Stella sprang to ber feet. "To ar going to be married?" .she cried. "Ton are going to tear e and the dear old borne and make a home somewhere else?" "It had to come some time," he argued, defensively. "You see, Beth's aunt will have to go back West shortly and that will leave the poor child without any protection." "You can't expect me to remain a bachelor all my life," he added, with a trace of irritation. "I think we have all been very patient with your whims, Stella. Kiss me like a good sfster and wish me joy." "I hope you will be very happy," said Stella dully, but she did not offer to kiss him and she slowly left the room. Bert watched her go with the sense of helpless Irritation a man feels when he has unwittingly hurt a wo man and knows that really he is not to blame. He made no effort to stop her, and Stella slipped off to her own room to fight out her battle alone, But here a fresh shock awaited her, for as she curled up in the win dow seat she glanced across the street and was horrified to see two heavy trucks plied high with ropes and tackle stop before the house across the way. Gilt lettering pro claimed them the property of the Metropolitan House Wrecking Com pany, but Stella did not need the signs to tell her their purpose. Stella hurried down the stairs and burst into the library. Bert," she cried, "there are the house wreckers in front of the old Bain place. We must send Robert over to tell them that they are mak ing a mistake."' There Is no mistake," said Bert gently. "There was a decision In the Court of Appeals last month. Frank and I did not tell you because we did not want you to worry about It until you bad to. They are going to put p a row of flat houses." For a moment Stella was stunned by the announcement, then she went over to her brother's chair. "Let's ask Beth out to dinner to night," she said as she kissed him. "We'll plan for a double wedding, dear." Bert reached up and drew her down to the comfort and protection of his strong arms. "I'm glad you're going to give In and marry Frank, even If he does Insist upon running away from the house wreckers," he whispered. "But It's the first time I ever saw the house wreckers act as Cupids." Trenton American. WISE WORDS. A man never fights so hard for principle as he does for results. Occasionally you find a grown man who seems to eat almost as much as a small boy. The things that' make a man dis contented are not what he has, but what he wants. It Is quite natural that a fellow will never have a show unless he has the price of admission. Some men are so rich that they even seem to think they can pay their respects in dollars. The man who is easily worked Is always overworked. He who swallows his pride should be sure his digestion is all right. Fine feathers may not make fine birds, but a man's clothes may make him look like a jay. There are lots of good points about many a man we wouldn't suspect If he didn't tell us about them. That women have little sense of humor may be due to the fact that they don't want to laugh and grow fat. , When a woman's face is her for tune she shouldn't have much trouble in getting through life on her cheek. The good don't all die young If we are to believe the tombstones. When a fellow tells a girl she Is a dream, it Is cruel to her to wake him up. Even the man who borrows trouble is apt to kick if he gets more than he bargained for. The man who suffers frem dyspep sla has little patience with a woman who merely has a broken heart. Some people take a melancholy satisfaction In always being prepared for the worst. It always worries an absent-minded man to think he can't remember what it was he was going to worry about. From "Musings of a Gentle Cynic," In the New York Times. A Collier Epigram. The late P. F. Collier, the noted publisher and horseman, once dis cussed at a publishers' convention the odd case of Ambrose Bierce, who in England is regarded as an author of genius whose "Chickamauga" Is said to be' the finest short story ever written in English while here at at home Mr. Bierce 1b not half so re nowned as others. - Mr. Collier ended with an epigram at once true and sad. "Mr. Bierce Is fortunate.for it fre quently happens,'' he said, "that the prophet who is without honor In bis own country can't afford to go abroad." Washington Star. The Child and Prayer. One morning, after family prayers, little Kathryn said to ber mother: "O, mamma! Lois bad ber open when papa was praying! " Her mother, looking at her keenly, ald: - "How did yon know, Kathryn?" Realising that she was coraered, she' prosaptly answered: . "I heard her whk." Hsmllsitt Review. GARDEN. FARM and CROPS SUGGESTIONS FOR THE UP-TO-DATE AGRICULTURIST Aid of the Birds. Encourage the birds. The farmer or fruitgrower can not possibly reach the highest success In his business Without the aid of the birds (except, perhaps, the English sparrow), and yet they are often very annoying dur ing the ripening season of the early fruits. Various methods have been j tried to prevent their ravages on the tsunjf iruji crop wun more or less sue- vwsb. runners uome journal. Shaping the Tree. The shaping of a tree should be done when it is young. - The practice of allowing useless limbs to grow only to be sawed or chopped off when the tree is large Is a mistake, as every undesirable limb grown deprives the other limbs of so much nourishment. Begin with the first year and train the tree to the shape desired, leaving only such branches as wJll be retained lat er on. Farmers' Home Journal. Save the Horse. Don't stay in the field too late. A man never makes anything by over working his horse. He Is certain to lose somewhere. The strain may put him off his feed, and you will be out of a horse for several days. A horse Is worth from five to ten dollars a day to the farmer during cropping-tlme. and it pays to conserve his energies that he may always be ready for the task In hand. A sick or dead horse can never aid the farmer at cropplng- time. Farmers Home Journal. Remedy for Gapes. One of the best remedies, or pre ventives, for gapes in chickens is to keep them on fresh ground where Chicks did not run the previous sea son. Chicks on new grassy sail will seldom become Infested with the para sites. On the bare ground of an old chicken run, the worms are orten numerous and frequently give much trouble. The only safe way is to change the feeding grounds often and give no chance for Infection. The out door brooder should always be placed far away from the regular poultry house and grounds, where birds have not been fed previously, or where old fowls have not trampled over it, for It Is very likely that gape worms are carried In filth on the feet of fowls from place to place. It Is said that the pest is carried from one farm to another by pigeons. Farmers' Home lournal. Tuberculosis In Herds. We have no reliable figures to In dicate the percentage of dairy cows afflicted with tuberculosis, some in vestigators making an estimate of 10 percent and others as high at 90 per cent. The one figure is certainly too low and the other too high. There are many herds that have never been tuberculous, some that have been Cleaned of tuberculosis and others on which every cow is affected. The best evidence we have of the common presence of tuberculosis In dairy cows is the claim made by some dairymen that a milk famine would result from the condemnation of all tuberculous cows for dairy purposes. It is stat ed that the dairymen who make this claim evidently know what they are talking about, although it may be as sumed that they make It rather with the Intention to oppose a feared gen eral application of the tuberculin test to dairy herds than to call attention to an extremely dangerous and objec tionable condition. The claim, how ever is a Btrong argument to prove how urgently vigorous action is need ed to clean dairy herds of diseased an imals. Guy E. Mitchell, Washington, D. C. ,Not Enough Feed. There seems to be little question that a good many dairy cows work at a disadvantage and do not bring their owners the return thoy might simply because they ate not given a ration sufficiently large above that required to maintain their physical or ganism. Details of a test case In which this point was nicely brought out have lately been published by the experiment station at Cornell Univer sity at Ithaca, N. Y. A cow which had been kept by a farmer In the vicinity for some five years, during which the average yearly cost of feed had been $28 and the average return from milk sold but f 25, was taken in charge by the station directors and for a con siderable period fed on a ration which cost 32 per year. With this feed she gave a return during the year of ?38. Thus instead of being kept at a loss of $3 per year she yielded a return, of $6. Of course, It is seen at a glance that the animal in question was a very poor stick to start with, but at the same time with the former feed ing she used so much of her ration in keeping her organism in operation that there was nothing left as a mar gin of profit. It should be noted that eyei ' n increase of feed of $4 per year re sulted in an Increased return of $13. It Is safe to say that at least thirty or forty percent of the dairy cows of the country, as a whole, are kept at a positive loss and couldn't be made revenue producers under any system of feeding. On the other band, It is also quite likely true that a good muny animals are kept at a trifling gain or dead loss simply because they are not given a large enough ration. The de termination of the point in question la an easy one and can be ascertained by any dairyman who will carefully meas ure his feed and measure and test the milk from the individuals in his dai ry head. Weekly Witness. The Hair of the Horse. The hair of the horse counts for much in determining the condition of an animal that is little known to the man who is buying him. Even though a horse may be fed up to a degree of fatness the process may not entirely eliminate all signs of previous bad feeding. The horse that from colt- hood bad had a well-balanced ration will have had all the constituents out of which to make the varioiis things required in the elaboration of his frame. Tfie hair of a horse that has been well fed from birth should be finer and softer than the hair of a horse that has not been so fed. This will be due to the fact that the lawer of muscle and fat under the skin has always been in good condition and the roots of the hair and the hair follicles have had a healthy growth. The min ute vessels also that supply the oil to the hair will be In good condition and will keep the hair soft and glos sy and the skin soft. So it is common to hear the expres sion that the coat of a half starved horse is "staring." It Is Inclined to stand out and is harsh denoting an absence of the things that make It soft and glossy. To some extent the tendency in either direction is Inherit ed, but it is probable that in the be ginning the conditions were brought about by the good or poor feed given to the animals. Therefore the way a horse "feels counts for much to the expert horse man. The amateurs frequently won der at the amount of importance the horseman seems to attach to the con dition of the hair of the horse, but to the expert the condition of the hair is an Index of other things. The man that Is raising a colt for the market or for himself must take into mind the condition of his hair. and to niaTie this an Index of thrift re quires proper feeding from the first. It cannot be done by forced feeding just before the time of sale. W. H. Underwood, In the Indiana Farmer. Farm Notes. Very young lambs can distinguish their mother's voice even in flocks of hundreds. It is said that ten sheep will eat much as one cow and aim to feed accordingly. The lambs and ewes are much bene fited in being kept separate from the other sheep until lambs are weaned. Corn, ground cob and all, together with a portion of oats, makes a good feed, not only for cows, but .the hors es as well. Mark the sow which proves a good mother and treat her with special re gard. She will prove a splendid part ner in the farming business. Something for nothing never works out In the dairy. You must put the feed In to the cows If you are going to get the milk out of them. It is best not to use trap nests dur ing the summer unless they can be looked after every half hour, or the hens may suffer from the confinement. Spike tooth harrows and all similar pulverizing farm Implements have no value nowadays when we realize the improvements and value of the cuta ways and other valuable implements for fining the soil. Prof. Bailey advises farmers not to give up agriculture simply because they have grown too rich to need it. This is a statement that ought to send some of the young blood of the country hustling back to the soil. Grow sheep for both wool and mut ton. Both are grown on the same eafrcass and both should be considered in the line of profit in their produc tion. A sheep is no more a sheep without wool Hi an it would be with out mutton. Picking Cherries During a Battle. "We took shelter In the cellar and for two days the bullets were contin ually flying across our yard, so that none of us dared to go to the barn. As we had a number of pet rabbits there we were very much exercised about feeding them. A Confederate soldier offered to feed them for us and did cross the yard, with bullets whizzing around him. I ' remember how brave we thought him. "Speaking of bravery, there was another Confederate soldier who was so fearless that he climbed a cherry tree In the center of the yard and sat eating cherries in a most uncon cerned manner, although the bullets were cutting through the leaves con tinually. Of course, these were stray bullets, for he conld not be seen, but his position was jast as dangerous. There was a nw of sharp-shooters just beyond us." AV bertus McCreary In McOlare's Magazine. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. A man's better half oftea sees his worst side. Freezing peliteness never makes warm friends. Don't sing your own praise If yon want an encore. It seems the natural bent of some men to be broke. To run through a fortune a fellow must be pretty rapid. The biggest fish and the best hus bands are hard to catch. It's when he Is up against it that a man really feels downcast. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw mud, either. It's the easiest thing in the world to make a bad matter worse. There Is always room at the top of the barrel for the big apples. The more conceit a woman Has the less room she has for jealousy. It sometimes happens that even the man who Is his own best friends gets left. To say that all Is not gold that glit ters Isn't necessarily an admission of guilt. Time may be money, but it Is eas ier to make up lost time than lost money. It requires no knowledge of botany to recognize a blooming iulot when you see one. Unfortunately the things worth do ing are the things some other fellow has done first. We should all strive to love our neighbors. We can get more out of them that way. When a fellow begins to feel that he couldn't live without a certain girl. he ought to marry her and see. From the "Gentle Cynic" in the New York Times. WOMEN MASTERS OF HOUNDS. First Known in 1891 Over a Dozen In England Now. Twenty years ago the idea of a wo man hunting hunds or even being mas ter of a pock of hounds was considered utterly preposterous and absurd In England. No right thinking man of that period but would have unhesitat ingly declared the privilege of writing master of foxhounds" after the signa ture to be as essentially a masculine prerogative as the using- of razors or the wearing of trousers. One can therefore picture the storm of cri'ticlsm which flooded the sport ing paers when in 1891 a woman in the person of Mrs. Cheape appeared to demonstrate that It was both pos sible and practicable for a woman to hunt hounds. Once Mrs. Cheape had come forward as a leader says Bailey's Magazine, other women were not slow in imitating her example. In 1894 Lary Gilford and Mrs. Pryse-RIce also start ed private packs of harriers, while In 1899 Miss Isa McCUntock became master of the Tynan and Armagh har riers. Mrs. Talbot Price, Miss Parkin and Miss Hazel West becoming masters of foot beagles in 1901 and 1902 suc cessively. The first woman to undertake the mastership of foxhounds was Mrs. Hughes (Neuadd Fawr) in 19(12, and the next year Miss Edith Somerville commenced successful reign over the West Carbery. In 1904 Mrs. Rlgden be came joint master of the TIckham fox hounds, and the Misses Rose-Cleland started their pack of harriers. The year 1906 gave the North Northumber land a woman master, Mrs. Burrell, Mrs. Pardo Kirk also starting a pack of foxhounds In Ireland, and the Coun tess of Craven entered on her first sea son as master of namers, wniie iau produced no fewer than three mew wo men masters of hounds. Sultan's Cipher. That old grasshopper-like combina tion of flourishes, the Toughra or sul tan's cipher, which figures on official documents and all public buildings In Turkey, will have to be re-engraved with the name of Mohammed V. The inscription consists of the name, the purely Turkish title of khan, and the words "ever victor." But the form is always preserved. It dates from Murad I. That redoubt able warrior could wield a battleax to goo monarchs of his time, he had not mastered the canning art of the pen, so when he had to sign a treaty with the merchants of Ragusa he smeared his hand with ink and pressed it on the parchment. The conventional cipher does not bear much resemblance to the im print of a human hand. The three upright strokes are said to be the three middle fingers. But such as It is, It stands for "Murad, his mark." In the Greek Patriarchate at Je rusalem is preserved a document with a similar sign manual, the actu al Impression of the hand of one of the khallfs. Pall Mall Gazette. Beetle Hunting in Queensland. A reward of Is 3d a pound was re cently offered by the Queensland sugar planters, writes a Brisbane correspon dent, for beetles of the destructive sug ar cane grub. Hundreds of men and boys have now taken up beetle hunt ing as a profession. One man earns 6 a week throughout the "beetle sea son," and boys make from 2 a week. London Dally Mail. Just Dodging Taxes. Italy is a star among nations just now. In spite of beamy increased expenditures for the army and nary and In spite of the earthquake, it will have a fine surplus. Nevertheless, the Roman oittzens seem to be oom lng over here with , great haste. Philadelphia Inquirer. A burs new. Wheat It Ajrpeans Act as Obm. Trouble with the kldsav mhU Is a certain sign that your kidney ars deranged that yen shoal d us Don's Kidney Pills. They cure sX Irregularities so d an noyances, remove backache and aid pains and restorw the kidneys ta heaHh. Robert 0. Miller. SIS Ferry 8t Danville, P., says: "Kidney complaint made me a crlpfJe. I WU Ktlff lama mi sore and had to endure terrible sai ferlngs. I was threatened wit Bright's disease and was refused In surance by the examining physicians. I was nervous, weak and run down, Doan's Kidney Pills helped me, ana) In a short time I was entirely cured." Remember the name Doan's. Tar sale by all dealers. 60 cents a baa. Foster-MUbnrn Co., Buffalo, N. T, - 1 Tablets Endorsed. A Philadelphia physician claims that the lactic acid tablets so much used for Intestinal disorders are also heir ful In the treatment of catarrh ani other affections of the throat, ear audi nasal passages. ITCHED FOR TWELVE YEARS. Eczema Made Hands and Feet HwelL. Peel and Get Raw Arms Affected, Too Gave Up AH Hope of Core Quickly Cured by Outicnra. "I suffered from eczema on my hands, srm and feet for twnt ? hands and feet would swell, sweat and itch. uu nuuiu Decome caiious and get very dir. then Deel off unit c-f .-A ' . . - - a uimi most every kind of salve and ointmenfc wiiuuut success, i tried several doctors, but at last CAVA lin Ihinlrin, - " r eciema. a lnend of mine in sisted on my trying the Cuticura Remedies but I did not give them a trial until Iiot ' o bad I had to do something. I secured a. sot and by the time they were used I oool see s vast improvement and my hands ai 4 feat ware healed up in no time. I hava ha no trouble since. Charles T. Bauer, R. . D. , Volant, Pa., Mar. 11, 1908." Potter -Drag & Chem. Corp., Sole Props, sf Cnticnra Remedies, Boston, Mass. Grim Turkish Humor. To the report of the court mart las on the Adana massacres, which h as Just been made public in Constantino ple, there is appended a bit of grim humor. After strongly denouncing the Incapacity and apathy of the vail ant other local authorities in not trying to prevent the awful murders of Chris tian Armenians In Adana, the report closes by saying that while 15 have been already hanged, there are 800 others deserving death, 15,000 who de serve hard labor for life and 80,000 who deserve minor sentences, says the New York Tribune. Publicly, sc that the Adana Turks have timely warning to escape, the report goes on to say that If the government desires It the town will be cordoned and the matter dealt with expeditiously, but In the face of the general reconcilia tion between opposing Turkish fac tions it genially recommends that a general amnesty be made the occasion of a national fete! Millions from Hunters. A deer in the bush l worth more than a deer in the hand, for the live deer attracts tourists and the sports men, who leave money behind, money found because it costs the state noth ing. This Is 'borne out by Germany, where 608,000 people yearly nay for hunting in the forests. The return from hunting licenses and rentals- amount to $32,500,000 yearly for Ger many. Germany is ahead of the Unit ed States in this respect. Only one- atate approaches uermany in reve nues from hunting and tourists. Maine's 250,000 tourists yearly leave $Z5,000,000 behind in hunters' fees. Outing. THE NEW WOMAN Made Over by Quitting Coffee. Coffee probably wrecks a arreater percentage Of Southerners than nf Northern people, for Southerners use- it more freely. The work It does Is dlstresRtnai enough in some Instances; as an il lustration, a woman of Richmond, Va., writes: "I was a coffee drinker for vea.ru. and for about six years my health was completely shattered. I suffered fearfully with headaches ousness, also palpitation of the heart ana loss of appetite. "My sight gradually beaan to fall- and finally I lost the eight of one eve. altogether. The eye was operated upon, and the sight nartiallv re stored, then I became totally blind In the other eye. "My doctor used to urge me, to givsi np coffee, but I was wilful, and con tinued to -drink it until finally in a case of severe illness the doctor In sisted that I must give up coffee, so I began using Postum, and in a month I felt like a new creature. "I steadily gained in health and strength. About a month ago I be gan using Grape-Nuts food, nd the effect has been wonderful. I really feel like a new woman, and have gained about 25 pounds. "I am quite an elderly lady, and before using Postum and Grape-Nut I could not walk a square without exceeding fatigue; now I walk ten or twelve without feeling it. Fosmerly In reading I could remember but lit tle, but now my memory holds fast what J read. "Several friends who have seen the remarkable effects of Postom and Grape-Nuts on me have urged that I give the fasts to the publlo for the sake of suffering humatfity, so, al though I dislike publicity, you can publish this letter if you like." Road "The Road to Wellvllle, la pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the -above letter? A ow one poesies from time to tame. Vby as gemmta true, and full of banan faaterwC