: J my “Riclens heart should what the poor elod chanced endden pulse beneath the touch ever loved in He 80 i drop some warm tears ty seed of k yt ms ot © 3 tat death coud wt mate ms JENES of Tambling Forks : religion. The other of the Forks couldn't any question about it, and | good and hard. and was for keeps. Tod was the jist In the Forks. There dists aver at the Ford, and f Baptists down at Deep ol latter thing the neigh , Was in keeping with the tness of things. Tod had got jon from the Evangelists while n a visit to Ham's Station on snts of the place shook their feet 18 bs strains a od bow, ks | The women put them up to it i didn't speak mach to Jenny, aml when khe saw the disioolination she spoke to | none. Lher. That wasn't 10 be expected, bat § AOU Wery r | sneer by bis mother + ieve if I should fade | nto “he mystic realms where Hight ! And you "abrouid 3 jong once more my face to i world o come forth upon the Hills of naght And thier siars rong fagots, till thy Ted by the beacon blaze, felt fail on me. 1 believe my love for thee a% my life} so nobly placed to be, {from ol 85 #o0N expect tor dee the aun Fall Bike a dead king from his heights sul | lime His gory #iricken from the throne of Ax hoe usworth the wordhin thon hat won. 1 belive, dove, par nd foo Is to the soul a sweet, immortal dew Tha! Som bfe's petals in the hour of The wiriting angels, see and recognine The rith crown jews! Love of Frade. When life falls from ue like & withered By Mary Ashley Townsend. jin her cheeks. § | Beneath the structure the water was deep and spooth. Fifty yards below and began singing: : “Art thou weary, art thon langaid, Art thou sore distress’d? Cone to Me saith One, ‘and coming, Be at rest” Tod heard a movement beyond the bedge wheres the red bird had been whistling. He looked aniekly. and through the interlacing twigs be saw a woman. She was hurrying sway in a sort of balfguilty fashion. Tod knew who it was. It was Jenny Trav. ers. Jenny had been one of the pret. tiex! girls in the Forks ten years be fare. A young fellow, tall, goo¥-look- ing and with a tongue that conld talk to women bad come from beyond the mountains. Jenny had listened to him when she wouldn't liaten to the young fellows at the Forks, with whem she had been brought up. One night Jenny had gone away, and the man from be yond the mountain went st the same Two years ister the girl came tio, back. Her old father took her in. The Tumbling Forks folk found out that though she carried (no ber arms 4 baby boy, she was 3 deserted wife tof thew ever heard again The mien did't mean to be nkind They Of course, po woman spoke to muh worse than pthers Jenny's child was now eight veurs old, and be went to the crossroads school and played with the other boys that i he played with all but one of them, | ®| Mery Garth's little boy was vader or |W {ders not to speak to Billy Travers He had been taoght te value of & wh ow A SECOND. HE FOUND / THE BuY IN HIS AEM or “There Is a Founlain” snd | ore like them. t — ous | gathered round , but in a sort of a shame: Fay, and at a respectful dis. while he was lifting up his le Lils cabin and pealing ont Fort” and “Sinners Turn, by WI Ye Die?” with 8 heartfelt husiasm. al about him. Tod was trying some Og Dew that morning. He bad Neard it in a litle Episcopal mission | be bad wandered into one day! ‘when the Christian church was closed. ‘He had | Sought the tone only halting. Someliow he thought han AY of the other through the Episcopal hymn married Hed Garth and before Jonny had gone away with the man fog be yond the mountain, bad been Jenny's girlbood chum. Tumbling Forks peo ple sometimes sakl wonder the breath that Mary had set some store by Jon ny's lover, aml that was the reason why she was so bitter bow, The next day Tod Jenlis played his tithe in the sunshine again. Tod went He knew No movement aati voles andl violin hid roumded out he had 8 listener his One day Tod was sitting in his door. |" "eT" y scraping his fiddle, while the Ten. | see sun threw maple leaf shadows | 10 1 ask Him to ee Will He say wwe nay? Not til earth and not till he Pass away gly & me, Aven Then a woman same halls ty through the gate tie doorway. “Is that trap Ki rin Ri fo) inl aly Ane or © Tod” she #xid, tm i ly “Bure its true, Jewny sald Ted gently, “though #t took me seventy years to find tout” “I've heard you singing lots, Tod, and 11 bike te i've been hearing that hymn there's a hook and read softly for some little my enemies? | bands were clinched, She went through bridge when the child fn sudden excite. | was answered Ly 8 shriek from the bridge. Mary Garth was standing in ihe Philippines according to a re. | Of the man from beyood the mountain none | before sho 1 the Chicago Record Herald, Revoed, cof his light 192 It seems a though Ia ike to have a friend who'd receive me the bymn has it. Sometimes I get most crazy. There ain't many friends livin® around Tumbling Forks It's a good many years Tod. and I've lived §° with old dad stands, her hand on her heart, “but now since something in bers. 1 don't know just what jt is, but I don't feel ax hard toward people an I dia” Tod's eyes glistened a little. He took time. “Mart 1 do that to have Him receive me?" guid Jevny. Garth “Yes, even Mame Garth answered Tod. “It's written as plain as day. ‘Bless them as persecutes you'™ The woman ross with a flaming color “I can't do that,” she sald, and ber eyes flashed and her the gateway with rapid steps, her bead thrown back ard her bands still clinched. Rhee walked towards the: bridge that spanned Tumbling Forks it becatoe a roaring torrent. Half way between the bridge and the rapid a A little boy was lying prone on the bad a fish line in his hand. He was | a tiny little fellow, and with a sudden | feeling of repugpance Jenny Travers recognized the <bild as Harry Garth, | Mary Gartlys boy, apd the ons who | bad been taught by his mother thst Billy Travers was s child to be, shunned, Jenny was twenty vards from the ment leaned out over the river, Jost Bis balance and fell in. Down the stream | the water was churniag and bolllog There was a swift current noder the bridge, though in the depth of the water it did sot show in its full foree. Jenny cried aloud. She hesitated one instant and then with sn indescribable something in ber face, rushed forward and sprang into the water. fhe had een & good swimmer in ber girlhood. | and then once again called aloud. She thers shrieking and impotently wring. log ber hands. Jenny Travers burdened as she was strove to reach the littie peninsula that | ran into the Fore Khe was weaken. | fg. Khe reached 8 point above it, but | the current swept ber out and beyond | the boy clinging to her asd Impeding | the freedom of movement A map rushed seross the field, and out on to the peuinstle and threw himself foto the water. In a second be found ithe Doy in biz arms He struggled to reach’ the woman also, but the current bad caught her with Jie fall force, and she 48 at the edge of the roaring torrent in whose water was death, The wan struggled ashore with the boy. He turned and Jooked. For one iastant we saw Jenoy Travers’ face tbove the water, Rluggish of perception thoug | his Tumbilog Forks man wag he save that In Jenny's face thers was set a look of peice As the torrent clatesed Lier there came from the doorway of | Tod Jenks’ home the roughly sweet! voice of the Tumbling Forks convert: “Corae to Me.” saith One, "and vom ing, be at rest." Edward B. Clark, 19 The Bird Doector. “John” sald the proprietar of the Bird store, “there's a ‘call at Mrs | Brown's, uptown.” John, a thin young man, took Up 8 ack leather hag and hurried out “He Iz a bird dectar” the proprietor explained, pointing after the lank. | black figure. “He looks after the months and feet and plomage of can: | aries, parrots and other pets He cleans | thelr mouths with little broshes, pleks and spasges. With sets of files and | { scissors and scrapers be cuts their | pails and keeps the'r fest in trim And you ought to see him given bird a shampoo. He covers it so with Inther | that it resembles a ball of wool. { “John averages about two ealls a. day in the summer and about five in the winter. He keeps a physician's’ Hitle day book. and we send out bills! to birds for professional services just i as though they were huss beings. | That pleases Birds’ owners amd tetids to events promptitods in the sets tHemwnt of the sconunts™ tha Philadelphia | hm bo re Aes Will Receive His Reward, The conutry press {3 more powerfol | than the metropolitan papers because | there bv wore of if says BF. Lusk of the Jackson (Mo Herald ¥r coaches more homes and influences the old farmer, the bone and sinew of thiy great repuilic] therefore {ts mare” 14 upward and onward. We have noticed that whenever a country paper bas na | tafluence, is not believed by its read. | ers, is not honored by its contern poraries, that it bas an editor of a low : ype A pewspaper. fram the very | nature of things cannot wield any. greater lofloeges in the vommunity than that luflveuds wideh is warrant ted by the example, the integrity, the mor | als apd the reputation of its editar | Fast caunicy editor eave off al bicker aud nagging, sud lealousies competitor, and be will become a benefacior and a philanthropist, and in time will receive his jost reward the people, | Swife, | Sound moves 1142 feet per second,’ yon fue ing tor Tully od miles a second. and elec | | tricity 258.000 miles & second, “Must I forgive all | Must 1 forgive Mame | i hour. Lmissioner of Puddle Philippine Ixlands to the War Depart | od : Saye mm: from resort to the dentist or doctor, 3 ~hange of diet, an increased amount wreise, more sleep, less worry, will often restore, to a jaded mind i BIRD i deterinine what ghat in an Cc Macen, He's good and under |} 1 didn’t have soything bere; |’ Ee SG ft was empty-like.” and the woman put | It # claimed that an experimental balloon recently attains ap aititmde of twelve miles, recording a temperature | of aighty degrees PF. below zero. at Berlin, The most economical processes are weed in the lake region for the recov. ery of copper, so that it is found that ore yieling one and one hall per cent, will pay costs, esha The effort made to Huminate some of the streets of London by means of the Neenst Jamp have proved unsud. eosaful and an experiment Ix being made with an entirely new form of | Hight. Experiments made Jaboratory of Cornell in the physical University sl ad t roduction of 110 gralos of | howed the proce Sin ome | It Were proved that the thowsands and hundreds of thousands of observa: tions recorded from the birth of the history to ihe present day, by the | trained physician and veleriiarisn as well as by the layman, were mises | ceptions, Protessor Alexander Grabam Bell of | telephone fame, fu reported, according | Fai, : : {10 the Western Electrician, to be inter. little peainsida jotted into the stream. | to the ; « with his bow {bridge amd jeaning over the water. He tiguid alr by one horse power in one Only two per cent. of the energy expended ix stored in the Hquid air St ested in the construction of an airship. the building of which be is at present supervising. It ix sail the machine will ntiivge many principles of the kite, Charles 1. T. Burcey, of Syracuse, N. | Y.. lias patented a process for charring | ‘wns, which is stated to save all by products, thus greatly reducing the cont of charconl to iron manufacturers | Mr. Bureey has succeeded in charring | 8 | ZI cords of wood a day by his process | | at Elmer, Pa. i a" The substitction of the sutomobile .| fire engine for the horse machine, ap- pears to be working successfilly in tiermany. Consul General Guenther writes from Frankfort that a second | “sate” Is to be purchased The engine is xald to make good speed with little noise. She caught the boy and hore him ap The ordinary household fy in partly | responsible for the spread of cholera port made by Major IL. M. Maus, Com Health for the tient. The port March 20 to May 1D 1000 cases of Amigtic cholera were reported in Mae nila, S00 of which resulted fatally, Probably the biggest radish ever raised in Missouri M. Matiork, fp an County. It weighed five pounds, mensored eleven and a half felon In elrcumferenes amd (wenty. ate locked In length, though several | inches of the Jawer sod had been bro: 19 svg off, The variety Is unknown. but | the seed came from the Agricultural Iepariment. Snapahots Fader Oconn, Rulunarine photography is not likely | to beecowe A papular pastime. bat it is leading us into unknown vegas, amd fouls Boutan, whe began by ovest) gating the animal fe of the waters, fera beeps ag snthisdastic seq bottom camerist. He bas ately published seine of bis remarkable photographs of i sulgnarite scenery. suvs the Pitsburg Gazette He wes 8 bam onmera. which is in slosed In oa tight copper box, and moaniad ob a eastiron ripel Safi able mechanism ix provided fo expose | | aid change the plates. The pressore of the ¥onieatly grest oven thirty water, at twenty or riuhler hall Lg a Light fades rapidiy in sinking below | { the surfuee, davhight exposcres being | Cinapracticatde at a depth of twenty-five feet. Magnesicm powder a burned In {asyveen io oa suitable glass globe, and by this powerful lamination instant: avons expastires are msde with inter esting resulis What Canses the Itoh to Write? We nre inclined an rhe whole to Dee lieve that the stimulus to Hierary pro- dusting exists within and net withont ft in not eH, Dover: ¥ the man Bios external elrounme ay riches, siokness ov health, greatness oF Bumbleness that the prasinetions stp If id the charaeteristios of that determgine not what he what he shall thiok, but he shall de A stlmulos from without, gue as poverty. may start production of eanrse, hut that is merely the physical awakeing of a disposition vy efrenmsianovs would have Seon awakened ia some way at sume fimo. True literature in the voice of the soul ealilpg from the windows of the house of clay a response to those things of life that touch the nature of the soul that speaks Londen Spec ior, es af cenius, Hany shall learn ap tlm te AAA 3 A AAA SA AHA INS, The Motion Frevalled. Ap old town offivial of the ity of ia. saws Wy Ror Blories that during the igh of the earthguaks dis, parbanees of I8s6 11 Hr session, When the quake shook Yhe City all from basement to attic Congeilmen ran out, thinking the bouse weuld topple aver Whereupoy the wag wha kept the minutes of the meeting concluded his mecord with the | following sentence: “On motion of the City Hall, the! Council adjourned.” tables has existed for years almost evatigucusiy at Alsabol is weed for fol: it burns guiekly. and gives ont grest heat, with no smoke. | or possibly soy. Where else, was grown on the farm of in Literty Township, § neon. ] ; feet, was an early difffeulty, bat § this was counteracted by means of 8 | holiding about a gallon, from which alr was forced through a) abe into the box as the pressure tne Lond vty Connell was | ¢ several Sumdava, the sensitive to pralse of thelr publi prayers.) he £. 3 wo 3 ; - NE He tation i. Jie reality of rable. Is Ir a. well-defined disense which can be clearly determined and sop | arated from all other diseases, and which conforms to the de | seription that has become classical in our text books and has been accepted for generations? In other words, do we know there i» | such 8 disease as rabies? and, If so, how do we know it¥ From the fimie of Aristotle (322 B Ci till the present day we have clear accounts of this disense existing through every age. and provoking fear and horror In muny countries It was caused by | the bite of am anime! and such animal was generally alleged to be rabid The symptoms from the carliest times. bave been given 8% NErvOUSSSS. excitability, restlessness, fear, Irritability. great sensitiveness of the skin paroxysms of lury, spasmodic contractions of certain muscles, parsiysis und death. The medical profession av a whole hae always recognized the existence of such a disease as rabies iif men and also that this disease is caused by the bite of a rabid animal The, veterinary profession bas from [ts foundation recognised the ox jstence and contaglousness «{ the diseaws. Its schools from the eariiest to the latest, hive crmstantly taught this doctrine, and its text books are all but unanimous on the Hubject The same may be sald of the text books on human diseases Would it not be extraordinary. amazing incredible. if, at this late day, that the avthors were decvived and that the disesse wWiN & myth? Before the investightions of the Bureau of Animal Industry, it was aot supposed that rubles existed to any extent in this conntry. It was believed that the cocurrence of the dremd disease in Washington wis so rare that a rave would pot be found in a lifetime. In effect, lovestigations show thas the Nations! capital a Han stiosld [be cheerful at howe, Ji goss Without ' @ that i woman should be. Whatever ber cares or anxieties, ® wife dd mother must make it a part of her religion y ther. What is most prised In bousebold economy ® perament which ia gay by fits nnd starts, up to-day and MOFIOW, fall of hilarity on occasions, and heavy a JUL AD even serenity of soul which makes people at the roof. A home in which one treads wiways on thin ible. A cheerful disposition will influence its possessor sisting cireumstarices. forget the discomforts of yesterday and Jelightrul things to-morrow. To live largely In the present, Joing ose's nest and trusting to God. is to maintain an almost unbroken cheeriness of Jeronanor amt sxperience. A distinction may always be made hetween high spirits, the angio optimism which makes people gay to effervescence, and the equanimity which is & good outfit for ihe common road. In choasing a lfepartoer, sither a man or a woman does wisely who seeks ote whose habditusl cheer. fulness will ft hin or her for good comradeship Much of the lack of chedr wich undermines home comfort may be 's the score of insufficient health. A dyspeptic sees the world as ange of indigo. Imability th assimilate food makes poor blood, poor means low vitality, and low vitality brings, in its wake, An absence wearied body, {he lost sense of happy cheer, and make & whole family where they have wen sory ful ~Sucoess. N any great story the crentiee work is not oniy dope first, Dut it ta done “without pbservation.” It is a part of that emotional and mental enltures of which we ligve spoken, and which in the soul of an artist becoiges a storage that, like the Hghtaing bordemsdt . elowd, must have precipitate release. This image is too violent perhaps, to indicate the expression of the artists piood, which, whatever it rension, has a more stable thmperament aml more gradu] release than have the elemental forces of nuture: but the operation is, like that of These forrest, spontaneous and inevitable There i% md mental stoezge suave of power: the writer's culture Is 8 growth of his power, the egercise of which ls ss natural as the flowing of the fountain which becomes the stream. It is a part of his life, with the creative quality of life, tireless in action as gre respiration and pulsation: there i% no burden, since in this as io the physical world, weight is but an sther mame for an attraction. The burden of the artist's work is in the inertia of his material, which through industry and discipline is translated into force--an unveiled tovee in the material Itself, snd. through reaction, a structural strength in the artist himself, manifest in his firm workmanship until dpaily difficalty be comes facility. ALF the muntal and more than halt the bodily ills womes undergo wold be lightened If they could learn to shirk This I» a faculty that must be cultivated. Few wotten porth of Mason and Dixon's line are born with it. When hie Pligrim Fathers bequeathed to their descendants brown ‘bread. baked beans and alleged liberty of thought. they threw in what is still known 33 the “Puritan conscience.” © This last gift would be bad enough If it merely made ite TTY owners unbappy when they were comfortable. But it does more than that It teaches them that what is worth doing at all in worth doing weil, whereas the things well dope that are pot ‘worth dJdecing at all woukl #111 a book. From the caus of this conscience mur! the woman free bersell who would make a science of shirking., Once liberated. she bas a reasonable chance far Hfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Vor ber «fidieulty in reaching this stage a woman's genius for detail is in part responsible. Also, ber lack of a sense af proportion has much te answer fur. She does not get things in perspeetive. That which is nearest is always farguat, and it iv at raodons that she takes ap each duty Ia this misfit of a planet something must be crowded ovt The unsel entitle woman does everything well until her strength gives out and she must leave half her work untouched or wreck herself in the attempt to finish it, The wom with a sclentige bent carefully chooses where she will shirk amd then does in The faculty of choice ls now inculcated in the kindergartens. Most woten already grown bave to acquire it for themselves. If they are housekeepers, they and their families suffer long and are not always Kind before the Lappy period is reached where the way bow and the time when to Chirk has been lesrned. The shirkiog that is correctly dope does net make others conspicuously pnesinfortable © The woman who bas so much else to do that she must shirk sweeping a dirty room tidies it so that it produces a specious effect of ¢leanliness. When she must shirk dusting the drawing room, she wipes off the polished surfaces and draws down the shades. If she must shirk in arvder to get oul of the way a piece of sewing that the time is all te ! short to complete, she sets the long stitvhes where they will not show and i makes the outside of the cap and platter so shinlpg that iI never oocurs fa tany one to look at the side that is hidden, Ax a mater of diplomatist, course, the women who makes a stieace of shirRing is a Vhen she shirks broad-making because there ig something else more Ruporance on hand, she buys a breadsiull so pleasing that the family feel they are having a treat. If she has shirked going to chureh for she compliments the clergyman Suwliciously on his sermon or his prayer the next time she attends sepvides, WClergvmen ave peculiarly Ir she shirks ber duty calls, she invites the sipned-against friend 10 a mwesl at the house, or writes her a tatteritg note about her last cleb paper. The woman who shirks fs usunily popular. If her clevernvss Is equal to her science, sie gaigs the rep fon ot being a good housekevper. and no coe suspects that her powers of ¢hirm and her gift of remaining young are due to her ability to shirk wisely and well —Collier's Weekly.
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