: 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.