ean soi sitting down on a Tallen tree, buried his ‘abe didn’t care for me I return, believe me 1 g dns Yet mean- she sald, and rested her ve, that he might her face, “go on, dear.’ kbow what it Is about, re in nothing of the ealm of worth that 1 had. Hh you, aml yet'—this he defiantly, “she Is splendid, tight. she 18 Maisie ac terly earried oft, my feet fnk of anything else. Maisie, or a. tven does” whe wid, # both wsdl fay. ak with me; ‘you oS ah me to find out, but You are Thank Ged we did not it too iste. Don't stay now. going to give you back your and have done with it a fittle Lishy ish, Bob, mt get A Bew one for her, not too ike it : was positively radiant rose and stretched out yard bin, her little half | monds held in the left. He seen Ler lock so lovely be. it had a strange effcet upon glost wrung his heart. It ke the vivid Leauty of Esme; more something below the ing forth, Ip uustemslily and dombly ring: for one lustant he hesi- flung it into the depths of i | to my memory.” Maisie sald you, from my heart. It hat niskes me content. took her hands Impetuously, bad much that he would say, checked his arly with » 1 shail Tears be Good- d ran lightly up the the bend be saw white dress disap. twilight. it, all the same.” he said, 'R with a heavy sigh; “I : brute to the end of my $ to meeting her—Dbah, . Pre been. How could 1 ‘a mistake? But 1 suppose s¢ of propinquity! But uch of an angel for me, and eve I was half afraid of her for mber telling her so once.” prning when Anpette went ca her young mistress she came standstill on the thresh- for Maisie was not in bed. nor d; she sat at her writing .“: : “Dearest Nell: have been anxions nt not hearing from me for so long, but 1 think I did write no need to worry, my beart trouble would decreas: steadily with reason: able care. 1 have no excuse for my silence except that I have been tos blindly, outrageously happy to «do any thing so unssifish as write letters this | summer. 1 am quite happy still, bud 1 have awakened to deficiencies, and # desire to do better, Your letter of con gratulation was very sweet, but, in deed, Indeed you must not think se highly of me. All my life | seema te have been haunted by a reputation for being good” 1 cannot help knowing for it has been sald to me so often by those dear ones who have coms me for help. I hope and pray that } ‘have been a little nse sometimes—-one ‘pever knows, I crave for wothing se much as to make life easy to others and very simple. But, Nell, you wil { think this strange, perhaps; It Is very dull to be thought exceedingly good In : this world: to be put up on a pedestal and worshiped at a distance is lonely fwork st best: and that has been my Hite! 1 am sure that is where the per fect beanty of Heaven will lle-.we shall walk all upon one level, closely, no one being deemed better than ad other—thank God.” : Here the writing ceased: the pen | had been sat resolutely aside as it there was no more to be sald; words could pot go beyond this, and Maisie had completed her mission of making life easy for all around her, and very | simple, by going where to be good Ie to walk slope no louger, and “no one being is deemed better than another thank God.” ~New York News. a Sr a RN y ARRIVISM "=A NE Hep NEW WORD. Stands For the Ameriens Doctrine of to “Get There," Any familiarity with Continents} Journalism and periodical lterature, {mays a writer in Scribner's Magazine, brings the reader in these days face to face st every turn with the newly. , { coined word, “arriviem.” and with dis sertations on ihe modern tendency which It representa. The word Is a very ugly one, and the thing which it stands for certainly Las very ugly as pects: but it is donbtinl if we can dis iiss sa insignificent either the one ot the other, doubtful whether we enn & #0 in our quality of Americans espe elslly. The couservative European who is rasped and abraded by the gen eral rawoess resulting from the doo irine that the most of the time spent in prepartion for the Achievemenl taf the suds of life Is time wasted {and that the wise course to pursue by simply to “get there” and to learn hy doing or enjoying instead of learning to do or enloy, does not hesitate to say that it fa the American and his Amer leanism that are primarily responsible for the doctrine. And he was right | We have, ii sflert, a pow wy of ™ garding buman existence and the hw man career, in this particular. We ary inclined to spolozize for this new way at times, and at times to assert wit} | BRnecessary aggressivencas that it In reality, wi : * [probably ought to do neither. The mat | the only right way. ter Is still on trisl. Whether “arriv ixm™ be humanly possible when pushed to its logical Hmits, whether $f wiil give us more out of life or less, 1g what we do pot yet know and ennnot yet tell But it Is the contemporaneous problem and one surely calling for meditation { and experiment. oon Vpn lini Nintiotien ot Night Herons. dering free rhout the United States each wearing on one leg an alumiioun band inscribed “Smithsonian Instito tion” and a number. If any persot shoots one of these birds he should write to Paul Bartsch, biologist of the Bmithsonian, telling where it was and how large was the bird. The nighl heron is ote of tho most beautiful ol the aquatic birda of America, but scl entists know less about ft than they are satisfied with, Last year Mr Bartsch discovered several breeding places of these Hirds, on the Potomat in the District of Columbia. Recently he visited the place with several an sistants in the night and the 800 nlam inum bands were fastened to the legi of as many youbg berons, Seletee Y anxious to kvow how lang the nigh heron lives, where it spends the win ters and how much of the country Bt covers in its wanderings. It is believe that by the time a few of the suber aluminmm bands have been reported some of these facts will have been en tablished to the satisfaction of thi StisiologiatsClessiang (Ohio) Plaig Dealer. Reminder of Ola Times. A rieh man who has joined the mud titude In New York since his quich fortune came to him was entertainin | friends at dinner the other night. Thy service wag magnificent and so way the dinner. The wife, gorgeonsly clad, reigned over the table. During a tall in converaation the rich maa watched a servant who was dexterous iy removing erumbs from the table Then he looked down the glittering table at bis Jeweled wife and re marked: “Sadie, remember when yoy used to shake the tablecloth out of tlie back door to the hens ®™” Doctor's Recipes For Lemonade. Hore is a scientific recipe for lem onade, advocated by the medical pro fession: Wash the lemons thoroughly, slice thin and peel all. Cover with sugar, allowing the sugar to becom saturated with the lemon juice by | gently pressing the slices of lemon with a spoon. Then add water, slowly, stirring all the while. : I am so sorry you and tell you Dr. Forbes sald there was! wals quickly from Eight hundred night herons are wan | 40 represent gold ducats, BHOT SILK LISLE BTOCKINGS, Stockings in shot silk are srong nd serviceable, ay well as smart, A tocking which appears to he entirely dack when stretehed reveals the white r other color with which it Is woven, ‘he darker colors are used chiefly with Be shot silk liste and lisle effect, but he delicate shades may also be found. ‘he pongee colored stockings are pop- dar, and with the entite leg of open rork are extremely nitractive, EXPAND YOUR CHEST. A gitl’s chest is coming to seem al sost more important to ber than the | omplexion spon which as a role, she A% spent so much time and thonght, Jo increase the chest measurement nd to raise the chest 20 ax to pro. tice the full chested appearance in ogne Is the ambition of every girl rho ts not already full-chested. To i acreaze the chest measurement- and mwery inch added to the chest means pore vitality—place a pipestem in the south. Breathe out through It until he lungs are completely empty. Then nhale anil the lungs are packed foll if alr. This is a simple exercise, but meellent. In performing do not breathe with ths abdomen, but nse ha lower chest. Even when not osing he pipestem try to breathe deeply. Hake both the exhalntions and the in-| lations a little slower and longer han usoal. Deep breathing hus a lose bearing on the nerves. The aw hor of a famous work on nervous ten. don and rest advises as a means of alming one's self ont of a nervous utter the taking of Afty long brenths, pening and closing tha eyelids grads islly with each breath. Bach 8 sine ds method of “hesping cool” mentally 1 certainly worth trying, to gay the sant, TO BTAND GRACEFULLY. The preliminary sop in acquiring 8 raceful carriage In shting, sanding nd walking is to stand correctly and ravtice balancing or posing, Baba the the ground and Isrd an Bigh on tiptes ns possibile then Jower the heels with modirate peed, without tipping the weight of he body backward, Again, keeping fie heels on the ground, slterniitely i1t the balls of the fest and put them fown with a slight pressure. In this ray it is possilile 1s learn how to stand wrrectly, with the ‘weight evenly balks anced upon the feet Draw the Knees n firmly. Draw the hips weil back. The chest pmivst be theory ont anid hen the shoulders will drop down and mek, as they should When told to brow out the chest it 1s a good blea it the same time to ralse the lysad dightly and after that draw the chin 0. If the body cin now sway ensily mek and forth fron the feet up, the wsition Is eorrect To learn to ait gracefully 1s an art, jor 80 instinet. The woman who un ierstands the art ives no evidence of he dominance of one part of her diyslque over apothier. Nor doey she sunge. Khe sit prect, Erectness of the runk, 8 goed pose of the head and raceful dizporition of the ower Himba Ie necewsnry if ohe would sit will The fatigue of sewing is trebled when 3 woman sits with bent shoulifers, mrying the spine aliove the waist, and he resnlting cramped chest deprosses tll the vital organs, forcing them from ne to three inches below thelr normal position, Above all, It Is |mportant for the short person to sit erect, for, when In 2 perfectly upright position one may gain an Ineh or two in height. The roman who Knows how to sft and and erect ean apparently add to the helght of her figure, and Impress be bolders with a far greater sense of dig: aity than another with natural advan- tages indifferently cultivated. Khe also frown more of a tharonghbred nn looks snd movements ~~New Orieans Pleay- ane, —— hn THE GENTLE BIDE OF SERVIA. Rervia is almost a tabooed subject, but a woman.who has Hved in that wild and pletoresqoe land sars that it poseceses & charm of its own which duce felt is pot soon forgotten, women are comely and extremely graceful, as a role, says this traveler, and the men are nat all as uncouth 18 recent accounts wonld lead one to pelleve., The national costume of the tall and comely Mijitzas and others seems only designed for the stage or the fancy dress ball, Over a chem. fisette of lawn, muslin or some other rery fine material, the usual habit is a body or skirt of some rich silk. Ma genta Is a favorite color: occasionally white muslin Is used. This garment ls trimmed at the wrists with a deep smbroldery of grien velvet, edged with a deep embroldery around the aeck, at the bottom and the wrists If the embroidery of the dress he MM gold. then that of the jncket will! bp of stiver. Around the walst is worn t large sash, with the ends hanging own in front, often as low as the bot. tom of the dress. The headdress i= a small cap, generally of red cloth, fitting slose to the head. Sometimes this cap x made of leather, silvered of gilded Around this tap the hair, real or false, is broided nn a deep band, so that every part of {lie cap is concealed, except the fiat cajtound top. from which a small gold on soln or & pearl is pendant. ot the Servian beauty who Wears her look tender. : Association, The “Tix afl ine down from above” fuded to as nn most dscrest yoting person, ‘a gird that looks before her” When ns ia the Serb stary-bisok, she marries the Ring, jesty sigh an agreement that jg the event of his growing wéary of his lovely bride, and sending her nway from the palnee, she may take With hee the thing she likes best His fickle majesty does grow weary of her and dovs want to send her away. Ths dis crest young person then pleads, pee agreement, that as she may take with her what shies Lkes Dost she will take his majesty himsell. Bo the clever young person keeps her crown. Queen Helena of aly Is a royal lady who has 8 very practical Knowledge of cooking. Professor Stosson, of Wyoming Unk veraity, says it appears that med can. pot compete with women in college studies, A Chicago woman, at a recent club meeting, declared that “if women had the right to propose thers would he more marriages, and the I'resident would not be scolding va” I'e. Emil Releh, the Hungarian his torian, predicts the eventual suprem. £0y of the American woman over mab, which he regards as “a consequence of the immuonity of the States” Recently Florence Nightingale on tered upon her eighty third year Mise Nightingale has long lived In seclusion and in some suffering, so thay the world hears fittle of her now, Dr. Emil Reick thinks that Amert ear belles letires cannot vie with fine literature in Europe, beeanse the lat ter's literature 3 mainly based both on the admiration amd the subjugation of woman. Pit-brow women are among the most remarkable women workers in the world, They work os hard ss men and dress. nlm like then Five thon sand of thess women find euployment in Lancashire. England, In the coal mines, Lady Henry Somerset, wis lias te tired from the Presidency of the Na tional British Woman's Tempera hecame sapecially well known in this country about nine FONrs Ago by carrying on a cruagde against the “living pictur” crane rr. Yame: Kin sald to be 8 gradonte of the New York Woman's Medioal College. hing been lecturing to Chicoage waotoere on things Japanese and Uhinose. Dr. Kin is 5 Chinese Wwinan of the Manchu, or roiling, class. She says the wrong ideals of women are responsible for much of the cortaption in public life, Misx Anna Bing was sent as a missionary to Japan some years ago to see whether It way possibile to introduce music in the mis ston schools with success. Though encountering many diffieuiiles Miss Bing has finally succeeded in cveating much interest among the Japatiese iv tinie ae she teaches iL Plo color. raby and poppy shades are fashionable far millinery use, The way a veil is pinned onl a hat fray rein an otherwise stylish toilet, Mushroom shaped hats protect the exes from the glare most acceptably. leather fobs with metal coln purse for a pendant represent an attractive novelty. To the list of millipery timmings Las Iately been sdded xiraw grapes and other fruits, As tops for hat or stick plas rougd nuggets of 1urguoise have been nae duced this season : Quite porcupine-iike fa a grity bat with three ostrich plumes, each tipped with a formidable quill, It must be admitted that an gil-over sprinkling of veil dots 8 more becol ing than widely scattered clusters. Better cstTy no wrisg hag at sli with # smart toller than an inbarmiosloos otis, or ope thar is old and dllaph dated, With a Hitle straw braid, n wire frame and a remmant of allover ow brofdery. a creditable lingerie but may be achieved Untrimmed abundances and at sub absurdly saall prices taal def: fair ones can Lardy realist 8 few “extras” Most effective whith a white gown ia a belt of leaf green ribhon or a faff of leafgreen tulle will give a delightfully refreshing totie to your costuiae, If with an all white totiet you wear a touch of eolpr at the throat lex it correspomd with the color of the hat, unless that is all white or all black No matter bow smart or how simple sour gown Is, the swagger touches that you add give it a distinction that you need In your personal appearance, Rithons tie some pretfy Corset eve. ors over the shoulders, Indeed, nll that fa necdad for such a corset ¢over 1s a deep, upstanding maffle of laces or of dainty embroidery. A white totlet 1s eubanced by a string of coral beads, a long string kuotted over the hust. Black beads give a striking contrast, but the red string is most fascinating. : But in the | Servian folklore she is consiautly al | she rakes Bis ma | of Kaneay Clty, Lists are noted In such adds 8 certain richness of color that PRACTICAL FRUIT cv LICRE. For protecting all kinds of frash wounds on frees one of the best appli eations is thin grafting wax After rotting out black knot something of the kind iy absolutely necissary to pre vend the knot growth from staring again In the wound. BLACK KNOT IN PLUMS. black-knot in plums, with a ‘ntxeure of taglon, but has stopped the growth of the diseased parts so that the koun bave crumbled and fallen away witk | the least possible injury to the trea, CLEAN THE GARDEN. bles is finished In the garden spade the location, and if any seeds are it the soll many of them will spront. 1) much valuable time and labor In the spring, Late sunuoer and fall is the proper time to clean a garden, espe zially if weed seeds are to be #radl sated, SH FINE MANURE ON THE GARDEN Any fine manure that can be pared may be spread on the garden plot tf advantage. If the land was plowed fast fall, so much the better. Maney thar has been well decomposed is hol 80 liable to contain seeds of weeds as that which is coarse. Ax soon au if can be done plow the garden and hat row the land until it is as fine as the oil can be made, BEES IN THE FRUIT TREER Beox carry pollen from one Bower of aaotlsr while seeking honey, It may be tlint some bess are wild, coming nally found and their home destroyed The real benefactors are the beskepors eather than for profit. But for the heer many fruit trees that blossom out ful would produce no froft CRANBERRIES ON DRY BOGS bogs, nud some do not. The best lands Are those than can easily be flowed thaongh some smal] growers get a goo! many berries from savanna plots tha cannot be watered that is. shallow depths of muck covered with turf and grass, bot which contain a great deal of moisture sxcept in fhe hot mooihe of sumer. Henry M. Coburn. NEW USE FOR THE SPRAYER, The common fruit tree sprayer need by orchardists jx a mach more eon than it {8 to apply lice killers by Band throw x very fine spray. is the best, buf Its point should be Leld close to thy skin. Two or three applications nsay first application. FOR A PERMANENT PASTURE Bow some annual and biennial grasses with the perennials {or permanent pas tare, especially if the soil be wanting In richness and moisture. The peren nisis will make but little herbage for two or three years, Deciose thelr first efforts are to establish strong roots Antoals, on the contrary. make bu! little roots; their growth ix chiefly above ground and what remalar of them supplies some food and shelter, PREVENTING MILDEW, The mildew is one of the greatest ob Kacles in the way of gooneberry grow Ing in most parts of this country. A grower of experience has found that salt hay spread over the whale surface of the ground to the depth of three wold possibly auswer just az well On sccount of the manner in which salt absorbe wiier from the atnios piers, the mulching, and consequently the vines, are Kept af an eveu fewipieg ture. CRE FOR A SMOOTHING HARROW the cornfield Just before the cory cones up, if it la thoroughly done, will de every weed that has shown jtsell, be ides benefiting the corm. As this pay be done rapidly, It may Le gone avel twice or more Before the corn is large enough to be dragged down and in jared. It will save an Immense anion’ of labor, Any ope who has pot tried this plan ought to do so this yuar Crops sell too low to do move worl than in necessary, THE TRUE E ROTATION, Never have plants of the same kind, er even of the same family, follow on the same ground, Beans should not follow peas por melons come nite pugpkios, A plant that produces abave the ground sgeh as eahliage, shouhkl be followed by roots cvops, such an potatoes, beets, turnips or careats Clover, however, being eutirely didting from grain. may be followed by wheat oats or corn, aad polatovs, or turnips may follow grain The seed of olovet a really a small bean, hence it 8 of ne or pens, all being fepumes. There ars po “fixed” rules, as the fertility of the of manure and fertilizer grow the] same crops on the sane land every], [¥ous. but it 1s not sate to ds su excep! : ntter favorable Seaditions. red oxide of iron in linseed ofl, has rofl § aly prevented the spread of the don | from the forests, but such beds aps 0% many of whom kecp bees for pleasarne A bose with a Boe bozile which wil'i be needed, as some of the lee may bl in the egg and not be destroyed by thi} isohes Is a preventive, Common chars | ] hay or bog grass, soaked in OHrined porting A good smoothing harrow, run aver} § thant, stroy almost every spear of grasa pod milk will belp him. #bymachie, fermilk a day will cure any case © advantage to follow clover with beans] soil and the climate are to he consid] ered. Some farmers by the jiberal use| | pitiea recently ‘for about fhe twenty: | Atth lngton Jack Tar who has been fo the nary for thirty-five years. He has 8 time in the history of 8 Wash friend who keeps a’ cighr store on Pennsylvania avenue whons he makes ft & point to visit on the occasion of evary discharge for a friendly snioke Bnd chat about old times, On ene { octasion he has declared In the most | positive and vehement language that the Hite of a naval sailor is worse has — term in Uncle Kam’ 8 sary. having come home to stay, ete. There was a time when the eigar store man belisved these statements, btered with such fervor and positive ‘Assurance, but for years past be hae paid no heed to them, for the reason that of the twenty-five or thirty some 1 odd times in which the old salt made : ; ¢ caduia | #OCh a declaration he always sppesred Just as soon as any crop of vepela the following morning in uniform, de claring that he “missed the boys” ote, Land that be had re-etlisted for another ; yn rice. so, go over it again, which will save ye P'S geryice This man iz fairly provident sod prosperous, and the father of a large and Interesting family, cinaticn of sailor life has proved foo but the fas strong for bim in every case. and after a day or two of inaction he has returned fo the old life. The last time he was discharged he wanted to bet two or three of his friends $10 be would never return to the navy, but they were not disposed fo take an un fair advantage of him: and sure snough two or three days later he re-enlisted, donned his aniform and is now snee mare ob the briny deep.— Washington Fost. Longth of Hog's Intestines,’ Darwin states that the natore of the food supplied the pig by man has evi dently changed the length of the inte tines. He quotes Cuvier as reporting the total length of the Intestines of the wild boar to be nine times the body Ivagth: in ihe domestic boar 135 to ope; in the Siam bogr, sixteen to one. The writer measured the intestines of thirty-nine fattened hogs and found that the large intestine varind from ‘thirteen to sixteen feet, and the small Intestine from Afty four to sixty feet in beagth., The average extreme body Lo ih heath of these and 4 was 3 wt, Some growers soatter sand over {helt} wl, ’ these antmaly * 33 feat This makes the small intestine alone from sixiesn to pineteen titses the length of the body. and the large snd anand intestine combined about twenty oo times the body jength. From thew fiyrares It appears that the intestines of pgs of the improved breeds are longer In proporticn to the body than those given by Cuvier. This may indieate that the modern pig can digest his food more thorotghly than By ancestors Arid also thar be can ent a larger quan tity of food in a given time Professor : . W. A. Henry. venient way to destroy lice on oatthi} > Scrap Collecting as a Fad, CRevap-coilecting” Is the latest occw pation adopied by the intelligently idle says the London Graphic. X partice dar house a street, a district, a reg nent, a period, and gmny other subs Jeeta, are used an pegs for the purpose Tine takes the Grenadier Guards, for Instance, and wil] collect Hlustrations of the uniform from the formation ut ol the regiment, as also all prints sod wurious culilngs connected with the Jatter. Or a wellknown country house is flinstrated fn the same manler Three volumes of scraps and cuttings relagng to Pleeadilly have been forinmd By an jodustrious woman in as many years, and the subject in not yer ex Bausted. It is said, and truly, that this aew occupation provides a continual in terest for those who tage to it, and en aiiles then to carry thelr pursait from town to town, for it is possible to pick up scraps of the kind even in the dull at places, Occasionally scarce and valuable prints are discoverad and a | melivoiiected and arranged book of this suit can generaliy ve sold at a profi, ca pu LL nA Rattermilk an Care, A burer for one of the largest ime Bpuor houses in New York wio is compelled to sample enough Wine and spirits every day to put as ordinary maa out of business, says that buttermilk Is his salvation. *} got only buy five or six glasses a day at the dairy restaunranis of astreet atands” he says, "hut I drink it all the thine at homie, Instead of tea or coffee I never touch beer or anyihing like I keep a stone crock of Buttes midk in the vellar and let it got just o little stale. It is better then than i taken fresh. A mas who insists op drinking liquor will flod very little krouble it be takes plenty of batter milk. If Le wants to swear off butter It is a splendic Two quarts of good bug gervous indigestion, A Beggar's Trick. A sympathetic woman whe wa walking aloug lower Sixth avenue ty pther morning was greatly touched by Aeding a ragged man eagerly saatel a erust out of the gutter and devon it voraciously, Nhe drew out her pure foimediately. bestowed a coln on tin man and hurried away. Her desting tia led her to mount to the platforn of the elevated station whence she ob servesl the ragged man still loitering on the sidewalk below, He glanced furtively about and then drew another crist from his pocket and east it inte the gutter. The train bore atvay a very angry woman philasthropist. ~ New York Sun, Tight. Here is a helpful hint to the girls: Ihe man who carries his chonge I pocketbook may be rich some some day, S6e Be will KToAn every time Gls Wik YW for 2 dime—Atchisen Gleb, .
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