GOOD NIGUT IN THE COUNTRY. Klowly the sun fader out of sight. Good night! Rubin goes to his welcome nest To rest! Now, as the shades of eve increase, Nweet peace Rests on the country all around; No sound Bave the soft ripple of the stream. dream Of just one heav'n mortal knows Repose! All but the ever surging deep sleep! Sleep till the early morning Rght. Good night! w=La Touche Hancock, in the New York Sun, NR NEE R ANA EN THE THREAT OF 49 ABNER PHILLIPS § EN EN ES NT The dinner horn sounded raucous- ty through the shimmering heat of the July noonday, its strident sum- mons carrying even to the lot where David Warner was whetting his gcytiic in the grateful shade of a Father Abraham apple tree. The whetting ceased abruptly; the scythe | was hooked up in a low hanging limb, and David, mopping the inner band of his straw hat with a red | handkerchief, made his way up the lane to the low white house. He pushed open the door of the | slied and strode into the darkened kitchen to find his wife sitting de- Jectediy in a chair by thes were traces of recedt tears in her | eyes. “What's wrong, Abby?” he asked, | with clumsy solicitude. “Tired out?” She shook her head. “It's father,” she zzid, wearily. | “What's the matter with him? | Ain't sick, is he?” “He's got another of his spells of | goin’ tc the poor farm.” “Sho!” was David's mild expletive. “I call it real mean of him,” burst out, hotly, “to go stirrin’ thi up so right in the middle of hayin time, when I've all those extra hands to cook for! lle might have waited till next week.” ‘‘He wasn’t very considerate, that's e fact.” Her husband's voice had a | hint of anxiety in it. ‘‘What set him | goin’ this time?” “Oh, I s’pose 'twas my scolding as | much as anything,” she said, in a | voice that quavered with righteous | wrath. “I was fryin’ doughnuts this morning, and he come in with some fead in an old skillet. Said he'd got to make some sinkers for the boys to go fishin’ with, and wanted to melt ft. Perhaps I did speak out sharper'n need be, but I couldn't have him at the stove then. The next thing I knew, he came in from the shed with his old black valise and went up stairs with it. Said he wasn’t goin’ to be a burden on anybody, and he guessed the poor farm was Lhe place for him. He's up stairs packin’ his things now. I wish you'd go up and alk to Lim.” David stroked his chin thoughtful- %y. A grim light came into his eyes. “He hasn’t any call to be throwin’ the poor farm in our faces,” said he. “I don’t know but what it'd be a good idea to let him go chis time.” “Let him go to the poor farm?” gasped his wife, in horrified surprise. David smiled a little sadly. That his father should feel his presence to be unwelcome, even without cause, was a source of pain to the farmer's dutiful heart. “He won't go to the poor farm, Abby. Don’t let that worry you. If fie goes anywhere he'll go down to Mary Jane's. Wasn't he talkin’ only last Sunday ’bout goin’ down there for a visit? You just try him and see!” “I don't know but whzai you're right,” said Abby. ‘He's pretty try- fng when he gets on one of these spells.” “I know,” said David. “I know. The trouble is we've always wheedled dim and coaxed him too much when he's said he was going. He knows its plagues us to hear him ¢alk that way, but if we should pre- tend not to care I think he'd change his tune pretty sudden. If he says anything more about the poor-farm, just make out it won't disturb you a terrible sight to have him go. I know it seems sort of hard-hearted, but it'll be best for all of us in the long run if we can get this bein'-a- burden business out of his head. 1 guess he’s coming down now.” There was a scraping and bumping on the back stairs. A door near the table opened, and Abner Phillips came into the room bearing a bulg- ing black valise in his hand. He was arrayed as for a journey. A long linen duster covered his ill-fitting Sunday clothes, and his best felt hat was perched on his thin gray hair. “You aren't leavin’ us, are you, father?” David asked, cheerfully. | The old man surveyed them stolid- | 1y over the rims of his spectacles, | first his daughter, then his son-in- law. He seemed to be awaiting the usual protestations which his former announcements of his intention to become an inmate of the poorhouse bad invariably raised. ! #gucss 1 know when I'm in the | wags! ke observed. Now, father—"’ Abby began. “J ain't intendin’ to be a burden on anybody,” he interrupted her. | “I'm goin’ to the place where 2 De- | = jong-—and that’s to the poor-farm.” “Goin’ to have dinner before you | start, aren't you” David asked. “I'll get my dinner there.” “If you put it off till next week,” David suggested. I could take you | | ove. There | helf-witted Jim Green | truly, A. D. Phillips. | of doubt. i at the poor-farm. He cleared his | soon’s you can, | be home by to-morrovs over, Just now In the middle of hayin' I can't spare a horse.” The old man stiffened, “The selects men will see't 1 get cover,” he aald, coldly, as he moved toward the door. David could not restrain a chuckle, “Give my love to Mary Jane's folks,” he said, But Abner seemed not to hear him, He banged the back door and went slowly out of the yard to the dusty road, ——— It was the third day ater old AD- ner's depauture that the horn, sound- ing in the late afternoon, brought David from the hay-field. As he reached the crest of the slope behind the house, he saw Abby sitting on the back steps, her face buried in her | apron and her broken-hearted sobs plainly audible. The remaining dis. tance to the back steps he covered at an awkward run. He reaciied he? side breathless—and far spent. “What-—what's happened, Abby?" | he eried, gaspingly. i *Oh, he went | brokenly, “he went there.” | “Who? Went where?” | “Father!” she sobbed. “He eut | to the poor-farm, after all.” | David's eyes widened. His nnder | jaw dropped. He stood for a full | minute staring at her stupidly. “He didn’t, did he?” he managed to ejaculate at last. { “Yes, he did!” she said, willly. “I don’t know what we were think- ing of to let him go.” “How do you know hes gone there?” She lifted her tear-stained face from the depths of the apron. “That drove over this afternoon in one of the poor- rm teams with & note from him,” she said. “Where is it?" : She fumbled about the step and presently handed him a bit of crum- pled paper. Upon it was scrawled in a shaky hand: Abby—Send over by bearer my old strav- hat and my galluses. I need them. The hat is hanging up in the back hall. The galluses is in the sec- ond draw in my burrow. Yours " there,” she said, ie David stuffed the note into his pocket, There could be no shadow The old man was indeed throat hoarsely. “You get your things on just as Abby,” he coun- seled. “I'll go and get a horse off one of the rakes down in the field. We'll fetch him back right away.” Twenty minutos lates Abby came hastily out of the back door and climbed into the waiting wagon be- side her husband. “If I'd had the least notion he was really going there,” David said, as they drove out of the yard, “I should have said somethin’ that morning he started.” “I know you would, David,” she declared. “I ain’t blamin’ you a mite—not a mite.” It was growing dusk when they reached the poor-farm. The old brick house and the outlying barns on the summit of the little hill were sharply silbhoutted against the flam- ing sky. As they drove up the winding cart- path that led from the road, awd stopped before the shabby porch with its erumbling yellow pillars, a figure rose from the shadows and came down the steps with an oddly familiar shuffle. Abby gave a little hysterical cry of recognition. “Father!” she said, and springing lightly from the wagon, she caught the old man’s arm in both her own. He stood looking at her silently, his face wearing an expression of mild surprise. “Get your things right away and come back with us,” she said. “We came to take you home.” “We never s’posed that mornin’ you left us you were really coming here,” put in David, contritely. The old man fell to chuckling softly. “Neither did I,” he confessed, naively. “I intended nothing more’'n to go down to Mary J-ne’s to spend a few days, just as you an’ Dave cal- culated I would. Didn't know that door to the back stairs was open all the time you were talkin’, did ye?” “How came you to change your mind about goin’ to Mary Jane's?” said Abby. “Well, I hadn't got very tar down the road when along comes Nate Simpson, the overseer of the farm here, an’ he stops an’ says he's got a lot of sick sheep up to the poor- farm, an’ he’s heard I'm an uns common good hand with sick sheep. I've been uy lgre a'doctorin’ of ‘em ever since.” “Then why didn't you tcll us you were here in that notc you sent down by Jim Green to-day?’ said Abby severely. The old man chuckled again. ‘“‘Hain’t I told you that door was open when you an’ Dave were talkin’ that morning?” he replied. ‘And say, Abby, those weren't my galluses you sent up. But you needn't bothe- about the others. I cal’late I shall Light,” — Youth's Companion. Man and the Earth. If it were possible for a man to construct a globe 800 feet in height —much less than twice the height of the Washington monument—and to place upon any portion of its sur- face an atom one four thousand three hundred and eightieth of an inch in diameter and one hundred and twen- tieth of an inch in height, it would correctly denote the proportion man bears to the gigantic globe upc which’ he stands.—~New York News. ? Steers T is plain that agriculture in this country has a future here: out depriving it of the essential advantages of the country, There will be left the sweet and vitalizing country air, the isolation of broad acres, the beauty of hill and vallley woodland and meadow and living, running transmitted to us and we preserved it because of its ancient and hallowed as- the ate interest in their growing young, will always be an inherent and uplifting element of life upon the farm. The rich blessing of unconscious health, the Joy of wholesome work, that brings wholesome rest and wholesome apppetite, are the natural rewards of this outdoor occupation. Nearness to nature, near- ness to God, a truer philosophy, a keener human sympathy, higher ideals, greater individuality, will ever be stamped upon the life and character of the country home, The new agriculture, the new education, new inventions, will give added interest, larger profits, greater certainty of success. They will lighten its bur- dens, widen its sphere, and ultimately make agriculture the most desirable of all avocatioas. OOo MA Yooeeeo water, NPA nsf fone This Spelling Problem Soobesal 00000090 OO LALA 4 vooe0ee oe OOO OLAA guage, if they ever do learn. - This is merely sentimental argument. People say it is the spelling of Chaucer and Spenser and Shakespeare and a lot of other people who did not know how to spell anyway, and it has been transmitted to us and we preserved it because of its ancient and hallowed as- sociations. If that argument is good, then it would be a good argument not to banish the flies and the cockroaches from hospitals because they have been there so long that the patients have got used to them and they feel a tenderness for them on account of the associations. Why, it is like preserving a cancer in a family because it is a family cancer and we are bound to it by the test of af- fection anl reverence and old mouldy antiquity. I think that this declaration to improve this orthography of ours is our family cancer, and I wish we could reconcile ourselves to have it cut out and let the family cancer go. ; “True Americanism’’ : ny, that government must rest upon the consent of the governed, and that the people should choose their own rulers. To believe that freedom must be safeguarded by law and order, and that the end of freedom is fair play for all. To believe not in a forced equality of conditions and estates, but in a true equalization of burdens, privileges, and opportunities, To believe that the selfish interests of persons, classes, and sections must be subordinated to the welfare of the commonwealth, To believe that union is as much a human necessity as liberty is a divine gift. To believe, not that all people are good, but that the way to make them better is to trust the whole people. To believe that a free state should offer an asylum to the oppressed, and an example of virtue, sobriety and fair dealing to all nations. To believe that for the existence and perpetuity of such a state a man should be willing to give his whole service, in property, in labor, and in life.— Harper's Magazine. TYvooeeOe Thbekedtdeton d OR what js true Americanism, and where does it reside? Not RAR Syed $ The Gospel of Getting On § BBR, By Lillian James Crockett. HOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and give [2X it profiteth me nothing. Flattery schemeth long, and is complaisant; flattery envieth not—because she is sure to keep ahead. Flattery vaunteth not itself—but its superiors in office; is not puffed up—but knows whom to puff. Does not behave with unseemly self-respect, but stoopeth with becoming humility; sceketh not her own dignity; is not easily provoked at being patron- ized, thinketh no evil—of the rich and powerful. Beareth all things, fawneth in all things, cringeth in all things, endureth all things—essential for aggrandizement. Flattery never faileth; whether there be enthusiasm it shall fail; whether there be advisers they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall van- ish away——clear out of sight. 2 Flattery never faileth; whether there be enthusiasm it shall fail; whether there be advisers they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away—clear out of sight. SR Pn As the Ideal Life Farming By Senator Robert M. Follette. $ tofore unknown in the world, Farming is now the most dis- tinctive American occupation, It is the source of our safest, most conservative citizenship and highest average of intelli gence, Put the farm in direct communication with the world by rural delivery, the telephone, the electric railway, the travel: ling library, the township school, the improved highway, and you have given it the essential advantages of the city with- The charm of the ripening grain coming to its pride in the grazing flocks and the effection- a’ «a a’ a By Mark Twain. enfyronrmprermninen HERE ar 82,000,000 of us people that have to spell, and or- thography ought to be simplified in our behalf, but it is kept in its present condition to satisfy 1,000,000 people who like to have their literature in the old form. That looks to me to be rather selfish, and we keep the forms as they are while we have got 1,000,000 people coming in here from foreign countries every year, and they have got to struggle with this orthography of ours, and it keeps them back and damages their citizenship for years until they learn to spell the lan- LE CI By Henry Dan Dyke. S on the tongue, nor in the clothes, nor among the transient social forms, refined or rude, which mottle the surface oft human life. True Americanism is this: To believe that the inalienable rights of man to life, lib- erty, and the pursuit of happiness are given by God. To believe that any form of power that tramples on these rights is unjust. To believe that taxation without representation is tyran- Lk] x a 2 UUERS not flattery, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and perceive all chicaneries and wire-pullings; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove deadheads and give not flattery, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my work to pamper the idle, and though I give my brain to be turned and givenot flattery, said gravely, “If she lives she lives, if she dies she dies. I can dae nae mair for her.” jE STING OF THE SOORPION. Mischief Making Qualities of a North African Species, Though the sting of a scorpion in { temperate climates is painful, it is not regarded dangerous. In tropical and semi-tropical countries it often produces alarming symptoms, probe ably because the creature which ine flicts the injury belongs to a more dangerous species of the family than is found in colder regions, A French physician, Dr. Gros, who has had much experience in Algeria, describes a case which came under his notice. The New York Medical Journal finds the particulars in a foreign periodi= cal. A robust farmer, while lying in bed, was stung on the foot by a scorpion which was about as long as his middle finger. He instantly felt a pain which he likened to a “ball mounting to his heart.” He was un- able to step, fell down on his bed, and was overtaken by violent nausea. During the entire day the man could eat nothing, though he had no difiiculty in swallowing. He com- nlained of dryness and stiffness of the throat, but was not very thirsty. His breathing was particularly pain- ful and embarrassed. For the whole day and the following night he was extremely feeble and restless and could not sleep. On the following morning the man was brought to Dr. Gros. His face was then pale, his eyes were fixed and haggard, and the upper part of his countenance was motionless, but he was constantly executing the movements of chewing and swallow- ing without opening his mouth. His gait was uncertain and he tumbled upon a chair rather than seated him- self. His speech was slow and em- barrassed, though he answered ques- tions intelligently in spite of his stu- pid appearance. Among the cther effects were a great quickening of the pulse and breathing, and a remarkable con- traction of the pupils of the eye. Still the eyesight was not impaired, even temporarily, and there was ro disturbance of the other organs. The man was treated with a serum inveited by Dr. Calmette, a French- man, for fighting snake poison. He eventually recovered, but might not have done so had any other course been pursued. A Patrol Motor Fireboat. The Rio Tinto company has large warehouses and docks at Huelva, Spain, from which its shipments of copper are made. For the protec- tion of the company’s property a small steam fireboat has been main- tained for some years past, but the directors, not being satisfied with the power of this vessel, asked Colonel Fox, chief officer of the London Sal- vage Corps, to inspect and advise as to more powerful apparatus. As a result a novel petrol motor fireboat has been built. A run on a measured mile off Greenwich was made, both against and with the tide, the speed attained averaging nine miles an hour; one and a half inch, one and three-quarter inch and two inch solid jets were thrown from the monitor on deck, the largest stream reaching a height of about 200 feet. The great advantages of this ves- gel are that it can be started instante ly on an alarm of fire, there is no ex- pense in maintaining steam ready for a call, it can be easily worked by two or three men only, and is of light draught, enabling it to get close to its work at low tide.—Engineering. The Chinaman’s Ear His Purse. “Just watch that Chinaman when the conductor comes for his fare,” said a keen-eyed man to the fat man who was wedged in beside him on an *L’” train. The two watched, saw the Chinaman clap his hand to his ear for a second and then hand the con- ductor a nickel. “Well, I did not see anything unusual,” observed the fat man, ‘except that he kept the con- ductor waiting while he scratched his ear.” ‘That was just the point,” ex- plained the keen-eyed man. “He had to scratch his ear to get his money, Chinamen keep their carfare in their ears, sometimes a ten-cent piece and sometimes a nickel. I've watched them dig it out time and time again. It’s a more convenient place for car- rying change than in their trousers pockets, for they’d be ages getting into their voluminous draperies. It's a good sight better habit, too, than holding coins between one’s teeth, which you see pretty girls doing every day.”—New York Correspon- dence Pittsburg Dispatch. The Value of a Good Laugh. Dr. Patrick Scougal, a Scottish bishop in the seventeenth century, was earnestly asked to see an old lady whose cow was sick. The pre- late again and again refused, but to satisfy the old body, reluctantly agreed to go. Having seen the old lady, she wanted him to see her cow, and walking around the beast he When I was a child I spake as a child and said I vias going to work faith- fully and pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, and tell the truth and hiteh my wagon to the stars and finally drive it through Elysian fields of mid- dle-aged affiuence. I understood as a child, I thought as a child that success is the reward of diligence. When I became a woman I put away childish things and learned that if you indulge the luxury of honor you've got to pay for it by living on a back street. | And now abideth vanity, ignorance, and flattery, but the greatest of these is flattery. ——Life. { bishop was afflicted with a quinsy in i the throat. The good, honest woman i hearing of it, and feeling he had { eured her cow, got permission to see him in his chamber. { around the bed repeating the words of the bishop when he walked around the cow. At this ludicrous sight the bishop was seized with a fit of laugh- ing which broke the quinsy and saved him much suffering. youth,” Stevenson used to say, was *‘the perennial spring of all the inen- tal faculties.” In a short time afterwards the She walked “Keeping alive that spirit of Professor J, J. Thornson, in a re- cent lecture on the modern theory of the constitution of matter at the Royal Institution, said that the atom is now regarded as being made up of “masses of positive and negative elee= tricities.”” The negative electricity, even when not attached to a material particle, is conceived to exist as an extremely small, discreet particle in itself. Such electric particles are called corpuscles. It has been proved that they are less than a thousandth of the size of a hydrogen atom. Pro- fessor Thornson spoke of them as “the bricks of atoms.” It should not be inferred, however, that they are packed together in the atom like bricks laid immovable in a wall. They move freely, and in a vacuum their. velocity may range between 1000 and 60,000 miles per second, according to the degree of exhaustion. The physiological effects of feeble radio-activity have been a subject of investigation in France by E. S. Lon- don. Using a quarter of a grain of radium he applied this to the forearm for brief intervals, and obtained a distinct reaction after a minimum ex- posure of fifteen seconds. He sus- pended four grainsof radium bromide in a cage about eighteen inches long by sixteen wide and twelve high. Three rabbits confined in this cage showed redness of the ears after six- teen days, while burns soon appeared on the backs, and after fourteen months the backs and heads were de- nuded of fur and covered with ulcers. Movements had become apathetic and slow, the hind legs being partially paralyzed. The eyes were affected, and post-mortem examinations re- vealed changes and degenerations in the muscles, liver, spleen, kidneys and generative organs, The expansive force of compressed air is employed in a very interesting way by the North Carolina Granite Company. On a sloping hillside, com- posed of granite which shows no bed planes, but splits readily in any di- rection when started, a three-inch bore is sunk about eight feet deep, and the bottom is enlarged by ex- ploding a half-stick of dynamite. A small charge of powder is fired in this hole, which starts a horizontal crack or cleavage. Charges increasing in size are exploded until the cleavage has extended over a radius of seven- ty-five or 100 feet. Then a pipe is cemented into the bore, and air is forced in, under a pressure of from eighty to 100 pounds. The expansion of the air extends the cleavage until it comes out at the surface on the slope of the hill. A horizontal sheet of granite several acres in extent may thus be separated. The thermophile fabrics of G. Herr- gott, of Valdoie, France, introduce a novel method of applying warmth, and are expected to do much for do- mestic electric heating. The fabrics are a combination of textile and con- ductive threads, the latter being made of any required size and combining with any textile materials. When woven the electro-thermic wires are hidden, many electro-thermic wefts enter into each circuit, and the cir- cuits are joined by collector wires, of which one pole is placed in each selvage of the fabric. There is no danger of fire or other accident. The temperature may range from seventy degrees to ninety-five degrees F. for carpets up to 250 degrees to 300 de- grees for hot-air baths, and the pos- sible applications are many, including use for foot warmers and articles of clothing and furniture, drying ap- paratus, baby incubators and numer- ous hospital appliances and most pur- poses requiring constant moderate heat. Seven Rules For Longevity. The following rules for living to a ripe, old age are given by Mrs. Henderson in her recently published volume, The Aristocracy of Health (Harpers) : 1. Study the laws of nature for health and the remedies of nature for cure. 2. Avoid all poisons. 3. Take abundant exercise in pure air, but always short of fatigue. So exercise that every portion of the body is equally benefited. ney, cultivate lung-power by slow, deep-breathing exercises. 4. Eat only the amount of food that nature needs, and study what to eat from a scientific point of view, 5. Cultivate normal sleep. Live and sleep only in rooms that are well sunned, well ventilated, and not over- heated. 6. Cultivate the habit of work in connection with some worthy ambi- tion, for healthy exercise of body and mind is as strengthening as res pose, and should balance it. Work while you work and rest while you rest, avoiding all worry. Make your- self useful to the world, and feel that you have a mission in it. 7. Avoid all environments, the worst of whieh is the friend who en- courages you to poison yourself, Buying or Seliing? It is told of the son of a horse dealer, a sharp lad, when once une expectedly called upon by his father to mount a horse and exhibit its paces, the little fellow whispered the question, in order to regulate how he should ride: “Are you huying or selling?’ — Tit-Bits, As it @ TH takes a strong engine for a long jour-‘* : - | b scalds | 1% a su that if butter | a chur and nu CESSES churni then ti makes The the bac breath the pu ination Dr. Pi makes It does and sur remove ment. pimple: sores, humor: If yo your m are we: and des dizzy al ach, co or bitt appetit able nu sufferir liver w stion ang en savage TER Li “AL willing cura. torture itching terwar my han I then ment ¢ vated would reply + a case cured; an emi treated like re ig oap, | tinued taken | Pills. two ba lather Ointme in war once. treatme ased Db; skin. 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