TH4E POET AND FATE IN COLLOQUY Fate: Singers who charmtd the earth are dead; Why singest thou t>-day? The Poet: Bec;..jse the lauzhin; rose is red And white the scented may, And new-born gp.In light is shed On silver ram and bay. T.te: Thou dr'.iteit mid i heedlec -ace: They vorship :aught but gold. The Poet: Yet will I lift a tca:-ress face Towards beauty, as of old. 'er boons of love, 'er gifts of grace, Are won but-by tae bold. ate: Sheller is dead. ani Keats is gone, And who will lift the lute? The Poet: Though these be lead, the same srong sun St in chames flor:er to fruit: The birds' hearts waken, one by one; So why should I be mute? -George Barrow. ASPAR MIERLE was a car penter by trade and an idler by preference. He came to Old Town in the boom days of mining determ'ued to strike it rich, and after fifteen years of desultory prospecting, intermittent carpentering and rather steady loafing around the Gem saloon he now fornd himself the more or less happy possessor of seven children, a scolding wife, a tumble down shop and a general reputation for all-round worthlessness. Fifteen years of incessant drudgery Is calculated to sour the sweetest ten per, but Mrs. Miehle might have toiled on in weary contentment if her oldest son had shown any signs of being a comfort or a help. But he didn't. He "took after" his father, and even Im proved on the latter's constitutional aversion fcr work. The boy's name was Jake, and from the time he learned to walk until he was fourteen years old his reputation was "ornery." For six months after he had achieved the art of walking he refused to take a step. When he had mastered the al phabet and learned to read his primer be began to play hookey, spending school hours fishing In the creek and lagging homeward only In time to sit at the evening meal. The boy was sturdy of frame, mild of man:Ier and quiet as an Indian. When other boys ran he walked; when they laughed, he smiled; when they talked, he listened. The quality of ,.--"psew as all over him. He was as stubborn as a burro, and shared with that singular beast the characteris S tics that ade toil.edmtt-ad enterprise abhorrent to them both. Fishing was his chief occupation till he was thirteen. Then he developed a THE ON"I'EcHDHG ~v THE E BEE ING PECEN10N.AOV hereditary passion for prospecting, and passed half his days roaming slowly over the foothills and up the silent ca nons, filling his ragged pockets with worthless bits of quartz, crystals that sparkled in vain and agates that he could barter for fishing tackle among the small boys of the town. When he was fourteen he came across a pocket in the hills, from which he scraped and gathered a scorej of bright red pebbles. That evening! he wandered stealthily into the village jewelry store and spread out his "find." "What they wvuth?" he muttered to the proprietor. The old man weighed them, washed them and held thcm to the lamp. "Tiffany'll give you fifty cents an ounce, Jake. Thcn is Rlocky Mountain rubies." The jeweler sent the stones to New York. and In two weeks Jake got his half-dollar. This incident proved to be the turning point in Jake's life. First he divided the money between his five little brothers and sisters, andj then he bought a rubber rattle for thel baby. That proved his possession of the rare and incomparable quality of unselfishness. Second he got an un merciful "lamming" from his mother, because she was sure he had stolen A the money, and he wouldn't explain matters. This clinched his reputationa .for stubborness and taciturnity, but it also had the effcct of driving him into mute and deep-schemed rebellion. For days thereafter he moped about tihe town or sat on his father's dust covered beneb, dangling his legs and whistling softly to himself. If he felt any re sentment against his mother he dlidn't show it by word or look, lHe watched her bending over the washtub and tiipped gravel at the drying garments In the back yard till she gave him a cuff on the ear. But he was back to Ain nd at annnor devoured more. bacon and beans than all the othe children together. Then he slun) down the main street with his brow, hands deep in his poecets and his en pullp( over his eyes. 'Tain't no use bela' so plaguet hard on Jake, mammy." said Caspa to his wife as ho filled his pipe. "I s'pose you want me to raise up fambly o' jail birds." snappeid th weary woman. "Lord knows tha there lad is sp'iled now. an' the fus thing we know he'll be robbin' bank." "But he never robbed nothin He--" "Whar'd he git them nickels he' been squanderin', then? Him lashin money round like it growe'd on bushes an' me slavin' an' slavin' to save penny. It'. a outrage, it-" Here the poor winan burst int< tears: all the children, as usual, joine< in the doleful chorus, and Caspir, al ways evasive of trouble. took his ha and stroll - over to the Gem to wate. a game of stud poker. It wans mid night when he -ot into his room an' found that Jake wasn't in bed. "Mammy," he bawled, "Jake' gone:" "Let him go," piped the wife fron the next room; "he'll git hongry 'for, he goes fur." The boy didn't come home to break fast, however. Noon passed without: word of him, and by dark the fretfu but affectionate Mrs. Miehle was wor ried. Caspar started out to look fo his son, and he did make a few inquir les en route to the Gemi, but there h lingered till the game got "warm" an so forgot poor Jake. Meanwhile th boy's mother had scoured the town fo him. She bad found out about the ru bies, and remorse for the unmerite< trouncing she had given him intensi fled her grief over his departure. Sh< could hardly wait for the sleeples: night to pass, the second of his ah sence, and then she went to the mar shal and enlisted his services. On Sat urday the Clarion had in it "a piece about the disappearance of Jak, Mieble, and half the townsfolk spen Sunday in the hills looking for him On Monday the 'Mayor offered a re ward of S50 for intormation "leadin to the safe return," etc.. and Tuesda: morning a party of searchers, headei by the carpenter and equipped witi provisions for a week, set forth int< mountains to look for Jake. Seven miles as the crow flies fron Old Town and twenty by the trail tha scars the mountain sides, they sa Jake perched high above the beetlin; canon on a narrow shelf of red an( yellow rock. From their 'station be low the searchers roared his aame, bu the chorus of their voices did not movi *ome down here t'yer daddy, yol young Imp!" shrieked Caspar, but thi little brown head did not move, an< the men with Caspar held him bacd as he started to scale the rock. 'Let the marshal git him," they sug gested, and the looks they cast upoI the father were all pity. Jake's dizzy aerie. The little fe'llo'r was sitting in a crevice In the rock! with his back against the trunk of rub oak tree. The greasy cap was ydiIed over his face, blackberry stain: were on his sunken cheeks, and his ragged shirt and overalls hung in rib bons to his emaciated body. His skinny, brown fists were clinched an< crossed ou nis lat and his body was ai motionless as the rock upon which hi sat. The marshal tenderly lifted away thi cap and gently shook the bony shoul der. "Come, Jakey, are you alive?" The sunken eyes slowly opened, an< the boy stared weakly round. Then he looked down at his hands and un clinched them. In each lay a nugge as big as a walnut, and when he lookei back at the marshal he smiled feebl; and said: "Free gold, ain't it?" *In a delirium of joy the big office: howled like a Comanche at his comn rades. They literally "fell up" the face of the rock. "Why W'ln't you come home?" roare< Caspar, laughing and crying by turrns 'Tried It, daddy, but I was skeere< I'd lose the mine," said the lad." f mund them nuggets in this hole, and: thought I'd better set here till yoi cone." He was sit~ng in a true fissure tha proved the opening of the best mine Ii Routt Coupty, and the Miehles hav< never done a day's hard work since. John H. Raftery, in the Chicago Rec ord-Herald. A Defenise of the Flirt. Ruskin advised every girl to havy six sweethearts coincidently. It wa: excellent advice. That misjudge< person, the flirt, Is most frequentl: a woman whose heart aches fo: friendship , but who keeps the rich est store hidden for her king when h< shall come. Those who were neve: her king, who never could be he: king, call her names by way of re joinder. They overlook the salien fact that all she gave them was friend ly interest, and that was all she pre tended to give 'them, for a conscion: flirt-that is, a woman who conspicu ously pretends to love-is as impos sible as a .conscious hypocrite. II fact, the fiirt is the only remaininm artist in friendship, and a worl< which knows not what friendship i makes the deficiency by mnalignin; her.-Macmiians Magazine. The sleep of Lions and Tigers. There is nothing odd or peculla: about the sleep of the lions and tigers In captivity they show the same in difference to danger that they mani fest in the jungle, and by day o. night will slumber through an un usual tumult, unmindful or uncon scious of the noise. Their sleep I: oinmmonly heavy and nrnceful. - A Handy Ua Holder. A great deal of time is lost in fill ig rain b.ag , unless some device Is usd by which the bag enI bL kevp olen and the one filliung it have the us Cof mh hIovis. The upright board (1) .is imade of inch stuff, two feet long4 and cloven inchies wid,?. The1 armns (3 which support the hopper are held by two triangular boards (2), - which are nailed to these arms, and to the upright board (1), as shown in the- illustration. '!he arms shown at 3 are each ten inches long, two Inches 1 wide and an inch thick, and the ends are screwed to the side of the spout I as showi. The spout is made nine ilches square. and both this and the hopper should be made of boards eight inches wide. At 4 a row of wire nails is shown, by which the bag Is 1 hld in place at the bottom of the hop per. By boring a number of holes in the back board (1) at intervals of an inch apart, and hanging the device to a heavy wire nail or a heavy screw - put in the wall, the bag holder may be raised or lowered to a convenient height.. A Cheap Little Greenhouse. The greenliouse,. pure and simple t is pssible only in exceptionally fa vored localities, where the soil is so - Weil drained that water does not rise ia excavations and the winters are so mild that sun heat under pro teeting glass is all that tenderest plants demand. Whoever in such a location has a stretch of sunny outer wall, with a few feet of spare space along it, may have loads of flowers the winter through at a very slight expense either in money or trouble, and all the more if a drum with heat ed air from a furnace flue is set up just outside the wall. For such a greenhouse dig down be side the house wall to a depth of three feet and a breadth of six, all along the available stretch. Put down a concrete floor, six inches thick, and I wall up to a foot above ground with either stone, brick or concrete. Upon top of this wall, set a wooden framp.:. two by four scantling are stout enoiggh tfor It. Board up the frame ft~nd withu to high iht inches. Aove that have glassi running on to a glass roof. The root Is a lean to stayed against the ht:ise wall. Have a door In the end, wi . s'jps down to it. If possible also have a door from the house-thus in sharp weather one can go In and ou~t without letting In - the et. lair. Fifty dlollars should build and equip such a greenhouse. Seventy-five is a liberal estimate. Fit It inside with slat walk walys, laid upon the con crete fioor, a bench of earth all along the side, its top level with the glass, -and racks rising like steps against the house-wall space. Also have strong hooi:s overhead to hold swing ing baskets andl pots, Plant in each outer corner a strong - root of some climbing rose. Dig through the concrete floor and make a rich bed for the rose roots. Let thema stay there constantly. Have the roof movable so it can he raised in summer, or taken wholly away. Train the roses upon wires just un -,derneath tile roof. Passion flowers may well be set In a decep box of the richest earth against some part of the house wall and -trainedl to cover it with p~urlie bloom. I If the greenhouse stands outside a [plor, b~y making the walls high [enough to let the roof reach the tolps of the windows, the glass of them may have traceries of living bloom. tPlnt seed and root cuttings in the 1 bench, prieking them out, as they Sgrow, into little pots, and shifting -from the little to big ones. Plant - bulbs also in the bench; hyacinths and tulirs for Christmas blossom about the first of August, and later ones in succession. Plant also a few bulbs in pots. Set thema In the shade under the bench for six weeks, until they have struck strong roots, then set in the light and water freely while they are growing. After the bulbs are well set, take the pots into the house-seventy degrees wvill not hurt them, though the greenhouse tempera ture will run between fifty and sixty. Crocuses will bloom In it, and many, many other things. Almost any flower will bud, In fact, though for perfect blossom a little more warmth Is needed.-Washington Star. A Fruit Storage House. IMy house for storing fruit Is one that was on the premises and not A CONVENIENT FRU1T HOUSE. .built for the purpose. But I find it , quite convenient. It is a stone build ig twenty-six by thirty-four feet, with good walls two feet thick, vel laid in mortar, as shown in the illus tration. To make it so I could hcld fruit through the winter, I lind it :n Side with matched lumber. making an air spaep of about ten inches 1sween the wall 'and lining. It is a two-story hous'. I protect from cold by putting sKraw on upper :IIUl) aildut fe! .1 ti'iek when settld. It K i:-r H fruit 0,' four' tilimS thuWh the w 'niI, o1 accouit of extrelne cold. I could, with1 but little expeniso. ake it good fo:- cold storage by pu ,iIg (ight or tea twelve-nh gal';an !z'l iron pipes tiirughl te ulpr dloor, letting them dovn thcee of four feet, ::u nd tilling from a bove Wit h Lrushed ice and cheap fertilizer sair. I have used it as It is, opening t:e :loors nihts to cool off and e ping it clostcd during the day. except w:n puttinl in 1110o fruit. I ick and put in barrels in the orchard and stlre Lhen open. In rainy ve:ther I -e:m zort and pick for imiarket. I uutially ll to b ,yers. so they are off my l:nds a:nd1 in marite or cold or:: ge, near mlarket. by Novembiher .1. I ha ve eldo-m kept a crop over.-H. It. Hill, a New England Honestead. Seventeen-Year Locusts Again Due. Next season the seventeen-year 10 austs will be due, and some instrue ions regarding the course to pursuae ivill now be timely. The Pennsylva lia State College issued a report re arding these lceusts, in J$SS, while New:.~ersey and Ohio have also issued 'le tins. The Pennsylvania State "ollege has also issued a recent butlle in, which is sent free to all upon up )lication. According to information ent out fromi the college the brood >f locusts of 185 will be Cue next eason in the counties of Bedford, Fulto Huntingdon. Mifilin, Juniata, Plerry ranklin, Adams, Cumberland, -o-k, auphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, terks, Chester, De4 are. Bucks, M1ontg ery, Lhigh and Northamp ton. e cicadas or seventeen-ycar oCUtst ay not appear over the whole )f the ctikn mentioned, but nav be :;pect wherever thle! conalitions iercto' have been favorable for :jteir beding and development. The >esc brgeding places are the brush overe( 'nd woody pasture iands. In tsmuchias seventeen years is liable :o make a good deal of difference in he utilitation of land, it is quit( prob ible that in some places lands which eventeen years ago were not in culti 'ation, and were good breeding rounds of cicadas, are now cultivated, d upon them and In their neighbor ood the Insects, true to their nature, nay be expected to appear, and per laps In dangerously large numbers. [n many places the older residents ire able to locate such grounds. If young fruit trees or shrubs are )> land subject to the appearance of he sthere will be liablIt next falf of aythhe )f the c :o make jsuitable places for Its eggs. [hose 4o contemplate setting out roung tre s should, therefore, be care ul to learn if they are on or near lcust ground" of seventeen years ugo, and If they find that there is risk ~hould defer planting until the danger as passed. The cicada lays its eggs durng fune. but may begin to lay a little 'arlier in the Southern counties than n the Northern tier; hence by July 1, it the latest the egg-laying wvill have een completed and all injury accom lihed. Should it be considered not oo great a risk to set out trees it would be wvell not to prune the trees losely on setting, postponing such york until July. The pruning may hen be done, and the twigs burned bat are removed, so as to destroy the ggs. As the cicada puts in Its ap pear~ce at regular seasons all prep irations to meet it can be made in idvance. The insects may appear in, educed numbers, or may have been xtrminatedl In some localities, but hould it fail nextt year g will be the irst time in 187 years. There is also a thirteen-year locust, ut it is a different insect in character sties from the other, appearing most v in the South. The eggs of the evnteen-year locusts are deposited a grooves of the twigs and hatch in bout six weeks. After being hatched ronm the eggs the young locusts fall : the ground and burrow In the earth, oing down to from three to twenty Teet, where they remain and feed upon he roots of trees or plants, While In the earth they shed their ~kins several times, and at the proper ine tunnel upward, ascend the trees, gain shed their skins, and are then eady for the work of propagation. 'hey begin to ascend about June 1, t little earlier sometimes, and after mnset. They do not cause as much laage as may be supposed, consid bring their great number, but, naver heless, do sufficient injury to cause :hem to be unwelcome visitors. Any ~ffort at destruction of the insects ivould be almost of no avail, as such work would be laborious. The best ~ourse to pursue is to endeavor to ivoid thenm as much as possible by efraining from setting out young trees, as stated, and leaving the prun ing of any trees that may already have been set out until the 1st of July. As they wvill not again appear until 1919, they are not really as harmful as some of the more injurious pests that an nually Inflict farmers and fruit grow ers.-Philadephia Record. In a recent trial of the French sub narine boat Marvel it 'went 350 miles ander water, but the close confinement mnd want of fresh air completely un 1erved the men. The dignity of labor is not always ,.emrecntmi in' the man who -dis. TYPES OF ENCL'SH WOMEN. Fragile Creatures Who Defy the Inclem. ency of the Elements. A thing one notices in England about the women is that they seem impervi ous to changes of temperature. says Geraldine Bonner i. a London letter to the San Francisco Argonaut. It was exeetd("ingly cold whin we arrived -damp. raw ani ilil. We Americans pml Cu our woo,l1 d1s'eS and con suilled ,s to the wisdomn of taking jackers when wte went abroad. The sun was hidden, there were occ.-s.onal spirinkles of rain, coldl airs cauant you spitcrfily at stes corners. It was wretched wvather. Yet the Eiglish women-thin, fragile and delicate were tlh:ir nuslin drr:sses with calm and r:mcIoved fortitude. A favorite fashion of theirs is a transparent yoke of lace with the bare neck visible through it. In this semi-clad state they walk or drive about. apparently perfectly comfortable, while the per ishiug American is seriously consider ing the wisdom of g-oing to the bottom of her triunk for her fur jacket. It may be this weakening exposure to the incelemency of a damp and try ing climate which makes the English woman so delicate in appearance. Ono seldom sees those buxom, rosy beau ties in London that we have always supposed were the British type. Au contraire. the type is tall, small-boned and exceedingly thin. The English woman of fashion that one sees in the London of to-day has that kind of fig ure that the novelists call "willowy" long In all the lines, very slightly rounded, with the smallest of waists, no hips at all and an Inclination to stoop in the shoulders. With this they wear very clinging dresses, long trains, aInd, In the evening, very ('-collete bodiees. The general effect is of some :hing incredibly slim, serpentine and delicate. The latter suggestion comes not only from the peculiarly slender and undeveloped figures, but from the universal tendency to the droop in the shoulders that I have just mentioned. One sees very few women who stand upright. All have an air of fragility, ennui and languor that strggests cer tain paintings of Burne-Jones and Ros setti. If, however, one sees few fine fig ures, one sees many handsome faces among these ethereal ladies. Beauty, like any other good thing in England, seems to belong to the dominating, ar Istocratic clasS. One seldom sees a eianle all their own. The type Is unmistakably and peculiarly English. The face Is oval, small and sometimes thin, the features are cut with the cold, precise regular ity of a cameo, the nose.and chin gen erally prominent. *There are calm, clear eyes under arched brows, which in turn are nearly hidden l"v the curled and crimpled "fringe" that a still worn In this country. It is a type that speaks of high breeding, absence of vi vacity and physical delicacy. Comn pared to it our American woman are Amazonian in their robustness, weight and general suggestion of vitality. Some Pet Extravagances. Wemen are excellent financiers, bt they have certain little ways of their own which are a standing wonder to their masculine critics. For Instance, manny women will deny the'r selves a sufficiency of the necessaries of life for weeks in order to be able to pur chase somethming which seems of very trivial importance to their husbands or brothers. "Will muy means cover the expense?2 she echoes, when you mildly suggest the doubt. Then she sets to with pen cil and paper, and, aftcr making elabo rate calculations, comes to the humili ating cenclusion that a month at the place which she has set her heart on going to would Involve the expendi ture of the family income for the next three months. It is a decided blow, but she has recovered from similar blows on previous summners. so she bears It philosophically, and finally. by dint of more calculations, she de cides on a place wvhich is financially within her reach. The one extravagance of an other wise exceedingly sensible young lady of very limited means is a weakne!. for the finest of stockings and hand kerchiefs. Her attire generally Is re* markable for nothing except plain ness and sometimes shabbiness, but very few of her expensively dressed friends can rival her in the matter of dainty handkerchiefs and stockings. Other women spend a large portion of their income in paste jewelry. A brooch of Imitation pearls and dia monds and a bracelet of moonstones look very much like the real thing to the casual observer, and are to he had "for a mere song"; but the setting of this jewelry is seldom strong, and the stones soon drop out, leaving the brooch, br-acelet or chain anything rather than an ornanment and their owner mourning her folly. Many women confess that their pet vanity is in dainty stationery, while others spend "every penny they car scrape together" in amateur photog rapiy or perhaps even In having theil own photographs taken.-Home Notes. The Season's Trimminxgs. The predomintiing note in garnitur4 will be the continuance of velvet rib bn, which Is so effectively used or bodice and skirt. combined with other harmonizing decorations. Another attractive item will be the extensive use of black chenille, often combined with white lace. Cords of chenille. also. are introduced into guipure. Ci tonne tlcwer vpilique remains :n vogue. as well as velvet designs in leaf or :lower appliqued- and pleated on silk. Chiffon :ad mncusseline are treated in the s:ne n::muer, with the addition of an outline (; tine chenille. TaiLZas and satin rib'.us are cruna incated or fastened wi:h suiall buck les or slides of gold. pearl, steel or -gun metal. Flowered ribbons, metal and goldtlireaded gallonis and silk ruchii:g are used effectively on cloth go wns. Laces of every sort nre universally popular. ineindin-g real lace. which is used in large qunitiis