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THE ANSWERINC CHORD. f :ZANM:E nnZ TrnNER. The city's tumut surgesz high Vr 't in m :u'. ,rugrlinz street; With vti voce and hurried feet The est morning march ;n:6 bv. A 1::. nd -oura-l are horn .'nd die, B:. tit wifl not iaint nor fail, K eej., ,p it, o monotony An( i" ree-o' s plaiitiv- wail. A liar trmulou! and blinl. ag dreary airs that must Farn tom :he world a daily crust A4 loig as weary hands can' grind: But :-eant the wages that they find, For nowhere in the jostling throng Are live-, with leisure left to heed The crude *tition of a song. Clatter and ri-h and dust and grime And :he hot. tired morning (lone. But, not a listener had they won The' faulty tune. the halting time: When with the sudden noonday chime %-"om out the jingling medlev come. Ake words of comfort healing pain. The tender notes of "Home. Sweet Home." "There is no place like home." he says. The old forsaken. homeless "nan. With soul too worn and warped to span The -at'hos oi the thing he olas Anid somewhere in the crowded ways Men hear old, silent voices sing. And. spite the current's onward sweep, Falter a while, remembering. IC "No place, no place like home"-the word Grows faint and fainter down the street, And somewhere slower pass the feet. And somewhere sudden tears are stirred, And dim, far whisperings are heard .,n hearts that deemed them surely dead; C mAnd oe petitioner has gained The penny for his daily bread. -Youth's Companion. I i i t I I We I lesessesel 100 0 500 1 I I00001 lse e si seesee O f i l l I ' l l ANALYSIS OF EAUTY. 0 4 0 3 you mean to tell me that's the third to-night?" o f 0 1 asked in amazement of Miss Raveline. She nod 4VO'it ded, and looked steadfast- t ly at the portrait before 5 her. "I knew he was one," I went a on. "It was evident. His 'case be- a trayed itself. He was as if moon- b struck." 11 "I think you're a little unkind." re- r marked Miss Raveline, scrutinizing the b portrait with interest. "He's-he's quite nice." "It must be a great nuisance to you," I said. "It's horrid." she declared, moving to the next portrait. "One doesn't like to-to hurt people's feelings. don't you o: know; and besides, it's embarrassing." "Do sit down and let's talk about it." I urged her. "It's' really very in- o tereshing to interview a girl who's been n, pt'oposed to so often." . Miss Raveline reluctantly sat~ down, tl and gianced apprehensively down the picture gallery. "One can't talk about si such things," she said firmly. Ih "Oh. we needn't name names," I na said, with my eyes on the rose in her cheeks.- "I think I pretty well know p who-" d; "Oh. no. you mustn't" she inter rupted, hastily. "I've no right to hear you. I won't say anything." "Very well. then." I conceded. "But ni I know all the same: and I'm sorry fot' them, of c'ourse, but I'm sorrier y for you." -She sighed and opened her fan. "Yes. e: I wish I wasn't so rich, It's all that money." I' said nothing: she glanced at me. ti and repeated with another sigh. "It's ,B all the money." Still, 1 made no answer. because, as a zmatter of fact. I was interested in a picture on the wal!. and the light was none too good. We had conic up to see somte picture. Which was it? "I thing we must go hack." said Miss Raveliiue in a cold voice, as she an "Oh," I said. getting on my feet. o "But you haven't seen that picture a yet. We'll just go round and find tl it." i Miss Raveline hesitated, and then h followed me. and we moved .along g under the low light. "We couldn't see t: it by tis light." she observed, still f coldly. "Oh. b: this light it looks so ,much v bet: rt," I explained. "I'm afraid there's no help for you." I went on. Miss Raveline looked at me. "No e heip:" she echoed. ,. "No: you see. your beauty 'raws t them as flame~s the moth." t She avei'tcd her head slightly to ex amine a pic~ture. "You can't blame t them," I added. "Of course, no one blames peoplet like that,'' she replied. evidently from r far away. "I:'s a compliment that I any one shou uld want you to-" she paused, "untless. of course, it's the mnon ey. and then "Oh. it ":.'t the n oney." I said de ediy'. Dn m::ink s')?" slhe asked. fi' ger1:at- :n agalin. I sat do'. r Nissin t~esat dlown. ::r'. you are'4 a'ware vou arc beam:ift:':' I said. . Lu ." u:td'(reeted Miss Raveline. "I l.:now~- I upose I've got certain goodpoins."She was deeply inter (es:. O i ::er fan. I gazed at her, and th'. lowv lt enhanced her beauty. G iiuuponts:" I said reflectively, t an ta yx~ily. "Yes: you have cer tanl 'e-ac~ points. For (examlple. your heado sen prettily. Some wvomecn < have , ;'- nee\ks. :jut the tht'oatI '.'o:::ttiilmtumt': it is the pillar of it. :.'d -d l shr''w strengiith anid "Do * a. think so? IIowv interestL-1 ir: alMiss Raveline.1 'TiV a r anot her thing. your' eyes are good in shiaped anid color, but-" Miss 1Ravelinec. whose eyes had been el:a.d 'aised them (luiclly at the --Umi 1 'a't?" she' t'sked hesitatinzly. ''1 i. v.'.Ki. I've no right to criti'ise.' I said. ap::~~c~etiiy. "Yon" hatve. if I ask you.'-' she re "R:: sii:-"I said. atnd pasSed On ihuri'e~dly. 'Your nose is really tine in L~i it ieding, though of course it vould be better if it didn't turn up ust a-" "I doesn't,'' 'rotcstedl Miss Itavel ne. (rossly. -.No. of course," I hurried on. "But -our hair "Yos; is thire anythi:: the 1tter vith my hair':" shie' asked with lofty ;icsm. "*It's color is good, I saiid. "and as or your eomplexion-" I besitated. 4iss Itaveline was drumming on her an inatiently. 'Weil?" she said. almost defiantly. "I can't see well enough in this light o give a definite opinion." I said. 'Before deciding I should like to in peet it more closely and more thor ughly. so to speak." "You're right. The light is bad." he said abruptly, and got up reso utely. I rose after her. "I was afraid you wouldn't like me o-to give my opinions so bluntly." I aid timidly. "Of course. I'm sorry if have hurt-" "What an absurdity!" she said, with auteur. "I don't in the least mind vhat you say. And you've been quite omplimentary. I suppose. Pray go n." She reseated herself, a monu aent of statuesque reserve and frigid ivility. "It's nothing to me what you hink," she said, icily. "Well, there is your mouth." I went n very nervously. She turned slightly oward me with a lofty inclination of ier head. as though giving me gra ious permission to take liberties with ier mouth. I wished that I could. 'The lips are perfect in color and de ign-so far as I can judge from a dis ance," I explained. "but here again a nore thorough examination would be ecessary before-" "Have you nearly finished?" she sked in her scornful voice. "I think there's only your waist left," ran on precipitately. "Oh, yes, my waist. of course." she aid with irony. "what are you going o dQ to my waist?" "I wasn't going to do anything." I eplied, but I wished I was. "It only ias always struck me as being well roportioned and jimp, as they say in kcotland. The stature is sufficient, .nd the modeling is just-always pro iding that it is natural and not-" Miss Raveline rose for the last time, aagnificently angry. "Thank you so auch for your candor," she said loft ly. "But-but we haven't seen this pic ure," I urged. She paused. and then, noring my remark, took one step tow rd me. "You'd better take me down gain. I think!" she said. almost under er breath. and her face quite near v,. "Why-but why:" she asked al ost tearfully, "but you said I was eautiful!" "So you are." I answered prompt "the most beautiful woman in the orld." She was silent. as if aston hed. "There is no beauty but has >me strangeness in the proportion." I noted from Bacon. "The slight tilt E your nose-" "It isn't." she said feebly. "The faint irregularities of your face 2y enhance your beauty. You are :t Icily, regularly. splendidly null. nd, personally. I happen to adore all ie defects in you." "I don't see how you c'ould do that."' id Miss Raveline in a tremulous. alf-laughing voice. "But you said .y waist-" She stopped. "Well, you see. I don't know from isonal experience.'' I r'eplied. "I ire say it is-if I only knew." "It is-it is really." I made the experiment bolO:;. "It is." whispered, and added. "'m sorry to ake the fourth. to-night.'' "You might have been the first. Why eren't you?" she asked. "Well, you se", it was all that nmon ."I quoted. "You said-you said that my -lips-" "Yes. I must make sure 1 wvas right tere." I declared, and I did so.-H. .Marriott Watson, in London MaiL Bottled Money Thrown Away. "While walking through the West iester County hills looking for dog ood last Sunday," said a Harlem rocer. "'I came upon an acquaintance ho was with a party picknicking on shady hillside. Introductions were in rder and I was asked to have a bottle f soda. Five of- us clinked bottles nd disposed of their contents without ae aid of glasses. As each man fin shed his bottle he threw it down the ill into a clump of l$ushes. They were ood, sound., patent-stopper bottles bat it costs fiv'e cents' each to manu acture. "'Don't you take the bottles home ith you?' I inquired. "My host looked at me in amazemenat. [should say not,' he said; 'it is hard nough to carry three dozen out here, ithout lugging the bottles all the wiay ack. I never knew anybody to do bat.'. "I lose on an averad a gaoss of, ottles each week during the summ'r rom my two stores. for which I have o make good to the wholesaler. We make a pretense of asking for a de osit on the bottles when we deliver case. But wh'len a w'.oman miakcs fuss abiout it the boy on the wagon vaives the deposit rather than bring he hottles back to the store and risk osing a ('ustomuer. Verily, if a i mn vants to find out the inside workings if his own business hie must wvai der 'ar a-field from it."-New York Press. The Russian Admiral's Name. A correspondent writes: "As there mas been a controversy in the Times hout the pronunciation of Admiral .ozhdestvensky's name, which is said o present such insuperable dithicultiet o Englishmen, perhaps I may mention hat the difficulty is not so very gr'eat, ifter all. The accenft lies on the( see md syllable. The namie is pronloinneed lush-lestvensky. Theicknme shor't nin lg it inito 'lioj.'I abbreviations like Pam.' for Palimrstoii. -Dizzy' for Dis aei. etc.. being so dear to Eniglish inen is certainly wrong. It could at ost be '1toschi.' "-London Pall Mall ;a zet te A More Frequent Occurrence. "I've been reading of a man who eached the age of fifty without being tbe to read. Ile met a woman, arni [or her sake madg a scholar of himself three years." "And I know a -man who at middle life was a profound scholar. At the ]ge of fifty lhe met a woman, and for her sake made a fool of himself in ahree .avs"-Cleveiaand Leader. Drag In M1aking Dirt Roads. I o the word "drag' we do not mean a harrow, but an implement such is tiat used by Mr. King in i 'trating his lectures, in connection with the Nort1 western good roads train, on the sub ject of how to maIle good roads out of just dirt, or any other kind )f dirt except sand. Those drags are sometimes made after the arrival of the car with the split log, sometimes from plank of either hard or soft wood. Anybody can make the drag. and the boy is likely to make a better drag than his father. The question we discuss now is def initely and specifically how to use it. Make your drag at once so it will be ready. After the first rain hitch on to your drag so as to give it an angle of about forty-five- degrees and go down one wheel track. The best way is to go from your own front gate to the next neighbor's front gate on the way to town, then turn around and come back on the other track. smooth ing down the rough places. filling up the ruts, and throwing a little dirt to the centre of the road. It is betteL to have the ground quite muddy and slushy the first time. (Two horses may not be able to pull the drag if it is a heavy one, so if necessary. put on the four-horse evener and hitch up four.) Then stop. You will have made a srmooth passageway some twelve or fourteen feet wide. a little higher in the middle than at the sides. whici will shed water fairly well. Then when it dries off partially. put on your itwo horses and go over it again- perhaps that afternoon or the next day-tien wait until after the next rain, and when it is drying off (a little experi ence will show you just when ii is right) do it again. Passinz tenams in the meantime will have puddled the earth and made it so that it is par tially impervious to water. Teams will not be obliged for comfort to fol Ilow one track. There will be no ruts for them to follow and you will ind that they will beat down and compact I the whole of this twelve or four; een feet. Then wait until after the next I rain, and do it again, always throw ing a little dirt to the middle of the road and gradually grading it up and filling up any holes or other unencn ness. This is a very simple method-so iimple that you will not believe in it iuntil you try it. You will wonder that you did not think of this long ago; that it never occurred to you that the tougher the mud the better the :'oad it will make. If you want to get your roatl a little wider, wait until the 3ext rain and plow a very shallow fu row down one side and up the other, 'hen take your drag and move this intc the middle of the road and still further buiild it up. Now, if every reader of Wallace's Farmer will make the drag and go at it as above stated. he will do more toward making good roads in the neighborhood than has been done by the road supervisors in the last ten years. and do it with very little ex pense. Is it not worth while ta king all this atrouble to have a piece of good road in front of your farm? Is it not worth while to set an examnle to your neighbors between- you and town so that they will be aslaamed of themselves if they do not followr it, and thus have good reads to town during the greater portion of the year? A -road treated in this way will shed water off into the ditch. Watcr al ways seeks the easiest way towar:l the centre of the earth, and finds it is a1 good deal easier to slide off int' the ditch than it is to get dlown through, espec~ially through puddled and almost waterproof earth. IIt. is then up to you to get it c ut of the ditch. This can be done only hy drainage, either natural or artificial. :Bear in mind that the drag wi 'I not take water out of the ditch. -Bear in mind that it will not work on a road bed of pure sand because sand w 11 not stick together. If, however, yo t1 can drag a good soil out of the dite3 and mix it with the sand, it will make a very- decent road. Neither will the drag work in a mire hole where water stands during the summer season. You will have a culvert for that, or otherwise drain it out. , Do not understand us to say' that this drag is a paneaca for all tie ills of bad roads. It will simply make. if properly used, a good road o1 t of a very bad earth road. A good road Imust be hard and smooth and oval all three at the same time. Tk: drag will make it smooth and in timr make it oval. The tramping of the horses on earth which has any consicerale percentage of clay in it will ii time make it hard. Bear in mind further that yu can not make a first clas-s road by (rag ging the first time, the secom. time, nor the third. It will, however, make it a little better every time. It will be better the second time th in tihe first. the fifth than the second, and the tenth than the fifth.-Walilace's Farrier. - Embalmning Perfector Dead. D. Gannal, an embalming expert. died in Paris in his seventy-eighth year. His father was the chemist who invented the modern method of em bahlmment, and who died in 18:.. Dr. Gannal improved upon his :.ather's process of injiection to a remairkable extent. He was the author of a nota ble volume on real and apparen: death. IThe deceased also wrote a treatise on burial and cremation, and con-ributed numerous papers to scientific periodi cals on embalmments as pracliced by the Egyptians and other pec(pie, on premature burials and kindr d sub jects.-London Telegraph. Gray Squirrel. Gray squirrels, generally four in a nest, are born in Marchi or ear y April. They never venture forth fronm the nest during the first month. and1 are at tended alone by the mother. Site takes this task upon herself from cho'ice. and does not allow another squirrel, even her own mnte to apnroach the nest. NOT FOR SALE. &n Old Man's Wealth of AffectlOn Fps Uis Son. Th ; man wlo had takenii a fancy to thld liMaine farmouselt. stirro:unded bv its acre-s of rolling giree:. sat on the ack porch with tihe xge w and his iousekecper. As delicately aS pOS sil li broached the subioet of sale. He knew thai.'t the farmeiir had a soin in New York who was prosperinga. and he imentionil this. thme New Yorit Sun Says, as an induceniiit for the old gen tleman to make the trade. The old farmer shook his head. deter minedly. "That's the very reason." h' said, "that I don't want to sell. If it wasn't for that boy I might be tempted to let the old place go. "It's this way." he continnedl. in a subdued tone. *He was born here. He went to school not more than three miles from here. He knows every path in the woods. He has playel all over this ground as far as your eyes van see. "Tust across the field over there is the family burying ground. His mother and brother and sister are ali there, side by side. "I guess you're right when you say lie won't want to come back. 1I's got to b)ne quite a city man. and I never expect to see him come back here to live. Perhaps 'tisn't natural that he should. "I haven't never asked him to come back, and I don't think I evei shall." The old voice shook a little. tlhen went steadily oii: "But soni of these days., when he gets along where I am now, maybe he'll get tired. "Of course he'll have his own home in the city by that time. where he can sit down and take it easy. I hope so. But after that it may be some consola tion to him to know that he'll be sent back here-to lie bcside mother and me and the others. That's why the farm isn't for- sale." WORDS OF WISDOM. They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.-Sia ke pere. Woll-gathering wits never get to gether enough to make their any cloth. A man can trust God with his affairs When he remembers that lie is God's trustee. The will of God is soon 'orgotten when you get anxious about keeping the good will of men. Some men are willing to pass the bag on Sunday so as to keep their bands in for the week. Every man may be born with his feet in the (Just. but lie is born with a heart that longs for the Divine. If you would be happy with your work you must make it a comrade and not a taskmaster.-Nopareil. Faith is a noble thing: it scars high; It can read love in God's heart when His face frowns.-James Reawick. Cultivating the fruits of the spirit love. joy. peace, temperance-which are the different departmen-:s of the kingdom. is the most needed work in the world.-MIary 3cA. Tuttle. The face is made every d xy by its morning prayer and "by its morning look out of the windows which open upon heaven. All grace and noble ness grow as they are used for God. in heaven and truth on earthi.-Joseph Parker-. A Book's Xnportance in Rirasia, People here are so accus.tomned to regarC Russia as an illiternite land that thy will probably be surprised to learn that a popular boo0k at a low price has beeni knowmi to reach a sale of 2.000.000 copies within a few months e-f its ap paranice.. Such is the avidity with which the Slav reader seizes upon whlat appeals to him. In no- other couiitry, moreover, have writer's been called upon to suffer for their literamry opiions as i~n Russia. The story of many of them is a veri table maE'tyrdom. Novikoff. the first modern writer. whlomi the M etropoli tan of MIoscow termed "the best Christian he ever knew." was immured for fif leen years ini the Sc'hlusselberg. and came out a brioken man. L.abzin was imprisoned and exiled. Radischmeff in exile ended his own life by suicide. Ryecf was hanged. with five other lesser' writers, by Nicholas I. Push kin would have died in exile but for being killed in a duel. and Lermontoff was also killed when ini e::ile, at the age of seven-anmd-twenty. Odoevskly was condemned to 1000 strokes with the bastinado and tweiity-five years' service in a penial regiment. and a simni lar fate was reserved for Shevchenko. he list could be extended to cover a page or two.-London Teleg-a ph. A .Plague of Allen Flies. During the last few days millions of fies htave made their appearance around Cardiff docks. James street, an important thorough fare, is so beset that eestrian traflic has been diverted to other streets. Policemen and dock emi ~loyes were attacked so vigorously hy Ithe lies that they were forced to take shel:r in the watch-houses. anid shop keeers are complaining bitterly of the hariti done to thei' stock~ atnd tradle. The autherities state that the tlies, whih are of a ror'eigin spec(ies, with long bodies. crawling slowvly and biting adly. first made their appeatranice dur'in.. a southerly wind on Sunday. London Mail. Where Living Comecs High. Tie Builfrog Miner giv'es its readers the followin.g list of' pric's preva1iig in that Nevada camp: Lumber. $130) per 10010: wood. $39 per cord: coal. $S8) per ton; hay. $90 per ton: fiour. $7.50 per cwt.: eggs. 630e. per dozen; bacon, 25: ham. 25c.; good steak. 30c. per pound: potatoes. Sc. per pound; b)utter, 40. per pound: sugar. S poun~ds for $1; tea per pounid. h0c.: (coffee, per pounad, 40e.: meals. 75c.: heds. $1 per niaht; saddle horse, per day. $4: shave, '25'.; haircut, 50c.: freight from railroad, Jc. to 4c. per pound. Coming Snares. Most a a like women in quite plain siiple < . es. I suppose, on the whole, a writer in the London WXorld, m . conquests have been made by girls i:m simple white frocks than hae even been made by those in elaborate confections; and a garden hat well managed, however old it may be or, better still, the sunbonnet, whih is said to be "omoing back to favor. can be guade a most dangerous 1*RTICULTUL "POOR" SOIL FRUITFUL. Do not be deterred from having a small fruit garden because your soil is not just what the books recommended. A lot of nonsense has been written and passed along concerning the criti cal tastes, about the soil they grow in, of different fruits and vegetables. Fruits do have preferences, but they are not nearly so particular inl this re Spect as many persons would try to make us believe. They have a com fortable way of adapting themselves to almost any kind of soil. provided it is not very rocky. nor very shallow, nor very wet. If you do not have sat isfactory results with small fruits, it Is much more likel:- to be yotir fault thani the fault of the soil. HOLLYHOCKS. Everybody knows that a "hardy per ennial" is a plant that dies down to the -round every winter like a peony and conies up again in the spring for an indefinite number of, years. and most people know that there is a be wildering assortnent of them, ranging in height from two inches to three or four feet. It is a surprising fact that there are barely a dozen first-class per ennials that normally grow as high as a man :nd are suitable for the back of a border of hardy shrubs. The best of these are single hollyhocks. They have by far the greatest range of color of any tall, hardy herbs and are hard ier and more permanent than double hollyhocks. They are biennial and loom the second year, and sow them selves year after year all over the gar den. BOX OR BARREL PACKAGE. The question whether the box or the barrel makes the best package for ap ples and pears came again to a free discussion at the meeting of the West ern New York Horticultural Society ind the New York State Fruit Grow ers' Association. It was generally coneeded that for ordinary fruit the barrel is as yet the almost indispensa ble and only package. while for choice i or fancy apples or pears the box is of ten found -very profitable. Mr. Wil lard stated that even so inconspicuous a fruit as the Winter Nelis pear. con sisting of course of well grown speci iens, all carefully wrapped in paper, has netted him, in boxes, at the rate of $11.5 pec bushel in the English mnrket. He also shipped Wealthy ap pies to England in boxes and got good returns. The Winter Nelis was praised both by Mr. Willard and Mr. William C. ~3arry, as a fine winter pear, especially for family use. It is easily grown. Nobody would be lia ble to steal it from the tree, but it de velops fine qualities when it matures after being shipped. It is then of fine texture. melting and delicious.-Okla homa Farmer. BARRELS 0OR BOXES FOR APPLES Would not consumption be doubled if apples were put up in. small pack ages like other fruits so the consumn er could get them in the original pack age? If the advance in the price of barrels is due, as many think it is, to a pool1 or trust, "-and I will say there are reasons for this belief," and there is plenty of timber, the remedy lies in the ap~ple growers of the country throug.h the National Apple Grow-ers' Congn-'ss or some organization to put machinery in operation cutting it into cooerage. We are not assuming that there is any trust, but we notice each recurring year that barr-els can be had if we pay the advance in price. It is a qi'ostion. however, it we could se cure barrels at tw-enty-five cents each again. w-hether it is the package we should use. We are of the opinion that the extended distribution in at retail way necessary for the consumption of our large apple crops cannot be reached by the use of the barrel. It may be said that for storage and ex port trade we will have to use barrels. If only barrels are used for this it would relieve the barrel situation that much. Still would not a case holding half a barrel in use be more satisfac tory for storage and export?-G. T. Tippin, in National Fruit Grow-er. REAL MIAPLE SU'GAR. The Departmnen' of Agriculture's Bureau of Forestry is trying to revive and extend the production of maple sugar. As persons of middle age can remember, maple sugar was formerly obtained from the sap of maple trees. Now it is usually compounded of glu cose, brow-n cane sugar. extract of hickory bark and other substances .ca pable of more or less plausible disguise. The Bureau of Forestry considers it a moderate statement to say that seven eights of all the map~le sugar amnd syrup on the market are counterfeit. It thinks that the production of the genu ine article ennm be made profitable t hr:oughou t the Northern States and down als far as the mountains of East ernm Tennessee and Western North Car olina. Its investigations show that a far-mer can easily clear $3 per acre, and usually more, from a sugar grove on land that w-ould be useless for any other purpose. At the same time this industry would help to preserve forest conditions. Tihe bureau believes that the prodmucers can push pure goods in to the market at a little higher price than is now paid for adulterated arti les by forming associations, adopting rgistered trade-marks carrying abso lte guarantees of quality and. if nec essary. selling direct to the consum ers instead of to the middlemn whio are responsible for the pr'esenit condi tios.-Collier's Wekly. - Why Washinitton Was First. The class in history was discussing; the cruel conduct of King George and the consequent revolution among the enonlists inI America. T'.i teacher had just end'd a v-ery interesting discour:s5 an hnasked who was the first Pres -Georg Washingtol:." said the w-holf claM. :d alleC. ''Why was he ch~osenl" '-Becau-e Roosevelt wasn't borr then." said am little five-yealr-ol---Al' j bne Journal. !IUSEHGLD AFFAIRS POSITION FOR A BED. There are two good rules on th1e proper position of a bed. It should never be placed against the wall. where there is often an imperceptible dampness. It should never stand in a recess or corner where there is not a constant circulation of fresh air. Dull headaches in the morning can nearly always be traced to sleeping in a bed far from a window. TO REMOVE COAL OIL SPOTs. Accident.; will happen but they often lead to valuable experience. Not long ago I dropped a kerosene lamp con taining a pint of ill and the entire contents were spilled on the carpet. I immediately covered the spot made by the oil with buckwheat flour and scrubbed it into the carpet with a coarse brusb. I then swept it up and put on.a fresh supply, which I rubbed in as before. The third time I left the flour on over night and in the morn ing. when after another scrubbing with a clean, dry orush I swept it up, not even a trace of the kerosene re mained and my carpet is as good as it was before the accident.-Mrs. D. D Williams, in The Epitomist. FLATIRONS. The flatirons must always be per fectly clean. and it is best to scour them each time they are used; by doing it thus frequently they are kept clean with very little work, while if neglect ed they are constantly doing poor work soiling the clean clothes. and a long scouring when they are cleaned. After they are washed and scoured each week. place on the stove tc dry thor oughly and then slip each one into a little bag made with drawstrings for the purpose, or, at least, slip each one into an empty paper bag to keep clean from dust till they are used again. A rag dipped in kerosene and salt is ex cellent for smoothing the bottom of an iron; or sprinkle some salt between layers of waxed paper like that used for lining cracker boxes, which should be saved for the purpose. FLOWERS FOR THE HOUSE. Flowers may be moved in full bloom from the garden to the yard or house. For instance, take an ordinary pine box, say two feet by three, six or eight inches deep. Fill with nice, rich soil, thoroughly dampened. Take up the plants with as much dirt adher ing as possible, and set in the box, firming the dirt around the- roots. Fill the box full of plants in full flower, and of different kinds. When done, sprinkle thoroughly, just like they had been in a hard rain. Let drain, clean off. and move into the house, or wherever you may wish them, and they will not wilt, but will keep on blooming-a veritable portable flower bed. Keep well watered. Be sure that the soil is well packed in the box. If mulched with exceisior or clean chaff, all the better. Banana Salad-Make a strong lemon jelly, omitting sugar. Mould this in a ring mould, and "en quite firm fill the hollow with su1ced bananas mixe51 with a cream mayonnaise. If the jelly is colored with spinach green the salad will be the more attractive. Baked Halibut - Purchase three pounds of fish and see that it is cut in two inch strips. Remove the skint and squeeze the juice of two lemons over the fish and add a good sprink ling of pepper and salt. Allow it to stand thus for an hour. after which dip in melted butter, dredge with flour and h ke thirty minutes. When done. dust the top with grated hard boiled eggs and garnish with parsley. Serve with white sauce. Old-Time Buns-Mix to a stiff batter three cups of milk, one of sugar, a yeast cake (or cup of yeast', as it used to be), and the necessary quantity of flour. Mix at noon and allow the bat ter to rise until night, then add a cup ful of sugar, one of currants, one of molasses a teaspoonful of soda. one of nutmeg. one-half teaspoonful of cinna mon, the same of ground cloves. Mix again to a stiff batter, set to rise over night. make into shapes and when baked wash the tops with raw egg. Stuffed Green peppers-Cut a sraall piece off the stem end of the peppers, or cut them in tm' lengthwise, re moving the seeds and partitions. Boil them for five minutes, drain, and fill with three Bermuda onions cooked ten der. chopped and mixed with a table spoonful of minced parsley, a scant cupful of breadcrumbs, a few drops of lemon juice, salt, cayenne, a little celery salt and two tablespoonfuls of mushroom catsup. Bake the stuffed peppers in a shallow pan in a hot oven, basting frequently wvith melted butter. JTellied Cutlets-Put the best end of a neck of lamb in a saucepan with an onion, some bay leaves, pepper and salt. see the ild is fixed-fn tightly, and set over the fire to braise until quite tender. Take out and when quite cold cut into meat cutlets. Put some gela tine or some isinglass in some stock, and color a nice dark brown, dip the cutlet in this rand put on one side until cold. Arrange them in t'e mriddle of a dish and pnt round some~ chopped let tuce and 'tomatoes cut in slices on the Colors Birds Don't Like. Red will annoy a ,turkey-cock as much as a bull, but a sparrow will not let it disturb its niind. Bud if one shakes a blue rag in front of a caged sparrow's eyes he will go frantic with disgust. Sparrows and linnets, too, will refuse food offered them on a piece of blue paper, and dislike the ap pearance of any one wearing a blue dress. Medium light blue affects them mnos, but blue serge they scarcely mind at all. Thrushes and blackbirds object to yellow, but will use red or blue dried grass left about their haunts to build the outer layers of their nests. Yellow grasses they will not use. - Chicago Jurnal ~I~JI FDAYOR NOTES SUNDAY, JULY 30. Missions in Japan. Micah 5: 2, 4; 12, 13. Christ has always been: Ruler Christianity is wonderfully influenf tial in the parliament of Japan. Christianity, becoming great "to the ends of the earth"-the antipodes of the place where it started-has come back around the world again to make the great Asiatic nations among which it started. Much of pagan religion is mere witchcraft, andl all w'itchcmft isq based upon fear, and Is thereforeO conquered by the gospel of love and trust. That men will worship even the work of their own hands is proof that the religious instinct is innate In the human heart, it is God-given. Mission Notes from Japan. There are in, Japan over 50,000 Protestant Christians. Twenty-five Protesta--t bodies have missions in Japan, and of these the Presbyterians and Congregationalists have the largest nuinber of converts 11,500 each, and also the largest num ber of self-supporting churches, 34 and 23 respectively Baron Maej!ma, an ex-cabinet offi cer, recently declared, "I am con vinced that the religion of Christ is the one most full of strength and promise for the nation." An admiral and chief justice' have been vice-presIdents of the Y. M. C. A. of Japan, and its president the president of the lower house of the Jplenn.c--n arliip-nt-q l Chrtgttans. Tne seven Presoy aria aenomina tions at work in Japan are all united; so are the four Episcopal bodies, and the Lutherans and the six Methodist denominations have also agreed upon a plan.for union. A Japanese wife refused to perform some disagreeable manual labor fdr her husband, and he at once di vorced her; but the courts upheld her rigl'.-a great evidence of progress In Japan. One of the most beautiful of recent converts in Japan is a woman who from birth has been able to move no part of her body but her hea4; but she uses her mouth for Christ, and conducts prayers in her ward of the hospital. The Protestants of Janan are about one in a thousand of the population, but the Protestant members of the National House. of Representatives are more than one in a hundred. In Japan "public schools of the higher institutions of learning now close on Sunday, as do also the of fices for regular government busi ness." PORTIH LEAGOE LESSO SUNDAY, JULY THIRTIETH. Missions in Eastern Asia.-Psa. 22. 27, 28; Jer. 16. 19 Our Scripture selections are pro phecies concerning the conversion of the Gentiles to Christ and have spec ial reference to modern missionary operations. Our selection fromn psalms is one 3f the Old Testament expressions foretelling Messiah's uni versal reign. This is being speedily fulfilled as the great nations of heathe'ism are being permeated -with gospel influence. Jeremiah's prop hetical prayer for the heathen has the same interpretation. The nations will repudiate the supersititions of heath enism and accept the gospel 'of Christ. Eastern Asia is a term which is used to designate our Missions i China, Korea, and Japan. It should possibly take in our work in the Philippine Islands, but they are em braced In our Malaysian work, which Is under the Southern Asia work. The field embraces the five great Conferences in China with her four hundred millions-the Foochow, the Hinghua, the Central China, the North China, and the West China Mission. It takes in also the two Conferences In Japan-the Japan and the South Japan. It also embraces' the Korean Mission. The China Mission was begun in 1847 by Revs. Judson D. Collins and Moses C. White. They began at Foochow, and from their work It has spread to nearly every part of the empire. The Foochow Conference em braces the Fukien~ Province, and was organized into a Conference in 1877. The Hlnghua Mission Conference in cuies two perfectures of the Fukien Province, and was opened in 1864 and organized as a Conference in 1896. The Central China Mission was be gun in 1867 by workers from the Foochow, and set apart as a Mission in 1869. It includes Centrai China with headquarters at Nanking. North China Conference includes the north ern provinccs of Shantung and Hohan. Work was begun in 1869, and the Con ference was organized in 1893. The West China Mission is in the western part of the empire, the farthest re moved to all Missions from the United States. It was opened in 1881. Work was begun in Japan by our church in 1S73. Dr. Maclay founded the Mission. The work in the north ern part was organized into a C on ference in 1884. Work was begun in Nagasaki In 1873 by Dr. Davidson,a which was organized into a Mission Conference in 1898. This South Ja pn Conference embraces the southern4 one of the four large islands of the empire and Formosa. Remedy for Heart Trouble. The Optimist, organ of the "Nolens Volens" colony at Jackson, prints a 4 cut of the prison. 'In the dome of the main building is shown open win dows in the highest portion. The oc companying comment narrates that I many years ago a prisoner attempted his liberty by means of a rope down Iwhich he was sliding when the cord parted and he fell, first to the roof of the central building, then, bounding from thence, hit the top of the cell block, where he acquired sufficient elasticity to land him on the ground. These unexpected incidents confused him and he was captured. Singularly the misfortune of his failure was not unmitigated. Hie had been so af flicted with heart disease as to be un able to lie down for months. The fall knocked it completely out of him and he was enabled thei'eafter to "sleep like a top." The Optimist cheerfully invites the palpitating public to come and try the remedy.--Detroit Tribune.