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- -o h a o- r ith~ir br~ st ak~wsar faint and Sevry A-wi - ter re- hpb r4 hen edt e IS, t'f -U Bflay aby Tn - - 1-i -- nf - *3-an a-. - ,-n OE-l a %St -- "C e n * - -: cit 4- . '- - - -t s - ..R 44 t -m t - n :saat S- -.ate - -I-tay -ed enout 3 -ynde V~oodt--t4. hat's 4h atter - - rn t W o ria ? irn's meBhoutd. - 'eu11 against each ~nhear? W the blarz - love wih u o .-- girls ~Yoveent-tk '27 :.usly. Yon'asked my e.S 2I~ the beastly eups $fl zduAes t ha d~.. euc V - L - crop P "ow - the - --2-o an as 4)ty glasse- ] c care t die or live, N t" Th&Ipey cae togive, NO whme of:sacrifice'to-shed; here Ure no new path over sea. -now we- know how faint thei The feasts and voices of the Dead. .M, fowers and dance! Ah. sun and snow! Glad life, sad life, we did forego To. dream of quietness and rest; 'Ah, would the'fleet sweet roses here Poured light and 'perfume through thi drear - . Pale year, and wan land of the west. Sad youth, that let the spring go by Because the spring is swift to fly; Sad youth, that feared to mourn oi - love, 'Behold how sadder far is this, -To know that rest is nowise bliss, -"And darkness is the end thereof. SJonathan. 4MILTON. girls himself-that sunburn went a long.way. He suddenly caught H11 gay's calculating eye. And then Teddy ran over Jack. "Not a dog's chance against a man like jack," thought Hilgay. "Look at thit nose, those eyes and that hair -and the way he tans Is simply im mense. By gad, too, I never noticed before what awfully decent hands and feet he's got." Thusj both men .sat, running up a loig list of the'other's qualifications wich each considered he did not pos Who is to propose first?" said Glynde' abruptly ."Spin a coin," said. Hilgay. r(ilynde. laughed.. "What? Even ht this case?" S"''ey not? 've always done It hitherto." "Very well, old man. And if you 01mn the toss, I wish you all the luck ( know you'd wish me." "Thanks," said Hilgay. They got up. Their healthy faces Entertaining Of all the occupations I prejudice is the most absur universal. The prejudice is usually u removes his hat and coat, saa and prepares to become a pc - lishment. You entertain hii bosom, exhibit him 'roudly t fend'him, and pe'. *te him he is present. --lain a coming con"':.. Birds 1C t thati'' - .. . .preji .re comi - *, the more -I .ers. The clo, - *ar L. . are always but eyesight, they are ; tting blinds on, and : ,mfortably. SA man can get insured a ~ prejudices. He can Insure I Sand loss of life and accidenti - e* rty.'- But there Is no compan the risk of insuring against would ever think of taking ou1 Lcause he would never admit, himself fi::es that. The first man think he Isn't there. That Is why prejudices, -they cause to character, are r to stay.-Lippincott's Magazi: Iu'ore extremely cheerful expressions, fxpressions of sportingkeenness, hon asty and a desire to do their level >est A man called Carbis came In wear .ng evening dress and a bashful grin. Ee had been at Eton with Glynde and it'-Christ Church with Hilgay. They oth disliked him intensely. -.For all :hat, he was a very decent chajp, play dia; tennis with the best of them, and sang songs like an angel with a sense fhumor. -Hallo, you chaps." "Hallo," said Glynde and .Hilgay :ogether. "Jolly night, Isn't it?" Jolly," said Glynde. "Very jolly," said Hilgay. "You two chaps look jolly, too." Darbis grinned at them so widely and inaffectedly that It was almost pos sble for them to see his heart. "We feel jolly," said Glynde. "Very jolly," said Hilgay. Instinctively they both made a nove towards the door. Carbis began to tweak his fingers ervously, although the beam was still on his face. "I say," he said, 'you fellows, you might give me a ulnute if you haven't anything better to do.. Will you, please?" Glyndie and Hilgay turned back. After all, he had been .to Eton with (lynde and Cambridge with Hilgay. Besides, he sang a jolly good song. Fhey returned his grin with some cor liality. Then Carbis became flustered. "'sr -I'm-I'm intensely happy, ensar'as rou -chaps have always been ..ade.:.dea )f men, and I've alw? city o?'you .oth extremeyj, s free mnuch Ike you to be t'- -' Bureaknow vhy I'm-I 1nBuli-er md to dri s ,d that dindof o ON-'" ar of ;lynde, ClOiCarbis, dat Sthat's gto be * -o-night. Cerhly girl key< t be thanged -rajment. *vne happi ~ou know. stitution, Sfirst one best rart *. h uplifted icroat and theI d ho is to honor me bY eM 5Her name Is Enid 311ertt nL * * * * * Lon after Carbis- had hurried away, hot and happy, Glynde and Hil gay stood silently looking into their glasses. The waiter twice came in to clear them away. It was on the stroke of 12, and he was keen on nothing but bed. They called up two hansoms. "Jack," said Hilgay. "Hullo," said Glynde. "This is the first time you -and I are not going to be pitted against each other, after all." "No, and' it's the first game you and I have ever drawn." In Glynde's heart there was a feel ing of great compassion for Hilgay, and in Hilgay's a feeling of great compassion for Glynde.-Richmond Times-Dispatch. DANGER IN DRY SHAMPOOS. Death Sometimes Result of Using Very Volatile Compounds. The dangers of the dry shampoos that have recently come into vogue are unquestionably not sufficiently recognized. The growing use of some of the light hydrocarbon or other vo latile compounds is probably fraught with the most serious consequences, but even the apparently innocuous shampoo powders have their draw backs. Carbon tetrachlorid seems to be used most extensively, and the num ber of fatal accidents which ar.e being recorded makes it incomprehensible that a drug so dangerous should be employed at all. Its formula, CC14, shows its near relation to chloroform, and its anaesthetic properties are al-! most as marked. The vapor given off is considerably heavier than air and rapidly accumulates around the face when the liquid is applied to the scalp. Innumerable cases of semi-con sciousness are reported, it is now claimed, by the English hairdressers, but the patrons, women almost exclu sively, do not object, and so the "playing with death" goes on. It is a frightful commentary on the fatu ity of the day. The vapor of carbon tetrachlorid aside from its anaesthetic or stupefy a Prejudice. nown to men, entertaining a . Yet the practice is almost :invited. He comes in quietly, ters up to the guest chamber, rmanent feature of the estab a royally, strain him to -your > every one, fight for him, de- Z You do not even admit that prejudice?" you say, with be gether. It therefore' happens w resent, there are others. They [ take their places silently and they hang together in an invincible. They have never dices is .that one would think odious quarters.: But no, the content they are. 'They don't ~er the better. ~y. if they are not tampering screening the mind from the ainst almost -anything else but imself against fire and water and depreciation in his prop r so fortified that It would take prejudice. And then no man any insurance against one, be hat he had it. The prejudice thing he does is to make the no matter how much damage ever evicted. They. have come te.mJ ing effect is a heart poison and in the slightest cardiac weakness is extreme ly likely to produce a fatal result, .The shampoo powders may not pre sent toxic dangers, but their use is certainly founded on anything but a rational basis. A few perfectly nor mnal scalps might have a very fine im-' palpable powder applied a few times with little or no harm to the hair, but in a short time the glandular orifices would be occluded and the hair would suffer accordingly.-American Medi cine. Specimens For Naturalists,. Students of the crustacea 'zften find the cod a useful assistaz~t collector. Thus the circular craby'seems to be a favorite food of cods -and rays, and it was chiefly from~ the stomachs of these fish' that some of the older nat uralists obtained specimens. Another himting ground 'of the' naturalist is' the sailing ship which has been tli foreign parts. In this way Dr. Olhark has been able to add a tiny (Chilean crab to the Cornish crustagtf'a. It was obtained by val lenting on the sides of a bark from Patagonia in a coating of seaweed and ;barnacles. ~he crab itself may become a col leetor of specimens for the zoologist, ,or it is often covered with various ~species of sponges, hydroids and bry ozoa. Sometimes the species found thus are such as are not easily obtain able otherwise. One species of crab, indeed (maia squinado), is regarded in Cornwall as the provider of mate rial for the naturalist.-The Zoolo.. 'gist. Toy Russian- Village. During his visit to Racconigi, when free from ceremonial and political functions the Czar found much pleas ure in the company of the little Prince of Piedmont and Princesses Yolanda and Mafalda, for whom he had brought a magnificent present from Livadia. This consisted of a model village populated by dolls dressed in Russian garb. The village is a marvel of per fection. The wooden houses or hutg are provided with windows and doors which can be opened and shut; there are shops completely furnished with counters and goods, a beautiful schiool and a church with a clock tower. The Czar explained to the children every dietail of the wonderfuil toy and had a tremendous amount of fun with them. T-ondron Teleapoh. 0T1 Vegetablo Milk. 'A cheap substitute for the milch cow has been discovered by -the Jap anese in the form of a tiny bean, states the Farmers' Home Journal. The Juice, which is extracted by a specfal process from the bean, Is said to be an excellent vegetable milk, the properties of which render It highly suitable for use in tropical countries. The preparation is obtained from the Soja bean, which is a popular article of food among the poorer classes of Chinese and Japanese. In making the vegetable milk the beans are first of all softened by soaking and boiled In water. The resultant liquor is ex actly similar to cow's milk In appear ance, but is entirely different In its composition. For Young Horses. An experienced breeder has discov ered that equal parts of ground oats and corn make an excellent ration for young horses. Others add bran to make a well balanced ration to pro duce a symmetrical growth of bone, muscle and fat in young horses. The bran is rich in protein and phospho rus, which b,uild up bone and muscu lar development, and being mildly ca thartic prevents constipation. Clover hay and alfalfa are excellent rough age for young horses, as they are rich in the elements of bone and muscle growth. Commercial horses now must have heavy bone as a founda tion of stable endurance, and breed ers should develop their young horses on those rations which will promote the growth of bone, the elements of which are contained in oats, bran, alf alfa and clover.-Indiana Farmer. Bestraining a Horse. An old horseman gave me his way of restraining a fractious horse which answers the purpose in good shape. It is a strap from the foreleg a little above the knee to the halter and fast ened with buckles at each end. The s strap Is two feet long or about right to hold the head nearly level. The contivance makes unruly action very difficult and unpleasant for the horse, and he finally learns to behave with out Its aid.-I. A. L., Middlesex Coun ty, Connecticut. A Shortage in the Pig Crop. The American Swineherd says: "From the general tenor of letters re ceived from breeders in the different parts of the country we are led~ to be lieve that the pig crop will be demon strated a short one. The fact is we have been getting into this condition for eighteen months or more. High priced grain and pork below a- com parative .price of grain caused people to market their hogs close and to save fewer sows. As one.man said in the office It Is very hard to convince a farmer, when he can get seventy cents cash a bushel for his corn at his town elevator, that it was not his duty to cash it In there instead of feeding it to shogs or any other ani mals. The-shortage Is showing In the number of hogs that are bel'ng marketed, as they are below previous ye'ars, while the number of consumers are constantly Increasing." Better Shelter; Less Feed. When one of those northwesters comes up and the wind rages and snow flies the stock appreciate a good shelter. We often see stock out in all kinds of weather, shivering and huddled together; their. owners are often very saving of feed, very care ful to make both ends meet, on the farm as it were, yet they do not think how each minute their stock is un sheltered in such weather, the extra feed or fat they are consuming to generate that heat, which passes off so readily under such conditions. We have noted in the fattening ofI hogs how In a cold spell of weather their appetites Increased with the cold. While they consumed consider ably more feed the gain In fat was slow. This was accounted for by the fact that the food goes to produce heat to a certain extent; the colder the more heat must be produced, hence taking more feed; so It is easily seen while feed Is so high it is essen-1 tial to have good shelter.-Omer R. Abraham, In the Indiana Farmer. Quality of Milk. A great many persons have held the mistaken notion that with certain kinds of feeding the cow will increase the per cent. of butter fat. An Eng lish dairyman after much experience says: "The quality of the milk yielded by a cow depends more upon the indi viduality of the cow than upon any other factor, and that a cow is not merely a machine into which one can put a certain amount of food of known composition with the sure knowledge that one will get milk of equally known composition. A cow Is a machine certainly, but one whose, idiosyncrasies, as expressed in the quality of the milk she produces, can only be ascertained by actual testing. Hence the need for testing cows for the quality as well as the ,quantity of their milk is brought out.' By such a proceeding ind by breeding only from those cows which give milk rich in fat, the dairy herds of this country could undoubtedly be greatly im proved, but our methods are altogeth er too haphazard for such an ideal ever to be realized. In tme mean tim-e, and so long as a legal limit for milk of three per cent. of fat eyists we must be content with showing that a large number of individual cows do undobutedly fall below that limit in the course of every year, while with equal certainty the mixed milkof many herds undoubtedly does so, though with less frequency than that of individuals. The relative fre quency with which the herds do so will depend on the number of such in dividual offenders, and the only safe way to avoid the rist of one's milk falling below the limit of three per cent., of butterfat is to find out and get rid of the worst offenders." A Talk on Turkeys. Now is the time to feed the early hatched turkeys liberally and have them ready for the Thanksgiving market. It rarely pays to hold them for the holiday market. The Thanks giving market is nearly always the best. And turkeys take on fat better now than they will later when cold, snowy weather comes. Corn is the nationalo fattening grain for the na tional birds. and the most available feed with most of us. We like to give them all the corn they will eat these days for their evening ration, and oats soaked over night in water for the morning meal. Another thing very essential whil- !eding turkeys heavily is coarse sharp grit. And plenty of milk to drink is an aid in fattening turkeys. How their bodies plump up after a few weeks of good feeding. It won't do to rush them off to market regardless of flesh. The returns from a leanolot of birds are sure to be discouraging. When well fattened their plumage is smooth and glossy. The experienced buyer can tell by the appearance of the plumage' whether they are well fattened or not. In England, I am told, they confine turkeys during the fattening period with good results. We have tried shutting them upwhile fattening with pqor success. They are such liberty loving birds, in our experience, it won't do to confine them very long at any time in their lives. / Don't you think it will pfy to keep enough turkey hens so you will have eggs to spare your friends and neigh bors? They will willingly pay you a good price. I/'have a neighbor who keeps a dozen turkey hens and she sells all the eggs to her neighbors at $1 a setting; She considers this the surest way 'of getting money out of turkeys. One nice thing about sell ing turkey eggs for hatching is that it is no trouble to sell thgm near home. This 'lady I have been telling you about gets orders for her eggs over the 'phone, and they are all spo ken for long before the laying season. One dollar for eleven eggs doesn't seem like a very big price, bixt it amounts to a neat little sum at the end of the season, and this party is at no expense to sell her eggs. Whether we sell the eggs or set them ourselves we should be careful in selecting breeding birds and holding onto them. Selling off older hens we know to be good layers and breeders and keep ing young ones for breeding is a mis take. Up to their fifth year turkeys are profitable as breeders. And they are not fully mature until two years old, and at three years a hen is at her best.-Fannie M. Wood, in the In diana Farmer. Potash Required With Lime. Many farmers have an idea that lime will unlock the stores of insolu ble potash in the soil and make it available for plant food. But when you ask for their reasons you will find them very uncertain and unable to substantiate their opinions either with the results of experiment station work or practical experiments on their own farms. Properly used lime is one of the most valuable aids to suc essful farming, but when used with out fertilizer it will impoverish the soil, as shown by the old English pro verb: "Lime without manure will make the farm and the farmer poor." There is nothing gained by making extravagant claims for the use of lime, and that it makes any of the potash in the soil a,vailable is very doubtful and not supported by experi ments so far as I can learn. In fact my experience is that an application of potash will give much better re sults with lime than without it, which would not be the case if the lime made any -quantity of potash avail able. In addition to its eff'ect in sweetening the soil, all four mate rials, life, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash are necessary for plant growth. No one element will answer the purpose without the other, but all are necessary to obtain the best results. An experiment conducted with fertilizers at the Ohio experi ment station shows the increased yield of clover in the hay crop in a ro tation of corn, oats, wheat, clover and timothy, the lime being applied to the corn crop. Acid phosphate and lime gave anincreaseof 1847 pounds; acid phosphate, potash and lime gave an increase of 2521 pounds, a gain of 674 pounds for the use of potash with the lime and phosphoric acid, and this in a soil that the authorities say is very deficient in phosphoric acid. and lime and supposed to have a fair amount of potash. The weight of evidence goes to show that the use of potash and lime should go hand in hand. Still the farmer should not follow any experiment blindly. but rather test his soil for himself and find out the properties of lime, p - phoic acid, nitrogen and poash, which will give the best re'sults na his own farm, and use the results gf the experiment stations simply as a guide. --G. F. Marsh, in Practical Fariger. Oft A Gold Diger. Lady. Sybil'Grey is the latest distin guished gold digger. She accom panied her father, Earl Grey, Gov ernor-Peneral of the Dominion, on his recent trip to the Canadian Arctic gold fields. Near Dawson City, the capital of the Klondike; she pegged ou.t a claim for herself with all the prescribed legal formalities and christened it the Sybil. Her-first pan ning out produced $20.worth of go"i which sh3 considers a very proniising start. During the long Arctic winter, Lady Sybil will work her claim b deputy, but she says she will returz next summer to supervise operations and examine results in person. Westminster Gazette. Wedding Invitations. They need not be answered, unless the recipient Is an intimate friend. Then a congratulatory note may be sent. An announcement demands nc reply. The' matter. of wedding gifts is, o course, anunsettled question. There are a number of well-bred persons who do not respond .to an in vitation with a gift, believing that i Is poor taste to send gifts to those whom they scarcely know, but tc wiose wedding they may have beeE bivited, for some reason of courtesy. An "at home" card inclosed in the invitation necessitates a call, withir the time named, or, if one lives ir a distant city, a card sent by post. Indianapolis News. Mrs. Locke's Theory. If the theory propounded by Mrs, Clinton Locke is correct the cat Is likely to play an important pari among the remedial agencies of the future. She has developed the con viction that the care of a cat will ex ert a soothing and beneficial effect or lunatics. Mrs. Locke is president 01 the Beresford..Cat Club and vice-presi. dent of the American Cat Association, She's an enthusiast on the cat ques tion. She has been studying the possi bilities of tabby, and has come to the conclusion that a person whose wits Apple Cake.-Place round baking dish, pi,nc as to make a little leds two some large apples, 9z g them and arrange in a overlapping the other. Ssugar and bake for tal oven. When cold sift I are addled can be materially helped y taking care of a cat or two. In rder .to test her theory she has sent me of her finest animals-"a beau iful white female"-to an insane sylum in Pennsylvana.-Hartford aily Times. Ignore Trouble. "We can't make sorrow and trouble on-existent by keeping them out of ur conversation," said a physician. At the same time, I .believe that erves are wrecked and the suicide ecords increased by this modern arping on neurasthenia, degeneracy, orruption, social and political, tuber ulosis, divorce and crime. Things re talked about in the most out spoken way that it wasn't good fornm o mention once. All this .makes the race wiser, no doubt, and evils must e known and discussed ~or they'll ever be removed, I suppose; but hink of the physic effect of all this erbal delving into dark places. Prob bly no one can mes~sure the harnm one by suggestion. 'I'd like to have he power to try, for one year, the plan of keeping all murders, suicides, ivorces, etc., out of print and out of onversation. I'll wager there would e fewer murders, suicides, divorces he latter part of that year than the first part." Society llminery. Miss Maude Converse, one of the society leaders of Washington, D. C., as opened a millinery establishment n the fashionable Northwest destrict, iss Converse is a daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Converse, once hief of the -Bureau- of Navigation, Speaking of her venture, Miss Con erse said: "I have been abroad several months studying Paris fashions, and all my ife have been interested in the artis ic designing of clothes." Miss Converse said her shop would evote itself mostly to children's fine lothes, layettes, tea gowns, evening gowns and trousseaux. She acknowl dged that she had gained much of her notion to open the shop from the successful venture of Lady Duff ordon in London. After the death of their father, it was reported that, because of finan ial circumstances, Miss Olga Con verse and Afiss Maude Converse would go Into business or on the stage. Baltimore News. A Farmer's Enterprising Daughter. I am a farmer's daughter, twenty six years old, and have earned my wn living for eight years. I am mployed on my father's farm, eight miles from town, and he pays me $2.25 a week. Out of this I have lothed myself, had a very good time and have laid up some money each 'ear. The third year I bought with my savings seven head of good sheep, and let them out on shares. The next -ear I bought fifteen more; then I had wenty-two old ones. I kept my part > the increase, the ewe lambs. The ~vethers I would sell. I kept increas ing my flock until I had thirty-three head; then I would cull out each year sd sell the oldest ones. The wool and wether lambs from rear to year helped to keep me in nice lothes and spending money. My wages I loaned at eight per cent. Each year I put in from one to two ace of potatoen, and these I cnlti. vate myself. just gives onL. Sometimes I go to other farms ana. cook during harvest, clearing $50, and again I spend a couple of weeks in the hop fields, which gives me a little change, and adds from $20 to $30 to my earnings. At the end of eight years I had $$00 in money, and a fine mare worth more than $100. Last fall I leased a 360 acre farm for five years at a rental of $250 a year cash, and I bought .137 head of sheep, which I added to the thirty-three I already owned, and put them on the plice. I have a man running the farm on shares. I will get one-third of all the grain and.hay'rzised on seventy acres, but the sheep I will look after myself. At the end of five years I expect to .have $2000 In my own right and to do very little wbrk myself. I think any country girl who will save like this in the beginning and strike out on independent lines- can. make a gpod, honest living, and not work all the time, either.-C. E. B., in Wom an's Home Companion. Feminine Philosophy. No woman is a humorist, because all of them are.j A kiss in time causes ninety-nine- A and then some. The use of complexion powderss never objectionable to the man wj. sells them. These are the days that girls are crowding No. 6 feet into No. 3 ball room slippers. Most girls are also deciding these, days what they don't want for Christ mas presents. It is easy enough for a woman to look pleasant if she has anything to look pleasant about. The favorite girl of the family is the one who can get the most.money out of the rich uncle. No Thanksgiving dinner will be 5 complete success unless Nora, the hired girl, breaks a few dishes. It sometimes takes a woman a long time to discover that a cheap man is the dearest thing on earth. An extremely popular fashion with a thin layer of short pastry on a ing up the edges with the fingers sW e around the cake. Peel and cut fnt - :arefully taking out the cores. Slice 4 circle around the pastry, one slice Sprinkle with ground cinnamon and -ee-quarters of an hour in a steady owdered sugar over- '-." y men would be one~---*. ,r the pricesof thing .:. sensitive, the girl :n - thin or the girl*.i..t,, The old-fashlo:..a...... e inning when she exhVi ts iL serves and needle work the co ty fair. What's the use of women g any interest In the Cuban trou les when that country furnishes us n - ing but tobacco?-New Haven g ister.. Large hats are the rule for evening wear. Sleeves have a decidedly: fuller. tendency. Silks are more prominent than for many seasons. The waist line has been lowered7 but the tiniest bit. The cuirass gown has seen Its best days and is on the wane. Contrasting facings are a feature>$ of the latest winter hats. The daintiest new hatpins are heid ed with Irish crochet lace. Tight fitting and stlffig' boned basques are again Imminent. EmbroIdery appears on many of; the charming new stockings.. Lace trimming on hats will be comn- - bined with much furry material. Eyelet embroidery has more ordess taken the place of net for blouses. Small bows are replacing the lar~ ones for tying the young girl's hair. Lynx, black fox and pointed fox are - best in small furs for general wear. Glace gloves will be worn more than .the suede with evening costumes this season. Jet trimming upon frocks of sap phire hue is one of the many varia tions of the hour. The large hat is being restricted toA dress occasions; small hats are in sway for all ordinary wear. I' Skirts, while cut on broader lines, , still retain more or less the sheath effect. The silhoutee is almost ex actly the same as It was last season. Coats are still semi-fitting, but the cut has changed. The backs are nar row and fiat and the skirt of the coat Is almost as close-fitting as the dress over which it is worn. A very pretty finis~ -- felt hat is a band o~ ribbon looped at one. which hang below the -- are finished with tass Orange, the. exact fruit is one of the n colors. It is alluring . for the long military A getting in fashion every day. Ruffling for shirt waists will worn much this fall. This in a ure is due to the low-cut coat. rufflings, which are detachabl~ are made of tucked net, batiste or' siheer linen. The fashion for bloomers fdr the small girl is an increasingly popala. one and nowadays each frock is ae.~ companiied by .its nether garments made of the Isame material as the frock itself.