la ?( right is hazy; Isit yon? - liiavr Doing hrctly as he pi Drifting idly with the Sit you? breeae; you! Bon om hope* suocess will lid him; b it jtm? Sow o?t Mvtdiy^loob behind hia; 8ome one full of good advice Biff to think it rather nice In a hne-heen'a paradise? la it j o*? Sena* one truata to lade for winning; la it yoa? Soma one cravee a new beginning; > aaya: "1 never had Sach' a chance aa Jones' lad." Some one's likewise quite a cad-* , la it yoa t t Some one's terriblr mistaken; - Is it you?4 Some one sadly will awaken; Ta it you? Some one'a working on the plan That a masterful "I can" Doesn't help to make the mau ls it you? Some one yet may "make akilling;" And it's you. Some one need* but to be willing. And it's you. Some one better set hii j.iw, Ceaae to be a man of straw, Get ?ome sand into his craw? Aud it's you. ?Baltimore American. BREAKING IT GENTLY. HE messenger boy waited while Jack Powers wrote his answer to her note. She might have tele graphed, but It her way 10 send messengers with her mis si ves. "Very well, Kstbleen," wrote Jack; "I'll be there. Yon nay for the last time. I wonder why?" He sent the boy with this note 'and an order on a florist for a box of vio lets as the message's accompaniment, ?uid then he turned to bis work again. I?ut his eyes failed to do more than ?tare at the ligures before him. Ills brnin could not grasp their meaning. Kathleen's face persisted In dancing ?bout the lukwell, in a twostep that played havoc with business. "I'm a beastly cad," cogitated Jack, ??and that's what. But it must be done. For the last time, she said. Per haps she's heard. It would help things a lot if she had." He looked meditatively at a photo graph which he fished from a dark pigeonhole in bin desk. "She's a mlgliiy nice little thing," he said to himself, "but " And t mi he took another photograph from an inner pocket or his coat, and kissed it tenderly. "Violets!" ? Kathleen buried her noz retrousse in the purple fragrance and sniffed wiili satisfaction. ".luck always semis violets," she said, to no one in particular, though her maid sat near by sewing ,soinc lace on the dinner frock her mistress had bade her lay out for her to wear. Kathleen looked gloomily upon a tall vawe of long-stemmed American beau ties that stood on the table. "i hat's the difference in men. Law rence sends big Beauties, because they cost money, ami .lack sends violets lie cause they're my favorite flower. Poor Jack! How enn 1 break his heart? for 1 ? oppose it will? 'You say for the Inst time. I wondvr why? Ilelgho! W e must take our mpdicino, Marie. Because I prefer million* to love in a cottnge?that's why. Hurry with the waist, Marie. 1 must not be late with my last dinner with Jack. "No. I didn't think \vif needed a clinp eron to-night. Jink." "Why not to-nlpht?" "Because, well? ** 'Life is too short to qunrrel. Life is too short to sigh?' "I'll tell you by ntul by. Jack?after the lisli. perhaps." "I. too. have something to tell you, Kathleen." For the space of tep minutes, while the garcou placed the soup before tiif-m. Jack felt uncomfortable. Kvery foody hates to attack a disagreeable duty. When the duty involves?a pret ty womuu, it Is doubly distasteful. However, he took a surreptitious peep at the pho'iograph In his breast pocket nnd?lt nerved hliu to his tnsk. Ncv ertlfMess, there wns no hurry about it. "Isn't It nhsurd, Jack, to sny that love makes the world go round?" nflked Kathleen. In her diplomatic feminine way, she !?nd wished to ftad up to the subject she hnd eome to discuss. "Of course It Is," he nnswered, "wh?n champagne - If one has enough of If?will do the same thing." They both laughed, and thru both nttnekcci tin Ir glasses witl: assumed enthusiasm. "Salmon?ob. Jnck. do you remember how we trolled for salmon at Pel Monte Inst summer?" Old he remember? He had to pat Uie pholograph lu his pocket to forget. "1 rend the oilier day." Kathleen was saying, "Ihnt n jrirl who couldn't make up her mind between two lovers hasn't n mittil worth making up." She looked at him from*the corners of Ist'i* eyes. Jack's face lighted up. Hlie knew, then, and that was the meaning of her desire for a farewell dinner. How easy it would be now to explain. But Kathleen wns not wnltlng for an answer. "They say there's no skill in winning a game where one holds nil the trumps. But In the gnme of hearts. Jack, sup pose one held Just two? Don't you think It would be hard to kuow which to discord?" Bravo! thought Jnck. What a clever little diplomat Kathleen Is! But she veered to the other side. It alee, Jack, Just wc two sit time her* Mk* thtof oh. ao tenderly. "Isn't It like old times?" He reelly couldn't help It?one little hlee wee nothing. There wee a pause of some minutes, end then Kathleen sprang to her feet. "Don't, Jack, or I won't be able to brace myself to the ordeal. Don't look like that." He put his hand In his coat pocket. Yee. the photograph was there. Had he been uotrue to her?" 'I'm engaged?engaged. Jack." aald Kathleen, excitedly. "I'm going to marry Lawrence Smith, the million aire. Oh, Jack, I never really thought you cared?why uldn't you ask me years ago?when I was a bod? It'a too late, now?too late. It'a going to be a grand Ihurch wedding. He want ed It to be a quiet affair, but I " "Thought It would be the laet quiet day he'd have, ao doubt." "Why, Jack. I never knew you to make such a wretclaed joke before. High noon?at St. Luke's?June 8th. You'll be there?" "I'm afraid not, Kathleen?I " "Oh, we can still be friends. This Is the twentieth century, you know, and Jealousy Is out of date." "i know, but " "Oh, suy wc can still be friends still. Jack. I never could bear ttyec stuffy little apartmeuts, the modern love In n cottage. It's much better this way, dear." "I know, Kathleen. But " "Oh, dou't think I meant anything horrid. I'm not that kind of a woman. Jack. But Lawrence likes you?I thinks he wauts you to be best man. Will you?" . "I'm awfully sorry, but I couldn't, really." The tension, drawn so tight a mo ment since, was ready to enay. Had it done so, the man would have laughed, the relief was so great. But his duty was still undone, and doubly repug nant after her confession. "Oh, you must," pleaded Kathleen, "else you know what people will say." She looked at her watch. "I must go now," she said, "for we are going to a ball to-night. Tromise me. Jack, that If Lawrence asks you. you will be his best man at our wed ding. Do It for me, dear, won't you?" Site gave him a good-by kiss, to make her plea more profound. "Oh, the mischief, I can't Kathleen." lie said, squeezing her little hands warmly. "I would If I could, but it's impossible." "Why, dear?" The words were warm, but the tone was cold. "Well, I'll tell you?I've tried to tell you all the evening, but you didn't give me a chance. I'm going to be married myself that same day."?Sarah Williamson, in San Francisco Town Talk. Italian PraMnti In ? N?iw-I.nwT?nrm?at I The conservative spirit of the Italian 1 women Is never more clearly shown than in the doing of laundry work. i The clothes are wet in hot or cold wa- j ter, no matter which. Kach piece is wrung out of the water and piled on | one side. When the tub is empty the washboard is laid flat across the top | and each piece soaped in turn, and j kneaded as bread is kneaded. When j each piece has passed through this pro cess. all are put in the tub, rinsed. ' and hung to dry at the convenience of . the washer, in the room or out of ? doors, as tlie case may be. Before this stage i? reached four or live days may , have elapsed. If a piece oT clothing is needed it is sorted out of the pile of colored and white, cot ion and woolen, and dried by the stove. Often each step Is taken at night after sewing ten , hours or :nore on trousers or coats, cooking and caring for a family of ? children; the floor space is larger then, ? and the worker has more room to move. . Starching results in clothes that crack- j le. and only starched clothes are ir oned. A little Italian girl in white > dress and petticoats is for several hours an object of pity. She cannot walk, stand or sit in comfort. The little boys in starched shirt waists are rebels until the stiffness is gone. Flour is used instead of starch in laundering. ?Lillian lU'tts. in Harper's ltazar. l'oinon Sumac. There are several species of sumac* I and most of them are harmless, but if , we do not know one from th.? other we are apt to feel uncomfortable in the 1 presence of any of them. The poison 1 ons species may be readily dlstln | guished from either the smooth sumac [ or the stag-horn sumac by reason of the fact that the leaflets of these spe- j cles are saw-edged, while those of the poison sumac are "entire;" that it, j without teeth or lobes. The one other ! species which may be confused is the 1 mountain sumac; but as In this shrub , the leaf steins are widened out into so called "wings," it need not be mlstak- j en for Its dangerous relative, whose | stems are wlngles*. The poison ivy, I a near relative of the poison sumac. I though usually a crepper, Is classed ' with the shrubs, and sometimes be- ' comes one when It happens to grow In 1 a spot where there are no supports for its aerial rootlets. This plant has com pound leaves with three leaflets, a fact which enables us to distinguish it at once from the Virginia creejx'r, which has live leaflets, and from the bittersweet, which has from seven to nine.?Woman's Home Companion. A Oo?t Story. A well-known suburbanite, who had been greatly troubled by the depreda tions of a neighbor's goat, was driven to desperation one day when he learned that the animal had consumed n favorite red flannel golf coat of his. Determined on the goat's destruction, he employed an unscrupulous small boy who lived in the neighborhood to secure him to the railroad track Just before tlie dally express was due. Some days afterward a friend Inquired with interest of the goat had been effectual* ly disposed of. "Not on your life," was the disgust ed answer; "that goat has a charmed life. Ho coughed up that red golf coat of mlue and flagged the train."? Harper's Weekly. Treatment of Comnmptlon. In consequence o' the discovery by Professor Hchroen that the bacillus of consumption Is not the same as that of tuberculosis, It is held In German medical circles that the present treat ment of consumption will he radically i changed Plants confined within (ln art my able to become Infested with Insects d their eggs. Fumigation with to bacco smoke will clean plants of all 'aphides awl other Insects, but has no effect -in their egg*. Tq fumigate a plant or plcnts, confine thefe In a boat.* under a barrel ar In some fiber way; pit a pan of eoals w#h ??me tobacco j leaves on the ca^ls In with the plant not too near, or the plant will get too hot; give a good smoke. Tills will de stroy all living Insects. In two or three days give another aud you will be rid of insects for some weeks. SlMd* For tw* Swln*. Shade for swine Is quite ss necessary as for other animals, and when one has a tree or two in the pasture the ques tion of shade Is readily settled. If there are no trees plant three or four, and while they are growing use port able houses for shade, making them with a sill set on runners nnd with' a ring set In the front sill so that a horse may be attached and the house moved when necesssry. These houses may be made of any cheap material, aud the roof arranged so that a portion of It ?oay consist of tree limbs laid over boards set far apart. The cost ueed not be great and the results will pay Cor the time aud labor spent. CottoK'Siifid Mm! rtr Con, Dairymen find it difficult to curry the Cows along properly during the drough ty days of summer on pastvre alone. Und all proper grains ?ave been tried %lth varying results. One of the best ?ummer grains Is. cottonseed meal, for While feeding Jt will not materially ig-j crease the milk flow. It will keep It nearly to the standard and wlft keep up Its quality, which is quite as im portant. The feeding of It also makes better butter at all times, and particu larly durl'ig the summer. While, tho J quantity fed varies according to cir cumstances. from two to four pdunds per cow daily is about a fair ration and will give results which will war rant the expense at any season. To Preserve F?nr? Posts. In some sections of the country the division of fields by fences is some thing no longer done, hut the majority of farmers still feel that they should divide their fields. The work involved In fence building is so great that one does not care to do it very often, hence it will pay to go to some trouble to pre serve the posts, these being the parts of the fence wliirh need renewing first. While there nre many preservatives recommended, all of them doubtless more or loss valuable, the old plan of smearing tho end of the post with gas tar Is about as good as any. Of late years a strong solution of copper sul phate has been used for this purpose with considerable success. It takes time and trouble to prepare the fence posts with either preservative, put on as it should lie, but it pays to do it. for the posts will last double the number of years. Hyp or Turnip* After Corn. I have been sowing rye now for two years. I sow it in the cornfield in Sep tember as soon as I can get the corn mi shock, cultivate, then follow witty the grain drill, putting on about two br.sh els of rye to the acre. I-af-t summer I sowed cow-horn turnips in the eo;*n at l;i>t working in .July. Thev made a good growth. Sowed r\ e alongside of the turnips in October. We hauled our manure out 011 the turnips and rye las^ winter. The year before what land I had sowed in rye we manured In the winter. It grew nicely in the spring. We pastured it some, tl.en plowed it down for corn again. It be ing a cold and wet summer the corn was not a larg.* crop. We had a heavy hailstorm a few days before it cam" out in tassel, which put it back. I did not use amy fertilizer when sowing the rye, although I believe it would make a stronger givnvth In the fall. We plowed it under, what stock did not eat. the last week in April and first of May for corn.?.tolln F. Zook, in the Massachusetts IMoughmau. Hhnllow nml Dffp I'lowlnjr. It seems almost needless to urge shal low cultivation for the "layiug by" of the corn crop, yet there are some who still insist upon deep cultivation and ridging for the last time going over corn. The folly of such procedure, however. Is very evident to any think* lug. well posted man. The first culti vation should be deep to stir the sub soil and make room for the roots of the yoiiug plants. The second and possibly the third cultivations may be fairly deep, though not so deep as the first. The last two. It is a settled fact by ex periment throughout the corn belt, should be shallow, not more than two and u half to three InchcR deep. And at this time the ground must be left as level as possible after each cultivation. Tho object Is a mulch for the preserva tion of moisture, and why any thinking farm or should ridge up his corn, break ing the rooto and exposing a third to a hnlf more surface to the sun. is a ques tion yet to be solved. Though the , statement that "corn will take care of ' Itself after being laid by" it in a meas ure true, a constant, watch must be kept lo break the crust forming after any heavy rain to keep the weed* from seeding and to keep the fence* In good repair, preventing damage by cuttle. This In order to have a good crop ut the harvest.?Rural World. Early Flowing for Wlicnt. While all wheat growers recognize \ the necessity for late sowing of wheat to avoid, as far as possible, the rav ages of tin hcMlnn tly, all do not see the necessity for early preparation of the soil. It Is generally believed that much of the loss from winter freezing might be avoided by tho early plowing of the ground for winter wheat. Karly preparation of the seed bed Is easier than late plowing; It gives one a chance to get rid of the weeds more effectively, the seed bed may have one or more extra harrowlngs or rollings and. altogether, put In much better cc dltlou than when the plowing Is done la c. Then, too. should the ground bo not In the best condition at needing time the thorough | preparation previous will count for a what tlr. Phil Graves ? "I'll soon stop J that."?New York Evening Mall. WILFULLY MISl' N DERSTOOD. "They're in reduced circumstances, of course, but their family is a very old one and proud, even if they have lots of debts. They date back to the time of William the Conqueror." "The debts, you mean? I don't doubt that."?Philadelphia Press. THEY WEUE MUCH ALIKE. Wife?"I have about made up my mind, John, that when I married you I married a fool," Husband?"That reminds me of a re mark you made just before we were married. Yon remember that you said It would bo hard to tlnd two people more alike than you and IV"?Buffalo Commercial. FRIENDLY CRITICISM. Amateur Actor (to friend)?"What did you think of my tTamlet, CharleyV" Dear Friend?"Immense! In one part of the play you were equal to Irving-" Amate.ur Actor?"In what part was that, Charley?" Dear Friend?"Where I'olonius gives his parting advice to Lnertes." Amateur Actor?"I was behind the scenes." Detfr Friend?"So is Irving." HE WAS SO SOLICITOUS. "Is your seat comfortable, dear?" lio C*kcd, when they had got settled in the theatre. "Yes, it is very nice." said the wife, smiling pleasantly. "Feel any draught, dear?" "Not n particle." "No big hats in front of you, dear?" "Not one." "No posts in the way?" "No: I'm very comfortable." ' "Then change scats with nie, dear!"? Yonkers Statesman. Sr?gn11 m WrathrrwUf* Bird. The seagull makes a splendid living barometer. If a convoy of seagulls fly seaward early In the morning sail ors and fishermen know that the day will be flue and the wind fair, but if the birds keep Inland?though there be no liazc hanging out toward the sea to denote unpleasant weather?Inter ested folk know that the elements will be unfavorable. In the United Stales the sparrow ha? nix broods a year; In Britain seldom more than three* WIT and HUMOR of THE DAY The r*d? is a noble iird. And ?rin|i it* Might on Inch. Tl?? pigeon is of lowlier moid. But makes a better pie. ?Drowning'* Magazine. A Stickler. "Ym," he Mid. sadly, and there was a tear in his rye. "Yes. m> l^mincaa has driven ine to the wall." And ho went on posting bills. lafonwtlea Fm. Barke?"A man 1s never too old to learn." Benne?"No, he can always find somebody to marry him." Ciuciui>atl Commercial-Tribune. Sabnrlwn Arithmetic. Teacher ? "Now. Johnny. If yonr mother engaged two cooks on Monday, three on Tuesday and four on Wednes day. how many would she have*:" Johnny- "None."?New York Sun. Mummy, Teacher?'"So I've caugl.t you chew ing ;min, have I?" Sn'nniy-"No, mum; 1 wasn't chew in'. I was jest keepin' it there instead of in my pocket. It's so sticky.'--Chi cago Daily News. Morimt. "I came to ask you for your daugh ter." "But she is the only one I have." "Well, I don't want but one. 1 hope you don't take me for a bigamist*" Springfield Journal. He Wlnhril IT* W*a twin*. ' "Oh, dear!" sighed six-year-old ITarry. ""I wish I was twins." "Why:" asked his mother. "So I could send the other half to school while this half went fishing," he replied.?Chicago News. No Restriction on Ilia Liberty. Kctchuin A. Cttniinin?"So your father objects to my calling to see you, does he?" Anna Goe Wynne?"Not at all What he objects to Is my being at home \vhnn 4"ou call."?Chicago Tribune. The lJctort Conrtfon*. Giffle?"Hi. old man! My, but you are a sixlit! Ilow'd you ge-l all the skin rubbed oft the eiul of your nose*:"* Spinks (with hauteuri?'"Not by nuk ing it into other people's business. 1 can tell you that!"? Philadelphia Bul letin. Sufficient to tlie Day. "I'm told you play golf on the Sab bath." said the Rev. Mr. Goodman, sternly "Yes," replied Miss Kute, "but on that day I only use the sticks I won at our church fair." -Philadelphia Press; Tlie On?? Thing:. "Garden truck in exchange for a sub scription? Xo. sir." said the editor. "There's only one thing we'll be will ing to have you take out in trade." "What's that?" "Your paekethook." ? Philadelphia Public Ledger. (?rnnn Ih*** Fear. Choily?"1 did think of yoing in i'nir i politics, but I was a fwaid I wouldn't ! know just how to uveal uiy infewiahs, don't y' know?" Pepprey?"Your inferiors? Oh, you wouldn't be likely to meet any ?>f them."?Philadelphia Ne?? s. Not All of Thorn. "Does he advertise all Hie eoniiVris ol' home':" iiuiuired Mr. Tiredout. | "No," replied Mrs. Tiredout, "the ad vertisement simply saj*s, 'No mothers in-law. cross cooks, or crying babies.' "i "We'll g<>," asserted Mr. Tiredout, emphatically.?Philadelphia Bulletin. Not SnperatlllnMP. NO _ 1 SV10KIW, , "Can't you rend?" "Yes, but I don't believe in signs."? The Moon. Not Salturiiflnrjr, Mr?, Bneklol/.?"So your servant girl bus left you again?" Mrs. Subbubs?"Yes." Mrs. Backlotz?"What war the mat ter';" Mr*. Subbubs--"She didn't like the wuy I did her work." - Philadelphia PiTSS. Another Khh Story. "So you were out in St. Louis?" said '.he postmaster. "Did you net* the big pike?" "To be sure." drawled the village fabricator; then, after a pause, "but it wasn't one Inch bigger than the piko I caught In Hurley's mil', poud last summer."?Chicago News. Tatd In til* Kxtreinetim. Mr. Tyte-l'hlHt?"They tried to work me for a campaign contribution this morning, and I answered them with a level-headed 'no!'" Mrs. Tyte-Phlst?'"And when I try to work you for a contribution for house hold expenses you answer me with a flat-footed 'no!' "?Chicago Tribune. Hunt I.inrft. "floodmnn's in a bad way. Tie's got such a sore throat he can't talk and?" "I saw him on the street to-day and he seems to have a black eye, too." "That's Just It. Not being able to use his voice he can't explain to people that he got the black eye in a perfect ly Innocent way."?Philadelphia Preta, FARM TOPICS. LONG BOWS. Long rows save labor, lu au ex periment niuv> with corn, in which th? rows were 110 rod* Ions, the Held being about one-third a* wide. a comparison; was made with shorter rows, a saving of fifty per cent, in labor being effected by cultivating with long rows. TO DRY HERBS. They should be picked just befora the plant blossoms; wash them, to frea them from dust. Place them on a sieve to drain. Then dry perfectly, rub them from the stalks, put them In glass jars and cover closely.?E. L. Bates, in The Epltomlst. EATING FEAT 11 BUS. Fowls eat feathers for a similar rea son to that which Impels cows or horses to eat bones or such things. This unnatural appetite is due to the want of proper nutrltiou. either from indigestion or from an insnllicient sup. ply of proper food. Feathers contain a large proportion of sulphur and ni trogen, and unless these are supplied in the food the natural instinct of the animal, by which the required nutri ment is selected. Impels it to eat feath ers to supply its needs. Some chopped meat, broken bones, chopped cabbage, rape or mustard seed and turnips con tain the necessary nutriment for tbo growth of the plumage, and with a regular supply of these, in addition to the usual grains, there wdl be no in ducement to the fowls to eat feathers. SMOOTHING HARROW. Take a log the length of harrow, split In two and attach each end of It to a harrow, as fVortrayed by m?aus o< a "loiit wlronhoul six foot long, placing flic o>al side of the lot* down. Such an Implement works well in smoothing the surface after the harrow.?Mrs c Carpenter, In The Kpltoinist. TUB COMBS ANI> THE IU(KR|>S. TT.e comb is one of the main p0,?ts to observe in a breed. One of ibo surest Indications that a breed in not pure Is when the comb peculiar to it Is not what Is required. Bralimas have pea combs; (hat is, a large comb with n smaller one on each side, making three combs, the whole resembling an open pea pod containing peas. The Leghorns, Mlnorcas. Plymouth Rocks, Langshans, Javas ami Cochins have straight, single combs, with points. 'e 1 Inmburgs, Wyandoltes and oth ers have rose combs, whieh somewhat resemble a rose. To attempt to de scribe the combs in detail would de mand a full description of each breed but It is important, when procuring a breed, to be sure that the comb is cor rect. for if not so, there is a probability of a cross or some Impurity. As with cattle, sheep and swine, all the breeds of poultry are bred to a standard to which they must strictly adhere or thev will be at a disadvantage in the show rooms. PRKVENTIN