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IIKENSIBE MRS. MARY Aatkr of "ton IVane," "Th( Enfllih OrpMnn "Mcalowkrook," " Ictnpcit and CHAPTER V. (Continued.) Conducting him through the wide, mar mled hall, she ushered him into the draw dng room, where for a time he stood per fectly bewildered. It was his first intro duction to rosewood, velvet, and broca helle, and it seemed to him as if he bin suddenly been transported to fairyland ille saw the silk chairs, slyly touching on 'to see if it did feel like the pored, peach 'blossom dress worn by his wife forty-two ;5e.irs ago that very spring. Then lie tried one of them, examined the rare or laments, and came near bowing to the portrait of the first Mrs. Remington, so natural and lifelike it looked staudiug out from the canvas. "This will last Maddy a week. I thank you, ma'am. You have added some con siderable to the happiness of a young fir I, who wouldn't disgrace even such n room as this," he said, as he passed into the hall. Mrs. Xoah received his thanks gracious ly, and led him to the yard, where Sorrel stood waiting for him. Driving at a brisk trot through the grounds. Sorrel was soon "but upon the highway; and with spirits exhilarated by thoughts of going home, he kept up the trot until, turning a sudden corner, his master saw the carriage from Aikenside approaching at a rapid rate. The driver, Paul, saw him, too, but scorning to give half the road to such as Sorrel and the square-boxed wagon, he kept steadily on, while Grandpa Markham. determined to speak with Guy, reined his horse a little nearer, raising his hand in taken that the negro should stop. As a natural consequence, the wheels of the two vehi cles became interfocked, and as the pow erful grays were more than a match for Sorrel, the front wheel of Grandpa Mark ham's wagon was wrenched off, and the old man precipitated to the ground, whica. fortunately for him, vJ-s in that locality covered with sand banks, so that he was ' only stunned for an instant, and thus failed to hear the insolent negro's re mark : "Served you right, old cove ; might of turned out for gentlemen." Neither did he see the sudden flashing of Guy Remington's eye, as, leaping from his carriage, he seized the astonished African by the collar, and, hurling him from the box demanded what he meant by serving an old man so shameful a trick and then insulting him. All apology and regret the cringing driver tried to make some excuse but Guy 6topped him short telling him to see how much the wagon was damaged while he ran to the old man who had recovered from the first shock and was trying to extricate himself from the folds of his camlet cloak. Nearby was a blacksmith's shop and thither Guy ordered his driver to take the broken-down wagon with a view to getting it repaired, i "Tell him I want it done at once," he said, authoritatively, as if he well knew his name carried weight with it ; then, turning to grandpa, he asked again if he were hurt. '"No, not specially jolted my old bones some. Ypu are very kind, sir," grandpa replied, brushing the dust from his pantaloons and then involuntarily grasping Guy's arm for support, as his weak knees began to tremble from the effects of excitement and fright. ' 'That darky shall rue this job," Guy said, savagely, as he gazed pityingly upon the shaky old creature beside him. "I'll discharge him to-morrow." "No, young man. Don't be rash, ne'll never do't again; and sprigs like him think they've a right to make fun of old codgers like me," was grandpa's meek expostulation. "I was just up to Aiken- eide to see Squire Guy, and " "What did you say? You have been o Aikenside to see me?" "Yes, and I was sorry to miss you. I I it makes me feel awkward to tell you, but I wanted to borrow some money, end I didn't know nobody as likely to have It as you. That woman up to your house said she knowed you wouldn't let me have it, 'cause you hadn't it to spare.' Mebby you haven't," and grandpa waited anxiously for Guy's reply. Now, Mrs. Noah had a singular influ ence over her young master, who was in I the habit of consulting ner witn regard to Lis affairs, and nothing could have been more unpropitious to the success of grandpa's suit than the knowing she dis approved. Beside this, Guy had only the previous week lost a small amount loaned under similar circumstances. Standing 6ilent for a moment, while he buried and reburied his shining patent leather boots in the hills of sand, he said at last : "Candidly, sir, I don't believe I can ac commodate you. I am about to make repairs at Aikenside, and have partially promised to loan money on good security to a Mr. Silas Slocum, who, 'if things work right,' as he expressed it, intends building a mill on some property which Las come, or is coming, into his hands." "That's mine that's mine, my home stead," gasped grandpa, turning white al most as his hair blowing in the April wind. "There's a stream of water on it, and he says if he forecloses and gets it he shall build a mill, and tear our old bouse down." Guy was in a dilemma. He had not asked how much Mr. Markham wanted, anu as the latter had not told him, he naturally concluded it a much larger sum than it really was, and did not care just then to lend it. "I'll tell you what I'll do," he said, after a little. "I'll drop Slocum a note to-night 6aying I've changed my mind, and shall not let him have the momy. Perhaps then he won't be so anxious to foreclose, and will give you time to look among your friends." Guy laid a little emphasis on that last word, and looking up quickly, grandpa was about to say : "I'm not so much a stranger as you think. I knew your fath er well," but he checked Limself with the thought: "No, that will be too much like begging pay for a deed of mercy done years ago." So Guy never suspected that the old mn before him had once laid his sire under a debt of gratitude. The mora ha rflectd Um Um inclined ba was BY J. HOLMES " "Hoir'cl u Ibe Mlll4k," "Ln Riven." Jnosbiue," "Couilo Maude," etc. to lend the money, and as grandpa was too timid to urge his needs, the result was that when at Inst the wheel was re placed, and Sorrel again trotting on to ward Devonshire, he drew after him a sad, heavy heart. Maddy's disappointment wag keener than his own, and so after the Borrowful words, "and I failed, too," he beut him self to comfort the poor child, who, lean ing her throbbing head against his shoul der, sobbed bitterly, as In the soft spring twilight they drove back to the low red cottage where grandma waited for them. CHAPTER VI. It was Farmer Green's new buggy and Farmer Green's tny colt which, three days later than this, stopped before Dr. Ilolbrook's office. Not the square-boxed wagon, with old Sorrel attached ; the former was standing quietly in the chip- yard behind the low red house, while the atter, with his nose over the barnyard fence, neighed occasionally, as if he miss ed the little hands which had daily fed him the oatmeal he liked so much, and which now lay hot and parched and help less upon the white counterpane Grand ma Markham had spun and woven her self. Maddy might have been just as sick as she was if the examination had never occurred, but it was natural for those who loved her to impute it all to the effects of excitement and cruel disap pointment, so there was something like in dignation mingling with the sorrow gnaw ing at the hearts of the old couple as they watched by their fever-stricken darl ing. Farmer Green, too, shared the feel ing, and numerous at first were his men tal animadversions against that "prig of a Holbrook." But when Maddy grew so bad as not to know him or his wife, he laid aside his prejudices and suggested to Grandpa Markham that Dr. Holbrook be sent for. "He's great on fevers," he said, "and is good on curin' sick folks," so, though he would have preferred someone else should have been called, confidence in the young doctor's skill won the day, and grandpa consented. This, then, was the errand of Farmer Green, and with his usual Wuntness he said to the recreant doctor, who chanced to be at home : "Wall, you nigh about killed our little Madge t'other day, when you refused the stiffcut, and now we want you to cure her." The doctor looked up in surprise, but Farmer Green soon explained his mean- making out a most aggravated case, and representing Maddy as wild with de lirium. Maddy's case lost nothing by Mr. Green's account, and by the time the doc tor's horse was ready, and he on his way to the cottage, he had arrived at the con clusion that of all the villainous men out- ide the walls of the State's prison, lie was the most villainous, and Guy Rem ington next. What a cozy little chamber it was where Maddy lay, just such a room as a irl like her might be supposed to occu py, and the bachelor doctor felt like treading upon forbidden ground as he en tered the room so rife with girlish hab its, from the fairy slippers hung on a peg, to the fanciful little workbox made of cones and acorns. Maddy was asleep, nd sitting down beside her he asked that the shawl which had been pinned across the window might be removed so that he could see her, and thus judge better of her condition. "Feel her pulse, doctor ; they are fast er 'most than you can count," Grandma Markham whispered ; and thus entreated, the doctor took the soft hand in his own, its touch sending through his frame a thrill such as the touch of no other hand had ever sent. Somehow the act reassured him. All fear of Maddy vanished, leaving behind only an intense desire to help, if possi ble, the young girl whose fingers seemed to cling around his own as he felt for and found the rapid pulse. "If she would awaken," he said, laying the hand softly down and placing " his other upon, her forehead, where the great sweat-drops lay. Guy was a fool and was a brute," the doctor muttered, as he folded up the bits of paper whose con tents he hoped might do much toward saving Maddy's life. When next morning the doctor came, there was a look of deep anxiety upon his face as he watched the alarming symptoms of his delirious patient, who talked incessantly, not of the examination now, but of the mortgage and the fore closure, begging the doctor to see that the house was not sold, to tell them she was earning thirty-six dollars by teaching school, that Beauty -would be sold to save their dear old home. All this was strange at first to the doctor, but the rather vol uble Mrs. Green, who had come to Grand ma Markham's, relief, enlightened him, dwelling with a kind of malicious pleas ure upon the fact that Maddy's earnings had she been permitted to get a "stiffi cut," were to be appropriated toward pay ing the debt. If the doctor had hated himself the pre vious day when he rode from the red cot tage gate, he bated himself doubly now as he went dashing down the road, de termined to resign his office of school in spector that very day. And he did. Summoning around him those who had been most active in electing him, he re fused to officiate again, assuring them that If any more candidates came he should either turn them from his door or give them a certificate without asking a question. "Put anybody you like in my place," he said ; "anybody but Guy Remington." There was no probability of this, as Guy lived in another town, and could not have officiated had he wished. But the doctor was too much excited to rea son upon anything nave Madeline Clyde's case. That he perfectly understood ; and during the next few weeks his other pa tients waited many times In vain for his coming, while he sat by Maddy's aide watching every change, whether for the worse or better. Even Agnes Iteming ton was totally neglected; mid so one day she sent Guy down to Devonshire to say that as Jessie seemed more tbau usu ally delicate, she wished the doctor to take her under his charge and visit her at least once a week. The doctor was not at home, but Tom said he expected him every moment. So seatiug himself in the armchair, Guy waited uutil ho came. "Well, Hal," he began, jocosely, but the joking words he would have uttered next died on his lips as he noticed the strange look of excitement and aniiety on the doctor's face. "What is It?" he asked. "Are all your patients dead?" "Guy," and the doctor camo closely to him, whisperiug huskily, "you and I are murderers in the first degree. Yes; aud both deserve to be hung. Do you remem ber that .Madeline Clyde whom you in suited with your logic aud Latin verba? She'd set her heart oil that certificate. She wanted the money, not for new gowns and fooleries, mind, but to help her old grandfather pay his debts. His place is mortgaged. I don't understand It; but he asked some old hunks to lend him the money, and the miserly rascal, whoever he was, refused. 1 wish I had it. I'd give it to him out and out. But that's nothing to do with the girl Maddy, they call her. The disappointment killed her, and she is dying and keeps talking of that confounded examination. I tell you, Guy, my inward parts get terribly mixed up when I hear her talk, and my heart thumps like a trip-hammer. That's the reason I have not been up to Aikenside. I wouldn't leave Maddy so long as there was hope. I did not tell them this morn ing. I couldn't make that poor couple feel worse than they are feeling; but when I looked at her tossing from side to side and picking at the bedclothes, I knew it would soon be over that when I saw her again the poor little arms would be still enough and the bright eyes shut forever. Guy, I couldn't see her die I don't like to see anybody die, but her, Maddy, of all others and so I came away. If you stay long enough, you'll hear the bell toll, I reckon. There ia none at Honedale church, which they at tend. They are Episcopalians, you see, and so they'll come up here aybe. I hope I shall be deafer than an adder." Here the doctor stopped, wholly out of breath, while Guy for a moment sat with out speaking a single word. , Jessie, in his hearing, had told her mother what the sick girl in the doctor's office had said about being poor and wanting the money for grandpa, while Mrs. Noah had given him a rather exaggerated account of Mr. Markham's visit; but he had not associated the two together until now, when he saw the whole, and almost as much as the doctor himself regretted the part he had had in Maddy's illness and her grandfather's distress. "Doc," he said, laying his hand on the doctor's arm, "I am that old hunks, the miserly rascal who refused the money. I met the old man going home that day, and he asked me for help. You say tha place must be sold. It never shall, never. I'll see to that, and you must save the girl." "I can't, Guy. I've done all I can, and now, if she lives, it will be wholly owing to the prayers of that old saint of a grandfather says for her. I never thought much of these things until I heard him pray ; not that she should live anyway, but that, if it were right, Maddy might not die. Guy, there's something in such a prayer as that. It's more pow erful than all my medicine swallowed at one grand gulp." Guy didn't know very much about praying then, and so he did not respond, but he thought of Lucy Atherstone, whose life was one hymn of prayer and praise, and he wished she could know of Maddy, and join her petitions with those of the grandfather. Staging suddenly from his chair, he exclaimed, "I am gong down there. It will look queerly, too, to- go alone. Ah, I have it! I'll drive back to Aikenside for Jessie, who has talked so much of the girl that her lady mother, forgetting that she was once a teacher, la disgusted." (To be continued.) Salton Sea 'ot a Boon. One of the weather bureau experts In AVashiugton, Professor Alfred J. Henry, has given a black eye to the widely prevalent belief that evapora tion from the Saltou sea accounts for the remarkably heavy rainfall in Ari zona during the greater part of the last two years, says the New York Trib une. He calls attention to the fact that the downpour really began about three months before there was any serious inundation of southern California from the Colorado and then says that the excess above the normal preHpitatloa throughout the territory in 1005 repre sents a volume of water twelve times as groat as that which accumulated in the Salton basin. Clever Scheme. "My new play is sure to make a hit," said the popular actress. "It gives me an opiortunity to display twenty new gowns." "My!" exclaimed her friend. "How many acts?" "Only four, but In one of them the scene is at the dressmaker's." Catholic Standard and Times. What He Feared. "Miss Passay asked Charlie Dunno If I bad any engagement Thursday night And Charlie, without thinking, said he was sure I hadn't any." "What do you fear?" "I feel almost certain she means to Invite me to one of those card parties where they play alleged bridge," Cleveland Plain Dealer. Had Told the Troth. "I thought you said llargous had a big family?" "He- has." "Why, he told me that be bad only one child a daughter." "Yes. She weighs about 225 pounds, and bis wife could fill a Job as fat lady In almost any museum." Chicago Reo ord Herald. New York City has 3,115 acres of land In cemeteries enough to bury 1 the dead of the city for ISO yean, Ilnndr Home-Maile Tool. All growers of blackberries aud rasp berries know that one of the most dls agreeable Jot of the sen son Is the cut ting out of the old canes on the plants of these fields. Tb easiest way of do ing this work Is to use a sharp tool of some kind so arranged that the operat or may stand upright and work. The tool illustrated may be readily made by any hnndy ninn, and will do the work required quite as effectually as a more expensive tool. Take the handle from a worn-out shovel or fork and have the black smith attach to It the end of an old scythe blade or, If one lias no blade of this kind, the blacksmith can fashion one from old scraps that he may have at small expense. Have this blade fas TOOL FOB BEKKT OSOWEIL tenod to the handle In the manner shown In the cut, and when working among the canes of the berry bushes use It in the way illustrated. This tool will be found extremely handy for this sort of pruning any where on the farm. It will work quite well for cutting out suckers in the or chard as In the berry row. If the canes are quite tall a straight handle may be attached to the blade so that one may have it of any desired length. Such a tool costs but little, and if one has a considerable area In berry plants It rill pay to have several tools made. Beans. "Beans" is the title of a recent farm ers bulletin, by Professor Corbett, the well-known horticulturist of the United States Department of Agriculture. Beans belong to one of the most Impor tant families of economic plants with which man has to deal that of le gumes. The bean furnishes food for both man and and beast, and at the same time increases the fertility of the soil. It Is, therefore, an Impor tant crop, both In farm rotation and In market garden work. The new bul letin treats fairly of its cultivation, care and use. Professor Wlaneko, of Purdue Expe riment Station, has Just issued an In teresting bulletin on soy beans, cow peas and other forage crops. The cul ture of cow peas and soy beans Is be coming Important with many farmers, as they make good forage crops and at the same time add fertility to the soil. They belong to the legumes, and the cost of producing Is about the same as for corn, while their- food value com pares very favorably with corn. Sev eral other classes of forage plants are described In the bulletin. To Paatenrlse Milk. Pasteurizing milk Is a very simple process, the operator to be careful of the temperature, however, which is very Important When milk Is boiled the natural flavor Is destroyed, and some persons object to it. Milk Is also Injured to a certain extent by boiling. To Pastuerlze milk, procure long necked bottle, which must be scrupu lously rlean; pour In the milk and plug the tops with cotton wool, which ex cludes all germs. Place the bottles In a deep pan or other vessel and heat to a temperature of 158 degrees, using a thermometer. If the temperature reach es 100 degrees the milk will have the odor of being boiled. Keep the milk heated for half an hour. The cot ton stoppers need not be removed un til the milk is desired for use. The bottles containing the milk may lo placed In a refrigerator or some cool receptacle. Milk so prepared can be kept for two or three days. To sterilize milk It must be boiled, hence Pasteu rization Is a different process. Ponltrjr. A careful observer of poultry needs no better sign of Its condition than to watch the comb. A bright red comb shows that the hen or male Is healthy and vigorous, and If a hen, she will probably be a good layer. After the egg supply has failed the comb will generally lose Its color. In cold weath er fowls with large combs must have extra warm quarters, as they are very easily frozen. It Is frozen combs more often than anything else that makes Leghorns and Mlnorcas poor winter layers. As their names Imply, they are natives of warm climates, as. Indeed, most fowls are. They very rarely get Into as warm quarters In winter as they could find anywhere In the coun tries where they had their original Home. 1 Bee Keeping. A cellar Is a good place to keep bees. bat. If sheltered from the winds and exposed to the sun, a strong colon will do well out of doors. Shredded Stover. For winter feeding of stock animals this ninkea one of the finest feeds on the farm. The modern husking and shredding machinery does excellent work, nnd Its mau-eating proclivities have been largely eliminated. An or dinary threshing machine can be made to do good shredding, but the grain Is not left In the best condition. The greatest drawback In the use of both busker and thresher Is that they re quire a large force of men and teams, hence the work Is quite expensive. Perhaps the cheapest corn husking Is done with the little old husking peg. But It Is almost Impossible to feed long stover without considerable waste, and the refuse stalks are a nuisance when It comes to handling the manure. These difficulties may be overcome by running the handhusked stover through a com mon cutter and shredder. This work can trsually be done without employing much. If any outside help. In case ev erything Is hired, the cost of the work, added to that of hand-husklng and put ting of the corn and stover In crib and mow or stack may equal or even exceed the expense of machine husking and shredding. This is a point for each to decide from his own standpoint Agri cultural Epltomist Composition of Crop. A bulletin of the Minnesota Experv ment Station discusses the composition and characteristics of the more common farm crops, as alfalfa, clover, peas, rape, corn fodder, timothy, millet, etc. Is connection with the composition of some of the crops the protein con tent of the seed la -considered. In the case of clover, alfalfa, peas, beans and rape two distinct types of seed are shown to recur, one of high and the other of low protein content, and the relationship of the physical character itle of the seeds to the chemical coin- position Is noted. The larger protein content of the seed Is considered as a possible factor In the production of for age crops of high nutritive value. The quality of the forage In live-stock feed lng Is of great importance, because by the use of more concentrated nitroge nous forage rations can be prepared requiring smaller amounts of grains and milled products. The result is a material financial saving of stock. Hovr to Save Steps. In spite of the extensive development and use of corn harvesting machinery the fact remains that much corn is still cut by hand. Therefore the ac companying ske'tch recently sent to the New England Homes ted by a reader will prove of Interest He has figured out that If the plan outlined is followed a sixty-four hill shock, or stook, of corn can be cut at a minimum number of steps. The cir cle In. the center represent the four hills tied together or between which the shock Is built. After the founda tion for the shock is ready the man goes to No. 1 and cuts in the direction f-h r J7-....; ! I ( i ry--- -0 .... tp if : i i ; - - -ru fj) fa iy ', O O --- P it- V o O 0 h.-to 0 0 "-, --- -i t m it- it g . -.... rs ! ' ! ' tr---V r Mo Q .. ft...7 CUTTING A SHOCK OF OOB"T. of the numbers until he reaches No. 8. After placing his armful In the shock he begins at No. 9 and cuts to No. 10 again depositing his load and continu ing the operation In the way the hills are numbered until the shock Is com pleted. It will be noted that In addi tion to saving steps this plan brings the cutter near the shock with his heav iest load, or when his arm la full of corn. Fruit from Seed. It Is doubtful If there Is any kind ot fruit that will come strictly true to va riety when grown from seed, as there Is a tendency to deviate from the orig inal. One may secure something supe rior or the fruit may revert bnck to some undesirable kind. It Is a slow and uncertain process. Chestnuts may be grafted when 1 year old. The nuts are usually placed In the ground In rows, 0 Inches deep, early In the Rprlng or Inte In the fall, hilling over them If In the fall, and uncovering In the spring. They are very unreliable In germinating nnd prefer a sandy loam. The European varieties are larger than the native. The native chestnuts vary greatly, no two trees producing nuts exactly alike In size, flavor, etc. The foreign varieties are grafted on the American stocks. Trees grown from American nuts can not be depended upon for quality of product A Peaceful Bee. Beehives on every front porch, giv ing each family a supply of delicious honey close at hand, while at the same time the bees will Inculcate their les son of Industry, are a possibility, for the Department of Agriculture has snc ceeded In Importing from abroad what may be termed a peaceful bee, which finds our fickle climate to Its liking. The newcomer Is known as the Cau casian bee. The name Is derived from Its native locality, and is emphasized by habits of life which rank It distinct ly as the white man's bee. It is civil ized, dignified and high-toned. It rushes with reluctance into anything that smacks of warfare, having. In place of the belligerent Instincts of others of Its class, a predisposition to arbitration. "His eyes seemed glued to my every movement" "Yes? That's n sign that he's stuck on you." "Are you married r "Yep." "Are you happy?" "Didn't I Just tell you I was married?" Houston Post "Papa, Is a frog fish or an animal?' "Yea! Now run out and play and give me a chance to read my paper." "I was one of those saved In that terrible wreck." "How did you es cape?" "I changed my mind at the last minute and took another train." "Yes; it was hard luck. He fell In love with her at first sight, bought a fifty-trip ticket and was refused on his second visit" Browning's Magazine. Little Willie What is Joy, pa? Pa Joy, my son, Is the peculiar feeling experienced by the man who counts his money and finds more than he expect ed. Chicago News. Mother What's the matter, Joseph ine? Josephine Lolo hurt me. Mother How? Josephine I went to hit him on the head and he dodged me and I banged my hand against the wall. "Did you get home before the storm broke last night?" asked the first club man. "Of course," replied the other. "The storm never breaks at my house until I get home." Philadelphia Press. Dicky Your dad always goes to sleep In church. Georgey My dad has a right to go to sleep in church, If he waats to. He gives more to the preach er than any other man In the congre gation. Examiner (to medical student) Now let us take appendicitis. On what grounds should you decide that an Im mediate operation was necessary. Med ical Student On the financial condi tion of the patient Towne I understood you to call Mrs. Iiownder a widow, but her hus band Is living. Browne Oh, yes ; she's what you might call a "club widow;" she's a woman who has a late hus band. Philadelphia Press. Inquisitive Acquaintance Have you ever thought what you would do If your gas bag should collapse while you were half a mile or more up In tlio air? Daring Aeronaut Often, I should start at once for terra flrma by the shortest possible route. "From the grammatical standpoint," said the fair maid with the lofty fore head, "which do you consider correct, 'I had rather go home or 'I would rather go home? Neither," prompt ly responded the young man. "I'd much rather stay here." Answers. "So you quit smoking because she asked you to?" said the youth with the clamshell cap. "Yes," answered the lad with the turned up trousers." "And then?" "Then she went "Walking with a man who smoked a pipe, because she said It kept away mosquitoes." Wash ington Star. A prominent society women told her butler to tell all visitors that she was not at home. At night, when enumer ating the persons who had called dur ing the day, he mentioned the lady's sister, when his mistress exclaimed: "I told you, man, that I was always at home for my sister! You ought to have shown her in." Next day the lady went out to make a few calls and during her absence her sister came to the house. "Is your mistress at home? she asked the butler. "Yes, madam. was the reply. The lady looked every where for her sister. She said to tho butler: "My sister must have gone out, for I cannot find her." "Yes, madam, she has gone out, but she told me last -night that she was always at home to you." Philadelphia Itecord. IlroiiKBt to Term. In the Drayton household It Is said that the father of the family has a way of presenting alternatives to his children that never fails to bring them Into line. "I wish you would speak to Bobby," ' said Mrs. Drayton one night "I've told him to take his medicine and then jump Into bed, and he won't do It. He Just hops round, and says he doesn't want to take the medicine and he doesn't want to go to ted !" Mr. Drayton stopped to the door of Bobby's room, and stood there, tall, grace and Impressive. "Bobby," he said, firmly, "If you don't take your ni(dielne at once and then Jump into lod, you will be put to bed, do you hear me, put to led, without having your medicine at all!" Upon which Bobby, alarmed and con-, fused, swallowed his alloted portion and meekly retired for the night Why SafeJjr 3Iatehe Strike on Glaaa. There are two reasons why ordinary safety matches can be struck oh. smooth glass. The head of the safety match Is composed of a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of pot assium and powdered glass. A com paratively small Increase of tempera ture will cause this to Ignite. Now, r'ass Is a bad conductor of heat, and the rapid passage of the substance over It raises the temperature of that suostance sufficiently for that purpose. When the glass Is rough the friction crumbles away the loosely combined mixture before the temperature rises to the point of Ignition; hence, given the composition of the match head, Ibe two circumstances which answer the question are the comparative smooth ness of the glass and Us Imperfect con ductivity of heat Some men would rather take a whip, ping than take a dare. v