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vi AVTxrmr.
I want t go irhere the leaves are bum
In, ( Burning in scarlet and cold;
The wind is up and my heart ia turning
Again to-the forest old. . M
I want to go where the leave keep drop
ping. .
Dropping in crimson and brown.
From dawn till dusk, not a moment stop
ping,
They are drifting, drifting down.
I want to go where the leaves are blow
ing,
Blowing in russet and red ;
The brook, like a voice, through the si
lence flowing,
Still whispers of summer dead.
Xet, why go back where the leaves are
falling,
Falling again on the bill?
Though woods await and the winds are
calling,
Thy voice is forever still.
Ainslee's Magazine.
The Chance that Game
The man collapsed into a chair bo
fore his desk. In a comer of the room
the ticker was clicking out Its mes
sage, but he paid no heed to it From
the1 streets outside came men's voices
uplifted In mingled despair and rage.
Tlnogtnorton street was like pande
monium. Men seemed to have lost
their reason. Many were shouting in
vectlves against this man who sat alone
In his empty offices. People did not
know that he was here. Some declared
he had bolted from the country; oth
ers were equally positive he would
stay and face the music. These last
had Judged his character accurately.
The schemes which that wonderful
Onanclal genius had built up, and In
which the public had placed confidence
flnd'thel'" money, had fallen to the
ground In one fatal hour. Perhaps
there was hardly a soul In London who
would have believed It, yet the fact re
mained that Reuben Stern was himself
leggared.
He left his office, passed from the
place which had seen his triumphs, and
finally reached the West End. Enter
lug one of the fashionable streets In
Mnyfalr, he paused before a house.
Then, setting his mouth a little more
grimly,- he walked up the stops, and,
ringing the bell, asked to Bee Ludy
Oertrude KIngsley.
She detected at once the anxiety In
Lis eyes, and came hurriedly forward.
"Reuben !" she exclaimed. "What la
wrong V
"What Is It?" she questioned again.
"Tell me at once, please!"
"I am ruined!"
He spoke the words with a dull, life
less tone, and watched her face. Tho
color died away from It. The sweet
mouth ruddenly hardened. The eyes
lost their softness. Every feature
stiffened. She glanced nt him In amaze
ment.
'Ruined !" she murmured. "Whut do
you mean?"
"My plans have all miscarried. All
that yesterday was mine I have lost,
except the most precious thing of all.
nd that Is your love!"
She laughed hardly.
"L'o you think me a sentimental
schoolgirl? Wus It likely that I
uliould love a niiin who sprang from ob
scurity, from nothing? Let me be frank
ytrtftn f!t iii lh u hau r. My sisters have,
luosr or uiciii, married wen. I lueau
to uinrry a rich man. I would have
preferred a man of good family ; but
when you proposed you were too good
n match for nit to refuse. As for love,
am I the woman, do you suppose, who
would let lovo Influence her? I would
have made you an excellent wife, I
have no doubt. I should have liked to
be the mistress of a great London
house. I wanted to entertain, to be a
woman of real Importance In my world.
And you led me to Imagine that every
nmliltlous social dream of mine should
ee realized." She paused for a mo
ment, and then went on In a low, chok
ing voice: "And now you have the
audacity to ask mo to share your pov
erty I"
Her gaze was pitiless In Its cold
cess. A quiver of rage shook her. Her
restless hands were tearing at the
Bowers lu her bosom. She was suffer
ing an agony of disappointment. She
had felt so secure; had gloried In the
anticipated social triumph which this
man's money was to purchase for her;
had eveu boasted of the future among
tier own set, and of the rich gifts It
would hold for her. And now to see
every promise it had contained melted
away.
"Will you please go now?" she said.
Tho Atlantic liner was plowing Its
svift passage through the sea on Its
homeward way to England. The day
was brilliantly fine, and the smoke
tlnit rose lu a floating column from
the steamer's funnels was the only
d.uli patch against the cloudless sum
mer sky. Two people were slowly
inning the upper deck a man and a
woman. The former was Reuben Stern.
He had altered a great deal since that
time, four years ago, when his failure
had caused a sensation In the financial
world.
Inning the oillclal Investigation of
bis bankruptcy he had remained In
England; but this concluded, he sailed
at once for the I'nlted States. And
ti. tin so four years, commencing at the
bolti m again, be had regained a cer
tain standing among the minor finan
ciers of that couutry.
But the longing to return to Eng
land had conn over him, and, badly In
need of a rest, he had decided to go
there on a brief i?J Jay. Ills conipan
Ion was a woman whose acquaintance
he had formed some weeks back at a
mutual friend's house. I wag with a
certain degree of pleasure that he had
learned she was also going to England
by the same boat.
"l'o morrow, I suppose, we shall say
good-by, Mrs. Poole," he remarked to
her now. "I trust, if you are staying
In London, you will let me call on
you, or do you any service that la pos
sible?" "You can do me a service," she re
sponded, quietly, "If you will. And
that Is, help me find some one some
one who, I am convinced. Is hidden In
that great wilderness of a city, and
whom I have come here to seek."
If it Is possible," he said, "you may
rely upon my doing my best. But you
had better give me your confidence."
"There is little to tell," she an
swered. "I am that despised thine
a deserted wife ! Ms husband left me.
We had shared three bitter years to
gether, and then, without a word, he
went away."
"And you want to find him ; you care
for him still?"
"Oh, no but, yes, I do want to find
him. He treated me as badly as a
man can treat a woman. And yet 1
must find him !"
"And what is your Idea as to the
cause of his disappearance?"
She paused some moments.
"It seems a strange fancy," she said,
at last. "But what I believe is this:
He left England under a cloud. In
America he continued the same reckless
folly. He married me for love, as I
thought; but it was merely that
might act as decoy to a gambling den
which he secretly ran. Our final quar-
rel arose from my objection to this in
famy."
-ism wunr snail you do, even
though you find htm? You would sure
ly never live with lilin again, If he
treated you so shamefully?"
"Not for the world!" she said, with
a faint shudder. And yet I must find
hi ni. It has become the fixed purpose
of my life. Some money was left me
a few months ago, and this enabled me
to Mart upon my humiliating quest.
Until then I was poor. I had to work
hard for a scanty living."
He looked at her keenly.
"I believe," he said, "that you must
care for him still."
She shook her head once more.
"It would cost me hardly a pang to
hear that he was dead," she replied
'And yet I must find him. Perhaps
peoples pity has galled my pride, and
made me determine that my husband
should acknowledge me as his wife un
der his right name, although we should
never be more to each other than mu
tual bearers of that name."
'ou are a woman whom most men
would be proud to call their wife," Be
answered,- seriously.
When they reached Loudon Mrs.
Poole gave him all the knowledge she
possessed of her missing husband. The
tails were meager enough, and (-he
hadn't even a photograph to aid them.
Stern found that he possessed aptitude
for detect he work; but profitless weeks
passul by.
One afternoon, however, he received
telegram from Mrs. Poole: "My
search Is at an end!" He went at once
to her rooms.
'We met face to face In London yes
terday." she said. "For a moment he
tried to deny me; but, seeing It was
useless, be hurriedly promised, upon
my glvlii(r hint my address, to let ine
hear from hi in to-day. He would not
let me detain him., but broke away
from me lu a few uionents. I was
helpless."
"What shall you do If he does not
write?"
But she did not answer him. Her
eyes were staring strangely nt an even
ing paper which be held In his hands.
Some words at the top of the page
had caught her gaze. She snatched
the papei from his hands with a cry,
and read the few lines beneath the
heading.
"Is -is fhnt his answer?" she asked.
In a trembling voice.
Stern read where she Indicated. "We
regret to announce that Sir Stephen
Jesson met with a fatal accident lu the
hunting field this morning. It will be
remembered that the unfortunate bar
onet came Into the title, quite unexpect
edly, a couple of years ago, three
strong young lives having dropped out.
Everyuie will sympathize with Ladj
'
"YOU MUST CARE FOB HIM STILL."
Oertrude Jesson, who, as Lady Ger
trude KIngsley,' was the loveliest debu
tante of her year."
. "He was a villain all through, you
see," said Edith Poole. "He married
this woman while I still lived. He has
."Uined her life, as well as mine. What
shall I do? Shall I put forth my right
to this man's name,' and take it away
from her? Or shall I forever keep
back the truth that would strip her .of
everything?"
He aid not answer. His features
were fixed. He saw clearly, like a pic
ture before him, a certain-scene In a
Mayfalr drawing room he heard a
woman's hard, merciless voice, her In
sulting words. He remembered the ut
ter desolation which this woman had
created in his darkest hour. Time's
whirligig had turned, Indeed, and
brought with it this miraculous chance
of crying quits with the one whose
cruelty it had taken him four years to
forget. The temptation gripped hihi'.
Why should she not be dragged down
into the dust her pride, humbled, as
nothing else except this one unlooked
for Ihlng could have power to humble
It? Then he crushed down the Ignoble
desire.
As suddenly as it had come up be
fore him the black past vanished Jtf a
cloud of sunshine, out from which
Edith's pale, serious face, "with that
strange, altered look that he had noted
In It of late shone forth.
"What shall I do?" she asked again.
"Guide me."
He took her hand In a gentle grasp.
"Let this woman keep her empty
honors. And for yourself forget that
you are this man's widow. Become
my wife."
His- tone was unmistakable. She
looked at him with glowing, wondering
eyes. He was struck by her sudden be
wildering beauty.
"Do you mean it?" she. whispered.
There was no need for any spoken
answer, and she crept Into the shelter
of a strong man's arms held out to
receive her. Modern Society.
MINDANAO LAND RICH.
Big Island Has Millions of Acres
Now Lying Idle.
Americans have taken the acquisition
of the Philippines as a matter of fact
The Islands are so far away, and there
is so much of pressing interest right
at hand, that the manner of arranging
out new responsibilities and discharging
out new obligations, Is left absolutely
to the government at Washington,, says
the Army and Navy Life. How many
American people know, for- example,
that Mindanao is a little virgin empire,
with millions of. acres of the richest
land In the world, now idle and fallow,
but capable of enormous production?
An American officer who has Just re
turned from there calls It "the pearl in
the golden settlej of the achlpelago,
the promised land for the tollers in tijej
east. . d
A while ago there was - circulate?
through the Islands a petition praying
tho American neonlu to Grant the unnipl.
trade privileges to the Philippines that
have been accorded Porto Rico, which
Island, after getting what she wanted
and what she needed, Jumped her ex
port trade with the United States from
$8,500,000 to $28,000,000 and her Im
ports from $9,000,000 to $29,000,000 an
nually! Porto Rico Is only a dot on
the map In comparison with the Phil
ippine archipelago, and the benefits ac
cruing to American customers of her
products are slight in contrast with
those which would come with the ex
tension of our customs to Include the
Philippines.
A Temperate Annonnceinent.
The man, Woman or child who suc
ceeded in extracting a word of com
mendation from Eben Ilobbs felt that
a notable feat had been accomplished.
His wife used to tell with much en
joyment the story of her brief court
ship.
"I used to think he must like me,"
she always began, 'Tor he came
Wednesdays and Sundays regular, and
sometimes took me buggy-riding in be
tween; but he never said anything, re
ally.
"Other young men would tell me I
had bright eyes and rosy cheeks and
so on. but Eb never did.
"I used to get real tried with him
sometimes. But one county fair day I
had charge of the candy table, and I
overheard the young men talking, out
side the window that was right behind
me.
'"Ella Lane's the prettlset girl in
this town, one of 'em said she was
my cousin, Ella was.
"Most of the boys chimed In and
said soshe was, but three or four of
em spoke up for some other choice.
At last I heard Eb saying my uame.
'I don't see but what MUly Locke al
ways looks as well as you could expect
for one of her age,' he said. And then
of course I knew his mind was all
made up, and so did they.
"When he beaued me home that
evening, he said, 'I most wish you
could have heard what I told 'em
about you this noon, Mllly,' and I said,
I did, Eb; the window was open.'
"Then he said, 'I'm glad you did.
Yon know my mind; Is yours the
same? And I allowed twas, though
his question might have seemed bllud
to some; but we were married wlthlu
a month, and we've never felt to re
gret it, either of us."
Bosinesallka England.
The English are not a revengeful
people. They forget everything after a
fight in their eageruess to trade with
tlnir late enemy. It is not so much the
spirit of forgiveness of sins which
prompts them as the spirit of pushing
trade. That Is the central Impulse In
their beiug. Dublin Irish Homestead.
'AC.
Silage in Steer Feeding;.
The use of silage In feeding steers
while fattening Is growing in ' favor
steadily, and especially where lauds
are high priced and when feeding
stuffs generally are high. T.here has
been a good deal of prejudice against
silage among extensive feeders, but us
they are Induced to try It so do they
become converted to its use.
In feeding experiments conducted at
tho Mitsourl Station In J90d-T with
steers weighing about 800 toimdi each
at tho beginning, those fed siiaga ate
less dry matter than those' fed whole
stover or shredded stove-, and gained
lit n-f ight, while the dry stover lots
lost. The' same sort of results were
also secured from feeding siloed stover
compared flth air-dried material.
Professor Plumb, of the Ohio Agri
cultural College, has this to say on the
subject: . . - ' )
If silage is fed under cover,, and to
cattle rot wallowing in mud or oos:y
manure, then good result will gen
erally come from Its use. However,
hay or other dry roughage should also
a fed. Silage fed twice a day and
hay once should give good "results1
When cattle are being finished for
shipment, then the amount 'of silage
fed should be reduced and tho dry'
roughage Increased, this to prevent
much shrinkage In shlppin?,'. However,
In what is known as rational feeding,
but l?ttle shrinkage is apt to occur
from the use of the silage. - lu expert
mints with steers fed different rations
at the Virginia Station, thos? fed si
lage showed no . appreciable Shrinkage
in the market over those fed exclusive
ly dry feed."
- Crth- Without a Shovel. .
This grain storage house is de
signed to allow for handling the crop
without ' unnecessary lifting.; Grain
is hauled in thei
upper drive , and
poured from theJP
wagons Into tW
bins, and Is Vf,'
removed b
lng drainc:
lie bins 1
wneons in
lower drlway If bullt up0n
.1,1- i.u J ? .. .
b.uo me ob of malting-the
uoi ue trerOU8. Even on leve.
Uis ?aih be done without.
.""'f're of labor
2? scraper.
TWO-STOBY OEANABT. '
lower than the bottom - of the wagon
box. allowing the entire contents of
the bins to be drained Into the wagons
without lifting. Farm and Home.
Tnbercnlosia In Cattle ot England.
Consul Joseph G. Stephens of Ply
mouth, advises that the English auth
orities are making known through th
medium of the press the disagreeable
facts relative to tuberculosis in cows
and phthisis In human beings In that
section of England. The relation of
the two is said to be a scientific fact
In many districts of Devon 25 per cent
Of the cows have tuberculosis. Tho
average number of deaths from con
sumption among the people of the Bin
gle County of Devon alone exceeds 300
per aunum. In one charity organiza
tion 80 per cent of the children are
suffering from this dread disease.
The Horse that Polls on His Bit
It is claimed by one who has tried
it that a driving horse that pulls on
the bit can . be cured by fastening a
small ring on each side of the bridle
and as near the brow band as possible.
Pass the lines through bit rings and
snap them Into the rings at the brov
baud. This, with a common Jointed
bit. will enable a child to hold a "pull
er' or hard-mouthed horse with ease
under almost all circumstances It can
be used on a fast horse in double' team
or on both, as desired. It is cheap and
easily applied and It won't make the
mouth sore. S -
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How Seeds Are Scattered.
Dr. Howard, secretary of the Amer
ican Society for the Advancement of
Science, writing of the manner in
which seeds are carried to great dis
tances by birds, recites an experiment
of Darwin which had a curious result
Adhering to the leg of a wounded part
ridge. Darwin ound a ball of earth,
weighing six and a half ounces. From
the seeds coutalned in this ball he
raised thirty-two plants, belonging to
Ave distinct species. 1
To Keep the Cellar Dry,
In many farmhouses the cellar is
not cemented, so that when heavy rains
come In the spring water is apt to
make trouble. There Is just one way
to keep snch a cellar dry, and that is
by putting In a cement floor, and thor
ough drainage for the outside of the
! walls. Better cement it cow
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MnllMV
SECTION OF IRE CRIB
1
flow to Ralsa a Bars, ...
A farmer near Goliad had a novel
experience. A few years ago he built
a small barn, and In the construction
used green willow posts at the corners
and along the sides. For some time
nothing unusual was noticed,-but after
a year he saw that where he had laid
the floor near the ground It was three
feet above soil. He discovered that
the willow posts, Instead of being dead,
were alive, had taken root and were
growing. In their upward movement
they had carried the barn along. Last
spring the barn was -on stilts 9 feet
high, and he put in a new floor and
surrounded the posts with siding,
thereby making a two-story affair.
There is" now a space of 9 inches be
tween .the floor ind the ground, .anJ
the owner expects to have a three-story
barn in the course of time. Goliad.
(Texas) Guard. '
Value of Potatoes as Food.
According to statistics obtained, It
appears that potatoes constitute about
13 per cent of the total food con
sumed by the average family. They
are essentially starehy and eaten alone
would furnish a very one-sided badly
COMPOSITION OP THE POTATO.
A, tat; b; crude fibre and other carbohydtat
ls exclusive of starch ; c, protein ; d, aih.
balanced diet that would prove tin
wholesome to most people,. As indi
cated In the illustration the edible por
tion, is made up of 78.3 per cent water,
18.4 per cent carbohydrates (principal
ly starch), 2 2 per cent protein, 0.1 per
cent fat, and 1 per cent ash or mineral
matter, These figures represent gen
eral averages troinii'hih' -
wide .. vartot'-
mens. .V"'
mep' 1
it
6
wttV
verell
No artlk,.
to the' surface
..-111 I IA. A. .W
The activity of the healingprocess de
pends upon the character and position
and the time of the year when the
wound is made, rather than upon pro
tective coverings, but where a large
surface of heart wood Is exposed it is
advisable to protect it from decay by
a coat of white lead or other satisfac
tory covering.
MIIU (or CalTes.
The calf finds in fresh milk while it
Is still warm with the animal heat of
the cow, it is said, a constituent value
not found in the milk after it is allowed
to get cold. The chemist cannot define
It, and it cannot be restored again by
warming the milk. If every calf could
be fed Its milk' sweet, and while It still
retained its animal heat, there would no
doubt be fewer cat-hammed steers going
to tne oiock. .
-. The Sweet Potato Belt.
.The northern limit for sweet potato
culture is roughly indicated by a line
drawn from the border line of Massa
chusetts and Connecticut "on the east
coast westward to the northeast corner
of Colorado, but the area where it is
profitable commercially would be con
siderably south of this, except In the
Mississippi valley, where it extendj
well Into Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
. . Tha Potato. - '.
Recently, In Hartz, , Germany?"
monument was found bearing this In
scription : "Here; in the year 1747, the
nrst trials were made with the cul
tivation of the potato." By the way,
when Frederick II. introduced the do-'
tato into his domain his subjects did
not like it; they refused to be both
ered with it, and the emperor had to
force them to cultivate it
,'. In Tying- Chickens.
When marketing chickens do not tie
several of them together. They get the
string twisted around their legs and It
cuts them. Take the chickens to town
in a coop, or some other humane way.
They are in absolute torture when sev
era! art tied together.
HE GAVE AWAY HIS STOaB. "
Bat the Jiext Day Ho Decided He
Would Sell It.
To a certain city there came, one .
upon a time, a certain man with
glorious Ideas of fads and fashions and
the goods to represent them, says the
Kansas City Star. He opened up a
pretty little shop, placed some "crea- -.
tlons" In the, windows and then waited. .
Day after day went by and the.1"cJ -e
customers he confidently expected also i
rushed by. They didn't even hesitate? t
at his window display, . and the man'..
waxed exceedingly sore.
"It's a Jay town," said the man. "it
Is a I don't care what it is. They
don't know the real, goods when they
see thenu JleieJe paid duty on all
thegs1ine things, Justvtp bring" them
rrom Paris, and the women-- -. II
They go somewhere else and buy Anier 1
lean goods. Think of it, American
goods!" (
And the man stood In his doorway
each day with appealing Invitation In
his eye to all who passed. 'Finally the
anneal wns trnne from his fneo nn1 ha I
looked grave and hard set. His fine !
frocks and pretty hats were still in the
store, and his friend found him with,
teeth grit as he stoppea to call.
"Business?" he growled. "Business? r
There's no such thing as buslnecs.
Here I've got the finest stock of dainty
things and say !" His excitement was
getting the better of him. "Say I If
somebody would only come in and ask
foiomethlng it wouldn't
I'd"
A fashionably dress-'
moment; turned, lnt '
the proprietor, vv.v
bowed his ackhowltf
call.
"Something I can st
he inquired. ' .
She looked carel '
the cases and' sal
"Have you.P"''
Sch
may be looked for ere long. There iff?
a large growth of fine sponges left vf
touched so far, as the native divers '
not usually take sponges at a 'great,
depth than fifteen feet. The better class
grow in the greater depths, and these 1
are now to be gathered. f ' J
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood was in at- f
tendance at the maneuvers of the Ger-' J
man army in Alsace Lorraine, which' J
came to an end Sept. 10. ne speaks j
highly of the courtesy of the German' I
military authorities. From Saarbrucken
Gen. Wood went to France, where he
was present at the French maneuvers, t
The foreign .trade of Japan In the
first five months of this year decreased I
by $15,000,000, Imports exceed exports !
Dy about $40,000,000, against $30,000,
000 In the first five months of 1907. Of
the decrease $12,000,000 was in exports.
Imports of machinery, however, con
tinue to increase steadily, showing that
manufacturing In Japan is developing.
The ,imports, as a whole, totaled $109,-
000,000 and exports $09,000,000", a total
trade of $178,000,000. reckoAing the yen
at 50 cents American.
The Congress at La Paz, the capital
of Bolivia, has passed the bill- which
orders that hereafter the export duty
aranjneeiipef-gJfeisgiuth, the chief
products of the eountrjr-S&yjaJ
proportion to the price of those articles
in Europe on the day they are exported !
rrom Bolivia. The Congress Is discuss
ing another bill presented by the gov
ernment. to the effect that the national
bank should be authorized to send sil
ver bars to European QinK and when
they return, coined, the favrwnu Brj
hlbit the export of that money.
Every one Is occasionally shocke
when t he realizes, how easily he .bf
comes reconciled to -the death of
friend. t
Some kinds of meanness are ns
unpopular than o'thera. J
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