X
THE SUMMONS.
One whose time wai spent
As the shadow fllokered o'er him
From the clefts where It is pent
Summoned the Sphinx before him:
"Intimate pulse of my heart
Nearer than child or wife
Now that our ways must part.
What can you do for me, Life?
"What are the things you have done?
Tou cast me out on the sands,
Meshed In a blind web spun
By dead, unthinking hands.
"Fettered here In the dark
Yet drawn to the spheres afar,
Tou give us the glow worm's sprk
And mock us with the star.
"Tou take the rose of love
And crush It In your hand;
In hard, cold ways you move
We can not understand.
"To our last dim lurking' place
Tou bring the spoiler Death."
Over the Sphinx's face
Fluttered a smile's wan breath.
-New Tork Sun.
: A Thorough Victory ;
Allan had to face a fierce opposl
tlon. The landlords opposed him as
a wrecker and robber. The politicians
looked upon him as an intruder and
meddler. He rather liked this opposl
tlon. It developed his fighting re
sources.
One day Laura Edwards passed an
angry man on the stairway. She knew
he was angry by his mutterlngs and
his heavy tread and his fiery face.
"Did you Just have a caller?" she
asked Allan.
He laughed.
"Yea. That was the great McCool."
"The boss!"
"Yes. He came here to have It out
with me. He warned me to keep off
the grass. He even used threats."
The girl's face suddenly grew pale.
"You mustn't be rash," she said.
"kvkbythi.no wax he done for him."
Then she hastily added, "The league
can't spare such a valuable official.
He laughed again.
"The great McCool Is a good deal
of a bluffer," he said. "Besides, I fancy
T. have trimmed his fangs."
"How?"
"There Is a certain man who feels
Indebted to nie. I hnve helped him at
times helped him when his need was
urgent. In some way he has come Into
possession of certain facts regarding
the great McCool, facts which are not
to that eminent politician's credit.
used a little of this material in my
talk with him, and he straightway col
lapsed. In fact, I don't expect he will
trouble me again."
"Why, that's splendid!" Laura cried,
"He was such a stumbling block."
Allan glowed at this praise.
"And I have more good news foi
you," ho said. "I am to have an in
terview on Thursday morning with
the dreadful Cilmmlns. It Is the first
time he has consented to see me."
"e careful," said Laura. "He is
called a revengeful man. May I come
on Thursday afternoon and hear the
result of the meeting?"
"May you comer' echoed Allan. "I
shall feel much hurt if you fall to
come."
When Laura entered the office of
the league that Thursday afternoon,
Allan was sitting at his desk with a
bandage about his head."
She gave a little gasp.
"Wh-what has happened?" she cried.
"Nothing serious," he answered.
"Merely a bump with Mr. Crlmmlns"
nompllnients."
"Tell me about it."
"There ts little to toll," Allan an
swered. "After Mr. Crlmmlns pre
sumed upon our brief acquaintance by
handing me this souvenir, the discus
sion became absorbing. It ended In
my favor. Mr. Crlmmlns seemed to
accept his defeat with a poor grace.
This obliged me to use an argument
That I had hoped to hold in reserve."
"What was the argument?"
"It was based upon my ability and
willingness to hunt up Mr. Crlmmlns
at any tUne and beat him to a frazzle
if he persisted in annoying us."
Laura was a little horrified, and yet
could not help smiling.
"And what was the result of this
heroic form of persuasion V
"The wreckers will begin to demol
ish the Crlmmlns tenements next Mon
da niornla."
'Splendid!" cried the girl.
Allan was a busy man. while the
dreadful old buildings gave up their
horde of lodgers. There were homes
to be found, there were hungry
mouths to be fed.
And then one morning a man in a
blue uniform came to the Edwards
home.
I m a sanitary officer, miss," he
said to Laura, "and I bring you
message from Mr. Merllng. He has
been taking care of a sick boy, miss,
and we find it's smallpox, and they've
both, been sent to the hospital for con
tagious cases." He saw that Laura's
face suddenly blanched. "Everything
will be done for him, miss, that can
be done. He sent you his kindest re
gards and asked you to visit the office
occasionally, if convenient, miss. If
you wish it, miss, will let you know
how he is faring from time to time."
He paused on the steps. "He is a fine
young man, miss, and has done
splendid work, and we all hope it will
go light with him."
He saw that Laura was crying and
said no more.
The weeks that followed were anx-
ious ones for others beside the girl.
The story of Allan's labors, of the good
he had accomplished, of the sacrifices
he had made, was told throughout the
busy city.
So the weeks went by and then a
letter came to Laura. Allan was no
longer in the hospital. He was at
sanitarium where they were trying to
build him up so he could go away to
Colorado or Arizona, the doctor wasn't
sure which.
"I am coming to see you before I
go, although it will hurt my pride,"
ne wroce. i m not scarred up so
much, but bony, painfully and unpleas
ant to look upon. But I want to see
you, I want to tell you what you have
done for me. I had a lot of time to
think it over there in the hospital
If it hadn't been for you I would have
gone on In the old profligate way.
You saw something in me that nobody
else knew I possessed. I didn't know
it myself. They tell me I've done a
few worthy things, but it is to you the
credit Is due. In all thlnes I have
inly been your agent."
Three days later he followed the let
ter. Laura heard the carriage and ran
to meet him, and drew him into the
library and put him In the big easy
chair.
He was Just a little overcome by
these attentions, but tried to conceal
it.
"This is fine," he said. "Everybody
Is so good to me. Such funny things
happen. That carriage driver out
there asked me if he might shake
hands with me. And do you see this
little bunch of flowers. A woman was
waiting at the door of the sanitarium.
She gave me that. She's the mother
of that sick boy, you remember the
one I helped. You are looking very
well, Miss Laura only a little pale."
She didn t answer him. She couldn't
quite control her voice. He was so
woefully thin and pale, but the old
smile was still there.
"They are having such a time," he
said, "finding the right sort of nurse
to go with me. I'm quite fussy, you
know, and need such a lot of care.
Why, what's wrong?"
She was looking down at him, and
her eyes were filled with tears.
"Don't," he whispered. "I shall be
sorry I came. Can't you see how I'm
trying to brace up? Don't you realize
how it hurts me to go away from
you?"
She suddenly stopped and put her
loving arms around him and kissed
his scarred face.
"Oh, my dear," she murmured, "you
will take nie with you and let me care
for you always." W. It. Rose in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Hare Opportunity.
When the circus came to Bushby
the large attendance was a surprise
to Squire Beml3, and he said so to
William Hamlin, the postmaster.
"It Is natural that men and chil
dren should wish to go," remarked the
squire In his formal tone, "but I must
confess to a feeling of amazement
on hearing that the ladies of the town
had flocked to see wild beasts, and
that young woman who leaps from
one wire to another, with no regard
for her personal safety."
"Tell you just how 'tis, squire." said
Mr. Hamlin, confidentially. "I don't
think many of the women folks
planned to go till Jed Potter came in
here one mall time and told Miss
Emma Bolles he understood the show
was enough to scare anybody out of
ten years' growth.
"Miss Emma's getting on, and you
couldn't expect her to let a chance
like that go nor any of the other
women, now could ye?"
A I.lttle "Worthy."
Eve herself could not have been
sweeter than the little Princess Anne,
of whom Thomas Fuller tells in his
"Worthies of England."
Born in 1637, this daughter of
Charles I died in her infancy, when
not full four years old.
"Being minded by those about her "
writes the old chronicler, "to call upon
God even when the pangs were upon
her, I am not able," salth she, to say
my long prayer' meaning the Lord's
prayer 'but I will say my short one.
Lighten mine eyes. O Lord, lest I
sleep the sleep of death." '
'This done, the little lamb gave up
the ghost."
POLLY'S CLOSET.
She Thought Its Disorder Affected
No One bat Herself.
Its my closet," Pdlly began,
with a shrug, sitting down by the
couch, where her adored big brother
was nursing a broken ankle. "Jamie
met me with a long story, and I must
say I don't consider it as a matter
for Aunt Sarah to stir up the whole
family about. It doesn't affect any
one but myself."
Dan slipped a hand under his pil
low and drew out a paper. "I've
been lying here taking notes to-day,1
he said; and Polly read:
9 a. m. Ted made himself late
at school hunting for the sweater he
had lent Polly to wear to the football
game last Saturday. Finally found
it, fallen down on the floor of her
closet, pretty dusty, with a lot of
shoes and things on top of it. Made
such a fuss that father took notice,
and told Aunt Sarah Polly should be
kept home from her toboggan party
to-night.
10 a. m. Nora came up to clean
Polly's room. Said she didn't know
what to do to the closet so many
things on the floor. Aunt Sarah said
she needn't touch It; Miss Polly had
promised to pick up things herself be
fore it was cleaned again. Nora got
off some sauce about having been told
that for three weeks running, and
about Polly's needing some one to
make her mind. Aunt Sarah told her
she mustn't speak like that. The end
ts that Nora's to leave next week.'
"No!" Polly whispered, for she knew
that Aunt Sarah must have endured
all that self-respect could before de
priving herself of Nora's efficient serv
ices.
11 a. m. Jamie was playing with
his ball, and it bounced to the back
of Polly's closet. Before he got it
out his brown corduroy suit looked
as if it had wiped an acre of dusty
floor. He trotted down to the parlor,
where Aunt Sarah had a caller, and
explained how he got so dirty. Pleas
ant for Aunt Sarah, as housekeeper,
but she didn't tell me. I got it out
of Jamie.
'2 p. m. Plumber telephoned that
he'd be here after three to see about
extending that waterpipe to the third
story. Aunt Sarah knew he'd have to
go into Polly's closet; so she put it in
order, Jamie standing by and calling
off the articles that were discovered
on the floor with all the glee of an-
excavator in Egypt. There were blue
kid slippers, skates, a mountain of
shoes, theme paper, waist hangers, an
upset work basket with a tangle of
thread, needles, buttons and so on
a missing fan, several long-lost hand'
kerchiefs '
"Dan, you made up half!"
"I didn't put down half."
" '3 p. m. Aunt Sarah telephoned
father at office to beg Polly off about
the toboggan party. Asked him not
to reprove her In a way that would
humiliate her so before outsiders.
Guess father was impatient about be
ing Interrupted, but Aunt Sarah kept
gentle and gained her point.' "
"Walt," said I, as Polly reached
this period. Taking the paper, he
wrote:
'4 p. m. Polly came home from
school. Said it wasn't a matter for
Aunt Sarah to stir up the family
about; it affected no one but herself."
"Oh!" cried Polly, her face the color
of shame. "Dan, I've been a horrid "
"Right you are, sis!" But his tone
made the ungallant words a compli
ment. "Skip and "tell Aunt Sarah that
before you wink." Youth's Companion.
COLLEGE MEN AND FADS.
Would Do III. Fart.
Caller Sir, I am collecting for the
Poet's hospital. Will you contribute
anything?
Editor With pleasure. Call to-night
with the ambulance and I will have
ome poets ready. Stray Stories.
Student! Instead of Following Lead
Procession of Fashion.
It is said that the term "fad" is de
rived from the initials of the phrase
'for a day." If so, Its meaning could
not be better illustrated than in stu
dents' clothes out at the University of
Pennsylvania and In the neighboring
college communities, the Philadelphia
Record says. Fashions change In the
student world with a rapidity that
even bewilders the professional haber
dashers and clothiers, who theoretical
ly ought to know several laps In ad
vance which way the coin will flop on
a new fad. The prevailing impression
that students docilely follow the men's
fashion Journals is not borne out by
the facts, Studonts in a large measure
lead the procession, Instead of bringing
up the rear. It was college men who
popularized the soft Btraw, the stock,
pumps and the broad cuffs on trousers.
The custom of wearing necktie, shirt
and socks of a harmonious shade was
In full swing out on Old Penn's cam
pus before Chestnut street fully woke
up to the fact that there was some
thing new In style, Of course, univer
sity men quite generally affect a style
that is too extreme to be serviceable.
But young men in the business world
seem quite content to follow in their
footsteps at a modified pace withal.
The use of green peak caps this spring
started in this way, and the present
resurrection of bow ties and plccadlllj
collars. Fraternity hatbands on broad
brimmed straws, as might be expected,
are reflected in the meaningless fancy
hatbands downtown. The typical fop
that serves to point the moral of use
fulness of a four-year collegiate course
may never be heard of after gradua
tion, but he can have and actually does
have one title to distinction he leads
the fashion parade.
Homemade Ditch Digger.
A complete homemade ditch digger
may be made by following the de
scription here given.
The bed piece, five and a half Inches
long, is cut out of a hard plank two
and a half Inches thick, bolted at each
end and in the middle to prevent split
ting. The rear half is nine Inches
wide and the front half six Inches
wide.
The diggers are made of steel bars
two and a half inches wide, three-
quarters of an inch thick and twenty-
four inches long. They are fastened
to the plank by a right angle turn and
bolted. The two rear diggers are held
firmly by a rod with nuts inside and
THE DIGGER EQUIPPED.
out, the points being spread out so
that the bed piece can easily drop Into
the space when the ditch is two feet
or more in depth. The front digger
is the same size, but set in the middle.
All are held firmly by brace rods and
sharpened like the flat end of a pickax,
A wheel is set-under the front end to
steady the movement and Is braced
backward. An adjustable draw iron
is placed above, through which the
rod may pass at any height suited to
the depth of the ditch.
The handles are also adjustable,
raising them as the digger drops lower.
In hard subsoils one wil save the
cost of this simple device in digging
seventy-five rods of ditch. In our
hardpan sections of the east, which al
ways need drainage, one does not feel
encouraged to dig ditches with pick
and shovel when more than half the
energy is required to loosen the dirt
With this machine the toughest sub
soil when dry handles as rapidly as
loose sand.
Keeping Cream Sweet.
The first step in keeping cream
sweet is to keep it as clean as pos
sible. Clean cream cannot be produced
by filthy methods of milking nor by
handling the cream or milk in unclean
utensils. Milk cans, stirrers and pails
should be thoroughly scalded in hot
water and dried and exposed to the
sunlight and pure air.
The next step is to remove the ani
mal heat from the cream as soon as
possible after separating. Run the
cream from the separator into a con
venient utensil for cooling. A 3 or 5-
gallon shotgun can is most conveni
ent. Cool the cream in well water
by stirring. In a few minutes it can
be reduced to the temperature of the
water. After the cream Is cooled it
can be added to the cream contained
In the supply can used -in delivering
cream to the station. The cream sup
ply can, while being filled and held for
delivery, should be kept in water at
as near the temperature of freshly
pumped water as possible. The aver
age temperature of well water in
Kansas is about 66 degrees. With it
cream can easily be held at 68 or 60
degrees, and at this temperature will
remain sweet for delivery in good
shape at the station. Kansas Farmer.
Help Others to Help Themselves,
The Talmud: It is better to lend
than to give. To give employment Is
better than either.
There is apt to be something wrong
with the man who is continually nuk
ing explanation.
Red Clover T. Alfalfa.
Some of the old-time dairymen are
coming around to the belief that red
clover such as was grown around Den
ver twenty -five or thirty years ago, Is
better forage for the production of
milk than Is alfalfa as grown nowa
days. Certain it is that we are not
now getting the quality of milk that
was produced a quarter of a century
ago, when nearly everybody had a
little patch of clover. It was quite
natural, however, that we should have
exchanged the old friend for the new,
for the reason that red clover is bien
nial in its habit of growth and under
the most ideal conditions will not fur
nish more than two cuttings of hay
in a season. On the other hand, al
falfa i3 a perennial plant, and when
once established will continue to pro
duce four and frequently five crops
in a season for several years In suc
cession, and this is why our dairymen
have clung to it through all these
years like a pup to a root We are
loth to concede that red clover is the
better forage in the production of
milk, but it does look that way, and
we know farmers in different parts
of the State who are taking up its
culture quite extensively. Denver
Field and Farm.
, A Frnlt Tree Doctor Fake.
The latest fake practiced on farm
ers is done by a man who visits the
place and claims that he has been
sent out by the State to examine fruit
tree diseases, says an exchange. The
fellow will go over the orchard and
mark all trees which he claims are af
fected. Shortly after his visit a con
federate will appear and say that he
has a preparation which will cure the
disease for which the tree is con
demned and will contract to inject a
fluid into the roots for a certain price.
Both men are swindlers and should be
run off the place with a shotgun. The
only men empowered to Inspect orch
ards are the county inspectors, who
ire known to most fruit growers.
reaches that Stand Rot.
Teaches are more liable to rat In
damp and muggy weather than when
cool and dry. Some varieties are
more subject to rot than others. That
all varieties with fuzz on them are
less liable to rot than the smoother
varieties does not agree with my ex
perience. Neither can correct conclusion be
drawn from one or two season's ex
perience, for soil, location, fertilization
and culture also are factors in the rot
problem. Fruit on a rankly-grown
tree is much more subject to rot than
on one more moderately grown. Yet
I think the weather has more to do
with it than any one factor. One
year all our early peaches were quite
subject to rot, while the next year
there was very little rot. Yet with un
favorable weather Champions were
practically a total loss, Crosby, stump
and late varieties practically free. I
do not think the matter of fuzz vs.
rot worth considering as a factor in
setting an orchard, except people do
not wish to buy fuzz.
In regard to hardiness of bud, a
good frost peach well grown will stand
more cold than any other peach tree
we ever had on our grounds. And
varieties of the frost type (if I may
call them so), Crosby, Pratt's, Hill's
Chill, etc., are more hardy in bud
than many other varieties, especially
of the Crawford class, but with the
varieties of the Chinese type, which
bear young and have a hardy bud,
what little hardiness, if any, the fuzzy
varieties possess above them Is much
more than offset by their failings.
H. Mead, Massachusetts.
Gasoline vs. a Hired Man.
Then there's our gasoline engine. 1
kept track of it once for three weeks.
It pumped water to the house and to
the barn, separated the cream of twen
ty cows and churned and worked all
the butter on 6 gallons of gasoline at
15 cents a gallon. It saws the wood
and works the corn-shredder and
makes itself generally more useful in
its way than the average hired man
and at a small fraction of his cost
Then, the barn is a great comfort
There's a cement basement under the
stable the only one of its kind in
this part of the State. The manure
falls through traps in the stable floor
and Is preserved intact and put out
on the land at least four times a year.
That's another thing that gives us no
end of advantage over our neighbors.
They pile their fertilizer in their
barnyard and let the best part of It
bleach and drain and wash away with
out returning it to the soil which ab
solutely demands it.
We have 150 acres of level, black
soil that plows like soft putty. Be
sides corn, oats and wheat, we raise
hay, flax and" enough vegetables for
our own use. But we have found that
we can make far more money from
our pure bred cows than directly from
the soil. Success.
Old Favorites
Ventilation of Stable.
-1
soil b
This diagram shows method of con
structing a fresh air intake where the
soil conies to or near the top of wall
as found in many bank barns. An ex
cavation is necessary and a retaining
wall is built around the open spac
marked C. v
Weed Seed In Manure.
It is well known that there is con
siderable risk of introducing new
weeds by the purchase of manure and
hay and other feeding stuffs. E. I.
Oswald, of the Maryland exrjeriment
station, undertook to obtain more def
inite Information on this point, espe
cially as regards dissemination
through manure, by studying the ef
fect of the fermentation of mannr
handled in different ways and of pass
ing through the digestive systems of
animals on the vitality of various
seeds, including seeds of about fifty
of the worst weeds found in Maryland.
In experiments in which the mann
remained for six months in a barn
yard heap and for a short whii in
piles, as when shipped in carload lots
rrom cities, it was found that In the
first case there was no dane-er and
in the second case little danger of dis-
iriouting live weed seeds.
To Cnard Agalast Cnt Worms.
Tar DaDer Dlacea
and tomato plants will keep off cut
worms. Insert tha
r'-ri iu me
ground, making a circle about 4 Inches
m uiaiucier ana o mcnes oeep.
Handling Milk.
It must not be forentten that
w -- ucau-
iiness and coldness th .
uv vnu great
principle In handling milk.
The Fatal Wedding. -
The wedding bells were ringing on a
moonlight winter's night,
The church was decorated, all within
was gay and bright;
A mother with her baby came and saw
the lights aglow, j
She thought of how those same bells
chimed for her three years ago.
!Td like td be admitted, sir," she told
the sexton old,
"Just for the sake of baby, to protect
him from the cold."
He told her that the wedding there was
for the righ and grand,
And with the-eager, watching crowd,
outside she must stand.
Chorus
While the wedding bells were ringing;
while the bride and groom were
there,
Marching down the aisle together, as
the organ pealed an air
Telling tales of fond affection, vowing
never more to part,
Just another fatal wedding, Just anoth
er broken heart
She begged the sexton once again to
. let her pass Inside,
"For baby's sake you may step in," the
gray-haired man replied.
"If any one knows reason why this
couple should not wed,
Speak now or hold your peace forever
more," the preacher said.
"I must object," the woman said, with
voice so meek and mild.
"The bridegroom Is my husband, and
this is our little child."
"What proof have you?" the preacher
-. asked. "My Infant," she replied.
She raised her babe, then knelt to pray,
the little one had died.
Chorus
The parents of the bride then took the
outcast by the arm,
"We'll care for you through life," they
said, "you've saved our child
from harm."
The outcast wife, the bride and par
ents quickly drove away,
The husband died by his own hand be
fore the break of day.
No wedding feast was spread that
night, two graves were made
next day
One for the little baby, and in one the
father lay.
The story has been often told, by fire
sides warm and bright,
Of bride and groom, of outcast, and
the fatal wedding night -
RECORDS OF OLD KASKASKIA
Oldest and Moat Authentic Docu
ments Now at St. Louis University.
The members of the Mississippi Val
ley Historical Society visited the St.
Louis University en masse recently
and inspected the old historic trove,
of which the university has lately be
come the custodian a set of docu
ments concerning the history of this
vicinity which are among the oldest
and most authentic records of the ptst
In America, the St. Louis Republic
says. They are the Kaskaskia records
in which the first entry is dated 1695.
They continue, with but a few gaps,
down to the present time. Few rec
ords in the east antedate these and
none in the west. They were begun
in Illinois, near Peoria, before some
of the thirteen original colonies were
planned. .
The records have been a gold mine
to historians for years, but their rich
es will never be exhausted. John Gil
mary Shea came west to see them
thirty years ago; Edward G. Mason
wrote a minute description of them,
which is one of the publications of the
Chicago Historical Society.
Prof. C. W. Alvord, president of the
Mississippi Valley Historical Associa
tion, wrote of them in a work which
has just been published by the United
States government. At the time he
wrote he could not locate them. They
were then at Fort Gage; but the bish
op of Belleville, in order to better pre
serve them, has placed them in the
archives of the St. Louis University.
They are kept in a great iron, fire
proof, combination safe.
The records are those of the bap
tisms, marriages and burials of the
people of old Kaskaskia, near Peoria;
and of the later Kaskaskia, sixty miles
down the river from St. Louis.
Bridge Builder's Career.
Anybody standing on the Brooklyn
bridge and looking northward up the
East River will see three striking ex
amples of the genius and ability of
Gustavus Lindenthal, who, a matter
of thirty years ago, was a mason and
carpenter doing journeyman's work in
Philadelphia, the Bookkeeper says.
The three examples of his later de
velopment are the Manhattan bridge,
which is nearing completion and is
about 1,500 feet north of the Brooklyn
bridge; the Williamsburg bridge, and,
finally, the enormous Queensborough
bridge, that was opened to traffic re
cently. But this is not all. Far to
the north of these three huge spans
between Manhattan and Long Island
there is another creation of Mr. Lin
denthal's brain the Hell Gate bridge,
designed to carry the heaviest loads
of any bridge in the world, connect
ing the mainland lines of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail
road with the Long Island Railroad,
and thus, by way of the tubes under
the North River, bringing about a
direct rail route from New England
into the west
Breaking- It Gta. "
Jack Perhaps you don't i:v mr
style of dancing. u
Orme (in distress) Well, there la
rather too much sameness about It
jack ,r how may I vary it?
Orme Suppose you tread on mr left
toot once in a while.