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THE AUTUMN BONO. JL ltds ar ever fne flower are dying ant. , . flying, Whore skies are sunny and ' blue; ." t .."' The chill winds strengthen and shad '., - owe lengthen, As early falleth the evening dew. The fruit la mellow, and elds are yel low With goldenrod, while the tinted leaves Are softly falling, when winds are call ing, . And reapers garner the ripened sheaves. the The tall sunflowers grace Nature'i bowers, ( The grapes hang heavy upon - vine; The corn is - turning, and youth Is t . yearning For fun and frolic at husking time; Then life Is beauty as well as duty, ' And volces.echo the heart's gay tune, With light feet dancing and soft eyes glancing, . Beneath the glow of the harvest moon. . '' . ff: ', ' "t All Nature's story Is full of glory, A golden glory that fades ere long; For time Is flying, and hearts are sigh ing, f . ? And brooks are singing a farewell song. ' ' ' ! There's much of gladness and much of sadness, We sometimes laugh and we some times cry; I , 'The bloom is paling, the light Is falling. And south winds whisper a soft good-by. Inez May Felt I Mrs. Smith's Honeymoon She was leaning against the railing gazing wistfully down upon the sea of faces on the landing' down. Despite her 30 years there was something girl ish in her shrinking figure a sugges tion of the Incipient emotions of youth. She descended to her state room. At the door, she found the stew ardess who inquired if she was Mrs. L. Smith. i ' "That Is my name, and I am going to be 111." "Lie down atonce. And about this bag? I thousrhtit would give you more t iir the gentleman's "The fragment of a sob broke from her. "Of course It makes a differ ence," she answered X,HIs face was very grave. The hand upon her shoulder trembled. , "I hope It floes hot make a difference," he said. ""Look! There is a sail!" They, rose and went to the railing, following with straining eyes a white sail that skirted the horizon. He leaned nearer. Hl3 hand brusn- ed hers as It lay upon the railing. "Did love make you happy?" She raised her lashes. "Love?" "That husband of yours," he ex plained almost harshly, "did you love him?" "He was very good to me," she re plied. Then she hesitated. "But I did not love him in the way you mean. I know now that I did not." He bent toward her swiftly, then checked himself with a sneering laugh. "I'll give you a piece of valuable ad vice," he said. "Don't allow yourself to grow sentimental. It Is awful rot." And he threw himself Into his chair. He drew a notebok from his pocket and when she seated herself he did not look up. )' An hour later their glances met. "When you love, love a virtuous, straightway plodder," he said. "Love a man because he is decent because he Is decent and plain and all the things that the romancers laugh at. If you ever find yourself loving a man like me, you had better make for the nearest lamp post and and hang " "Hush!" she cried, her cheeks flam ing. "How dare you?" Her voice broke sharply, and she fell to sobbing behind her raised hands. "My God!" he said softly. She felt his breath upon her forehad and a tremor passed over her. Then his hands fastened upon hers and drew them from her eyes. Then she felt the man's lips close upon her own. He drew away from her. "You are too delicate for my rough hands," he said. "Am I?" Then a rising passion swelled In her voice. "I should choose to be broken by you to being caressed by any other man." "Don't say that," he protested hoarsely. "Why not, since It la true?" "There is time yet," he said, "to withdraw a false play. Take your, love back." "I cannot," she replied. He stretched out his arms as If to draw her toward him. Then he shrank eyes filled with the old haunting gloom. "Good-by," she answered. "And you will go home like a sensi ble woman and forget?" "I will go home." f His face whitened. "And forget?" She looked up at him, her eyes wt with tears. "Oh, how could you? she cried brokenly. "How could you? "Don't think of me," he responded. It Is not worth the trouble." Then a voice startled them. "So you have got your wife safel across, Mr. Smith," it saia, -ana no worse for the voyage." It waa the ahiD's surgeon. I am afraid it was not the brightest oI ' vuuuoueu u, honeymoons," he added. an MPenmew station ana u, uu.- A man with a telegram in his hand mended as being very convenient. The passed them, glancing from right to Principle on which the stanchion is left. He stopped suddenly, wheeled built Is not claimed to be new, the torn hm use dates back a number of decades, Ail V,- vn(iiA T-onc nloar I UUL me es ueiJicU ttyyi itativu Ail ail iici iwtvo wv i - - - nHH. She laid her hand upon the arm of the Jusiinem, ox me one iuutu man Mh w "it 1 a honevmoon." ed presents some new features. she said, and she smiled Into the sur- , r, ?nnn M twlrrlit that ATTOT1 flDfl. sickness couldn't dim it. You know, it dergone several changes since the first one was instanea. i nis aypuauuu ked up in mystlflca alne," she explained, she struggled up and ,m, the stewardess fol her wraps. At the foot of she swayed and fell upon step. "It's no use," she w. plaintively. I can't go up I ?u't, indeed." "'The stewardess spoke with profes sional encouragement. "Oh, you're all ! right," s$e remonstrated. "Here's the gentleman now, he'll help you." Borne one lifted her, and in a mo- mfent she was on deck and in her i- chair. ! , "Perhaps you would like yesterday's i paper?" said a voice. The man in the next chair leaned - toward her, holding a paper in his i' hand. , ' "I am ill," she answered. V; ' He did not reply, and In a moment his glance wandered to the card upon her chair. "Odd, Isn't it," he ques tioned. She followed his gaze and colored fftinrlv Thpn ha nninfAii tn r similar ' label upon his own chair, hearing In a rough scrawl the name "L. Smith." "It Is a very common name," she re ' marked absently. eStttlghedr'very" he admitted. "Perhaps your huBband Is "Lawrence Smith also." The smile passed from her Hps. "My husband is dead," she answered, "but his name was Luclen." For a time they sat silent. Then, as the luncheon gong sounded he rose. "You will have chicken broth," he said distinctly. A little later the broth was brought. That evening they lay Bide by side In their steamer chairs. He was gaz ing out to sea, where the water broke Into waves of deepening gray. Sud denly he spoke, his voice ringing like a Jarring discord in a harmonious hole. "Five days ago a man called me a devil," he said, "and I guess he wasn't far wrong, only it I was a single devil he was a legion steeped in one. What a scoundrel he was!" The passion In his tones caused her to start quickly. The words were shot out with the force of balls from a can non. "Dou't," she said pleadingly. "Don't what?" he demanded rough ly. "Don't curse the blackest scoun drel that ever lived and died?" "Don't curse anybody,' she answered, "It is not like you." "I never had uuch use for belief," he returned. "It is a poor eort of thing." i 'She met his bitter gaze with one of level calm. "And yet men have suf fered death for It" -! "Well, believe in me If you choose,' ha said. : "How about your faith V he In """""Quired one day after a passing tender ness. "Is it still the evidence of vir tues not visible In me?" " She flinched, as she always did at his flippancy. "That Is not kind of ou," she 'said. "But, my dear lady, I am not kind." Her mouth quivered. "Do you mean to say," he asked, ad Justing the rug about her shoulders, that It makes any difference to tout '"BELIEVE IN ME IF YOU CHOOSE." ' Calf Mangers. A form of combined stanchion and manger for calf feeding is illustrated This particular model is produced as the result of three years trial, having un- has lasted eight years." The surgeon smiled, and the strange man passed on. Someone took her hand, and they descended the gangway together. "For God's sake." he said, "tell me what it means!" "It means." she answered, "that I am on your side forever." His hand closed over the one he held. "I ought to send you back, he said, "but I cannot." "You cannot, she repeated reso lutely, be adjusted so as to accommodate the calf from birth up to twelve months of age. The calves are confined in tne stanchions at feeding time only. After the calf has been secured the milk bucket 13 placed In the manger; when the milk is consumed the bucket is removed and ensilage and meal sup plied, followed by hay. By using this stanchion method of feeding' the maxi mum number of calves can be kept In a minimum amount of space in a clean, healthy, thrifty condition, pro- Then her voice softened. "God bless h,dlng thfy are iiven aCCeS9 lal', aoor yaraage. ine average bio the four calf pens In the dairy barn, Including manger space Is 15 feet three inches by 12 feet three inches. Each pen accommodates eight calves up to five or six months of age. The average size of two pens in the grade herd that detective!" she added fervently. Mary Lucas in Ideas. MONEY BURDENS. The Son of Prominent Financiers In Training; for Future Work. Great fortunes in the United States barn accommodating six calves each, will have in most cases trained guard- (a 9 feet 9 inches by 14 feet 10 Inches, ians when the men who have made the and three occupied by five each are fortunes or are now in control of 1014 feet by 11 feet 9 Inches. Of them have nassed awav. William K. course, in all cases except one the Vanderbilt, Jr., has to a large extent calves have access to yardage at will. relieved his father of business bur- Referring to the illustration for de- dens. George F. Baker, Jr., has taken tailed description,, the bottom of the much responsibility from his fathers shoulders. Ogden Mills, the son of D. 0. Mills, has shouldered his father's responsibilities in eight railroad and steamship lines. John D. Rockefeller hna tnrnp.d over a largo Dart Of his interests to his son, as have James Stillman, William Rockefeller, James J. Hill, Jacob Schiff and J. Plerpont Morgan. Averill Harrlman is leara ing the railroad business from the bottom up. Kingdon Gould, the heir presumptive of the George Gould mil lions, is learning the practical side or mining in Colorado. August Belmont, Jr.. is taking practical lessons as clerk in the severely respectable and conservative banking office of August Belmont & Co. Walter Hill, the young est son of James J. Hill, is learning (i''.-Aiyfi the railroad business, beginning at the bottom. Young H. ti. Kogers nas al ready assumed his father's burden. r v- Vrff rill f - 1 1 VIEW SHOWING MANGER back. "What a mess you are making of your life!" "How will you prevent it?" "By an appeal to reason." "What love was ever ruled by rea son?" "Great God!" he retorted passion ately. "Look things In the face. What do you know of me? "I know that I love you." "I would give two-thirds of my fu ture such as it is if I had not known you." "And vet you love me." "My love Is a rotten reed," .he said "Listen!" She bent her head. "From the beginning I have lied to you lied, do you hear? I singled you out for my own selfish ends. All my kindness, as you call it, was because of its usefulness to me. While you looked on In Innocence I made you a tool In my hands for the furtherance of my own purpose." "There Is not a soul In this boat .but believes me to be your husband. I have created the Impression because I was a desperate man and it aided me. My name is not even Lawrence Smith." "Stop!" she said faintly. "I left England a hunted man. When I reach the other side I shall find them still upon my tracks. It Is for an act which they call an ugly name. And yet I would do It over again. It was Justice." Her quivering face was turned away. "I reached Southampton with the assistance of a friend. He secured a stateroom from an L. Smith, who was delayed. I took his name as a safe guard, and when I saw yours beside me at table I concluded he was your husband and I played his part In the eyes of the passengers. It succeeded well." He laughed bitterly. Then before her stricken eyes hla recklessness fell from him. "Oh. if I could undo this," he said, "I would go bock gladly to stand my chances of the gallows. "Hush!" she said wildly. "You must believe this," he went on passionately, "that at the last I loved you. You must believe." "No, no!" she cried. And she fled Into the obscurity of her Btateroom. When she came upon deck next day It was high tide, and the steamer was drawing Into New York. "There Is no harm In good-by," Bald a voice at her side. He was loklng down upon her, his William Rockefeller will leave behind manger, 18 inches wide, consisting of him William fi. Rockefeller and Percy 2-Inch hemlock, Is 6 inches aDOve tne a nvfoiior who will divide the floor. As the front of the manger is nlaca he has left vacant. John D. built on rather than against the bot Archbold will some day step aside for torn It leaves the inside bottom meas- John F. Archbold. Stuyvesant Fish, urement of the manger 16 inches. The Jr., will be equal to the responsible side of the manger over which the ,m v0nt,,fliiv devolve calf's neck Is placed in feeding Is 8 upon him. Watson Webb, son of Dr. aches above the bottom, one-half of Seward Webb, is a clerk in the office this distance be ng taken up by a 2x4, of the assistant superintendent of the the balance by the bottom frame-work Northwestern Road In Milwaukee. fiaannril Tlnon. son of Robert Bacon, Materials for the Silo. nt the Arm nf t p Mnrean Co.. and Ensilage is being used more and BOHEMIAN TWINS MARVELS. Two Girls Joined Toa-etner nr - collar Bonds of Flesh. There have Just arrived in London from Liege the Misses Rosa and Josefa Blazek, who are, no doubt, the most extraordinary examples of human ab normality In existence. Probably no physiological curiosity. of eaual interest has been Been, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, since Eng and Chang, the Siamese twins, were t, fM ,oatinr nn It. Tne c"""""1 " " . : ...r. .;;l:Z7,Jki,i, , ago. before Bettllng down In a south fTeedsUs 15 inches aboVthe flor em state, where they ma rriedt .1 hM nnt h nrndfl hleher. as le, wuo reamu iicjumjr, even this is ratHer high for the new born calf. The youngest calves can feed over this, but should not be left fastened during the day, as they could not lie down comfortably. The side of the manger next the feed alley is ill: mi --- 'inr - VIEW SHOWING STANCHIONS. Hies. The physical condition of the Misses Blazek differs little from that of the late Siamese twins. The bodies of the latter were connected near the chest; in the case of these young women the adhesion occurs for some distance up the side, terminating slightly above the waist. Their heads are not quite on a level, Josefa being somewhat the taller of the two. Although the girls of necessity spend their lives side by side, they cannot look into each other's faces. The most that Is possible is a sidelong glance that Rosa is enabled to take of her sister. . Physically their actions are Interde pendent, but mentally the girls have a separate existence. Nor do their tastes, Inclinations or temperaments coincide. Consequently they live in a state of constant compromise. The couple If the plural is permissible appear very happy and contented. The sisters enjoy the usual comple ment of limbs. They walk with a sprightly, nimble movement, but, of course, four feet are seen in opera tion, and when the necessity arises for nracticailv 2 feet high and 2i feet above the floor; the slope given to this part of the manger is a very de cided advantage, especially in placing and removing buckets while the calf them t0 ft a heayy art,de four ama IS fastenea in me Biaacmun; eveu . . . avtanAaA tnr tv more siope man uim imutiii. wuuiu 1. .1 pose, oe wen. i ""7 Born in Prague, the capital of Bo on every vwo ieei, iu ouuum uo,tuD hom.. thn .,. ... , Vflft n, . minimum width, for while it is ample room for the young calves, even more room would be desirable for the rough age of the older ones. The manger partitions extend upward as far a the curved line shown in the illustration, but this is the most faulty feature of the fixture, as It is possible for one calf to reach over and suck another one's ears if the meal and ensilage Is not promptly supplied after the milk is consumed, though this rarely hap pens. A more perfect manger divi sion will be made' by boarding up from the manger to the dotted line shown between A B. The front or stanchion part of the fixture is 3 feet 6 inches high and slopes away from the man ger to increase its capacity and give the calf the benefit of a little more spread in throwing the head up to remove It from the open stanchion. The stanchions are made of well-seasoned 1-inch elm and no breaks have occurred thus far.- The youngest calves do not require more than five inches space for the neck when confined. The stanchion frames are bored with a number of holes so that the movable upright pieces can.be shifted accord ing to the size of the calf. As calves approach the yearling stage and their horns interfere with the working of the stanchion the movable piece may be removed and the animal allowed to go free while feeding. Thi3 system has given the utmost satisfaction, per mitting calves to be fed individually according to their needs and entirely preventing the many bad habits bo frequently acquired by the pail fed calf. They speak no language save their native Czech. Franz Blazek, the father, Is a successful farmer. His eldest daughter, who is quite normal, mar ried some four years ago and has now four children. Mr. Blazek has also a son, 17 years of age. UVlul IVt .BjBjBJIBliBfJwSfc ent of t5BTasjle- one of the biggest stockholders in the more for general farm stock, being Northern Pacific Railroad, is learning fed to some extent to the caives. tne the railroad business in the west, mantei meeis uuu uib ums. Augustus Barstow succeeds Frank Q. probably requires a uttie nigner graae or bkui 10 mauage a larm wim me silo system. There is room for Judg ment in putting up the silo, In han dling the crop and filling the silo, to say nothing of its management win ter and summer and the right plan of feeding. There Is considerable to learn for the farmer who has always practiced the hay, grain and roots sys tem. Yet the experience of those who have made the change seems to indi cate that there is no need of making serious mistakes tfven the first year, while the new system nearly always gives satisfaction under the circum stances mentioned. Perhaps not ev ery dairy farmer needs a silo, but it can not be denied that a great many more silos are needed than have yet been put up. Barstow, who died a few weeks ago. H. H. Rogers, Jr., is "making good under the tremendous responsibilities that were suddenly thrust upon him. J. Plerpont Morgan, Jr., has taken over a great share of the financial re sponsibilities of his father, and In time will be the head of the house of Morgan & Company. Mortimer L. Schiff is being trained to assume the resnonslbilities of his father, Jacob Schiff, one of the biggest money pow- prs in the country of the day. Allan A. Ryan and Clendenln J. Ryan, sons of Thomas F. Ryan, are fitting them selves to take up their father's work hv learning the methods of Wall street.. Monntalu Climbers Escape, Plunging headlong from the rock) side of a mountain in the Olympic range, near Lake Cushman, a distance of fully BOO feet, and yet escaping without a broken bone, is the experi ence that befell Ferd Baker, says the Aberdeen correspondence of the Seat tle Post-Intelligencer. In company with several others fron. this city Mr. Baker climbed the moun tin vesterday. About 4 o'clock the The Yolks of Eggi. The -color of the yolk of the egg seems often to be effected very notice ably by a change In the food. When fowls are closely confined In winter or summer, It often happens, especial ly if a ration is deficient in green food, that the yolks are pale colored. In one instance a much deeper orange color In the yolk followed a change In lAntn. in o-foon nlnvar and alfalfa. party started downward and had taken , . M . Mln . Vftl. wora : . . . .v ni,a. iD VI. u " " v J DUl a lew w ucu uomi ivov uia Getting; Rid of Stamps. Since the discovery of that region constituting part of the present State- of Washington the fir stump has block ed the progress of civilization west of the Cascades, from Oregon to British Columbia. Science has found ways to span the State's rivers, tunnel its mountains and irrigate its deserts, but until recently It has been unable to cope with the fir stump. Bulky, firm rooted in the earth, and so saturated with pitch that it will not decay, it has defied everything but dynamite, and that costs about $3 a stump, with an equal amount to cover the expenses of the donkey engine necessary to re move the roots when the main body of the stump has been shattered, Clearly such a costly process can not be used for agricultural purposes In a heavily timbered country. Such was the situation when, three years ago, an enterprising farmer con ceived the idea of burning out the stumps by forced draft. After many experiments he finally got a 4 horse power donkey engine, attached a 6 inch American blower, and over this he fitted a tin case with twelve tubes leading from It To these he attached pieces of garden hose and to the ends iron pipe. Then he bored a hole in the stump, and, dropping In a live coal. Inserted a pipe and started the footing and plunged over a precipice. How far he fell he does not know, but he was rendered unconscious by the fall, and In this condition his body rolled down the mountain until Anally caught by a bunch of shrubs. There he lay until found by W. J. Patterson, one of the party. With the application of snow and ice Baker was revived and after a time walked to camn. wnere nis wounas were ai- the rule, laid eggs with orange colored yolks after they had been given the run of a barn floor covered with dry clover chaff and leaves. A change in color of butter Is often noticeable .In the same way when cows are turned to pasture after dry feed. Rubber CoTered Roads. Experiments with rubber asphalt roadways covering a period of six years are reported to have shown very to. He was frightfully bruised ! satisfactory results. Rubber asphalt about the body and face and suffered ! Is claimed to be more plastic and more much pain. He was made as comfort- adhesive than pure asphalt and resists nhi( aa Dosslble and at daybreak this hlgheT temperatures. This - product. morning the start for the city was , which is manufactured under a patent- made in an automobile. The party ed process, permits cold applications of reached there about 4 o'clock; and the asphalt, which are said to possess Baker's injuries were attended to by ! all the advantages of hot compressed a physician. I asphalt without tta drawbacks. An acceptance of a building or structure that has been completed and which contains latent defects either in the character of .its workmanship or the quality of material used, is held, In Steltz vs. Armory Co. 15 Ida ho, 551, 99 Pac. 98, L.R.A. (N.S.) 872, not to amount to waiver of such latent defects; but, on the contrary, it is held that the owner may maintain his action against the contractor for breach of the contract as he discovers the extent fects, or after he has had reasonable time and opportunity, by due dili gence, to have discovered the same. The mere affixing of a price to each bushel of a crop contracted to be threshed is held, in Johnson vs. Feh.se feldt, 106 Minn. 202, 118 N. W. 797, 20 L.R.A. (N.S; 1069, not to be suffi cient to make the contract severable. An agreement by a retiring partner "not to engage for the next two years" in the same city in competition with a business sold, in "the manner afore said," is held, in Slegel vs. Marcus (N. D.) 119 N. W. 358, 20 L.R.A. (N.S.) 769, to be violated by the en tering of such partner into the em ploy as a managing clerk, of a third person whom such retiring partner was instrumental In procuring to open a rival business adjacent to that of the original firm, and it is held that such violation should be enjoined at the suit of the purchasing partner. The South Carolina Code provides that no party to an action shall be examined respecting a transaction or communication between him and a person at the time of the examination deceased, as a witness against a party prosecuting or 'defending the action aa executor, administrator, heir at law, etc. The agent of appellant in selling to respondent, the owner of a small store, a fire Insurance policy, had as sured him that it was not necessary tor Insurers of small stocks of goods .0 comply with that clause of the pol icy which compelled the keeping of the books In an Iron safe. Before the trial the agent died. In Berry vs. Virginia State Ins. Co., 64 Southeast ern Reporter, 859, payment of the In surance was refused on account of the violation of the terms of the policy. The South Carolina Supreme Court held the representation of the agent a waiver of the iron-safe provision in the policy, and the defendant, not de fending the action as "executor, ad- engine. In a few moments the hole was aflame, and soon a dozen stumps minlstrator, heir at law," or any other person named within the statute. It were blazing, although it was the wet season and the monsters were sodden with water. Technical World. Farm Notes. It Is better to sow rutabaga turnips In rows than broadcast The best cows are the ones that the careful dairyman raises for himself. Rotation must be practiced in the garden or truck Geld to obtain the best results. Black Winter or Spanish radishes should be sown in August or Septem ber with turnips. It has been said that "weeds are the devil's flower." Certain it Is that they play the mischief with a crop, It Is a look a long ways ahead, but Just make up your mind now that you will attend your state and county fair this year. does not apply, so as to make Inadmis sible the testimony of the conversation of the deceased agent" Experience Teaches. Lover (haughtily) Is it a matte. of astonishment sir, that I should want to marry your daughter? Father (apologetically) Not at all, young man. I wanted to marry her mother once. The astonishment at the idea comes later. Baltimore Amerl-.an. Cans tor Sasplcioaw "When a man dat's tryln to trade horses wlf me stahts braggin' 'bout how honest he Is In his dealln's," said Uncle Eben, "I can't help suspectln dat he's gettln ready to make an ex ception In my case." Washington Star. . ' ' .