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tybere'er I read In mournful history : How all things crumble at the touch f i of time, : : And even great deeds, renowned In f mighty rhyme, Show but as cities burled 'neath the - . sea, , Which, In calm days, men gaze on aw- fully.' My heart grows heavy; but one I thought sublime Rises, and, therewith the uplifting , chime .. . Of morning stars comes back remem berlngly: Woman, thou art that thought, In whom I know That I alone gave Time his tyrant might, -..-. Dropping my foolish lids of clay too low, For, looking up, I see great Love, far, . far . .... Above all changes, like a steadfast star if .1 Behind the pulsings of the northern ' light James Russell LowelL An Incomplete Introduction The express to the north was on the point of starting. A girl was leaning expectantly out of the' window of a carrlagtt containing only one other oc cupanta man, In the far corner, who was looking with undisguised admira tion at the girl's charming, animated prpfile. Another girl came running along the platform. "Uefa or vonr naoers. Ethel: I '''"thought I should not be In time." ' "Tmiaks, Marlon, and good-bye!" As they shook Lands, the man In the .'' eorr.er came forward. - . , , , , "Why, Stanley!": cried theglrKon ; he platform. ; "Goings to Trevor -'? granger ',,iv ,.?' . T fi' The guard's whistle sounded. There A was a banging of doors. i "Whv" nf course. Ethel Oh. I forgot : yotf have never met" The train be- SECRET OF AEEOPLANI'S FLIGHT. MOVES SO FAST IT HAS NOT TIME TO FALL. Suppose you had to cross a lake covered with cakes of Ice so thin that If you were to stand upon any one of them you would sink. To cross the lake you would have to run from cake to cake, so that you would not give yourself time enough to sink on any one of them. An aeroplane is very much in the same position. It-must move so fast that it never has time to fall through any given section of air. Motion, therefore, Is the Becret of an aeroplane's flight. New York Times. three hours' tete-a-tete should be equiv alent to many days in ordinary cir cumstances." "Perhat8 so." she admitted, laugh- so iTurln. "Besides. I have heard v - v.... ni.li fit at T eaam tA know " n r JUUCU HUUUL JUU, buab - ovv w ' gan to move. "I must lntoduce you tfl reputation Is a i - I - J I 1 l.nA. na with " nue crieu, ruuuiug iu n.coy v i ,. onB the moving carriage. "Ethel, this is my cousin, Stanley Mortimer " But the train having gathered speed, she was left far behind on the platform. In the carriage, the two laughed. She had heard much of Stanley Mor timer. That he was a very handsome HI WONDEBKD WHO BHf WAS. fellow, Bhe could now Judge for her self; but she was wondering whether, as she had been told, he was such a consummate flirt, captivating girls eas ily, making love and leaving victims on his path wherever he went while he himself remained untouched by the tender passion. He wondered who she was. How silly ;.',!5Mf Marlon not to have begun the In ' Production In time to inform him of ' his companion's name. Anyhow, he would have first innings and make headway with her before any of the other fellows at Trevor grange should even have a chance of looking at her. She smiled sweetly, making some re marks on the length of the Journey. "Oh," he observed, It cannot be too long for me." "Indeed?" "Under present circumstances, yea, "You mean, of course, the return of fine weather," Bhe said, innocently. "I mean," he answered, "the privil eg of the society of a charming fel low guest." "Oh, well," she laughed, "you will have the pleasure of many charming guests society at the Journey's end; the house party Is to be a large one." "Still, I should prefer to retain the present delightful situation as long as possible." "Would you? I suppose you have stayed at the grange before?" "Oh, yes, some time ago, before Har ry Trevor was married. He has Just returned from abroad and Is to be there with his wife. You know her?" "Very well Indeed," she replied, smiling. " have never met her, but I hear globus accounts of her." "Fiople exaggerate so," she re marked, s l- "From which I may Inter that you are not a blind admirer ot Mrs. Harry r ! "I daresay she Is all right Ot course," she continued, "you are ao- qualnted with most of the guests you are to meet?" v , , t "X have seen oneot them, at any - .t nA b,v the Um.Ythat wa our destination 1 j will have Mpl tnt my claim! ' -V: "Indeed!" He laughed, well pleased; he was Droud of the name of ladyklll- er. "But, as you remarked Just now," he said, "people exaggerate so." "Still one Is bound to be ft ntye prejudiced by what one hears. "You mean that" you, believe me to be ft flirt?"- . Well aren't your "Not & bit of it." he assured her. "You see, I believe that a man is bound to meet the one woman In the world whom he must love. Until he does, he naturally, In the hope of finding her, goes from one to the other. If hl3 quest is a long one, he Is accused of flirting with all the girls he knows, which Is unfair. Such a mans love Is far more worth having than that of a man easily won by the first pretty face he encounters." "Still, is it necessary that this man while trying to find the woman who is to fill his life, should make love to girls whom he knows are not the one Ideal?" You must admit," be replied, light ly, "that some girls are so reaay to be made love to that they mistaKe or dinary courtesies for something differ ent." ' "Do they? Then all the more rea son why men should be more circumspect." "Yon may be right. My attentions to girls might, in reality, have been flirtations; my excuse is this: that was before I met you." "Have I converted you, then? Are you really never to flirt again?" "You understand, do you not, that having met the one woman I longed for, my flirting days are over?" "And how many times before now have you thought that you had found her?" "I may have thought so more than once," 'he admitted, laying his hand softly on her gloved one, "but I do not think so now I know. She gently disennaged her hand. He thought he had gained an advantage, and tried to pursue it. "You will believe," he said, Impres sively, "that you are the one woman for whom I have waited. They were approaching the country station to which they were bound. "At any rate, we may consider that you have secured the friendship which It was your desire to claim at the end of the Journey." She fluttered her handkerchief out of the window. "That Is the car from the grange," she explained. Again he tried to secure her hand. "Friendship? I want more than friendship; I want your love." "I am afraid I could not promise you that." "Do you mean that there is no hope for me? Ethel you will not forbid ml " -ne aoor oi ma currmgo ucw open. "Her you are. Ethel; had a good day In townr said a cheery voice. "Why, here Is Mortimer, too! How are you, old boy? Let me introduce " "Mr. Mortimer ana I traveaea to gether. Harry," Interrupted Ethel. "Marlon Introduced him to me in Lon don, uat as our train was starting; It made the Journey so pleasant, and we have become such preAt friends, hava we not, Mr. Mortlme " " Mortimer followed, amllW to htm- 'aid such graious stress '"' iw-toriied frtend vio brtlrlaat "her previous ' could only have been prompted by coquetry. Victory was at hand! They were approaching a large mo tor, where sat a nurse with a one-year- old child on her lap. Ethel took a quick step toward It, "Oh. the darling." she cried! "Let ma have him, nurse." "Harry," she said, "Mr. Mortimer has not. seen our son yet; isn't he a love?" and she held up the lace-swathed child for Mortimer's Inspection. Ladles' Field. ' . , 1 THE YOUNGEST SOVEEEIGU, A SOLDIER'S LONG! BIBB. Ha Carried Report 832 Miles est Horseback tor Gen. Kearney, 'Gen. Kearney was ordered from 8anta Fe across to California with the dragoons and wanted to get hia report back to Washington as soon as it could be done," relates Thomas Tobln in Outing, "and asked me if I would carry it to Fort Leavenworth. I agreed to do It and started with only a day's notice. "1 carried on a blanket, a lariat, knife, Hawkins rifle, with about hundred rounds, a dragoon pistol and For Cream Teat Balance, A simple and sensitive weighing In- about two spoonfuls of salt. I de- strument to do Known as tne wisum- pended on my rifle for meat and on sin hydrostatic cream balance bus finding Indian herds for fresh horses. I weighed about 14Q pounds and was tough as leather. I got my first re mount from St;. Vraln at Mora, about eighty miles from Santa Fe and rode It two days, till I found a camp oil Utes hunting buffalo and got a fresh horse from their herd In the night. 1 had to be very careful about falling In with any Indians, for they would have killed a lone man for his outfit, and half a dozen times or more I hid In some draw on the prairie till night or rode miles off the trail to keep away from their hunting parties or camps. It was very risky, too, riding into their herds, and roping a fresh horse and I always led him away some distance before I tried to change my saddle, so that If he made any noise, it wouldn't stampede the herd and wake the camp. "I didn't dare to make a fire in the daytime but at night could cook a lit tle meat on the coals and the little I slept was while lying on my lariat, so that my horse couldn't get away with It out of my reach. I followed the Arkansas as far as Big Bend and then bore off across the country to Council Grove and from there northeast, fol lowing the plain trail to Fort Leaven worth; In all, 832 miles, as measured later. I rode it in little less than elev en days and used nine horses; the last two I got from government trains which I overtook after leaving Arkan sas." ; - . " WONDERS OF THE DEEP. been devised at the agricultural experi ment station of the University of Wis consin. This In- .. 4 mfl.ta that A tfo 1 o n g recognized need for a simple and accurate meth of weighing cream in the Babcock test bottle for test ing. The 'ordinary cheap scales are inaccurate, and the more delicate bal ances are too ex pensive for general use by farmers. . The new Inven tion consists or a specially devised brass float, similar to a . dydrometer, which Is 'placed In a cylinder of wa ter. The instru ment floats stead ily In a vertical position, and sup ports a platform on which a cream bottle and a nine gram weight are are placed. Small, one - tenth gram weights are placed on the platform until the float sinks to a line cbeam balance, marked on the ,t spindle. The nine-gram weigm then put into the bottle with a pipewe in a sufficient amount to again sink to a line of the spindle, i China, the oldest of nations, Is ruled, if the expression may be allowed, by the youngest of sovereigns, a boy of 3. He Is a nephew of the late em peror, and until bis accession rbore the name of Pu-yl, although the royal as trologers have selected as his official title Hsuan-t'ung, which means "Gen eral Proclamation." The boj wjys ft writer in the Overland Monthr , is in delicate health, and the Chinese are inclined to attribute this to his birth on the unlucky thirteenth day of the first moon. In order to escape the evil influence as far as possible, it has been decreed that his birthday shall be celebrated on the 14th of the month. Further, he Is to be brought up more hyglenlcally than his predecessor was. He will have plenty of fresh air, and will not be expected to appear at the midnight audiences which are the fash ion at the Chinese court His first ap pearance in public at his enthrone ment was not a success, for he cried loudly; and henceforth his father, the prince regent, will attend all official functions alone, and will receive digni taries of state, and offer up the re quired prayers for snow or rain. He will also be responsible for plow- lug the first furrow at the spring fes tival at the Temple of Agriculture, for the worship of the Lord of Heaven on the white marble altar of the Temple of Heaven, and for the propitiation ot the local deities who watch over the old city of Peking. , But the little emperor, although re lieved from these duties, will not be allowed to forget that he is an off! cial baby. He may no longer live with his own family, or see his parents ex cept In the presence of the i whole court Twenty-four nurses will keep watch over htm, and he has three wives already, aged 10, 12 and 13 years, each of whom receives an allow ance of $400 a month. The exact meaning ot his new name, "Hsuan-t'ung," is difficult to render In translation, but the character Hsuan is considered very fortunate. A certain emperor of the Ming dynasty; called himself "Hsuan Te," of "Proclamation of Peace," and the symbol is common on old Ming pottery. Optimistic officials read into Hsuan' t'ung, or "General Proclamation," I reference to the promised constltu tion; and it is confidently expected that this child emperor, when he comes of age, will Inaugurate a new regime ot progress and reform in the govern ment of China, Caaao and Bffeet. The census bureau tells us that there is an overplus ot women in the cities and a shortage In the rural districts. Merely in a desultory way it may be mentioned that there are not so many show windows in the country as in the city. Cincinnati Post i Hindoo PlartaaT Cards. " The Hindoo playing cards are near ly all circular, and each card repre sents some historical or rellgioog vast .s es uneseu wniiuriuiuiy, ueieruiiiieu iu iue weig get,, the good of the trip, this is4 what however, hajppensf. ( ;v , Jl? . , , i Ail excited passenger rusheji up; ,and . ; . For the traveler crossing the Atlan t1i in tanrv that hia nnssiairfl is to be a 1 the float time of rest is a mistake, declares This gives the weight accurately and Alan Dale, in "The Great Wet Way." the devise is so sensitive that It Is Ha siivb that ah sonn ns one establish- offected bv a snKle drop Ot cream. es oneself comfortably, determined to The weighing can be done rapidly, 1 p..:k,. ,' a Skim-MilkfY i'-f a 'tha . Wont Virtrinia exDerlment """" ' t " ' f. T hkfetttn 4t hi, Mia ifnnnd That BKim -come to tne otner side or tne snip: f ... . . . hens ,8 wol.ta Quick! For goodness' sake, don't miss . , t. a nuart. Other it! EveryDoayB mere, uome on:" ,-,,. mi. amI that it no iiciya uic uy, uu u.a6, " fc ,. . oat vfllns for feed Ul ,1 !.! tk V,(r, D . ,..-. i- j ii. "g pigs, wnere u is oiowmg a gaie, ami is mrir, t th! rat. th milkman hateful. All the passengers are there. who wholfl mUk ,g selng from in agitated groups. Emotion Is in the 6Q g() centg, worth of Bklm mllk t0 air, wind-tossed Men and women are each and tne general market talking in all kinds of voice; they are of & cftn o mllk ,s c!ose around armed with opera glasses, field glass- Nqw tn,g caQ of mllk es and telescopes. It is a busy mo- enough cream to make four pounda mem. of butter, which Is worth about $1 leaving only about 25 cents for the skim mllk sold, or a loss of from 35 to 55 cents on each can over making the cream into butter and feeding the citrlm Tvilllr Alan whpn tha mtllr la IS pieniy oi waier, ana vueie u,, Qn farm more fertnlzer , of sky, but not more than usual of wh,ch makes the ulfference "Look!" cries my chaperon. "Look! See where I'm pointing? Follow my flnser. There! You've got it. You must see It!" But I don't. I see nothing. There either. There are also many clouds, I see all that, and nothing more, and I say so. "Nonsense !" he exclaims testily. Here, take my glasses and . look straight ahead of you. Now do you see?" I see a black speck on the horizon, I hate black specks. A year ago I saw so many of them that I went to ft doctor, who told me that it was indi gestion. I had to take pepsin after meals for three months. Now this still greater In favor of keeping and feeding the skim milk. Where ine can secure select trade for whole mllk at extra price it will pay to sell the whole mllk and buy extra feed3 and fertilizers, but sell ing whole milk at less than $1 for a 40-quart can is not profitable when one considers the future of the land on which he Is dairying. The number? believe, who, their fault son , ous nature has only to attach parties. This! thoughtlessly a twnnA faith T. ourselves and n lng another. vi".,. Patron, c wlscon8iv recenUy-ijfcdt Bnmo vigorous" tests gainst y9 products. It : ti spired that ti creamerv was not ;' the wrong, exvvt 80 far as the man- 11 agement put fft ln ft few 0f the pa trons or tne creamery. Several or. them had tr.u-tieggiy turned .their V. 1 . , In uciua miiu 'abbage, ; rape ana iuiin paicnes imn.e(1jateiy after the f nrsi , heavy frosts, XTlA tne mnk thus tainted was sent ln, v.lta the result of causing inferiority In tne creamery's output Aside from ti. fact that we should not judge too bitHy or be too ready ing farmer willi understand from the case in point tllat feeding the stock any old thing tl nrevent waste may be the means ot,roducjng greater de struction. Oroduc "W ln 1 , Dairying. , winter. There are majijl advantages In hav ing cows come f r,pn jn winter, when all dairy products 'sell at, .a lilgh price. r T '. i ' i.ii.. in Juan piaes tne price oi ouuor is from S5 'jfo 50 per cent higher ln winter tharj ii summer. When tftJf cws calve ln the spring they gsneralfy ynllk well until the pas tures dry up, Wen the flow of milk quickly falls off, so thaVy the time' . . . , . i. . , ""'i icms wcki u me who . muiwi. . A tA XT , V Ann.a uuou uii. lNuw, it xnv ivns tuuic ucau in th fall, they produce a good rlo? of milk during the winter monthsit. and ln the spring, when they are turned 1 on the grass,, this acts as a second reshefling aitiT thus lengthens the periW of mllk production. : Anothet distinct advantage ln win ter dairying Is that during this sea-' son the fanner Is not so busy with other workconsequenfly he can give more time the care of the cows, the mllk andjtie cream, than is possi ble during tl busy season of the year. . When 'inter ., dairying becomes more general practiced, the subject, of winter feed will be'given more at-' tention. Of tlse silage is one of the most important, since one acre of good silage material M yield as much feed v - an luree acrp pasture. X No ma J in shape f ed comb from the cj ly ln the n y breeds, wh gear, or cor : tractive. Ti 1 combs, as w panylng lllut. f-' Combs. ultry may excel 'ze, a malform 3V will detract ccess, especlal- Mediterranean iamental head (isplcuously at jny kinds ot 1.' !iWWMfc. . jns, which are de serving of nnute. chief of .which are f New Corn Feeding;. Not all farmers appreciate the value Idiot appears to be Intensely rejoiced 0f feeding new corn. When handled because he has forced me to perceive properly more good results can be ob- a black speck on the horizon. tained from It than from any other "It is a boat!" he cries, Joyously. cr0D grown. When fed ln the green "There Is no doubt about It at all. gtage, from the time when grains are If you look carefully, take your time, jn the mill, till they become hard and old chap, youH see the smoke. Yea, tne blades dry up, horses and cattle It'B & boat, a boat, ft boat!" wm eat almost, If not all, of the en If he could see a Brooklyn trolley tire plant, and sheep and hogs will car, ft Strand omnmus, or a touring eat much of It, utilizing to advantage automobile, I should be able to under- au tnere i3 in the crop. New corn. stand his excitement. But a boat! One just after it has passed the roasting would think that a boat was tne most ear stage, is one of the best feeds for extraordinary and dramatic thing that DOultry, both young and old, and hens had ever happened, une expecu to wm iay eggs much better than on old see boats, for ours Is not the only ves- corn. There Is no feed much better Bel on the Atlantic Ocean. , Uor fattening horses and colts, as well ni, cattle, than new corn. rasia dw. We always plant some very earl v. A ton of coal Is worth ft churchful medium and the patches of corn to be of charity. . Cut and fed whole ln late summer and A secret that yon can't tell is as bad I fan. in this way we have the best as money you can't spend. 0f feed for the stock In August, Sep- Cast your bread upon the watera It tember and October, one-fourth of the may save your whole family from dys- year. While the new corn is being pepsla. fed none of the stock requires much There re men who would be recon- other feed, ana tne grain in the bin died to death If they thought that and the hay ln the mow are saved. could get their pictures in the new- tne single serra.d mmh aa such breeds rorcas, Leghorns, Orpingtons, P, U h Rocks, Lang shans, Dorkln; 1, liferent sizes- the rose-comb, be ty jortscf rugated, and .53 F small points, 'as seen chiefly- li fl Redcap, Hamburg, and Wyandottp family. ; Then there li the pea comb or triple comb, that is, three parallel; ridges (or very small combs), as sd-en in the Brahman or the Indian Game. 1 . ' paper. No man can be secretly religious. There are plenty of men who think when they put ft penny In the collec tion plate that they ought to hear ft 100-pound sermon. ' , . Farm Notes. Get busy with the wobbly colt and teach him that you are his friend and master. - .It will be easy. The average ewe requires from 3 to 5 pounds of salt a year, the variation . I J.nnndiniT I U TV Ml V II I M I Tl Tna Bmnik sr Ah. was he not truly Dravei h m'-s e- ---- """""I ui walked out without ft single tremor to neural salts contained In the pas discharge the cook. But, being ft kind- lures. hearted man. before he reached the The bees should have plenty of wa- kltchen door he reconsidered the mat- ter. They consume a great deal, and .nrf dsclded to rive her another will travel a long distance to get It trlal'New Orleans Picayune. Should there be no running stream or lake ot pure water near, it is well Disabled teachers In Munich receive t0 piaee a pail of fresh water near pensions of 75 per cent of their -alar- tE- apiary every day. Water is used lea, and ft schoolmaster's wife who Dy the beeu to dilute the heavy, thlcky loeea her husband gets three-fifths of honey left over from winter to make his salary, with an allowance for every it suitable for the young larvae aid Water And Mr In Soil. There must .tk s proper balance of air and wates'towave the soil work go on. Exclude .her and there Is failure. Soil work! is stopped when the soli becomes so dry that the water films around the iollf particles are de stroyed. The ls,when the plant food ceases to be ,j elaborated, and what plant food there ta in the soil is no longer carried to the roots of the plants. ", l ; Great losses Jn Sfrops are annually recorded because these simple funda mental facts Ire not fully understood. There must pe a balance. Drainage will often do much to bring about a good conditio! of aeration of soil; but in some soils Ijinethlng else is needed. Thus a sandsoil that is so light thai the moisture film soon disappears to ft depth of j foot or more will pro duce notblii In such a case other things mil Ve Incorporated with the sand of tfe toil,, such as muck, lime, humus, farUlW to give It the power to'retainAhe ripisture film." " child under twenty. I fiA to make the cell wax pliable. KeeptnarWeet Potatoes. Therr are several different methods for storing and kiping sweet potatoes which' have provw successful. Po tatoei, when flrstWug, have a large amotnt of moistu in them, which must evaporate. WW the weather is good they should bleft out in the field until tnis evanration plete: otherwise the rWture i.tense heat generatedW their 4- in a hill will cause rot! When A not possible they should e piled f ' ly ln a dry house for aVcek or They may then be storeW the of a buildiny or In a rooii whp-f temperature will be such tt not freexe. t in the is corn and V ' '