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Ket softer cloud shade evening sklss Than deepen In her shining eyss; Nor gayer than her laugh at me It morning sunlight on the seat Like mountain air 'mid dewy grass The musings of my little lassl With her my dusty thoughts regain Greenness like leaves In tender rain. Ah, yes, you smile! But I confess X simply dare not love her less, Or scorn heaven's well-Inverted plan That makes the child protect the man. JSIn, strong as boa's living snare, Glides past, surprised to And her there, The stealthy ills that suck my breath Draw hers In mine, and feel It death. But if I gravely stoop to kiss That little mischief-loving miss, She scampers off, with teasing spite, And furtive glances of delight I -Spectator. ; ft The New Leaf John Henry Bllltngton walked-slow It along the dusty road, his prospect ing tools slung over his back. The hot sun beat down pitilessly and in tenslfled the headache which he had fairly earned the night before. The debauch had not been his first, and he was too experienced a hand to con sider it his last. And yet he abused himself roundly as he walked the un familiar road. He had shaken the dust of Jlmtown from his feet, and bidden goodby forever to that para- dlse of the Iniquitous. He stepped to one side of the road, at the sound of wheels, without look ing up. Whoa! " sounded a cheery voice, as tho brake grated on the wheel "Hev a lift, stranger?" John Henry smiled up out of a pair awav. au lather's father Had before him. And perhaps. In time, he could lire things down end after a while per haps Martha. So the man's thoughts and feet strayed In pleasant ways, Of the chances gone, he thought not at all or at least with only a regret- rul sigh that he had soJlttle to offer. He would turn he had turned over a new leaf. The very words brought oacK the day of his leaving, five years before. He had used them in earnest to Martha's Aunt Jane Aunt Jane. who would not allow new leaves to be turned; who would not even let them write to each other. It was night as he drew near the farm house. It was early, though, barely six the country supper hour. As he opened the gate there was a rush, a bark of joyful recognition John Henry knelt down and hugged the dog. "Why, you, you darned old Don!" the man sobbed, "ef you ain't remembered me." It was easy, with the friendly dog. to creep up to the kitchen window. where, as he remembered, the shades were never drawn. From his great height it was possible to peer in the window. It was all as he remembered It, though a mist shut It for a mo ment from his eyes. The very dishes were the same; the snow-white cloth: the vase of flowers; the shining stove. How well he remembered it As he gazed, fascinated, an inner door opened, and he saw Martha. His Knees trembled under him, and yet he went forward and tapped with his shaking hand upon the kitchen door. A flood of light fell over him as Martha opened the door. "Why, Jack! Why, dear Jack!" she said, putting out both hands; "you've come home." She drew him inside' and shut the door, talking, laughing, but asking no questions Martha knew when a man could not speak. "Poor Aunt Jane is dead, you know, Jack," she said, after a moment. "No no. I never heerd." - "Yes. The winter after you went Martha continued, - after the reached the gate, he knelt aow and let Don lick his hands. Then he res olutely set his face toward the road, wnicn led, eventually, to Impious Jim- Itownv San Francisco Argonaut ; DUTIES 0! BRITISH XIBTO. inaracter of Hla Poaltloa and tho dualities Expect la Him. A king of England is the grand chairman of the nation. He Is crowned and hereditary president of our repub lic, the royal lord protector of our Imperial commonwealth. His example is more powerful than his edict He Ronnd Dairy Barns, The Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station has sent to press a bulletin in Collasftbla Chicken Coop. The average chicken coop made of a soap box or some other small box is not always convenient for carrying around, and use In different places. An A-shapod coop Is little better than an ordinary box. The accompanying sketch, says a Georgia writer in Popu lar Mechanics, shows a conapsiDie a shaped coop that can be folded am stored away or carried set up for ust anvwhere. Th main frame is made In foui SOLD SURVIVOR OF A CIVIL WAS SHIP TRAGEDY. must have .kindliness, the sympathy w&ich the economy of the round dairy of comprehension as well as the sym- barn ,s discussed at considerable pathy of approbation; dignity, and the length- Comparison of the cost of gentleness that Is comnatl'ble with rund dairy barns is discussed at con- firmness. All these things the nation s'terable length. Comparisons Of the marked In Queen Victoria and in him C08t of round barns with rectangular iur wuom we now grieve. II one thinks what the Ideal chairman of a meeting of ordinary Englishmen has to be, one has a very fair picture of ones, including the amount and cost of material, the cost of construction, the amount of stock that can be she! tered, the convenience in storing, han the virtues needed in a British king, dl,n& and distributing the feed, etc., the London Spectator says. He must are DrougI" out very clearly. be considerate to the minority: he I Tne bulletins Include cuts and plans must never allow them to think that ot several round barns in actual use, as chairman he is seeking safety on an Itemized statement of the cost of a the side of mere numerical strength; 6-foot round barn, and cuts showing 1 ; 1 yet he must Insure the prevalence of what he Judges to be the opinion of the majority. He must be patient and courteous- and yet never allow a fanatic or a firebrand to impose upon how the round barn at the agricultural college was built, etc. The conclusions arrived at by the author of the bulletin are that the round barn has a great advantage over a rectangular barn In him. He must never aDDear to stifle convenience, strength and cheapness. discussion and vet h mnHt inmr Jt is found that the round barn is that discussion shall be relevant- he more convenient because of the corn- must keep order firmly and yet he Pactness wtih which it Is built and the must make It appear that in doing so ease 01 setting me reea to tne cows, he is only acting as the agent of the "Jvesugauons snow mat tne rouna meeting whose chief interest fa nrdflr. Darn costs from 34 to 68 per cent less liness. than the rectangular barn containing It is a notoriously difficult office to the same amount of space and built fill. And in this crowded reoublic 01 tne same grade of material. of very honest blue eyes. "Wal, I guess rather," he answered, flinging his pack into the wagon and climbing over the wheel. "All set?" queried the driver. "No hold on a minute," said John Henry, reaching his long arm for his battered property. "Thank you," he said, cordially, as he clambered flown. The man drove on, mystified, while John Henry explained his reasons to himself. "It was kind of him to offer It, an' you didn't like to hurt his feeling's by glttln' down. Oh, no! nor your own neither. That war the ,, principal thing your own. Now, you lazy, drunken, worthless old repro bate, hit tho trail. You lost your chance for a lift last night. Foot It.", The John Henry who ordered John Henry to "foot it" smiled whimsically at the feet of the one who obeyed hlra l ne shoes, which had danced the night before in Billy McGulre's sa loon as badly as they had been fitted for it, were yet less fitted for travel "Hard lines, old man," laughed John Henry. "But pay up, pay up square, Will ye be a coward as well as every thing eiser As he strode along, he thought It ail over. What a muddle he had made of things. Five years of prospecting ana nothing to show for It not even A decent pair of shoes. Well, he had nad some fun rather! even If It had left a bad taste In his mouth, and made a fool of himself times without number. What had started him on his Jaunt he hardly knew the !m pression had been too vague. And his wits had not been collected enough 10 Know mat a girl's gray eves, look ing up at him through the smoke in McGulre's saloon, were just the shade of another girl's eyes, though the girls were as different as light and dark ness, thank God! He laughed a little as he recalled faintest possible hesitation. "She left a message for you. I often wanted to write it to you. but I didn't know the events of the preceding night. A Dig tool ne bad been as usual. Of what use had it been, emptying out nis nara-earned gold dust, Into the lit tle soiled hand that closed greedily over It? Imploring her with drunken, maudlin tears and paternal embraces to "take It and return to her father." wen, she would return to Billy McGulre's saloon, or some other and so would he. At least, as soon as he had seon Martha his little Martha his little, brown Martha, with the clear gray eyes, whose Hps knew no guile; who had believed In him when the others had cast him off as the too plentiful crop of wild oats flourished and grew tall. Yes, he understood quite well now the longing that had been on hlra. It was Just to see Mar tha that he had started out not that he had right or wish to sock her but just to look at her once more, himself unseen, and remember forever after that God had made some women good. Twenty miles and forty miles, twenty again, a scant eighteen, and there you were. Not many miles to have separated two so widely. He stepped out briskly, and as the night closed iu saw just ahead of him the twinkling lights of a little town. He stood for a moment, watching, then turned aside and lay down on a little bank, his hands clasped under his head. Failure marked every mile stone he had passed, but a sense of victory possessed hlra, as he knew a town a mining town lay Just ahead of him. "You'd like to, you skunk," he upbraided himself, "an still I won't let ye. If ye stand by Martha's gate, it'll be as a man five days sober." On the second dny the old shoes re fused to acompany him further, and he "traded" his prospecting tools for an 111 fitting pair. He felt strangely better afterward. He had burned hit bridges; it was the end of the gam bler's life, the g.v.nbler'a unrest, l1 would till the soil a his father and IT WAS ALL A3 HE BKMEMI1KRKD IT. where you was. She marked it in her Bible. I can't remember it." "Yes, you can," said John Henry. "You can always tell, Jack," laughed Martha.' "I do remember it, at least some of it, but it ain't polite." "Tell away." " "When the wicked man turns' there, that's all I know, and it's awful to tell you that much." "No, it ain't. It fits me all right I m a wicked man and I've turned Martha " "And Don remembered you," she in lerrupted. "Yes an you." "We don't forget old friends. You'll think I knew you was coming, when I tell you I've a strawberry shortcake for supper. Do you remember how you always liked It?" "I don't forget nothing," said John Henry. "An', Martha an' Martha when the wicked man turns is there can he Martha?" Jane understood. A flush came to the Boft brown of her cheek, and she started to answer, but a quick step sounded outside and she threw open mo door. atYfr-ll lliil .. wen, mue woman the man began, brightly, but stopped awkward ly at sight of the stranger. "Will, this is Jack " But "Will" Interrupted her, taking John's Irre sponsive hand In his own. Introduce ui. I guess not This is the fellow I told you about, that Jest set In the wagon and wouldn't take a ride. Ef I'd only known who ye wuz. an where you vui comln' you woudn't hev got away so easy. We often talked about you. The wife told me all about you. The boy's named after you. Lord Marthy, go an' wake up little John Henry." Hla face was shining with good will John Henry's dry Hps moved. "It you're too good both o' ye. A wel come like this a man ain't no right to expect it especlallywhen he's Jest ropped in casual Jest casual. But I appreciate It don't think I don't though I've got to get along got to Immediate. There's a little place I'm due at, so I'll have to bid ye both goodby." He stood up gravely and with no trace of awkwardness. Nature bad dealt kindly with him. The face she had planned looked on them; not the face of the man he had become. He shook hands with them both. 1. Mar tha's he left something. "For the lit tle fellow," he said, softly. After he had gone, Martha, with dim eyes, looked Into her own that smiled back from the little told locket As for John Henry, no emo tion shone on his face. But when he of ours all parties which have any power have come to the deliberate con clusion and this after some earnest questionings at the time of the French revolution that the grand chairman of the nation is best drawn from a special family w.hich is, so to speak, bred for the purpose. Having had Just the qualities we required in King Ed ward VII, we look with confidence to see them reproduced In King George v, wno is not only his son but hla disciple. We, who are of this opinion, ming mat we leave on the whole less chance than Is left In republics, where the presidents cannot have been spe cially trained for the position which they are chosen to occupy. It was said in the late king's life that if Ens- land suddenly became a republic ha certainly would have been elected lis first president. Klngllness , In the English concet, tlon must be marked by courage and self-sacrifice and yet there Is no room tor those kinds of courage and self- sacrifice which have distinguished the rulers or some other countries. We do not want the masterly interference and severe, if well Intended, dragoon ing oi a Frederick the Great, nor the passion for splendor of a Louis XIV, nor the policy of enlightenment bv cruel compulsion of a Peter the Great We desire to be allowed to live our own lives In our own way, guided only by a wise head which has studied the rules of our procedure and can be relied upon to interpret them fairlv. A Prussian ruler would be quite out or place here and even If we thought his martial bearing "kingly" at first, we should soon find out that he was the very reverse of what in the back of our minds' we hold to be a kingly man. THE UMPIRE. Uld Yon Ever Hear the Fans Cheer 111m for His Work? There is one unique phase connected with the life of the umpire which per haps has never occurred to most lov ers of baseball. You have often been to a theater and seen the hero or hero ineyes, even the villian win round after round of applause for some ex cellent bit of acting. You have been to a football game and heard some ball gladiator cheered to the echo for making a long run that resulted In a touchdown or for a fly ing tackle that prevented imminent defeat When some player Is Injured they convey their sympathy to him by cheering his name. You have been to a ball game and heard the fans cheer some crack pitcher because In a pinch he fanned some mighty batter. It's Just the nat ural way of the American to show admiration and appreciation. Rack your brain, think your hard est, recall every game you have ever attended, then see If you can remem ber a time when the umpire drew ap plause for his work. Have you ever heard the fans cheer the name of the umpire after he has worked a fifteen Inning game which fairly bristled with close and unusual plays and got away without a rickt If yon. can recall such i an incident, Just dot in down in your notebook that you were present at a very, very unusual happening. Do they cheer the umpire's name when he stops a foul tip with his shin or has a swift shoot bounced off his mask? Yes, they do not Any injury to the umpire usually gets a round of derisive laughter from the crowd. Generally, If he has been going bad, some leather lunged Individual re quests that he be killed or chloro formed. Of course there are many people In the stands who sympathize with the umpire. Their sympathy la usually silence. That Isn't much balm to his injury or feelings. Applause would sound so strange to an umpire's ears that he would prob ably become so thoroughly frightened he would Jump the back fence. Billy Evans In New York Tribune. Pasteurising M Ilk at Home. If milk is not drawn under the most sanitary conditions it Is not advisable to feed It to children without being parts and Joined together with hinges as shown In Figure 1, The frame can be covered with wire netting or boards on top part with netting on the ends. The hinged frames provide a way to open either end. A small hook and eye sholud be provided at each end to hold the parts in place. Alfalfa Needs Food. It Is Important to know that there 's little difference between successful al falfa growing and the successful grow ing of other crops. Poor farming never brings big crops, nor will poor land produce as big yields as the more fer tile. Failure to restore to the soil the ' Lp vv tv- Vz J &v ;jr KV J Michael S. Brockett of Enfield, 111., .8 believed -to be the last survivor of necessary elements of which It has the little group of men who escaped been robbed means the same In New York, Kansas, Virginia or anywhere else. Every farm plant, to prosper, must find in the soil, readily avallablo, BEST TIME TO CUT HAY. rom the steamer General Lyon when It was burned oft the coast of North Carolina, March 31, 18G5, going down with 480 passengers. The disaster, now almost forgotten, was one of the most appalling of the closing days of the Civil War. Brockett Is living in retirement on a farm. He was disabled for life by injuries received when rescued from the wreck of the burning steamer, and was allowed a pension of $8 per month for twenty-nine years, and ten years ago, by a special act of Congress, this was increased to $30 a month.- The wreck followed four years of service with the Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, Brockett and his brother going home on a furlough to recuperate from sicfo nesg. . :'V-... .;; To get the best quality of hay the timothy plants require to be cut when in mil bloom. In an experiment made by Prof. Waters of Missouri racks were filled with hay cut In different stages of ripeness. As shown in the illustration, all the early-cut hay was eaten before the late-cut was touched. The largest yield of dry matter was obtained by cutting at the aougn stage. pasteurized. It Is very easy to aiv com pi is a this wtlhout any special ap paratus. Put the milk in a milk bottle. Take tin pie plate and punch the bottom full of holes. Turn this upside down in the bottom or the kettle and set the bottle on It. This will prevent bump ing when the water is heated. Punch a hole through a piece of cardboard and Insert in the top of the bottle. Through this hole suspend a thermometer. A good thermometer THEIR FINAL QUARREL. She Bald It Waa Irrevocable, but He Knew Better, . It was all off. They had quarreled, finally arid Irrevocably. It doesn't mat ter now what it was about The chances are that in their anger neither E 1 with the scale etched on the glass should be used. Heat the water until the thermometer registers 155 de grees. The bottle should be then removed and allowed to stand for twenty or thirty minutes. Cover the bottles with a towel to make them cool off slowly. After twenty or thirty minutes cool the milk as quickly as possible by setting it In cold water. the element ment. If a farmer finds the soil lack- red anything except that he Ing in elements needed for certain ha? disappointed her in some awful, crops he should either supply the de- uunfrflvabl wa? and she seized ficlency or not attempt their raising" dlamnd engagement ring from a This is true of cnrn r mi,0!,f da,nty lender ' figure and thrust it - i w- T UVUU WLLU11 I ... or tobacco, no less than Alfalfa nPn mm wltn gesture of infinite BUVIU. For an instant he held the circlet in his hand ruefully. For another in stant he paced the porch, hands in hla pockets, head low, his voice quivering with emotion as he pleaded. Sudden ly he stopped in front of her. "That's final, is it?" he inquired. i "Final?" she replied, icily. "No man with a spark of" All right!" he snapped. ."This thing's no use to me,, then." His right arm shot out like the arm To Control Gray Rot. T71 1L. . . r or ine prevention or gray rot of grapes one investigator recommends a treatment which he claims is verv sim ple and efficient This consists of thin ning the leaves on the north side f me vines and spraying with Bordeaux mixture, to which soap is added to make it more adherent. The treatment should be made about July 25, or at the stage when the grapes have Just about reached their full size. If thn fntio-i. clde Is thoroughly applied at this time of a bal! Pltcher, and a second later no further trouble anay be anticipated uniue-uniue or metal on the con- from this disease. crete walk half a block away told her he had thrown the ring away. Paper Milk Bottles. oa! she cried, and there was sud- The new paper , bottle for milk i den anguish in her heart, "I didn't attracting some attention, it is shaped mean It! w? must find it at once." something like a large Jelly glass and dn't care for it," he said, stub made of stiff paper paraflned and b0"11 "Life has mighty little now water proof, and folded in such a way t0 make " as to protect Darts thrnutrh whh "Buiyr she cried. "Hfiln m im- leakage could occur. Cost is expected to be small and the bottles are to be mrown away after once being used, iuub Having laoor or cleaning and In suring a fresh bottle each time. mediately." He couldn't let her zo alone, with night coming on, so, atter. proper re luctance, he followed. In the eager ness of searching all her anger melted. took a long time, but finally be stooped quickly, and. exclalmine. "Here it is!" held ud the diamond ring. What happened in the next hour Is , No man ever pot a pension without thinking thereafter that it ought to be Increased Tree Ventilation. The people of the New England States are proverbial for their venera tion of trees, and in these days of ruthless destruction of woods It is re freshing In the extreme to hear of a case like the resident of Kennebunk port Me., who, rather than to disturb an old tree which grew on his farm uponv a site desired for the location of a barn, built the structure around the tree. The barn wall completely cir cumscribes the tree, but lies at suffi cient distance to give the tree plenty of air. The age of this particular tree is not accurately known, but It 1b one of a pair which Is said to have been full-grown trees at the time of the American revolution. Three Klada of Coraa. Three kinds of corns to which horsea are subject are generally recognised: Tho dry, moist and suppurating. Tho dry corn Is recognised by the blood stained horn and la not attended with excessive Inflammation. Moist corns are recognized by the large amount of inflammation, shown by the fluid ac cumulating In the region of the corn. Suppurating corns are the moist corns which have become Infected wtih pus germs. Wide Wason Tires As to the desirability of the use or me wide tires there can be no aues tion. The most casual nhRervoH. Will BUmce to convincn nnv nno r.r I t,kj... i , 17J,ZZIa V.v 'aucu wagon, ine numan, masculine part of the "'w " ormnary sham, storv wna AiainA v. v rounded, narrow tires, will produce on friend Me t 71 E IT, any road. There Is also another, and tl.in, ' - W1 perhaps even greater advantage to h "HnA if L , . . - .oj . .. .. . " vvlgi. mi me time. Zr"' . UM"l"ewrae "res- he said. "Threw a ouartor dnwn . viz . i na lnnpanooi hni.u .. i - -- aW 8 CapaCKy ftreet- And' dad blInS . I didn't find u, either!" But it did the work. Kansas C!tv Times. - .. .; VForeeasta for Farmers, The Weather Bureau has arranged n.ucr .urecasis Dy tele- i nonght It a Lanrnaire. w ..u,c.0 1U iCia8. ai noon Beu-maae man Is splendid.' uum,,iUBrH Hre canea -anarew uirnegie at a dinner In un. and the weather fnnun.t I. Wo.l.h.t.. i. . - a l ,i , . " a" r """""bw". u ne maKes himself a avurau w au simultaneously. Sub- mental and spiritual, no less than a Buiin ui vuu iu cuies can obtain nnancial, success. tne weatner rorecast at any time of the day after 11 a. m. by calling n central. Too many self-made men notrlfvf tha Intellectual side. This sometimes at commencements, for exajntilA nuts them at a disadvantage. I know a self-made man who'sald Rnral 'Phone la the Soath. Merchants in the South ha VA DweV ened to the value of rural telenhnn a commencement to his nephew lines, and are seeking to develop them. t lommT my son, what do with a view to Increasing their trade " Mn you berer among the rural Domilatinn t "'Latin and Greek.' the bov renllad. tain sections they have made large I &Xii G1 and algebra.' contributions to aid the farmers in "'Dear me!' cried the self-made man. building their lines. 411(1 what's the algebra for tnrnlpr Collect I bk Kttroarea Front the "jUr. Nitrogen is contained In great quan tities In the air above us, but It can. not be purchased and used with profit la farming, except under special con- Not Unhealthy. Yeast Do you think h!h-hlB!l ahoes unhealthy? ; . Crimsonbeak Oh, no. Our goat got away with a pair last week and ho ditiona. Clover and nthr lci seems to be getting alonir all rla-Mt plants can draw all they require from I Yonker" Statesman. tno aunospnero by means of bacteria Th T-n,t,. ..v that Uto on their root. . 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