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THE INFALLIBLE MAN. Them was a uiao who Dover made A blunder In bis life; Re loved a girl, but was afraid If she became his wife' That ho or she might rue the day That brought them bliss, and so Re put the happiness away That wedded lovers know,' One day the man who uever made Mistakes poroelved the way That led to fame, but, still afraid, Drew back and stole away; He shunned the winding paths that led To distant, unseen ends, And kept the road that stretched ahead With neither steeps nor bends. At last the mnn who never made Mistakes fell by the way: In garments that were badly frayed, And pale and starved he lny; Ho weeping friend bent o’er him there, Nor servnnt, child, nor wife; ' But victory was his—ho ne’er Had blundered in his life. —8. E. Kiser, in Chicago News. ROMANCE OF A DEPARTMENT STORE. By Edoah Temple Field. William French prided himself on the fact that he was not an ambitions man. He was wont to say that envy and discontent are the twin roots of all evil,and that to be satisfied with one’s lot in life is the sum total of all eurthly philosophy. *i William did not put. it in that way, exactly, for he hadn’t much more edit- j dhtion than he had ambition. But i tliat was what he meant when he j prepared to hear of f would occasionally announce to his j he proposed ’ to fellow clerks over the bowl of mush j She might faint or something. Girls and milk that formed his noonday i were apt to do those things when menl at the “quick lunch” counter, j you take them unawares, he had “What I can get is good enough for | hoard. association with her afforded the young mau moments of exquisite joy. At other times be would watch her, busy over her cooking utensils, and imagine how she would Took in a little kitchen of her own manipulating simi lar implements in the preparation of his own supper. The thought was intoxicating. Here at last he had found n girl who would be willing to share his humble lot, he told himself. A plain little thing like her would probably regard a tiny three-room flat such as he had in mind as a palace of luxury. He himself would seem to her a sort of special providence through whose benevolent intervention she would realize all those dreams of home and husband most girls indulge in. This thought he found even more agreeable than the other, and he found himself assuming a protecting and even patronizing air with her at times. The enamored young man went so far as to bint to the object of bis affec tion his hopes of having a modest home of his own one day, and while be could not recall afterward that she bad betrayed any great interest in bis plans, he took comfort in thinking that girls are s-hy about showing their feelings and that probably it had not occurred to her that he would notice a little clerk in the graniteware depart ment. Ho William dreamed bis dreams and even began to inquire around about the rent of flatB such as he would be apt to require. But he did not tell his love. There was no hurry about that. He would wait till spring—wheu rents were cheaper. And besides she was probably not the honor pay her. me, and don’t you forget it. And bis fellow clerks, mostly un ambitious men like himself, would generally reply, with laconic vague ness of assent, “That’s what.” William’s lot in life was sufficiently humble. He sold tin bath tubs in the poorly lighted basemeqt-of a big department store six days in the week. His Sun days ho spent in riding a second-hand bicycle, if it was fine,and reading the piotorial papers or sewing refractory buttons and reluctant patches on bis clothing when the weather precluded any idoa of outdoor .amusement. for William was'- a bachelor and lookAd h’skapco at the fair sex, as the lovely promoters of much of the dis- cohtent he so sternly deprecated And 'the gentle inciters of the reckless and ’wicked extravagance whose existence in the world he so greatly deplored. So when he caught; the flutter of a Skirt on any stray bicycle ho chanced 'tp pass on a lonely road he would scorch stonily"ahead and never once ! g|ance aioimd to see if the fair trav eler was riding for fu’fi or to reduce ■her waist, measure. Frdin iVhicK it may be seen that Mr. French was very much of a philos opher. But, alas, even philosophers are not exempt from the visitings of the ten der passion, and it chnnced ohe day ithat Cupid, for want of something better to do, chose to’visit the base ment of that particular store and plant Ilia dart deep in the heart of the young man who sol d tin bath tubs. L It happened this way. , A young woman came to fill a vaoaney in the graniteware depart ment, next to William’s own, and he eo lone indifferent and even callous to the charms of woman, no sooner saw the new clerk busy over her saucepans and teakettles than he was smitten with a desire to possess her for his own. * Miss Thompson was not beautiful, to be sure, nor was she at’ all imposing of appearance, that she' should thus ehptivate the heart of this severe critic It first sight. And she trotted about with a brisk alertness of movement quite incompatible with grace and elegance of movement. But she suited William right down to the ground. i To be’gin with, she had soft eyes, of no particular color, perhaps, but Somehow when their gaze rested on 'William he felt that here, at last, was one who oonld appreciate his true yelue almost as keenly as he did him- eelf. Her brown hair, of a verv ordi nary shade, was parted very neatly over her smooth brow in a fashion ex- tremely plain and unambitious com pared to the imposing pompadours worn by the magnificent young ladies who sold ribbons and neckties at the counters upstairs, and whoso airs and graces made William so uncomfortable that he frequently went to a rival es tablishment to purchase the modest “mgde-up” cravat which completed his humble toilet. ®ver, Miss Thompson's simple pee* gown, with ita trim y 1 waist’aMj. epotless 0 nffs and lnon ®°* wickedly Ho the winter wore on, and William spent, more and more of his time talk ing to his fair neighbor, and fell more deeply in love with every interview. To be sure be did most of the talk ing. He often confided to her his views on extravagance and high living, and took occasion to ridicule those who spent their money on good clothes and theatre tickets instead of laying it up for a rainy day. And while Miss Thompson never said nnything he could construe into an admission that she thought he was rigjit, she always listened with grave attention, and with her soft eyes fixed on him lieremained blissfully certain that here w»s a woman wiio would thaukfully devote her life to helping him save his income and provide for his old age. At last the spring drew near. The flower counter in the" .main aisle began to glow with golden sun shine of daffodils and jonquils, and odors of hyacinth aud Easter lilies were wafted down the stairway to the dim basement where the bathtubs end the tegjfet^les hud their home. And then one day William had a shook. The cross-eyed girl at the crockery department told him that Miss Thompson was going to leave. He could not believe it. But in quiry at the glassware department re vealed the fact that the rumor had spread the day before, aud had be§u confirmed by the youug lady herself. William was astounded. She had made up her mind to leave without telling him! What did it mean, he wondered? Then he hnd an idea. Perhaps she had grown to care so much for him that seeing him every day was painful. Ho had read of such things iu novels. He resolved to tell k4r that very day of the plans he had made for her and ask her to become Mrs. William French. It was long, however, before his op portunity came. It seemed to him that every fat woman iu the city had decided to lay in a supply of graniteware that par ticular day. At last he encountered Miss Thomp son behind a hugh pile of coffeepots. “I—I—hear you’re going away,’’ he began, surprised to And himself feeling decidedly nervous. “Yes,” she said pleasantly, as she made an. entry in her little cashbook. “I’m going tomorrow.” “Weil, I didn’t know—that ig, I thought—I hope, I mean, that I’ve not had auything to do with yonr going, ” he went on, beginning to be appalled at the miserable figure he was cutting. “You, Mr. French—how could yon —I don’t understand, I’m afraid,” sale of remuauts upstairs, and at the noon Itour he was struggling to make hie wey through the vast crowd of ladies which snrged abont the counter, when a little wbman iu a rustling silk gown turned suddenly and faced him. It was she! He passed hor with only a formal and hurried bow, bnt he had time to observe, with rain, that she wore her hair in’ a pomjMdour. . CANNIBALISM IN CANADA. The Kxistenre or the Practice Indicated by tlie Arrest of Two Indians. Recent arrests of Northwest Cana- dian Indians by a detachment of. the mounted police go to prove that can nibalism is still practiced by Canadian aborigines. Two prisoners brought into the barracks at Edmontou by the police were captured redhnnded, but they seek to defend themselves from the charge of murder by declaring that their victim was addicted to can nibal ism, and that having surprised him iu the act of feeding upon human flesh they killed him on the spot, in accordance with their custom. These Iudians believe that when one of their number once tastes humau flesh, even to assuage the pangs of hunger, he becomes changed into a .windigo or man-eating monster, who will not hesi tate to kill in order to gratify his ap petite.whenever the opportunity offers. They therefore consider it a solemn duty as well as. a simple act of self- preservation to kill at sight, if possi ble by a stealthy blow from bebiud, any one known to have practiced an thropophagy. The missionaries say that it is usually hunger and not a passion for human flesh that drives them to the practice. Father Dabion tells in bis journal of a disease that was qnite common nmong some of these Indians. The victim suddenly became a hypo chondriac, his malady developing into a mania. In its succeeding stage the insane was seized with such hunger for human flesh that he sprang like a famished wolf upon all that he met. “In proportion,” says the good father, “as he finds wherewith to glut this hunger, it grows like thirst in dropsy, and accordingly the Indians never fail to kill at once any one seized with this disease.” This will be the line of defence made on behalf of the present Indian pris oners at Edmonton. Father Nedelac, who’journeyed as far north as Lake Mistassini to minisfer to the Indians there, reports the murder of a young man 18 years of age, in 1867, by his own mother, f<y the same reason, and another;missionary tells the story of the murder by another Indian woman of two entire families, with the excep tion of one young man.' The victims ipduded two men, two'women, three boys, aud four girls, aud she subsisted for some time upon tbeir flesb. The late Father Durocher converted to Christianity a Naseapee woman named Yeronique, who was au inveterate cannibal, and only escaped death at the hands of other members of her tribe because of the dread which she inspired in them by reason of her powers as a sorceress. Her first vic tim was her husband, who had died of starvation, and she continued her feast until she had devoured three of her children, two of whom had died of hunger, while the third was killed by its.unuatural mother. She next killed a woman of her own tribe, who had herself feasted upon the body of one of her children and became food in turn for the wretched Veronique. It was thought within the last few years that cannibalism was extinct among Canadian Indians, but the contrary is evidently the case.—New York Sun. Honor Among Beggar*. Even the beggar life iu Spain has its bright side. Iu the following story, which was told only three years ago, the feeling shown was just as noble as could have marked the conduct of a prince. A traveler, stopping at Madrid, had been in the habit of giving a few cen- tiraos daily to a Tittle girl on the street. Gfoe morning, ns he passed the corner where she stood, he gave her, as he supposed, the usual sum. Presently he heard some one calling him and looking around saw her running after him. On overtaking him she held up a two-peSeta piece and said: “Your honor has always given me centimos, bnt today, by mistake, this was among them.” Similar episodes help to fill the notebook of the traveler who lingers a few months in Spain. If he pursues his researches beyond the lines drawn by couriers, tonrist bureaus and hotel , .. . . • ... • attendants, he will meet everywhere, k “ftl phed ’ “ ev,d r ent Jbewilderment - both among the eduoated and the Oh, yon see—I thought maybe you’d been expecting,you know—that is, yon might have known that I was going to ask yon to marry me, yon know. I’d have asked yon before— only " , . ,pr V’ don't •pofogize,” she ex claimed, quickly, “It’s much that yon didn’t A man ideas would be making a gi to marry.. And besides, I’m be married next weekto** poorer classes of modern Spain, the hidalgo spirit of the days of Calderon. —Youth's Companion. Prettiest Part of the Papa-4-So Emily stands at the head of her class in French? Mamina — Yes. She and another girl stly even ip the written ex- *“***»: wfiTaecide# 0 FARM TOPICS oooooooooooooooooooooooocc Purifying Sour Solla. The valne of lime in purifying sour soils is such as to make its general use very necessary. Lime is not a fertil izer in the striot sense of the word, but in connection with manure it is often absolutely essential to the fer tilizing of the soil. Land gets soar from one cause and another, and some soils actually get “manure sick.” It is possible to so feed the soil that it gets indigestion, and the more that is piled on it the less it seems to pro duce. I have seen soils so rich that they could not produce more than very small crops. They’were manure sick and sour. It is at this stage that lime comes in to correct matters. ' A top dressing of lime on such a soil will do more good than a thousand dollars’ worth of commercial fertilizers. It is possi ble to raise abundant crops for several years in succession on suoh soils by simply giving them a top dressing of lime every year. It is owing to this that some farmers have gathered the impression that lime is a good fertil izer. The action of the lime was not to furnish any plant food, but simply to correct the acidity of the soil, so that the abundance of fertility conld be taken up by the crops. Lime is good sometimes to kiil cer tain germs which multiply in the soil. Thns, the bacteria which causes club- root in cabbage will be killed if the laud is dressed in the spring with lime. It has beneficial effects in other ways, too. It tends to loosen and dis integrate the texture of the soil, To that the drainage is better and the meobanioal condition of the soil is im proved so that the roots of the plants can extend downward for water and food. Lime is of value on the manure pile at times. Mixed in with the manure it will tend to sweeten it, and it will enter the soil in conjunction with the fertilizer to perform its work there. “Wliei'e heavy dressing of manure has caused the potato scab in those tubers, it is wise either to dress the land with lime, or to mix lime with manure just before applying it.—A. B. Barrett, in American Cultivator. Pencil Culture* If we expect to be successful in cul tivating peaohe3 we must give the trees the very best attention that modern experience has taught ns, to produce the most practical results. There is a good deal of unsatisfactory advice given to the farn^&t^jqne war of Another. I Jam one would wilfully publl for the purpose of misleading'those engaged in agriculture; bnt too many give vent to half-formed ideas, or to conclusions too hastily reached. It is a common failing to draw sweeping conclusions from a few’ facts, and therein is onr greatest danger in ac cepting the advice of others. Never theless,-we cannot discard! all advice, but simply try t? seleot from the chaff the wheat that will be of value to us, and then to use onr common sense in the matter. There are many things n’ out peach culture that we are still inoertain about. It is conjectural yet, and cau tion mnst be used in accepting the ad vice of any one who attempts to settle these important questions from a few faots. But, on the other hand, there is so muoli known and repeatedly proved, and yet not practised by those who enter into the work, that a con stant repetition of the faots seems nec essary. It is hard to account for this, exoept upen the theory that there is a large class who are so conservative that they will not aocept anything un less it is covered with the moss of ages. • In oaring for peach orchards, culti vation, fertilization and pruning mnst be considered. No peaoh orchard can be made profitable without good cul ture being given to it. Onltivation of the soil has an important bearing on the time of maturing of the frnits. The maturity of the trees can be postponed by giving a shallow cultivation. Early maturity of the peaoh trees means an early death, and it does not pay. Yet certain varieties hasten to their early destruction in this way unless checked. Even after bearing the trees need cul tivation. This should go on nntii August. Shallow plowing and pulver izing with the harrow will alwaya ben efit the trees. / Soil fertilizers ot some kind mnst be added every seauon. The trees are taking from the soil certain elements that mast be supplied artificially. Wood ashes stand first for this, but some soils will do just as good if fer tilized with stable manure. Lime and pqtash are necessary for the peaoh soil, and they should be supplied in some forift An application of oanstio potash solution to ihe trunks of tho trees should be made after the fruit has set, that is, from the first to the middle ot Jane. Pruning end thin ning in tbeir season should bo at tended to also.—James 8. Wilson, At American Cultivator Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strone. blood pure. Mo,H. AU druggists. i V D ; r j®K thit past year 1514 persons were lodged In the Berka county jalL Skin Diseases In Young or Old. Tetter. Eczema, Ringworm, and kindred trou bles, are cured by Tetterlne. Sold at druggists for 60c. a box, or prepaid for same price by 3. T. Shuptrlne. Savannah, Ga. Voluntary letters blessing us for cures, from all over tho country, are on file, and we are glad to show them. —A hog weighing 900 pounds is owned bs wm. H. Stettler, of Boyortown, Pa. Don’t Tobacco 8pU sad Smoke loir Life Awe j. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full ot Ute, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Boo, the vronder-wor'.rcr, that makes weak men strong* AU druggists, 60c or 51. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Addreee Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. —Linen is the Irish industry which baa never auflered from any kind of repression. Educate Your Bowels With Cos carets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C.O.O. tell, druggists refund money. --The Manchester Cotton Mills, at Rock Hill, 8. C., are running day and night. fSeaotr Is Blood Deep. Clean blood meana a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. —The steeplejack ought naturally to be a tip-top fellow. To Cure Constipation Forever. _ Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOoorBe. It C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. —There is a great increase In exports of wire nails, steel plates, bars and rods and electrical and metalworklDg machinery. tf 44 Pride Goeth 'Before a Fall. Some proud people ihink they Are strong, ridicule the idea of disease, neglect health, let the blood run down, and stomach, kid neys and liver become deranged. Take Hood s Sarsaparilla and you will prevent the fall and save your pride. DYSPEPSIA “ For six years I wu a victim or dys pepsia in its worst form. I could eat nothing out milk tosBt, and at times my stomach would not retain and digest even that Last March l began taking CASCARETS and since then 1 bare steadily Improved, until I am as well as 1 ever was In my life." David H. Hcbphv. Newark. O. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 96c, too ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... S'wllag Rtmdl i’onp.a,, ChlMf., lfontiul. S»» let. 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