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R O A ——————— i—— MASTER RAIN, Plriding, striding over the sea, Calming the rage of the waves goes he, Lulling the moan of the mighty main, Assauging Master Rain! g Marching, marching over the land, Seattering wide, with a lavish hand, ; Draughts for the thirsting seed of the grain, Bountiful Master Rain! Never, never a wanderer long; Ever, ever a-brim with song— A plaintive, pleading, plea uring strain— Musical Master Rain! Welcome thou when the shadows sleep! Welcome thou when the dreams are (Yeep! Bearing Peace to Penance and Pain, Merciful Master Rain! : Old as the host of the hills of earth, Yet as young as the soul of mirth, Fain are we of thee all of us, fain, Brotherly Master Rain! —Clinton Scollard, in New Orleans Times- Democrat. ' Gesy, 4 CeID, " £ 3 [Lgl 2SS ESESESESEses g FOUND 00T, g J % g “l don't know why I am waiking down this street,” said young Mur doch to himself at 4 o'clock on Thurs day afternoon. “I am no: going .o Dulcie’s. I've done everything ex cept put the proposal in plain words, and she has taken pains to show me at every turn that my case is hope less. There’s no use causing her the distress of actually refusing me. The thing for me to do is to keep away. “Look how ghe acted when I was bragging up Alice Harvey's domestic ability the other night-—testing her to see if she'd care. She chimed in as if it were a positive relief to have me notice some other girl. Ah!” . A gleam lighted his eyes as he glanced at a window In Dulcie's house, but his face hardened as he tramped on, “What could a merry little creature like Dulcie want with a big, clumsy fellow like me, anyway?” he demand ed of himself. “That dream is over, I'm not going in.” Having arrived at this decision, he turned and mounted the steps to Dul cie's house, £ : It seemed an unreasonable time before the door opened. Taen, to his intense surprise, appeared Dulcie her self, covered from neck to toe by a long-sleeved pink gingham apron, She seemed to be ofit of breath, and there was an ostentatious trail of flour across one of her pink cheeks, ~__“Oh, how do you do?” she cried, Thursday, you know, and the maid ‘s Tl go nnd mako myself presentabio her way and smiled down at her with an elated expression hard to trans late. “You never looked so charm ing to me in your life before. What's in the oven, anyway? Bread or pies? Let me come out into the kitchen and help.ll ‘ Dulcie gave a ery that suggested dismay. “Ob, no, 1 couldn't! That is, everything's donme. ll'll just go and—" | “No, don't go! And don't take off that aprom, please. I had decided never to say this, but—" Then, without waiting to take the chair she offered him, he manfully asked the great question. From the opposite side of the li brary table Dulcle listened, with eyves downecast. “You had decided nevar to say this,” she murmured without looking up. “What changed you?"” A twinkle relieved Murdoch's gol emnity. “That kitchen apron and the flour on your cheek,” he con fessed. Dulcie’s eyes blazed at him. “There! Jugt what I've thought since you talked about Alice Harvey the other night. Your idea of getting married is to secure a cook.” “My idea of getting married,” Mur doch returned stoutly, “is to secure you.” Suiting the action to the word, he started around the library table, but Dulcie sidled swiftly along and the barrier still intervened. “Wait! Listen to me!” she com manded imperiously. “You're making a mistake. I don't know how to cook. I've been too busy with my mausic. I began to suspect, from the queer way you acted, that you were afraid I hadn’t all the necessary qualifica tions for a wife and I ran and put on this apron and dabbed this flour on my cheek after I £. .. you coming just to—to see if—" | “To land me for the fun of throw ing me back into the water,” Murdoch finished for her with sudden grim ness. “No! Not that at all! Ob, dear, I can't explain just why I did it. Walt! Wait! Didn't you hear me tell you that 1 can't cook?” she pro tested, wondering what in the world had suddenly become of the large library table. : ‘ “Who cares if you can't?” was his | blissful answer, “But you said it was the Kitchen apron made you ask me." “Good reason why, Didn't I see you at the window in that light blue sllk thing as I came up the steps and when you opened the door all in this: other rig didn't it give me courage to think—what I'd never dared think before—that you cared what 1 thought? 1t wasn't the cooking that made me gpeak-—it was the carving!® “I think I can learn,” Duicie whis “To care?” O b Aghan 80| e TMR T v.'\ | “Hang the cooking! I'd live on varnished chicken from a delicatessen #hop all my life if 1 could look up at you now and then while I carved it, ‘Necessary qualifications!’ Great Scott, Duleife! Does a man stop to ask an angel whether she can make buckwheat cakes? Does he—" ~ “Oh, let me go! Somebody’s com ing in,” Dulcie cried, as a lateh key clicked. “Help me off with this apron, quick! I never could explain ¥ o that any one else would under stand. Tuck it under that pillow. There! And the flour on my face?” “That'snearly all rubbed off,” Mur doch assured her, complacently. “Let me see! Yes, there’s a little bit right down here close to your lips. There! It's all right now.” An instant later, when Dulcie’s ob servant brother walked into the If brary the only unusual thing he no ticed was that Murdoch seemed to be flapping with his handkerchief at hig own coat lapels.—Chicago News, A Useful College. By JOHN CORBIN. Eastern educators were surprised four years ago when a member of the British Parliament who had come to this country on the Masely education al commission, the Hon. William Henry Jones, placed the University of Wisconsin in a list of our five lead ing institutions of learning and ex cluded from the list Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins. Surprise changed to skepticism when he proceeded to state his opin ion that Wisconsin stood above even the four other institutions which he named as of the first order—Har vard, Cornell, Michigan and Califor nia — being, in fact, the foremost university of the land. Many of the reasong he gave for this opinion were vague and uncon vincing. Wisconsin has no schools of architecture, medicine or theology. ‘But he was on firm ground when he said: ‘“The University of Wisconsin is a wholesome product of a common wealth of three millions of people, cane, industrial and progressive. It knits together the professions and la bors; it makes the fine arts and the anvil one.” This* judgment touches the bedrock of fact-—highly charac teristic fact, Of all the great State universities Wisconsin is still the poorest in inde pendent income. Living on the boun ty of the State Legislature, it early learned the policy of producing re sults of such immediate utility as were most likely to impress the rural mind. lln the phrase of a local satir ist, its ideal became not culture, but agriculture, Its first great achievement was a milk test invented by Professor Ste phen M. Babeock, of the Agricultural School. ~!Spt.-fi;§gv!9«s;9,.;‘ bles f *m }flt ‘contained in the yield of ‘each cow, and thus to pursue the breeding of caltle on a scientific basis and the manufacture of butter and cheese with accuracy and speed. Together with the method of instantly separat ing the cream from each day's vield by means of centrifugal force, invent ed by Dr. De Laval, of Sweden, the Babeock test forms the basis of the immense co-operative industry of modern dairying. It was estimated in 1900 that it saved the cheese sac- 1‘ tories, dairymen and farmers of Wis- | consin alone SBOO,OOO a year, or twice the current expenses of the uni- I vergity for all departments, and it is of proportionate value to every State | of the Union, to every agricultural country of the world, from Swltzer‘l land to Australia. Another Wiscon sin invention, a curd test for detect- I ing milk unsuitable for the manufac- | ture of cheese, is said to save the peo- | ple of the State each year more than . the cost of the School of Agriculture. ] Thumb Bells. The thimble was orginally called a thumb bell by the English, because worn on the thumb, then a thumble, and finally its present name. It was a Dutch invention, and was first glass and pearl. In China beautiful carved pearls thimbles are seen, brought to England in 1695, Thimbles were formerly made only of iron and brass, but in comparative ly late years they have been made of gold, silver, steel, horn, ivory, and even glass and pearl thimbles are seen, bound with gold and with the end of gold. The first thimble introduced into Siam was a bridal gift from the Kking to the queen. It is shaped like a lotus bud, made of gold, and thickly studded with diamonds arranged to spell the queen's name.—Church Eelectie, *—*— Not a Trifler, A shooting party, putting up at Amos Libby’'s Maine camp, found their sport much interfered with by rain, Still, fine or wet, the old fash foned barometer that hung in Amos’ general room persistently pointed.to ‘‘set fair.” At last one of the party drew his attention so the glass. “Don’t you think, now, Amos,” he said, “‘there's something the mat ter with your glass?” “No, sir, she’s a good glass an’ a powerful one,” Amos replied, with dignity, “but she ain’t moved by trifles,"—Youth's Companion, M The Remaining Pass. “Can 1 have a pass aver your line?” “No,"” replied the raiiroad man. “Law's too strict. We can't pass anythi | but a dividend now," == lPhlludolphh Ledger, ik Jealousy as a Fatal Disease The Institute of Sciente at Limoges Finds a Real Case, and Declares That the Complaint May Naturally End in Death The faculty of the Institute of Sei ence at Limoges, France, has mecent ly decided that man—and, presume ably woman—is liable to die of #i acute attack of jealousy, just ds 1t now agreed by medical experts that a human being may die of a brokes heart, in the physical senser.f word. > :r‘ Investigators in the laboratory i ¥ the Limoges Institute declare that thie passion of jealousy is psycho-physieal, that is, that it first arises in .the brain and is trapsmitted to the e diac region, whence other parts the system are affected so as to ere ate a specific area of disease. Thi§ disease, as will be shown presently, can be traced from the brain de the spinal column to the parts of th 2 body which are affected, and its pres ence can be duly attested from the. fact that the tissue in the line of the malady’s operations shows d stinet sighs of attrition or wearing away, © Such evidence would find its cor roboration in the experience of any who have ever—and what hums 4 being has not?—suffered from the feeling of jealousy. The sutteréi'.%gi painfully conscious of a gnawingfiv“ I consuming sensation within him. In certain areas—the sensorial ce,nt’re,] particularly—the brain _seems to burn, the exact sensation being net unlike that of expansion arising from heat which is about to force an ex plosion. So it is that the lover, in his jealous fits, talks of his heart ‘bursting” with jealousy. ' . &4 An explanation afforded of -this psycho-physical phenomenon is the following: In matters of love it is well known that the judgment ‘and understanding are obscured. Egr this there is a physical and a medi cally - explained cause which does away wholly with the romantic as pect of the lover's much-sung mala dy. Memory and the senses play an important part in jealousy, as we all know. It is shown that an excess of blood is drawn to the memory and sensorial areas, with the result thati the other parts of the brain are badly supplied, owing to the unusual ae tivity of the two in- question. Any attempt to exert the facultieg;jo! judgment and understanding ‘must consequently be a forced effort, caus ing all that loss of tissue which is in variably associated with the exertioh of force that is not spontaneous-o: supported by good-will. Poverty. blood in the sufferer renders the con dition of the jealous one all the more painful and acute, since the other faculties of the brain are deprived of proper blood-nutrition and oxy{br}- ation, Consequently, in cases of ex treme pain or suffering arising frem Jenlgmgy, the patient’s normal i llx’ltie's’ are so dgid‘q%fid the memPry of past enjoyments with the objectl of his love so disproportionately active that the mental balance is entirely upset—a condition which soon reacts U. 8. SECRET SERVICE. @ Its Unwarrantable Employment in Improper Ways. o Since time out of mind the Treas ury Department has had in its em ploy, by due authority of law, a corps of detectives ‘to hunt'dovnfx" counterfeiters and do similar work against dangerous criminals. Lately the Department of Justice has “formed a habit” of ‘“‘borrowing” these secret service men to go about the country on all sorts of quests, some right, some wrong. Congress has awakened to this new use of secret service men and to. the way they perform the duties as signed to them. The result is grave misgivings, and steps are now in pro gress to forbid the transfer of the secret service men from their legiti mate duties to unusual work under the Attorney-General. No wonder. These men are not as a rule angels of light. The adage, “‘Set a thief to catch a thief"” is too o?en kept fully in view in selecting thése sleuths. In deed, there has been an extension of this policy, and in some instances the Department of Justice has sent out homicides, -if not actual murderers, to harass innocent men as well as to run down criminals. The wusual sleuth and many of the special prose cutors are of such character that it is safe to allow them to act duly under immediate and careful super vision by some officer of just dispo sition and well-balanced mind. = We have referred to this subject before in connection with proceed ings against innocent business men of Los Angeles, who were indicted for no other reason than that they might be “used” to give testimony needed by the sleuths to convictl'fi# sons. The subject is referred to now to congratulate the country that Cons gress has at last seen fit to take eog nizance of this matter in such a wa: as will limit the use of legal blaod hounds and keep them under careful surveillance. An appli o 1 of the same policy to the use of spee fal prosecutors would do as much good as this leashing of some of the bulldogs. The ‘prosecutors néed even more diseretion than the fle% There are some of these whose war rants against the treasury run in a short period as high as $60,000, and who have less discretion than a gdod dog-catcher and less conscience than the dogs.he puts in pound.—Los An geles Times, s A Ty e T e S The most expensive pub%@g with the least income, in New York City is the City Record, whieh will cost New York §1,174,500 this year., upon the body, producing irresponsi bility for one’s acts, as well as that peculiar kind of stupor! or half drunkenness frequently evident in the motions or the speech, so familiar to those who have been affected. - . The French Institute dealt re ‘cently with the case of a death from | jealousy, the victim being a cashier ‘in a business house, Martin by name. Aged twerty-cight, Martin was, or had been, physically a perfect type of manhood. For two years he had ‘paid his addresses to a young woman who appeared to reciprocate his af fections. Some months before their intended marriage, the woman proved false and deserted her lover for an other man. A normally-constituted man, and in excellent health, Mar tin did not allow his grief to prevent ‘him continuing his professional work. He endeavored with all his will to live down his unhappiness, avoiding all excesses, abstaining totally from alcohol, and keeping the brain so cool that it was thought he would soon | recover from his ill-starred heart-af fair. Despite the exercise of his will, lhowever, Martin, who was a sensitive soul, could not forget. The memory ’ot his lost girl was always with him and soon, owing to loss of interest in his work, he was forced to leave his ‘employment. The old remedy of “‘change of scene, etc.,”” was recom mended to him, but without avail. Martin could not forget. Neither did ‘he pine away, for he retained his usual robustness to the end; but he died. No malady known to medical science could be given as the cause of his decay, and it was therefore re solved to hold a post-mortem. } It was found that the heart, far ‘fxom showing signs of being in that 'condition which we call “broken,” was healthy, all but in the case of certain ventricular muscles which lay directly in the plane of communi cation with the sensory nerves. The ‘ ventricles showed an abnormal dis tention which c¢ould be traced like- ‘ wise in the nerve lines of the verte bral column, or spine. Along this column a distinct line of sub-inflam matory nerve-tissue could be traced right into the sensory parts of the brain, which were shown to have suffered from acute inflammation. A corresponding contraction, of other parts of the brain was noted, and of such kind as to produce between the diseased area and the unaffected por tions a positive line of demarcation denoted by tissue which had the ap earance of being in process of de (lz)}mposiition. ! 3 . Anatomical science has as yet pro gded no definite data to correspond th the psycho}’ggl_cal symptoms of fflflfl By. Yet this case of the French. nstitute 'Woflla}lapp”é&&go’{%eq ‘worthy of consideration as a test of the value of which must be substantiated by the research of other laboratories.—The ‘World. - } ‘THE MARINER'S COMPASS. Influences That Draw It From Its ~ Allegiance to the Magnetic Pole. ~ Nothing in the navigational equip ment of a ship has been the subject of more anxious scientific research or receives more jealous care than the mariner’s compass. ~ The popular notion of the com pass needle always pointing to the north and south is—well, more in- Ea'ccurate than even popular notions ‘usually are. Even under the most favorable conditions there are only i(c’ertaln places upon the surface of the earth where the compass needle does point north and south, and it is quite safe to say that such conditions are never found on board any ship. But we must go further and say that no more unfavorable position could be found for a compass than on board of a modern steamship, ‘which is a complicated mass of- steel, all tending to draw the compass needle from its allegiance to the mag netism pole of the earth, warring in fluences which must needs be coun teracted by all sorts of devices which hedge round the instrument by an invisible wall of conflicting currents ¢f magnetism, And as it this were not enough there are now huge dynamos to be reckoned with, producing electric currents for all sorts of purposes on board. In the midst of these mystic icurrenta the poor little compass ‘needle, upon which the mariner de pends for his guide across the track [freu deep, hangs suspended like one shrinking saint surrounded by le gions of devils.—Windsor Magazine, -————_ [ Well Named, | Mose, the darky cook of a party of surveyors in Eastern Texas., was greatly annoyed by . the razorback hogs that rcamed around ihe camp. One evening, while he was at the spring, a particularly ravenous band of three “piny woods rooters” raided the cook tent and ate everything that 'was edible and some other things that weren’'t. ; - For several moments after his re turn from the spring Mose could find no words to express his feelings. . "“Wall,” he finally exclaimed, “de ‘good Lawd suhtainly knowed His business “when hé named hawes ‘hawgs'! Dey sho s hawgs!''— Philadelphia Ledger. [ In the churchyard of Grimston, Norfolk, an anvil may be seen at the head of the grave of a local black smith, : The Unemployed. By ELLIS O. JONES. “1 understand you have what is called ‘the problem of the unem ployed.” What might that be?” asked the Man from Mars. “That is a very serious problem,” answered the Professor of Political Economy. ‘‘Now and then, we are unable to find work for a large num ber of our people.” “I don’t see any problem in that,” said the Maa from Mars. “Where I came from, no one wants to work any more than one has to and, if there were no work to be done, it would merely indicate that we were in a highly prosperous condition. How ever, I must say that your country does not appear to me to have reached that stage of perfection where any considerable number of people could profitably remain idle. That is to say, I see a lot of matters in an un finished and imperfect condition upon which human labor could well be ap plied with profit to the community.” “You are right,” said the Professor of Political Economy. “But don’'t you see that, under our system of individ ual initiative, we have parceled out the control of our jobs to the wise and stable men of ttge community and of course they could not be expected to provide work unless they could make a profit out of it?” “Oh, that’s different,” said the Man from Mars. “¥ou say the people make this arrangement and then you say it doesn’t work well. Why do the people not change it?” “That would be unconstitutional and an abrogation of a long line of judicial decisions.” “Are constitutions and judicial de cisions of more importance than pop ular decisions?” asked the Man from Mars, not for the purpose of starting an argument, but to get information. “Yes and no,” answered the Pro fessor. “Then it looks to me as if the peo ple would some day decide to change the system,” said the Marsian. “That’s what we are afraid of,” re plied the Professor; “but we hope to keep them satisfizd by organized char ity and free librar_ies. I must say it's too bad Adam Smith did not explain the matter a little more fully,”— From Puck. P g -~ WISE WORDS. -7. - If we aspire to walk in the power of the new life, we must cast away all hindrances, and it must cost some thing we really value.—Charles G. Gordon. The Faith presses upon man his noblest desires as obligations, and makes their attainment possible by the gift of the Spirit.—Brooke Foss Westeottis - S akn CaaalE Rl iR wayside sacrament.—Milton, It is easy enough to tell where love Is. You love those, and only those, whom it makes you glad to serve.— | A. G. Singsen. : Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed. —ltalian. The wrongdoer is never without a pretext.—German, There can be no affinity nearer than our country.—Plato. There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.—Spanish. Why should we then burden our selves with superfluous cares, and fatigue and worry ourselves in the multiplicity of our ways? Let us rest in peace. God Himself inviteth us to cast our cares, our anxieties upon Him.—Mme. Guyon. Those whom sorrow has visited can best understand the meaning of joy. —Beatrice Harraden, Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; _You have not a faculty of body, mind or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy.—E. B. Hall. Nothing so much increases one's reverence for others as a great sor row to one's self, It teaches one the depths of human nature. In happi ness we are shallow, and deem otherge sO.-—Charles Buxton. \ The sins by which God's Spirit is ordinarily grieved are the sins of small things-—laxities in keeping the temper, slight neglects of duty, sharp ness of dealing.—Horace Bushnell, The world moves alongsnot merely by the gigantic shoves of its hero workeis, but by the aggregate tiny pushes of any honest worker what ever. All men may give some tiny push or other, and feel that they are doing something for mankind.—John Richard Green. Cheaply Held, Mrs. Dewtell—“l do think Mr. Hankinson is the meanest man I ever heard of, without exception.” Mrs. Jenkins—‘“Why, what's he been doing?" Mrs. Dewtell—“Sued a man for alienation of his wife's affections and set the damages at only $10." "~ Judge. S ———— A Practical Woman, “On my kness 1 begged her for a kiss.” “*And what did she say?” - “Told me to get up and be prage tical.”"—Louisville Courier-Journal, g vy i R spa, P Al W !%2 g ¢ ] Lé - \ e \ ,-' "'%'J«M Ok ut : \flfi: o4k Ij/\' Y 1 ¢ 3 Pl ] M B .:s"”’;’»' 1 i 4@ S e\ Mo\ \\::l"‘}- 0 ¥ Nt | fr PSR ::?‘ & '."i‘fl 3 % B LR TSR N 8 The Drawback. : “Travel broadens the mind,” Declares one sheet. 3 But, p?igaw! It, too, we find, Flattens the feet, 3 Wow! “He danced every dance with me.” “He must have thought it wag g charity ball.”—Houston Post. His Method. Nodd—“How can you keep track of all your children?” Todd—"“By a card index system.® —Life. No Coupons. Ostend—*‘Pa, what is a ‘bond of gympathy?’ » Pa—"A very poor investment, my son. It never draws any interest from the public.”—Chicago News. The Honker Haunted. “What makes old Blank so uneasy Wwhen a motor car comes along?” “Why, his wife ran away in one, and he is always afraid she is come ing back.”—Tit-Bits. : Lost Chance. i She—“My husband won’t listen to reason.” He—"“He ought to be ashamed of himself. It isn’t every married man that has the chance!” Merely the Purse. “I notice that you always fling the cabman your purse.” The hero of this historical novel was a thrifty character. ’ “Yes,” explained he, “I buy them purses cheap by the gross.”—Washe ington Herald. Very Particular, R (2RSS A i lAL € ' .'. sx %JV ilfhi .. e -~ i ond EA TR ~1 P X N | » 2% BT 9 ¥ //. ] 2 - \ T ~,'. ~— 3 Wewoka : Guest—*Bring one portion of a; nude turkey.” Waiter—“ Nude turkey?” Guest — “Yes. Turkey without dressing.”—New Orleans Picayune. Pretty Close. “That waiter’s an idiot.” Y “What's the matter now?” “I asked him to bring me a watep' cracker.” “Well?” ‘““And here he brings me an icel bick.”—Cleveland Leader, et In Ambush, “Stop the auto.” N “But, sip--—" * “I think I saw some red ferns.” - “Better lemme keep on, boss,” ad-‘ vised the chauffeur, earnestly. “Them, red ferns is the local constable’s whis kers."—Washington Herald. Putting Him ‘“Next.” “I will give you a penny if you'll pbromise to'be good while I'm away.! Johnny.” ; “What'll you give me if I'll be good when you get back home?” ' ? “I'll give you something if you are' not good then.”—Houston Post. : t Their Game. “These crooked legislators of ours' are just as bad as counterfeiter."; said Knox; “in the same class, in fact.” . ! “Think s 0?” asked Dudley. “Sure! They're forever making and passing bad bllls.”—-Washlngton" Star, ' The Limit, “There's nothing that makes a.: would-be socisty woman madder than' to find her name left out of the report of some swell function she has at< tended.” “Unless it's to find besides that hen’ rival’s name is in.”—The Catholig Standard and Times. Affected Him Differently. “Maw, what's paw doing down.in the basement? Patching up the ice box?"” “No, dear; he's putting new wire gauze in the screen doors.” “How do you know?” “By the language he is using, daar."—Chicago Tribune. All Beach. Wilfred was sitting upon his fas ~ ther's knee watching his mother are ranging her hair. “Papa hasn't any Marcel waves like that,” said the father, laughingly. Wilfred, looking up at his father’s tald pate, replied: “Nope; no waves; it's all beach.”"—Harper's Weekly.