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SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU,
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anchored lie?
Or do you sail farther and far away
In an angry sea with a cullen sky?
Do you come nearer the Ought-to-be
In the Jvagon you hitched to a distant
Or dos?(:-u' drift on hopeiessly,
Content -to bide with the Things that
b are? ‘
Are vou a Drone or a Do-it-now?
A Hurry-up or a Wait-a-while?
A Do-it-s 0 or an Anyhow? 4
A Cheer-up-hoys or a Never-smile?
It’s none of my business, that T know, -
For vou are the captain and mate and
Of thcn?‘zhip of yours, but the \Where
you-go
Depends on the What-and-how-you-do,
Are you a Yes or a Maybeso”
Are you a Will or a Guess-you'll-Le?
A Come-on-lads or a Let’s-not-go”
A Yesl-will or an Oh-1'l)-see?
it isn’t the least concern of mine,
I know that well. but as time endures,
When they thresh the wheat and store the
Ynu"‘llmfsr'xd it's a big concern of yours, ‘
—dJ, W, Foley, in Youth's Companion,
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He {8 called Maria's bhurglar be-i
cause I hired him on her account. |
As the children would say, he was
not a “really” hurglar. One glance
at his gentle frankness, his serene
respectablility must have convinced |
you of that fact beyond peradventure. |
Moreover, he was my daughter's |
flance, and no decent citizen, so far
as I am aware, would suffer an
avowed lawbreaker to remcin in his |
household in that capacity.
Maria’s burglarphobia exhibited its
first symptoms the night we moved
into our new home, !
We were sleeping for the first time |
under its roof. Hardly had | dozcd'
off when I felt the gentle impact of |
Maria’s fist in my ribs and the soft!
sibilance of her whisper fn my ear:
“Get up, John. There's gome one on
our roof.” 1 raised my head and lis
tened attentively. *“There's no one |
there,” I announced definitely, Maria
insisted there was; adding that there
were two of them, and that one wore
hob-nailed shoes. My query as to the
size of the shoes met with no re-
Bponse, At last, to satisfy her, 1
arose and went to the little closet on
the top floor which marks the en
‘trance to our scuttle, In one hand 1
carried a lamp; in the other an un
loaded revolver. 'Twice 1 called,
“Who's there?” anl twice was.l au
swered only by the moaning of the
wind as it swept along the chimney
tops. I did not raise the scuttle lid;
Time for that i the morning,
Fhough 211 y regaled with the details
of my expedition Maria remainad
awake for at least four hours. She |
told me about it the next day. I
In the morning we found an old |
felt hat on our roof. Maria gloated.
Our neighbor’s son claimed it later
in the day, saying he had dropped it
on our roof while playing on his own
some weeks previously.
Our burglars next appeared on the
front steps about 4 o'clock of a frosty
winter's morning. From her trem
bling place under the blanket Maria
could almost distinguish the words
of their conversation; something I
failed to accomplish, even though 1
stood for three whole minutes in the
chilled vestibule with my ear at the
front door keyhole, That we arose
the nett morning to find ourselves
alive, our silverware intact, and our
doors securely bolted, Maria was in
clined to gttribute to a renascence of
the age of miracles. After thet we
were besieged no less than three
times a week; sometimes oftener.
“Maria,” said I, at last, “what is it
about a burglar that you fear so
abjectly? If one wants to get Into
our place he'll get there, never fear.
Whatever he takes will be replaced
by the insurance people, anyway.”
“And if he kills us where we lie
I presume that will be liquidated by
the insurance people as well—if
either of us is here to collect it.”
This in Maria’'s most sarcastic man
ner,
“So it is bodily injury vou fear?
Why? Am I not here?” Our hero
spoke these words with calm confi
dence and fine fearlessness. Under‘
the circumstances Marie's responsive
sniff was hardly complimentary.!
Bluntly she inquired—if a burglar
saw fit to enter our room with a
loaded pistol in his hand and a fero
cious scowl upon his tace-—-whntl
would I do?
“I'd jump out of bed and gramfle‘
him where he stood. I'd put my knee |
on his neck and throttle him until
he howled for mercy. 1d pummel
him with all my might, and leave
hm lying inert on the floor, while 1
went off to feteh an ambulance in
which to remove his battered carcass
——that is, of course, provided he was
not inconsiderate enough to take to
his heels before 1 had time to com
plete my vengeance.” So that due
modesty might attend my eclaim, I
vouchsafed the opinion that all bur
glars are cowards at heart.
“Indeed!” said Maria. The sub
limated sarcasm and skepticism con
tained in that brief word determined
me,
My prospective son-in-law, Clar
ence Colburn, failed to evince instant
enthusiassm over my plan, even
though I offered to purchase on his
behait the real thing in the shape of
A mask, a jimmy and a lantern. Be
fore he agreed to carry out the part
1 bad assigned to him, I was obliged
to promise several things. First, the
. Wrath of his prospective mother-in-
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law must be appeased by me, in case
of the discovery of his identity at
whatsoever expense. Secondly, my
demonstrations of bravery must be
strictly passive and largely oratorical.
I might command him to desist; to
leave the house under threat of
speedy apprehension; to abandon his
plunder where he found it—but I
must not leave my place. I wag
not to touch the floor until he had
full opportunity to clear the room.
Lastly, my pistol must remain un
loaded—"in case we get too excited,
you know.” These detalls fixed, we
set Thursday as the date, and prompt
‘midnight as the hour of our adven
ture, .
- Maria was very nervous that night,
Three evenings before the Sanborn
house in our street had been entered
and its contents removed to parts un
known. That very morning we had
learned of two other burglaries in our
immediate vieinity. Eagerly Maria
scanned the obituaries in the local
journal; I fancy she was digappointed
at the lack of funeral announcements.
Before we finally retired she saw fit to
reccunt all "three affairs mosaically,
and to remark dolefully that she was
sure our turn was coming soon. |
“Nonsense,” said I, having left the
dcor unlatched.
The town clock bell had completed
its dozen peals, and we were lying
cosily in our places when there came
a soft creaking on the hallway stairs,
followed by the muffled tread of foot- |
steps outside of our door. |
“John,” Maria whispered, “did you
hear that?”
“IWhat?” I asked, fearlessly.
“Some one is at our door. Go out‘
and shoot him. Oh-h-h!” The door
opengd softly and a circle of light
was planted on the opposite wall.
Our visitor made straight for the
bureau and started to fill his pockets.
I rose in my place. Impressively I |
demanded, “What are you doing
there, r-r-rascal?” |
For answer he flagshed the light into
our faces. My own was unruffled;
smiling even. On Maria's I saw such
a look of frozen terror that I was sore
tempted to abandon our experlment;
then and there. It was only my ‘
promise to Clarence that impelled me
to see it through, ‘
“Sez here, sonny,” sald he, as he
took my watch. “Get your thinking
apparatus busy locating where you
keep the decent things.” This is junk.
The stuif I got down in your dining
room is enough to make anybody
mad. You ought to be ashamed of
yourself.” |
“Out of my house this instant, or,
by Heaven, you perish where you
stand! Begone, villain. Vanish!
Vamoose!”
“Vamoose"” was Clarence's cue to!
depart. Instead of that he strode
over to our bedside and dealt me a
smart cuff on the ear. This was no
part cf the agreement, and I hastened
to voice my remonstration.
"Not do, what?” was the answer,
gruflly given. “That is funny. Ha,
ha! Keep quiet, you fossil, or I'll
run a rapid transit {tunnel right
through vou.” A ball of fire flashed
into my eyes and 1 felt the impact of
cold steel on my forehead.
“Spare us! Spare us!” came in
mufilled tremolo from under the
blanket. “Give him that SIOO you
have under your pillow, John.”
He did not wait for me to give it..
He pushed my head aside and thrust
his hand under the pillow. As the
gleam of the lantern was turned aside
for an instant 1 caught a glimpse of
the pistol as it went by me. It was
a tiny automatic revolver. And I had
bought Clarence a horse pistol!
“Give me your diamonds,” growled
the intruder, *“Quick, or I shoot.”
My tongue clave to the roof of my
mouth and my teeth rattled. As
speedily as I couéd 1 withdrew my
head under the coverlet and kept it
there until the sound of retreating
footsteps made known that the bur
glar had gone.
It was Maria's voice that I heard as
I emerged. Her tones, I confess, were
slightly hysterical. “Grapple him,
throttle him, pummel him; pummel
him, throttie him, grapple him.” She
said this over and over again.
I did not stop long to listen. 1
jumped out of bed and made for the
window. I called for help, and an
answering whistle told me that my
call had been heard. As I left the
window I spied some one coming up
on the run. Irushed down the stairs
and ran through the hallway. On the
porch I ran into a policeman. There
was another man with him—held
tightly,
“Here's your burglar,” saild the
officer. “I got him as he was coming
back, Said he came up to help you;
good nerve, eh? His partner wasn't
quite so cool about it; I saw him run
ning away with a bag, He was too
quick for me, so I nabbed this one.”
The captive removed his mask and
showed us his startled, white coun
tenance. Yes. It was Clarence.
We have tried to explain matters
to Maria. Time and again we have
assured her that it was all a joke
perpetrated for her especial benefit,
No use. Each time she rewards both
of us with a cool stare and asks icily:
“Where, then, are my coffee pot and
my silver spoons and the soup ladle?"
Besides, she invariably concludes, had
Clarence been the burglar, she had
small doubt that I would have grap
pled him, throttled him and pum
meled him. Cold type does not re
produce the possibilities lurking in
her tone.—New York Tribune,
The Pet Dogs of Paris,
In Paris dogs are treated as well as
human beings are. They wear auto
mobile togs when they go motoring,
they have a hospital, and they even
have a good-sized cemetery, with
monuments and hoadstones and in.
scriptions and rmortuary wreaths.—
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and useful, This model is chic and
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easy fit. It can be made with.the
sleeves as illustrated or sleeveless as'
liked; and the sleeveless coat will be
much worn throughout the warm
weather. It is pretty, it is greatly in
vogue, while for the three-piece cos
tume it makes an ciceedingly grace
ful adjunct to the toilette. In this
instance lace or silk braid is arrange}d
over a thin silk lining and is finished
with plain silk braid with looped
edges,
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and side-fronts, backs and side-backs,
and with straight sleeves which are
gatherad and inserted in the arm
holes. If the sleevelessleffect is de
sired these last can be omitted and
the armholes cut out on indicated
lines. _
The guantity of material required
for the medium size is four and one
half yards eighteen or twenty-one,
three and one-half yards twenty
seven or two yards forty-four inches
wide, one yard of fancy banding Jor
the neck edge, four and one-quarter
vards of braid and of looped edging.
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It is imperative that the drop skirt
be fitted carefully w the figure, as
small hips are in style, and there
must be no extra fulness at the walst
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Lace and embroidered collar and
cuff sets are very much in vozuo.’:
round lace yokes with attached co I~
lars are of a dressy order, made of
Cluny and Irish lace. They are
shown with the half su.vmmzct%é
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The Startling Hats.
Hats are almost startling in the Q‘ :
color propensities. They m
tall and they are trimmed in ways
that make them seem still taller,
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‘,_ A Princess frock in mole-colored
satin charmeuse is draped simply
'h.cross the figure to one side and
caught with a heavy, knotted, seven
inch fringe forming a trimming on
the right side. . On the other is a love
1y silken embroidery made of various
Teutral shades from faintest Wedg
wood blue to the palest note of Ber
gundy and yellow. These all seem
to harmonize with the shade of the
frock, and compose a most glorious
combination.
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. Girl's Dress.
Simple little frocks made with
straight full skirts are among the
most practical and the most desirable
of the warm weather season. This
one is pretty and attractive and can
be made from almost any really child
ish material, the linens, batistes,
dimities and the like of the present
geason and also challis, cashmere and
gimilar light weight wools. In the
‘illustration, however, dotted batiste
is trimmed with embroidery.
' The dress is made with the waist
and the skirt. The waist can be lined
or unlined as material renders desir
able and can be made with the yoke
as illustrated or with the neck cut
out on the square outline as liked.
The skirt is straight and simply gath
ered at its upper edge.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size (ten years) is
four and five-eighth yards, three and
three-quarter yards thirty-two or
three yards forty-four inches wide,
one-h&lf yard eighteen inches wide
for the yoke, two and ififee-quarter
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flf‘ Cotton Voiles,
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forcibly this season, not because
they are new, but because they are sc
plentiful and in such lovely colors.
SNAKES’ HYPNOTIC POWER,
Experiments Disproving the Serpent Charm Theorj.
It is a popular belief that serpents
have the power of capturing their
prey by casting a mysterious spell
over thg victims. [Even scientists
have seriously considered this sup
posed mesmeric power over birds.
Cuvier ascribed it to narotie
efluvia, Audubon to the self
sacrificing audacity of nest birds,
Bonpland to the “instincts of curios
ity and maternal devotion,” Russel
Wallace to ‘‘optic influences akin to
hypnotism.” The latter theory is the
most generally accepted, and in the
rural districts, both of Kurope and
North America, bird charming snakes
are classed with such indisputable
phenomeéna as fish deluding anglers.
Contemporaries of more than aver
age intelligence will describe the
glaring eyes of a rattlesnake that
paralyzed a youngster on his way to
school and maintain that they saw it
charm down a squirrel from the top
of a walnut tree.
An opportunity was afforded me
last summer of discovering the snake
charm theory. The pharmacist of a
medical college had procured a num
ber of live serpents for experiments
with certain antidotes, and during
the summer vacation boarded his pets
in a suburb of Bennington; Vt. They
arrived in a moderate sized dry
goods box, and with the owner’s per
mission my neighbor transferred
them to a roomy outhouse with a
close fitting door and a wire screen
front. Through a glass window their
movements could be watched in spite
of two bundles of straw and other
aids to comfort. Cold weather leth
argized them, but on warm after
noons four or five of ten rattlesnakes
and six moccasins were generally in
motion.
Were they trying to get out? Their
conduct rather suggested a sanitary
penchant for moderate exercise and
sun baths. And there seemed no
doubt that they had a memory for
meal times. Generally revivals re
peatedly preceded the gong by a min
ute or two. The owner’s signboard,
“Dinner at 8 p. m.,” attracted rather
a surplus of sightseers, and when it
became known that our experiments
promised to solve a problem of ages,
catering, too, became superfluous;
volunteer gifts of rats and blackbirds
arrived in excess of our needs. Be
fore the summer was over our visit
ors had settled the snake charm con
troversy. Twenty-eight out of thirty
intelligent witnesses agreed that
there is no hypnotism about it.
Our first doubts were aroused by
the complaceny of birds and small
mammals and their absolute indiffer
ence to the presence of their formid
able fellow captives. Within two
feet of a coiled rattler a blackbird
would alight on the rim of the drink
ing trough and adjust the defects of
his toilet, splashing water in the very
face of the reptile that watched him
with piercing eyes. Then, after re
peated sips, he would condescend to
notice the crawler that had uncoiled
by that time, and would finally hop
THE MUSTARD PEST. ‘
How Farmers Get Rid of Plague That ‘
Has Cost Millions, |
Do results justify the tremendous
expenditure of money and effort for
adapting science to the ends of agri
culture?
Wild mustard has been and is yet
the curse of the farmer’s field. The
old method of dealing with the pest
was twofold, to summer fallow, plow
and harrow the infested field for a
season, then when the crop was
planted the next year, if the mustard
still grew, to have the children wan
der through the field plucking cut
the weed by the roots.
This was a waste of time and grain,
for little plantlets of oats or barley
were trampled down or derooted for
every mustard plant pulled up. The
new scientific method is to use no
seed that is not guaranteed. But
what of the field already infected?
And what of fields infected by other
weeds quite as noxious as mustard?
It was in the spring of 1906 that
the American Steel and Wire Com
pany called attention of the agricul
tural experts to a by-product of their
iron and steel manufactory, an iron
sulphate solution, which seemed to
destroy weeds without injuring grain.
The chemists of the company con
ferred with the agronomy experts.
The iron sulphate was diluted in
water,
The remedy did not always act the
same, It was found that it would
not work early in the morning during
the dew or after a rain, for the sim
ple reason that moisture diluted it
too much. Finally a suitable Spray
ing machine was obtained from Ger
many and the iron sulphate was ap
plied about the third week in June,
when mustard was in the third leaf
and previous to bloom, and the grain
plantlets not yet high in the blade.
What was the result? The weed
was wilted up and burnt as if by fire.
The grain blade remained a little
blackened, but unhurt, for pew shoots
came on in fresh growth,
Now in many Western States ths
oat crop represents a yearly vield to
the farmer of from $20,000,000 to
$30,000,000. Half that destroyed by
mustard represented loss of ten to
fifteen millions.
That amount isg practically saved to
the farmers’ pocket by the discovery
of the iron sulphate solution. Multi
ply that amount by the dozen or
more States that are great oat grows
ers and the importance of the discoy
ery can be pealized.—From Quting,
aside just far enough to avoid a dis
pute about bathing privileges, but
still within easy reach, '
Nor had the restlessness of rats
anything to do with the dread of im
mediate danger. They were trying
to gnaw out, but in the intervals of
such efforts were apt to run straight
into the pile of straw that formed the
favorite rendezvous of the serpents,
The snakes, indeed, were in no hurry
to abuse that confidence. When they
did get ready they scorned hypnotic
artifices. A gradual elevation of the
head, a noiseless approach with a
short halt in reach of the bird that
was picking crumbs in his feeding
corner, then a slow contraction of
coils, a snaplike dart and a leisurely
retreat as from a task accomplished..
The bird had taken wing, thoroughly
alarmed now, and fluttered about the
wire screen in the desperate hope of
finding a loophole of escape. In less
than thirty seconds the poison began
to take effect. ‘The bird clutched at
the screen, with his head hanging
further and further back, then re
laxed his grip, dangled by one foot
for a while and came flopping down
on the floor. It was not dead yet,
but dazed, looking this way and that
and fluttering about in a strange,
aimless fashion, and more than once
right toward the destroyer, who at
last began to manifest an interest in
its antics. Once or twice the serpent,
coiled near the centre of the floor,
seemed strongly tempted to risk a
conclusive spring, but drew back
again, fully aware, perhaps, that a
better chance would be only a ques
tion of a moment. :
The bird was still on the floor,
staggering to and fro, when a side
ward collapse marked the beginning
of the end. Its foe watched it with
lifted head. The chance had come.
No risk of a rough and tumble fight
now; the victim had ceased to flutter.
and the old rattier quickly dragged
it off to tHe straw pile. A. full hun
dred experiments repeated this same
sequence of manoeuvres in all essen
tials.
The poison fangs of a snake have
no - proper roots, but terminate in a
virus bag, and are attached to the
jaw by means of ligatures that make
them movable to the extent of erec
tion and retraction. This arrange
ment makes it difficult and rather
superfluous for the snake to secure
his victim at the first spring. The
fangs are adapted only for a snap
bite, but their owner can afford to
bide his time., The virus that has
been known to overpower strong men
in half an hour lethargizes birds and
small mammals in half -a minute.
Wherever stricken they are apt to
collapse in sight, if noin direct
JFeach, of their assailants, ose_keen
eyes detect the slightest commotion
in the neighboring weeds, but who
would find it a very long time be
tween meals if they had to rely upon
the hypnotic power of those eyes.—
‘Thomas C. Hutton, in the Scientific
American.
ADVERTISING CHARITY.
lPaid Appeals in Newspapers Best
| Way, Says Dr. Lindsay.
’ At the School of Philanthropy the
lother day Dr. 8. M. Lindsay instructed
ythe students in the art of securing
popularity for the objects in which
it is interested. One way was to buy
advertising space. *
“You have got to have the news
|papers with you in any campaign,”
isaid he. “The platform and the pul
’pit do not exert the influence they
,ence did. You are going to be ad
jvertised in the newspapers, anyway;
iit’s worth seeing to that you are ad
vertised right. e
“Let me tell you how one man ad
vertised a group of social reformers.
'He was a country boy, who came to
the city and made ten or twenty mil
lions by perfectly honest, straight
forward methods. He said to these
men one day: ‘Buy a certain amount
of space in the newspapers of the
district which you wish to influence.
Present your appeal in that space,
and ask for money, votes and moral
lsupport, You'll get back all or near
ly all the money it costs you, you
will educate the public and you will
acquire a control over the papers.
“ ‘1 dispense my advertising money
through an agent, who controls per
haps $600,000 o $1,000,000 of ad
vertising funds. Occasionally in one
of the papers in which my advertise
ment appears I see an editorial hostile
to my business. Then I drop a note
to this agent, and he writes to the
paper saying that the article in ques
tion is offensive to one’df his advertis
ers, and he will appreciate it if the
publisher will refrain from further
utterance along that line. This letter
is read very carefully because it.
comes from an agent that controls
‘5600.000 of advertising.’
l “I wouldn't for a moment,” said
Dr. Lindsay, “excuse the newspaper
Iwhlch paid any attention to such a'
communication if it believed the busi
'ness was humbugging the public. In
zthat case the newspaper ought to tell
.the advertiser to take his advertise
jment and go. But in our case the
| i®cial ‘reformer is ot working to
’hun.h'mg the public but to benefit it,
land is entitled to all the influence he
can gain for that end.”
To influence legislatures, Dr. Lind
say thought, petitions were not ‘“worth
the ink it took to write them.” Cir
'cular letters addressed to legislators
often produced an actually hostile
leflect. The only thing that really has
an effect on the hard hearted law
lmaker is personal appeal or a per=
sonal letter.—New York Tribune, i 3
