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SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, g i W D('i'g o‘tlhceonxl:)rrt‘ ea\l;’clfex“ie“ y};'txr la({ reams all 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, Tk hhhkh hkdkdhhdhhdhhkkkrk KAk Ak kA AAA AA A KRKX A AKX * % X% * . 9 >* % o VI i it Maria’s ! it Burglar, 3 i ul aro **‘ ** * % | kA khkhkh khkhkhkhhhhkhhhkrxk I AkAKRKX KA EXAA AR AAKXK Kk| 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- AR 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.— New York World, . g (YYD 4 .. ”" & ?GSZ [o7l§ E New York City.—Faney coats are greatly in vogue at this time and are to be noted made from a generous ~f/‘\%\ > o ; '\,," iy R ” Ry ; »"'_~'l’./ " 5% “’f‘z;,;‘ ) = 47".' \{:,;, <& = “Z /w N (M <z . » \ — .’w“’ E 5 X — > e L < Gl i & - . - " R 'p fi g ' S) 2 T A INE e oy Ba. RO ORld W) ode S 8 e 5/ 1R K P ib\ el e __efz_fl}_ Tk 3(? ON i - 13 &* Y =4 1B NSNS He 47 27, 04 | O / AL : / _.,;4"‘ ¢ 7 " 1 I ‘{l ///[/!‘ .s variety of materials. 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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, The coat is made with the fronts 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. Not a Wrinkle Permitted. g 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 line or a sign of a wrinkle over the hips. B Collars and Cuffs. @ : 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 O e—— G «("\ 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, e ; Use of Fringe. ‘,_ 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. . it . 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 yards of banding two inches wide for the gkirt, one and three-quarter yards A - 2 el 16, € AT (fi \ -mum\ ;?- (A ) ALI W </ , Y "”’l AT ‘ AT N LT E S e e i/"_ :.':“.":'-': [‘ R 5 Rk ok ,' \‘fl; 0150 . .4 \A\ :' E / DRt :-A«'E;»’:‘A , “‘., : ]-. -. ‘."_‘ ,' .h:..- .‘-_'..- 8 .."‘k_i o Az L 3 one and one-quarter inches wide for the belt and cuffs. Soutache on Net. | If there is a net yoke or guimpe to t\ho foulard frock trimmed with sou tache, apply some of the soutache on the net as well. This brings the ifinlor of the silk over on to the net in n'eneeuye way. flf‘ Cotton Voiles, . The cotton volles strike one very 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