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MOTHER.
At twilight here I sit alone,
Yet not alone: for thoughts of thee—
Pale images of pleasure flown—
Like homing birds, return to me. 4
Again the shining chestnut braids
Arc soft enwreathed about thy brow,
And light—a light that never lades—
Beams from thine eyes upon me even
now,
As, all undlmmed by death and night,
Remembrance out of distance brings
Thy youthful loveliness, alight high imaginings.
With ardent hopes and
Ah, mortal dreams, how fair, how fleet!
Thy yearnings scant fulfillment found,
Dark Lethe long hath laved thy fe , ‘b
And on they, slumber breaks no trouo
ling sound;
Yet distance parts thee not from me.
For beauty—or of twilight or of morn
Binds me, still closer binds, to thee,
Whose heart sang to my heart ere l
was born.
•Florence Earle Coates, in the Century.
What Is Love?
By Edith L. Joslin.
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The man was young
youth with all the grace of a man well
governed and well trained, He lay on
the soft, sweet brown ncedlea under
the tall, splendid pines, and listened
to the wind singing in their branches
high above his head and his thoughts
strayed into strange and divers ways.
And most thought he of love, for lie
was a young man. After idly musing
for a time he became more serious and
suddenly startled himself out-of his
revery by abruptly asking: "What is
love, I wonder, anyway?” And lie who
had been so lanquid and tranquil but a
moment before seemed strangely agi¬
tated and the question hammered it¬
self out again in pulse and brain.
What Is love?
All at once a new sound stole into
the chaos that was existing within him
and like the cool delicious rain to the
parched and thirsty fields, so was this
new sound to his troubled brain. Bit
by bit it. grew distinct until the man
no longer heard Ills question but in
its stead the melody of sweetly blend¬
ed voices giving him an answer to it.
He threw himself back on the pine
needles and relaxing his over-taxed
forces prepared to listen and to learn.
The melody that he heard was the
voices of the fresh, green branches of
the pines over his head. “Love is life,
love Is beauty. Love is duty, love is
everything in the world,” sang they.
Then (hey stopped and one voice
’Sweeter than the rest addressed him.
“Oh, mortal man, wouldst thou know
what love Is? It is to us in its acme
the caress of the soft, south wind as he
comes singing through the forest, and
the chill, hard cold blast of the north
wind as it wraps us about in its death,
dealing embrace Is our sorrow of love.
That to us, oh man, is love, That
which deals us all our joy and all OW
sorrow.” And the Voice of. the pine
tree was silent and another voice rich,
with dainty dra’jjrance spoke' and the?
man turned hi^ head to behold a sweet
violet growing at his feet.
“Love, dear mail,” said the violet,
is to me, r as ft is to my sister the
pine tree, (that which is all my joy
and all my sorrow. For the dew whose
light, kiss is the life giving, anon turns
ito ice and chills me iiito inbeii'sffiilUy
and yet is the dew, my love,” and tpe
violet hung her fair head as though
the modest tirade had frightened her
gentle soul. Then up spoke a bright
little buttercup that grew just outside
the woods:
“My love, oh, mortal, is the beautiful
sun. His warm rays are such a joy
to me, such a delight, but of, what
misery I know when he frowns or be¬
comes wantonly cruel and scorches mo
.with his passion. So do I know love,”
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and the buttercup lifted her pretty
head and smiled fondly at her lover.
And as the man lay thinking of
what he had heard he saw a woman
approaching. Sho was beautiful with
all the splendid beauty of maturity and
as she neared him he felt his pulses
heat faster for her coming.
“What is love, dear man?” she mur¬
mured as she knelt beside him, “Love
is joy; love Is pleasure—see, I am
bringing It to you.” And she bent clos¬
er. “You are young and handsome
and brave—I would win you. It pleases
me to make you my slave and so to
take you into the halls of pleasure and
then offer you In return for your
servitude the possession of all this
beauty and charm. Art. a mind, dear
man?" and she bent still nearer and
pressed her full red lips to his.
He had anticipated delight, but the
touch of those red lips was like rank
poison to him. He made a motion as
though to push her from him and
drew hack with a shudder. “Thou art
a child, not a man, and thou does not
deserve to know what love is nor to
be permitted to cull its sweets,” said
the proud beauty scornfully as she
drew herself erect and moved majes¬
tically away.
The man closed his eyes to shut out
that tempting beauty, but with a sigh
of relief crept up to his lips and was
breathed when he felt that she had
gone. Some way he felt that the pine
tree, and the violet, and the butter¬
cup, all had a better idea of love than
Ihe had at first thought.
All at once and quite against hla
will -be opened his eyes and looked at
the foot of the free where the humble
violet grew. Could he be dreaming?
No, It was not a vision, but a beautiful
girl that sat there so fondly toying
with the violet at her side. Every
line in her dainty body suggested
grace. Her face, bent over the (lower,
told of kindness of heart and beauty
of mind.
She raised her head and looked at
him, and the pretty arched lips parted.
"Thou hast, asked, what is love? Love,
oh man, is life. Love is tender, for¬
bearing, thoughtful and true. Love is
sell' sacrificing, it knows no heights
too great, no depths too deep. It Is all
joy. It is all sorrow. It is the be¬
ginning and the end of all things. It id
the essence of God himself,”
The man’s breast was filled with a
great longing, and he reached up to¬
ward this maiden, but light as a bird
she was away and speeding through the
pine woods. Quick and eager, he was
in pursuit. She glanced over her
shoulder and addressed him: “Thy
heart has been sleeping, when it
awakes only canst thou hope to catch
love,” and then she turned and sped on
out of the woods into the sunlight.
Like one in a trance, he stumbled
oh in headlong chase, but when he, too
reached the open the fair form was
gone. Only a soft white cloud hung
on the eastern horizon, like a woman’s
form, seemed to wave its willowy arms
and beckon him on.
The man turned and went slowly
across the meadow. “Love is life, and
; to live is to love” he whispered softly,
“I just awakening, dear heart, 11
am
and he hastened his steps, and his face
showed eager anticipation.—Boston
Post.
OLD TIME REFRIGERATORS.
Spring Houses of the Ozarksand Their
Many Uses.
“You do not need to go far out of
St. Louis to find the old time spring
house,” said a gentleman connected
with one of the Western railroads.
"The prime requisite of a farm in
the early days was water, and nobody
would buy a section of land any¬
where in the Ozark region unless it
was provided with a spring, The
house was usually located as near
the spring as convenience suggested
and then after the home was secured
the next step was to build a spring
house. The walls were made from
two to four feet thick of any rough
stone that happened to be handy. The
door was of heavy oak boards and fas¬
tened with a stout, padlock. Inside the
house three sides were usually fitted
out with shelves to hold the great
crocks of milk, jars of cream and but¬
ter, and visually the spring bowl was
excavated so as to form a pool having
a uniform depth of three to six inches.
In this the choicest dairy products
were placed in order that they might
/be coolest, while overhead stout nails
..or hooks were fastened to the rafters
to sappbrt huge roasts, legs of-mut¬
ton anch veal, which' vat the temper
at,vlre.of*45 degrees or thereabout
would keep fresh many days.
; “Tfipts and mice were almost un
kifOwn about the -spring house, but
small snakes and half grown frogs
were numerous, and when -the coun¬
try maid noticed an unusual commo¬
tion In the ajr of milk she was hand¬
ling she was not at all surprised or
frightened either when a water snake
slipped out of the jar and disappear
ed. Nor was the family alarmed
when the head of a frog appeared in
the milk pitcher at breakfast. The
pitcher was promptly emptied into
the pig’s trough, and the frog, if not
devoured by the pigs, made a bee line'
for the spring branch. Nobody was
blamed, for every one knew that the
covers of the jars did not fit and that
frogs and snakes were to be expect¬
ed in a spring house.
“These old fashioned refrigerators
are everywhere to be seen in the val¬
leys of the Ozarks and fulfil the same
purpose that they did when Missouri
was a territory.—St. Louis Globe
Democrdt.
Novel Alarm Clock.
A novel illuminated alarm clock
has been made by a Bohemian clock
maker named Felix Andele. By this
device the sleeper, upon awakening,
can see the dial of an ordinary alarm
dock, which is illuminated by means
of a candle when the alarm sounds.
The candle is forced upward by a
spring, which is inserted in the same
case and provided with a cap through
an opening in which a wick can pass
freely. A movable slot, in which tho
igniting surface of a match box may
easily be placed, is pulled downward
by a* wire lever operated by the pecu¬
liarly constructed winding up crank
of the clock, during the ringing of the
alarm.
In this manner a match, the holder
of which is placed against the slot
by a spring, is lighted. The burning
match, with the holder is then forced
forward and lights the wick of the
candle.
The Road to Riches.
If at first you don’t succeed, ask
them for one of the easy jobs with
the hiigh salaries.—Galveston Daily
News.
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PLANTING COWPEAS.
Thorough preparation of the soil
before planting is as profitable for
cowpeas as for any other crop, the
greater the care In this respect, the
greater the satisfaction and profit in
the yield.—Indianapolis News.
USE ALL THE LAND.
There should be no idle land in a
well-managed garden, As soon as
one crop has matured the land should
he put in another crop, or if it Is in
the fall some sort of cover crop
should be sown.—Indianapolis News.
A PLAGUE OF POTATO BEETLES.
In tw*o counties on the eastern
shore of Maryland a specialty is made
of early potatoes for the Northern
market, and the district this year
has been invaded by potato bugs in
vast armies which in neglected fields
stripped all vegetation and ruined
the crops. The potato raisers of
the two counties bought about 650
tons of paris green this year and
spent about $800,000 for the poison
and labor of application.—American
Cultivator.
BEST ROOT CROPS.
The best root crops are mangold
beets, but an acre of turnips will
sometimes yield six hundred bush¬
els. Both roots are laxative foods,
and when fed with silage and hay
furnish a good substitute for sum¬
mer feed. We plant so that we can
do most of the work with the horse
cultivator, Five to six pounds of
mangold seed and three to four of
turnips are planted to the acre. Plants
are thinned to four Inches apart in
the row.—W. D. Hurd, Experiment
Station, Orono, Me.
TOP DRESSING FOR ORCHARDS.
Fall top dressing is undoubtedly
the best mode of manuring orchards
wherever they are not making suffi¬
ciently vigorous growth. It. is the
only way to manure pear trees with¬
out inducing blight, as it usually does
if the manure is plowed in. It is nev¬
er advisable to manure trees heavily
at one time. A slight top dressing
every fall is more favorable to vig¬
orous growth, productiveness and ex¬
emption from disease. In manuring
orchards be careful not to use straw
or other coarse manure, irt which
mice may harbor, and injure the trees
while the ground is covered with
snow in winter.—Weekly Witness.
CARE OF BLACKBERRIES.
' The essential point in growing
blackberries successfully is a moist
soil, not one -n which water will
stand, but one rich enough in humus
to hold sufficient misture to carry the
plant through the growing season.
It is usually best to plant the black¬
berry bushes fn the fall, setting the
smstller growing kinds four by seven
feet apart, and the larger varieties
six by eight feet. Thorough cultiva¬
tion throughout the season will help
in a material degree to hold the mois¬
ture necessary to perfect a good crop.
The soil should be cultivated very
shallow, so as not to disturb the
roots. Breaking the roots starts a
large number of suckers, which have
to be cut out and dropped.
Blackberries, like dewberries and
raspberries, bear but one crop on the
cane. That is, canes which spring up
one year bear the next year. From
three to six canes are sufficient to be
kept on each hill. The superfluous
ones should be thinnned out as soon
as they start from the ground. The
old canes should be cut off, soon after
fruiting, and burned.—Indianapolis
News.
A FINE YELLOW CLEMATIS.
The only yellow* flowered clematis
worthy of the description is C. roien
talis tangutica, a comparatively new
plant from China, says the Garden¬
ing World. The color is most strik¬
ing, and the form of the flowers is
no less distinct and remarkable. Each
flower is produced singly on stems
four to seven inches in length. The
shape is that of a tulip, and each
bloom depends gracefully from the
tip of its slender stem. Clear golden
yellow, shaded or blended with green¬
ish yellow, is as near a description of
the color as words can give. It is a
most unusual shade of yellow*, and
is very attractive. The habit of the
plant is that of a sub-shrubby climb¬
er; it grows about six feet high or
more, if carefully trained, but it is,
perhaps, more correctly described as
a plant of rambling habit. At any
rate, the most pleasing effects are
obtained by allowing the growths to
clamber at will over a dead (or liv¬
ing) bush, or a few pea sticks. There
seems to be a chance of raising a
series of remarkable hybrids by cies
C. coccinea, etc. Plants may be ob¬
tained cheaply, and seeds also are
available. Propagation may be ef¬
fected by grafting or layering.—In¬
dianapolis. News.
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MAINE’S LOG HARVEST IS ON. ,
20,000 IVlen hi Camp Along the Pcnob
sco£—"EVlarking of Logs.
Bangor, Me.—Maine’s annual log
harvest is now in progress, and an
army of 18,000 or 20,000 men are
engaged in felling spruce, pine, hem¬
lock and cedar for the supply of the
saw mills and the pulp mills in 1909.
In the olden time the lumbermen
used to wait for the snow to cover
the ground before attempting to haul
any logs, but now the crews are sent
in months before snow falls, and mill¬
ions of feet of logs are yarded on bare
ground. About the middle of Janu¬
ary yarding is supposed tc be finished
and hauling begin.
On the Penobscot alone this winter
about 6000 men and 1500 horses are
employed. Years ago there was al¬
ways a good supply of regular woods¬
men, but latterly the natives have
been seeking other employment. The
young men of this day do not care to
go into logging camps, with all sorts
of associates, to eat beans and swing
axes all winter for $25 to $30 a
month. Therefore great difficulty is
often experienced in getting crew's.
A woods crew is composed of sev¬
eral classes of workers. There are
choppers, who fell trees; swampers,
-who make the roads, clear away the
small growth and trim the fallen
trees; teamsters, w'ho drive the log
sleds; sled tenders, who., load the
sleds; markers, who cut with axes va¬
rious distinctive symbols upon the
logs; cooks, who are the chefs of'the
cam ps, and cookees, "who do the’scul¬
lery work and wait upon the ,men.
The wages vary from $15 to $30 a,
month with board, and the season is
from four to five months. ‘
usually
The camps are scattered ovef a vast
stretch of territory, extending for 200
miles or more along the Penobscot
and its branches, away back to the
Quebec boundary line. Woods work
is laborious and monotonous, begin¬
ning with daylight and lasting until
dark, with three halts for hearty
meals, consisting for the most part of
baked beans, although in some camps
nowadays a considerable variety of
food is provided.
NATURE, OF THE “FOOT AND MOUTH” DISEASE
Veterinarians Agree on Symptoms, But Don’t Know
Cause of the Epizootic.
Philadelphia.—Dr. Leonard Pear¬
son, State Veterinarian, and other
veterinarians here are agreed upon
the main characteristics of the mal¬
ady known as “foot and mouth dis
ease. In Europe it is also called
murrain, and the principal scientific
names for it are eczema, epizootica
and apthous fever. It is highly in¬
fectious, and its identity is deter¬
mined by the eruption of vesicles or
blisters in the mouth, around the
coronet or top of the foot or hoof, in
the cleft between its parts, and (of
the cow or she goat) on the udder.
It is most common in cattle and
swine. The human species is also
susceptible to it, but rarely to a ser¬
ious degree.
The specific cause of apthous fever
has not been clearly demonstrated.
The virus is contained in the erup¬
tions. Authorities say that the' cause
is presumably a germ. If that is the
case, the germ is so small that it will
pass through a Berkefeld water filter.
The infection may be indirect,
through the stables, the straw, hay
or other objects with which diseased
animals have come in contact.* The
virus may he carried by an animal
several months after it has had the
disease and has recovered from it.
The period between the moment of
infection and that when the eruption
enth-two appears is hours. from twenty-four The symptoms to sev¬
greatly in different vary
epizootics, being
sometimes mild and at other times
sevjere. The first evidence of its pres¬
ence is a rise of temperature, which
in .cattle rarely goes beyond 10-1. de¬
grees Fahrenheit, The mucous mem
brane of the mouth becomes red-'
deued, the appetite, is diminished and
the rumination or chewing of' the
cud ceases.
The day’s work concludes with a
big supper, for which the men have
ravenous appetites, and then follows
a smoke talk, when some of the men
play cards, some sing rollicking songs
of the woods and the drive, others
discuss the latest prize fight and a
few mend their torn clothing. The
majority are so tired that they roll
into their bunks as soon as supper is
over and drop to sleep when they,
have smoked their pipes out.
It is at the landings that the most
interesting operation of logging is
performed—the marking of the logs.
The great sticks are here branded
with various symbols to denote own¬
ership, just as in the case of cattle.
The marks must be indelible or
they would be worn off by the bump¬
and grinding of the logs against *
ing
the rocks and shoals on the long drive
to the booms, and in all the ninety
years of lumbering on the Penobscot
no one has ever been able to devise a
better method of marking than with
a sharp axe in the hands of a skilled
woodsman.
• The marker is deft and rather ar¬
tistic, and makes very few slips or er¬
rors. There is a head marker and
several assistants, and they stand
upon the great log piles, swinging
their axes with confidence and precis¬
ion, as proud of their skill as any ,
chiselpr TfTe marks of marble. cut - the ' ' logs A> of
upon are
wondei’fuf. variety. There can..be-‘ no
two "alike and each must be distinctly
cut,;else there would be confusion at
the sorting booms and loud com- •'
plaint, if not. lawsuits, among the »
owners. -
To the common eye log, marks .
mean no Central more than, the' hieroglyphics
on the Park obelisk, but to
the markers they are as plain as A, ,
B, C. There are crosses, girdles,
stars, daggers, crowfeet; fishes, va¬
rious letters and combinations of let¬
ters, links, notches—a long and com¬
plicated list, and for every new log
owner a new and distinctive mark
must be invented.
The eruption appears two or three
days later. It consists of small yel¬
low-white vesicles or blisters, vary¬
ing in size from a hemp seed to a
pea on the gums and inner surface of
the the^lips, under the insides of the cheeks and
surface of the tongue.
They burst soon after their appear¬
ance, sometimes on the first day. The
blister may remain a day or two more
and then disappear speedily, leaving
deeply reddened areas of erosions, j
which are very painful. They may ■
become normally covered again, or I
may be converted into ulcers. At this
stage saliva forms in large quantities
and hangs in strings from the mouth.
In eight or fourteen days the disease
may have entirely disappeared.
From the eruptions on the feet or
hoofs there is a viscid exudation,
and the animal is subjected to so
much pain that frequently it moves
about on its knees. This is especially
true of sheep. The sores on the udder
of the cow become exceedingly pain¬
ful, and after a little she ceases to
give milk. The effect of the disease
on any animal is to cause it to be¬
come if extremely emaciated, and greatly even
it recovers promptly to
lessen its value.
Post-mortems reveal affections of
the lungs, dilation,and fatty degen¬
eration of the heart and gastric and
intestinal lesions.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Wil¬
son said that the anxiety in his de¬
partment over the threatened epi¬
demic of foot and mouth disease
among cattle had subsided.
"We have the disease well under
control now, and I don’t -believe it
will spread to any other locality,” he
saM. '“It ■ has been necessary to
laughter about 1000 head of cattle- -