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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. v I and wove his 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,” < 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. 71 Iv I I HoRTlCdttk HINTS RAUr / *>—IU 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. THE FARMERS’ FRIENDS HAVE STARTED THEIR WORK > ✓ - Iw 1 * \ -V iSss / P I ! At w ; fin V v * A v A I'nr**•’Ov¬ Y <4 ists ?WI<0 1 « 'll C0M£ t>»NT ' l '* >■ -asm * / \ 1 -Mm . .VI Xxti vi'jti JO m if**- ® ■ s ■y a ■ .'•V ' m mm mm i SIiSfe { I 3 f//A .i 1 ' ym w I >-5 • m me lag $ Ws • ' vf' v k w K 1 m n/; Ml ■ - "US \<L —Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Star. 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- -