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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.
Again the shining chestnut braids
Are soft emvreathed about thy brow,
And light—a light that never fades —
Beams from thine eyes upon me even
now,
As. all undimmed by death and night,
Remembrance out of distance brings
Thy vouthful loveliness, alight
With ardent hopes and high imaginings.
Ah, mortal dreams, how fair, how fleet!
Thy yearnings scant fulfillment found;
Dark Lethe long hath laved thy feet,
And on they slumber breaks no troub
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 I
was born.
—Florence Earle Coates, in the Century.
Wfeat Is Love?
By Edit!) L. Joslin.
The man was young and wore his
youth with all the grace of a man well
governed and well trained. He lay on
the soft, sweet brown needles under
the tall, splendid pines, and listened
to the wind singing in their branches
high above his head and his thoughts
strayed info strange and divers ways.
And most thought he of love, for he
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, 1 wonder, anyway?” And he 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 anew 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 liis troubled brain. Bit
by bit it grew distinct until the man
no longer heard his 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. Dove is duty, love is
everything in the world,” sang they.
Then they 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 our
-sorrow.” And the voice of the pine
tree was silent and another voice rich
with dainty fragrance spoke and the
man turned his head to behold a sweet
violet growing at his feet.
“I ove, dear man,” said the violet,
''‘is to me as it 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
.to ice and chills me into insensibility
and yet is the dew, my love,” and the
violet hung her fair head as mough
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 me
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. She 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
twinging it to you.” And she bent clos
er. “You are young ctnd 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 back 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 scQrr&'fift’ as she
drew majes
tically away.
The man closed his eyes to shut out
that tempting 4 with a sigh
of relief 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
he ha* at first thought.
All at once and quite against his
will be opened his eyes and looked at
the foot of the tree 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 flower,
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
self 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 is
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
on 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 am just awakening, dear heart,”
and he hastened his steps, and his face
showed eager anticipation.—Boston
Post.
FARMERS' ARITHMETIC.
How English Farmers Measure Space
and Weight.
Farmers have an arithmetic pecul
iarly their own. This is essential,
seeing that their conditions for buy
ing and selling are totally different
from those of ordinary tradesmen.
Suppose, for instance, you wanted to
purchase a farmer’s crop of turnips
in a ten-acre field, the townsman
w.ould be at his wits’ end to judge the
weight of the roots in that field. The
experienced farmer, however, would
find it an easy matter to arrive at a
correct calculation.
Turnips or swedes are usually plant
ed in ridges twenty-eight inches apart.
This the farmer knows, means nine
ty ridges to the acre. Then he care
fully measures off a yard from a row
where the crop seems about the av
erage, pulls up the roots in that yard
and weighs them. Supposing they
weigh ten pounds, a simple calcula
tion proves that the crop averages a
little ftfer twenty-eight tons to the
acre. Eleven pounds is equivalent to
nearly thirty-one tons, and so on. Af
ter he has found out the weight of
one acre, it is quite an easy matter
to estimate the weight of the whole
field.
When a man of the- soil sets about
planting an orchard, he does not or
der so many hundred of trees until
he has carefully calculated how many
trees will be actually required. This
number will, of course, depend on the
distance apart at which the trees are
planted. If they are set at even dis
tances of twenty-five feet an acre will
bold exactly seventy trees; if only
twenty feet, 109 trees will be re
quired. In this way all waste is pre
vented.
In regard to planting cabbages,
strawberries, or any other small fruit
the distances apart are-, of course,
much smaller. It might be interest
ing to note that if they were planted
a foot from each other an acre of
land could accommodate no fewer
than 43,560 plants.
It is equally essential for a farmer
to be able to tell the weight of cattle
without troubling to put them on the
scales. The way in which he does
this is to measure the girth of the
animal just behind the shoulders and
square the product. Multiply the re
sult by the length in feet from shoul
der to juncture of tail. This is then
multiplied by .23, .24, .26, .28, or .30,
according to the animal’s fatness. The
result will give the carcass weight in
stones. Carcass weight, by the way,
is much less than live weight.
Now, the novice in attempting to
buy a stack of hay would run a great
risk of being swindled in regard to
its weight. Not so with the farmer
who knows his business. He would
calmly take out his foot-rule and
measure the stack to the eaves and
add to this number of feet half the
height from the eaves to the ridge.
Multiply the result by the length in
feet, and that by the width in feet.
Then divide by twenty-seven. This
gives him the total number of cubic
yards in the stack. A cubic yard of
new hay weighs six stone, and of old
hay nine stone. Therefore, if he mul
tiplies the number of cubic yards in
the stack by six or nine, according to
the age of the hay, he will find the
exact weight of the stack. **
The farmer’s arithmetic is very use
ful to him in checking the work of
his employees. He knows that an av
erage ploughman can walk about
eighteen miles a day, and he must,
therefore, be able to estimate how
much land this eighteen-mile walk
will cultivate. It depends largely, of
course, on the size of the plough.
Supposing the plough can cut a sev
en-inch furrow, a full day’s work will
mean the ploughing of an acre and a
quarter of land. If it cuts an eleven
inch slice, hwo acres would be an av
erage day’s| work, and a fifteen-inch,
two and thi&e-quarter acres. —Tit-Bits.
( Y a Crowd.
“Fellow-ci ns,” shouted the candi
date, “if I anil 1 ected for this district
I shall endea'&or fo make you glad
that you did not *o tit another.”
“That’s right!” ye. . / the dry goods
box philosopher. “I re’m one would
be a-plenty.” —Puck.
Cause and Effect.
“If you didn’t smoke those expen
sive cigars, you might own yon hand
some office building.”
“I do own yon handsome office build
mg. If I didn’t, I couldn’t smoke these
expensive cigars.”—Washington Her
i aid.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Many a man lies in an effort to
stand up for another.
Today is a part of the future we
worried about yesterday.
Before attempting to get what you
want, find out what you want.
It’s easy for a man to understand
a woman if she is a good cook.
If a man doesn’t care to be his own
boss be might as well marry.
Many a man receives cool treatment
because of his shady reputation.
Two women who hate the same peo
ple always get along well together.
Men who hustle for the long green
may be said to fight for their colors.
Lots of men would rather hold a po
litical job than earn an honest living.
Lots of proud men take off their
hats when they meet an ultimatum.
Every widow who knows her busi
ness knows when a man means busi
ness.
A faint heart hasn’t the ghost of a
show where there is a strong-armed
rival.
Unless a man is a hustler his pray
er for work is apt to remain unan
swered.
Speaking of close friends, those
who will not lend you a dollar head
the list.
The less a woman knows about a
subject the more she has to say rela
tive thereto.
There are men w r ho just have to be
bossed. That is why so many widow
ers remarry.
Somehow a compliment is pleasing
to a woman even when she knows it
isn’t sincere.
It’s surprising how brave the aver
age man it when there isn’t any real
danger in sight.
There isn’t much philosophy in a
man if it doesn’t get busy when he has
occasion to visit a graveyard.
A girl will forgive a young man
quicker for kissing her against her
will than for not being interested
enough to try.
When you are willing to go in debt
for things you don’t need, just be
cause your neighbor has them, it’s
time to stop.—From “Pointed Para
graphs” in the Chicago News.
PROHIBITS REVOLVING DOORS.
Their Use Forbidden in Large Paris
Restaurants and Other Places.
M. Lepine, Prefect of the Paris po
lice, issued an order today prohibiting
the use of revolving doors at all cafes,
restaurants, hotels, and other places
capable of containing more than 100
persons at one time.
Thousands of these doors will have
to be removed at once. The Prefect
maintains they are dangerous in eas*
of fire or panic, and that is the reason
he gives for his order. It is alleged
that on numerous occasions within the
last year accidents have happened
with these doors which might have
had serious consequences.
On one occasion recently, during the
busiest time of the day at a restaurant
on the boulevard in Paris, the revolv
ing door was jammed for a full hour,
and nobody was able to enter or leave
the restaurant. Had a fire panic
curred the result might have been dis
astrous. On another occasion an
alarm of fire in a cafe caused a rush
to the revolving door, w’hich got jam
med w r ith people and could not be
opened.
The Prefect’s decree is a serious
blow to all w'ho are engaged in the re
volving door business, w r hich has
soundly established itself in France.
It also will cause great expense to a
very large number of restaurants and
other public establishments. —New
York Times.
Mosquitoes Capture a Fort.
Golf, tennis and croquet, with which
the officers at Fort Lawton and their
families up to a few weeks ago were
wont to pass their idle hours, have
been abandoned at the post. So have
the afternoon band concerts.
Formerly there were not half a dozen
hours in the day when the links and
the tennis courts were not occupied.
Now they alifeless. The reason is
mosqu i t
The pests numer
ous about the post, they
have appeared in myriads. Sentries
and men on fatigue duty are compel
led to wear hoods of netting about
their heads and gloves. So are the
children of the officers when at play.
Lieut. J. C. Lehardy, assistant sur
geon, yesterday felt the golf fever so
strongly that he donned a mosquito
hood and anointed his hands with
kerosene and started around the
course. The insects drove him back to
quarters in fifteen minutes.
All porches at the post are screened
and the fatigue parties are armed with
buckets of kerosene, which they pour
on every damp spot on the post. It
is estimated that it would cost sl2-000
to fill in the low places where the in
sects breed. —Seattle correspondence,
Los Angeles Times.
The Eternal Feminine.
He —Here is a thrilling account of
the way in which that daring woman
climbed to the top of a mountain
which is five miles high. Wonderful,
isn’t it?
She —Yes, What did she wear? —
Cleveland Plain Dealer. *
%-
Explained.
Mrs. Knicker —I heard you talking
in your sleep about setting them up
again.
Knicker —Yes, my dear; I ; is a
military exercise.—New Yor% i.
—Cartoon by Berryman, in the Washington Star.
MAINE’S LOG HARVEST IS ON.
20,000 Men in Camp Along the Penob
scot—Marking 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 to 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 S3O a
month. Therefore great difficulty is
often experienced in getting crews.
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, who 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
camps, and cookees, who do the scul
lery work and wait upon the men.
vary from sls to S3O a
board, and the season is
usually from four to five months.
The camps are scattered over 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 be carried by an animal
several months after it ha3 had the
disease and has recovered from it.
The period between the moment of
infection and that when the eruption
appears is from twenty-four to sev
enty-two hours. The symptoms vary
greatly in different epizootics, being
sometimes mild and at other times
severe. The first evidence of its pres
ence is a rise of temperature, which
in cattle rarely goes beyond 104 de
grees Fahrenheit. The mucous mem
brane of the mouth becomes red
dened, the appetite is diminished and
the rumination or chewing of the
cud ceases.
Warships to Be in Fashion
Are Painted '‘London Smoke.”
New York City.—Dame fashion is
now fastening her grip on the United
States Navy. “London smoke/’ the
color which is all the rage this season
among smart dressers, is being made
fashionable for the battleships, cruis
ers and gunboats. The battleship
New Hampshire, at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, is the first to yield her
showy white coat to one of the fash
ionable color. This color blends with
the gray of the sea and bothers an
enemy’s range finders.
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
ing and grinding of the logs against,
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
chiseler of marble.
The marks cut upon the logs are of
wonderful 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 more than the hieroglyphics
on the Central 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 anew and distinctive mark
must be invented.
The eruption appears two or three
days later. It consists of smallgf/el
low-white vesicles or
ing in size from a hemp p to a
pea on the gums and inner surface of
the lips, the insides of the cheeks and
the under surface of the tongue.
They burst soon after their appear
ance, sometimes on tlie first daj r . The
blister may remain a day or two more
and then disappear speedily, leaving
deeply reddened areas of erosions,
which are very painful. They may
become normally covered again, or
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 extremely emaciated, and even
if it recovers promptly to greatly
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
said. “It has been necessary to
slaughter about 1000 head of cattle.”
“Uncle Sam” Provides Polo
Ponies For the Army.
Washington, D. C.—ln order to
encourage polo playing in the United
States Army the War Department is
in the open market for the purchase
of 330 polo ponies, or small messen
ger horses, as they are called. One
hundred and seventy of the desired
500 have already been obtained from
a contractor.
It is planned to distribute five
horses to each troop of cavalry and
each battery of field and mountain
artillery.
UNITED STATES SENarto
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Ex-Senator M. C Butler.
Dyspepsia is Often Caused by Cifarrh
of the Stomach—Pei una Relieves Calami
of the S'omach and is Theref ore a Remedy
for Dyspepsia.
o Hon. M. C. Butler, U. S. Senator*
“from South Carolina for tivo terms in*
< a letter from Washington. L) C., writes i
I to the Peruna Medicine Cos., as follows: t
o “1 can recommend Peruna for*
dyspepsia and sto nach (rouble, p
* have been usingyour medicine tort
“a short period and 1 feel very*
♦ much relieved . It is indeed ♦
oWonder/itl medicine, besides al
" good tonic.” *
i :
CATARRH of the stomach is the cor
rect name for most cases of dyspepsia
Onlv an internal catarrh remedy, such
as Peruna, is available.
Peruna Tablets can now be procured.
Ask your Druggist for a Free l*e.
runa Almanac for 1909.
It is well to remember that eggs
do not get soft by long boiling.
r £o Drive Out Malaria and Build C|
the System
Take the Old Standard Grove's Tast*
less Chill Tonic. You know what yog
are taking. The formula is plainly printed
on every bottle, showing it is simply Qui
nino and Iron in a tasteless form, and Ua
most effectual form. For grown peopii
tad children. 50c
Virtue is its own reward.
Capudine Cures Indigestion Pains,
Belching, Sour Stomach, and Heartburn,
from whatever cause. Ivs Liquid. Effect!
Immediately. Doctors prescribe it. 10c,
feffc., and 50c., at drug stores.
He Tried Not To.
When 9-year-old Teddy displayed
the shining new quarter which Mr.
Ringloss had given him down at the
corner store, mother very naturally
asked if her little boy had said
‘Thank you” to father’s friend.
No answer.
“Surely you thanked Mr. Ringloss , ’ ,
she persisted.
Still no answer. Trouble showed
on the little face.
“Teddy, listen. You ought to hav
said Thank you, sir.’ Did
No answer yet—and trouble threat
ened to produce showers.
“Come here, dear little son. Tel
mamma, now. Did you thank Mi
Ringloss for the quarter?
Then the storm broke, but between
the sobs and tears came the required
Information: “I told him thank ) 0u (
an’ he said not to mention it. an
I tried not to.”— Philadelphia Ledger-
Fighters from Babyhood.
An Indian boy begins to handle *
light bow as soon as he toddles. His
bow is then taller than himself.
By the time he attains the age
twelve he Is permitted to us soar?
arrows. At the age of eighteen
is strong enough to use a mans _
A white man, when he takes
Indian bow for the first time, fir. s l *
can hardly bend it. But to 8 °
full sized Indian how requires
as much as anything. Home
CAUSE iW
Good Digestion Fmr&tU >
Indigestion and the attendant <h
comforts of mind and body *
tain to follow continued use of i
per food.. o , rO .
Those who are still young an
bust are likely to overlook tie
that, as dropping water * rl ‘‘ * 0 f
stone away at last, so wiL yj uSfl
heavy, greasy, rich food fhia
loss of appetite and indigestion■
Fortunately many are th ° | oto
enough to study themselves * n .
the principle of Cause ana
their daily food. AN. Y. young
an writes her experience thus-.
“Some time ago I had a- [QO
ble from indigestion, causes t 0
rich food. I got so I was ine dh
digest scarcely anything, a 1
oines seemed useless. Grape
“A friend advised me to tr x M
Nuts food, praising it hi f hi - r ’ ‘hank
a last resort I tried it. * a * t on i?
ful to say that Grape-Nm 3 bu j]t
relieved me of my trouble, du
me up and strengthened w
organs so that I can ea .g.”
I desire. But I stick to G
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