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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 from south carou? jjjjjjjjjjj 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 “There’s a Reason. gaU 1 ® Name given *y p ° st "“ Ro ad Creek, Mich. Read viHe/* in pkgs. A Ever read the above •' new one appears from Djae )U . They are genuine, true am man interest.