T HE.
SO FATHER SAYS.
I wish. that I’d been grandpa’s child .
That I could had the joy
If fishing in those good old days
When father was a boy.
4 or then the fish grew bigger far
Than they do nowadays
-nd literally packed the streams-—
At least,- so father says.
age
I hey never caught a sucker then
That didn’t weigh a ton,
‘ nd pickerel were' longer than
A modern Armstrong gun. ,
I hey used to yank out halibut 3,,
In hundreds from our bays, '
- nd shad ran up the banks to bitch-
At least, so father says.
hey never thought of using bait
To lure the wily trout, .
1 hey reached a bushel basket down
And simply dipped them out,
- nd in about an hour or two
They’d fill up several drays.
nd sow them through the neighborhood-
At least, so father says. ‘
In Short. they caught so many fish,
That ’I‘ore their sport was through ‘
he stream where they were fishing would
Go down a yard or two.
- nd not an angler failed to come
Home loaded in those days—
A habit father still pursues.
At least, so mother says.
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H T IS so unreasonable—so, so like
a woman.” ,.
Maurice Reiinie, at present in a sad-
ly injured frame of mind, looked mood-
fly across the dinner table, and, as an
aside, sharply refused to have his glass
replenished with champagne. He
would brook no alleviation of his mis-
ery. .
He not only hugged his grievance,
but insisted on forcing it constantly on
my attention also. I began to be more
than ever sorry that my friend Dr.
Benison had been unable to accept my
invitation, just as sorry as I was, for
Maurice’s sake, that Miss Lena. Tem-
perton had also called off at the elev-
enth hour (that is about 7:15 by my
drawing-room clock), leaving me tete-
a-tete with Maurice, and he at any
rate not too well pleased.
He had been engaged to pretty, smart
Lena Temperton just three months.
and up to now things had gone as such
things should, altogether as smoothly '
and happily as the most anxious of
mutual friends could desire.
Maurice had practically invited him-
self and Lena to dinner with me on this I
occasion, and only on Monday (this was
Thursday), when I chanced to meet her
just entering St. James’ theater, Lena.
had reminded me of it. I openly shared
Maurice’s surprise, at any rate, for no
real excuse had been contained in that
hasty note which had arrived from her
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an hour ago; but I saw no just cause
why all the sex should suffer for Miss
Lena‘s defection.
"Your accusation is
enough, Maurice,” I began. ,
“I tell you straight, I am not going
to be played with. It is making a
laughing stock of me, and Iwon’t stand
it. I left her after dinner on Monday,
and she appeared then just as sweet
and as fond of me as she has always
been. She was going with her people
to the theater, and I had an appoint-
ment at the club, but we were to meet
again twice between then and now. 4
Tuesday it was at Mrs. Fairbank’s ‘at ‘
home.’ Lena knew very well I only
accepted for the sake of seeing‘her, I
had told her enough times. And with-
out a word she calmly stopped away.
She used to think nothing of sending
me two, or even three notes in a day
if occasion arose, but now she could
not spare time, it seems, for a word.”
“Excuse me, Maurice, but you really
will smash that glass—were none of
them there?”
“Yes, of course; lessie was, for one.
(Bessie is the third Miss Temperton,
just out.) And she was most evidently
avoiding me. But I managed to get
hold of her once for a. second, some-
how. I was determined not to be cut
in that barefaced manner.”
“ ‘v’hat did she say?”
“That Lena couldn’t come, so she
was there instead. Couldn’t come,- in-
deed! Why, she went scarlet as she
said it.”
“ Bessie is very young.” I pleaded.
“Bessic’s sister apparently isn’t,”
sneered he.
“And yesterday?”
“Last night I was going Ibund to her
place, after dinner; the old folks were
dining out. But a. note came from her
—0, yes! she could write then, fast
enough—to say she would be unable to
. see me, so would I not come. Hoped I
should not mind very much—~very
much! She could not give any rea-
son at present, but sent her love. And
you should just see some of the let-
ters she has sent me—pages—
crammed.”
“If I could only help
y u,” I said,
rashly. E]
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‘W‘Could you?" said' he, with an e34
pression that was comparatively hope-
} ful. “For 1 really think you might do
something" (despondency overtook
lhim again) “if anyone could,” he
added.
“In what way do you suggest?” [in-
quired, humbly.
“Well, I can‘t exactly know,” said
Maurice, “unless you could contrive to
see Lena, and get at the bottom of all
this mystery and tomfoolery from her.”
“.Mightn‘t you do something of the
sort yourself?"
“Haven‘t I been plainly shown I am
not wanted ?" he asked, fiercely. “And
by Jove! where I am not wanted you
will never find me.” ,
His mood was evidently not one to
yield to remonstranee; so. making the
best of a bad job, I promised to see what
I could do, and to let him know as soon
as possible the results of my endeavors.
The first smile I had seen on his face
that evening was the immediate result
of my concession. ‘
But at first my efforts were quite un—
successful. When Maurice came tear-
ing in the following evening, I had in-
deed no hope to hold but to him of
my aid ever availing him anything.
I had sent a line by my maid .to Lena,
asking her to do me the great kind-
ness to come round to see me, if only
for a. few minutes.
Lena is pleased to consider herself a.
great admirer of mine. and I counted
on her girlish friendship and warm
heart to help me in the reinstating of
my friend Maurice, in her favor—if she
came. Which she did not.
“Dreadfully sorry, quit-e impossible
to come. Please excuse, yours in great
haste.” As Maurice read the words (I
had much rather he had not, but he in-
sisted), I began to have considerable
' doubt as to the safety of my furniture.
“Take m-my advice and don’t have
any more to do with her," he stuttered.
“I don’t intend to, and so I tell you.”
But he did not tell it as a fact calcu-
lated to bring him pleasure, and, with
all due deference to his last expressed
I wish, I could not bring myself to let the
1 breach between them grow to a. width
5 past mending if it lay in my power to
, prevent it. t.
l But. I must confess my patience with
Lena’s recent behavior and her strange
treatment of her lover had reached a
somewhat low ebb when I started for
3 her home next morning. And I can
I quite believe my expression was war-
i like enough to cause the hearty laugh
- with which my old friend, her mother,
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greeted me.
“My dear, I am glad to see you. I
5 was coming to you, but this is much
better. You must excuse my laughing.
It’s the first chance of a good laugh I
have had for days. I have been at my
wits’ ends to know what to do. Is poor
old Maurice really as upset as all that?”
“He is upset to the verge of-”
“Not giving her up— Now don’t say
that. it would break her heart, I am
sure.”
“I don’t know,” I said. I felt I had
no right to be very hopeful, for Maurice
had been extremely vehement, and on
the last occasion altogether averse to
taking any steps toward a reconcilia-
tion.
“At any rate, he is deeply annoyed,”
; edge I am here to seek an explanation.”
“And you shall have it—it is just like
you to come. When I heard your knock
I said as much to Lena. She didn’t
want me to see you, but I put my foot
down on this nonsense once for all and,
had my own way.” _ ’
.“Was that the secret of the scufiling
I heard ‘3”
“Yes, but bless me, here she is! Well,
child, I'm glad you've‘come to your
senses at last, I’m sure.”
Her head was enveloped in a large
shawl and her pretty face pale and mis-
erable. She flung herself at my feet.
. “O, I have been silly, I know! They
have all been telling me so. But you
will forgive me? Maurice will forgive
' me?” ' -
It was at that moment—we might
have been rehearsing a stage play, so
opportune did his entrance appear——
that Maurice walked in. . He couldn‘t
keep it up any longer, he explained to
me afterwards, and had insisted on
forcing an entrance.
I saw him catch hold of Lena by the
shawl and answer a piercing shriek
from her with a request that; she should
cease to be a little donkey and listen to
reason. -
And then I heard the rest from her
mother in another room. The mystery
invoked a solemn warning against in-
flammable hair restorers.
V 'hilc waiting for the carriage at the
St. James theater the other night, Lena
had stood just a little too close to her
brother’s lighted cigar, and in a mo-
ment, fanned by the draft. all her pret-
ty hair was in a blaze. She was sur-
rounded directly, and the flames ar-
rested, but she was terribly shaken and
frightened, although, beyond the loss
of her curly locks, no real damage was
done. .
But it was enough for Lena’s nerves;
and too much for her faith in her lov-
er’s affection. She wouldn’t have a wig
ordered, she wouldn’t write or explain,
or even let anyone else do so’ for her.
Nothing moved her, until Maurice him-
self came to make light of her fancies,
the wrong.
Lena’s hair is nearly long enough
now to do up again, but Maurice still
declares he likes it short best.
“And it is so dear of him,” said Lena ;
to me the other day. “It almost makes
me believe it.”——Madame. - '
A Dewey Home.
“I would be happy to do anything in
my power to carry out the idea of pre-
senting Admiral Dewey with a home ,
in Washington,” said Senator Cullom
the other day. “It is an extremely com-
? mendable project, as the American peo-
ple cannot do too much for the man ,
l who has placed this country in the
front rank of‘ nations and done so much
to reflect glory upon the navy."
I went on, “and it is without his knowl- ‘
and proved her, even to herself, to be in ‘
MAINE CHEWING TOBACCO. .
Farmers Flavoring It with Maple
Sirup Just as Their Grand-
fathers Did.
‘ Since the price of’plug tobacco went
‘up, a. good many farmers in Maine
,have been making their own chewing
't'obacco, just as their grandfathers did.
Tobacco seed is bought in Virginia or
lKentuelfy, and planted in hot beds or
boxes early in the spring. After dan-
ger from frost has passed, the seed-
lings are. transplanted in rich ground
and allowed to grow until_September
1. The stalks are out oflf near the
. 'ground on a dry day and the whole
plant, with leaves attached is hung in a
loft to cure; In May the dry leaves are
stripped off, and when the ribs are
taken out the mass is wetted with a
sweetened water contain-ing an in-
fusion of licorice root. As soon as the
flow of maple sap diminishes, the spig-
gots are taken from the trees and the
.auger holes that held the spigots are
crowded full of the prepared tobacco
leaves. A tapering pine plug is then
’driven into the hole on‘ top of the to-
.bacco, and sawed off flush with the
.tree.
In midsul mer, when the maple fla-
voring has dad time to permeate the
=mass and the wad of leaves has turned
dark and shrunken to half its original
bulk, the plug is bored out and a solid
cylinder of excellent chewing tobac-
co is found. Nearly all the farmers in
, northern and western Penobscot coun-
ty are making their own chewing tobac-
co this year.
MIGHT DESTROY ALL LIFE.
Tesla, the Great Electrician, Afraid
That He Might Ignite the
Atmosphere».
In a signed article in the current
number of the Electrical Review, Nic-
‘ola Tesla describes some of ‘his;ex-
vperiments in the line of electrical cur-
rents of high voltage, and gives details
of the coil which he uses. “The dis-
charges of such a coil,” he adds, “when
of an electro-mo‘tive force of a few mil-
lions of volts, excite powerful affinities
in the atmospheric nitrogen causing
it to combine readily with the oxygen
and other elements, particularly in the
presence of aqueous vapor. So ener-
getic are these actions and so strange-
ly do such powerful charges behave
that I have often experienced a fear that
the atmosphere might be igrq'ted, a ter-
rible possibility, which Sir William
Crookes, with his piercing intellect, has
already considered. Who knows but
such a calamity is possible? And who
can tell with certitude that periodical
cessations of organic life on the globe
might not be caused by ignition of the
air and destruction of its life-sustain-
ing qualities, accidentally or as a con-
sequence of some accumulative change?
A lump of coal will lie for centuries
unaffected in contact with oxygen, but
the combustion once started, the proc-
ess continues as long as there are ele-
ments to combine.”
A QUICKSILVER FOUNTAIN.
Odd Exhibit from Queensland
VVhich Is Soon to Be Blade
in London.
An
The government of Queensland are
going to show the world, or such por-
tion of it as may'visit the forthcoming
exhibition at Earl’s court, that the col-
ony can produce quicksilver equally
with America, Spain and Austria, says
the London Mail.
A mere pool of quicksilver in a glass
case would be no indication at all, so
those responsible for’tlie arrangement
of the Queensland section propose to
show this precious liquid mineral lend—
fountain.
Mr. C. Bright, F.R.S.D., A. M. Inst. (3.
113., is the engineer responsible for this
novel departure in the way of foun-
tains, and he gave some interesting de-
tails of its constructipn to a Daily Mail
representative the other day.
“This,” he said, “can hardly be called
a fountain in the ordinary acceptation
of the word, for the difficulties of deal-
ing with such a heavy body as mercury
are too great to allow of a. jet such as
one sees playing in Trafalgar square.
What we are going to have is an ar-
rangement of two‘ basins, one above
the other. These will be of iron, enam—
eled black, to give a greater effect to
the falling quicksilver.”
FISH IN HOT WATER.
If We May Be] love This Account They
Enjoy It and Seem to Grow
Fat in It.
A fish is naturally a cold-blooded ani-
mal, but if you take a fish and keep him
in slightly tepid water for a month or
so he will soon get used to it, and be
perfectly healthy, says Public Opinion.
{r Then, if you like, you can increase the
water’s temperature. The fish will not
I pay any attention to the change if it
i be made gradually, and will eat a good
l deal more than in quite cold water. ln-
I crease the heat still more and he will
' develop a strong appetite and his skin
will look clean and glossy.
You may go on withthis treatment
for any length of time, always slightly
i adding to the heat of the ,water, and
’ giving the fish more and more-to eat,
until the water is as hot as your hand
um with heat playing on a part of it, so
that one-half of the water is colder thali‘
the other—the fish will keep to the hot
part and bask in it. It is said that a
fish will even live a little while without
‘ outward discomfort in water not a
great deal below the boiling point. A
fish certainly seems to derive benefit
from living in hot water, and is better
. eating after such a life when it is dead.
Russian Villages \Vltllout Schools.
There are over 10,000 yillages In Rue
sia where' no school exists. -
ing a new and effective beauty to a
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E'VE'NleG'GAZETTE-
AMONG .THE POULTRY.
Keep all young fowls'dry.
Give the hens all the skim milk you
can. ,
A pair of geese should yield $2 worth
of. feathers in a year.
Keep fat hens on ground oats and
avoid corn and wheat.
Vary the food sufficiently to keep.
the fowls in good appetite.
A little salt in the soft, food given to-
the fowls will be acceptable.
At this time it is poor economy to
stint the growing chickens.
As warm weather comes on lice will
increase much more rapidly.
One of the best remedies for over”
fatness is plenty of exercise.
The pullet that begins to lay earliest
in life will lay the largest number of
eggs.
Young poultry of no kind should be
allowed to wade around in the wet
grass.
Nothing will prevent a hen from lay-
ing sooner than an expensive diet of
cornmeal. .
Give the hens all possible freedom
of range and there will be less soft—
shelled eggs.
Foods rich in oil should not be fed
to hens except in small quantities, es-
pecially in warm weather.
Pigedns will thrive in small yards.-
will cause them to quarrel.
It is not the largest fowl that is the
most vigorous, but the one with a full,
bright eye, ' heavy bone and compact
body. ‘
Never use coal oil or grease of any
kind on the setting hens, as it will close
the pores of the eggshells, so they will
not hatch.
In selecting the breeding fowls, if the
hens are somewhat dark let the cocks
be lighter; and if the hens are heavy,
use a lighter cock.
Be careful not to overfeed. It is
variety of feed and shell-producing ar-
ticles that bring the best results. Ex-
perience is the best guide as to quan-
tity—St. Louis Republic.
BEES IN BOX HIVES.
It Is Best to Delay Transferring Un-
til Twenty-One Days After
Swarmlng.
It is so much more convenient to do
anything with bees in movable comb
hives that it has been a common prac-
tice to transfer from box hives into
movable comb hives in fruit bloom.
There is a growing belief, however, that
it is better to delay transferring until
21 days after the bees in the box hive
have swarmed. Indeed, where increase
is desired it may: be as well not to trans-
fer at all, but to keep the old colony
in the box hive from year to year, so
long asyflswarms are desired. In Eng-
} land many bees are still kept in the old-
fashioned straw skeps, and the follow-
ing advice regarding them in the Brit-
ish Bee Journal may apply equally to
box hives: “By far the safest and best
way for a beginner to increase from a
single skep is to allow the bees to
swarm naturally. If you prepare two
frame hives and ‘nurse" the bees to in=
duce early breeding, it is nearly cer-
tain that you will have two swarms,
the first of which may, if fed for aweek
after hiving, give you some- surplus
honey. Hive the second swarm on
about five frames fitted with full sheets
of foundation, and it may easily make a
good stock for next year, so, with the
skep still ocfiupied, you may in a. good
season and with decent. management
increase your stocks from one to three
and get a, 1i ltle surplus honey. Surely
this will be satisfactory, to say the
:‘k H
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SUMMER COLONY HOUSE.
'It Gives Absolutely Free Range to
Fowl»~ and Flocks. Don’t In-
terfere with Each Other.
It is an excellent plan where large
numbers of fowls are kept to put them
oft= in the summer in colonies of 15 each
in fields and pastures. This gives free
range and the flocks do not ' interfere
with each other. The house can be
very simple.
Make a frame of strips of inch boards,
three inches wide, after the plan shown
FRAME OF HOUSE.
in the an t. This is strong and. yet very
light. it can'be covered with half-inch
boards put out “up-and-down,” With-
the cracks battened. or it may be cov-
ered with cheap cotton cloth that has
been dipped in linseed oil, then
stretched and dried. Such a. house
shoulll be pinned down to resist the
_wind. and can be moved to new ground
occasionally, to keep all clean and
sweet. This house is also convenient
where one wishes to put by themselves
a few of the best of the flock to breed
horn—Orange Judd Farmer.
'l‘lie Profit Is satisfactory. .
Most of the experienced poultrymen
' can bear. If you then put the fish in a .:
radiated aquariumL-that is, an aquari- ‘,
estimate that each hen will’ afford a
profit of $1 per year. This may seem
small to some,'but it means after the
interest- on the capital, food, and other
cash expenses are paid. It is really, a.
large profit, as most hens are not valued
at. more than half that sum, and with a.
flank of hens it represents the inter-
est of $500 at six per cent. When we
take into consideration the fact that on
most farms the actual capital invested,
in poultry i's' very small, the profit from
119115 is usually quite large. The sick
fawls, or those that~do not lay, reduce
the average for all ‘the members of the
flocks—American Gardening.
They must be mated or an extra male
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household work.
When you Wash the Baby
fuse the cake at White Glycerlne
f Toilet Soap found in each pack-
age of Ivorine. The fan’s of Wil-
l'iams’ Shaving Soaps guarantees
a . . this. Toilet \ Soap pure, delicate,
13 soothing, and healing— It is peculiarly delightful for keeping the
skin soft, white, and smooth _.You pay for Ivorine; we give
5 you the soap. The J’. B. Williams Co., Glastonbury, Ct. ‘
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The sudden Epidemic of Grip has startled the coun
try. The doctors confess they Lave no sure Cure
for it, and this is seen to he Mac in the sudden death
of Garcia and EX-Senato‘r Brice and the alarming in-
crease In the death rate.
Brazilian? Balm.
No fatal disease of Grip was ever known where
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Old Coaghs, Asthma
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