Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 December 1902 — Page 3

THE LITTLE BIRD.

A little bir@ with feathers brown Sat singing on a: tree; < The song was very soft anc! low, But sweet as it coutd be.

Anrd all the people, passing by, T.ookediup to see the bird That made the sweetest melody That ever they had heard.

But all the bright eyes looked in vain, "For bir¢te wasso small, And with a modest, dark brown coat, He made no show at all.

*““Papa, dear,’”’ little Gracie said, ‘““Where can this birdie be? If 1 could sing a song like that, I'd sit where folks coulgd see.”

*I hope my little girl will learn A lesson from that birc, And try to do what good she can— Not to be seen but heard.

“This birdie is content to sit Urnnoticed by the way, - And sweetly sing his Maker's praise From dawn to close of day.

*So live, my chil@d, all through your life That be it short or long, i Though others may forget yvour looks, They’ll not forget your song."” —Washington Star.

To High Endeavor By JULIA NEELY FIN;:;

‘.‘ OU cannot deny that I hold an Y influence over you. That I am .not to you of that world. that is about you, worshiping—" ; : “] will admit that much. You certainly age not worshiping.’” Despite its flippancy there was the tense undertone of earnestness in the girl’s clear modnlation of tone, and the dark head was held a bit defiantly for perfectt mental equipoise; but the man epposite her, standing and leaning against the low balustrade, was in too ' deadly earnest to be in a receptively watchful mood, hence the deeper meaning of her speech he missed. “No. My worship I reserve for—"

- “Apother woman?” But his low, uneven tones ran on— “My ideals.” “And I, unfortunately am not the realization of even the lowest?”

“You certainly are not my- ideal of noble womanhood. And yet—Margaret—Margaret—l love you so! Why, I love you—not to madness, but to all high and holy purpose. To the end and limit of Tove’s mieaning. No endeavor would be too high for your sake; no aim and object too far! :

“But you—oh, dearest! - TForgive me that I must say it to you! That my very love impels me to hurt you —you!. You are beautiful, Dblessed by all for fortune's gifts and favors, and what are you to your fellow-be-ings? A star set on high te guide and -direct? The soft light set in a window that stumbling feet may set their way thereto? : “Alas! Alas! my dear ome, that you are not! Were you all that it is in your power and possibility to be, believe me, I would, I would, resign all to another who might better help you so to be.” : “You are kind.” '

- “¥Yes, kind to you, but most unkind to myself. For—well have I calculated the result of what I am daring to say to you. And yet I dare. Danger lies in the path you tread. How dare’—and his voice took on the growling menace of an angry brute—*kow <dare Granville Joyce set his lustful .- glance upon you? How dare you receive his approving looks with a smile? Were you mine = . . “But then—l am mnot—yet’—with a swift upward gleam from beneath the long-laghed lids—and a sslight upward in_ﬁection, of the musical voice. = ; -

“I would kill you with these hands that yearn to labor for you before you should bask under a lecherous look! Do you suppose you know men?” “Some of them. I think I know a little bit—but—" ; “Never mind all that badinage of tone.. You know men! . You, a girl guarded as a jewel within a casket! Why, had you the faintest idea of. what soiling thoughts that man projects toward-you would faint wtih shame. And I tell you—" ; . He paused, for a demon seemed to clutch and hold his throat, and the girl could see in the moonlight falling softly about them the trembling of the tense wrist, the knotted lines in the smooth young brow. “I tell you, if he even dares to call but your name before me—as I would brain a mad dog, will I assault him.” . : There fell a silence between them, and the young fellow . straightened up his broad shoulders and, with a swift, nervous gesture, tossed back a lock of fair bair that broke from its masses and fell over his brow. As for the girl, there had risen to her cheek a dusky rose, and her teeth showed a line of pearl against the luscious fullness of her under lip. She breathed a little hurriedly, so that the long-stemmed rose which shone golden against the folds of thin black stuff that veiled her bosom trembled as though a kiss had stirrred its petals. : “Margaret”—there was almost a sob in the word, and John Muir fell ‘on his knees on the step below the girl and held her two hands in his, looking with all his soul in his clear eyes at her lovely, downcast face. Perfect; perfect, from rippling, dlusky hair to tiny toe-tips was she! A beautiful woman and his heart’s dear ove. = 0 Eiv - As for him, his face was a noble one, and a good, and in figure he held his . own among his fellows. “Johm—" = S¥es?” “John- “ You “¥es?’ “You hurt my hands”—esd her light laugh rippled on the air. ! Without one word John Muir rose and stood a moment on the step below her, quiet and grave. : - 'There -was a pallor upon his face and his hands, dropped at his sides, were clutched tightly, thumb in palm, This night was as the end of the world to him. ° : ; (Ah, me! How sweet to look back uponl How. bitter to live through, these cataclysms of our youth!) . His voice trembled as he spoke, but

there was a fine flavor of manhood in it. He had called upon lis nature’s deep and it had answered him. “] had not told you, Margaret—but—ll leave to-morrow for the front. I want to go with the boys of our own set—go before I am forced to go and while yet a choice is mine.” “Go!” . She whispered the word, and a clear pallor swept her face, drowning the roses in the rounded cheeks. - “Go!” : =

“Yes, I planned to have this talk with you to-night, and if you responded, as I wished, to take with me the shield and buckler of my chosen one’s love and promises—but”—he <sighed heavily—a long, hopeless sigh. * “It is just as well, perhaps. You would scarcely love me out of sight and be true to me when you have flouted and trifled with me by your side and at your feet all these years. Yes, ever since you were a little. shy princess of a girl, with long, black braids, hanging below your waist—a little girl with shy, proud ways and dear, deep eyes, and I a great, awkward lad—Oh, Margaret, how long I have loved you and how well! Too well! Too wel!” . “Have loved?” :

But truly the end had come and John “Muir felt a physical illness born of the long strain upon nerve and brain, soukﬁnd heart, overcome him and he knew, he could endure no more. - ' : S

“Good-by”—and not heceding the slight ery that broke from the girl's lips, the leaning after him of her whole body, he was down the steps and gone with but the sound of his firm, young footfall on the air as trace of him.

“Yes, we do need new nurses, but” —the surgeon’s glance swept the girl’s face and figure, then went back -again and rested upon the upward gaze of two deep, dark eyes. *“Well, yes—at first glance I theught you a little unfit; but—" “Ah, fry me! Try me!” Her voice was tense with stress of feeling and her lips trembled, but steady purpose and grave determination shone from her whole face and gave meaning even to the posture her young body assumed.

“Yes, you'll do. Come, now. You'll have to get a good hold on yourself, miss, for you're likely to see—well, I won’t daunt your spirit, but things are not in very good shape in this camp hospital of ours. But,” he continued, threading his way ahead of her, through tents and groups of soldiers, ‘“but—God knows we do the very best we can.”

She made no answer; stepping lightly and as though on sacred ground, a fair and gracious sight for the hungry eyes turned to-her-ward, she quietly followed him.

There was good stuff in Margaret’s make-up, or she could never have withstood the storm of opposition that had met her determination to be an army nurse, a member of that grand co{rp%._, of Red Cross workers.-

But that it had been, withstood was proven by her presence in the camp, and her heart beat high with hope and honest purpose. “God willing, she should yet prove— but her thoughts were broken in upon by a terrible sound—the scream of a delirious man—and she started as though from a blow and clutched a moment at the surgeon’s arm, who turned and said somewhat roughly, yet tenderly: ‘ ; “What! What! You go down like that at tHe first sound?” But she turned up| to him a face so deadly white, so, drained of life’s current, that with a tender, manly impulse he threw his arm about ‘her and drew her, as he might have drawn his own daughter, close to his side and just held her there firmly. “That is John Mu&.‘s voice and T love him. Take mé to him. For God’s sake, take me to him. I am strong. I shall not faint. Take me to him.”

So impressed was the surgeon by the girl’'s voice, by her manner, that without one word he turned and, holding her hand as he might that of a little child, led her through the flapping doorway, down the narrow aisle, where on either side the ghastly figures were outlined beneath the slight coverings, and halted beside a cot near the other opening.

Grace and strength met in the slight figure that bent above the pitiful figure, quiet enough now that the delirium had passed; love, deathless, absorbing and sufficient for her soul’s sore need, shone from the eyes that dwelt upon the man’s pale, pinched face—love that had sought and found and was utterly satisfied. ' It was enough that John ‘lay hero beneath her eyes, in touch of her hand. Gone the long, soul-devouring nights; the empty, torturing days. Though Death himself stood upon tha other side of that lowly couch, it was enough. John should know and feel her love ere that icy hand should lead himi hence. :

Tears stood in the kind eyes. of the surgeon, ahd tears streamed oyer the face of the nurse who had paused in her passing to and fro as she saw the two enter, and now stood a step withdrawn watching the scene; but not a tear arose in those deep, dark eyes that bathed John Muir in their heavenly looks. “John." - : Slowly the blue lids' were lifted and the pale lips parted, gasped.

' On the alert for a return of the delirium, surgeon and nurse moved forward, but an uplifted hand waved them back, and kneeling, Margaret overshadowed John with her body. “John! Dearest! It is Margaret.” * And two strong, young arms went about and held his poor head fo a fragrant bosom. : “Margaret! Margaret!”

And Margaret, regardless of all about her, bent to his, famished and fever parched, the velvet " of 'her mouth, and John Muir knew that he had come into his own of love and all high and holy living.—Julia Neely Finch, in N. O. Times-Democrat. ' The Bad Boy! : Billy—l just saw Boozer, and he said he couldn’t remember a single thing he saw after nine o’clock last night. : : : George—Why not? Biliy--1 suppose because he saw doubie after that.—Columbia Jester.

Winter Coat Models for the Little Misses

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ITH Old Boreas blowing V}xfxvp his winter blasts in upon g ‘p/, us from the north we can ‘f\’{i: no longer neglect, if we "'V W have so far, the preparai tions for winter, which include the winter coat. For anyone who would get out of doors the winter coat is a necessity. For those who cannot afford them furs may be left out of the winter’s consideration. They are not among the absolute necessities of life. The mother with 'little daughters must think also of not only her own coat but for like warm garments for her daughters. Health, if mnothing else, demands that the children be out of doors in the keen winter air, but they must be warmly clad, and it is their desire also to be prettily clad.. Both considerations are easily met this winter for the woman who neither desires nor can afford any lavish expenditure for clothes. In fact it would seem that the designers of our fashions for children had specially in mind the great middle class when they were at work upon the winter modes. A few dollars will buy both a seryiceable and dainty coat of which no girl need feel ashamed. The straight coat, coming down to the shoe tops, and made with single, double and triple capes, are the popular modes. In fact they are about the lonly ones seen except in the Very 'fashionable circles, where the children are so often .so bedecked with novelties that they appear more as walking advertisements for the mod-

Charming Femininity in Tailor-Mades

A< i ; :@ ' f B el ’!"‘.',\ i \ £) : ::\5 ~gr}‘ 4 “‘ ~ ,4:_.:_:““ & X — i =\ HIC tailor-made gowns are \ more popular this winter ' 6 than for several past sea- %/ sons. The reason may ' probably be found in the fact that they are more feminine. Say what jyou will, the great majority of women prefer the distinctly feminine garment. The fad of the moment sometimes carries them away from this mode, but they are sure to return to it after a short time, more enthusiastic over its charms than ever before. So it has been with the tailor-made, the further it got away from the feminine the less its popularity, and so soon as its feminine features began returning its old-time popularity began to be in evidence. The tailor-made gown of the winter is a strictly feminine garment.. It has lost both the stiffness and plainness that tended to make it masculine. ' - : ' . The illustration shows a fair sample of the' tailor mode of the winter season. It is a coat and skirt costume of mut-brown cloth, with i)ipings and facings of velvet and a novel trimming of faney silk braid, represents the latest achievement of these favorite and fashionable tailors of London and Paris, and by its absolute originality of design imparts a new charm to the coat and skirt costume. For the coat, while cut without a collar at the mneck, introduces a species of cape-collar to give a becoming width to the shoulders, and an exceedingly - smart effect issecured by the introduction of the braid, with, gold tags to finish off the ends, the same pretty idea being repeated in the waistband, which, after pursuing its decorative career, above the scalloped basque passes beneath the longer fronts. The gracefully hanging skirt also introduces the combined trimming of velvet and braid, and the whole costume is a perfec« ex_Another Proposition, “I'm in misery, Biggins.” ! “What’s the trouble?” : “Well, I started smoking to show my boys what a miserable habit it is and how it hangs onto its victim.” “Yes.” S “And now I’'m trying to show them what an easy thing it is to qui.”— Baltimore News. Eo iy

istes than anything else. Of course, there is variety in the coats for the little misses, but it is a variety that is secured more in the way of trimming than otherwise. : The two coats shown in the illustration above are fair samples of the comparatively inexpensive garments of the winter., !

One is made of reversible tweed, its outer coloring of dark blue being on the inner side so interwoven with white as to secure a herring-bone effect, whicll is brought into effective contrast in the collar, lapels and cuffs, where stitched bands of the plain blue tweed, divided by strappings of satin, are used as a bordering. Triple cape collars edged with stiteching fall over the shoulders, and pearl .buttons fasten the doublebreasted front. : :

The other and sacque-shaped coat is made in cigar-brown cloth, with double-breasted fronts, and a.collar of herring-bone tweed in brown and white colorings, edged with triple strappings of the brown cloth, the lapels being in the plain cloth simply finished with stitching and the cuffs matching the collar.

The bat with this one has a crown of velvet applique, withi a spray of for-get-me-nots and leaves in silken embroidery, and caught in eventually with a band and bow of silk, the frilled brim to mateh having its fulness all edged with tiny tucks. It can be made in any color, and both coat and hat may be recommended for every-day and school wear.

amplel of the smartness of simplicity when made by a master hand. .Now let me describe two others that are equally charming. One is. built in the latest zibeline cloth, whose soft gray green is flecked with silvery white hairs, and interwoven with irregular spots which introduce a tinge of purple as a color contrast. And then the novel fabric gains further distinction by such effective details as the little closely stitched tabs which figure at either side of the pouched coat fronts and finish off with diamond-shaped medallions of velvet in a more definite shade of green, broidered in shaded green silks and gold thread, and again by those other strappings decorated with wee green and gold buttons, which hold in the plaits of the gored skirt till they open out into a fan-like fullness at the hem. Then the coat is further stamped as a novelty by the presence of a little basque which curves. closely over the hips, but opens out in tHose same fan-like plaits'at the back, while bands of the embroidered velvet are introduced at waist and wrist, and the quaintly shaped collar brings the velvet and zibeline into effective contrast once more. . i Another is also an excellent example of the smartness of the new zibeline, stitched strappings of plain cloth being used for its trimming, and ‘collar and revers of black Persian lamb giving a welcome warmth, as well as a handsome finish to the coat, while then, supposing that you should not as yet have fallen a willing vietim to the fascinations of the blue \and green color scheme, you must surely succumb to the smartness of a certaincostume where ribbed stripes of soft green alternate with blue and black, and raised spots of white are showered impartially, over all these colors. The skirt has its three deep and beautifully shaped flounces bordered with green cloth, and is banded in at the waist by a folded belt of black satin ribbon, d~own-dipped in front, and tied high up at the back in a big bow, whose loops are drawn through rings of green silk before being freed to form long sash ends. The bolero is cut short enough to show all the pretty effects of ‘this belt, and to make thé waist slimmer by eontrast with its plaited fullness, while here again black satin ribbons are threaded through the quaint silken rings at either side of the big sailor collar of green cloth, which, like the revers, is appliqued with lace ‘and embroidered with green and gold, black and white, before being finally edged with a band of white cloth crossed by a trelliss-work of lblack silk. : o ELLEN OSMONDE. y . Color. . Examiner (reading from list of printed questions)—What were the so-called blue laws? Applicant (for civil office)—l guess they were the laws that was passed for makin’ the milk pure. ‘ ; i Examiner—There isn't any answer ‘here, but I think that’s right.—Chicago Tribune, ' ‘

STEEL TRUST FACTS.

Monopoly Based l'pon Unsound Prin ciples at Variance with the People’s Interests. ,

T The industrial chieftains at the head of the billion dollar steel trust may understand their business as steel producers, but as economists and philosophers they are wobbly in their logic.

~ President Charles M. Schwab made some bad breaks, both as to facts and theories, when he was before the industrial commission in 1901.° Now comes Judge L. H. Gary, the acting head of the trust, with a three column interview in the New York World of November 21st, which can properly be described only by saying that it is a “corker.” Here axe a few samples ofs his economic wisdom on the subject of monopoly: - . “I am opposed to private monopoly. No decent man in America can defénd it.” , - “It is an impracticable and utterly unsound idea in business.” “All sound organizers of industry recognize the absurdity of the monopoly theory. No large industry can last in America unless it is founded on the basis of competition, that is, the survival of the fittest.” : “If the United States Steel corporation, the most powerful private institution in the world, is to succeed, it must not and cannot found its policy on a programme of monopolyi Its success is due to the highest form of competition, competition in brains, in methods, in work.” . ' “No man need fear that monopoly is .making any headway in this country. A study of the United States Steel cor-

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poration or of any other great and successful jindustrial organization in the United States will show that it is the spirit of unsleeping competition —a competition that avails itself of every new idea or appliance—that makes success.”®

But Judge Gary hae very peculiar ideas as to the meaning of monopoly and competition, as will be seen from the following quotations from this same interview: ‘

“There is a tremendous competition on all the time betweéen our various mills, a friendly, good-natured rivalry, but none the less eager. It is the kind of competition that is giving the industrial supremacy of the world into the hands of America.”

“No, we know very well that we cannot win by the device of a monopoly. We must win by getting possession of the best and most economical raw products, and by using the most concentrated and highly developed methods of production. This is a competitive, not monopolistic idea.” s

“Of course the first ‘element of strength, which the United States Steel corporation has is its possegsion of raw products. We own 70,000 acres of Connellsville coal, practically the whole supply of the world. We also own 50,000 acres of Pocahontas coal. These two coals beat the world for cheapness and quality. We also own 700,000,000 tons of unmined iron. We have methods of measuring the supply in the ground, and thatis our estimate. Then we have about 1,500 miles of our own railroads, besides something like a hundred and fifteen steel boats on the lakes. Our vast system of steel and iron mills is ‘controlled: by 15 subsidiary companies, which in turn control their own subsidiary companies.” No further comment -upon Judge Gary’s logic is necessary, except to say that the only danger he sees ahead for his world-conquering trust lies in lower tariff duties and in less protection. “If we are to be the dominant manufacturing nation of the world,” he says, “we must be as fully protected as anyother nation.” Judge Gary is up-to-date, and knows how to manufacture new definitipns, and rules of logic, as well as steel rEil_s. These are great times. . BYRON W. HOLT.

——lt goes without saying that a nonpartisan commission is not going to be appointed by any partisam who «is willing +to tolerate the present method of holding the consumer up. Even if a nonpartisan committee could be raised its work would be merely advisory and would be promptly rejected by a partisan congress or a partisan president if it did not line up with party policy and promises. The tariff question must be settled at last by congress with the approval of the president.— Delta (Tex.) News.

‘~——There are no good trusts now in operation. A trust may be good at the start, but if it wishes to live it becomes bad. If it is prepared to die it remains good, and if it remains good it is marked for an early grave. In eonsidering the trust question we may as well eliminate the good trust, for if we don’t it will eliminate itself.— Memphis Commercial Appeal.

James Keir Hardie, member of the British parliament, was arrested by Belgian police at Brussels as an anarchist suspect, but was released on proving his identity.,

: PRICES AND WAGES. Facts Which Do Not Carry Out the Boast of Prosperity to All ' i Classes. ; There are two kinds of wages. One is called “money wages,” the other “real wages.” The former is the actual number of dollars paid to the wageearner, the latter is what it will really pay for—in' rent, fcod, fuel, clothing.. The question that deeply interests every American home to-day is, What are ‘‘real wages” to-day at the highwater mark of prosperity? This calls for a comparison of present prices as well as wages with those of 1897 or 1898, when prosperity was at low tide. This comparison is comprehensively made in the World’s news columns. From the mass of figures dollected from the leading cities of the union these facts appear: st 1. That $1.24 to-day buys about the same amount of necessaries of life as were bought for $1 four years ago. 2. That to offset this 24 per cent. increase in the cost of living there has been no rise in wages in many industries and callings; a rise averaging 15 per cent. in the wages of skilled labor; a rise of five to ten per cent. in several manufacturing industries. 7 3. That the “real wages” of the family with only one bread-winner are therefore less by from five to 24 per cent. than they were in the less prosperous times of 1897-98. 4. That the “realwages” of families with two or more bread-winners are better than four years ago for this one reason—that they are all as a rule at work now, whereas some of them were idle in 1897-98. '

The World's tables of actual wages and prices in different parts of the country on which these conclusions are based are full of interest and instruction on this vital topic of the time. They agree in the main with such incomplete official statistics as are available. The labor department’s figures and Dun’s standard tables .Show a steady rise of prices since 1897, averaging at least 30 to 35 per cent., and an average increase of wages not exceeding 12 per cent. '

VALUES HAVE FALLEN.

Something for Which the Republican Philosophers Lack an : Explanationﬂ"

From September 8 to November 12, 56 railroads and 18 industrial stocks - (71 per cent. -of - par value of all listed on the ' New York stock exchange) declined an average of 1034 per cent., or $601,442,000. It is estimated that all of the listed stocks, with a face value of $7,314,421,790 declined in value between $700,000,000 and $800,000,000.

1t would have been easy to account for this great shrinkage had there been a democratic victory on November 4. It would certainly have been charged to the wicked democrats, who are bent on ruining the country, and whose coming victory cast its shadow in advance. !

Thousands -of editors would have jumped at the chance to blame the party of adversity. They are now at a loss to account for this great slump. Not only will the republicans have the next house by a safe majority, but big crops, and the settlement of the coal and other great strikes assure us peace and progperity for some time to come. What, then, caused the slump? As most of the shrinkage occurred after the election, it cannot possibly be charged to the democrats. Itisup to the republican philosophers to concoct a plausible explanation for this lack of confidence in the G. O. P.

COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

——The American, Tin Plate company and the Amalgamatedassociation have agreed regarding the wages of workmen on tin cans used for exporting oil. It is distinetly fixed that a can of oil shall be sold abroad at a lower price than at home.—Providence Journal (Ind. Rep.). 3 ——llf Roosevelt ischosen orrejected in the national convention of 1904, he will owe the result, whatever it may be, to the people, whose confidence he now enjoys in such generous measure, and not to the practical politicians, whose confidence he fortunately and happily does not enjoy. The interests of the politicians are antagonistic to the interests of the people.—Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind. Rep.). . ——The action of the corporations which have increased the wages of their employes is worthy of general consideration. It is little to the wealthy or to even the moderately rich, but it is much to those who get it. 1f these two facts are weighed together they will give the former class a glimpse, at least, of the lives of some of our working people and make them more sympathetic with regard to them. It should make thoso of higher fortune understand the wage earners better; it is likely or certaii to make them admire and honor them more.— Phijcdelphia Ledger. :

AN 2 A ol AR RO 83 [ k) -4,@ N P N < ) AT ..,- - R = A M990/l SLAY T . L 24N e .'"‘ f - : . WV\MNMAW\/\AMMAM/\ THE TWO ROADS. - “EARLY TO BED AND EARLY-TO RISE, MAKI" A 'MAN HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE.” Ohy the road to Healthy/ Wealthy aad Wise v Runs by night through the Gates- of Sleep. : Straight over the Slumberland Beach' it lies, ) “: Where Sandman gathers the sand ‘for your eyes, . .- . That he shakes when the Sun has-left the skies , ) : e And the gray evening shadows creep. - But to reach this Land by the Roa@ of Morn, _ i You must rub the sand from your eyes, When you leave the Country of Drowsy Yawa, . - . Just follow the path that the Sun has gone, N ‘ Ard pass through the gateway of Early Dawn - . Irte Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. ) —Alice Van Leer Carrick, in Youth's Companion. ) ) FUN IN THE CORNFIELD. How Country Boys Enjoy Themselves in the Happy Harvest Days of Indian Summer, . “Indian corn forms by far the largest cereal crop of the western hemisphere. In the- United States’ the amount raised is greater than the sum of all our other graincrops, and doubtless considerably exceeds the total maize crop of the rest of the world. The place of maize in .the western hemisphere is similar to that of rice in the far east. . . . Infurthertoken of the importance of maize to our country, it has been proposed to have this plant adopted for our national flower.” S )

And I am positive that our country boys and girls will -agree with me in sdding that, of all crops.on the farm, it is first in importance in the.happy days connected with it. e

No other occupation blends so harmoniously with the bright days of spring as dropping the corn, while the brown thrasher sings from a favorite perch in the near-by shrubbery a bewitching mocking bird song that has been almost literally translated by Thoreau: “Drop it, drop it—cover it up, cover it up—pull it up, pull ¥t up, pull it up.” : Then there is the riding horseback astride old strong-bitted Charles drawing the cultivator. - “Whoa, now, [ tell you—keep off that hill! Don’t you know this is the end of the row?” Did ev§r‘ a general lead an army with more dignity and importance than Julius on that horse? You country boys and girls -all know Charles and

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And, speaking of vines—don't tell anyone—there’s a watermelon patch hidden in about the middle of the field. The apple tree is the.landmark. You can find it by that, even when the corn js full height. . But those Skinner and Crocker boys can’t. That’s Wwhy we have it in the centér of the corn field.

What fun cutting the corn and putting it into shocks! Then later carting it to the barn. And the mice—how they jump from underneath the shock as it is draggingly lifted to put on the wagon! Riding home on the old corn wagon! Fifth avenue carriages can’t equal it for real pleasure! Ask some of the grown-up occupants -who may have spent youthful days on “the old homestead.” ‘ = Then the cornstalk fiddles!' Two strings were all that were needed, and in case of an old-time one, Paga-nini-like, we did very well with one.

And then of the other part of “the golden harvest,” I wonder which had the most pleasant anticipations, “Old Spotty” waiting for the pumpkin to be chopped with a spade; ar the chopper, eager to finish that task and have a pumpkin for a “punkey moonshine lantern?” - ;

For you know the farmer.- boy scrapes out the interior of the pumpkin, cuts holes in one side in imitation of eyes, nose, and ‘'mouth (even with teeth!), and then sets a lighted candle in a hole cut in the bottom of the inside.—From the Nature and Science Department, in St. Nicholas. !

Spiders Travel on Wind. “It is well known,” says the Revue Scientifique, “that certain spiders can ‘be transported by the wind, owing to a very light silken thread that they emit from the spinneret which is blown along by an ascending current of air, A thread a yard long, according to the experiments of M, Favier, can sustain the weight of 'a young spider. For many years M. Favier has witnessed every spring the dispersion of young spders from a large number of nests. In a few hours, in favorable weather, 1,000 young ones will set out from the same nest to begin their ‘trdvels. The spider is not avnofutely passive, but can regulate its ascent, both at its departure and during the journey. It is suificient to incresse the length of the string to mount more quickly and to shorten it when wishing to alight.. Possibly certain hibernating species may accomplish a sort of periodic emigration by this means.” e i

FUNNY LITTLE RAILROAD. In Japan Two Powerful Dwarf Coole ies Furnished the Motive Power x on Up-Grades, - Probably one of the smallest and most interesting bite of railroad to be seen.in any country runs between the pretty little seacoast towm of Atami and Yoshihama, in the province of Izu, Japan, its length being about 20 miles. s On our recent tour through the “Land of the Cherry Bléssoms” we arrived at.Atami late in the day, aftera most interesting 12-mile tramp over the “Ten Province Pass.” Our time being rather limited, we decided to start sightseeing early on the following morning by visiting the 1,500-year-old temple of Izusan, three miles distant, which is regarded as one of the principal pdints of interest to the traveler in the kingdom of Japan. - | Mine host, in flowing kimono, withk repeated bows and continuous smiles, informed us that Atami was quite a railroad center and that a train would convey us to the temple in quick timeWe accepted his offer, though with regret that after two days’ hard walking in seéarch of primitive Japan, with its native customs and scenes remote from the influences of civilization, we bhad found ourselves on the tourist beaten track, where the civilizing influence of the railroad had undoubtedly robbed the country of its original

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When under good headway, or going down grade, ‘' the “motive power” would jump on to the rear platform and enjoy a period of rest, as the car sped- on of its own volition. The engineer’s duty, on the front platform, was to apply the brake and blow a ‘warning horn upon rounding curves, or inr case anything crossed the track, it requiring considerable agility on his part to keep his station, and as we whizzed areund the curves it kept him busy trying to hang on. oo

The first-class cars have doors at the end, while the second-class cars open on the side. The trains, however, are frequently made up of first-class, second-class and freight cars. This miniature monopoly rung its distance through tiers of rice paddy fields and fine groves, skirting the Sea of Japan, some 450 feet above sea level. In America a trip of this character, which occupies’%bout five "hours, with the services of a private car and three men, would cost several dollars, while in Japan, including the tip for coolies” tea; the entire cost was 42 sen, or 21 cents: in our money.—Four-Track News.

| GRAY ANTS OF SIA!I. }'Small Inseects That Trﬁwel in Troops ; " and Seem to Have a Larger | 3 Leader. = ’ .Arles Meissen, French explorer, in traveling through Siam, observed ‘a species of small gray ants which were new to him, says the Kobe (Japan) Herald. These ants were ‘much engaged in traveling. They lived in damp places and went in troops. To his surprise he noticed among them from time to time an oecasional ant which was much larger than the others and moved at a much swifter pace, and each of these larger ants, M. Meissen saw, always carried one of the gray ants on its back. ‘While the main body of gray ants were always on foot they were accompanied by at least one of‘their own sort mounted on oned of these larger ants. It mounted and detached itself now and-then from the line, rode rapidly to the head, came swiftly back to the rear, and seemed to be the commander of the expedition: - : e

The explorer was satisfied that this species of ant employs a larger ant —possibly a drone of the same species—just as we employ - horses to ride, upon, though scarcely more than cne ant in each colony seems to be provided with a mount. - :

. _ This Cat Was Ingenious, Pont Sainte Maxence is a small . place in the department of Oise, — France, but it furnishes a cat tale which is wonderful enough. It appears that a resident in the place, who is an enthusiastic- angler, used to keep live bait in a small tank on his premises. The angler also had a cat, who, naturally, was fond of fish, raw or cooked. This being so, ithe owner covered his tank with wire netting, to keep pussy out of temp- - tation. But the cat knew a trick or two, and went to the nearest refuse heap for some fowl giblets which were providentially lying there. These she took to the tank, : let them hang into the water from the netting, and began fishing on her own account. When the fish nibbled at the bait, puss would ecatch it with a nimble claw! The angler, noticing : the trick, threw the bait away, but half an hour later puss was at it again. -‘The ingenuity of that cat is . worthy of admiration. e o .~ Were Off Dutw. o “Twenty persons attacked by apoplexy in ome day!” S o “Gee! Where wuz the police?’—N, ,;_' Y. Journal. Coine