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THE FARMER'S LIFE.
The Farmer's life is the life forme*—
Hoo-ray!
No other kind is half so free—
Hoo-ray!
No walls of brick my ways confine,
The sky, the fields, the woods are mine,
Audi bright the
sun for me doth shine—
Hoo-ray!
Dame Nature's, beauty I behold—
Hoo-ray!
To me her wonders are unrolled—
Hoo-ray!
For me her blossom* bloom In spring.
For me her wild birds sweetly sing,
With fruit she crowns me like a king—
Hoo-ray!
I breathe an air that's pure and siweet—
Hoo-ray!
Just plain and wholesome food I eat—
Hoo-ray!
My health is therefore of the best,
So I all day can work with zest
And have at night a peaceful rest—
Hoo-ray!
I am no slave of fashion vain—
Hoo-ray!
My manhood true I can maintain—
Hoo-ray!
Upon my own domain I stand,
As proud as any in the
land,
And with no master to command—
Hoo-ray!
Around my home I live my life—
Hoo-ray!
Close to my children and my wife—
Hoo-ray!
Far from the marts where men compst*
And crush each other under feet,
I find my simple pleasures'sweet—
Hoo-ray!
My children grow with rugged health—
Hoo-ray!
It's more to them than mines
of wealth—
Hoo-ray!
Safe from temptations that destroy,
Spared from the luxuries that cloy.
Their lives begin and end in Joy—
Hoo-ray!
I'm happy all the bright day long—
Hoo-ray!
My heart is filled with love and song—
Hoo-ray!
I'm innocent of worldly snaresi,
I'm free from worldly strife and cares,
And everyone my gladness shares1—
Hoo-ray!
wouldn't change my freeman's health—
Hoo-ray!
For all of J. P. Morgan's wealth—
Hoo-ray!
But if he could exchange with me
He'd toss his millions in the sea
And shout with joy: "I'm free! I'm free!"—
Hoo-ray!
H. C. Dodge, in Chicago Daily Sun.
Of More
Importance
By JULIA TRU1TT BISHOP.
(Copyrighted by Daily 8tory Pub, Co.)
If
J^ADY to seeyou, sir."
The doctor looked up from liis
books, with a shade of annoyance cross
ing- his face. Ladies could be seen at
any time, but if he lost the thread of
this investigation, now—
"Ah, Miss Willougliby—"he gave her
the chair opposite, and sitting down
looked at her with grave professional
interest—"isn't it rather early for
yon to be out? Yon know I told'you—"
"Yes," the girl interrupted, hastily
"and I did stay in the entire time—al
most."
A wave of color had swept over her
face, and he became conscious of it,
even
while he was fingering anxiously at the
leaves of the book he had just been
reading.
"You certainly have a good color,"
he remarked, professionally. "No fe
ver, I hope." And hebentforward and
laid cool fingers on her wrist. "There
it is again," he added, musingly. "I
have often noticed a peculiar irregular
ity about your pulse—and yet there is
nothing wrong with your heart—not
in the least. However, I am glad you
have no fever."
And he surreptitiously snatched a
glance into the book. Girls with a fine
color were plentiful, but this treat
ment for diphtheria, if it should prove
successful—
"I didn't come this time for profes
sional advice," he heard the girl say
ing, in a very timid manner. "I—I came
to ask you about something—"
She seemed to have lost her voice,
and paused to regain it. When she
Taised her eyes, presently, he was
aware of their color for the first time.
They were gray, and they had black
lashep. He had not noticed that before,
though he had treated her profession
ally for some weeks.
"You must make allowance for my
great loneliness," she cried out, deso
lately. "I have no one really belonging
to me—no one in the world. My guar
dian, Mr. Bond, is a good man—but you
know how old he is, and troubled about
-many things. Sometimes he doesn't
see.me for weeks at a time. The others
are servants, or dependents—how
could I go to them with confidences, or
ask their advice?"
"Not to be thought of," murmured
the doctor, looking at the gray eyes
very steadily. Clearly, there was some
thing in the world outside of books—
and perhaps an orthodox something
in hearts that he had never found with
the stethoscope.
"And so I have none," went on the
desolate girl, with a look of timid ap
peal. "And I have—have learned to
"know you so well—have learned to
trust you—will you mind very much if
1
ask your advice—your friendly advice
—in a matter that concerns myself
alone?"
The gray eyes drew him on. and made
him say things that surprised him.
They made him reply, without the least
reference to the big books and the
treatment of diphtheria.
"Why, surely I will be only too glad
to assist you any way in my power."
And he said it frankly, and cordially,
too, leaning forward and looking at
her with eyes that had begun to be un
professional. Keally, she did have a
lovely color.
"I have received an offer of mar
titige," she said, with her eyes down
Again. "You know I had a little money
left me—only a few thousands—and
my education and other expenses have
*lmost exhausted that. If I don't ac­
cept this—this gentleman, I must go
out into the world as a bread winner
in a little while—a very few months.
If I should—marry him, I would be
very wealthy—so rich that it would al
most frighten me, I think," she added,
with a wistful glance at the attentive
face. "My guardian has set these two
alternatives before me so many times
that I know them, word for word. Re
member that I am all alone—and tell
me what to do—as you would tell your
sister—or any friend for whom you
cared—a little."
Her fingers were twined together in
her lap, and a man who was not study
ing out a treatment for diphtheria
would have seen how tight the clasp
was. This, perhaps, would have made
him delay along time in his answer.
"These are difficult questions to de
cide for another," he said at last, ju
dicially looking out at the window.
"My opinion would be that it would
be wiser to marry the gentleman—
who is- a gentleman, I take it for grant
ed—than to go out into the struggle
with the world. Personally, I don't
like to see women in business, if—if
it can be avoided—and in this instance
it seems that it can," he added, with a
®wift look at her face.
At his first calm words she had
shrunk as if from a blow, and now she
arose and turned toward the door, her
eyes lowered.
"Thanks—you are very kind," she
murmured. He saw her put out her
hand and feel for the knob, as though
something blinded her, but he was
there before her, looking at the down
dropped face.
"I—I omitted to ask one question."
he said. "Do—do you love this man?"
"Does it matter? No!" she replied,
as she went out.
But he had seen her eyes.
He sat down at the table and
looked at the page he had been read
ing last—looked at it. until the after
noon had whined and night had set
in. It is a singular fact that while
the eyes of the body can go patiently
reading lines and paragraphs and
pages of learned treatises, the eyes
of the mind can be looking steadily
at a gray-eyed girl with her fingers
twined together in her lap. True,
here is this investigation carried on
successfully to this interesting point
but—why was it that she went away
so soon?—and her eyes—now why
should there have been tears there?
And she would go away and marry
the rich man—he had advised it.
Well, why should it concern him?
The doctor suddenly arose, leaving
his books scattered on the table, and
went out into the street for air—
his office was insuiferable. Where
he was going he did not know. He
was not conscious of any resolution
until he found himself in the door of
Miss Willoughby's little sitting-room,
and a girl with a very pale face rose
up from the chair before the fire.
Her eyes were wide with fear—what
was he going to say? What had he
discovered?
"I was forced to come," he said
humbly. "I know you will be angry
—perhaps you will be amused at the
fact that I—a poor student, a physi
cian who has his thoughts on you,
when you,have an opportunity to
make a wealthy and distinguished
marriage. I knew at the first that
there was no hope—yet I felt that I
must come. It only remains for you
to tell me so, yourself, and then I
will go back to my work and have
done with the dream."
No, it was a mistake about lie*
having been pale for when she
leaned on the mantel with her face
turned to the fire she was as rosy as
the morn.
"You are too considerate to tell
me outright," he said "but I see
what must be. Of course it is in
sane—the idea that you could take
poverty, and the struggle for life
with me, when wealth and ease are
offered you. It would not be possi
ble, unless you loved me so devotedly
that your love would 6et all other
considerations aside—"
He paused and gazed at her miser
ably and without turning she half
whispered a faint suggestion.
"I—I might learn," she said.
He turned white and leaned against
the table for support.
"Learn—learn to love me?" he
asked, in a daze. "It is impossible."
"It will be difficult—but I am will
ing to try," said the arch-hypocrite
with the gray eyes.
When he went back to the office,
several hours later, with the step oi
one who walks on air, he found a
number of books scattered in most
unseemly disorder on his table.
"Really, John is growing insupport
able," lie"said to himself. "All these
books lying around—but I remember
now, I was studying about—oli, yes
diphtheria. Well, there's plenty of
time for that."
Habits of the Riobin.
Let us hide behind that clump oi
blackberry bushes and watch the
parent birds as they come to feed
their young. There comes the
father robin now you can distin
guish hiin from the mother by his
darker plumage. You will notice
'that in coming with the food he
alights on a particular twig, hops
along a particular branch and alights
on a particular side of the nest. If
you watched him for a week you
would probably see him approach
the nest in precisely the same way
each time. Now, here comes the
mother—a lighter-colored bird, with
gray on the back of her head. You
see that she reaches the nest by
quite a different route and alight!*
upon the other side of it, and she
will do this over and over again.
Like men and women, birds acquire
habits which they rigidly adhere to,
unless something happens to prevent
them. Ernest Harold Baynes iv
Woman's Home Companion.
MP*'***
MANY OF OUR SHEEP GOATS.
Much of the Mutton Sold in Large
Cities Is the .Meat of
Angroraa.
Among stockmen it is notorious that
a great deal of meat that is sold for
prime mutton in St. Louis, Chicago,
Louisville and Kansas City is really
Angora goat meat—just as good eat
ing and far more profitable to the
stockmen by reason of the greater
value of the fleece, mohair against
wool, says the Kansas City World.
The Angora goat-raising interest is
steadily growing throughout the
United States. Its liea3quarters, that
is, the headquarters of the American
Angora Goat Breeders' association, are
right here in Kansas City. W. T. Mc
Intyre is the secretary of this associa
tion. Mr. Mclntyre says:
"There are 50,000 Angora goats in
the country to-day and the business is
growing fast. It has all been built up
since March 14,1891, when our associa
tion was formed. Then, according to
government statistics, there were but
20,000 Angora goats in the United
States. And not one registered. Now
we have about 30,000 registered.
"Registered goats range in price
from $10 to $15 each. Some bucks go
CYCLES OF SUN SPOTS.
Fresh Interest Lent to the Subject
by Recent Earthquakes and
Volcanic Eruptions.
Since 1851, when the existence of a
sun spot cycle of about liy2 years was
discovered, many attempts have been
made to discover a relation between
the sun spots and the atmospheric
changes in our earth. Violent storms,
floods, periods of drought and of fam
ine, cold years, warm years, and many
such variations of weather have all
been supposed to owe their origin to
the sun spots. But the relation which
Sir Norman Lockyer appears to have
discovered between sun spot cycles and
the tremendous upheavals of the earth
which we term earthquakes and vol
canoes, lends a fresh interest to this
fascinating study, says Golden Penny.
SEN0RA PORFIRIO DIAZ, JR.
When President and Mrs. Diaz, of Mexico, come to the United States for their
long-promised tour, they will be accompanied by their daughter-in-law, the popu
lar young wife of Capt. Porfirlo Diaz, Jr. She is the belle of the City of Mexico.
She was Senorita Raigosa, and comes from one of the most aristocratic families
of Mexico. It is a little over a year since she married the president's son. From
the first she has been a leader of the capital society. She is dark-eyed, and has
an olive skin and a wealth of beautiful, wavy black hair.
from $25 to $500. Plain, unregistered
animals bring from $2.50 to $5 a head.
It pays to raise any kind, but just now,
at any rate from the stxi'd standpoint,
it is more profitable to raise registered
stock.
"Angora goats do better than sheep
anywhere, but are especially better in
brush-covered sections. They are far
hardier than sheep.
"Our asociation has 393 members
now, in all parts of the United States
and Canada and Mexico. We have some
in Australia."
Fiction in Our Libraries.
In some of the public libraries of
the United States the percentage of
fiction called for has been reduced
below 60. Even this figure is mis
leading. Novel devotees read three
times as fast tis those who call for
books of other classes. Novels are
often skimmed or returned as unsat
isfactory after a few chapers are
sampled. When the novel reading is
scaled down by this consideration
the excess of fiction taken out of
public libraries is largely reduced.
Edison's Biar Loss.
In the experimenting with the
magnetic extraction of metal from
low-grade ore Thomas Edison has
spent $2,000,000 within a few years,
only to find at last that his plant la
worthless for the work and he will
have to build another.
The matter certainly deserves very
full investigation. Incidentally, the
general character of the weather in
the spring of the year seems to favor
the existence of a 35 years' cycle of
weather. That is, three times one cycle
of sun spots. The year 1867 was just
after the sun spot minimum, and 1902
is also just after the minimum. It was
a cold spring in 1867, and a bitterly
cold month of May. The summer was
very wet, and it was followed by a
stormy winter, with little frost, and a
very warm spring and summer in 1868.
VOTING BY TELEGRAPH.
An Electrical Device Onee Planned
for Use in. the Lesislatures
of Germany.
There is only one reference to me
chanical voting in the 13 reports on
foreign parliaments which have lately
been issued. This occurs in a memo
randum on the subject of divisions in
the reichstag and Prussian landtag.
PRETTY PARLOR TRICK FOR CHILDREN.
As long ago as 1869 a motion was in
troduced in the Prussian lower house
in favor of establishing a system called
the voting telegraph, an electric in
vention. Each member was to have
at his place a handle to turn to right
or left as he wished to vote "yes" or
"no," and this handle could be turned
only by the member to whom the seat
belonged, each member being provided
with a special key. The time for tak
ing the votes of the lower house would,
according to this scheme, have occupied
less than two minutes.
There were no practical objections
made to the machine, says the Lon
don Chronicle, but it was rejected,
partly because no pressing need exist
ed for shortening the divisions and
partly on account of the advantages
of an oral process of voting.
It is a very pretty trick to present a boy or girl with a white rose, tolling him
that though the flower looks pale, it will revive and glow with the blush of health,
if it is worn a few hours. In order to make your prediction come true, you must
select, not a naturally white rose, but a red one, which you have bleached in the
manner illustrated in the picture—by holding it over the fumes of burning sulphur,
The rose can be bleached almost or quite white in this way, but the natural color
returns after a few hours' exposure to th« air. The cut we have taken from the
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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THE TIDE OF FASHIONS.
Various Bit* of l'p-to-Date Finer)
That Now Find Favor vrith
Dress Devotees,
Report says that, except for the
few, trains are banished from court
gown. So there is a busy time among
the dressmakers in London who are
filling new orders and reconstructing
the old ones. Two kinds of skirts are
favored for these gowns—one which
fits the hips closely and widens into a
mass of flounces at the feet, and the
other extremely shirred in groups of
gaugings at the top, the fullness from
this falling in round effect, says the
New York Sun.
Jeweled nets instead of hats are the
latest thing for the little bridesmaids'
heads, and the effect on fluffy, wavy
hair is charming. They are very much
the same style of nets worn by the
Italian women years ngo, and as an
hair ornament for the grown ups they
are very smart.
Maidenhair fern shining with dew
drops, arranged in tiara form is an
other novelty for the hair, or you may
have small ivy leaves with some small
flower.
The emerald matrix is one of the
many popular stones for brooches and
belt pins.
Silk gloves with woven lace tops are
to be worn with thin gowns this sum
mer, as well as mitts, and they are
both long enough to meet the elbow
sleeves. Black, white and gray are the
fashionable colors.
In gloves for summer wear there
are some of white glace kid which will
A green straw hat with green feath
ers is the smart tiling with your all
black gown.
Bands of embroidered pongee are
among the dress trimmings.
Fine white serge makes the most
fashionable yachting suit, with
stitched bands of the same material
coveting each seam, a stitched hip
yoke, and a short jacket with pale blue
glace silk revers.
HOW TO BE HAPPY.
A Coy Blessing: That In Ever at Hand,
Yet Elnclen Those "Who
Are Seeking It.
There are people forever in search
of happiness who never find it. Hap
piness oftenest comes by indirection.
You are intent on duty, and are sur
prised to find you have stumbled on
more than you sought, says the Home
Magazine. To make happiness the
end of your seeking is an easy way
not to find it. It is a coy blessing.
Hovering about your path, it yet
eludes your grasp. Attempt to put
your hand upon it, and like a wild
gazelle upon the mountain, it bounds
away. The search for happiness is
like the search for the end of the
rainbow—it recedes as you advance.
A Custard Hint.
When baking a custard in an oven
containing some other dish which re
quires greater heat, the proper tem
perature may be obtained by setting
llie custard in a pan of hot water.
Do not allow the water to boil around
it. If it shows a symptom of bubbling,
add cold water. Use a pan a bit larger
than the dish containing the custard,
und do not put in water enough to come
more than half way up the pudding
dish. This permits more water to be
added without dipping any out, and
also lifting out the custard as soon
as it is cooked. If left standing even
a few minutes in the hot water it will
whey.—Good Housekeeping.
AMpni-UKiiH Salad
Wash the asparague clean cook five
minutes in slightly salted boiling wa
ter drain, add more boiling water and
cook 15 minutes, lleraove from the
saucepan, and, when cold
clean towel, cut into inch lengths, ar
range on lettuce leaves for individual
serving, and dre«s with a French dress
ing made by blending three table
spoonfuls olive oil, one tnblespoonful
vinegar, ten drops onion extract, one
half tablespooiifu] salt and Ihe same
of white pepper.—Ladies' World, New
York.
Cueiiiiilirr I.otion.
Slice into l.aJf a pint of blue skim
milk as much cucumber us it will (rover.
Let it stand for one hour, then bathe
the face and hands with it and wash
It off ia clear, soft water. This is an
excellent lotion, but, of course, must
be used almost as" soon as made.—
Housekeeper.
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wash. These cost more than other another woman in the world, and now
wash gloves, but they are satisfactory
and that is sufficient reason for their
popularity.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Hard Luck.—"That is tough luek
go into bankruptcy yesterday, and.
this morning my cashier absconds with,
my money."—Fliegende Blaetter.
And the Piano Was Silent.—He—"Ah
but I cawn't play with both liands.t
She—"Then I'll play with one hand and
you can play with the other."—Har
vard Lampoon.
Man's Manifest Duty.—He—"It is a
woman's duty to be beautiful if she
can." She—"And it is- a man's duty to
make her think she is whether she is
or not."—Stray Stories.
He—"I gave Jones a bit of advice. I
told him that before he married hia
girl he should look her mother over."
She—"Well, what happened?" He—
"Jones married the mother." St..
Louis Post-Dispatch.
"It is a wise old saying," observed
the humorous and thrifty farmer, as
he pocketed a roll, "that money makes
the mare go." Then he hitched up the
old mare and gave the automobile a
tow into town.—Town Topics.
The Trial Trip.—"The airshipinvent
Dr is elated that his craft should have
ftome down so gracefully." "Yes, he
reminds me- of some of these noble
men." "How is that "Proud of his
descent."—Chicago Daily News.
It Disguised Her.—"She'® abusing
the photographer fearfully. She says
nobody recognizes her in the picture."
"That comes of his insisting on her
shutting her mouth when he took it."
—Philadelphia North American.
Briggs—"Funny about Harry. He
was saying only a few weeks ago he
wouldn't have Maude if there wasn't
their cards are out."
all right. There is another woman in
I the world."—Boston Transcript.
FUTURE OF FLYING MACHINE.
1
Potato Pie.
Slice eight or nine boiled potatoes.
Put two tablespoonfuls of white (not
cream) sauce in a stewpan wjth four
ounces of butter, two ounces of grated
cheese, juice of half a lemon, seasoning
of salt, pepper and nutmeg and the
yolks of four well-beaten eggs. Stir
over the fire until thoroughly heated.
Place a row of croutons of fried or
toasted bread around a shallow baking
dish, put a layer of the potato slices
within the border and cover with some
of the sauce, then arrange another
layer of potatoes in a smaller circle
and cover with sauce, and so on until
you have formed a raised center put
a little sauce on top and cover with
two ounces more of grated cheese and
some bread crumbs and bake about
20 minutes until nicely browned and
serve up hot.—Washington Star.
It Is Not Likely That the Cherished:
Dreams of Enthusiasts Will
Ever He Realized,
Edison agrees with Hiram Maxim
and Prof. Langley, of the Smithsonian:
Institution, that the really successful..
navigation of the air will come with,
the building of flying machines which
depend on their power for buoyancy,
not on gas reservoirs of any kind. San
tos-Dumont is so far in accord with
these eminent students of the problem:
he has tried so well to solve, that he
has been reducing the size of his gas
balloons as his airships have succeed
ed one another and placed more and
more reliance on the motors he uses
for speed and steering.
It says little against the possibilities
yf aerial navigation, observes the Cleve
land Leader, that one very promising
experimenter in the same field where-"
Santos-Dumont has won renown has
just been dashed to pieces by the burst
ing of his airship while several htm
dred feet above the streets^of Paris.
Such deadly accidents are likely in the
early stages of any successful device &
for locomotion on land or sea, as well
as in the air. It is to be expected that-
You cannot capture it. After all your a great discovery will always be paid
planning you will have to give up the for in blood. That seems to be the-^
pursuit, and content yourself with fol- law of life.
lowing the plain and plodding path But the point in regard to flyingma
of duty, and to find your joy in fidelity chines which appears to constitute an
to conscience and in obedience to the insurmountable barrier to their lasting
Divine will. Aim at something higher success is that they differ totally from
than happiness, and the higher will be any other machine or appliance which,
sure to include the lower. man has used in practical travel, as to
•heir destruction if forced to stop while
in the element they are designed for..™'
The ideal flying machine would resem
ble a ship, of great speed and power,
which could not be kept off the bottom
of the sea when it stopped moving.
But how many persons would ever
ride on a boat which must sink if it
ceased to make headway? If it meant
destruction for the engines of a steam
ship to stop, would steam have made
the least impression, in peaceful travel
and in the transportation of freight,
upon the sailing vessels with which
steamers compete In war or for sport
ventures might have been made with
steam craft, but in the course of nor
mal traffic nothing would have been
done .with any type of vessel sure to
sink if its machinery stopped.
That is a very good reason for be
lieving that the dreams of wholesale
navigation of the air by flying ma
chines, which have been cherished in
many lands for more than a century,
will always remain fancies rather than
solid facts.
To Find tile North Pole.
An expedition is being planned in
Norway for the discovery of the
north magnetic pole, if indeed such a
spot exists, for it has been stigffest
ed that what is called the magnetic
pole may not be a definite point, but
a considerable area over which the
needle would stand vertically. There
is also a question as to the absolute
fixity in position of the magnetic
pole. Capt. It. Amundsen is to com
mand the expedition, and the ship
Gjoa has been purchased for its use.
The start is to be made in the spring"
of 1903.—Youth's Companion.
Pnrnenny Bank Notes.
Bank notes for about half a cent
each circulate freely in Paraguay. It
takes two notes to get one's boots
dry on a blacked and eight to pay the postage
of a letter to England. Yet one of
them will buy in season 15 oranges,
three bananas or a watermelon.—N.
Y. Sun.
Women in the. French Army.
The cantinieres form a rank which
is peculiar to the French army. Each
regiment has a woman attendant who
is a sort of nurse and consoler, to the
young soldiers especially. She is not
young or handsome, as a rule, and is
often married to a soldier of the reg
iment.—Philadelphia Press.
And a Safe One.
"It is a good rule," says the Alfalfa
Sage, "never to be rude to anyone who
isn't paid to stand it."—Denver Post,
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