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TI3 THE .V H' the Rirl. Isrflrtlie plume of the I'arlslan hat, M e the Klrl. lsn t the music that innlieth the frame uuuee. lt'i the girl. - - aH . u niuiiuus wuin HI IUC It Isn't the style you rray think It Is uiai . . "' fhc Rlrl. It lsn t home lunsine that renteth the flat, It's Ins girl. Jt Isn't the bottle. It Isn't the bird, That something anew In Tour belli if stirred. v. ' It's the girl, It Isn't that yon of old Indies are fond; It's the Rlrl. It Isn't that ManilDn In hritttptte or hlonite. I... . Us the girl. It Isn't thnt you .care to strike up with fa uriei conversation on tntat-r-ia-iaw It's the girl. It Isn't an Id! ieth the neck, It's the girl. A Pearl y EDITH REDE BUCKLEY. Sh was seated by her bedroom lire deep In thought. The firelight glim mered upon the rich folds of t-.r white satin dre33. Her elbow was on her knee and her chin rested on her hand; she was lost In thought, gazing absent ly upon the red glowing coals as though she wanted to look through them and beyond them to some bright er, happier life on the other side. And the bitterest part of the whole thing veaa that It was her own fault from beginning to end. (She hal been given a far larger share of happiness than falls to the lot of most people, and she bad thrown It away with her own band. She raised her eyes and gazed around the luxurious room In which he sat; no thought and no money had been spared to make It bs beautiful as possible, all the thought and care of the husband who had Idolized her and whose lovo she had thrown away on ber wedding day. It had been one of those misunder stndlngs and mistakes which have no real cause. She had been proud and 'Wilful, had told him that all her love bad been given to her cousin before she ver met him, and that her marriage, like hundreds of fashionable marriages rery year, had been a "marriage of convenience." It was hardly fair news to a husband on his wedding day, but Arthur Davenant was a man who wanted love for love, and would ac cept her on no other terms. And so be had given her back her freedom, only begging her to stay under his roof and bear his name that the world should know nothing of their story. They had passed a month in Paris for the honeymoon, and then ho had brought her to his home, the home prepared by an eager bridegroom for the reception of a dearly loved wife. For nearly a year they had lived to gether, outwardly as friends, but see ing nothing of each other except at meals or in the presence of guests. The house was usually full and she made an Ideal hostess. He always treated her with the utmost courtesy and consideration! and he bided his time. He was in parliament and man aged his own estate was, indeed, en grossed in his own life, she thought, and left no room for her! For so per verse is woman's heart that when he lot her go she would have given all she had In the wide world to have him back. In her early girlhood she had been devoted to a cousin who was ab solutely penniless and who went out to try his luck in Virginia, No actual engagement had ever ex isted between them, and after he had been gone some years and any hope of a marriage was as distant as ever Ar thur Davenant had wooed her, and her parents urged her to accept him. He was a man few girls could have re sisted, but iter heart was so wrapped lip In her cousin that she fancied she would never have any love to give. Arthur Davenant had found her cold to his wooing, but he had the confi dence of an ardent lover that he would Win her when she was his wife. She was naturally very self-contained, and as the months went by he never guessed her secret that she was learning to love him with all the pas sion of her woman's llfe-a love be side which the feeling for her cousin lad been a mere girlish fancy. Kind, courteous, and considerate as he was he was unapproachable. Doubtless he bad ceased to love her; other things tad filled his mind. "Love is of man's life a thing apart," and it was over for him probably, and too late she had learned to value the pearl she bad spurned. The very Bight of him as he sat opposite to her at the table made her heart throb. According to her own request he never kissed her or even touched her save sometimes to shake her hand on bidding good night. How could he guess that the mere touch of his fingers made her thrill? She would have given all that she possessed for the careless caresses he gave to his dog. She envied Ms'little nephews and nieces when they came to stay and she Watched him showering klsseson their young faces. Ah! if it had only been Ufferent, children of his own might lave climbed- on his Jinee ber chil Jren. Two years before he had volunteered for the front. She often wondered how she lived through those years. ' He wrote to her kind, affectionate letters, tut no word of love; Just the letters a brother would write to a sister; it was she who had forbidden everything else. JAnd now she sat by her fire thinking, Chinking, till her brain felt bursting. (One week ago be bad come home from Eouth Africa, brown and lean and care sworn, with two years' sufferings and tiirdshtps marked on bis strong face, GIRL. It Isn't phllnnthropT draweth the check. It's the girl. If Isn't- the fear of the soon dawning sun That lriiveth the cards ere the gaiuo Is quite Uoue, It's the girl. I It Isn't the Innermnnt love of the play, it's the girl. It Isn't that you have two livers, I say, It's the girl. It Isn't the pltmh of the upera bo That brluffeth divorce of jour purse from your rocks. It's the girl. So would you the all-potent mainspring of man. Reek the girl. And If a tight goes wrong with some well ordered plan, Peek the girl. For man rileth earth with a grip that Is grim, . . . , But If you wonlf know who is ruler of him, Seek the girl. J. IV. Folry In the Acw l'ork I'lmrs. Necklace. and she wondered Jealously if some thing else had marked his face, too. Sue bad looked at him when she could without observation. The house was fu.l of guests; many of them were his relatives who had come to welcome him home. 6he had not had five minutes alone with him since his return. Sho burled her face In both hands. "Yes, at any risk," sho cried to herself, "I must ask his forgiveness, beg him for pity, if love' be dead." She repeated "If love be dead." God help her then, the words out loud again and again If love be dead and she rad killed it. She bad denied him love, denied him everything. Might ho not have taken her at her word and put her out of IiIb life altogether? She had played with edged tools, and her fingers were bleed ing. She had Juggled with her own fate, and the car had passed over her self. "God help me If his love is dead." She got up and paced round the room. Tomorrow, this very morrow, she would beg for an Interview and tell him everything, and ask him if she had come too late; beg him on her knees for a crumb of love, she to whom a rich feast had been offered. "And now," she cried, "I would rather he struck me than ignore me; I would rather he were cruel than any one else In the wide earth were kind. Oh, love is a terrible thing when it comes like this." She wore no rings but her wedding ring, and as she glanced down at her clenched white hand she thought what a mockery It was to wear that. She sank back again in the chair and Bwayed herself to and fro; tonight her heart felt breaking. She had learned to love her husband before 'he went away, but those two years of sickening anx iety had magnified her love till It had grown beyond all bounds. It was like the seed in the Bible parable that had brought forth fruit a hundred-fold. There was a knock at ber door. She thought it was the maid whom she had dismissed returning for something, an'd without raising her head Bhe Bald, "Come in." The door opened and was closed again, and a step that was not Natalie's crossed the room to her side. The color flamed up into her cheeks when she looked up and saw her hus band. He was looking unusually-handsome tonight, and there was a tender light in his eyes as ho glanced down at her quickly lowered head. Ho car ried a blue velvet case in his hand. Ho took up his position with his back to the fireplace quite close to her, and looked down In silence for some min utes looked down on her bowed head, thinking that it was bent in cold in difference, little guessing the passion ate longing that was Biirglng within her heart. She wondered if he could hear her heart beat; it seemed almost that he must In the absolute stillness. The little carriage clock ticked; a coai fell upon the hearth. She clenched her hands together, but she dared not look up. At last he spoke. "Mabel, I thought you would forgive me for coming to your room so late, but I remembered it was your birth day tomorrow and I wanted you to ac cept my present when we were alone and we never are alone, are we? Not for five minutes since I came back." There as a ring of almost entreaty ih his voice. "Do you mind?" "Mind? Oh, no." Her voice sounded cold even to her self, but she could scarcely control it from trembling. "It Is so good of you to remember," she added lamely. "Good?" He opened the case and displayed a row of the most exquisite pearls with a diamond clasp lying on a pale blue velvet lining. She got up and stood close beside him to examine the necklace; her eyes were clouded and a lump was rising in her throat that almost choked her. She put out her hand and touched the pearls with a little caressing touch for the mere joy of knowing that he was holding the case. By a great effort she controlled her voice. The tears were blinding her; she dared not look up. "Mab!" he had never called her Mab since their ill-starred wedding day. "Mab, will you let me put it on?" There was a tremor In his volf e; she was afraid ho Would see her tears. "Yes." It was only a whisper. He moved to lay the Jewel case on the dressing table. She had turned and faced the fir, and looking Into thb glass above the mantelpiece she could see bis figure reflected, and she watched him take the necklace in his Btrong brown hands, and then press it to bis Hps, never realizing that she could see blm. Then he stepped back to the fire place, and standing behind her he very gently laid the pearls round her neck She was conscious that his warm hand trembled as it' momentarily touched her neck. Perhaps the clasp was a little Btlff, and he lingered a second In fastening It; Bhe could never tell; she only knew In one lighting flash that the crisis of her life had come. Before Bhe realized what she was dolug, for getting all the preparatory speeches that Bhe had rehearsed, forgetting everything excepting that he was close beside her and that she loved him more than anything in earth or heaven, Bhe turned and threw her arms round his neck with one low sob, and laid her cheek, wet with tears, against his. "Arthur Arthur, can you evtr for give me? Can you ever believe me? Have I strained your love too far, my dear my dear?" "Mabel!" only her name, but In It was the pent-up love of a lifetime. "Mab, is this really true; has it come at last?" There was a world of tenderness In his voice as he put her gently from him that he might have the Joy of look ing In her face; then he framed her face in his two hands and looked down into her eyes. "Mab, is this a dream?" His voice was very low and hoarse from the In tensity of his emotion. "No," she whispered, "it Ib life. Oh, -thur, Arthur, can I ever make you believe how I have learned to love you, bow I have been hungering for your love all theso years, how I love you a myriad times more than I can ever express? Arthur, can you? Tell me, have I come too late?" He only folded his arms tightly round her, drew her slender figure close to his breast, and whispered two words, only two, but they changed the whole world fur her forever. "My wife," and then he laid his lips on hers. London Tatler. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The longest nrllclo In the new sec tion of the Oxford dlctlonnry Is on the verb "pass." It takes up 16 columns. At a recent conference of the trade In Leicester the president of the In' stltute of Carriage Builders said that practically the whole of the wheel making Industry of England had been captured by America. The National Union of Telephone Operators, formed by English hello girls, has won a great victory. The National Telephone company threaten ed with a strike, has consented to al low the members to wear colored combs and beads and shirt waists oth er than black. Few people know that other days of the week than the first are being observed as Sunday by some nation or other. The Greek observe Monday; the Persians, Tuesday; the Assyrians, Wednesday; tho Egyptinns, Thursday; the Turks, Friday; the Jews, Satur day, and the Christians Sunday. Thus a perpetual Sabbath is being celebrat ed on eaijth. More double stars have been discov ered and measured at tho Lick obser vatory In California. The latest bul letin Issued by the university con tains nn recount of another hundred new double Btnrs discovered and meas ured there. They are of the same eharacler as those previously discov ered nt the Lick observatory. Ncnrly all would bo difficult objects to observe under conditions less favora ble than obtained at Mt. Hamilton, The National Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Children has a remarkable museum, where within a glass case, is a collection of imple ments of torture. Straps of every de scription are there, sticks, clubs and ropes with the knots still In them, that once held childish wrists fast. Thero are also twisted hooks, bamboo canes and a chain with a padlock by which an Imbecile child was for years fastened to a post. Hanging by Itself Is a straw basket two feet Ions; and a foot deep in which twins were found on a baby farm. a A curious custom has Just been celebrated at Kllm, near Moscow. All the marriageable girls In the town lined up In the principal street, deck ed out in their simple finery, many of them also having with them the stock of linen, household and per sonal, which forms part of 'their dow ry. The young men contemplating matrimony then walked down the ser ried ranks of beauty as they moved toward the church and selected the girls of their choice. A formal visit to the parents to arrange details was then made in each case and a date fixed for the ceremony. Proper Apparel. No man should wear anything but a swallow-tail suit to a dance or evening party. It is not only economy in own and wear a dress suit, but it is also the proper obedience to society custom. And then, as a final and pnmnlets reason, every man looks better in a dress suit than n any ... . J ! i .. V other Klnu. UOOU urees biiub inu uc hnl renflv-made at any clothing store for $10 up. A tailor will make a dress suit for those who care to pay tne price for $47 up. '1 his lsn t loppery or dudish. It Is simply correct wear ing apparel, which costs no more than tho nroaont wr viie men dress with such evident lack of teste and culture. Hiawatha (Kan.) World. "Father e All Cevlls." Tho Fill' Islanders have Just discov ered in he first motor car to Invade their primitive home "the father o! all devils." a- Is the Pulpit Declining? i What an Investigation Shows About tho J J Quality of the Men Who Jlre Pro paring for the Ministry. By Everett P. Tomlinson. ROM these opinions, facts aud figures certain conclusions ' V ,.u l.f, .-Iwwl ,K i.nitrum VMM uv uiunil 111UI There is no real "dearth" of students for the ministry. There Is a slight back-set at the present time, but It is noi so great as has occurred In other years, and reports of at tendance of students In the theological seminaries, when compared with similar reports of 1:5 years, ago, Bhow a murked and marvelous increase. In some quarters there Is a deterioration in the quality of students, but tho reports are not altogether unanimous. Methodists and Episcopalians report a decided Increase In numbers and In quality, and other religious bodies vary In localities and colleges in this respect. x There Is a marked change in the sources of supply. The west and south provide n much larger proportion of students than the east. The re sponse Is greater In tho newer regions thnn In the old, In the country than in the city, in the small churches than In the larger. There Is also a steadily Increasing drift away from the seminaries located In tho country to those that are located In or near the large cities. The chief causes keeping young men from the ministry are the poverty of the calling, the fear of the lack of Intellectual and moral freedom, the con viction that the petty outweighs the larger In the work, and the suspicion of the present "beneficiary system" which cbb(s a blight over all. "Heresy," or the fear of its smirch. Is the greatest obstacle. There Is a practically nnnnlmuus report of a higher type of life and of more Christian students In our colleges than ever before. The deepest interest of the communities now is In questions thnt might be termed spiritual rather than religious, certainly not theological. Theology as a "science" has given place to Christianity as a life. The church ns an organ ization has a weaker hold, while at the Bdmo time there is a greater interest in all vital questions and nffalrs. As a consequence what our forefathers heard ns a distinctive "call to the ministry" Is now finding expression in other end widely varied forms of service. There Is a blotting out of the former false distinction between "secular" and "sacred." Whatever men may think as to certain men or peoples, all his tory is now believed to be "sacred," end every day and every honest work as '"holy." This fact lias led many earnest young men, who In former years might have believed themselves to be "called" to tho work or the ministry, now to believe that they can make, their lives count for as much, perlmps more, If they give themselves to other lines of work that at one time wore termed "secular." Investing a Million a Bay How the Funds of the Great Insurance Companies Jlre Lent and Preserved. By Henry Wysham Lanier. HE president of one of large In the financial I investing, he Is but one of a financial committee, whose scp- I I arate Interests and connections are so varied that few proj- 8 ects come before them concerning which they do not have V I some outside (or "inside") information. As a rule, no in vestment Is made unless this committee agrees upon it unanimously. To begin with, the problem is much simplified by the fact that investments now come to them. The great companies, far from having to Beek for investments, are continually besieged by, a thousand-nnd-one people offering bonds, and mortgages, and the like. Broadly speaking, everything comes to them, mid conies before It goes elsewhere. These applications go to one man, .generally tho assistant treasurer, and he Investigates each one, so that It comes before the committee accompanied by the Information necessary for them to pans Intelligently upon (say) the estimated value of the land to be mortgaged or full facts concerning the enter prise Issuing the stocks er bonds. The three qualities desired arc absolute security, adequate li.teiest, and a long term, to eult the many obligations ma turing far In the future. Practically a third of the insurance assets are In railroad bonds, and the companies own about 10 percent of till the six or seven thousand millions of outstanding bonds Issued by our railroads. A few years ago, the proposed reor ganization of a Georgia railroad (with a whole great plan of consolidB?;;n de pending upon it) was absolutely blocked by an Insurance company, which hold a large proportion of the bonds, until the terms wore modified to meet its Ideas. Next to railroad bonds, the companies seem to prefer mortgage loans on real estate, and the total Bum Invested In tliiH way is only a hundred millions less than the other most eligible are office buildings in large cities, fertile farm lands, and dwellings worth $20,000 or less. Railroad stocks and bonds, and real estate mortgages and holdings, take up three-fourths of the vast sums the insurance companies invest. They hold also state and city bonds (the former sometimes bearing the unpl-nrant possi bility of "repudiation"), a few United Stales bonds, and a great many of thos.-i of foreign governments (one of our companies often takes an entire Issue of, say, ten mlllitns of such securities), bonds of electric light, gas, and water companies, stocks of trust companies and banks, and a few miscellaneous con cerns, and a couple of hundred millions of loans on premiums to policy hold ers and on collateral. The World's Work. 4? Jeitner Brunette . . No r . . . By John IV. Breyfogte, The Well-Known Artist F feminine beauty Is that creation of the society of Ameri can artists the satiny skin, olive End red or pink and white; the shining hsir, black, brown, red or gold; the languorous eye, blue, black, gray or brown I care nothing at all for feminine beauty one way or another. If, however, it is the outward expression of a personality nn individuality then I am Interested, and deeply. If I wish to paint a woman in my picture, I am Inter ested more in the color of ber dress than the color of her hair; the tone of the background against which she is to stand that the pig ment of her eyes. In the picture she serves simply a3 an individuality. A3 anything else she is less Important than h6r dress and her background. She Bupplys tho meaning. I can get more beauty of form and color out of her draperies and surroundings than her face and figure. The face and figure of a woman are only beautiful when they figure forth as interesting personality. Looking Interesting and being interesting are one and the same thing. Tho exterior simply reflects the Interior. The lines and coloring may violate every canon of beauty laid down by the Society of Amer ican Artists and the woman muy yet be beautiful to cie as a study for a pic ture. The pink and white and gold of the conventional blonde and the black and olive and rod of the conventional brunette are alike wholly without charm or attraction for me. A really striking personality cannot have a perfectly regular face cannot belong to any type for by her very Individuality she Is re moved from all classifications and types. She is interesting, beautiful, be cause Bhe is original, because she Btands alone. The radically unusual face that speaks the unusual mind and personality Is the truly beautiful face. Leonardo da Vinci painted truly beautiful women women who would ba condemned by the Society of American Artists women with faces containing Individuality, distinction, character. Only vulgar Ftr.ndants demuad tho pink and white and gold or the. olive and red and black, but as vulvar standards mostly rule us now, I uupposc we shall have to put up with "types" rather than individuals for some time longer. New York American. CilMTU Jlftllt U,WU piwutvwi. the great (insurance) concerns looms world; but, when it comes to actual Blonde Charms Hot House With Brick Walls. For this kind of pit tho excavation should be two to three feet In depth, and be lined with a single brick wall to the surface level. The' Inside meas ure should be tho same as that of the frame or box which may bs set on or taken off at pleasure. Of course, the cost Is something of nn Item, but In the long run they pay; and like the board lined pits, If not In uso, they can be filled with manuro or litter during the winter and covered with boards so they can be filled and started at any time. Test the Seeds. Old seeds need not necessarily he thrown away merely because they have been kept a long time. But they should be tested before planting. It Is poor sconomy to take the chances wltlyeeds merely for the Bake of saving tne cost of a new supply. Count out a number of seeds, say a hundred, lay them be tween two pieces of damp woolen cloth and keep In a warm place, then ex amine them after they have sprouted and see what proportion are good. If the proportion Is low they should be discarded. How Corn Can Be Fed, At a meeting of Texas swine breed ers one speaker, who was a feeder of quite a little experience, suggested that when corn was fed on the ear care should be exercised to burn the cobs to charcoal at least once a week, and a sprinkling of salt would induce the hogs to eat It freely. The practice of soaking corn for . twenty-four hours without letting it sour had many ad vocates. Cooking corn had no advo cates; at least none were heard. It was uniformly agreed that high-priced corn could be ground and fed profit ably, and that corn at fifty cents a bushel would yield a good profit fed to hogs that would sell for 4V4 to 5 cents per pound. A Good Remedy. Douglass' mixture, which is held in such high esteem by the poultry fra ternity as a tonic rather than a medi cine, can be cheaply prepared at home by any poultry raiser. Purchase one pound of copperas and one ounce sul phuric ncld. Dissolve tho copperas In a gallon of water, stir well so as to be sure it Is all dissolved before adding the acid. When ready for use, bottle in a stone Jug and It will kesp any length of time. Two teaspoonfnls to the gallon of drinking water Is the amount used as a tonic. Care must be used In handling sulphilrlc acid, as It is a dangerouB drug, and it is always well to be cautious when compounding or using this mixture, even though In Its proper usage it is said to be a cor rective of many ills fowls may be heir to. The Garden Hos. The wheel-hoe Is the most Important garden tool invented within a century; nt least, one gardener thinks bo a busyxhousekeeper, who has undertaken the entire care of the garden as a me.ms of health and pleasure, says a writer in The Gurdon Mai;azine. What can it do? Almost everything that hands, hoes and r&kcs can accomplish, and doe3 It better and faster. My wheel-hoe has one small wheel and four kinds of attachments rakes, scrapers, cultivators and plow. Tljink of the indifference between that and taking a stroll between your rows of vegetables, punhlng that light-built, easy-running gem of a tool the wheel hoe! The only time mine has been really hard to work was when I tried to plow too deep, or run it up-hill or turn tough soil; although this work was hard to do, it would have been Impossible with any other hand-tool. Apples from a Commercial Standpoint. Unless directly interested In the busi ness there are very faw of us who have any idea of the importance of the apple induf try In this country. There is nn item in the Farmers' Call which rays that there are now In the Ignited (States over 200,000,000 fruit tearing apple trees, produslns annually 170, 000,000 bushels of apples. In good crop years we export 3,000,000 bushels of apples and consume at two bushels an nually for every adult, and child In the country. These are the figures given out from Wra:;hIrgton, D. C: There are sixteen apple growing states which produce 147,2S9,424 bushels of apples. All the other states together produce only 28,107,801 bushels. New York now stands first with 24,111.257 bushels, Pennsylvania second with 24,050,480 bushels, Ohio third with 20,617,480 bushels, Virginia fourth with 9,835,982 bushels, and Illinois fifth with 9.1T8, 1E0 bushels. California Is fifteenth in the list with 3,488,203 bushel3. Ten years ago Ohio stood first among the apple growing states, Michigan second and Kentucky third. In the last do cade, however, there has been heavy tree planting in New York, Pennsyl vania, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The increase in the sev eral states and territories in ten years was 1,641,000 trees. In the same ten years the apple crop Increased, to 82 percent of the orchard fruits. In value of orchard products California leads all other states ($14,526,780, New York standing second, Pennsylvania third, Ohio fourth, Illinois fifth, and Michigan sixth. These six states, with Indlano, Missouri, Virginia and New Jersey, raise 69 percent of our orchard fruits measured by value. Michigan stand first In peaches and California first in plums, prunes, ptars, grapes, oranges and lemons. The apple Is, as It always has been, vhe most popular of American fruttR, and of all the orchard trees In the United States 05 percent ore apple trees. Getting a Farm Out of Debt. One of our readers lives near a large) town in Pennsylvania. He has thirty acres of land, ten upland and five of the rest too low to drain. The build ings are very good. fThe farm is well stocked with cows, horses, etc., and products grass, hay, corn and potatoes. There Is a good market for butter and our friend has a separator and snys he would as soon milk a few cows ns to cat his breakfast. Ho is married and children all going to school. He is pretty well fixed for making a living, but there Is a $1000 debt hanging over him. T. B. Terry replies In the Prac tical Farmer: If there was more land (t would seem wise beyond question to advise the raising of more cow fe.td and keeping of more cows, as there is a good de mand for butter and this man has a Beparator. It would be quite possible, however, to pay the $1000 by Improving along this line with tho few acres he has. If three or four more good butter cows could be kept than he has at pres ent, there ought to be an Increased in come of about $200 a year. In five years this would pay off the debt The best way to do this would be to raise less hay and more corn for a silo, thus getting more feed per acre than he now has. This will call for a little more capital to pay for a silo and extra cows and purchnsed feed. Perhaps he might manage to keep five extra cows, and then surely he ought to be able to get out of debt in five or six years. Of course, the expense of living must not allowed to Increase any until the debt Is paid. Corn may be grown continuously on the same land for a few years. Fertile land, well manured, may be made to produce more (row feed In corn than In grafs for pasture and hay. Corn fod der may be cut up and fed to the cowa once a day, If there Is cot hay enough. This fodder should be Etored in the barn, standing up, Just as soon as It is dry enough. The children can help about the milking and butter making, mornings and nights. Having but little land, our frlcnrK must make tfie most out of what Is suitable for cropping. The way most people would do would be to buy more land. Sometimes this might be a wise plan. I should not have any fears my self, however, but what I could success fully carry out the above program and pay this debt In five or six years. I would live more plainly. If necessary, but do It anyway. There Is another way of paylnR this debt that has advantage. An acre or so of celery might be put out on the low land, perhaps, which the children could help take care of, or about the same amount of the upland could be devoted to growing strawberries. One can get considerable money from even half an acre of,berries, so cared for "that they grow large and fine, with as good a market near by as this friend has. The writer, although selling in a much smaller town, has got about as much from half an acre of strawberries as the butter from four or five cows would bring. This plan will take but. little capital and will not interfere much bring. . This plan will tako but little capital, and will not in terfere much with the pres ent way of running the farm. Get the children Interested in this plan and with a little engineering It might be carried through successfully.- The work should be so well done that the berries are better thari the ordinary and will bring an extra price. This thorough . work will be an excellent drill for the children. American Cul tivator. Wonderful Silk of the Spider. The astronomer after the experi ence of many years has found thnt the spider furnishes the only thread which can be successfully used in car rying on his work, writes Ambrose Swazey, In the Scientific American. The spider lines mostly used are from one-fifth to one-seventh of a thousandth of an Inch in diameter, and. In addition to their strength and elasticity, they have tho peculiar property of withstanding great chang es of tamnerature; and often when measuring the sun spots, although the heat is so intense as to crack the lens es of the micrometer eyepiece, yet the spider lines are not in the least Injured. The threads of the silkworm, al though of great value as a commercial product, are so coarse and rough com pared with the silk of the spider that they cannot be used In such instru ments. Spider lines, although but a frac tion of a thousandth of an inch in di ameter, are made up of several thou sands of microscopic streams of fluid, which unite and form a single line, and it is because of this that they re main true and round under the high est magnifying power. An Instance cf the durability of the spider lines Is found at the Allegheny observatory, where the same set of lines in tho micromter of the transit instrument has been in uss. since 1859. New York World. A Thourht. ' You cannot rightly train one to an air and manner except by making him the kind of man of whom that air is the natural expression. Nature for ever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to bo done for effect; what Is dene for love Is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not U'in? la wait for . these. The things of a man for which we visit him wer.- ''"le In the dark and the cold. Frc;-. Jaerson's L'ssay on "B havior"