THE PRAIRIE FARMER.
Thc swallow seeks 1 ho grove whero flrL It saw the huu'b bright gleam,
The salmon leaps Hie torrent's fall to roacli it native Htrcum;
A thousand leagues tho wild gooso files on tireless wlnga o'orhcad,
lraight as an arrow to the bleak, bare North where It wan bred.
tto In the spring my faithful heart, holding all else In scorn,
Turns back to old New England, and (he home where I was bom.
Though here I've cast my lot for life, and here I must remain
rill death shall plough me underneath like stubble on the plain,
Unite not my grave In this strange land, but place me, ir you will,
Within my father's burial lot upon the wind-swept hill,
Where I may watcli the mountains glow, and ocean break In foam,
;Amt hoo in spring the orchard bloom round my New England home.
Eugene Harry.
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i THE WRONG MISS MlUlfl NT.
EALLY Clifford was not at all
to blamo for It. Anybody might
have made the samo mistake.
fllfford was short and fat and new to
the big woods. He had been In camp
a. week and bad spent most of the
lime lying in a hammock and reading
a novel whllo the other men tramped
the trails and rowed eight or ten miles
through Eaglo Creek to Virgin or Lake
Julia. Everybody said that Clifford
was too fat and lazy ever to make a
woodsman.
But that was before MIhh Shurtleff
hiuI her mother came to the camp.
Thoy had a log cabin next to the big
cook shack, and it was announced that
Mr. SburtlefT would come tip to Join
them later. Tho young woman was
tiill and athletic looking, full of life,
and eager to see and to. do all there
was to bo scon or done within twenty
miles of Big Lake.
Perhaps It was intentional at any
rate Gilford got mixed up on the in
troductions. But that was nothing
ftgalnst him. Anybody might easily
bavo mado the same mistake.
Glfford fell desperately in love with
tho younger of tho two women at first
night And his now love transformed
him. lie became all at once the most
enthusiastic oarsman and wood-tramp-cr
In tho party. It made a hero of
Mm. What would have terrified him
.before he now gladly undertook.
One ovcnlng when everybody In
camp was sitting under the birch trees
watching tho sunset, a curious animal
us largo as a small dog ran shambling
down in front of tho shock and tried
to hido under a pile of logs. Glfford
nnd Gilford's Irish torrior, both entire
ly new to the woods, wore up and af
ter it In a minuto.
"Oh, what in the world Is It?" cried
Miss Shurtleff. "Do you suppose it is
dangerous?"
Glfford would show her ho knew not
tho moaning of fear. lie ran directly
towards the beast, which, badly fright
ened as it was, mado but poor progress
over the sand.
Glfford's dog was even before him.
"It attacked the animal with open
mouth. But it made but one bite and
then began to roll over, and over, yelp
ing with agony, "hook out," called
one of the guides. "It's a porky hog.
Bolter not touch It."
But with Miss Shurtleff looking on
Gilford would have tackled a raging
Hon. lie raised a club ho had picked
up from tho ground in his right hand,
and with tho other grasped the beast
by tho back. But, like the dog, he did
not keep his hold. Ills hand felt as
'if It were full of red hot needles, ond
from his heroic lips camo a groan of
pain.
But even that waB worth while, for
IiIh sufferings called such expressions
of tender sympathy from the red lips
r his divinity that Gilford would glad
ly have embraced another porcupine.
Tommy, tho guide, pulled barbed qulls
out of Glfford, who bore tho pain like
a Spartan, and then performed a simi
lar operation on the dog, which for the
remainder of Its Btay In tho woods ab
solutely refused to go within reaching
distance of anything that had life.
Doubtless Glfford would have dis
covered his mistake earlier if tho two
women had not insisted In always re
maining togother. Doubtless also thero
was n conspiracy to keep him hi jg
noranco of ids mistake, though no one
believes that either Miss or Mrs
Shurtleff was a party to it. And tho
fact that the two women called each
other by their first names Anno and
Julia prevented his making the dis
;overy in that way.
With his left hand done up In a
liandago lo soothe, tho pain of tho por
cupino quills, Gilford became more
than ever tho slave of tho young worn
.an. She, on her part, was kind enough
to him, though sho seemed anxious
that ho should pay attention to the
older lady rather than to her. And
-Glfford obeyed her commands and
waited on the ancient person assidu
ously. Once tho old lady announced
that she would like to drink some
milk, fresh and warm from tho milk
ing, and GJfford, at a look from Miss
'Shurtleff. volunteered lo get up every
morning at four o'clock, whon Tommy
milked, und got tho milk for her. That
Trr-
m
was heroic, for Glfford liked better
than most men to He abed late In the
morning.
Every day, when he could persuade
them to go, Glfford took tho two
women out rowing or fishing or explor
ing. Before they came to camp ho
had boon too lazy to go out on the
water unless Tommy pushed the boat,
but now he was always ready to row
a boat contaliilnsr both MIhh ShurtlnfT
and her mother any number of weary
miles, while Tommy, with a smllo hid
den undor his brown mustache, camo
skimming along behind, with nothing
but tho lunch boskot in his skiff.
When you consider that Gilford's
arms wore short and thick, that his
wind was bad and hlB hands tender,
and that lie had never done any row
ing before that summer, you may be
gin to roallzo tho power of love. Big
blood blisters came on the palms of
Gilford's pudgy hands, and he suffered
almost continually from pains In his
back ami legs, but not for a moment
did ho ever think of giving up the bat
tle. Miss Shurtleff expressed an ad
miration for wator lilies; Glfford wad
ed out in ten inches of water and two
feet of mud to got them, creatlv to
tho damage of his footgear and trou
sers. Miss Shurtleff casually remarked
mat tho groat hairy woodpecker must
bo n curious looking bird; Glfford, fat
and round, climbed a forty-foot pine
stump, and took n young bird out of
its neat to show her. Incidentally the
stump broke as ho was coming down
and Gilford fell Into tho creek. For
tunately tho creek bottom was good
and soft.
Tho climax came on a Saturday.
Tommy, the guide, precipitated mot-
tors tne night before.
"Mr. Shurtleff is coming Sunday
morning," ho said.
Glfford Htarted as If he had been
shot. In tho more than two weeks
which had passed since Miss Shurt
leff come to the einip, he had never
once had an opportunity to speak with
hor alone. And now her father was
coming. For somo reason Glfford felt
much afraid of Mr. Shurtleff, though
he had never seen him. lie was anx
ious to reach some sort of an under
standing with the daughter before tho
old man put in his appearance. Only
one day remained In which to make
tho attempt. Glfford's back ached and
his arms wore sore; Ids hands were
one mass of blisters and his legs
pained him at every step. But he was
game.
"What do you say to a little row
down to Big Dog lake?" he asked air
ily that Friday evening after supper.
Big Dog lake was a good twelve miles
to tho south. Altogether the trip mount
a row of twenty-five miles.
"I'd llko to go," said Miss Shurtleff,
"but it's a terribly long row."
"Not at all," said Gilford, and Tom
my, tho guide, retired to the porch
and laughed noiselessly, with one
hand over his mouth.
"I'll take you In my boat," said Glf
ford, desperately, "and "
"No," Interrupted tho young wom
an, "I think we'd better ko tocother.
Wo can both go in Tommy's boat and
you can "
"Not at all," said Glfford. "I will
row you both, of course, If you prefer
to go togother."
Thoy started at llvo o'clock in tin
morning. Glfford felt sure ho should
nunc uerore they covered tho first five
miles. But ho gritted his tooth and
i j. At ,
Kepi on, inougu every strouo was
agony. Ho hod laid out his plan of
campaign. Ho would wait until thoy
lauucu ior iiincneon, anu men make an
opportunity to speak to the young
woman alone.
Luncheon time camo. Glfford ato al
most nothing. Whon thoy had fin
Ished tholr coffee ho started to walk
back into tho woods. Presently there
came tho sound of a cry.
L-oiHo uore, quicic, ' uiuord was
calling. Tommy, tho guide, must hav
been posted beforehand. At anv rate.
he did not move. But tho young wom
an was up in an instant, running back
mrougn mo wood's trail as lightly as
a fawn. Tho old party sot still on
hor cushion which was as Glfford
had expected.
Glfford wasted no tinio.
"Miss Shurtleff," he began abruptly,
"I love you and I mado this chanco
to tell you so."
"What?" sold the startled young
woman.
"Miss Shurtleff, I lovo you," again
declared the red-faced Glfford. And
then Miss Shurtloff's face broke into a
smile.
"Why, my dear man," she sold, "I
am Mrs. Shurtleff. Julia, there on tho
bank, Is my stop-daughter, and the
only Miss Shurtleff I know of."
Poor Glfford's face was purple.
"You see, my husband Is thirty-live
years older than 1 am. But I'm not
angry with you. In fact, you've paid
me a groat compliment. But I thought
you know all the time."
Mrs. Shurtleff wanted her step
daughter to help her row lo camp In
Tommy's boat, but Glfford would not
listen to It. lie was game to tho end.
e left tho camp that night and went
back to Milwaukee. lie didn't care to
wait and meet the aged Mr. Shurtleff.
Chicago Tribune.
.A SUMMER'S "PLEASURING."
Mary Makepeace sat down In her
favorite chair in her own room, and
throw her head back with a long sigh.
"No words can tell how glad I am that
I've mailt! my last visit for the sum
mer," she said. "Now I shall have
somo peace, not to mention pleasure."
"My dear," said hor mother, re
proachfully. "I mean It," returned Mary. "Of
course I llko change of scene, but I
am tired of adapting my whole life to
others, as I am expected to do as a
welcome guest."
"My dear!" said her mother ncaln.
"Think how kind everybody has been
to you!"
"They meant to bo thoy were kind,"
Mary said, wearily, "yet 1 feel as if I
had barely escaped with my llfo. and
you will admit that is not just the
right kind of aftor-feeling.
"Let me tell you, mother," Mary con
tinued. "At tho Fosters' I chanced my
hours for rising, for retiring and for
eating my meals. At tho Lanes' I
changed father's politics for of course
I haven't any of my own to nleaso
Mr. Lane, and I had all I could do to
keep from changing my religion to
please Mrs. Lone.
"At the Jenkins' I changed all mv
vlows about what constitutes diversion
to suit the family In general. At tho
Pages' I entirely changed my point of
view eoucernlng music and books. And
at the Nevlns', where I was 111, I
changed my doctor, and took stuff
which I felt sure would poison mo, Just
to please them.
"I ate cheese, which I abhor, and
gave up fruit, which 1 like, at the
Fisks'. I slept with closed windows
at Great-Aunt Maria's because she is
afraid of a breath of air, and drank
twenty-one pints of hot wator the four
days I was at Cousin Thomas' 'to flush
my system.'
"No," said Mar j in a firm voice. "1
pay no more visits for months to come.
Home-keeping youth may have homely
wits, but If I go about much more I
shall not have any wits at all."
Youth's Companion.
Ballad of Fashions.
Where ore the fashions of yesterday
Garments our elders sometime wore?
Styles that, Binillng, wo now survey
In ninny a magazine of yore.
Where nre those gnrbs ourselves for
swore And scornfully dropped beside the way?
Knocking, in truth, at To-morrow's
door,
There arc the fashions of Yesterday!
Peg-top trousers that long held sway,
Casing the legs of far-back benux,
Of tailors' gooses wero late the lny
(Is it geese, or gooses, who knows,
who knows?)
Skirts tlint flared over dainty toea
Flare again o'er the toes of May!
So chic a dnmscl you'd scarce suppose
Would wear the fashions of yesterday!
And points, outre, aro again an fait!
(Ring tho knell of tho bull-dog Inst.)
And thicker nnd thicker conio tripping
gay
Those high French heels of the
frowned-on past!
And punctured sleeves nro inflating
fust,
And laces slip from retirement gray,
And pokes and bonnets their shadows
cast
Hail to tho fashions of yesterday!
Man and maiden, who'd scorn, egnd,
Tilings in tho slightest sense pnsso,
This very moment, dear hearts, you're
clad
Simply in fashions of yesterday!
Edwin L. Snbln in Puck.
First Campaign Hmbloiu.
So far as known, tho first campaign
omblom was a finger ring of copper.
It was worn by tho adherents of John
Qulncy Adams in 1825, when ho ran
for President, nnd was Inscribed, "John
Qulncy Adams, 1825." Tintypes and
medallions were among tho Insignia of
the 1800 campaign.
Canada's Now Pnuiflo Itoad.
The now railroad through Canada to
tho Pacific coast will pass through
vast regions never heretofore explored.
IN THE BOWELS
ENTRANCE TO THE STALACTITE CAVERNS OF PADIRAC.
One of the strangest holiday resorts, and one of tho most Interesting, U
that recently mado accessible to the public at Padirac, In the department of
Lot, France. There a wonderful series of caverns, containing magnificent
stalactites and a subterranean lake and river, has yielded its secrets to the
adventurous explorer, and the dangers of the visit have now been ingeniously
reduced, so that the average sightseer may traverse these "antres vast"
with ease and safety. For ages the caves remained absolutely unexplored,
but by the enterprise of M. Martel, a barrister, they have been thoroughly
examined and described, and by means of iron stairways and galleries have
been rendered accessible. The vast crater-IIke opening figured in our
Illustration is 300 feet In circumference, and when M. Martel made his first
visit to the depths ho had to descend on a board attached to two ropes after
the mannor of a swing. He went down 2500 feet, and, with several com
panions, began an extraordinary series of discoveries. Tho chief of theso
Is on underground river, which lie navigated In a collapsible boat.
xJBIfrvention
In removing a needle from tho llcsh
Dr. E. W. Shelton first locates it by
n-eans of Roentgen rays, then moves
the limb nbout until tho needle appears
as a single point. An Ink spot is placed
over eacli end, and tho two spots are
pressed together, slowly forcing tho
sharp point of the needle through the
skin.
For two years' the conviction hnfe
been growing upon Dr. Monger of
Halle that articular rheumatism is a
parasitical disease, due to a strepto
coccus that enters the organism
through the lungs. Acting on this the
ory, ho has prepared a curative serum,
with which ho has very successfully
treated both acute and chronic rheu
matism. An investigation in asylums of tho
United States, Canada and England,
with a total of 10,512 patients, hns
shown Hobart Langdon only 703 in
sane people with light hair, and only
sixty-six with red or auburn hair.
That Is 00 por cent of insane are bru
nettes, with brown or black hair.
Among tho blonde Insane, however,
the percentage of lncurnbles Is much
tho grenter a fact, llko that first stat
ed, for which no explanation appears.
The discovery a few years ago by
Professor Boys that fused quartz can
bo drawn into exceedingly fine fibers,
which are superior to all others for
many laboratory, purposes, has boeu
followed by Professor Shenstone with
similar experiments with soapstone.
V. hen highly heated, soapstone melts
Into n clear glass, which can be drawn
into fine libers, possessing all tho qual
ities of elasticity and resistance to
chemical reagents that characterize
quartz fibers.
Tlx great bulk of tho supply of Ivory
tusks hoarded by native chiefs In Af
rica, and shrewdly dealt out by th.?m
to traders in such a manner as not to
glut tho market, come so say London
dealers from "elephant cemeteries,"
places to which elephants aro said lo
resort when about to die. These spots
are met with occasionally in tho jun
gle, and they hoar evidence of having
been frequented by moribund ele
phants for centuries. Not more than
15 per cent of tho ivory now obtained
In Africa comes from animals killed
by hunters.
A report to tho Department of Com
merco and Labor from Rio do Janeiro
lohits out the warning afforded by
OF THE EARTH,
Brazil, concerning the effect of forest
denudation. Through the destruction
of trees in northern Brazil, the report
says, large states have been brought
to the verge of ruin. In Rio Grand
de Norte nnd Ceara chronic droughts,
occur, causing famine and depopula
tion in regions which were once rich
ly timbered and -well watered. Tho
Brazilians nre beginning to call for the-'
scientific replanting of their devastat
ed forests.
The electrical treatment of sowago,.
as tried by Dr. RIdeoI at Guilford,
England, seems to have proven sim
ple, inexpensive and effective. A so
lution of salt and water, or even ordi
nary sea water, is decomposed in a!
special electrolyzer of largo surface,
and using a large volume of current
nnd the so-called oxychlorldo solution
resulting Is added to tho sewage in
quantity varying with circumstances
Any kind of sewage liquid may be,
treated. The worst forms are readily
made as free from bacteria as drink
ing wator, and raw sewage receiving!
18Ms gallons of solution per ono thou-i
sand gallons showed a reduction of or
ganisms from 2.'5,20O,O0O to 540 per!
cubic centimeter in livo hours, bacilli
allied to those of typhoid diminishing
from over one million to none.
Respoot for Old Ago.
Ono often observes the Impatience
with which some young peoplo of the
kind, usually called "high-spirited" re
gard the little oddities of those older,
with whom they como in contact. In
deed, It Is with great effort that thla
Impatience Is rendered unapparent, and
often scarcely that
There Is a respect which youth owea
to age which must not be lost sight of,
and, of course, there Is also a respect
which age owes to youth. Howovor,
youth is tho time of growth and self'
restraint, and it Is quite easy to in
dulge tho little foibles of those 30 and
10 years older than ourselves by re
membering thoy are older and that
charity or love must bo exorcised to
ward everyone whom wo meet young,
and old alike.
Bad-tempered people used to bo re
garded as something out of tho ordi
nary long ago, but nowadays wo know,
that solf-control is the one thing Avhlclu
makes for progression, nnd that wo
must livo up to our Ideals and our be
lief In what Is tho highest and best
whatever tho cost.
Regard for tho oddities of thoso old
er than ourselves Is port of that doc
trine, and must bo lived up to. Phila
delphia Enquirer.
Tho new version is that the prodigal
son is not worth tho price of a fatted
calf.