Wr aMkcr .lhs: *bt aU» «ork.. 1 be worked a act

('arnrplo dtlOe* k<- ntna m bo r*A ;i» Ik- JitpiffU,

THE SOUL'S WOUNDS.

Tl«*t U.e- ok. *pre«Uiuc »ut» U erUlcxl from nrsrt. Gcx-r.; .will probe b’y i vnnt act! iriu

foi rrforai !

A loti hf *KJ mil hi look h Within hi* Hollow liaud*; fit took bu Soul and usoo-.l And looord iu itrunra bu *' 0, Soul!' h* mod. *rou bear Of ebatn-o-reo intrrwore! Who did Ihi. thm» v The S. ‘! I wao the inend 1 Ujtc . 1 " O. Soul, you lure * tUm.or

“ '0, Soul, a fianire khowi your heart lake wound of bloody »word! Who did thio thin*?' iTie Soul repUtd: 'That we* a friendly word!’ “ O, Soul, yon ihnnk within my hand, 1 ocarre »r« when you be! Who did ihi* tilingT" The Soul replied: A woman pitied me.' The Foe] U>d down hi* Sold and wept, And knelt hire down boaidc. He toothed and que*tioned all the night, .No Soul of hire replied ’

a pa. k

f British

BETHUEL BARSAND'S.

BEAR HUNT.^

By X,. J. B^-TES.

Turkey, the la that .tlie poor-ui to death in a we

Ik-hind

jgOJC BOVT **T«ity ycart t*t>' rj. the Baraanda. with three 5 21 S other familiee from wart- £ a* 1 eru New lortt. began * '^gOhf' new wttleineiit in one of the then new Northwestern Stntef-

> t* T j Betbnel Barsand wa» a etrong mac, tplaui* ' forty year* old. one of the -grip-tight, of the told-faft" breed, well fitted to hew

1 a cielllsed farm from the aarage wll-l dernoei. eicept that be was no banter, or woodrinan—merely a hard-working, seif-trained farmer-mechanic. He did not e»en own a rifle, which moat pioneers .'onaider the primal neceaatty.

Bnt an ancient Cint-lock musket, eap—hired from fbe British by hto father Addrewring the graduating c.aaa at. ln onf of c , nada border campaign* Tufts College the (SoYernor of Haasa- , c ( ti, e yVir of lol2. served bis need a. ehesetta declares that "the modern Mr* Barsand was a strong woman, pursuit of what is called success in- <*«>* «’ f “** tlrrle “ P iocet T “ome-mak

, , 1 ert. In a new country, where nothing

duces men to engage in a species of ^ honght and everything had specotatlon which undermines the slm- to he home-made, the women, no less pie Idea of honesty, blunts their finer than the men. had to be strenoona. ' •ensl bill tics and wears them oot be- for many week*, bowerer. Mrs. Bar- ... .. ., noo-iK, ' MIid h ' , <] been compelled to rest two fore their time Oo -erne. Doo* s > boors eTery alternate day. huddled deplore* the fact that the methods by I 0?rr a flrr with tKne cb iii g . gbe ebeerrwhleh many fortunes are acquired are fully utd tbi* gave her sy stem a neetoe get ting a feeling of resentment 1 essary chance to pause and consider

‘/he young man wli Up a Northern Fai-ill! that Be did it just to thing " As be Is not

the bare, eoauucnla the Commoner, there is nothing to interfere with bt» having a long series of beany laughs.

U he still feels Uke It.

against all who possess riches.

The ague was slowly wearing

off. for it was now late fommer, and t the first frosts of autumn usually end-

B | ed malaria for the year.

While languidly eating her supper of

President Boooevelt's address Harvard. In which he condemns the

cHstoe of greed and craft perpetrated piu^p wi!d pigeon, floating by educated men as severely sa those j nourishing broth, hot jobnny-cake and of mob violence, is typical la scorn- i hotter, ioscioos wild blackberries with . ' . ,. , ... ( cream, and a fragrant wild herb tea. lu tt, !d„l. ot Ik, j 6. raD ^,„ eMIU, fcrsker' and declaring that it is far ^ bj b( . r djQgbter Marian. Mrs. aafire 1 Unponant that men should eon- j Barsand remarked, tentatively:

duct their business decently than that they should spend the surplus of their fortunes In philanthropy. Mr. Roosevelt struck a note that Is resounding

from Maine to California.

• Very few persons nndersjjttd the value of regularity of habits. Meals and sleeping hours should be fixed ones, for only harm can result from retiring one night at 10 and another at 12 o’clock unless the rising hour varies too. Bight hours of mlflrp one night and six tbc next is not a ,. ar

'could have three or four meals of real meat. Just think. Betboel. we've been here over a year, and In all that time we haven't tasted a bit of real

meat Hcept salt pork."

• Why. maT’ said Jason, a sturdy boy ot fifteen. "Why. we've had venison, bear. coon, rabbit, squirrel, wild turkey. partridge, quail, wild pigeon, ifild dock and five or six kinds of fish, till

we're almost tired."

"All these are only game; they're not real meat, snob as ma mean*.'' said

Mariar..

me kill a chicken or pig for you.

said Betboel, eagerly,

the way In which to woo and keep "Ko. I don't crave chicken or pig. anti health, and If a similar habit of taking w c can 1 afford to kill chicken* or pigs

fss sux usis

tie hope of reaching old age In a crcd |hal bear bam wat which Mr. Crumly liable condition. If ever you are ; pave us laid fall, and I wondered if •tempted to prove or disprove there ; fon could spare time to go bear-hunting .A mine to bed a f « j and get us some. Next thing to beef ’L! going to bed at * >tMk u to me ^ , [(1Lt WOQl<1 q-cloek errty night for three months do moM ^ aI|d ^ Detna t0 rtalBg at 6 and eating at 6, 12 and < | real meat. I know you probably again, with never a break In the rout couldn't get a pound of beef or mutton ine The result will surprise you. ! *f Ton should search every scttlebent _ _ within a hundred miles. Settlers In r™*,* BaUlcr .f y,K bi, b«» ; ■ Mil ,»I -loci » / . I Icng as it can be of any other use, and explaining on numercus recent ocea- j oot „ fcn ^ |ate November." ■Ions that a course at college Is vain- t -Why, Harriet, you know I'd spend able most of all on account of the assc- i time liunting for anything you think eU lions into which It brings the stn- , !lk *- i‘ D ‘ g«>MaUy thought , , , . ,. , ; at all Uke beef, but yonr craving it f‘ ‘ UK ■,« « prlmuilj. ..j ^ ,

V

s.'count of the riassroom work, the text books, the formal Icstmctiocs. •For men rarely maintain and rarely aae the scholastic informal Ion obtained In college classrooms. What la needed for general ns* Is now taught earlier, and, on the whole, bet ter, in the public high schools. Oallege Informsttan, so to speak, has de'elded value only when It helps the stn deal with a chosen specialty. The mental education which really count*' 4* obtained outside the classroom and try dint of the student's own aler-

ting; it s a sign that bear ham Is wbat you ought to have, and have It you aha II.' Bnt don't be disappointed if I 'fall to get It right off. 'Tlsn't quite ibe bev-bnctlng seaaon yet. but In a week or two well have 'em coming right here after green corn. A man may hunt and hunt, and not see a bear in a mooth, though they’re all .about unlert be in vela one. by accident— which gninpliy happens when he'd rather not and hasn't any gun.” At daybreak-Barsand entered the' woods with his old musket loaded tor bear—seven buckshot on top of nearly

that

smtaject of ths world's trade, in Ibe 'that 1-cars Uke blackberries, and he coorac of which he point* oot some I *«' off t9 ■" ben ™ windfall

surprising facts. In view-of the fa-

t'beari. he sat

and ceasing to expc<

own to lunch.

Before him was a small, shallow pop) doxen feet acroas, dotted wlth.Uttle weedy hummock*. Beyond the pool thick patches, of huckleberry bushes, liter than a man. covered thirty trec-

*s acres.

While Barsand was eating, two bears emerged from behind the hockleberry thicket In front of him across the pool! They appeared so suddenly and ailently that Borland sat cud stared. The were.playing with a frog, which tried to escape Into the pool. One bear pinned the spnnvler lightly under a fore paw, while both grinned to see the victim squirm. The first bear lifted bis paw, and the frog leaped. Down came the paw, but missed, and the other bear caught the leaper with his teeth by one hind leg, wherethe first bear struck angrily at the ond. Tbis made the second bear stand up and growl, with the frog dangling comically from hit mooth. Barsand laughed; and Immediately the two bears stood like statues, pecr-

•nougb to weigh quite two hondetd I pounds. It took him some time to dli | embowel the game. Then be partly j dragged, partly carried the qgreafu I round the pool to the solld ground of | the forest, intending to take It borne If | It required hour* of toll. But It wai the slipperiest, worst weight to man- I age bo bad ever attempted, and hi* ! right shoulder was gainfully lame; and the way was rougb; and night had fall- |

tvery tired. Moreover. |

ominous sounda were rl*ing from the , swamps—the scream* of wildcat*, tbc I howling of wolves, and other savage 1

he bed made a furlong exhausting lugs, a fierce

outburst of marls told him that wolves 1 and lynxes were flght'ng over the entrails of the bear, and soon be beard I other* prowling all about blm in the , woods. He might now akin the bear. | and Carry away the skin and bam*. | perhaps, but he was determined not j yield any part of the prise which j had cost hjjn so much. He wanted It ' all, especially Us valusble fat. j Luckily Barsand carried a spare Oin: j for bis musket and a bit of punk. ' With these he struck a fire, which j biased in a bed of dry leaves. Pret,- I ently he had a great dry log on fire. I He meant to stay there all night beside hi* bear if he had to. although he knew hit family must be now growing anx- j

Iona about him.

The tire soon began to run through the woods over the thin carpet of dry j leaves. By the time an acre was light ed, every wild creature had fled to | rwampt. marahes and damp places. I Forest fires were light in those times. J They did not harm to green trees or bushes, because the forest* were regularly burned over every year, allowing no accumulations of inflammable ma- i terlal. Circlet aboot the wilier*' clearings had already been burned early In !

log at him. Barsand now suddenly remembered la gun. He grabbed li aimed and fired t quickly as bit confused faculties would work. The overloaded musket belched like a volcano. - Barsand nearly turned a backward somersault; cloud of smoke rolled acroas the pool. Both bears yelped and vanished. Barsand rose slowly and dubiously, and felt of hit right shoulder, as if to reassure himself that it was still there. Finding it merely bruised, bat not kicked completely away, he picked up his musket and examined it, to see if was burst'anywhere. It was not. Then he was recalled to the bear busie**. v • • , Something was struggling i ad groaning behind, the huckleberry thicket across the pooh Perhaps he had a bear! Without'pausing to reload, or even to. go round the pool. Baraa^d dashed- recklessly .through It. stepping Us reedy hum mocks. The third hammock turned under his foot which •dipped into the water, and he sank knee-deep In mud. He fell forward; the musket flew to the firm ground beyond the pool; his hands plunged over wrists into the mud, and he was soaked head. He laughed as it amused at another's blundering mishap, saying to himself: "Well, ot all the fool performances J rer saw. that was the woe*y“ At he straggled up. hit hands polled at of the mud with difficulty, and his feet sank at they felt hit,weight. In a moment be found that he could not pull ofit either foot; any effort only mk them deeper. He did not laugh now. hot realised his peril with a tjyill of fear. Alone, without hope of rescue! His family would not know : look for him. Fast bogged beside a swamp infected by wolves and wildcats, he was doomed lo death unless be could free himself before night-

fall!

Barsand now lay flat, breast down, and stretched, reaching for the net est bushes. He touched one. Pulling it bent others toward him. Soon he grip on several stout enough to bear the strain of a strong pulL By skilful effort be was able gradually to straighten his leg* and feet, gaining enough to reach more and larger bushes. With his knife he cut bundles af brush, and thrust them undjr We-body and lega as far down at he could reach, until be sank no more, besides having tome support to help his "body muscles pull. Thus, inch by Inch, be drew forward, hi* movements nuking the.water somewhat soften the dense mod. But this was very alow -work, requiring a Hies balance and milch patient

repetition.

By .and by a s &ew peril interrupted. A »laige moccasin' snake-^m* of the most venomous of American serpents—

directly toward Barsand, who writhsd

partly about asd tried to

terrible intruder with a bush. Bnt

i saaies are densely stupid

wajefasefloaft.^. bear required an especially big charge.

Where to MfeSarsand did not know.

anpreoivd In,the ppoi, swinmig acTOf.

the clearing. Then be remembefed dtrocOy toward Barsand, who writhad

mi|ar cogteMioe pf,i;ij«*l«n. anpoovt- I Mg thickly b-dered with tall block looked"proceeded anT'ctov^Tarall' era that for the sake of her trade. , bony buahec loaded with ripe fruit, barely a yard from Bamnd's face’Russia is justified in seixlng further | Purely these should be bears berr. and • WKh great caution and nerve he ■

outlets to the sm. it U iotereritag to ! ££

know that there !* pienty of proof to fMttd 4,,^,

r that the extent of a country's .foreign trade bears no relation to 1U ieagth of coast line. The combined const line of all Leltn-America, to example, from the Tea** In* to Cape Bora and then up the west aide to «ko foreign trade of all the Latln-

afier

sunrise to dcse a pay Perhaps if a dog had

the hot

WHh great caution and nerve he slid the large end of a stick under Us mld-

gave a quick, violent flirt, and

flung the writhing horror forty feet away. It did not appear a^hln; but to a long time he fairly sweated with

‘ fear le*t the silent death

JOHN PAUL JONES. •'tcnnryr 9 woe-arw • r *rTr-*rTr>*'

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Rn TOPICS ;

AND MAIL BOX. ,.f i be Farm Juuri 11ion ot a band/ tv;

verueing ' *11 «ju*i '“"its; :» -.TOAST PBfa-V

the s

Having rested long enough io regain I some of his spent utiengih. Bartaml > reoolnteiy logged his bear a third of a i mile farther, in acveral separate efforts so exhausting as almost to discourage 1 n hi* obstinate will. While sitting ; recuperate again, he thought he heard a far-off faint shout. Rising, he j heard it again plainly, answered It. j and was answered: and presently Jn- ! son and the dog Sharp came running

> him.

The family had become uneasy at sunset. When the twilight faded into dark, Mrs. Barsand grew nervous. They all bad proper faith in Barsand'* ability to take care of himself, yet they all gradually worked themselves

unusual worry. Finally Jason

thought of trying tf Sharp would track bis master, since the dog had

much disappointment when

refused.penniapton to accompany him. Arming himself with a light axe and tin lantern with a venison tallowdip capdle. the boy set out, holding the dog in leash with a buckskin thong. Sharp took sceat and followed his master's trail about the clearing, until it turned off to go to the blackberry .patch. Here Jason saw in the sky the glow of the fire, and correctly reasoning that It must have bene set by hit father, hurried straight for it. I A few minute* of work with the axe sufficed to cut two long poles, to fasten I their butts a foot sport and their j top* a yard apart, with four cross- | >ticks, and to tie the bear firmly op- | on them. Lifting the butts and let- | ting the limber tops trail on tbc | ground, the two dragged the weight at j a moderate walk. By midnight they had the carcass home safely hung |

‘p-

Each of their three neighbors received a generous gift of bear meat. The akin and a liberal supply of "bear grease” were a-valuable acquisition for Barsand, betide* making him the txreputatiou as a hunter. Mr*. Barsand, fed on bear steaks, mimed all but a mere hint of her next ehill, and became within a fortnight at healthy as abr Lad ever been; and in a month Jason could relate more about bear* than any natural history, yet printed —South's Companion. — A War Tkionck. In County SMgo there is a'smaH lake renowned for ita fabulous .depth. A ’ • to be Ea that part

There sre point* of similarity Imtween the baby, ot highly civilised parentage and the offspring of the on tutored savage. Both of them are de lighted with toys or play with th< rattle, finding much delight ic the sound. Nearly ail people* have dolls for their inshtrs, and in the museum si Cairo there art dolls exhibited wbMb

years old. Here is shown s baby charm carried by s chi idle** married woman In Vechnalaland. It is almost similar to the baby rattle used by that savage tribe, and as a fetich it U believed to have peculiar potency. —New York Herald.

out one day to a ramble among the mountains, accompanied by h c native guide. As they climbed.' tot liked him if he would like to see .this lake, “for U> no bottom at all, aorr." TWel). b— do yon know that Pat?” asked irofesaor. “Well, sorr. I’ll ten ye; me own ooaatn-vras * bowin' the pond to a gentleman one day. sorr, and be looked Incredulous like.,Just as yon j6'. and no cousin couldn't stand it Air him to doubt his words,' and off iwtth hla clothes and lq he Jumped..’*. Theiprofessor's face wore an amused and quiaxical expression. “Yes,' aorr. In ha Jumped, and didn’t come np again, at all, at aD." “But." said the prcfeisor. '1 don’t see that your cousin proved his point by recklessly drowning himself." "Bure, sorr. If want drowned at all he was; the next day, comes a cable from him in Australia, askin' to send on hi* clothes.”—Ar-

Tbe strangest of an strange fish must be the manatee and the dugnng. The latter is the mermaid ot fabled

ilugong Hr# in flack* along of the Indian Ocean. th» md the Qalf of Mamaar.

Tolersusc >*• HcbMI. The school* are our natural enemies, the oar nod the bat our hereditary friends and alliee. But. aftrr aJi. one cannot. Imagine an Oxford without its schools; if there were nothing to make the tlacker do on occasional hour's work and to spur the reading man to further efforts-life up here would be very drab.-^Oxfnrd 'Varsity.

BXMXRBS 111.

One of the greati-f t find* in the history of archaeology was that of the royal mummies of Egyptian Kings m 1881. To conceal them from the band of the plunderer si a time when the Uw was weak, they w*—removed from the royal icings :o a rocky cleft in the Libyan.Mountam*. where they remained hidden until 187T.. Here they were discovered by some feliahin who did a thriving business in the relics found with them. After six years the source of their precious treasure was found out. One of these mummies was that of Ramoses HI., and whose wellpreserved fice is seen in the picture which was token from ais mummy now in the Glzch Museum.

CROP!

Those wtx { ressfully kn * j consldersbli

one would buy. It •* p to date wfir.i n- one Olustra'

WITH CLOVER. grown clover so- - : the crop requir*-K re. and the Uck if I Is usually at the

bottom of t the Indiana >lii , most univer l custom t<

| known *

Whether the iractice is right o j depends up. i condition*, and there I couditiors a • the quantity o* *- in the soil. «hkh enable* It to « serve the n> slur*-, snd the amooni o' moisture ta eu from the soil by the Just as the fooliab • chardist ex {tots a crop of apples and

r grain from t

soil., so the p Tor age farmer expects *

Jack Sprat bud just informed his wife that be eoukln t est fat meat. ‘T think you're just at mean sa you can be!" tearfully exclaimed Mrs. Sprnt. ''You know I.can eat no lean! Poor little Ptdo will get nothing bet the bones!" But the unfeeling bnsband. picking up i the morning, paper and becoming absorbed in the details of the beef trust Investigation, pa Id-wo attention to her indignant protest.—Chicago

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

f light, a

oats is su icici

COMMANDER PEARY. . He will sti’ in search of the North Pole in. the staunch Maine-built vessel ^ ^ The Roosevelt.

Moos roach.. It la .

—eh tree -in Artsoss and. one of the law oath tree* in the United

lative literature Is at follows: “The legislature Is necessary. We've got to have It. Paw stye he's goth'

of it the Legislature—if he Aon': see Maw

very few est*

Mate*, kmt the thrifty pro*** that each rah

base.—AH—a EspnhHr*i Pnrtk^is* Mid ti* hrolih

crop of rye ^r qgts. and a crop of c rrop thus b -omes the robber crop, felt takes ft m the soil the molstur'

crop of rye or oat«. ould leave the <*

lover is wanted, then the he nurse crop should be only enough to furnish the rotection to the clover.

*s an acre- ot rye or for seeding with lb>-

clover; tb n if we occasionally plow under a mod a op of clover we anadding hiinus to the soil which wfi enable it tado mpeb for future crops A VARIETY IN THE SILO. With a| good silo with convenin'! arrangemfnis for filling and the reqaof help, filling a silo >s long or disagreeable job. It is haKl work whiloltlBEt^. as tb< crops lo[be handled are green and heavy, bit It requires only a few days ' ordinary silo, and the work crop secured and ready fox wanted, and the fields when

and ready for lha D as! desirable. After

growing ! fodder corn, to shocked, -ured and handled c or three time* before being <k find a great advantage lx ha\ silo, asy* a correspondent of U JMas-ssdms-Ats Ploughmnn. Ttii* y>«r • portlcu of rxy co was pretty much of a failure count of the seed not qemlng v Finally the land was ratlxcr la; thicker to oats. As^ti result. IN a nflxed crop of oats and cor

qui.te a heavy yield.

As the seasqg has been qc markable’ for a second grew-" or re wen, several loads cf ; run through the cutter and put bottom of tbeXiki. where It Is b. .win keep all right for another Next came the cats and corn oats were lodged and some < cm.was tan and lodge. It w., cccxfdly cut In the field with a lug machinx, going only ofie wa. made pretty heavy work, bat one loaded it on a low-down wagon as as it could be cut and rex into i

sHo.

But It neat in, and we (hall watch v with some Interest the ccteome oncther winter. On top of this the com will go, a pretty good growth and

good quality, an down the roaro

small space as the ateragv -.lie. That is on# of the spectal advantages ef tbaOo system. Once stored in a rood .

sUa. and the crop* are Mfsty boused,

dstag sway with mueh hard and dis- ^

agreeable IghM. while the week 1 of'wssto /‘^d^eTte*^