WHEX MOTHER TAKES THE STOCKING-RAG. Uockioc-i»c ire

“Now. one* upon a time”—that’s how (he And K'fc thread* dimu.g ne* diet and Jew

And Ted plays

Most times tbej’re boat the time »-h< was just a little pri. With pinaforra and suwbocnet and

t "boot Indiana (war d me—I (ness wc like

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tremendona pace, mother aava, that anile of here all ahinins in her face. ire_are (lad when the atockins-bac «* food times go with darning, don't yon oath's ComTEDDrS FIRST POCKETS. “I want pockets In mj new pants,” •aid Teddj. “Too are too little,” said mamma. “Please, mamma r Teddy pleaded. “Pockets co with pants. All the bic hoy a h*v< them." "Well." mamma replied, “I suppose yon must have them. Tes, I will pot

“Nonsense 1” exclaimed Aunt Emily. “Clara, yoo don't mean to let that baby hare pockets? He will hare them foil of rubbish and In a dreadful condition all the time. He's too little for trousers. to say nothing of pockets." But mamma pat the pockets in, and Ted was happy. He went round with his hands In those little snuggeries, felelng very proud and grown-up. and trying to whistle; and by and by he began to put things into them. “If I bad the darning cotton. I would mend the stockings." said grandma, “hut It Isn't In the oasket” 1 “Here it la,’’ said Teddy, taking a

Emily, laughing. “Tour pockets cer | talnly are the moat useful ones In th» \ family. Tou don't happen to hare a box of chocolates, do you?” “No,” Teddy replied, soberly, "bnt 1 j hare some candy that isn't cbocolaje Mr. Smith gave H to yne. it's taffy." Aunt Emily laughed again. "There , Clara," she said, "1 told you aor'—Elisabeth. HU1, in Tooth's Companion. 1

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jaanstniirmro TO CHECK GROWTH OP BORNS. When a calf Is about ten day* old. take scissors and trim hair off close around where you can feel the horn. Make a thick paste of lye and spread all over the botton or where the horn will be, with a small paddle. Then In ten days grease the parts well with lard. One application is sufficient, in

way you never will he bothered

THE ‘PUL'PIT.

LITTLE TRIALS.

SchJaet : The Glory of Simple XocIltoiU Boston, Mass.—The following helptal sermon was delivered’ Sunday by the Rev. Charles Q. Ames. It U entitled "The Glory of Simple Rectitude." and was preached from the text “Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”

-Mat*, v. 0.

—TV.r i "Blessed are they that hunger and with horns on cattle I have used this ■ (hirst after rlghteonsneaa, for they remedy for years and always have sue- , shall be filled." The man who aays cess In removing the horn.—Christian that has a claim on the reverent and Anthony, Jr- In The EpltomlsL grateful attention of all mankind. He ; ! elves voice to the universal reason

and conscience; he Inspires the highest

GETTING GOOD BREEDS. | and holiest hope. Heaven and earth '7; ... T may pass away, but Ihe words that If you wiah to atari in | *u, e .re, hem .el ret Immortal begin with a new variety, jji-, ntteraneea of th» aUrrl ther

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and grumbled to a workman who had come to mend a etep. It took a good j while properly to finish the work, and this annoyed the sultan who every day had to pas* through the room where the step was being mended. The sultan complained of the annoyance and the floor cleaner said he didn't see bow such a great sultan could be put out by such a little thing. The s titan beard of the re-nark and sent for the floor cleaner, who greatly feared that the remark would coat him his head. He was greatly surprised when the sultan told him that be .would give him a palace, money, servants, horses every luxury that a man coulC desire all upon one condition. This conditioa waa. that every day of his Ufe be would come to the sultan's palace and receive a slight tap on his cheek, this tap to be administered by the-sultan himself or one of bis servants. The first time the floor cleaner complained he was to be thrust back Into big original poverty. As the years went on this man grew rich and powerful, and finally It became a great trial for bin; lo present Ulmaeif every day at the palace and receive a tap on his cfaee)t. This wai especially trying as his flatterers and servants sympathised with him and told him it was a ab'.tre that so great a man sboull be subject to sucb an 'nault. This became the trial of his otherwise happy life. He felt that he eou’d no longer endure it. One day the sultan wis 111, and his cook was sent for to administer the tap to the £x>r cleaner. The floor cleaner flew Into a violent rage and hammered the cook In the face until the sultan appeared. When he saw what had happened, he condemned the floor cleaner to his former poverty saying, “Tou- now see how even a little trial may become a great cross If one has always to bear U.”—Indianapolis News

PICTURE PUZZLE.

little black tall <

it of his right pocket 1 the door, grandma, waa darn cotton; I

I didn't know 11 thought it waa ji

"Tou didn't happen to find my pencil, did you?" asked Mater Sue. “I lost it festerday and I can’t find it any-

w tiers."

•Tea.” said Teddy, “It was in the waste basket I picked it out apd pat It in my pocket I dMn' ‘ “ Susie,” be said as be passed H

few yea

horse could be. "Prince" and well it fitted him. The readiness with whidb he' understood what was amid to him waa terrarkable, says Our Dumb Animal*. "Princehis mistress would say, “I would like to visit Mrs. T—r,” and, as Mrs. T was a particular.f-lend of hi*. Prince would trot m. at yeadRy aad rapidly to her bouse. Again, Mias - would tell him to go to the tank notfty, and there he would go; or to the stable where oats, bran and bay were to be ordered, at ' ’ — tbvre at a lively rate. Hr waa always as a person would have bn lady who waa riding with Ulaa C— waa aurprlaed to have Mm take tar home and atop before the bouw. "Oh. Priaew" tar said. “Won't jam

and wish to invest as much as the cost of a good breeding pen mated by a reliable and skillful poultry raiser, that U the beat way to begin. Otherwise purchase eggs, as many settings as you wish to invest In. and eocb from t different breed but always from a reliable one. From each of these settings you should raise both roosters and pullets. Mark them all carefully and plainly, so that you can not misuse them,, and next spring you will be In position to mate up two or three breeding pens of your own.—Indian*

Farmer.

A GENTLE HINT. it is a delicate matter, indeeo. to say that sometimes farmers do not wash their hands really dean, but it 1» a fact and we might as well face the music. The cause la not natural uncleanliness, but the work is necessarily of all kinds, and cannot be done with gloves at this season. I do not need to enumerate. Every dairyman knows that if he works upon the careful kidglove plan he Just. can't get there, that's all Now. these dirt colored bands are no badge or insignia of the profession. I know from experience that the ordinary method of washing will not dean the bands, and now I keep a stiff handhrush convenient and the trouble is over. One ought not to sit down to milk with bands that are not clean. How would you like to have your wife make bread without washing. where the work is done by hand? I trust do one will be oversensitive and Ulk back. This is one of the things I see, and so I mention it—Chicago Tribune. INEXPENSIVE HAT BACK. The style of hay and grain rack here Illustrated is tn common use In many parts of the East and Middle States. The two-bed pieces of spruce 8x6 inches in Kite are either fourteen or sixteen feet long. Five crosspieces 2x6 spruce, or 2x4 Hardwood, three feet six inches long, connect the bed pieces. The side pieces which hold the rack, ten in number, five on a side, are two inches thick, four feet two inches long, and,- taper from three inches wide *t one end to, one and one half Inches at the other. A plank 2x12 runs through the middle of the rack, and these tide pieces fit under this, and Inside the bed pieces, as shows. Four boards six inches wide are placed on each side to form the rack. The first board rests on the crosspieces, the other three being equal distance apart. Two pieces 2x4, seven feet nine inches long, are used, on* at each end of the rack, and are bolted to the aide arms Just beneath the top board. The ladders are made of hardwood and are six feet nine Inches long, with two crovpieces. The side arms should be of oak. or other hardwood, but the boards may be of spruce or pine. The ladder* are boiled near the ends of the bed pieces, and rest against the cross pieces at the end. '

By removing the four bolts which hold the end pieces, the rack may be knocked down flat to sav* room In

DO NT CROSS BREED.

Like the utterances of the sibyl they are "tJmple. unadorned, anperlnMeCi and reaching through the ageo, because

of God.”

Here it one sign of truth. 'It affects os like a part of the permanent order of things: it is all of one staff with the word and with our own proper nature. It has the ring of reality', like sunlight it carries its own evidence; and to the sane mind It recommends Itself as sunlight does to the healthy eye; but It Is concealed from our grosaneas by Us own simplicity and transparency. Who realises this splendid miracle of the common day? In the same way we have become too familiar with some of the most obvious and Important aspects of spiritual truth. These Beatitudes of Jesus may seem to be worn smooth. We have beard them from 6ur intimacy: their force and beauty appeal to unrespond-

ing hearts.

If we could have stood, one day long ago, among the Syrian peasants, on the slope of a hill In Galilee, and listened to these saying* as they fell fresh and clear cut as newly minted gold from the living Ups of the new prophet, perhaps we, too. should have been "astonished at the doctrine," we should have “wondered at the‘gracious words that proceeded out of His mouth." Did It not seem as if Nature heraelf had at last found a voice, and as if that voice were speaking straight to her chUdren, saying clearly and cheerily, yet soberly and solemnly, what all men vaguely think, or feel, but can rarely put Into wordy? Tet these Beatitudes are remarkable for what they do not say. The sentences of Jesus seldom run In the grooves of old commonplace. He does not sit there, Uke the scribe oUthe synagogue, complacently reciting. In tones that make men slrepy, the virtues and piety of a dead ancestry, is If It were enopgh to hare Abraham for a father and Moses for a lawgiver. He pronounces no blessing on religious respectability, decorous conformity. doctrinal soundness, loyalty to the standard, fidelity to the trodltlonr. or even diligence to the routine of obeervance and devotion. Any priest In the audience must bar? felt that a slight was put upon bis great office, as If the speaker had forgotten to do It honor. The temple, the altar, and the •acred books are aU mentioned with respect, yet they somehow fall into the background. Humanity is brought directly fronting Divinity, as if the pure heart might see God and the impure might know the cause of their

blindness.

Many a man In that company must have bung Us head as the rebuke ™me home to Urn. Complacent worldling*. men proud of their estates or their learning doubtless stood there, expecting that He would confirm the world’s vulgar Judgment which says. “Blessed are the prosperous, the popular. the cultivated and the comfortable.” But no. The lips that opened In blessing made them shrink as if He had uttered a curse. Every world fell like a blow on their idols. The virtues which had strutted so proudly before God and man began to unmask a* ugly vices as He went on to say: “Blessed are the men of humble mind, the men of good will, the merciful, the pure In heart Tea. blrsaed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness. so that for the sake of being right they dare and bear all losses and pains, and willingly let their names be cast out as evil." No comfort here for the self-right-eous, the self-satisfied, the self-willed, the self-seeking. Bnt scsttered through the company —* who felt ttaf who took *£ their aceomplllEmeots or their social •landing, who hardly dared so much as to Uft up their eyes to heaven. Tet as they listened. aU the world above, around, within, asttart v * ^

thought of as throned afar

ening majesty, seemed, l Father who wished His children to he near Him and to be as perfect as Hlm»elf. They drew In deeper draughts of the country air; (heir very emptiness •eemed to make ta much mare room

A dairyman may start with aothlng j .tiyrxla^ need chan£2l faS'^hUdilk*

hut the most ordinary cow*, and by , trust

simply breeding to dairy cows of ex- I Hero waa Indeed a messenger of cellent quality and pure breeding he r>od tidings. Here was a doctrine will In a few yearn have a fine work- I «J*°rthy of man as it was worthy of tag herd- Do not misunderstand me. i ***• *11 the beat I am advocating grading, but not crosa- ; w2Ey*Sireh 7f ln * br ®® d *. . Qrec * h*™ beendcue mankind, through the agroTound any-

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ance. Along with this faeliog Come* always the perception that goodness is what I am made for. Not even a voice out of the sky could tell me more plainly that the Holy Being wills that I. too, should be bely. Along with the reproof come* the encouragement, and along with the hunger for righteousness comet the 'promlso that thr hunger Khali be satisfied. To suppose the Creator Indifferent to the moral character and welfare of HI* creature* la essential atheism; but,

must have given HU creature* light to find the right way and atrength to walk In that way. Bnt, even If He were indifferent, we cannot afford to be to; for our highest interest taKo be found in seeking the completeness of onr own being In and the harmony ci rightness of our relations with all other beings and with the laws and forces of the universe in which we find our place. Everything worth having or worth desiring is involved In character. In being simply and soundly right The world comes right when the man come* right. What It it to each one of us depends on what we are and how we take it. We make our own bells, we can make our own heaven*. “When the soul to sta hath died. True and beautiful and sound Then all earth Is sanctified. L’psprings paradise around.’' A ro ugh-cist man rose In a countrj meettag-bouae to tell hit; experience “It was In the north country, wher the snow Uy deep on the ground, that the Lord God found out Jonathan Hinckley and converted bU soul. And the leafless trees gave praise to God.’ Is there one among ns who might not report to himself somethin' like thli happy convert'* story? who has not at some time felt sure of hU place in the great order, and teen all the world irradiated with a light which really shone from within the mind? If a man has lost hU faith ta God and still holds fast his own Integrity, well for the man. But, ta thU very concern io be true to the highest law he knows, be U unconsciously a wor ahlper. Blessed U the man who hungers and thirsts for righteousness, ten already be bolds ta bU soul the richest of all treasures. We who believe ta God need' not be seriously troubled about the fate or state of honest non bell ever*, for we may count their very honesty as s sign of the real presence and the finest inspiration. Once accept the principle of duty, and all Ufe becomes an honorable dis dpUoe and a steady advance. There la no higher rank on earth or ta heaven than the rank of personal goodness; and be who love* It, seeks it, and practices ft for its own take is surety moving, however slowly, toward thr

perfect life.

Here also is the cure, and the only cure, for our restlessness and self dissatisfaction. “No man can serve two masters." But he who fan* heartily ta love with virtue is no longer distracted by a divided allegl ance. He baa nothing else to do bnt to occupy himself with learning and doing what is right and reasonable. Having kettied the central principle and leading purpose of hit life, every step onward and upward make* the next easier; and the law of habit contin nally operates to confirm this deephearted choice. He la no longer driven by the lash of conscience; he is no more a servant, but a son, and the Father’! house 1* Ids happy borne. Here too la the secret of victory over our trials and depression?. When shall we half realise the grandeur and glory of simple rectitude Let me again repeat a tale of real life. Tears ago, and far away, I knew a woman of moat fine and excellent quaUties whose deeply shadowed Ufe waa Uke a long crucifixion and martyrdom. In one of her letters the said. “My youth la gone, my hope is dead, and my heart 1* heavy; but 1 neglect no duty.” In reply I sand: "If you could ask God for Just* due blessing, and could be sure of that one and never of another. wpuJd you dare pray that your youth might come back, or that your-earthly hopes might be renewed? Would you not ask for a living principle within yourself that would make you neglect no duty? And can you not see that, ta giving you the love of righteousness. He has really given yon the bra; thing ta all the universe?" In her next letter she wrote that this view of the matter waa new to her own mind, but that she accepted It as true, and found ta it -strength to take up her burden— a burden carried, aa I believe, with patience, courage, and constancy to the end, which was not far away. There it one thing more to be said. He who really love* righteousness cannot lore it for himself alone; be hunger* for its triumph over all the earth; he long* for the banishment of every wrong. Hence his seal for Justice Is sweetened with good will to men, so that righteousness becomes one form of benevolence. The right is always the good. Hence the ethical passion kindled from the heart of Jesus has .flamed out ta abhorrence of wrong and evH, and has lent support and vigor to every movement tor reform and welfare. “It Is a spurious virtue that can contentedly see vice thriving hy Its aide.” The gospel is peTtapel ,tf It doe* not turn the hearts of men toward each other a* -well as towardGod. It 1* no gospel If it floes not unite all .believer* ta wise, well-constderefl, and earnest movements for the cleansing hf the world and the better ordering of an human life. Righteousness 1* rightness. To hunger and thirst for righteousness therefore la aU one with the prayer that God's kingdom may ne, and that His will may be don* earth as It Is In beai - ~

“Supposing you wait hero In this comfortable seat by Ihe elevator while I match these two samples of ribbons." said Mra. Mayfair sweetly to tor busbaud, who had been entrapped Into going shopping with her. When she came back, she said contritely: “Harp I kept you waiting an unpardonable long time, yon poor dear?" "Ob, I haven’t minded It," hr no Id. cheerfully. “I Just jumped on to a car and ran out to the cricket grounds and saw most of the match, and then I took a little spin ta the park with Dortoo ta hla new auto. Did you match

the Kamples?”

“One of them. It's so provoking. I’ll have to come ta again to-morrow, for they are closing the shop now,*

A TsUtaU Bigs.

Here 1* a hit of wisdom gleaned from the bead waiter. According to him the trained observer can tell whether or not'a man has been used to servant* all bis life by the intonation of bis voice when calling some one to wall on him. The person who has been used lo bossing other pedple around says, "James,” or whatever ibe name of the servant may be, with a falling inflection, while the one who. nnti! lately, has been accustomed lo waiting on himself 1 , give* "James" the rising

Inflection, as if in supplication.

“And tbht.” said the waller, “1* a dead sure sign. A man may cover up most other telltale marks, bnt be can't get away from James and James."

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15 YEARS OF TORTURE

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