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, "You are lorde of the eoil, -people of im•-
Portenee and, rutbete, whilewe aee-
'well, just orainary folk, I ma quite un-
deretend yOur rather •Rbie•Oirig,' -
alio Puther hand op to hie lips to si-
• lence the lover's extravagant flatteree
-It i$ not that -the differenee-eanlaa
all tO IVOar adeaatagee" •ehe said, 'MY
father may thine of it," she wept on with
innocent candor. "Bee it ezeuld be the
•epane, if you 'were ef the highest Tank; Ile
doenot want me to leave hen."
"A•nel if he were lees anxione to keep you
he would net give you to me, who am. in
leis opiui end rightly, so much your in-
ferioxe she& Stafford. But I emeht to eo
to bim dearest, •I ought to go tamer -
She trembled a little' 26 sae neetled
against him.
"And -and ---your father, Sir Steellen
Orme?" he said. 'Whet will he eaYe"
etafford, laughed slowly and confielentIY,
Oh, my fathee? Se will be delighted
He's the beet of fathere, a 'Perfect made
for aerente. Ever since 1 can 3.eraembe
he lige been good ;to me, a 'precious sigh
better, axtote liberal and generous, •
the
I deserved; but lately, since I've know;
hem— Ah, 'well, I can only eaY, dearest
that he will be deliglitedto hear that
hays aboeen a vitae, a,m1 when he see
Yoix—" He stopped and :held her at area'
length for a moment and looked dow
into the lovely face epturned. to Ida -wit
it6 sweet, girliebeeeravity. •aViay, he wil
fall in love with Oott right out of handl
think you will like ray father. Na. He-
well, he's a taking sort (3f fellow; every
body likes him who knows him-xeall
knows him -and epeaks well of him. Yes
I'm proud of him. end I feel as safe as i
he werahere to say, in his hearty, earne6
way: a wish you good luck, Stafford! an
may God bless You. 2111* deer!' "
He flashed and laughed as if a, littl
ashamed •of hie emotional way of puteing
"He's fun of --a the zank of human kind-
ness. is 111:9' father," he eat& with a touch
of simplicity which was one of the thous-
and and fifteen reaeone why Ida' loved
him.
She gazed 'OD at, him thoughtfully and
eighed.
"I hone he -svill like me," she said, all
the pride wialch usually characterized her
melted by her love. -I am Glue that I
shall like him -for loving you."
"You. will see," isaid Stafford, confident-
ly. site will be as proud as a duke about
you. You won't mind it he shoaes it '.1.14t-
tlo Plainly and makes a little fuss, Lea?
He's -well, he' s -used to making the 31103t
of a goo•d thing when he hae itaat's the
life he las led which has rather got him
into the way of blowina a trumpet, you
know -and. he'll want, a -whole eechestra,
to announce you. •Diet about y•our father,
dearest? Shall I eome to -morrow and ask
for his consent?"•
She looked up at hint with •doubt and
a faint trouble in her beautiful eyes, and
he heard her sip regretfully.
"I am afraid," she said, in a. low Tam
"Afraid?" He looked • at her with •a
smile of eurprisse "If anyone were to tell
shell be wild with pride; I shall waut to
go calling alouti: She Ili my wife; my
very ownl You. may admire-wor,ehip her,
but elle • is mineeebelenges to me --be un-
worthy Stafferd Orme!"
"Yee?" elm univatured, lier voice 'Leiria
lenge "Yoe evil]. be proud of me? Of me,
the Peer little couatry girl Wee rode abeut
the dales in a shabby habit and au old
hat? Stafford., Jessie was telling rne that,
tears is a, very beautiful girl staying at
tare aline at Brae Wood --one or the vieit-
ors. Jessie etacl she -wee lovely, ancl that
ale the men-servante, and the amide, too,
were talking about her, She must be more
beautiful then I awe
"Which of the women do you mean?" be
said, indifferently, with the supreme in-
difference whieli the man who is madly in.
love feels; for every otb,er woman thau the
one of ,his heart. •
"She is a fair girl, with blue eye.6 and
the moot wonderful hair; aheetnuared
with gold in it,' as aeseie described it to
me. And ehe eavs that this girl wears the
most, beeutieul dia,moncis-I am still quet.
✓ ing J-eseie-ancl other precious stones, and
, that she •is very 'high and mighty,' and
more haughty than any of •tho other
ladiee. Wao ae it?"
• "I think. 6he moat mean Mies Falconer
--Mie g Meade Falconer," said Stafford, as
e indifferently as before, as he smoothed one
e• of the silken treeses on her brow, and kise•
• ed it as it lay on hie finger- "It es lot
1, the -way a slava, would describe her.
^i "And she is very beautiful?" asked Ida:
e "Yes, I-suppos•e she is," he said.
"You suppose!'• she echoed, arelaing her
brows, but with a, frank emile about her
y lies; the smile of eontentment at hie in-
difference. "Don't you know?"
yes, she is," he admitted. "I've
.Xt scarcely noticed her, Oh, but yes, she is;
d and she siege very well. Yes, I can me
deretand her malting a sensation in the
e servants' hall -be makes one in the draw.
ingaroom. Bu., elms not my etyiG of
beauty'. See here, dearest: it doesn't
Round. slice, but though. I've eeene some
hours with Miss Falconer and listened to
her eiuging, I have only just noticed that
she ts geed -looking. and that she has a
wonderful voice: they say up at the villa
that, there's nething like ib the stage
-exceetiug Patti's and Melba's; but all
the time ehe has been there I have had
another' fade. atother voieo, in my mind.
Ever dime I saw you, down there by the
river. I have had no eyes ter any other
• wornan's faee, however beautiful, no eass
for any other 190•MateS TOIOS however
sweet."
She was silent a momeut, 26 ,she claieped
her elands •a,nd laid them against his
cheek.• • -
• "How eermage it sounds!. But you
had chanced to see her first-perhane you,
would not have fallen in love with mer?
HOW could, you have done so? She is so
very lovely -I can see she is, by Jeasie's
description."
Be laughed.
"Even if X had not seen you, there was
no ehance of my baling in love witth Mies
Falconer. dearest," he said, smiling at her
gravity and earneetnese. "She is very
beautifittaloYely in her -way: ie you like;
but at is met me way.. Slae is like a statue
afraid, I shouldn't belleee these.' he said. e air, ale a .s.,,,,n, , a, ,,i ,,, ....51v,s1 .•,1,9,• 1.1,m
'Fear and.' •Tem. bovemel,. made aerie - 4----ovorat-elat.,,my& .0...1-0 •voy galonA11111r" 03..e,r
Anee, atitaitiene- .. ' e ---
' ,SIbea.sithoosok ,hhearplipyead, 1,3.0 i'n.t4itsi e•ty liaplyy, olTarnay.,„,,,?alillitartilge•rin lio'''''vteEne't'vittitir haleefil,,°'eteediaiPirf irf':
that I tete afraid lest the gotle stiotild be hrtedn't seen the sweeteet. and- lovelieet giri.
me that. it, was possible for yeu be be at 'MOSE tillle61 otliere. jot now' auti
jealous and snatch my happiness from me. .in all the wide werld."
"And you aell eel like that, feel co
I am afraid that if you come toemexecev, „ea socertain thee you love me; even
• -"Will have me (shownI out," said Staa
my father will say 'IVO,' will— though you have eon and will see so
Marty women who W10 far more beautiful
ford, Favely. "I see. should. be ear -
Prised. • than I am?" she said, dreamily.
see you again." - a .18ornwer s'aieThkci. Ce."1:Itfain1'-;ealr: ares8sPu°rnecleodi ylvoi-util:
"And -and then X should not be Lehi° to
He laughed at the idea.. •love as I am of mine for you— Forgive
"My deareet, if all the fathers in 'thentOLe'hedieavreithetr'ank'le' are-h:eehtadnesati6heatit bag
world world said 'No,' it woaldn't melee any dif- mosee„ienen, Ili
ference to me," he sa.id, wth i•thet air of "Yon raS'Y be 611"re." She said, slowly. "I
masterfulnese, that tlaeh of the eye -which
a woman loves in a Man. "Do yon think Eltall kltei'-vse e5 leng es 1 live. I knew
I should give 7011 up, that I should be con- it! d° Ilist" knew -why'. 1 only -feel
•
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off-leaPerhaps -we may be parted— ' Ile langle
tent to say' 'e you -keep away from youI'm 'verg ei'arr".' eix'''arad. es” ed -but hie laand dosed on hers. and Irma -
v,'
laughed again, and she nestled a, little -
Ire oea them tiglitly, e-eBut I shall always
closer, and her sraall liana closed a little 'love vole Something has gone out of me
more .tightly ori bis arm. "And you -is it my heart? -and I can never take it,
'wouldn't give Me op, refuse to see, me back trona you. Perhaps 700 may grow
ascii if your father 'withheld his consent, tired of me -it may be. I have read and
- heard of 'such thinge happening to woe
'would Tee' Ida?" ilie 'asked' N tuen-you may see eon:lona more be/lute
"No; I eould not. Xt is just teat: I fol. than Miss Falconer, !someone who will'
corns, not. Somehow X feel as if I had lead ye, to forget the little girl Nolo rode
given you the right to toyeelf and that
nothing" eould alter it, nothing oould through tae rain 10Herondale. If so,
therw
take ene away from you!" e ill be no need to tell meho eee058<).
er o make exeusee, or
°W ask for forgiveriase.
fromnifVtainS gith'per°sisaib)heisf°,1nrmjliBnizni°d ar-eietaanbit
g There would -la 110 need 'to tell me, for
the Genet, soft ii.O6 whieb. made such , something lerea-eshe drew her band from
eonieeeleme They veeeeaeri for a hita and touched her bosom -"would
uto or two in silence, when she eveut .ozeme. You. would only have to keep away
tie if she had beet; still considering the from ma -thee es all. And well, I
ra a tter should be eilent, quite ;silent."
• , "Deareatl he anurneured, eeproaehfully,
father :ris01n1 013: irttobnowt: •Ca°,Md_e'a8ntda-rfaldr is,!,/tt, and with something' Iike ewe, for her
you know. YoU saw bine that other night, ebyr:rwys U'ivnearsaekeneily;cejlegrloeraade 7•awshyl'41Idee yean's
--ehe first nieb.t eve, met -do you remem- •
ber? Ana lie was -walking, in elle pieta say tbie now, Juet as -es we hs,ve • son-
,
again the other yening. er y,„ ware feseed our love for eaeh other? Do you
come -•ii I were to tele him that --that, you think -I Shall 13e fai•thieses? I could al -
hoe ..aeeea me to be your wife'he might meet, laugh! any mart you deigned,
Sy tete a Damien.; it might do ,him havna. to love °eel(' ever f°r•get' 7011, "el; eere
Some time ago. -when ae was 'ill, the doe. et straw for any Other lablelanr
tor told methat lie must be Rept quiet, She turned to• him- with a chadder,
and that nothing mast be allowed to px.Iit,ble 017 'that was tragic in its inteneity,
eiteer lei -nate bian, Ire is very old end turned to him anti clenched her smell
leach; es 80cl:tided u 1115-11.0 sees no onehende on his breast.
now but myself. Oh, how I would like you "Swear to ale!" 6130 panted; then; as if
tO eome; hew good it would be if --if he ashamed of 1,11a paselon that ameked her,
evotild give Int te yell as other fathers her •eyee drooped and .the ewift red flood -
give their cleug,hters! But X dare • not ed her face- "1'1.01 Yoll shall not swear to
risk itt I tatuotl atafford"---ehe alit her me, Stafford. I -I will believe you love
halide on hie breast end looked ete at 11105 me as 1 alirill love you rer ever and over!
-"ate I wrong to tell you all this -to. lei, But tiso thii 8b°1111 come 'wile°
you see bow anneal I love you? Is It.= -um. BODEO other girl hall .7011 Evora. 113.0p
maidenly of 31;e? Tell um if it is, and promiee tee 'that you -win not me, that
will not do so for the futttre. I will hide a°1•1 :feet' keel) awaY er°11-1 mel X ereela
my besot a. little better than 1 ant doieg bear le if -if X did. ion', see, yeti; .blif if X
at eregent. Ah, see, it 11 00 my sleeve' 611,1V you—, Ohl" sonaethite like a mow].
Et took .her emu •and kissed the eleeve eseaned 1;er puiveriug lies:, and she flung
Where her beare wee siiPposed to be, hereelf aeon hie breast with trio abandon,
"I've reed that anen only love while tlie ures•elaconecieuerress of e
they are net sure of e woman's Jove; that Stafford Was moved to 1115 inmost heart,
with evere two vereens it, fe 011.0 'who levee and for a moment, as lie Olold her within
and t•ho °thee! who permits himself or her- tele onibreee of lxie, eteeng areas, he contsi
self to be loved. Ie that true, Stafford? If net coin -tuned hie voiee suffieiently fax
as, then it is 1 who lovo-alas I Doer me!" eneeeb- At Peat ho ninemlarea, hie lies
Ile drew her to him •aad lofakee into bee eceltine here;
pace with a passionate intensity. "Ida! I eNvear that I will love you for
"IVe riot true," he ettid, almost fiere,elyeee3' and evOrl"
”ree: geOdnees salt° elOaa, east such things, Hit--but--if you brealt your vow, you
Taaseathee atilt, and hurt badly; they lirw
milise that You well not come te
• leave a bittev taste in the mouth, a nasty Me? I ehalt lower. Promise, ale pre/nese I"
a
png behind. And if it, were eareabia it. "Will amehine less tonteet you? Millet
Ionia Ida! It le I weo epie. asaa ass, I?" he said, ale/seat desperate hor eer-
ceetritieren't feu eteor hew sistelice, '"Phoia I -Proinlee, Idat'
tirte afed e, oolong- aes I
reeve; don't you know that no girl. that
ever was ,born lind ettob, "wonderful teeee, • • ielle-ale-ae
soch beantiflai hair? Ohiunr beartie love, There a eoraeeliiiie eoleme and aae-in-
don't you khow how peefeet you are?" imitine perfect, aarmitleae. •
They had stopped limier some trees near How teeny times in the day elid Ida
the ruined eloteel, tena aloe leatt againet pull Op leuvett mesi ga,eo into the dietarece
0110 of them and looked 1,113 etti hita wit13 a withevaceet, uteeeing eyes, pauee in ehe
siraneo, far -away look in :her dee yhioh niiddle oT eoree common task, look Op
were dark as tbe eurple a:meth:Vete from the book she was treble to read, to
"X never thoeght abota it, Am I -do uolt herself whether she wes endeea ISa
yeti. thina I am Pretaa? 1 MO klaET1 "VM, 610126 siri VillO had lived her lonely life et
I am obeli" • , Heronarfle, or eeliether she lana ehteneed
"Preety I" Ire leeighed. "Dearest, •,lote,n niaees •with some other nereoeality, weal
I take YOU away from, here, ihto the worlki, tome gili eingularly bleseed. amongst Vo-
ris MY' wife --me wife -the thotight. fail& mete
mv blood 'Wareing •tbreligh Yainpaefiaine eeeele and „Itteen, even the boeine
will ereat,e SO areat 80111 11 Iduni, WSJ'S reputed elle etupideet men
teethe dale, noticed. tbe ebango to bar,
noticed. 1.40 1,0noh a eoior that wee he
(mice a) meatit to the tiory-chak tele
novel aelehaiese and teadertieee in, too
deep erey epee, tae new magi. the Ma,
;sweet tone beepoiese in the eleor voice.
tier fataer eeely etmaitinea iumbserrane of •
the etibtle elle-age, blithe W26 like a 11101.0
burr °wale, amoneet. leaolte atel ;tam ellie
eccretly ever .the, box evbieal 'bo .0Onevr•iile°
at the approtteh of rootetens, the opening
of a door, and ' the sound of Voice, In a
distant Dart .Of „the houses.
Bub though •the servants, reenerked tee
elainge in their beloved •mietteasetheY did
not euese ite eiseleee foe, by cbtufele re•-
thei than design, non o ok them had seen
Ida and Stalemel tokethea Audiiyee, they
met daily. Sometimeteeltaffoed Wonitiaige
over from Brae Wood staid is -mother by
the river. There was a hollow there, go
deep that it lad pot only theeeselveee bat
tee boom end here they woula sit, leant'
ia hane, or more 'often avian: his area
paella, her and her small, ebepely heed
with its soft, but roilahened heir, Mien
hie breast. Sometimes he world row iterees
the lake and they would walk aide by
side alongethe bank, end oreerked bet the
tress en which the linuet, and the thresh
sang the songs whica make a lovers et-
a•ny; at ethers -and thee 'were the sweet-
eet xaeetiegs of 'all, for they moue in tiie
•eoft, and stilly niebt -when all nature was
Meshed as -under the open of the olio
great pa„ssion-he would ride or walk over
after dimaere and they would. alt in the
ruitied arelov,ay of the old cheael and
talk of their blank past, the =agile Pre-
sent, and the future whioh woe to bold
nothing but bapniness. '
Love grOW13 fast under 'suet eonditions,
aild the love' of these two eneatale geew
to gigantic proportions, abeorbirte • the
lives of -bath of thena To Staftord, all the
houreathaa were not epent with this, girl
of hie heart were so rauch arears- waste•
To Itia-ah, well, who 'shall meastire the
inteneiter of a girlie first passieu? kehe
only lived in. the expectation ef wane
aim. in life preseece ,and. •the whispered
woras and ea,reeses of his love; Lead, in
his ,a.beemae, in the memory of theta For
her life nieant just this xaan wbo had
come and taken the latirt from izer bo-
som and euthroned hie owe in its Place;
They told each other eearything. eta -
fora laiew the waole st her life- before
they met, all•the little details of the daily
routine •of the Hall, and her :management
of the farm; and she learnt erom lam ell
that was going on at the great, splendid
pelaee ti hie modesty Sir Stephen Orme
had called •the Villa. She liked to nestle
against hun and hear tem •small details
of his life, se he liked to hear Imre; and
Villa and their peouliaxities, as -well as
if she were personally acquainted with
ed to know all the visitors at the
tsilhee.:e.-e3n
"You ought nob to leave theta istainnele
Stafford,' she sitid, with mock reale-ma
as they sat one afternoon in tbe hollow
by the rive% 'Don't you think they no-
tice your abeence and -wonder Where you
are?"
• "Shouldn't think so," the reelietl- "Be•
sides, I don't care if they do. All my
worry is that I can't Cons to you oftener.
Every time I :thews: you 0OUPti tie the
hours that raust pass before X see, you
again. But' I expect meet, ifenot all, of
the visite-3re will be off presentlY• _ Most
of 'era have been 'there the -regulation
f•ortnight; a good meny come •backwerde
and forwards; they're the Oity men, the
money men. My father le elneeted with.
them for hears every, day -that big
Rehm.° of hi s eeeins to be eomipg off sat-
isfactorily. It's a railway to •son.Pe place
in Africa, and all thane felloweathe Gra-
fenberes, and Deltons, that fat German
baron, Wirscb, an,d the rest 01 them, are
in it. Ileaxen knows why my father -wants
to worry about it. X be,ard eteta of them
sag thathe otateulated to make a million
and a. half out of 41. As if he 'weren't
rieh enougal." ' ' '
a levee auto it coins. What oge,could.do
with a hall, a ouarter, eetenth of it!" -
"What would. you. do, dearest?"- he asked.
She laughed •sortle.
• 'I thiek that I 'would first bug you
magma- And than I'd have the • Hall re-
painted- No, I'd got the terrace raile and
tlze portico 'needed; and Tet. Perhaps, it
would be better to have the inside of the
houee painted and papered., You ksee,
there are so many things ]could do with
it, that it'd diffitult to ohoose." '
"You shall do 'em all," he said. putting
his arm round her. "See here, Ida I've
been thinking •abotte ourselves--"
"Do you'eeer think of anything else? I
cletet," she said, unconsciously.
-"Ana I've made. up my nand 'to take
the bull by the
"es ellet meant for my father or yours?",
'TOOL" he replied. "We've been so bee-
ev this hist fortnight -is it a fertniglat
ago eiliee X eat you to tell me that you
ceren foa me? It' seems a year eometimes,
and set others ft only seems a minutel-
that we haven't cared to think of how we
;stand; but it can't be like this fax ever,
Icla. You eee, r 'want you -I want you all
to myeelf, fax every bete of the day and
night inetead of for just the few minutes
I've the good luck to snatch.- Directly this
affair of my governor's is finished I shall
ge to him and tell him I'm the happieet,
the luckiest man in this world; X Than
teli him eveeythine-exaotly how we
stand-toul ash ,him to help ue with your
father,"
Ida *Wuxi and looked grave,
(To be continued.)
Fouled.
John -Henry was keeping com-
pany with 'Myrtle Marie, and when
the father of the latter returned
from the ofliee one evening he was
thnidly approached by 'his pretty
cl aug-hte r.
"Papa," said the fair one, "did
John I-Ienry eall on you this morn-
ing?"
"Yes," answered the paternal one
"but 1 conldn't make out much of
what he said.''
"Couldn't make out what, he
said I" returned Myrtle Marie, won-
deringly. ((What do you mean'?"
"As near as I could understand,"
explained papa, "he said he wanted
to marry me; that you had enough
money to support him, and that we
had always loved each other, so I
told him to go home and write it
out in plain English."
litany's Reply.
"Why do you insist upon having
the biggest; share of the pudding,
Harry?" asked the mother of it
arnali boy. your elder bro-
ther en t'itled to it?" "No, he isn't,"
replied the little fellow. "He was
eating pudding two years before I
Was born,"
Without Assistance.
• 'reacher—Did anyone help you
With this map Sam/
Ston ----Ne, sir. My brother did it
Ill by himself.
RocKEEELLKR,S NKR Q SIT Ir.
Began When Young and Ras Kept
It 'Cs) Ever Since.
It is very obfficult to collect anec-
dotal matter relating to John D.
Rockefeller, the oil king, - llis
near relatives know ,his dislike for
appearing in print, and his house-
hold is leak -proof, But there are
many stories which show the oil
magnate. in a generous light,
The Standard Oil Company of
Ohio, the parent company, has no
pension fund, hut maintains a
gratuity system,' which means
abont the same thing, with the ex-
oeption that no obligation is as-
sumed by the company as a. per-
manency. When thie plan was first
put' in operation it was discovered
that a number of old employes Were
net eligible for the gratuity fund,
because they had already severed
their connection with the concern'
for old, age Or disability. The fact
coming to John,- D. Rodkefeller's no-
tice, he gave instructions to have
every such case investigated and
reported upon, with a suitable re-
commendation. as to the require-
ments in each worthy 'ca,se. James
Cole, superintendent of No. 1
works, was the official investigator
and made the recommendations.
Upon receipt of the reports, John
D. gave ,instructions to have all
these people placed upon his per-
sonal payroll, their pensions to be
paid by Mr.Cole personally and
without notice to anyone. That
system is still maintained. Even
now soro.e men are discovered who
years ago worked for Mr. Rockefel-
ler, and after some service sought
other employment. Whenever a
deserving case is found the man
is pensioned, even though he has
not been in John D.'s employ for a
quarter century.
Shortly after John 'D. Rockefel-
ler had moved away from Cleve-
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A new portrait of Mr. john D
Rockefeller.
land, about thirty years ago, New
York observed her tercentenary,
and all the Ohio National Guard
was sent east to participate in the
biggest parade New York had up to
that occasion ever seen. Governor
l'oraker was anxious to show off
the regiment of field artillery in
the Ohio section, and ordered the
mareh up Fifth .Avenue to include
a gallop, battery front, unmindful
of the fact that the equipment
dated back -to '65. In consequence
half the junk went to the scrap
heap, nbt, however, without seri-
ous damage to the men, One broke
his arm, another his hip as one
wheel went out from under him.
One was killed.
Acts of Kindness.
One of the officers was taken to
$t. Luke's Hospital, than on West
Fifty-thh•d Street, New York.
Shortly afterward a neighbor- sent
to inquire into the ,details of the
accident, and when he heard that
an Ohio man had been hurt he
asked permission to send the pa-
tient's food to him from his own
home. During the six weeks the
man lay in a cast all his mesas- were
prepared in the neighbor's house.
And the teighbor was John D.
Rockefeller.
A few years ago Mr. Rockefeller
sat, in the „office of an acquaintance,
in one of the big office buildings,
waiting his turn with,,' his dentist,
whose office is in the same building.
Absorbed'in a newspaper, he seem-
ed to pay no .attention t:o the dis-
cusSionbetween his temporary
hos t ancr a woman caller, the, prin-
cipal of a school, relating to a,
teacher who voas obliged to glo
New MeXico on account of failing
health and for whom her fellow-
tea,chera had taken up a modest col-
lection to enable her to reach her
objective point in the .southwest.
13u1 his memory .served him well.
Vol,' next day one of his agents
called on the sick teacher, handed
her a oheque for a substantial
sum, and told her that the same
aanount would be sent to her- regu-
larly each month while she- was all.
For two years she eontinued to re-
ceive- Mr. Rockefeller's bounty, her
stay enabling her to make, a per-
fect recovery. She is still a teach-
er in the public ischools.
Early during the Civil War, be-
fore the days of a Government
bounty to encourage enlistment, it
became necessary that something
should be done to .assure the de-
pendent families of recruits that
they would not want during the ,ab -
settee of their husbands and sons.
To this end a committee was form-
ed and went to see John D. at his
works in River Street, and found
him with his partner, M. B. Clark,
Mr. Rockefeller received them
kindly ' and told them that ,he was
sorry he could not go himself,
since his brother Frank had en-
listed. But he was glad to help.
With a long key he 'opened the safe
and produced a tidy sum of money.
"I want you to feel," he said to
the tvs76 recruits, "that your peo-
ple will not suffer while you are
gone."
On the way uptown Tibbits turn-
ed excitedly to Scofield: "Why,"
he said, "that man is rich lie
must be worth $10,000!" At that
time Mr. Rockefeller was barely
23 years old.
BIRDS AND LIGHTHOUSES -
Every night during migration,
thousands of birds attracted by the
pow.erful glare of lighthouses, after
circling for hours about the light,
fall exhausted, and die. It is said
that as many as 1,800 wo-oticook per-
ished in one night at a single En-
glish lighthouse. Prof. J. P. Thijsse
found that if a lighthouse is fitted
with proper perches near the light,
the birds- will rest upon them, and
few will lose their lives, The light-
house at Terschelling, in Holland,
has been thus equipped for the last
three years. At this lighthouse,
which stands directly in a path of
migration, multitudes of birds form-
erly died every night; now the
deaths -do not exceed a, hundred
throughout the season of migration.
Perches have recently been fitted to
Iwo English lighthouses, The Cas-
kets, in the English: Channel, and
St. Catherine's, on the Isle of Wight
the latter of which is .shown in the
accompanying illustration from the
Sphere. The birds fly to the light-
houses only on dark nights.
Making Split -Log Drag.
The halves of the drag should be
framed together by wooden braces
so that the split surfaces of the log
shall be in front. The face of the
drag should lie at an angle of 45
degrees with the lines of the road,
thus drawing the earth toward the
centre. The rear log should follow
in the traok of the first. Drags
should be used after rains, or con-
tinued wet weather to smooth the
earth's surface and prevent ruts
from forming to hold water. The
drag not only smooths the road, but
crowns it and puddles the mud so
that it is 'hard when dry.
These drags have been used with
great success on elay or water -
holding soils. Many stretches of
black gumbo roads in the west are
xnaintaineol by the use of this imple-
ment alone.
Every farmer should own one,
and after a rain he should spend a
few hours on the road adjacent to
his farm. If there are many de-
pressions to fill, the drag should be
used when the road is wet.
After it has been used long
enough to make the road fairly
smooth, the drag gives the best re-
sults if used when the earth begins
to dry.
Cycle Riding.
Mrs. Walker : "I don't see why
the doctors recommend bicycle rid-
ing. 11 11, makes people healthier
it is a loss to the doctors." Mr.
Walker : "I know ; but they cal-
culate that one sound healthy rider
will disable at lea,st five pedestri-
ans each week."
"Mother, what is an empty title 1"
''Wcfl, as empty title is my way of
calling your father the head of the
house.
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Profit in Good Draft Horses.
It costs but Very little more
raise good draft !horses than t
dadinary scrub and the drafter wi
sell for three or four times the sun
A well-bred draft horse is almo
as good as cash in the bank, beeau
he sells on sight and brings a go
price, A farmer who breeds go
drafters, using first-class stallion
can in a few years make a reput
tion which will add from' ten to
per cent. tO the price of.his anima
over the prices of others equal,
good bred by men without repot
tion.
- There is always good money •
be made in raising horses of th
class, although many farmers see
to think that it does not pay. Mo
of them are right about this as
as their own experiences go becau
they do not raise the right kind.
It is true that 'horses of a nond
script character, lacking. prop
forms_weight or style for any pa
ticuiar purpose, never bring hi
prices and are, therefore, not pr
&able to raise. The average far
er has no business to attempt
raise fancy .carriage or sadd
horses ,because they require speci
knowledge of breeding and traini
and are profitable only to men w
thoroughly understand the busine
of preparing them for market.
The draft horse, however, is tl
animal that does the hard wo
not only on the farm, but in the b
cities and he is always in deman
The reason there have been so fe
good drafters raised in the la
few years is because too many far
ers took up trying to produce roa
sters by breeding their mares
light stallions -and. as most of the
were not willing to pay for the se
vice of a first-class animal, the r
sult is that the country is filled wi
second and third-rate horses of
particular use and which bring lo
prices.
It is gratifying to note, howeve
that farmers are coming -to the
senses and are now -breeding mo
drafters than ever before. Usi
stallions on mares of the same: ty
with proper weight, he can prod
a type of animal that will turn
a profit at dine ‚i -ears.
Draft. raures will do practioal,
as mush work on the farm as hors
and mares will prove the be
breeders.
Clive the Trees Room.
The question of how much spac
to leave between the trees is on
that occasions much argument
This should be regarded largely b
circumstances. If trees are to b
kept well pruned 'back they may b
as near as four yards apart, whil
those which are to be allowed mor
free growth in the tops should b
at least twenty feet apart. Th
question of distanee depends en
tirely- upon the system of trainin
and richness of the soil.
The common system of keepin
the orchard in sod practiced by
many apple growers, and except io
very rare cases, among small grow
ers, is practically unknown. Thor
ough cultivation is necessary t
develoa the peaeh crop as the Ire
during the time of bearing require
extremely large a MO unt-SPsCf mois
ture and plantifrAtt.
Growers differ widely upon th
system of cultivation, but ar
agreed that plowing as early as po
Bible in the spring. thorough cult
vation during the first half of th
summer season and the growth
oover crop of some kind duri
the tall and winter are essential
the 'presser care of the peach 0
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edisc or spading harms., is be
ter than the plow in most oases,
the side extensions enable mu
closer work without injuriag tF
trees. In, the , case of gravelly
hard, heavy soil .the disc or apisin
tooth harrow is necessary duri
sununer eultivation, while the lig
smoothing harrow is, required
soils that ,are in a• fine state of tilt
Taking nt's Chanees.
"Do you know his, wife well?"
"Not ,at all." - -
"Would you like to be introd
ed to her ?"
"I don't think it would be s
I'm the friend he always bla
for keeping him out late,
The Boss (to a laborer who
come for employment)—Are yo
meehanic The Laborer—No,
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