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A STOVE TO KEEP YOU COOL.

Writing in the August number of
"Everybody's Magazine" Arthur E.
Johnson tells of a welcome invention
by the chief of the United States
Weather Bureau, "a Summertime
Stove" This curious continuance
turns in an instant air of the temper
allure of a hundred degrees to a tenn
perature below freezing point, and
Mr.. Johnson thinks it promises to be-
come a factor of no mean Importance
in furnishing not only comfort to hui
manity in general, but aid to the man
ufacturing world, where room temper
allure is an item in the protection of
goods. Professor Moore calls the nov
Ell refrigerator a gravity cooler. In
outward appearance it is a plain round
cylinder, connected with the outside
air by a pipe of generous diameter,
and having a similar pipe extending
from beneath. MI. Johnson's account
of the scientific principles involved is
not very elaborate or convincing.
"Place your hand in front of the dis
charge pipe near the floor and you can
feel ice-cold air coming forth in a
strong draught. An thermometer, a
machine for measuring air, placed in
front of this pipe announces that air
is coming out at the rate of 200 cubic
feet a minute, or $4,000 feet an hour.
Turn a damper in the pipe which leads
to the outer air, and the wheels of the
thermometer Immediately cease turn
ing. This seems to prove hat the air
enters the machine from the top and
goes through it of its own sheer
weight, being made heavier as it is
cooled."-From the Review of Re
views for August.
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THOMAS JEFFERsON's TEN BULEs.

1. Never put off till tomorrow what
you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before
you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want
because it is cheap; it will be dear to
you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We never repent of having eaten
too little. e
Z. Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils that
never happened have cost us.
9. Take things always by their
smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
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he GAVE HIS ADDRESS.

Harry Furniss tells a good story Of
a distinguished but irritable Scotch
lecturer. The gentleman had occasion
to speak in a small town in n of the
Lowland counties, and it chan, re that
he met with a more than usually lo-
quacious chairman. This genius ac-
tually spoke for a whole hour in in
PRODUCING" the lecturer. He wound
up by saying, "It is unnecessary for
me to say more, but call upon the tai
ented gentleman who has come 50 far
to give us his address tonight"
The lecturer came forward. "Ycu
want my address? I'll give it to you.
322 Rob Roy Crescent, Edinburgh
and Pm just off there now. Good
night!"-May Woman's Home Gem
panion.
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BEADING ADMIRAL EVANS.

When Admirals Evans and Schley
were both assigned to duty on the
Light House Board, which convenes in
rooms at the Treasury in Washington,
the colored messenger at the door one
morning stopped Admiral Schley.
Il WISH" said the darby, "you would
speak a kind word to Com'dore Evans
for me. He's done got it in for me-"
"You must be mistaken, George"
Schley replied. II happen to know
that Commodore Evans, like the rest
of US, thinks highly of your distin-
guished services"
ooh, rs sure" persisted the colored
man., that Com'dore Evans don't like
me no more"
What makes you think SOP de-
manded Schley.
WELL" explained the messenger,
usually when Com'dore Evans arrives
in the mornin' he say: Hello, George,
you blankety-blank-blank fool, how
are you?' but dis mornin' he done say
merely: Hello, George The Conn
dore must surely taken a pow'ful dis
like to me."-Saturday Evening Post.
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KNER.DEEP IN KANSAS.

MI. Eugene F. Ware, the new Com
missioner of Pensions, who over the
name of "IronquiL'long ago establish
ed his reputation as a wit and writer
of verse, has been much interested for
years in the condition of roads in his
adopted State of Kansas.
Recently Mr.. R.. W. Richardson,
Secretary of the National Good Roads
Association, who is preparing to take
a Good Roads Construction Train
across the Continent, said to Mr.
Ware:
GLOW do the farmers in Kansas
stand on the road questions"
Cup to their knees" was the reply
Saturday Evening Post.
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ODE TO SOLITUDE =

Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breath his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields
with bread,
Whose focks supply him with attire;
Whose trees In summer yield him
shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest, who can unconcern'dly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,
Sound sleep by night, study and ease
Together mixed; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
Alexander Pope.
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A SPIDERS WEB USED TO LAssO THE
PREY AND ALSO TO CONSTRUCT
A HOME.

During the late summer and in the
autumn, grasshoppers form a large
part of the food of a large spider call
ed the orange argiope. 1t is inter
esting to see how skilfully the spider
manages her huge prey. The instant
it becomes entangled she rushes to it
and, spreading her spinnerets far
apart, she fastens a broad sheet of
silk to it; then by a few dexterous
kicks she rolls it over two or three
times and it is securely swaddled in a
shroud; a quick bite with her poison
fangs completes the destruction of
the victim.
The male of the orange argiope is
much smaller than the female, and it
is very seldom observed except by the
best trained eyes. He lives on a shah
by little web, which he builds near the
web of the female. In the autumn the
female makes a globular egg-sac as
large as a hickory nut. This is sus-
pended among the branches of some
shrub or in the top of some weed, and
is fastened by many ropes of silk so
that the storms of winter shall not
tear it loose. Within this egg-sac the
young spiders pass the winter.-From
Country Life in America.
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THE COUNTRY BOY AND SUCCESS.

1t is a well-known fact that the ru-
raj population has furnished a pro-
p]ortionately larger number of distin-
guished men than the urban popula-
ton. Not infrequently the overgrown,
unpublished country lad in after life,
when honorable DrefXes and s~ufixes
have been added to his name, looks
back with pleasure and pride to the
scenes and victories of his boyhood.
He remembers the OK team, the fret
full colt, the pigs that broke into the
clover field. No such JOY, no such rap
id development has come to him in
after life as he found in the cool
woods watching the squirrels and the
kingfshers, the foxes and pigeons, or
lying prone upon the grass in the de-
clining sun of a Sabbath day by the
pasture stream-as lazy as himself
where the notified fish spOrted in the
sunshine or under the overhanging
bank waiting for the Lord to feed
them. Here in this wood, here by this
m~ountain-fed stream with miniature
islands, peninsulas, capes and bays,
here where he built the dam and erect
ed his first water-wheel, here where
the b~right-eyed Jersey and the leisure
ly sheep came to drink, he absorbed,
all unknowingly, hat which neither
city nor books, nor culture can give.
Here, unknown to himself, without
priest or prophet, he communed with
the Creator and the beautiful things
created. He realizes it all now; would
that some one had helped him then tc
a fuller realization and enjoyment OF
what country life has to give! There
in the creek bottom, and on the stony
hillside, he grew receptive to nature
large of bone and hard of muscle
learned economy, acquired courage
and self-reliance. The great heart
and the great frame grew simulta.
neOusly. Crude and rough externally
so is the oak of which the shapely
tough keel is made which supports al
else. Unpublished, SO are the grear
rocks which protect the land from the
relentless oncoming of the angry sea
This large growth, this natural life
which the boy has been leading, the
power acquired by the bufetings anC
victories, make him long for wider
fields and greater difficulties; sooner
or later he gets dominion; he con
quers. As he 'broke" the steers, so b,
meets difficulties with determination
and overrides them.-I. P. Roberts, IL
Country Life in America.
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WORDS OF ANGER

Now we come to words never diff
cult to speak, but, alas, only too ready
to flow from our impatient lips. New
er shall we be able to measure the
mischief we do when we utter these!
We too often feel as if words could
not hurt. But they do, my dear young
friends, they do make terrible and
sometimes incurable wounds. Whole
lives have been made miserable by the
result of one angry conversation; hus-
bands and wives, parents and children,
dear and faithful friends have been
parted by some bitter, biting speech
which wounded far more seriously
than a knife. I do not believe that it
is too much to say that there are many
living among US to-day who would give
anything they possess, perhaps life it.
self, to take back words spoken in a
passion which have destroyed the hap
piness of some one dear to them
Do any of you remember what St
James says in the third chapter of his
wise epistle? It always comes to my
memory when I hear people in a heat.
ed argument or speaking in violent an,
ger. You know he speaks of how we
put bits In the mouths of horses anc
can control them, and tells US that By
the helm we can manage a ship ever
In the midst of storms, but he add:
sadly, "The tongue no man can tamer
But we can, if we go about it in thu
right way, tame our own unruT,
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THE KIND OF MAN WEST POINT MARES

There is no jealousy of the class
mate who rises by merit. At the men
ton at the alumni meeting of the
name of Brigadier-G General Franklin
Bell, a frst-lieutenant of cavalry at
the outset of the Spanish War, men
who had once ranked him cheered with
a whole heart. They knew the man
and knew that he had worthily won his
star. The most unpopular brigadier-
ship of recent times was not that of
either Wood or Funston, non-gradu-
ates, but of a graduate who was hon
ored for a name and not for the work
he had done. Work! That is the Cos
pei of West Point.
Once he is through the four years
drill the cadets pride in it begins and
grows from year to year, until it is a
memory more precious han all his
honors. At eighty it surpasses descrip-
ton by an outsider, who can only re-
fer you to General Longstreet and
others. The alumni, as is the custom
at commencement time, slept in the
cadet quarters, each sharing his old
room with his old mate where posi-
bic. At 2 a. m, when one who was past
seventy was still playing boyish
pranks, he was asked by a younger
man if he did not intend to take any
sleep.
"Sleepw he replied, "sleep now
I'll have time enough to sleep during
West Points next centennial"
The outsider, and especially a ca,
diets mother, may well think that there
is not enough ~leniency for a boys lap.
SEES; but men who hold in trust the
lives of companions, regiments, bri.
gades and armies are not supposed tt
have lapses, particularly in action
Again, we hear that the system is sc
rigorous that it breaks down the
health of the students. Perhaps i
would if the cadet were allowed, after
the days work, to inhale cigarette
smoke and hang over a beer mug unit
the small hours of the morning. With
such an auxiliary, an elective course
of lectures has been known to under
mine more than n university mans
constitution. No college or prepara
tory school can show such a healthy
looking set of boys as West Point
The physical regime clears thei1
heads for an amount of mental worl
impossible under other conditions
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The Home Circle.


Mid pleasures and palaces though we
may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place
like home!
A charm from the sky seems to hal
low us there
Which, seek through the world, is ne'er
met with elsewhere.
Home, sweet home!
There's no place like home!
An exile from home splendOr dazzles
in vain
Oh, give me my lowly matched cottage
again!
The birds singing gayly that came at
my call
Give me them, with the peace of mind
dearer than all.
Home, sweet home!
There's no place like home!
John Howard Payne.
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FAG-END Oh M

Two young girls we're recently over
heard discussing the mothers of their
friends, and the different ways in
which these ladies, dwelling in the far
away mysterious range of years lying
between the forties and the sixties,
seemed to take life.
"Helen's mother grows fat and
watches Helen do things, but she has
stopped caring to do anything herself;
she just slumps," said one.
"Maud's mother frisks, and Maud
tries to look as if she didn't wish she
wouldn't. It must be horrid to have
a mother who touches up her eyebrows
and makes airy jests that aren't really
funny.
"May's mother reforms; she belongs
to three clubs and a league or two, and
is president of a missionary society,
and writes letters to the papers. I
dare say she does good outside, but
she's not much use at home.
"Anna's mother runs the house and
the house runs her; she can't leave a
single detail to anybody without at
least supervising it; and of course
she can't talk anything but maids and
buildings, and Annals given up in de-
spair trying to confde in her and talk
about the things she really cares for.
"Nona's mother reads novels and
has nervous prostration when she tries
to do anything else"
"And our mother" broke in the 9th
er, triumphantly, "does enough at
home to make things right for us, and
enough outside to make us feel they're
right for her, and to do her fair share
in setting them right for other people.
She does good work and she has good
times, both. I used to think beyond
forty vas the fag-end of life; but she
makes it seem the climax"
."That is So" assented the other.
"Growing old some ways must be hor-
rid; but growing old the way mother
has-why, I'd just as lief as not"
More and more is a middle age, full
rich and CHEEKY, as well as useful, be-
lieved to be a woman's right and nat
uraI due, no less than a playful child
hood and a free and merry youth. It
IS best not only for herself, but for her
children, her friends and her com
munity. AS the old-fashioned error
passes that the delights and entEu-
siasms of life must be renowned along
with the frivolitics of youth, not only
has a happier era opened for miIdlc-
aged and elderly ONE but fewer
foolish girls will try to cram an i'm
possible number and variety of good
times into a few whirling years, or
shrink in dismay from contemplating
the once inevitable end-that dry, de-
corous, duteous, unwelcome sequel to
the joys of girlhood called SETTLING
down."
One may indeed still "settIe down"
to the resigned acceptance of a fag-
end if one chooses; but there is the al
tentative of neither pausing, "Set-
thing" OF "slumping," but rising to the
climax. After all, youth is but the
prologue; the most, and it may be the
best, of the story is still to follow
Youths Companion.
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They not only obtain more instruction
in four years than they could else
where, but from raw youths they have
become accomplished g~ymnasts,
swordsmen, horsemen and artillerists,
infantrymen and engineers. If that
veteran, wounded in two wars, General
Longstreet, is a sample of the physi-
cal wrecks" which West Point pro
duces, we cannot have too many of
them.-Frederick Palmer in The
Worlds Work.
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ON THE USE OF YOUR TONGUE.

In all our everyday experience, dear
girls, is there anything you can re-
member which has so soothed and sus-
tanned you as a word spoken just when
and as you wanted it? Never feel that
you have nothing to give or do, when
trouble, or sorrow, or even error is
making anyone wretched about you,
until you have tried a few hopeful
loving words.
A poor young fellow who had COM
mitted a theft in a bank where he had
been trusted, stood on the platform of
a railway station, waiting for the train
which was to carry him to prison. 1t
was in a small rural town in which the
boys and girls had gone to the same
school. A young girl, once a school
mate and play-fellow, saw him in his
humiliation and, going quickly toward
him, slipped her hand in his and said:
olive it down, Jack. 1 believe you will
be a good man yet. One mistake can't
ruin your whole life"
Twenty years afterward he was
mayor of the town, and in the speech
he made after his election, he said:
"a few words spoken by a young girl
brought me here. l should have given
up and died of shame but for her"
WORDS OF COUNSEL.
Young people, and especially young
girls, are always timid about speaking
to their comrades and friends upon
grave subjects which concern conduct
and the more important events of life
There always seems a chance that
such words of counsel will seem
impertinent, and also there is a fear
hat it will appear presumptuous, as
if, the speaker felt that she was wiser
and better than the friend whose dan,
ger she seeks to point out. Do not
let either of these possibilities dett
you from speaking. A gentle, affec
tomato little talk, just at the right
time, and when no n can guess whar
your intention is, may have great in
fuence for good.
Say frankly that you know that yol
too are young and may be mistaken
but that you think that we can see TO.
each other better than we can for our
selves, and then lovingly explain you
anxiety. Such a use of friendship ha
helped many a thoughtless yet we'll
intentioned young girl to see what sh
would never have perceived withou
help. Especially does this apply t
those accepting the attentions of un
worthy young men, and to the FIRE
quent little acts of careless gayet
which cause people to misjudge truI
pure and innocent young women
We all of us get into fashion O
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speech, even though we a do little
for the rash words of others, and if
there is a splendid conquest over self
known to those who have left their
testimony in the Book of Experience,
it is when a naturally high-tempered
impetuous human being learns to rule
that troublesome spirit and commands
"the gate of the mouth" so that moth
ing that can hurt : offend comes out
of it. When any of us attain that
victory, we may be sure that we are
worth something in the world and that
in heaven God is well pleased.
l have e a child four years old
stamp it's small feet and say: Il hate
YOU" to his playmate. Poor little
fellow, what a fight he will have, if he
ever learns to conquer his temper and
his tongue.
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speech and manner which are unwise
and unpleasant and which thereafter
stand in the way of the advancement
and promotion of young working
girls; and they can very often be got
ten rid of if they are gently pointed
out. Most such habits are unconscious
ly acquired.
WORDS OF FORGIVENESS
Dear girls, never hesitate to speak
these! They are so dear, such helps
on life's way, and lift such burdens
from the heart.
Did you ever chance to realize the
blessing they sometimes bring! Did
your mother ever lay her hand upon
your head and say: "Never mind,
daughter, it is all over now, and l
know you did not mean it." Did your
friend ever put her arms around you
and beg you to forget that you had
wounded her? 1 really think that there
are few more delightful sensations in
| the world than those aroused by hear
ing words of true forgiveness. Don't
think to yourself that sister or friend,
lover or brother who has hurt or Of
Tended you "will understand" that you
have forgiven them, but say it frankly
and as quickly as you can. Then you
can be sure that you have made some
one truly happy.
WORDS OF SYMPATHY.
Here again is a use of words which
we all, but especially the young, hest
tate over. "What are words at such
a time?" we ask ourselves. And if
our hearts urge us to try, we pause
again and ask in sincere timiu ;ty,
What can I say that will do any
good?"
This is more apt, much more apt to
be the state of mind of young people
on whom no great sorrow or b~ereave-
ment has yet fallen. Just as soon as
you have had to sit in the shadow,
while death reigns in a house of
mourning, you will realize how mex
pressibIy comforting words of sympa-
thy-written or spoken-become to
you. Just in proportion as you loved
the one who has gone, you will value
everything that is said. If people say
they loved and honOred the dead, you
are cheered by learning how many
valued him or her who was so dear to
you.
Never be afraid to follow out your
first impulse, or to say what you mean
in the simplest words which come to
your mind. l have often noticed that
in the homes of very poor people, one
after another will come in and take
the ~sorrOwing mourner's hand and say
earnestly: II am very sorry for your
trouble" There surely could not be
anything more simple and common
place than these seven words. Yet /
have e e a broken-hearted widow dry
her tears and gradually show an unmis
taxable sense of peace and comfort,
which truly made her grief lighter. 1t
is o what we say, but how we say
to any suffering person that we share
their pain, which gives relief.
And remember, too, dear girls, that
the tenderness and sympathy of the
young is peculiarly dear to aged peo-
pie. [ cannot explain exactly how
this is; it is a kindred thing to the
comfort sick and sorry people receive
from flowers and all Gods bright and
lovely creatures. The touch of a
youthful hand, the pressure of a
child's sweet lips, the sound of a low
ing young voice, have a special power
to sOothe.
WORDS OF ANGER.
Now We come tn words never diff.
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"NOs. 81 and IS of our series OF the Worlds
Best Poems, arranged especially for THE Pro
GREssTvE FARMER by the editor. In this
series selections from the following authors
ave already appeared: Burns, Bryant Mr.. and
Mrs. Browning, Lord Byron, Campbell, Eugene
Field, Goldsmith, Leigh Hunt, Holmes, Omar
KhRyyam, Ktpling, Lampman, Lanier. Long
fellow, Lowell, Markham, Macaulay, Milton
Moore, Poe.