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; i HE UNCLOSED DOOR. As he went through the House of Life she closed All doors behind her all save only one, And this she could not, even though she strove; One door that was her anguish and her shame One door that opened to the wind and sun From thai still room where once she dwelt with Love. And lo, she died, and in the House of Death Even t hose doors she clossd with her own hand Held ner a prisoner. Long dajr bv day F-pfore the hundred doors of Faith and Joy She strove with prayer, with pleading, with command. To force but one and win where Heaven lay. And then came One with pity in His eyes And caid: "Was there no door thou didst not close?' And she: "Jiut one, that was my shame and sin; Surely I may not win to Heaven thus?" Then, even while she wept, He smiled, and rose. And through that door unfastened led her in! Theodosia Garrison, in Munsey's Magazine. H$ THE WONDER J$ OF THE WORLD l xjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxj xj xj xj u jr xjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxjxj xj xj xj xj xj t; uUuutr V By DONALD kcnnicott VVVVV XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJ XJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJXJ XJ XJ XJ Thorold the Indomitable had sworn ly the splendor of God with his own eyes to see the Wonders of the eWorld the mermaids that in a cer tain sea rise laughing about the gun wales; the slim, small fishes with scales of electrum and eyes of true beryl that, leap up through the spray of an ialand beyond Britain;,, the river of purple wine that foams down the hill3 to the south of the Pillars of Hercules. All of these Tnorold would see; and the forty strong men who rowed with him would each fetch home a wife, a buxom lass from the Far-Lands. They had thus far pursued an empty quest had pulled over the Korth Sea swiftly, without even the sight of a whale or berg; had harried the Frankish coast and found no spoil at all, but only many and skillful bowmen; had fared on be yond the Pillars of Hercules, with never a glimpse of white-limbed mer maid or echo of siren singing, but only the shadow of black rocks in dark water and the shriek of a tem pest that had swept the rowers' benches three parts empty; had land ed on many an island in the Mid Land Sea in search of the tall and red-lipped weir-women, but had found only poisoned provender and deadly disease and a reef that had split their ship in sunder. Now the tithe that was left of them was hud dled about the blue-green flames of a driftwood fire in a fisherman's hut on the Sardinian coast, surrounded by a horde of cowardly islanders who sought to starve them like wolves trapped in an empty sheep fold. Sigurd spoke: "Where are your weir-wives, Jurgen," he asked slow ly, turning to the old sailor whose tales of over-sea wonders had led them on. There was no bitterness of 1 ydnger in his voice, but only the nesvy saaness 01 a war-worn man who is altogether spent. "Tell me, Jurgen False Word," he pursued, drowsily almost; "tell me, where are the milk-white mermaids swimming up through the foam along the gun wales? Where are the little dolphins with scales of gold and eyes of emerald?. How you lied to us, Jur gen." Passionately Tryggve broke in: 'Ay, he lied, he lied. And ask him where are the forty strong men who listened to his word and left a good land for an empty yoyage and a sharp death. Ask him that!" "I lied not," the voice of old Jur gen boomed stolidly from out his white beard. "You have vexed the gods with an impatience and they de ny you." He spoke manfully, but his eyes shifted and his hand did not leave the sword-hilt. "There be no gods," Sweyne ob served wearily from where he lay at full length in the shadow; and no one answered him. Silence came, broken only by the giggle of Little Nils, who sat cross legged close to the fire and snapped his finger-joints. Little Nils had been altogether witless, ever since that day of fruitless battle, when the stone of a Balearic slinger had cracked his skull. "Odin and Thor," he cackled with an idiot leer at the stern face of old Jurgen, "Odin, Thor and Freya. They be the gods." Sweyne rosex on his elbow and stirred the fire with his dagger-scabbard. The blue-green fiames turned his bloodless face to a ghastly hue, and when he spoke, his voice rang hollow and far. "Ingeborn, Inge born," he mused. "She was well enough. ( I usad to laugh at her be cause in winter she went swaddled up like an old wife, but for ail that she was well enough- .ier lips were warm and her hair was sof; and she had a leal heart, too. It is like that she weeps for me for me that left her to steal a fairer bride from out the Far-Lands." His voice drifted off into silence, but Tryggve's followed it almost like an echo. "And Ragnild," he mur mured huskily. "You remember Rag nild? She was a buxom lass now. Summer twilights I used to lie with my head in her lap and watch the seagulls coming in. Only a fool would ! have left her to seek a mate from out the shadow of the sea." All spoke save Tnorold Thorold. Whose eyes were the eyes of a woman, whose heart was the heart of a king, whose limbs were the limbs of a young god. He had been standing apart, peering out a crack in the door. Now he turned to the fire. "It is black1 now," he an nounced sfcortfy' "We will start." No one answered him for a mo ment. Then Sweyne looked up at him with dull eyes. "There be no gods," he remarked drearily. Tryggve echoed close, "We are weary of war. It would be sweet now, to rest one's head on a wo man's breast." ."I told lies," Jurgen muttered hoarsely, with averted face. "With my proper eyes I saw no weir-wives or mermaids, but many other sailors had told me of them and one must hold his own about the camp-fire. They lied also, belike." "Start," growled Sigurd gloomily, "and where? There are a thousand jackal Islanders ringed about U3, Thorold." "Rather moro than that, from their fires," Thorold returned tran quilly. "We be six Northmen." "Even so what Is there for us to do?" Thorold brought down his mailed fist upon his brazen shield. "What do," he stormed. "What do? Cut through them; steal boats; fare on." Turning, he swung open the door and strode out. And they followed him, but with bent heads and drag- An Apostrophe. BY DANIEL m HEN little children were the Son of God, His disciples proposed to send them away; but He said, "Suffer little children to come unto Me." Unto Me; He did not send them first for lessons in morals to the school of the Pharisees, or to the unbelieving Sadducees, nor to read the precepts and lessons phylacterled on the garments of the Jewish priesthood; He said nothing of different creeds nor clashing doctrines; but He opened at once to the youthful mind the everlasting fountain of living waters, the only source of eternal truths: ''Suffer little children to come unto Me." And that injunction Is of perpetual obliga tion. It addresses itself to-day with the same earnestness and the same authority which attended its first utterance to the Christian world. It extends to the ends of the earth, it will reach to the end of time, always and everywhere sounding in the ears of men, with an emphasis which no repetition can weaken, and with an authority which nothing can supersede: "Suffer little children to come unto Me." ging steps, for they were spent men. All thus save witless Nils, who capered from One to another waving his sword and babbling loudly his childish jargon "Odin and Thor. Odin. Thor and Freya. They are the gods." Too loudly. For before they had won half the distance to the beach, the islanders were on them like a wolf-pack. Sweyne lost his footing in the rocks, and smothered by the press that swarmed upon him, never so much as cleared his sword. Old Jurgen and Sigurd stood back to back like a pair of dog-bayed bears and cleared a little space about them; but like the bears also went down at last when weariness had weakened them. Tryggve indeed gained the darkness and the shore, but the blood ooed everywhere from his armor joints, and he sank down helpless to wait his death on the wet sands. Only Thorold the Indomitable and Little Nils, whom the gods had cloaked, won clear together, and feeling their way along the sands in the darkness, stumbled upon a beached fisher craft and hastily put forth. A ragged sail saved them the la bor of rowing, and letting the wind have its will, Thorold knelt wide ned at the rudder, while Little Nils, after devouring a stale fish he had nosed out from among the tangled nets, curled up in the bow and slept. Dawn unveiled an opalescent splen dor. Sardinia a mere dim blur be hind, and, across a mile of foam flecked water before them, a tiny islet vestured in deep verdure. Thor old held an unswerving course; de tail Of tree and rock and shore-line was growing clear to mm, wnen suu- denly, uttering an eager shout, he dropped the tiller and leaned for ward with clenched hands and star ing eyes. Something more white than any foam gleamed in the blue water near the shore, ouce again across the strip of beach, and tnen disappeared in the purple shadows beyond. Roused by Thorold's cry, Little Nils rose to his knees and gazed at the gaunt, exalted face of his com panion. "Odin and Tbor," he mut tered sleepily. "Odin and Thor. They be gods." The boat grounded and Thorold sprang forthwith out into the waist deep water, dragged the hapless Little Nils after him, and floundered to the shore. His searching eyes quickly caujbt sight of tiny toot prlnta In the wet sands, and he fol lowed their course across the beach to a path through the close-set pop lars, that in turn led him to an open glade, an olive yard, and a white walled dwelling. He paused a mo ment in the shadow, while pleasant sounds and odor3 came to whet the famine of his senses sharp scent of hearth-smoke, fragrance of trodden grapes, perfume of new-reaped grain; melody of swallows and splash of drawn water; a woman's laughter. Loosening his sword, he swung bold ly up to the portico. Little Nils trot ting at his heels and whimpering like a famished hound. None met him, his feet made no sound on the thick-strewn rushes, and he passed without pausing, even to the open door of the atrium. There in the bar of sunlight that came through the roof-hole, sat a woman drying her unbound hair neither mermaid, nor siren, nor weir-wife, but a woman such as Thorold had never seen, red lipped and great-eyed, straight limbsd, deep-bosomed, splendid. Bending forward, she tied the purple sandal-thongs firmly about her ankles; rising, she drew over her loose white garment a saffron-colored mantle of silken cloth and gird led it closely about her. She turned then to a mirror of polished silver, and with swift, dexterous . fingers bound up the rebellious masses of her dark and glossy hair, and con fined it within a hoop of turquoise studded gold. Peering under Thorold's arm. Little Nils cried out in childish de light at her beauty, and she turned swiftly, with paling cheek. Yet she neither cried out nor fled, but stared calm-eyed at the tawny Northman in the doorway. And when, striding forward, he pointed toward the sea and bec,",5d her to him, she gave only a IWle scornful laugh by way of reply, and with a look of bitter ness and hatred darkening her face, pointed, in her turn, through an arched casement behind her. Three men were coming down a path, the first a. shaggy, savage bulk, wearing a leather war-cap, the others, re tainers evidently, bearing burdens of provender and fuel. Thorold looked once at the men without and twice at the woman be fore him. Then, leaping forward, he jerked off his shoulder belt, bound her both hand and foot, and clasping WEBSTER. brought into the presence of her close to him, strode out again. Even then she made not outcry, but fought him fiercely, sinking her strong white teeth into the flesh of bis arm and breast. He gained the open with her, but there the three islanders met him midway and ran forward with a savage shout. He laid the woman down, but could never have cleared his long sword had not Little Nils, screaming shrilly, inter posed his helpless body and futile blade. They thrust him through quickly and trampled him underfoot, the blood bubbling on his lips, "Odin and Thor," he babbled as he sank down, "Odin and Thor. They be the gods." The two retainers fell facile prey to the long two-handed sword which the Northman now flashed hither and thither like darting lightning, but their leader, running in close would have ended the struggle with his short Roman blade had not Thorold dropped his weapon and grappled. Yet even so it was a losing fight, for the Northman, unarmed now, could at best but hold back the weapon of his adversary. With close-locked limbs they pitched hither and thither about the turf, neither gaining. Yet steadily Thorold felt his famished and war-worn limbs grow weary, and never for an instant did the Vigor of his adversary abate. He felt him self yielding at last, and saw a fiame of triumph kindle and flare up in the eyes of his enemy. And, too, another thing Thorold saw then the woman sitting up un steadily, watching them with parted lips and heaving breast. Suddenly she bent over her bound wrists and tore at the fettei-s with her teeth. They had been tied hastily, and in a moment her freed hands were loosen ing the strap about her feet. Then, turning to one of the huddled corpses beyond, she snatched up a dagger and ran swiftly back with it to the death-gripped combatants. For a moment she paused over them, watch ful, hesitant, feline, the flame of her eyes matching the hard glitter of the poised blade. Even in the bitter angiysh of that despairing moment, Thorold smiled to think that after fifty manful fights, his death should be borne to him in the hands of a woman. With a mighty effort he struggled to free an arm to shield his heart, but in that same moment the woman lunged downward with a sharp, exultant cry, and he felt the warm blood flowing over his breast. For an instant she leauad over him, her Hps parted In a gleeful laugh of triumph and then setting hard in a cruel smile, as she struck again, yet more savagely. With measureless amazement, Thorold. felt the grip of his enemy re lax and the body grow limp within his arms. Yet only when, struggling djzzily to his feet, he saw the light in the woman's eyes, did he compre hend, and comprehending know for his the ultimate wonder of the world. San Francisco Argonaut. Steel freight cars are being exten sively used in South America. The base of most of the chewing gum used is a by-product of petro leum, scented and flavored according to the various tastes. Leprosy is not, in the ordinary sense, a contagious disease. Physi cians, nurses and missionaries min ister to lepers for years without suf fering from the exposure. Bad sight is given as the reason for men going wrong. Defective vision ha3 been proved to be the cause of lack of self-control, alcoholism and drug taking. Subject to the action of liquid air, lead becomes elastic and can be made to rebound or serve as a spiral spring during the continuance ot this low temperature. In a recent campaign of the French in Madagascar 14,000 men were sent to the front, of whom twenty-nine were killed in action and over 7000 perished from preventable diseases. In the Boer War the Eng lish losses were ten times greater from disease than from bullets. A specially constructed derelict destroyer has recently been launched from a Virginia shipyard. The ves sel is nominally a revenue cutter, but its work will be the destruction of derelicts and ether accidental ob structions to navigation. For- this purpose the vessel has been designed with great coal-carrying capacity and the ability to keep the open sea in all weather. A possible vision of the future, when tall towers near great cities may indicate the location of wireless telegraph stations, is suggested by a project now on foot to connect New York and Philadelphia in that man ner. .rians nave Deen niea lor a tower 200 feet high, and thirty feet broad at the base, to be erected on Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, as a sending and receiving-station for the aerial messages. A similar tower is to be built in the environs of New York. The plan is to distribute mes sages from the stations by telephone. Sir Norman Lockyer has recently announced the discovery of the strongest spark lines of sulphur in the spectrum of the bright star Ri gel. These lines have not previously been traced In the spectrum of any celestial body. Certain sulphur lines which behave in an abnormal manner in spark and vacuum tube spectra are not found in the spectrum of Rigel, but they do occur in stars of the type of Bellatrix and Epsilon Orionis, which represent higher stages of temperature than do star3 of the type of Rigel. A Wonderful Railroad. Two famous cities of Italy, Genoa and Milan, are to be connected by a marvelous electric railroad eighty-five miles in length, which is to cost $47,- 000,000. Tha excessive cost is owing to the nature of the country through which the line will pass. It will re quire nineteen tunnels, one of which will be twelve miles long. There will be 372 bridges, and the road will be six years in the course of construc tion. The cost of the line construc tion alone will be $500,000 per mile. The line will be double tracked and there will be no grade crossings. Trains will consist of three cars, each accommodating fifty passengers. It is proposed to run twenty trains a day, and it is estimated that the daily traffic will be 6000 passengers. The Boy's World. The Mediterranean. The evaporation from the surface of the Mediterranean is much great er than in the Atlantic Ocean, owing to the heat coming from the African deserts and the shelter which the high mountains afford from the north winds. It is in consequence of this fact that its waters are Salter than those of the Atlantic. It is a mistake to suppose that the Mediter ranean is tideless. In the Adriatic, as well as between that sea and the coast of Africa, the tide rises from five to seven feet. Destruction of Famous English Oak. One of the seven fine old oaks in Saleey Forest, Buckinghamshire, has been burned to the ground. It is sur mised that visitors to the forest made a picnic fire in the hollow trunk, and the result was the complete destruc tion of the tree, which is said to be 800 years old. Salcjy is the second graat royal forest and has belongad to the Crown since the Conquest. London Daily Mail. John Burns is said to have the best working library of any member of the English House of Parliament SoiitliSASncuIturai Topics... Modem Method1 That Arc Helpful to Farmer, Fruit Grower and Stockman. CottonseMl 3IeaI. As a furnisher of protein for the balancing of a ration there are few ir any cheaper concentrates. It is an especially good feed for milch cows when properly mixed, but is not re garded as a good feed for hogs, as It Is claimed that cottonseed meal from some cause not well understood, will kill hogs. Cottonseed meal is now selling at about $30 per ton and contains about forty-four per cent, of protein, besides some oil and other carbonaceous material. Considered for its fertilizer value there are seven pounds nitrogen in every hundred pounds of the meal, about two Dounds of potash and about two pounds of phosphoric acid, these calculated at market prices would be about the following: Seven pounds of nitrogen at twen ty cents equals $1.40; two pounds oX potash at five cents equals ten cents; two pounds of phosphoric acid at five cents equals ten cents; making a to tal of $1.60, which is practically the cost of the cottonseed meal. By us ing it to balance up the cow feed and carefully saving the manure it is possible to save about seventy-five per cent, of its fertilizer value as. well as to get its full feed value. A. J. Legr, Albion, W. Va. Effective Wagon Jack. A is of oak 2i4x33 inches; B is 2x 4x14 inches; C is 12 inches long and lever D is 5 feet long, the short end being 1 foot. The drawing explains itself. Bermuda to Control Crab Grass. Efforts to grow alfalfa in the South are becoming much more numerous; and under suitable conditions the ef forts are being successful. The lack of a well prepared seed-bed with a firm foundation is one frequent draw back. Trying to use land that is not fertile enough or not well drained is another. In some cases innocula tion of land would have made suc cess more certain. These handicaps all are things that can be got around, but there is one drawback that we do not yet know how to get around that is crab grass. A harrow somewhat like a disc harrow is on the market, that has about twenty five-eighths-inch spikes in the place of each disc; and it is claimed that it will give alfalfa new life and pull out the crab grass. But we are not informed how bad the crab grass can be on the land, or how suited to crab grass the land can be, for this harrow to kill the grass and save the alfalfa. Thi3 particular harrow is rather expensive for a small farmer to buy; and it is desired to find some way the small farmer who has crab grass land that is rich enough for alfalfa can insure alfalfa against the grass. Here is a place that some reader may give help of untold worth if he now has or gets experience of the kind desired. On land that Is suited to Johnson grass and alfalfa, the two crops grow well together. Al falfa has been grown with Bermu da also. What is wanted is to learn under what, if any, conditions. John son grass or Bermuda has been grown with alfalfa on crab grass land: and how well the alfalfa succeeded; also, whether the crab eras3 naturallv grows thriftily on the plowed land of the farm that is, land of like nature. It is urged that no one who can give information requested will fall to do so. Our readers often ask us for information; and we want to turn it around and have our readers help us and our readers. This in formation is wanted at once. Please note, we wish to learn whether Ber muda or Johnson grass will keep down crab grass and enable alfalfa to grow on crab grass land. We know alfalfa will grow with either Bermuda or Johnson grass, so a dis cussion of that question is not asked; but whether either of these two grasses will make alfalfa growing on crab grass land a success and if It will, what the conditions have been. Chas. M. Scherer, in Progressive Farmer. PL Spurs For Poulfrymcn. '" Thought, feed and kindness three things necessary for success with poultry. Pear trees ir? not suitable for poultry runs, . since the droppings will make them grow fast and he more subject to blight. Begin to eat the old hens as soor- By Wire and Cable. The Sultan of Persia, it is said, has ordered one house of a reformer a day to be bombarded anri pillaged. To avert a strike of telegraph oper ator?, Commissioner Xeill will inves tigate the leading telegrpah compan ies. Broaddus College, at Clarksburg, W. Va., will be sold and the institu tion moved to either Phillipi or Bridgeport. as hatching Is over with and they are in good condition. Pullets, If well developed, will be better, winter layers. Open the hen house sure. Let th pure air and tne breezes In. Good air is worth as much as good feed. Old birds need no protection now further than a rain-proof roof. Do not be annoyed by keeping more than one breed of chickens, unless making a specialty of selling; breeders; and even then it is doubt ful that it wiil be best to have mora than one breed. There is as much in the poultry man as there is in the breed of poul try. Don't get a start with goo4 birds and then neglect them. The must have a chance to do good work or they will not make their owner glad. Kill th rats. They are among the worst thieves of the poultry yard. They destroy Doth enormous quantities of feed and many young birds, and are so sly about It that half the time their depredations ax not laid to them. Those who want eggs sometime make the mistake of waiting till the want the eggs before they begin tc push the pullets for them. They should be fed so as to develop well long before winter eggs are wanted. Extra care later cannot make good any neglect of to-day. Poultry keeping does not require much hard work, but it is not a bush ness in which loafers have success. By systematizing the work, however, it can be disposed of with little tron- ble. Do it regularly and it will al most seem to do itself. Poultry, keeping on the farm calls for less work than anywhere else. The dry mash mixture used by tha Maine Experiment Station is com posed of two parts by weight of wheat bran and one part each of corn meal, middlings, gluten meal ot brewers' grain, linseed meal and beei scrap. Mix up a quantity at one tima by shoveling it over and over, then store it away to draw on when feed ing 13 to be done. An orchard of fruit trees Is an ex cellent place to keep young chicks if the grass is not so high as to wet them too much" while the dew is oni The youngsters will race about and pick up many bugs that the trees are! better off without, and will also gel good shade from the trees. Those who have bare poultry yards can well plant fruit trees in them. The" droppings will make the trees grovsf rapidly. Progressive Farmer. V .x. ' . Growing Strawberries. Trim the roots of strawberry plants to about two-thirds of their lengtbj when they arrive from the nursery They will then make better growtli and the plants will be stronger. Tha cut shows the growth of roots three weeks old. Home and Farm. T A Turkey Farmer's Secret. , A turkey farmer pointed to a small mill wherein a petroleum , engine chugged, chugged vigorously. - "In that mill," he said, "the feed for my 2000 turkeys is ground. The secret of successful turkey raising lies in abundant feeding. It keeps six men busy to feed my birds. "They are fed five times a day, and each turkey gets as much as he can hold. Carrots boiled in lard, and crushed barley and milk are verj good fatteners, and the birds stufi themselves with them. Then, the last thing before going to roost thej eat all the oatmeal porridge and but termilk, they can find room for. "Cocks cost more than hens on the market, because they are harder tc raise. If they get together they fight and kill one another, and they eat five times as much as a hen. "A cock three hours before killina is made to swallow a half pint ot vinegar. This vinegar makes hii flesh flue and tender; without it hi would be coarse and tough. "A turkey farm like mine pay easily from $1500 to ?2600 a year. Farm Magazine. Current Events. The Federation of. Women's Cluba likened to an address by a Baltimore delegate cn cooks. A heavy storm swept over several counties of Virginia and West Vir ginia, doing great damage. The funeral of former President Cleveland was very simple. The members of the Democratic National Committee are gathering at Denver. PLYMOUTH IN, U.
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