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THE SONGS OP THE WIND. gtPJfPP little V',H^ 5 . V > . u./L >w sings the wind in Um splendid day the world la wild with the wmJOi of _ ,io world ia thrilling with Hght and kini •|fhere was never * cloud in the heavens %" above; ; • s „ . « , JKever a mateless and moaning-dpvifc' . . . o v » JKever a grave for a rose to hide, • v(' ; "#•* .> 1 < " j Jl'»d never a rose that died!" - -r, ̂ ' - ] ESW sl&<8 ̂ wind in the hopeless night VC» •> 1 When the lone, long winters are cold and , white? j*There are rainbows back of the storms to be, lack of the storms and their mystery; But oh, for the ships that are lost at sea! And oh, for the love in the lonesome lands. Far from the clasp of the drowning handsT* ' flk> the wind singeth. Its God decrees Ifhe wind should sing such songs as these; , Should laugh in the sunlight's silver wares And Toss the green on the world's sad graves, v But why, in the night, should it sing to me (©f the shijk the ships that are lost at sea? . wftuk L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution. •S* K ' • • £2 4 V.V'. AN INVESTMENT. Up at the top of the studio building three small, cheap rooms lived old s and his daughter Rose. She was a very pretty girl, and her figure was so good that she always provoked A favorable comment from the men about town who sometimes strayed into the precincts of that Bohemian quarter in New York, Washington square. But Rose, as she went through the park, kept her eyes modestly bent on the as- phalt walk, apparently quite uncon­ scious of the admiration she excited. It was the opinion of those who were ac­ quainted with old Partes' works that ahe was by far the best thing he had ever produced. The truth is, old Parkes did not get along very well. How he got along at all was a mystery until Rose and he became acquainted with little Spacer, one of the best fellows that ever lived. Rose, who was a born financier, per­ haps could have explained how they managed to exist. At a ridiculously early hour in the morning she went to market with a basket, and she had the knack of making a deliciously appetiz­ ing dish with very little for a founda­ tion. In short, Rose was a genius, and without her old Parkes would have found himself long ago in the poorhonse. Though he was an excellent painter, who had spent years of his life in study abroad, his pictures somehow never seemed to sell well. Speaking from a mercantile point of view, his handling was too broad and free, and the people were not np to him. Then, too, his canvases were generally so large that , they were not adapted to the walls of the average drawing room, and he cap­ ped it all by putting a price on them that frightened buyers off. As one well known critic put it, he would have done much better 50 years henoe. Certainly he would not have done worse. The few of his fellow artists who knew him did not like old Parkes very much, though they fully approved of Rose. His lifelong struggle with poverty had soured his disposition, and the nasty, outting things he said were by no meana relished. His overwhelming conceit rendered him a most disagreeable per­ son. He rated himself far above the younger and more successful men--' * pot boilers," he contemptuously referred to them--and it dazed him to think that they should do so well and he so badly. Rose was the only person he could get along with, and he had never said an un­ kind word to her in his life. Whenever be looked at her, he would always thintr of her mother, dead so many years, and then he would sigh to himself. Rose, who knew what he was thinking of, would come to him and throw her anna : around his neck, with never a word. When little Spacer fell head over heels in love with Rose, their financial condition materially improved. As I have already said, he was one of thq boet fellows that ever lived, and he waar< on the staff of a metropolitan newspaper! and enjoyed a very good salary. | He knew nothing at all about art, Which was the reason why perhaps the city editor gave him so many assign­ ments to write of it. With a few stock words and phrases, such as "chiaroscu­ ro," "fine atmosphere," "masterly han­ dling," etc., he wrote np the exhibi­ tions, on the whole, quite creditably. Little Spacer first saw Rose when he oame to her father's studio for infor­ mation as to where he was to spend the snmmer. He had been instructed to prepare an article with the title "Where Artists Will Spend the Summer." Old Parkes gruffly told him that he wasn't going anywhere, and he carefully noted down the fact. When he went away, he carried with him a vision of Rose'a soft black eyes* and Rose's creamy cheeks, and he was thinking of them still down at the office when he wrote these words, "Mr. Godfrey Parkes, the distinguished landscape painter, will remain in the city to execute a number of important commissions." After that, upon one pretext or an­ other. little Spacer kept coming so of­ ten that he grew to be a source of pos­ itive dislike to old Parkes. With Rose, however, it was different. The two had become such good friends that it would have grieved her very much if | he had never come again. Little Spacer ^ had two rooms near by, in West Tenth H street, and he haunted the park in the | hope of seeing her. Once, when he had been detained at the office very late and jyhe was ugping home completely fagged out at d^Pn, he had been refreshed by Mthe sight fof Rose going to market, and he had carried her basket for her, and ,' had had a jolly time. |As their friendship grew stronger he opuld see how miserably poor she was, aipd often in his lonely rooms he pon- .. .., ,l|prc'd over some way of helping her. r * • " As Rose was such a proud little be- |||g, he realized that he would have to • act .with the utmost delicacy. Finally he decided that the best pl^n to follow was to buy nome of her father's pic- * tores, and with no other thought than to benefit her he began to recklessly in- 'j'Sfest in then. • When Boae appeared 'in a charming ft " ..... . ,,4^; as'... and PWili [new gown and ^Spacer fairly 1 fjilpf si (m mowm Hfc bare while wall* filled np with canvases for which he, honestly did not give a snap of his fingers. Old Parkes let them all go at "'summer prices," in Sie case sacrificing his "View of the amapo Valley," for whioh he had asked $500 at the aoademy, fair a beg­ garly $50, He was really growing to look npon little Spacer with more fAvor. He com- SzicQueu his judgment and said that he was evidently a man of taste. Twice he had permitted Rose to accompany him to the Casino roof garden, and they sat often in the park. On an excessively warm night little 8pacer had met Rose, and they had gone to the park for a breath of air. The green benches were crowded with lovers whom the heat had driven from Having fauaiyhrensd to play certain 00160*2 Qllfl • XwVUIICtwMj performer* wffl traoonackma the notes, and thus be abja to play the piano without th* score before them. This is the most enjoyable node of play­ ing tso the musician, for, trotroubled by the drudgery of reading as she goes along, the pupil can the more readily de­ vote herself to the interpretation of the music. Unfortunately aU hate not good memories ana cannot succeed in learn­ ing to play without their notes. Others, again, feel nervous without them and like to have the music before them. All these separate idiosyncrasies must be considered and allowanoe made fox them. After a little time of careful practice, rather than of long and arduous work, the student will be able to play to her " --™ IV uct the suffocating neighborhood south of , friends with some confidence. This is ifM'W Washington square, and many, with a happy disregard of both propriety and the extreme sultriness of temperature, sat with their arms around each other's waist. Ntear the fountain they stopped to rest for a few minutes to listen to the plash­ ing of the water in the basin, since it sounded so deliciously cool, and there, in a few hurried, badly put together words, which were quite unlike those he had been intending to say for the last few months, little Spacer asked Rose to be his wife. And, without thinking of her father, so happy was she, Rose said that she would, after which they sat down on one of the benches where the shadows were black­ est and imitated their neighbors* exam­ ple. With her pretty cheeks flushed and her black eyes sparkling, Rose put her arms around her father's neck that night and gave him a careful revision of all that little Spacer had told her. Old Parkes said nothing, but got up and made a circuit of the room several times --a way he had of doing when he got ex­ cited. Then he sat down at the table and buried his face in his arms.. "He's robbed me of my pictures, and now he's going to rob me of my daugh­ ter!" he said bitterly. "Oh, papa, don't talk like that!" cried Rose, quite distressed. "Of course Chauncey couldn't afford to give you what the pictures were really worth, but" "I should say not," broke in old Parkes moodily. *' 'The Ramapo Val­ ley,' 42 by 64, $50; 'The Highlands at Navesink,' 18 by 24, $30. I can't go on. It's really too ridiculous." "But, papa, dear, I don't know what we would have done without the mon­ ey,"said Rose. "The old dealer xrn Fifth avenue wouldn't take any more at $5 apiece, you know." "Very well," growled old Parkes. "Marry him, if your mind is set upon it. You 're of age and can do as you like, I suppose. If you leave me, I dare say I shall get along somehow." "I shall never leave you," said Rose grimly, and coming over she kissed him. "Chauncey and I have planned that we three are to live together." Now, it chanced the very next day that old Parkes was laid up with rheu­ matism, and for three long months he was unable to hold a brush in his hand. Little Spafcer came heroically to the rescue and bought so many pictures that he was obliged at last to close out his once comfortable account in the Greenwich Savings bank. Everything in old Parkes' studio found its way to his walls, and finally they were so cow­ ered that he was obliged to stack them up one against another. Often he would stand with his hands in his pockets gazing at them ruefully. His only cheerful thought was that it was not money thrown away. It was for Rose's sake that he had bought them, and they had brought her many a comfort that otherwise she would not have had. Rose and he were to be mar­ ried in the spring. While old Parkes still lay grumbling and helpless in bed the distinguished French painter, M.Villemont, came over for a brief visit. The two had worked side by side at Julien's in Paris, and M* Villemont made it his business to hunt up his old friend. The artistic contin. gent lionized the new arrival, and news­ papers devoted whole columns to him. In an interview, which was prepared by little Spacer, he was made to say: "I am really much surprised at the growth of art in America. You have one painter as great as any that we have in Europe. I refer to Mr. Qod- frey Parkes, whose works should be held in rare appreciation by collectors. He is one of the few great painters of the century." * Whether M. Villemont really said all this or not makes no difference. It settled the whole business, and dealers and buyers kept pouring in at the studio from morning until night. Old Parkes threw away his oils and liniments and was back at his easel, a new man. He had enough commissions to keep him busy a year. One of the leading galleries effected arrangements with little Spacer to auc­ tion off the pictures he had accumulat­ ed. The auction was held in Chicker- ing hall, and the sales reached the hand­ some figure of $19,675. Little Spacer was dazed and could not believe his good luck until a check for that amount, minus the commissions, was handed bim. In the spring Rose and he were mar­ ried, and soon after their handsome Queen Anne at Orange was ready for them. ^ Of course old Parkes went to live with them. The studio annex was constructed according to his views and is the admiration of all who have seen it.--Malcolm Douglas in New York Sun. tJnder Surveillance. "I see Mrs. Skinflint has had her late husband's miniature painted and wears it under her chin." "So? When he was alive, she always kept him under her thumb."--Detroit Free Press. JJ, , * x r, OriMI: i naturally more difficult than to play to herself. Many good players know a piece perfectly when they are alone, but ark them to perform in a mixed company and their power of playing seems to de­ sert them. It is disconcerting to have chattering going on all around you, they say, and no one who understands music. It is so--but never mind, she must try to forget that she is going to play to these people who are so ill bred as to talk aloud when they have asked for a "little music." Play to yourself, says The Housewife, authority for the fore­ going, and very soon you will not hear the buzz of conversation or the "incon­ sequent chatter of irresponsible frivolity" fping on around you. Interpret your selection as well as you can; be natural in your demeanor, and above all things avoid attitudinizing or posing for effect. All this is in the worst possible taste. Sit easily and naturally before the piano, let your l^ands fall over the keys, and do not play with your wrists and shoulders, but with your fin­ gers. Hear, if possible, good music and musicians. Attend the recitals of the best artists, and study their execution and interpretation of the best masters Whiwever this is praticable . .yv,s Take Care of the 8 pong*. / Nothing in the bathroom should be BO carefully looked after as the e-ponge. That but little consideration is given t* it is daily shown in the forlorn and neg­ lected condition of this very necessary adjunct to cleanliness. Instead of being left to dry in the sponge'basket, it is, as A rule, dropped down in some corner and allowed to soak or given a one sided chance on the sill outside the room. It is simply useless to expect to keep your spOi jes in a sweet and wholesome con­ dition so long as they are treated in this manner. In the first place, they ratut not only be thoroughly washed, but in order to prevent their becoming foul each part of the sponge should be ex* posed tt> the air. Always rinse all soapy stjds from your sponge and then throw it Tnto your basket, which should be hung just outside the bathroom window. A sponge cared for in this fashion will Spvqr frqjjiiny,, sour or must^.. „ ANewSIUt81ee^ •jiiVi "*t" i •£'" • * Y " The 'present convenient utyle of wear­ ing fancy bodices in the house gives great scope for variety in sleeves. One of the newest styles for sleeves in silk is cut with a puff, the greater width of which is at the elbow, below which it •Jm VABIBTT 0* HUfft" ~' $ » is gathered in to fit the lower portion ot the sleeve. The lining for this lower part is close fitting and is covered with a piece of silk, gathered at intervals Mid fitted to it so as to form several puffs. This is finished at the wrist with a band of fancy galon, a similar one hiding the join below the elbow. A wool dress, the sleeves of which are worn, may be re­ modeled by substituting silk alfleveaoil •fter the "A flliiilag Tjlfc1 I --Life. The very latest--the five decker cape. It can be worn as above, or, if required, it may be divided up among the entire : ftawra Hare ti Ker Fo-r Mtule. A milking experiment is tins reported in a London paper: "Five pows were milked two weeks each by two competent milkers. One kn«w tn« milk was being weighed and did Irs best to get every drop. The oth­ er milked as usual. The one aware of the experiment got 267 pounds the more milk." A "competent" milker leaving nearly a half a pound of milk in every cow he milked! How much would he have to leave to be called incompetent? In milking a heifer the first year I want her milked rapidly to the end and stop. 1 do not want her stripped much, A heifer loves to be stripped if she is satisfied with her milker, and she soon learns to hold back the milk so as to make a long job of it. When she finds there is to be no puttering, she lets, the milk come down to the end. Rapid milking satisfactory to the cow is what pets the milk. A cow that has been quickly milked often refuses to give half her milk to a slow milker. Many dairymen forbid any talking during milking. It is a pretty hard rule to enforce. Any talking or noise that cows are perfectly familiar with does no harm, providing the milker does not %lack his milking. Hold! 1 mean any noise that means no harm to the cow. 1 believe with a herd of 40 good cows it would pay to expend $2 a day for some good music, both vocal and instrumental, at milking time, and let the milkers join in. The tunes of course should be lively, It has been proved to me that cows have an ear for good music. I can sing: "I'll chase the D round a stump. And give him a kick at every jomp," and my cows will just pour out the milk, so I sing it lively, and my hands keep good time. A cow will never do her best for a slow milker even if he claws out the milk. > A rapid milker may also be a poor milker, if he milks with a jerking mo* tion or brings his fingers upon her teats in a manner disagreeable to her. Not one in a score who claim to be good milkers really is. I have been milking half a century about as regularly as I have eaten my supper and breakfast and claim to be an expert. An excellent milker who treats the cows kindly is what I always am ready to employ at big wages. The difference in the milking of 12 cows one season by a fair milker or an excellent one will almost pay his wages. Milk with dry hands. I would not have my herd of cows milked one season with their teats wet with milk for $10 a cow. In one case only do I eyer wet a cow's teats with milk. When a cow leaks her milk badly, wetting with milk thoroughly after milking her will some­ times stop it.--A. X. Hyatt in Breeder's Gazette. Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Harcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrnps, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee Is thirty years* use by Millions of Mothers. Castoria Is the Children's Puutow --tfce Mother's r̂len4» Castoria; f-t Cleansing tbe Separator. Hot water, soda and a stiff scrt brush will do the business. Two cor­ respondents of The Rural New Yorker give their respective methods as follows: After the milk has run through the machine pour warm water through till it begins to come out clear; then take the bowl apart and wash the inside and inside fixtures in water in which has been dissolved a small quantity of soda, scrubbing the parts with a brush--not a soft paint brush, but a stiff one made for the purpose. Cream can be handled all right in the hottest weather with* out ice if you have plenty of cold water. When the cream is sepa­ rated, run it into common shotgun cans and immediately set them in water which will cool the cream down to GO degrees o? a little 'below. Held at that temperature, it ought to keep sweet for 48 hours. It is better to mix before it becomes sour, hut if this is not done before it should be mixed 24 hours be­ fore churniag so as to insure a perfectly even ripening of the whole, for this is absolutely necessary to get an exhaust* iye churning. For the past two years 1 have used a farm separator in my dairy. The milk is separated at the barn as fast as it is milked from the cows. Doing as I have stated, 10 minutes' time is enough to clean the separator by one who is used to it. We have water from a well at a temperature of 50 degrees, pumped with a windmill, and have no trouble at all in handling the cream.--C. P. Goodrich. I use hot water and soda, and with a stick and rag the cleansing of the bowl is quickly done. The bowl is then rinsed in cold water and dried until wanted for the next separation. I have had no ex­ perience in handling cream and butter without ice and would not attempt it. If the U. S. separators are operated un­ der the directions sent out with each ma­ chine, there will be no trouble. My ex­ perience is that all vessels after being used for milk should be cleansed with hot water and soap or hot water and soda, rinsed in cold water and aired un­ til .nartbefcsrWt. H. Lawso^ ̂ What to Say. . Wlieiiever you hear a aairy farmer complaining of ill luck and a lack of profit, take off your hat, wherein you have of course pasted the following, froih John Gould's address to the agri­ cultural students of Ohio university, and read it to him: "To obtain successful results in the future we must find out whether we are being injured so much by competition as by our own failure to comprehend and push to its limit the productive quality of our dairies." One word more. Tell him that there is not a single instance of a dairy farmer who has made a progressive success of his work, who has not turned that very searchlight on himself that Gould speaks of.--Hoard's Dairyman. s ',%> "CMtoriahgo well adapted to children that [recommend it as superior to any prescription known to ma." H. A. Archeb, M. Dn 111 So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, H. Y. " The use of ' Castoriav la m universal and Its merits so well known tl*at it tteemg a -work of Supererogation to endorea it. Pew are the intelligent familiea who do not keep Outorla wftbta eaay teach." s D „ . . . IIM: Castoria. ;•.. f i. CaatortacureaOolic, OonFtipatloo, '*v V Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, aad ̂pranotoe gestion, Without injurious medisatioao. ::*eMral years I have reonmrwwfcrt your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial neultB." EDWIK F. Pabdkb, JL D., . j l*Oi Street and 7th New YortcCtty. Th* Qnuol Ooamurr,' 77 Xomuy Hw YancGiHr w--mmm W,V (MP FINS WATCHES , - Ever brought to McBenry can beseenatthe atore "HEAMAN BROS >"w. "x*y Persona who Lookout for .' ' f , Vs fe'il S X l f S ,-W!. Lf-Vvi Aft# most ot them are. will this store the place to get what tta faut, ' 1' . , _ • * v WATCHES > * For Ladies arid Gentlemen* JEWELRY Mi " ' " " ' • ^ 'b?L fbr Old and SILYfiitWAKB: ' i » " , • r , > . ; • " ' m r « m . i .' 'at- • r-- •f * 'Vf *! t V '-V Stock the Largest, Croods the Bea • •?<•'*' Prices the Lowest. ):• • • ' HEAMAN BROS. * ' * ^ f 'I p 1 A } 4*' tx 1 ' V 4 , X y- >1 ENGAGEMENT BINOf ̂ ! " • > / * ' t <• * * , vm s- : i v si-v Susie--"Ob, Fred, I am so thankful tor this ring. It is wry pretty. Where < ^ VraJ--"At, Heaman Bros . where tbey sell tbe finest Engagement Kings. Tl X'sS*. aad I'll buy ,ou . nice Chn.tma. Has decided to' make his headquarters in our store. Holiday Go* in large quantities have already arrived and more are*daily comii 9^ i * * r J, •'.3* J There are presents in abundance for old and young, and . . . . . . . . . . . . little ohes happy, Our Btoek is larger ttian ever fore, and the selection has been made very carefully with a yiew] and see «a tor Bargains, ' *;; j ^ % " hi, ssL'% \ Ji' Ci 'i4kr, Jofj ;*V. rnCX. 1J(*" '.J*;.' No item is too small and, in the dairy and creamery, -v , -> • . .>:•5 ^ N, B,^Our Drug department is still in good running order prescriptions are »s usual carefully compounded, :-f| ISPS* *> ,. - . , r Vt/v ffi;'