ALAS, SO LONG.
Al | dear one, we were young so long,
It seemed that youth would never go,
For skies and trees were ever in song,
And water in singing flow,
in the days we never again shall know.
Alas, so long!
Ah! then, was it all spring weather?
Nay : but we were young and together.
Ah! dear one, I've been old so long,
It seems that age is loth to part,
Though days and years have never a song.
And, oh! have they still the art
Phat warmed the pulses of heart to
heart?
Alas so long!
Ah! th a was it all spring weather?
Nay: it wewere young and together.
Alt ORT One, You ve been dead so long
How long until we meet again,
Where hours may never lose their song
Nor flowers forget the rain
in glad noonlightth «t never shall wane?
Alas, so long!
Ah, shall it be then spring weather?
Aud ah! shall we be young together?
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Agricultural.
Jefferson county (N. Y.) farmers now
carry their milk to the limburger cheese
factories where they are paid 12 and 12}
cents per gallon for it.
Trees intended for planting should
not have their roots exposed to the sun
or wind so that the can dry out. The
roots must be kept moist if the trees
are expected to live,
Parmentier says that the best method
storing thoroughly dry and clean
wheat is in sacks isolated from each
other, care being taken to keep a suffi-
ciently low temperature in the granary.
of
That ‘‘Eastern methods’ of farming
are equally well adapted to the broad
prairies of the West is shown in the
experience of Mr. A. Reser, who thir-
teen years ago moved from the East to
the high praric land in Marshall county,
Kansas. Mr. Reser farms but eighty
acres. but he bas been remarkably suc-
cessful. and his success, has, observes
the Topeka fai ner, in spite of droughts,
that
vell-
verified the iepeated statement
more grain car be raised from V
tilled field of ten acres than from forty
i
acres poorly tended.
Farmers who co-operate together in
"no
Is
buyi and selling vhould endeavor to
make arrangements with the working-
men of the cities. whereby either party
may be benefited from the transactions.
All that is needed
there is no reason why an
body of farmers may not get larger
prices for produce and at the same time
cheapen it to the consumer. The work-
ingmen are always ready to organize for
such purpose, and the farmers should
profit by it.
organization, and
organized
The parts of animals generally used
for glue-making are the paring of hides
and skins from tanneries and slaughter-
houses known as glue pieces, fleshing,
pelts from furriers, hoofs and ears of
cattle. horses and sheep. Animal skins
in every form, when unacted upon by
tannic acil, are excellent material for
the glue-maker. It is said that the
partings of oxen and other thick hides
make the best glue. Fish-bones,
core of horns, sinews and animal mem-
brane are all utilized for the
purpose, .
Peter Ivory, who is an experience]
cattle raiser, says the following remedy
will cure the blackleg or diphtheria.
We give it for the benefit of our farmer
readers. He says: *‘‘When the animal
is first taken it will exhibit lameness in
some one of its legs. With a sharp
knife open the lame member between
the knee and the hoof, where will be
fond & lump or a sack filled with a
white substance ; squeeze all this out,
then fill the opening with salt and pep-
per. and bind the limb up with a rag.”
This is all that is required, and Mr.
f vary vouches for its good effects. The
remedy is certainly cheap and simple,
and is worthy a trial,
t
the
same
The Richmond ( Va.) Southern Plant-
relates thus of one-eighth of an acre
of lucerne : It has no superior for soil-
ing purposes. On the 11th and 12th of
April it was killed down to the ground
by a severe frost, when it was fully
knee high, and would have been ready
to cut in a few days. On the 22d of
May it was first mowed, and again on
July 21st and August 14th. The three
mowings yielded 4560 pounds of green
food for soiling, from one-eighth of an
acre, or at the rate of 36,480 pounds per
acre. Fed with a little meal and salt
sprinkled over it, it is a wholesome
and highly nutritious food for horses
and cattle of all kinds.
Sir J. B. Lawes thus reasons from
experiments, as stated in the Country
Gentleman : ** To obtain maximum crops
of grain the proper course to pursue is
to precede them with a crop of legumi~
nous plants—that is, peas, clover,
vetches, ete.~—to which the minerals
ghould be applied, and this enables
these plants to make an unusual growth,
which renders them capable of storing
up a large amount of AMmMonia-—-more
ey.
: that am average
| water is absorbed by a plant for every
pound of mineral matter absorbed by it,
tory, at Montsouris, it was found that
7702 pounds of water passed through
the roots of the wheat crop for 10}
pounds of grain produced, TZ
oF isd
rich soil ; while in a very poor soil 1616
pounds were passed through the same
quantity of wheat for a product of
about half a pound of grain, or 2608
pounds of water for each pound ef
grain.— New York Times.
A fruit-grower thisks
many apple trees are set too near to-
gether {| two rods apart is near enough,
The land for an orchard must be kept
in goed condition,
successful
He top-dresses his
orchard ence in three years, principally
with a thick coasing of straw. He al-
lows hegs to rum in his orchards, and
plows the land wumtil the trees are so
large as to interfere with such a prac-
tice. Last year he picked forty-fiver}
barrels of Greenings from four trees,
Orchards thrive best near bodies of
water, Trees should be judiciously
trimmed while vemng. Many trees are
injured by overpruning, Trees should
be grafted when they are from one inch
to one and one-half inches in diameter,
Judge Eaton, of Ottawa, 1, notes,
an article on the history of the Irish
potato, a fact which many farmers have
.
k
ir
observed, despite the assurance by scien-
tists that “‘mixing in the hill is impos-
‘A curious fact
with the growth of the Irish potate,
and whieh most farmers have no doubt
observed, is that they will hybridize in
the hill. Plant a red and a white potaio
in the same hill,
that their bearing roots will intertwine,
sible 7? connected
or so near together
and part of the tubers of either plant
to marked with
white patches, or one-half may be red
the half Thi
interesting fleld for the investi
gation
are liable be reed and
3
ana other white.
some ope inclined to the work.”
In order to have successive grops «of
ot
FTE § F 4 4 1 t
green food for stock small pieces
ground should be sown at intervals for
that purpose, Some sections will not
1
but
difficulty may partially be avoided by
produce grass in abundance, sucl
sowing peas and oats mixed, mustard,
radish, collards, kale, or anything else
that comes early. Though the quan-
tity may not be large, the green stuff
will answer for a change of diet, and
serves an excellent purpose in that res-
pect.
The orchard should be cultivated at
least eight years, or till it comes well
ito bearing in any hoed crop, or sown
to buckwheat and let fall back on the
ground ; care should be taken not to
plow too near or too deep near the trees |
It
branches
for
the rexson that the tree has lost roots in
red clover.
i
last vear's growth,
when you seed us is
shorten t
L
3
advisable to 1 the
two-thirds the
being taken up, and that equalizes the
top and root
Dr. the long-
time associate of Sir J. B. Lawes in the
thinks the
clover tailure in this country, generally
Gilbert, of England,
Rothamstead experiu.ents,
attributed to insects, is really due to
clover sickness—condition of the soil
in which clover refuses to grow. He
believes the insects which are generally
credited with the failure only come in
because of the feeble growth of the
plant. This opinion, coming from so
high an authority, worth investi
gating.
is
Wool waste from the shoddy mills in
Franklin, Mass, and valued
quite highly for agricultural purposes.
It is composed of the short fragments
andfine dus’ gathered under the ma-
chines that prepare the most valuable por«
tions of the wool for use in manufactures,
The gr.ase from the scouring mills ‘is
quite another substance, containing. a
large percentage of potash, we believe,
while wool waste is valued chietly for
its nitrogenous elesents,
is used
Mr. John G. Lemmon has reported to
the California Academy of Sciences the
discovery of two or three varieties of
indigenous potatoes among the moun.
tain ranges along the Mexican frontier,
of Arizona. They grow abundantly in
high mountain meadows surrounded by
peaks attaining a height of 10,000 feet
above sea level. The bibers were
about the size of walnuts. Mr. Le
mon brought home a supply whie Jo)
a} 4
be carefully cultivated,
Andrew Burmett, of Wellesley, who
raises considerable quantities of flat
turnips for feeding to his mileh cows,
writes as follows: “When | «grass
down on well-manured lands the mid
die or last of August, 1 sow quarter of
# pound of white flat turnip seed to the
acre with the grass seed, harvesting Die
than is necessary for the grain erop that
follows—and the latter, by this active
stimulant, is rendered capable of obtain-
ing all the] minerals required from the
soil and the decaying vegetation for
ma simum crops.’
through the roots
mous, Dr. Lawes, of England, foun |
{
turnips after about three months
growth, Too much seed is commonly
used in raising turnips. I'should use
| jess than one pound of turnip seed to
the acre if 1 were sowing nothing I
at the time,’ . hi: 4
Fertile and Barren soils. |
The fertility of all soils depends on
1
substances that are taken wp by plants
as food and eenverted inte organic
matter, No two soils are alike, for all
soils are constantly augmenting or
diminishing in quality, whether in eom-
plete fallow or eeeupied by cultivated
crops, But very few soils are cem-
pletely barren theugh they may be
largely deficient in the greater number
of essential substanees that are come
pletely assimilable, Bemetimes a soil
for a particular plant and
barren to another, which may be illus
trated in the comparison of clover with
sweet potatoes, for crops of the latter
ave often grown on soils that are near-
ly sterile, while elover cannot exist un-
less under certain conditions, The fin-
est and best sweet pototoes ean be pros
dueed in that section of country drained
by the Cape Fear River, in the counties
of Bladen, Brunswick and Columbus in
North Carolina, and vet the soil is not
only eomplete sand but low and wet.
The only fertilizer used is the leaves of
the piteh pine composted with rakings
and gatherings around the favm. Clover
is foreign to that region, It is new
claimed that earbon'is one of the prime
factors of a fertile soil, despite the
known fact that plants appropriate it
fromthe alr, and should this claim be
satisfactorily demonstmted it will canse
using
+
it
a revolution in our methods ef
fertilizers. At present is scarcely
allowed a place in the bst of imgredients
and
that account whatever,
posseses no commercial value on
Sand and ¢lay are not in themselves
valuable fond for plants,
mechanical in action.
but rather
All soils PORSeSS
lime, with traces of iron and magnesia,
as well as a sipall proportion of erganie
matter : bat fertile soils must eontain
phosphoric acid, potash, lime and a large
ET § si io t
unt of organi i a
matter. Theve
list of compounds known
fertile
fo be
i
wesent in sok, the quantities,
wowever, being small and varsing, aid
n composition according to the charae-
ter of rocks of which they were ig be
OF
nalh the chemical character,
however,
vt
grt i
) >
being modified by
#i
i
dis
Line,
ntegration and the action of
ging them
surronnd-
ing substances at additions, which
though chan in structure,
do
idl
WAU
A
whole or a
destroy them.
forti 4
ved
le soil can be deprived of the
part of its fertility by par-
tieglar crops. It ean be rendered defi-
cient in nitrogen and yet remain rich in
potash, or it can be deprived of potash
and vet contain lime, Soils are affected
also by the methods of cultivation,
manner of manurnng and by draughts,
A sterile soil can generally be rendered
fertile by
of “manure,
heat and earth to
gradually form and give off particles of
for
when plowed in,
cultivation without
for
the use
constan | exposure lo
moisture causes the
suitable SO
iialter indigenous
weed, which, assist to
fusnish nourishunent to 4 more numer-
ots fandily, until, by a continued pro-
cess Of green manuring the land can be
out to use. As such a method is slow,
wwever, the use of bammyard manure
and the covering under of green crops
for the purpose
and quicker. The question
with our farmers at present is how to
keep up the fertility of soils” with the
least expense rather than that of at-
tempting to work those that are barren.
Good barnyard manure, as a general
thing, contains all the elements of fer-
tility, and it should never be omitted
from its place in the list as the chief
reliance for success, for, say what we
will, infaver of commercial feitilizers,
there can be nothing urged by any one
to give them the preference, though
when used with the manure the result
is more satisfactory. The greatest dif-
fieulty' is to procure a sufficiency of
Hae, that usually
mnatke ou we ll-regulated fanns, together
with the use of fertilizers and green
manorial crops, if rightly managed,
will not only’ keep the soil fertile, but
grown especially is
cheaper
hart which is
| Trap to Catch a Husband.
Sunset in the tropics. Sunset on the
"outskirts of a Louistana forest--stately,
| golem. What a chaos of noble color,
| what an Faden of bleasom and of odor,
| what royal prodigality of untmm-
{ meled life, The spot where a party of
i
feet
level of the sea ; and a glowing sweep
of lowland eountry— yellow maize fields
three or four hundred above the
ed’ away league beyond league before
thes,
Ble party whieh made up this en-
campment of fonp
Northerners on a tour of pleasare and
consisted Hen
wealth = but the fourth:
—was a dependent nephew of
the rich trio,
him. and mow, at the end of 0! fe |
Ziate coume, had taken him om this |
At its conclusion Jerrold wa to |
choose a profession, and commence #in- |
His mele
so that
/ |
his
tour.
gle-handed the battle of life,
had a number of children ser |
|
and Hs independenee
1
rold eould no reasonably
herit anything,
prompled |]
niary aid.
»xpect to
imo decline Manther pecu-
|
wap fashion, Jerrold |
Leaving his companions soeking the
in Li
strolled off
was stretehed
hill, As
against a
+}
Chane
supper,
Ligs
{to 1:
b
view the panorssa tha
sirpoanding
i
peneath the
stood
he listlewiv leaning
broke nto
hie
He
singer, possessed of
tree, put @
SONY. was really a fine
aritivated
a highly
voice, and sang with all the sianden of
p esumed solitude,
He did not see the daight, saek
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t
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both
that were watching him, nor (Es amniy
of whaeh
und
ears that were listénme.
10
1
15 toned ne
wealthiest | Essex
ie
sat on a
splendid
picture that, had Jer
¥
¢ trees until
¥
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gracefully
regarding hi
fm mingled
wonder and admiration thst was se in-
ba
« eomical, the-tall bushes
tense as to
hye Never
His
rex t -Insnt
and branches half veiling
conld he forget the picturs yylee
and the
abruptly ceased ;
gring
he burst g
so joyous, hearty and irrepressible that
into 4 rin iangh that was
witching by
she
f
i
it proved infection and
s
5
is,
moInent,
: Then,
familiarity
fnstinet the humor of 1
laughed very he As
frightened by such with »
hie bee sne Sorin
i Liven.
iO
% suddenly
stranger,
“1 beg vour pardon, si
»" s ap seldonawe
on the
IXienD
she said
ing,
human out here
Ed
§
meet
hill eimnpted 1
Never had Jerrold lossed upem a
that him.
%. that you
countenance wo fasemnmated
The girl's dark hair,
whiich there lived astiloom, but
to which there never moose wl 0 decided
asd a face on
alwavs
color, appeared the very embodiment
of health and vitality. bat it was the
wonderful mobility of the fEmtures hat
thelr
expressions were as shifting and vasious
constituted their greatest eharnu |
as the atmosphere upon. am April mern-
ing. Every mood and passion they re-
flected changed them into anothen fee ;
now they were those of a laughing
Hebe : now those of a simaple child
Before conld te the
young lady, a gentleman on horseback
Jerrold reply
rode up.
“8g Bertha,” he said to her,
van away from me.’ And then, seeing
Jerrold Gray, he bowad politely, and
added : “Tt isn't ofte these wild hills
are visited by strangers.’
Son
A brief conversation ensued, ending
in a visit to the temposary camp. The
allow Tull erops and a’ the least cost,
———— To ——
A Horse-Car Incident.
Te was a gentleman who wore over.
alls and carried a tin dinner-pail. His
clothes were unready-made and his
boots were not symmetrical. He said
the Jong journey of five miles each way
to. and from his work was trying.
“Why don’t you live in the city®"
“Because, sorr’’-~in a rich Milesian
brogue—*‘if I lived in the city 1 should
have te live in a tenement house, You
don’t know the kind of people who live
there. They re u bad Jot all through,
generally. © Sights go on no woman or
chi shoud see. | want to save my
wife and children from seeing corrup-
tion, so [inoved otit here. Goodnight,
sor.’ And he left the ear at the little
cottage, whose inmates were sheltered
from ‘‘corruption,” and was greetcd
with a chorus of “Here's father,” that
showed the gentleman with the dinner-
pil had not lavished cure without re-
ceiving a return in love.
#Who shall decide when doctors dis.
agree 2° We don’t know who should,
but we do know that the Coroner usu-
{1 e quantitiy contained therein of those
ally dos,
gentleman introduced himself as Mr.
Fenshaw. a plantas of the ueighbor-
hood. and the girl as Bertha Fenshaw,
his niece.
“Do you intend to remain here to-
night ?'* he asked, as he prepared to go.
“Yes, ' was the reply : “we are very
lazily seeking pleasure, and we epcamp
wherever fancy dictates.”
“Then 1 shall insist wpon receiving
you at my house, You see it yonder,"’
he said, pointing to a plantation resis
denoe dimly visible in the distant plain ;
“and, until then, good day.”
Bertha added her invitation, and un-
cle and niece were soon riding out of
sight.
Knowing by experience the hospi-
tality of Louisianian planters of the
higher class, and certain that the invi-
tation was intended for actual accept-
| ance, the tourists decided upon the
Morrow,
+ On that same morrow, towards after
noon, Bertha Fenshaw sat in her room,
thinking of Jerrold Gray, She had
dreamed of him during the night, and
! ¢he was wondering why. It was not
| because of a dearth of young men
dad their semerous complaints, She
tr
| AAD A FASO SOI
Jerold Gray’ eyes sparkled,
“You do not seem saddened by the
£
/
| posed to her at regulary intervals,
| Bertha was remantie,
happy as she was, and if she did marry,
{ he must Te more of hero, to win her,
i than any she had seem
Had Jerrold Gray seem the partly
| heiress, and known that he was the
| smbiect of her thoughts, he might have
| been more flattered, but searcely
Her
1 the simple
in Jove than he really was oem)
| was arranged with al
| of @ well-bred girh
| shelves were well fled with thelr
their row of
row
of poets, usediul works,
lt ipkstand, and its pretty, costly
aheve
it
nary, These was a pwsno, too, aud 2
wellfilled masie-stand,
Uaon ald thefvyooms was Lhe
and evidenes of womanly
nealin ess |
thi
all, neither im books, p
ng
was properly arranged.
Hees, Ie,
i
por on Mie dressing-room in the adjoin
ing roors; wav Lene the spmmilest signs
1
alinost
Of
that
dmwback to the channs the young
ladies of the present day.
But nor of these things
‘aur heroine just sow, znd in the mildle
of
reverie she heasd the arvival
bir
the tourist aid tha vodee of hoe
sedeoining them
to the
the
Povhiaps it was pataral
fonet, shay went dewa
wilingy
iss, Win hier found gentlemen
it
In Snversialieh
enaseh that the two: 7omnge)
suintet geavitntad towards each
-
of tie
jd were SOR WE Al CAS Yeon
Bertha }
The
iil veee SO Lreamel
11
Aten showed him the
¥
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ti
cull proved so pens
3
4
the
i
£
¥
¥
niemsesirse, that
+1
1 We
sto spend a week at as ho
r week wis spent a
§
of cdvvivam 1
i
sil (re0res
LE
sith
* was thefrank ren
sx I neve dressmed
WOTanG
Aud
PASSION
“Yes, | Ceri am t
yy i 1 of {iat
does shee return vom
am
“Then vou have spoken So» her abo
ah
“No. and shall
L aaa poor.
uider sah conditians,
The
about
it
do
will
rut wm, she =
rich ARYeT Na
wid he gaests ware
adie ns: Lo
wane kb ended,
to bid
Bartha showed
bat
their generLus
ymin)
legrodd was about
hast, oO ST
ah
of emeation,
leaving her she sido him YSIng Lo ak
recall wa to X
grad wil boat
sornet hinge that wiki m
He wend
thous ie the
“Adien’ oa
passiomof a lifetime was ssncentrted
in its melody, and’ Bertha hiding Ser
eves im Ber hands, Hstened. andersgwnd-
his love and faewell,
the piano,
Se linet”
hes
stains. 8 »
isto his mind
Hig
Thess went, ard time passed. The
civil war broke out. Those years after
his first visit, Jewmold Grae Was in New
Orleans, a lievtsnant a the Fadaral
army. George Wharton, Wee, was ih. the
same vegiment. When the army ad-
vanced to the weighborbead of the Fen-
shaw plantation, Momsen propesed a
visit a their fommer hosts: but Jerrold,
for seme reasos, declined, and Morton
decided to ge alone. He found the
plamgstion in sad state, but the mas.
ter a6 hospitable as ever.
“oPhis house is like a tomiy” said Mr.
Fesshaw ; “To moss Musee, more
sounasds of wy. That plano not
been touched for twe years: the last
thing played on it wns the “Adiea’ of
that young friend of yours By the
way, is he living * have you beard of
heisn
“Yes. Have you never had any sas
picions about him *"°
SSuspicions ¥°
“Yes: concerning your miece.’
“Ooncerning Bertha let me see, A
light dawns in on me ; do you. Have 1
been deceived? We fear she is losing
her health and spirits,”
* She is in love with Jerrold Gray.”
Then Merton told him all that had
passed ; all his scruples: all his Tove 3
his resolve never {Oo IMAITY & Wan 0
far above him in fortune.”
wOome,” said Mr, Fenshaw, “amd re-
peat this tp Bertha,” :
The thee were in close consultation
for an hour, and when Merton set out
on his return, something of the oN
vivacity had returned to Berthe,
CWell,” said Jerrold, when his friend
retamed, “have you seen them
MY eet
“And is Bertha well ¥7
Merton looked grave,
“Yes,” he said, ‘as well as could be
expected under the circumstances,
a
has
Grr
:
among the circle of her acquaintances.
And all the region knew the pretty
heiress. She was acquainted with all
the old men and women in the country,
i
| her fortune,”
“Ne. replied the young man, ‘‘be-
a level with me
loss of self-respeet,’’
Obtainkig leave of abwence, Lieuten-
ant Gray started for the Fenshaw's on
the followirg day.
him graciously—the niece with a joy
that found expressiom in bey lustrous
The nwele received
in the very eloquence of hey silence,
Before his departure he told her his
They are married now, and happy, in
site of a piece of ar i-nsaeriage deecit
sn the part of the beide,
“Could you forghre me griad
sy gyeat deceptions. prov ad it
both happy for
after th
Lame
a a
Ww
Ws
was
ake 1s
life 2 asked Bertha.
quiet wedding.
“eas.”
“Ten listen to my canfessian. Moa.
Merton deerived you wien he told you
that lost. He
told newer Lo
BOOT)
fortune had wen
of
my
fe gory resolution
marey a women richer (han yourself,
|
A A AR SE SR A
© I loved you so well thid I'couldn’t
TYy
ine,
Jerrod
acknowledged himself
=
mfuse-—and de forgive Jerrold,”
A kiss settled it, and laugl
gl wag hit
,
“A trap ty catch a hasband,
Buddah.
§
13d
8
Yi
in
1% “Had
Chistian he would have bee
owe Lord Jesus Chr
I 5
iy
ae
Marco by writing, hes been
ada
n
8 great
saint of jist, 50 holy
while in
and pure was the life he le
our day the professed opponent
whether Catholic or
Baptist
judg
.
veisin,
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Nor, however doutiful
many details of his life may be, is there
commands,”
any reasonable room for skepticism as
to its manin ontlines ? We know that, of
poyval Eusage aad heir to a
gave up father and wife and children to
become a religious mendicant, and that
years of heroie mortification and ferce
interies frial culminated in that great
night under the bow tree upon the bank
of tise Nairanjaia, when, as the Dudiilust
author expresses if,
eylightenment’’,
throes, De
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“he attained su-
and “alone
the salvation of the Hee
works and everthwew the whole army
of the Prince of Evil. We
he then entered wpon his high task to
preach. the gospel of pity, to found a
kingdom of righteousness, of which en-
framesehiment from worldly desipes
beotheshiood, and spiwitual
equalty weve the great laws:
prerae
worked
know how
universal
ro give light to them enshrouded im dark
ness,
And to open the gates of immortality to men.
We know ew during the forty veass
of his. public ministry be went up and
down the cosmdry watesed by Lhe Gan
ges, ocecupied like One greater than he,
of whom he may without irrevessnce be
deemed the peecursor, in doing goed,
receiving all who came to him without
distinction of mnk or easte—his law, he
was won't to say, was “a law ofl grace
for all,” but especially callisgr to him
all that labored and were hea). laden,
the poor, the sorrowful, and the sinful,
who wereabove others dear te Lis piti-
ful heart. So much is lumineusly clear
through “the mists of fabling time” re-
garding this great teacher's life. But
in truth the fables are not less valuable
sourees of information regarding him
than the facts themselves, It isa pro-
found saying of Plato, and very perti-
nent to this subject. that poctay comes
nearer vital Urwth than histors
msi
A Dishonest Debt.
“Yes sir, I always pay my honest
debts,” declared an Arkassaw gentle
man of the old school, addressing an
acquaintance,
“I am glad to hear you say so " ex
claiteed a merchant who everheard the
remark. “You bought a suit of clothes
from me sowe time ago, and you have
persistently refused to pay me. Now
you blow around that yon pay your
honest debts,’
“1 still declare that 1 pay my honest
dels.”
“Well, why don’t you pay me for that
suit of clothes ¥**
“Its not an honest bebt.”
“Why "»
‘Because, when T got the clothes 1
did not intend to pay you. Conse.
nbently the debt is dishonest,”
A bill was in roduced in the New
York Assembly by Mr, Roosevelt, es.
an children,