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WHAT SEED SHALL WE SOW?
A wonderful thing is a seed
The one thing deathless forever;
The one thing changeless—utterly
true,
Forever old and forever new,
And fickle and faithless never,
lant blessings, blessings will bloom;
lant hate, and hate will grow;
You can sow today, tomorrow
bring
blogsun
thing
Is the seed, the seed that you sow.
Right Man In the Wrong Place.
“Who is that pretty young girl you
just bowed to?" said Capt. Bigg to his
friend John Arminger.
“Well, she's a girl
acquaintance began
markable way. You
est Stackpoole girl?”
“I remember
poole—Freddy
but I should never
a girl! And what possible connec
has she with your charming friend?
‘A very close one, as 1 will tell you
if you keep quiet and give
head. You have
that to the surprise &
friends, Freddy Staci
gaged last
Herford, worth
rather ancient,
the Stackpooles
will
that proves what sort of
Th
whom my
re-
with
rather
:
0 a
ha
wal
the w
iream of calling
10
me
not heard
came en-
spring fellow
to the same co
same pack of hou
letter of congratulation
rop—I1 heard afterward
. nd accepted
ding, which wa
Paul's, Knight
half past two o'clock
“But this is
nrotested
an invite t
3 to take place at
erday, at
ridge,
yes
ll beside the qu
Capt. Bigg
“It is it's
I arrived
rammed, and
prised, I must con
energetic
reoathlesas.
asked:
groom?
‘ ‘Bride.’
*“ ‘Here
he shove
an old gent!
and wh
hlad
i
Ww
Ove
BTN
ny ¢
are aware fatal
passio
here was a tempta
to east, So 1
tion 1 was pow: rless
AnsSwe
I ca
an
ll-known
red
think point
you
charac-
yon," plied 3
ma
to
nk
grandfa
and I very rarely
Now, who is that
woman in yellow, with the gold spikes
in her bonnet?”
“Oh, that" 1 promptly
3 the Queen of the Sandwich Islands
he ig over here incog at present—just
to her dressmaker,’
‘Dear me! Why I always thought
Mother Nature was her modiste,’ said
the old man, with twinkling eyes
“*Oh, no, she is civilized
wears shoes and stockings, and rarely
touches raw meat,
pray, why did sh
ceremony with her presence?”
country
1 4 ¢
London
stout, very
i
ot
<Q
a
4
quite
¢ 5 vil
wali,
pecause
cousins i to
He
attached
diver.
8 her court as
chief pearl 18 called the
that it
paid, post’
“ “Thank you, 1 see,
are who have come in together?
“ ‘With pleasure.’ I answered,
short one is Henrik Ibsen and
other ia Lord Salisbury.’
“ ‘Dear me, this is moet interesting:
the
the Spanish Ambassador--Don Jose
Manolo; he is a celebrated waltzer, and
his fandango is a thing to see’
a great and unexpected treat. Hullo!
I think she has come,’ he added, cran-
ing his neck.
“Yes, she undoubtedly had arrived
there was the usual commotion and
whispering and organ pealing, the
usual procession of choir boys. Then
the bride, walking very slowly—a love-
ly bride, though white as her gown
a girl of nineteen, splendid as lace and
diamonds could make her, leaning on
the arm of a boy of 26—not mv bride,
hut an utter and complete siranger.
Yhe was followed by ten bridesmaids,
in white satin frocks, white feathered
nats and carrying immense bouquets
of red roses; and the procession pass-
od, leaving me dumfounded. I was an
uninvited guest at the wrong wedding.
“My first {dea was to make a bolt
for it, but grandpapa’'s legs and stick
cut off that door of 80 de-
termined to sit still, make the
escape
and
uation,
“The ser over,
armed witl ts of flowers,
ed themselves among the congregation
and the girl you saw just now bow to
moe cane down way, all smiles,
white feathers and favors, She selzed
my old country grandpapu
‘Grandpapa’-—-and sald:
vice
1 baske
our
on
od that we were two dear friends en-
joying an animated conversation alter
a long separation
“ “You come quietly,’
the third time and as gaw no- other
alternative, 1 obeyed. As we crossed
the great landing, outside the recep-
tion-room, 1 noticed my old man of the
sea, sitting on a divan, He touched me»
with his stick and sald: ‘Hullo, going
already? Won't you wait and. present
he repeated for
I
dear; you couldn't see.’
* “Too hot up there,’ he anld,
“‘She behaved like a true
matrop and never shed a tear,
continued, as she pinned on his favor,
“‘Now, Gwen, you must decorate
my companion,’ he sald, indicating me
‘le has been first-rate company and
pointed me out all the lions and lion-
esses:’ vet there was a look in the old
man's eyes that I did not pre isely un-
of flowers and
p of these we be-
basket was upset
the gathering u
arious, not to say inti-
1ad filed
for car
cortege
“When the wedding
there the rush
reg, Now i y chance, |]
ed to slip off, 0 did my ven
companion,
was usu
Ww rose,
erable pinned me
Yer
You
are
firm
look
same
want
leg.
I was being carrie
may after
We gol
y %.3
a iame i Ci
ng piace,
an arm’
lafore 1]
1
and
I should have id a
knew where |
off in a
yl
was
SWARREer
Cadogan Squ
The house
and
man of
pet
to know
ers
cramined
the
and
expression
this
whispered. ‘I've
cracksmen
fashionable altogeth-
of wedding parties!
bracelet and
week
at Lady and
the two valuable rings and the Spanish
flounce, from Mrs. Floming's in
Lancaster you know,
this good while
are getting
fond
the
you
too i
100
diamond
were taken last
eh?
lanks's reception
Gate; and,
above a few apostles spoons,
or even a pair of nut-crackers! You
you; I've had your de-
scription photograph.’
“ “What do you mean? 1
asked, and I felt inclined to pitch him
out of the window,
“1 mean that I'm a detective of-
F Division and that I'm
going to hand you over to my men be.
you
BTL
an
the deuce
where you will be searched and charg
Oh, we have been expecting you
some time.’
a:
for
“I made a feeble and utterly futile
to escape, but he said: ‘The
legs trouble you give the better for
you, as you know of old. You come
away quietly: don’t go and ma.e a row
and spoil the party,’ and he gripped
my arm as in a vise,
“1 say, stop,’ I sald. ‘Here’ 3 my
card,” and I lugged it out and handed
it to him.
“Mr. R. Arminger,
“Arminger Park, wilts,
“ “The Apex Club, Pall Mall’
“He read aloud and then calmly re-
marked:
“ ‘Oh, yes, of course,
these little dodges.
not take a title’
“*But I am Mr. Arminger, | swear’
“Is there any one in the room wiil
swear to you?
“‘No one. 1 have come by mistake
to the wrong wedding.’
‘Bo 1 should suppose,’ he sneered.
‘And you've made this mistake once
too often.’
“Our altercation had been carried on
in a window recess and no doubt if
any oue noticed us at all, they suppos-
I'm up to all
I wonder you did
jut I was too furious to reply. How-
my companion stooped down and
whispered something and showed him
my card.
“The old fellow glanced quickly at
ft, then at me, and exclaimed: ‘1
thought I knew that nose! Why, you
must be the son of Teddy Arminger,
who was my old fag more that 50 years
you are Arminger, of Arminger,
eh?
Apparently, 1
noea for my
had a
was the
“I bowed profoundly
had to thank my father's
Hiberty! The Arminger
widespread celebrity, but it
first time that its reputation had been
of use to me!
“mr. Hook,’
quite
restime your
‘Come here and
nose
to the detective,
are mistaken once
for
duty.’ Then
1
me anda
mrself.’
all about 3
**You are
like your father
growing
and
moment
more
every
always got
You
him an
relative
He Oia
80
liv and invita
MY ang inv ed
nroanared for them
prepared for them
cemetery
LO liv»
neats, otherwise
sausages, charcuterie and
cold chicken. The
80 copious Wast
OCCaAsIons:
Was usual;
Kelkow put
supply
that de
i
i
that he could subsist
funeral gave him a
ing more food, as
ha was mally
80
chance of obtain-
AS money,
tipped by mourn-
well
occas
sepuichr
the
clothes
«loquence. At last however,
found that his
becoming seedy,
not afford a.new su
black
and
it of
Belgian
wore too
as he could
i
i
!
i
police, charging himself with having
obtained money under false pretences,
He is now thoroughly
shelter of the depot, and looks forward
on, free from carking care and fron
the necessity of delivering funeral ora-
never seen.-—London Telegraph.
Origin of “Norway Oats”
David W. Ramsade:, aged seventy.
three, died at his home, near South
Royalton, Vi, recently. He was born
in Washington, Vt, and always lived
in that state. In 1861, in a package of
seeds he received from the government
ments showed to be a new kind of oats
which he named “Norway oats.
mous fortune from the sale of this
grain. Over 23,000,000 was spent in ad-
vertising it. Poor business ability,
however, dlasipated his riches, and he
died practically a poor man.
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Parliament Lights,
The British Houses of Parliament
are partly lighted by 40000 electric
lamps, which number {s being con-
stantly increased. Fifty experienced
electricians are employed to keep the
system in order.
The estimate of the number of
tramps in the United States varies be
tween 40,000 and 0,000,
ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULY
TOPICS.
tn
vin
AL
First Work for Teams-+The Value of
the Weeder-~Etc,, Etc.
ENSILAGE,
no that ensi-
being succulent, mul
in winter than the
food that it supersedes. If there
little fermentation In it, that
that the food is already partly decom
posed and more ready for the gastric
juices But effect
advantage succulent ens
or
doubt
DIGESTIBILITY
There can be
laged food,
more digestible
is
act 10
the
to on,
resented by the carbonic
top of the silo, whi relied
Yann
keep
preventing
this it will ft comj
’ of hens
best laying
dark.
loss
is and has gamy
from its
is removed
lomesti
wide range
need but
i ina
than any other
where
will
te
that fowls have
that i
often
ay
of fowl. That
ne and
that has to
But a few add
poultry yard, and are valuable as
ie on
would
a
King
neans
CEES
ia
it
discarding
to the
true JW may be
led
variety
tinela for more valuable birds than
themselves —Boston Cultivator.
SAN JOSE SCALE TREATMENT.
Among the several methods of treatl-
ment for San Jose scale. the following
from Prof. Smith of New Jersey {«
worthy of attention: If tae trees ars
smooth bark, paint the trunks and
larger branches 20 far as they can he
easily reached with whale-oil soap
water, and put it on thoroughly, be-
ing sure to get an inch or so below
the surface to reach at that
point. During a dry spell in January
spray the upper parts of the trees with
a mixture of the same strength and
again treat the trunk with spray. In
February or March trim out carefully,
and cut every twig and branch that
the tree can safely spare. The object
of this trimming is to get rid of those
small spurs and twigs that are moet |
difficult to wet thoroughly by a spray,
and which would be most likely to
harbor isolated scales. The object of
spraying first, before cutting out, is
to retain the greater surface to catch
the spray, which will run down the
srotches and branches that are left,
caies
very small percentage of scales and
some trees will be entirely cleared. |
Thereafter the trees should be closely
watched in early June. At about the
a good mag
nifying glass Lvery tree on w
even one jarvae
ml
ali
tening purpo
BONS Are
for
garden
BOIN¢
Fd
manifests a
ubator for
ing a crop of chic
into
an int
aie
accommodate
the shape of eggs that
hand
1
"i
to have on
the uni
A man soweth
of Vers law
that
idl
days old, &
in a temperature in
above zero, af
night with a “nor-
might be thought
little thinga with-
want is a chance to
and they will do it
The trend of fine wool-
fabrics the only reason for
sharp advance in fine merino sta.
The primary lies in the
great shortage of the Australian ciip.
which it will take years to bring back
to tg old status; in the enormous loss
of merino wool by the almost univer
breeding in South America,
and the general dissipation of Merino
flocks in the United Btates by {ree
wool and extended cross breeding.
The "Oswald Ration’ is for fatten-
ing sheep and lambs, and would not
do for ewes in lamb. It is made up
of corn, oats, wheat screenings and oil
in about the following propor-
tions: 280 pounds of shelled corn, 0
pounds of «il meal, 32 pounds of oats
and 50 pounds of screenings. In first
putting the sheep and lambs on feeq
begin with a light feed of outs mixed
3 the
10 degrees fter
blowing
which
for the
All t
best,
wealer” too
Revere {to
stand, hey
(do their
1 fashionable
en is
the
file
¥
not
cause
gal cross
screenings and oil meal unt) the flock
are well used to the mixture when they .
may be put on full feed of the regular |
ration in the proportions givén above,
eat, fed with regularity as to time or
times,
We do not recommend corn in the
ed. The fodder itself is excellent,
from
it to the best hay.
eat the Je
ans
We RAve reason our own expe-~
Fisnce to prefer
feed than with hay
th for sheep
at
rent Kind
mix
grain
the diffs
neen ve
food Ww
a pint 2 GA)
lf 4 pint of the
meal, or
we find
Wes
good mi
of cotionsesd
meal
an excellent
with bran
food for
as it makes plenty of
hmerican sheep Breeder,
on
THRILLING CLIMAX TO 2 TRIAL.
Proving That Circumstantial Evidence Can
Be a Great Liar.
bie instance of
nota Ci
idence which came
my observation
Lugiand, some yes
well known
lawyer,
known to be somewhat
4 1 rye ¥
d a dissipated ch
murdering his
About Vegetables
and parts
WasR unn
always been
ily a wild seacoa
and
ana
Russia, an
Romans were
It is closely
asphodel, which the ancients
was the leading flower of
Asparagus is so plentiful on
that cattle ent
In some parts of
the are dried
batitute for coffee
tomato is native to Mexico and
America. It takes ite name from
tuguese word
3 8, native t0 Europe and the
East Indies have bean cultivated from
the earliest times. The pea is a na-
tive of Asia, and was brought by ths
Aryans into Italy and Greece
The turnip came from Rome. Spin.
ach is from Persia, brought into Spain
by a:av Aravs. Lettuce comes from
the east, and the ancients called it the
food of the dead. it was eaten at the
end of a feast to counteract the heal
ing effects of the wine,
Fish That Wear Clothes,
The ocean contains several fsh
which clothe and adorn themeelves.
The most conepiciious of them is the
anteonarius, a smail fish frequenting
the Saragasso Fea, which literally
clothes itsell with seaweed, fastening
the pleces tovsther with sticky, gela-
tinoes strings and then, as it wers.
holding the garment on with its fore
fing
It is reported that In the construe.
Tat
related t
1p posed
Im
Flussian steppes
a8
id
south-
seeds and
21d
sad oR
burg. the cars from Philadelphia, the
from Erie, the engines from
le i sl