HAIL CUBA! Isle of the tropic sea, Infant of Liberty, The people welcome thee From long oppression; The free lands of the West, Enfold thee to their breast And bid thee live at rest An honored nation. Hail. Cuba! young and fal Thy gifts are rich and rare, And in thy balmy air Are peace and healing; Thy destiny is wide, With sister States allied, Thou standest in thy pride To right appealing. Thy hope is not in vain Today the people reign, And every fretting chain Is burst asunder; From al this hemisphere The crown must disappear, That peace may never fear The tyrant's thunder! Lo! the new day Is nigh, While thrones in shadows lie, And blazoned on the sky Is freedom’s story: Beneath her warming sup The frozen streams shall run Till all the world is won To share her glory! —Richard IL. Dawson in Press, WIGGLESBY'S WOON. New York would find it ever so much handler than a knife for such work" “Gosh! that was a narrow escape, I thought she was going to say a-—a wife.” muttered Wigglesby to himself as he dashed out of the room in gearch of the tack hammer, “Thank you very much” said Mrs. Wiltsey, with a grateful smile, when Wigglesby returned with the required article. “It is real kind of you to lend your hammer, and 1 will surely bring it back the minute I'm through with it.” “You're welcome, 1—1'm sure; and and there's no hurry about bringing it back,” Wigglesby managed to stammer as his fair caller took her departure] with the hammer, After she was gone Wigglesby was| unaccountably nervous and dejected. | His bachelor bosom had suddenly be-| come filled with a vague unrest, a new, strange longing. Could it be that, ! after all, there was something lacking in the life he was leading? He wan- dered restlessly about from room 0] room, and somehow the big house had never seemed to him so empty as it Next day there came a timid knock Wigglesby's heart jumped every word of the gracious “Just my luck!” he groaned, and then hastily puling himself together, he started for the door, groping blind ly about in his mind in the meanwhile for his mislaid speech. Before he had the doorway he had found it once more, and all might yet have been reached When a man has lived to the mature age of 40 outside the pale of matrimo- ny and during the last half dozen years of that period has scarcely looked at a woman, there is very little hope for him. Such, yeast. was the case witn Hezekiah Wiggleshy., Whenever Wig- glesby saw himself in his mirror, which happened once a day, when he shaved himself (not being vain or a woman, Wigglesby had no occasion to consult it oftener). he had a deplorable habl of addressing congratulatory remark to his reflection in the glass fact that they—he and the were ‘able get along withe silly sex,” as Wigglesby alliter expressed it. at 8 n the on shadow to the atively and it Cer- thie I use the term deplorable tainly is, deeply so, when an o sensible man is addicted to talking himself in the glass and trying to « ceive himself in the f that {8 a perfectly happy and conten bachelor. when such a thing is an utter anomaly and impossibility Wigglesby knew at the Lottom heart that unsatisfactory and inco dally seif-congratul a low mockery and a and thing more than all else that caused him to realize this was an occasional glimpse which was vouchsafed him of a plump young widow who had recently moved into the roomy old farm house across the way For years the place opposite had teen what is known as an “abandoned farm.” but it had lately come into the possession of Mrs. Wiltsey, a gsubstan- tial and pleasant-looking widow, who in company with a younger sister, had moved from the engage In the fascinating and (sometimes) profit avle pursuit of chicken ralsing Until t Wiggleaby's daily vision had undisturbed by the sight of a woman, save when one hap- pened to drive by, and in that cass there was no law compelling Wiggles- by to look at her—and he usually didn’t. Wigglesby attended to himself after a fashion of his own, which was ce tainly original, though it would pro ably bother him some to secure a pa- temt on He had a way of making a instance, so that nobody on earth ex cept Wigglesby himself could tell which end wasintended for the head and whic the foot, and sometimes he couldn And when it came to baking flapjacks, a dish of which he was very fond, Wig- glesby usually distributed the dough §mpartially over the top of the stove, the griddle and the floor, so that when he got through preparing the meal the kitchen looked as if the battle of Bun- ker Hill had been fought over again on the spot, with dough for ammuni- tion. It was one of those interesting occa- slons—when Wigglesby was struggling with a refractory batch of flapjacks, 1 mean—that he received his first call from Mrs. Wiitsey, the plump widow across the way. He had a griddle full of flapjacks baked on one side, and he was making a herolc effort to turn them over, using a table knife for that purpose, so that they could bake on the other, when a pleasant face sud- denly appeared in the half-opened doorway and a musical voice said: “Excuse me; this is Mr. Wigglesby, { presume.” i The flapjack which Wigglesby was in | the act of turning dropped with a thud to the floor, and poor Wigglesby turned all the colors of the rainbow at once and incoherently stammered. “N--n—no; | m—mean yes, I'm M-— Mr. Wiggs—1 should say Wigglesby; and—and-—-7" “And I'm Mrs. Wiheey, your new | neighbor, and I can’t find my tack- hammer, and I would like to borrow | yours for a while if you don’t mind lending it. But I see I'm interrupting your work, and—pardon me, but your | flapjacks are burning. Allow me tn] turn them for you, won't you? There! now they are all right, but you really | need i “Oh, no; n—no I don’t!” interrupted Wigglesby, hastily. “Really—I—" “Why, yes you do, Mr. Wigglesby,” ‘calmly went on the plump widow; “you need a regular pancake turner. They only cost a few cents and you reise {0 te - belle he to tad ed oid f hia tg the life he was leading was my that his ete, ations were farce, one city to hey came been r= b- U it it. bed, f a, 1 Vr ah a ‘t hammer it by bringing back the herself, Mrs. Wiltsey had sent her unger sister. When Wigglesby and saw a girl standing something in her hand ward him, the smile on his face denly vanished and he waved her away with, “Don’t want anything today, Miss, I n buy from , “But I don't want you to she laughed “This is your tack ham and my to she was ever and ever so much oblige for it.” Al me vie opened the door there extended to with mud aver ¥ buy | mer, sister said tell yo f the use of ‘Br—excu Miss,” stammered © you for a—one 0 confounded ' I should agents, an fact is, why didn't your sister come 14 wo the SAY [er Lord, it herself? Then uidn't happened.” And i incoheren ynelusion to his attempte the aston somewhat lame seized his Wigglesby and fled, leaving ished caller still standing at When Maud Maxwell e young woman's name) upon her r« turn jaughingly her the particulars of her interview wi Mr. Wigglesby, she wound up by say ing “Don't think he must be tf ar} teeta? ifle cracked, tlie’ ria iLL JOEY, an Hammer namaiet the door {for such waa th to related sigler ih h you a K with a amile of superior intelll- Kittle {(otherwire Kate And gence known as Mrs, the astute Wiltsey) dryly observed that is, no more crack is.” ‘1 guess not any which widow d ed than old bachelor From plump alted opinion of him t urn to is evident that the not have & very ex- a man who preferred + is id : ie to “flock by self But several sode he drifting Wigglesby. For the hammer e most of his ti about his house grounds, and casting furtive and quent glances across the perchance his fair neighbor might be coming to borrow something else. A woman, he reasoned, is always losing things; and, of Mrs. Wiltsey woud come over to borrow again, For where else could she go except nearest neighbor? So Wigglesby kept on the qui vive, with his entire collec- tion of farming and ments in readiness for lending at moment's notice. But, alas! the plump neither to borrow nor and finally Wigglesby was in He even began think se- riously sneaking across the way some dark night and stealing some of Mrs, Wiltsey's tools, she would compelled to the next day borrow him Somehow he felt that he must secure another interview and get better ac- quainted with her in some way, either by hook or crook, and at the same time he kept wondering why it was that to re i Bi ne after the days spent uneasily and fre to see if ii WAY course, to her household equip- a widow came not to tend; lespair. to of k be nd ®O come a of est in the woman-—or, at least, in one woman, The reader has probably guessed the truth: Wigglesby was in love, but be- ing a new experience to him he dia He knew He had for his complaint, and when an old bachelor reaches that stage there is For a fortnight Wiggleaby waited in vain for a second call from his new neighbor, and then it occurred to him! that perhaps she was waiting for him consider her borrowing expedition a Wiggles | governing such matters, but he finally | only neighborly to call and let her know that his services and the re- sources of his establishment were ot her disposal at any time she should happen to need them. S80, shaving and dressing himself with unusual care, he betook himself across the way, and was in the act of ringing Mrs. Wiltsey's doorbell when the plump widow herself came around a corner of the woodshed, in her work- ing clothes, and with a clucking and protesting pullet under her arm. “Why, good afternoon, Mr. Wiggles- by,” began she smlilingly, and without the slightest trace of embarrassment, “I'm so glad you happened to call as you did. Perhaps you 2an tell me how to make this hen stay en the eggs un- til they're hatched. She has been aet- ting two weeks, and now has taken a notion to quit. This makes the third time I've caught her off the nest in the past two hours.” “Why-—why don't you fasten her on,” suggested Wigglesby, with a sul- den burst of inspiration. “Oh, thank you!” exclaimed Mrs. Wiltsey. “I thought of doing so, bul wasn't just sure whether it was right or not. Just hold her a minute, will you, while I hunt up a rope to tie her And the next thing Wigglesby knew he was standing there alone, looking very foolish but happy, with that balky hen tightly clasped in his hands, while his hustling neighbor had vanished in search of the requisite cord té secure the fowl on the nest, She presently returned with it and offered to Wigglesby of his charge, but Wigglesby sald: "No, it relieve erly anchor that pullet on the nest, aud seeing that your sister isn't on hand render the necessary assistance, I would just as soon help you as not.’ From this it would seem that Wig- glesby was Improving very rapidly. “It is very kind of you, I'm sald plump widow, favoring Wig- glesby with a grateful smile, which up- get him so he came near dropping the hen he holding. He quickly re- covered himself, however, and meekly followed his neighbor as she led the to the nest to sure, the Was way “There Wiltse “thirteen they are,” exclaimed Mrs when they reached the spot as fine eggs A&8 Were ever 1 just happened to think of if the number has any- o with acting don’t suppose the eggs and found thirteen of them set Y. laid; and I thing does? it wonder her as whe hen haa out that and more, to d You counted the that do | there were is why she refuses to any 1't wonder,” sald plaguey—I superstition Wigglesby, females hens “All “ii are so mean are so 18, you} know Are they? ‘I didn’t know it.” hastily responded Wigglesby. | i nself on the fact that | n't the G83 ratulating hiz noticed bad | making, make thirt t ne near as irteen or no ht DIRE th well if think 1 » LO slay lieved Wiggleaby looked wi he surest t in the then stick her legs de under WAY bootie of the hrough | nest, but | ow yw t fe, fast tie them the » the eges wouldn't fall | inquired the own- | this point wondering about self I ‘t this tying her the nest is going to work very well Wait, and I'll if I can a box | to turn down over it 1 get one then | weight on OUsiy 4 evn aon 1k soe find u her can enough, and hold it down, likes it putting Mr " sald smail "nit pun gO. 10 act tt 1* But I'm fesd awiu ii an sh or not whether she afraid 1 am to | t of i0t of you an by." “Not at all; just as soon and--and help you set a hen every day if you want me Just as soon not.’ Oh, yes; Mr. Wigglesby was progress- ing. trouble, come over to. as finally found the right sort of a | box, and he and the plump widow be- | tween them hen under it and | the box weighted down, and then Wigglesby said he guessed it was | time was going “But.” he added, thoughtfully, “I'll-- come over again tomorrow to help this hen out and feed her and put | the nest again. Shell taken out and fed once a | can't do it got the properly he er get her have day, back te be and of on course you alone ’ But Tow. pister will be home tomor- She has only gone for the day, and when she gets back she can help me if I need any assistance.” “Oh, well,” sald Wigglesby, in an injured tone of voice, “if you prefer her assistance to Miao" The widow broke in with a gay lit- ti» laugh, and then suddenly grew so- ber, “All right; you may come again to- morrow-—if you wish,” she sald de- murely. A week later the hen my {which had couraged to stick to her post by her two faithful attendants) hatched out a dozen downy chicks, and when Wig- glesby took them from the nest and in Mrs. Wiltsey's apron fashion, and cooed: “What tiny, helpless little things they are! One cannot help loving them!” “1 suppose not,” said Wigglesby. gloomily. “I wish I'd been hatched in- stead of born, and they maybe some- body’'d love me” “Why, you great goose! You are per- fectly eligible on that score; but I hadn't heard that you had asked any. body yet.” “f haven't, but I'll do so at once if “Plenty of time, seeing it's you,” whispered Kittie, and during the next few minutes that apronful of chickens narrowly escaped smothering, while the old hen clucked anxiously about, and nearly expired of nervous prostra- tion before her offspring were finally restored to her safe and sound.—Den ver Republican. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, Straw as Malch—-Profit in Geese=-Prepare Ground Well for Oats-~Farming On Shares--Etc., Etc. AS MULCH. In grain-growing localities farmers | have a cheap supply of excellent muleh | fn the straw of the grain crops they rajse. In most cases no better use| can be found for this than to use it as! a mulch for trees set recently. If the| ground is plowed the soll under the | tree should be covered with at least] enough straw to keep the surface soll | loose and friable, air is enabled to enter it, and this is absolutely neces- sary to give vigorous growth to the roots. Quite often, in planting trees deep holes are dug in the subsoll, and earth without any vegetable matter i» thrown to the surface. Some mulch around the tree so far as the subsoil extends will prevent it from om- ing hardened and excluding air.—Bos-| ton Cultivator. STRAW be PROFIT IN GEESE In our anxiety to make profit from wae often overlook the fact the domestic feathered are others that may raised. There are many favor of the goose, and not of them is the fact that they less food when growing than chickens or ducks, Then they disease than auy ir fowl and can be profitably raised numbers Ti Toulouse general-purpose chickens that among tribes there profitably things in the least require either ar be ¢ leas liable to othe in large the ie is being and too large and clumsy to fly. geese successfully a suitable t given them; plenty of access to water both is about that farms readily profit best breed, docile To raise place uit be grass free summer, all Most h can » ranch with have bey PREPARE GROUN OATS other in tr Saro the put farmer seen [ATIDCETS wet might be expected, ther # VO cut Crops by sowin n #la the double but ground corn thi IK with ow and thet Mi harrowing % an uncertain Ah Last fall 1 had my od always 1 id pe as | ry meadow harrowing will A day or two it for of good weat! will fit the drill harrow in be fit is that ne and the plow before oth er ground will advantage early and to he Tt t it can be pm in good condition Farmer FARMING ON SHARES Tenant There are farming the several is On plans for the well increase Perhaps the tenant to fur- as all labor, di- crops. Sometimes the horses and common is viding equally the the landlord furnishes feed, and two-thirds of crop. The fertilizers, when used, is divided according to the share of crop received, The tenant usually has house, garden and firewood frees He must deliver the landlord's share of the crop to the nearest station Farming on shares has advantages as well ag disadvantages. The owner of the farm gets more money out of {* than he could by farming it himsels, supposing, of course, that he is not blessed with boys to do the work wifh. out hiring help. That is to say, where the owner has to hire extra labor for all the work incidental to raising and harvesting crops, he will save money, as a rule, by getting some good man to farm for him for a share of the crop. The trouble often is to get a good man. They are not plentiful. Ther: are more of the other sort. Unless care is taken, the owner will bargain with one who is "no good.” and who will make nothing (but trouble) for himself or the owner either. i The greatest disadvantage of the tenant system is the difficulty of keep- | ing up fertility and appearance of the farm when rented. ‘The owner can,! and certainly should, in the contract,! reserve the right of naming the rota-| tion of crops, require the tenants | to haul and spread the manure, and do all the farming in a husbandiike man- | ner. And vet there are many things that could be done to help the fertility, as well as the appearance, of the farm | that a tenant cannot be expected (o do. After all, whether it is better to farm on shares must depend on the circumstances surrounding each par tienlar casc~—John A. Todd, of Vie ginia, receives the # cost of DEHORNING CATTLE. Dehorning cattie has been 2xtensive- ty practised in many parts of the country. In the dalry sections the need and the advantages of dehorn- \ng are not as well understood as on the ranges where cattie run together in large herds. The subject is attracting attention just at present in this State, and the bulletin on dehorning now be- ing distributed by the Maine Agricul tural Experiment Station will be read with unusual Interest. The following conclusions regard- ing dehorning are taken from the bul- letin: Dehorning is to be recommended be cause dehorned cattle are more easily because dehorned cattle enjoy life better. “A great deal of suffering is prevented by the removal of horns.” To dehorn mature animals, clippers should be used that will remove the in a moment of time, When it ig skillfully performed, ani- do not give evidence of great an effect of dehorning tissues injured in dehorning are very well supplied with and they are quickly cut Good evidence that denorning is not very painful is the fact that cattie will resume feeding immediately after being operated on, and the yield of milk in cows is not perceptibly affected. Com- with castration of colts and dehorning may be cousiderel The not pared calves painless. Those who are familiar with the op- of dehorning and the results are most enthusiastic eratic of it cates In the past been made to prevent the practice dehorning on the ground that it caus- ed needless pain. It would seem 1 us that efforts can now opetter be ex- pended by endeavoring to have the last of a horn removed from our do- mestic cattle, who ceased to need them when they came under the protection of man Horns may sometimes be or- namental, but it Is evident that they are y useless, expensive and dan gerc its efforts have frequently of 0 reli usual luxuries, PIGS FOR PROFIT. To make pig growing profitable you should beg n before the farrowed fully time cgra ration idiings, roots diminish the ’ i with the sow two by Begin Ug are pigs months before [i eed named farrowing they are and kill oked after is the breed are poorly bred we need ich of a pre bred they t expect fit from them etter larger profit, if Don’t think that thing properly DECAN: n elpe well-fed in pig first with feed 3 bred, and together the growing ¥ SOW has her tirb her fc @ her a she little water oni) may fed a Increase gradually werk day be before she milk much the 8 T TT] Foo much Pro- milk SCOUTS in growth oid make 100 will have them back are a week all the mother will give, and there is no danger of over-feeding The all bran middlings mixed with milk from this time Jegin gradually to give her a corn to keep her from getting poor Increase this corn as the pigs begin and at the same time diminish e slop for the sow, saving the milk, food it to the pigs instead of the Make a pen of rails and put little troughs in it, and feel the pigs in it. They wili soon learn to go through the cracks and eat. By this method the pigs at six or eight weeks old, will almost wean themselves and hardly know that they a mother. They should have all the good slop they will eat up clean three times a day, and no more. A Jot with good pasture should also be provided where they can have plenty of exercise. which After the pigs or so they will take the Hr sow should have on tits le iittie 100 to eat ¥ iid RilqQ - SOW several An in and ashes whenever they want it old barrel or box with a hole cut with one-third salt and placed in the where they can get to it at alt mes, is a good way. The box should be fastened down and a lid put over it to keep out the rain. You will be surprised at the amount they will eat. If supplied with these things, they won't root so much, anfl it may nol be necessary lo put rings in their noses. [I think they do better without the rings. If you can get charcoal for them, you will find it most excellent.—I. N. Cowdrey, in Farm, Field and Fireside. POULTRY NOTES. it the little chicks droop, look out for lice. Start the chicks them growing. Keep lime, grit and charcoal before the chickens, Fight the lice; they are sure death to profit in pouitry. lot right and keep can find. Do not give a hen more than one dozen chicks to care for. Do not let the mother take the chicks out in the cold. Keep her con- fined. Do not feed little chicks soft food— oat meal first, cracked grain after. ward. Keep the houses dry and clean and you will prevent half the winter sick- nog: AMORE your fowls. Eggs a month old will hatch weil if kept "hn an even temperature and turned nalf over every day or two. A little lard rubbed under the wings land on top of mother hen’s head will It does not pay to breed from fowls { which have been affected with roup or | other diseases which sap the vitality | from their system. The young stock | from such matings are almost certain [to show some traces of the disease, | Clean out the nets and burn the old in. i side before putting in the clean st {or hay raw Corn is not an egg food, it should { not be fed exclusively, only in cold weather, and then as a night feed, Your chickens ought be giving | you an average egg vield of from 100 {to 150 eggs per fowl for the year Hang up some the poorer cabh- bages in the poultry house for the chickens to jump for They need the green eXerCine Underfed hens are poor layers, espe- cially as they cannot tain aterial, which find on in summer One of the successful men of America grinds OAals of pounds of th bran for the very to of food and in ob- they winter, extra m the range the most poultry- of 200) of two bushels th with pounds mash, and “an 10660 wi one corn, wv: § nixes morning iB ———— i ——— The Expense of London's Lord Mayor. A man must have a fat pocketbook f to fill the office of lord mayor of ion- . Sh don. The for tions an res entertainment expendit d cess of ie salary lowances or about the su the office. The George Faudel spent 2 It preceding o Philips, 125 00 in excess He has famine relie ibllee funds 11 the iis’ tip ie and allowances of the Indian many of the § the patron of an ‘annus mir lists and subscribed lit Era h thousands taken chariti of Eysiemua coding ally 10 # Yery 4 fous hospitality iE nal rded nt of the Yo Mr nister ky ve, the Hon recon by a « uths : Durwel} of Tennessee year 1X52, t William d responde The Rev ue mn Companion: an old Metho- dist went Kentud in the relnti inl Bol was invited to he family ig during his stay day Judge Cone and his wife pass the nigh we old minister ight ut ti Bible, that the service short tha! Judge every evens Une from Nashv ame to Mr. Bolton said to ti he br © hie was probably neq (rn on ¢ or two verses and then “0! lord poor and needy Thou a our wants; but ( that Judge Cone Nashville, used family ne he prayed, are very know willing to supply all ‘ousin William his 3 a creatures, and we a rt able and BAYS rom us not worship, and however needy we are, there is no time to spare in telling Thee our wants Amen” The judge was greatly taken aback and so was his host Between them they persuaded Mr. Durwell to continue his prayer whith he did great earnestness eloquence, A ang wife, who are wit are to with and Os the Education of Lions When lions were still numerous and easily observed in southern Africa they were sometimes seen instructing one another in voluntary gymnastics, and practicing their leaps, making a bush play the part of the absent game, Moffatt tells tne story of a lion which had missed a zebra by miscalculating the distance, repeating the jump sever- al times for his own instr-cuon; two of his comrades coming upon him while he was engaged in the exercise, | he led them around the rock to show | them how matters stood, and then, re- | turning to the starting point, comple- ted the lesson by making a final leap. { The animals kept roaring during the | whole of the curiofs scene, “talking to- | gether,” as the natives who watched | them said. By ..e aid of individual training of this kind, industrial ani. mals become apter as they grow older; | oid birds, for instance, constructing | more artistic nests than young ones, | and 1i...e mammals like mice becoming more adroit with age. Yet, however, ancient in the life of the species these acquisitions may be, they have not the solidity of primordial instincts, and are lost rapidly if not used. -—Popular Science wsonthly. Not to Be Omwitied. The parents of a Bethany, Mo, gin objected to her suitor, and to keep her from runging away locked her in her room. Her “dearly beloved” was not to be outwitted, and remembering that ghe had a few weeks before taken a searfpin or ring belonging to him, he had a warrant jseued for her arrest and sent the officer to serve the paper. While the omcer was taking her to town i.e lover met her on the road, and having all preparations made, went on her bond and drove with her im- i | mediately the preacher's house, where they were made one.
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