A GOOD WOMAN Busy at her work all day, Never asks a cent of pay, Thinks it cught to be that way: Thank the Lord for Susan! Singin’, when she want to sing, Like the robins in the spring; Scoldin’ some, like everything: Thank the Lord for Susan! Always ready, day or night; Always willin'—she's a sight. When it comes to doin’ right: Thank the Lord for Susan! Me and seven children’s what She looks after, well or not, And she's “Mother” to the lot: Thank the Lord for Susan! Goes to church on Sundays, too, ‘Long with all she's got to do; It's her that's goin’ to pull me through: Thank the Lord for Susan! In her halr is streaks of gray, And the crows’ feet's come to stay; Eut I like her best that way: Thank the Lord for Susan Made of consecrated clay, She cits better every day: Thank the Lord for Susan! W. 8. LAMPTON. girl to The day was closing in and the at the window could no read. She instead, into neighboring garden, bounded by low hedges and wind-bowed firtrees sharp- ly outlined against a glowing crimson sky. And on the same background the small head made a charming ette; the rounded cheeks pointed chin, the low straig and little self-willed nose, all the soft halo of fluffy thin, rasping voice of a mott the girl from the thoughts which ha saddened her large dark eves of domestic cares was enumerated, a then the girl's mother approached the window and endeavored to i fugitive attention of her daught subjacts nearer home, “Maisie,” she began, hesitat! want to speak to you {the girl knew the particul voice, and broke in quickly mother, please not that! girl, it's positively ridi you always interrupt a ten to reason,” and, wi makes my position ex« ward and unpleasant. do with you? Do you realiz Malsie? Nearly 24. Why, your si were all married before they were you age, and Connie had tw id “A relentlessly, “I am besi by men who wish t are a pretty girl, Malsie any of your sisters, and more dear grandmother, who wa belle in her time—but nobody will of happiness match will Sutton" — (Ah! ing.” sighed come very anxi you really must and I can him away with more trouble about 3 best match in the cot intelligent, heir to a remember, none of your tled—indeed, After a pause she went to know stands in doing as the others had to do you, and of taking up a positi as the wife of a good man “You mean of a rich man!” sald languidly, folding her h#nds, and again turning her eyes to the ga A tall man, with bowed hands ciapsed behin restlessly over the inches of freshly failen ing the sound of Kk footsteps, and the girl watched with uncons lous fascination the dark prints left in the flat whiteness. The tall stranger, with the grave face and ath letic, though now stooping form, had never shown the to make friends; indeed, had seemed deo. termined to avoid any chance or risk of doing so. Years ago, when the girl s mother had called upon the lonely new comer, she had found longer see looked, the again present,” the me } i look at to to speak to give hi only say that you cane wl 11 ! ad -of setting my mind the girl is qui shadowy siightest desire him at home, and he only acknowledged the visit by he never made or received calls. and lived a life of study and unbroken soli- tude. To-night, as her mother talked, and the girl's attention wandered to the growing number of blue-gray foot- prints in the snow, an unusual cireum- stance arrested her thoughts and drew her still farther from the sordid and wearisome conversation. A servant came out of the house and handed to the man an orange-colored envelope, alone. Then he disappeared. ware of a question in her mothers . face and voice.’ She risked, at ran- her: “Oh, yes, if you like, mother!” The reply was evidently appropriate, A smile diffused the hard, weary fea- tures of the elder woman; the very silk of her gown seemed to squeak sud- den approval, “My dear good child, this is sweet of you! That poor young man will be go happy.” Whereupon the dear good child was enveloped in a black silk embrace and covered with Impulsive kisses. “And you will tell him so yourself, dearie; or shall I see hiz= alone first? - I expect you will both feel a little ghy and constrained.” “l should like you to gee him by yourself, mother,” sald the girl, rising and wondering with complete disinter- est what would be the outcome of her mental aberration and wandering re- sponse, “And I may mother, eagerly. “Anything you like," her daughter answered as she disappeared. The servant entered with a tea tray, made up the fire, and lowered the blinds. The girl passed swiftly through the hall, wrapping a soft gray cloak about her as she went, and then, open- ing a side door and closing it quietly behind her, she slipped out into the snow-covered garden. In the low hedge which divided it from the neigh tell him—"sald the boring patch there was a broken space was where she lawn owner's footsteps multi Snow, As she had ex- he had left his garden and through this she made her into the hall, and thence into the room from which as yet a light ‘ged. fire and red-shaded A showed charming study, a moment later the very just seen the g in the ACTOSS she COZY her a neighbor, y Lie beheld her three years’ delightful lit sanc- oT On the threshold she stood still with i From what she had seen of his face she had not thought him remarkable in appearance-—this man without doubt 3 hand some. She h lieved the bowed form belonged to a was ularly ad b man of 50 at least have than 35 $ Y . 11 haot this man could not been and w vague nse whereas as probably less of vexation wished she had my few vears we gether; b : of us, then be the the resig- picture in a cir- cular frame, and shall smile to see how well the She laugh- ed hopelessly. i and 1if I will impartiality of my ome clear and slandpoint of nation, as a charming age, ence or colors blended.” “Poor little girl!” he muttered. ris-| ing, and, leaning against the mantel- piece, he looked down at her with! yearning, dreamy eyes. “Shall I tell you the riddle of my fife?” he asked. She assented. “Ten years ago 1 married the girl my father chose for me—an heiress, the only child of rich and indulgent parents We did not love each other- a punishment which I doubiives Less jhan a year after de. | our exX- dav and | and Vainly I strove | pression in my wife's face, which became more apparent, then she began to talk strangely say senseless things, ence of a mad woman left me in douhi | no longer as to the terrible thing which had come upon me. | discovered then that her grandmother had died in an asylum, and that a brother, whose very existence had been hidden from me, had shot himself while temporarily in- sane. I won't describe to you the hor. ror oi the next few months, when the best brain doctors in London pronotnc. ed her case hopelsssly incurable, and when I had done all I could to restore the balance of ker disordered mind, without avail. § did not want to send the poor thing away; but the matter was taken out of my hands. When } was recovering from a knife wound in my left temple—vyou see I am destined to carry a reminder of her to my grave ~the doctors insisted on removing her to an asylum, and there 1 have been obliged to leave her ever gince.” The girl had drawn nearer to him; his story had been a shock to her, but her thoughts were not of herself, “How dreadful!” she said, “and how lonely you must often Why have you never let me know you all these years?" “I--1 dared not!''-—he turned away. He did not see the glory of love and suffering that shone in her soft dark Maybe he heard both In her voice, for there stole into his eyes the light of happiness, “It was unkind of you,” she sald: “l might have been better than noth- ing." She crept to him, and put her hands in one of his; he bent hem, holding them to his brow. “Little girl, you don't understand,” he “Better than nothing! you were better could not say Every day since I first here I think I would have given you come in at that door And so the vears lonely, but jt that were wonder if be, eves, close shyly wer said softly. it was just because than everything that I to you ‘Come! ( ame my soul to gee as you did to-night passed. I was often satisfied me to near It amused we should KNOW you me fo what say to each other ever we met enGives 3 research New ifn iid The Sole Survivor. sailor is a prosale animal; story, the rratives of casualities which Some years ago the ried In and appar- Hd) gea are those sh vessel des ri f1iama ar dismasted He per lowered investigate ind it 4iM- approach ount of the rigging On deck gign of hu- : had g me, was deck house carried away fush with the deck. In sick in his bunk, was an English sailor, who told an almost an incredible tale, In effect 1 spars and yd alongside the ightest boats the vi wb 3 on o5 41 nasheed, ana the forecaatle, however, were summoned on deck to take in sail, and so prepare for an approach- ing squall. The sailor was too sick for this service, so kept his berth, And it was well he did, for of all the com- pany on deck. not a single man sur- vived. A huge sea came along, swept the bark from bow to dtern, and ear- ried overboard every living soul, except —joncon Syren. Slave Markets in Finland, A regular slave mart still exists 1n many country districts of Finland, Once a year such paupers, lunatics and aged people of each parish as cannot support themselves are put up at pub- ile auction and consigned to those far. ilies or farmers who will board fhem at the lowest price offered by the par- ish authorities. The helpless creatures are made to work as much as possible by their owner, who have the right to chastise them. Anaconda, Mont. is getting ready to defy the rivalry of the world in its public fountain, with a perpendicular jet three inches in diameter and 220 feet high. A new §erman church has been com. pleted in Jerusalem at a cost of $200. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, Mulching Potatoes-~A Window Fernery-To Make Potpourri---Keep Only ood Cows To Destroy Cutworms--Etc., Etc. MULCHING POTATOES. Good results with potatoes have been secured by mulching between the rows with straw as a protection during dry seasons and for keeping down weeds, The mulching with straw has long been known, and has {ts advocates, but one objection is that the straw gerves as a harboring place for insects, FERNERY., nothing | A WINDOW For a window fernery prettier than a merchant's show case One can often find them at second hand stores. Paint them a of green, and then put in plants ferns and and as the glass-inclosed temperature ways warm and These cases are of any size feet long and half as wide is the most con- venient gize Dwarf palm mi planted, and 80 may orange and the "Wandering Jew,” well as ferns of dark shade your box IMOE8es, i8 the is al moist one about three LY or lemon seeds 11 apenely . all description TO MAKE POTPOURRI Potpourri should be mad ers during be made different variety maxer no sce flower with tabl Do not The righ about two «¢ unces If BRiB0O of powdered orris root are mixed in with fragrance and perm Now the potp tha ut in the jars that are sold | Boa 2 ol ie Did done three pian are sel ou worn will be attracted to the bait wiil eat it and will be killad iit seems to be wheat bran. two cheap molasses, and two pour I Mix the 1 son togetherthoroughiy i 3% / aca 1ae a gallon of w ran a pol- ledry. The i ited of paris green n molasses, previou with warm enough water to make u can be handled easily without runnin This plan has ] 1 ! used by a large number of farmers and specially the It is business ¥ a 2 % OBEN very su GREY recommended by {Bulletin 55) and does the cutworms inexpensive Where are n be from four to eight frequen trie practical d al 8 ing with the cutworm pest scheme yet devised UNPLOWED HEADLANDS We think the practice of leaving a headiand unplowed at the end of the furrow, instead of running as cloge to the fence as possible, is growing among farmers. And yet we are not sure that it is a good one. We remember soe- ing in boyhood unplowed headlands for the practice has gprung But they have a reason for il, as the young grafted stock, if tramped on by a horse, is ruined, and a single tree thus jost makes a vacant place in the row. But an occasional hill of corn, tramped out when cultivating, than to waste a width of seven to ten feet used only as a headland. Besides, with the farm- er the hoed crop only occupies the ground one year, followed next spring by either oats or barley. Neither of | these do well on sod ground, and so | these is more than enough loss the | second year to make up what may have been gained the first.— American Cuiti- | vator, —“——“—“ TREATMENT OF SWAMPY LAND. A. W. B. has a piece of meadow land | that cannot be plowed except during | a dry season. Two years ago he plow | ed it and seeded to oats. Last year he planted to corn and lost the crop. He wants to know how to treat the land. As far as my experience goes nothing -® on this kind of land. finest crop of corn can be raised, but Ing In the shock the result is, as a rule, on necount of the will the inner which mount rendering proper drying impossible a similar way would growth, and before the crop wz for fodder or grain much of it be flat ana worthless. Seed to grass in August. In the meantime get quite an accumulation of manure, together with a good admix- ture of sand. This will improve both the physical and when applied to the surface which will what mechanical condition Plow at be sandy harrow until it when it Apply manure afforded down well as often as possible aif a be alf a is dry. can be and time to seed Bow h ten pounds of small re and pounds of , bush and roll. It must be bered that this kind of d, will gradually tion of the wild then be newly seeded is timothy, - R «rs al i1 er, five alsike acre Sonal ALG revert to the "eo 1 vy 14 grasses, It must If A B land more favorably located for draine produ Ww other vation It would pay better to let alone until can be to a favorable raining 4 ne $ h will get the HEIFER CALVES improve his dal airyman and far he should by no to purchasing cows to a for unless an ex- od judge of miich ot prove satis{ it to purchase a firg! the herd, then grade heifers of the Ar pose to head the best only such retaining prove their ability to show a good » it milk i ge or butter of keeping them Every dairyman, and even th with but cows, should test which over Cont few have a with er Babcock {to ance during the year These chines are now fo be had at very sonable rates, and a single test herd will oftentimes repay the gary outiay by exposing some cow which not paying ber board With the Babcock test and a scale for weighing the milk, a very clese estim- ate may be obtained of the exact amount of butter made from time to time. When the heifers come in milk this wil enable one to see just what they are doing, and furnish a way to tell which pnes to retain and which to dispose of. With such a sire as should head the dairy herd the greater proportion of these heifers will be better than their dams. In the course of a few years one will by such a system of breeding have as fine a herd of dairy cows for all practical purposes as money can buy, with a total cash outlay of only the first cost of the bull. By following the line of breeding prescribed for only eight vears, the owner of one herd of common native cows has raised the average butter yield from 200 pounds a year to over 300 pounds. Select a sire with strongly inherited robber is him, and better cows can be raised er. The man who has cows to sell does not offer his best ones, as a rule, but reserves those for his own use. If the purchaser sticceads in getting these he pays a good round price for them. Breed your own instead of buying, un- less to introduce new blood as a foun. | cows is advisable to begin with, bus { to the average dairyman, who lg now | depending upon purchases to keep up { his herd number as old cows drop out, it Is raise your heifer calves, then you will be sure of having good cows at a nominal price—that is, | the cost of growing them. Don’t trust | to buying what some one else wants to rid of. York Tribune, best to best get New MONEY IN MANH.A. | You Can't Pay as You Go, Because the Coin is too Cumbersome, in Manila, in our Philippines, no one ever pays for anything he buys at the he buys it, for white suits that are everywhere worn are not made for transporting Bank- notes are practically out of circulation, heavy Mexican dollars stand at the head of a motley family of fifty- time thir the thin coin and cent pieces, Bpanish pesetas and coppers, to weight rather than currency system. If you st prize in the monthly the the BOVErn- paid t h ige give to tt Yaiue Le the fir lot- benefit of r $100,000 is al artwhes : you really fee] that all mething tangible AVY dra} two to winnings from to the bank. A Horse Died of Griel. Ff sha pr {i the en an at i caught ti wagons he wol injured thes Cars wid id with his + of the st door with naking every effort whe tried to soothe He would not “long aft ad ceased, his agitation d from 1} every The sweat pour jm in f the uivered i nally part « i the stableman went to told im ne believed his horse wouid some of the circus horses were not brought back «0 keep him company. At about daylight the et the stable mounted a horse and rode after the circus. He overtook us ten or twelve miles away, and, as 1 had charge of all the horses and was much attached to the injured animal 1 turned with him. When we reaches the stall, the horse was dead “The stableman said that he remain. ed for nearly an hour perfect {1 and with every sense apparently strained the utmost tension, and then, without making a sound, fell and died with scarcely a strulge Than veterinarian who was called remark 4 after the circumstances were {old hin, that unquestionably the horse died of griel.”"—Washington Star, Iceland's Bottle Post. The “bottle post” is an old institu. tion on the south coast of leeland. Let. ters are put iniz corked bottles which are walisd by the winds to the oppo- gite coast, They also contain a cigar or other trifles to induce the finder to deliver the letters as addressed. 1 die ¥ i prop r of Te. io 0 A Upwards of 11,000 school children of Roubaix, France, receive free food and clothing at the expense of the town. Natal's wool production decreased in 1807 20 war cont, dation. To buy one or more good %
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