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
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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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