THE QUIET TOWN. No dreams have they who take thelr slumber here, No restless starting at mid hour; the of year The early sweetness shower, of an April The crocus stains the sod, they do not heed; The poppy flaunts, faintest sign; Above their heads the aster drops its seed And unremembered passes cline, they make no to de So still they sleep, from being so re- mote, mark The lyric thrush that fleets his pas- ston-note immemorial joy dark. of from dawn to And winds but yet the little me wrong, These slumberers’ broke to song, silence long since enly way! Youth's Companion. TANS ALSANANAANNST 0 Acy’s Little "Un. BY ELLIS MEREDITH. INAS NAS ANAT In 1872, Wallace, was the terminus of the Kansas Paci fic Railway, it had about a hundred inhabitants, the usual two-story frame hotel a few feet from tion. The Smoky Hill River was then, as now .about three miles from the town, and Fort Wallace two miles distant. At that time the fort company post, garrisoned by between one and two hundred soldiers, all told. The buildings were arranged compact ly, the only foes to be feared being Indians, and there wiater-tanks that were always kept filled, lest in time of trouble the Sioux might come and cut off the water-supply from the river. when Kansas, and the sta was was a two were by a straight line drawn sheet of blank paper, with the labels “sky and “land” There was a tree, appropriately named Lone Tree, four miles from Wallace, and visible for many miles in every direction. It was a beacon, a guide, a harbinger of hope to every citizen and to every traveller. It told points of the compass by day as the North Star does at night desolate, it stood on the wide prairie, a friend to all and all, after a fashipn, with never an ans wering rustle from any Kindred cot tonwood, In view of these natural advantages Or the of t of Wallace wax | of the garrison and recipes, and the officers amused themselves as best they could, hoped and prayed for march that did not come. What was euphoniously Skunkkill Club” included all the offi cers from the fort and all the lead ing citizens. While it does not sound promising, it was a real boon, for its meetings, which held monthly, were the sole “function” of the town. On that occasion the man who could not show the pelt of at least one of these chicken-thieves paid for an oys ter supper for the remainder, The oyster, the little canned cove oysfer, was, In those dark and mythical ages, the greatest delicacy known the Western palate. Among the Nimrods of this club was a qulet, middle-aged man Wheeler. Probably his first ACTOssS a above and below {it Lonely and beloved social The exchanged hem-—the life mited. lack Indies patterns and ug orders “The called were to named name long since degenerated into “Acy.” He had served as a government scout, and it was generally held that what he did not known about horses, “crit- turs” and Indians was not knowing, two or three of the garrison children, who seemed to have found their way to his heart through his pony's stomach. The pony was a very pretty bay mus- tang, with black points and an insatl- able appetite for sugar. Bhe had re- Joiced In the name of Bet until the major's small daughter had re-christ- ened her “Tweetheart,” and prevailed on Acy to accept the change, Sweetheart knew more than most men, so ‘Acy sald, and no one cared to contradict him, She conld trail him like a dog, she could find her way In the darkest night, she never stumbled into prairie-dog holes, and she could scent an Indian five miles away, Acy had probably never read the Arab's address to “My beautiful! my beaut ful!” but when an Easterner offered to buy the little mare, he sald, curtly, ‘Stranger, a man don't sell his hull family,” and walked away, bis arm over ber neck. Acy was foreman of the Allen Clark stock ranch, fifteen miles from Wal lace on Rose Creek, and as foreman it was Nis business to conduct the sound-ups. The Ogalallas and Sloux was important to get the cattle brand ed. Otherwise they might stam peded, and many yearlings would go to swell the ranks of otlier herds; To with eight four covered the supplies for set forth on the round-up, Nothing oc curred for the first week. They were forty miles from the fort, and had heard no more about the alleged In dian troubles, One afternoon, Acy rode slowly along, one of the boys came in for in structions, and he jogged be gether cowboys and and containing several weeks, Acy Wagons, as HE beside motions, “Your beast is powerful fractious, Acy."” sald, stopped and snorted uneasily, her soft, velvet muz- he as she Acy nodded, and turning in his sad- brown There was absolutely few plain. cattle buffalo grass and sand, “I reckon she's got nerves,” “All women matter with contin has Nothing the her plain nerves." Acy got down and unsaddled. wasn't the smallest Not a strand In There crease in the the “but if ain't Indians miles, the first time fooled me.” The pony muzzled up, shivering « little, and he combed ont her forelock “Sho, now, lit tell “I don’t he sald, within ten ever know." it's she with his brown hand, tle "un,” he sald, kindly, “can’t ye me about it? “It's not the COW boy, harshly “All critters are “You may enfolks” that's no but i hing nerves,” repeated female alike.” know answered Acy, a heap about wom dryly, “hut horses; and no = sign you know even If you did, it's gn you'd ' i know the little "un She aint a con mon plug: she's folks, and when that-a Tell the sharp about When Acy no be sald acts way, It means Indians boys to come in and look em.” that The used tone there was more to puncher rode away The west slowly in the — f frsde Baye Sin Was sinking when the came in and un nen saddled, They arranged the four wag ons in a hollow square, and put the did so. was standing a few from the campfire the had almost ready, lifted her head and gave Sweetheart, who feet COOK As they Ww here Supper a neigh, so strange and prolonged that they all started and looked at her, She was trembling and staring into the dusk with terrified eyes “Nerves!” out her whe had “Had said the pune already delivered his opinion ‘em all day.” “Dry up!” sald politely “That's nerves you can buy at Hi! Look at that, He pointed toward an another of the men. kind of Madigan's sa not the loon will yon?” arroyo that lay between them and the . but could see indistinctly, that uncertain light, West be a foe, men warfare of the might was always an object of White feathers, the RITEE mie A picion, conld make no mistake b did “1 knew it.” neck alarmn, Now there's they first, what they allow horse-thieves not wear Acy, never said “She stroking mare's false what no telling will do but it's easy to do last motion about guessing He made a quick circular his head. “Drive all can in the of two ftom Take turns till get your They do anything till after dark, likely, and there's no telling when we'll eat again the horses sou between there's side, to wagons; eight you, keep watch, you supper. won't The men followed Instructions, mak ing as complete a barricade as possible They worked silently, two weeks remembering before a party like stark and cold, not fifty miles from the fort. As the stars came owt and the new they were completely surrounded. The Iy riding round and round their pris oners, their purpose being, with the vent escape, As they drew closer, chanting their weird and hideons war. song. a volley from the little fortress Acy called a council of war. “No use, boys,” he sald. “There's a hundred of them if there's one, and there may be more coming up, fort has got to be reached!” The men assented silently. Any of them would have been willing to go, although the chance of getting through the line of Sioux was small; and once past it, without a horse, flight would be so slow as to be almost useless, “I reckon time's the essence of this contract,” sald a puncher. “But you can't make time without a horse, and you can’t get a horse past them In- dians. Unless that mare of yours can fly.” Acy rubbed her forehead gently. “She's no fiyer,” he sald, “but she can trail, which is more like it. This is my plan, I'm going to strike out for the fort. I'll have to crawl past the line of Indians, I reckon it will take all of two hours, and that will make it close to one o'clock. By half past twelve you set the mare loose on my trail. Don't have bridle or saddle on her, but just tie a rope round her neck and let her go. If she gets come and I'l get help to you by noon to- Morrow, till then.” “The little 'un's all right.” sald the puncher who had doubted her nerves, “I'll see that her halter’'s broke artistic, and I reckon the Lord that taught her to smell Indians will get her by em.” It did not sound irreverent as he said it, and it was his nearest approach to a prayer in many years. The mut tered “You bet!” of the other boys stood for a fervent amen, “Hold the fort, boys!" Acy sald, as wriggled out of sight in the sage brush, “Hold the fort!” The little bay pony whinnled softly. At half past twelve o'clock she start ed after Acy. With her soft black muzzle close to the ground, she cautl ously pleked her way down the slight decline. The Indians percepti bly and the men who watched her from the camp felt a sick COW were closer, eight But a 1c We mus- about The and tang with only a broken Sioux expected to have saddles bridles and ponles to spare when they wera.waiting for them in the shadow of the covered wagons 4 Acy was past the line of Indians, and the night was growing darker, Sweet heart followed trail he could barely see quarter of a mile The blew fitfully Now he could hear the wild eries of the in i thes his uncertainly; away wind dinns. now Were swent ie other paused, ane Acy, 1 le up way The mare ing her breathlessly, mad nind quickly, As a gust of wind ble her She jump toward her he called name high note close to the In a into a ru with her nose toward him ments she started broke befor upon him almost an instant he was they were flying the At 3 o'clock It had to fil i fully, for prairie-dog towns were num away toward fort was so dark the and pick thelr way care stop . v wall } : i \ Cros Acy walked beside her, saving * her strength for the nnal run At four o'clo thie blackness was chang # rer Jelrrnuasl€ and flading himself 3 LB Acy slaked hb Irink close $ i® own thirst * pony also, It seem ‘ she realized the rus nly washed then down throat blac tireless pace of The the tree, in her gatherin sturdy, kK legs, the we vi fig was rising the that, never werving 1 ! Un Lone Tree the night, she had for straight as an It was barely nine o'clock whet bef re I [se occupied of the and hy the offi At nand fell off orty miles witl ©r in and y almost up RIPDR F bout bridle gaddle is t riding ir ROe ore was a drill going on In a rath er desultory fashion on the parade ground, but this was a real case of carry arms, and in less than a quarter of an hour the soldiers were away down the river to the the beleaguered cowboys “Don't ma jor, enrtly, when most of the Indians Yom oy y " al i thank me said the Wore dispersed and a few brought back as to i insure good behavior. “Don’t thank me. Thank Acy's mare If you care to sell her, I'll give hundred and fifty, Acy.” an enormots sum for a pony; hostages you a which but Acy Just then Sweet gently, took $ from the maj was heart “nickered” as she another lump of sugar or's daughter. “Why, see, papa,” sald the little girl, “she's laughing at you!"—Youth's Com panion Smile: Taken While You Wait much when them. amusement some years ago, Mr. Francis Galton introduced Hig Intest experiment in analy proval of Photography. whose editor It Is said to give a significance nonsense of Lewis Carroll in “Alice in Wonderland.” The peared, leaving nothing but its grin, expression, or leave the smile while he stuibtracts the seriousness or glumness, The negatives are superposed, one up- on the other, with the result that what is common to both is neutralized, and the rest remains smiling or serious, as it may be. Mr. Galton ealls the com- pound of negative and positive a trans former. As long as the transformer subtracts glumness, all hall to the transformer, and let photography per- petuate our smiles! London News. China's Long Bridge. The longest bridge in the world is, it is recorded, the Lion bridge, near Sangang, in China. It extends 5 1-4 miles over an area of the Yellow Sea, and Is supported by 300 huge stone arches. The roadway Is 70 feet above the water and Is inclosed in an iron network. A marble llon, 21 feet long, rests on the crown of eacn pillar, The Emperor Keing Long. Exchange, TURAL TOPICS, improving Come» mon Hogs ~The Horse Fly Pest Exper- ience With Clover When to Cut Corn for Silage Etc, Ete. Relief From Poison Ivy. Wash eX posed portions ol handling or This simple precag immediately after going uear poison ivy. will often prevent There ivy poison. discom for strong von much are remedies ne of many the best Is BARK solution strong freely, It blisters, Make the affected parts dry the Hot water, hot as it can affords relief, Salt and water Is very effective. Make the strong. Lime water is also good, fras root bathe speedily poison ax be borne, solution Improving Common Hogs. A herd hogs may and cheaply Improved by in a boar of any good breed, blood, Select a of common be quickly troducing but of pure of the same breed each year, but not a will of jut if new one Such a course glve that near relative all a herd the characteristics breed In a few yeu each ATH, selected, the at will in breeding new breed is tempted improvement failure. 1n and fatal error in perpetunting our best prove a and is another breeds and familie no 3 shows deterioration that U8 S00n as tid The Horse Fly Pest. flies nre troublesome wil ap and 6 ceptable resin, winter solved; water, HERS EL 1] mixture the mix use, and should be io } 5 1 5 i half pint two or threes Afterwards an ap suffice to nt ntire animal will ical not t reached by the is perfectly safe, and weared detrimental » calf, 1 ap An Experience With Clover. Having purchased a run-down farm of 170 acres for $300, | wanted to make it self-sustaining as quickly as possi Ble, therefore turned to my friend cloy I plowed the ground early wheat, procured a fine seed bed and got a fine stand of wheat, The middle of February there came a warm spell and 1 sowing one bushel ten acres The wheat had 200 pounds per acre of bone meal, phosphate and complete fertill gers, each fertilizer by itself to see which was the best for this land. The clover came up well and got a good hold before the March freeze came, consequently was not killed, while my 7 er. LOT sowed clover wow], broadcast $y 10 By the middle of June the clover had a few headsturning brown, and it was It was cut in the morn- It grew Part of the second crop was cut for bay and a part left for seed. This, pastored until mer cut one crop agaln when it was plowed under, after making a Httle ond crop of wheat showed a big im- provement over the first one. The clov. er was the common red variety and yielded well. The first crop cut in the season makes fine hay, If well cured, but for horses I don't think much of the second cutting. It will do weil for hogs and cattle, as they are very fond of it, and even the chickens relish it very much, but It causes the horses to slobber.—~Mrs, A. N. Knoer, in American Agriculturist, When to Cut Corn for Sil I have bad seven years' ars, once in putting up and feeding silage and my conclusion is that most of the en- silage is cut too soon to get the Lest results. The time to cut corn for the shock Is when the grains are dented and glazed and before the blades be- come brown. When corn is cut and put into the shock at this stage it has plenty of moisture for the silo, Most of the sagar in the stalks has turned to starch and thete ls not 55 much acid In the fall of 1867 silo on our farm. It hold 200 tons, We had planted eligh- we made a ix eighteen acres was planted When it and was not nearly so ripe, came time to cut the silage corn the the ensilage and did not get it When our elghteen acres all ent out pit was not The other field was very ripe by but to fill the pit, as good and was eaten by the animals with cut, were busy we got we enough from it To our surprise it was time, cut as readily ag any in the pit, fall did quite enough ensilage to fill our pits, A few acres of corn, planted late in July for soiling, was utilized for purpose, although It was just in the milk. When fed it to the cows it was =0 sour animals 4id not do well while it and the foreman told that he did not want any more of that kind of and 1 did not blame him I.ast we not Have iin we me slop for his cows, proven that the silo If form of corn Experiments have all for good ensilage Is tne best ripe corn is the best to make good milk, 1 cannot see why it is not the best for making beef, 1 do that corn is believe, however, mature the feed for 1 ahundance of beef, 1 think most me that nothing and fatten bet han good fresh pasture, If is the for ensilage is th not Ig a1 f f arm produce with grow fresh i bheut both milk and fori milk, why is it for beef production? fattened a few animals on » and the results were most ctory. (Cows fed on ensilag \ nally In good flesh, whi nk sy the fat produ ing pow 3 heep are feed feeders and ed It a for Li © both CWEeR pronoun silage ix profitable ght to be for cattle, 1 fall, wr my beef cattle, 1 silo this the con- lange to the mother and also feed ¥1 1 will wk of Shropshire sheep more 1 or + silage alone, any corn alone, but clover hay ninous forage Rahlen, In is always Frank New Homestead Increased 7 farmers do Can Egg Production be How is it that so many not find poultry keeping profifable? It t the busy farmer to interesting &« probably because small mat article atiention An egg production does not give ters of detail on the subject of Percival \ £0 Cooper has He 100 eggs appeared niry Gentleman KAYE an hen should lay the ends use of pow to know how On these points knowl ombined with having an intimate hemistry, poultry keeping experience, at an egg is composed mostly water, and also that for six months of the year a hen secures about one half the food she consumes from grass bugs, weed seeds and other One hundred pounds of grain the bin combined with such other i= ample for the production hundred egege by actual count fast poultry nen to Keep accurate account nests are making it possible for of individual egg production; and while a few lightheads may be tempted to exaggerate, still there are fanciers and writers whose reputation cannot be as galled, It is nothing unusual for good cow to produce twice the quanti ty of milk that an ordinary cow does for a year; then why cannot an extra good hen double the product of an extra not, the hundred eggs. If she does vou should know it and use ax. amount of food eaten so much as by the digestibility, seasonabieness, and tion and mixture of foods, so as support life and supply egg producing No poultry keeper should ever forget against disease. tempt the management of an egg farm without supplying scratching quarters the flocks busy, and he will be richly rewarded with great quantities of “hen fruit.” ——————— Stock Notes. Whitewash the stables once or twice each year. A daily brushing makes a cow look and feel better, In marking sheep, avoli coarse, heavy paint marks, Second cut clover is the best hay for young calves and lambs. Never feed calves from dirty pails or vessels, Scald them out once each day. Brush the Udder and surrounding parts before milking and wipe them with a damp sponge or cloth. fle It wine than for want of feed. In feeding steers it seems to be eco- the first portion of the feeding period. The horse's eye is frequently injured from from a hot, foul stable, Give the stable ventilation and this will quickly disappear, vapors arising The main polut in managing a pig- pen is to keep it absolutely clean. Fur nish plenty of dry earth as an absorb- ent and clean out every day a higher clover the same the Where practicable the use of racks is recom cured racks has value than field cured in Clover feeding On from swath mended during wet weather, A good dalryman must like cows and have a keen, observing eve to see to it that everything is done for the cow's comfort, for it is the tented, well-fed cow ii comfortable, con fills the pail and yields the profit, Wean colt months Feed some hay, ground bran, pulped carrots or turnips and cut straw water regularly and make it possible for the colt to have plenty of exercise, Balt the when about five old. ORIN, clover (ive should never be forgotten, Forty-seven two-year-olds win Kansas sheep averaged a of seven yearlings made per flock of 247 pounds aad in a gle flock of little wool and twenty over twenty-seven pounds average of eighteen while the averaged an pounds fleece, head entire eighteen twelve ounces, MONEY IN AN OLD CLOCK. Thoussud Dollars Fousd Stored Away la Secret Drawers. In old house of Mrs Several an eight-day Nancy there covered several thousa: died this w “0K, Keys drawers whicl inside the old After Mrs peed the structed stairs Bebout's death gl tury keys over executor of the Mr. W Lee, of Holliday's Cove, West Virginia, the drawers. oiel ¥ ii estate He opened the clock in front and discovered the 5 i The upper one was opened, but nothing The front could be opened and he began to search the was found others in the Upon opening the SACKS, hirty- with Pear drawer he discovered four first which weighed in aggregate t They were filled sacks of worth many four gold pounds and silver coln. These are estimated to be colin thousands of dollars, though the exe- not the contents, tak- to a bank in Steubenville, cutor did count ing them Ohio, where Mr in Washington yester- day and filed the will of Mrs. Bebont f fhe bequeathed $100 to for probate Board of Foreign they were deposited Lee was the Missions of the Presbyterian Church and distributed her property, real and personal, among her bequeathed and To one she the clock, but was made of the contents. 1110098 nephew = eight-day nition no me Jereminh Bebout was a cabinet mak- and over three score years In the in- variety of little er by trade made this old clock ed a which ago terior he plac drawers, were ornamented and to be noticeable, industry during his life ac- much He would never invest any of his earnings and no faith in Within this old clock. bead of the stairs, placed the saved and accumulated, He died several was not until the of his that told the and she has since then carefully guard od it, as she did not need any of the money, having plenty live on.— Pittsburg Dispatch constructed as not Mr. Bebout and frugality, ®_O was a4 man of and cumulated money, banks stood at after which the he which he year year, money had and It death secret, Years ago, ime wife of he his to Moving Pictures of Yoursell The old-fashioned “still life” photo- graphy is to give way to the photo- graphic living picture. Hitherto only the brave and fair have es have held full sway, That is to be altered. The blograph and mutoscope syndicate Is about to open a studio of blography on Regent street, London. There any one will be blographed who so desires, just as one is photographed at present at the protographer's. The biograph studio will be fitted up in the most fashicnable style. The operating room will be spacious and eiegant, lighted by arc lamps equal to 100,000 candle power. The great dif culty in “blography” is the elimination of shadows-—that has been perfectly arranged. The quick-firing camera will work at the rate of more than forty pictures a second, and will go on Just as long as may be desired, The studio will also provide a ready- made supply of magic lanterns slides. By an ingenious device, which simply requires the addition of a lens and an electric lamp to the ordinary muto- scope machine, the living pictures tak- en at the studio may be thrown on a screen for the delectation of family parties. Boston Transcript. Requirement of Health. The requirements of health can be counted on the fingers of one hand. They are: Good air, good food, sulta- ble clothing, cleanliness and exercise and rest
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