THE OBSCURE MAN'S CONSOLA.| : TION. Of me the great world ne'er has heard, | Yet I in this am somewhat blessed, | My lowly state has never stirred Envy in ary human breast. And if I do not feel inclined To strive some mighty part to play, In this 1 consolation find, [ stand not in another's way. If I ne'er seek wealth’s lofty height, One thing at least 1 feel and know; Rivals do not scheme day and night To bring about my overthrow. And if I am of lowly birth, And a retiring life have led, I doubt if there is on the earth One soul that wishes I were dead. To make this great earth theirs alone, Men have their days in scheming passed, But we the stubborn Old mother earth gets -Thomas F. Porter, | As Death Drew Near. fact must own-—— all at last n Boston Giobe. “Well couch, “Frankly? “Frankly as you Know whatever it is it “Why, no, Inderwick trust not. But Sir James me that only an operation brain can save your your life.” “And you doubt if it will Come, Dale, old fellow, be h me, We've known we were boys, and you never | to funk the risk, whatever it “My dear Gilbert, the fact is think there than a chance in a thousand that through MacPherson says are a great deal more but you know what are a ‘case’ to him, and doubt that lieves what doubt that the ing such conscious said th the verd! doctor,” “what is ph I've of strong old; I reason, perhap each other i8 more in I Sir James he honestly 3 ae Says, existence at you?” “Gilbert, one circun which there that if the t nothing your “And if it one chance in ing it? “Yes. |} may be right, bu my frank anfl hor have given it “Thanks, old man wanted. It's rather haps, but’- held which the tionately, glience. Hard lines? Yes. How old was h Thirty-three—347 Well, between the two. Invalided home from war fore it had well begun, by reason this confounded tumor or whatever it was, which had suddenly manifested itself in his brain; of the glory he might have won during the campaign, and cheated, too, perhaps, out of the great joy his life, his union with Margaret Orme, which i all went well waa to have taken place ‘a1 the early summer, or at any as scon as possible after the troub in South Africa was over And now? What highwaymon these doctors were: “Your reason or your life!” And there was one chance thousand that he would raocover; whatever that he would retain sanity unless he took that risk. He had lost his reason once already, and although the sea voyage had | helped him back to mental health again he knew well enough that this respite would not last. Better ‘be dead than mad-what?! Much better; much better. Margaret would sorrow over him dead; mad, he would beé a haunting nightmare to her, a constant, ghastly grief. Better, much better dead. Perhaps, in the Beyond-—who could tell?-he | might see her, watch over her, wait for sar. Ah, well! “When can it be done, sald suddenly. “You have decided, then, Gilbert?” | “Oh, yea, there's nothing else for it, | of course.” 1 “It could be done on Friday, Jou would have to come up to hospital for it.” “Well, old chap, arrange it for will you? In the meantime, I'll put my affairs in order In case that one small chance of mine does not come oft.” . . ® » ° . » Captain Inderwick had not sald more than the truth when he remind. ed his old friend, Dr. Dale, that he had strong nerves. When he arrived at the hospital he jooked as sound and healthy, and to the full as cheerful a subject as any gurgeon or student in the building. He shook hands with Dale just be. ilore the chloroform was administered, and Dale was moved to say, Good, oid | ¢hap! Not a tremor, upon my word!" i “Well, I'm in good hands,” sald In- | unmor earth reason.” on may : hand affe into and he other and lapsed - say the be of ~heated out ¢ OL rate ' 0 in a none his greater Dale?” he but the me, dorwick, "and hoping for the best, and after all a man can only die once, whether it's by a Boer bullet or a surgeon's knife, eh? bless name lips!” Then oblivion, and the saw Sir James MacPherson did not belie He had the situation of the tumor velous precision, and he extracted it you. Tell was the Margaret last word on that my though somewhat no Serious the operation to his inconveniences from it process of recovery was, surprise, suffered was the He had put one thought in his and that was to get back to Africa the fighting was and this took such 2100 of mind, 3 before idea him that n Dale seemed to the sense pronounced him him that taken place nq before ulty in srtified had parted ywfore, had toward him sr her fair face at War within loved her. called endearing name, dwelt on the of alled each } again the and OOK, light in her eyes Mar heart him her pet Were t still her voice, res and sweet gray old and skeptical and sve by any of these imaginative mus saw art was on earth is the matter with me? himself “lI seem to be able to watch this struggle between two of my inner just as dreams sometimes, when the Ege ms to detach itself and be come impersonal. 1 wonder what old MacPherzon put inside my head when tumor out! Upon my {love I'm going mad after he asked gelyes one does in HE he took that ¥ word, [ be all jy the time the Livada reached Southampton he was in a fever to see more and fight the gtruggle out with her Perhaps the sight of her, the touch of her hands, of her lips, would put him right again. But if not, if these doubts still assailed him, why, he must frankly tell her so After all, the change which he feared had taken place in him might be imaginary. He had gone through a good deal during these last few months, and the excitement of a campaign pushed for ward at express speed, in order once toward unhinging him. When he alighted at Waterloo he found himself in the train once more on the way to the Moors he was within an ace of being his old light-hearted self again He had telegraphed the time of his arrival, and at the little wayside sta tion he found Margaret awaiting him, and with a dull sense of pain he re alized that the change in him was, after all, no dream, for has saw in Margaret's eyes that she detected it even while greeting him. As he took his seat beside her in the phaeton he found himself asking al most mechanically, how she had passed the time, how General Orme was, and a dozen commonplace ques tions, her replies to which were scarcely heeded He saw her glance at him again and again with pain and wonder in her eves, until at last it seemed that she could bear it no longer. “Dearest,” she sall very tenderly, “what Is the matter? You are not | yoursalf. What is it?” “Oh, my darling girl,” he groanad “I don't know! | would give ten years of my life to know what it is. I am only conscious that since that opera i tion some subtle change has been { progress within me. There are two i souls at war, To one you are as dear a2 you ever were—nay, infinitely dear. er. To the other you are indifferent | One soul loves you still; the other soul does not know you as my Mar garet at all, as my betrothed, and heaven help me, Margaret, but be tween the two | think | going mad!” “My am poor boy!" said Margarct, “you want rest and quiet. We will put off our wedding—Iindefinitely, if you wish and hall stay at the manor and 1 ill nurse you back to health and you READ and intimate gloomily ie re f these d to wel home again lerment whet iter: Wis ampaigo and Sunday morn it {reaming him rest gave of and strong gloomy exercis him fo 1&4 hadows ing om his the phantoms haunted ut hopefully morning air ay ave a joyous rin is MUsiis iurmured operation, Bir ooking at his THE SWIFT MISSISSIPPI A Mighty Stream Can Be Turned Aside by Sticks in Sand. But thirty JANKE it or less stands is miles an hou petus what that imagine river means in a big nine miles an ? We ar to railway trains that run or seventy miles an hour that it does not seem an overwhelming speed But that when a railway train checked its is gone. Interfere with the progress of and the river plles up obstructic sweeps over it, under it, and mo stronger about it, r waxes until it sweeps away our Ee] 30 used sixty consider ia once power the Mississippi against the around it, mentarily he powe the fret Yet such is the contrariety of this mighty stream that while throw the strongest that can be slightest mn, RIOwWS it will over: to its cour it will yield the One could hardly find a more striking illustration of the power of slight things than the sharp contrast the behavior of the against a powerful check and against a slight For years gov: ernment engineers struggled to direct the river with massive stone dikes. When the river could not overthrow one of these it dug under it, and so wrecked it. Money without end was spent on dikes. There was a mighty one below Gold Dust landing in Ten- | nessee, It stood longer than most of (them, but in a flood the river at last conquered and swept it away. How, then, can the river be directed? Simply by a few sticks set in the sand. ! A row of piling, sometimes with a few | brush hurdles, accomplishes it. The | river sweeps through, eddies behind lit, dropping sand and bullding up a ibar. Nowadays traveling down the | river through stretches that once were broad and shallow, one finds them nar. row and deep, with sandy sides, over ths tops of which can be seen just the tips of the piles that accomplish the mighty change ~~Ainslee’s Magazine. Modest Charleston Women, Charleston is the only city in the United States in which the publica. tion of women's names is objected to by the women themselves and their men folks. That shows what a relic the grand old city of 1860 is. Up here lin New York our society boasts its sotinl secretaries, whose duty it is to inform néwezpapers of the movements of matrons and dowagers employing them. The highest salaried secre taties are those young women who succeed by hook or crook in captur- ing the most space in the daily jour nals. One bright girl receives $26 a woelt from the wife of a paper gen: eral for keeping that lady's name be tore the public—New York Press. obstacle Ge built between river one RYE Ww. how he can secure early hay; drouth has injured meadows in section and present shortage of feed makes it desirable to have hay at the earliest possible moment. There i8 no better method of secur VALUABLE FOR HAY. appearing the value pose Cut wiit pretty shocks where it red. If these thor Very few farmers realize of this for that with a mower, allow thoroughly, must remain the weather is at all favor of wilted will i result nu en ¥ et crop to shocks rye fry 1 if ¥ in a tritis in an bright gre sughly forages and ver wenther is palatable Ev not the 1 { well rain It cu [ef] or of We canon the imp wKe (inphaslize yrtance of Arm American ROOTING ROSE SLIPS The of favorite roses from slips and cuttings usually in the fall A fa the amateur to slips firmly in the soil and them propagation our receives attention vorite place the tura it to #1 gsettiad method with in BR Kiass remain warm weather of the fo JAr over J allowing the over #11p until the WOWINnE sprin I'hi An eX ent plat in plant will be heift arifty ins the 10 when the almost every found well pring, and strong sturdy of rooting the tana rose tory for tender t > i not n ¢ without the nro Biase fow wee} throw roots their p from the heat of sirable to beds malin--to transplanting of piace a rem Ww root y Fyne pe the 1a Rishes | where madi avoid the risk of follow the same pre the tha nt Lie is sand about large jar yve it when 4 nresalin vi cess pre ARinE wel over the Humphreys, in The Epi ting and roots start P tomist HENS WAYS FEEDING We all ing hens, FOR EGGS pened Ay have and Poor Ways of them are, We slowly A man who gets eggs right through the winter told me the other day how he fed his fowis, and | pass ft along because i he is right Instead the warm meal or bran meal in the morning, he feeds whole grain of wheat, in the morning This takes into the house the night and places it where it while his wife ia getling Then he scatters it among lit ter on the floor. The hens work at thiz well on toward noon About one quart is given to a dozen hens The wheat is varied after a few days’ use by cracked corn, buck whoat and wheat He has no bone mill, but thinks it worth while hew bone with a hatchet for fowla week. At night the warm bran and meal mash is given The hens eat this and go to the roost feeling warm and comfortable. A string suspended from the ceiling supports a cabbage our about very woe too learn very believe of feeding and corn say he before will breakfast deep to compel real work on the part of the fowls. At first the hens did not seem to like the cabbage, but they soon learn to eat it voraciously. Shells are furnished all the time. The pan of water is placed on a box so high that the hens cannot get over into it, and yet within reach, and the ves. sol is kept clean. This man was get- ting eight to ten eggs a day from a dozen hens—E. I. Vincent, in New York Tribune Farmer, PRODUCING BABY BEEF. A desirable feature of the feeding of baby beef is that the relative value of steers and heifers at calf weight is nearly the same, while the difference in value of the male and female when they are mature is considerable. From inquiries made of prominent Kansas feeders we found that from 900 to 1,600 pounds of grain were required to put 100 pounds of flesh on an ani. mal. The average of the reports turned in was about 1.000 pounds of grain for 100 pounds of flesh, Our experiments have demonstrated that it takes but 500 pounds of feed for 100 pounds of grain when baby peeves are handled. This makes a saving of half the feed roquifed to to fatten heavier cattle. We also found that the native bred calves raised at the station made better gains and sold § better than the range calves we ex perimented with. In respect to the breed of calves to feed, | think the best returns can be had with feeding crossbred stock. Select any two of the reputable beef breeds, be do that, and the resultant cross will give satisfaction in the feed lots We gave the principal feeds a thor ough trial on our baby beeves and sure to best returns. This by Kausas both of throughout the State need not be a tion Prof. Cottrell at Improved Btock Breeders’ wel inasmuch raised should be farmers, these feeds as are local innova the Meeting. GAPES cry goes up ng ADEE are a Already the out the of the through land regard th board and a t the tendency to ah yd help stas jemand day ® in the field and » farmer should not a reasonable day work then chores, compel but the outside work snough to leave time for milk It is not wise to do unnecessary sfobD early ing Wn work on Sunday. there is enough that Possibly, too, it is un to let hired man’s pay run. Pay him regularly at the end nonth him in Necessary spending The man who in dulges in a spree after every pay day help under any condition or be discharged is well be done has to wise the to keep money good and had bett If it is possible, it a good man feel himself a part of ag it Do not relegate to a side and make him in the stable, but give him a bed and board Docking on stormy days, letting pay day come ir regularly, and making the hired man the family is above him gener 0 make the were tabie sleep feel Farm work at its is confining, but need not be of judgment and generosity, treats his help as he would like to be treated were he in a similar position —W. E. Stone, in The New England Home- stead. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Wealth. Napoleon Bonaparte's will, among those of great men, affords the near est parallel to that of Cecil Rhodes in the fortune it bequeathed. He was surely the richest exile since the world began. From his lonely home at St Helena he bequeathed to his resatives and friends $40,000,000. He had been rich. in gold as in power, beyond the dreams of avarice. and there must have passed through his hands a pri vate fortune such as mortal man has rarely dreamed of. His exactions set down at nearly $375000000, which is, after all, but six times multiplying the gift he secured for himsell from the Austrian treasury after Austerlite, He died forty times a millionaire. a Not Always to Blame For it Some women think more of their hats than of their husbands, and the hats are not always to blame for it sither.—New York Times Of the 199 million acres which make up New South Wales almost three million are water, and 22.700,000 are mountains and sterile lands THE KEYSTONE STATE. News Happesiogs of Interest Gathered From All Sources. James A Arnold, apparatus for forming glass articles; George T. Ashton and J. F Painter, Pittsburg, adjustable window shade and curtain pole holder; Robert 1.. Barnhart, Charleroy, moto Richard Buers, Far nest Baumgartner, Fairview, device tof promoting and controlling I'h V5 rs DOMMIAS Agel Yan Patents granted Allegheny al Joh town, ice ream adopted ids to purchase th : i the late Chief Justice Henry Green for a municipal building and public park. The ordinance will bt signed by Mayor Lehr and one of the finest properties in Easton will pass inte the city’s hands A serious accident and possible los of life were averted at the Tidewate: Steel Company, Chester. by the timely discovery of a large loaded shell which was about to be thrown nto one of the furnaces at the works [roubles follow Harry B. Biddle, o Pittsburg, whose two brothers, after es caping from jail, were killed by a posse. His 11-year-old son was killed by a rail- road train. The body was taken to the same undertaking establishment from which the Biddles were buried. William James, William Nolan and Walter Campbell, fish wardens, arrested several men who were fishing illegally near Pittston, when two women attack. ed the officers with baseball bats and the men were severely beaten before they managed to make their escape. Dr. J. H. Gardner, of Stoyestown, vaccinated 310 men em loyed ine the completion of the Quemahoning Branch Railroad. He had one assistant. About 12 hours were spent in the work. To avoid being killed by either of two trains on the Pennsylvania Railre Frederick Hahn, of Lancaster, jumped from a bridge over the New Holland turnpike, a distance of 40 feet. His jaw «as broken and he sustained internal injuries. The §-year old daughter of Frank Niles, of Coudersport, was in a tree try- ing to cut off a branch, and wantin her § ers knife she waited until he drove under the tree with his mowing ma- chine. Then she jumped in front of the knives, and the horses could be before | stopped one of her feet was cut isslie > prope es 3 i
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