- i CONEMAUGH. “Fly to the mountaind Fiym Terribly rang tho cry. The electric soul of the wire Quivered like sentient fire. The soul of the woman who stood Face to face with the flood Answered to the shock Like the eternal rock. For she stayed With hor hand on the wire, Unafraid, Flashing the wild word down Into the lower town, is there a lower yet and another? Into the valley she and none other Can hurl the warning ory: “Fly to the mountain! Fly! The water from Conemaugh Has opened its awful jaw. The dam is wide On the mountain side ™ “ Fly for your life, oh fly" They said. She lifted her noble head: “ I can stay at my post, and die.” Face to face with duty and death, Dear is the drawing of human breath, “ Steady my hand! Hold fast To the trust upon thee cast. Steady, my wire! Go, say That death is on the way. Steady, strong wire! Go, save! Grand is the power, you have!” Grander the soul that can stand Behind the trembling hand. Grauder the woman who dares Glory her high name wears, “ This message is my last Shot over the wire, and passed To the listening ear of the land. The mountain and the strand Reverberate the cry: * Fly for your lives, oh, fly! I stay at my post and die.” He was springing after the spool Miss Stowe had dropped. «] want to show you that old coin I told you about, Miss Stowe” he declared. «i8ee—1710. Oh, stop that snipping snd look at it!" But Miss Stowe, smiling and faintly flushing, looked at it over her snipping. “Who drove into the yard?" Mrs. Ford demanded, cutting a gore at a wrong angle with nervous hands. “Oh, Jeff Lowry! Imust tell you about Jeff, Miss Btowe. He's been wear- ing a beard for two years, and he went down town the other day without it, and the fellows didn't know him. He's—" “I thought you were going driving with him?" Mrs. Ford interposed. “Oh, it's too warm!” Jim responded, as blandly as though mitling down shady roads were indeed warmer than the up- stairs hall. His sister watched him wofully. Jim, talking to a young lady, with smiling gusto and fascinated gaze, and foregoing | a drive and the morning papers and his cigar for this alone! "He had stayed in his room for three | hours to escape the Kenny girls, and | came nigh to dying the evening Miss Markham had called. The Kenny girls and Miss Markham did not have red lips and shining eyes, to be-sure, and if Jim had told them stories, they could never have listened so prettily as did Miss Stowe. But was she the girl for Jim? Mercy, mercy, nol It did not serve to calm Mrs. Ford that Mrs. Sayles should come over, and, after inquiring of the girl, bustle up stairs. : Her sharp gaze fixed itself on Jim, lounging in the window, his handsome head bent toward the dressmaker and his lionest blue eves unfline hingly upon her. “You "Neried Mrs. Sayles, with a triump s at Mrs Ford. “You don't mesn* that you're dressmaking, tog! The torrent took her. God knows all. | Fiercely the savage currents fall : To muttering calm. Men count their dead. | { from the The June sky smileth overhead. God's will we neither read nor guess. Poorer by one more hero less We bow the head, and clasp the hand: “ Teach us, altho we die, to stand.” ~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Independent THE DRESSMAKER. “Yes, I'm up carly,” said Mrs. Ford, leaning over the side paling to talk to her next neighbor. cloth. She lives in town"'— Mrs, Ford's charming home was a little out—*‘and | my brother Jim has gone for her with | | Stowe is her name; I|IPE €¥CS. the dog-cart. haven't even seen her. girl to engage her.” “Stowe! There, now, I guess you've | done it!” said Mrs. Sayles, raising her in- | quisitive little upturned nose, with | brisk enjoyment to Mrs. Ford's tall] blonde prettiness. *‘It isn't best to have her if there's a young man in the house. | They all fall in love with her so they say. | She's pretty, you know, in that showy sort of way-—red hair and pink cheeks ~—and I guess she knows it. Mrs. Ritter had her a while back, and Paul Ritter | was crazy after her; and they say she flirted with him awfully, and then threw | him over. [I presume she thought she could do better. He isn’t so well off as your brother Jim, for instance,” said Mrs, | Sayles, shrewdly smiling. i ‘“‘But Jim," said Mrs. Ford, serenely — | “Jim never falls in love. He never has do you know! I think it's because he’s so superior to all girls. Oh, yes, of | course, | should feel dreadfully! I feel that Jim is on my responsibility while | he's with me, and I should be broken- | hearted. But there isn’t the least danger with Jim." The dog-cart was rolling in the drive, | and Mrs. Ford went across the smooth | lawn, with six-year-old Kob at her heels. ] Jim—tall and blonde, and handsome | like his sister— was driving slowly to the | horse-block. He was turned squarely | toward the dressmaker, and his gaily- | enthusiastic tones were audible to Mrs. Ford. He did not appear to know when he had reached the block; he talked ab. sorbedly on. Mrs. Ford was thankful that Mrs. Sayles was out of hearing. “Jim!” she said. And Jim jumped out, lifted the dress. | maker down, presented her to his sister, walked with her up to the porch steps | and pulled forth a chair. He was brisk and smiling, Mrs. Ford sighed with relief that the bay window hid them from Mrs. Sayles. “We've a nice view from here, don't you think, Mise Stowe" said Jim e ly. ““Those woods over there, with the where the sky...” “I have everything ready for you, I think. Mis Stowe,” said Mrs. Ford. dis- tinctly, and took Miss Stowe indoors. She intended sewing in the dining. room-—it was large and cool and light; but it was on that account that Jim was wont to lounge there. The upstairs hall would do. There was a window at the back. Bb took Miss Stowe up stairs, ‘It's rather warm,” she spologized “but it wil be cooler Inter.” It would not be cooler before five I sent Bob's nurse Of Ce, ! “I'm gaing to have a A dressmaker to-day to start my Henrietta | It W88 likely | And who staying away from the ball game—yout” “Oh. I don't care for it this weather!” d Jim who had breathlessly wate last ani lushingl week | sunny side grand stand, s laughed delightedly Yes, 1 will have a point in the bach Miss Stowe,’ Mrs. Ford, with cole 3 aa i ignoring of Mra. S 3) les and her re joicings. | | | | | tumult. Mrs seerned periods which poi and certain wha Savies's small, keen eyes | ted and made | * comple te she had tried | not to believe, He was in love with her. And with Jim, who was ardent and single-minded, | it was certain to be serious. was she?! Mrs ow—probably nobody did. She stared at her bastings with unsee- | Ford did not | kn Jim, with his good looks and clever- | ness, and family histories for both sides | of the family, with s coat-of-arms in each-—the lions on their hind legs in their centres seemed to prance before her eyes and a dressmaker whom they didn’t even know! What should she do?! What would her father and mother say to it, and to hert It would never have happened if Jim hadn't been visiting her She was in a whirl of tion. She could not tell the the wrong side of the cloth. And where was Rob? His nurse was getting the dinner table, and his me had meant to oversee him, but she ha He might be over playing rough little Beldens, for all she knew “Well, 1 just said Mrs Sayles, airily. “I won't stay, since you're all so busy.” And Mrs. Ford knew, as she ran down stairs, that the Dwye rs and th at jexst would know the within half an hour. «You are basting those darts too high, Miss Stowe,” said Mrs. Ford, sharply. And Miss Stowe, who was basting the darts exactly right, flushed and raised wondering eyes. “And I never have my collars so high ~" Mrs. Ford stopped. *‘What is that?” she eried, nervously It was a sound of feet on the porch; feet and shrill young voices and sobs in a terrified little voice that Mrs. Ford knew. “It's Rob!” she cried, flying down stairs. It was Rob in the arms of the Beldens' gardener, and the three small Beldens were close behind snd all talking to- gether, rather enjoyingly than otherwise. ‘He foll out of the hammock.” “We | was swinging him, you know, awful hard.” “And you ought to heard him holler.” “And I guess he's broke his leg: he came down awful hard.” Mrs. Ford gathered her boy into her arms, | “Go home, you little wretches!” she | sobbed, hysterically. “Oh, my baby! | And I didn't watch him--1 dida't know where he was! Is the leg broken!” she | helpless agita- right from ther In"t with those over,” ™mn Bidwells state of aflairs | demanded, wildly, of Miss Stowe, who | had come down with Jim and stood be- side her. “IH see,” said Miss Stowe, It did not seem odd to Mra, Ford that | she said it, and she was not astonished | when the pretty dressmaker took Rob into | her own arms and laid him on a sofa. She watched her dazedly, wringing her | hands. Miss Stowe rolled down the small black stockings and leaned over them. “There isn't anything broken," she said, tremulously; ‘‘but the right is dislocated at the knee. The sooner it is set the better, and I think, Mrs. Ford, if you will let me, I can do it.” The color was gone from her cheeks; but she held Rob's hands firmly. “Let “eoried Mrs, Ford, “Oh, if you can!" “It will hurt,” said the dressmaker; 8 ortionate to the degree of kinship. ! married. { hundred years back, ! Sprin tof the t early days have to keep still a little to get it well, Oh, I am so thankful, my dear girl! Where did you learn it?" “My Grandfather Gorham was a doe- ! tor,” said Miss Btowe, quietly overcast ing; “and I used to driveabout with him, ' and I saw him set dislocated limbs two or three times. It is simple enoughe just a jerk. I was sure Icould doit; but it made me faint.” “Gorham?” said Mrs. Ford, forgetting dislocations. “My grandfather was a Gorham. I wonder if it's the same family? What was his name?” “Andrew,” said the dressmaker, “And my grandfather had a cousin Andrew,” eried Mrs. Ford, “in.” “Fairfield,” said Miss Stowe, smiling. | “Yes, Fairfield,” said Mrs. Ford, ex- | ultantly ; and the lions in the centres of the coats-of arms, still visible to her men- | tal gaze, assumed a meck and vanquished mien. ‘Why, we're cousins!” We're cousins’ said Jim, and shook Miss Stowe's hand with sn ardor dispro- » » i * - Ld “Yes, she is a pretty girl,” said Mrs, | Ford, wheeling Rob about the lawn a week after the accident in his discarded baby carriage, and pausing to talk to Mrs. Sayles over the fence. *‘She's lovely and so sweet tempered and bright! And | you were right about Jim, too. love with her already—dreadfully! He told me so. And of course she likes him. How can she help it? She never encouraged Paul Ritter at all, do you know? Bhe disliked him from the first. I asked her. And do you know that her mother was a Gor- | | ham, too, and we're distantly connected? | We've the hist ry of the family for two | so we know what it . 1h | 9 is. We were so glad to discover i “Indeed !” said Mrs. Sayles, in tones em bittered by defeat and disappointment Emma A. Opper, A Diteh That Cost 86,000,000, But she was in a despairing mental | * 1 3 “did you ever notice that old stone-walled ditch and flume which ran from a point up the m down to the old flouring mill at and the grade of which the pring Valley's pipes low when first the water is taken from the creek!” The asserted that the no yw fe others they knew ditch, and speaker con- tinued “Well, that flume and ditch cost 86. { 000.000." “What!” a suspicious inflection ‘ies, sir-86 000 000." sory teller. 4 © IRCULRIe repeated the “You know old Vallejo, ™ { brother of General Vallejo, who is still living, built that mill back in the He owned 21! the surround way ing country and had docks and herds no but no ready money When he tor Id his ditch to bring the water to his mi wanted som wi u know how end, came bui muri EAN), Yo to gouge the old Spanish weitior early days? Well, terest on Vallejo, comp enever they pleased, and m sgredd his estate ¥ the money.-ier they piled uy That property is ugh $6,000,000, that ditch.” now worth easily end That's the cost of Connecticut's Extinet Yoleano, Professor Davis, of Harvard University, was telling a couple of friends in the Brunswick Cafe the other evening of an extinet voleano he discovered not long ago near Meriden, While out with Dr. Chapin, of Meriden, investigat- ing the mountains sod valleys of the Nut meg State he came across what has since been a matter of great scientific interest, The ash bed of an extinct voleano was discovered between Meriden and the little town of Berlin. The ash bed is an over. Conn. | hanging cliff about twenty-five feet high | and fifty feet long and of a greenish tingue. In describing it, he said: “On the face of the cliff are ocoasional pockets of quartz crystals, some of which shade to amethyst and some to rose. Another feature of the cliff is the prevalence of roundish stones, varying from one to four feet in diameter. These were the bombs, in geological parlance, and were portions | of the trap rock which were ejected from the active voleano. Another exceedingly interesting object was a small the sandstone bed twisted and contorted by the action of heat and pressure.” Many scientists have visited the scene of his discovery and they unite in sying | that there was nothing cise of its nature | this side of the Rocky Mountains, The | voleano which produced the phenomefion must have been extinct thousands of years ago. New York Star, a ————————..—— late Pencils are Manufactared, | ow Slats I's | clearly that upoa rich soil pasturage yields One of the most peculiar branches of industry in this country is the manufac. ture of slate pencils. There is only one slate-pencil factory in the United States, It is ted at Castleton, Vi, and em- twenty-five hands, who turn out ,000 slate pencils every day. The method of manufacture is a good deal in advance of the primitive means employed some years back. Not since the blacks of soft slate from whic they are cut wore sawed in lengths and distributed among the ers families to be i s5iif 3 £5 is i |] He isin | And they're to be ! let, portion of | THE FARM AND GARDEN, PLANTING CELERY. ‘When planting celery, have in mind the fact that it is a plant that needs » great deal of moisture. Consequently choose a piece of low land which is natu- rally somewhat damp, If there is no appliances for watering, such as tanks, hose, ete., a good location may be found ! beside an open ditch, or small run from which water may be easily taken by means of a pump, Very good ones, such as are sold for spraying trees, may be had for a few dollars, which, with & hundred feet of inch hose, will do duty over a consider- able extent of ground.—American Agri- eulturist. FOOD FOR YOUNG CHICKS. In addressing a society not long ago, Mr. Felch, an expert poultry raiser, spoke | of the best food for the youngsters in this | style: The best food for young chicks till two weeks old is to make a bread by { the use of sour milk, salt, saleratus and | | molasses, out of a twenty pounds of corn, fifteen pounds of | oats, ten pounds of barley, ten pounds of | wheat bran, grind and mix, bake, and | crumble into scalded milk, giving no | water (the milk is all the liquid needed), There is seldom a death in the brood if so fed. sane CAN scalded and fed for soft food, giving at night cracked corn, mil barley and wheat, When twelve months old the chicks so raised will be found to be nearly one pound heavier than chicks raised in the old way. be THE GREAT CROF OF THE SEASON. Weeds are the great crop of t} Every farmer should know all the weeds on his farm, and their manner of growth, whether they than one year fore it is ripe, of maturity will ge Ww SEason. are annual or last more He harvests his grain be- knowing that but he ™” the proce often 4 does Keep a sharp eye new or strange weed that appears on farm. If peed be, extra exertions may be made to prevent it from sg reading The safest to dispose of weeds Make a wood, throw on the weeds time. © It is astonishing what sao 1 of green stufl may be burned in this way, and quite a quantity of ashes will be which should be spread. They will bene. fit any crop.—Amerioan Agriculturist, way small fire « a few nem. burn COWS LOSING THEIR CUDS Cows do not ‘lose their cud” simple reason that they do not have any such thing, and the so-called chewing of the cud is merely the mastication of the ordinary { Every ruminating animal has more thas one stomach and t has four: the first is much larger than other three, The first stomach or pa the left le, and receives conrse and bulky d as gathered swallowed by thie 1. When has be scerate forced up into oughly masticate d or rechews is termed “‘chewing the « ood. he cow the snch the and q food lies on wid {on i ¥ this une somewhat d it is the mouth where it is dd, and this ud thor operation Cattle usually chew the cod when at rest Hence the lorger pen wd of rest in steady heavy w x ow has a fever oroth ment they cease to run cud, and those who are not familiar with the internal structure of these animals are inclined to think they have swallowed or lost something which should be restored, hence the very common idea among farm- ers that an artificial cud should be made and given to the cow, Sometimes a piece of fat pork is forced down the throat, a wad of grass, Jumps of bread, and other useless things are given to en able the cow to regmin what she has never Jost. In case of fever or indiges tion a dose of Epsom salts, a half pound to a pound, dissolved to a quart of water will usually prove beneficial and restore the animal to health. New York Sun, MAKING MAY, The value of hay depends to a large ex- ned eaity of alk hat than no Ning horses Oxo engraged rk. ever an or«¢ inate or chew the | tent upon the time when the grass or clover is cut, as well as upon the manner of the curing. The following table gives | the feeding value of hay cut and cured at the different stages of the plants, and | §¢ is well worth the careful study of all concerned : Red clover bafors head. 94.50 in mond Timothy, spike unformed. 11 “ spike visible, . before bloom... aly loom. . . full bloom... .. STEERER 83 + hE a ald fe These plants bear & close relation t others of which hay is made, or which e ! are used for feeding either by soiling or The figures show very | pasturing. the largest proportion of nutriment which he crops aor, and when the pasture is meal composed of | When older than two weeks the | left | left uncut adjoining in two plots; one cut two weeks later when the heads were brown, weighed 98} pounds; the other, when the heads were ripe, weighed 84 pounds only. This test showed that while the quality deteriorated the quanti- ty lessened very considerably. It needs no proof to show that the partly grown crop would have been much less in quan- tity than that fully grown. So that the full bloom of the crop is the time when it should be cut, not only for clover but all the grasses and fodder crops as well. Many years’ experience in soiling and pes- turing cows from early spring to late sum- mer has proved that the richest milk and the finest butter is produced from young herbage of all kinds, and that when the feeding grows late considerable help from corn meal and cotton seed meal is required to mantsin the product in | both quantity and quality. In soiling a ! elose succession of fresh crops produced { by weekly planting is therefore indispens- able for the most satisfaciory results, — | American Agrieulturisd, FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, It is highly extravagant to use low- priced mower oil, The Wyandotle fowls | prized as winter layers, are highly Now weed your strawberry bed and ap- ply a dressing of decomposed manure, Better feed the inferior fruit an tables to the hogs than market, d vege- | send them to | MOB ; ! had beld the wire Cut the timothy and clover when the | {clover is prime. Do not wait for the { timothy, Use #8 YOu can. kill weeds. the cultivator Every time ns $ $y : do ity ou where they ont With the Pp wate, the very hig! ned for ens The character of tl the pasture Seid flavored weeds, gh 1 mK wioids can vith grain feed snd butter which may obtain more than the highest toarket price nnect apest batter Pigs can be reared #0 as 10 have seven- y-five per wat in them by ling bra Skim milk may siso anda ma be fed n for weeds, because the smdition uniav None too m if one kind find able, a dozen other what they require Henderson would have a few acres of root re . have exactly Peter every farmer CTOpH on # farm and he w cows and are extensively gro purpose. P. H. Ju Yorker, that poultry droppings applied to valuable as they He also disapproves of the common advice to keep them dry, and says they are rendered more avail able as plant food by keeping them wet According to A. W. Cheever the best time for cutting grass with a machine after 4 o'clock in the afternoon. single-team farmer car all the grass bs affirms the soil are not nearly =o are estimated, is cut after 4 o'clock that he cana handle the i next day before that hour, and all hay should go into tl | every afternoon, ii a rock is laid immediately under the centre of the tree in planting, there will | be no real tap root again, and that the | | thes in the Souls. lime water which kills the tap root in limestone hammock will not affect the Interal roots nearly so severely. Not half enough is attempted in the | way of ornamental gardening with fruit, says a Country Gentleman correspondent. | With the strictest utilitarian management few things in the country landscape are | | prettier than the blossoming or fruiting orchards, and a little taste and skill in | | arrangement will make the fruits a de- cided adjunct of the pleasure grounds An Ancient Society of Pall- Bearers, While President Carnot was visiting | Bethune during his recent tour through | the north of France, he observed that a | certain society, formed of the leading | people of the city, had a prominent | place at all the ceremonials and in the ocessions. The society is called ‘Les tables,” and its members wear, on Pie ocensiona, a uniform composed ns ollows: Black knee breeches, court coat, with short mantle and cocked hat. Their principal function is to act ms bearers at funerals and to bury the . The society was Svunted 10 eleventh century, and is always rior notaries and i T * 1 ney * ften and ax lon Any | barn by that time | J | after daily trial is | kmow by test that Dobbins's Elect A Florida orange.grower claims that | { the tap root of the tree is cut off and | | i ; | 10 be interesting. — So ——— ~— A Prison Keeper's Nerve. J A shipmaster of my acquaintance, Ww has been very successful as warden inf more than one penal institution, told me! that he once heard that a criminal coli’ fined under his control had said that he would kill the warden on the first op- portunity. Captain E. said nothing, but the next afternoon, when he had an hour's leisure, sent for the man. “Bill,” let us call him, found the captain strapping his razor. “Oh, ‘Bill,’ is that you!” ex- claimed the warden, “Well, never mind, can you shave!” The man replied that he had often shaved his companions. “A right, suppose 1 see what kind of a barber you are!” With that he took a seat in bis chair, handed the criminal the razor, and was shaved. * Bill” went faith- fully through his duty, and when he had finished the captain said: “They told me that you were watching for a chance | to kill me, so I thought I would give you as good a one as you could ask for; that was all.” “Bill” slunk sheepishly way, and from thence the captain had no firmer friend than the desperate criminal, — Hos ton Traveler. w OO Electricity Does Not Hurt The experience of an electric light em- ploye in Virginia City, Nev., cannot fail Henry Faull received a shock from which he remained uncon- scious for fifteen minutes, during which pulsa- was burned where he The current passed ht side of his body, where it left the seorched time his heart showed no signs of The palm 1 through the rig MArK save nn were — . An 01d Showman's Sleeping Van. and is equipped with a oot bed and toilet ne- The old man sleeps in this a habit of night, and ugh the tents, what hour the 3 ! and the { eternal vigilance is the price ined employment with 4-Paw. sides, CURSATIOS, He h is given to of the thr or Airs ms at likely to drop in f § { : St. Louis Star-Sayings. ea————————— Of 5000 horses that started in trotting on races ast ye wo r. only forty of the list = seven The Wisest Gifk. ET " yh is the Ling ife ription is the only puaraniesd cul See guarantee on every botil y laxative or Ad. dome nis contains 80,000 Dr, Pleree™s P 4 po Ld tively eathart ung t 5 we Tux Amazon River syst miles of navigable waterways m 100 Ladies Wanted, And 100 men to call dally on any druggist for a free trial package of Lane's Family Medi. cine. the great root and herb remedy, discov. ered by Dr. Silas Lane while in the Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys it i= a posit ve cure. For constipation and clearing up the complexion it does woh ders. Chilaren like it Everyone prajses it, Largesize package, (0 cents. AL all drug- ginte’, a " Tux famous leaning tower of Fisa has been put up for sale by Jotrery. Is 1t probable that what a million women say a mistake?! They say they f= most peonomionl, purest and best, They have had 24 years to try it. You give i one trial. THEng are 8.0 0.000 acres in the two Dako tas, Only 7.000000 are under cultivation. Why Don't You Ge te Flarence, Ala.t = The foremost city of manufacturing facili. Is located in Lauderdale | County on the basal line of the grest iron and eal belt. Plenty of walter and wie pit | navigation apd ral outiets. In the valley of | Lasderdale industry is rewarded by abundant i ie, | eeptions, crops of cotton, tobaoon, . wheat, corn, Enterprising settlers wi or excursion rates and address KE. 0. MeOormick, G. P. —. On, R give you a pointer, nd women " and p. fruit, ~~ ren AG: 1 b woria. Area Oregon lmigratts Board: Fertiad, One 0 Paneh™ eae the roses fall, but “Tansiil's Beane. Drange sil ai Baber Dortle —S , Clgar outlive thom all. ~ Weak and Weary Describes the condition of many prope debilitated
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