PH co —— ———— ————r po d— SOME DAY, “They'll all come back again,” she said, That by-gone summer day, The while we watched the goodly ships Upon the placid bay. “They sail so far, they sail so fast, upon their shining way, But they will come again, I know, some day ~gome other day.” Some day! So many a watcher sighs, When windswept waters moan, With tears pressed back, still strives to dream Of the glad coming home. Good ships sail on o'er angry waves, ‘neath skies all tempest gray, For quivering lips so bravely tell: come again-—-some day Some day! We say it o'er and o'er, To cheat our hearts, the while We send our cherished ventures forth, Perchance with sob or smile: And tides run out, and time runs on, our life ebbs fast away, And yet with straining eyes we watch for that sweet myth—some day! “They'll Full many a true and heart-sped bark May harbor find no more, But Hope her beacon-light will trim For watchers on the shore; And those who bide at home and those upon the watery way, In toil or waiting, still repeat: some blessed day” ~Luey R. Fleming, in Harper's Bazar, A FADING PICTURE. “Some day BY GEORGE HALE. It was a brilliant day in early summer, but the outer blinds on the windows of the waiting room of Henry Milford’s photographic establishment were closed so that the room seemed almost to one just come in from the street. As the eye grew however, to the semi-twilight, the relief from the outer glare was grateful. one side through an opening partially closed by a heavy curtain a little glimpse could be had of the operating room, or studo, as Milford preferred to have it called. Mr. Milford was busily engaged in pre paring {or the printing of which seemed to him to require more par ticular care and attention than usual, and it did not please him to interrupted Such a day for work seldom came to him It did not allay his irritation any asked abruptly, as he was, upon entering the waiting room. “Mr. Milford, can you take for me?” The young lady who asked this turned her attention almost immediately to some examples of Mr. Milford’s work hanging on the walls some pie tures be a picture “It is almost impossible to see these, it 1s so dark.” she said, ‘but it is so pleas ant to escape the horrid glare of the street.” Henry Millford was fond of his work, | which he considered art, and he had car ried it to a rare degree of perfection. He was very conscientious, too, and in pos- ing his sitters before the camera he would take as much intelligence as could any artist in arrang ing his models or draperies. He was proud of his finished work, and always impatient of criticism. It was for this reason, perhaps, that he had made him self somewhat exclusive. At all whatever the reason, he would discrimin ate as he pleased am the many appli- cants for sittings. To those whose ap events, pearance or manners did not please him, he would always say that he had too many engagements to take their pictures. In truth, he had obtained such a reputation and had so many applications that he was almost compelled to select from them “I am very busy—I do not know,” he dark ! sun-lit | accustomed, | 1... At | 0 be : care and exercise as much | been questioned. It especially pleased her when he showed her pictures, from time to time, as he finished. them. There soon came a day, however, when he had to confess that although her pic- tures were not finished, the negatives promised well. of think,” said Mr. Milford, ‘‘weshall have some very good things there.” “Oh, let me see them,” Miss Mitchell answered, *'1 want to know what I look like." This was going ahead a little too fast to please Milford. “I do not think you can tell,” he said, “I would much rather have you wait till they are quite completed. There is so much mn the printing, you know." “Yes,” she replied dolefully, “I sup- pose so, but do let me see the nega- tivos. Then perhaps I shall know just how much there is in the printing.” Milford demurred, but finally yielded. i over critically, | back she expressed her gratification with | { them, Milford kept one of the completed { pictures and guarded it with jealous care. He was, it must be confessed, sometimes | tempted to exhibit it as an example of the perfection to which his art could be | carried, but this temptation never lasted long. He kept it by him, however, as | much as he safely could. At his break- | fast, which he took in a lonely way in | his apartments, he had it before him at { the table; and, as often through the day ias he could, he would hasten from his studio to steal a parting glance at it. It seemed to him that it varied in ap- | pearance from day to day. He thought he could read in it of Miss Mitch- If the eyes lost md were smiling, felt that she was happy; if they were more sad than j usual he wondered what had happened her. And sometimes, too, discover it in other signs, then he feared that she was ill Alarmed at its growing power over him, tioat el's changing moods. their sad expression, as they sometimes were, he to distress would and annoyed that he was so little able to , he at last placed it in He was deter mined not to look This de- | termination he adhered to for some time, perhaps a week or longer In the mean- Mit had entirely ford knew that there was no should and he sadly as he admitted it wished it had been He now resolutely deter mined that he would forget her, and that | he would not again look upon the picture; | but he found himself thinking much more { of Miss Mitchell and of the picture than of matters need] his atteation. One | day he it from its hiding | place and examine } He was startl i. | that the picture resist its inf] a seldom used portfolio. | ‘ $ ak Is again, | time Miss hell's visits oes eel. ¥ 11 FoasOr Cail, i laughed BOE himself otherwise, to ling took the portr 1 it carefully. it to him ss distinet than it was he impressed 3 SCOMeQ had been. : that t frequently thereafter, 1 convinced that he had been right, that it was growing less and less dis- tinet. Though interested more than ever, and puzzied as well, he again determined that would think of it no { and replaced “the picture in the port. folio. He busied himself so successfully that he to overcome, in some awsure, his longing for the picture and its original; but for a few days only. Then he hastened again to the portfolio There could be no question about it; the | picture had perceptibly faded sin he had last looked at it. It was now barely dis- | cernible, “It has almost gone,” he said to him self sadly, ‘‘and she—-can it be that she 3 : & he looked at i and was soot longer, } v ne og was able me | is going too!" This thought almost unmanned him. Now he realized for the first time what her loss would mean to him; now he | knew how empty would be his life if she { should be taken away. He was at this moment called upon by Miss Mitchell, his present caller, was | a gentleman who surprised him by ask- a little annoyed and perhaps a little sur- prised as well, | “You see,” Mr. Milford continued, “In this climate of ours one has so few days in which he can work. Unfortu- | nately, I am compelled to think very much about the weather.” On this particular day there seemed to | be very little reason for this backward. ness. Indeed, inssmuch as he had made | up his mind that he would really like to take Miss Mitchell's picture, this pretence ! of not wishing to do so was folly ; but habit was much too strong for him. | tL “Pardon me!" she said. “I did not know. I thought that this would be just the sort of day.” ‘And so it really is,” he said quickly. “I you sit here a few minutes I will ar. range the room and camera.” He answered with such alacrity and hiz m aw nor She was not sure that she was not fright- | ened alittle. He, however, had carefully studied her and had decided just the pose which he thought would suit Yer. He was now as enthusiastic as ne had before been otherwise, “These perhaps will interest you while ou are wating,” he said, as he placed n her hand several photographs, “But,” she replied, ‘I ought to make some Jruparations, too.” i “iy » your kat," he said, ‘and your hair. But I wish you would let me take the first one of you just as you are.” It seemed to him that he could not quickly Mitchell's wish was grati- four negatives had been soon to receive a herself which would | had so changed that Julia | Mitchell was surprised more than ever, | Snoagh make the necessary ar- | ; ot last everything was | ing: *‘Will it be possible for me to procure some duplicates of the pictures you re. cently took to Miss Mitchell?" | Milford's annoyance was apparent, but he tried to say, politely: “I should be glad to oblige you, sir; but of course it would not be proper for me to do as you ask.” “Indeed! Why, may I ask?” ‘‘You can readily see that [ cannot dis- pose of any duplicates except at the re- quest of the sitters themselves.” “Oh, certainly! But I come at the re- quest of Miss Mitchell.” ‘Is she not well, then!” asked Milford | in quick alarm. “No; indeed, she has been very ill.” “I will prepare them for you at once,” Milford said, anxious now to be rid of his visitor as quickly as possible, and | given him. | least, 1 shall know about her.” Yielding to his sudden panic, he seized his hat and rushing from his studio, with little thought of the crowd. ing carriages, he ran across Broadway, and then, almost disregarding the people | against whom he jostled in his hurry, he hastened on to the street in which Miss | Mitchell lived. As he ran he would not permit himself to tell what it was he feared; but as he | neared the house there was the very sight he had most dreaded. That long line of carriages could have but one meaning; and now he hoped only to see her face | once more, | Eluding the grasp of the attendant at i the door he entered the house, and the | sound of music he knew to be When she handed them | She took the negatives and looked them | | THE FARM AND GARDEN, BOIL FOR HEMP. The soil best suited to hemp is a rich alluvial loam; it will thrive in & moder- ately tenacious one if well pulverized and it has good under drainage, cither natural or artificial. Land that bakes hard isnot food for hemp. It is generally sown yroadcast, from a bushel to a bushel and a half of seed being used to the acre. If drilled in less is required. When raised for the seed it may be planted in hills, — Boston Cultivator. FOR HOUSE KLOPS. If you save all the slops from the house, the wash-water and suds of sundry occasions during the week, you will find that you have a supply of nutri- ment at hand to draw upon which is far richer than you had any idea. It will not make a poor soil permanently rich, but it will afford sufficient nutriment to nourish such plants as you grow in it dur- ing the summer in a very satisfactory manner. We planted some annuals on a stiff clay that had been thrown out of a cellar, We water them regularly with suds and and they in growth and floriferousness those grown in the garden.- GOOD USE slops, Surpass American Agriculturist, A MOME-MADE BROODER. People who raise many chickens find a | good brooder a very u ¢ful institution. | There are many plans for making them, | from which we select the description of a | good one that can be easily made: Make | a box three feet square, foot hi open at the top and bottom. Over this nail sheet iron, and then strips around the edge, leaving a hol each corner on Make a fi of matched lumber, on the strips, le a hole two inches ab the center, | around which fasten a high. Then mak eight inches square, Along the edges slashed every two inches rh, one nail one-inch | at 1 O0r H inch long are In tube a cover two Set four tack strips of flann four inches | feet and ! on brooder lamp und top of th the sheet ir hol and t! ing through arners becor the same time paratus, aged, fills t New York he bill of Witness, MARKETING Large cities do not best markets for fruits, is often passed by and New York to be it would Look always The best mas the fruit se: sold at a less pr have brought nearer h juestion of markets greates best reputation prompting “H { in the M custom 18 LO send pr Nisan choice © those in squan Have cl piu iL sale apnles Pl " bushel crates #t the crates be built of | land hall Fs bright new stull, sn stablish a reput aesmgnate your jut do n ther tion {for neatness that will fruit, even without a abel omit to mark every crate, barrel or « package, pisinly, with the name of th consign ana your own name Make or pure hase packages of all kinds well in advance, so that this important matter may not be rushed at the when the fruit is ripening. Too much care cannot be taken in as sorting fruits. Some make three grades, the first and second for market, and a third to be fed out or dried or otherwise disposed of at home. Some of the most careful fruit growers make but two grades, the first and best only goes to market, All other is kept at home, or disposed of without having the name of | the shipper on the packages. American Agrienlturalist, with fir sin a— » COWS SHOULD PAY FOR THEIR BOARD In order that the plants grown may yield the best return of which they are | capable to the husbandman, his skill} | should be exercised to provide animals | hurriedly making a note of the order | GAL least,” he said to himself, ‘at which can return to him the most in| products or service for the food which | they consume. It is possible to keep | snimals which vield so much less in food | than they cat, that they are veritable burdens upon the man whose property they are. Inste ad of being his servants, living and laboring for him, he some. times becomes theirs, and apparently | lives to keep and feed cows, hogs and | horses. The cow in all civilized coun tries is always a boarder upon some per son. She should be mude to pay for her board at such remunerative mites as will leave a profit for the boarding-house keeper. If she fails in that she should be made to render a service which she | will not unwillingly contribute. Her carcass should be made into beef and her hide into leather. She should not be slyly sent to board upon some other un- fortunate man. A cow with the business habit of keeping her accounts with the world paid up through the man who owns and feeds her, is a good business cow. ‘That is the kind of cow 1 recom- mend. Her power of service will be in. dicated by certain external points. She should have a large long , of elastic fine quality; a mellow movable skin, covered with soft silky hair; a long large barrel, hooped with flat ribs, broad and into broad, long hindquarters; an open twist with reer thin hips, snd a Jean length, carrying a clean-cut fine face with prominent eyes ability " be) THE | foods make the best pork. | fat. | The 1 lendermess and {ost time,’ ing sows, writes F. D. Curtis to the | American Agriculturist, by turning them into a field where there is plenty of pas. ture. It is not advisable to allow them to have pigs where other hogs run, al- though, in a large range, there is little danger of the pigs being disturbed or in- jured when born. One thing is sure— there is no food which will make better pigs or put the sows in better condition for bearing young than grass. It seems to be as natural food for swine ns for any | class of animals, I have known sows which destroyed their pigs in the spring, te make the best of mothers in the sum- mer when fed on grass. In the spring they were feverish and made frenzied by their physical condition; while in the summer by the cooling and succulent character of the grass they were in per- feet condition for the ordeal of bearing young, Felling vegetables has a similar effect, and when sows have these regularly they are always sure to do well. Fruits are also natural foods for swine, and sows will do well if fed nothing but apples. In the summer hogs should always be on the earth and given a chance to root. When it is known that all these cheap foods are so natural and healthful for swine, it seems strange that so many far mers persist in keeping their hogs, the year round, on grain, An acre of sweet corn, fed stalks and all, will go a long toward fattening a lot of hogs. Sorghum is also excellent, Weeds are allowed to go to seed, for extra work the next year, which would make excellent pork. Here is a maxim The cheapest The Lean pork then be we should try to make it. ds to increase the the muscles. uscular part is the best food. The ly wast We 10 People but for the Was reason is, it is the leanest, ing the best, Confinement Exercise in pens ten develops fat buy hams, k maki YW It away. not the fat, is wasted it mak much more Rex we the leas bodies 3 iL INeal or pe fed tow this way will and will be tender and Lirby Homestead, with our breed « r%, and using turnips, we have pros seventy per cent hams five ynething more than mere | It is meat, with the sub un of mes To gv trv H products made from such superid np quality and ts which enhances the id no be fed so much ’ an extent that they will flavor tl valos Pigs sh or gorged to such ut into the pasture An active ill make better meat than a helple we made so by lack of true muscle and to plant apple Rs IB Ooraer of this kind vee Deen set this Your at Kirby Home stead, Ap make plenty of lean m 3 . 0 ive harvest ut they d that of including Cars les do not make | x. 0 eat, and Pumpkins can be utilized extra quality in the same way Gradually the require. ment: of consumers for more lean pork will open the eyes of farmers to the fact that the consumers are right and we will have less of ETOREY, animated lard tubs called *‘carly matured pork.” “The most weight in the short is a heresy which has broken down lots of American stomachs and set thousands of people against pork. There is no animal on the farm which can be turned to better account than the hog to the indigestible j utilize wastes and cheap foods, and as a { factor for enriching the farms. For a steady diet give the pigs grass. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES, The creamery is the dairy farmer's hope Have milk rooms well ventilated from above. Liquid manure is best applied weak y and often. Do not allow the ground around plants to become balked. Keep swine healthy. Loss begins when | health breaks down. Every young weed that is cut down is one less to go to seed. Corn isn't horse feed. Never look for anything better than oats The cows will be more comfortable out of doors these hot nights, The three great enemies of sheep are dogs, foot-rot and parasites, A member of a famous farmer's club says, feed onions to sheep to kill ticks, Sheep do not suffer from the cold, but they do not like high winds or to have wet flecces, After a long journey, walk your around the yard a little before f and until he is cool. The silo on the ‘cheap plan” is grow. ing in favor, and will help solve many problems of feeding, Timothy when unmixed with other ssos should be cut while in blossom, or just before the blossoms appear, See that there is a shade of some kind It is for the comfort of 1] | give good heed for our ows profit, | holding the evil apd the good.” | semt me” SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUST 18, Lesson Text: “Saul Rejected by the Lord,” I Sam, xv, 10.28. Golden Text: | Sam. xv. 28 — Commentary, yon The intervening chapters between this les | { wm and the last one are chiefly occupied with | | Saul's first victories over the Philistines, and | sso over the Moabites, Ammonites and Edo- | nites; but thers is o sad statement concern- | mg Baul, and a precious one concerning Jona~ | han, his son, to each of which we ought to The first ‘ofers to Baul's foolish conduct and disobedi- | mee in the matter of the sacrifice (chapter | clil,, 814), which brought from Bamuel the nessage: “Now thy kingdom shall not con- inne; the Lord hath soughs nim a man after His own heart” The second is the noble sonduct of Jonathan snd his armor bearer ind the good words: “There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few.” We i if we will, be men and women after jod's own heart, and dally profit by the good word of Jonathan, The lesson to-day is the rv of Sal's disobedience in the matter of Amalekites “Then came the word of the Lord unto wl.” Baul's orders were: “Go and suite utterly destroy all that they #: but he mved Agag the king and spared the best of the sheep and fv. 3. Thus as in the matter of the already ferred to, he did what alive, oxi smoerifice ref seemed right to himself, acting upon his own judgment rather than the express command of God 11 ‘It repenteth me have set up Saul to be king 80 in verse 85 “‘the Lord repented that He bad msds Saul king over larael” and yet in verse 20 it is written “The strength of Israel will not le or re pent, for He is not a man that He should re- Compare also Num. xxili. 19; Ps.cx., the question i how to reconcile apparent contradictions, for the oon. ior only not real. We ground on which it in the fact that 1 pent 4 Now t hyena wemmning anvt t by Hex niy what he Bad n 12 Saul came to wet} ipa pane Jil he sof up 8 monuwm ike Absaiom’s place Har rather for his of God, rathe une than the nar Hlessed be thou o Yer ersaon y ave al and th All things are naked and o Him with whos we ha 0 searcheth heart an The people spared the best of Justify them by saying it but his heart is somewhat shown ing, the Lord thy God, instead of our God It is evident that Saul did mn know the Lord; he did not understand that the Lord wants nothing that belongs to His enomios 16, “Stay, and I will tell thee Lord hath said to me this night Samuel who talked with and with whom God talked, who sought only to know the mind of God and do it; when he came to die it would not be a very great change for for be had from his youth lived with and served Him. Why should we not ur daily life thus walk with God, careful what the Blessed God im (rox mn above all things to know what He hath said, that we may believe it and do it 17. “When little in thine cxa sight, * * * the Lord anointed thee king over lerael” | Had Baul omly continued ¢ in his own sight and sought to be great in the eyes of the lord who had exalted him, all would have beens well, but he forgot the Lord and | thought more of Saul and his deads 18 said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites.” Saul wie nol required to give his opinion, or make any suggestions, but only to do as he was told 19 Lord, * * * but didst evil in the sight of the Lord” It seems hard for some people realize that God sees all even the motives for their actions, and no tices all things: yet it is +=3en that “The ways of man are before ihe eyes of the Lord, | and He pondereth all his goings:” and again: place, be | (Prov. Ve | “The eyes of the Lord are in every 2; xv. 3) 20, “Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the | Lord and have stil fusing to humble himself bafore God; maki out that Samuel was wrong and that ( was mistaken, and that he alone was right; insisting that his view of the case was the one the way which the Lord | correct one, and that in doing as he did he | | had indeed obeyed God, The time has not pt by when people pervert the words of the | Ard Jer, xxiii, 36) and yet insist that they are right. Saul had to learn that God meant just what Ho said. 1. “The ie took of the spoil, | things which shou : | stroved.” sins of others than to see our own, He had | gare and that shaep and oxen should wrong | have been utterly destroyed. i g out very slowly; he sees now t sin, but not his own. After the {| plereing words of the next two verses, which close our lesson, ho soos his own sin and con. “The Lord sent thee on 2 journey, and ' “Thou didst not obey the voice of the | their actions, and | ustifying himself, and ro | EC —— STRIAL. SCIENTIFIC AND INDU French engineers have undertaken the sowing of milway embankments with poppies. Paint made with turpentine is a better protector for iron work than it is when mixed with flaxseed oil. The cuckoo is an insectivorous bird; the hairy caterpillar which terrifies many birds is readily devoured by him, Forestry has long been made a study in Japan; no people are more skiiled in grafting and dwarfing trees than the Japanese, The Australian beetle is colonized in Californian that it may exterminate the scale bug, an insect that preys upon the fruit trees, Experiments made on the dog and rabbit show generally that the quantity of water is less in the venous than in the arterial blood. Among the curiosities of electricity is a Frenchman's that he will soon be nder storms at any claim able to desired time Barcelona, ual mountain of hewn out in the Rome is nile from open air, like stone from a quarry suid that a Paris firm has pro. glass for window panes. t admit of a t in ventiletion. wh fine 1o int ape peent light for reading. cflects of the are errontcous. cured from a West Indies, i hard, and sed chiefly for ley with adhere ja a f the I Bras ome a part . MixXea for brick or stone wor Length of Man's Vision, {ow far can a man see? maguary half Wild- One and sixty : of of the il agree 4 wit le v8 CH THES Th physician Ee said fc ny les would probably be the limit from the Wild- normal of the standpoint « tower of wilh line h ted person could sce no farther, but could sce objects on the horizon plainer. A near-sighted per- son would, of course, be correspondingly Building, person mn That would | the mn A lot limited. Another gentleman who was present said that be had stood on the heights ten miles north of Bowmansville, Canada, on a clear day, and distinguished the outlines of the south shore of Lake On- tario, and at night from the same posi- tion had seen the revolving lights at Oak Orchard. The heights referred to are 400 feet above the level of the watér of the lake. The use of telescope had verified the facl that the shore outline had been seen with the naked eye. The same gentie- | man said that he had found that on the ocean the hull of a vessel disappeared at a distance of about ten miles, if the ob- srver stood on the deck of another ves sel, and the masts disappeared at about thirty to thirty-five miles, — Rochester (N. Y.y Democrat, Food Consumed on an Ocean Steamship. # The food consumed on one of the large steamships from New York to Liverpool was as follows: Nine thousand five hun- dred pounds of beef, 4000 pounds of | mutton, 900 pounds of lamb, 256 pounds { of veal, 150 of pork, 140 pounds of pickled legs of pork, 600 pounds of corned tongues, 700 pounds of corned beef, 2000 pounds of fresh fish, twenty pounds of calves’ feet, eighteen pounds of calves’ heads, 450 fowls, 240 spring chickens, 120 ducks, fifty turkeys, fifty se, G00 squabs, 300 tins of sardines, §o0 plovers, 175 pounds of sang 1200 pounds of ham, 500 pounds of bacon, 10,000 eggs, 2000 quarts of milk, 700 pounds of butter, 410 pounds of cof- fee, cighty-seven pounds of tea, 900 pounds of sugar, 100 pounds of rice, 200 of barley, 100 jars of jam and jel- sances, twen Aa Summer Weakness Is quickly overcome by the toning, reviving wad “My hosith _— Tah frequent hand WA - 1 Se So
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