se mS —— ————— To ———— ————— A — SI SR THI MISSION OF THE SEA. Men gain new vigor at her wholesome breast; Bhe links far lands and reunites fond hearts; Bho carries argosies fromm East and West To those of distant parts. But more than this, her mission unto us, The mission of the many-voiced sea! Bhe rolls her ceaseless these She types Eternity. ~R., E. Burton, in Youth's Companion, | "OLD STEADY'S" GAME. waves to shore, and | one night, an' never { nothin’ minutc't he'd struck his uartz, “Dunno what ailed him, an’ smart's he wus, he didn't; but he told me he'd quit diggin’, and afore he hung up his tools fer good he'd show me whar he'd stowed his pile, “Twas all fer ‘his boy,’ 't wus ter a college out East, an’ . over on demand. ‘He writ a letter last payin’ ~1 ain't never larned no chance ‘Some 0 the boys helped bury him, BY EVELYN HUNT RAYMOND. ‘Set thar, stranger. Mebbe you'll light! No! Humph! Life 'd ornery flat without my 'bacey, an’ it's no | gret, anyhow.” “That's lonely place. settle here?” “None yer matter, Only folks round this Banon don't ask too nany questions. “Tain't considered good , luck, not ter say healthy,” “‘Beg your pardon; however, no offense was intended.” ‘Don’t say no more—shake, bring the victuals.” Polly obeyed, the traveler watching her attentively. She was one of the sights he had come to see; an institution of this West which was so full of interest to him Tall, lithe, graceful, limpid-eyed, clear skinned, spirited and ignorant She felt his eyes scanning her, and a flush rose under the tan of her cheek. For the first time in her life un pleasantly conscious of her bare feet be too take it; but this is a How did you happen to As Wwe ) QO no Polly, she was brown and shapely though they were and the feeling gave her head a higher poise. It may have been that that made “her stumble and spill the contents of her earthen bow! over the Knees. she passed him in the narrow space bef the deal table The flr of anger sprang t faltered —half meaning to apologize an oath from her wcked the cipient courtesy, and turning, she left cabin, A gleam of rocks. Old Stix guest's is re 3 ish deepened, and a o the dark eye; father cl Barr ' pink calico behi moment later al it, “Don’t wonder ye say gal, thar, smart as a full-blooded filly ben sent East: but id dad. Rough as | me. | orter be shot Wall, I ain't what | watchin’ keepin' gyard asrvous,” The visitor's eves asked the son also saw and sighed My She's smart She'd orter won't leave her be, she sticks ter fer Wus | ain't no chance she cussin’' her settin’ her an’ makes me question from which his lips refrained. The simple dinner eaten, the remnants were left to the flies, and the men's chairs tilted back against the Something in the frank face and manner had softened wrizzly” sade him strangely inclined to gratify s idle curiosity Sage bush, rock, shadow of the rude home longer; from its shelter John Barr looked wer the wilderness, and wondered where in its vastness he should find the man he outside 0 how. younger « to a reminiscent mood, he alkali stretched out and sought “Stranger, I've took a notion to ye got a motion ‘bout ye 't ‘minds me I knowed Ye look like an honest d'ye believe in ghosts?” Ve've ong chap. Say! He put the question suddenly, eagerly and a look of grieved disappointment followed the ‘*Notat all” with which it was received “Do youl” “Yep. [I've seen ‘em.’ A thought had come to the other, pityingly connected with the gleam of pink calico There was a long silence. The keen eyes under the shaggy brows fixed them. selves intently on the guest whio— realizing what a godsend his chance visit must be to this lonely soul—submitted in pa tience “Can't you tell me about iti" “I'd be glad ter—plagued glad! Ef ye'll swaron yer derringer 't ye won't blab.” The temptation to smile was banished by the thought of that unshed tear in Polly's dark eye. Humoring the old man might help her, “I'll swear,” he said; and he did. “I'ye see yender stun with the pile o' dead bresh ‘round it? an’ the heaps o rocks jest beyand?” “Yes.” “Thet’s the spot. Thet's what I'm a- watchin’, an’ hev got ter wateh till the owner comes, Stranger! I'm a sure shot, I don’t bar no foolin' with. Ef ye be. tray." I shall not betray you." “Wall, I ain't easy mistook as-readin’ men, an’ I'm a-goin's ter trest ye, [I've got ter, somebuddy, soon. Thar's a queer kind o' pain in my side 't warns me. Twic't I've lost my senses, an’ when I rome to I hedn't so much stren'th | as a baby coyote. I'll lose "em onct too | often, and then." i “I ain't never told Polly yit. I've! kinder hated ter. Women is narvous, | an’ I've been a-gittin' that way myself nuff ter know what a mis'able feel it js. “1 hed a ner onct; as squar’ a man as ever handled a pick. He hailed from Boston, and "twas quite a change, ye'il low. He never told—an’ I never ast. what wus the prime cause ‘t druv him | ter the Rockies, Thar's allus sumthin’, We warn't much slike. H oO the gal cried a lot: with a stun ter his head an’ his feet. Warn't none o' us much fer prayin’, the young un, she kneeled down thar an’ said the prat he'd larned her himself, ‘““Twus orful jonesome arter thet, an’ but I ain't never ben 80 the same man sence. “"Pwus in my mind allus, ‘Ol’ Steady’ planted his gold! wus I ter be as true he'd ben ter me an’ whar 'd An’ how ter him an’ his'n as Polly? “I couldn't sleep sca'ce none,an’ one moonlight night I went an’ walked all ‘roun’ the When | come ter thet thar heap o' stuns, as sartin sot ‘Ol’ Steady’ on a bowlder playin’ cyards all by his self! “‘He’d ben a marster hand fer solytary when he wus groun’, it ‘peared he hedn't lost none o' his grip I turned all kinder but no livin’ man 'd ever downed me, I lowed no dead one shouldn't, ‘Hello, pard!’ I hollered He let on, but jest kep' a-sortin' an’ handlin' his Cy y outside gully, as ye're a sinner, thar ‘bove an’ down below cold, an’ never Ards same ® done but 1" nearer, til he d allus Somehow my legs felt heavy as lead, I kep' on a-draggin’ myself all of a suddent he wus gone! ‘1 did tumbles fer a blamed fi nt tarry nat er: 1 inte v bunt inter may bun ol sunthin " twict as nateral ht, feet 8 ef they blonged ter some- het time an’ plumb straig "n } Du agin’ agin though, I edged Wt go idv els 2 leetle clusser, spoke wl an gritty ‘Wh baek, Didn't we do the plantin’ job all reg'l: He wavered twisted, : roun’ co an’ thar! “Thet it's sent ve O' Steady! an An Uablt, then-—he warn’ blamed thing went on fer seven -gittin’ madder an’ it a-git vin later over I got a good look ’ his-—its houlder, an’ blest if ever’ one y them spook eyards warn't ¥ I , pardner! whar'd » they from abos ““He didn’t tak hufflin a jos RACeR 0 spades | couldn’ help larfin Nay ye git thet pack; JW ¢ no notice yout kep On f-% an’ dealin’ out on thet em howl arter another, ace arter ace, We w hen pertracted meetin's the moon wus in first quarter, an’ n Iater ever’ night afore I thought I'd settle an’ thar pardner, what sent ye now | ax agin’. I'd ben doin’ thinkin’ an’ cal'lated I'd ‘Was it ye tell "bout yer BOW vd « the hash then 2% later ome ter time ‘1 ast ve onct back, an considerable struck a lead at didn't git pile?” ““Thet raised ita the trail spades ter do ‘OI Bteady’s eyes looked from his aces inter mine I thought a blizzard 'd hit me; but | braced up onct more ‘Be ye-—a-settin'—on—the—spot—-pard chattered ‘Hope ter die ef he didn't smile! The gladdest, relievedest 't ever yo see It made him look so peart like 't I clean fergot 't he'd ben dead an’ buried, an’ | wus so tickled ter think I'd foun’ what he wanted, t I jest clapped my han’ down heavy on his shoulder! Thet is, I clapped hearty nuf, but thar warn't nothin’ ter hit but the stun whar he'd sot.” Inst Cate no chance ter spook stopped shufflin’® an head ter onct I follered up ‘Ye don’t play nothin’ but I reckin thar'll be some diggin’ out The miner relapsed into revery, a pe culiar smile hovering over his stubbly lips. John Barr was smiling, tor; the mingled pathos and bathos of eerie tale smused while it tonched him His host suddenly looked up and fixed anew his piercing gare upon him. The scrutiny was again sustained in perfect calmness, If it was a madman with whom he had to deal he would be pre. pared. “Thar, stranger! | ax no questions victuals a-goin’, name!” ‘Pardon me, I forgot; 1 should have told you at first. John Willett Barr.” The settler stood up, put his scrawny don’t in common them ‘st ests my who they be ner whar' they're But I dew now. What's yer . 0 I wus ter hand it | ter read, no more has Polly—ter tell all | about hisself an’ what he wanted done; | but blest ef he didn't drap off suddent | ter tell | an’ we fixed him comtor’ble an’ solid, | | ness, and it was quite the hands to his mouth, and blew a shrill | whistle, calico gown came in sight. The oval cheek was redder from shame than exercise, as the girl advanced to her father's side. She had not meant again | ber of barrels of ashes your ¢ At the third repetition an an- | | swering salute was heard, and the pink. | “Bay it, 1 tell ge. agin’ mel” The impatient words were addressed to the reluctant girl, but “OI Grizzly's eager gaze was on the stranger's face, With slow distinctness, feeling hersel a traitor to a sacred memory she pro- Don't ye dar’ go nounced the words: John Willett— Barr.” The traveler paled from the shock, whose truth was dreamed. A moment appeared in the canon. later he “Daddy, what fer did ye make me? I | ; ; | American Agrioulturist. warn't ter tell nobody but the ‘boy.’ “Yender's him?" “Him! Oh, Lordy!” To both minds returned the picture—the poor and barren same death for speech, his hopeless longing for the loved presence which had late, come 100 The moon had risen when Barr returned to the cabin. By the light of a kerosene lamp he saw the girl within watchin over a bulky envelope which lay upon th table She rose to meet him as he came with in a fow feet of her and paused. Liftin the lamp and shading it with her hand so that the rays fell full upon his features she than father had done. She B ‘ examined them even more his would have risked life to defend or to deliver to its rightful claimant, her sacred trust Ow ! stranger; be you his John Willett — Barr? The sorrowful re the fronting nuine doubting neid Hi ference due a Queen bent and touched the I Twi that day Polly's eyes h A LET me, ‘thoy!’ de viru face « for further inten gret in her was too gv With a sigh of out her hand and the took them both she and with the de brown fingers with unaccustomed mist, but this them in her chamber The old m outside, tnump! beneath old Stinson ‘He his pile sin't sot thar i onl he'd be on han’ boy ! With arms extended, and a childhood h Barr ran toward 1 of bowlders D miy and smiled upon he of ful slumber heard that heard it, and felt a burden lift faithful heart up az other in sweet caught it Woeession tl it 4 Did it reach ne § Who « 3 Sit the might wine gry heart in the its unrest! » ‘I dare not, J differently traine lifetime of learning An 80 no, 1 won't say you an good ha women 1 see: but thes fitted to marry you A twelvemonth of had not de he culture tracted from the proud, free grace of t creature who had grown up in the wilder old Polly tossed back her pretty head, folded her who shapely arms, and set her chin firmly to withstand her pleading lover He came close to her, but he dared touch her. Once his lips had caressed her fingers; would they ever reach her perfect mouth? “Darling, what has learning to with you and me! Shall I tell you what I see, always! lonely place, a group of rough men, and weeping girl, kneeling with folded hands and upturned face. ‘Old Steady knows, as | know, that no other than his Polly can be wife to his boy, He held out his A moment later, with the slow, sweet yielding of the conquered wilding that she was, she drooped to let them fold about her Frank Leslie's. not do n Come! ATINDS Washington a Cheap Place to Live In Washington strikes the t the North as decidedly a cheap place t« live in. Meat costs thirty per cent than in Boston, and marketing of other sorts is lower in about the same propor ion. ere are only two dear things here, | tion. There are only K | aftermath turned | land under this crop gains in available | | nitrogen about 180 pounds.—New York apparantly ice and ashes. The former is expensive hecanse it has to be brought all the way from Kennebec, or manufac tured artificially. The latter costs ten cents a barrel to get rid of, The city will not take them away, and so, to dis pose of them, one must needs engage the services of one of a number of colored gentlemen who have created, by an un derstanding among themselves, a sort of ‘ash trust.” They will take nothing less than ten cents uw barrel for removing your ashes in dump-carts, which they drive about the town, making such col. lections. You must take your choice be tween employing them and storing you ashes in the cellar. Count up the num. Wooly os to face this guest who had witnessed her | tablishment will produce in a year, and poverty and awkwardness, but she dared | You will find that it 1s quite a tax, inci. not disobey, “Polly, hev ye got the letter safe?” “Yen, Ry War ing. “What fer ye want ter know!" No matter. 1 want it.” ] | dentally, also, you will discover om reason why the colored men are able to afford to occupy shanties all over the most fashionable part of northwest Washing. (ton, on land of their own that is worth #5 to 86 per square foot. New Orleans Picayune. Electrie Lights for Conviets’' Cells The cells of 700 convicts in the sadder than he bad | had dis- | ! seeding has chamber of “Ol’ Steady,” his vein efforts { ally prevents winter-killing, and it in | Frop was poor | ure, at least $10 per ton, as valued on the | basis of the cost of the nitrogen in artifi- A fresh-made grave in a | the aftermath yields enough seed to stock | the land for years when it is turned |: ; ’ ! keep the weeds from going to seed jess | | tilizers seventeen cents per pound. | all, with the manure value of the hay and THE FARM AND GARDEN. RAISING TURNIPS POR SEED. In Pennsylvania, where the growing of turnips for seed is a great industry, the seed is sown between the rows of corn, after the last working. This gives tur. nips about two inches in diameter, the most desirable size for seed purposes, In this manner a good crop is secured at a nominal cost, us they require no work af- ter sowing, Sufficient roots can be grown with an acre of corn to set three acres for seed the following season. — PROTECTION THAT PAYS, Mulching wheat fields in the fall after much experimented with under our observation, and it is de cided w be eminently advisable, Pine material, thinly and evenly spread, gener been creases the rop over that which is neith er mulched nor affected by alternate freezing and thawing. For this purpose buckwhest and other chaff is excellent: the partly rotted refuse of old stick-bot toms, and any short litter raked up about the barns ana sheds, buckwheat straw Straw may better thinly spread, but that is a diffienls mat ter. A person tried it, put on &« and the wheat came up spindling and the snd short elover and answer well, Long be Long straw chaffed by fanning it through a cutter would be ex It sted that leaves, especially if partly rotted, would cellent, is sug {forest be as good as anything. The mule hing should be done immediately after seed ing New York 7 ribune Cover | DIGGING AND STORING POTATOES The early crop is often iniv 1 Iay in digging dead stored As soon as the potatoes should Every ome kaows in the spring when it has st and pushed s rior qu sprou the imios feed becomes ripe: should dry SOBSONn., A wm Warm rain starts the not a growth of kind of when potatoes are stored growth which often takes place 100 wan. a | In this | for sus place, called Ysupertuberation.” the material stored in tuber taining the growth « we following year is started! and used for the formation of new small Most rving far mers must have found in their potato-bin toward spring new potatoes from the material of toes should be dried off before they stored, and in doing this they should not be exposed to the The old farm house cellar, which is being abandoned as a storchouse for potatoes and other crops has an advantage as a place for stor ing potatoes the odor which the destructive disease may be noticed at | its appearance and the affected potatoes removed. — American Agriculturist, tubers obwse produced i old tubers Pota are sun as attends ADVANTAGES oF cloven, Clover has a beneficial effect upon the soil in two ways, and is not only grown | cheaply, but it yields a valuable ¢ rop for | hay or pasture. It shades the soil and mellows it, and this is beneficial by en- | couraging the natural nitrification of or ganic matter tiat may be inert in the | land. It produces a large quantity of | roots, which contain nitrogen in abund ance, and yields a feeding crop which is | worth, for the nitrogen not used up by | the stock and left available in the man. cial fertilizers. After a crop of hay has | been taken for two years the second year | under, and an amount of most useful | | plant food equivalent to ten tons of the | best barn manure per acre. A fair yield | of aftermath, with the roots and debris | of the previous hay crops—not counting | the manure made by feeding two crops of bay, which in all is estimated by the | noted expert Sir J. B. Lawes as equal to | | more than $10 per ton of hay fed | contain at least fifty or sixty pounas of | nitrogen per acre (and at the most three | | times as much), which is equal to sixty- stranger from | : - | one or seventy-three pounds of ammonia, would and is worth at the market value of fer- | In the fertilizing value of the roots and | under, each acre of Times. DECENTLY DRESSED, A well-dressed farmer called on busi. ness at the boarding place of my son in town, says a farmer, in the New York Tribune, and, after leaving, the gentle man of the house was told by my son that the caller was a farmer, when he ex- claimed, ‘He's no faiicer!” Of this farmer I once heard the remark that ‘he always looked as thugh he had just come out of a band box.” Now, I happen to know that this dress was inexpensive, and devoid of f or show; only plain, neat and clean, and he always | wills of 2x8 {and bed them | them so firm that there than nothing if |) w much, | | center { the #ill, | ding this i fen | be four feet wi | to the pit i methods of eons {ly as good a one as can | farmer has stones handy, {of solid masonry | by { lasting layers, and their fles | which must bear the strain i admirable | entific farming is the rage | little | wouldn't be a good thing something of the martial air, as thong) ! the equal of other men. “Nodbig | which can be won by work in this wort,” | says the New York Witness, ‘can make amends for shortened and enfeebled lives.” 1 indorse this, and contend that we should keep our forms erect, walk as squarely as other men, dress respectably and becomingly both at home and abroad | for our children’s sake, as well as our own, and dignify, 22 we may, the most useful and in the world, honorable calling TO BUILD A BILO. rier asks Mr. of that A subscriber of the Prairie Fo for directions how {o build a silo, B. B. Hoxie, paper, says “If the from the wall, just surface water with the level a correspondent to be detached low foundation to prevent nny structure is barn, mK high enough from n 10g In con ever oo § Li Fill up all, and finis! d down, Next flat well in Hime wil to spread or get out of place, studding 16 oor off tact ensilage to the with of tos w pounas of water lime clay well cement lay yous in. joist, on the wall, mortar; have be no chance On the Joists y 4 place x5 jo g, 85 this i i proper height the and 16 inches {rom to Toe-nail firmly at the bottom of Th ud ais E center ¢ object of placing the s 10 scoot I paper; fora p spars is date the width of tary t silo must be perfectly wir tight on $ row] tarrevd put good tarred sides and botton Now Pp ApeT oh the ir } 01 Lh ping. as It Will, ™ with goo 804 Be or give ' {be held by cleats | must ie in one end, and made in sections two feet each, GOWEH In gros as the silo doors, as well as sliding 80 88 0 Come out the inside y is emptied, as to form no obstroc {f the fodder tarred paper which are This is one traction, an be built, made so settling « AD to for of the cheapest d is essential iia he can build one would not keep one of wood but it out frost or air better than | One end of a bay in the barn can be used, the same have it air tight.” observing precautions Vv FARM AND GARDER ROOTES A small amount of salt wuld ocos. sionally be allowed he soft food, should any be given ever. unite Managed properly Guineas an h is a of the turkey and pheasant Waldo F. Brown, suggests that posts of stretched wire fencing be set with cement Sunflower seed properly used makes food the hens. Mix it with other grain and feed occasionally. up science. Sei Wonder if a of boys for or » Everyone is studyin th science in the training If you failed to put turnips, celery or fodder corn on the ground from which you took the early peas, do not fail to A gentleman says he never bothers with hie setting hens, feed to last a week, and water every few days, as he thinks of it. This weeall un wise. L § 1 fe wives them enough Don’t wait till the close of the season, then take some little *‘mubbin” of a cucumber for seed.—selict now a nice specimen and let it grow and ripen for | seed. Dont let earth or rabbich accumulate | around the sills of the barn or sheds; if you do it will not be many years before | the expense and trouble of a new sill will | have to be incurred A farmer who needs two teams during | the season of busy work may find much more profit in having a yoke of oxen and a span of horses than in four horses: a | question dependent on attending condi. | tions that he should examine carefully with the purpose of deciding wisely, Good racks for holding hay for cattle, horses and sheep, will save a great deal of money and hay over the wasteful plan of feeding the hay on the ground or in troughs where it can be pulled out and trampled under foot. In feeding any kind of food to any kind of stock, avoid a wasteful system, The ery ia for a hog with the old time const ution. Well, we can't have him till we go back to the old time methods, and os what do we want wh Rim anyway! The of the present day or HA he og to carry him to the pork barrel. given a chance to take care of what nature HOW SAVAGES MAKE FIRE. BOME ACCOMPLISH IT IN FIVE S8EC- ONDS. Fire-Making by Gyration, by Saws ing, by Plowing.and by Percussion ~Varions Methods Described, Walter Hough, of the National Muse. um at Washington, has been studying and cataloguing the fire making imple- which the museum has a fine Believing that nature an- swers a question only through an experi- ment, Mr Hough bas made fire by the various methods represented in the col- In speaking to a reporter of the Mr. Hough said the lief that to make fire by rub two pieces of wood is very difficult, He had, he said, repeat in thirty seconds by the five seconds with ments, of collection, lection Washington Alar. ommon bi bing w TODOS in ing and arranging SOUND Las {maw - The first y by gyration, embrac- stick apparatus {found North, Central and the Ainos, of Japan, the aud the four-part Eskimo aud some The sawing, Hough in st na collection in the mn them under four heads ng the simp song the Indians of Ar KEE] eries, of Africa, el paratus, used by the Imelinns by the i ~ iy A SOOO clans, the HeEriean COIN Prices imple and O0Y- RNG nd flint flint ik Well and The possible, colored liect In Jot Soon t owder gets darker, od snd ithe next of sooke smell of burnt Probably by tie curl turn there will be a thst aclive i1ttie pellet WwW De shaken s dark and a it; grad it I In this semi- held anti it Wing The roms tf anti! 3 or Ligoaer ZTeeS : on keeping the dust to make fire With the bow drill to that described, method the dust hole worn by the se is similar sawing gh the small In the ple is pushed along until wing method the dust it forms a heap at By examining Mr. antl to require. hearth apparaius ti the fire effective ma Li! several Either the drill or the be of dry, inflammable wood. Wood that is “punky” or soft from in- ot decay 3s generally chosen, most often pieces riddled by worms Wood of this kind is not only easier of ignition, but it is groond off easily, and is more capable of retaining the heat generated by friction until it accumulates sufficiently to ignite the powder. The Eskimo has, to a great extent, emancipated himself from the necessity of using any particu- lar Kind of wood by the invention of the compound drill, by which he gets strong nents must l pressure with high rate of speed, thus _§ generating enough beat to fire wood quite intractable by the simple two-part drill. This invention was necessary from the | conditions in the Eskimo's frozen home, where drift-wood is mainly depended upon. The Eskimo, however, always secures a piece of go wi soft wood when he ean. Mr. Hough thinks the sim- plicity of the thing itself and its wide | distribution among the tribes of men argue in favor of the claim of the twirl. | ing sticks for priority of invention over the more complex flint and method The aborigines of Australia cul with a hatchet a hole in a dry, fallen tree. This hole they fill with a powder made by crushing between their hands the dry ripe head of the flower stalk of a certain plant, Then they turn the stem head downward into the hole and twirl it. A few seconds suffice to get fire. A tribe in South Australia obtain fire by using the gram tree. A split piece of the flower stem of the grass tree is placed upon the ground, the flat side uppermost, A thinner piece is held between the palms of the hand, the lower end being pressed upon the piece on the ground, and an alternate re- volving motion is given to it by rubbing the hand backward and f until the wood ignites. In Java, too, fire is some. times produced by friction. D'Almeida, describing a journey in Juve, says: “Be. fore starting on our return | felt desirous to smoke a cigar, in order to ‘keep the coll out;’ but finding 1 had forgotten m fusees [ asked one of the men if he give me a light immedin picket up a dry piece of wood, . it fixed on the prrites
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