A joy to the present And the hope of a gladd Console till our griefs are™ ! What matter then if skies b 4 1f in our hearts still shines the sun? =~ Let us carry our sunshine with us! A wounded heart it will cheer, That forgets that the skies are glowing, 80 long has their light been veiled; And a word, if in kindness spoken, While smiles on the face appear, May strike the full chords of sympathy When all other efforts have failed. What mattor then if skies be dun, If in our hearts still shines the sun? —(Feorge Birdseye. — HIS FIRST CASE. A DO ToR's STORY, It froze, and it continued to freeze! There was lacework on the panes of the most exquisite beauty,and icicles of crys- tal dependent from the eaves of my | The trees were 80 covered with | house. fairy frostwork that when tho sun shove the eves were dazzled, while was—n0, ought to have been, filled with wonder, I say ought to have been, for mine was not. In fact, I was too ill-tempered at that time,and the mere it froze the worse my temper grew. I walked up and down little surgery to keep myself and abused everything and every- body, myself worst of my warm, all I abused Long Pogis for srettiest heal aver wind railway s diot fi the and test place that was situated twenty miles from a town tat ation, and called myself an yw buying a practice in so out-of the-way a spot soung doctor, But] had n a ye ny practi ance, forn n medic ine plenty of pu that either when they Doctor Rob WAY, ey mi rht and been cured for bh I was not “hard up,” for I had enoug $ {0 they would not be ill . they w wld § n at Timston, twent were il when | t aif the what 18 CO with economs ast me, gear; but I was sick and t snd of rible inaction, or treated witl doct In such a laughs i at, th the new wr frame of wuind I ought t have Wy sibly #e } WOrK 0 nea pre nd forced mysel ating leave by scribing exerci indoors stud} h me patient I was sure, directly I wen I walked to the fire and poked it frosty day, and then I walked to window, rubbed away a bittle ferny ice pattern, and looked « Two ruddy-faced young » 4 ~ in case should come, as three merry looking } their sisters, were walking sharply by with the frozen crunching under their feet a pair of glistening from the wrist “Off skating!” I said thrill of pleasure sh Well nearly and Away two girls, SNOW creaking AS CRC skates aloud, it through me I had a splend skates, had bef they were before The ice sun shone why net! f of new which ground oiled re SCAAONS verfectly safe, the blue In 1m ainatiorn and feel the blood es as | heard the was glow thi my ring of the f white black ice, and dust fly steel blades as 1 » hey re water on the way to th and the baliff | I'll be wed sin tow leave Hur a day andl io me good A second threw myself in heaq all in lines of it in the 148 rah Kate as i and thought str my chair for 1 esug Self denial, John Master irse lf Wr 80 sur skating somebody will « 1 you. Stop at home and study for the patient surgery s weak vet who will come if course it is! as if in " spaswer Lo some ApoKen ‘So would no practice ! i jumped un Ar d went to again, for a party of yom going by, talking and laug) carrying the sl gun As | reached nck. and sles but the felt the b cheek for one tall yo y | I re ized rh I ut BAN ue itlema look to laughed Ah me!" | said to myself are pitying the poor doctor " haps, that fellow with the gun himself, or half a dozen of them will go in and be hall drowned, they're talking to in the chaise? Morton, the veterinary surgeon Pity | was not brought up a ved! Plenty of horses, cows, pigs and sheep want doe toring, but so people.” The skaters went on, and I took down a book which, off and on, I studied all my house and said his companions, at whi nen : will shoo of who's that Oh, Old day, going deeply into the construction | of joints and their muscles, and gues tioning myself how I should proceed if at any time [ was called in to attend a pa. tient with a sprained cokle, knee, wrist, | elbow, or dislocated limb, Jue as I resumed my seat after lunch the L&ators came back, evidently to their own dinners, and just then Mrs. Dintos eame in to olear away. “1 knowed it would be, sir,” she said. the mind | reading; Mrs. Dinton went ell me some of the young it a whole bundle of torches on, and they're going to skate lorchlight, And oh, what sir! Meal tho “carrier, betor over’ at | Phd him!” I muttered to myself. ‘And that ‘he has down from London to help him.” “Ah what?” I roared, “Well, sir, I thought it strange, but that's what Marly said.” ; «No, no; locum tenens, Mrs. Dinton.” | as plain, and Dick Marly's a very careful man. You won't go skating, sir? I did dusty your skateses.” “No, no, Mrs. Dinton. thanks. tiPoor old fellow! will not want me,” Gout? I said to myself, and { 1 read till the sun set red over the hill, | and then till the mist was gray, and the | night set in as it does set in during a January frost. As [sat over my tea in my cosey, warm | room, and listened to the humming of the frosty wind outside, I turned in my chair to listen to a merry chorus, as a party | went by my window, and the clink of a pair of skates told me what their mission | must be, I read on for perhaps an hour, quite in good spirits, and was mentally treating a | very bad sprain successfully, when Mrs, Dinton bustled into the room. “A letter for you, sir. Man brought it from the Hall, sir.” “From the Hall?” I cried, excitedly. “Is he waiting" “Nn, sir; he's gone again. Said you was to come on directly.” I opened the envelope with trembling d read, written in a bold clear USRELL ord J badly f Come on to the Hall di- hn has met with an accident, ractured. Bring your instru rd John!" 1 exclaimed. **I thought was in town.” ar as he was expected down | Is anything the mat. | Bir. broken!" 1 Dinton, my cost!" said, us! Poor, dear the front door I'm a sinful woman, and eful o' servants, and not yw a shovel of ash! r, sir.” stuffed band. y my pockets, a bottle d then caught up a the sideboard SAVO H] DIE on ngs on, hearing Mrs the frosty ad in hand, ile and a half to go, passing farm houses before 1 reached i avenue of t before | reached the last house iy lights the pun down a ine onks staining lights and hear the shouts as skaters glided here and there. I almost ran th Ki pt exp he way, and {luminated ethan Hall and when | saluted by the out { of a, while ting windows f the old dark cam” in the ill you ne there Sam are in the he there!” | said snd mighty bad ther How did the accel I ) id bailiff, whom I now uw he Je toward the No business to ha’ slipped up an't make me stable at he did. for it's only three days since he vas roughed What! wher n front at we entered the group of people were of a stall im well-roughed™ said the exclaimed; ‘has 1 his leg?” ck! and only felch. and a fine taking and the young la down, for he's Morton says the pole-ax, we've took off theirs for him but write © thre an ancl thes kennel after his akin Hes and taking * 1 sald, mabuttoning my coat the letter from my breast The old bailift opened and read the letter by the light of the lantern. Some one's been having a game with you sir-hocussing of you" { slamped my foot and made a snatch at the letter, white with rage and disap pomntment “Which heeause Lord John.” CGive me my letter and let me go.” “Htop a moment, sir,” said the old man, (aking out a letter which he read | aloud “Well mind and shut the gates after we've done skating, and we shall be off the lose by eleven.” | “Yes, I thought so, sir. One of Mr, | Mark Wiosey's games. Look.” I watched the two letters and com- wy them, I'had Joker I eall it & shame, sir. It's we allus onlled the old horse of rad seve Wf for me to help | ot a local demon +‘No, sir; he said local demon as plain | Too busy, | *' ly; “who ever heard of setting a horse's Well, he hurriedly. | There was no doubt about It's too bad to n gentleman; aud it's like Lim as called wolf in the fable. P'r'aps some day he'll want help and it mayn't come.” “Well, Master Bart,” said a voice, “the sooner the better, I say.” «Oh, don't say that, Mr. Morton,” cried a woman. ‘Poor old Lord John!” “Well ‘tis a bad job, Mrs, Bennet, but the sooner he's put out of his misery the better.” ' “I'm 'fraid so, Mr. Morton, chap, then!” Poor old The baliff went into the stable where a gagd lookicg cob was standing on three Yegs, and the poor brute turned its ‘head round and uttered a pitiful whing \in most ches they | nying sound, while I looked on. “If you'll fetch the pole-axe, Master Bart, I'll saon do it,” said the harsh- voiced man. Is the leg badly brokeni” I said. “Well, no; not what you'd call badly broken.” “Couldn't you set it?" tifet it!” said the vet contemptuous. leg?” I have,” I said sharply, for his tone annoyed me. f “Then you'd better with a sneer. of will,” I said. What 1” «Does your mastep set much store by this horse?” 1 said, / “Store by him, sir?” cried the bailiff. “Why, Miss Lydia will break her heart aboutit, His lordship wouldn't lose him for a hundred pound.” ‘Shall I try and set the leg?” I said. “Shall you try, sirt Will you?” For answer I took off my cost, and the vetdrinary surgeon laughed, I need not tell you how we did it. Suffice it that I did set that horse's leg that night. The poor animal seemed to understand what was going on, and rubbed his muzzle against my band as 1 patted and talked to hith after he was hoisted up and slung from the stable rafters. As I went home at about eleven, I was stopped half-way by an excited group, who hurried me to one of the farms, where I found snother patient awaiting me, lying grosming on 8 mattress, ‘How did this happen?” I said. «We were just leaving the ice, one of the party, ‘When Mark slipped and fell.” “Mark!” 1 involuntarily replied. “Yes, sir, Mark Winsey." I meditated for a few moments, as | recalled the balifl’'s words, and then I took off my coat once more, and with a great deal of show placed my small ma- hogany box on the farm kitchen table. “All leave the room,” I maid, *‘but three.” 1 was unwillingly obeyed, and then I knelt down and examined the injured man. “Log fractured,” I said, “just below the knee. Hah! a bad case.” There was a faint groan from my pa- tient. ‘Lucky for you, Mr. Mark Winsey,” I said, *“that I've beem in practice to- nioht ’ night set it,” he said, * said There was another groun, and the g man looked at md wildly. t Lord John's Jeg, sir, and out your advice in the bring my instruments un ' ive lowed did “Doctor! do take off m) groaned. going tO ly I ought to know best what § : like yo sir. There, 1 rt you n You are and stout to need hl Your frie ads will hold igh to pass me that case hearted a moment!” hoarsely, as he clung to my hand, which laid upon his wrist, “] won't I'll be a man, but--but thing to do, and he whispered, iL was a beastly conte and I beg “And 1 wehamed of myself for try ir practical joke “] swear I'll never No, don’t it.” I said “There, still: 1 will not hurt you much. It is a simple fracture, and soon you shall be quite wi | Fg “Thank God!" I heard him whisper to himself, ‘for my mother’s sake!” I kept my word, and I believe ha kept his; and the best of friends. As for Lord John, to the disgust of old Morton, the veterinary surgeon, and the delight of Miss Lydia, Lord John's daughter, the horse's leg bone knit to- gether, and he lived for five years longer, with only a slight limp Somehow that frosty day always seemed to be the turning point in my career, for the unlooked-for results of Mark's practical joke made me good friends at the Hall, and within a few months I was the possessor of a respectable practice, which with the succeeding years has steadily increased Youth's Companion, mptible your pardon.’ I sn AR my lad. beg ¥ ing sO mean and frighten you in revenge for " no, Swear lie woe two became — - Powdered Milk, Powdered milk is prepared by reducing fresh milk, after having removed a por tion of the cream, in a vacuum-pan, to the consistency of ordinary condensed milk, Granulated white sugar is pext added, to render the mass sufficiently friable, and the temperature is lowered some twenty or thirty degrees. The con tents are then removed from the vacuum. pan, and distributed in lumps, or re. duced to a powder. It is claimed that powdered milk possesses exer lent keep: i — : tie ; 2 ol ) | ing qualities, even in moict air as higl | food | treme, and we | extensive cultivation. | the fruit that yield most prolificly, and temperatures, A Kentucky Industry. and fortunate breeders of The been hoaxed by the practical "THE FARM AND GARDEN, | 11 | SCATTER THE MANURE, | In using manure for fruit trees or small | fruits it should be well scattered, The | roots extend long distances from tree | trunks and hence it is absurd, as some | growers do, to pile most of the manure | agalnst the trunk. Spread it evenly on | the surface or work it in the soil, The | same rule applies to small fruits. The i roots travel long distances. even though {in many cases they are almost invisible. New York Herald. EECURIRG GOOD BREED OATS, briny proportionably all they are worth as compared with other feed, Never before were there so many poor light oats, or oats that had been injured in curing, as this season. There is likely to be difficulty next sea- son in getting good seed oats, and it is well to secure oats that are full weight and not musty for seed. At the best oats in our climate tend to wun out, on account of hot, dry summers, and if poor seed be sown the deterioration is more rapid. It may pay secdsmen this year to procure oats from Nova Beotia or some other portion of Canada, provided they are there exempt from the failure that attaches to most oats grown in the States, — American Cultivator, COLT TRAINING WITH OLD TEAM. From the first, in all breakings, the eolt should be with a steady old horse until it has become used to the bit and tractable, or, which is better, if possible, driven between two team horses, Years ago, says J. H. Andre in the New York Tribune, I used to take a colt to pasture in the evening with the ten, and it was returned to the in when the team was brought A DErvous, I stable the morning in. It animal, and was had $ 1 ¥% self willed the appearance of being a hard ons break to ride Jaer ordinary cir When ol Um stable and placed horses and close back without saying a started for the pastur Nt Was easily broken without Ah will pay scare ely any attention thing if driven with a steady ol whereas if alone, under the same « stances, it might take a to furget, ble extn time Or using fiat ai » oR ¥ “To get many eggs in winter give the hens snd furnish them with warm fortable quarters hatched early and spring will be the G68 IX WINTER. SOE Care ar fowls pass their sec thing they are not Better kill them fowls it is also a good ti by buying or ex: by either 8 selling, or fowls from = duce laying and some have gravel % sired roe and while t) ng ther D pleasar pleasa A Way wie beliey manner sound pumpkins ones discard stems fork, pasture fen wild a plank shallow dry to this dump a part of a load of selecied pumpkins Now, go into ther ith a and handle Near the bottomed pen, or a large goods box would do, and sharp Apa le Most of the entrails and see It slough and rattle off, and the meaty blocks of the fruit, shovel over the fence into a long station ary trough, for the cattle to partake of at leisure nd chop them q s finely, is» Roots, such as mangels and rutabagas can advantageously xe the if fed winter, your chops ping box can be placed in 1 stable. The seeds of pumpkins act too ¥ ously on the kidneys to be beneficia cows, hence care should be taken that they be excluded from their menu At this time of the year it is the en. deavor of dairymen not much to in crease their milk flow as to maintain its plevivis quality. Meadows are annually esched, through their depletion of after. mith. for this, when some substitute should be provided. Our experience with pumpkins as a cheaply produced s been satisfactorily in the ex. recommend their more Those varieties of nerved same way, and in sO swoctest meated Ii produce the firmest, ing, are the ones to plant, planted in a Geld soparate from com they do far better than when shaded by the The pries of dgts is now very low, but | he celise oF 8 summer before being applied, GREEN MAXURING. The necessity for restoring some of the fertilty to our soils which are cropped each year is apparent even to the most casual thinker. If the soil is not to be absolutely impoverished, there must be a returning to as well as a tak- ing from it of the elements of fertility. This is 8 self-evident truth, and requires no proof or illustration to make its estab- lishment complete. Green crop feeding | is the most natural, most feasible and | most economical method by which to re | turn the plant food that is taken from our fields by continual cropping. Barn. yard manure will always, of course, re- main the farmer's chief reliance for en- | riching this land, but green manurial | crops will be found to be a val inexpensive adjunct to this, Their effects upon the soil are remarka | ble, their vegetable or organic | rendering it at once friable, act fruitful, The greeu crops most pro | ble to be employed for this purpose | those denominated ‘‘air-feeders i possessed of the power to absorb t} ments of organic life from the air us clover, buckwheat ete. Clover undoubtedly I head of the list, It cont | portion of potash, lime, | gen, chlorine, and « | and sulphuric acid, | manurial plant lies i leaves and stems { of its fertilizing grass take only a comparativ from the soil 1t | feeder.” Moreover, it draw the ferti : elements of ble an Fe : sian rye; LNs a zing the sui face soil, and render plant AXD GARDEN NOTH & nay be mao ing them cheaply with paper As a matter of fact profit is impossible without ample feeding in any and season of the An child. awed every YEOAar like ited x child scolded and excited horse is Wie an ext have seen until it could not comprehend what was wanted of it An authority grasses are social in character has said that that they thrive best where they have close neigh eminent bors of different varieties Plants should not be watered with very It uld and become as warm as the atmosphere in cold wate sh stand in the sun EF The old ides that young cattle and colts must winter at straw stacks in open fields to make them tough happily has gone, much to the comfort of the young animals, If we might turn to profit all the lom suffered by American farming by weeds farmers could well afford to pay all the taxes, reserving to themselves the blessed | privilege of unlimited grumbling as » | partial compensation, A farmer who is content to plow year | after yeer fields so much obstructed by | stones that is too pu have higher rank if he weuld obstruction and so prove his his work is seriously retarded SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL A Paris paper says that in some French laundries boiled potatoes are preferred to soap for the cleansing of soiled linen. An electrical instrument has been in- vented which is designed to remove the pain incidental to the extraction of the tecth, unnLing makes a person warm because inhalation of an increased amount of f causing the blood to more 0 puss rapidly thro izh the lungs Variations in the fall snow have from recent observations in the Himalays Mountain 1% been found to exercise an in poe on the monsoon rains os Interested People, Advertising a patent medicine in the peculiar prietor of Komp's Balsam ids does, rams a way in which the pr for Coughs and © derful. He auth those who call f it Is indesd wob- give hottie Free, that 5g rertainly rit a sample they may try it before purcl 181... We It» The Large would from oon as Bottles are 60c. a advise a rial AY Save you sumption warts or shoes that d render them PARAPFIN.-O have bees bard as pliable as 1 fie y Waller. a of springtime ung. of the ¥ among : rede ri ots 0 a waranteed cure for all and derangements tained Cure head- EN vo ome fool In length bas turned up A Moe of a Nebraska paper A Plensing Sense Of health and strength renewed and of sass and comfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs, as it mets in harmony with nature to effectunl. v cleanse the system whee postive or billows, leading For sale in 30c, and $1 bottles by all cruaggisia Ovegen, the Paradise of Farmers, Mild, sguabile cllmats, certain aad abundant crops, Hest fralt, grain, grass and wlock coun try in the world wil information frees, Ade dress Oregon Tm'lgrat’n Board, Portland, Ore The smoker's delight — “Tansili's Punch." Rheumatism According 10 recent Invistign tions 1 comand by ox cessive Inctic seid in the blood. This ack sttacks he fibrous Uesven, particularly in the Joints, and (oners the load manifestations of (he Sisenne, Paine and sches In the back and shoulders, and In the joints at the knees, ankles, hips and wrists, Thon wands of people have found In Moods Sareaparilia a positive and permanent cure for rheumatism, Tale medicioe, be ite purifying and vitaliving we tion, neutralizes the seidity of the bisod, snd wise strengthens the whole body, Hood's Sarsaparilla fold by all drnggiein $1: ix for BA, Prepared only 9 CL HOOD & 00, Apdtheonrion, Lowell, Mase
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