ASONGOFCHANGES, 1 sang in the sun the whole day long, I sang in the sun a merry song, I would not believe in grief or wrong; Isang in the sun the whole day long. I sat in the dark and moaned ali night; I had lost my faith in truth and right, And 1 had no hope of coming light; I sat in the dark and moaned all night. And yet at dawn in my heart I heard Once more the voice of a singing bird, But the memory hushed it with a word, So my lips ne'er echoed what I heard. And now I am neithersad nor gay: I have learned at last that night and day, Bunshine and sorrows, pass away; Bo now I am neither sad nor gay. FE. OC. White, in Lippincott, mcs I THE LITTLE GOLD NUGGET. A TALE OF AUSTRALIA. It was given to Effie to take care of. It was not a great prize, for it weighed only seven ounces; but it represented the only result of a strong man's toil for many weeks, and, as nuggets go, it was | considered by no means a bad ‘‘find.” John Archer decided that the nugget would be safer in his little daughter's keeping than in his own. There were thieves and lawless men at this new gold rush, as at all new gold rushes, and they would know of his prize. They would probably try to annex it. They would search all sorts of cunning hiding-places in the neighborhood of his tent; they might even creep inte the hut at night, to feel under his pillow and among his | rough bedding for the yellow earth that folk hate each other for. If be caught the thief he would shoot him, but better | not to run the risk of losing his treasure. And so he gave it to Effie to put in ber old work box. The thieves of the Tw diggings would be too cunning to think of examining such an improbable hiding- place. ““You must take great care of it, dar ling,” said John Archer. ‘It for your mother.” And Effie stowed the lit- tle nugget away in a old work box-—which had moth- er's—under the cotton and the socks she was darning r father. She felt | ghted with the responsibility. She knew that this yellow earth was of great value, for her father, mother, who was very some friends 18 oer of the been her for he duly weig leaving her | delicate, with | in Brisbane, had long, weary way to find it, and she had | seen his sorrow, his despair, as day after day be had eagerly worked with pick and spade, without what he sought, Having hidden the little mv Effie came out of the hut to and see if any one was near bave seen her. No. No near who might have seen her-—ounly Billy the black— King Billy, the Aboriginal mon- | arch, who loved rum and tobacco, and who was chopping same firewood for her, King Billy evidently had not seen, for he was wielding the axe with quite excep- tional vigor; and if Billy had seen it] wouldn't have mattered very much, for | Effie trusted. i This little girl's reason for trusting King Billy, the black, was somewhat strange, and is worthy of being recorded. | She trusted him because she had been kind to him. | But Effie was only twelve. ! As the child stood in the broad light, her tumbled hay-hued hair kissed and illumined by the bold rays of the sun, | and her round, trustful blue eyes shaded | from the glare by two little brown hands, watching King Billy at his work, a flock of laughing jackasses alighted in a neigh. boring gum-tree and set up a demoniac eachinnation. What made the ill-omesed birds so madly merry! joke! Effie's trust! Billy's gratitude! They failed to explain; but their amuse- men\ was huge and sardonic. “Drive them away, Billy,” cried Effie, and the obedient king dropped his axe and throw a faggot of wood at the tree, which stopped the laughter and disperse i the merry-makers., “Billy tired now,” maid the black, grinning—*‘too much work-—plenty wood,” and he pointed to the result of his labor. ‘Yes, that will be enough, thank you You're a good boy. I'll give you some tobacco.” “Billy's thirsty.” “Then youshall have some tea.” “No tea. Rum." “No, Billy. Rum isn't good for you.’ “‘Good for miners; good for Billy.” “No, it's not gpd for miners,” said Fffic, emphatically; ‘‘it makes them fight and say wicked things." ‘Makes black feller feel good,” de. clared Billy, rolling his ‘dusky eyes. This last argument was effective. Effie went into her hut—her father had returned to his work-and poured a little spirits from John Archer's flask in. to a ‘‘pannikin.” Billy drank the epir- its with rolling eyes, smacked his lips, and then lay down in the shadow of the hut to sleep. The long afternoon passed very slowly for Effie. Her few trifling duties as housekeeper were soon done. The little hut was tidied, and the simple evening meal prepared ; and some hours must pass before her father returned. How could she pass the time! She had only two books—a Bible and a volume of stories for little girls, which she had won as a prize a* school in Brisbane. But she was too young so appreciate the first, espec- ially as the type, being very small, it was difficult reading, and she had grown be. yond appreciating the stories for little girls, having known them by heart three years before. She would like to have epi, Everything around her suggested invited the siestatke steady heat; the brightness of the light without the hut; the distant murmur of miners’ voices which came om beyond yonder belt of wattle gums; the monotonous hum of the locusts in the forest; the oc- casional fretful ory of a strange bird, and the regular snores of the fallen king who slumbered in the hut. Even the buzz of come a Brel ive unaing 1gget away, look round who one " hit migus Was ' found, which h | care, which was to have | her mother— | into the day; {in | \ watching } | Effie sudde ! laughed What was the | ] sn ———— SS — I ———— To remain still for a "few minutes would have meant inevitably falling asleep. Effie felt this, and remembered the tte gold nugget. If she slopt, some thief might come and take it, And so she put on her hat, and, forsaking the seductive cool and shade of the hut, went out into the brightness and heat. Archer's hut stood on the edge of tho valley, over against the foot of the biue, heavily-timbered hills. About fifty yards distant from it, hidden among the trees, was a high moss-grown rock, at the base of which Effie had discovered the small. est and sweetest of natural springs. Thither the child ran—looking back often to see that no one approached the hut in her absence—to bathe her face, In a fow minutes she returned, drying her face in her aprca, and shaking her wet hair in the sun. No one had come; slouching lazily off toward head bent forward, and his thin, narrow shoulders bowed. She laughed to think so tired after such a very little wood- chopping. y She was still laughing at King Billy as {she opened the old work-box to take | another peep at the yellow treasure, and | to make quite sure that the heat hadn't { melted it away. And it was quite slowly | that the laugh died from the pretty eyes { and mouth—quite slowly, because of the | moments it took to realize and accept a | misfortune so terrible-——when she lifted the coarse socks and looked and saw no | little gold nugget—saw nothing. Then { horror and great fear grew in the blue | eyes, and pale agony crept the childish face and made it old, and the { poor little heart scemed to stop beat- | ing. Effie said nothing, and made no cry; but she closed her eyes tightly for a mo- he box again. No, it was no illusio the little nugget was her | ad been intrustod to her taken to She put down the box, quite quietly, and walked out bu sun *was shining Ana mis over ment, and looked in net there-—ths fir gold sther had 3 f n it was gone. t the and the snd the trees very strangely Lily now, blue sky had grown bl secrned to move weirdly, the locusts had ceased hun but the strange bird was sot g brokenly, What will fath But the child stood ingly, her Was « er sayl" Tt there despair. grew clearer, and she f of ator hit signt Oonsci a par the dusky eyes Then knew King to him, massionate sob- still hovered rees, often changing its posi. tion, and dusky eyes still peered through the leaves. And the laughing jackasses flew down to the old tree again, and me madly than before laughed at Effic's trust—at Billy's grati- leaves. only she remember she 1 and o had done this cruel thing. iy! And she had 1} h Jil ween kind nly burst into | The black figure among the t bing. re tude. gs LL - * » » It was ten o'clock, and darkness and quiet reigned in John Archer's hut Over among the tents behind the wattle gums a few gamblers and heavy drinkers were 8:ill awake, and their voices, raised in anger or ribald merriment, might oc- cassionally have been faintly hoard from the hut. But Archer, who had sown his wild oats, was a true worker; and he had his little daughter, for whose sake he had built the hot away from the noisy | camp. Archer had come home late and weary, as usual, had eaten his supper, and gone to rest without, to Effie’s intense relief, speaking of the little gold nugget. The child was afraid to speak of the loss, snd she was not without vague hopes that a beneficent providence would restore the nugget during the darkness, her from this great trouble. For this she prayed very earnestly be- fore she lay down to sleep. Or did she sleep at all that night! She never quite | knew. Dut she thinks that it was then that she first experienced that terrible, | purgatorial condition which is neither corn meal, fifteen per cent | wakefulness mor sleep, when the body and mind are weary enough to bring the profound sleep | which they require, but which the brain | is too overladen and too cruelly active to allow; when dreams seem realities and | realities dreams. | dream when she saw something small and yellow float through the tiny window on the ghostly silver moonbeams, And yet, having closed her eyes, she opened | them again, it was still there hovering | about in the darkness—less bright now, land with a pale yellow halo. Bat it | faded quite away; it was a cruel, mock. | ing dream. | Then wasit a dream when the old | curtain, which divided her corner of the {hut from Der father's, moved near the | ground bulged slightly toward her? It | would be curious to see, and she lay still. i but King Billy was now awake, and was | the hush. | Effie laughed as she saw him-—his greas | i } { i i of his laziness, and that he should look | i and save price. — New York Tribune. THE FARM AND GARDEN. REMEDY FOR GROUNDHOGH, These pests may be easily got rid of in this way: Make cartridges of common gunpowder, with paper rolled into tubes, and pasted; load each with two ounces of blasting powder, and fit the fuse long | enough to reach as far down the burrow as may be. Fill the holes with earth and fire the fuse, of course, getting out of the way of the explosion. A dog to watch, lest the animal may get away, which is not likely, would be convenient to have around, New York Times. PROFIT FROM THE DAIRY. Professor Wood, of Storr's Station, Conn., says: ‘‘Nearly one-fourth of the dairy cows are kept at a loss, while one. third are kept without profit. This makes one-third of the money invested dead capital. In winter, with the best cows and good feeding, about two-thirds of the food is consumed in supporting life. The profit comes from the other third, Breed is important in a cow, but is not everything. With good feeding a slight profit is received. Add one eighth more and the profit is doubled. Judicious feeding di life of a cow Give a variety of food, Leguminous foods, as peas, clove r, oto: y not only benefit cattle but the land.” | Are FATTENING CALVES, In raising calves for ves! the sooner the young animals are fatted matured for purpo there will in accomplished the than that and sufficier iy i thu be more prot will be by the { milk process of draw ng sooner calves by icial feeding, and wre aliowed to suck their dams qui ob 4 iesiion of calf. is requir as |} at on suflic fattening UT HORSE wh wr broker: wn both hum H. Cr degree, whoever refuses to le BREEDING. y breeds vic wrong to declares Charles rpetuate her kind also ch ind and bh of their due wnare should | 1 ree-kind wed to Its. She will be just as useful n the long run, and live as long. Breed for a purpose. The heavy draught horse is well enough in front of a heavy dry, wus OE DOTsE a» "od Let him weigh 950 to 1200, have suffi wit style for a carriage horse, muscle and bone enough for plowing and haul and the to trot a | le four or five minutes For Northern climates select Northern bred stock. Canada, and r ! cient ing, spirit and action mi le inal horses of Vermont ork, with an infusion d Hambletonian wr all-round i y, spirit tion and : lige A combined tr beat FT Do not place hapes in yiters Slim the chance, wi stallions and the f will trot nest of mares, or g ing & colt that under 2:30, and trots under 2:30 he will not bring » big unless a co OIL MEAL FOR ROOH, that can be g pigs is fifty per per cent. bran rood sow, One of the made up for growin cent. middliogs, twenty-five wheat Ab especially one that has farrowed, needs a ration that will aid her to furnish a large supply of milk. When this is the case a iarger quantity both of oil meal and bran should be used, lessening tl best rations and 10 per cent. oil me al wie It must have beem a quantity of com meal and middlings. At this season with stock of all kinds it is quite an item to furnish a good va riety, Generally stock of all kinds have been fed a long time on dry feed, and it is necamsary to furnish as good a ration | as possible. With the brood sows, os pecially, good care must be taken to and tenderly care for chicks, cross » shoes of various nations In fact, after farrowing it is hard to feed the sow too much. The better the sow 1s fed the better the growth and thrift of the pigs. Une of the best materials to use at this time is oil meal. It should be used in connec tion with bran, middlings, corn meal, feed well. s not shorten the! have given up the farm and the care of stock, yet I still feel a desire now and then to write a few words in the interest of farmers, Nothing of the same value { puys a better profit to the farm than sheep, with sheep than without, grow well within reach of sheep, and of better the grass can grow. usual thin cattle { weedy pastures, It is not un- to see and horses in in the same pastures to take care of the weeds, and stock, having better grass, will improve, This is the conclusion | come to with more than fifty years' ex- perience, It will pay to { sheep, according to the amount of pas- Pastures will carry more stock | Weeds do not | course the fewer weeds in a pasture the | Pot in sheep enough | | keep good | ture, on any farm in lilinois. Poor sheep | or too many of them, with the low prices for wool and mutton, are not profitable anywhere, There are not many farms in Illinois where sheep ns a spe ialty can be carried with great profit, because too many of them cannot earn their keep as scavengers, and every farm should sheep. With a few sheep on the all the wool and increase sold is yrofit, fora | their board | word have farm clear ew sheep earn more “ws than A It don't matter much what breed so they are n The Merinos faces next, weed exterminators, reeds will be as to in order, it all breeds mixed. the hardiest: First of the South downs, but they do not wield so much wool the black binck faces are the or mutton not the kind the ¥ are not Stock-yard sheep are a farmer to handle. If diseased they « from ne where contagion is liable, and a diseased to his owner and all his ubors, Seab and ticks can be kept floc by the free use of 2 t i N salt. 11} wenther i off sulphur mve used sulphur 1 aril have t ¥ and DAVE never xing iA even when « {followed the se : JArters will belp any disease, commen ing to keen du of ks mar take keeping ton many. be fed to chickens very as soon as they are able to eat With fowls, as a rule, the better «0 1f0u «» al wards. N VAD } re wtb pum gs allow a fat hen to in flesh will make It is often best sit, fr i getling reduce A her AR lay better. A good preventive of gapes is to spade and and spriokle air-slaked up the gr ime Over it and need Geese, turkevs . and thrive if nfined. have water con- wr their RIWays wy are coating | get cl weed. A little care in feeding the turkey hens tame will often save and keeping them considerable 1088 of ees. Make a hole in the large end of an egg snd 1¢t the yolk run out and then fill with plaster of Paris. This makes a good nest egy. 8 with young chicks, and arises from col A drop of glycerine r ibbed on the eye is the best remedy. sre eves is sometimes a complaint Never feed chicks for the first twenty- four hours after they are hatched, the resnnant of the egg continuing to furnish nourishment for that length of time. In selling fat wethers each one must decide for himself whether the money is in shearing or selling unshorn. We know flock -masters who hold there is just as much money in selling with the wool on. To prodace the best sitting hen, one that will remain on the nest, hatch well vigorous Pit Game cock with Partridge Cochin hens, table fowl. the season's In selecting mares for breeding, get those that are sound, | slipper. healthy and vigorous, of good form, sige and disposition, then breed them to a | From under the curtain seemed to come | ground oats or some other ground feed. vigorous, thrifty stallion of some of the | a thin arm, and slowly, cautiously, after hair, And the muonbeams just touched hand the little yellow object which had floated in the first dream. It was all so real, so beautiful, that breathe, lest the vision should melt away; and when in her dream came the voice of her father, with the words, ‘Speak, or I'll fire,” her lips refused to open. But it was no dream when the shot enme, and the Black King rolled over on the earth, dead, with the little gold nug- t he had come to restore pressed in the eath-agony against his where, too, was a little gold, And the lsughing birds in the old tree, startled from their laa by the shot, laughed once more, Ildly and madly, at Billy's honesty; but there was bitterness in their merriment, for their waster, the devil had been cheated of the soul of a Black King. the arm & head with a great shock of | meal or any of the other materials, : | than corn It | can be fed dry, thoroughly mixed with | Oil meal is rich—more so the face—I think they kissed it, though | other materials, in tight troughs to avoid it was black, for they found in a black | waste, The better plan, however, of feeding is to mix well and make into a slop with skim milk, or at least to soak ft until soft, The objections to feeding | the child lay still, scarce dariog to! it dry is that much of the ground foed | will not be thoroughly masticated and, | therefore, will not be digested or assim. flated, and this implies more or less waste of food. To fatten hogs, oil meal can be used to advantage with corn. While corn one of the very best foods that can be supplied to fattening hogs, better re. sults oan be secured by some: thing else with it, and ofl meal, being richer and fully as good for fattening, can be used to good advantage at this time. Hogs kept in condition during the ar can Lg hi mpidly by having the run of a clover pasture and fed Hogi) ou corn and ofl meal. St. Lowi Rep: better breeds, Variety is the spice of life. Bead is good; so is water; but not as a steady diet. 80 do not confine the fowls to bread and water, It is good for every family to havea “boiled dish” sometimes, Why not for fowls? Compacting the soil of a new seeded wheat-field by trampling hoofs is an old ! and common practice in England, and | sheep are preferred for the work. As almost every farmer there keeps a flock, they ace always conveniently at hand, It is a much better way than roiling, be. | cause it compacts more, while still leay- | ing the surface open and broken and less { liable to pack under heavy rain into an | air-tight crust. | Be very careful, in crossing chickens, : Do not waste time in | already from It also produces & good | Turkish, Chinese—and if | | ] | : mond, an Illinois expert, and although I NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Flower jewelry is in demand, Trains have become narrower, Brocade satchels are fashionable, Turkish teas are the new sensations. Fan painting is the coming caprice. Jet snakes are used for hat ornaments, “Royal blue" is a new shade in cloth, Dressing bags are now made of lizard skin. Reefers are dren. in great demand for chil- Crepe and velvet adorn the toque. FAME Bedford cording is made for carriage cloaks. Bhort jackets are set aside as quite out of date. Stripes will reduce the width of a fat wornan. Simplicity is the order of things in riding habits, The Princess of photographer. Wales is a first rate Very becoming fichus are made of Ia combined, A home been opehed in Sar 1 1 ail and sik girls Franci hair suitings for poor ad Camel's have Persian coloring in long, silky hair Very narrow belts of silver and Fren worn with afternoon ored {a« and tr mmings gut are dresses, Orange. ings, abroad Miss Smith, May Lyle LT lady flutist in thi WOINALD Las A Honiton vails or dresses are The Princess (Vi 3 Prigcess Christian, made 2 ale fA Em Wh “Ohatncty’ fl. Tete very « BOE ImaxKers in req : train of ria Louis birida 1) se8 with Wears sewels them ni 3 and a ished Pil. ¢ £35 2 taste, she brilliant and accompl The ques bodice oll In shoulders, turn-down vived. When Miss York society pr yiessiona! actress, it wi another w great when wears is r old fashion a straight lice an £ i re. the N w iL Dut as a the Mrs, girl, maxes het pnder f ol AD, management Elizabeth ¥ Mrs charitable year to 4 14 and Stanford RIVERAH O00 objects, a " J ei Keeps a number of women emmoye i making pretty decorations for her ashington and California homes. ' More white and cream. are seen wilh evening shades. Suede is toilets, the tively heavy, are than tan | wr indoor distin reserve street glove serviceable an There are two hundred the Society of the Daugt American Revolution in Ne and all have in their posses candlesticks, cranes, spinnis miniatures of their fore-m The demands of fem ment are said to be respo yrospective extinction of British kingfisher. It has the Eaglis Sussex, Oxfordshire and H One of the latest fads is colonial heels or 8. | adorn. | e for the beautiful room ornament Persian pretty foot she inserts amog,, motely crew her own tiny, coquet] Parisian Sleeves are worn almost 1 fortably long. They must extend the wrist, and preferably n to the knuckles. They are full 8} ob u1der and down to the elbow, WH ghee be. come close fitting for th ader of the length, The walls of Lady Rand, Chareh. {il's London drawing room hung in pale gold, the window dri repro- duce ths same tints, the ff light. colored wood, highly poll nd the furniture is all of the Lowi] oerind, displaying much gilding. Cynthia Westover, the hg woman who is Private Secretary Lo York's Street Commissioner, 804, Jurigg her employer's recent ili, gonyily superintended the work $00 labor. ers, is a graduate of thei, Sate University and of the {al Col. lege, Denver, Miss Laura A. Fry inly over — — swopne Bikio on Wall Contings.™ “And behold if the plague be in the walls of the houss with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, then the priest shall go out of the | house to the door of the house and shut u the house seven days, ** * And he sh cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city luto an un. clean place.” { This matter of {ooking to the sanitary na | ture of wall coatings seems to be considered of much importance of late. A supplement to the Michigan Btate Board of Health cone demns wall paper and kalsomine for walls, ward tary, pure, porous, permanent, onomiical and beautiful, To sach of the city and town, who write the and recommends Alabastine as being first five persons in every Alabastins Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan, giv ing the chapter containing the above pass. age of scripture, will be sent an order on the Alabastine desler in the town for a package ol Alabastine, enough to cover fifty squares yards of wall two coats, tinted or whits To test un wall coating, take a8 smnil Guan. boiling left in tity of it, mix in equal quantity of water, and if it the dish over night Ooo not set Ths ¢] and finally form a stone like coment. without rinking, it is a kalso- mine, and de pendent upon glue 7 ’ the wall, the featur: by sanitarians Continuing 1 form the dex prensing, orated and ih clean Detroit 1 EE ———— Turkich Talloring for the Fair Turkey i “ an empire nN £4 ew Ovicans Dirt Makes Italy Charming! 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