"DEEP IN THY HEART" Deep in thy heart I know thou knowest My heart still goes where'er thou goest; Howe'er thou thinkest thou'rt alone, My heart still flies to meet thine own, » * - - + Ld Whate'er thou sayest to forbid, My lips still murmur forth their love My lifo still shows it—nor is't hid More than the sun above! we Reuben B? Davenport, in Belford, —— A — ma] MARTHA DREWE'S PARLOR. BY J. LL, HARBOUR. A pretty little farm-house, painted a snowy white, with blinds of vivid green, stood just outside the small New England village of Waterford. The house was | quite new. The shingles on its rool were still yellow and resinous. It had a tnm, smart look pleasing to the eye. A small, old house, painted a dark-brown, stood | back a few yards from the pretty white | house. Mr. and Mrs. Jared Drewe had moved from the old house into the new one. They bad begun housekeeping as a young married couple in the old house, and | they had lived in it twenty-five years. The new house was the culmination of | the hopes and plans of many years. True, | Drewe bad nevsr liked the old house. It | had no ‘‘conveniences.” The new house had a well right in the kitchen, a big pantry, plenty of closets and a parlor. | The old house had had none of these | things. “I begin to fezl as though I was some- body,” Mrs. Drewe said at the breakfast. table on the morning of the fifth day after they had moved into the new house. “Do, eh?” replied Mr, Drewe. *‘You | wimmen are great for puttin’ on style, I ain't never felt no partic'lar need of a par- lor. A common settin'-room 's good enough fer me, or even the kitchen.” “I dont mind settin’ in kitchen myselt,” replied his wife, ‘‘but I don't want afl my comp'ny to have to set there.—speshly the minister and wife. I've felt the need of a parlor a many a time, if you ‘aint. “Well, you've got ¢Yes, when I git it furnished.” ‘Oh, I you'll full of all sorts of Hub dubbery—woman like. ” ‘I'm going how, Land enough for 'em.” “What you ca | ‘nice? “Well, I'm going to have a real Brus sels carpet, for one thing, and a marble- top table and a plush sofy and lace cur tains and nice chairs.” *‘Shucks!” Mr. Drewe said, contempt- uously, but ke did not offer any objec- tion to this extrav want outlay of ony and carefully hoarded funds, He knew, moreover, that of this would purchased of his wife's own savings. She was a wise woman and had a purse of her own “*Ketch me having to run to Jared or to any other man ev'ry time [ want a lit tle momey,” she had said, in the begin ning of their pilgrimage as maa and wife. “No, sir; my savings shall be my own.” Adhering tenaciously to this resolve and ever keeping in mind a time to come when she should have & new house, Mrs. Drewe had money enough to furs ish the house as she pleased. But his wife's propositios aroused a spirit of decided antagonism in Jared Drewe “I want to have the parlor papered some time next week." **Papered 1” Mr. Drewe looked up prise and opposition depic line of his face, ‘“¥Yes, papered,” replied Mrs. Drewe “You s'pose I'm going to have bare white walls when ev'rybody else has theirs papered 1” “We'd all bare walls in the old house.’ “Idon't care if we did, we kept thinkin’ and thinkin' we'd build ev'ry year, and it dida't seem worth while to! do any paperin’ or fixin’ up; butif youn recon I'm goin’ to live the rest o' my day in bare white-walled rooms you're mistaken,” She spoke decisively, for she saw un. usual depths of opposition in her hus band's large, unbearded face with its square, firm jaw and chin indicative of great firmness of purpose. Her own face wore a resolute, emphatic expression. She was a plucky little woman, Her husband had a secret pride in what he called her *‘grit,” although he would i have died before he would have confessed it. “I don't see why on earth you object #0 to a little wall-paper, Jared.” “I despise wall-paper,” he sid, with something like childish perverseness, Mrs. Drowe sat back stiffly in her chair, resolute and defiant, Her black eyes shone as she sade “There's no sense in your actin’ so, Jared Sparks. I'm goin’ to have that parior papered.” i “You do, and I'll never set foot in it | as long as | live aud breathe the breath | of life!" “Fiddlesticks!" “I never will, Marthy."” “What nonsense |" “1 never will!” He ross from the table a+ he spoke, took his hat from a nail 1 the small | entry near the kitchen door sad went out to the barn, his every movement seeming to accentuate his resolve. Mrs. Drewe did not refer to the mat- for again; but & week from that day, when Mr. Drewe returned home after a day spent in the city five miles distant, | he met John Hays, the village . | banger, coming from the house with an i A Dice, clean his " one now, reckon want to fill it thiags nice, any- I've to have knows, waited long most splendor be out second quickly, sur le i 1 on every : | geous parlor, ber | plumped it down flat and | oil cloth of the entry floor, and sat there | Jared actin’ so. Isn't it lovely? I think it's just beauti. ful.” “You remember what I said, Marthy Drogwet" “Well?” “I'm goin’ to stick to it.” tiNow, Jared, I..." SI ~never—set—foot—in — that— room-—long—asl—live--and—hreathe wetlid—koep—my-—senses! Never!” He pronounced each word slowly and with marked emphasis. Then he turned and went out to the barn, ‘““‘He'll get over it,” Mrs. Drewe said, hopefully, to herself, but in her secret soul she feared he would not, He made no reference to the matter at the supper table, fully and pleasantly of the events of his visit to the city. The Brussels carpet, the plush sofa, the lace curtains and the marble top table of Martha Drewe's visions and dreams became splendid realities during | She cslled her husband | the next week. to note the general effect when every- thing was in place. He came to the open door and looked in, “Come in an’ set down in this gew patent rocker and see how easy it rocks,” she said. *‘No, thank ye,” he said, curtly, I never expect to set in it.” She tried to laugh lightly, as she said: “‘Pshaw, Jared? Don't be so silly!” He turned and walked away lence. The minister and his wife from the village to call, the next day. Mrs. Drewe ushered them into the gor. heart Jared came to the door with an chair from the Kitchen, hard on the pride. old wooden during the entire call. “You never ever in to shake hands with "em," Martha said, afterward. 1 know it." “What you ¢’pose they'll think!” “Dunno what.” “If that’s the way you're goin’ to act v'ry time anybody calls here, I'd thank t altogether.” “I reckon I want to see foll do come you to keep out o' sigh ks m have ev'ry she said, hotly. “Then I'll tavern,” sh 3 “The Drewes always was a stubborn set, but I vam I didn't a’ pose Jared could be so pig-headed,” she said when he bad left the room. She had many callers during the next weeks, ‘he fame of her gorgeous parlor brought her friends and scquaint ances to behold its splendors, ; at the door on the old woodon chair during nearly all of these He was not to let the toe of his enter the take fev Jared sat careful boot calls even despised 100m, The sharp eyes of Mrs. Drewe's callers soon noticed Jared's pe- culiar conduct; their keen noses scented nestic discord. ‘What's the matter of Jared!” asked Sarah May, Mrs. Drewe'e of some of the parlor “Nothing that I know of." replied Martha. “What makes you ask!” “Didnt he want you to buy your par lor things?" “He didn't Whatever that idea into your bead, Sally” ““They say he won't set in one of the parior cheers, nor even step into the room.” ““Who says sol “Oh, it's common talk. asked about it more'n once.” Mrs. Drewe went home greatly dis. tressed and humiliated. She was a sensitive little woman notwithstanding her “grit,” and she could not endure the thought of having her domestic af. fairs made a subject of common gossip. She Care. put I've been was forced to admit to her sister that she her husband had had a disagreement. felt hotly rebellious toward Jared as she entered the pretty little new house and She lin which she had expected to be mo happy. Jared wre lying on the lounge in his shirt-sleeves and stockinged feet, reading the weekly paper. “Well,” said Martha, while untying her bonnet-strings, “it's got out.” “What's got out” “ "Bout you sayin’ you'd never set foot in the parlor.” ““Iean’t help it if it bas,” he said im. pertubably, “Can't ‘‘you ean Drewe!" “How! “Why, by simply giving up your mulishness and coming into the parlor pext time we have company.” “Humph I" said Jared, and resumed the reading of his paper. Martha raged inwardly, So many of her plans were thwarted by Jared's ““mulishness.” She bad the deserved reputation of help it!" she eried, hotly; help it any miopit, Jared | being a very ‘‘sociable™ woman, and she had planned to have **a sight of com. “For 1 can't invite wn id He'd have to be in the parlor some,” she maid to herself, often with hot tears in her eyes. ; oi E seiil Fi Ld to her bed £ He even talked cheer. | in si | came out swelling with | uch as sister, a fow | weeks after the papering and furnishing | was rigidly truthful, teo, and she | for her to be ill. Tt was with as much pride as gratitude that she remembered hat neither she nor Jared esded the services of a physican, But she looked ill enough to need one now. There were great black hollows under her dull eyes, her cheeks were flushed, her lips dry, and she crept about slowly and languidly, ‘Better let mu go for the doctor, Mar- thy,” Jared had suid several times, + b'lieve your're sicker 'n you reckon you air.’ “I've idee I'll be better in the morning. I'm goin’ to take a dose of { them bitters that helped me so when I {was kind o' run down in the sammer. | Wish you'd get 'em for me.” | “Where are they?” he asked, rising {from his chair, the paper he had been reading still in his hand. **Oh, there're in the—the— Ret { down, Jared, I'll get up and get 'em myself." She was Ising on the lounge at the {time and she sat up painfully aud slowly, while he hastened to say: **No, no, Marthy; lay still, ‘em. Where are they?” ““They're in that little corner closet in the parlor, Jared.” He stared blankly at her for a mo. | ment, his face crimsoning: he took a step forward and then dropped back | heavily into his chair and held the paper | up before his face in silence. His wife rose without a word and feebly walked across the floor, breathing heavily and keeping herself from falling by leaning on tables and chairs. Jared watched her furtively while pre tending to read. There was a visible twitching of the corners ot his mouth cance, and his teeth, sot close together, showed be. tween his parted lips. The hand that held the paper trembled, but he sat | atill | SLI. an I'll get His wife slowly groped her way across the hall. He held the parlor door open. { He heard the door of the little closet | swing back, creaking slightly on its Then he heard Martha fall He mn to She was lying at full length, face ward, on the floor. “Marthy! Marthy!™ he cried; but he stopped short, with his toes on the parlor | hinges, the open door of the ith to bend or break even to give aid to he wife he truely loved “Marthy! O, Marthy!” he called, stretching his arms far into ward her. “Lordy, sad I'll do everything I kin for you Roll over if you can't walk, Marthy!" He dropped to his knees, bent his great body forward and tried to reach her, but failed by several feet. There was a ludi- crous side to it all ““Marthy!" be fairly shrieked. She peither moved nor spoke, but sud. denly she gave a pitiful groan. “Good Lord! What an old fool I be!" cried Jared, suddenly leaning back and striking his breast with his clenched fists, **A fool an’a beast to let the best wile any man ever bad suffer a second, when | might help her! The Lord forgive me!” He bounded to her side as he spoke, | and took her limp and unconscious form up in his anos, saying, as he did so; “It'll be a judgment on me if she dies The best wife in the world! Marthy! Marthy, dear! What ails ye!" He seldom called ber “‘dear.” He did #0 now with great tenderness and gentle ness ““Marthy, can’t ye open your eyes! See, dear; I'm in the parlor. I'll come wn it right along n he paperin’ reely sets it off. I've thought so from the fust, but I was too cussed stubborn to say so. Oh Marthy! What is the matter!” For she did not even open her eyes, threshold, his stubborn, inflexible will be ¢ the room to- M arthy, com here, yw, It was seven weeks before she left the bedroom to which he carried ber. He had been one of the tenderest and most patient of nurses, but the word *“‘parlor” had never passed either his lips or hers during all that time. She had thought much about it, how. ever, but not with pride or pleasure, be. cause she had no hope that Jared would ever enter it now, and the wallpaper could not be removed, He carried her out tenderly and gertly the first time she left her room. “Want me to carry ye into the parlor, Marthy 1” he asked, after he had ber in his arms. “It's sunny and bright in there. I've got a good fire in the stove and the—the-—wall.paper shines beauti. fully.” She looked up with shining eyes and the first flush there had been in her cheeks for many weeks, “If you would carry me in and lay me on the soly awhile, Jared, HWhylleeOh, Jared! What does it mean! I thought you—Ohb, Jared!” for as he carried her out Into the dining. room sod through the sitting.room to the hall she saw that all the once bare and cold and staring white walls were | covered with more expensive and beau. | tiful paper than she herself would have | bought, There was a warm, red and black car. | pet on the hall floor, a new carpet for the | | soluble fertilizers quickly diffuse them. had ever | its roots near the surface. THE FARM AND GARDEN. CROBKING OF CORN, All farmers are aware that different varieties of corn will mix, as itis called, and some attention is usually paid in planting to prevent it where it would unfavorably affect a choice variety. This | crossing, wherever it occurs, is caused by the fertilization of the pistils, the | silk, of one variety by the pollen dis- tributed from the tassels of another. At the Knngas station for three seasons past careful experiments have been made in the artifical pollination of corn. In 1888, forty-one varieties were used ; sixty-six attempts at cross fertilization were made, of which thirty-nine were | successful. As a practical summary of the results, it is said that the numerous crosses of maize by artifical pollination were mostly successful, the different races, as dent, flint, soft, sweet and pop corn, with apparently equal resistance, The eflects of the crossing are in com- paratively few cases (mostly fweet va rieties) visible the first year, ond year (the second generation) shows The sec generally ears more or Jess completely blended, often exactly tween the two par intermediate be- Tare. Unie ntal types; ly the graivs of a single cach other, and each may re ly or remotely either parent. The product of the third year is generally true to fhe seed planted; by se from any ean more semble clos iecting d different with grains usually 1i Any desired form ear or [rom are obisined herefore apparently bx bus bye mistaxe ten r acre cieven Was In ws (th made up iny-iwo nd a half bn thing ols being over {forty bushels to the clearly due to the absence the groun being grefter part of the left om strip on measuring exactiy s jon of fourteen bush weeding ’ ling field viel the acre that gil a A to over thirty per ACre, on eight-acre field completely ve-hundred- busi crib, equal bushe { shelled corn A Very poor field that up, and without manure, but was cultivated eight times, while my half of a rented four acre field, worked only twice, amounted to load of ears, to twenty bushels of grain, and small fleld was much better soll than the oid field, My practice for many years has been to work the corn once & week, beginning on Monday when the weather was suita ble, and continue the working as long as a horse ean get through the rows without breaking the stalks—and this is usaally until the ears begin fo bang out in the rows—and the cultivation has always been on the surface. Bome years ago a heavy min washed a slope on one of my fields very badly, and exposed a fine net work of roots for several square rods, which completely filled the soil. Several of the plants were washed loose, and could be taken up with the roots. The roots of many plants were eight feet long, spreading over nearly three rows each way, and they lay very near the surface. In places roots were abundant at a depth of two inches, and very few were as deep down as the land had been plowed. More recent examinations, made pur. posely, have convinced me that this is the habit of the corn plant to send out It may be that surface manunng with fertilizers tends to such a habit of root growth, but was newly broken one wagon equal thi this selves through the soll, nnd it may Le | that the desire for the sun's heat, which | corn so much neods, brings these roots to | the surface, It is clear that a plant baving such a S— the blossom or the grin. Something has been said of the usefulness of roots pruning corn. It is equivalent to draw ing n cow's teoth when she is busy turning | good grass into milk and butter, and | equally prevents the gathering of nutri ment, It is practiced for this special pur- pose in fruit culture, for checking the | growth of trees to reduce the amount of new wood, and it has the same effect upon the corn which we want to hasten | to maturity as soon as possible, and to | nid in every way in enabling it to gather { food and increase its product. For this reason the cultivation of corn should be early and often, and as late as { may be possible, and aiways on the sur- face, merely keeping the soil loose and mellow, and absorbent of moisture and the heat of the sun. It helps, too, very nuch to apply fifty pounds per acre of through the summer, especially when the blossoms, the tassel, and the about to form after the the silk, impregnation ductive functions upon which full ears, sound grain, and carly maturity de- pend, ~—A merican and Agriculturist, FARM AKXD GARDEN XOTES, Every rod of useless fence is a The younger the weed the more easily wi pasture— better than ure Ine st whitewash a good ere I should what of green m produce 10 young ones iciency of far as it at the Mich. weed planted one greatest potato yield Mi Was with Farm products that excel in quality | have an attractive appearance never to hunt a market, It would » no harm, but likely wl microbes, to fumigate ulphar, to be cultivated often h fertilizers if the soil sanured Cabbages on i stimulated wit wereased specially are ngs on a rge scale, « h : inosporas, arborvitaes, aod the like, plants which root with dif. grafted, with upot those root etimes which easily, [he rhubarb plant may be increased Professor Bailey says that at least one by divisions each division must contain bud on the crown, Produce something out of season, make it attractive and delicious, and see how quick it ard how soon there will be a call for more. will sell | The soil for beets should be plowed from twelve to fifteen inches deep, and as much of the beet r00t grown beneath the surface ae possible, Gluten meal is a very excellent feed. It is the corn meal with the starch taken wut of it, and consequently has a better feeding rate than the corn meal itself. The black walnut is designed to cut an important figure on the farm in the | near future. It can be made as profitable as the apple tree wherever it will thrive, Leaf mold is a natural fertilizer for all troos and shrubs, and wood flowers, or ; any plants that like a shaded place | ting soil, Freshly laid sod is much more likely to succeed if covered with about an inch of fine soil. ] to get a good start, | Jtis true, much of the breed goes in at the mouth, but to know the best kind of a mouth to put it in is the rub, and necessitates a full knowledge of the herd book and score card. Paris considers milk pure when it con. tains one pound of butter and four ounces of solids per quart, says and Eng- | lish journal, but such proportions seein | irregular to dairymen here, superficial root growth should not le plowed, but requires only surface culti. | vation; for the breaking of the roots | hatch them out and raise them, While old hens usually lay larger than puilets the shape of the egg little or ncthing to do with the life and if the broad end is smooth’ egg Is properly fertilized It will hatoh. The duration of a milk aro | about to appesr, and when the grain i | of | These are periads "in the life | of a plant when extra feeding will greatly | assist in the performance of these repro- | to be built in New £400,000, useless for It | is also very useful as an addition to pot. | silk with a few ruffles on the hem. This will save it even in a | dry time, when otherwise it would fail | old they wear ginghams, with high round AEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, IB — Nowadays skirts are extremely plain, Turquoise jewelry continues fashion. able, There is a federation clubs, of women's The new have gilt frames, The {fashionable carnation, gauze parasols flower is to be the Coats with deep broad tabs are exten- sively worn. Emeralds have been mand of late years. very little io de- The long Louis Quatorze coats have made popling again popular, Bwell modistes fit their skirts to the | customer while she is seated, some active soluble fertilizer immediately | after the working of the soil at intervals | schools are to receive $1.25 a day. Bubstitute teachers in New York Black bats are trimmed effectively with butterfly bows and purple thistles, The trailing dip of the modern walk- ing dress has been pulled up out of the dirt. Black handkerchiefs, silver and colored pew, embroidered in threads, are decidedly An apartment house for women, York City, 3 »OOn \ will cost The New York State Hospitals for the Insane utilize the services of women whysicians, Susan B louder speakers in Anthony nd longer than half the male Can speax he country. Mrs. George W.Childs's china is worth £50,000, and 1s the of 8 service of gold. she possessor Mme. Patti has for stewed prunes, her complexion. Miss Kate r+ English has gone to Yakutsk, Siberia, to study leprosy among the an insatiable appetite which she Marsden, natives. Miss Ethel Mackenzie, daughter of Sir Morell Mackenzie, is the London corre- spondent of a Chicago ds union in Bel 3 has just been forme 7 femiaue } Workers al The first women's trade nineteenth wife of now the wife of Re- tr, of Michigan. Paris fas At a Q stan ¢ an animated pagodas or moving Oriental bazar, On Irish railways women are much em. ployed as booking clerks, and in Dublia tickets are given almost eatirely by w are extraordinary this FEASOT women look like nen. Young lady teachers are in such de- mand for wives in Dakota that it is ex- tremely difficult to keep enough on hand 0 rus the schools, A bride in fashionable life has recently started the idea of having the wedding ring misdd with enamel, in the midst of which appears a motto or posy. An econoniical way to trim a dress with 8 black lace flounce is to buy the lace made for gowns and to cut it up into the width desired, then Lem the edge. Lace through which ribbon may be run is very pretty treated in this way, The newest pattern in India silk is palm leaves, which takes the place of the flowers and figures of the last few sea The { some very dark onlor sons, backgrounds are of these leaves, four or five inches long. or black, strewn with Bouquets are very original this year in but are not more admir. mnt, Triangular and pointed are concealed under a heavy mass flowers and are more potent as weapons than as additional charms, White chamois skin gloves are to be worn for outing purposes. These are not expensive in the first place, and then if directions are followed they can be washed successfully. For shopping wear the oatural color chamois glove is very comfortable. Black silk hearietta cloth makes a beautiful summer dress for an elderly lady. An allsilk gresadine made up over biack satin is also a most suitable gown. The coat or basque may be re. lieved by a vest or double ruffle of some bright-colored silk. Ladies who wear thin dresses will be glad to know that the prettiest and most comfortable underskirt in the world is called the princess petticoat. It is, of course, modeled as its name suggests and should be made of black or white Chins London society, able on that a ferns of The suits worn by little boys are very frequently in white, in spite of the facil ity with which such garments become soiled, while whea but two or three years waists, comfortable but not very wide sleeves, and kilted skirts, and four years soos them in jackets, with kilts and a shirt waist, Butter making is advocated as an oo. cupation for women. * To be sure, it is usually the farmer's wives who make butter sow, but there 1» still room for women who are obliged to take care of themselves to undertake the industry, Almost y prefers sweet butter to mit, and this, to be good, requires to be made daily. CE ————————— SE It Makes Pure Blood Hoed's Sarsaparilla dy hyo en tor 88 Prepared suly ND a ay
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