IN THE CLOVER Butterfly, Flutter by, Over the clover, Under the sky. Ball and falter and fail, And cling to the fragrant spray; Shift and shirk, No weather for work Falls on a summer day, Bumblebee, Tumble free Into the bloom of the tulip tree; Cease your bustle and boom, Swing on a stamen and sing, Or clutch a flagon frail and fine, And drowsily drink the wine, And rest your rumbling wing. Meadowlark, Glow like a spark That will set the fields afire; Tenderly whistle On top of a thistle A “turilee” to your mate up higher Io a dusky locust tree, There! There! Away goes care, And a dream comes over me. A boy tired out with play, On asummer holiday, In the grass so cool and deep While the butterfly goes fluttering over, Between blue sky and purple clover, And the bumblebee bumbles And whirls and tumbles, Where the meadowlark’s nest And her golden breast Have clover All over For cover, Maurice Thompson, in 8%. Nicholas. A SUMMER IDYL Gwendoline met her aunt, Mrs. New- combe, at the little station and drove her up in her own phaeton. “Is any one here!” asked Mrs. New- combe as they rolled along the hard white road between low fields on either hand. “I mean any Mrs. Newcombe laugh. “Warfield is here—Edgar W arfield,” said Gwend line, flee fly off Jer- ry's shinning coat with her whip. “Ah! That is pleasant for you.” “Pleasant!” cried the younger lady, with a note of petulance in her voice. “] don't think so. It's a bore." Miss Ventnor's green specified soft nice, ; her one with King a dark, bendsome face settled in moody lines. She looked like her mother. She had not taken after her father, who was a blonde. But her father’s youngest sister, the little widow. was very like him. Mrs. Newcombe had a charming fairness and liquid eyes. She never looked worldly. “Isn't be thought a good parti?” she inquired. Gwendoline made another movement with her whip. “Oh, I suppose so. He's rich, if that's what you mean. And he has ne incumberance. No mother or sisters.’ Miss Ventnor laughed. ““That ought to be a recommendation. A fellow's fam- fly is dreadfully tiresome—an awful bore.” A dog-rart, with a powerful horse harnessed to it, appeared ahead of them. As the gentleman who was driving it came abreast of the phaston he raised his hat. “That's Edgar Warflel doline 8 moment later, *‘He is good looking. 10 please, Gwen.” “Oh, I don't know. I might like him well enough as a friend if he would atop snndying me.” “Annoying youl” “0h, hanging around.” Mrs. Ventnor was on the piazza of the cottage as they drove up. She followed her sister-in-law to her room. “I's awfully glad you have come, Phabe. It will be a boon to Gwendo line to have you. I wish you would talk sensibly to her, by the way. She is trifling with an excellent chance of settling in life." “Do you mean Mr. Warfleld?” asked Mrs. Newcombe, removing her dainty close traveling hat and long gauze veil before the teilet table. ‘Gwendoline has been telling me shout him." “What did she say?” “She said he bored her.” “Nonsense! He's only tos fond of her. He's a very affectionate fellow, and he's been desperately blue since the death of his mother, to whom he was devoted. He looks for sympathy from Gwendoline, and he does not get it, Silly girl that she is! You're looking very well, Phebe. Gray 1s 80 becoming to you. Now, Gwendoline can't wear gray at all. Vivid, rich colors suit her style. Well, I will leave you to dress. We dine at 6:30. Probably Mr. War. fleld will drop in this evening. I asked bam. At dioner Mrs. Newcombe was in grsy again, the most delicate, ly ¥; agninst which her throat and face ked fair as a sea shell. Gwendoline, who was dressed in transparent black, bad a» bunch of red gersniums at her breast, “You make a pretty contrast,” smiled Mr. Ventoor, glancing from his young sister td his daughter. i Whea they rose from table, where they | bad lingered, Gwendoline passed he haod through ber aunt's arm. “There! 1 knew he would ap fore the day was over,” Mis Ves murmured, “Whoet" “Edgar Warfield.” And Mrs. Newcombe saw the young man's slight, well-built figure, in ita quiet mourning clothes, approach by the | carriago-way that spapned the lawn, “You can’t rum away brusque 1, said Guen- You ure hard entoor tr be. patiently, - ‘She's a dear little thing—my aunt,” said Miss Gwendoline abruptly, follow. ing the little gray figure with her brill inant eyes. ‘Don't you think she's prot- pl ‘‘¥don’t know. You can't expect one to know," said Mr. Warfield with inten. tion. “I wish," Miss Ventnor explained, knitting her fine brows, *‘that you would not say such ridiculous things!” “Do you call them ridiculous?” asked the young man with a shade of pallor on his cheek. “Yes,” curtly. The young man looked traced a pattern on the gravel end of his stick. **You are awfully hard on a fellow,” he said in a moment without looking up. “Well, there is one thing," cried the young lady, ‘‘you can stand it. AN men can.” Her father's voice was calling her from the house. Mr. Ventnor wanted some music. Gwendoline must sing for him, “Come, Miss, I'l tolerate no shirk- ing.” he threatened Jocosely. “I'm not likely to shirk,” announced and the down with combe sat. ‘I'm too much relieved to be freed from our visitor for a while.” “Ah, my dear, you're a cruel girl. You're breaking that poor fellow’s heart,” murmured that little widow. “Not at all likely,” responded Ventnor preluding brilliantly. Miss embrasure of a window. Mr. Ventnor had ensconced himself in an arm-chair, and Mrs. Ventnor sat, murmuring in un- | dertones to one or two neighborly neigh. | bors of her own age. Mrs. Newcombe | uade a little kindly sign to Edgar War | field, who stood vaguely near her, and | | he dropped, with instant gratitude, into | i vi [14 a chair by the window. There was in this pretty woman's soft eyes a look of understanding the situation and an inti- mation of friendliness toward him which | moved the young man deeply. ufter song, in her full, rich voice, and Mrs. her fan and Gwendoline sang song Ne wi ymbe sat gently aritating listen. ing with smiling attention. “I know no one Gwen that « loline's,” she said, $ YOIOt Harms me as does a little pause, turning t He Ventnor's young sunt “‘Miss Ventnor's vo brilliant," J felt his heart warming to Miss is wonderfully lover's for. itis not the nat & secondary matter, it is the most obvious, perhaps. line's voice is full of r is feeling, too, The feeling is not Ace Ty folt Aa jut it is like berse lis t as though his wound was being touched by the gentlest, of His heart beat quickly most healing fingers, What a charm- irg, speaking voice this young sunt of Gwendoline’s had, And quaintly, delicately prettr she was, color had the charming daintiness, her smile the fascinating demureness of a young Quakeress. Or was it the soft, gray dress with the line of dazzling neck showing above draperies of foamy lace, that made ber look so! Miss Ventnor called her **Auut Ph The fanny, sympatheth too, habe.” old-fashioned name suited this exquisite little person, somehow. In this light she scarcely looked older than Gwendo- But, of course, she must be. When the singing was over Mr. Vent- nor proposed cards, Mrs, rapidly assorted couples, but line, with a rapid counter-manauvre, headed her off “I can only play with papa,” she as sertedd with decision. ‘No one else un derstands my play.” “Then will Mr me?” said Mrs. Newcomb. And in her charming glance and smile the grateful young man again read a full appreciation of the bearings of his case and an inten. tion to befriend him, to help him on. even with her father's vaunted understanding of her play, made a number of blunders in her character. istically reckiess fashion and talked a good deal in brusque, crisp phrases, throwing down her cards with her large, shapely hand, undisguisedly brown by exposure to the sun and air, But Mm, Newcomb's little white paw, which crept out, with a glisten of rin upon it, as gently as a kitten's, on played its cards to make tricks, and Ed. gar Warfield, who was a methodical and conscientious young man, was vaguely grieved and gratified; the former that the charming Gwendoline should be so carclessly indifferent to a good game of Hn« Gwendoline, whist, and the Iattor that he, with his | partner's help, should be making so good a showing, On his way home that evening he said to himself that he hoped Gwendoline's aunt would remain with her some little | time, Bhe might have an influence. He had fallen in love with Mr. Ventoor's beautiful daughter because of that Di- ana-like independence which seemed to ask nothing of man, that brilliant, vir ginioal unconsciousness, that air of never having bowed her stately young head to sacrifice or to sentiment, which sat upon her with sn bright a radiance. But now bo asked himself, with a sigh, whether the more conventional feminine charms and virtues did not make a girl more convenient and comfortable to softened a littlo—just a littlo—by the contagion of her young aunt's delightful manner, it might be an added attraction HT fit ] ¥ F F ii the young lady below her breath as she | | bent over the piano near which Mrs. New- Mrs. Newcombe had retreated to the | in | » Edgar Warfield, | how | Her | Ventaor | Gwendo- | Warfield play with | Newcombe. ‘Nothing 1 keep her.” ‘Dear Gwen, what of Mr, Waurfleld?" asked the little widow of her niece, “I imagine Mr. Warfleld is able to take care of himself, is he not?” ex. claimed the young lady. She left on the morrow and she was gone three weeks. On her return she learned that her young aunt's visit was soon to draw toa close. “Mr. Warfield has been here a great deal,” the girl's mother told her, “and if he has not decided long ago to discon. oan say will Phabe for it. him see that you would listen to reason some day. He was here again this morn- ing. Wesdid not expect you, quite on this train , you know, so they started for a little walk—Phwbe and Mr. Warfleld. Aren't they coming up now?” Mrs. Ventnor was near sighted, but her daughter was not. The latter glanced out of the window and saw, very slowly moving up the path, her aunt, with her pretty head drooped, and Edgar War. field, with his head drooped, too. As they came in of the house both heads straightened suddenly. ‘Is it they?” repeated Mrs. Ventnor. Jut Gwendoline had, apparently, not heard either question, view later in the day. “Yes, unfortunately, dearest—to-mor row,” and Mrs. Newcombe passed her soft hand about her niece's arm. Gwendoline disengaged herself, “We shall miss you.” “How shall we get on without my lit tle sunt, Mr. Warfleld?” said Miss Vent. nor to the young man within a few days. “I begin to think she was the sole at. traction for you in ourhouse. Ybu have deserted us since she left.” A color came into the | check. “Why, not at all, | sure you, young not at all! II as- I have had certain things on Iste. In fact, I think of go ing up to town to-morrow.” His eager- my mind of ness stumbled and grew lame. “Do youl Two wWeeKs “My } + isler, AUST Pnene When Mr. WH that he thought he What [ am Dean i he 1, upon me brilliancy i 2D know that I am nothing if not fuarless aud independent. And I think that this case the fo ariessnoss will It BO in nxt be con. used to be ad. npanying pressed upon | strued as bol Iness, red Briefly, the was given me mi t Mea Weeks ago DF a person whom | need not men. tion | think well of what he He begged that whenever I could urged upon me the day I tried his ring oa my flager (ia ting more. He will understand. 1 do | not know his address just now. jyoudo. Will you re-address the little package, then! Yours, Gwe, | there has been some great mistake. That { is, I fear—I don't know how to say ft but, perhaps he—I mean Edgar ~=fOrgot about the nog. The truth is dearest Gwendoline, we are engaged!” New York Mercury EE —— — What Ose Blast Did. The papers have lately mentioned how nany prominent mines of the country | were discovered by chance. There scrap to be added in the Cortez mines. Simeon Wenban had rus the Garrison tunne! at grest expense and was left a poor man, owing his creditors £150,000. | paid. As a last resort, with a forlors | hope, after the mine had been closed, | Simeon Wenben drilled a hole in the { banging wall and blasted out a huge | | piece of rock, which he found to be al | most a solid block of metal, and part of | | an immense vein which had been paral. leled hundreds of feet, This fortunate | last effort marked a sudden change that seldom falls to the lot of man. It was | Wenban, the poor man, the laborer, be- fore that blast was fired; it was Simeon Wenban, the millionaire, but a second | thereafter. The first month's run of his | little mill gave him £30,000, and ever | | vince he has grown more wealthy, The mine is the best paying property in Ne. vada at the present time. Central Ne. | vadan, EE —— | “There's ‘Many a Slip Twixt the Cup and the Lip.” Ancmus, King of the Leleges in Sa. | mos (an island in the Grecian Archipel. | ago), planted a vineyard ; and so heavily {did he oppress his slaves, that one of | them, it is said, prophesied to him that {be would never live to taste the wine | thereof. When the wine was made, he { sent for his slave and said: “What do you think of your prophecy now!” The slave made answer: “There's many slip ‘twixt the cup and the lp." The words were scarcely uttered when As. cus was informed that a wild boar had brokon into his vineyard, and was laying it waste. Ancwus, setting down the cup untested, hastened to attack and drive out the boar ; but he was killed in the encounter, Detroit Free Pres, “And she is going, my dear?” cried | poor Mrs. Ventnor, in dismay, to Phabe | tinue his attentions to you you may thank | I think she tried to make | will | them differently. | sold or used as fuel, as | are kept the *‘And s0 you are going away-—to leave | ust?” inquired the young lady of her aunt | ’ "» ’ } | be made ve ry cheap.y, a He made of a frame | stones and buried in 8 1 | banks are not hi | bent of timber on sch man's 1 y 1 ring jest) I would send that ring to him. Noth. | Perhaps | food with | “Mr Dean Gwesporixn—I am afraid | 10eF desire at one ti { that wh sal history of the There was not a pound of | ore in sight whereby the debt might be | | for the THE FARM AND GARDEN. A CURE FOR EGG-EATING, The following is said to be a positive | preventive of egg-eating: “Make a box fourteen inches square by two feet ten | inches long. Cover one end entirely, | leaving front end open of lower half, | Nail boards over the upper half. Build nest in the back end with board six | inches wide in front of the nest. Gather up the epgs from the little door made | directly over them. This makes an en. tirely dark nest, and no hen will eat CRs in the dark." — Fancier's Monthly, STACKING RAILS. A good many farmers who have taken up needless fences have piled their sur. plus rmils in stacks to save them from | wasting. In most cases they think that after a year or two these surplus rails be wanted again, We can advise | Even where fences can be had merely by the labor of mak. ing them with fence rails the ndvantage of summer soiling is so great that stock once soiled will not be turned out again, Enough of the best rails to enclose a small lot may be put up 1n a portable fence; but the remainder can be better the longer they less they will be worth, — Boston Cultivator, A WIRE FOOTBRIDGE FOR A FARM. A bridge of common fence wire may The He stream may filled with wand, If the gh enough to allord safc 8 follows: anchor age on each side of 4 {ew } 4 passage for Qoods under the bridge, a should be floor Wires are wide side nt rn for the Four No. 8 f 1 or of SUllicie Vi wt put up to gi of the bridg a three foot mld pe fixed by Cross feet apart : aced lengthwise, . istances of three if AD artic no in) lition except FULT BORSON if i For the onli, cially n the The hen ill not drigk milk that method milk, et sour fresh. mix eat all AWAY have FVRES they can get is chicks, the best is to chucks me, and Sean For fowls that fresh milk | Li : eft of is atl en he overfed Ameria « ou d be stable.” but is not likely to | ly accepted as a true presen COWS iD in A moderate sized rounds case, That overfeeding is not very gen. eral we admit, and we believe that there are farmers and dairymen who think that they run perilously close to the danger line in this direction, who re ally have no practical knowledge of what is involved in genuine high feeding. Dut there are 8 good many men who crowd their cows too hard, either for their own profit or good of the animals, They do not intend to keep their cows very long, but they mean to make the most of them while they last. There is another | class, and a large one, which feods 80 | irregularly as to receive nearly all the | evils of overfeeding, yet without obtain. | ing anything like the increased returns which they hope to secure. When but ter is high they feed liberally, but when the price falls the quantity of grain is diminished, if its use Is not entirely dis continued. Under this uncertain method the health and productive capacity of | the cows become impaired and the busi. ness of kesjing them rapidly becomes voprofitable, «American Dairyman, —— POINTS IN FAYOR OF THE SHERP. In a paper read before the Kangas Im. sroved Stockbreeders’ Association by Mr, k D. King, of Burlington, the sheep in- dustry was considered by the essayist | from the practical standpoint of pro fitablo returns, He said that no indivi. | dual farmer can prosper for a series of years by growing grain alone and selling | it. We must diversify our produts, Of | the great staples, flax and linen, sorghum and beetsugar, wool and mutton, we cannot have a surplus for years to come. The sheep is the poor man's best stock, because one can get a start wore cheaply than with any other stock and piv make much quicker returns, paying their way yh py If he dies at birth he has consumed nothing. If be dies the first winter his wool will pay his way, lives to be sheared ho brings his owner mdebt to him, If the horse or steer | of the right sort, {and pour the said holes full hill sheep, because he will best endure extremes of heat and cold and drought, and because he is the only improved sheep that will bear herding and keeping in flocks of any size, Americans, by years of faithful selection and breeding, have developed him from the thin, flat. ribbed, long-necked, iliy-covered sheep of an early day into the low, broad, heavy-built sheep of the present models of form and beauty, covered everywhere with the highest quality of wool, If { more farmers could be bronizht to realize | how rapidly they can build a choice flock from common ewes and a pure bred ram more of them would try it and the sérab would have to go,— New York World. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The best onions are generally grown from seed, Always cut cucumbers f=m the vines | with a piece of the stem attached, A good farmer will not let his chick- ens roost on trees under on the fence, The | is to piun wat way to water hanging basket f ge it into 8 tub of water until it is thoroughly soaked, The Rural New Yorker Michel's Early as the best of the notably early strawberries in cultivation, Bed the callas out daring the summer ! r growth in good soil, thus checking the i rest, und giving them a season of is a odd the to month to ves the plants wood and July azalea, as thi prune time make new set their buds, Ducks Iny night or {« Don’t let them out until CK. They seld at the wfter early in MI Use a nest, a mistake not to mate your breed. ; hens early, In this way you get the od out early and they thrive better. ] the charcoal with many cases ght and let sleepers and i naKe matured he nu of the ling pens. By studying the char. acteristics of the different fowls intended for breeding sod mating accordingly better results will be oltained. well M_Le-uUp : A mulch will help all trees, roses and shrubs as well as pess and vegetables, Materials: Lawn clippings, straw, horse droppings, leaf mould, old manure The « least an inch and inches would be mt ah auld be at K. Three better In planting new strawberries do not wok the fact that there should be a 2 vistiiatle over together, unless staminste and make stakes well mil m to call the soil of 3 ¢ and well Coarse manure, con. porastalks, straw, or other litter mposed, will only be in the way The A un rial f the young and tender plants, finer the manure the better. According to the Fruit Manual, pre. pared by the Kansas Horticultural Society, the cherry thrives quite well on either high or low lands and on sandy or loamy soil. An esstern or northern slope is preferable, as trees do not suffer so much from droughts or best of sun on such losaions, This is the Farm Journals way of Watering a tree, shrub or vine: Punch holes with a crowbar all around the tree in a circle as wide as the branches spread To simply pour a few bucketfuls of wa- ter around the stem of the tree is to do more harm than good It is not neecgsary to blanket a horse in the stable unless the animal is wet or should not be cooled suddenly, A | sheet may be used to keep the skin clear of dust, When standing on the road or in any exposed position, especially dur. ing windy weather, the horse should al. | ways be covered with a blanket, The perennial pea in some situations | | is one of the most useful of hardy climb- | ers, according to Vick, for rambling over | | hedges and giving them a touch of rose | loolor or for covering a strip of old | (fence, if planted in an out ol -the.way corner in the garden it peeds supports to surface. eggs will hatch precisely in tweaty.one Gays. While this is the rule it is not an [invariable one. Some will hatch fin nineteen days, others in twenty.one days, and others still will require twenty. four days for incubation. The causes are varied, such as getting too cold, too much beat, lack of moisture, want of vi. tality in either or both of parents and the age of the eggs. ———— Queen of Boasts. The lion is not the *‘king of beasts,” him every time combat ? ; H I g i i g- > Z £ ] § ] [3 : 5 | ! i i i i open sheds or | | fret.class ne, commentls of water, | B1000 te Prizes, The publishers of the Rambler Magaving wil) give tH in prizes for the largest list words formed from Rambler Magazine, (™ first prize is $20 casi: the second, $10 cask Bl other cash prizes and special weekly prizes will be given. 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