RT a i — ——— on - - a LIFE AND DEATH, “I reign beyond the bourne of fate and time; Through all the present I echo of the past; All things bat God are in my leash; I olimb, From star to star and quench them all at last; Iblast the blooms of promise with a breath’ — Vaunts Death, “I am the spirit in matter—the All-searcher; I'm driven like surf by one deep, moving force; Even in the grasp of Death my hope 1 nurture; Enswathing love is both my end and source; Peace is my handmaid and my thrall is strife” -- Chants Life, =Crawen Langstroth Betts, in Independent. HE GOT IN AT BRUGES. Mr. Portman Brown wasa prosperous, elderly gentleman, of quiet ways and fixed habits. A small circle of familiar friends supplied all his social noeds, he concerned himself little with the rest of | humanity, belonging to the class who can live side by side in the same strect | with a fellow-creature all their lives without so much as knowing them by sight. Among Mr. Brown's fixed habits was a yearly tour But he did not take it, like most peo- ple, in the summer months, but in the | Regularly, as the first | early spring. week in March came round, he went abroad. A common-place tour, in besten tracks, following the usual routine of ing at palatial hotels. bad ever broken the uneventful record of these tours for over a quarter of a an unusual overcharge at some hotel had come within Portman Brown's personal experience. In 18—, when March came round, he made the usual preparations for his yearly tour in his usual way. On the evening before his departure, an old city friend, Mr. Goldsmith, dived with him at bis house in Harley | street. When about to leave, Gold- smith drew a small case from his pocket, “I brought this with me on the chance that you were going to Cannes. You will do me a great favor by giving it into my brother's hands there. It con tains a brilliant of such rare value that I could intrust it to few. It will give you no trouble, being so small; there will be no risk, as no one will know you have such a thing with you." ‘*‘Anything to oblige a friend,” said Brown, lightly. “I would take the Koh-i-noor as a traveling companion under the same circumstances.” The two men were standing at the stu ly window, the blind of which happened to be up. While in the act of placing the case in his pocket, Brown's eyes wandered to the street. At the a the light from a lampsin front of the door struck on the face of a man who Was passing—or had been stéhding there? =a peculiar dark face, with straight | black whiskers, The man moved on. Brown drew back hastily. **None of your people knew that you were giving me this commission!” Le inquired of Goldsmith. **Not a soul, my dear fellow; the matter is entirely between you sud me. My bead clerk alone knows of the exist. ence of the brilliant.” “What is he like?” “Like you, like me. itself! What are you thinking of” ‘“Has be white whiskers?” ‘Grey as a badger's—white eves! But, bless my soul, what is the matter! What do you mean? Have you seen avy onel” “A man was standing there by the lamp post as you handed me the jowel case. He was apparently looking at us, aod might have heard what we said.” “Then he must be in the street still.” | said Goldsmith, throwing up the win. | dow and putting his head out; Brown did the same. The night was bright, Not a soul was to be seen anywhere the street was quite deserted, “A neighbor or a neighbor's butler. He bas gone into some house.” Gold. smith withdeew from the window, “In Any case, no one could have overheard, oor, I should think, have seen us, As for my clerk, Travers, | boast myself an honest man, but I don't hesitate to se. knowledge that he is the honester of the two. Your imagination is phayiog you tricks. I dida't know you were giver that way. Perhaps you would rather not take charge of the brilliant?” But Brown would not hear of this, | Already shamefaced over his hasty and somewhat ridiculous suspicions, Le dis. missed them abruptly, “Not for worlds would I charge,” he said. “I'm not such a fool as Lscem. The man probably is one of the new neighbors; there are a good many newcomers in the street.” Portman Brown set out next morning for Lucerne via Brussels aad the Rhine, staying a few days at Ostend on the way. He took his place in the undeniable com- fort of a first class carriage in the express to Brumels with a mind as free from care and uneasiness as an elderly gentle. man ever possessed. A life of plain, un- diluted prose had, up to this, kept his imaginative fauulties in complete abey- ance; lunatics, hypnotists, murderers, ete., as possible fellow-travelors, had never entered his mind give up the he his n { lowed him from London. travel in steamers and trains, and lodg- | - i No adventure | unarmed. | sometimes Respectability At Brussels Brown dodged the dark. faced man. Never within the whole course of his experience in foreign ports had Brown passed a more wretched night; the morning found his nerves in a sad state. He, who had never before known himself the possessor of nerves! The fidgety man who made fussy arrange- ments about starting by the first train for Lucerne, and whose eyes had a way of casting furtive—nol to say apprehen- sive—glances aroung, wus strangely un- like the sclf-satisfied, phlegmatic Briton | who had arrived the evening before at | the Three Kings. The success of his manmuyre in leav- ing Brussels made him repeat it, and, be- sides, he was in a perfect fever to get to of the charge of the diamond. His any appearance of the ‘‘shadower” in the station. Brown remained | with a fervent sigh of mlief, he entered the railway carriage. The train was { just movieg off when the door was sud- | denly opened, a breathless porter dashed in a handbag and parcel of rugs, fol. lowed by a still more breathless traveler. { The door was shut, the engine shricked | the last departing signal, the train | moved from Bale station. In one ner sat Brown; in another—the farthest on the opposite side—sat the man with | the black whiskers! The position in which Brown now found himself might well have appalled the bravest, arringe, with a scoundrel who had fol- : Brown had utterly abandoned surmise since last night and accepted each ides as an abso- lute certainty. The object in this scoun- | dp | drel’s view was the capture of the valua- century; no more exciting incident than ble diamond, which was at that very | moment on Brown's person. A long journey lay before them, and Brown was At this review of the situs. tion his heart sank; he drew back in- stinctively into the corner. His eyes suddenly met those of the other man; a deep flush suffused his face, which scemed to find reflection in the other's. Brown hastily took up Baedeker and affected to read ; the man opposite simul. taneously did the same. A transparent unreality on both sides, tive glances invariably caught quickly withdrawn though they were—those of While the other man levelled on him. this went on, the slighest change of posi. tion, the least movement in the oppo- fite corner, made Brown start. Might it not herald the approach of danger? A spring, a rush, the attack! The tension was terrible: inactive almost impossible, An Ibspiration, as a has. Though he was not armed, he would pretend to be. That might do something; produce hesitation, or delay, at least. Ace wdingly, he de- to remain Brown had liberately assumed a bold, even threaten. ing demeanor. Casting a truculent glance across the carriage, he bis hand into his pocket, grasp sa imaginary revolver, affecting to To | effect. The man opposite gave an un- mistakable start, and shrank back into { his corner. So far, so good. But how to keep up the pretence! What to do next! At this crisis the whistling of the engine suddenly distracted Brown. Good heavens! [He had forgotten the long tunnel! They were coming to it now! His eyes, with a quick, iuvolun. tary movement, sought the lamp. It was not lighted ! Eatrapped ! Doomed! The wildest | thoughts rushed confusedly to his brain. | With a shriek the train plunged noisily | into the tunnel, into darkness. The din and rattle outside contrasted sharply | carriage. | with the silence within the { Crouched in his corner, Brown, his hear. ing sharpened to agonizing acuteness, listened for a stir, a rustle, the sound of buman breathing drawing nearer to him. | Every moment fancy detected a step, a stealthy, cat.like movement. pation. after the neglect of a lifetime, was now taking ample revenge. Un. controlled and uncontrollable were its wild flights. Every milway murder of which he had ever heard flashed upon bim with all the ghastly details, Fhe | spring upon the victim, the struggle, the death.stroke, the body thrown out on the rails. How idly he had read of these things happening to other men! But now to realize himself as the victim : his, the body! Absolute panic seized upon him; hardly knowing what he was do. ing, be tried softly to open the door, It was locked, however. His movements | must have been heard, there was a stir at the other end of the carriage. The fatal moment had come, the assassin was t lvancing to the attack. In the extrem. ity of his terror Brown sank swiftly on the floor and crawled under the seat. For what length of time he crouched there, half stifled, scarcely daring to breathe, Brown knew not. Agony can- not measure time. A sudden and ex. traordinary rush of air made his heart | first stand still, and thon sent the blood | coursing wildly through his veins, The | far door was swingiog open! Some thing | had happened! And what? | His straining ears detected no sound {but the outside rattle and roar of the | train through the tunnel; within all was | silence, He remained listening in in- tense excitement and swazement until the hope which had hardly dared to stir in his breast | Ho was alone in the carriage! He was saved! Deliverance had come mirscul- ously-—why and how he knew not! The tunnel was the end of his journey, and rid himself | spirits rose considerably as the hour of | the tramn's departure drew near without | on tho | platform until the last moment, then, | cor. | He was alone ina railway | Brown's fur. man in extremity | plunged | his | intense delight the ruse took immediate | His imagi. | grew into vigorous life. for one in acrowded second-cls com- partment. A few hours later the brilliant was safely transferred from his charge | Into that of Goldsmith's brother at | Lucerne. | The rest of his tour was uneventful; | he neither heard of nor saw his perse- cutor again. | | - * * * * . | Brown's adventure made quite a sen- | sation on his return to London. He was | the hero of the hour in his circle. | Whether or not he related the circum- | stances exactly, as here sot forth, need not be mentioned. His friend Jones, | among others, gave a dinner party in his { honor. Brown, with his usual punctual. ity, was the first of the guests to arrive. “By the way,” Jones said chafingly to him, as the two stood chatting to- | gether on the hearth-rug, *‘you must look to your laurels to-night, Brown. | Do you know Leroy, your neighbor in | Harley street? ‘Never saw the man the joket” “*A rival adventure! too, and culminating sure that it wasn't the “Dear we! What coincidence!" “In his case it was robber. He | and trains, in my life, What's In Switzerland, Olten one also!” was shadowed from his own lips; he's dining here to- night. aforesaid lunatic armed with a revolver, A long tunnel, an extinguished lamp, | the lunatic crawling in the darkness to the attack, an escape by the skin of the teeth. Leroy has sufficient presence of mind to open the door and pretend to get out, in reality crawling under the seat instead. The ruse saved his life. | He supposes that he fainted in the sti- fling air, for, when he was next scious, the train had left Olten and he was alone in the carriage, from which all traces of the lunatic had disappeared.” | Jones was so eogrossed in telling the | story, he did not remark its curious and startling effect on Brown. Just then the door was thrown open, sod the footman announced “Mr. Le. roy " Jones, springing forward with effusion to greet the new comer, ingly up to Brown. “You two must know each other,” he said. And they did. The ree gaition was instantaneous on both sides. With = gasp, Brown stared in speechless wonder on the man with the black whiskers, while Leroy stared back aghast on en- | countering the gaze of the lunatic!— | London Truth. ——————————— Ducks as Fire Extinguishers. Once at a large house in the eo untry chimuey took fire. The flames spread to the woodwork in different parts of the house, and although the fire was extinguished at each place it caught, it still burned in the chimney, and from time to time spread in some other direc. tion. he fire grew hotter and hotter, and threatened to burst the chimney. It was hard to reach, and there seemed no way of putting it out. The gentleman who owned the house was fond of fowls, and possessed some valuable A by who stood by looking at the fire saw the | bright idea struck him. He ran to the | duck pen and startled the sleeping ducks by seizing by their legs aa many of the be could carry. The ducks squawkod vigorous protests, but were hurried off. A ladder was called for, and before any one realized what he was going to do, the young fellow mounted to the roof, and made his way to the chimney. Flames and smoke were pouring out, but the boy went as near as he dared, and by a dexterous motion tossed a duck down the narrow shaft. It disappeared, fluttering and squawking. The dames subsided a little, and the smoke grew denser. The boy threw down another duck, sad after a minute another. The cloud of soot and dust carried down by | the flapping wings of the ducks smoth- ered and checked the fire with such good effect that the advantage gained was easily followed up, and the fire soon put out without further damage. Larper's Toung People. Soap-Bubble Parties. | Boap-bubble parties are decidedly popular. And if you intend having one, | here is a pretty idea for you. Of course the bowl stands on a table; over the | bowl build a large arch of Sowers: have { it high enough and broad enough that | the soap bubbles can float under it. There are partners in blowing bubbles, sad together they must stand or fall carry off the first prize with honor or the booby prize with ignominy. The ladies | select their pipes from one basket, the con- led him gush. he ones, danger, a largest as gentlemen theirs from another, sad the | gentie maiden recognizes her hero by | her colors, which will adora kis pipe. | When the contest begins the fair @ | | blows a bubble, and her knight attempts to blow it under the floral arch; then | the knight takes his turn at the pipe, while his companion tries to waft the frail bubbles under the flowers, The | prizes are awarded to the couple who | blow the best bubbles and succeed in | getting the groatest number of them | through the triumphal arch. — New York Advertiser. in a tunnel—not | an extraordinary | a lunatic, not nl at hotels | You must hear the story | The climax is terrific. Shut into | a railway carriage alone with 4 lunatic, | | prevails where granite rocks abound and in lime. | THE FARM AND GARDEN. KEROSENE EMULSION POR PLANT LICE, The following kerosene emulsion will be found very effective in ridding grape vines and other garden bushes of plant lice: Mix two parts kerosene with one part soft soap, and use one cup of the emulsion to a pail of water, If the ker. | osene and soap do not readily unite by stirring, add four parts boiling water and then stir, If used very strong, the emulsion may injure the folinge, so it is better to add a little too much soap than not enoughi.—New York Voice. ——— » TOO MUCH PERTILIZER. %% It is quite possible to overdue in the matter of fertilizers, and this fact has been brought out fully at a number of experiment stations. Fertilizers are a good thing when they are nesded in the soil for the crop, but they are not always needed, small surplus of plant food in the soil, but beyond that it is not profitable, It is true that additional fertilizer may bring an increase of erop, but too frequently, upon a rich soil, that in. crease is ut a loss. It is not the largest crop that is always the most profitable, for an increase of yield 1*sy cost too much, ~~American Agriculturist, Sr EWELLED THROAT IN CATTLE. "his disease is mostly due to the use | of water that is deficient in mineral mat. ter or has an excess of lime in {Y, and chiefly in mountain dis ‘ricts stone regions, is soft and without much of it, but quantity of Hme, or has too potash, which seems to ex. ert a bad effect on the animals drink it, and causes the sw ling of the salivary glands to which this pame is | given. The use of iodine Is considered as a specific, if there is soy such thing, for this disease, of one dram for a horse, or two drams ior a cow, or half that quantity for small animals, daily in bran mash or in cut is used externally on the {f the tincture of BEiD in the form | rubbed into or tae FOWLE AS GLEAXNERS. we be exer. crop, me is certain to be left on the field in the sd ape of loose kernels, single heads and Mtterin p and hogs, if turned in promptly, will eat a portion at It matters not how much cised in gathering the grain re wr iess of it : 0s, Shee often wanted thus early in stubble ground, especially if it is newly seeded. Hence a farmer havis ga field near the barn can utilize this scattered grain by letting the fowls all out at on in the morning, inducing follow him to the field by scatiering grain “bef re them, rema field with them they scatter about ce them to ming in the half an hour, or until in search of food. Practise this for two or three mornings, and they will wisit the field often during the day. By this plan the fowls nos only fatten rapidly, but they are away from the house and barn buildings, look better and are healthier. than when depending upon food fed to them. I have known instances where fowls have been induced to forage nearly bail a mile from the buildings. Not « nly is loose grain read ily utilized by them, but ts Kinds, and in their are their favorite f ine EeRMON grasshoy tH 0d ee The Esa nner, PROTECTING STOCK. In most pastures there are more or less trees thet afford shade sufficient to pro- tect the animals feeding in them during the warmest portions of the day. Where this is not the case, I think there should be some temporary provision made for affording it, suggests an Ohio farmer, | for it seems but little short of downright | cruelty that there should be no place in 8 pasture where cattle can le down out of the hot sunshine, to occur when cattle are turned into the hat vested grain fleld than anywhere else, and this is easily provided for by putting Up one or more open sheds which will furnish the required shade and which can be quickly moved to another Seld if necessary. The material can be of the | roughest and cheapest description, and can be taken down and stored AWAY un- til the next season. When there is not enough natural shade this is not only a dictate of humanity, but if is profitable in a pecuniary way to provide comfort able retreats for domestic animals, whether it be from the heat of the sun or from storms, A simple shed without any boarding-up of sides or ends is all that is necessary, and under this the weaker cattle arc less liable to be injured by others than in one inclosed ou three sides. New York World, PROBLEMS IN AGRICULTURE. There are problems in agriculture as important as those in science, and often as difficult to be determined with exsot- ness. Large crops can only be produced u lands that are naturally fertile or "ps as have been made so artificially by the use of manures or commercial fertilizers. To keep a fertile soil from degenerating under coutieued cultiva. tion and to restore fertility to an e It is always well to have a | The water in sueh places | often contains a large, which | This is given in doses i { this ungathered crop, but they are not | This is more likely | HH po turned to the soil. Thus, barnyard manure and commercial fertilizers go well together, be profitably applied to land largely on the increased production from their use. The value of the incressed production, however, is not to be meas- ured by its quantity alone without taking | the cost of the fertilizers into the calou- | lation, | Where it is manifest that purchasing | fertilizers is unprofitable, the farmer's only remedy is to keep his lands in good heart by a judicious rotation of crops. This alone is a problem for which no ironclad rule will apply, and one many | farmers fail to solve to their own satis. faction after repeated years of trial, — New York World. | SMALL CHEESE. | A subscriber wishes directions for making small cheess that take but forty {or fifty pounds of milk. The fresh sweet milk is curdisd by the use of ren. net tablets. But too much should not be used as It makes a hard cheese. About four quarts of cheese will make a pound of cheese. The curd should be used fresh and before it has cooled. If it is cooled it should be warmed up to ninety | degrees. A large dish pan or a tub will do for a vat where but a small | smount of milk is used. After the rennet 1s stirred in leave the | milk in a warm place for about an hour | when the curd is set. A convenlent way of setting the curd is to lay a square of muslin in the paa, | securing the ends and pouring the milk into the muslin, When the curd is set the corners and edges of the muslin are drawn together and tied, and the whole lifted and bung up to drain. As whey Is drained off the curd n mold of any size Have them ) tin, out mpe or male of mapie, beach or ¢ They must be without top or bottom, Mats of rushes, or clean rye or wheat straw may be used to rest the molds upon is mak The nlats a cloth which absorbs The molds and their con. daily for thre days and prinkled with salt at each while the cheese Peg pi the mois ing. WOO Upon ture, tents are turned 1 if desired are turning. Oe eaten fresh they will days. If led for must be removed to a ar and k Weeks or two nn be ready in three inten future use they dairy house or ct for six turned every day and lai if. The favo tt she parted during ring process, and } may be wari the - taste of the maker by wrapping them in powdered vinegar, [| Steckman., sweet herbs, « ete., etc.—Farm, » ths dipped in FARM AND GARDENS Xt The hens’ often caused by a lack of Ie. TES. laying thin shelled egas iy Ave. When the hens are canfived a mess of cooked meat will promote laying, Do not sell off all the old hens. Keep some of them for mothers next spring. Old geese should not be sold: they furnish the most and best feathers; sell the young and keep the old, To hatch out late chickens, the best place to make the nests is upon the ground. A moreevea heat and moisture will be secured. In nearly all cases chickens should be old bens whenever they are full-festhered. Separate them and let the hens go to laying. separated from the After the first two or three days 1t is important that young poultry should be provided with a good variety of food in order to maintain a healthy growth. Store away the sorghum seed, so me millet and sunflower seed, a good bunch of clover hay, as well as corn, oats aud wheat, to feed the poultry during the winter, One advantage in buyizz needed breed. ing fowls the latter part of summer or early fall is that a better selection can be bad and the fowls be purchased at a | lower price. If young chickens are well-fed so as to make a rapid growth they ought to be ready to market whaa they are six! weeks, and at latest when they are two months old. ‘ It is said that beading back all the | leading shoots of tomato plants three to | | six inches, from late July until late Au. gust, will increase the yield with as im. portant gain in earliness. Keep the March and early April pul- i lets for laying. If given comfortable | quarters they will lay regularly the greater part of the winter. Late hatched pullets | will rarely lay before spring. This is a good time to cull the apiary | and substitute poor queens with other. 1 | The colonies that have done well, hav- i ing a large number of bees, are the ones to select. lng without replenishing the purse of their keeper, | “Allow about two square inches of rone comb in oue of the outside frames | of each hive,” is the advice of G. M. | | Doolittle in American Dee Kesper. “Then | you will know just where to look for it, | and can shave off the drones’ heads every | twenty days, and the bees will not try Goose and ducks can be larly until cool weather in the fall, LIA, SA" ———— ———— Ca I — and the amount that may | depends | Theso are worth double the i price of others that have just made a liv. | u— — in the condition of excrement, is re NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. | Queen Victoria has forty dogs. Roumania’s Queen plays the harp. Fashionable bonnets are infinitesimal in size, Blue cheese cloth is pretty for sash curtains, There, is an economical ers begining in gloves. Girls collect the pennies in a Connec- ticut church. A New York girl bas had a mustache grafted on her upper lip. Mme, De Lesseps is regarded as one of the most devout women in Paris, Mrs. Lenora Berk is Principal of the Capital City College of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Campbell, the wife of the Ohio Governor, is & tall and bardsome bru- tuette, Granulated rock candy is the pro per thing to sweeten tea and after dinner coffee, Some well known society girls in New York formed Anti-Dancing League, have an Arizons Indian women have taken to wearing fashionable dresses, shoes and tow king stockings, instructor 1s the professor of Vassar's most wironowy, Miss Hargous, the New York heiress, lavors lavender and stripes in silken surah, sliver Mme. de Navarro (Mary Anderson) is said to be engaged in writing her recol- lections of the stage. Coque collarettes are one of the novel. ties that will be more fully appreciated ss the cool days come on The thirtecoth wi ons just been ident an enormous English estate, Mrs. Potter Palmer, lady Pr the World's Fair, gets more ma than any woman in Chicag The Czarina of all the it disdain to wear a calic she is on board the img waea The Suitan has made self by in He has the ladies of ( rouble for hime. teriering in the fashions of the issued prohibiting nstautinople from peram. costumes day. the Paris bulsting the s y that they hay Paniers a treets in » longer in the distance, Dut & wiually present and in style-—and th hoop! Almost direct word comes from a very fine hair steel is now run in the o ige of the bell skirt under its foot trimmino The millionaire merchant, Var has presented to his nat of Haug. burg, Germsay, $500,000 to found a woman's hospital, mmemoration of the saving of his wife's by the famous woman physician, Michel. Bu. The rich deep Cleopatra colors will be in marked favor next season, the tawny golden browns, russets, the chandron or copper dyes sod the dahiis aad other Sower, fruit and leaf shades: also the superb dark veivety reds and yellows of the nasturtium. Miss Cora V. Diehl was elected Regis. ter of Deeds in Logan County, Oklshoma. Her oppovents carried the case ints the courts. The choice of the pe ple was sustaived, and now the pretty Allisuce girl takes the office and a large section of accrued salary. ) hat Paris that Vouner, ve city il life Dr. Many of the tailors and best dress. makers are cutting even the rich silk gowns on the cross. This gives a oer. tain novel look to the dress and at the same time a more graceful effect than the old straight form. Extra wide silk only is used in this masner. There is, how- ever, an objection to a skirt cut in thus shape, which is, that unless most care. fully arranged a skirt shaped on the cross has a decided tendency ‘to lift here and to droop there,” which is de. struclve W elegance. I — Hali's Ontareh Cure is a liquid and Is tak Internally. and acts directly on the hiood a mucous surfaces of the sistem. Write for testimonials, free. Manufactured by F. J Caxxzy & Co. Toledo, 0. of ostriches has been begun in TRE raisin J fein congidera ble saeoea New Zoalan i Can You Eat Beartily, wid reid, and without altress afte ward? If mot, we tecommend to you Hoods San | Sapartile, which creates & good appetite and of the | ame time wo tn vigorates he stomach and bowels Bunt Ge fond is properly digested and all ft strength a Hood's Sarsaprilla Dont be ndoond 1 buy any other Insist upow Hood's Serspartfin. 10 Doses One Dollar AY XN Uwas ADWAY'S READY RELIEF, RARE So 4 n— #0 hard to build drone comb elsewhere.” |
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