Love came at dawn when all the world was fair, When crimson glories, bloom, and song were rife; Love came at dawn when hope's wings fanned the air, And murmured, “I am life,” Love came at even when the day was done, When heart and brain were tired, and slumber pressed; Love came at eve, shut out the sinking sun, And whispered, “I am rest,” ~ William W, Campbell, in Century. THE CLOVER-BAG. BY MARY KYLE DALLAS, “It is only a little bag,” said Dotty Doane. “I painted a four-leaved clover on it for luck. Besides, I had only green and white paint left. Uncle Ben- Jamin is so stin—I mean economical— that I darsen’t ask him for a new box of | colors. I should bave liked to make you | a handsomer present, but you will have | to take the will for the deed, Jasper,” | “It is very pretty, indeed, and I shall | never look at it without thinking of you,” said Jasper. “I'll hang it up | where I can see it as soon as I open my | eyes, What shall I keep in it!” “Well, it will hold photographs,” said Dotty. | ‘‘And I have a hundred,” said Jasper. | “Five of you, mother and father, all my | brothers and sisters, Aunt and Uncle Brown, Aunt and Uncle Jones, the mem- bers of the choir at Allentown, lots of girls" “Of girls?” repeated Dotty, solemnly. “They always give their photographs | to me. I don’t know why,” said Jasper. “I never ask for them.” “You begged for mine,” zaid Dotty, *‘Oh, you are different!” cried Jasper. “I needed yours, The only oue but yours I ever—" “Oh, you confess, eh?” cried Dotty, “I didn't ask for that. I only said I thought it pretty,” said Jasper, It was plain from the sudden fading of Dotty's smile that he had not bettered matters, snd he stopped. ‘‘But whose was it?" asked Dotty, “Oh, it was only Jennie Graham," said Jasper. “It was the way it was finished off-the toning and touching wp, I meant, that was pretty. It was fine, don’t you see, as a photograph, and I was doing a good deal in the amateur way just then, and was interested in methods, It was not as Gra. ham's portrait that I cared for it.’ Dotty was occupied in pulling out the bows of ribbon that adorned the bag, and said nothing. She had never seen Jennie Graham, but she had heard her spoken of as beautiful, and she did not quite believe Jaspar. In later years a woman comes to know that it is not always the girl he thinks the handsomest that a man loves best: but she cannot believe that while she is still very young. Dotty was aware that she was only nice looking, and she could not see herself as others saw her, especially Jasper Meredith, and know just how nice— Jasper had been paying her attention for a long while, but as yet they were not actually engaged. After Jasper had gone away with his birthday present, and she bad betaken herself to her own room, she felt a little piqued to think that Jasper bad told her about those photographs of other girls that he should keep in her presence. Particularly she bated to think of Jennie Graham's portrait lying in that bag of heliotrone silk, on which she had painted a four-leaved clover, which she had stitched with the tiniest stitches, and shirred so carefully and lined so daintily with pale green silk, quilted in diamonds and perfumed with heliotrope sachet powder. Ble did not dream of making a bower for Jennie Graham's pictured beauty, If Jasper had said, “I will keep it for your photographs—yours alone,” that would have been a pretty speech. Suddenly she remembered that she also bad photographs—those of her boy «cousins, the likenesses of two young men who were engaged to her dearest school friends, who had sent them to her that she might see what charmiog persons they were to marry. Then there was the photograph she bad bought in a stationer’s store when she was only forirteen years old, and was | visiting an sunt in New York-—the pho- | tograph of a young actor, who bad played a part she fancied at a matinee perform. ance, Oh, she had ten! Some were in her bureau; some in her trunk; ber cousins in the album ; the fascinating actor on a top shelf, with some old stereoscopic pic. | tures she had tired of long ago. She would hunt them all up and show them to Jaspsr the very next time he | came, and give bim a pang of jealousy, He deserved it for even dreaming of keeping Jennie Graham's photograph in the bag that was her love. gift, Dotty did not sleep for some time after coming to this resolution, and she eried & little and said to herself that nothing in life was quite satisfactory, Buch resolutions are often swept away; | but Dotty Doane awoke to find hers quite as firm by daylight as it was when the | Amoon shone in at her bedroom window. After breakfast she hunted up a pretty | Japanese box that Jasper had given her for her note-paper, and collected ber Jennie ’ x i; 18.03% Hi jacked ii, 7143 Ek ii These, all arranged carefully in a box, were placed in the front parlor,and when Jasper next called, Dotty was examining them with a sentimental expression, po | so deeply absorbed in her occupation that, really, she did not hear him enter, ‘Hullo, Dot!” he said, pulling her pink ear softly. “Oh, youl” che said, looking up. “Dear me! I was miles away!” ‘Looking at your photographs, ch?” said Jasper. “Yes," said Dotty, softly. ‘‘This is a fat-faced Zellow,"” observed Jasper, taking up the counterfeit presen timent of Cousin Philip, and throwing it down again, “‘That’s Todd! Used to be at the drug store, Simple Simon they used to call him, Poisoned somebody and had to cut, didn't he?! Who is this that looks like a sick lamb? A theolog- ical student, isn’t he!” Dotty felt that she was not doing much with her photographs. That even { if she told Jasper how she had refused Simon Todd's offer, he would not be | greatly impressed. She turned the cards over,and stopped at that she had bought at the New York | stationer’s six years before. “I don't believe any one ever was so handsome as he!" she said, dreamily. “Ain't he lovely, Jasper?” “80-80,” said Jusper. fully aware of his beauty, too." ‘‘How could he help it, Jasper?” said Dotty. Dotty lifted her eyebrows. ‘It wouldn't be sale, large man, quite an athlete,” she said. ““He is as brave as a lion and as tender as a woman." “Oh, tender, is hel?” said Jasper. “Indeed! How does he show his tender. ness? “‘Yeth, ma'am,” replied the baby. “Did your mother dress it!” asked Dotty Doane, a vague thought of Jennie Grabam giving her a queer, jealous | thrill, | “I haven't dot any mother,” replied | the child, “nor any grandmother, nor | any auaties-—only my papa and my uncle, | I could not exthpect an old bachweller to know how to dwess a doll, tho’ I did it mythelf.” Miss Doane drew her closer, “Lucy,” she said, “who gave you that pretty dress for Dolly?” “I found it,” said Lucy, with her thumb in her mouth. “Ith » w'ap- per.” ‘‘But where did you find it?” asked Miss Doane, “In a dwawer,” sid Luey—*Uncle Jathper's bureau dwawer. He can't play with dolls; he don't need it.” Miss Doane untied the ribbon from the neck of the doll. “I'll make you a prettier dress, Lucy,” she said, The child noddel, quite content, and went back to her seat, Dotty sat looking at the bag. arose to her eyes. So Jasper had kept her gift hj ears! Tears all these Perhaps he thought of her some. times? At least he was a batchelor still, “Seems to be | He is a very | Ah, that four-leaved clover had not brought much luck! She slipped her band in the bag. There was something there something stiff and bard, She drew it forth, It was her own photograph, taken ten decoration | years before, and below it was written (Jasper was rather short than otherwise.) | { shall love while I live.” “The only woman 1 ever loved, or ever Miss Doane gave a little gasp and sat staring at the photograph, unconscious Pray, when did you know him?" | “Long ago," said Dotty, rolling up | near the door. her eyes and sighing—*‘when I was vis. | iting my aunt in New York.” She was delighted to see evident signs of jlalousy in Jasper's eyes. “I wonder you did not remain in New York,” he said. “Uncle Ben jamin Hasn't he a sweet Claire?” said Dotty. “Sounds like a pickpocket’s alias!” said Jasper, who was an attorney -at- rent for name Vivian me, St. law, He was red with fury now. Dptty was content, but she resolved to make him still more furious before she told him that she was only teasing him. “You ought to have heard him speak,” she said, “His voice had such a mellow note, like a robin's. I never shall for- get how he said, ‘Yes, we part now, but we shall meet again! Yes, we shall "on meet again} She covered her face with her hand. | kerchief to hide her laughter. The next instant the parlor door closed sharply. Bhe started to her feet. Jas per was gone. The street door clanged to, A vision of a tall hat crossed the wm. dow sill. She had made Jasper jealous with a vengeance, What wgre the tears that fell from Dotty's eyes the night before compared to those that wet her pillow oa the one that followed? She did a great deal of crying during the next month or two, for Jasper never came near her again. She heard thas he had gone to New York. reside. One day her Uncle Benjamin, for no reason that any one could discern, chose to move to Pineville, All connection be tween those who knew Jasper Meredith aod Dotty Doane was severed and she heard of him no more, A few years later Uncle Benjamin died, leaving her a set of jot jewelry, principally in fragments, and a family Bible, and the rest of his property to a large and wealthy charity, aad, Dotty took to teaching as & means of liveli- | ' | frontier is a cobweb, hood. “They are doing such a lovely thing in New York!" said Miss Pratt, the prin. cipal of the school, one day. ‘‘Every- body is dressing a doll to be sold for the benefit of poor children. Now, why should we not do the same thing in a different way? Let each child dress a doll, and each teacher, of course, and have them auctioned off, and send the | proceeds to the orphan asylum.” Every one applauded the course, and the work began, wea, of of all else, “Teacher, there's a man!" cried a boy **Oh, Uncle Jasper!” squealed Lucey. A gentleman was « lvancing toward the desk. He stopped and took his hat Ql. “Madam,” he said, “I have just dis. covered that my little niece has taken » ~a-—something inappropriate for a doll’s dress. I should like to remedy the mis. take. Any desired material will be sup- plied cheerfully, and will relieve you of —" He did not get any farther. Mis | Doane bad lifted her eyes and looked at him, She held the bag in one band, her | own photograph in the other, : Shortly his parents went there to She was the same old D imty, a little more mature, and he was Jasper Mere. dith, a little older. It was as if they had only parted the night belore. For years Dotty had longed something, say it, “Oh, why did you go off like thatt" she exclaimed. *It was all a joke. 1 wanted to tease you. That was the pho- tograph of an actor. I never saw him except on the stage, and he said that ia the play.” Then she drew herself up and bowed. “Mr. Meredith, I presume this is your property,” she said. +I have told Lucy I would drew the doll more suitably.” But it was no use being dignified now. Jasper was bending over her and whisper. ing in her ear “Oh, Dotty, what an idiot I have been! Will you forgive mel” Of course she did. And so the four. leaved clover brought happiness at last! —Saturday Night. et — cn How England Could Take Chicago. In two weeks after a declaration of war, asserts Colonel Theodore A. Dodge in the Mrum, Eagland could place fifty gunboats on the Lakes and more than thirty armored vessels in the harbors of our leading cities, and could concentrate 75,000 regular troops in Canada, backed by a sturdy militia ready to march across our border; while in twice that time part of her Asiatic squadion could sail through the Golden Gate. Our Lake No land defences of such towns as Chicago, situated on the shore itself, could save them from bombardment. The best army could not protect Chicago against a mediocre mod. to say Now she had a chance to [ern fleet. The shipping and commerce of the Lakes ws attractive. The goods | afloat and ashore suffice to pay a huge | war indemuity., They are all at the mercy of an English flotilla. Some peo- fe imagine that modern war has been umanized out of such measures as bombardment. But Paris was bom. | A collection was taken up for the | barded in 1570; so was Strasburg, snd dolls, they were given out to the scholars and teachers, and before the day of the auction were brought in in all styles of costume, from that of a new baby to that of Queen Elizabeth, in ruff and stom. acher, The children of Miss Doane's class and elder sisters did the work. There were twenty of the pretty pup. pets on Miss Doane's particular table the day before the auction. Here was Goodys Two Shoes, there Little Red Riding Hood. narsery maid. Here you saw Patience with her milk pails, aud on the other | band Little Buttercup, One grandmamma bad tricked out an E dest of living women, with the most plentiful eply of clothes. “Little “obs!” and “abs!” went off ! : ] : Cleopatra lay beside a | Russia, and I. F. Ksadouroff, a farmer its beautiful cathedral spire was seriously injured. War has no msthetic maxims, che occupation of a seaport leaves no alternative but submission sad the pay- ment of a heavy ransom-—or bombard: ment. Io a town like Chicago this would be followed by fire, and we all | | were almost all too young to handle the | Fomember the §200,000,000 lost in the needle. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts | fire of 1871 I ——— A —— Perennial Rye. The Russian investigators, A. F. Bata. lin, a naturalist, and member of the Im- | Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, | of Stavropolsk provinece, are said to have made the discovery that under certain conditions rye becomes a perennial plant, and also that with proper culture several crops may be harvested in one year, Thess conclusions are the result of observations ( they really need. | is one quart of grain per day, and with what other food they will pick up on a | pounds of pea meal to the acre. THE FARM AND GARDEN. OVERFEEDING FOWLS, When fowls have food always before them they are overfed, and they become too fat. They will lay eggs in this con- dition, but are apt to be taken by ap- oplexy and die on the nest or fall sud- denly exd die in a few minutes. The remedy is to give only as much food as For a dozen hens this good range, and some finely broken bones, they will live to a good and profitable old age,—New York Times. CULTURE OF SOUR CHERRIES. The culture of sour cherries has greatly declined in the older = sections of America, of black knot, This disease has now almost entirely disappeared, and there is no reason why there should not again be a great planting ot this most wholesome fruit, says E. P. Powell. trees are set by scattered cultivators there will be no fruit saved from the birds. There should be a special move ment on the part of nurserymen to en- courage cherry planting. The sorte most advantegous for the general covering all the Northern States, are the Early Richmond, the Mayduke, the large Montmorency, and common sour cherry, from which the Richmond and the Montmorency have been improved. These are entirely hardy, and could well be grown for their beauty in blossoming season..New England Farmer, grower, DUCKS AS MOTHERS, A correspondent of Land and Water thinks that it is better to let ducks hatch their own eggs than to set them under hens. He says “I know it is a popular belief that ducks are careless and indifferent moth ers, so far that a custom prevails keepers of setting ducks’ eggs under hens. I think both this principle and this practice are wrong. The only ad. vantage that hen mothers have ducks is that they are ready to set earlier in the year. Apart from that I believe there is not any advantage such a custom. From observation | can say that heos kill many more y ducks than duck mothers do. Naturally the feet of a hen are not calculated treading slide and struggle Her chickens can jump of the way of her fect; quently seen a hen stan with over in my own ung for about amon; spring out have { but 1 ir her eC i with um * great Ri outspread toes upon the back of a young ! duckling who was vainly striving to get from under it, the hen all the while reaching after something to eat, appar- ently unconscious that she was slaughter ing her pseudo offspring. A duck’s feet are all one, are flat and splay, and she shufflns about without lifting them much from the ground. I do not re member ducklings being ever trod upon, or, as the here say, ‘squabbled’ by a duck mother.” people abut DAIRYMEN SHOULD GROW PEAS, A New York farmer who handles a large herd of cows writes that he has spent from $500 to $600 a year for sev- eral years past in the purchase of bran and other grain feed for his cows. Be. ing a reader of Hoard's Dairyman he was greatly interested when that paper took up the question of growing fleld peas as 8 substitute for bran. Thus the paper did two yeas ago, but did the same work more encrgetically last winter. He had always accepted the notion which pre vailed among the farmers of his neigbor hood that peas could not be successfully grown. The Dairgman took the ground that this notion was a mistake; that the difficulty with the average farmer was that he did not understand how to grow peas. Inthe field the pea roots deeply; yet almost every farmer pays no atten- tion to this law or principle, and sows the peas broadest, with oats maybe, and barrows them in, rarely covering them more than a quarter to a half inch deep. he Dairyman {urther advised the sowing of peas more than ever, but in. sisted that the seed must be covered at least two to four inches deep. This can te done with a deep running grain. drill when the soil is in good tilth, but where the farmer has no drill he ean do the work just as well by plowing the seed under not to exceed the depth of four inches. The New York farmer says he tried the latter plan. His neigh. bors all ridiculed him for trying some book farming notion, but the peas are looking the finest ever seen in that sec- tion. dairy farmers if they ever get in the way of growing an, abundance of peas | for Jha use of their cows. Two pounds of pea meal is considered nearly the | equivalent of six pounds of ordinary bran. A good crop will produce 2000 Further comment is unnecessary, New Orleans New Delta, BAVING SEED POTATORS. There is a principle in seed saving | that applies to potatoes as well as to other plants. This principle is selection, and selection means choice fa all that relates to a crop, no matter what it may be. It is essential in its relation to earliness, quality, and productiveness. It is a well-known fact that say veg- Ze8 silly : 4 i The cause was the prevalence | If only a few | It will prove a great blessing to | largest tubers, but those that give the greatest number of good, salable potas toes, and the least small or ones, Vitality is an essential clement in all plants, as upon it depends productive- ness. When a bill is opened, if there is a single potato that is not perfect, dis- card the whole. Each tuber should be carefully exsiiined ae to form, color, and shape, and, what is more important still, seo that it has a clear, thick skin, This work although it may be tedious, is profitable; it will take perhaps a day for a farmer to secure sufficient for his | next year's planting, but in return for his labur he will get betwer seed than he can buy for twice as much as his crop sells for, If followed up fora few years in any given loeality it will secure to the grower a stock that will be far more pro- ductive than aay grown under other con- { ditions and in different localities, This | plan has been followed successfully by | some of the best farmers in our country. | When the carly Ohio potato was first in. troduced, one of the most successful | farmers on Long Isiand,N. Y. convinced of the great value of this variety, com- menced the work of svstematic selection, The result was a variety or type of far greater productiveness, of a more glob- ular shape, and in every way a much superior potato. Not only that, but he with a view to earliness with surprising results. What this man has done others can and ought to do, sand there is no better time to commence than the present. — American Agricullurist. selected FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Roadside weeds are industrious seeders of adjoining tields. When you see the chicks busy and scratching it is a sign of thrift, A single night may ruin all, Never let brooder cold for an hour, Once the chicks get chilled they never fully recover, the becom a When the chicks seem to be continu. ally crying, it means more warmth needed, The warmth is more important than the food. It the chicks are stupid, drowsy, con. tinually cry, heads and i large lice. r ed mites or have fits, look on the ler the wings for a examine for the necks and un ne Also uttie When the chicks have good appetites, but have leg weakness, the chicks mov- ing on their knees, but otherwise appears ing lively, it denotes rapid growth and is not necessarily fatal, Better and cheaper than staples for fe g Wire are twenty-penny wire nails, drigen in threc-fourths their length and then beat over the wire by two or three blows with the hammer. {astening fencing Feed the chicks on clean surfaces or in little troughs; never leave food to fer- ment, Clean off the brooders and floors daily. Keep dry earth in the corner of the brooder house for the chicks to dust Wi. See that enough brooding eoops are hand; if not, make more, Those from last season shoud be neatly painted and put in good order. A chicken likes a clean, neat coop more than one would believe, Bealy legs may often be cured by sim. ply wetting the legs of the fowl affected occasionally with crude petroleum, When crude oil is not to be had conveniently Leavy oll or grease can be mixed with kerosene, this tending to stay evapora ton. It is always better to have all sitting hens away from the layers. Let them eat by themselves, have a separate dust box, and remain quiet. A dark pest should be provided ; they will sit closer, This assists toward a good batch pro- vided the egus are fertile. - on A spirited horse is driven by a New- burg (N. Y.), physician entirely with. out breeching. The girth is held fast to the shaft on either side by being slipped through a strap permanently fastened to it, and the holding back is done the same as in double light harness, More new poultry houses have been erected on farms this year than ever be- fore. The farmer finds the cow stable and barn not the place for fowls. He has now come to lieve that there is something in poultry, and he is going to test the matter for himself. Putting up modern buildings is his first step in the right direction, During the holiday season last winter the supply of turkeys ran out, and as high as twenty-five cents per pound were paid for dressed fowls. Ducks and chick- ens had to be taken instead, and even they commanded a high market price | Why not try turkey breeding; rightly handled it will pay in most seotions of eur country, and not materially interfere with the regular farm work. He told his son to milk the cows, feed the horses, slop the pigs, hunt the eggs, feed the calves, cate up the kindlings, stir the cream, put fresh water in the creamery after supper | and to be sure to stady his lessons before | he went to bed. Then he went to the | farmers’ clab to discuss the ion: “How to Keep Boys on the Farm." pms — Color of tie Eye and Marksmanship. “The ides that the color of the eye has anything to do with expert marks manship 1a fallacy,” said Captain H. C. Broun, who came over with the Twenty-third New York Regiment rifle tesm, to shoot agsinst the Washington boys at Fort Myer. He was talking with a reporter at the Ebbitt, and the question came up as to whether men with light or dark eyes made the best shots. “It happens,” he continued, the colt and put | | him in the stable, cut some wood, split | | “that nearly all my men are dark eyed, | and twice this year we have won the | bonors—in the State shoot at Creedmoor and the Becond Brigade's prize. There is a popular notion that the blue or gray eyed men are the finest marksmen, but | there is no invariable rule. Some of our men who are first-rate shots use glasses | for long-distance practice, but the ques- tion of color has nothing to do with sight." — Washington Post. seevicresmatitiliii— — Consumption and Habits, In a British Association paper, Dr. W. B. Hambleton regarded consumption as 8 disease of civilization due to causes re- ducing the breathing capacity. Its pre. yention should be sought by arranging work, habits and surroundings so that their general tendency should be to ex- pend the Jungs, rooms should be avoided, as well as hab tually working in cramped or stooping positions, and the wearing of corsets and tight-fitting clothes, Active exercise in the open air should be taken, bed rooms should be well ventilated, wool should be worn next the skin, the wid held erect, and deep breathing through the nose should practiced, When the disease has been contrac ted, prompt treatment the greatest im- portance. Trenton (N. J.) American, —————————— Causes of Fires. Close and badly heated Dody sl be be is of ''r the i What causes the fires! work of an incendiary,” sas ters Sut statistics say the | bab sh reported causes of fire, and of fires from each cause last yes The Census bu of horses in the United 14,976,017 and Texas i ra mi Misouri and Kansas repos each, 3 places the number Dlates in at of Illinois, lows 158 The States oy repot ) each, , 000 vie The salmon fishing by nets in most of the Scotch salmon rivers is just ended, snd bas been the most for many years. This was particulsrly the case in the Tay. THE RECORD Of cures accomplished by sareaparilie has Sever bean surpassed In the history of med icine And the ocomstant stream of poorly who were almost! In despalr, Lut were cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla urge 4 td successiul Hood's etyrrs from very gratifying PBorsuse of theses we who suffer from 8 rofuls, Salt Rhe Gteoase cnuned by tmrure tdood or | Rem, vw try Hood's sarwapariila, im, OF any yw ilies K. Bdf you decide to take Hood's Sarvaparilia o4 tot be Induced to buy any other Hood's Milla-luvigorate the liver, regulate the bowels. ESect ve, but gentle. Price B Sheridan's Condition Powders ' I you ean 1t send to ue, We mail ome a Fea Bi AD Laibh oan gion Nin, | & OO, 8 Oustonn Mouse Bi, Noss siving GOOD DIGESTION, A suggestive reply was made by a | | farmer to the query “Why not do more | wintersi” “1 don't have to.” the secret out! only what they *‘lmve to," and this when 7 : : £ i 4 3 Ps £ i { H £ : : E ] f 3 5 Do farmers accomplish | Le RLY mos, 0 Waren wx x EE JONES’ SCALE se © FULLY WARRANTED oven STon y rer 5
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