“WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN," “When my ship comes in," runs the young man's song, “What brave things shall I do With the strength of my wealth and the Joyous throng Of friends stout-hearted and true!” He watches and waits neath storm and sun By the shore of his life's broad sea, And the days of his youth are quickly ran, Yet nover a sail sees he, “My ship has gone down!" in soberer strain Sings the man, and to duty turns, He forgets the ship in his toil and pain, And no longer his young hope burns. Yet again by the shore he stands grown old With the course of his years well spent, And gazing out on the deep behold, A dim ship landward bent! No banner she flies, no songs are borne From her decks as she nears the land; Silent with sail all sombre and torn She is safe at last by the strand. And lo! To the man's old age has brought | Not the treasures he thought to win, | But honor, content and love—life-wrought, | And be cries, "Has my ship come in!" ~M. A.deW, Howe, Jr. in Harper's Weekly. MALCOLM'S IDEAL. BY ANNA SHIELDS, “She must be tall, Bab; she must be graceful as a willow branch, with eyes of midnight darkness, classic features, | hair like the raven's wing." Bab, who was stirring cake, looked | up at the deep window-seat that | separated the old-fashioned kitchen trom the garden beyond. Seated there, | swinging one foot idly, sat Malcolm | Hoyt, describing the future Mrs. Malcolm as she existed in his youthful imagios- tion. ““Well?” Barbara said, presently, after a glance from the tall boyish figure and frank, handsome face, to a small mirror that reflected hair of burnished bronze, the true auburn, and numerous freckles. | “Well?! Tall, dark, classically featured, Any other perfeetions?” | ‘*Accomplished, of course. must dance like a sylph, sing like a nightio- gale, draw, play on the piano—" “‘Make cake!” suggested Bab, vigor- ously stirring her batter. “Why, no—Mrs. Hoyt will not need to make cake, I think. Not what it is very jolly to know how,” he added, hastily, **but Mrs. Clark might resent any invasion of her especial depart. ment.” | “Yes, 1 see,” said Bab, dryly. “You C€on't want your wife to be a kitchen- maid,’ Malcolm blushed furiously; he was not quite twenty-one, and had not for- gotten how to blush. “I don’t mean that at all,” he said, and then laughing heartily, added, **don’t you think we are talking con- siderable nonsense, Bab?” “I don’t know,” said Bab, slowly. ‘You say your father wants you to mar- ry, and as you are in quest of a wile, you might as well have some idea of what you would prefer.” ‘‘Just like choosing a necktie,” said Malcolm, ‘‘though I think I should feel more interest in the wmecktie. By the way, what is vour ideal, Bab?” “I haven't considered,” said Bab, bending her face low over the pasa into which she was pouring the cake, “*Nonsense |" said Malcolm. “Asif a girl ever lived to be ei without an ideal.” Then Bab violated the truth with a daring voice, snd bright eyes, for she said: ‘My ideal doesn't sit on kitchen win- dow-sills and talk nonsense, at any rate.” ‘You don’t know what he might do under sufficient provocation,” ssid Mal. colm, teasingly. *‘‘I have seen Steve Hale look longingly at my perch within the last ten minutes.” ‘‘Stephen Hale!” cried Bab, scomn- fully, and lifted the pan to carry it to the room beyond, where the fire was lighted in summer. Her heart was swelling with indigna. | tion. She was only a farmer's daogh- ter, she told herself, and Malcolm Hoyt | was heir to a magnificent estate and for. tune, college bred, and could marry in aristocratic circles. But to think she could look at Stephen Hale, her father's | “help,” a man who could not read! It | was insulting, little Barbara thought, | and she took an unreasonably long time to adjust the cakepan oa the oven-bars, and pile on fresh wood in the stove. | ‘*Good-bye!"” shouted a cheery voice, | resently. “I'm off to the postoffice, | t I'm coming to tea to eat some of | that cake, “I've a great mind to scorch it,” thought Bab, spitefully. ‘I would too, if it wasn't father's favorite.” “I do believe she is fond of Steve,’ thought Malcolm, as he swung himself into the saddle. *‘She blushed as red as & peony when I mentioned him. sup. pose it would be what my father calls a suitable match, but she's a thousand times 200 good for him. Why, she's as good a Latin scholar as hall our col. lege follows, nad she sings so beaut! fully, that it is a burning shame she has bad nothing but a concertina to accom. pany her voice.” Then his reverie took auother turn, and he thought; “I won. der if father is ill!" It was the nineteenth century, and was an only child, denied no indulgence from his infancy, but he never t of his father as the ‘gov. | ernor” or “old man.” His mother was but a for when he was five Joan old, her haired beauty was idden under daisies. Ho liked to Ske but ght gutleen A § - { : i H | as Bab's cordial greeting did when he | islands, quisite, graceful and accomplished be. ing he had endeavored to describe to Barbare, It was odd that even with this mental vision before him he thought what a home Bab would make of the stately pile that was to be his inheri- tance. **There 1s not much that is home-like about it now,” he thinks, “for Mrs. Clark is too old to fuss much, and I im. agine the servants have it all their own way. But how Bab's little trim figure and red hair would lighten up those big | longs for you, loves you! Bab, darling, gloomy rooms.” | won't you come to the old home for life! A week later, he 18 on his way to New | Won't you be mine, dear, my wife, my York, to visit his aunt, to see society, darling” and, by his father's ecpress desire, to She could only answer by shy blushes, find a wife, by vailing the soft, brown eyes to hide Heart-whole, fancy free, he mingles | their happiness. But Malcolm was sat- with the guests who gather at Mrs. | isfled; and when she asked, presently: | Markham's, his aunt's; escorts his pretty | ‘But your ideal, Malcolm” he answered, cousin Mabel to opera, theatre, concert; triumphantly: dances gracefully with one belle, takes “She is here in my arms, Bab-—my another out to supper, makes himself | first and only true love."—New York | agreesble with a third on a sloighing Ledger. | party, escorts a fourth for a promenade, - and so on--sixth, seventh, eighth, num- bers indefinite, coming under his eare pro tem., but not one stirring his heart What happened next was a crunching of gravel under quick feet, and a voice saying: “Bab, I have come to see why you have deserted my father.” It was so sudden that Bab crimsoned | as she replied: ‘‘He does not need me, now that are at home," | ‘‘He asks for you every hour. But, | Bab, I did not come only on filial duty. | I came to say somebody clse needs you, you | American Pearls, Not all the pearls come from the | | Arabian seas or from the South Pacific | A considerable supply is de- | | minder, ams A 5 A AE A EH AOA i FARM AND GARDEN. BE KIND TO YOUR HORSE, Don’t start your horse off with a cut of the whip. Bpesk to him, and th en if he is slow touch him lightly as a re. A few lessons of this kind and be will be prompt abeut getting away, but not too hasty, as is apt to be the case if he has been started with a severe out, Lider and Driver. food passes out unacted upon, entailing not only the loss of this unused food, but calling for an unnecessary expendi- THE horse, and keeping him poor in flesh, Foods selected for the horse must be | at feeding regular, and preparation found by experiences to be best for the animal must be adhered to. Cleanliness in preparation and adminis- tration must be observed, The length of time occupled by stom. TO KEEP A SILO FROM ROTTING, How to kee i : ing | vl } caep “ silo from rotting is { Hay and straw pass out of the stomach what the Wisconsin professors have been | me re rapidly than Oats should stud fin y, The be . sil v am wre i al HOWL . A 2 eat Tomedy seoms to be therefore be given after hay, instead of ventilation. It is well known that a | first; for it reversed the hay would ke sither Pverse Play Wwouk plank mh Je ke 8 $ither Sonstsnily | cause the oats to be sent onward to the water {0 Drevant § r sa Te Jom | intestines before being acted on by the » 10 prevent 14 fom rotting, It is | stomach, and as & result roduce indi the act of wetting and drying that does | lnm > “ghu projiuee Indt. the damage. As it is not practical to goation, = Experipuoe confirma his, keep the planks of a silo always wet, the | Thete i ot hop Asan i ny ould next thing to do is to keep them dry by | ai " Brat, parth ular y if the horse ventilation, such as dead air {18 Very hungry or is exhausted from spaces, | kr Tiel : . ove F( . % v (11 with a slight opening for a current of | OVEYWOr IC Liny requires more time : I . sticatior wurl Ie dmix. air to move in.— American Dairyman. for mastication, iusuring proper admix | ture of saliva, and cannot be bolted as | are the grains, Water must not be given soon after ons, FASTURE TREES, There are more pastures in this country | ture of vital force on the part of the | wholesome, clean and sweet: the hours i the mode of | among the most beautiful things that i live in the ocean, | forms, some of | ing, and not a few of which are curious, | Beveral of ach digestion varies with different foods, | | hot returned from college. Bab! There is scarcely a frolic of his lonely childhood that is not associated with Bab, How many times has her mother called him in from snow-ball fighting or coasting frolic, to eat crisp, doughnuts or gingerbread! How many candy-pulls has he had with Bab at one end of the sweet, sticky mass and himself at the other! Bab is not his ideal. That was tall, stately, brunette! Bab is short, merry, brown-eyed and with hair of burnished bronze that Malcolm irreverently calls red! And then, although there is no foolish pride about Malcolm, he has cer- tainly moved in more cultivated and re- fined circles than Barbara ever saw. Ie wonders how Bab would look in clouds of tulle, her round white arms circled with bracelets, her glorious hair starred with gems, and mentally decides that she would look “iollg I” A letter from reached the middle of November social home him in Mats ut your pa ain't tosay sick, ing, and very weak every day, reads to him, sings for him, plays chess and brings him all sorts of good things she o©ooks please his appetite, Bhe's the best girl in the world | but she ain't like your pa's own, He frets for you, though be won't say so, and I think, Mr. Malcolm, if you'll excuss the liberty of at: 1 think I ought to He won't com but he's pin “Dean Mn 0 my saying so, the time is coming when you | Sus will be glad if you come home to cheer him. | | “Your obedient servant, “Many Crane.” “My dear old dad!” thought Mal colm, tearing down stairs with the letter in bis hand, “*He is sick! [ was afraid he was last summer, and here I've been fooling away for months while he has been fretting for me!" His remorse was deeper than his neg- lect warranted, but he loved his father, | the ever indulgent friend of his life, his one tie in the dear old home. And so, making graceful apologies to his aunt, he started at once for Deerfield. Mr. Hoyt was in the library when he | drove gto the door, and through the | wine Malcolm could ree the ruddy light from the grate, the deep arm chair, the figure of his father reclining there, But, pausing on the porch, he saw more. He saw that the dear face was hollow. eyed, haggard, fearfully changed. saw a trim little figure bending lovingly vver the sick man, coaxing him to eat the dainty luncheon on the table beside him. Aad be saw Bab more than once draw back to hide quivering lips and eyes filled with tears. “How good she is,” Malcom thought, ‘‘to leave her bright home, to comfort a lonely old man.” And he stepped soft ly, notto disturb the pretty scene, and went to the back door to send Mrs. Clarke to give notice of his arrival, He was disappointed when he went in to find his father alone, but he forgot all else in his sorrow at finding such a change in him. “Why have vou not sent for me be- fore?” he asked, reproschfully, “I knew you were enjoying your visit, my dear boy. Your letters were like gleams of sunshine; Bab read them over and over to me, but 1 would not let any one write but mysell, for fear of troubling you.” “But you were lonely?" “Yes, very lonely, though Barbara bas been very kind, She is the gentlest of nurses, panions,” then, a little wistfully: ‘Have you no news for me, Malcolm?" “*None, but what I have written!" “I so wish to see you settled in your home, before—] mesa, soon.” “Married! But if I fail to find my ideal?” “Ah, we all fail in that.” “But father, you would not have me | marry without love!” “Never!” “I saw nobody I loved York." ‘But, nearer home!" “Your tea is ready, Mr. Malcolm,” said Mrs, Clarke at the door, and Mal. colm obeyed the summons, The subject was not renewed as father and son sat far into the night conversing, There were many matters needing super. vision, and n Malcolm re hed himself that the care of ostate had fallen u his father's feeble hands while he was pleasure.seeking. “But I will never leave him again,” he said to himself as he assisted his fath. er to his bed.room. in Now Barbara Croft is here | think, | He | the most patient of com. | rived from a mussel found in 8 number of American rivers. When De { made his expedition westward from the Florida coast he found possessed an abundance of pearls taken out of the rivers, The Tennessee is particularly prolific in these pearl mus- sels. They are also found in the rivers | of Texas and other States. 8 gar River, in Wisconsin, recently attracted much attention on account of its pearls. Al- though most of them are white, they are found in various colors, such as pur- ple, pink, golden yellow, bronze, green, gray, black all the liate | shades. Some combine two as 8 | deep metalic purple, over which plays a | lovely pink-red light that seems almost | to stand out from the the | pearl. Another will be a rich gray tint, with green reflections. Still another | is black with dark purple. In brillisne y | of lustre and fairness of texture they can- not be excelled, of and interm olors, surface of of In variety and richness the have coloring the Quit ¥ surpass Oriental been sen found 1» pric Te 8 nol :d $2000 and m pearls, te a number to Earope, where ney have ready specimens have When a ranged together in 8 roo market we. nt n amber ¢ these pearls are ar- a with small to ir colors the ng over $100, on the banks of limits of summer, — New throw out the | dismonds | effect is aperb., Someth | VOU worth were found River within the townsalp last Orleans Picayune. St ——————————— The Cowboy's Quirt. Bt. Louis sends out every year about 50.000 whips of a peculiar character known as the quirt, boy, 8 wild Westerner or Mexican has | any use for such an article, but avay out on the plains itis indispensable, as it an- | one small No one but acow- swers the purpose both of a whip and a | life-preserver. A quirt is a solid leather | whip, with the handle loaded with shot | and so heavy that the thickest skull will | yield to a blow from it. Missouri holds a practical monopoly in the manufacture of this curiously named article, 8t. Louis making the most and others coming out of the State Penitentiary at Jefferson | City. At least 350,000 leather whips | are made in Bt. Louis or near to it, sad it is often asked where they all go to. As a matter of lact {Ay stands al. most alone in this manufacture, for while hight buggy whips are made in various | places, leather whips are not made in large numbers of Missouri, al. though there are factories in New York, Philadelphia and West Virginia. One | reason why St. Louis holds the fort is | that this is one of the cheapest hide mar. | kets in the world, and instead of buying tanned leather the plan bere is to buy this outside out of raw material. St. Louis Globe. Democrat. Hearing One's Self Speak. “It is a singular thing,” says a phy- sician, *‘that a man does not hear his own voice exclusively through his ears. The prevalence of throat deafness is a proof to the laymen of the connection between the ears and throat, and this in- ability to hear one's self speak just as | others hear us is another instance. In some ple this peccliarity is very marked, and in my case, if I speak into | a phonograph and let the machive gnad { out the sounds again, I don’t recognize the voice at all. In regard to singing, the varying ability to hear one's sell with the ears plugged up with cotton makes itself evident, for while one member of a chorus will only hear the blending harmony, or discord, another will hear littie beyond his or her own voice, and makes occasional bad breaks in conse- quence, I know a man who used to sing a very fair baritone, but whose voice is now only adapted to the weakest falsetto. Yet he doesn't realize the | change, and I believe he honestly thinks he sings as well as ever. This apparent impossibility may be a dispensation of Providence to prevent men with excep- suicide, «Chicago Herald, EE c———— Fairies in All Countries. Below I give a list of the asmes by which the fairies have been known in the various countries: Fairies, elves, elle-folks, fays, urchins, , ell. maids, ell-women, dwarfs, trolls, horns, nisses, kobolds, duendes, brownies, koecks, stromkarls, fates, dives, nixies, salamanders, ins, hob- foil, Pi bunshiasa, Xalpies, pix y pers, nos, genil ROOMOS, wn St. Louis Republic, Soto | green hides and literu!ly make the whips | tionally ugly voices being driven to without trees than those that are pro- vided with these blessings to livestock, scattered over a farm not only add to the beauty of the landscape but carry with them the idea that the owner is merciful | to his beast, The shade -tree may be pro- } ductive of more than a shelter from the | burning sun in midsummer, for in autumn | | it may bear a load of nuts that will glad- den the hearts of the boys who have none too many things to cheer them in their | butter. nish tooth. ng, while protecting the sheep or kine in summer, A farm with trees sells better than ope without shade. We have noticed that the treeless farm is most apt to be in the market, The farmer who plants or pro. tects no shade-trees lets other Lis life upon the farm. Chestnuts, nuts, shagbark walnuts al r some nuts for the winter eveai Jnaportant things CSC through fingers K I u I, American to the soil qualities always insure them as demand There 3 afew that y succeed fairly greatly varying conditions, In general, however, each one of widely separated sections favorite varieties of the appie. Consequently the ground oan best determine the kinds be should plant, but there few points that may b considered as of general appl t High elevation or the vicinity of varieties, and onl y afew, 8 LE well seems to have its own orchardist who is upon the ATC a ati argc bodies of walter are especially desirable locations on account of their greater im munity from frosts. Apple trees should not be crowded, A distance of forty feet between the trees will seem great when first planted, but when full grown, in sections, not too much. Bol only moderately fertile is to be preferred to a rich loam, and that from which as old orchard has cleared off should be avoided. Cultivation between the trees for a few years will be beneficial rather than hurtful, provided the original fertility is maintained by manuring After an orchard begins to bear other crop-bearing on the same ground should cease. As between planting in the fall or spring, either one is likely to succeed if carefully done. In a mild climate fall planting is thought the best. Spring planting should be as early as the ground will admit. New York World. most just been J STIMULATING FOWLA, We believe in stimulating fowls, but we want the stimulants to consist of such articles as will build up rather than tear { down the comstitution, We believe in rusty iron in the drinking water during damp weather or changing of seasons. We likewise believe in a piece of asea | fortida, about the size of a hazelnut, wrapped up in muslin ‘a regular sugar teat), and placed in the drinking water when there are signs of colds in the | fowls. We believe in an occasional feed | of chopped raw onfons at night to main. tain heaith, We believe in a varied diet | of good, sound grain and green food for | egg production. Grit—good sharp grit {is the article that gives good health, Look at the number of cases of in. | digestion, all owing to the fact that the fowls have not the proper material to | masticate the food. Indigestion is often | taken for cholera. Lime makes egg- sells. Along with the material to | manufacture the egy. lime must be given | to make the shells. A certain per cent. | of lime is found in the grains, but we liberally feed oyster shells to supply the | balance. Keep the birds in a good condition neither too fat nor too lean—and there | will be less sickness and more eggs. | Hall-starved hens can neither remain healthy nor lay eggs. It is false econo. my to cut down the rations. Less corn and more wheat is better policy. The science of feeding is not in stinting the fowls, but in getting them as much ms they can eat of the proper feed, In other words, for eggs, stimulate the hens The follow are condensed hints on horse- feeding the New York Voice . {| There need not be many. be tr Sd that the Indians | ee ! many, but a few trees | feeding as it washes or sluices the food from the stomack before it is fitted for testinal digestion. lapid or severe labor cannot be per- { formed by the horse on a full stomach. { For such horses food must be given in small quantity and, if possible, about two | hours before going to their work. The disproportion between the size of the stomach and the amount of water {drank tells us plainly that the horse should always be watered before feeding. Never feed too soon after a hard day's work. ] given but grain sho A small quantity of hay may be ill be withheld for an hour or two, Do ly. Bulky the grains in their intestinal tract; not fe trated food entire. od must be given to detain passage through the bulk favors dis- aids ab- i Concer - f ! also work for shopped or ground If a horse is to do less tk or If was observed even Saturday night Su fewer cases “Monday morning sickness,” Food should be { nore Oi nature TSC 1s ) rest this and of soe that he receives less food, aday there would Inxative for some n when a bh to stan inys. 2 Above all thi ww moldy fooder y Ltroubios ngs avoid feeding musty are frequent and dis. The digestive organs also suffer. Musty bay is geoenlly considered to produce disorder of the kidneys, and all know of the danger to pregnant animals from feeding from ergotized grasses or grains, hese causes of lu other cases, FARM AND SARDEN worms. A fence being a necessary evil, econ. omy in its construction bas always been considered important, feed young chicks raw corameal to every Crumbled stale bread is always good for them. Never It is important to have thrifty, vigor. ous breeding birds if you expect thrifty, vigorous chickens. Now is the time to be making the selections, The cost of wintering poultry can nearly always be greatly reduced Sy proper care now in securing and storing away a sufficient supply of food to last until spring. With proper care in selecting out and koeping the best of the fowls each year for breeding, they can be gradually im- proved al a very low cost. Get a stand. ard breed at the start. Providing warm, dry quarters is one of the essentials necessary to induce the beos to lay eggs during the winter; egas pay a better profit during the winter than at any other season, When the hens are kept separate from the roosters not only will they lay bet. ter, but the eggs willkeep better. When eggs are stored away those from hens where there are no roosters are the best. While in many localities it is best to | close up the poultry house at night dur. | ing the day the doors and windows | should be opened every day that the | weather will adit, so as to secure a good ventilation. Because you have no bone mill is no reason you should not get scraps from the butcher's bone box and give the hens a chance to have some fresh meat during the mouliting season. You might crack the bones some with an old ax or hatchet and help the hens to a little of them too. A ditch here and a load of dirt there may prevent lots of mud and filth in the | | | stable yards during the coming winter, | You can not put in an exora hour or two | to better advantage than to see what im. provements you can make in or about your stables. Devote a half day to this ———— "A aon A A Beautiful and Curious Sponges. The sponges usually seen in the city drug stores give a by no means adequate ides of the beautiful forms of these creatures that are found in the lower depth of the ocean. These sponges of the great depths are They assume various which are very interest. these curious ones are mens tione d below, Not least remarkable are the so-called sen nests, which are in the form of spheres or sometimes egg-shaped. The outer coat of one of these specimens 1s 8 complicated nel-work, which a delicate membrane is spread, An omamental frill adorns the upper part, while the lower portion throws out & maze of glossy filaments like fine white hairs, These hairs pevetrates the semi fluid mud in every direction, thus holding the fponge in its place, while a continuous current of water is drawn by waving “cilia” through all parts Hass, passing out by a hole at the top In this manner the animal absorbs whatever food may be afloat, Another singular sponge rope, which sends down over of the is lhe giass into the mud a As thick as a Aller opens out Le creature in place colled wisp of filaments knitting needle The into a brush, fixing t F' after the manner of dtill another remus id in the deep walt It spreads cake, surrounded like a another ¢ of the Philis pines t¢ : ti » 138 iQ 1B Lh f f innge of Wiis uriosily i An India Rubber Plantation of India rubber was extended 16,054 v Paris, popuistion. lend with 45, - 37,000; then ; and Italians, 21,000; urg, and next Great Amon Hi 2 these the next the Swiss, Belginas the Germans, FARE E then comes Luxemb Britain with 13, SE — The State of Massachusetts has ar. aid the 103 small towns that libraries in ‘ ranged t have no forts to se- cure their « them Health In that state when all the organs of the body pee form thelr fupctions in regular and efMcient mane ner; and 10 remove any obetracrtion 10 such action B® the proper duty of mediciue Hood's Sarsaparilla Gives health by fomach and Invigor and Therslore, If you are Is lake Hood's Sarsepariila 100 Doses One Dollar Hood's Pilsen thartie Reliabie, of ectiv Sheridan's Con ‘ition Powders purifying the biood, ming the ag the kidneys poor heath, bowels, and ver ver Invigorator and » 5 Price Be Es you can’t get It send to us, We snl] Gtee pack She. Five $1 AB 14 1h onn §100. Si, 5 itey Reteing Owide free, with §i coders, Erde bar er —_—— AYN Utd DONALD KENNEDY Of Roxbury, Mass, says Kennedy's Medical Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, Deep- Seated Ulcers of 40 years’ standing, Inward Tumors, and every disease of the skin, ex- cept Thunder Humor, and Cancer that has taken root. Price, $1.50, Sold by every Druggist in the United States and Canada.
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